Animated path Solar eclipse of August 12, 2026 A total solar eclipse will occur on August 12, 2026, in North America and","title":"Solar eclipse of August 12, 2026"},{"docid":"14025718","text":"southeastern states of the United States. Almost all of North America and the northern edge of South America will see a partial eclipse. It will be the 2nd total eclipse visible from the Florida Panhandle and southwest Georgia in 7 years. Solar eclipse of March 30, 2052 A total solar eclipse will occur on March 30, 2052. A solar eclipse occurs when the Moon passes between Earth and the Sun, thereby totally or partly obscuring the image of the Sun for a viewer on Earth. A total solar eclipse occurs when the Moon's apparent diameter is larger than the Sun's,","title":"Solar eclipse of March 30, 2052"}],"string":"[\n {\n \"docid\": \"11609888\",\n \"text\": \"Solar eclipse of April 8, 2024 A total solar eclipse will take place on Monday, April 8, 2024, visible across North America. A solar eclipse occurs when the Moon passes between Earth and the Sun, thereby totally or partly obscuring the image of the Sun for a viewer on Earth. A total solar eclipse occurs when the Moon's apparent diameter is larger than the Sun's, blocking all direct sunlight, turning day into darkness. Totality occurs in a narrow path across Earth's surface, with the partial solar eclipse visible over a surrounding region thousands of kilometres wide. With a magnitude of\",\n \"title\": \"Solar eclipse of April 8, 2024\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"11609894\",\n \"text\": \"9,000 square mile intersection of the paths of totality of both the 2017 and 2024 eclipses, therefore earning the rare distinction of being witness to two total solar eclipses within a span of seven years. Notable total and annular solar eclipse crossing the United States from 1900 to 2050: Solar eclipse of April 8, 2024 A total solar eclipse will take place on Monday, April 8, 2024, visible across North America. A solar eclipse occurs when the Moon passes between Earth and the Sun, thereby totally or partly obscuring the image of the Sun for a viewer on Earth. A\",\n \"title\": \"Solar eclipse of April 8, 2024\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"11609888\",\n \"text\": \"Solar eclipse of April 8, 2024 A total solar eclipse will take place on Monday, April 8, 2024, visible across North America. A solar eclipse occurs when the Moon passes between Earth and the Sun, thereby totally or partly obscuring the image of the Sun for a viewer on Earth. A total solar eclipse occurs when the Moon's apparent diameter is larger than the Sun's, blocking all direct sunlight, turning day into darkness. Totality occurs in a narrow path across Earth's surface, with the partial solar eclipse visible over a surrounding region thousands of kilometres wide. With a magnitude of\",\n \"title\": \"Solar eclipse of April 8, 2024\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"11609889\",\n \"text\": \"1.0566, its longest duration of totality will be of four minutes and 28 seconds near the town of Nazas, Durango, Mexico, and the nearby city of Torreón, Coahuila. This eclipse will be the first total solar eclipse to be visible from Canada since February 26, 1979, the first in Mexico since July 11, 1991, and the first in the U.S. since August 21, 2017. It will be the only total solar eclipse in the 21st century where totality is visible in Mexico, the United States of America, and Canada. Totality will be visible in a narrow strip in North America,\",\n \"title\": \"Solar eclipse of April 8, 2024\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"14026005\",\n \"text\": \"remainder of the southern states. There will not be an eclipse with a greater duration of totality over the contiguous U.S. until April 8, 2024, a period of 54 years. This eclipse slowed a radio transmission of atomic time from North Carolina to Washington, D.C. <BR>Animation of eclipse path (3 minutes per frame) CBS broadcast the first total eclipse in color. \\\"Maps\\\": \\\"News\\\": \\\"Photos and observations\\\" Solar eclipse of March 7, 1970 A total solar eclipse occurred on Saturday, March 7, 1970, visible across most of North America and Central America. A solar eclipse occurs when the Moon passes between\",\n \"title\": \"Solar eclipse of March 7, 1970\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"14125692\",\n \"text\": \"it will produce the longest total eclipse calculated for the ten millennia from 3999 BCE to 6000 CE. The last eclipse to occur was a total eclipse on March 29, 2006, lasting 4 minutes 7 seconds and passing over portions of Africa and western Asia. The next eclipse will occur on April 8, 2024, lasting 4 minutes 28 seconds over central North America, entering in Mexico, crossing the United States, and leaving in eastern Canada. Solar Saros 139 Solar Saros 139 repeats every 18 years, 11 days. Saros 139 contains 71 events of which 16 will be partial eclipses, 12\",\n \"title\": \"Solar Saros 139\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"14025837\",\n \"text\": \"Solar eclipse of August 12, 2026 A total solar eclipse will occur on August 12, 2026, in North America and Europe. The total eclipse will pass over the Arctic, Greenland, Iceland, Atlantic Ocean and northern Spain. The points of greatest duration and greatest eclipse will be just 50 km off the western coast of Iceland by 65°10.3' N and 25°12.3' W, where the totality will last 2m 18s. It will be the first total eclipse visible in Iceland since June 30, 1954 and the only one to occur in the 21st century as the next one will be in 2196.\",\n \"title\": \"Solar eclipse of August 12, 2026\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"14025840\",\n \"text\": \"be just below the horizon. Because the magnitude will be considerable (more than 0,8) at the outcome the observers will see the shortened civil twilight and extended nautical twilight instead. In the Mediterranean area (especially Sardinia and Sicilia), where the path of totality will proceed in the atmosphere people will be able to see the black stream, that divide the atmosphere on two another bright sections. It may cause extremely favourable conditions to the Zodiacal light observations . <BR>Animated path Solar eclipse of August 12, 2026 A total solar eclipse will occur on August 12, 2026, in North America and\",\n \"title\": \"Solar eclipse of August 12, 2026\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"14025718\",\n \"text\": \"southeastern states of the United States. Almost all of North America and the northern edge of South America will see a partial eclipse. It will be the 2nd total eclipse visible from the Florida Panhandle and southwest Georgia in 7 years. 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Future total solar eclipses will cross the United States in April 2024 (12 states) and August 2045 (10 states), and an annular solar eclipse will occur in June 2048 (9 states). <br>Animated path Solar eclipse of October 14, 2023 An annular solar eclipse will occur on Saturday, October 14, 2023. A solar eclipse occurs when the Moon passes between Earth and","title":"Solar eclipse of October 14, 2023"},{"docid":"11609891","text":"(including Bloomington, Evansville, Indianapolis, Muncie, Terre Haute, and Vincennes), a very small area of Michigan, Ohio (including Akron, Dayton, Lima, Roundhead, Toledo, Cleveland, Warren, Newton Falls and Austintown), Pennsylvania (including Erie), Upstate New York (including Buffalo, Rochester, Syracuse, the Adirondacks, Potsdam, and Plattsburgh), and northern Vermont (including Burlington), New Hampshire, and Maine, with the line of totality going almost directly over the state's highest point Mount Katahdin. The largest city entirely in the path will be Dallas, Texas. It will be the second total eclipse visible from the central United States in just 7 years, after the eclipse of August","title":"Solar eclipse of April 8, 2024"},{"docid":"7598200","text":"coinciding with the eclipse, and at least one wedding was also planned and took place to coincide with the eclipse. Logistical problems were expected with the influx of visitors, especially for smaller communities. The sale of counterfeit eclipse glasses was also anticipated to be a hazard for eye injuries. Future total solar eclipses will cross the United States in April 2024 (12 states) and August 2045 (10 states), and annular solar eclipses—wherein the Moon appears smaller than the Sun—will occur in October 2023 (9 states) and June 2048 (9 states). The total eclipse had a magnitude of 1.0306 and was","title":"Solar eclipse of August 21, 2017"},{"docid":"7598207","text":"being in southern Illinois in Makanda Township at Cedar Lake, just south of Carbondale. An area of about , including the cities of Makanda, Carbondale, Cape Girardeau, Missouri, and Paducah, Kentucky, will thus experience two total solar eclipses within a span of less than seven years. The cities of Benton, Carbondale, Chester, Harrisburg, Marion, and Metropolis in Illinois; Cape Girardeau, Farmington, and Perryville in Missouri, as well as Paducah, Kentucky, will also be in the path of the 2024 eclipse, thereby earning the distinction of witnessing two total solar eclipses in seven years. The solar eclipse of August 12, 2045","title":"Solar eclipse of August 21, 2017"},{"docid":"979539","text":"The phrase dates to at least 1903, when it appeared in a local paper. By 1922, the \"Carbondale Free Press\" was using the phrase on its flag. The area was in totality during the solar eclipse of August 21, 2017, with Giant City State Park, just south of the city, experiencing the longest period of totality during the eclipse (approximately 2 minutes and 40 seconds). It will also be within the path of totality of the solar eclipse of April 8, 2024, making it one of only a handful of cities within the direct paths of both eclipses. Carbondale is","title":"Carbondale, Illinois"},{"docid":"1049748","text":"States Bureau of Mines called the explosion \"avoidable,\" with the disaster resulting in Congress passing the Federal Coal Mine Safety Act of 1952. The area was in totality during the solar eclipse of August 21, 2017, with Giant City State Park, approximately 25 miles to the southwest, experiencing the longest period of totality during the eclipse (approximately 2 minutes and 40 seconds). It will also be within the path of totality of the solar eclipse of April 8, 2024, making it one of only a handful of cities within the direct paths of both eclipses. West Frankfort is located at","title":"West Frankfort, Illinois"},{"docid":"11609893","text":"listed, such as Hamilton and Montreal, are on an edge of the path of totality. Windsor, London, Toronto and Ottawa lie just north of the path of totality, and Moncton lies just south of it.) The path of this eclipse will cross the path of the prior total solar eclipse of August 21, 2017, with the intersection of the two paths being in southern Illinois, in Makanda, just south of Carbondale. The cities of Benton, Carbondale, Chester, Harrisburg, Marion, and Metropolis in Illinois; Cape Girardeau, Farmington, and Perryville in Missouri, as well as Paducah, Kentucky, will be within a roughly","title":"Solar eclipse of April 8, 2024"},{"docid":"14768487","text":"movie Sleepaway Camp. The Town of Argyle will be near the path of totality (98.5%) during the Solar eclipse of April 8, 2024 according to the WEB site timeanddata.com. The communities of Lake Placid, Potsdam and Plattsburg and many locations in the nearby Adirondack Park will be within the path of totality. The time of maximum solar eclipse in Argyle will be at 3:27.05 pm. The town was formed from the Argyll Patent of 1764 while still in Albany County, Province of New York and became a town in Charlotte County when it was created March 24, 1772. Following the","title":"Argyle, New York"},{"docid":"7598206","text":"the first with a path of totality crossing the Pacific and Atlantic coasts of the U.S. since 1918. Also, its path of totality made landfall exclusively within the United States, making it the first such eclipse since the country's declaration of independence in 1776. Prior to this, the path of totality of the eclipse of June 13, 1257, was the last to make landfall exclusively on lands currently part of the United States. The path of the 2017 eclipse crosses with the path of the upcoming total solar eclipse of April 8, 2024, with the intersection of the two paths","title":"Solar eclipse of August 21, 2017"},{"docid":"18343079","text":"Solar eclipse of August 21, 2017 crossing the United States. The guides focus on the following states and locations: Jackson Hole, Oregon, Idaho, Wyoming, Nebraska, Illinois, Missouri, Kentucky, Tennessee, North Carolina, South Carolina. Linsdau is publishing the series of guidebooks for the Solar eclipse of April 8, 2024 crossing the United States from Texas to Maine. A documentary about Linsdau's expedition was released titled \"Antarctic Tears - Determination, Adversity, and the Pursuit of a Dream at the Bottom of the World\". Aaron Linsdau Aaron Linsdau is an American adventurer living in Jackson, Wyoming. He is known for his solo expedition","title":"Aaron Linsdau"},{"docid":"14030301","text":"Simon uses the two phenomena as examples of how the subject seems to be \"where (he) should be all the time.\" Simon released the song four months after the eclipse. Solar eclipse of July 10, 1972 A total solar eclipse occurred on July 10, 1972. A solar eclipse occurs when the Moon passes between Earth and the Sun, thereby totally or partly obscuring the image of the Sun for a viewer on Earth. A total solar eclipse occurs when the Moon's apparent diameter is larger than the Sun's, blocking all direct sunlight, turning day into darkness. Totality occurs in a","title":"Solar eclipse of July 10, 1972"},{"docid":"7745017","text":"observed during a total eclipse are called: The diagrams to the right show the alignment of the Sun, Moon, and Earth during a solar eclipse. The dark gray region between the Moon and Earth is the umbra, where the Sun is completely obscured by the Moon. The small area where the umbra touches Earth's surface is where a total eclipse can be seen. The larger light gray area is the penumbra, in which a partial eclipse can be seen. An observer in the antumbra, the area of shadow beyond the umbra, will see an annular eclipse. The Moon's orbit around","title":"Solar eclipse"},{"docid":"14069195","text":"total solar eclipse, it is not a central solar eclipse. A non-central eclipse is one where the center-line of totality does not intersect the surface of the Earth. Instead, the center line passes just above the Earth's surface. This rare type occurs when totality is only visible at sunset or sunrise in a polar region. It will be seen fully from Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula. It will be visible partially throughout Canada, Greenland and Iceland. It will be also partially visible from the western part United States including Alaska and Hawaii. <BR>Animated path Solar eclipse of April 9, 2043 A total","title":"Solar eclipse of April 9, 2043"},{"docid":"14015656","text":"and Hobart and Launceston in Tasmania, with highest magnitude of about 0.1. The eclipse was also visible in Stewart Island in the far south of New Zealand. This is the second partial solar eclipse on Friday the 13th of July 2018, since the partial solar eclipse of December 1974, and the next will be the partial solar eclipse of September 2080, and the next total solar eclipse will be on July 13, 2037, 19 years later, that it is a Monday, and the next total solar eclipse will be not surpassed until the total solar eclipse of June 2132. Solar","title":"Solar eclipse of July 13, 2018"},{"docid":"123342","text":"a total eclipse, this value is always greater than or equal to one. In both annular and total eclipses, the eclipse magnitude is the ratio of the angular sizes of the Moon to the Sun. Solar eclipses are relatively brief events that can only be viewed in totality along a relatively narrow track. Under the most favorable circumstances, a total solar eclipse can last for 7 minutes, 31 seconds, and can be viewed along a track that is up to 250 km wide. However, the region where a partial eclipse can be observed is much larger. The Moon's umbra will","title":"Eclipse"},{"docid":"3325872","text":"new location of Stonehenge II sits directly in the path of the April 8, 2024 total solar eclipse. The duration of the eclipse will last for 4 minutes 26 seconds. Most of the stones are constructed of plaster applied to a wire mesh frame; however, two of the central stones are real, large, and probably unmovable without heavy equipment. Stonehenge II was featured as a backdrop for a scene in an early episode of the NBC TV series \"Friday Night Lights\" (Episode 19: \"Ch-Ch-Ch-Ch-Changes\"). Stonehenge II Stonehenge II is an homage to the original Stonehenge monument and is located in","title":"Stonehenge II"},{"docid":"979540","text":"located at (37.726, −89.220). It is in the watershed of the Big Muddy River, at above sea level. Carbondale has been in totality path of one previous solar eclipse on August 21, 2017 and hosted the longest duration of totality with 2 minutes 41.6 seconds just to its south in Makanda Township, and additionally will be in the path of another April 8, 2024. According to the 2010 census, Carbondale has a total area of , of which (or 97.55%) is land and (or 2.45%) is water. Carbondale lies in the northern limits of a humid subtropical climate (Köppen \"Cfa\"),","title":"Carbondale, Illinois"},{"docid":"14088432","text":"the only land being Haha-jima Group in Japan, where the eclipse occurred on August 11 because it is west of International Date Line. Solar eclipse of August 10, 1915 An annular solar eclipse occurred on August 10, 1915. A solar eclipse occurs when the Moon passes between Earth and the Sun, thereby totally or partly obscuring the image of the Sun for a viewer on Earth. An annular solar eclipse occurs when the Moon's apparent diameter is smaller than the Sun's, blocking most of the Sun's light and causing the Sun to look like an annulus (ring). An annular eclipse","title":"Solar eclipse of August 10, 1915"},{"docid":"5251600","text":"the prospect of experiencing the first eclipse in 46 years, but found the experience dampened by cloudy skies obscuring the view. In Bangladesh, where the eclipse lasted approximately 3 minutes and 44 seconds, thousands of people were able to witness the eclipse despite rain and overcast skies. This solar eclipse was the longest total solar eclipse to occur in the 21st century, and will not be surpassed in duration until 13 June 2132. Totality lasted for up to 6 minutes and 39 seconds, with the maximum eclipse occurring in the ocean at 02:35:21 UTC about 100 km south of the","title":"Solar eclipse of July 22, 2009"},{"docid":"14068988","text":"Solar eclipse of July 22, 1971 A partial solar eclipse occurred on July 22, 1971. This was the 70th and final solar eclipse from Solar Saros 116. Solar Saros 116 and Lunar Saros 109 Solar eclipse of June 19, 1917 Solar eclipse of June 30, 1935 July 1944 lunar eclipse Solar eclipse of July 11, 1953 July 1962 lunar eclipse Solar eclipse of July 22, 1971 July 1980 lunar eclipse August 1998 lunar eclipse August 2016 lunar eclipse A solar eclipse will be preceded and followed by lunar eclipses by 9 years and 5.5 days (a half saros). This solar","title":"Solar eclipse of July 22, 1971"},{"docid":"14088968","text":"of kilometres wide. Solar eclipse of September 4, 2100 A total solar eclipse is forecast to occur on September 4, 2100. It will be the last solar eclipse of the 21st century. A solar eclipse occurs when the Moon passes between Earth and the Sun, thereby totally or partly obscuring the image of the Sun for a viewer on Earth. A total solar eclipse occurs when the Moon's apparent diameter is larger than the Sun's, blocking all direct sunlight, turning day into darkness. Totality occurs in a narrow path across Earth's surface, with the partial solar eclipse visible over a","title":"Solar eclipse of September 4, 2100"},{"docid":"14088967","text":"Solar eclipse of September 4, 2100 A total solar eclipse is forecast to occur on September 4, 2100. It will be the last solar eclipse of the 21st century. A solar eclipse occurs when the Moon passes between Earth and the Sun, thereby totally or partly obscuring the image of the Sun for a viewer on Earth. A total solar eclipse occurs when the Moon's apparent diameter is larger than the Sun's, blocking all direct sunlight, turning day into darkness. Totality occurs in a narrow path across Earth's surface, with the partial solar eclipse visible over a surrounding region thousands","title":"Solar eclipse of September 4, 2100"},{"docid":"14130221","text":"of the Nicobar Islands, and Burma, Thailand including Bangkok, French Indochina (the part now belonging to Laos), North Vietnam (now belonging to Vietnam), China, South Korea, Rebun Island in Japan, Kuril Islands in the Soviet Union (now belonging to Russia), and Alaska. It was the first central solar eclipse visible from Bangkok from 1948 to 1958, where it is rare for a large city to witness 4 central solar eclipses in just 10 years. Solar eclipse of May 9, 1948 An annular solar eclipse occurred on May 9, 1948. A solar eclipse occurs when the Moon passes between Earth and","title":"Solar eclipse of May 9, 1948"},{"docid":"14052027","text":"Solar eclipse of September 23, 2090 A total solar eclipse will occur on September 23, 2090. A solar eclipse occurs when the Moon passes between Earth and the Sun, thereby totally or partly obscuring the image of the Sun for a viewer on Earth. A total solar eclipse occurs when the Moon's apparent diameter is larger than the Sun's, blocking all direct sunlight, turning day into darkness. Totality occurs in a narrow path across Earth's surface, with the partial solar eclipse visible over a surrounding region thousands of kilometres wide. This solar eclipse will be the first total solar eclipse","title":"Solar eclipse of September 23, 2090"},{"docid":"14026194","text":"Burma, Thailand including the capital city Bangkok, Cambodia, Laos, North Vietnam and South Vietnam (now belonging to Vietnam), China, British Hong Kong, Taiwan, Ryukyu Islands and Japan. It was the fourth central solar eclipse visible from Bangkok from 1948 to 1958, where it is rare for a large city to witness 4 central solar eclipses in just 10 years. Solar eclipse of April 19, 1958 An annular solar eclipse occurred on April 19, 1958. A solar eclipse occurs when the Moon passes between Earth and the Sun, thereby totally or partly obscuring the image of the Sun for a viewer","title":"Solar eclipse of April 19, 1958"},{"docid":"14025871","text":"Islands in the Territory of Papua New Guinea (today's Papua New Guinea), towards northern Ontong Java Atoll in British Solomon Islands (today's Solomon Islands) ending over Southwestern Pacific Ocean. It was the second central solar eclipse visible from Bangkok from 1948 to 1958, where it is rare for a large city to witness 4 central solar eclipses in just 10 years. Solar eclipse of June 20, 1955 A total solar eclipse occurred on June 20, 1955. A solar eclipse occurs when the Moon passes between Earth and the Sun, thereby totally or partly obscuring the image of the Sun for","title":"Solar eclipse of June 20, 1955"},{"docid":"13641697","text":"be the longest solar eclipse since the solar eclipse of July 11, 1991, which lasted for 6 minutes 53 seconds. Solar eclipse of June 13, 2132 A total solar eclipse will occur on June 13, 2132. A solar eclipse occurs when the Moon passes between Earth and the Sun, thereby totally or partly obscuring the image of the Sun for a viewer on Earth. A total solar eclipse occurs when the Moon's apparent diameter is larger than the Sun's, blocking all direct sunlight, turning day into darkness. Totality occurs in a narrow path across Earth's surface, with the partial solar","title":"Solar eclipse of June 13, 2132"},{"docid":"14069198","text":"Solar eclipse of October 14, 2042 An annular solar eclipse will occur on October 14, 2042. A solar eclipse occurs when the Moon passes between Earth and the Sun, thereby totally or partly obscuring the image of the Sun for a viewer on Earth. An annular solar eclipse occurs when the Moon's apparent diameter is smaller than the Sun's, blocking most of the Sun's light and causing the Sun to look like an annulus (ring). An annular eclipse appears as a partial eclipse over a region of the Earth thousands of kilometres wide. This eclipse will be the second eclipse","title":"Solar eclipse of October 14, 2042"},{"docid":"20896518","text":"of North and South America, Oceania, far-eastern Asia, western Africa, and far-western Europe. This lunar eclipse is part of Lunar Saros 119. A lunar eclipse will be preceded and followed by solar eclipses by 9 years and 5.5 days (a half saros). This lunar eclipse is related to two solar eclipses of Solar Saros 126. August 2053 lunar eclipse A penumbral lunar eclipse will take place on August 29, 2053. This eclipse is a relatively rare total penumbral lunar eclipse wherein the entire moon passes through the Earth's penumbra without any portion entering the umbra. This eclipse will be the","title":"August 2053 lunar eclipse"},{"docid":"14040889","text":"Solar eclipse of June 10, 2021 An annular solar eclipse will occur on June 10, 2021. A solar eclipse occurs when the Moon passes between Earth and the Sun, thereby totally or partly obscuring the image of the Sun for a viewer on Earth. An annular solar eclipse occurs when the Moon's apparent diameter is smaller than the Sun's, blocking most of the Sun's light and causing the Sun to look like an annulus (ring). An annular eclipse appears as a partial eclipse over a region of the Earth thousands of kilometres wide. This eclipse will be unusual as the","title":"Solar eclipse of June 10, 2021"},{"docid":"14015643","text":"Solar eclipse of December 26, 2019 An annular solar eclipse will occur on December 26, 2019. A solar eclipse occurs when the Moon passes between Earth and the Sun, thereby totally or partly obscuring the image of the Sun for a viewer on Earth. An annular solar eclipse occurs when the Moon's apparent diameter is smaller than the Sun's, blocking most of the Sun's light and causing the Sun to look like an annulus (ring). An annular eclipse appears as a partial eclipse over a region of the Earth thousands of kilometres wide. The total annular eclipse will be visible","title":"Solar eclipse of December 26, 2019"},{"docid":"1811393","text":"mathematics, hence developing his skills in astronomical measurement. One way that he honed his mastery of astronomy, aside from the accurate prediction of the solar eclipse of August 18, 1868 (Wakor solar eclipse), was changing the official Buddhist calendar, \"which was seriously miscalculated and the times for auspicious moments were incorrect.\" In 1868, he invited high-ranking European and Siamese officials to accompany him to Wakor village in Prachuap Khiri Khan Province, south of Hua Hin, where the solar eclipse that was to occur on 18 August could be best viewed as a total eclipse. Sir Harry Ord, the British Governor","title":"Mongkut"},{"docid":"14116089","text":"Solar eclipse of June 25, 2150 A total solar eclipse will occur on June 25, 2150. It will be the longest total eclipse since the 11th century. A solar eclipse occurs when the Moon passes between Earth and the Sun, thereby totally or partly obscuring the image of the Sun for a viewer on Earth. A total solar eclipse occurs when the Moon's apparent diameter is larger than the Sun's, blocking all direct sunlight, turning day into darkness. Totality occurs in a narrow path across Earth's surface, with the partial solar eclipse visible over a surrounding region thousands of kilometres","title":"Solar eclipse of June 25, 2150"},{"docid":"14040891","text":"Solar eclipse of December 4, 2021 A total solar eclipse will occur on December 4, 2021. A solar eclipse occurs when the Moon passes between Earth and the Sun, thereby totally or partly obscuring the image of the Sun for a viewer on Earth. A total solar eclipse occurs when the Moon's apparent diameter is larger than the Sun's, blocking all direct sunlight, turning day into darkness. Totality occurs in a narrow path across Earth's surface, with the partial solar eclipse visible over a surrounding region thousands of kilometres wide. This eclipse will be unusual as the path of the","title":"Solar eclipse of December 4, 2021"},{"docid":"14112695","text":"Solar eclipse of May 1, 2079 A total solar eclipse will occur on May 1, 2079. A solar eclipse occurs when the Moon passes between Earth and the Sun, thereby totally or partly obscuring the image of the Sun for a viewer on Earth. A total solar eclipse occurs when the Moon's apparent diameter is larger than the Sun's, blocking all direct sunlight, turning day into darkness. Totality occurs in a narrow path across Earth's surface, with the partial solar eclipse visible over a surrounding region thousands of kilometres wide. The eclipse will be visible in Greenland, parts of eastern","title":"Solar eclipse of May 1, 2079"},{"docid":"14026001","text":"Solar eclipse of May 22, 2096 A total solar eclipse will occur on May 22, 2096. A solar eclipse occurs when the Moon passes between Earth and the Sun, thereby totally or partly obscuring the image of the Sun for a viewer on Earth. A total solar eclipse occurs when the Moon's apparent diameter is larger than the Sun's, blocking all direct sunlight, turning day into darkness. Totality occurs in a narrow path across Earth's surface, with the partial solar eclipse visible over a surrounding region thousands of kilometres wide. This will be the first eclipse of saros series 139","title":"Solar eclipse of May 22, 2096"},{"docid":"14172987","text":"Solar eclipse of November 19, 1816 A total solar eclipse occurred on November 19, 1816. A solar eclipse occurs when the Moon passes between Earth and the Sun, thereby totally or partly obscuring the image of the Sun for a viewer on Earth. A total solar eclipse occurs when the Moon's apparent diameter is larger than the Sun's, blocking all direct sunlight, turning day into darkness. Totality occurs in a narrow path across Earth's surface, with the partial solar eclipse visible over a surrounding region thousands of kilometres wide. From Germany, this total eclipse could not be seen with clouded","title":"Solar eclipse of November 19, 1816"},{"docid":"14069194","text":"Solar eclipse of April 9, 2043 A total solar eclipse will occur on April 9, 2043. A solar eclipse occurs when the Moon passes between Earth and the Sun, thereby totally or partly obscuring the image of the Sun for a viewer on Earth. A total solar eclipse occurs when the Moon's apparent diameter is larger than the Sun's, blocking all direct sunlight, turning day into darkness. Totality occurs in a narrow path across Earth's surface, with the partial solar eclipse visible over a surrounding region thousands of kilometres wide. It will be unusual in that while it is a","title":"Solar eclipse of April 9, 2043"},{"docid":"13156134","text":"is related to two partial solar eclipses of Solar Saros 117. June 1991 lunar eclipse A penumbral lunar eclipse took place on Thursday, June 27, 1991, the second of four lunar eclipses in 1991. The moon entered the Earth's penumbra for about 3 hours, and was difficult to see. This lunar eclipse is the predecessor of the Solar eclipse of July 11, 1991. This eclipse is a member of Saros series 110. The previous event occurred on June 15, 1973. The next event was on July 7, 2009. A lunar eclipse will be preceded and followed by solar eclipses by","title":"June 1991 lunar eclipse"},{"docid":"13157233","text":"ascending node eclipse of the lunar eclipse series sets from 2016–2020. It is also part of Saros cycle 124. A similar eclipse occurs on January 31, 2037, one metonic cycle of 19 years in the future. A lunar eclipse will be preceded and followed by solar eclipses by 9 years and 5.5 days (a half saros). This lunar eclipse is related to two annular solar eclipses of Solar Saros 131. January 2018 lunar eclipse A total lunar eclipse occurred on January 31, 2018. The Moon was near its perigee on January 30 and as such may be described as a","title":"January 2018 lunar eclipse"},{"docid":"14060917","text":"Solar eclipse of October 14, 2023 An annular solar eclipse will occur on Saturday, October 14, 2023. A solar eclipse occurs when the Moon passes between Earth and the Sun, thereby totally or partly obscuring the image of the Sun for a viewer on Earth. An annular solar eclipse occurs when the Moon's apparent diameter is smaller than the Sun's, blocking most of the Sun's light and causing the Sun to look like an annulus (ring). An annular eclipse appears as a partial eclipse over a region of the Earth thousands of kilometres or miles wide. This will be the","title":"Solar eclipse of October 14, 2023"},{"docid":"14068989","text":"eclipse is related to two penumbral lunar eclipses of Lunar Saros 109 on the first and second columns. !July 1962 lunar eclipse !July 1980 lunar eclipse !August 1998 lunar eclipse !August 2016 lunar eclipse I I Solar eclipse of July 22, 1971 A partial solar eclipse occurred on July 22, 1971. This was the 70th and final solar eclipse from Solar Saros 116. Solar Saros 116 and Lunar Saros 109 Solar eclipse of June 19, 1917 Solar eclipse of June 30, 1935 July 1944 lunar eclipse Solar eclipse of July 11, 1953 July 1962 lunar eclipse Solar eclipse of July","title":"Solar eclipse of July 22, 1971"},{"docid":"11718153","text":"Only Alaska and northern most Canada will be able to witness the entire event. It was preceded by the partial solar eclipse of November 25, 2011. A lunar eclipse will be preceded and followed by solar eclipses by 9 years and 5.5 days (a half saros). This lunar eclipse is related to two total solar eclipses of Solar Saros 142. This eclipse is the one of four lunar eclipses in a short-lived series. The lunar year series repeats after 12 lunations or 354 days (shifting back about 10 days in sequential years). Because of the date shift, the Earth's shadow","title":"December 2011 lunar eclipse"},{"docid":"13164403","text":"eclipse is the second of four Metonic cycle lunar eclipses on the same date, September 7, each separated by 19 years: A lunar eclipse will be preceded and followed by solar eclipses by 9 years and 5.5 days (a half saros). This lunar eclipse is related to two annular solar eclipses of Solar Saros 135. September 2025 lunar eclipse A total lunar eclipse will take place on September 7, 2025. It will be completely visible over much of Asia, Australia and eastern Africa, will be seen rising over the rest of Africa and Europe, and setting over eastern Asia and","title":"September 2025 lunar eclipse"},{"docid":"14068436","text":"hours after the northern solstice and most of the path will go across areas with midnight sun. For mainland Norway and Sweden it will be the first central solar eclipse since June 1954. <BR>Animated path Solar eclipse of June 21, 2039 An annular solar eclipse will occur on June 21, 2039. A solar eclipse occurs when the Moon passes between Earth and the Sun, thereby totally or partly obscuring the image of the Sun for a viewer on Earth. An annular solar eclipse occurs when the Moon's apparent diameter is smaller than the Sun's, blocking most of the Sun's light","title":"Solar eclipse of June 21, 2039"},{"docid":"14061402","text":"can be seen in Greece, Turkey, USSR, China and Japan. The maximum eclipse was near Bratsk and lasts about 2.5 minutes. Solar eclipse of June 19, 1936 A total solar eclipse occurred on June 19, 1936. A solar eclipse occurs when the Moon passes between Earth and the Sun, thereby totally or partly obscuring the image of the Sun for a viewer on Earth. A total solar eclipse occurs when the Moon's apparent diameter is larger than the Sun's, blocking all direct sunlight, turning day into darkness. Totality occurs in a narrow path across Earth's surface, with the partial solar","title":"Solar eclipse of June 19, 1936"},{"docid":"14025844","text":"Solar eclipse of August 23, 2044 A total solar eclipse will occur on August 23, 2044. A solar eclipse occurs when the Moon passes between Earth and the Sun, thereby totally or partly obscuring the image of the Sun for a viewer on Earth. A total solar eclipse occurs when the Moon's apparent diameter is larger than the Sun's, blocking all direct sunlight, turning day into darkness. Totality occurs in a narrow path across Earth's surface, with the partial solar eclipse visible over a surrounding region thousands of kilometres wide. Totality will be visible across the Northwest Territories and Alberta","title":"Solar eclipse of August 23, 2044"},{"docid":"15296770","text":"Solar eclipse of September 26, 2117 A total solar eclipse will occur on September 26, 2117. A solar eclipse occurs when the Moon passes between Earth and the Sun, thereby totally or partly obscuring the image of the Sun for a viewer on Earth. A total solar eclipse occurs when the Moon's apparent diameter is larger than the Sun's, blocking all direct sunlight, turning day into darkness. Totality occurs in a narrow path across Earth's surface, with the partial solar eclipse visible over a surrounding region thousands of kilometres wide. It will be visible at sunrise across eastern Asia and","title":"Solar eclipse of September 26, 2117"},{"docid":"14025990","text":"Solar eclipse of April 20, 2042 A total solar eclipse will occur on April 20, 2042. A solar eclipse occurs when the Moon passes between Earth and the Sun, thereby totally or partly obscuring the image of the Sun for a viewer on Earth. A total solar eclipse occurs when the Moon's apparent diameter is larger than the Sun's, blocking all direct sunlight, turning day into darkness. Totality occurs in a narrow path across Earth's surface, with the partial solar eclipse visible over a surrounding region thousands of kilometres wide. It will be seen significantly in Western Indonesia (particularly in","title":"Solar eclipse of April 20, 2042"},{"docid":"14025804","text":"Solar eclipse of March 30, 2033 A total solar eclipse will occur on March 30, 2033. A solar eclipse occurs when the Moon passes between Earth and the Sun, thereby totally or partly obscuring the image of the Sun for a viewer on Earth. A total solar eclipse occurs when the Moon's apparent diameter is larger than the Sun's, blocking all direct sunlight, turning day into darkness. Totality occurs in a narrow path across Earth's surface, with the partial solar eclipse visible over a surrounding region thousands of kilometres wide. Totality will be visible in Nome, Alaska, Utqiagvik, Alaska and","title":"Solar eclipse of March 30, 2033"},{"docid":"13888499","text":"Solar eclipse of July 2, 2019 A total solar eclipse will occur on July 2, 2019 with a magnitude of 1.0459. A solar eclipse occurs when the Moon passes between Earth and the Sun, thereby totally or partly obscuring the image of the Sun for a viewer on Earth. A total solar eclipse occurs when the Moon's apparent diameter is larger than the Sun's, blocking all direct sunlight, turning day into darkness. Totality occurs in a narrow path across Earth's surface, with the partial solar eclipse visible over a surrounding region thousands of kilometres wide. Totality will be visible from","title":"Solar eclipse of July 2, 2019"},{"docid":"15296771","text":"northern islands of Japan, and then crossing the Pacific Ocean. It will be visible as a partial eclipse over Hawaii, and at sunset partial eclipse over parts of Alaska. Solar eclipse of September 26, 2117 A total solar eclipse will occur on September 26, 2117. A solar eclipse occurs when the Moon passes between Earth and the Sun, thereby totally or partly obscuring the image of the Sun for a viewer on Earth. A total solar eclipse occurs when the Moon's apparent diameter is larger than the Sun's, blocking all direct sunlight, turning day into darkness. Totality occurs in a","title":"Solar eclipse of September 26, 2117"},{"docid":"175832","text":"limits of the positions of Sun and Moon when a solar or lunar eclipse is possible, are explained in \"Almagest\" VI.5. Hipparchus apparently made similar calculations. The result that two solar eclipses can occur one month apart is important, because this can not be based on observations: one is visible on the northern and the other on the southern hemisphere – as Pliny indicates – and the latter was inaccessible to the Greek. Prediction of a solar eclipse, i.e., exactly when and where it will be visible, requires a solid lunar theory and proper treatment of the lunar parallax. Hipparchus","title":"Hipparchus"},{"docid":"20236054","text":"2024 solar eclipse, WDAD Radio of Indiana, PA featured Butler Dispatch. Since its founding in 2014, Butler Dispatch and its founder Austin Ayers have been involved in numerous controversies and scandals that have since called into question its legitimacy as a news outlet. Fake Tornado Drill<br> In June 2015, while the page was being called \"Butler County PA 911 Notifications\", Ayers posted a fake warning about a tornado as a way to conduct a drill. After causing confusion and complaints to be filed with the National Weather Service and Butler County emergency officials, Ayers removed the post. Fake \"likes\"<br> In","title":"Butler Dispatch"},{"docid":"7745051","text":"data analysis, which suggested that the phenomenon still remains unexplained. In principle, the simultaneous occurrence of a Solar eclipse and a transit of a planet is possible. But these events are extremely rare because of their short durations. The next anticipated simultaneous occurrence of a Solar eclipse and a transit of Mercury will be on July 5, 6757, and a Solar eclipse and a transit of Venus is expected on April 5, 15232. More common, but still infrequent, is a conjunction of a planet (especially, but not only, Mercury or Venus) at the time of a total solar eclipse, in","title":"Solar eclipse"},{"docid":"13327773","text":"Solar eclipse of January 4, 2011 The solar eclipse of January 4, 2011 was a partial eclipse of the Sun that was visible after sunrise over most of Europe, northwestern and South Asia. It ended at sunset over eastern Asia. It was visible as a minor partial eclipse over northern Africa and the Arabian peninsula. Greatest eclipse occurred at 08:51 UTC in northern Sweden where the eclipse in the horizon had a magnitude of 0.858. At that time, the axis of the Moon's shadow passed a mere 510 km above Earth's surface. A solar eclipse occurs when the Moon passes","title":"Solar eclipse of January 4, 2011"},{"docid":"13327771","text":"Solar eclipse of January 4, 2011 The solar eclipse of January 4, 2011 was a partial eclipse of the Sun that was visible after sunrise over most of Europe, northwestern and South Asia. It ended at sunset over eastern Asia. It was visible as a minor partial eclipse over northern Africa and the Arabian peninsula. Greatest eclipse occurred at 08:51 UTC in northern Sweden where the eclipse in the horizon had a magnitude of 0.858. At that time, the axis of the Moon's shadow passed a mere 510 km above Earth's surface. A solar eclipse occurs when the Moon passes","title":"Solar eclipse of January 4, 2011"},{"docid":"12955376","text":"down through Central America and across South America ending over Brazil. It lasted for 6 minutes and 53 seconds at the point of maximum eclipse. There will not be a longer total eclipse until June 13, 2132. This eclipse was the most central total eclipse in 800 years, with a gamma of -.0041. There will not be a more central eclipse for another 800 years. Its magnitude was also greater than any eclipse since the 6th century. Photos: Videos: Solar eclipse of July 11, 1991 A total solar eclipse occurred on July 11, 1991. A solar eclipse occurs when the","title":"Solar eclipse of July 11, 1991"},{"docid":"14055766","text":"Solar eclipse of July 16, 2186 There will be a solar eclipse on July 16, 2186, which will be the longest total eclipse for thousands of years. The eclipse will pass over the southern Galápagos Islands (with a total eclipse of 4 minutes occurring over the southern tip of Española Island), the northern tip of Ecuador (with a total eclipse of 3 minutes and 26 seconds on ), central Colombia (4 minutes and 50 seconds over Bogota), central Venezuela, and northern Guyana (7 minutes and 4 seconds just north of Anna Regina). This will be the longest total solar eclipse","title":"Solar eclipse of July 16, 2186"},{"docid":"13016843","text":"means the Earth's shadow will move about 11 degrees west in each subsequent eclipse. This tetrad started during the ascending node of the Moon's orbit. It is the first tetrad since the 2003–04 series, which started in May. The next series will be from 2032 to 2033, starting in April. A lunar eclipse will be preceded and followed by solar eclipses by 9 years and 5.5 days (a half saros). This lunar eclipse is related to two hybrid total/annualar solar eclipses of solar saros 129. April 2014 lunar eclipse A total lunar eclipse took place on April 15, 2014. It","title":"April 2014 lunar eclipse"},{"docid":"7745016","text":"total, annular, or hybrid eclipse. This is, however, not completely correct: the definition of a central eclipse is an eclipse during which the central line of the umbra touches the Earth's surface. It is possible, though extremely rare, that part of the umbra intersects with the Earth (thus creating an annular or total eclipse), but not its central line. This is then called a non-central total or annular eclipse. The last (umbral yet) non-central solar eclipse was on April 29, 2014. This was an annular eclipse. The next non-central total solar eclipse will be on April 9, 2043. The phases","title":"Solar eclipse"},{"docid":"11750009","text":"next event is the July 2018 lunar eclipse. Lunar Saros 129 contains 11 total lunar eclipses between 1910 and 2090. Solar Saros 136 interleaves with this lunar saros with an event occurring every 9 years 5 days alternating between each saros series. A lunar eclipse will be preceded and followed by solar eclipses by 9 years and 5.5 days (a half saros). This lunar eclipse is related to two total solar eclipses of Solar Saros 136. July 2000 lunar eclipse A total lunar eclipse took place on 16 July 2000, the second of two total lunar eclipses in 2000. The","title":"July 2000 lunar eclipse"},{"docid":"13291572","text":"eclipses occurring at the moon's ascending node. The lunar year series repeats after 12 lunations or 354 days (Shifting back about 10 days in sequential years). Because of the date shift, the Earth's shadow will be about 11 degrees west in sequential events. A lunar eclipse will be preceded and followed by solar eclipses by 9 years and 5.5 days (a half saros). This lunar eclipse is related to two total solar eclipses of Solar Saros 139. May 2069 lunar eclipse A total lunar eclipse will take place on May 6, 2069. The eclipse will be a dark one with","title":"May 2069 lunar eclipse"},{"docid":"14128821","text":"he told the frightened indigenous people that they were going to be forgiven. When the Moon started to reappear from the shadow of the Earth, he told them that God had pardoned them. Columbus was maybe the first to put into practice an idea proposed by Hipparchus, to use a lunar eclipse to determine one's geographical longitude. A lunar eclipse is visible across half the globe, and everyone sees it begin and end at the same moment. But the times when measured in the local solar time will differ, because everyone is in a different timezone. The local time is","title":"March 1504 lunar eclipse"},{"docid":"14055767","text":"between the dates of 4000 BC and at least AD 8000 (12,000 years), lasting a maximum of 7 minutes, 29 seconds. The factors that will make this such a long eclipse are: The longest historical total eclipse lasted 7 minutes 28 seconds on June 15, 744BC. The longest eclipse theoretically possible for the 3rd millennium is 7 minutes and 32 seconds. Solar eclipse of July 16, 2186 There will be a solar eclipse on July 16, 2186, which will be the longest total eclipse for thousands of years. The eclipse will pass over the southern Galápagos Islands (with a total","title":"Solar eclipse of July 16, 2186"},{"docid":"14116090","text":"wide. This will be the first total solar eclipse to exceed 7 minutes in term of duration since June 30, 1973. Totality will start in the Lesser Sunda Islands in Indonesia, continue across the northern Pacific Ocean, and end in the eastern Pacific. Solar eclipse of June 25, 2150 A total solar eclipse will occur on June 25, 2150. It will be the longest total eclipse since the 11th century. A solar eclipse occurs when the Moon passes between Earth and the Sun, thereby totally or partly obscuring the image of the Sun for a viewer on Earth. A total","title":"Solar eclipse of June 25, 2150"},{"docid":"14116103","text":"be the longest eclipse since the 11th century, which lasted 7 minutes and 20 seconds, as well with the next two occurrences. Solar eclipse of July 5, 2168 A total solar eclipse will occur on July 5, 2168. A solar eclipse occurs when the Moon passes between Earth and the Sun, thereby totally or partly obscuring the image of the Sun for a viewer on Earth. A total solar eclipse occurs when the Moon's apparent diameter is larger than the Sun's, blocking all direct sunlight, turning day into darkness. Totality occurs in a narrow path across Earth's surface, with the","title":"Solar eclipse of July 5, 2168"},{"docid":"14068438","text":"Ocean, passing over much of Antartica and closely reaching the South Pole. A partial eclipse will be visible in the southern extremities of South America and Africa. It will terminate in the southern Indian Ocean several hours later. <BR>Animated path Solar eclipse of December 15, 2039 A total solar eclipse will occur on December 15, 2039. A solar eclipse occurs when the Moon passes between Earth and the Sun, thereby totally or partly obscuring the image of the Sun for a viewer on Earth. A total solar eclipse occurs when the Moon's apparent diameter is larger than the Sun's, blocking","title":"Solar eclipse of December 15, 2039"},{"docid":"14025859","text":"Solar eclipse of August 12, 2045 A total solar eclipse will occur on Saturday, August 12, 2045, when the Moon passes between Earth and the Sun, thereby totally or partly obscuring the image of the Sun for a viewer on Earth. A total solar eclipse occurs when the Moon's apparent diameter is larger than the Sun's, blocking all direct sunlight, turning day into darkness. Totality occurs in a narrow path across Earth's surface, with the partial solar eclipse visible over a surrounding region thousands of kilometres wide. It will be the fourth longest eclipse of the 21st century with a","title":"Solar eclipse of August 12, 2045"},{"docid":"13217225","text":"Greatest Eclipse of Lunar Saros 139: 2199 Nov 02 Last Central Lunar Eclipse: 2488 Apr 26 Last Total Lunar Eclipse: 2542 May 30 Last Partial Lunar Eclipse: 2686 Aug 25 Last Penumbral Lunar Eclipse: 3065 Apr 13 June 1965 lunar eclipse A partial lunar eclipse took place on June 14, 1965. A lunar eclipse will be preceded and followed by solar eclipses by 9 years and 5.5 days (a half saros). This lunar eclipse is related to two total solar eclipses of Solar Saros 146. Lunar Saros series 139, repeating every 18 years and 11 days, has a total of","title":"June 1965 lunar eclipse"},{"docid":"13217224","text":"June 1965 lunar eclipse A partial lunar eclipse took place on June 14, 1965. A lunar eclipse will be preceded and followed by solar eclipses by 9 years and 5.5 days (a half saros). This lunar eclipse is related to two total solar eclipses of Solar Saros 146. Lunar Saros series 139, repeating every 18 years and 11 days, has a total of 79 lunar eclipse events including 27 total lunar eclipses. First Penumbral Lunar Eclipse: 1658 Dec 09 First Partial Lunar Eclipse: 1947 Jun 03 First Total Lunar Eclipse: 2073 Aug 17 First Central Lunar Eclipse: 2109 Sep 09","title":"June 1965 lunar eclipse"},{"docid":"11509087","text":"it when it is visible. The penumbral eclipse began at 18:23 UTC, with the partial eclipse beginning at 19:36. The time of greatest eclipse was 21:10. The partial eclipse ended at 22:44, and the penumbral eclipse will ended at 23:57. The planet Neptune was 2 days past opposition, visible in binoculars as an 8th magnitude \"star\" just two degrees west and slightly south of the moon. A lunar eclipse will be preceded and followed by solar eclipses by 9 years and 5.5 days (a half saros). This lunar eclipse is related to two total solar eclipses of Solar Saros 145.","title":"August 2008 lunar eclipse"},{"docid":"14040890","text":"path of the annular eclipse will move to the north east, then north, north west, west, south west, south, and finally south east across the Arctic, while most eclipse paths move west to east. This reversal is only possible in polar regions. This eclipse is also notable for the fact that the path of annularity passes over the North Pole. While the eclipse is visible primarily in north-east of Sakha Republic (Russia), in the northeastern United States and Canada, the sun will be partially eclipsed at sunrise. <BR>Animated path Solar eclipse of June 10, 2021 An annular solar eclipse will","title":"Solar eclipse of June 10, 2021"},{"docid":"14177020","text":"the United Kingdom with a diagonal track from Cornwall in the south-west to Aberdeen in the north-east of Scotland. It was observed from Germany by Tycho Brahe. It is a part of solar Saros 133. This is the 22nd member of Solar Saros 133. The previous event was on February 15, 1580 (21st member). The next event will be on March 17, 1616 (23rd member). Solar eclipse of March 7, 1598 A total solar eclipse occurred on March 7, 1598 (25 February 1598 by the Julian calendar). A solar eclipse occurs when the Moon passes between Earth and the Sun,","title":"Solar eclipse of March 7, 1598"},{"docid":"11609890","text":"beginning at the Pacific coast, then ascending in a northeasterly direction through Mexico, the United States, and Canada, before ending in the Atlantic Ocean. In Mexico, totality will pass through the states of Sinaloa (including Mazatlán), Durango (including Durango and Gómez Palacio) and Coahuila (including Torreón, Matamoros, Monclova, Sabinas, Ciudad Acuña and Piedras Negras). In the United States, totality will be visible through the states of Texas (including parts of San Antonio, Austin, and Fort Worth and all of Arlington, Dallas, Killeen, Temple, Texarkana, Tyler and Waco), Oklahoma, Arkansas (including Hot Springs, Jonesboro, and Little Rock), Missouri, Illinois, Kentucky, Indiana","title":"Solar eclipse of April 8, 2024"},{"docid":"13156076","text":"on the same date, May 4–5, each separated by 19 years: It is a member of Saros cycle 121. A lunar eclipse will be preceded and followed by solar eclipses by 9 years and 5.5 days (a half saros). This lunar eclipse is related to two annular solar eclipses of Solar Saros 128. May 1985 lunar eclipse A total lunar eclipse took place on May 4, 1985. This lunar eclipse is first of a \"tetrad\", four total lunar eclipses in series. The last series was in 1967 and 1968, starting with an April 1967 lunar eclipse, while the next was","title":"May 1985 lunar eclipse"},{"docid":"16401173","text":"available for free, written by enthusiasts and professionals all over the world. Solar Eclipse Maestro Solar Eclipse Maestro is freeware universal binary software for Mac OS only able to control up to four USB/Firewire connected cameras (Nikon and Canon) and up to four SBIG CCD cameras with their filter wheels during an eclipse, so that the user (astronomer or photographer) can be free to concentrate on observing the event visually. It can handle any solar eclipse, provide Baily’s beads preview and animation, simulate an all-sky view or weather statistics, and a lot more. It is localized in English and French.","title":"Solar Eclipse Maestro"},{"docid":"16401172","text":"Solar Eclipse Maestro Solar Eclipse Maestro is freeware universal binary software for Mac OS only able to control up to four USB/Firewire connected cameras (Nikon and Canon) and up to four SBIG CCD cameras with their filter wheels during an eclipse, so that the user (astronomer or photographer) can be free to concentrate on observing the event visually. It can handle any solar eclipse, provide Baily’s beads preview and animation, simulate an all-sky view or weather statistics, and a lot more. It is localized in English and French. A lot of scripts, used for controlling in varied situations are also","title":"Solar Eclipse Maestro"},{"docid":"7745045","text":"the total phase of a solar eclipse directly only when the Sun's photosphere is completely covered by the Moon, and not before or after totality. During this period, the Sun is too dim to be seen through filters. The Sun's faint corona will be visible, and the chromosphere, solar prominences, and possibly even a solar flare may be seen. At the end of totality, the same effects will occur in reverse order, and on the opposite side of the Moon. Photographing an eclipse is possible with fairly common camera equipment. In order for the disk of the Sun/Moon to be","title":"Solar eclipse"},{"docid":"1057668","text":"passed to the south of the town, destroying or heavily damaging several structures along Indiana 65. The highway was closed for several days as power crews replaced several large power poles. On April 8, 2024, Owensville, along with most of the rest of Southwestern Indiana will view a total solar eclipse, lasting approximately 3 minutes and 55 seconds. Owensville is located at (38.271769, -87.690652). According to the 2010 census, Owensville has a total area of , all land. The climate in this area is characterized by hot, humid summers and generally mild to cool winters. According to the Köppen Climate","title":"Owensville, Indiana"},{"docid":"13016848","text":"be about 11° west in sequential events. A lunar eclipse will be preceded and followed by solar eclipses by 9 years and 5.5 days (a half saros). This lunar eclipse is related to two annular solar eclipses of solar saros 134. October 2014 lunar eclipse A total lunar eclipse took place on October 8, 2014. It is the second of two total lunar eclipses in 2014, and the second in a \"tetrad\" (four total lunar eclipses in series). Other eclipses in the tetrad are those of April 15, 2014, April 4, 2015, and September 28, 2015. This is the 42nd","title":"October 2014 lunar eclipse"},{"docid":"13168796","text":"eclipse is related to two partial solar eclipses of Solar Saros 117 on the first and second columns. July 2027 lunar eclipse A penumbral lunar eclipse will take place on July 18, 2027. The Moon will barely clip the edge of the Earth's penumbral shadow, and the eclipse will be impossible to see in practice. Insofar as it is visible at all, it will be visible over Asia and Australia. This eclipse is a member of Saros series 110. The previous event occurred on July 7, 2009. This is the last lunar eclipse of this series. A lunar eclipse will","title":"July 2027 lunar eclipse"},{"docid":"13888501","text":"Totality will be visible in the provinces of San Juan, La Rioja, San Luis, Córdoba, Santa Fe, and Buenos Aires. Cities in the path include San Juan, and Río Cuarto. Totality will be visible from Oeno Island. There will be partial visibility in Tahiti and Bora Bora. Solar eclipse of July 2, 2019 A total solar eclipse will occur on July 2, 2019 with a magnitude of 1.0459. A solar eclipse occurs when the Moon passes between Earth and the Sun, thereby totally or partly obscuring the image of the Sun for a viewer on Earth. A total solar eclipse","title":"Solar eclipse of July 2, 2019"},{"docid":"14061408","text":"other eclipses that year. The first was a partial lunar eclipse, during which the shadow of the earth can be seen on the moon, and another solar eclipse that took place on December 3 over South America. The other solar eclipse, however, was an annular eclipse, which occurs when the moon has a smaller apparent diameter and therefore never fully obscures the sun. Solar eclipse of June 8, 1918 A total solar eclipse occurred on June 8, 1918. The eclipse was observed by a U.S. Naval Observatory team at Baker City in Oregon. The painting below shows totality when the","title":"Solar eclipse of June 8, 1918"},{"docid":"20044106","text":"occurred in a smaller part of the same area where the previous solar eclipse happened which was on April 3, the next one was on September 27 and covered a part of the Northern Hemisphere This minor eclipse was visible offshore from the peninsular Antarctica along with its islands and the Trans-Antarctic Mountains. It was the last eclipse of solar saros 113 with the moon's penumbra touching the earth for just about 30 minutes. The greatest eclipse was at 19:18:22 UTC (8:18:22 local time) just south of the 70th parallel. Solar eclipse of August 28, 1848 A very small partial","title":"Solar eclipse of August 28, 1848"},{"docid":"14125667","text":"December 5, 2048, December 17, 2066, and December 27, 2084. In the following list, the Julian calendar is used for the first 21 members of the series; the Gregorian calendar is used for all the rest, starting with the solar eclipse of March 7, 1598. Solar Saros 133 Solar Saros 133 is one of the saros series of solar eclipse cycles. It began on July 13, 1219 with a partial eclipse occurring in northern Yukon at , about east of Canada's present-day Vuntut National Park. The final eclipse in the series will be on September 5, 2499. The period separating","title":"Solar Saros 133"},{"docid":"13014680","text":"will be preceded and followed by solar eclipses by 9 years and 5.5 days (a half saros). This lunar eclipse is related to two total solar eclipses of solar saros 139. The eclipse is the one of four lunar eclipses in a short-lived series at the ascending node of the moon's orbit. The lunar year series repeats after 12 lunations, or 354 days (shifting back about 10 days in sequential years). Because of the date shift, the Earth's shadow will be about 11 degrees west in sequential events. April 2015 lunar eclipse A total lunar eclipse took place on 4","title":"April 2015 lunar eclipse"},{"docid":"8457467","text":"an astronomy festival, and the Perseid Festival. The observatory is near the center path of totality of the Solar eclipse of April 8th 2024. Mont Mégantic Observatory The Mont Mégantic Observatory (; OMM) is an astronomical observatory owned and operated jointly by the Université de Montréal (UdeM), the Université Laval (ULaval), and McGill University. Founded in 1978, the observatory houses the second largest telescope in Eastern Canada after David Dunlap Observatory near Toronto. It is situated at the summit of Mont Mégantic, the highest point of Eastern Canada accessible by car. OMM is about east of Sherbrooke and east of","title":"Mont Mégantic Observatory"},{"docid":"13139430","text":"lunar eclipse. Lunar Saros 129 contains 11 total lunar eclipses between 1910 and 2090. Solar Saros 136 interleaves with this lunar saros with an event occurring every 9 years 5 days alternating between each saros series. August 2036 lunar eclipse A total lunar eclipse will take place on August 7, 2036. The moon will pass through the center of the Earth's shadow. This is the second eclipse this season. First eclipse this season: Partial solar eclipse of July 23, 2036 Third eclipse this season: Partial solar eclipse of August 21, 2036 It will be completely visible over South America, seen","title":"August 2036 lunar eclipse"},{"docid":"1139384","text":"Connecticut River. Deer Mountain Campground enables camping and picnicking on the Connecticut River. Pittsburg will fall within the path of totality during the solar eclipse of April 8, 2024 Pittsburg, New Hampshire Pittsburg is a town in Coos County, New Hampshire, United States. The population was 869 at the 2010 census. It is the northernmost town in New Hampshire and the largest town by area in the state – and in New England as well – more than twice the size of the next largest town, Lincoln. U.S. Route 3 is the only major highway in the town, although the","title":"Pittsburg, New Hampshire"},{"docid":"13288399","text":"be preceded and followed by solar eclipses by 9 years and 5.5 days (a half saros). This lunar eclipse is related to two total solar eclipses of Solar Saros 136. June 1928 lunar eclipse A total lunar eclipse took place on June 3, 1928. It was completely visible over Asia, Australia and the Americas, seen rising over Asia and Australia and setting over the Americas. This is the 33rd member of Lunar Saros 129. The previous event was the May 1910 lunar eclipse. The next event is the June 1946 lunar eclipse. Lunar Saros 129 contains 11 total lunar eclipses","title":"June 1928 lunar eclipse"},{"docid":"11714803","text":"Dec 11 2075 Dec 22 2094 Jan 01 This eclipse is the second of four Metonic cycle lunar eclipses on the same date, November 8–9, each separated by 19 years: A lunar eclipse will be preceded and followed by solar eclipses by 9 years and 5.5 days (a half saros). This lunar eclipse is related to two total solar eclipses of Solar Saros 133. November 2003 lunar eclipse A total lunar eclipse took place on November 9, 2003, the second of two total lunar eclipses in 2003, the first being on May 16, 2003. It is the first total lunar","title":"November 2003 lunar eclipse"}],"string":"[\n {\n \"docid\": \"14060918\",\n \"text\": \"second annular eclipse visible from Albuquerque in 11 years, where it crosses the path of the May 2012 eclipse. The cities of San Antonio and Corpus Christi, Texas will also be in the direct path of this annular eclipse. Future total solar eclipses will cross the United States in April 2024 (12 states) and August 2045 (10 states), and an annular solar eclipse will occur in June 2048 (9 states). <br>Animated path Solar eclipse of October 14, 2023 An annular solar eclipse will occur on Saturday, October 14, 2023. A solar eclipse occurs when the Moon passes between Earth and\",\n \"title\": \"Solar eclipse of October 14, 2023\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"11609891\",\n \"text\": \"(including Bloomington, Evansville, Indianapolis, Muncie, Terre Haute, and Vincennes), a very small area of Michigan, Ohio (including Akron, Dayton, Lima, Roundhead, Toledo, Cleveland, Warren, Newton Falls and Austintown), Pennsylvania (including Erie), Upstate New York (including Buffalo, Rochester, Syracuse, the Adirondacks, Potsdam, and Plattsburgh), and northern Vermont (including Burlington), New Hampshire, and Maine, with the line of totality going almost directly over the state's highest point Mount Katahdin. The largest city entirely in the path will be Dallas, Texas. It will be the second total eclipse visible from the central United States in just 7 years, after the eclipse of August\",\n \"title\": \"Solar eclipse of April 8, 2024\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"7598200\",\n \"text\": \"coinciding with the eclipse, and at least one wedding was also planned and took place to coincide with the eclipse. Logistical problems were expected with the influx of visitors, especially for smaller communities. The sale of counterfeit eclipse glasses was also anticipated to be a hazard for eye injuries. Future total solar eclipses will cross the United States in April 2024 (12 states) and August 2045 (10 states), and annular solar eclipses—wherein the Moon appears smaller than the Sun—will occur in October 2023 (9 states) and June 2048 (9 states). The total eclipse had a magnitude of 1.0306 and was\",\n \"title\": \"Solar eclipse of August 21, 2017\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"7598207\",\n \"text\": \"being in southern Illinois in Makanda Township at Cedar Lake, just south of Carbondale. An area of about , including the cities of Makanda, Carbondale, Cape Girardeau, Missouri, and Paducah, Kentucky, will thus experience two total solar eclipses within a span of less than seven years. The cities of Benton, Carbondale, Chester, Harrisburg, Marion, and Metropolis in Illinois; Cape Girardeau, Farmington, and Perryville in Missouri, as well as Paducah, Kentucky, will also be in the path of the 2024 eclipse, thereby earning the distinction of witnessing two total solar eclipses in seven years. The solar eclipse of August 12, 2045\",\n \"title\": \"Solar eclipse of August 21, 2017\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"979539\",\n \"text\": \"The phrase dates to at least 1903, when it appeared in a local paper. By 1922, the \\\"Carbondale Free Press\\\" was using the phrase on its flag. The area was in totality during the solar eclipse of August 21, 2017, with Giant City State Park, just south of the city, experiencing the longest period of totality during the eclipse (approximately 2 minutes and 40 seconds). It will also be within the path of totality of the solar eclipse of April 8, 2024, making it one of only a handful of cities within the direct paths of both eclipses. Carbondale is\",\n \"title\": \"Carbondale, Illinois\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"1049748\",\n \"text\": \"States Bureau of Mines called the explosion \\\"avoidable,\\\" with the disaster resulting in Congress passing the Federal Coal Mine Safety Act of 1952. The area was in totality during the solar eclipse of August 21, 2017, with Giant City State Park, approximately 25 miles to the southwest, experiencing the longest period of totality during the eclipse (approximately 2 minutes and 40 seconds). It will also be within the path of totality of the solar eclipse of April 8, 2024, making it one of only a handful of cities within the direct paths of both eclipses. West Frankfort is located at\",\n \"title\": \"West Frankfort, Illinois\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"11609893\",\n \"text\": \"listed, such as Hamilton and Montreal, are on an edge of the path of totality. Windsor, London, Toronto and Ottawa lie just north of the path of totality, and Moncton lies just south of it.) The path of this eclipse will cross the path of the prior total solar eclipse of August 21, 2017, with the intersection of the two paths being in southern Illinois, in Makanda, just south of Carbondale. The cities of Benton, Carbondale, Chester, Harrisburg, Marion, and Metropolis in Illinois; Cape Girardeau, Farmington, and Perryville in Missouri, as well as Paducah, Kentucky, will be within a roughly\",\n \"title\": \"Solar eclipse of April 8, 2024\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"14768487\",\n \"text\": \"movie Sleepaway Camp. The Town of Argyle will be near the path of totality (98.5%) during the Solar eclipse of April 8, 2024 according to the WEB site timeanddata.com. The communities of Lake Placid, Potsdam and Plattsburg and many locations in the nearby Adirondack Park will be within the path of totality. The time of maximum solar eclipse in Argyle will be at 3:27.05 pm. The town was formed from the Argyll Patent of 1764 while still in Albany County, Province of New York and became a town in Charlotte County when it was created March 24, 1772. Following the\",\n \"title\": \"Argyle, New York\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"7598206\",\n \"text\": \"the first with a path of totality crossing the Pacific and Atlantic coasts of the U.S. since 1918. Also, its path of totality made landfall exclusively within the United States, making it the first such eclipse since the country's declaration of independence in 1776. Prior to this, the path of totality of the eclipse of June 13, 1257, was the last to make landfall exclusively on lands currently part of the United States. The path of the 2017 eclipse crosses with the path of the upcoming total solar eclipse of April 8, 2024, with the intersection of the two paths\",\n \"title\": \"Solar eclipse of August 21, 2017\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"18343079\",\n \"text\": \"Solar eclipse of August 21, 2017 crossing the United States. The guides focus on the following states and locations: Jackson Hole, Oregon, Idaho, Wyoming, Nebraska, Illinois, Missouri, Kentucky, Tennessee, North Carolina, South Carolina. Linsdau is publishing the series of guidebooks for the Solar eclipse of April 8, 2024 crossing the United States from Texas to Maine. A documentary about Linsdau's expedition was released titled \\\"Antarctic Tears - Determination, Adversity, and the Pursuit of a Dream at the Bottom of the World\\\". Aaron Linsdau Aaron Linsdau is an American adventurer living in Jackson, Wyoming. He is known for his solo expedition\",\n \"title\": \"Aaron Linsdau\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"14030301\",\n \"text\": \"Simon uses the two phenomena as examples of how the subject seems to be \\\"where (he) should be all the time.\\\" Simon released the song four months after the eclipse. Solar eclipse of July 10, 1972 A total solar eclipse occurred on July 10, 1972. A solar eclipse occurs when the Moon passes between Earth and the Sun, thereby totally or partly obscuring the image of the Sun for a viewer on Earth. A total solar eclipse occurs when the Moon's apparent diameter is larger than the Sun's, blocking all direct sunlight, turning day into darkness. Totality occurs in a\",\n \"title\": \"Solar eclipse of July 10, 1972\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"7745017\",\n \"text\": \"observed during a total eclipse are called: The diagrams to the right show the alignment of the Sun, Moon, and Earth during a solar eclipse. The dark gray region between the Moon and Earth is the umbra, where the Sun is completely obscured by the Moon. The small area where the umbra touches Earth's surface is where a total eclipse can be seen. The larger light gray area is the penumbra, in which a partial eclipse can be seen. An observer in the antumbra, the area of shadow beyond the umbra, will see an annular eclipse. The Moon's orbit around\",\n \"title\": \"Solar eclipse\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"14069195\",\n \"text\": \"total solar eclipse, it is not a central solar eclipse. A non-central eclipse is one where the center-line of totality does not intersect the surface of the Earth. Instead, the center line passes just above the Earth's surface. This rare type occurs when totality is only visible at sunset or sunrise in a polar region. It will be seen fully from Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula. It will be visible partially throughout Canada, Greenland and Iceland. It will be also partially visible from the western part United States including Alaska and Hawaii. <BR>Animated path Solar eclipse of April 9, 2043 A total\",\n \"title\": \"Solar eclipse of April 9, 2043\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"14015656\",\n \"text\": \"and Hobart and Launceston in Tasmania, with highest magnitude of about 0.1. The eclipse was also visible in Stewart Island in the far south of New Zealand. This is the second partial solar eclipse on Friday the 13th of July 2018, since the partial solar eclipse of December 1974, and the next will be the partial solar eclipse of September 2080, and the next total solar eclipse will be on July 13, 2037, 19 years later, that it is a Monday, and the next total solar eclipse will be not surpassed until the total solar eclipse of June 2132. Solar\",\n \"title\": \"Solar eclipse of July 13, 2018\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"123342\",\n \"text\": \"a total eclipse, this value is always greater than or equal to one. In both annular and total eclipses, the eclipse magnitude is the ratio of the angular sizes of the Moon to the Sun. Solar eclipses are relatively brief events that can only be viewed in totality along a relatively narrow track. Under the most favorable circumstances, a total solar eclipse can last for 7 minutes, 31 seconds, and can be viewed along a track that is up to 250 km wide. However, the region where a partial eclipse can be observed is much larger. The Moon's umbra will\",\n \"title\": \"Eclipse\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"3325872\",\n \"text\": \"new location of Stonehenge II sits directly in the path of the April 8, 2024 total solar eclipse. The duration of the eclipse will last for 4 minutes 26 seconds. Most of the stones are constructed of plaster applied to a wire mesh frame; however, two of the central stones are real, large, and probably unmovable without heavy equipment. Stonehenge II was featured as a backdrop for a scene in an early episode of the NBC TV series \\\"Friday Night Lights\\\" (Episode 19: \\\"Ch-Ch-Ch-Ch-Changes\\\"). Stonehenge II Stonehenge II is an homage to the original Stonehenge monument and is located in\",\n \"title\": \"Stonehenge II\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"979540\",\n \"text\": \"located at (37.726, −89.220). It is in the watershed of the Big Muddy River, at above sea level. Carbondale has been in totality path of one previous solar eclipse on August 21, 2017 and hosted the longest duration of totality with 2 minutes 41.6 seconds just to its south in Makanda Township, and additionally will be in the path of another April 8, 2024. According to the 2010 census, Carbondale has a total area of , of which (or 97.55%) is land and (or 2.45%) is water. Carbondale lies in the northern limits of a humid subtropical climate (Köppen \\\"Cfa\\\"),\",\n \"title\": \"Carbondale, Illinois\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"14088432\",\n \"text\": \"the only land being Haha-jima Group in Japan, where the eclipse occurred on August 11 because it is west of International Date Line. Solar eclipse of August 10, 1915 An annular solar eclipse occurred on August 10, 1915. A solar eclipse occurs when the Moon passes between Earth and the Sun, thereby totally or partly obscuring the image of the Sun for a viewer on Earth. An annular solar eclipse occurs when the Moon's apparent diameter is smaller than the Sun's, blocking most of the Sun's light and causing the Sun to look like an annulus (ring). An annular eclipse\",\n \"title\": \"Solar eclipse of August 10, 1915\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"5251600\",\n \"text\": \"the prospect of experiencing the first eclipse in 46 years, but found the experience dampened by cloudy skies obscuring the view. In Bangladesh, where the eclipse lasted approximately 3 minutes and 44 seconds, thousands of people were able to witness the eclipse despite rain and overcast skies. This solar eclipse was the longest total solar eclipse to occur in the 21st century, and will not be surpassed in duration until 13 June 2132. Totality lasted for up to 6 minutes and 39 seconds, with the maximum eclipse occurring in the ocean at 02:35:21 UTC about 100 km south of the\",\n \"title\": \"Solar eclipse of July 22, 2009\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"14068988\",\n \"text\": \"Solar eclipse of July 22, 1971 A partial solar eclipse occurred on July 22, 1971. This was the 70th and final solar eclipse from Solar Saros 116. Solar Saros 116 and Lunar Saros 109 Solar eclipse of June 19, 1917 Solar eclipse of June 30, 1935 July 1944 lunar eclipse Solar eclipse of July 11, 1953 July 1962 lunar eclipse Solar eclipse of July 22, 1971 July 1980 lunar eclipse August 1998 lunar eclipse August 2016 lunar eclipse A solar eclipse will be preceded and followed by lunar eclipses by 9 years and 5.5 days (a half saros). This solar\",\n \"title\": \"Solar eclipse of July 22, 1971\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"14088968\",\n \"text\": \"of kilometres wide. Solar eclipse of September 4, 2100 A total solar eclipse is forecast to occur on September 4, 2100. It will be the last solar eclipse of the 21st century. A solar eclipse occurs when the Moon passes between Earth and the Sun, thereby totally or partly obscuring the image of the Sun for a viewer on Earth. A total solar eclipse occurs when the Moon's apparent diameter is larger than the Sun's, blocking all direct sunlight, turning day into darkness. Totality occurs in a narrow path across Earth's surface, with the partial solar eclipse visible over a\",\n \"title\": \"Solar eclipse of September 4, 2100\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"14088967\",\n \"text\": \"Solar eclipse of September 4, 2100 A total solar eclipse is forecast to occur on September 4, 2100. It will be the last solar eclipse of the 21st century. A solar eclipse occurs when the Moon passes between Earth and the Sun, thereby totally or partly obscuring the image of the Sun for a viewer on Earth. A total solar eclipse occurs when the Moon's apparent diameter is larger than the Sun's, blocking all direct sunlight, turning day into darkness. Totality occurs in a narrow path across Earth's surface, with the partial solar eclipse visible over a surrounding region thousands\",\n \"title\": \"Solar eclipse of September 4, 2100\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"14130221\",\n \"text\": \"of the Nicobar Islands, and Burma, Thailand including Bangkok, French Indochina (the part now belonging to Laos), North Vietnam (now belonging to Vietnam), China, South Korea, Rebun Island in Japan, Kuril Islands in the Soviet Union (now belonging to Russia), and Alaska. It was the first central solar eclipse visible from Bangkok from 1948 to 1958, where it is rare for a large city to witness 4 central solar eclipses in just 10 years. Solar eclipse of May 9, 1948 An annular solar eclipse occurred on May 9, 1948. A solar eclipse occurs when the Moon passes between Earth and\",\n \"title\": \"Solar eclipse of May 9, 1948\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"14052027\",\n \"text\": \"Solar eclipse of September 23, 2090 A total solar eclipse will occur on September 23, 2090. A solar eclipse occurs when the Moon passes between Earth and the Sun, thereby totally or partly obscuring the image of the Sun for a viewer on Earth. A total solar eclipse occurs when the Moon's apparent diameter is larger than the Sun's, blocking all direct sunlight, turning day into darkness. Totality occurs in a narrow path across Earth's surface, with the partial solar eclipse visible over a surrounding region thousands of kilometres wide. This solar eclipse will be the first total solar eclipse\",\n \"title\": \"Solar eclipse of September 23, 2090\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"14026194\",\n \"text\": \"Burma, Thailand including the capital city Bangkok, Cambodia, Laos, North Vietnam and South Vietnam (now belonging to Vietnam), China, British Hong Kong, Taiwan, Ryukyu Islands and Japan. It was the fourth central solar eclipse visible from Bangkok from 1948 to 1958, where it is rare for a large city to witness 4 central solar eclipses in just 10 years. Solar eclipse of April 19, 1958 An annular solar eclipse occurred on April 19, 1958. A solar eclipse occurs when the Moon passes between Earth and the Sun, thereby totally or partly obscuring the image of the Sun for a viewer\",\n \"title\": \"Solar eclipse of April 19, 1958\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"14025871\",\n \"text\": \"Islands in the Territory of Papua New Guinea (today's Papua New Guinea), towards northern Ontong Java Atoll in British Solomon Islands (today's Solomon Islands) ending over Southwestern Pacific Ocean. It was the second central solar eclipse visible from Bangkok from 1948 to 1958, where it is rare for a large city to witness 4 central solar eclipses in just 10 years. Solar eclipse of June 20, 1955 A total solar eclipse occurred on June 20, 1955. A solar eclipse occurs when the Moon passes between Earth and the Sun, thereby totally or partly obscuring the image of the Sun for\",\n \"title\": \"Solar eclipse of June 20, 1955\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"13641697\",\n \"text\": \"be the longest solar eclipse since the solar eclipse of July 11, 1991, which lasted for 6 minutes 53 seconds. Solar eclipse of June 13, 2132 A total solar eclipse will occur on June 13, 2132. A solar eclipse occurs when the Moon passes between Earth and the Sun, thereby totally or partly obscuring the image of the Sun for a viewer on Earth. A total solar eclipse occurs when the Moon's apparent diameter is larger than the Sun's, blocking all direct sunlight, turning day into darkness. Totality occurs in a narrow path across Earth's surface, with the partial solar\",\n \"title\": \"Solar eclipse of June 13, 2132\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"14069198\",\n \"text\": \"Solar eclipse of October 14, 2042 An annular solar eclipse will occur on October 14, 2042. A solar eclipse occurs when the Moon passes between Earth and the Sun, thereby totally or partly obscuring the image of the Sun for a viewer on Earth. An annular solar eclipse occurs when the Moon's apparent diameter is smaller than the Sun's, blocking most of the Sun's light and causing the Sun to look like an annulus (ring). An annular eclipse appears as a partial eclipse over a region of the Earth thousands of kilometres wide. This eclipse will be the second eclipse\",\n \"title\": \"Solar eclipse of October 14, 2042\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"20896518\",\n \"text\": \"of North and South America, Oceania, far-eastern Asia, western Africa, and far-western Europe. This lunar eclipse is part of Lunar Saros 119. A lunar eclipse will be preceded and followed by solar eclipses by 9 years and 5.5 days (a half saros). This lunar eclipse is related to two solar eclipses of Solar Saros 126. August 2053 lunar eclipse A penumbral lunar eclipse will take place on August 29, 2053. This eclipse is a relatively rare total penumbral lunar eclipse wherein the entire moon passes through the Earth's penumbra without any portion entering the umbra. This eclipse will be the\",\n \"title\": \"August 2053 lunar eclipse\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"14040889\",\n \"text\": \"Solar eclipse of June 10, 2021 An annular solar eclipse will occur on June 10, 2021. A solar eclipse occurs when the Moon passes between Earth and the Sun, thereby totally or partly obscuring the image of the Sun for a viewer on Earth. An annular solar eclipse occurs when the Moon's apparent diameter is smaller than the Sun's, blocking most of the Sun's light and causing the Sun to look like an annulus (ring). An annular eclipse appears as a partial eclipse over a region of the Earth thousands of kilometres wide. This eclipse will be unusual as the\",\n \"title\": \"Solar eclipse of June 10, 2021\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"14015643\",\n \"text\": \"Solar eclipse of December 26, 2019 An annular solar eclipse will occur on December 26, 2019. A solar eclipse occurs when the Moon passes between Earth and the Sun, thereby totally or partly obscuring the image of the Sun for a viewer on Earth. An annular solar eclipse occurs when the Moon's apparent diameter is smaller than the Sun's, blocking most of the Sun's light and causing the Sun to look like an annulus (ring). An annular eclipse appears as a partial eclipse over a region of the Earth thousands of kilometres wide. The total annular eclipse will be visible\",\n \"title\": \"Solar eclipse of December 26, 2019\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"1811393\",\n \"text\": \"mathematics, hence developing his skills in astronomical measurement. One way that he honed his mastery of astronomy, aside from the accurate prediction of the solar eclipse of August 18, 1868 (Wakor solar eclipse), was changing the official Buddhist calendar, \\\"which was seriously miscalculated and the times for auspicious moments were incorrect.\\\" In 1868, he invited high-ranking European and Siamese officials to accompany him to Wakor village in Prachuap Khiri Khan Province, south of Hua Hin, where the solar eclipse that was to occur on 18 August could be best viewed as a total eclipse. Sir Harry Ord, the British Governor\",\n \"title\": \"Mongkut\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"14116089\",\n \"text\": \"Solar eclipse of June 25, 2150 A total solar eclipse will occur on June 25, 2150. It will be the longest total eclipse since the 11th century. A solar eclipse occurs when the Moon passes between Earth and the Sun, thereby totally or partly obscuring the image of the Sun for a viewer on Earth. A total solar eclipse occurs when the Moon's apparent diameter is larger than the Sun's, blocking all direct sunlight, turning day into darkness. Totality occurs in a narrow path across Earth's surface, with the partial solar eclipse visible over a surrounding region thousands of kilometres\",\n \"title\": \"Solar eclipse of June 25, 2150\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"14040891\",\n \"text\": \"Solar eclipse of December 4, 2021 A total solar eclipse will occur on December 4, 2021. A solar eclipse occurs when the Moon passes between Earth and the Sun, thereby totally or partly obscuring the image of the Sun for a viewer on Earth. A total solar eclipse occurs when the Moon's apparent diameter is larger than the Sun's, blocking all direct sunlight, turning day into darkness. Totality occurs in a narrow path across Earth's surface, with the partial solar eclipse visible over a surrounding region thousands of kilometres wide. This eclipse will be unusual as the path of the\",\n \"title\": \"Solar eclipse of December 4, 2021\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"14112695\",\n \"text\": \"Solar eclipse of May 1, 2079 A total solar eclipse will occur on May 1, 2079. A solar eclipse occurs when the Moon passes between Earth and the Sun, thereby totally or partly obscuring the image of the Sun for a viewer on Earth. A total solar eclipse occurs when the Moon's apparent diameter is larger than the Sun's, blocking all direct sunlight, turning day into darkness. Totality occurs in a narrow path across Earth's surface, with the partial solar eclipse visible over a surrounding region thousands of kilometres wide. The eclipse will be visible in Greenland, parts of eastern\",\n \"title\": \"Solar eclipse of May 1, 2079\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"14026001\",\n \"text\": \"Solar eclipse of May 22, 2096 A total solar eclipse will occur on May 22, 2096. A solar eclipse occurs when the Moon passes between Earth and the Sun, thereby totally or partly obscuring the image of the Sun for a viewer on Earth. A total solar eclipse occurs when the Moon's apparent diameter is larger than the Sun's, blocking all direct sunlight, turning day into darkness. Totality occurs in a narrow path across Earth's surface, with the partial solar eclipse visible over a surrounding region thousands of kilometres wide. This will be the first eclipse of saros series 139\",\n \"title\": \"Solar eclipse of May 22, 2096\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"14172987\",\n \"text\": \"Solar eclipse of November 19, 1816 A total solar eclipse occurred on November 19, 1816. A solar eclipse occurs when the Moon passes between Earth and the Sun, thereby totally or partly obscuring the image of the Sun for a viewer on Earth. A total solar eclipse occurs when the Moon's apparent diameter is larger than the Sun's, blocking all direct sunlight, turning day into darkness. Totality occurs in a narrow path across Earth's surface, with the partial solar eclipse visible over a surrounding region thousands of kilometres wide. From Germany, this total eclipse could not be seen with clouded\",\n \"title\": \"Solar eclipse of November 19, 1816\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"14069194\",\n \"text\": \"Solar eclipse of April 9, 2043 A total solar eclipse will occur on April 9, 2043. A solar eclipse occurs when the Moon passes between Earth and the Sun, thereby totally or partly obscuring the image of the Sun for a viewer on Earth. A total solar eclipse occurs when the Moon's apparent diameter is larger than the Sun's, blocking all direct sunlight, turning day into darkness. Totality occurs in a narrow path across Earth's surface, with the partial solar eclipse visible over a surrounding region thousands of kilometres wide. It will be unusual in that while it is a\",\n \"title\": \"Solar eclipse of April 9, 2043\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"13156134\",\n \"text\": \"is related to two partial solar eclipses of Solar Saros 117. June 1991 lunar eclipse A penumbral lunar eclipse took place on Thursday, June 27, 1991, the second of four lunar eclipses in 1991. The moon entered the Earth's penumbra for about 3 hours, and was difficult to see. This lunar eclipse is the predecessor of the Solar eclipse of July 11, 1991. This eclipse is a member of Saros series 110. The previous event occurred on June 15, 1973. The next event was on July 7, 2009. A lunar eclipse will be preceded and followed by solar eclipses by\",\n \"title\": \"June 1991 lunar eclipse\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"13157233\",\n \"text\": \"ascending node eclipse of the lunar eclipse series sets from 2016–2020. It is also part of Saros cycle 124. A similar eclipse occurs on January 31, 2037, one metonic cycle of 19 years in the future. A lunar eclipse will be preceded and followed by solar eclipses by 9 years and 5.5 days (a half saros). This lunar eclipse is related to two annular solar eclipses of Solar Saros 131. January 2018 lunar eclipse A total lunar eclipse occurred on January 31, 2018. The Moon was near its perigee on January 30 and as such may be described as a\",\n \"title\": \"January 2018 lunar eclipse\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"14060917\",\n \"text\": \"Solar eclipse of October 14, 2023 An annular solar eclipse will occur on Saturday, October 14, 2023. A solar eclipse occurs when the Moon passes between Earth and the Sun, thereby totally or partly obscuring the image of the Sun for a viewer on Earth. An annular solar eclipse occurs when the Moon's apparent diameter is smaller than the Sun's, blocking most of the Sun's light and causing the Sun to look like an annulus (ring). An annular eclipse appears as a partial eclipse over a region of the Earth thousands of kilometres or miles wide. This will be the\",\n \"title\": \"Solar eclipse of October 14, 2023\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"14068989\",\n \"text\": \"eclipse is related to two penumbral lunar eclipses of Lunar Saros 109 on the first and second columns. !July 1962 lunar eclipse !July 1980 lunar eclipse !August 1998 lunar eclipse !August 2016 lunar eclipse I I Solar eclipse of July 22, 1971 A partial solar eclipse occurred on July 22, 1971. This was the 70th and final solar eclipse from Solar Saros 116. Solar Saros 116 and Lunar Saros 109 Solar eclipse of June 19, 1917 Solar eclipse of June 30, 1935 July 1944 lunar eclipse Solar eclipse of July 11, 1953 July 1962 lunar eclipse Solar eclipse of July\",\n \"title\": \"Solar eclipse of July 22, 1971\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"11718153\",\n \"text\": \"Only Alaska and northern most Canada will be able to witness the entire event. It was preceded by the partial solar eclipse of November 25, 2011. A lunar eclipse will be preceded and followed by solar eclipses by 9 years and 5.5 days (a half saros). This lunar eclipse is related to two total solar eclipses of Solar Saros 142. This eclipse is the one of four lunar eclipses in a short-lived series. The lunar year series repeats after 12 lunations or 354 days (shifting back about 10 days in sequential years). Because of the date shift, the Earth's shadow\",\n \"title\": \"December 2011 lunar eclipse\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"13164403\",\n \"text\": \"eclipse is the second of four Metonic cycle lunar eclipses on the same date, September 7, each separated by 19 years: A lunar eclipse will be preceded and followed by solar eclipses by 9 years and 5.5 days (a half saros). This lunar eclipse is related to two annular solar eclipses of Solar Saros 135. September 2025 lunar eclipse A total lunar eclipse will take place on September 7, 2025. It will be completely visible over much of Asia, Australia and eastern Africa, will be seen rising over the rest of Africa and Europe, and setting over eastern Asia and\",\n \"title\": \"September 2025 lunar eclipse\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"14068436\",\n \"text\": \"hours after the northern solstice and most of the path will go across areas with midnight sun. For mainland Norway and Sweden it will be the first central solar eclipse since June 1954. <BR>Animated path Solar eclipse of June 21, 2039 An annular solar eclipse will occur on June 21, 2039. A solar eclipse occurs when the Moon passes between Earth and the Sun, thereby totally or partly obscuring the image of the Sun for a viewer on Earth. An annular solar eclipse occurs when the Moon's apparent diameter is smaller than the Sun's, blocking most of the Sun's light\",\n \"title\": \"Solar eclipse of June 21, 2039\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"14061402\",\n \"text\": \"can be seen in Greece, Turkey, USSR, China and Japan. The maximum eclipse was near Bratsk and lasts about 2.5 minutes. Solar eclipse of June 19, 1936 A total solar eclipse occurred on June 19, 1936. A solar eclipse occurs when the Moon passes between Earth and the Sun, thereby totally or partly obscuring the image of the Sun for a viewer on Earth. A total solar eclipse occurs when the Moon's apparent diameter is larger than the Sun's, blocking all direct sunlight, turning day into darkness. Totality occurs in a narrow path across Earth's surface, with the partial solar\",\n \"title\": \"Solar eclipse of June 19, 1936\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"14025844\",\n \"text\": \"Solar eclipse of August 23, 2044 A total solar eclipse will occur on August 23, 2044. A solar eclipse occurs when the Moon passes between Earth and the Sun, thereby totally or partly obscuring the image of the Sun for a viewer on Earth. A total solar eclipse occurs when the Moon's apparent diameter is larger than the Sun's, blocking all direct sunlight, turning day into darkness. Totality occurs in a narrow path across Earth's surface, with the partial solar eclipse visible over a surrounding region thousands of kilometres wide. Totality will be visible across the Northwest Territories and Alberta\",\n \"title\": \"Solar eclipse of August 23, 2044\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"15296770\",\n \"text\": \"Solar eclipse of September 26, 2117 A total solar eclipse will occur on September 26, 2117. A solar eclipse occurs when the Moon passes between Earth and the Sun, thereby totally or partly obscuring the image of the Sun for a viewer on Earth. A total solar eclipse occurs when the Moon's apparent diameter is larger than the Sun's, blocking all direct sunlight, turning day into darkness. Totality occurs in a narrow path across Earth's surface, with the partial solar eclipse visible over a surrounding region thousands of kilometres wide. It will be visible at sunrise across eastern Asia and\",\n \"title\": \"Solar eclipse of September 26, 2117\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"14025990\",\n \"text\": \"Solar eclipse of April 20, 2042 A total solar eclipse will occur on April 20, 2042. A solar eclipse occurs when the Moon passes between Earth and the Sun, thereby totally or partly obscuring the image of the Sun for a viewer on Earth. A total solar eclipse occurs when the Moon's apparent diameter is larger than the Sun's, blocking all direct sunlight, turning day into darkness. Totality occurs in a narrow path across Earth's surface, with the partial solar eclipse visible over a surrounding region thousands of kilometres wide. It will be seen significantly in Western Indonesia (particularly in\",\n \"title\": \"Solar eclipse of April 20, 2042\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"14025804\",\n \"text\": \"Solar eclipse of March 30, 2033 A total solar eclipse will occur on March 30, 2033. A solar eclipse occurs when the Moon passes between Earth and the Sun, thereby totally or partly obscuring the image of the Sun for a viewer on Earth. A total solar eclipse occurs when the Moon's apparent diameter is larger than the Sun's, blocking all direct sunlight, turning day into darkness. Totality occurs in a narrow path across Earth's surface, with the partial solar eclipse visible over a surrounding region thousands of kilometres wide. Totality will be visible in Nome, Alaska, Utqiagvik, Alaska and\",\n \"title\": \"Solar eclipse of March 30, 2033\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"13888499\",\n \"text\": \"Solar eclipse of July 2, 2019 A total solar eclipse will occur on July 2, 2019 with a magnitude of 1.0459. A solar eclipse occurs when the Moon passes between Earth and the Sun, thereby totally or partly obscuring the image of the Sun for a viewer on Earth. A total solar eclipse occurs when the Moon's apparent diameter is larger than the Sun's, blocking all direct sunlight, turning day into darkness. Totality occurs in a narrow path across Earth's surface, with the partial solar eclipse visible over a surrounding region thousands of kilometres wide. Totality will be visible from\",\n \"title\": \"Solar eclipse of July 2, 2019\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"15296771\",\n \"text\": \"northern islands of Japan, and then crossing the Pacific Ocean. It will be visible as a partial eclipse over Hawaii, and at sunset partial eclipse over parts of Alaska. Solar eclipse of September 26, 2117 A total solar eclipse will occur on September 26, 2117. A solar eclipse occurs when the Moon passes between Earth and the Sun, thereby totally or partly obscuring the image of the Sun for a viewer on Earth. A total solar eclipse occurs when the Moon's apparent diameter is larger than the Sun's, blocking all direct sunlight, turning day into darkness. Totality occurs in a\",\n \"title\": \"Solar eclipse of September 26, 2117\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"175832\",\n \"text\": \"limits of the positions of Sun and Moon when a solar or lunar eclipse is possible, are explained in \\\"Almagest\\\" VI.5. Hipparchus apparently made similar calculations. The result that two solar eclipses can occur one month apart is important, because this can not be based on observations: one is visible on the northern and the other on the southern hemisphere – as Pliny indicates – and the latter was inaccessible to the Greek. Prediction of a solar eclipse, i.e., exactly when and where it will be visible, requires a solid lunar theory and proper treatment of the lunar parallax. Hipparchus\",\n \"title\": \"Hipparchus\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"20236054\",\n \"text\": \"2024 solar eclipse, WDAD Radio of Indiana, PA featured Butler Dispatch. Since its founding in 2014, Butler Dispatch and its founder Austin Ayers have been involved in numerous controversies and scandals that have since called into question its legitimacy as a news outlet. Fake Tornado Drill<br> In June 2015, while the page was being called \\\"Butler County PA 911 Notifications\\\", Ayers posted a fake warning about a tornado as a way to conduct a drill. After causing confusion and complaints to be filed with the National Weather Service and Butler County emergency officials, Ayers removed the post. Fake \\\"likes\\\"<br> In\",\n \"title\": \"Butler Dispatch\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"7745051\",\n \"text\": \"data analysis, which suggested that the phenomenon still remains unexplained. In principle, the simultaneous occurrence of a Solar eclipse and a transit of a planet is possible. But these events are extremely rare because of their short durations. The next anticipated simultaneous occurrence of a Solar eclipse and a transit of Mercury will be on July 5, 6757, and a Solar eclipse and a transit of Venus is expected on April 5, 15232. More common, but still infrequent, is a conjunction of a planet (especially, but not only, Mercury or Venus) at the time of a total solar eclipse, in\",\n \"title\": \"Solar eclipse\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"13327773\",\n \"text\": \"Solar eclipse of January 4, 2011 The solar eclipse of January 4, 2011 was a partial eclipse of the Sun that was visible after sunrise over most of Europe, northwestern and South Asia. It ended at sunset over eastern Asia. It was visible as a minor partial eclipse over northern Africa and the Arabian peninsula. Greatest eclipse occurred at 08:51 UTC in northern Sweden where the eclipse in the horizon had a magnitude of 0.858. At that time, the axis of the Moon's shadow passed a mere 510 km above Earth's surface. A solar eclipse occurs when the Moon passes\",\n \"title\": \"Solar eclipse of January 4, 2011\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"13327771\",\n \"text\": \"Solar eclipse of January 4, 2011 The solar eclipse of January 4, 2011 was a partial eclipse of the Sun that was visible after sunrise over most of Europe, northwestern and South Asia. It ended at sunset over eastern Asia. It was visible as a minor partial eclipse over northern Africa and the Arabian peninsula. Greatest eclipse occurred at 08:51 UTC in northern Sweden where the eclipse in the horizon had a magnitude of 0.858. At that time, the axis of the Moon's shadow passed a mere 510 km above Earth's surface. A solar eclipse occurs when the Moon passes\",\n \"title\": \"Solar eclipse of January 4, 2011\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"12955376\",\n \"text\": \"down through Central America and across South America ending over Brazil. It lasted for 6 minutes and 53 seconds at the point of maximum eclipse. There will not be a longer total eclipse until June 13, 2132. This eclipse was the most central total eclipse in 800 years, with a gamma of -.0041. There will not be a more central eclipse for another 800 years. Its magnitude was also greater than any eclipse since the 6th century. Photos: Videos: Solar eclipse of July 11, 1991 A total solar eclipse occurred on July 11, 1991. A solar eclipse occurs when the\",\n \"title\": \"Solar eclipse of July 11, 1991\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"14055766\",\n \"text\": \"Solar eclipse of July 16, 2186 There will be a solar eclipse on July 16, 2186, which will be the longest total eclipse for thousands of years. The eclipse will pass over the southern Galápagos Islands (with a total eclipse of 4 minutes occurring over the southern tip of Española Island), the northern tip of Ecuador (with a total eclipse of 3 minutes and 26 seconds on ), central Colombia (4 minutes and 50 seconds over Bogota), central Venezuela, and northern Guyana (7 minutes and 4 seconds just north of Anna Regina). This will be the longest total solar eclipse\",\n \"title\": \"Solar eclipse of July 16, 2186\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"13016843\",\n \"text\": \"means the Earth's shadow will move about 11 degrees west in each subsequent eclipse. This tetrad started during the ascending node of the Moon's orbit. It is the first tetrad since the 2003–04 series, which started in May. The next series will be from 2032 to 2033, starting in April. A lunar eclipse will be preceded and followed by solar eclipses by 9 years and 5.5 days (a half saros). This lunar eclipse is related to two hybrid total/annualar solar eclipses of solar saros 129. April 2014 lunar eclipse A total lunar eclipse took place on April 15, 2014. It\",\n \"title\": \"April 2014 lunar eclipse\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"7745016\",\n \"text\": \"total, annular, or hybrid eclipse. This is, however, not completely correct: the definition of a central eclipse is an eclipse during which the central line of the umbra touches the Earth's surface. It is possible, though extremely rare, that part of the umbra intersects with the Earth (thus creating an annular or total eclipse), but not its central line. This is then called a non-central total or annular eclipse. The last (umbral yet) non-central solar eclipse was on April 29, 2014. This was an annular eclipse. The next non-central total solar eclipse will be on April 9, 2043. The phases\",\n \"title\": \"Solar eclipse\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"11750009\",\n \"text\": \"next event is the July 2018 lunar eclipse. Lunar Saros 129 contains 11 total lunar eclipses between 1910 and 2090. Solar Saros 136 interleaves with this lunar saros with an event occurring every 9 years 5 days alternating between each saros series. A lunar eclipse will be preceded and followed by solar eclipses by 9 years and 5.5 days (a half saros). This lunar eclipse is related to two total solar eclipses of Solar Saros 136. July 2000 lunar eclipse A total lunar eclipse took place on 16 July 2000, the second of two total lunar eclipses in 2000. The\",\n \"title\": \"July 2000 lunar eclipse\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"13291572\",\n \"text\": \"eclipses occurring at the moon's ascending node. The lunar year series repeats after 12 lunations or 354 days (Shifting back about 10 days in sequential years). Because of the date shift, the Earth's shadow will be about 11 degrees west in sequential events. A lunar eclipse will be preceded and followed by solar eclipses by 9 years and 5.5 days (a half saros). This lunar eclipse is related to two total solar eclipses of Solar Saros 139. May 2069 lunar eclipse A total lunar eclipse will take place on May 6, 2069. The eclipse will be a dark one with\",\n \"title\": \"May 2069 lunar eclipse\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"14128821\",\n \"text\": \"he told the frightened indigenous people that they were going to be forgiven. When the Moon started to reappear from the shadow of the Earth, he told them that God had pardoned them. Columbus was maybe the first to put into practice an idea proposed by Hipparchus, to use a lunar eclipse to determine one's geographical longitude. A lunar eclipse is visible across half the globe, and everyone sees it begin and end at the same moment. But the times when measured in the local solar time will differ, because everyone is in a different timezone. The local time is\",\n \"title\": \"March 1504 lunar eclipse\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"14055767\",\n \"text\": \"between the dates of 4000 BC and at least AD 8000 (12,000 years), lasting a maximum of 7 minutes, 29 seconds. The factors that will make this such a long eclipse are: The longest historical total eclipse lasted 7 minutes 28 seconds on June 15, 744BC. The longest eclipse theoretically possible for the 3rd millennium is 7 minutes and 32 seconds. Solar eclipse of July 16, 2186 There will be a solar eclipse on July 16, 2186, which will be the longest total eclipse for thousands of years. The eclipse will pass over the southern Galápagos Islands (with a total\",\n \"title\": \"Solar eclipse of July 16, 2186\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"14116090\",\n \"text\": \"wide. This will be the first total solar eclipse to exceed 7 minutes in term of duration since June 30, 1973. Totality will start in the Lesser Sunda Islands in Indonesia, continue across the northern Pacific Ocean, and end in the eastern Pacific. Solar eclipse of June 25, 2150 A total solar eclipse will occur on June 25, 2150. It will be the longest total eclipse since the 11th century. A solar eclipse occurs when the Moon passes between Earth and the Sun, thereby totally or partly obscuring the image of the Sun for a viewer on Earth. A total\",\n \"title\": \"Solar eclipse of June 25, 2150\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"14116103\",\n \"text\": \"be the longest eclipse since the 11th century, which lasted 7 minutes and 20 seconds, as well with the next two occurrences. Solar eclipse of July 5, 2168 A total solar eclipse will occur on July 5, 2168. A solar eclipse occurs when the Moon passes between Earth and the Sun, thereby totally or partly obscuring the image of the Sun for a viewer on Earth. A total solar eclipse occurs when the Moon's apparent diameter is larger than the Sun's, blocking all direct sunlight, turning day into darkness. Totality occurs in a narrow path across Earth's surface, with the\",\n \"title\": \"Solar eclipse of July 5, 2168\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"14068438\",\n \"text\": \"Ocean, passing over much of Antartica and closely reaching the South Pole. A partial eclipse will be visible in the southern extremities of South America and Africa. It will terminate in the southern Indian Ocean several hours later. <BR>Animated path Solar eclipse of December 15, 2039 A total solar eclipse will occur on December 15, 2039. A solar eclipse occurs when the Moon passes between Earth and the Sun, thereby totally or partly obscuring the image of the Sun for a viewer on Earth. A total solar eclipse occurs when the Moon's apparent diameter is larger than the Sun's, blocking\",\n \"title\": \"Solar eclipse of December 15, 2039\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"14025859\",\n \"text\": \"Solar eclipse of August 12, 2045 A total solar eclipse will occur on Saturday, August 12, 2045, when the Moon passes between Earth and the Sun, thereby totally or partly obscuring the image of the Sun for a viewer on Earth. A total solar eclipse occurs when the Moon's apparent diameter is larger than the Sun's, blocking all direct sunlight, turning day into darkness. Totality occurs in a narrow path across Earth's surface, with the partial solar eclipse visible over a surrounding region thousands of kilometres wide. It will be the fourth longest eclipse of the 21st century with a\",\n \"title\": \"Solar eclipse of August 12, 2045\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"13217225\",\n \"text\": \"Greatest Eclipse of Lunar Saros 139: 2199 Nov 02 Last Central Lunar Eclipse: 2488 Apr 26 Last Total Lunar Eclipse: 2542 May 30 Last Partial Lunar Eclipse: 2686 Aug 25 Last Penumbral Lunar Eclipse: 3065 Apr 13 June 1965 lunar eclipse A partial lunar eclipse took place on June 14, 1965. A lunar eclipse will be preceded and followed by solar eclipses by 9 years and 5.5 days (a half saros). This lunar eclipse is related to two total solar eclipses of Solar Saros 146. Lunar Saros series 139, repeating every 18 years and 11 days, has a total of\",\n \"title\": \"June 1965 lunar eclipse\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"13217224\",\n \"text\": \"June 1965 lunar eclipse A partial lunar eclipse took place on June 14, 1965. A lunar eclipse will be preceded and followed by solar eclipses by 9 years and 5.5 days (a half saros). This lunar eclipse is related to two total solar eclipses of Solar Saros 146. Lunar Saros series 139, repeating every 18 years and 11 days, has a total of 79 lunar eclipse events including 27 total lunar eclipses. First Penumbral Lunar Eclipse: 1658 Dec 09 First Partial Lunar Eclipse: 1947 Jun 03 First Total Lunar Eclipse: 2073 Aug 17 First Central Lunar Eclipse: 2109 Sep 09\",\n \"title\": \"June 1965 lunar eclipse\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"11509087\",\n \"text\": \"it when it is visible. The penumbral eclipse began at 18:23 UTC, with the partial eclipse beginning at 19:36. The time of greatest eclipse was 21:10. The partial eclipse ended at 22:44, and the penumbral eclipse will ended at 23:57. The planet Neptune was 2 days past opposition, visible in binoculars as an 8th magnitude \\\"star\\\" just two degrees west and slightly south of the moon. A lunar eclipse will be preceded and followed by solar eclipses by 9 years and 5.5 days (a half saros). This lunar eclipse is related to two total solar eclipses of Solar Saros 145.\",\n \"title\": \"August 2008 lunar eclipse\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"14040890\",\n \"text\": \"path of the annular eclipse will move to the north east, then north, north west, west, south west, south, and finally south east across the Arctic, while most eclipse paths move west to east. This reversal is only possible in polar regions. This eclipse is also notable for the fact that the path of annularity passes over the North Pole. While the eclipse is visible primarily in north-east of Sakha Republic (Russia), in the northeastern United States and Canada, the sun will be partially eclipsed at sunrise. <BR>Animated path Solar eclipse of June 10, 2021 An annular solar eclipse will\",\n \"title\": \"Solar eclipse of June 10, 2021\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"14177020\",\n \"text\": \"the United Kingdom with a diagonal track from Cornwall in the south-west to Aberdeen in the north-east of Scotland. It was observed from Germany by Tycho Brahe. It is a part of solar Saros 133. This is the 22nd member of Solar Saros 133. The previous event was on February 15, 1580 (21st member). The next event will be on March 17, 1616 (23rd member). Solar eclipse of March 7, 1598 A total solar eclipse occurred on March 7, 1598 (25 February 1598 by the Julian calendar). A solar eclipse occurs when the Moon passes between Earth and the Sun,\",\n \"title\": \"Solar eclipse of March 7, 1598\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"11609890\",\n \"text\": \"beginning at the Pacific coast, then ascending in a northeasterly direction through Mexico, the United States, and Canada, before ending in the Atlantic Ocean. In Mexico, totality will pass through the states of Sinaloa (including Mazatlán), Durango (including Durango and Gómez Palacio) and Coahuila (including Torreón, Matamoros, Monclova, Sabinas, Ciudad Acuña and Piedras Negras). In the United States, totality will be visible through the states of Texas (including parts of San Antonio, Austin, and Fort Worth and all of Arlington, Dallas, Killeen, Temple, Texarkana, Tyler and Waco), Oklahoma, Arkansas (including Hot Springs, Jonesboro, and Little Rock), Missouri, Illinois, Kentucky, Indiana\",\n \"title\": \"Solar eclipse of April 8, 2024\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"13156076\",\n \"text\": \"on the same date, May 4–5, each separated by 19 years: It is a member of Saros cycle 121. A lunar eclipse will be preceded and followed by solar eclipses by 9 years and 5.5 days (a half saros). This lunar eclipse is related to two annular solar eclipses of Solar Saros 128. May 1985 lunar eclipse A total lunar eclipse took place on May 4, 1985. This lunar eclipse is first of a \\\"tetrad\\\", four total lunar eclipses in series. The last series was in 1967 and 1968, starting with an April 1967 lunar eclipse, while the next was\",\n \"title\": \"May 1985 lunar eclipse\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"16401173\",\n \"text\": \"available for free, written by enthusiasts and professionals all over the world. Solar Eclipse Maestro Solar Eclipse Maestro is freeware universal binary software for Mac OS only able to control up to four USB/Firewire connected cameras (Nikon and Canon) and up to four SBIG CCD cameras with their filter wheels during an eclipse, so that the user (astronomer or photographer) can be free to concentrate on observing the event visually. It can handle any solar eclipse, provide Baily’s beads preview and animation, simulate an all-sky view or weather statistics, and a lot more. It is localized in English and French.\",\n \"title\": \"Solar Eclipse Maestro\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"16401172\",\n \"text\": \"Solar Eclipse Maestro Solar Eclipse Maestro is freeware universal binary software for Mac OS only able to control up to four USB/Firewire connected cameras (Nikon and Canon) and up to four SBIG CCD cameras with their filter wheels during an eclipse, so that the user (astronomer or photographer) can be free to concentrate on observing the event visually. It can handle any solar eclipse, provide Baily’s beads preview and animation, simulate an all-sky view or weather statistics, and a lot more. It is localized in English and French. A lot of scripts, used for controlling in varied situations are also\",\n \"title\": \"Solar Eclipse Maestro\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"7745045\",\n \"text\": \"the total phase of a solar eclipse directly only when the Sun's photosphere is completely covered by the Moon, and not before or after totality. During this period, the Sun is too dim to be seen through filters. The Sun's faint corona will be visible, and the chromosphere, solar prominences, and possibly even a solar flare may be seen. At the end of totality, the same effects will occur in reverse order, and on the opposite side of the Moon. Photographing an eclipse is possible with fairly common camera equipment. In order for the disk of the Sun/Moon to be\",\n \"title\": \"Solar eclipse\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"1057668\",\n \"text\": \"passed to the south of the town, destroying or heavily damaging several structures along Indiana 65. The highway was closed for several days as power crews replaced several large power poles. On April 8, 2024, Owensville, along with most of the rest of Southwestern Indiana will view a total solar eclipse, lasting approximately 3 minutes and 55 seconds. Owensville is located at (38.271769, -87.690652). According to the 2010 census, Owensville has a total area of , all land. The climate in this area is characterized by hot, humid summers and generally mild to cool winters. According to the Köppen Climate\",\n \"title\": \"Owensville, Indiana\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"13016848\",\n \"text\": \"be about 11° west in sequential events. A lunar eclipse will be preceded and followed by solar eclipses by 9 years and 5.5 days (a half saros). This lunar eclipse is related to two annular solar eclipses of solar saros 134. October 2014 lunar eclipse A total lunar eclipse took place on October 8, 2014. It is the second of two total lunar eclipses in 2014, and the second in a \\\"tetrad\\\" (four total lunar eclipses in series). Other eclipses in the tetrad are those of April 15, 2014, April 4, 2015, and September 28, 2015. This is the 42nd\",\n \"title\": \"October 2014 lunar eclipse\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"13168796\",\n \"text\": \"eclipse is related to two partial solar eclipses of Solar Saros 117 on the first and second columns. July 2027 lunar eclipse A penumbral lunar eclipse will take place on July 18, 2027. The Moon will barely clip the edge of the Earth's penumbral shadow, and the eclipse will be impossible to see in practice. Insofar as it is visible at all, it will be visible over Asia and Australia. This eclipse is a member of Saros series 110. The previous event occurred on July 7, 2009. This is the last lunar eclipse of this series. A lunar eclipse will\",\n \"title\": \"July 2027 lunar eclipse\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"13888501\",\n \"text\": \"Totality will be visible in the provinces of San Juan, La Rioja, San Luis, Córdoba, Santa Fe, and Buenos Aires. Cities in the path include San Juan, and Río Cuarto. Totality will be visible from Oeno Island. There will be partial visibility in Tahiti and Bora Bora. Solar eclipse of July 2, 2019 A total solar eclipse will occur on July 2, 2019 with a magnitude of 1.0459. A solar eclipse occurs when the Moon passes between Earth and the Sun, thereby totally or partly obscuring the image of the Sun for a viewer on Earth. A total solar eclipse\",\n \"title\": \"Solar eclipse of July 2, 2019\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"14061408\",\n \"text\": \"other eclipses that year. The first was a partial lunar eclipse, during which the shadow of the earth can be seen on the moon, and another solar eclipse that took place on December 3 over South America. The other solar eclipse, however, was an annular eclipse, which occurs when the moon has a smaller apparent diameter and therefore never fully obscures the sun. Solar eclipse of June 8, 1918 A total solar eclipse occurred on June 8, 1918. The eclipse was observed by a U.S. Naval Observatory team at Baker City in Oregon. The painting below shows totality when the\",\n \"title\": \"Solar eclipse of June 8, 1918\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"20044106\",\n \"text\": \"occurred in a smaller part of the same area where the previous solar eclipse happened which was on April 3, the next one was on September 27 and covered a part of the Northern Hemisphere This minor eclipse was visible offshore from the peninsular Antarctica along with its islands and the Trans-Antarctic Mountains. It was the last eclipse of solar saros 113 with the moon's penumbra touching the earth for just about 30 minutes. The greatest eclipse was at 19:18:22 UTC (8:18:22 local time) just south of the 70th parallel. Solar eclipse of August 28, 1848 A very small partial\",\n \"title\": \"Solar eclipse of August 28, 1848\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"14125667\",\n \"text\": \"December 5, 2048, December 17, 2066, and December 27, 2084. In the following list, the Julian calendar is used for the first 21 members of the series; the Gregorian calendar is used for all the rest, starting with the solar eclipse of March 7, 1598. Solar Saros 133 Solar Saros 133 is one of the saros series of solar eclipse cycles. It began on July 13, 1219 with a partial eclipse occurring in northern Yukon at , about east of Canada's present-day Vuntut National Park. The final eclipse in the series will be on September 5, 2499. The period separating\",\n \"title\": \"Solar Saros 133\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"13014680\",\n \"text\": \"will be preceded and followed by solar eclipses by 9 years and 5.5 days (a half saros). This lunar eclipse is related to two total solar eclipses of solar saros 139. The eclipse is the one of four lunar eclipses in a short-lived series at the ascending node of the moon's orbit. The lunar year series repeats after 12 lunations, or 354 days (shifting back about 10 days in sequential years). Because of the date shift, the Earth's shadow will be about 11 degrees west in sequential events. April 2015 lunar eclipse A total lunar eclipse took place on 4\",\n \"title\": \"April 2015 lunar eclipse\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"8457467\",\n \"text\": \"an astronomy festival, and the Perseid Festival. The observatory is near the center path of totality of the Solar eclipse of April 8th 2024. Mont Mégantic Observatory The Mont Mégantic Observatory (; OMM) is an astronomical observatory owned and operated jointly by the Université de Montréal (UdeM), the Université Laval (ULaval), and McGill University. Founded in 1978, the observatory houses the second largest telescope in Eastern Canada after David Dunlap Observatory near Toronto. It is situated at the summit of Mont Mégantic, the highest point of Eastern Canada accessible by car. OMM is about east of Sherbrooke and east of\",\n \"title\": \"Mont Mégantic Observatory\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"13139430\",\n \"text\": \"lunar eclipse. Lunar Saros 129 contains 11 total lunar eclipses between 1910 and 2090. Solar Saros 136 interleaves with this lunar saros with an event occurring every 9 years 5 days alternating between each saros series. August 2036 lunar eclipse A total lunar eclipse will take place on August 7, 2036. The moon will pass through the center of the Earth's shadow. This is the second eclipse this season. First eclipse this season: Partial solar eclipse of July 23, 2036 Third eclipse this season: Partial solar eclipse of August 21, 2036 It will be completely visible over South America, seen\",\n \"title\": \"August 2036 lunar eclipse\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"1139384\",\n \"text\": \"Connecticut River. Deer Mountain Campground enables camping and picnicking on the Connecticut River. Pittsburg will fall within the path of totality during the solar eclipse of April 8, 2024 Pittsburg, New Hampshire Pittsburg is a town in Coos County, New Hampshire, United States. The population was 869 at the 2010 census. It is the northernmost town in New Hampshire and the largest town by area in the state – and in New England as well – more than twice the size of the next largest town, Lincoln. U.S. Route 3 is the only major highway in the town, although the\",\n \"title\": \"Pittsburg, New Hampshire\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"13288399\",\n \"text\": \"be preceded and followed by solar eclipses by 9 years and 5.5 days (a half saros). This lunar eclipse is related to two total solar eclipses of Solar Saros 136. June 1928 lunar eclipse A total lunar eclipse took place on June 3, 1928. It was completely visible over Asia, Australia and the Americas, seen rising over Asia and Australia and setting over the Americas. This is the 33rd member of Lunar Saros 129. The previous event was the May 1910 lunar eclipse. The next event is the June 1946 lunar eclipse. Lunar Saros 129 contains 11 total lunar eclipses\",\n \"title\": \"June 1928 lunar eclipse\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"11714803\",\n \"text\": \"Dec 11 2075 Dec 22 2094 Jan 01 This eclipse is the second of four Metonic cycle lunar eclipses on the same date, November 8–9, each separated by 19 years: A lunar eclipse will be preceded and followed by solar eclipses by 9 years and 5.5 days (a half saros). This lunar eclipse is related to two total solar eclipses of Solar Saros 133. November 2003 lunar eclipse A total lunar eclipse took place on November 9, 2003, the second of two total lunar eclipses in 2003, the first being on May 16, 2003. It is the first total lunar\",\n \"title\": \"November 2003 lunar eclipse\"\n }\n]","isConversational":false}}},{"rowIdx":272,"cells":{"query_id":{"kind":"string","value":"274"},"query":{"kind":"string","value":"who was killed on the ides of march"},"answers":{"kind":"list like","value":["Julius Caesar"],"string":"[\n \"Julius Caesar\"\n]","isConversational":false},"positive_passages":{"kind":"list like","value":[{"docid":"499379","text":"Ides of March The Ides of March (; , Late Latin: ) is a day on the Roman calendar that corresponds to 15 March. It was marked by several religious observances and was notable for the Romans as a deadline for settling debts. In 44 BC, it became notorious as the date of the assassination of Julius Caesar which made the Ides of March a turning point in Roman history. The Romans did not number days of a month from the first to the last day. Instead, they counted back from three fixed points of the month: the Nones (5th","title":"Ides of March"},{"docid":"499379","text":"Ides of March The Ides of March (; , Late Latin: ) is a day on the Roman calendar that corresponds to 15 March. It was marked by several religious observances and was notable for the Romans as a deadline for settling debts. In 44 BC, it became notorious as the date of the assassination of Julius Caesar which made the Ides of March a turning point in Roman history. The Romans did not number days of a month from the first to the last day. Instead, they counted back from three fixed points of the month: the Nones (5th","title":"Ides of March"},{"docid":"499384","text":"which Julius Caesar was assassinated in 44 BC. Caesar was stabbed to death at a meeting of the Senate. As many as 60 conspirators, led by Brutus and Cassius, were involved. According to Plutarch, a seer had warned that harm would come to Caesar no later than the Ides of March. On his way to the Theatre of Pompey, where he would be assassinated, Caesar passed the seer and joked, \"The Ides of March are come\", implying that the prophecy had not been fulfilled, to which the seer replied \"Aye, Caesar; but not gone.\" This meeting is famously dramatised in","title":"Ides of March"},{"docid":"9134130","text":"The Ides of March (novel) The Ides of March is an epistolary novel by Thornton Wilder that was published in 1948. It is, in the author's words, 'a fantasia on certain events and persons of the last days of the Roman republic... Historical reconstruction is not among the primary aims of this work'. The novel deals with the characters and events leading to, and culminating in, the assassination of Julius Caesar. 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He rejected the advice of some army officers to take refuge with the troops in Macedonia and sailed to Italy to ascertain whether he had any potential political fortunes or security. Caesar had no living legitimate children under Roman law, and so had adopted Octavius, his grand-nephew, making him his primary heir. Mark Antony later charged that Octavian had earned his adoption by Caesar through sexual favours, though Suetonius describes Antony's accusation as political slander. After landing at Lupiae near Brundisium, Octavius learned the contents","title":"Augustus"},{"docid":"499385","text":"William Shakespeare's play \"Julius Caesar\", when Caesar is warned by the soothsayer to \"beware the Ides of March.\" The Roman biographer Suetonius identifies the \"seer\" as a haruspex named Spurinna. Caesar's death was a closing event in the crisis of the Roman Republic, and triggered the civil war that would result in the rise to sole power of his adopted heir Octavian (later known as Augustus). Writing under Augustus, Ovid portrays the murder as a sacrilege, since Caesar was also the Pontifex Maximus of Rome and a priest of Vesta. On the fourth anniversary of Caesar's death in 40 BC,","title":"Ides of March"},{"docid":"5360093","text":"The Ides of March (a name suggested by bassist Bob Bergland after reading Shakespeare's \"Julius Caesar\" in high school), the band released their first single on Parrot Records, \"You Wouldn't Listen.\" The song reached #7 on WLS Chicago in spring 1966 and #42 on the \"Billboard\" Hot 100 in summer 1966. This record and its follow-ups (all pre-\"Vehicle\") have been re-released on the Sundazed Records CD \"Ideology.\" By the end of the 1960s, the band added a brass section, although Bergland often doubled up on tenor saxophone. 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Julius Caesar was one of the three leaders of the First Triumvirate of the Roman Republic. After the other two members of the Triumvirate died, Julius Caesar became so popular he was proclaimed 'Dictator for Life', but the senate of the Roman Republic saw this as the end of the Republic, so, on the Ides of March (March 15) of 44 BC, the Roman Senate, including Marcus Junius Brutus the Younger who was a friend of Caesar went to the Senate, and when Caesar arrived, they","title":"History of assassination"},{"docid":"277907","text":"physical mnemonic has been taught to primary school students for many decades. This cyclical pattern of month lengths matches the musical keyboard alternation of white and black keys (with the note 'F' correlating to the month of January). The ides occur on the thirteenth day in eight of the months, but in March, May, July, and October, they occur on the fifteenth. 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On 28 November 44 BC, Mark Antony left Rome and took command","title":"Battle of Mutina"},{"docid":"8836010","text":"a play within a play, a dramatic device used frequently by Shakespeare; the drama piece has echoes of \"Anthony and Cleopatra\" and the players mention the \"Ides of June\", a reference to the Ides of March in \"Julius Caesar\". Born to Be King (Blackadder) \"Born to Be King\" is the second episode of \"The Black Adder\", the first series of the BBC sitcom \"Blackadder\". Set in late 15th-century England, the episode takes a humorous look at rivalries with the Kingdom of Scotland and centres the dramatic tension on the doubts cast over parentage of the lead character, Prince Edmund, Duke","title":"Born to Be King (Blackadder)"},{"docid":"11807995","text":"only as travesty or accusation. Julius Caesar was accused — rather vaguely — of sacrificing two mutinous soldiers in the Campus Martius. 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Born \"Gaius Octavius\", the grandnephew of the dictator was","title":"Gaius Julius Caesar"},{"docid":"16037740","text":"of Julius Caesar was translated into French and English, and widely reviewed. The book inspired Thornton Wilder to write his own novel about Caesar, \"The Ides of March\". Mainzer was a close friend of the Catholic priest Friedrich von Erxleben, who was a member of the Solf Circle of intellectuals involved in the resistance against Nazism. Mainzer and his family were helped to escape to England by the daughter of Wilhelm and Hanna Solf, the Countess So'oa'emalelagi \"Lagi\" von Ballestrem-Solf, who escorted them with their jewellery hidden in the lining of her clothes. Mainzer died 3 January 1943. His daughter","title":"Ferdinand Mainzer"},{"docid":"1851628","text":"Lemnian. The art of haruspicy was taught in the \"Libri Tagetici\", a collection of texts attributed to Tages, a childlike being who figures in Etruscan mythology, and who was discovered in an open field by Tarchon; the \"Libri Tagetici\" were translated into Latin and employed in reading omens. The continuity of the Etruscan tradition among the Romans is indicated by several ancient literary sources, perhaps most famously in the incident related by Suetonius in which a haruspex named Spurinna warned Julius Caesar to beware the Ides of March. The emperor Claudius was a student of the Etruscan language and antiquities,","title":"Haruspex"},{"docid":"14160378","text":"of ancient sources from T.R.S. Broughton, \"The Magistrates of the Roman Republic\" (American Philological Association, 1952), vol. 2, pp. 338–339, 362, 374, 382, 386, 426–427; vol. 3 (1986), pp. 48–49. 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It was","title":"Ides of March"},{"docid":"499380","text":"or 7th, depending on the length of the month), the Ides (13th or 15th), and the Kalends (1st of the following month). The Ides occurred near the midpoint, on the 13th for most months, but on the 15th for March, May, July, and October. The Ides were supposed to be determined by the full moon, reflecting the lunar origin of the Roman calendar. On the earliest calendar, the Ides of March would have been the first full moon of the new year. The Ides of each month were sacred to Jupiter, the Romans' supreme deity. The Flamen Dialis, Jupiter's high","title":"Ides of March"},{"docid":"5360105","text":"They are also in the writing stages for a brand-new album. The Ides of March (band) The Ides of March are an American rock band that had a major US and minor UK hit with the song \"Vehicle\" in 1970. After going on hiatus in 1973, the band returned with their original line-up in 1990 and has been active since then. 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In 1966, after changing their name to","title":"The Ides of March (band)"},{"docid":"15398724","text":"Clooney to keep the play's title, but \"The Ides of March\" was picked as the title.<ref name=\"/Film\"></ref> \"The Ides of March\" was originally planned to have a limited release in December 2011 and a wide release in January 2012. However, Sony eventually moved the film's opening date to October 14, 2011. This was later moved again, to October 7, 2011. The film received many positive reviews. Rotten Tomatoes gave the film a rating of 85%, based on 218 reviews, with a rating average of 7.4/10. The site's critical consensus reads, \"While not exactly exposing revelatory truths, \"The Ides of March\"","title":"The Ides of March (2011 film)"},{"docid":"499381","text":"priest, led the \"Ides sheep\" (\"ovis Idulis\") in procession along the Via Sacra to the \"arx\", where it was sacrificed. In addition to the monthly sacrifice, the Ides of March was also the occasion of the Feast of Anna Perenna, a goddess of the year (Latin \"annus\") whose festival originally concluded the ceremonies of the new year. The day was enthusiastically celebrated among the common people with picnics, drinking, and revelry. One source from late antiquity also places the Mamuralia on the Ides of March. This observance, which has aspects of scapegoat or ancient Greek \"pharmakos\" ritual, involved beating an","title":"Ides of March"},{"docid":"5360102","text":"Christmas\" album; copies were sold to raise funds for Holy Name Cathedral's Thursday Night Suppers. In 2006, The Ides' first two albums, \"Vehicle\" and \"Common Bond,\" were nationally re-released on the Collector's Choice label. Sony BMG released \"Ides of March Extended Play\" nationally; the album was culled from the band's live recordings. The band continues to tour the US to this day. In September 2010, the City of Berwyn, Illinois, dedicated Home Avenue between Riverside Drive and Cermak Road (the location of J. Sterling Morton High School West, the school most of the band members attended) to \"Ides of March","title":"The Ides of March (band)"},{"docid":"267943","text":"in Rome, most prominently as part of the Capitoline Triad. She was also worshipped at the Temple of Minerva Medica, and at the \"Delubrum Minervae\", a temple founded around 50 BC by Pompey on the site now occupied by the church of \"Santa Maria sopra Minerva\". The Romans celebrated her festival from March 19 to March 23 during the day which is called, in the neuter plural, Quinquatria, the fifth after the Ides of March, the nineteenth, an artisans' holiday. A lesser version, the \"Minusculae Quinquatria\", was held on the Ides of June, June 13, by the flute-players, who were","title":"Minerva"},{"docid":"15398714","text":"The Ides of March (2011 film) The Ides of March is a 2011 American political drama film directed by George Clooney from a screenplay written by Clooney, Grant Heslov, and Beau Willimon. The film is an adaptation of Willimon's 2008 play \"Farragut North\". It stars Ryan Gosling, George Clooney, Evan Rachel Wood, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Marisa Tomei, Paul Giamatti, and Jeffrey Wright. \"The Ides of March\" was featured as the opening film at the 68th Venice International Film Festival and at the 27th Haifa International Film Festival, and was shown at the 2011 Toronto International Film Festival. It received a","title":"The Ides of March (2011 film)"},{"docid":"499382","text":"old man dressed in animal skins and perhaps driving him from the city. The ritual may have been a new year festival representing the expulsion of the old year. In the later Imperial period, the Ides began a \"holy week\" of festivals celebrating Cybele and Attis, being the day \"Canna intrat\" (\"The Reed enters\"), when Attis was born and found among the reeds of a Phrygian river. He was discovered by shepherds or the goddess Cybele, who was also known as the \"Magna Mater\" (\"Great Mother\") (narratives differ). A week later, on 22 March, the solemn commemoration of \"Arbor intrat\"","title":"Ides of March"},{"docid":"15398726","text":"seems fair to say that quite a lot will be at stake. That is not the case in \"The Ides of March\", which is less an allegory of the American political process than a busy, foggy, mildly entertaining antidote to it.\" The Ides of March (2011 film) The Ides of March is a 2011 American political drama film directed by George Clooney from a screenplay written by Clooney, Grant Heslov, and Beau Willimon. The film is an adaptation of Willimon's 2008 play \"Farragut North\". It stars Ryan Gosling, George Clooney, Evan Rachel Wood, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Marisa Tomei, Paul Giamatti,","title":"The Ides of March (2011 film)"},{"docid":"9134133","text":"by 44 BC, including M. Porcius Cato (in 46 BC), Catullus (in c. 54 BC), Julia (in 69 BC) and Clodius (in 52 BC). Note that names, relationships, and events are described as they occur in the novel, and are not necessarily historically accurate. The Ides of March (novel) The Ides of March is an epistolary novel by Thornton Wilder that was published in 1948. It is, in the author's words, 'a fantasia on certain events and persons of the last days of the Roman republic... Historical reconstruction is not among the primary aims of this work'. The novel deals","title":"The Ides of March (novel)"},{"docid":"5360094","text":"during the Parrot years) Kapp single: Like Columbia's The Cryan Shames, they had local success in the Chicago area without much label support. Unlike the Cryan Shames, who issued 3 albums on Columbia, Parrot never scheduled an album for the Ides of March. Having secured a recording contract with Warner Bros. Records, in 1970 the band released the track \"Vehicle,\" which allegedly became the fastest selling single in Warner's history. Fourteen seconds of the completed \"Vehicle\" master tape (primarily the guitar solo) was accidentally erased in the recording studio. The missing section was spliced in from a previously discarded take.","title":"The Ides of March (band)"},{"docid":"5360099","text":"a CD entitled \"The Cubs' Greatest Hits\" which was sold at all Major League ballparks. The song was used on many Cubs-themed radio and television programs. By 2001, The Ides had expanded their schedule, and returned to national touring. The band recorded a two-hour live performance for XM Satellite radio in Washington, D.C.. Also, \"Vehicle\" was used for an extensive national advertising campaign by General Motors. A double live album, \"Beware: The Ides of March Live,\" captured their concert at the McAninch Center at the College of DuPage in Glen Ellyn, Illinois. \"Rhino\" was issued in 2002. Handmade Records released","title":"The Ides of March (band)"},{"docid":"2380025","text":"the beginning of rule by emperors. Caesar's commanders followed different paths. Labienus sided with the Optimates, the conservative aristocratic faction Caesar fought against in his civil war, and was killed at the Battle of Munda in 45 BC. Caius Trebonius, one of Caesar's most trusted lieutenants, was appointed consul by Caesar in 45 BC, and was one of the senators involved in Caesar's assassination on the Ides of March (March 15), 44 BC. He was himself murdered a year later. Caius Fabius held up the Pompeian forces at Ilerda until Caesar got there and won the Battle of Ilerda in","title":"Battle of Alesia"},{"docid":"5360098","text":"by over 20,000 and the Ides returned to live performances. The following year they released their first new music since 1973, a four-song cassette EP entitled \"Beware – The Ides of March\". Trumpeter and backing vocalist Chuck Soumar is credited with being primarily responsible for reuniting the band. In 1992, the album \"Ideology\" was released with re-recordings of \"Vehicle\", and \"You Wouldn't Listen\", plus new material. After another five-year gap, 1997 saw the EP \"Age Before Beauty\" being released. By 1998 the band wrote and released \"Finally Next Year\" to commemorate the Chicago Cubs' season. The song was included on","title":"The Ides of March (band)"},{"docid":"468274","text":"Ides of March\", at the end of season 4, Xena and Gabrielle were crucified by the Romans, as Caesar is betrayed and killed by Brutus. They are later revived by a mystic named Eli with the spiritual aid of Callisto, who by that time had become an angel; Callisto also engineers a plan to have Xena conceive a daughter after the resurrection, and this child is prophesied to bring about the Twilight of the Olympian gods; this girl was named Eve. To escape the gods' persecution, Xena and Gabrielle fake their deaths, but their plan goes awry when Ares buries","title":"Xena: Warrior Princess"},{"docid":"17162902","text":"of observances from March 22 through March 27 or 28. Isis had official festivals on March 7 and 20. The Romans did not number days of a month sequentially from the 1st through the last day. Instead, they counted back from the three fixed points of the month: the Nones (5th or 7th, depending on the length of the month), the Ides (13th or 15th), and the Kalends (1st) of the following month. The Nones of March was the 7th, and the Ides of March was the 15th. Thus the last day of March was the \"pridie Kalendas Aprilis,\" \"day","title":"Martius (month)"},{"docid":"17153912","text":"later. On the Calendar of Filocalus (354 AD), it is placed on March 14, but by Lydus on the Ides. The earliest extant calendars place an Equirria, one of the sacral chariot races in honor of Mars, on March 14. The festival of Anna Perenna, a goddess of the year (\"annus\"), took place on the Ides. Macrobius understood her doubled name to mean \"through the year\" (\"perennis\", English \"perennial\"). Jane Ellen Harrison regarded Anna Perenna as the female equivalent of Mamurius, representing the lunar year to his solar year. The Ides were supposed to be determined by the full moon,","title":"Mamuralia"},{"docid":"20380010","text":"Raffles and Michael Cochrane as Bunny. The episode closely follows the plot of the original story, with some changes, including: The Ides of March (short story) \"The Ides of March\" (also published as \"In the Chains of Crime\") is a short story by E. W. Hornung, and the first appearance of the gentleman thief A. J. Raffles, and his companion and biographer, Bunny Manders. The story was first published in June 1898 by \"Cassell's Magazine\". The story was also included in the collection \"The Amateur Cracksman\", published by Methuen & Co. Ltd in London, and Charles Scribner's Sons in New","title":"The Ides of March (short story)"},{"docid":"20380004","text":"The Ides of March (short story) \"The Ides of March\" (also published as \"In the Chains of Crime\") is a short story by E. W. Hornung, and the first appearance of the gentleman thief A. J. Raffles, and his companion and biographer, Bunny Manders. The story was first published in June 1898 by \"Cassell's Magazine\". The story was also included in the collection \"The Amateur Cracksman\", published by Methuen & Co. Ltd in London, and Charles Scribner's Sons in New York, both in 1899. \"Bunny\" Manders returns to the flat in the Albany where he just lost over two hundred","title":"The Ides of March (short story)"},{"docid":"3910232","text":"length of the month), the Ides (13th or 15th), and the Kalends (1st) of the following month. The Nones of February was the 5th, and the Ides the 13th. The last day of February was the \"pridie Kalendas Martias,\" \"day before the Kalends of March\". Roman counting was inclusive; February 9 was \"ante diem V Idūs Februarias,\" \"the 5th day before the Ides (13th) of February,\" usually abbreviated \"a.d. V Id. Feb.\" (or with the \"a.d.\" omitted altogether); February 23 was \"VI Kal. Mart.\", \"the 6th day before the Kalends of March.\" February had one and possibly two moveable feasts","title":"Februarius"},{"docid":"5360100","text":"\"Friendly Strangers,\" a double CD limited run set of the original Warner Bros. recordings. In 2004, the Ides of March celebrated 40 years since their original formation, together with a series of multi-media shows emceed by Dick Biondi. The sold-out show at the Arcada Theatre in St. Charles, Illinois can be seen on the DVD, \"A Vehicle Through Time.\" 2005 saw \"Vehicle\" get further promotion when American Idol runner-up Bo Bice performed the song three times on the show. That same year, the Ides released their compilation CD, \"Ide Essentials.\" It included past hits (\"Vehicle,\" and \"You Wouldn't Listen\") and","title":"The Ides of March (band)"},{"docid":"11477774","text":"Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard's birthday, March 15. Carlos Moncada of \"The Tampa Tribune\" reported that an \"open letter to the press from Anonymous\" was sent out via e-mail, and states that a protest is planned for March 15, 2008. The e-mail refers to the Ides of March: \"We, too, wish to celebrate this event, albeit in our own special way ... Beware the Ides of March, Church of Scientology!\" The March protests were titled \"Operation Party Hard\". Protests began in Australia on March 15, 2008, and were followed by protests in major cities worldwide including Brussels, London, Seattle, Phoenix,","title":"Project Chanology"},{"docid":"17153913","text":"reflecting the lunar origin of the Roman calendar. On the earliest calendar, the Ides of March would have been the first full moon of the new year. H.S. Versnel has argued that adjustments made to the calendar over time caused the Mamuralia to be moved from an original place as the last day of the year (the day before the Kalends of March) to the day before the Ides, causing the Equirria on February 27 to be repeated on March 14. Mamurius in this view was associated with \"Februarius\", the month of purifications and care of the dead that originally","title":"Mamuralia"},{"docid":"11582440","text":"Maria Stark Maria Stark is a fictional character appearing in books published by Marvel Comics. She is Howard Stark's wife and Tony Stark's mother. Maria Stark was born Maria Collins Carbonell. In her adulthood, Maria married Howard, and together they had a son that was not her biological son Anthony \"Tony\" Stark. Maria was unsuccessful in preventing Tony from seeing Howard's alcoholism, something Tony would later face on his own. Howard secretly programmed the Mistress AI that controlled the Arsenal robots with Maria's brain patterns. On the Ides of March, Maria and Howard were killed in a 'planned' car accident","title":"Maria Stark"},{"docid":"499383","text":"(\"The Tree enters\") commemorated the death of Attis under a pine tree. A college of priests, the \"dendrophoroi\" (\"tree bearers\") annually cut down a tree, hung from it an image of Attis, and carried it to the temple of the Magna Mater with lamentations. The day was formalized as part of the official Roman calendar under Claudius (d. 54 AD). A three-day period of mourning followed, culminating with celebrating the rebirth of Attis on 25 March, the date of the vernal equinox on the Julian calendar. In modern times, the Ides of March is best known as the date on","title":"Ides of March"},{"docid":"15191178","text":"honors\" of his career \"was being asked to sing at a memorial concert the night Otis Redding was killed\". \"I remember watching Jimy and The Mauds back in 1970 at the Wild Goose at an outdoors show in Oak Lawn,\" said Jim Peterik, of Ides Of March. \"What a supreme frontman Jimy was. He was one of my role models from that moment on and \"Soul Drippin'\" is still one of my all–time favorite songs.\" Dick Biondi, broadcasting legend of WLS (AM), has continued to state “wherever I’ve gone, wherever I’ve worked, one of the best recordings to ever come","title":"The Mauds"},{"docid":"17552775","text":"13, the Ides, a religiously fraught day that Constantine presumably wished to avoid. The Ides of September occurred in the middle of the Roman Games, when a major banquet for Jupiter had been held since Rome's archaic period. In the earliest period of Roman history, a nail-driving ritual in the Temple of Jupiter marked the passing of the political year, with the consuls at that time taking office on the Ides. The Byzantine antiquarian Johannes Lydus noted that this was one of three Roman new years: the priestly year began in January, the national in March, and the political cycle","title":"Ludi Triumphales"},{"docid":"6513132","text":"is assassinated during the Ides of March, thereby nullifying Vorenus' protection and presenting an opportunity for Erastes to get even. After Erastes arrives at Vorenus' home and finds Vorenus' children and Lyde unprotected as they prepare Niobe's body for her journey to the afterlife, Erastes abducts them all. Erastes is killed when Pullo and Vorenus storm his lair, kill all his henchmen, and demand the whereabouts of the children. Erastes, knowing his death is sealed despite Pullo's attempt at bargaining for information, defiantly claims to have raped and killed them, with their bodies being irretrievably thrown in the Tiber. Vorenus,","title":"Erastes Fulmen"},{"docid":"8740450","text":"beyond James Litherland's abilities as a vocalist. They were more approving of the rest of the album, and described Dave Greenslade's solo on \"The Valentyne Suite\" as, \"something to offer a challenge to vintage Keith Emerson, but with swing.\" They were critical of Litherland and Reeves's playing on the song, however, and concluded, \"In retrospect this might not quite the classic it seemed at the time, but it remains listenable...\" \"Valentyne Suite\" was originally written with \"Beware the Ides of March\" as the final movement, but since \"Beware the Ides of March\" had already been released in the UK on","title":"Valentyne Suite"},{"docid":"11582428","text":"Howard was also a member of the V-Battalion. He was targeted by the Red Skull (Johann Schmidt), and is rumored to have met the Watcher, Uatu. Stark also prevented Obadiah Stane from taking control of Stark Industries at least once. On the Ides of March, Howard and Maria were killed in a car accident. It has been hinted that the incident was not random and possibly arranged by the V-Battalion, but this has never been confirmed; earlier indications were that the accident was caused by Republic Oil, but this is also unconfirmed. Tony ran his father's company, started a charity","title":"Howard Stark"},{"docid":"14784202","text":"Isabella Russell-Ides Isabella Russell-Ides (born January 24, 1948) is an American poet, playwright, and novelist. She received the 2008 Critics Forum Award for her play \"Coco & Gigi\". She has also received critical acclaim for her works, \"Leonard's Car\" (\"Outstanding New Play\", 2009 Nora's Playhouse, NYC), \"Fortune Cookie Smash\" (2007 Best of Fest, Frontera). She is noted for the poetic and heightened language of her texts. Her debut novel, \"White Monkey Chronicles: The Complete Trilogy\", published under the pen name Isabella Ides, (March 2018, Lowell Street Press) featuring the monkey god Lord Hanuman and a rogue order of nuns in","title":"Isabella Russell-Ides"},{"docid":"5360101","text":"versions of Survivor songs including \"Eye of the Tiger\", \"High on You\" and \"Rebel Girl\", as well as new material. It featured the new single \"Come Dancing\", and a re-release of the Ides' first recording \"Like It or Lump It.\" The Ides sang their Christmas carol \"Sharing Christmas\" to a capacity crowd at the 6 o'clock Mass at Chicago's Holy Name Cathedral in 2005. They sang along with Dick Biondi. They have performed at Holy Name Cathedral's 6:00 Christmas Eve Mass since then, at the request of pastor Father Dan Mayall. They recorded their four Christmas songs on the \"Sharing","title":"The Ides of March (band)"},{"docid":"5360097","text":"March went on an extended hiatus, during which Jim Peterik co-founded the band Survivor and co-wrote all of their platinum hits including \"Eye of the Tiger,\" \"The Search Is Over,\" \"High on You\" and \"I Can't Hold Back\". He also began a career of writing collaborations which resulted in many platinum hits for other artists, most notably \"Hold on Loosely,\" \"Rockin' Into The Night,\" \"Fantasy Girl\" and \"Wild-Eyed Southern Boys\" for .38 Special and \"Heavy Metal\" for Sammy Hagar. In 1990, The Ides' home town of Berwyn offered to have the re-united group headline their \"Summerfaire.\" The concert was attended","title":"The Ides of March (band)"},{"docid":"6644914","text":"later, while in his first year at the National Federation of State High School Athletic Associations, Porter wrote a poem entitled \"Basketball Ides of March,\" which he included in the \"National Press Service,\" the Federation's monthly journal, with a suggestion to state associations to republish the poem during basketball tournament time. The Tennessee Secondary School Athletic Association was the first to do so, in its March 1941 edition. The Illinois High School Association and the Ohio High School Athletic Association published the poem a year later, in March 1942. \"Basketball Ides of March\" ends with the final stanza: H. V.","title":"H. V. Porter"},{"docid":"20380009","text":"included an introduction clarifying that Bunny was presently a prisoner, as well as an illustration showing Bunny Manders being dragged by a skeleton in cloak and hood. The magazine was hesitant to publish a story that featured criminals as the protagonists, and these changes were intended to make it clear that it was a cautionary tale. \"Cassell's\" would reprint this same illustration in each of its six Raffles issues. BBC Radio adapted the story into the first episode of its Raffles radio drama, \"The Ides of March\", which first aired on 20 October 1985. The drama features Jeremy Clyde as","title":"The Ides of March (short story)"},{"docid":"5360095","text":"The song reached #2 on the \"Billboard\" Hot 100 and #6 on the corresponding \"Cash Box\" listings. It sold over one million copies, and was awarded a gold disc in November 1972. The following album, \"Vehicle\", reached #55 nationally. The band toured extensively throughout 1970 in support of many top acts, including Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, and Led Zeppelin. The Ides of March were also among the participants in the \"Festival Express\" train tour documented in a 2003 film, although they were not featured in the film. In 1971, the band released their second album \"Common Bond\". The featured single","title":"The Ides of March (band)"},{"docid":"5360103","text":"Way\" in tribute of the band. Ray Herr (born on September 24, 1947 in Arlington Heights, Illinois) died on March 29, 2011 in Hainesville, Illinois, from esophageal cancer at age 64. John Larson (born on November 6, 1949 in Elgin, Illinois) died on September 21, 2011 in Warsaw, Indiana, from cancer at the age of 61. Chuck Soumar quit the band in 2011 to pursue other interests. The Ides are celebrating the 50th anniversary of the band. The original four members – Bergland, Borch, Millas and Peterik – are still playing together (after Peterik's hiatus to form Survivor). They have","title":"The Ides of March (band)"},{"docid":"15398723","text":"Michigan and included 1,000 extras. The theatrical release failed to recognize Cincinnati in the credits as a filming location. Producer and screenplay co-writer Grant Heslov said that \"the omission of Cincinnati in the credits was an inadvertent mistake, something that slipped through the cracks.\" He also said that the credits would be corrected for the home release of the film. \"The Ides of March\" premiered on August 31, 2011 as the opening film of the 68th Venice International Film Festival. Sony Pictures Entertainment bought the distribution rights for the United States only, while Alliance Films bought Canadian distribution. Sony wanted","title":"The Ides of March (2011 film)"},{"docid":"716902","text":"royal diadem on Caesar's head, with the latter refusing in what was most likely a staged performance, perhaps to gauge the Roman public's mood about accepting Hellenistic-style kingship. Cicero, who was present at the festival, mockingly asked where the diadem came from, an obvious reference to the Ptolemaic queen who he abhorred. Caesar was assassinated on the Ides of March (15 March 44 BC), but Cleopatra stayed in Rome until about mid-April, in the vain hope of having Caesarion recognized as Caesar's heir. However, Caesar's will named his grandnephew Octavian as the primary heir, and Octavian arrived in Italy around","title":"Cleopatra"},{"docid":"2823211","text":"Quinquatria In ancient Roman religion, the Quinquatria or Quinquatrus was a festival sacred to the Goddess Minerva, celebrated from the 19-23 of March. The older festivals were of Etruscan origin and were to celebrate the Spring Equinox, the spring rebirth rites of women. According to Varro, it was so-called because it was held on the fifth \"(quinqu-)\" day after the Ides, in the same way as the Tusculans called a festival on the sixth day after the Ides \"Sexatrus\" or one on the seventh \"Septimatrus\". Both Varro and Festus state that the Quinquatrus was celebrated for only one day, but","title":"Quinquatria"},{"docid":"1804396","text":"a dialectic relationship showing the interdependency of the military and economic functions in Roman society. Because the earliest Roman calendar had begun with the month of March, Hermann Usener thought the ceremonies of the \"ancilia movere\" were a ritual expulsion of the old year, represented by the mysterious figure of Mamurius Veturius, to make way for the new god Mars born on March 1. On the Ides of March, a man ritually named as Mamurius Veturius was beaten with long white sticks in the \"sacrum Mamurii\", in Usener's view as a form of scapegoating. Mamurius was the mythic blacksmith who","title":"Salii"},{"docid":"2068332","text":"The Cryan' Shames, Ides of March, The Mauds, Mason Proffit, H.P. Lovecraft, most notably The Buckinghams, among others. The Buckinghams topped the Hot 100 charts in 1966 with their song 'Kind of a Drag'. The Shadows of Knight's cover of Van Morrison's \"Gloria\" is still a classic 40 years later. The Ides of March (band) topped the chart with \"Vehicle\". This was a great period during the 1960s where Chicago was a very happening place both musically and nationally with the 1968 Democratic National Convention and the Sly and the Family Stone riot. This fad died with the growth of","title":"Music of Illinois"},{"docid":"300238","text":"recording of this version was made by Columbia Records in the 1940s, with Noël Coward reciting the poems and Andre Kostelanetz conducting the orchestra. He wrote a humorous poem about the IRS and income tax titled \"Song for the Saddest Ides\", a reference to March 15, the ides of March, when federal taxes were due at the time. It was later set to music and performed by the IRS Chorale until its composer/conductor's later retirement. Many of his poems, reflecting the times in which they were written, presented stereotypes of different nationalities. For example, in \"Genealogical Reflections\" he writes: In","title":"Ogden Nash"},{"docid":"348748","text":"may honor Maia and Juno or derive from archaic terms for \"senior\" and \"junior\". A few emperors attempted to add themselves to the calendar after Augustus, but without enduring success. In classical Latin, the days of each month were usually reckoned as: Dates after the ides count forward to the kalends of the next month and are expressed as such. For example, March 19 was expressed as \"the 14th day before the April Kalends\" ('), without a mention of March itself. The day after a kalends, nones, or ides was also often expressed as the \"day after\" (') owing to","title":"Roman calendar"},{"docid":"5360096","text":"was \"L.A. Goodbye\". The song was at #1 on regional charts for five weeks, #2 on WCFL Chicago, #5 on WLS Chicago, but only #73 on the \"Billboard\" Hot 100. In 1972, the band moved to RCA Records and released \"World Woven\". At this point, the band departed from the \"brass\" sound (though one song featured a single trumpet) and the album produced no hit singles. In 1973, the \"Midnight Oil\" album was released. The band played its final show of their \"first era\" at Morton West High School in Berwyn that November. Between 1973 and 1990, The Ides of","title":"The Ides of March (band)"},{"docid":"5832939","text":"this displacement has found wide acceptance. Georg Wissowa thought the March Equirria had originally occurred on the Ides, and was moved up a day because of conflicts among religious events concentrated around this ritually fraught time; an alternate view is that it was placed \"at some convenient day\" between the Nones and the Ides. At any rate, the horse races framed the ritual turn of the year, and the difficulties of the placement of the two Equirria arise from changes made to the calendar, when January became the first month. Originally, the Equirria may have featured races on horseback, like","title":"Equirria"},{"docid":"7474121","text":"been a greater number of gothic brides who wear black, alien brides and other variations on the theme. Like its Cacophony Society counterpart \"Santarchy\", the tradition has spread worldwide and now includes gatherings in Austin, Boston, Reno, Los Angeles, New York City, Reno, Phoenix (started in 2008), Portland, Seattle, London, and Japan, among others. Brides of March The Brides of March is an annual event that takes place in San Francisco, California and other cities around March 15. Started by the Cacophony Society, the event's name is a pun on the term Ides of March, and is a parody of","title":"Brides of March"},{"docid":"5624071","text":"bands” that rose to national prominence in the 1960s and 1970s. Jim Peterik and The Ides of March served as the house band for the evening, as many original members of these popular bands returned to the concert stage to play their greatest hits. In addition to The Buckinghams, the Cornerstones line-up included The Ides of March, The Cryan' Shames, The New Colony Six, The Shadows of Knight, The McCoys, and The American Breed. This special was such a huge success that it spawned a live concert tour which is still continuing. \"Cornerstones of Rock : American Garage\" continues to","title":"The Buckinghams"},{"docid":"348751","text":"the 24th (') formed the second part; and the intercalary month Mercedonius was inserted between them. In such years, the days between the ides and the Regifugium were counted down to either the Intercalary Kalends or to the Terminalia. The intercalary month counted down to nones and ides on its 5th and 13th day in the manner of the other short months. The remaining days of the month counted down towards the March Kalends, so that the end of Mercedonius and the second part of February were indistinguishable to the Romans, one ending on ' and the other picking up","title":"Roman calendar"},{"docid":"16713903","text":"The Ides of April The Ides of April is a 2013 historical mystery crime novel by Lindsey Davis and the first book in the Flavia Albia Mysteries (Falco: The New Generation)) series. Set in March and April AD 89, in the Aventine Hill area of Ancient Rome, the novel stars Flavia Albia, the British-born adopted daughter of Marcus Didius Falco (the hero of the author's 20-volume Marcus Didius Falco Mysteries series, published from 1989 to 2010). Albia, a widow, works as a \"delatrix\" (detective or private informer) in ancient Rome, like Falco. The book's front cover image depicts a small","title":"The Ides of April"},{"docid":"138357","text":"part. To keep the calendar year roughly aligned with the solar year, a leap month, called \"Mensis Intercalaris\" (\"intercalary month\"), was added from time to time between these two parts of February. The (usual) second part of February was incorporated in the intercalary month as its last five days, with no change either in their dates or the festivals observed on them. This followed naturally, because the days after the Ides (13th) of February (in an ordinary year) or the Ides of Intercalaris (in an intercalary year) both counted down to the Kalends of March (i.e. they were known as","title":"February 29"},{"docid":"9134131","text":"were worth reading ... \"Cry, the Beloved Country\", \"The Ides of March\", and \"The Naked and the Dead\". Wilder himself once wrote that the book was \"a kind of crossword puzzle\" that \"only begins to speak at its second reading.\" Edmund Fuller called the novel \"a text so rich that it requires exploration rather than reading.\" The novel is divided into four books, each of which starts earlier and ends later than the previous book. Catullus' poems and the closing section by Suetonius are the only documents of the book which are not imagined; however, many of the events are","title":"The Ides of March (novel)"},{"docid":"4467553","text":"Myspace. KtmROCKS (ktmrocks.com) has been one of the elements in the promoting local scene, since 2001. KtmROCKS used to release magazines in 2005 but it got stopped after 13 issues. Currently, KtmROCKS issues E-Mags instead. KtmRocks is also the organizer of yearly music concert \"Ides of March\". Ides of March takes generally place at the end of March and the journey is continued since decade. Currently, KtmRocks is less active in covering the happenings of the scene. NepalUnderground (nepalunderground.com), an online media/magazine established in 2010 is still active and regularly covers the happening in the scene. Besides these various local","title":"Nepalese rock"},{"docid":"14294550","text":"Allan Ides Allan Ides (born 1949) is an American lawyer, the Christopher N. May Professor in the Loyola Law School of Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, California and was a visiting professor at the University of Southern California, Gould School of Law, for Fall 2011. From 1989 through 1997, Ides was a faculty member at Washington and Lee University School of Law. After graduating from Loyola Law School, Ides clerked for U.S. Supreme Court Justice Byron White from 1980 to 1981, and he argued for the defendant in the Supreme Court case United States v. Owens (484 US 554) on","title":"Allan Ides"},{"docid":"258046","text":"the Roman system, each month had three fixed points known as Kalends (Kal), the Nons and the Ides. The Nones fell on the fifth of the month in January, February, April, June, August, September, November and December, but on the seventh of the month in March, May, July and October. The Ides fell on the thirteenth in those months in which the Nones fell on the fifth, and the fifteenth in the other four months. All other days were dated by the number of days by which they preceded one of those fixed points. Merovingian script, or \"Luxeuil minuscule\", is","title":"Manuscript"},{"docid":"209127","text":"in an unrivalled position of power and influence. After assuming control of government, Caesar began a programme of social and governmental reforms, including the creation of the Julian calendar. He gave citizenship to many residents of far regions of the Roman Empire. He initiated land reform and support for veterans. He centralised the bureaucracy of the Republic and was eventually proclaimed \"dictator in perpetuity\", giving him additional authority. His populist and authoritarian reforms angered the elites, who began to conspire against him. On the Ides of March (15 March) 44 BC Caesar was assassinated by a group of rebellious senators","title":"Julius Caesar"},{"docid":"5092148","text":"these words in Act III, scene 1, as he is being stabbed to death, having recognized his friend and protégé Brutus as one of the assassins. There is however no evidence that the historic Caesar spoke these words. The name \"Brutus\", a second declension masculine noun, appears in the phrase in the vocative case, and so the \"-us\" ending of the nominative case is replaced by \"-e\". On March 15 (the Ides of March), 44 BCE, the historic Caesar was attacked by a group of senators, including Brutus, who was Caesar's friend and protégé. Caesar initially resisted his attackers, but","title":"Et tu, Brute?"},{"docid":"14294551","text":"rules of evidence concerning memory-impaired witnesses. Ides has co-authored \"Civil Procedure: Cases and Problems\" and \"Examples & Explanations: Constitutional Law\". Allan Ides Allan Ides (born 1949) is an American lawyer, the Christopher N. May Professor in the Loyola Law School of Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, California and was a visiting professor at the University of Southern California, Gould School of Law, for Fall 2011. From 1989 through 1997, Ides was a faculty member at Washington and Lee University School of Law. After graduating from Loyola Law School, Ides clerked for U.S. Supreme Court Justice Byron White from 1980 to","title":"Allan Ides"},{"docid":"3424883","text":"St. Ides St. Ides is a malt liquor manufactured by the Pabst Brewing Company. The beverage contains 8.2% alcohol by volume, which is stronger than many high-alcohol malt liquors. It was launched by the McKenzie River Corporation in 1987. St. Ides gained prominence during the late 1980s and early 1990s through the use of celebrity endorsements by rap artists. The beer is also available in a number of \"St. Ides Special Brews\" which have a variety of flavorings, including various fruit flavors. The St. Ides brand has used celebrity endorsements by rappers and was unique in its early use of","title":"St. Ides"},{"docid":"14206211","text":"previously celebrated his victory at the Battle of Munda on the Liberalia, or festival of Liber held March 17, and he visited the house of the \"pontifex\" Calvinus on the Ides of March, near the archaic shrine of Mutunus-Liber. In Palmer's view, the evident ill favor of the god gave Augustus license to reform the cult during his program of religious revivalism that often disguised radical innovations. The god was then Hellenized as Bacchus Lyaeus. Palmer concurred with numismatists who regard a denarius minted by Quintus Titius, moneyer \"ca.\" 90–88 BC, as picturing an aged and bearded Mutunus on its","title":"Mutunus Tutunus"},{"docid":"19636102","text":"Connacht for 1496 state- \"Mac Samradain, that is Domnall Bernach son of Tomas son of Fergal, was treacherously killed.\" The internecine fighting continued and Cathal and his brothers were involved. The Annals of Ulster for 1497 state- \"Maghnus, son of Thomas Mag Samradhain, was slain by the descendants of Eogan Mag Samhadhain on the 7th of the Ides of November (7th of November).\" On 28 September 1498 two of Cathal’s brothers, Tadgh and Manus the priest, were killed in a Maguire raid on the castle of Ballymagauran. The Annals of Ulster for 1498 state- \"Philip, son of Toirdelbach, son of","title":"Cathal mac Aodha Mág Samhradháin"},{"docid":"19606604","text":"killed in treachery.\" The Annals of Connacht for 1496 state- \"Mac Samradain, that is Domnall Bernach son of Tomas son of Fergal, was treacherously killed.\" Éamonn then took the chieftaincy and moved to the chief’s residence in Ballymagauran. His relatives continued the inter-clan fighting and Éamonn and his brothers were involved. The Annals of Ulster for 1497 state- \"Maghnus, son of Thomas Mag Samradhain, was slain by the descendants of Eogan Mag Samhadhain on the 7th of the Ides of November (7th of November).\" On 28 September 1498 Éamonn also had trouble with the neighbouring Maguire clan of Fermanagh and","title":"Éamonn Mág Samhradháin"},{"docid":"6933090","text":"\"Too Hot to Sleep\", the group disbanded. Songs from each of Peterik's bands appears in a Stallone film to motivate the scene's action: Survivor's \"Eye of the Tiger\" in \"Rocky III\", the Ides of March's \"Vehicle\" in \"Lock Up\", and Jimi Jamison's solo take on Survivor's \"Ever Since the World Began\" playing during the closing credits of \"Lock Up\". In 1993 Peterik once again began touring and recording with a reunited Survivor, but left them for good in July, 1996. In 1990, the original members of the Ides of March (Peterik, Millas, Bob Bergland, Mike Borch, Chuck Soumar, and John","title":"Jim Peterik"},{"docid":"3519366","text":"for many days. The defenders of the Capitoline Hill did not surrender and repulsed an attack. The Gauls killed everyone they captured, including women, children, and the elderly. Plutarch wrote that the Gauls entered Rome on the Ides of February (February 13) and that the siege lasted seven months. Plutarch also notes that some Gauls reached Ardea and that Camillus rallied the city against them and attacked them. On hearing that, the neighbouring cities called to arms the men of military age, especially the Romans who had fled to Veii. These wanted Camillus to be their commander but refused to","title":"Battle of the Allia"},{"docid":"3424884","text":"hip hop to build the brand's identity. DJ Pooh was brought in to design advertisements for the liquor and was given broad artistic license. In such contexts, the beer was often referred to as the \"Crooked \". Chuck D took a stance against malt liquor advertising and sued the brand's then-owner, the McKenzie River Brewing Company, for using his voice without his permission. The controversy generated significant publicity for St. Ides and placed it on the average hip hop listener's radar. McKenzie discontinued the brand in 1998 before it was purchased by Pabst Brewing Company. St. Ides St. Ides is","title":"St. Ides"},{"docid":"20645689","text":"at the festival, mockingly asked where the diadem came from, an obvious reference to the Ptolemaic queen who he abhorred. Caesar was assassinated on the Ides of March (15 March 44 BC), but Cleopatra stayed in Rome until about mid-April, in the vain hope of having Caesarion recognized as Caesar's heir. However, Caesar's will named his grandnephew Octavian as the primary heir. He arrived in Italy around the same time Cleopatra decided to depart for Egypt. A few months later Cleopatra decided to kill Ptolemy XIV by poisoning, elevating her son Caesarion instead as her co-ruler. Octavian, Mark Antony, and","title":"Reign of Cleopatra"},{"docid":"201204","text":"the Federal Republic of Germany. Maestro was arguably the world leader in this field during the 1970s and 1980s. Today one of the last Maestro I can be found in the Museum of Information Technology at Arlington. One of the first IDEs with a plug-in concept was Softbench. In 1995 \"Computerwoche\" commented that the use of an IDE was not well received by developers since it would fence in their creativity. As of March 2015, the most popular IDEs are Eclipse and Visual Studio. The IDE editor usually provides syntax highlighting, it can show both the structures, the language keywords","title":"Integrated development environment"},{"docid":"16443256","text":"Vehicle (song) \"Vehicle\" is a song recorded by American rock band The Ides of March for their debut studio album of the same name (1970). The song was released as the lead single from the album in March 1970 through Warner Bros. Records. It was written by vocalist and frontman Jim Peterik about a girl that often used him for his mode of transportation, leading Peterik to surmise that he was little more than her \"vehicle\". The song has a distinctive horn section riff, often mistaken for the band Blood, Sweat and Tears, who were also popular in that era.","title":"Vehicle (song)"},{"docid":"15398715","text":"wide theatrical release on October 7, 2011, and grossed $76 million worldwide. The film received positive reviews from critics and was chosen by the National Board of Review as one of the top ten films of 2011. Gosling earned a Golden Globe nomination for his performance, while Clooney, Heslov and Willimon were nominated for the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay. Stephen Meyers is the junior campaign manager for Governor Mike Morris, who is competing against Senator Ted Pullman in the Democratic presidential primary. Both campaigns are vying for the endorsement of Senator Franklin Thompson, who controls 356 delegates; these","title":"The Ides of March (2011 film)"},{"docid":"7906148","text":"– July 11, 2007), who was three years his senior, on May 11, 1956. Humphrey died in 2007, aged 88. His other notable plays include \"Dear Love\", a love story based on the poems and letters of Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning; \"The Ides of March\", dealing with the actions and events surrounding the end of the Roman Empire; and \"The Little Black Book\", wherein a lawyer falls in love with girl number 134 from his little black book. His play, \"Look Away\", based on the book, \"Mary Todd Lincoln\", by Justin and Linda Levitt, is set in an insane","title":"Jerome Kilty"},{"docid":"16713905","text":"awkward 11-year-old, who appears in the book. Flavia Albia uses Falco's old apartment in Fountain Court as her office, and lives elsewhere in the same building. In \"Enemies at Home\", it is revealed that the Didii bought over the Fountain Court block, possibly from Smaractus, Falco's former landlord. The \"Irish Times\" reviewer wrote: \"Irreverent, resourceful and hard-boiled in her patter, Flavia is a heroine to rival her contemporary counterparts VI Warshawski and Kinsey Milhone.\" Tom Holland reviewed the book for \"The Guardian\" and ended: The Ides of April The Ides of April is a 2013 historical mystery crime novel by","title":"The Ides of April"},{"docid":"2670663","text":"chorded jazz arrangements and lyrics based on Greek mythology, was less radio-friendly. Following an extended hiatus, Chase reemerged early in 1974 with the release of \"Pure Music\", their third album. Featuring a new lineup, yet keeping the four-trumpet section headed by Bill Chase, the group moved further from the rock idiom and became more focused on jazz. Variety magazine called \"Pure Music\" \"probably Chase's most commercial effort, and their brand of jazz could have a commercial impact.\" The songs were written by Jim Peterik of the Ides of March, who also sings on two songs on the album, backing up","title":"Bill Chase"},{"docid":"7251344","text":"the deputy mayor after Siben. In Deidesheim, the \"Machtergreifung\" came mainly on 15 March – the Ides – 1933 in the form of a demonstration by several hundred people outside Siben's house. The crowd threatened to storm the house if Siben was not prepared to surrender the mayor's office. Siben thereupon declared to two town councillors who were there that he was resigning, all the while, however, reserving his rights. The mayoralty would then have fallen to the second mayor Friedrich Schreck; however, he would not have suited those now in power, as he had already twice been interned for","title":"Deidesheim"},{"docid":"17162903","text":"before the Kalends of April\". Roman counting was inclusive; March 9 was \"ante diem VII Idūs Martias\", \"the 7th day before the Ides of March,\" usually abbreviated \"a.d. VII Id. Mart.\" (or with the \"a.d.\" omitted altogether); March 23 was \"X Kal. Apr.\", \"the 10th day before the Kalends of April.\" On the calendar of the Roman Republic and early Principate, each day was marked with a letter to denote its religiously lawful status. In March, these were: By the late 2nd century AD, extant calendars no longer show days marked with these letters, probably in part as a result","title":"Martius (month)"},{"docid":"201215","text":"for installation on local servers or machines and can be used to give the developer more control over the development environment. Most Web IDEs also include real time collaboration features, allowing multiple users to simultaneously work with other developers around the world (or locally) in real time. Pros: Cons: Notable Web IDEs: Integrated development environment An integrated development environment (IDE) is a software application that provides comprehensive facilities to computer programmers for software development. An IDE normally consists of a source code editor, build automation tools, and a debugger. Most modern IDEs have intelligent code completion. Some IDEs, such as","title":"Integrated development environment"},{"docid":"10424927","text":"reality 15 years younger than Caesar and sometimes rumoured to be his son, though this is unlikely). This gives the series some complexities similar to the movie 1900, in which two boys who grow up together are shaped by their differences, culminating in diverging destinies on the Ides of March. Apart from Caesar and Brutus, historical characters include: Gaius Marius, Cornelius Sulla, Mithridates VI of Pontus (who is described as \"a Greek general\"), Cinna, Cornelia, Pompey, Crassus, Cato the Younger, Spartacus, Crixus, Brutus' mother Servilia, Octavian and his mother Atia, Titus Annius Milo, Publius Clodius Pulcher, Vercingetorix, Marcus Calpurnius Bibulus,","title":"Emperor (novel series)"},{"docid":"881045","text":"Anna Perenna Anna Perenna was an old Roman deity of the circle or \"ring\" of the year, as the name (\"per annum\") clearly indicates. Her festival fell on the Ides of March (March 15), which would have marked the first full moon in the year in the old lunar Roman calendar when March was reckoned as the first month of the year, and was held at the grove of the goddess at the first milestone on the Via Flaminia. It was much frequented by the city \"plebs\". Macrobius records that offerings were made to her \"ut annare perannareque commode liceat\",","title":"Anna Perenna"},{"docid":"3294753","text":"of the Pro version is comparable to that of other language aware IDEs with respect to project management and editing features, but lacks advanced features, such as automated refactoring, support for common frameworks etc., which can be found in the dominant Java IDEs such as Eclipse and IntelliJ IDEA. The free LE version further lacks some features, such as code completion, that are included with other free IDEs. Unlike the dominant Java IDEs today, JCreator also lacks the level of extensibility through third-party plugins that is common in popular Java IDEs. Some of the features missing from the freeware edition","title":"JCreator"}],"string":"[\n {\n \"docid\": \"499386\",\n \"text\": \"after achieving a victory at the siege of Perugia, Octavian executed 300 senators and knights who had fought against him under Lucius Antonius, the brother of Mark Antony. The executions were one of a series of actions taken by Octavian to avenge Caesar's death. Suetonius and the historian Cassius Dio characterised the slaughter as a religious sacrifice, noting that it occurred on the Ides of March at the new altar to the deified Julius. Ides of March The Ides of March (; , Late Latin: ) is a day on the Roman calendar that corresponds to 15 March. It was\",\n \"title\": \"Ides of March\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"499380\",\n \"text\": \"or 7th, depending on the length of the month), the Ides (13th or 15th), and the Kalends (1st of the following month). The Ides occurred near the midpoint, on the 13th for most months, but on the 15th for March, May, July, and October. The Ides were supposed to be determined by the full moon, reflecting the lunar origin of the Roman calendar. On the earliest calendar, the Ides of March would have been the first full moon of the new year. The Ides of each month were sacred to Jupiter, the Romans' supreme deity. The Flamen Dialis, Jupiter's high\",\n \"title\": \"Ides of March\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"5360105\",\n \"text\": \"They are also in the writing stages for a brand-new album. The Ides of March (band) The Ides of March are an American rock band that had a major US and minor UK hit with the song \\\"Vehicle\\\" in 1970. After going on hiatus in 1973, the band returned with their original line-up in 1990 and has been active since then. The Ides of March began in Berwyn, Illinois (a near western suburb of Chicago) on October 16, 1964, as a four-piece band called \\\"The Shon-Dels.\\\" Their first record, \\\"Like It Or Lump It,\\\" was released on their own \\\"Epitome\\\"\",\n \"title\": \"The Ides of March (band)\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"5360092\",\n \"text\": \"The Ides of March (band) The Ides of March are an American rock band that had a major US and minor UK hit with the song \\\"Vehicle\\\" in 1970. After going on hiatus in 1973, the band returned with their original line-up in 1990 and has been active since then. The Ides of March began in Berwyn, Illinois (a near western suburb of Chicago) on October 16, 1964, as a four-piece band called \\\"The Shon-Dels.\\\" Their first record, \\\"Like It Or Lump It,\\\" was released on their own \\\"Epitome\\\" record label in 1965. In 1966, after changing their name to\",\n \"title\": \"The Ides of March (band)\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"15398724\",\n \"text\": \"Clooney to keep the play's title, but \\\"The Ides of March\\\" was picked as the title.<ref name=\\\"/Film\\\"></ref> \\\"The Ides of March\\\" was originally planned to have a limited release in December 2011 and a wide release in January 2012. However, Sony eventually moved the film's opening date to October 14, 2011. This was later moved again, to October 7, 2011. The film received many positive reviews. Rotten Tomatoes gave the film a rating of 85%, based on 218 reviews, with a rating average of 7.4/10. The site's critical consensus reads, \\\"While not exactly exposing revelatory truths, \\\"The Ides of March\\\"\",\n \"title\": \"The Ides of March (2011 film)\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"499381\",\n \"text\": \"priest, led the \\\"Ides sheep\\\" (\\\"ovis Idulis\\\") in procession along the Via Sacra to the \\\"arx\\\", where it was sacrificed. In addition to the monthly sacrifice, the Ides of March was also the occasion of the Feast of Anna Perenna, a goddess of the year (Latin \\\"annus\\\") whose festival originally concluded the ceremonies of the new year. The day was enthusiastically celebrated among the common people with picnics, drinking, and revelry. One source from late antiquity also places the Mamuralia on the Ides of March. This observance, which has aspects of scapegoat or ancient Greek \\\"pharmakos\\\" ritual, involved beating an\",\n \"title\": \"Ides of March\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"5360102\",\n \"text\": \"Christmas\\\" album; copies were sold to raise funds for Holy Name Cathedral's Thursday Night Suppers. In 2006, The Ides' first two albums, \\\"Vehicle\\\" and \\\"Common Bond,\\\" were nationally re-released on the Collector's Choice label. Sony BMG released \\\"Ides of March Extended Play\\\" nationally; the album was culled from the band's live recordings. The band continues to tour the US to this day. In September 2010, the City of Berwyn, Illinois, dedicated Home Avenue between Riverside Drive and Cermak Road (the location of J. Sterling Morton High School West, the school most of the band members attended) to \\\"Ides of March\",\n \"title\": \"The Ides of March (band)\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"267943\",\n \"text\": \"in Rome, most prominently as part of the Capitoline Triad. She was also worshipped at the Temple of Minerva Medica, and at the \\\"Delubrum Minervae\\\", a temple founded around 50 BC by Pompey on the site now occupied by the church of \\\"Santa Maria sopra Minerva\\\". The Romans celebrated her festival from March 19 to March 23 during the day which is called, in the neuter plural, Quinquatria, the fifth after the Ides of March, the nineteenth, an artisans' holiday. A lesser version, the \\\"Minusculae Quinquatria\\\", was held on the Ides of June, June 13, by the flute-players, who were\",\n \"title\": \"Minerva\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"15398714\",\n \"text\": \"The Ides of March (2011 film) The Ides of March is a 2011 American political drama film directed by George Clooney from a screenplay written by Clooney, Grant Heslov, and Beau Willimon. The film is an adaptation of Willimon's 2008 play \\\"Farragut North\\\". It stars Ryan Gosling, George Clooney, Evan Rachel Wood, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Marisa Tomei, Paul Giamatti, and Jeffrey Wright. \\\"The Ides of March\\\" was featured as the opening film at the 68th Venice International Film Festival and at the 27th Haifa International Film Festival, and was shown at the 2011 Toronto International Film Festival. It received a\",\n \"title\": \"The Ides of March (2011 film)\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"499382\",\n \"text\": \"old man dressed in animal skins and perhaps driving him from the city. The ritual may have been a new year festival representing the expulsion of the old year. In the later Imperial period, the Ides began a \\\"holy week\\\" of festivals celebrating Cybele and Attis, being the day \\\"Canna intrat\\\" (\\\"The Reed enters\\\"), when Attis was born and found among the reeds of a Phrygian river. He was discovered by shepherds or the goddess Cybele, who was also known as the \\\"Magna Mater\\\" (\\\"Great Mother\\\") (narratives differ). A week later, on 22 March, the solemn commemoration of \\\"Arbor intrat\\\"\",\n \"title\": \"Ides of March\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"15398726\",\n \"text\": \"seems fair to say that quite a lot will be at stake. That is not the case in \\\"The Ides of March\\\", which is less an allegory of the American political process than a busy, foggy, mildly entertaining antidote to it.\\\" The Ides of March (2011 film) The Ides of March is a 2011 American political drama film directed by George Clooney from a screenplay written by Clooney, Grant Heslov, and Beau Willimon. The film is an adaptation of Willimon's 2008 play \\\"Farragut North\\\". It stars Ryan Gosling, George Clooney, Evan Rachel Wood, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Marisa Tomei, Paul Giamatti,\",\n \"title\": \"The Ides of March (2011 film)\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"9134133\",\n \"text\": \"by 44 BC, including M. Porcius Cato (in 46 BC), Catullus (in c. 54 BC), Julia (in 69 BC) and Clodius (in 52 BC). Note that names, relationships, and events are described as they occur in the novel, and are not necessarily historically accurate. The Ides of March (novel) The Ides of March is an epistolary novel by Thornton Wilder that was published in 1948. It is, in the author's words, 'a fantasia on certain events and persons of the last days of the Roman republic... Historical reconstruction is not among the primary aims of this work'. The novel deals\",\n \"title\": \"The Ides of March (novel)\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"5360094\",\n \"text\": \"during the Parrot years) Kapp single: Like Columbia's The Cryan Shames, they had local success in the Chicago area without much label support. Unlike the Cryan Shames, who issued 3 albums on Columbia, Parrot never scheduled an album for the Ides of March. Having secured a recording contract with Warner Bros. Records, in 1970 the band released the track \\\"Vehicle,\\\" which allegedly became the fastest selling single in Warner's history. Fourteen seconds of the completed \\\"Vehicle\\\" master tape (primarily the guitar solo) was accidentally erased in the recording studio. The missing section was spliced in from a previously discarded take.\",\n \"title\": \"The Ides of March (band)\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"5360099\",\n \"text\": \"a CD entitled \\\"The Cubs' Greatest Hits\\\" which was sold at all Major League ballparks. The song was used on many Cubs-themed radio and television programs. By 2001, The Ides had expanded their schedule, and returned to national touring. The band recorded a two-hour live performance for XM Satellite radio in Washington, D.C.. Also, \\\"Vehicle\\\" was used for an extensive national advertising campaign by General Motors. A double live album, \\\"Beware: The Ides of March Live,\\\" captured their concert at the McAninch Center at the College of DuPage in Glen Ellyn, Illinois. \\\"Rhino\\\" was issued in 2002. Handmade Records released\",\n \"title\": \"The Ides of March (band)\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"2380025\",\n \"text\": \"the beginning of rule by emperors. Caesar's commanders followed different paths. Labienus sided with the Optimates, the conservative aristocratic faction Caesar fought against in his civil war, and was killed at the Battle of Munda in 45 BC. Caius Trebonius, one of Caesar's most trusted lieutenants, was appointed consul by Caesar in 45 BC, and was one of the senators involved in Caesar's assassination on the Ides of March (March 15), 44 BC. He was himself murdered a year later. Caius Fabius held up the Pompeian forces at Ilerda until Caesar got there and won the Battle of Ilerda in\",\n \"title\": \"Battle of Alesia\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"5360098\",\n \"text\": \"by over 20,000 and the Ides returned to live performances. The following year they released their first new music since 1973, a four-song cassette EP entitled \\\"Beware – The Ides of March\\\". Trumpeter and backing vocalist Chuck Soumar is credited with being primarily responsible for reuniting the band. In 1992, the album \\\"Ideology\\\" was released with re-recordings of \\\"Vehicle\\\", and \\\"You Wouldn't Listen\\\", plus new material. After another five-year gap, 1997 saw the EP \\\"Age Before Beauty\\\" being released. By 1998 the band wrote and released \\\"Finally Next Year\\\" to commemorate the Chicago Cubs' season. The song was included on\",\n \"title\": \"The Ides of March (band)\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"468274\",\n \"text\": \"Ides of March\\\", at the end of season 4, Xena and Gabrielle were crucified by the Romans, as Caesar is betrayed and killed by Brutus. They are later revived by a mystic named Eli with the spiritual aid of Callisto, who by that time had become an angel; Callisto also engineers a plan to have Xena conceive a daughter after the resurrection, and this child is prophesied to bring about the Twilight of the Olympian gods; this girl was named Eve. To escape the gods' persecution, Xena and Gabrielle fake their deaths, but their plan goes awry when Ares buries\",\n \"title\": \"Xena: Warrior Princess\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"17162902\",\n \"text\": \"of observances from March 22 through March 27 or 28. Isis had official festivals on March 7 and 20. The Romans did not number days of a month sequentially from the 1st through the last day. Instead, they counted back from the three fixed points of the month: the Nones (5th or 7th, depending on the length of the month), the Ides (13th or 15th), and the Kalends (1st) of the following month. The Nones of March was the 7th, and the Ides of March was the 15th. Thus the last day of March was the \\\"pridie Kalendas Aprilis,\\\" \\\"day\",\n \"title\": \"Martius (month)\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"17153912\",\n \"text\": \"later. On the Calendar of Filocalus (354 AD), it is placed on March 14, but by Lydus on the Ides. The earliest extant calendars place an Equirria, one of the sacral chariot races in honor of Mars, on March 14. The festival of Anna Perenna, a goddess of the year (\\\"annus\\\"), took place on the Ides. Macrobius understood her doubled name to mean \\\"through the year\\\" (\\\"perennis\\\", English \\\"perennial\\\"). Jane Ellen Harrison regarded Anna Perenna as the female equivalent of Mamurius, representing the lunar year to his solar year. The Ides were supposed to be determined by the full moon,\",\n \"title\": \"Mamuralia\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"20380010\",\n \"text\": \"Raffles and Michael Cochrane as Bunny. The episode closely follows the plot of the original story, with some changes, including: The Ides of March (short story) \\\"The Ides of March\\\" (also published as \\\"In the Chains of Crime\\\") is a short story by E. W. Hornung, and the first appearance of the gentleman thief A. J. Raffles, and his companion and biographer, Bunny Manders. The story was first published in June 1898 by \\\"Cassell's Magazine\\\". The story was also included in the collection \\\"The Amateur Cracksman\\\", published by Methuen & Co. Ltd in London, and Charles Scribner's Sons in New\",\n \"title\": \"The Ides of March (short story)\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"20380004\",\n \"text\": \"The Ides of March (short story) \\\"The Ides of March\\\" (also published as \\\"In the Chains of Crime\\\") is a short story by E. W. Hornung, and the first appearance of the gentleman thief A. J. Raffles, and his companion and biographer, Bunny Manders. The story was first published in June 1898 by \\\"Cassell's Magazine\\\". The story was also included in the collection \\\"The Amateur Cracksman\\\", published by Methuen & Co. Ltd in London, and Charles Scribner's Sons in New York, both in 1899. \\\"Bunny\\\" Manders returns to the flat in the Albany where he just lost over two hundred\",\n \"title\": \"The Ides of March (short story)\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"3910232\",\n \"text\": \"length of the month), the Ides (13th or 15th), and the Kalends (1st) of the following month. The Nones of February was the 5th, and the Ides the 13th. The last day of February was the \\\"pridie Kalendas Martias,\\\" \\\"day before the Kalends of March\\\". Roman counting was inclusive; February 9 was \\\"ante diem V Idūs Februarias,\\\" \\\"the 5th day before the Ides (13th) of February,\\\" usually abbreviated \\\"a.d. V Id. Feb.\\\" (or with the \\\"a.d.\\\" omitted altogether); February 23 was \\\"VI Kal. Mart.\\\", \\\"the 6th day before the Kalends of March.\\\" February had one and possibly two moveable feasts\",\n \"title\": \"Februarius\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"5360100\",\n \"text\": \"\\\"Friendly Strangers,\\\" a double CD limited run set of the original Warner Bros. recordings. In 2004, the Ides of March celebrated 40 years since their original formation, together with a series of multi-media shows emceed by Dick Biondi. The sold-out show at the Arcada Theatre in St. Charles, Illinois can be seen on the DVD, \\\"A Vehicle Through Time.\\\" 2005 saw \\\"Vehicle\\\" get further promotion when American Idol runner-up Bo Bice performed the song three times on the show. That same year, the Ides released their compilation CD, \\\"Ide Essentials.\\\" It included past hits (\\\"Vehicle,\\\" and \\\"You Wouldn't Listen\\\") and\",\n \"title\": \"The Ides of March (band)\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"11477774\",\n \"text\": \"Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard's birthday, March 15. Carlos Moncada of \\\"The Tampa Tribune\\\" reported that an \\\"open letter to the press from Anonymous\\\" was sent out via e-mail, and states that a protest is planned for March 15, 2008. The e-mail refers to the Ides of March: \\\"We, too, wish to celebrate this event, albeit in our own special way ... Beware the Ides of March, Church of Scientology!\\\" The March protests were titled \\\"Operation Party Hard\\\". Protests began in Australia on March 15, 2008, and were followed by protests in major cities worldwide including Brussels, London, Seattle, Phoenix,\",\n \"title\": \"Project Chanology\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"17153913\",\n \"text\": \"reflecting the lunar origin of the Roman calendar. On the earliest calendar, the Ides of March would have been the first full moon of the new year. H.S. Versnel has argued that adjustments made to the calendar over time caused the Mamuralia to be moved from an original place as the last day of the year (the day before the Kalends of March) to the day before the Ides, causing the Equirria on February 27 to be repeated on March 14. Mamurius in this view was associated with \\\"Februarius\\\", the month of purifications and care of the dead that originally\",\n \"title\": \"Mamuralia\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"11582440\",\n \"text\": \"Maria Stark Maria Stark is a fictional character appearing in books published by Marvel Comics. She is Howard Stark's wife and Tony Stark's mother. Maria Stark was born Maria Collins Carbonell. In her adulthood, Maria married Howard, and together they had a son that was not her biological son Anthony \\\"Tony\\\" Stark. Maria was unsuccessful in preventing Tony from seeing Howard's alcoholism, something Tony would later face on his own. Howard secretly programmed the Mistress AI that controlled the Arsenal robots with Maria's brain patterns. On the Ides of March, Maria and Howard were killed in a 'planned' car accident\",\n \"title\": \"Maria Stark\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"499383\",\n \"text\": \"(\\\"The Tree enters\\\") commemorated the death of Attis under a pine tree. A college of priests, the \\\"dendrophoroi\\\" (\\\"tree bearers\\\") annually cut down a tree, hung from it an image of Attis, and carried it to the temple of the Magna Mater with lamentations. The day was formalized as part of the official Roman calendar under Claudius (d. 54 AD). A three-day period of mourning followed, culminating with celebrating the rebirth of Attis on 25 March, the date of the vernal equinox on the Julian calendar. In modern times, the Ides of March is best known as the date on\",\n \"title\": \"Ides of March\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"15191178\",\n \"text\": \"honors\\\" of his career \\\"was being asked to sing at a memorial concert the night Otis Redding was killed\\\". \\\"I remember watching Jimy and The Mauds back in 1970 at the Wild Goose at an outdoors show in Oak Lawn,\\\" said Jim Peterik, of Ides Of March. \\\"What a supreme frontman Jimy was. He was one of my role models from that moment on and \\\"Soul Drippin'\\\" is still one of my all–time favorite songs.\\\" Dick Biondi, broadcasting legend of WLS (AM), has continued to state “wherever I’ve gone, wherever I’ve worked, one of the best recordings to ever come\",\n \"title\": \"The Mauds\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"17552775\",\n \"text\": \"13, the Ides, a religiously fraught day that Constantine presumably wished to avoid. The Ides of September occurred in the middle of the Roman Games, when a major banquet for Jupiter had been held since Rome's archaic period. In the earliest period of Roman history, a nail-driving ritual in the Temple of Jupiter marked the passing of the political year, with the consuls at that time taking office on the Ides. The Byzantine antiquarian Johannes Lydus noted that this was one of three Roman new years: the priestly year began in January, the national in March, and the political cycle\",\n \"title\": \"Ludi Triumphales\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"6513132\",\n \"text\": \"is assassinated during the Ides of March, thereby nullifying Vorenus' protection and presenting an opportunity for Erastes to get even. After Erastes arrives at Vorenus' home and finds Vorenus' children and Lyde unprotected as they prepare Niobe's body for her journey to the afterlife, Erastes abducts them all. Erastes is killed when Pullo and Vorenus storm his lair, kill all his henchmen, and demand the whereabouts of the children. Erastes, knowing his death is sealed despite Pullo's attempt at bargaining for information, defiantly claims to have raped and killed them, with their bodies being irretrievably thrown in the Tiber. Vorenus,\",\n \"title\": \"Erastes Fulmen\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"8740450\",\n \"text\": \"beyond James Litherland's abilities as a vocalist. They were more approving of the rest of the album, and described Dave Greenslade's solo on \\\"The Valentyne Suite\\\" as, \\\"something to offer a challenge to vintage Keith Emerson, but with swing.\\\" They were critical of Litherland and Reeves's playing on the song, however, and concluded, \\\"In retrospect this might not quite the classic it seemed at the time, but it remains listenable...\\\" \\\"Valentyne Suite\\\" was originally written with \\\"Beware the Ides of March\\\" as the final movement, but since \\\"Beware the Ides of March\\\" had already been released in the UK on\",\n \"title\": \"Valentyne Suite\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"11582428\",\n \"text\": \"Howard was also a member of the V-Battalion. He was targeted by the Red Skull (Johann Schmidt), and is rumored to have met the Watcher, Uatu. Stark also prevented Obadiah Stane from taking control of Stark Industries at least once. On the Ides of March, Howard and Maria were killed in a car accident. It has been hinted that the incident was not random and possibly arranged by the V-Battalion, but this has never been confirmed; earlier indications were that the accident was caused by Republic Oil, but this is also unconfirmed. Tony ran his father's company, started a charity\",\n \"title\": \"Howard Stark\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"14784202\",\n \"text\": \"Isabella Russell-Ides Isabella Russell-Ides (born January 24, 1948) is an American poet, playwright, and novelist. She received the 2008 Critics Forum Award for her play \\\"Coco & Gigi\\\". She has also received critical acclaim for her works, \\\"Leonard's Car\\\" (\\\"Outstanding New Play\\\", 2009 Nora's Playhouse, NYC), \\\"Fortune Cookie Smash\\\" (2007 Best of Fest, Frontera). She is noted for the poetic and heightened language of her texts. Her debut novel, \\\"White Monkey Chronicles: The Complete Trilogy\\\", published under the pen name Isabella Ides, (March 2018, Lowell Street Press) featuring the monkey god Lord Hanuman and a rogue order of nuns in\",\n \"title\": \"Isabella Russell-Ides\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"5360101\",\n \"text\": \"versions of Survivor songs including \\\"Eye of the Tiger\\\", \\\"High on You\\\" and \\\"Rebel Girl\\\", as well as new material. It featured the new single \\\"Come Dancing\\\", and a re-release of the Ides' first recording \\\"Like It or Lump It.\\\" The Ides sang their Christmas carol \\\"Sharing Christmas\\\" to a capacity crowd at the 6 o'clock Mass at Chicago's Holy Name Cathedral in 2005. They sang along with Dick Biondi. They have performed at Holy Name Cathedral's 6:00 Christmas Eve Mass since then, at the request of pastor Father Dan Mayall. They recorded their four Christmas songs on the \\\"Sharing\",\n \"title\": \"The Ides of March (band)\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"5360097\",\n \"text\": \"March went on an extended hiatus, during which Jim Peterik co-founded the band Survivor and co-wrote all of their platinum hits including \\\"Eye of the Tiger,\\\" \\\"The Search Is Over,\\\" \\\"High on You\\\" and \\\"I Can't Hold Back\\\". He also began a career of writing collaborations which resulted in many platinum hits for other artists, most notably \\\"Hold on Loosely,\\\" \\\"Rockin' Into The Night,\\\" \\\"Fantasy Girl\\\" and \\\"Wild-Eyed Southern Boys\\\" for .38 Special and \\\"Heavy Metal\\\" for Sammy Hagar. In 1990, The Ides' home town of Berwyn offered to have the re-united group headline their \\\"Summerfaire.\\\" The concert was attended\",\n \"title\": \"The Ides of March (band)\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"6644914\",\n \"text\": \"later, while in his first year at the National Federation of State High School Athletic Associations, Porter wrote a poem entitled \\\"Basketball Ides of March,\\\" which he included in the \\\"National Press Service,\\\" the Federation's monthly journal, with a suggestion to state associations to republish the poem during basketball tournament time. The Tennessee Secondary School Athletic Association was the first to do so, in its March 1941 edition. The Illinois High School Association and the Ohio High School Athletic Association published the poem a year later, in March 1942. \\\"Basketball Ides of March\\\" ends with the final stanza: H. V.\",\n \"title\": \"H. V. Porter\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"20380009\",\n \"text\": \"included an introduction clarifying that Bunny was presently a prisoner, as well as an illustration showing Bunny Manders being dragged by a skeleton in cloak and hood. The magazine was hesitant to publish a story that featured criminals as the protagonists, and these changes were intended to make it clear that it was a cautionary tale. \\\"Cassell's\\\" would reprint this same illustration in each of its six Raffles issues. BBC Radio adapted the story into the first episode of its Raffles radio drama, \\\"The Ides of March\\\", which first aired on 20 October 1985. The drama features Jeremy Clyde as\",\n \"title\": \"The Ides of March (short story)\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"5360095\",\n \"text\": \"The song reached #2 on the \\\"Billboard\\\" Hot 100 and #6 on the corresponding \\\"Cash Box\\\" listings. It sold over one million copies, and was awarded a gold disc in November 1972. The following album, \\\"Vehicle\\\", reached #55 nationally. The band toured extensively throughout 1970 in support of many top acts, including Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, and Led Zeppelin. The Ides of March were also among the participants in the \\\"Festival Express\\\" train tour documented in a 2003 film, although they were not featured in the film. In 1971, the band released their second album \\\"Common Bond\\\". The featured single\",\n \"title\": \"The Ides of March (band)\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"5360103\",\n \"text\": \"Way\\\" in tribute of the band. Ray Herr (born on September 24, 1947 in Arlington Heights, Illinois) died on March 29, 2011 in Hainesville, Illinois, from esophageal cancer at age 64. John Larson (born on November 6, 1949 in Elgin, Illinois) died on September 21, 2011 in Warsaw, Indiana, from cancer at the age of 61. Chuck Soumar quit the band in 2011 to pursue other interests. The Ides are celebrating the 50th anniversary of the band. The original four members – Bergland, Borch, Millas and Peterik – are still playing together (after Peterik's hiatus to form Survivor). They have\",\n \"title\": \"The Ides of March (band)\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"15398723\",\n \"text\": \"Michigan and included 1,000 extras. The theatrical release failed to recognize Cincinnati in the credits as a filming location. Producer and screenplay co-writer Grant Heslov said that \\\"the omission of Cincinnati in the credits was an inadvertent mistake, something that slipped through the cracks.\\\" He also said that the credits would be corrected for the home release of the film. \\\"The Ides of March\\\" premiered on August 31, 2011 as the opening film of the 68th Venice International Film Festival. Sony Pictures Entertainment bought the distribution rights for the United States only, while Alliance Films bought Canadian distribution. Sony wanted\",\n \"title\": \"The Ides of March (2011 film)\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"716902\",\n \"text\": \"royal diadem on Caesar's head, with the latter refusing in what was most likely a staged performance, perhaps to gauge the Roman public's mood about accepting Hellenistic-style kingship. Cicero, who was present at the festival, mockingly asked where the diadem came from, an obvious reference to the Ptolemaic queen who he abhorred. Caesar was assassinated on the Ides of March (15 March 44 BC), but Cleopatra stayed in Rome until about mid-April, in the vain hope of having Caesarion recognized as Caesar's heir. However, Caesar's will named his grandnephew Octavian as the primary heir, and Octavian arrived in Italy around\",\n \"title\": \"Cleopatra\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"2823211\",\n \"text\": \"Quinquatria In ancient Roman religion, the Quinquatria or Quinquatrus was a festival sacred to the Goddess Minerva, celebrated from the 19-23 of March. The older festivals were of Etruscan origin and were to celebrate the Spring Equinox, the spring rebirth rites of women. According to Varro, it was so-called because it was held on the fifth \\\"(quinqu-)\\\" day after the Ides, in the same way as the Tusculans called a festival on the sixth day after the Ides \\\"Sexatrus\\\" or one on the seventh \\\"Septimatrus\\\". Both Varro and Festus state that the Quinquatrus was celebrated for only one day, but\",\n \"title\": \"Quinquatria\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"1804396\",\n \"text\": \"a dialectic relationship showing the interdependency of the military and economic functions in Roman society. Because the earliest Roman calendar had begun with the month of March, Hermann Usener thought the ceremonies of the \\\"ancilia movere\\\" were a ritual expulsion of the old year, represented by the mysterious figure of Mamurius Veturius, to make way for the new god Mars born on March 1. On the Ides of March, a man ritually named as Mamurius Veturius was beaten with long white sticks in the \\\"sacrum Mamurii\\\", in Usener's view as a form of scapegoating. Mamurius was the mythic blacksmith who\",\n \"title\": \"Salii\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"2068332\",\n \"text\": \"The Cryan' Shames, Ides of March, The Mauds, Mason Proffit, H.P. Lovecraft, most notably The Buckinghams, among others. The Buckinghams topped the Hot 100 charts in 1966 with their song 'Kind of a Drag'. The Shadows of Knight's cover of Van Morrison's \\\"Gloria\\\" is still a classic 40 years later. The Ides of March (band) topped the chart with \\\"Vehicle\\\". This was a great period during the 1960s where Chicago was a very happening place both musically and nationally with the 1968 Democratic National Convention and the Sly and the Family Stone riot. This fad died with the growth of\",\n \"title\": \"Music of Illinois\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"300238\",\n \"text\": \"recording of this version was made by Columbia Records in the 1940s, with Noël Coward reciting the poems and Andre Kostelanetz conducting the orchestra. He wrote a humorous poem about the IRS and income tax titled \\\"Song for the Saddest Ides\\\", a reference to March 15, the ides of March, when federal taxes were due at the time. It was later set to music and performed by the IRS Chorale until its composer/conductor's later retirement. Many of his poems, reflecting the times in which they were written, presented stereotypes of different nationalities. For example, in \\\"Genealogical Reflections\\\" he writes: In\",\n \"title\": \"Ogden Nash\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"348748\",\n \"text\": \"may honor Maia and Juno or derive from archaic terms for \\\"senior\\\" and \\\"junior\\\". A few emperors attempted to add themselves to the calendar after Augustus, but without enduring success. In classical Latin, the days of each month were usually reckoned as: Dates after the ides count forward to the kalends of the next month and are expressed as such. For example, March 19 was expressed as \\\"the 14th day before the April Kalends\\\" ('), without a mention of March itself. The day after a kalends, nones, or ides was also often expressed as the \\\"day after\\\" (') owing to\",\n \"title\": \"Roman calendar\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"5360096\",\n \"text\": \"was \\\"L.A. Goodbye\\\". The song was at #1 on regional charts for five weeks, #2 on WCFL Chicago, #5 on WLS Chicago, but only #73 on the \\\"Billboard\\\" Hot 100. In 1972, the band moved to RCA Records and released \\\"World Woven\\\". At this point, the band departed from the \\\"brass\\\" sound (though one song featured a single trumpet) and the album produced no hit singles. In 1973, the \\\"Midnight Oil\\\" album was released. The band played its final show of their \\\"first era\\\" at Morton West High School in Berwyn that November. Between 1973 and 1990, The Ides of\",\n \"title\": \"The Ides of March (band)\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"5832939\",\n \"text\": \"this displacement has found wide acceptance. Georg Wissowa thought the March Equirria had originally occurred on the Ides, and was moved up a day because of conflicts among religious events concentrated around this ritually fraught time; an alternate view is that it was placed \\\"at some convenient day\\\" between the Nones and the Ides. At any rate, the horse races framed the ritual turn of the year, and the difficulties of the placement of the two Equirria arise from changes made to the calendar, when January became the first month. Originally, the Equirria may have featured races on horseback, like\",\n \"title\": \"Equirria\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"7474121\",\n \"text\": \"been a greater number of gothic brides who wear black, alien brides and other variations on the theme. Like its Cacophony Society counterpart \\\"Santarchy\\\", the tradition has spread worldwide and now includes gatherings in Austin, Boston, Reno, Los Angeles, New York City, Reno, Phoenix (started in 2008), Portland, Seattle, London, and Japan, among others. Brides of March The Brides of March is an annual event that takes place in San Francisco, California and other cities around March 15. Started by the Cacophony Society, the event's name is a pun on the term Ides of March, and is a parody of\",\n \"title\": \"Brides of March\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"5624071\",\n \"text\": \"bands” that rose to national prominence in the 1960s and 1970s. Jim Peterik and The Ides of March served as the house band for the evening, as many original members of these popular bands returned to the concert stage to play their greatest hits. In addition to The Buckinghams, the Cornerstones line-up included The Ides of March, The Cryan' Shames, The New Colony Six, The Shadows of Knight, The McCoys, and The American Breed. This special was such a huge success that it spawned a live concert tour which is still continuing. \\\"Cornerstones of Rock : American Garage\\\" continues to\",\n \"title\": \"The Buckinghams\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"348751\",\n \"text\": \"the 24th (') formed the second part; and the intercalary month Mercedonius was inserted between them. In such years, the days between the ides and the Regifugium were counted down to either the Intercalary Kalends or to the Terminalia. The intercalary month counted down to nones and ides on its 5th and 13th day in the manner of the other short months. The remaining days of the month counted down towards the March Kalends, so that the end of Mercedonius and the second part of February were indistinguishable to the Romans, one ending on ' and the other picking up\",\n \"title\": \"Roman calendar\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"16713903\",\n \"text\": \"The Ides of April The Ides of April is a 2013 historical mystery crime novel by Lindsey Davis and the first book in the Flavia Albia Mysteries (Falco: The New Generation)) series. Set in March and April AD 89, in the Aventine Hill area of Ancient Rome, the novel stars Flavia Albia, the British-born adopted daughter of Marcus Didius Falco (the hero of the author's 20-volume Marcus Didius Falco Mysteries series, published from 1989 to 2010). Albia, a widow, works as a \\\"delatrix\\\" (detective or private informer) in ancient Rome, like Falco. The book's front cover image depicts a small\",\n \"title\": \"The Ides of April\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"138357\",\n \"text\": \"part. To keep the calendar year roughly aligned with the solar year, a leap month, called \\\"Mensis Intercalaris\\\" (\\\"intercalary month\\\"), was added from time to time between these two parts of February. The (usual) second part of February was incorporated in the intercalary month as its last five days, with no change either in their dates or the festivals observed on them. This followed naturally, because the days after the Ides (13th) of February (in an ordinary year) or the Ides of Intercalaris (in an intercalary year) both counted down to the Kalends of March (i.e. they were known as\",\n \"title\": \"February 29\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"9134131\",\n \"text\": \"were worth reading ... \\\"Cry, the Beloved Country\\\", \\\"The Ides of March\\\", and \\\"The Naked and the Dead\\\". Wilder himself once wrote that the book was \\\"a kind of crossword puzzle\\\" that \\\"only begins to speak at its second reading.\\\" Edmund Fuller called the novel \\\"a text so rich that it requires exploration rather than reading.\\\" The novel is divided into four books, each of which starts earlier and ends later than the previous book. Catullus' poems and the closing section by Suetonius are the only documents of the book which are not imagined; however, many of the events are\",\n \"title\": \"The Ides of March (novel)\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"4467553\",\n \"text\": \"Myspace. KtmROCKS (ktmrocks.com) has been one of the elements in the promoting local scene, since 2001. KtmROCKS used to release magazines in 2005 but it got stopped after 13 issues. Currently, KtmROCKS issues E-Mags instead. KtmRocks is also the organizer of yearly music concert \\\"Ides of March\\\". Ides of March takes generally place at the end of March and the journey is continued since decade. Currently, KtmRocks is less active in covering the happenings of the scene. NepalUnderground (nepalunderground.com), an online media/magazine established in 2010 is still active and regularly covers the happening in the scene. Besides these various local\",\n \"title\": \"Nepalese rock\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"14294550\",\n \"text\": \"Allan Ides Allan Ides (born 1949) is an American lawyer, the Christopher N. May Professor in the Loyola Law School of Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, California and was a visiting professor at the University of Southern California, Gould School of Law, for Fall 2011. From 1989 through 1997, Ides was a faculty member at Washington and Lee University School of Law. After graduating from Loyola Law School, Ides clerked for U.S. Supreme Court Justice Byron White from 1980 to 1981, and he argued for the defendant in the Supreme Court case United States v. Owens (484 US 554) on\",\n \"title\": \"Allan Ides\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"258046\",\n \"text\": \"the Roman system, each month had three fixed points known as Kalends (Kal), the Nons and the Ides. The Nones fell on the fifth of the month in January, February, April, June, August, September, November and December, but on the seventh of the month in March, May, July and October. The Ides fell on the thirteenth in those months in which the Nones fell on the fifth, and the fifteenth in the other four months. All other days were dated by the number of days by which they preceded one of those fixed points. Merovingian script, or \\\"Luxeuil minuscule\\\", is\",\n \"title\": \"Manuscript\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"209127\",\n \"text\": \"in an unrivalled position of power and influence. After assuming control of government, Caesar began a programme of social and governmental reforms, including the creation of the Julian calendar. He gave citizenship to many residents of far regions of the Roman Empire. He initiated land reform and support for veterans. He centralised the bureaucracy of the Republic and was eventually proclaimed \\\"dictator in perpetuity\\\", giving him additional authority. His populist and authoritarian reforms angered the elites, who began to conspire against him. On the Ides of March (15 March) 44 BC Caesar was assassinated by a group of rebellious senators\",\n \"title\": \"Julius Caesar\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"5092148\",\n \"text\": \"these words in Act III, scene 1, as he is being stabbed to death, having recognized his friend and protégé Brutus as one of the assassins. There is however no evidence that the historic Caesar spoke these words. The name \\\"Brutus\\\", a second declension masculine noun, appears in the phrase in the vocative case, and so the \\\"-us\\\" ending of the nominative case is replaced by \\\"-e\\\". On March 15 (the Ides of March), 44 BCE, the historic Caesar was attacked by a group of senators, including Brutus, who was Caesar's friend and protégé. Caesar initially resisted his attackers, but\",\n \"title\": \"Et tu, Brute?\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"14294551\",\n \"text\": \"rules of evidence concerning memory-impaired witnesses. Ides has co-authored \\\"Civil Procedure: Cases and Problems\\\" and \\\"Examples & Explanations: Constitutional Law\\\". Allan Ides Allan Ides (born 1949) is an American lawyer, the Christopher N. May Professor in the Loyola Law School of Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, California and was a visiting professor at the University of Southern California, Gould School of Law, for Fall 2011. From 1989 through 1997, Ides was a faculty member at Washington and Lee University School of Law. 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Palmer concurred with numismatists who regard a denarius minted by Quintus Titius, moneyer \\\"ca.\\\" 90–88 BC, as picturing an aged and bearded Mutunus on its\",\n \"title\": \"Mutunus Tutunus\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"19636102\",\n \"text\": \"Connacht for 1496 state- \\\"Mac Samradain, that is Domnall Bernach son of Tomas son of Fergal, was treacherously killed.\\\" The internecine fighting continued and Cathal and his brothers were involved. The Annals of Ulster for 1497 state- \\\"Maghnus, son of Thomas Mag Samradhain, was slain by the descendants of Eogan Mag Samhadhain on the 7th of the Ides of November (7th of November).\\\" On 28 September 1498 two of Cathal’s brothers, Tadgh and Manus the priest, were killed in a Maguire raid on the castle of Ballymagauran. 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Songs from each of Peterik's bands appears in a Stallone film to motivate the scene's action: Survivor's \\\"Eye of the Tiger\\\" in \\\"Rocky III\\\", the Ides of March's \\\"Vehicle\\\" in \\\"Lock Up\\\", and Jimi Jamison's solo take on Survivor's \\\"Ever Since the World Began\\\" playing during the closing credits of \\\"Lock Up\\\". In 1993 Peterik once again began touring and recording with a reunited Survivor, but left them for good in July, 1996. In 1990, the original members of the Ides of March (Peterik, Millas, Bob Bergland, Mike Borch, Chuck Soumar, and John\",\n \"title\": \"Jim Peterik\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"3519366\",\n \"text\": \"for many days. The defenders of the Capitoline Hill did not surrender and repulsed an attack. The Gauls killed everyone they captured, including women, children, and the elderly. Plutarch wrote that the Gauls entered Rome on the Ides of February (February 13) and that the siege lasted seven months. Plutarch also notes that some Gauls reached Ardea and that Camillus rallied the city against them and attacked them. On hearing that, the neighbouring cities called to arms the men of military age, especially the Romans who had fled to Veii. These wanted Camillus to be their commander but refused to\",\n \"title\": \"Battle of the Allia\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"3424884\",\n \"text\": \"hip hop to build the brand's identity. DJ Pooh was brought in to design advertisements for the liquor and was given broad artistic license. In such contexts, the beer was often referred to as the \\\"Crooked \\\". Chuck D took a stance against malt liquor advertising and sued the brand's then-owner, the McKenzie River Brewing Company, for using his voice without his permission. The controversy generated significant publicity for St. Ides and placed it on the average hip hop listener's radar. McKenzie discontinued the brand in 1998 before it was purchased by Pabst Brewing Company. St. Ides St. Ides is\",\n \"title\": \"St. Ides\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"20645689\",\n \"text\": \"at the festival, mockingly asked where the diadem came from, an obvious reference to the Ptolemaic queen who he abhorred. Caesar was assassinated on the Ides of March (15 March 44 BC), but Cleopatra stayed in Rome until about mid-April, in the vain hope of having Caesarion recognized as Caesar's heir. However, Caesar's will named his grandnephew Octavian as the primary heir. He arrived in Italy around the same time Cleopatra decided to depart for Egypt. A few months later Cleopatra decided to kill Ptolemy XIV by poisoning, elevating her son Caesarion instead as her co-ruler. Octavian, Mark Antony, and\",\n \"title\": \"Reign of Cleopatra\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"201204\",\n \"text\": \"the Federal Republic of Germany. Maestro was arguably the world leader in this field during the 1970s and 1980s. 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Flavia Albia uses Falco's old apartment in Fountain Court as her office, and lives elsewhere in the same building. In \\\"Enemies at Home\\\", it is revealed that the Didii bought over the Fountain Court block, possibly from Smaractus, Falco's former landlord. The \\\"Irish Times\\\" reviewer wrote: \\\"Irreverent, resourceful and hard-boiled in her patter, Flavia is a heroine to rival her contemporary counterparts VI Warshawski and Kinsey Milhone.\\\" Tom Holland reviewed the book for \\\"The Guardian\\\" and ended: The Ides of April The Ides of April is a 2013 historical mystery crime novel by\",\n \"title\": \"The Ides of April\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"2670663\",\n \"text\": \"chorded jazz arrangements and lyrics based on Greek mythology, was less radio-friendly. Following an extended hiatus, Chase reemerged early in 1974 with the release of \\\"Pure Music\\\", their third album. 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It was included on his 1986 solo debut album \"The Lace\", and released as a single in the end of 1986. \"Stay the Night\" reached #24 on the \"Billboard\" Hot 100 chart in the beginning of 1987, becoming Orr's only Top 40 hit as a solo artist. Prior to recording his solo album, Orr had been a founding member, along with singer and songwriter Ric Ocasek, of The Cars. The Cars' first Top 40 hit, \"Just What I Needed\", featured","title":"Stay the Night (Benjamin Orr song)"},{"docid":"14934192","text":"Orr on lead vocals, as did their biggest hit, \"Drive\", from 1984's \"Heartbeat City\". Following The Cars' 1985 \"Greatest Hits\" release, the band split up to pursue solo projects, with both Orr and Ocasek releasing solo albums in 1986, lead guitarist Elliot Easton having released one in 1985. Weeks before \"Stay the Night\" entered the US Top 40, Ocasek himself was in the Top 40 with his own solo hit \"Emotion in Motion\". In both cases, those would become the only US Top 40 solo hit for both Cars members respectively. The band reunited to record 1987's \"Door to Door\",","title":"Stay the Night (Benjamin Orr song)"},{"docid":"1461531","text":"the early Cars songs. Later, Ocasek and Orr teamed up with guitarist Elliot Easton (who had also studied at Berklee) in the band Cap'n Swing. Cap'n Swing also featured drummer Glenn Evans, later followed by Kevin Robichaud, and a jazzy bass player, which clashed with Ocasek's more rock and roll leanings. Benjamin Orr was the lead vocalist and did not play an instrument. Cap'n Swing soon came to the attention of WBCN disc jockey Maxanne Sartori, who began playing songs from their demo tape on her show. After being rejected by several record labels, Ocasek got rid of the bass","title":"The Cars"},{"docid":"7158397","text":"a non-album track titled \"That's It\" that features Benjamin Orr on lead vocals. Let's Go (The Cars song) \"Let's Go\" was the first single from The Cars' second studio album \"Candy-O\". It was released in 1979 on Elektra Records. The song was written by Ric Ocasek and features lead vocals by Cars bassist Benjamin Orr. \"Let's Go\" was described by Brett Milano as \"another double-edged anthem\" in the liner notes for \"\". AllMusic critic Donald Guarisco called the track \"a tight new wave rocker that married the sardonic humor and new wave quirkiness of their previous singles to an easily","title":"Let's Go (The Cars song)"},{"docid":"2966521","text":"in Cleveland. The Grasshoppers dissolved in 1966 when two of the band members were drafted into the U.S. Army, after which Orzechowski joined the band Mixed Emotions and later, the Colours. Later Orzechowski was drafted as well, although he received a deferment after approximately a year and a half in the Army. Orr first met Ric Ocasek, the future leader of the Cars, in Cleveland in the 1960s after Ocasek saw Orr performing with the Grasshoppers on the \"Big 5 Show\". A few years later, Orr moved to Columbus, Ohio where he and Ocasek formed a musical partnership that would","title":"Benjamin Orr"},{"docid":"2966522","text":"continue in various incarnations until the break-up of the Cars in 1988. After moving to Boston, the two formed a folk band called Milkwood with guitarist James Goodkind. In 1973, the group released one album, \"How's the Weather?\", which failed to chart. Remaining in Boston, Ocasek and Orr then formed another band, Richard and the Rabbits, featuring keyboardist Greg Hawkes, followed by another band, Cap'n Swing, which included guitarist Elliot Easton. After the group broke up in 1976, the three of them along with Hawkes and drummer David Robinson formed the Cars. As a member of the Cars, Orr sang","title":"Benjamin Orr"},{"docid":"11327326","text":"Greg Prato called it one of the \"lesser-known compositions [that] are just as exhilarating\" as the \"familiar hits\" on \"The Cars\". Bye Bye Love (The Cars song) \"Bye Bye Love\" is a song by the American Boston-based rock band The Cars. The song appears on the band's 1978 eponymous debut album. It was written by singer/songwriter/bandleader Ric Ocasek and sung by bassist Benjamin Orr. \"Bye Bye Love\" is one of The Cars' oldest songs, dating back to the mid 1970s. The song was first performed, and recorded as a demo, by the band Cap'n Swing, which featured Ocasek, Orr, and","title":"Bye Bye Love (The Cars song)"},{"docid":"1461529","text":"at the induction ceremony. Before the Cars, members of the band performed together in several different incarnations. Ric Ocasek and Benjamin Orr met in Cleveland, Ohio in the 1960s after Ocasek saw Orr performing with his band the Grasshoppers on the \"Big 5 Show\", a local musical variety program. The two were in various bands in Columbus, Ohio and Ann Arbor, Michigan before re-locating to Boston in the early 1970s. In Boston, Ocasek and Orr, along with lead guitarist Jas Goodkind, formed a Crosby, Stills and Nash-style folk rock band called Milkwood. They released one album, \"How's the Weather\", on","title":"The Cars"},{"docid":"11327324","text":"Bye Bye Love (The Cars song) \"Bye Bye Love\" is a song by the American Boston-based rock band The Cars. The song appears on the band's 1978 eponymous debut album. It was written by singer/songwriter/bandleader Ric Ocasek and sung by bassist Benjamin Orr. \"Bye Bye Love\" is one of The Cars' oldest songs, dating back to the mid 1970s. The song was first performed, and recorded as a demo, by the band Cap'n Swing, which featured Ocasek, Orr, and guitarist Elliot Easton as members. In this early version, the recurring keyboard theme between the verse lyrics was significantly different. The","title":"Bye Bye Love (The Cars song)"},{"docid":"7026932","text":"we thought, let's start all over again, like we've never even heard it—completely change every part—and we did. Then, when it was through and all put back together, it was like a brand-new song.\" Guitarist Elliot Easton said he wanted his solo to sound like \"two guys trading off\". He plays first a Fender Telecaster in a style skewing \"country\", then midway through the solo switches to a Gibson Crank to sound more rock. The song references dance moves, hair styles and having fun. However, bassist Benjamin Orr has stated the song tells the story of how important it is","title":"Shake It Up (The Cars song)"},{"docid":"2966524","text":"in the \"Billboard\" Hot 100 though it reached number #25 in the rock charts. The album cover for \"The Lace\" featured Orr on the front and Page on the back. Orr continued to work with the Cars for one more album, \"Door to Door\", and tour before the group disbanded in 1988, after which he and the other members pursued solo work. Sometime in the mid-1990s, Orr recorded tracks with guitarist John Kalishes for an unreleased follow-up to \"The Lace\". From 1998 until his death in 2000, he performed with his own band ORR and two side bands, \"The Voices","title":"Benjamin Orr"},{"docid":"9202334","text":"This Side of Paradise (album) This Side of Paradise is the second solo studio album released by Ric Ocasek, lead singer and songwriter of The Cars. It was released in 1986 by Geffen Records. Though it was a solo album, other members of The Cars played significant roles. Greg Hawkes plays keyboards and bass throughout the album (he appears on most of Ocasek's solo albums), and also co-wrote \"Hello Darkness\" (most Cars albums feature one Ocasek/Hawkes tune). Benjamin Orr is on backing vocals for three songs. Along with Hawkes and Orr, the track \"True To You\" also features Elliot Easton","title":"This Side of Paradise (album)"},{"docid":"2684731","text":"out to pursue a career in music. Ocasek met future Cars bassist Benjamin Orr in Cleveland in 1965 after Ocasek saw Orr performing with his band the Grasshoppers on the \"Big 5 Show\", a local musical variety program. He reconnected with Orr a few years later in Columbus, Ohio, and the two began booking bands together. They formed a band called ID Nirvana in 1968 and performed in and around Ohio State University. Ocasek and Orr were in various bands in Columbus and Ann Arbor, Michigan before re-locating to Boston in the early 1970s. In Boston, they formed a Crosby,","title":"Ric Ocasek"},{"docid":"15306746","text":"According to \"Paste\" magazine, Ocasek said that he was \"amazed at how we clicked when we got back together.\" \"Exclaim!\" has noted that The Cars' Facebook page featured a picture of producer Jacknife Lee, \"which suggests that he will be producing the new album.\" According to \"Rolling Stone\", Lee produced five of the songs from the album; The Cars themselves produced the others. The Cars did not add a new bassist to the lineup to replace Orr; instead, the album's bass parts were programmed or performed by Hawkes and Lee, with Hawkes playing a bass once owned by Orr. While","title":"Move Like This"},{"docid":"2966525","text":"of Classic Rock\" with Mickey Thomas and John Cafferty, and \"Big People\", which was a cover band with Pat Travers (of the Pat Travers Band), Jeff Carlisi (of 38 Special), Derek St. Holmes (of Ted Nugent), and Liberty DeVitto (of Billy Joel). In April 2000 Orr was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer and hospitalized; however, he continued to perform with the band Big People throughout that summer at music festivals and state fairs. He reunited with The Cars one last time in Atlanta, for an interview that was included in the Rhino Records concert video \"The Cars Live\". His final public","title":"Benjamin Orr"},{"docid":"2684734","text":"and sang lead vocals for a majority of songs (bassist Benjamin Orr was lead vocalist on the remaining tracks). After splitting writing duty with Orr in the 1970s, Ocasek became the principal songwriter of the band, and wrote nearly all of the Cars' material, sharing credit on only a few songs with bandmate Greg Hawkes as co-writer. In 2010, Ocasek reunited with the surviving original members of the Cars to record their first album in 24 years, titled \"Move Like This\", which was released on May 10, 2011. The singer released his first solo album in 1982. \"Beatitude\" is a","title":"Ric Ocasek"},{"docid":"2966526","text":"appearance was on September 27, 2000, in a Big People concert in Anchorage, Alaska. He died at home in Atlanta on October 4, aged 53, surrounded by fellow Big People band members Jeff Carlisi, Derek St. Holmes and Rob Wilson. Manager David Tedeschi was not present but was devastated by the loss of his best friend. Orr is survived by his son Ben. Ric Ocasek wrote and recorded the song \"Silver,\" which was his musical tribute to Orr. It appeared on Ocasek's 2005 solo album, \"Nexterday\". The Cars reunited ten years after Orr's death and released their seventh studio album","title":"Benjamin Orr"},{"docid":"7372778","text":"turned out to be true, with the revamped lineup calling themselves the New Cars. Two regular Rundgren collaborators, bassist Kasim Sulton and drummer Prairie Prince, replaced bassist Benjamin Orr and drummer David Robinson in the new lineup. Robinson, who retired from the music industry years before, was invited to join the group but amicably declined. Ocasek, who had opted out of any possibilities of a reunion, gave his blessing to Easton and Hawkes, saying, \"I want Elliot and Greg to be happy.\" On April 17, 2006, when Ocasek appeared on \"The Colbert Report\" and was asked if there was anyone","title":"The New Cars"},{"docid":"7372777","text":"The New Cars The New Cars were a band formed in 2005 by two of the original members of the 1970s/1980s new wave band The Cars. The band was composed of original Cars members Elliot Easton and Greg Hawkes, along with vocalist/guitarist Todd Rundgren, bassist Kasim Sulton, and drummer Prairie Prince. The band performed the Cars' classic songs, some new material, and selections from Rundgren's career. In 2005, rumors began circulating that Easton and Hawkes would be teaming with Todd Rundgren in a new Cars lineup, with Rundgren replacing the Cars' original vocalists Ric Ocasek and Benjamin Orr. The rumors","title":"The New Cars"},{"docid":"9613348","text":"for the purchase of four fire bells and procured apparatus for the companies. He also authorized a lottery to raise funds to build a penitentiary and city hall. He died in 1822 and was buried in Congressional Cemetery. Benjamin Orr Elementary School in Southeast Washington, D.C. was named for him until 2018 when the predominantly black student body at Orr Elementary discovered the school was named for a slave owner, and decided to rename the school for Lawrence E. Boone. Orr leased a slave for $250 to James Madison, Secretary of State of the United States at the time, according","title":"Benjamin G. Orr"},{"docid":"15383570","text":"Substitution Mass Confusion: A Tribute to The Cars Substitution Mass Confusion: A Tribute to The Cars is a 2005 compilation album featuring covers of songs originally performed by the American rock band The Cars. The album was released by Not Lame Recordings. Many of the performers featured on the album were from the Boston area, where The Cars first gained exposure in the late 1970s. The line 'Substitution Mass Confusion' comes from a lyric in the Cars song \"Bye Bye Love\". According to \"Billboard\", the album was inspired by the 2000 cancer death of Cars singer and bassist Benjamin Orr.","title":"Substitution Mass Confusion: A Tribute to The Cars"},{"docid":"14934291","text":"pursue solo projects. Lead guitarist Elliot Easton released a solo album in 1985, and both Ocasek and singer/bassist Benjamin Orr did the same in 1986. Just as \"Emotion in Motion\" was Ocasek's only solo song to reach the Top 40, Orr's \"Stay the Night\" was the latter's only solo Top 40 hit. The band reunited to record 1987's \"Door to Door\", which produced \"You Are the Girl\", the group's last Top 40 single. Emotion in Motion (song) \"Emotion in Motion\" is a song by Ric Ocasek, the main songwriter and lead vocalist for The Cars. It was featured on his","title":"Emotion in Motion (song)"},{"docid":"1769875","text":"The Cars (album) The Cars is the debut album by the American new wave band the Cars. It was released on June 6, 1978 on Elektra Records. The album, which featured the three charting singles \"Just What I Needed,\" \"My Best Friend's Girl,\" and \"Good Times Roll,\" as well as several album-oriented rock radio hits, was a major success for the band, remaining on the charts for 139 weeks. It has been recognized as one of the band's best albums. Formed in Boston in 1976, the Cars consisted of Ric Ocasek, Benjamin Orr, Elliot Easton, David Robinson, and Greg Hawkes,","title":"The Cars (album)"},{"docid":"15622026","text":"The Cars North American Tour Spring 2011 The Cars North American Tour Spring 2011 is a set of eleven concerts in the United States and Canada featuring the newly reunited American band The Cars. Announced in April 2011 prior to the release of the band's album \"Move Like This\", the concerts feature material from \"Move Like This\" and from the band's 1970s and 1980s albums. Singer/guitarist Ric Ocasek, keyboardist Greg Hawkes, guitarist Elliot Easton and drummer David Robinson perform as a quartet; original Cars singer and bassist Benjamin Orr died in 2000. Orr's bass parts are performed by Hawkes on","title":"The Cars North American Tour Spring 2011"},{"docid":"10763005","text":"from \"The Cars\".) \"All Mixed Up\" features bassist Benjamin Orr on lead vocals in the studio version, though Ocasek sang lead vocals on the demo version. The song afforded Hawkes a chance to step away from his many synthesizers and play the closing saxophone solo, the only one in the Cars' discography. All Mixed Up (The Cars song) \"All Mixed Up\" is a song by The Cars and the final track on their 1978 self-titled debut album. It was written by bandleader Ric Ocasek. On the album, \"All Mixed Up\" is bridged together with \"Moving in Stereo\". Released as the","title":"All Mixed Up (The Cars song)"},{"docid":"1461526","text":"The Cars The Cars were an American rock band that emerged from the new wave scene in the late 1970s. The band originated in Boston in 1976, with singer, rhythm guitarist, and songwriter Ric Ocasek; singer, songwriter and bassist Benjamin Orr; lead guitarist Elliot Easton; keyboardist Greg Hawkes; and drummer David Robinson. The Cars were at the forefront in merging 1970s guitar-oriented rock with the new synthesizer-oriented pop that was then becoming popular and which flourished in the early 1980s. Robert Palmer, music critic for \"The New York Times\" and \"Rolling Stone\", described the Cars' musical style by saying: \"they","title":"The Cars"},{"docid":"9613349","text":"to the National Historical Publications and Records Commission. Benjamin G. Orr Benjamin Grayson Orr (1762–1822) was the fourth mayor of Washington, D.C., elected by the council of aldermen in 1817 and serving for two years. Orr, probably born in Virginia, was a grocer in Georgetown – which in the early 19th century was a separate town from Washington. He moved into the city in 1812 and was elected an Alderman, but resigned one year later and became a supplier to U.S. Army brigades in Ohio and Michigan. As mayor, Orr procured public improvements such as grading of the streets and","title":"Benjamin G. Orr"},{"docid":"9613347","text":"Benjamin G. Orr Benjamin Grayson Orr (1762–1822) was the fourth mayor of Washington, D.C., elected by the council of aldermen in 1817 and serving for two years. Orr, probably born in Virginia, was a grocer in Georgetown – which in the early 19th century was a separate town from Washington. He moved into the city in 1812 and was elected an Alderman, but resigned one year later and became a supplier to U.S. Army brigades in Ohio and Michigan. As mayor, Orr procured public improvements such as grading of the streets and established Washington’s first volunteer fire companies, appropriating $1,000","title":"Benjamin G. Orr"},{"docid":"17337590","text":"were played by Prairie Prince. Powell continued the stylistic break in 2004 with Day for Night, another one-man-band performance. In late 2004 Powell was contacted by Elliot Easton, guitarist for The Cars. Easton had heard Powell's recording of Candy-O and was impressed enough to ask Powell to be the singer of The New Cars, a reformation of The Cars without Ric Ocasek and Benjamin Orr (who had died). Powell began working on demos for the project and completed six demos. However, as the plans for the band evolved The Cars decided to bring in a higher profile singer, and settled","title":"Doug Powell (musician, apologist)"},{"docid":"1461545","text":"labyrinthine synthesizer and guitar textures of art rock, the '50s rockabilly revival and the melodious terseness of power pop—and mixed them into a personal and appealing blend.\" They have also had hard rock-oriented songs including \"You're All I've Got Tonight.\" The Cars The Cars were an American rock band that emerged from the new wave scene in the late 1970s. The band originated in Boston in 1976, with singer, rhythm guitarist, and songwriter Ric Ocasek; singer, songwriter and bassist Benjamin Orr; lead guitarist Elliot Easton; keyboardist Greg Hawkes; and drummer David Robinson. The Cars were at the forefront in merging","title":"The Cars"},{"docid":"7158393","text":"Let's Go (The Cars song) \"Let's Go\" was the first single from The Cars' second studio album \"Candy-O\". It was released in 1979 on Elektra Records. The song was written by Ric Ocasek and features lead vocals by Cars bassist Benjamin Orr. \"Let's Go\" was described by Brett Milano as \"another double-edged anthem\" in the liner notes for \"\". AllMusic critic Donald Guarisco called the track \"a tight new wave rocker that married the sardonic humor and new wave quirkiness of their previous singles to an easily accessible pop melody.\" The song's signature hook is a series of claps followed","title":"Let's Go (The Cars song)"},{"docid":"7715203","text":"in 2004, Sulton joined The New Cars in 2005, replacing original Cars bassist and co-lead vocalist Benjamin Orr, who died of cancer in 2000. The band also included original Cars band members Elliot Easton and Greg Hawkes as well as Todd Rundgren and Prairie Prince from Journey and The Tubes. An album, \"It's Alive!\", was followed by a tour in 2006, with Sulton singing lead on The Cars' hit \"Drive\". Sulton continues to appear live playing bass, keyboards, and guitar on most Todd Rundgren tours, including the 2008-09 \"Arena\" gigs, 2009-10 performances of the classic album \"A Wizard, a True","title":"Kasim Sulton"},{"docid":"6937963","text":"to the latter being cast in \"Made in Heaven\". Drive (The Cars song) \"Drive\" is a 1984 song by The Cars, the third single from the band's \"Heartbeat City\" album released in March 1984 and their biggest international hit. Written by Ric Ocasek, the track was sung by bassist Benjamin Orr and produced by Robert John \"Mutt\" Lange with the band. Upon its release, \"Drive\" became The Cars' highest charting single in most territories. In the United States, it peaked at No. 3 on the \"Billboard\" Hot 100 chart; on the Adult Contemporary chart, the song went to No. 1.","title":"Drive (The Cars song)"},{"docid":"6937957","text":"Drive (The Cars song) \"Drive\" is a 1984 song by The Cars, the third single from the band's \"Heartbeat City\" album released in March 1984 and their biggest international hit. Written by Ric Ocasek, the track was sung by bassist Benjamin Orr and produced by Robert John \"Mutt\" Lange with the band. Upon its release, \"Drive\" became The Cars' highest charting single in most territories. In the United States, it peaked at No. 3 on the \"Billboard\" Hot 100 chart; on the Adult Contemporary chart, the song went to No. 1. It reached No. 5 (No. 4 on re-entry in","title":"Drive (The Cars song)"},{"docid":"7637715","text":"was eventually re-recorded for 1979's \"Candy-O\". The previously unreleased \"Slipaway\" was recorded as a 24-track demo by The Cars between their first and second albums. Rather than record a finished studio version, The Cars gave the song to Ian Lloyd, who issued his version later in 1979. The following two songs, both cover versions, were initially made as backing tracks for Bebe Buell to record vocals over for her 1981 EP \"Covers Girl\". These versions feature lead vocals by Ric Ocasek and Benjamin Orr, and were previously unreleased. Just What I Needed: The Cars Anthology Just What I Needed: The","title":"Just What I Needed: The Cars Anthology"},{"docid":"7616415","text":"Benjamin Orr (Massachusetts politician) Benjamin Orr (December 1, 1772 – September 3, 1828) was a member of the United States House of Representatives from Massachusetts. Orr was born in Bedford, New Hampshire, on December 1, 1772. He was self-educated and apprenticed as a carpenter. He attended Fryeburg Academy, taught school at Concord and New Milford, New Hampshire; and graduated from Dartmouth College in 1798. He studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1801 and commenced the practice of law in Brunswick, Maine (then a part of Massachusetts). Orr moved to Topsham, Maine, in 1801 and continued the practice of","title":"Benjamin Orr (Massachusetts politician)"},{"docid":"14995645","text":"version of it on their 2006 album \"It's Alive\". Candy-O (song) \"Candy-O\" is a song by the American rock band The Cars, the title track of their 1979 album \"Candy-O\". It was written by the band's songwriter Ric Ocasek, was produced by Roy Thomas Baker, and features Cars bassist Benjamin Orr on lead vocals. The style of the song is perhaps more guitar-heavy and less new wave-sounding than many Cars songs. The chorus is minimal, with only one line \"(\"Candy-O / I need you so\")\", leading to loud guitar and drum fills dividing the rhythm less evenly. Originally, the chorus","title":"Candy-O (song)"},{"docid":"14995642","text":"Candy-O (song) \"Candy-O\" is a song by the American rock band The Cars, the title track of their 1979 album \"Candy-O\". It was written by the band's songwriter Ric Ocasek, was produced by Roy Thomas Baker, and features Cars bassist Benjamin Orr on lead vocals. The style of the song is perhaps more guitar-heavy and less new wave-sounding than many Cars songs. The chorus is minimal, with only one line \"(\"Candy-O / I need you so\")\", leading to loud guitar and drum fills dividing the rhythm less evenly. Originally, the chorus lyric was followed by the musical term \"fortissimo\" (an","title":"Candy-O (song)"},{"docid":"7616416","text":"law; was overseer of Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine, and served as trustee from 1814 to 1828 and as treasurer in 1815 and 1816. Orr was elected as a Federalist to the Fifteenth Congress (March 4, 1817 – March 3, 1819) but was not a candidate for renomination in 1818. He resumed the practice of law in Topsham and, in 1822, returned to Brunswick to continue the practice of law. He died in Brunswick, on September 3, 1828, and he was interred in Pine Grove Cemetery. Benjamin Orr (Massachusetts politician) Benjamin Orr (December 1, 1772 – September 3, 1828) was a","title":"Benjamin Orr (Massachusetts politician)"},{"docid":"2950024","text":"Door to Door (album) Door to Door is the sixth studio album by the American rock band the Cars. It was released in 1987 on Elektra Records. \"Door to Door\" was the group's last studio album before they disbanded in 1988. It was also the last Cars record to feature Benjamin Orr before his death in 2000. The band would not release another studio album until 2011's \"Move Like This\". Although by 1987 the Cars had reached the heights of superstardom, their last few albums had relied heavily on studio tricks and machines; this album was an attempt to move","title":"Door to Door (album)"},{"docid":"14752869","text":"It's All I Can Do \"It's All I Can Do\" is a song by the American rock band the Cars. It is the third track from their 1979 album \"Candy-O\". It was written by the band's leader and songwriter Ric Ocasek, and features bassist Benjamin Orr on vocals. \"It's All I Can Do\" is a new wave influenced pop rock song. According to Brett Milano, writer of the \"\" album notes \"'It's All I Can Do' was an affecting, straight-ahead piece of romantic pop, give or take a line like 'When I was crazy, I thought you were great.'\" The","title":"It's All I Can Do"},{"docid":"1461542","text":"page on December 7, 2010; another clip of a song called \"Free\" was shared on their Facebook page on January 1, 2011. The official debut video for \"Blue Tip\" was released February 17. The video was directed by Roberto Serrini and Eron Otcasek from The Lab NYC and features the four members of the band, and NYC based street artist Joe Iurato. According to \"Rolling Stone\", the surviving Cars mutually agreed there would be no replacing the late Benjamin Orr, so Hawkes and Lee handled all bass parts. The new album, titled \"Move Like This\", was released on May 10","title":"The Cars"},{"docid":"6502851","text":"Greg Hawkes Gregory A. \"Greg\" Hawkes (born October 22, 1952) is an American musician best known as the keyboardist for the rock band The Cars. Hawkes, a native of Fulton, Maryland, attended Atholton High School where he played in a band called Teeth. He then attended Berklee College of Music for two years, majoring in composition and flute. He left to play in various bands, including Martin Mull and his Fabulous Furniture, where he played flute, saxophone, and clarinet. He also played in a band called Richard and the Rabbits, which included future Cars bandmates Ric Ocasek and Benjamin Orr.","title":"Greg Hawkes"},{"docid":"15279359","text":"Cruiser (song) \"Cruiser\" is a song by American new wave band The Cars, from their 1981 album \"Shake It Up\". \"Cruiser\" was written by Cars songwriter and vocalist Ric Ocasek and sung by bassist-vocalist Benjamin Orr. Upon the release of \"Shake It Up\", \"Cruiser\" was singled out for praise. The \"Bangor Daily News\", in an otherwise unenthusiastic review of \"Shake It Up\", cited \"Cruiser\" as a source of \"real excitement\". AllMusic reviewer Greg Prato describes the song as \"rocking\" and a highlight of the album. In addition to appearing on the album, \"Cruiser\" was released as the B-side of the","title":"Cruiser (song)"},{"docid":"6410276","text":"stations WCOZ and WBCN from the said demo tape, along with its future follow-up single \"My Best Friend's Girl\". Shortly thereafter, it became one of the stations' most requested songs. The opening riff of \"Just What I Needed\" was borrowed from \"Yummy Yummy Yummy\", a song by the Ohio Express. It also features a prominent keyboard riff performed by Greg Hawkes. The song was sung by the Cars' bassist Benjamin Orr rather than usual lead vocalist, Ric Ocasek. \"Just What I Needed\" was released as a single in 1978 prior to the release of \"The Cars\", backed with \"I'm in","title":"Just What I Needed"},{"docid":"15444634","text":"in his review of \"\", that it was \"previously released album tracks [on the album]\" that were \"highlights.\" In the \"Just What I Needed: The Cars Anthology\" liner notes, Brett Milano said, \"Rockers like 'Getting Through' and 'Gimme Some Slack' had a heavier sound than before [\"Panorama\"].\" The B-side of the song, \"Don't Go to Pieces\", features Benjamin Orr on lead vocals. \"Don't Go to Pieces\" was first released as the B-side to \"Don't Tell Me No\", the single released before \"Gimme Some Slack\". Gimme Some Slack \"Gimme Some Slack\" is a song by the American rock band The Cars","title":"Gimme Some Slack"},{"docid":"14943005","text":"You Are the Girl \"You Are the Girl\" is a 1987 song by The Cars, from their album \"Door to Door\". It was released as a single in August 1987, reaching number 17 on the \"Billboard\" Hot 100. It also reached number 2 on the Mainstream Rock Tracks chart, and number 12 on the Adult Contemporary chart. It was The Cars' 13th and (as of 2016) last Top 40 hit. Rhythm guitarist and principal songwriter Ric Ocasek shares lead vocals with bassist Benjamin Orr on \"You Are the Girl\". Both singers had recently cracked the Top 40 with solo hits,","title":"You Are the Girl"},{"docid":"7050126","text":"since been used and parodied in several films and television shows, including an episode of \"Family Guy\", which parodied the scene from the movie in which the song appeared. Moving in Stereo \"Moving in Stereo\" is a song by the American rock band the Cars. It appeared on their first album, \"The Cars\", released in 1978. It was co-written by Ric Ocasek and the band's keyboard player Greg Hawkes, and sung by bassist Benjamin Orr. Although not released as a single, \"Moving in Stereo\" received airplay on album-oriented rock radio stations in the United States, often coupled with the song","title":"Moving in Stereo"},{"docid":"7050124","text":"Moving in Stereo \"Moving in Stereo\" is a song by the American rock band the Cars. It appeared on their first album, \"The Cars\", released in 1978. It was co-written by Ric Ocasek and the band's keyboard player Greg Hawkes, and sung by bassist Benjamin Orr. Although not released as a single, \"Moving in Stereo\" received airplay on album-oriented rock radio stations in the United States, often coupled with the song \"All Mixed Up\" which it segues into on the album. The song continues to receive airplay on classic rock radio stations. Donald A. Guarisco of AllMusic described the song","title":"Moving in Stereo"},{"docid":"2950027","text":"In\" only scraped into the top 100 peaking at #85 though it was much more successful on the rock charts where it reached #4. The final single released \"Coming Up You\" peaked at 74 on the charts and was also a moderate hit on the adult contemporary charts. Door to Door (album) Door to Door is the sixth studio album by the American rock band the Cars. It was released in 1987 on Elektra Records. \"Door to Door\" was the group's last studio album before they disbanded in 1988. It was also the last Cars record to feature Benjamin Orr","title":"Door to Door (album)"},{"docid":"1461539","text":"non-album b-sides). They followed up with the releases of \"\" (1999), their debut album in 2-CD format, and \"Complete Greatest Hits\". In the mid-1990s, Orr recorded tracks with guitarist John Kalishes for an unreleased follow-up to The Lace and performed with three bands, his own band \"ORR\", The Voices of Classic Rock, and Big People. Orr did appear with his former bandmates one last time in an interview for a documentary about the group prior to his death from pancreatic cancer, at age 53, in 2000. Ocasek continued to perform as a solo artist, having released over seven studio albums.","title":"The Cars"},{"docid":"2966523","text":"lead vocal on some of the band's best known songs, including their first top 40 hit \"Just What I Needed\", \"Let's Go,\" and on \"Drive\", their highest-charting U.S. single. Orr released his only solo album, \"The Lace\", in 1986. He co-wrote the music and lyrics with his long-time girlfriend, Diane Grey Page who also sang backing vocals, and the album had one top 40 hit, \"Stay the Night\". The song was a top 10 album rock hit and the video was in heavy rotation on MTV. A second single \"Too Hot to Stop\" was also released, but did not chart","title":"Benjamin Orr"},{"docid":"4146959","text":"Stephens Orr John Stephens Orr (6 March 1907 – 1990) was a 20th-century Scottish Glasgow photographer with an interest in people and motor cars. Practicing between 1930 and 1970 in Glasgow's Langside and later at No. 4 Somerset Place, Charing Cross, he became known for his portraits of society figures in magazines such as \"Scottish Field\". He worked in an age when Scottish culture was highly regarded, and people of all classes saw nothing wrong with \"The White Heather Club\" (a 1960s Scottish TV show, viewed now as hopelessly kitsch, but still part of the Scottish psyche). His usual subjects","title":"Stephens Orr"},{"docid":"220535","text":"right in American politics. \"The churches came after me\", she wrote, \"they attacked me, though the Episcopalian Church, which I've seen described as the only church in America which actually uses its head, wrote me a letter of congratulation.\" Mitchell continued experimenting with synthesizers, drum machines and sequencers for the recordings of her next album, 1988's \"Chalk Mark in a Rain Storm\". She also collaborated with artists including Willie Nelson, Billy Idol, Wendy & Lisa, Tom Petty, Don Henley, Peter Gabriel, and Benjamin Orr of the Cars. The album's first official single, \"My Secret Place\", was in fact a duet","title":"Joni Mitchell"},{"docid":"13367566","text":"Cars' Benjamin Orr, spent 3 weeks at #1 on Los Angeles radio station KBIG FM and also hit the Top 5 at sister station KOST FM. In their review of the \"Suddenly Beautiful\" single, \"Billboard\" magazine declared the song \"beautiful, indeed\". Carlson had numerous songs from the \"Untucked\" album included on television shows. \"Dawson's Creek\" featured \"I Know You By Heart\" and \"Blue Steak Cadillac\", and \"Dive\" appeared on the Bravo reality show \"Blowout 3\". In 2008, \"Go-To Girl\" and \"Getaway Car\" were also featured on the teen drama \"South Of Nowhere\". Carlson won two awards at the 2003 Los","title":"Katrina Carlson"},{"docid":"10719650","text":"drums. He obtained a diploma in music. In the early 1990s, he moved to the USA, settling in Boston, where he worked with Benjamin Orr of The Cars among others. Khoroshev met Carl Jacobson of the Cakewalk software house. Jacobson employed Khoroshev, who composed music for Cakewalk's Pro Audio 9, and he also introduced Khoroshev to Yes's Jon Anderson. Khoroshev released a solo album \"Piano Works\" in 1999. He appeared on the Emerson, Lake & Palmer tribute album \"Encores, Legends and Paradox\". In March 2000, he and Jon Anderson worked on an album called \"True You, True Me\". The album","title":"Igor Khoroshev"},{"docid":"2684742","text":"1989. The couple have two sons, Jonathan Raven Otcasek (b. November 4, 1993), and Oliver Otcasek (b. 1999). In May 2018, Porizkova announced she and Ocasek had separated a year earlier. Ocasek has six sons, two from each of his three marriages. His eldest son, Christopher Otcasek, was a singer who formed the rock group Glamour Camp which released one album in 1989. Adam Otcasek was born in 1970. Eron was born in 1973 and Derek was born in 1981. He and co-founder of the Cars Benjamin Orr were known to be close friends. Their friendship was commemorated in the","title":"Ric Ocasek"},{"docid":"18287867","text":"sound more enthused and more interested than [Ric] Ocasek does on any of his songs.\" Coming Up You \"Coming Up You\" is a 1987 song by The Cars, appearing on their sixth studio album \"Door to Door\". It was written by Ric Ocasek and sung by Benjamin Orr. \"Coming Up You\" first saw release as the eighth track on \"Door to Door\" in August 1987. The song later saw a single release in America and Australia, backed with the fellow \"Door to Door\" track \"Double Trouble\". The third single from \"Door to Door\" (after the top twenty hit \"You Are","title":"Coming Up You"},{"docid":"13735801","text":"Samuel Orr Samuel Orr (July 11, 1890 – August 29, 1981) was a socialist politician from New York City best remembered for being one of the five elected members of the Socialist Party of America expelled by the New York State Assembly during the First Red Scare in 1920. Orr was born on July 11, 1890 in the town of Rajgród, then a part of Russian-occupied Poland. His family moved to the United States in 1891. Orr graduated from the New York University School of Law and practiced law, including time at the firm of Benjamin N. Cardozo and Nathan","title":"Samuel Orr"},{"docid":"15272379","text":"its studio appearance on \"The Idiot\", a live version of \"Funtime\" was included on Pop's \"TV Eye Live 1977\". Pop also performed the song on the television show Dinah! in 1977 with Bowie accompanying on keyboards and backing vocal. During the sessions for 1981's \"Shake It Up\", members of The Cars recorded a version of \"Funtime\" featuring bassist Benjamin Orr on vocals. According to Brett Milano's liner notes for \"\", Pop was present at the recording session and complimented Orr's vocal impersonation of him, telling the bassist \"You sound more like me than me.\" The song was later stripped of","title":"Funtime (Iggy Pop song)"},{"docid":"2066347","text":"Pops. Columbus has hosted the annual three-day hard rock Rock on the Range festival each May since 2007. Popular musicians from Ohio include Mamie Smith, Dean Martin, Tyler Joseph and Josh Dun of Twenty One Pilots, Frankie Yankovic, Doris Day, The McGuire Sisters, The Isley Brothers, Bobby Womack, Howard Hewett, Shirley Murdock, Boz Scaggs, John Legend, Marilyn Manson, Dan Auerbach and Patrick Carney of The Black Keys, Griffin Layne, Joe Dolce, Benjamin Orr of The Cars, Chrissie Hynde of The Pretenders, William \"Bootsy\" Collins, and Devo. Doris Day (born 1922 in Cincinnati) had a #1 Billboard Hot 100 hit in","title":"Music of Ohio"},{"docid":"15306744","text":"Move Like This Move Like This is the seventh studio album by American rock band The Cars, released on May 10, 2011. The album is their first since 1987's \"Door to Door\" and the first without bassist and vocalist Benjamin Orr, who died of pancreatic cancer in 2000. The album reached the top ten of the \"Billboard\" 200 and peaked at number 2 on the \"Billboard\" Top Rock Albums chart; a single from the album, \"Sad Song\", reached number 33 on the \"Billboard\" Rock Songs chart. Following the release of the album, the band launched an 11-city tour of North","title":"Move Like This"},{"docid":"7780843","text":"onwards and subsequently as session bassist. The pre-Ernie Ball MusicMan StingRay is the main instrument of Paul S. Denman of the Sade band and it has been featured on all of their albums and live recordings. Benjamin Orr, bassist, co-vocalist and founding member of The Cars, is well known amongst fans to have played a circa 1977 Inca Silver Music Man StingRay with maple neck/fretboard and black pickguard. This bass was lost in a fire that swept through Orr's Boston apartment in the early 1980s, along with a cherry red 1967 Vox Constellation bass with an unusual black headstock. Mark","title":"Music Man StingRay"},{"docid":"15306753","text":"\"Blue Tip\". \"Rocket USA\" is a cover of a 1977 song by the American band Suicide, from their self-titled debut. Move Like This Move Like This is the seventh studio album by American rock band The Cars, released on May 10, 2011. The album is their first since 1987's \"Door to Door\" and the first without bassist and vocalist Benjamin Orr, who died of pancreatic cancer in 2000. The album reached the top ten of the \"Billboard\" 200 and peaked at number 2 on the \"Billboard\" Top Rock Albums chart; a single from the album, \"Sad Song\", reached number 33","title":"Move Like This"},{"docid":"1480026","text":"an occasional release of new material. Scott Hoffman took over the drum chair from Meeder later in 1992. Donny Baldwin (ex-Jefferson Starship) filled in for Hoffman on some 1996 tour dates after Hoffman was down with a broken arm, but Gary \"Madman\" Moffatt (formerly of Cactus) has been the band's drummer since 1997. In 1996 38's long time guitarist/co-founder Jeff Carlisi, tired of the endless touring, decided to leave to form the Bonnie Blue Band, which led to the supergroup, Big People, which also featured Benjamin Orr (from The Cars), Liberty DeVitto (from Billy Joel's band), Derek St. Holmes (ex-Ted","title":"38 Special (band)"},{"docid":"6937958","text":"1985) in the United Kingdom, No. 4 in West Germany, No. 6 in Canada and No. 3 (No. 5 on re-entry in 1985) in Ireland. The song is associated with the July 1985 Live Aid event, where it was performed by Benjamin Orr during the Philadelphia event; previously, the song was used as the background music to a montage of clips depicting the contemporaneous Ethiopian famine during the London event, which was introduced by English musician David Bowie. Following the concert it was re-released in the UK and peaked at No. 4 in August 1985. Proceeds from the sales of","title":"Drive (The Cars song)"},{"docid":"15100971","text":"I'm Not the One \"I'm Not the One\" is a song by the American rock band the Cars, from their fourth album, \"Shake It Up\". It features Ric Ocasek on lead vocals, Benjamin Orr singing the 'You Know Why' phrase, with the whole group repeating \"going round and round\" as backing vocals throughout the song. \"I'm Not the One\" first appeared in 1981 on \"Shake It Up\". It was not a charting single at the time, but was nonetheless included on the band's 1985 \"Greatest Hits\" album. The song was remixed on the \"Greatest Hits\" album, emphasizing the drum track","title":"I'm Not the One"},{"docid":"15100975","text":"the chorus in B minor. Each verse is introduced with a guitar melody from Elliot Easton, who layers several clean-tone guitar parts over the synthesizer-dominated arrangement. There is also a horn-like synthesizer solo by Greg Hawkes, played over the chorus progression. I'm Not the One \"I'm Not the One\" is a song by the American rock band the Cars, from their fourth album, \"Shake It Up\". It features Ric Ocasek on lead vocals, Benjamin Orr singing the 'You Know Why' phrase, with the whole group repeating \"going round and round\" as backing vocals throughout the song. \"I'm Not the One\"","title":"I'm Not the One"},{"docid":"18287864","text":"Coming Up You \"Coming Up You\" is a 1987 song by The Cars, appearing on their sixth studio album \"Door to Door\". It was written by Ric Ocasek and sung by Benjamin Orr. \"Coming Up You\" first saw release as the eighth track on \"Door to Door\" in August 1987. The song later saw a single release in America and Australia, backed with the fellow \"Door to Door\" track \"Double Trouble\". The third single from \"Door to Door\" (after the top twenty hit \"You Are the Girl\" and its less successful follow-up \"Strap Me In\"), the song peaked at #74","title":"Coming Up You"},{"docid":"13104107","text":"Court, appointed on March 2, 1939 to Benjamin Wilson Coleman's vacancy, elected November 1940 and served until 1945, including as Chief Justice from 1943 to 1945. On September 10, 1945, Orr was nominated by President Harry S. Truman to a seat on the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit vacated by Judge Curtis D. Wilbur. Orr was confirmed by the United States Senate on September 19, 1945, and received his commission on September 28, 1945. He assumed senior status on January 1, 1956, serving in that capacity until his death on October 7, 1965. William Edwin Orr","title":"William Edwin Orr"},{"docid":"6475091","text":"Buxton Orr Buxton Orr (18 April 1924 – 27 December 1997) was a Glasgow-born Anglo-Scottish composer. Originally trained as a doctor, Orr gave up medicine and switched to music, studying composition with Benjamin Frankel and conducting with Aylmer Buesst. Best known for his personal application of serial technique and for several virtuoso instrumental fantasies on well-known operatic themes, he was also active for a time in the film industry as well as being an energetic and influential teacher. His music includes works in all genres, including songs, chamber music, works for brass and wind band, orchestral music, opera and music","title":"Buxton Orr"},{"docid":"15994240","text":"the company's director for two years, making a tidy profit. Upon leaving Mount Lyell in 1894, Orr began a tour of the world, seeing mining operations in Spain and the US. In 1901 he was elected to the Victorian Legislative Council, representing North-Eastern Province for the non-Labor parties. His term ended in 1904, and Orr did not seek reelection. Three years later he unsuccessfully contested a seat in Northern Province. A colleague described Orr as \"A real rank tory on some subjects ... but when he comes to water he is very liberal\". Orr was staunchly against recognising trade unions","title":"William Orr (Australian politician)"},{"docid":"881953","text":"Calder Memorial Trophy as the league's outstanding rookie and was named to the NHL's Second All-Star team. New York Rangers defenceman Harry Howell won the Norris Trophy as the league's best defenceman that year. In accepting the award, Howell said he was glad to win when he did, predicting \"Orr will own this trophy from now on.\" Orr was runner-up in voting. In 1967–68, his second season, injuries limited Orr to just 46 games in which he scored 11 goals and had 20 assists. Prior to the season, Orr had injured his right knee during a charity game in Winnipeg","title":"Bobby Orr"},{"docid":"14934193","text":"which produced \"You Are the Girl\", their last Top 40 single. On the Radio & Records airplay chart the song debuted at #40 on the December 12, 1986 issue, after five weeks, it reached and peaked at #14 staying there for a week, the single stayed on the Top 20 of the chart for three weeks, and remained on it for nine. Song reached #18 on the Billboard Hot 100 Airplay chart, #26 on the Billboard Hot 100 Singles Sales chart, and #20 on the Cashbox chart. Stay the Night (Benjamin Orr song) \"Stay the Night\" is a song by","title":"Stay the Night (Benjamin Orr song)"},{"docid":"1461536","text":"\"Since You're Gone\". Following their 1982 tour, the Cars took a short break and went to work on solo projects, with Ocasek and Hawkes both releasing debut albums (\"Beatitude\" and \"Niagara Falls\", respectively). The Cars reunited and released their most successful album, \"Heartbeat City\", in 1984. The first single, \"You Might Think\", helped the Cars win Video of the Year at the first MTV Video Music Awards. Other hit singles from the album included \"Magic\", \"Hello Again\", and \"Why Can't I Have You\". Their most successful single, \"Drive\", with Orr on lead vocals, gained particular notability when it was used","title":"The Cars"},{"docid":"4229110","text":"life to Veda Orr, through April 1956. Karl & Veda Orr built & operated their own race cars. Veda wrote many racing articles. Sweikert returned to Hayward and opened his own small business, Sweikert Automotive, an automotive repair shop based out of his parents' garage. There over the next couple years he built his own track roadster. On Memorial Day, May 26, 1947 Sweikert ran his first race for prize money at the Oakland Speedway, and finished second. Sweikert then quit automotive repair, and became a full-time driver. He gained his first racing sponsorship in July 1947, when he became","title":"Bob Sweikert"},{"docid":"14122203","text":"by tour operators, Orr joined a group which in 1936 organized the Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association. In the 1940s and 1950s, Orr and her long-term friend Joe Orr (1905–1978), also of Montana, operated their own Greenough-Orr Rodeo, which toured the American West. The couple married in 1958. The Orrs offered the first women barrel racing events. Orr also did difficult exhibitions of saddle bronc riding, a specialty no longer on the women's rodeo circuit Orr retired from rodeos in 1954 at the age of fifty-two, but she continued to accept occasional motion picture assignments until she was eighty. She did","title":"Alice Greenough Orr"},{"docid":"2027081","text":"himself look good to his superiors. Yossarian shows particular grief for the men that die during the novel, particularly Snowden, McWatt, Nately, Dobbs and Hungry Joe or those who appear to disappear; Orr, Clevinger and Dunbar. His relationship with the enlisted gunner Snowden is vivid and is the book's emotional center. When Snowden gets injured over Avignon, it is Yossarian who tries to help him, only to watch him die a revolting death. At the end of the novel, Yossarian accepts a deal with Colonel Cathcart and Colonel Korn rather than face a court-martial for going AWOL in Rome. The","title":"Yossarian"},{"docid":"2794606","text":"Bush as the U.S. Ambassador to Singapore, a position that he held until 1992. After he left his ambassadorship, Orr established a consulting firm called the Alliance for Global Commerce, which focused on international trade and export issues. In 2000, his wife, Joanne \"Josie\" Wallace, requested that he divorce her because she was suffering from dementia. She wanted her husband to be happy in his last years instead of watching his wife slowly die. In 2001, at the age of eighty-three, he married Mary Kay Davis. Orr died at the age of eighty-six at the Indiana University Medical Center in","title":"Robert D. Orr"},{"docid":"3083684","text":"not appear afraid of the missions, and he is therefore assumed to be crazy. They do not know that this is part of his plan to escape the war. Doc Daneeka uses Orr as an example, when explaining the grounding of the insane and “Catch-22”. Orr is insane for not requesting to be grounded, even though he is shot down every mission he flies. If he did request to be grounded he would be considered sane for realising the risks of continuing to fly. The “Catch-22” is that you can only be grounded if you are insane. But you must","title":"Orr (Catch-22)"},{"docid":"11548864","text":"Kajima Sculpture Exhibition held biannually in Tokyo. Bagley has also created public sculpture and art projects. In 2015, a 14-year-old public art created with in collaboration with Tom Orr and located at White Rock Lake in Dallas was recently the cause of controversy when the city of Dallas determined that it did not have the funds available to restore the art and that it must be demolished. A compromise was reached: Dallas will commission another work from Bagley and Orr. Another collaborative project that Bagley and Orr worked on was the creation of sets and costumes for the Dallas Opera's","title":"Frances Bagley"},{"docid":"9993843","text":"loss. Gary Thompson outscored Chamberlain, while Don Medsker held Chamberlain to a career low in scoring and then hit the game winner at the buzzer. No. 3 remains the school's highest-ever national ranking. From the introduction of the Big Eight's postseason tournament in 1977 until Johnny Orr's fifth season in 1985, the Cyclones did not advance past their first game. Johnny Orr came to Iowa State from Michigan in 1980. Iowa State's athletics director had called Orr to inquire about Michigan assistant Bill Frieder. When Orr learned of the salary Iowa State would offer Frieder, he negotiated the Iowa State","title":"Iowa State Cyclones men's basketball"},{"docid":"14122202","text":"excelled at trick riding and bull riding. Alice and Marge, with their brothers, Bill and Thurkel, known as \"Turk\", were termed the \"Riding Greenoughs\". Turk Greenough was a bronc rider and occasional film actor who died in June 1995 at the age of eighty-nine, two months before the passing of his sister Alice. Orr also did occasional stunt work in films. From her first marriage to Ray Cahill, Alice Orr had two children. Her interest in bronc riding began in 1929, when she and her sister answered an advertisement from Jack King's Wild West Show. Because competitors were sometimes cheated","title":"Alice Greenough Orr"},{"docid":"1461530","text":"Paramount Records in 1973 that failed to chart. After Milkwood, Ocasek and Orr formed the group Richard and the Rabbits, whose name was suggested by Jonathan Richman. The band included Greg Hawkes, who had studied at the Berklee School of Music and had played saxophone on Milkwood's album. Hawkes left to tour with Martin Mull and His Fabulous Furniture, a musical comedy act in which Mull played a variety of instruments. Ric Ocasek and Ben Orr then performed as an acoustic duo called simply Ocasek and Orr at the Idler coffeehouse in Cambridge. Some of the songs they played became","title":"The Cars"},{"docid":"2684732","text":"Stills and Nash-style folk rock band called Milkwood. They released one album, \"How's the Weather\", on Paramount Records in early 1973 but it failed to chart. After Milkwood, Ocasek formed the group Richard and the Rabbits, which included Orr and keyboardist Greg Hawkes, who had played on Milkwood's album. Ocasek and Orr also performed as an acoustic duo during this period. Some of the songs they played became the early Cars songs. Later, Ocasek and Orr teamed up with guitarist Elliot Easton in the band Cap'n Swing. Cap'n Swing soon came to the attention of WBCN disc jockey Maxanne Sartori,","title":"Ric Ocasek"},{"docid":"2795737","text":"Matchbox was taken over by Universal International of Hong Kong in 1982 (McGimpsey & Orr 1989, p. 28). Thus ended the era when UK-made die-cast toy models were dominant. The Dinky trade-name changed hands many times before ending up as part of Matchbox International Ltd in the late 1980s. This seemed to be a logical and perhaps synergistic development, uniting two of the most valuable and venerated names in the British and world die-cast model car market under one roof. For a time some Matchbox vehicles were sold under the Dinky name (Stoneback 2002, p. 24). In the 1980s, Matchbox","title":"Dinky Toys"},{"docid":"16591609","text":"intention to compete for Rookie of the Year honors; in the season-opening Goody's 300 at Daytona International Speedway, Orr qualified tenth for the series' biggest race of the year, but was involved in an accident, finishing 40th of 46 cars and completing only 50 laps. Orr failed to qualify three times over the next six races, with his best finish in the three races which he qualified for being 34th, at Richmond International Raceway in the third race of the season, and Bristol International Raceway in the seventh. Bristol's Goody's Headache Powder 250 would be Orr's final race in NASCAR's","title":"Pete Orr (racing driver)"},{"docid":"2684743","text":"song \"Silver\" which Ocasek wrote as a dedication to Orr upon his death in 2000. Ric Ocasek Richard Theodore Otcasek (born March 23, 1945 known as Ric Ocasek (), is an American singer, songwriter, musician and record producer. He is best known as the lead vocalist, rhythm guitarist and songwriter for the rock band the Cars. In 2018, Ocasek was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of the Cars. Ocasek grew up in Baltimore, Maryland. When Ocasek was 16 years old, his family moved to Cleveland, Ohio, where he graduated from Maple Heights High","title":"Ric Ocasek"},{"docid":"11077397","text":"finished in last place that season, sparked a renaissance that propelled the Bruins to make the playoffs the following twenty-nine straight seasons. New York Rangers defenseman Harry Howell, the winner of the Norris Trophy as the league's best defenseman in Orr's rookie year, famously predicted that he was glad to win when he did, because \"Orr will own this trophy from now on.\" </div> 1966–67 Boston Bruins season The 1966–67 Boston Bruins season was the Bruins' 43rd season in the NHL. Despite the debut of Bobby Orr, the Bruins finished in last place and did not qualify for the playoffs.","title":"1966–67 Boston Bruins season"},{"docid":"8273316","text":"adopted her middle name, Emily, as her stage name. Although the character of Madge Allsop was created by Barry Humphries during the 1960s, she was only mentioned in passing by Dame Edna and did not actually appear on stage until the late 1970s, when she was portrayed by the London-based Australian actress Madeleine Orr. Orr died of cancer in 1979, so when the role of Madge was written into Humphries' 1987 film \"Les Patterson Saves the World\", she was portrayed by another Australian actress, Connie Hobbs. Later that year, when Humphries decided to cast \"the definitive Madge\" for his new","title":"Emily Perry (English actress)"},{"docid":"19119842","text":"sole selector Kinder Tucker did not travel outside Wellington to watch regional matches and was notoriously reluctant to select country players, so players were selected on their performances in Wellington. As a result, Orr continued to score heavily for Wanganui, including 124 against Auckland in January 1924 but failures in matches played in front of Tucker meant Orr did not return to first-class cricket until Wellington's 7 January 1927 match against Auckland. Orr scored 68 in the first innings and was run out for six in the second but was never again selected for Wellington. He continued to play for","title":"George Orr (cricketer)"},{"docid":"14453140","text":"urging reversal. Applying intermediate scrutiny, the Court determined that the statute was not substantially related to the stated purpose. The Court observed that a gender neutral statute would still have the effect of providing for needy women, and that the only difference created by the Alabama statute was to also provide support for well off women that did not need support and to exclude needy men from support. Orr v. Orr Orr v. Orr, 440 U.S. 268 (1979), was a United States Supreme Court case that held that a statutory scheme in Alabama that imposed alimony obligations on husbands but","title":"Orr v. Orr"},{"docid":"881983","text":"Team Canada in the 1976 Canada Cup tournament. Orr did not play in the 1972 Summit Series against the Soviet Union, and he wanted badly to play for Canada. Orr had been unable to play in the Summit Series due to knee surgery, although he did participate as a non-player. Orr's participation in the Canada Cup was considered ill-conceived and Eagleson later thought it may have been the 'last straw' that killed his career. Orr himself said that he knew before the tournament that \"I knew I didn't have much longer. That series didn't do it. I thought I could","title":"Bobby Orr"},{"docid":"3910158","text":"\"Marching Song\" and a ninth symphony, which had been commissioned by the BBC. When he died, \"Marching Song\" had been completed in short score; it was orchestrated by Buxton Orr, a composer who had studied with Frankel and whose advocacy has been at least partly responsible for the revival of interest in his works. In the twenty years following his death, Frankel's works were almost completely neglected. In 1996, BBC Radio 3 featured him as the \"Composer of the Week\", and again in 2006. A major turning point, however, came when German record company CPO (Classic Produktion Osnabrück, since bought","title":"Benjamin Frankel"},{"docid":"882002","text":"the NHL and the Hartford Whalers. The Black Hawks balked at paying him the balance of his contract, and Orr took them to court, settling in 1983 for US$450,000 (US$ in dollars), one-third of the money they owed him. Of this, US$200,000 (US$ in dollars) went to taxes and legal fees. Orr moved back to the Boston area and formed Can-Am Enterprises with partners Tom Kelly and Paul Shanley, which built up a clientele of endorsements for Orr, including Baybank and Standard Brands. Orr did eventually restore his finances, thanks to endorsement contracts and public relations work. Orr later played","title":"Bobby Orr"},{"docid":"7422547","text":"College as athletic director, head basketball and football coach. Orr was initially drafted in 1948 BAA draft by the Minneapolis Lakers of the Basketball Association of America, the precursor to the NBA. Orr did not play for the Lakers, and was again drafted the next year in the 2nd round by the St. Louis Bombers. In 1950, Orr played 21 games for the Bombers before moving to the Waterloo Hawks for 13 more games. In 1951, Orr was named as head coach at Dubuque Senior High School in Dubuque, Iowa, holding the position until 1959. In 1959, Orr joined the","title":"Johnny Orr (basketball, born 1927)"},{"docid":"7705033","text":"were upset by the Iowa Hawkeyes; Orr caught just one pass for 9 yards. Against Hawaii in his final regular season game with the Badgers, Orr caught 3 passes for 60 yards, with 2 touchdown receptions as the Badgers won their 9th game of the year, 41-24. In the 2006 Capital One Bowl against Auburn, Orr would catch 4 passes for 74 yards in a 24-10 Wisconsin win. Orr was selected in the 6th round of the 2006 NFL Draft by the Tennessee Titans. Orr did not play in any games for the Tennessee Titans his rookie season and was","title":"Jonathan Orr"},{"docid":"6260490","text":"into our line-up.\" Despite some good performances towards the end of the 2006 season, Wigan decided to allow Orr to leave. Some reports suggested Orr did not want to leave Wigan but he was sold to on 12 October 2006. Orr signed a three-year deal with the Harlequins RL starting in 2007 and was replaced at Wigan by Trent Barrett. Orr rejoined his hometown club Castleford Tigers in 2011 after signing a one-year deal. In July 2011, he signed a one-year extension to his deal, keeping him at his homewtown club for the 2012 season. Danny Orr announced on Thursday","title":"Danny Orr"}],"string":"[\n {\n \"docid\": \"14934191\",\n \"text\": \"Stay the Night (Benjamin Orr song) \\\"Stay the Night\\\" is a song by The Cars vocalist and bassist Benjamin Orr. It was included on his 1986 solo debut album \\\"The Lace\\\", and released as a single in the end of 1986. \\\"Stay the Night\\\" reached #24 on the \\\"Billboard\\\" Hot 100 chart in the beginning of 1987, becoming Orr's only Top 40 hit as a solo artist. Prior to recording his solo album, Orr had been a founding member, along with singer and songwriter Ric Ocasek, of The Cars. The Cars' first Top 40 hit, \\\"Just What I Needed\\\", featured\",\n \"title\": \"Stay the Night (Benjamin Orr song)\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"14934192\",\n \"text\": \"Orr on lead vocals, as did their biggest hit, \\\"Drive\\\", from 1984's \\\"Heartbeat City\\\". Following The Cars' 1985 \\\"Greatest Hits\\\" release, the band split up to pursue solo projects, with both Orr and Ocasek releasing solo albums in 1986, lead guitarist Elliot Easton having released one in 1985. Weeks before \\\"Stay the Night\\\" entered the US Top 40, Ocasek himself was in the Top 40 with his own solo hit \\\"Emotion in Motion\\\". In both cases, those would become the only US Top 40 solo hit for both Cars members respectively. The band reunited to record 1987's \\\"Door to Door\\\",\",\n \"title\": \"Stay the Night (Benjamin Orr song)\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"1461531\",\n \"text\": \"the early Cars songs. Later, Ocasek and Orr teamed up with guitarist Elliot Easton (who had also studied at Berklee) in the band Cap'n Swing. Cap'n Swing also featured drummer Glenn Evans, later followed by Kevin Robichaud, and a jazzy bass player, which clashed with Ocasek's more rock and roll leanings. Benjamin Orr was the lead vocalist and did not play an instrument. Cap'n Swing soon came to the attention of WBCN disc jockey Maxanne Sartori, who began playing songs from their demo tape on her show. After being rejected by several record labels, Ocasek got rid of the bass\",\n \"title\": \"The Cars\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"7158397\",\n \"text\": \"a non-album track titled \\\"That's It\\\" that features Benjamin Orr on lead vocals. Let's Go (The Cars song) \\\"Let's Go\\\" was the first single from The Cars' second studio album \\\"Candy-O\\\". It was released in 1979 on Elektra Records. The song was written by Ric Ocasek and features lead vocals by Cars bassist Benjamin Orr. \\\"Let's Go\\\" was described by Brett Milano as \\\"another double-edged anthem\\\" in the liner notes for \\\"\\\". AllMusic critic Donald Guarisco called the track \\\"a tight new wave rocker that married the sardonic humor and new wave quirkiness of their previous singles to an easily\",\n \"title\": \"Let's Go (The Cars song)\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"2966521\",\n \"text\": \"in Cleveland. The Grasshoppers dissolved in 1966 when two of the band members were drafted into the U.S. Army, after which Orzechowski joined the band Mixed Emotions and later, the Colours. Later Orzechowski was drafted as well, although he received a deferment after approximately a year and a half in the Army. Orr first met Ric Ocasek, the future leader of the Cars, in Cleveland in the 1960s after Ocasek saw Orr performing with the Grasshoppers on the \\\"Big 5 Show\\\". A few years later, Orr moved to Columbus, Ohio where he and Ocasek formed a musical partnership that would\",\n \"title\": \"Benjamin Orr\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"2966522\",\n \"text\": \"continue in various incarnations until the break-up of the Cars in 1988. After moving to Boston, the two formed a folk band called Milkwood with guitarist James Goodkind. In 1973, the group released one album, \\\"How's the Weather?\\\", which failed to chart. Remaining in Boston, Ocasek and Orr then formed another band, Richard and the Rabbits, featuring keyboardist Greg Hawkes, followed by another band, Cap'n Swing, which included guitarist Elliot Easton. After the group broke up in 1976, the three of them along with Hawkes and drummer David Robinson formed the Cars. As a member of the Cars, Orr sang\",\n \"title\": \"Benjamin Orr\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"11327326\",\n \"text\": \"Greg Prato called it one of the \\\"lesser-known compositions [that] are just as exhilarating\\\" as the \\\"familiar hits\\\" on \\\"The Cars\\\". Bye Bye Love (The Cars song) \\\"Bye Bye Love\\\" is a song by the American Boston-based rock band The Cars. The song appears on the band's 1978 eponymous debut album. It was written by singer/songwriter/bandleader Ric Ocasek and sung by bassist Benjamin Orr. \\\"Bye Bye Love\\\" is one of The Cars' oldest songs, dating back to the mid 1970s. The song was first performed, and recorded as a demo, by the band Cap'n Swing, which featured Ocasek, Orr, and\",\n \"title\": \"Bye Bye Love (The Cars song)\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"1461529\",\n \"text\": \"at the induction ceremony. Before the Cars, members of the band performed together in several different incarnations. Ric Ocasek and Benjamin Orr met in Cleveland, Ohio in the 1960s after Ocasek saw Orr performing with his band the Grasshoppers on the \\\"Big 5 Show\\\", a local musical variety program. The two were in various bands in Columbus, Ohio and Ann Arbor, Michigan before re-locating to Boston in the early 1970s. In Boston, Ocasek and Orr, along with lead guitarist Jas Goodkind, formed a Crosby, Stills and Nash-style folk rock band called Milkwood. They released one album, \\\"How's the Weather\\\", on\",\n \"title\": \"The Cars\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"11327324\",\n \"text\": \"Bye Bye Love (The Cars song) \\\"Bye Bye Love\\\" is a song by the American Boston-based rock band The Cars. The song appears on the band's 1978 eponymous debut album. It was written by singer/songwriter/bandleader Ric Ocasek and sung by bassist Benjamin Orr. \\\"Bye Bye Love\\\" is one of The Cars' oldest songs, dating back to the mid 1970s. The song was first performed, and recorded as a demo, by the band Cap'n Swing, which featured Ocasek, Orr, and guitarist Elliot Easton as members. In this early version, the recurring keyboard theme between the verse lyrics was significantly different. The\",\n \"title\": \"Bye Bye Love (The Cars song)\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"7026932\",\n \"text\": \"we thought, let's start all over again, like we've never even heard it—completely change every part—and we did. Then, when it was through and all put back together, it was like a brand-new song.\\\" Guitarist Elliot Easton said he wanted his solo to sound like \\\"two guys trading off\\\". He plays first a Fender Telecaster in a style skewing \\\"country\\\", then midway through the solo switches to a Gibson Crank to sound more rock. The song references dance moves, hair styles and having fun. However, bassist Benjamin Orr has stated the song tells the story of how important it is\",\n \"title\": \"Shake It Up (The Cars song)\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"2966524\",\n \"text\": \"in the \\\"Billboard\\\" Hot 100 though it reached number #25 in the rock charts. The album cover for \\\"The Lace\\\" featured Orr on the front and Page on the back. Orr continued to work with the Cars for one more album, \\\"Door to Door\\\", and tour before the group disbanded in 1988, after which he and the other members pursued solo work. Sometime in the mid-1990s, Orr recorded tracks with guitarist John Kalishes for an unreleased follow-up to \\\"The Lace\\\". From 1998 until his death in 2000, he performed with his own band ORR and two side bands, \\\"The Voices\",\n \"title\": \"Benjamin Orr\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"9202334\",\n \"text\": \"This Side of Paradise (album) This Side of Paradise is the second solo studio album released by Ric Ocasek, lead singer and songwriter of The Cars. It was released in 1986 by Geffen Records. Though it was a solo album, other members of The Cars played significant roles. Greg Hawkes plays keyboards and bass throughout the album (he appears on most of Ocasek's solo albums), and also co-wrote \\\"Hello Darkness\\\" (most Cars albums feature one Ocasek/Hawkes tune). Benjamin Orr is on backing vocals for three songs. Along with Hawkes and Orr, the track \\\"True To You\\\" also features Elliot Easton\",\n \"title\": \"This Side of Paradise (album)\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"2684731\",\n \"text\": \"out to pursue a career in music. Ocasek met future Cars bassist Benjamin Orr in Cleveland in 1965 after Ocasek saw Orr performing with his band the Grasshoppers on the \\\"Big 5 Show\\\", a local musical variety program. He reconnected with Orr a few years later in Columbus, Ohio, and the two began booking bands together. They formed a band called ID Nirvana in 1968 and performed in and around Ohio State University. Ocasek and Orr were in various bands in Columbus and Ann Arbor, Michigan before re-locating to Boston in the early 1970s. In Boston, they formed a Crosby,\",\n \"title\": \"Ric Ocasek\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"15306746\",\n \"text\": \"According to \\\"Paste\\\" magazine, Ocasek said that he was \\\"amazed at how we clicked when we got back together.\\\" \\\"Exclaim!\\\" has noted that The Cars' Facebook page featured a picture of producer Jacknife Lee, \\\"which suggests that he will be producing the new album.\\\" According to \\\"Rolling Stone\\\", Lee produced five of the songs from the album; The Cars themselves produced the others. The Cars did not add a new bassist to the lineup to replace Orr; instead, the album's bass parts were programmed or performed by Hawkes and Lee, with Hawkes playing a bass once owned by Orr. While\",\n \"title\": \"Move Like This\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"2966525\",\n \"text\": \"of Classic Rock\\\" with Mickey Thomas and John Cafferty, and \\\"Big People\\\", which was a cover band with Pat Travers (of the Pat Travers Band), Jeff Carlisi (of 38 Special), Derek St. Holmes (of Ted Nugent), and Liberty DeVitto (of Billy Joel). In April 2000 Orr was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer and hospitalized; however, he continued to perform with the band Big People throughout that summer at music festivals and state fairs. He reunited with The Cars one last time in Atlanta, for an interview that was included in the Rhino Records concert video \\\"The Cars Live\\\". His final public\",\n \"title\": \"Benjamin Orr\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"2684734\",\n \"text\": \"and sang lead vocals for a majority of songs (bassist Benjamin Orr was lead vocalist on the remaining tracks). After splitting writing duty with Orr in the 1970s, Ocasek became the principal songwriter of the band, and wrote nearly all of the Cars' material, sharing credit on only a few songs with bandmate Greg Hawkes as co-writer. In 2010, Ocasek reunited with the surviving original members of the Cars to record their first album in 24 years, titled \\\"Move Like This\\\", which was released on May 10, 2011. The singer released his first solo album in 1982. \\\"Beatitude\\\" is a\",\n \"title\": \"Ric Ocasek\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"2966526\",\n \"text\": \"appearance was on September 27, 2000, in a Big People concert in Anchorage, Alaska. He died at home in Atlanta on October 4, aged 53, surrounded by fellow Big People band members Jeff Carlisi, Derek St. Holmes and Rob Wilson. Manager David Tedeschi was not present but was devastated by the loss of his best friend. Orr is survived by his son Ben. Ric Ocasek wrote and recorded the song \\\"Silver,\\\" which was his musical tribute to Orr. It appeared on Ocasek's 2005 solo album, \\\"Nexterday\\\". The Cars reunited ten years after Orr's death and released their seventh studio album\",\n \"title\": \"Benjamin Orr\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"7372778\",\n \"text\": \"turned out to be true, with the revamped lineup calling themselves the New Cars. Two regular Rundgren collaborators, bassist Kasim Sulton and drummer Prairie Prince, replaced bassist Benjamin Orr and drummer David Robinson in the new lineup. Robinson, who retired from the music industry years before, was invited to join the group but amicably declined. Ocasek, who had opted out of any possibilities of a reunion, gave his blessing to Easton and Hawkes, saying, \\\"I want Elliot and Greg to be happy.\\\" On April 17, 2006, when Ocasek appeared on \\\"The Colbert Report\\\" and was asked if there was anyone\",\n \"title\": \"The New Cars\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"7372777\",\n \"text\": \"The New Cars The New Cars were a band formed in 2005 by two of the original members of the 1970s/1980s new wave band The Cars. The band was composed of original Cars members Elliot Easton and Greg Hawkes, along with vocalist/guitarist Todd Rundgren, bassist Kasim Sulton, and drummer Prairie Prince. The band performed the Cars' classic songs, some new material, and selections from Rundgren's career. In 2005, rumors began circulating that Easton and Hawkes would be teaming with Todd Rundgren in a new Cars lineup, with Rundgren replacing the Cars' original vocalists Ric Ocasek and Benjamin Orr. The rumors\",\n \"title\": \"The New Cars\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"9613348\",\n \"text\": \"for the purchase of four fire bells and procured apparatus for the companies. He also authorized a lottery to raise funds to build a penitentiary and city hall. He died in 1822 and was buried in Congressional Cemetery. Benjamin Orr Elementary School in Southeast Washington, D.C. was named for him until 2018 when the predominantly black student body at Orr Elementary discovered the school was named for a slave owner, and decided to rename the school for Lawrence E. Boone. Orr leased a slave for $250 to James Madison, Secretary of State of the United States at the time, according\",\n \"title\": \"Benjamin G. Orr\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"15383570\",\n \"text\": \"Substitution Mass Confusion: A Tribute to The Cars Substitution Mass Confusion: A Tribute to The Cars is a 2005 compilation album featuring covers of songs originally performed by the American rock band The Cars. The album was released by Not Lame Recordings. Many of the performers featured on the album were from the Boston area, where The Cars first gained exposure in the late 1970s. The line 'Substitution Mass Confusion' comes from a lyric in the Cars song \\\"Bye Bye Love\\\". According to \\\"Billboard\\\", the album was inspired by the 2000 cancer death of Cars singer and bassist Benjamin Orr.\",\n \"title\": \"Substitution Mass Confusion: A Tribute to The Cars\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"14934291\",\n \"text\": \"pursue solo projects. Lead guitarist Elliot Easton released a solo album in 1985, and both Ocasek and singer/bassist Benjamin Orr did the same in 1986. Just as \\\"Emotion in Motion\\\" was Ocasek's only solo song to reach the Top 40, Orr's \\\"Stay the Night\\\" was the latter's only solo Top 40 hit. The band reunited to record 1987's \\\"Door to Door\\\", which produced \\\"You Are the Girl\\\", the group's last Top 40 single. Emotion in Motion (song) \\\"Emotion in Motion\\\" is a song by Ric Ocasek, the main songwriter and lead vocalist for The Cars. It was featured on his\",\n \"title\": \"Emotion in Motion (song)\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"1769875\",\n \"text\": \"The Cars (album) The Cars is the debut album by the American new wave band the Cars. It was released on June 6, 1978 on Elektra Records. The album, which featured the three charting singles \\\"Just What I Needed,\\\" \\\"My Best Friend's Girl,\\\" and \\\"Good Times Roll,\\\" as well as several album-oriented rock radio hits, was a major success for the band, remaining on the charts for 139 weeks. It has been recognized as one of the band's best albums. Formed in Boston in 1976, the Cars consisted of Ric Ocasek, Benjamin Orr, Elliot Easton, David Robinson, and Greg Hawkes,\",\n \"title\": \"The Cars (album)\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"15622026\",\n \"text\": \"The Cars North American Tour Spring 2011 The Cars North American Tour Spring 2011 is a set of eleven concerts in the United States and Canada featuring the newly reunited American band The Cars. Announced in April 2011 prior to the release of the band's album \\\"Move Like This\\\", the concerts feature material from \\\"Move Like This\\\" and from the band's 1970s and 1980s albums. Singer/guitarist Ric Ocasek, keyboardist Greg Hawkes, guitarist Elliot Easton and drummer David Robinson perform as a quartet; original Cars singer and bassist Benjamin Orr died in 2000. Orr's bass parts are performed by Hawkes on\",\n \"title\": \"The Cars North American Tour Spring 2011\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"10763005\",\n \"text\": \"from \\\"The Cars\\\".) \\\"All Mixed Up\\\" features bassist Benjamin Orr on lead vocals in the studio version, though Ocasek sang lead vocals on the demo version. The song afforded Hawkes a chance to step away from his many synthesizers and play the closing saxophone solo, the only one in the Cars' discography. All Mixed Up (The Cars song) \\\"All Mixed Up\\\" is a song by The Cars and the final track on their 1978 self-titled debut album. It was written by bandleader Ric Ocasek. On the album, \\\"All Mixed Up\\\" is bridged together with \\\"Moving in Stereo\\\". Released as the\",\n \"title\": \"All Mixed Up (The Cars song)\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"1461526\",\n \"text\": \"The Cars The Cars were an American rock band that emerged from the new wave scene in the late 1970s. The band originated in Boston in 1976, with singer, rhythm guitarist, and songwriter Ric Ocasek; singer, songwriter and bassist Benjamin Orr; lead guitarist Elliot Easton; keyboardist Greg Hawkes; and drummer David Robinson. The Cars were at the forefront in merging 1970s guitar-oriented rock with the new synthesizer-oriented pop that was then becoming popular and which flourished in the early 1980s. Robert Palmer, music critic for \\\"The New York Times\\\" and \\\"Rolling Stone\\\", described the Cars' musical style by saying: \\\"they\",\n \"title\": \"The Cars\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"9613349\",\n \"text\": \"to the National Historical Publications and Records Commission. Benjamin G. Orr Benjamin Grayson Orr (1762–1822) was the fourth mayor of Washington, D.C., elected by the council of aldermen in 1817 and serving for two years. Orr, probably born in Virginia, was a grocer in Georgetown – which in the early 19th century was a separate town from Washington. He moved into the city in 1812 and was elected an Alderman, but resigned one year later and became a supplier to U.S. Army brigades in Ohio and Michigan. As mayor, Orr procured public improvements such as grading of the streets and\",\n \"title\": \"Benjamin G. Orr\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"9613347\",\n \"text\": \"Benjamin G. Orr Benjamin Grayson Orr (1762–1822) was the fourth mayor of Washington, D.C., elected by the council of aldermen in 1817 and serving for two years. Orr, probably born in Virginia, was a grocer in Georgetown – which in the early 19th century was a separate town from Washington. He moved into the city in 1812 and was elected an Alderman, but resigned one year later and became a supplier to U.S. Army brigades in Ohio and Michigan. As mayor, Orr procured public improvements such as grading of the streets and established Washington’s first volunteer fire companies, appropriating $1,000\",\n \"title\": \"Benjamin G. Orr\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"17337590\",\n \"text\": \"were played by Prairie Prince. Powell continued the stylistic break in 2004 with Day for Night, another one-man-band performance. In late 2004 Powell was contacted by Elliot Easton, guitarist for The Cars. Easton had heard Powell's recording of Candy-O and was impressed enough to ask Powell to be the singer of The New Cars, a reformation of The Cars without Ric Ocasek and Benjamin Orr (who had died). Powell began working on demos for the project and completed six demos. However, as the plans for the band evolved The Cars decided to bring in a higher profile singer, and settled\",\n \"title\": \"Doug Powell (musician, apologist)\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"1461545\",\n \"text\": \"labyrinthine synthesizer and guitar textures of art rock, the '50s rockabilly revival and the melodious terseness of power pop—and mixed them into a personal and appealing blend.\\\" They have also had hard rock-oriented songs including \\\"You're All I've Got Tonight.\\\" The Cars The Cars were an American rock band that emerged from the new wave scene in the late 1970s. The band originated in Boston in 1976, with singer, rhythm guitarist, and songwriter Ric Ocasek; singer, songwriter and bassist Benjamin Orr; lead guitarist Elliot Easton; keyboardist Greg Hawkes; and drummer David Robinson. The Cars were at the forefront in merging\",\n \"title\": \"The Cars\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"7158393\",\n \"text\": \"Let's Go (The Cars song) \\\"Let's Go\\\" was the first single from The Cars' second studio album \\\"Candy-O\\\". It was released in 1979 on Elektra Records. The song was written by Ric Ocasek and features lead vocals by Cars bassist Benjamin Orr. \\\"Let's Go\\\" was described by Brett Milano as \\\"another double-edged anthem\\\" in the liner notes for \\\"\\\". AllMusic critic Donald Guarisco called the track \\\"a tight new wave rocker that married the sardonic humor and new wave quirkiness of their previous singles to an easily accessible pop melody.\\\" The song's signature hook is a series of claps followed\",\n \"title\": \"Let's Go (The Cars song)\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"7715203\",\n \"text\": \"in 2004, Sulton joined The New Cars in 2005, replacing original Cars bassist and co-lead vocalist Benjamin Orr, who died of cancer in 2000. The band also included original Cars band members Elliot Easton and Greg Hawkes as well as Todd Rundgren and Prairie Prince from Journey and The Tubes. An album, \\\"It's Alive!\\\", was followed by a tour in 2006, with Sulton singing lead on The Cars' hit \\\"Drive\\\". Sulton continues to appear live playing bass, keyboards, and guitar on most Todd Rundgren tours, including the 2008-09 \\\"Arena\\\" gigs, 2009-10 performances of the classic album \\\"A Wizard, a True\",\n \"title\": \"Kasim Sulton\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"6937963\",\n \"text\": \"to the latter being cast in \\\"Made in Heaven\\\". Drive (The Cars song) \\\"Drive\\\" is a 1984 song by The Cars, the third single from the band's \\\"Heartbeat City\\\" album released in March 1984 and their biggest international hit. Written by Ric Ocasek, the track was sung by bassist Benjamin Orr and produced by Robert John \\\"Mutt\\\" Lange with the band. Upon its release, \\\"Drive\\\" became The Cars' highest charting single in most territories. In the United States, it peaked at No. 3 on the \\\"Billboard\\\" Hot 100 chart; on the Adult Contemporary chart, the song went to No. 1.\",\n \"title\": \"Drive (The Cars song)\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"6937957\",\n \"text\": \"Drive (The Cars song) \\\"Drive\\\" is a 1984 song by The Cars, the third single from the band's \\\"Heartbeat City\\\" album released in March 1984 and their biggest international hit. Written by Ric Ocasek, the track was sung by bassist Benjamin Orr and produced by Robert John \\\"Mutt\\\" Lange with the band. Upon its release, \\\"Drive\\\" became The Cars' highest charting single in most territories. In the United States, it peaked at No. 3 on the \\\"Billboard\\\" Hot 100 chart; on the Adult Contemporary chart, the song went to No. 1. It reached No. 5 (No. 4 on re-entry in\",\n \"title\": \"Drive (The Cars song)\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"7637715\",\n \"text\": \"was eventually re-recorded for 1979's \\\"Candy-O\\\". The previously unreleased \\\"Slipaway\\\" was recorded as a 24-track demo by The Cars between their first and second albums. Rather than record a finished studio version, The Cars gave the song to Ian Lloyd, who issued his version later in 1979. The following two songs, both cover versions, were initially made as backing tracks for Bebe Buell to record vocals over for her 1981 EP \\\"Covers Girl\\\". These versions feature lead vocals by Ric Ocasek and Benjamin Orr, and were previously unreleased. Just What I Needed: The Cars Anthology Just What I Needed: The\",\n \"title\": \"Just What I Needed: The Cars Anthology\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"7616415\",\n \"text\": \"Benjamin Orr (Massachusetts politician) Benjamin Orr (December 1, 1772 – September 3, 1828) was a member of the United States House of Representatives from Massachusetts. Orr was born in Bedford, New Hampshire, on December 1, 1772. He was self-educated and apprenticed as a carpenter. He attended Fryeburg Academy, taught school at Concord and New Milford, New Hampshire; and graduated from Dartmouth College in 1798. He studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1801 and commenced the practice of law in Brunswick, Maine (then a part of Massachusetts). Orr moved to Topsham, Maine, in 1801 and continued the practice of\",\n \"title\": \"Benjamin Orr (Massachusetts politician)\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"14995645\",\n \"text\": \"version of it on their 2006 album \\\"It's Alive\\\". Candy-O (song) \\\"Candy-O\\\" is a song by the American rock band The Cars, the title track of their 1979 album \\\"Candy-O\\\". It was written by the band's songwriter Ric Ocasek, was produced by Roy Thomas Baker, and features Cars bassist Benjamin Orr on lead vocals. The style of the song is perhaps more guitar-heavy and less new wave-sounding than many Cars songs. The chorus is minimal, with only one line \\\"(\\\"Candy-O / I need you so\\\")\\\", leading to loud guitar and drum fills dividing the rhythm less evenly. Originally, the chorus\",\n \"title\": \"Candy-O (song)\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"14995642\",\n \"text\": \"Candy-O (song) \\\"Candy-O\\\" is a song by the American rock band The Cars, the title track of their 1979 album \\\"Candy-O\\\". It was written by the band's songwriter Ric Ocasek, was produced by Roy Thomas Baker, and features Cars bassist Benjamin Orr on lead vocals. The style of the song is perhaps more guitar-heavy and less new wave-sounding than many Cars songs. The chorus is minimal, with only one line \\\"(\\\"Candy-O / I need you so\\\")\\\", leading to loud guitar and drum fills dividing the rhythm less evenly. Originally, the chorus lyric was followed by the musical term \\\"fortissimo\\\" (an\",\n \"title\": \"Candy-O (song)\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"7616416\",\n \"text\": \"law; was overseer of Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine, and served as trustee from 1814 to 1828 and as treasurer in 1815 and 1816. Orr was elected as a Federalist to the Fifteenth Congress (March 4, 1817 – March 3, 1819) but was not a candidate for renomination in 1818. He resumed the practice of law in Topsham and, in 1822, returned to Brunswick to continue the practice of law. He died in Brunswick, on September 3, 1828, and he was interred in Pine Grove Cemetery. Benjamin Orr (Massachusetts politician) Benjamin Orr (December 1, 1772 – September 3, 1828) was a\",\n \"title\": \"Benjamin Orr (Massachusetts politician)\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"2950024\",\n \"text\": \"Door to Door (album) Door to Door is the sixth studio album by the American rock band the Cars. It was released in 1987 on Elektra Records. \\\"Door to Door\\\" was the group's last studio album before they disbanded in 1988. It was also the last Cars record to feature Benjamin Orr before his death in 2000. The band would not release another studio album until 2011's \\\"Move Like This\\\". Although by 1987 the Cars had reached the heights of superstardom, their last few albums had relied heavily on studio tricks and machines; this album was an attempt to move\",\n \"title\": \"Door to Door (album)\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"14752869\",\n \"text\": \"It's All I Can Do \\\"It's All I Can Do\\\" is a song by the American rock band the Cars. It is the third track from their 1979 album \\\"Candy-O\\\". It was written by the band's leader and songwriter Ric Ocasek, and features bassist Benjamin Orr on vocals. \\\"It's All I Can Do\\\" is a new wave influenced pop rock song. According to Brett Milano, writer of the \\\"\\\" album notes \\\"'It's All I Can Do' was an affecting, straight-ahead piece of romantic pop, give or take a line like 'When I was crazy, I thought you were great.'\\\" The\",\n \"title\": \"It's All I Can Do\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"1461542\",\n \"text\": \"page on December 7, 2010; another clip of a song called \\\"Free\\\" was shared on their Facebook page on January 1, 2011. The official debut video for \\\"Blue Tip\\\" was released February 17. The video was directed by Roberto Serrini and Eron Otcasek from The Lab NYC and features the four members of the band, and NYC based street artist Joe Iurato. According to \\\"Rolling Stone\\\", the surviving Cars mutually agreed there would be no replacing the late Benjamin Orr, so Hawkes and Lee handled all bass parts. The new album, titled \\\"Move Like This\\\", was released on May 10\",\n \"title\": \"The Cars\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"6502851\",\n \"text\": \"Greg Hawkes Gregory A. \\\"Greg\\\" Hawkes (born October 22, 1952) is an American musician best known as the keyboardist for the rock band The Cars. Hawkes, a native of Fulton, Maryland, attended Atholton High School where he played in a band called Teeth. He then attended Berklee College of Music for two years, majoring in composition and flute. He left to play in various bands, including Martin Mull and his Fabulous Furniture, where he played flute, saxophone, and clarinet. He also played in a band called Richard and the Rabbits, which included future Cars bandmates Ric Ocasek and Benjamin Orr.\",\n \"title\": \"Greg Hawkes\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"15279359\",\n \"text\": \"Cruiser (song) \\\"Cruiser\\\" is a song by American new wave band The Cars, from their 1981 album \\\"Shake It Up\\\". \\\"Cruiser\\\" was written by Cars songwriter and vocalist Ric Ocasek and sung by bassist-vocalist Benjamin Orr. Upon the release of \\\"Shake It Up\\\", \\\"Cruiser\\\" was singled out for praise. The \\\"Bangor Daily News\\\", in an otherwise unenthusiastic review of \\\"Shake It Up\\\", cited \\\"Cruiser\\\" as a source of \\\"real excitement\\\". AllMusic reviewer Greg Prato describes the song as \\\"rocking\\\" and a highlight of the album. In addition to appearing on the album, \\\"Cruiser\\\" was released as the B-side of the\",\n \"title\": \"Cruiser (song)\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"6410276\",\n \"text\": \"stations WCOZ and WBCN from the said demo tape, along with its future follow-up single \\\"My Best Friend's Girl\\\". Shortly thereafter, it became one of the stations' most requested songs. The opening riff of \\\"Just What I Needed\\\" was borrowed from \\\"Yummy Yummy Yummy\\\", a song by the Ohio Express. It also features a prominent keyboard riff performed by Greg Hawkes. The song was sung by the Cars' bassist Benjamin Orr rather than usual lead vocalist, Ric Ocasek. \\\"Just What I Needed\\\" was released as a single in 1978 prior to the release of \\\"The Cars\\\", backed with \\\"I'm in\",\n \"title\": \"Just What I Needed\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"15444634\",\n \"text\": \"in his review of \\\"\\\", that it was \\\"previously released album tracks [on the album]\\\" that were \\\"highlights.\\\" In the \\\"Just What I Needed: The Cars Anthology\\\" liner notes, Brett Milano said, \\\"Rockers like 'Getting Through' and 'Gimme Some Slack' had a heavier sound than before [\\\"Panorama\\\"].\\\" The B-side of the song, \\\"Don't Go to Pieces\\\", features Benjamin Orr on lead vocals. \\\"Don't Go to Pieces\\\" was first released as the B-side to \\\"Don't Tell Me No\\\", the single released before \\\"Gimme Some Slack\\\". Gimme Some Slack \\\"Gimme Some Slack\\\" is a song by the American rock band The Cars\",\n \"title\": \"Gimme Some Slack\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"14943005\",\n \"text\": \"You Are the Girl \\\"You Are the Girl\\\" is a 1987 song by The Cars, from their album \\\"Door to Door\\\". It was released as a single in August 1987, reaching number 17 on the \\\"Billboard\\\" Hot 100. It also reached number 2 on the Mainstream Rock Tracks chart, and number 12 on the Adult Contemporary chart. It was The Cars' 13th and (as of 2016) last Top 40 hit. Rhythm guitarist and principal songwriter Ric Ocasek shares lead vocals with bassist Benjamin Orr on \\\"You Are the Girl\\\". Both singers had recently cracked the Top 40 with solo hits,\",\n \"title\": \"You Are the Girl\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"7050126\",\n \"text\": \"since been used and parodied in several films and television shows, including an episode of \\\"Family Guy\\\", which parodied the scene from the movie in which the song appeared. Moving in Stereo \\\"Moving in Stereo\\\" is a song by the American rock band the Cars. It appeared on their first album, \\\"The Cars\\\", released in 1978. It was co-written by Ric Ocasek and the band's keyboard player Greg Hawkes, and sung by bassist Benjamin Orr. Although not released as a single, \\\"Moving in Stereo\\\" received airplay on album-oriented rock radio stations in the United States, often coupled with the song\",\n \"title\": \"Moving in Stereo\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"7050124\",\n \"text\": \"Moving in Stereo \\\"Moving in Stereo\\\" is a song by the American rock band the Cars. It appeared on their first album, \\\"The Cars\\\", released in 1978. It was co-written by Ric Ocasek and the band's keyboard player Greg Hawkes, and sung by bassist Benjamin Orr. Although not released as a single, \\\"Moving in Stereo\\\" received airplay on album-oriented rock radio stations in the United States, often coupled with the song \\\"All Mixed Up\\\" which it segues into on the album. The song continues to receive airplay on classic rock radio stations. Donald A. Guarisco of AllMusic described the song\",\n \"title\": \"Moving in Stereo\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"2950027\",\n \"text\": \"In\\\" only scraped into the top 100 peaking at #85 though it was much more successful on the rock charts where it reached #4. The final single released \\\"Coming Up You\\\" peaked at 74 on the charts and was also a moderate hit on the adult contemporary charts. Door to Door (album) Door to Door is the sixth studio album by the American rock band the Cars. It was released in 1987 on Elektra Records. \\\"Door to Door\\\" was the group's last studio album before they disbanded in 1988. It was also the last Cars record to feature Benjamin Orr\",\n \"title\": \"Door to Door (album)\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"1461539\",\n \"text\": \"non-album b-sides). They followed up with the releases of \\\"\\\" (1999), their debut album in 2-CD format, and \\\"Complete Greatest Hits\\\". In the mid-1990s, Orr recorded tracks with guitarist John Kalishes for an unreleased follow-up to The Lace and performed with three bands, his own band \\\"ORR\\\", The Voices of Classic Rock, and Big People. Orr did appear with his former bandmates one last time in an interview for a documentary about the group prior to his death from pancreatic cancer, at age 53, in 2000. Ocasek continued to perform as a solo artist, having released over seven studio albums.\",\n \"title\": \"The Cars\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"2966523\",\n \"text\": \"lead vocal on some of the band's best known songs, including their first top 40 hit \\\"Just What I Needed\\\", \\\"Let's Go,\\\" and on \\\"Drive\\\", their highest-charting U.S. single. Orr released his only solo album, \\\"The Lace\\\", in 1986. He co-wrote the music and lyrics with his long-time girlfriend, Diane Grey Page who also sang backing vocals, and the album had one top 40 hit, \\\"Stay the Night\\\". The song was a top 10 album rock hit and the video was in heavy rotation on MTV. A second single \\\"Too Hot to Stop\\\" was also released, but did not chart\",\n \"title\": \"Benjamin Orr\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"4146959\",\n \"text\": \"Stephens Orr John Stephens Orr (6 March 1907 – 1990) was a 20th-century Scottish Glasgow photographer with an interest in people and motor cars. Practicing between 1930 and 1970 in Glasgow's Langside and later at No. 4 Somerset Place, Charing Cross, he became known for his portraits of society figures in magazines such as \\\"Scottish Field\\\". He worked in an age when Scottish culture was highly regarded, and people of all classes saw nothing wrong with \\\"The White Heather Club\\\" (a 1960s Scottish TV show, viewed now as hopelessly kitsch, but still part of the Scottish psyche). His usual subjects\",\n \"title\": \"Stephens Orr\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"220535\",\n \"text\": \"right in American politics. \\\"The churches came after me\\\", she wrote, \\\"they attacked me, though the Episcopalian Church, which I've seen described as the only church in America which actually uses its head, wrote me a letter of congratulation.\\\" Mitchell continued experimenting with synthesizers, drum machines and sequencers for the recordings of her next album, 1988's \\\"Chalk Mark in a Rain Storm\\\". She also collaborated with artists including Willie Nelson, Billy Idol, Wendy & Lisa, Tom Petty, Don Henley, Peter Gabriel, and Benjamin Orr of the Cars. The album's first official single, \\\"My Secret Place\\\", was in fact a duet\",\n \"title\": \"Joni Mitchell\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"13367566\",\n \"text\": \"Cars' Benjamin Orr, spent 3 weeks at #1 on Los Angeles radio station KBIG FM and also hit the Top 5 at sister station KOST FM. In their review of the \\\"Suddenly Beautiful\\\" single, \\\"Billboard\\\" magazine declared the song \\\"beautiful, indeed\\\". Carlson had numerous songs from the \\\"Untucked\\\" album included on television shows. \\\"Dawson's Creek\\\" featured \\\"I Know You By Heart\\\" and \\\"Blue Steak Cadillac\\\", and \\\"Dive\\\" appeared on the Bravo reality show \\\"Blowout 3\\\". In 2008, \\\"Go-To Girl\\\" and \\\"Getaway Car\\\" were also featured on the teen drama \\\"South Of Nowhere\\\". Carlson won two awards at the 2003 Los\",\n \"title\": \"Katrina Carlson\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"10719650\",\n \"text\": \"drums. He obtained a diploma in music. In the early 1990s, he moved to the USA, settling in Boston, where he worked with Benjamin Orr of The Cars among others. Khoroshev met Carl Jacobson of the Cakewalk software house. Jacobson employed Khoroshev, who composed music for Cakewalk's Pro Audio 9, and he also introduced Khoroshev to Yes's Jon Anderson. Khoroshev released a solo album \\\"Piano Works\\\" in 1999. He appeared on the Emerson, Lake & Palmer tribute album \\\"Encores, Legends and Paradox\\\". In March 2000, he and Jon Anderson worked on an album called \\\"True You, True Me\\\". The album\",\n \"title\": \"Igor Khoroshev\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"2684742\",\n \"text\": \"1989. The couple have two sons, Jonathan Raven Otcasek (b. November 4, 1993), and Oliver Otcasek (b. 1999). In May 2018, Porizkova announced she and Ocasek had separated a year earlier. Ocasek has six sons, two from each of his three marriages. His eldest son, Christopher Otcasek, was a singer who formed the rock group Glamour Camp which released one album in 1989. Adam Otcasek was born in 1970. Eron was born in 1973 and Derek was born in 1981. He and co-founder of the Cars Benjamin Orr were known to be close friends. Their friendship was commemorated in the\",\n \"title\": \"Ric Ocasek\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"18287867\",\n \"text\": \"sound more enthused and more interested than [Ric] Ocasek does on any of his songs.\\\" Coming Up You \\\"Coming Up You\\\" is a 1987 song by The Cars, appearing on their sixth studio album \\\"Door to Door\\\". It was written by Ric Ocasek and sung by Benjamin Orr. \\\"Coming Up You\\\" first saw release as the eighth track on \\\"Door to Door\\\" in August 1987. The song later saw a single release in America and Australia, backed with the fellow \\\"Door to Door\\\" track \\\"Double Trouble\\\". The third single from \\\"Door to Door\\\" (after the top twenty hit \\\"You Are\",\n \"title\": \"Coming Up You\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"13735801\",\n \"text\": \"Samuel Orr Samuel Orr (July 11, 1890 – August 29, 1981) was a socialist politician from New York City best remembered for being one of the five elected members of the Socialist Party of America expelled by the New York State Assembly during the First Red Scare in 1920. Orr was born on July 11, 1890 in the town of Rajgród, then a part of Russian-occupied Poland. His family moved to the United States in 1891. Orr graduated from the New York University School of Law and practiced law, including time at the firm of Benjamin N. Cardozo and Nathan\",\n \"title\": \"Samuel Orr\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"15272379\",\n \"text\": \"its studio appearance on \\\"The Idiot\\\", a live version of \\\"Funtime\\\" was included on Pop's \\\"TV Eye Live 1977\\\". Pop also performed the song on the television show Dinah! in 1977 with Bowie accompanying on keyboards and backing vocal. During the sessions for 1981's \\\"Shake It Up\\\", members of The Cars recorded a version of \\\"Funtime\\\" featuring bassist Benjamin Orr on vocals. According to Brett Milano's liner notes for \\\"\\\", Pop was present at the recording session and complimented Orr's vocal impersonation of him, telling the bassist \\\"You sound more like me than me.\\\" The song was later stripped of\",\n \"title\": \"Funtime (Iggy Pop song)\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"2066347\",\n \"text\": \"Pops. Columbus has hosted the annual three-day hard rock Rock on the Range festival each May since 2007. Popular musicians from Ohio include Mamie Smith, Dean Martin, Tyler Joseph and Josh Dun of Twenty One Pilots, Frankie Yankovic, Doris Day, The McGuire Sisters, The Isley Brothers, Bobby Womack, Howard Hewett, Shirley Murdock, Boz Scaggs, John Legend, Marilyn Manson, Dan Auerbach and Patrick Carney of The Black Keys, Griffin Layne, Joe Dolce, Benjamin Orr of The Cars, Chrissie Hynde of The Pretenders, William \\\"Bootsy\\\" Collins, and Devo. Doris Day (born 1922 in Cincinnati) had a #1 Billboard Hot 100 hit in\",\n \"title\": \"Music of Ohio\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"15306744\",\n \"text\": \"Move Like This Move Like This is the seventh studio album by American rock band The Cars, released on May 10, 2011. The album is their first since 1987's \\\"Door to Door\\\" and the first without bassist and vocalist Benjamin Orr, who died of pancreatic cancer in 2000. The album reached the top ten of the \\\"Billboard\\\" 200 and peaked at number 2 on the \\\"Billboard\\\" Top Rock Albums chart; a single from the album, \\\"Sad Song\\\", reached number 33 on the \\\"Billboard\\\" Rock Songs chart. Following the release of the album, the band launched an 11-city tour of North\",\n \"title\": \"Move Like This\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"7780843\",\n \"text\": \"onwards and subsequently as session bassist. The pre-Ernie Ball MusicMan StingRay is the main instrument of Paul S. Denman of the Sade band and it has been featured on all of their albums and live recordings. Benjamin Orr, bassist, co-vocalist and founding member of The Cars, is well known amongst fans to have played a circa 1977 Inca Silver Music Man StingRay with maple neck/fretboard and black pickguard. This bass was lost in a fire that swept through Orr's Boston apartment in the early 1980s, along with a cherry red 1967 Vox Constellation bass with an unusual black headstock. Mark\",\n \"title\": \"Music Man StingRay\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"15306753\",\n \"text\": \"\\\"Blue Tip\\\". \\\"Rocket USA\\\" is a cover of a 1977 song by the American band Suicide, from their self-titled debut. Move Like This Move Like This is the seventh studio album by American rock band The Cars, released on May 10, 2011. The album is their first since 1987's \\\"Door to Door\\\" and the first without bassist and vocalist Benjamin Orr, who died of pancreatic cancer in 2000. The album reached the top ten of the \\\"Billboard\\\" 200 and peaked at number 2 on the \\\"Billboard\\\" Top Rock Albums chart; a single from the album, \\\"Sad Song\\\", reached number 33\",\n \"title\": \"Move Like This\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"1480026\",\n \"text\": \"an occasional release of new material. Scott Hoffman took over the drum chair from Meeder later in 1992. Donny Baldwin (ex-Jefferson Starship) filled in for Hoffman on some 1996 tour dates after Hoffman was down with a broken arm, but Gary \\\"Madman\\\" Moffatt (formerly of Cactus) has been the band's drummer since 1997. In 1996 38's long time guitarist/co-founder Jeff Carlisi, tired of the endless touring, decided to leave to form the Bonnie Blue Band, which led to the supergroup, Big People, which also featured Benjamin Orr (from The Cars), Liberty DeVitto (from Billy Joel's band), Derek St. Holmes (ex-Ted\",\n \"title\": \"38 Special (band)\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"6937958\",\n \"text\": \"1985) in the United Kingdom, No. 4 in West Germany, No. 6 in Canada and No. 3 (No. 5 on re-entry in 1985) in Ireland. The song is associated with the July 1985 Live Aid event, where it was performed by Benjamin Orr during the Philadelphia event; previously, the song was used as the background music to a montage of clips depicting the contemporaneous Ethiopian famine during the London event, which was introduced by English musician David Bowie. Following the concert it was re-released in the UK and peaked at No. 4 in August 1985. Proceeds from the sales of\",\n \"title\": \"Drive (The Cars song)\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"15100971\",\n \"text\": \"I'm Not the One \\\"I'm Not the One\\\" is a song by the American rock band the Cars, from their fourth album, \\\"Shake It Up\\\". It features Ric Ocasek on lead vocals, Benjamin Orr singing the 'You Know Why' phrase, with the whole group repeating \\\"going round and round\\\" as backing vocals throughout the song. \\\"I'm Not the One\\\" first appeared in 1981 on \\\"Shake It Up\\\". It was not a charting single at the time, but was nonetheless included on the band's 1985 \\\"Greatest Hits\\\" album. The song was remixed on the \\\"Greatest Hits\\\" album, emphasizing the drum track\",\n \"title\": \"I'm Not the One\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"15100975\",\n \"text\": \"the chorus in B minor. Each verse is introduced with a guitar melody from Elliot Easton, who layers several clean-tone guitar parts over the synthesizer-dominated arrangement. There is also a horn-like synthesizer solo by Greg Hawkes, played over the chorus progression. I'm Not the One \\\"I'm Not the One\\\" is a song by the American rock band the Cars, from their fourth album, \\\"Shake It Up\\\". It features Ric Ocasek on lead vocals, Benjamin Orr singing the 'You Know Why' phrase, with the whole group repeating \\\"going round and round\\\" as backing vocals throughout the song. \\\"I'm Not the One\\\"\",\n \"title\": \"I'm Not the One\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"18287864\",\n \"text\": \"Coming Up You \\\"Coming Up You\\\" is a 1987 song by The Cars, appearing on their sixth studio album \\\"Door to Door\\\". It was written by Ric Ocasek and sung by Benjamin Orr. \\\"Coming Up You\\\" first saw release as the eighth track on \\\"Door to Door\\\" in August 1987. The song later saw a single release in America and Australia, backed with the fellow \\\"Door to Door\\\" track \\\"Double Trouble\\\". The third single from \\\"Door to Door\\\" (after the top twenty hit \\\"You Are the Girl\\\" and its less successful follow-up \\\"Strap Me In\\\"), the song peaked at #74\",\n \"title\": \"Coming Up You\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"13104107\",\n \"text\": \"Court, appointed on March 2, 1939 to Benjamin Wilson Coleman's vacancy, elected November 1940 and served until 1945, including as Chief Justice from 1943 to 1945. On September 10, 1945, Orr was nominated by President Harry S. Truman to a seat on the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit vacated by Judge Curtis D. Wilbur. Orr was confirmed by the United States Senate on September 19, 1945, and received his commission on September 28, 1945. He assumed senior status on January 1, 1956, serving in that capacity until his death on October 7, 1965. William Edwin Orr\",\n \"title\": \"William Edwin Orr\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"6475091\",\n \"text\": \"Buxton Orr Buxton Orr (18 April 1924 – 27 December 1997) was a Glasgow-born Anglo-Scottish composer. Originally trained as a doctor, Orr gave up medicine and switched to music, studying composition with Benjamin Frankel and conducting with Aylmer Buesst. Best known for his personal application of serial technique and for several virtuoso instrumental fantasies on well-known operatic themes, he was also active for a time in the film industry as well as being an energetic and influential teacher. His music includes works in all genres, including songs, chamber music, works for brass and wind band, orchestral music, opera and music\",\n \"title\": \"Buxton Orr\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"15994240\",\n \"text\": \"the company's director for two years, making a tidy profit. Upon leaving Mount Lyell in 1894, Orr began a tour of the world, seeing mining operations in Spain and the US. In 1901 he was elected to the Victorian Legislative Council, representing North-Eastern Province for the non-Labor parties. His term ended in 1904, and Orr did not seek reelection. Three years later he unsuccessfully contested a seat in Northern Province. A colleague described Orr as \\\"A real rank tory on some subjects ... but when he comes to water he is very liberal\\\". Orr was staunchly against recognising trade unions\",\n \"title\": \"William Orr (Australian politician)\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"881953\",\n \"text\": \"Calder Memorial Trophy as the league's outstanding rookie and was named to the NHL's Second All-Star team. New York Rangers defenceman Harry Howell won the Norris Trophy as the league's best defenceman that year. In accepting the award, Howell said he was glad to win when he did, predicting \\\"Orr will own this trophy from now on.\\\" Orr was runner-up in voting. In 1967–68, his second season, injuries limited Orr to just 46 games in which he scored 11 goals and had 20 assists. Prior to the season, Orr had injured his right knee during a charity game in Winnipeg\",\n \"title\": \"Bobby Orr\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"14934193\",\n \"text\": \"which produced \\\"You Are the Girl\\\", their last Top 40 single. On the Radio & Records airplay chart the song debuted at #40 on the December 12, 1986 issue, after five weeks, it reached and peaked at #14 staying there for a week, the single stayed on the Top 20 of the chart for three weeks, and remained on it for nine. Song reached #18 on the Billboard Hot 100 Airplay chart, #26 on the Billboard Hot 100 Singles Sales chart, and #20 on the Cashbox chart. Stay the Night (Benjamin Orr song) \\\"Stay the Night\\\" is a song by\",\n \"title\": \"Stay the Night (Benjamin Orr song)\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"1461536\",\n \"text\": \"\\\"Since You're Gone\\\". Following their 1982 tour, the Cars took a short break and went to work on solo projects, with Ocasek and Hawkes both releasing debut albums (\\\"Beatitude\\\" and \\\"Niagara Falls\\\", respectively). The Cars reunited and released their most successful album, \\\"Heartbeat City\\\", in 1984. The first single, \\\"You Might Think\\\", helped the Cars win Video of the Year at the first MTV Video Music Awards. Other hit singles from the album included \\\"Magic\\\", \\\"Hello Again\\\", and \\\"Why Can't I Have You\\\". Their most successful single, \\\"Drive\\\", with Orr on lead vocals, gained particular notability when it was used\",\n \"title\": \"The Cars\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"4229110\",\n \"text\": \"life to Veda Orr, through April 1956. Karl & Veda Orr built & operated their own race cars. Veda wrote many racing articles. Sweikert returned to Hayward and opened his own small business, Sweikert Automotive, an automotive repair shop based out of his parents' garage. There over the next couple years he built his own track roadster. On Memorial Day, May 26, 1947 Sweikert ran his first race for prize money at the Oakland Speedway, and finished second. Sweikert then quit automotive repair, and became a full-time driver. He gained his first racing sponsorship in July 1947, when he became\",\n \"title\": \"Bob Sweikert\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"14122203\",\n \"text\": \"by tour operators, Orr joined a group which in 1936 organized the Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association. In the 1940s and 1950s, Orr and her long-term friend Joe Orr (1905–1978), also of Montana, operated their own Greenough-Orr Rodeo, which toured the American West. The couple married in 1958. The Orrs offered the first women barrel racing events. Orr also did difficult exhibitions of saddle bronc riding, a specialty no longer on the women's rodeo circuit Orr retired from rodeos in 1954 at the age of fifty-two, but she continued to accept occasional motion picture assignments until she was eighty. She did\",\n \"title\": \"Alice Greenough Orr\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"2027081\",\n \"text\": \"himself look good to his superiors. Yossarian shows particular grief for the men that die during the novel, particularly Snowden, McWatt, Nately, Dobbs and Hungry Joe or those who appear to disappear; Orr, Clevinger and Dunbar. His relationship with the enlisted gunner Snowden is vivid and is the book's emotional center. When Snowden gets injured over Avignon, it is Yossarian who tries to help him, only to watch him die a revolting death. At the end of the novel, Yossarian accepts a deal with Colonel Cathcart and Colonel Korn rather than face a court-martial for going AWOL in Rome. The\",\n \"title\": \"Yossarian\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"2794606\",\n \"text\": \"Bush as the U.S. Ambassador to Singapore, a position that he held until 1992. After he left his ambassadorship, Orr established a consulting firm called the Alliance for Global Commerce, which focused on international trade and export issues. In 2000, his wife, Joanne \\\"Josie\\\" Wallace, requested that he divorce her because she was suffering from dementia. She wanted her husband to be happy in his last years instead of watching his wife slowly die. In 2001, at the age of eighty-three, he married Mary Kay Davis. Orr died at the age of eighty-six at the Indiana University Medical Center in\",\n \"title\": \"Robert D. Orr\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"3083684\",\n \"text\": \"not appear afraid of the missions, and he is therefore assumed to be crazy. They do not know that this is part of his plan to escape the war. Doc Daneeka uses Orr as an example, when explaining the grounding of the insane and “Catch-22”. Orr is insane for not requesting to be grounded, even though he is shot down every mission he flies. If he did request to be grounded he would be considered sane for realising the risks of continuing to fly. The “Catch-22” is that you can only be grounded if you are insane. But you must\",\n \"title\": \"Orr (Catch-22)\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"11548864\",\n \"text\": \"Kajima Sculpture Exhibition held biannually in Tokyo. Bagley has also created public sculpture and art projects. In 2015, a 14-year-old public art created with in collaboration with Tom Orr and located at White Rock Lake in Dallas was recently the cause of controversy when the city of Dallas determined that it did not have the funds available to restore the art and that it must be demolished. A compromise was reached: Dallas will commission another work from Bagley and Orr. Another collaborative project that Bagley and Orr worked on was the creation of sets and costumes for the Dallas Opera's\",\n \"title\": \"Frances Bagley\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"9993843\",\n \"text\": \"loss. Gary Thompson outscored Chamberlain, while Don Medsker held Chamberlain to a career low in scoring and then hit the game winner at the buzzer. No. 3 remains the school's highest-ever national ranking. From the introduction of the Big Eight's postseason tournament in 1977 until Johnny Orr's fifth season in 1985, the Cyclones did not advance past their first game. Johnny Orr came to Iowa State from Michigan in 1980. Iowa State's athletics director had called Orr to inquire about Michigan assistant Bill Frieder. When Orr learned of the salary Iowa State would offer Frieder, he negotiated the Iowa State\",\n \"title\": \"Iowa State Cyclones men's basketball\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"14122202\",\n \"text\": \"excelled at trick riding and bull riding. Alice and Marge, with their brothers, Bill and Thurkel, known as \\\"Turk\\\", were termed the \\\"Riding Greenoughs\\\". Turk Greenough was a bronc rider and occasional film actor who died in June 1995 at the age of eighty-nine, two months before the passing of his sister Alice. Orr also did occasional stunt work in films. From her first marriage to Ray Cahill, Alice Orr had two children. Her interest in bronc riding began in 1929, when she and her sister answered an advertisement from Jack King's Wild West Show. Because competitors were sometimes cheated\",\n \"title\": \"Alice Greenough Orr\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"1461530\",\n \"text\": \"Paramount Records in 1973 that failed to chart. After Milkwood, Ocasek and Orr formed the group Richard and the Rabbits, whose name was suggested by Jonathan Richman. The band included Greg Hawkes, who had studied at the Berklee School of Music and had played saxophone on Milkwood's album. Hawkes left to tour with Martin Mull and His Fabulous Furniture, a musical comedy act in which Mull played a variety of instruments. Ric Ocasek and Ben Orr then performed as an acoustic duo called simply Ocasek and Orr at the Idler coffeehouse in Cambridge. Some of the songs they played became\",\n \"title\": \"The Cars\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"2684732\",\n \"text\": \"Stills and Nash-style folk rock band called Milkwood. They released one album, \\\"How's the Weather\\\", on Paramount Records in early 1973 but it failed to chart. After Milkwood, Ocasek formed the group Richard and the Rabbits, which included Orr and keyboardist Greg Hawkes, who had played on Milkwood's album. Ocasek and Orr also performed as an acoustic duo during this period. Some of the songs they played became the early Cars songs. Later, Ocasek and Orr teamed up with guitarist Elliot Easton in the band Cap'n Swing. Cap'n Swing soon came to the attention of WBCN disc jockey Maxanne Sartori,\",\n \"title\": \"Ric Ocasek\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"2795737\",\n \"text\": \"Matchbox was taken over by Universal International of Hong Kong in 1982 (McGimpsey & Orr 1989, p. 28). Thus ended the era when UK-made die-cast toy models were dominant. The Dinky trade-name changed hands many times before ending up as part of Matchbox International Ltd in the late 1980s. This seemed to be a logical and perhaps synergistic development, uniting two of the most valuable and venerated names in the British and world die-cast model car market under one roof. For a time some Matchbox vehicles were sold under the Dinky name (Stoneback 2002, p. 24). In the 1980s, Matchbox\",\n \"title\": \"Dinky Toys\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"16591609\",\n \"text\": \"intention to compete for Rookie of the Year honors; in the season-opening Goody's 300 at Daytona International Speedway, Orr qualified tenth for the series' biggest race of the year, but was involved in an accident, finishing 40th of 46 cars and completing only 50 laps. Orr failed to qualify three times over the next six races, with his best finish in the three races which he qualified for being 34th, at Richmond International Raceway in the third race of the season, and Bristol International Raceway in the seventh. Bristol's Goody's Headache Powder 250 would be Orr's final race in NASCAR's\",\n \"title\": \"Pete Orr (racing driver)\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"2684743\",\n \"text\": \"song \\\"Silver\\\" which Ocasek wrote as a dedication to Orr upon his death in 2000. Ric Ocasek Richard Theodore Otcasek (born March 23, 1945 known as Ric Ocasek (), is an American singer, songwriter, musician and record producer. He is best known as the lead vocalist, rhythm guitarist and songwriter for the rock band the Cars. In 2018, Ocasek was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of the Cars. Ocasek grew up in Baltimore, Maryland. When Ocasek was 16 years old, his family moved to Cleveland, Ohio, where he graduated from Maple Heights High\",\n \"title\": \"Ric Ocasek\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"11077397\",\n \"text\": \"finished in last place that season, sparked a renaissance that propelled the Bruins to make the playoffs the following twenty-nine straight seasons. New York Rangers defenseman Harry Howell, the winner of the Norris Trophy as the league's best defenseman in Orr's rookie year, famously predicted that he was glad to win when he did, because \\\"Orr will own this trophy from now on.\\\" </div> 1966–67 Boston Bruins season The 1966–67 Boston Bruins season was the Bruins' 43rd season in the NHL. Despite the debut of Bobby Orr, the Bruins finished in last place and did not qualify for the playoffs.\",\n \"title\": \"1966–67 Boston Bruins season\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"8273316\",\n \"text\": \"adopted her middle name, Emily, as her stage name. Although the character of Madge Allsop was created by Barry Humphries during the 1960s, she was only mentioned in passing by Dame Edna and did not actually appear on stage until the late 1970s, when she was portrayed by the London-based Australian actress Madeleine Orr. Orr died of cancer in 1979, so when the role of Madge was written into Humphries' 1987 film \\\"Les Patterson Saves the World\\\", she was portrayed by another Australian actress, Connie Hobbs. Later that year, when Humphries decided to cast \\\"the definitive Madge\\\" for his new\",\n \"title\": \"Emily Perry (English actress)\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"19119842\",\n \"text\": \"sole selector Kinder Tucker did not travel outside Wellington to watch regional matches and was notoriously reluctant to select country players, so players were selected on their performances in Wellington. As a result, Orr continued to score heavily for Wanganui, including 124 against Auckland in January 1924 but failures in matches played in front of Tucker meant Orr did not return to first-class cricket until Wellington's 7 January 1927 match against Auckland. Orr scored 68 in the first innings and was run out for six in the second but was never again selected for Wellington. He continued to play for\",\n \"title\": \"George Orr (cricketer)\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"14453140\",\n \"text\": \"urging reversal. Applying intermediate scrutiny, the Court determined that the statute was not substantially related to the stated purpose. The Court observed that a gender neutral statute would still have the effect of providing for needy women, and that the only difference created by the Alabama statute was to also provide support for well off women that did not need support and to exclude needy men from support. Orr v. Orr Orr v. Orr, 440 U.S. 268 (1979), was a United States Supreme Court case that held that a statutory scheme in Alabama that imposed alimony obligations on husbands but\",\n \"title\": \"Orr v. Orr\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"881983\",\n \"text\": \"Team Canada in the 1976 Canada Cup tournament. Orr did not play in the 1972 Summit Series against the Soviet Union, and he wanted badly to play for Canada. Orr had been unable to play in the Summit Series due to knee surgery, although he did participate as a non-player. Orr's participation in the Canada Cup was considered ill-conceived and Eagleson later thought it may have been the 'last straw' that killed his career. Orr himself said that he knew before the tournament that \\\"I knew I didn't have much longer. That series didn't do it. I thought I could\",\n \"title\": \"Bobby Orr\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"3910158\",\n \"text\": \"\\\"Marching Song\\\" and a ninth symphony, which had been commissioned by the BBC. When he died, \\\"Marching Song\\\" had been completed in short score; it was orchestrated by Buxton Orr, a composer who had studied with Frankel and whose advocacy has been at least partly responsible for the revival of interest in his works. In the twenty years following his death, Frankel's works were almost completely neglected. In 1996, BBC Radio 3 featured him as the \\\"Composer of the Week\\\", and again in 2006. A major turning point, however, came when German record company CPO (Classic Produktion Osnabrück, since bought\",\n \"title\": \"Benjamin Frankel\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"882002\",\n \"text\": \"the NHL and the Hartford Whalers. The Black Hawks balked at paying him the balance of his contract, and Orr took them to court, settling in 1983 for US$450,000 (US$ in dollars), one-third of the money they owed him. Of this, US$200,000 (US$ in dollars) went to taxes and legal fees. Orr moved back to the Boston area and formed Can-Am Enterprises with partners Tom Kelly and Paul Shanley, which built up a clientele of endorsements for Orr, including Baybank and Standard Brands. Orr did eventually restore his finances, thanks to endorsement contracts and public relations work. Orr later played\",\n \"title\": \"Bobby Orr\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"7422547\",\n \"text\": \"College as athletic director, head basketball and football coach. Orr was initially drafted in 1948 BAA draft by the Minneapolis Lakers of the Basketball Association of America, the precursor to the NBA. Orr did not play for the Lakers, and was again drafted the next year in the 2nd round by the St. Louis Bombers. In 1950, Orr played 21 games for the Bombers before moving to the Waterloo Hawks for 13 more games. In 1951, Orr was named as head coach at Dubuque Senior High School in Dubuque, Iowa, holding the position until 1959. In 1959, Orr joined the\",\n \"title\": \"Johnny Orr (basketball, born 1927)\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"7705033\",\n \"text\": \"were upset by the Iowa Hawkeyes; Orr caught just one pass for 9 yards. Against Hawaii in his final regular season game with the Badgers, Orr caught 3 passes for 60 yards, with 2 touchdown receptions as the Badgers won their 9th game of the year, 41-24. In the 2006 Capital One Bowl against Auburn, Orr would catch 4 passes for 74 yards in a 24-10 Wisconsin win. Orr was selected in the 6th round of the 2006 NFL Draft by the Tennessee Titans. Orr did not play in any games for the Tennessee Titans his rookie season and was\",\n \"title\": \"Jonathan Orr\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"6260490\",\n \"text\": \"into our line-up.\\\" Despite some good performances towards the end of the 2006 season, Wigan decided to allow Orr to leave. Some reports suggested Orr did not want to leave Wigan but he was sold to on 12 October 2006. Orr signed a three-year deal with the Harlequins RL starting in 2007 and was replaced at Wigan by Trent Barrett. Orr rejoined his hometown club Castleford Tigers in 2011 after signing a one-year deal. In July 2011, he signed a one-year extension to his deal, keeping him at his homewtown club for the 2012 season. 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We are not a democracy!\" Additionally, when it seemed like Mitt Romney may have gained the popular vote but lost the electoral college vote, Trump called the electoral college system \"a disaster for democracy\", calling for \"a revolution in this country\". Since his election in November 2016—in which he won the electoral college but received 2.8 million fewer votes nationally than Clinton—Trump has repeatedly insisted, without evidence, that he actually won the popular vote if one excludes \"3","title":"Social policy of Donald Trump"},{"docid":"7749944","text":"which she acknowledged the pain of her loss, but called on her supporters to accept Trump as president, saying \"We owe him an open mind and a chance to lead.\" Though Clinton lost the election by only capturing 232 electors to Trump's 306, she won the popular vote by more than 2.7 million votes, or 2.1% of the voter base. She is the fifth presidential candidate in U.S. history to win the popular vote but lose the election. She won the most votes of any candidate who did not take office, and the third-most votes of any candidate in history,","title":"Hillary Clinton"},{"docid":"504475","text":"Grant's re-election in 1872. The Democrats won the presidency and both houses of Congress for the first time since 1856. President Harrison's re-election bid was a decisive loss in both the popular and electoral count, unlike President Cleveland's re-election bid four years earlier, in which he won the popular vote, but lost the electoral vote. 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Historian and","title":"United States presidential elections in which the winner lost the popular vote"},{"docid":"18925821","text":"Kennedy associate Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. wrote that, \"It is impossible to determine what Kennedy's popular vote in Alabama was\" and under one scenario \"Nixon would have won the popular vote by 58,000\". A third major candidate in the 1960 election was Harry Flood Byrd, Sr. who won 15 electoral votes nationwide that year. According to political scientist Steven Schier, \"If one divides the Alabama Democratic votes proportionately between the Kennedy and Byrd slates, Nixon ekes out a 50,000 vote popular plurality...\" Indeed, Congressional Quarterly calculated the popular vote in this manner at the time of the 1960 election. United","title":"United States presidential elections in which the winner lost the popular vote"},{"docid":"4072569","text":"NDP also won an increased share of the popular vote but lost one of the seats that the CCF had won in the previous election. The Liberal and NDP gains in the popular vote came at the expense of the Progressive Conservative Party of Saskatchewan of Martin Pederson, which lost about half of its votes. Pederson finished third in the constituency he had won three years earlier, and no other PC members were elected. However, a PC candidate finished second in Athabasca. It was the first election in which the cities of Regina, Saskatoon and Moose Jaw were divided into","title":"1967 Saskatchewan general election"},{"docid":"4469308","text":"the legislature. The opposition Co-operative Commonwealth Federation increased both its share of the popular vote and its number of seats. The British Columbia Liberal Party lost a small part of its popular vote, but managed to double its caucus from two to four members. The Progressive Conservative Party doubled its share of the popular vote to almost 7%, but won no seats in the legislature. Note: <nowiki>*</nowiki> Party did not nominate candidates in the previous election. 1960 British Columbia general election The British Columbia general election of 1960 was the 26th general election in the Province of British Columbia, Canada.","title":"1960 British Columbia general election"},{"docid":"20238374","text":"lost the popular vote to opponent Hillary Clinton. Trump is the fifth person in U.S. history to become president while losing the nationwide popular vote. On November 28, 2016 Trump stated in a tweet, \"In addition to winning the Electoral College in a landslide, I won the popular vote if you deduct the millions of people who voted illegally.\" Trump has repeatedly stated and implied that three to five million people voted illegally in the 2016 election. On January 25, 2017 President Trump tweeted a statement,\"I will be asking for a major investigation into VOTER FRAUD, including those registered to","title":"Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity"},{"docid":"18925802","text":"United States presidential elections in which the winner lost the popular vote There have been five United States presidential elections in which the winner lost the popular vote including the 1824 election, which was the first U.S. presidential election where the popular vote was recorded. Losing the popular vote means securing less of the national popular vote than the person who received either a majority or a plurality of the vote. 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He","title":"Electoral history of Charles Tupper"},{"docid":"20027586","text":"in Vermont in this election than he did in 1840. Van Buren received 13,887 popular votes with 28.87% of the vote in 1848 compared to 1840, where he only received 35.47% of the popular vote with 18,009 votes when he lost to Whig candidate William Henry Harrison, who received 63.9% of the popular votes with 32,445 votes. Vermont would prove to be Van Buren's strongest state in the election. While Cass won Washington County and Van Buren won Lamoille County, this would be the last presidential election in Vermont until 1912 were a Democratic candidate would carry at least one","title":"1848 United States presidential election in Vermont"},{"docid":"1454868","text":"by one more MLA to five, but their share of the popular vote fell to 19.98%. The 1966 election, the party won another seat, bringing its caucus to six, and had an increase in the vote to 20.24%. In the 1969 vote, the party lost one seat, and its share of the vote fell to 19.03%. In 1972, the party was led into the election by a new leader, David Anderson, who had been elected in the 1968 federal election as an MP for the Liberal Party of Canada. He and four others managed to be elected to the legislature,","title":"British Columbia Liberal Party"},{"docid":"16745322","text":"letter by FBI Director James Comey over an investigation into emails related to the Clinton email server which allowed Trump to surge in key states in the election. Clinton won the popular vote by 2.87 million, but ultimately lost the electoral vote to Trump and thus lost the election. Historical polling for United States presidential elections Gallup was the first polling organization to conduct accurate opinion polling for United States presidential elections. Gallup polling has often been accurate in predicting the outcome of presidential elections and the margin of victory for the election winner. However, there were some close elections","title":"Historical polling for United States presidential elections"},{"docid":"4807351","text":"30 seats. Åland Centre The Åland Centre () is an agrarian-centrist political party in the Åland Islands. At the 2003 election, the party won 24.1% of the popular vote and 7 out of 30 seats and became on a par with the Liberals of Åland. On the October 21st, 2007, parliamentary election, the party won 24.2% of the popular vote and 8 out of 30 seats. At the election in 2011 it became the strongest party with 23.6% and 7 out of 30 seats, but lost this position to the Liberals at the election in 2015 with 21.7% and 7","title":"Åland Centre"},{"docid":"4807350","text":"Åland Centre The Åland Centre () is an agrarian-centrist political party in the Åland Islands. At the 2003 election, the party won 24.1% of the popular vote and 7 out of 30 seats and became on a par with the Liberals of Åland. On the October 21st, 2007, parliamentary election, the party won 24.2% of the popular vote and 8 out of 30 seats. At the election in 2011 it became the strongest party with 23.6% and 7 out of 30 seats, but lost this position to the Liberals at the election in 2015 with 21.7% and 7 out of","title":"Åland Centre"},{"docid":"225808","text":"political party or as Independents. Despite this, the majority of persons who vote in the state have generally elected Republican candidates for federal office since around the turn of the 21st century. From 1964 through 2004, Kentucky voted for the eventual winner of the election for President of the United States. In the 2008 election, however, the state lost its bellwether status. Republican John McCain won Kentucky, but he lost the national popular and electoral vote to Democrat Barack Obama (McCain carried Kentucky 57% to 41%). 116 of Kentucky's 120 counties supported former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney in the 2012","title":"Kentucky"},{"docid":"14498452","text":"general election. He faced former MLA William Chant and defeated him and another candidate with a large majority. Sayers ran for a third term in office in the 1948 general election. He won decisively, increasing his popular vote. Sayers ran for a fourth term in the 1952 general election. He lost a little ground in his popular vote, but still took the district with a comfortable plurality. The 1955 general election would see Sayers nearly get defeated. He faced a strong challenge from Liberal candidate Ed Schnell whom he defeated on the third vote count to hold the district. Sayers","title":"Chester Sayers"},{"docid":"430593","text":"of 2012, only 4% separated the popular vote between Barack Obama (51%) and Mitt Romney (47%), although Obama won the electoral vote by a landslide (332–206). Throughout every American party system, no third party has won a Presidential election or majorities in either house of Congress. Despite that, third parties and third party candidates have gained traction and support. In the election of 1912, Theodore Roosevelt won 27% of the popular vote and 88 electoral votes running as a Progressive. In the 1992 Presidential election, Ross Perot won 19% of the popular vote but no electoral votes running as an","title":"Two-party system"},{"docid":"20149401","text":"popular vote - though trailed the Republican Party nominee William Howard Taft, an Ohio native, who won 26.82 percent of the popular vote, and Woodrow Wilson of the Democratic Party who won 40.96 percent of the popular vote. 1912 United States presidential election in Ohio The 1912 United States presidential election in Ohio took place on November 5, 1912. Ohio voters chose 24 electors to the Electoral College, which selected the president and vice president. Ohio was won by the Democratic nominee Woodrow Wilson and his running mate Thomas R. Marshall. Ohio had been a Republican state since 1856, but","title":"1912 United States presidential election in Ohio"},{"docid":"16572911","text":"1992 United States presidential election in Kentucky The 1992 United States presidential election in Kentucky took place on November 3, 1992, as part of the 1992 United States presidential election. As of the result of the 1990 census, Kentucky lost one electoral vote. As a result, voters chose eight representatives, or electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president. Kentucky was won by Governor Bill Clinton (D-Arkansas) with 44.55% of the popular vote over incumbent President George H.W. Bush (R-Texas) with 41.34%. Businessman Ross Perot (I-Texas) finished in third, with 13.66% of the popular vote. Clinton","title":"1992 United States presidential election in Kentucky"},{"docid":"19935350","text":"1976 United States presidential election in Kansas The 1976 United States presidential election in Kansas took place on November 2, 1976, as part of the 1976 United States presidential election. Kansas voters chose seven representatives, or electors, to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president. Kansas was won by incumbent President Gerald Ford (R–Michigan). with 52.49% of the popular vote, against Jimmy Carter (D–Georgia), with 44.94% of the popular vote. None of the third-party candidates amounted to a significant portion of the vote, but Eugene McCarthy (I–Minnesota) won 1.38% of the popular vote in Kansas, finishing third","title":"1976 United States presidential election in Kansas"},{"docid":"19809951","text":"1976 United States presidential election in Colorado The 1976 United States presidential election in Colorado took place on November 2, 1976, as part of the 1976 United States presidential election. Voters chose seven representatives, or electors, to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president. Colorado was won by incumbent President Gerald Ford (R–Michigan). with 54.1% of the popular vote, against Jimmy Carter (D–Georgia), with 41.6% of the popular vote. None of the third-party candidates amounted to a significant portion of the vote, but Eugene McCarthy (I–Minnesota) won 2.4% of the popular vote and came third overall in","title":"1976 United States presidential election in Colorado"},{"docid":"19925530","text":"1976 United States presidential election in Nebraska The 1976 United States presidential election in Nebraska took place on November 2, 1976, as part of the 1976 United States presidential election. Voters chose five representatives, or electors, to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president. Nebraska was won by incumbent President Gerald Ford (R–Michigan), with 59.19% of the popular vote, against Jimmy Carter (D–Georgia), with 38.46% of the popular vote. None of the third-party candidates amounted to a significant portion of the vote, but Eugene McCarthy (I–Minnesota) won 1.55% of Nebraska's popular vote and came third overall in","title":"1976 United States presidential election in Nebraska"},{"docid":"18925817","text":"a million write-in votes cast. During the 2016 election, \"pre-election polls fueled high-profile predictions that Hillary Clinton's likelihood of winning the presidency was about 90 percent, with estimates ranging from 71 to over 99 percent.\" National polls were generally accurate, showing a Clinton lead of about 3% in the national popular vote (she ultimately won the national popular vote by 2.1%). State-level polls \"showed a competitive, uncertain contest...but clearly under-estimated Trump's support in the Upper Midwest.\" Trump exceeded expectations on Election Day by winning the traditionally Democratic Rust Belt states of Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin by narrow margins. Clinton recorded","title":"United States presidential elections in which the winner lost the popular vote"},{"docid":"4432951","text":"to implement. Manning led Social Credit to a third term in government with a resounding victory in the 1944 election, winning over 50% of the popular vote on the first count of ballots. The Conservative party and former United Farmers continued their strategy of running joint candidates as independents. They were not supported by the Liberals who left the coalition and lost a significant share of the popular vote. The Co-operative Commonwealth Federation entered the election with only one seat in the legislature belonging to party leader Elmer Roper who had won a 1942 by-election. Despite winning almost a quarter","title":"1944 Alberta general election"},{"docid":"20903454","text":"and Kansas. 1936 United States presidential election in Delaware The 1936 United States presidential election in Delaware was held on November 3, 1936. The state voters chose three electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president. Delaware voted for Democratic Party candidate and incumbent President Franklin D. Roosevelt, who defeated Republican nominee, Kansas Governor Alf Landon. Roosevelt won the state by a margin of 9.77 percent. While Landon lost the state, the 44.85% of the popular vote made Delaware his fifth strongest state in the 1936 election in terms of popular vote percentage after Vermont, Maine,","title":"1936 United States presidential election in Delaware"},{"docid":"20903453","text":"1936 United States presidential election in Delaware The 1936 United States presidential election in Delaware was held on November 3, 1936. The state voters chose three electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president. Delaware voted for Democratic Party candidate and incumbent President Franklin D. Roosevelt, who defeated Republican nominee, Kansas Governor Alf Landon. Roosevelt won the state by a margin of 9.77 percent. While Landon lost the state, the 44.85% of the popular vote made Delaware his fifth strongest state in the 1936 election in terms of popular vote percentage after Vermont, Maine, New Hampshire","title":"1936 United States presidential election in Delaware"},{"docid":"4862110","text":"People's Electoral Movement (Aruba) The People's Electoral Movement (, ) is a social democratic political party in Aruba. In the 2001 elections for the Estates, 28 September 2001, the party won 52.4% of popular votes and 12 out of 21 seats. 23 September 2005, the party won 43% of the popular vote and 11 out of 21 seats and remained, led by Nelson Oduber in government. in the Aruban general election, 2009, MEP lost 2 seats and won 36% of the vote, subsequently losing the election. In the 2017 general election. The MEP won 37% of the vote, and gained","title":"People's Electoral Movement (Aruba)"},{"docid":"4956529","text":"in the district was won by NDP leader Brian Mason who won a landslide with over 60% of the popular vote. Mason was re-elected in the 2008 general election against former MLA Andrew Beniuk. He won a slightly reduced majority but still won over half the popular vote. In the 2015 election, Mason was re-elected in a landslide, becoming the longest-serving MLA in the NDP government. \"Voters had the option of selecting 4 Candidates on the Ballot\" On November 19, 2004 a Student Vote was conducted at participating Alberta schools to parallel the 2004 Alberta general election results. The vote","title":"Edmonton-Highlands-Norwood"},{"docid":"19864945","text":"popular vote; the UNC captured 50% of the national vote compared to 48% for the PNM. Minor parties fared extremely poorly in the election. The ILP and the Congress of the People, the only other parties with representation in local government, lost all of their seats and failed to win a significant share of the popular vote. The ILP won just 1.2% of the popular vote in Chaguanas, where the party had previously won a parliamentary seat in a by-election with 69% of the vote (though its share of the vote across Chaguanas had fallen to 3.1% by the 2015","title":"2016 Trinidadian local elections"},{"docid":"16688284","text":"student organizations suing the Student Association. The Court is not very active, but was shown to still be relevant when it decided the outcome of a Presidential election in 2009. Presidential candidate Kyle Boyer won the popular vote, but was charged with a violation of election rules for failing to report the market value of a car used during campaigning. Julie Bindleglass lost the popular vote, but became President of the SA when the Joint Election Committee, active during elections, threw Boyer off the ballot. Boyer then sued the Joint Elections Committee in the Student Court. The Court used a","title":"George Washington University Student Association"},{"docid":"18925809","text":"vote, with Tilden winning 4,288,546 votes and Hayes winning 4,034,311. Tilden was, and remains, the only candidate in American history who lost a presidential election despite receiving a majority (not just a plurality) of the popular vote. After a first count of votes, Tilden won 184 electoral votes to Hayes' 165, with 20 votes unresolved. These 20 electoral votes were in dispute in four states: in the case of Florida, Louisiana, and South Carolina, each party reported its candidate had won the state, while in Oregon one elector was declared illegal (as an \"elected or appointed official\") and replaced. The","title":"United States presidential elections in which the winner lost the popular vote"},{"docid":"2939907","text":"won 14,185 votes, or 0.86% of the popular vote. Another western separatist party, the Western National Party, ran two candidates, who collected 474 votes (0.03% of the total). In the October 22, 1986 election, the party nominated one candidate, who won 322 votes, or 0.02% of the popular vote. In the October 17, 1991 election, the party nominated five candidates, who collected 651 votes, or 0.04% of the popular vote. In the May 17, 2005 election, the party nominated two candidates, who collected a total of 374 votes, 0.02% of the popular vote. Doug Christie won 202 votes (0.76%) in","title":"Western Canada Concept Party of British Columbia"},{"docid":"19851648","text":"1976 United States presidential election in Delaware The 1976 United States presidential election in Delaware took place on November 2, 1976, as part of the 1976 United States presidential election. Voters chose three representatives, or electors, to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president. Delaware was won by Jimmy Carter (D–Georgia), with 51.98% of the popular vote. Carter defeated incumbent President Gerald Ford (R–Michigan), who finished with 46.57% of the popular vote. No third-party candidate amounted 1% of the vote, but Eugene McCarthy (Independent–Minnesota) finished third in Delaware with 1.03% of the statewide popular vote. Jimmy Carter","title":"1976 United States presidential election in Delaware"},{"docid":"17070717","text":"1988 United States presidential election in Maryland The 1988 United States presidential election in Maryland took place on November 8, 1988, as part of the 1988 United States presidential election. Voters chose ten representatives, or electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president. Maryland was won by Vice President George H.W. Bush (R-Texas), with 51.11% of the popular vote, over Massachusetts Governor Mike Dukakis (D-Massachusetts) with 48.20% of the popular vote. Bush ultimately won the national vote, defeating Governor Dukakis. this is the last election in which a Republican presidential candidate has won the state of","title":"1988 United States presidential election in Maryland"},{"docid":"5087561","text":"would make the state's textile mills uncompetitive. As a result of Johnston's support for new labor reform, Byrnes—a highly popular and influential figure in the state who won re-election in the 1936 Democratic primary with over 87% of the vote-- declined to endorse Johnston and instead supported the re-election of Smith. Following his loss in 1938, Johnston then ran for the Senate in a 1941 special election to replace Byrnes, who had just been appointed to the Supreme Court, but lost to South Carolina Governor Burnet R. Maybank. Johnston was elected Governor of South Carolina again in 1942. He won","title":"Olin D. Johnston"},{"docid":"2002595","text":"the sovereigntist side to victory in the 1995 Quebec referendum and lost Official Opposition status in the 1997 election. It continued to lose seats in the 2000 election, however, it remained a significant presence in the House of Commons bolstered in recent years by the sponsorship scandal. The party nearly tied its 1993 vote total in 2004, but lost support to a resurgent Conservative Party in 2006. The Bloc's position continued to erode in 2008. The BQ won with 47 of Quebec's 75 seats but, saw its popular vote decline, although it remained an important force in federal politics for","title":"1993 Canadian federal election"},{"docid":"20519265","text":"count was done Sanders had a 22-vote lead that shrunk to 10 after a recount on March 4. 1981 Burlington mayoral election The 1981 Burlington mayoral election was held March 3, 1981. The incumbent Democratic mayor Gordon Paquette lost to the future U.S. senator and presidential candidate Bernie Sanders who won with 43.4% of the popular vote with a margin of 10 votes, and assumed office on April 6, 1981. Paquette’s loss of the election is attributed to his own shortcomings, as he did not campaign or promote his candidacy since Sanders had not yet won an election in his","title":"1981 Burlington mayoral election"},{"docid":"3011624","text":"at the response. As a result of this blunder, Ford's surge stalled and Carter was able to maintain a slight lead in the polls. In the end, Carter won the election, receiving 50.1% of the popular vote and 297 electoral votes compared with 48.0% of the popular vote and 240 electoral votes for Ford. Ford dominated in the West and performed well in New England, but Carter carried much of the South and won Ohio, Pennsylvania, and New York. Though Ford lost, in the three months between the Republican National Convention and the election he had managed to close what","title":"Presidency of Gerald Ford"},{"docid":"4481865","text":"second consecutive term in government. The Conservative Party also lost a significant share of its popular vote, but won six additional seats for a total of fifteen, and formed the Official Opposition. Almost a third of the vote and seven seats were won by independents and by a wide variety of fringe parties. Notes: <nowiki>*</nowiki> Party did not nominate candidates in the previous election. 1920 British Columbia general election The British Columbia general election of 1920 was the fifteenth general election for the Province of British Columbia, Canada. It was held to elect members of the Legislative Assembly of British","title":"1920 British Columbia general election"},{"docid":"3498898","text":"held shortly after Brathwaite's resignation. The NDC was thereafter in opposition for 13 years. It failed to win any seats in the 1999 elections, but only narrowly lost the 2003 elections, in which it won 45.6% of the popular vote and seven of the 15 seats. In the July 2008 general election, the NDC won 11 out of 15 seats, and party leader Tillman Thomas became Prime Minister. Despite a 40% vote share in the 2013 election, the party lost all its seats to the New National Party under Keith Mitchell, which obtained all 15 seats. The NDC was affiliated","title":"National Democratic Congress (Grenada)"},{"docid":"4072584","text":"1971 Saskatchewan general election The Saskatchewan general election of 1971 was the seventeenth provincial election in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan. It was held on June 23, 1971, to elect members of the Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan. Under the leadership of Allan Blakeney, the New Democratic Party of Saskatchewan returned to power after seven years in opposition. The NDP won a majority government, increasing its share of the popular vote by over 10 percentage points. The Liberal government of Premier Ross Thatcher more or less held its share of the popular vote, but lost a significant number of seats in","title":"1971 Saskatchewan general election"},{"docid":"2906563","text":"in the vacant seat. In the 1992 election, the party won 20.2% of the popular vote and 7 seats. In the 1996 election, the party won 52.20% of the popular vote and 8 seats. In the 2000 election, the party won 58.35% of the popular vote and 8 seats. In the 2003 election, the party won 51.45% of the popular vote and 8 seats. In the 2007 election to the newly named (and reorganised) Gibraltar Parliament, the party won 49.33% of the popular vote and 10 seats. In the 2011 election, the party won 46.76% of the popular vote and","title":"Gibraltar Social Democrats"},{"docid":"1935554","text":"At the election, the Labour Party won 319 seats, allowing it to form a majority government, albeit with a narrow majority of only 3. The Conservatives and the Liberals each saw their vote share decline, and Conservative Party leader Edward Heath, who had lost three of the four elections he contested, was ousted as party leader in February 1975 and replaced with future Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. The Scottish National Party won 30% of the Scottish popular vote and 11 of Scotland's 71 seats; it was their most successful general election result until 2015, where they won 56 of 59","title":"October 1974 United Kingdom general election"},{"docid":"502787","text":"subsequent years. The 1876 election is one of five presidential elections in which the person who won the most popular votes did not win the election, and the only such election in which the popular vote winner received a majority (rather than a plurality) of the popular vote. To date, it remains the election that recorded the smallest electoral vote victory (185–184) and the election that yielded the highest voter turnout of the eligible voting age population in American history, at 81.8%. It was also the first presidential election since 1856 in which the Democratic candidate won the popular vote.","title":"1876 United States presidential election"},{"docid":"18133404","text":"candidacy took over twenty percent of the popular vote, the best popular vote showing by a third party until Theodore Roosevelt's 1912 candidacy. In the House, Democrats won several seats to take the plurality, but narrowly missed taking the majority. The Republican Party established itself as the second largest party in the House, replacing the Opposition Party. The American Party lost numerous seats, but continued to maintain a presence in the House. Democrat James Lawrence Orr won election as Speaker of the House. In the Senate, Democrats won minor gains, maintaining their commanding majority. The Republican Party replaced the Opposition","title":"1856 United States elections"},{"docid":"4476258","text":"second term in government with almost 38% of the popular vote. The social democratic Co-operative Commonwealth Federation formed the official opposition with the only significant opposition caucus (14 seats). The British Columbia Liberal Party lost two of its six seats despite maintaining its 23% share of the popular vote. The Progressive Conservative Party lost three of its four seats in the legislature, as its share of the popular vote fell from almost 17% to under 6%. One seat was won by a Labour candidate. Notes: <nowiki>*</nowiki> Party did not nominate candidates in the previous election. x - less than 0.005%","title":"1953 British Columbia general election"},{"docid":"2906574","text":"the party won (in alliance with the GSLP) 14.64% of the popular vote and 3 seats forming the new Government of Gibraltar. In the 2013 by-election, following the death of Housing Minister Charles Bruzon (GSLP), the Liberal Party backed the GSLP candidate Albert Isola, who has won 49.84% of the popular vote to fill in the vacant seat. In the 2015 election, the party won (in alliance with the GSLP) 20.61% of the popular vote and 3 seats. Contested in 2014 as a joint ticket with the Liberal Democrats. The Liberal Party of Gibraltar is a member of the Liberal","title":"Liberal Party of Gibraltar"},{"docid":"4232256","text":"the legislature for its eighth consecutive term in government. The Liberal Party of Grant Mitchell lost about 7% of the popular vote it had won in the 1993 election. The party's legislative caucus was reduced from 32 members to 18. Pam Barrett led the New Democratic Party back into the legislature with two seats (both in Edmonton), despite winning an even smaller share of the popular vote than in 1993. The Social Credit Party also re-emerged, but did not win any seats. Overall voter turnout was 53.75%. Notes: <nowiki>*</nowiki> Party did not nominate candidates in the previous election. x –","title":"1997 Alberta general election"},{"docid":"14524538","text":"He faced a three way battle, and lost a significant portion of his popular vote from the previous election but still took the district with a sizable majority over the other candidates. Sanders ran for a third term in the 1930 Alberta general election. He continued to lose his vote share and faced a strong challenge from Conservative candidate H.A. Blair who also ran in the previous election. Sanders managed to hang on and win his seat taking just over half the popular vote. The 1935 Alberta general election would see Sanders run for his fourth term. He would be","title":"Albert Sanders"},{"docid":"14625008","text":"Dartmouth, Central Halifax, and suburban areas north and east of the Harbour swung from the NDP to the Liberals. Among the casualties was Dexter, who lost his own seat to Liberal challenger Tony Ince by 21 votes. He was the first premier since Ernest Armstrong to be defeated in his own riding. The NDP had very poor vote concentration in the 2013 election. In Halifax, where it won 31.29% of the vote, it won only two seats. While the party finished second in the popular vote ahead of the PCs, its support was spread out around the province and not","title":"2013 Nova Scotia general election"},{"docid":"1162514","text":"Pakatan Rakyat. Perak however was later returned via court ruling following a constitutional crisis. Since 2008, the coalition has seen its non-Malay component parties greatly diminished in the Peninsula. The losses continued in the 2013 general election, and it recorded its worst election result at the time. BN regained Kedah, but lost several more seats in Parliament along with the popular vote to Pakatan. Despite winning only 47% of the popular vote, it managed to gain 60% of the 222 parliamentary seats, thereby retaining control of the parliament. And finally, during the 2018 general election, Barisan Nasional lost control of","title":"Barisan Nasional"},{"docid":"7039513","text":"of the popular vote. In the 1952 Alberta general election Prowse won the second seat in Edmonton. He led the Liberals to four seats and 22% of the popular vote. In the 1955 general election the Liberals made their best showing in decades, winning 15 seats and earning 31% of the popular vote. Prowse again took the second seat in Edmonton. Prowse stepped down as leader of the Liberal party in 1958 and retired from the legislature at dissolution in 1959. He then ran for mayor of Edmonton in the 1959 municipal election; he lost to Elmer Roper. Prowse first","title":"James Harper Prowse"},{"docid":"17132309","text":"nominees from the same home state. Clinton won the popular vote, taking 48% of the vote compared to Trump's 46% of the vote, but Trump won the electoral vote and thus the presidency. Libertarian Gary Johnson won 3.3% of the popular vote, the strongest performance by a third party presidential nominee since the 1996 election. Trump won the states of Michigan, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Florida, Ohio, and Iowa, all of which were won by Obama in 2008 and 2012. The election is one of five presidential elections in American history in which the winner of the popular vote did not win","title":"2016 United States elections"},{"docid":"14718010","text":"in the 1944 general election. Again he faced Hugh Montgomery, who ran this time as an independent, as well as two other challengers. Wingblade held his seat with a comfortable majority. In the 1948 general election, Wingblade won a three-way battle with a larger popular vote than in the 1944 election. In the 1952 general election, Wingblade faced three challengers, including an independent Social Credit candidate. His popular vote slipped slightly from the previous election, but he held the district with a clear majority. The 1955 general election saw a four-way race in Wetaskiwin. Wingblade won on the second count.","title":"John Wingblade"},{"docid":"9991671","text":"win the general election on November 4, 2008, winning 62% of the vote to succeed Mark Udall. In 2010, Polis won 57% of the popular vote to win re-election. In 2012, Polis ran uncontested in the Democratic primary and won a third election to Congress with 55% of popular vote. In 2014, Polis won a fourth election to Congress with 57% of the popular vote. In 2016, Polis won 56.9% of the popular vote to win re-election. In 2018, Polis announced that he would be running for governor of Colorado. Polis won election as governor with 51.1% of the vote,","title":"Jared Polis"},{"docid":"3741184","text":"vote for Roosevelt. The group's supporters included Congressman Martin Dies Jr., former Texas governor Dan Moody, and Senator W. Lee O'Daniel. The Texas Regulars won the first convention, but lost the second convention. This defeat led them to form their own ticket of unpledged electors, not bound to any candidate. On election day, they finished third both in Texas and in the national popular vote, with 135,439 votes (0.3% of the vote nationally, and 11.8% of the vote in Texas). They won a majority in only Washington County, Texas. Roosevelt easily carried Texas with 71.4% of the statewide vote, and","title":"Texas Regulars"},{"docid":"505226","text":"predictions of his defeat, Truman won the 1948 election, garnering 303 electoral votes to Dewey's 189. Truman won 49.6% of the popular vote compared to Dewey's 45.1%, while the third party candidacies of Thurmond and Wallace each won less than 3% of the popular vote, with Thurmond carrying four southern states. Truman's surprise victory was the fifth consecutive presidential win for the Democratic Party, the longest winning streak for either party since the 1880 election. With simultaneous success in the 1948 congressional elections, the Democrats regained control of both houses of Congress, which they had lost in 1946. Thus, Truman's","title":"1948 United States presidential election"},{"docid":"19851649","text":"went on to become the 39th president of the United States. 1976 United States presidential election in Delaware The 1976 United States presidential election in Delaware took place on November 2, 1976, as part of the 1976 United States presidential election. Voters chose three representatives, or electors, to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president. Delaware was won by Jimmy Carter (D–Georgia), with 51.98% of the popular vote. Carter defeated incumbent President Gerald Ford (R–Michigan), who finished with 46.57% of the popular vote. No third-party candidate amounted 1% of the vote, but Eugene McCarthy (Independent–Minnesota) finished third","title":"1976 United States presidential election in Delaware"},{"docid":"205384","text":"for his Mississippi cotton plantation. There was no uniform election day in 1844; states voted between November 1 and 12. Polk won the election with 49.5% of the popular vote and 170 of the 275 electoral votes. Becoming the first president elected despite losing his state of residence (Tennessee), Polk also lost his birth state, North Carolina. However, he won Pennsylvania and New York, where Clay lost votes to the antislavery Liberty Party candidate James G. Birney, who got more votes in New York than Polk's margin of victory. Had Clay won New York, he would have been elected president.","title":"James K. Polk"},{"docid":"4072552","text":"1956 Saskatchewan general election The Saskatchewan general election of 1956 was the thirteenth provincial election held in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan. It was held on June 20, 1956, to elect members of the Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan. The Co-operative Commonwealth Federation government of Tommy Douglas lost a significant share of the popular vote, and 6 of the seats it had won in the 1952 election; but retained its majority in the legislature, winning a fourth term in office. The Liberal Party of Alexander H. McDonald also lost votes, but picked up an additional three seats. The Social Credit Party","title":"1956 Saskatchewan general election"},{"docid":"4075348","text":"1929 Saskatchewan general election The Saskatchewan general election of 1929 was the seventh provincial election held in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan. It was held on June 6, 1929 to elect members of the Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan. As a result of corruption scandals, the Liberal Party of Premier James Gardiner lost a significant share of its popular vote, but more important, lost twenty-two of the seats it had won in the 1925 election. While the Liberals held the largest number of seats in the legislature, they had only a minority. Gardiner tried to continue as a minority government, but","title":"1929 Saskatchewan general election"},{"docid":"3057352","text":"the socreds refused to prop up the government. This resulted in the 1980 election, in which the PCs were defeated by the resurgent Trudeau Liberals. Clark won the popular vote in seven provinces, while losing the popular vote nationwide, and because his Tories could only muster 2 seats in Quebec, he won only a minority government. The Liberals won only one seat west of Manitoba. This election was the last in which the Social Credit Party of Canada won seats. An unusual event occurred in the Northwest Territories: the Liberals won the popular vote in the territory, but won neither","title":"1979 Canadian federal election"},{"docid":"9339514","text":"as the Coalition. The Coalition candidate in the contentious 1915 presidential election, Juan Luis Sanfuentes, won with just a little more than 50% of the vote. In the 1920 presidential election, the Conservative Party teamed up with a group of dissident liberals to form the National Union alliance. Their candidate in the elections was the liberal Luis Barros Borgoño, who competed with Arturo Alessandri of the Liberal Alliance. The election was very violent and in the end Barros won the popular vote but Alessandri won the electoral vote (a situation similar to the 2000 election in the USA). Finally, a","title":"Conservative Party (Chile)"},{"docid":"512202","text":"it had achieved statehood in 1912. In 2000 and 2016, the national popular vote winner eventually lost the electoral vote and thus the presidency. 1976 United States presidential election The United States presidential election of 1976 was the 48th quadrennial presidential election, held on Tuesday, November 2, 1976. Democrat Jimmy Carter of Georgia defeated incumbent Republican President Gerald Ford from Michigan. Carter's win represented the lone Democratic victory in a presidential election held between 1968 and 1988. President Richard Nixon had won the 1972 election with Spiro Agnew as his running mate, but in 1973 Agnew resigned and Ford was","title":"1976 United States presidential election"},{"docid":"4956268","text":"of the popular vote. He defeated a field of four other candidates. Brown stood for re-election against four other candidates in the 2008 general election. He was returned to power with a slight increase in his popular vote but still won under 50%. \"Voters had the option of selecting 4 Candidates on the Ballot\" On November 19, 2004 a Student Vote was conducted at participating Alberta schools to parallel the 2004 Alberta general election results. The vote was designed to educate students and simulate the electoral process for persons who have not yet reached the legal majority. The vote was","title":"Calgary-Nose Hill"},{"docid":"15874682","text":"followed, Gonsalves became the country's longest continuously-serving head of government in 2017, surpassing the previous record-holder, James Mitchell who had served continuously for 16 years and 2 months. 2001 Vincentian general election General elections were held in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines on 28 March 2001. The Unity Labour Party (ULP), which had won the popular vote in the 1998 elections but lost to the New Democratic Party (NDP), this time won a landslide victory, taking 12 of the 15 seats, ending seventeen years of an NDP government. The NDP retained only three of its eight seats inclusive of the","title":"2001 Vincentian general election"},{"docid":"14697282","text":"to lose ground. However, the SVP and Green Party both did relatively well, as did the new centrist Green Liberal Party, which won five seats. At the 2012 election, held on 28 October 2012, the Volksaktion, a populist anti-immigration party, was able to win two seats, while the Evangelical People's Party lost all but one of their seats. At the last election, held on 23 October 2016, the Social Democrats, the Greens and the Liberals won the election, while the Christian Democratic People's Party, the Green Liberals and the FDP lost popular vote and seats in the Grand Council. The","title":"Grand Council of Basel-Stadt"},{"docid":"13021464","text":"the Electoral College vote. The winners of the nationwide popular vote and the Electoral College vote differ only in close elections. In highly competitive elections, candidates focus on turning out their vote in the contested swing states critical to winning an electoral college majority, so they do not try to maximize their popular vote by real or fraudulent vote increases in one-party areas. However, candidates can fail to get the most votes in the nationwide popular vote in a Presidential election and still win that election. In the 1824 election, Jackson won the popular vote, but no one received the","title":"United States presidential election"},{"docid":"2473093","text":"UUP would poll 166,400 votes in these four constituencies four years later. This was the fourth of five elections in the twentieth century where a party lost the popular vote, but won the most seats. The others were January 1910, December 1910, 1929 and February 1974; it also happened in the 1874 election. Furthermore, the 1951 and 1874 elections are the only two examples of a political force winning an overall majority while losing the popular vote. The National Liberals were in alliance with the Conservatives, bringing total Conservative strength to 321 seats (51.36%); votes total 13,717,850 (47.97%). All comparisons","title":"1951 United Kingdom general election"},{"docid":"512255","text":"fifth in the share of electoral votes received and fifth in the share of the popular vote won. No candidate since 1984 has equaled Reagan's share of the electoral or popular vote. Mondale received 40.6% of the popular vote, but carried only the District of Columbia and his home state of Minnesota. Reagan also won the highest number of electoral votes of any president thus far. Ronald Reagan—the incumbent president—was the assured nominee for the Republican Party, with only token opposition. The popular vote from the Republican primaries was as follows: Reagan was renominated by a vote of 2,233 delegates","title":"1984 United States presidential election"},{"docid":"4359489","text":"1942 United States House of Representatives elections The 1942 United States House of Representatives elections was held in the middle of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's third term. The main factor that led to the Republican gains during this election cycle was concern over World War II and American involvement. Roosevelt's Democratic Party lost 45 seats, retaining only a slender majority even though they lost the popular vote by over 1 million votes (3.9%). This would not occur again until 1952, when the party who won the popular vote did not also win the majority of the House of Representatives. As","title":"1942 United States House of Representatives elections"},{"docid":"14337364","text":"would remain a significant institution until the early 2000s. Billionaire businessman Ross Perot (Ref-TX), who had unsuccessfully run for president as an Independent in the previous election, won 6.4 percent of the popular vote in the Peach state, a significant total for a third-party candidate. , this is the last time that either a Democratic presidential nominee has finished within two percentage points of the Republican candidate or that any third-party candidate has won more than five percent of the popular vote in Georgia. During the concurrent U.S. Senate election in Georgia, Secretary of State of Georgia Max Cleland (D)","title":"1996 United States presidential election in Georgia"},{"docid":"19803036","text":"2016 Grand Council of Basel-Stadt election Elections to the Grand Council of Basel-Stadt were held on 23 October 2016. The big winners were the Liberal Party of Basel-Stadt, who increased their popular vote from 9.6% in 2012 to 13.8% and gaining four additional seats. Both centre-left parties, the Social Democrats and the Green Party also gained ground and won one additional seat each. The losers of the elections were the centrist Christian Democratic People's Party, which lost one seat, the Green Liberal Party who lost one seat and the FDP who lost two seats; the right-wing anti-immigration party \"Volksaktion\" lost","title":"2016 Grand Council of Basel-Stadt election"},{"docid":"4469002","text":"Columbia won about one-third of the popular vote, roughly the same as in the previous election, but lost four of its 16 seats in the legislature. The Liberal Party of British Columbia lost one of its six seats. Note: <nowiki>*</nowiki> Party did not nominate candidates in the previous election. 1969 British Columbia general election The British Columbia general election of 1969 was the 29th general election in the Province of British Columbia, Canada. It was held to elect members of the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia. The election was called on July 21, 1969, and held on August 27, 1969.","title":"1969 British Columbia general election"},{"docid":"1080467","text":"Jamestown, Kentucky Jamestown is a home rule-class city in Russell County, Kentucky, in the United States. It is the seat of its county. The population was 1,624 at the 2000 U.S. census. Jamestown is located at (36.984730, -85.066840). According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of , all land. The community was established in 1826 to be the seat of the newly formed Russell County. It was briefly known as Jacksonville in honor of General Andrew Jackson, who had just won a plurality of the popular vote during the 1824 presidential election but lost","title":"Jamestown, Kentucky"},{"docid":"2906691","text":"a full self-governing territory under the British Crown. In the 1980 election to the Gibraltar House of Assembly, the party won its first seat in the House. In the 1984 election, the party won 34.2% of the popular vote and 7 seats. In the 1988 election, the party won 58.2% of the popular vote and 8 seats to form the new government. In the 1992 election, the party won 73.1%% of the popular vote and 8 seats. In the 1996 election, the party won 42.95% of the popular vote and 7 seats. In the 1999 by-election, following the death of","title":"Gibraltar Socialist Labour Party"},{"docid":"20181781","text":"County, Morgan County, Beaver County, Wayne County, and Daggett County. 1964 United States presidential election in Utah The 1964 United States presidential election in Utah took place on November 3, 1964, as part of the 1964 United States presidential election. Utah voters chose four representatives, or electors, to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president. Utah was won by incumbent President Lyndon B. Johnson (D–Texas), with 54.86% of the popular vote, against Senator Barry Goldwater (R–Arizona), with 45.14% of the popular vote. , this is the last time a Democratic presidential candidate has won Utah, as well","title":"1964 United States presidential election in Utah"},{"docid":"20181780","text":"1964 United States presidential election in Utah The 1964 United States presidential election in Utah took place on November 3, 1964, as part of the 1964 United States presidential election. Utah voters chose four representatives, or electors, to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president. Utah was won by incumbent President Lyndon B. Johnson (D–Texas), with 54.86% of the popular vote, against Senator Barry Goldwater (R–Arizona), with 45.14% of the popular vote. , this is the last time a Democratic presidential candidate has won Utah, as well as Utah County, Weber County, Wasatch County, Duchesne County, Juab","title":"1964 United States presidential election in Utah"},{"docid":"12225984","text":"was suggested by Prabowo's younger brother, Hashim Djojohadikusumo, who helped pay for Gerindra's prime-time TV advertising campaign. The party won 4.5 percent of the vote in the 2009 legislative election, and was awarded 26 seats in the People's Representative Council. In the national legislative election on 9 April 2014, the party's vote share jumped to 11.8% (from 4.5% in 2009), making it the third most popular party in Indonesia. Furthermore, Gerindra almost tripled the number of seats it won from 26 seats in 2009 to 73 seats in 2014. Prabowo lost Golkar's presidential convention on 21 April 2004. He then","title":"Great Indonesia Movement Party"},{"docid":"3478713","text":"election to the Løgting, the party won 7.2% of the popular vote and 2 out of 33 seats. In early elections in 2011, the party's vote fell to 4.2% and it lost one seat. At the 2011 election to the Løgting, the party won 4% of the votes and got 2 members elected. New Self-Government Nýtt Sjálvstýri (previously Sjálvstýrisflokkurin) (English: \"New Self-Government\", but sometimes still referred to as the \"Home Rule Party\") is a liberal and autonomist political party in the Faroe Islands. It is currently led by the Mayor of Klaksvík Jógvan Skorheim. Nýtt Sjálvstýri traditionally supported greater autonomy","title":"New Self-Government"},{"docid":"16572913","text":"County, Owen County, Metcalfe County, Crittenden County, Bracken County, and Robertson County voted for the Democratic candidate. 1992 United States presidential election in Kentucky The 1992 United States presidential election in Kentucky took place on November 3, 1992, as part of the 1992 United States presidential election. As of the result of the 1990 census, Kentucky lost one electoral vote. As a result, voters chose eight representatives, or electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president. Kentucky was won by Governor Bill Clinton (D-Arkansas) with 44.55% of the popular vote over incumbent President George H.W. Bush","title":"1992 United States presidential election in Kentucky"},{"docid":"15203106","text":"Democratic Party of Russia getting 56 seats with 11.67% of the vote. Yabloko, Patriots of Russia and Right Cause did not cross the 7% election threshold. The list of parties represented in the parliament did not change. United Russia lost the two-thirds constitutional majority it had held prior to the election, but it still won a majority of seats in the Duma, even though it had slightly less than 50% of the popular vote. The Communist Party, Liberal Democratic Party and A Just Russia all gained new seats compared to the previous 2007 elections. The election received various assessments from","title":"2011 Russian legislative election"},{"docid":"16589689","text":"Scottish National Party won the largest share of the vote, taking 29% of the vote and 2 MEPs. The Liberal Democrats, who were in coalition with the Conservatives at the time, lost 10 of the 11 seats they were defending and won just 7% of the popular vote. Figures released in December 2014 showed that the Conservatives and UKIP each spent £2.96m on the campaign, the Liberal Democrats £1.5m and the Labour Party spent approximately £1m. Given the subsequent Leave vote in the 23 June 2016 referendum, this is set to be the last time the United Kingdom participated in","title":"2014 European Parliament election in the United Kingdom"},{"docid":"504139","text":"of retirement to stump for his former vice-president. Few Americans were surprised when Van Buren lost by an electoral vote of 234 to 60. But many were amazed by the close popular vote. Of 2,400,000 votes cast, Van Buren lost by only 146,000. Given the circumstances, it is surprising that the Democrats did as well as they did. Of the 1,179 counties/independent cities making returns, Harrison won in 699 (59.29%) while Van Buren carried 477 (40.46%). Three counties (0.25%) in the South split evenly between Harrison and Van Buren. Harrison's victory won him precious little time as chief executive of","title":"United States presidential election, 1840"},{"docid":"15874681","text":"2001 Vincentian general election General elections were held in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines on 28 March 2001. The Unity Labour Party (ULP), which had won the popular vote in the 1998 elections but lost to the New Democratic Party (NDP), this time won a landslide victory, taking 12 of the 15 seats, ending seventeen years of an NDP government. The NDP retained only three of its eight seats inclusive of the two Grenadines seats which had voted for the party's former leader, Sir James Mitchell, in every general election since 1966. With his ULP having won every election that","title":"2001 Vincentian general election"},{"docid":"20615859","text":"War. The change was an attempt at boosting Democratic candidate Grover Cleveland's chances of winning a second, nonconsecutive term, who had run in the previous election and won the popular vote, but lost in the electoral college. Controversial among Republicans, the party fought all the way to the Supreme Court in efforts to prevent it, though were unsuccessful. The split ultimately had no effect in Cleveland's victory, and the system was quickly repealed when Republicans regained control after the election. This is the only instance of Michigan splitting its electoral votes among multiple candidates. A law later passed in 1954","title":"1892 United States presidential election in Michigan"},{"docid":"20590115","text":"the Air Putih constituency with over 80% of the popular vote, while Chow Kon Yeow won in Padang Kota with more than 70% of the popular vote. The largest margin of victory was recorded in Paya Terubong, where Yeoh Soon Hin of the DAP won by 31,189 votes. The election also saw BN's worst performance in Penang's history, as the coalition lost seven constituencies to the PH and retained only two, both of which are won by the United Malays National Organisation (UMNO). Once again, BN's other component parties, namely Parti Gerakan Rakyat Malaysia (Gerakan), the Malaysian Chinese Association (MCA)","title":"2018 Penang state election"}],"string":"[\n {\n \"docid\": \"19965652\",\n \"text\": \"election night 2012, Trump expressed skepticism about Obama's victory, saying, among other things, \\\"This election is a total sham and a travesty. We are not a democracy!\\\" Additionally, when it seemed like Mitt Romney may have gained the popular vote but lost the electoral college vote, Trump called the electoral college system \\\"a disaster for democracy\\\", calling for \\\"a revolution in this country\\\". Since his election in November 2016—in which he won the electoral college but received 2.8 million fewer votes nationally than Clinton—Trump has repeatedly insisted, without evidence, that he actually won the popular vote if one excludes \\\"3\",\n \"title\": \"Social policy of Donald Trump\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"7749944\",\n \"text\": \"which she acknowledged the pain of her loss, but called on her supporters to accept Trump as president, saying \\\"We owe him an open mind and a chance to lead.\\\" Though Clinton lost the election by only capturing 232 electors to Trump's 306, she won the popular vote by more than 2.7 million votes, or 2.1% of the voter base. She is the fifth presidential candidate in U.S. history to win the popular vote but lose the election. She won the most votes of any candidate who did not take office, and the third-most votes of any candidate in history,\",\n \"title\": \"Hillary Clinton\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"504475\",\n \"text\": \"Grant's re-election in 1872. The Democrats won the presidency and both houses of Congress for the first time since 1856. President Harrison's re-election bid was a decisive loss in both the popular and electoral count, unlike President Cleveland's re-election bid four years earlier, in which he won the popular vote, but lost the electoral vote. Cleveland was the third of only five presidents to win re-election with a smaller percentage of the popular vote than in previous elections, although in the two prior such incidents — James Madison in 1812 and Andrew Jackson in 1832 — not all states held\",\n \"title\": \"1892 United States presidential election\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"18925820\",\n \"text\": \"the election, Trump \\\"falsely claim(ed) that millions of unauthorized immigrants had robbed him of a popular vote majority, ...\\\" Trump repeated this in a meeting with members of Congress in 2017, and in a speech in April 2018. In the 1960 United States presidential election, Democratic candidate John F. Kennedy defeated Republican candidate Richard Nixon. Kennedy is generally considered to have won the popular vote as well, by a narrow margin, but based on the unusual nature of the election in Alabama, political journalists John Fund and Sean Trende have argued that Nixon actually won the popular vote. Historian and\",\n \"title\": \"United States presidential elections in which the winner lost the popular vote\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"18925821\",\n \"text\": \"Kennedy associate Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. wrote that, \\\"It is impossible to determine what Kennedy's popular vote in Alabama was\\\" and under one scenario \\\"Nixon would have won the popular vote by 58,000\\\". A third major candidate in the 1960 election was Harry Flood Byrd, Sr. who won 15 electoral votes nationwide that year. According to political scientist Steven Schier, \\\"If one divides the Alabama Democratic votes proportionately between the Kennedy and Byrd slates, Nixon ekes out a 50,000 vote popular plurality...\\\" Indeed, Congressional Quarterly calculated the popular vote in this manner at the time of the 1960 election. United\",\n \"title\": \"United States presidential elections in which the winner lost the popular vote\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"4072569\",\n \"text\": \"NDP also won an increased share of the popular vote but lost one of the seats that the CCF had won in the previous election. The Liberal and NDP gains in the popular vote came at the expense of the Progressive Conservative Party of Saskatchewan of Martin Pederson, which lost about half of its votes. Pederson finished third in the constituency he had won three years earlier, and no other PC members were elected. However, a PC candidate finished second in Athabasca. It was the first election in which the cities of Regina, Saskatoon and Moose Jaw were divided into\",\n \"title\": \"1967 Saskatchewan general election\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"4469308\",\n \"text\": \"the legislature. The opposition Co-operative Commonwealth Federation increased both its share of the popular vote and its number of seats. The British Columbia Liberal Party lost a small part of its popular vote, but managed to double its caucus from two to four members. The Progressive Conservative Party doubled its share of the popular vote to almost 7%, but won no seats in the legislature. Note: <nowiki>*</nowiki> Party did not nominate candidates in the previous election. 1960 British Columbia general election The British Columbia general election of 1960 was the 26th general election in the Province of British Columbia, Canada.\",\n \"title\": \"1960 British Columbia general election\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"20238374\",\n \"text\": \"lost the popular vote to opponent Hillary Clinton. Trump is the fifth person in U.S. history to become president while losing the nationwide popular vote. On November 28, 2016 Trump stated in a tweet, \\\"In addition to winning the Electoral College in a landslide, I won the popular vote if you deduct the millions of people who voted illegally.\\\" Trump has repeatedly stated and implied that three to five million people voted illegally in the 2016 election. On January 25, 2017 President Trump tweeted a statement,\\\"I will be asking for a major investigation into VOTER FRAUD, including those registered to\",\n \"title\": \"Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"18925802\",\n \"text\": \"United States presidential elections in which the winner lost the popular vote There have been five United States presidential elections in which the winner lost the popular vote including the 1824 election, which was the first U.S. presidential election where the popular vote was recorded. Losing the popular vote means securing less of the national popular vote than the person who received either a majority or a plurality of the vote. In the U.S. presidential election system, instead of the nationwide popular vote determining the outcome of the election, the President of the United States is determined by votes cast\",\n \"title\": \"United States presidential elections in which the winner lost the popular vote\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"20517362\",\n \"text\": \"in the general election was Wilfrid Laurier, the leader of the Liberals. Although Tupper and the Conservatives won the popular vote, Laurier and the Liberals won the majority of seats and formed the government, the first time at the federal level that the party with the greatest popular vote support did not form the government. After four years as Leader of the Opposition, Tupper led the Conservatives in the general election of 1900. He was again defeated by the Liberals under Laurier, who increased both their popular vote and seats won. Tupper lost his own seat in Cape Breton. He\",\n \"title\": \"Electoral history of Charles Tupper\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"20027586\",\n \"text\": \"in Vermont in this election than he did in 1840. Van Buren received 13,887 popular votes with 28.87% of the vote in 1848 compared to 1840, where he only received 35.47% of the popular vote with 18,009 votes when he lost to Whig candidate William Henry Harrison, who received 63.9% of the popular votes with 32,445 votes. Vermont would prove to be Van Buren's strongest state in the election. While Cass won Washington County and Van Buren won Lamoille County, this would be the last presidential election in Vermont until 1912 were a Democratic candidate would carry at least one\",\n \"title\": \"1848 United States presidential election in Vermont\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"1454868\",\n \"text\": \"by one more MLA to five, but their share of the popular vote fell to 19.98%. The 1966 election, the party won another seat, bringing its caucus to six, and had an increase in the vote to 20.24%. In the 1969 vote, the party lost one seat, and its share of the vote fell to 19.03%. In 1972, the party was led into the election by a new leader, David Anderson, who had been elected in the 1968 federal election as an MP for the Liberal Party of Canada. He and four others managed to be elected to the legislature,\",\n \"title\": \"British Columbia Liberal Party\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"16745322\",\n \"text\": \"letter by FBI Director James Comey over an investigation into emails related to the Clinton email server which allowed Trump to surge in key states in the election. Clinton won the popular vote by 2.87 million, but ultimately lost the electoral vote to Trump and thus lost the election. Historical polling for United States presidential elections Gallup was the first polling organization to conduct accurate opinion polling for United States presidential elections. Gallup polling has often been accurate in predicting the outcome of presidential elections and the margin of victory for the election winner. However, there were some close elections\",\n \"title\": \"Historical polling for United States presidential elections\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"4807351\",\n \"text\": \"30 seats. Åland Centre The Åland Centre () is an agrarian-centrist political party in the Åland Islands. At the 2003 election, the party won 24.1% of the popular vote and 7 out of 30 seats and became on a par with the Liberals of Åland. On the October 21st, 2007, parliamentary election, the party won 24.2% of the popular vote and 8 out of 30 seats. At the election in 2011 it became the strongest party with 23.6% and 7 out of 30 seats, but lost this position to the Liberals at the election in 2015 with 21.7% and 7\",\n \"title\": \"Åland Centre\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"4807350\",\n \"text\": \"Åland Centre The Åland Centre () is an agrarian-centrist political party in the Åland Islands. At the 2003 election, the party won 24.1% of the popular vote and 7 out of 30 seats and became on a par with the Liberals of Åland. On the October 21st, 2007, parliamentary election, the party won 24.2% of the popular vote and 8 out of 30 seats. At the election in 2011 it became the strongest party with 23.6% and 7 out of 30 seats, but lost this position to the Liberals at the election in 2015 with 21.7% and 7 out of\",\n \"title\": \"Åland Centre\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"225808\",\n \"text\": \"political party or as Independents. Despite this, the majority of persons who vote in the state have generally elected Republican candidates for federal office since around the turn of the 21st century. From 1964 through 2004, Kentucky voted for the eventual winner of the election for President of the United States. In the 2008 election, however, the state lost its bellwether status. Republican John McCain won Kentucky, but he lost the national popular and electoral vote to Democrat Barack Obama (McCain carried Kentucky 57% to 41%). 116 of Kentucky's 120 counties supported former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney in the 2012\",\n \"title\": \"Kentucky\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"14498452\",\n \"text\": \"general election. He faced former MLA William Chant and defeated him and another candidate with a large majority. Sayers ran for a third term in office in the 1948 general election. He won decisively, increasing his popular vote. Sayers ran for a fourth term in the 1952 general election. He lost a little ground in his popular vote, but still took the district with a comfortable plurality. The 1955 general election would see Sayers nearly get defeated. He faced a strong challenge from Liberal candidate Ed Schnell whom he defeated on the third vote count to hold the district. Sayers\",\n \"title\": \"Chester Sayers\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"430593\",\n \"text\": \"of 2012, only 4% separated the popular vote between Barack Obama (51%) and Mitt Romney (47%), although Obama won the electoral vote by a landslide (332–206). Throughout every American party system, no third party has won a Presidential election or majorities in either house of Congress. Despite that, third parties and third party candidates have gained traction and support. In the election of 1912, Theodore Roosevelt won 27% of the popular vote and 88 electoral votes running as a Progressive. In the 1992 Presidential election, Ross Perot won 19% of the popular vote but no electoral votes running as an\",\n \"title\": \"Two-party system\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"20149401\",\n \"text\": \"popular vote - though trailed the Republican Party nominee William Howard Taft, an Ohio native, who won 26.82 percent of the popular vote, and Woodrow Wilson of the Democratic Party who won 40.96 percent of the popular vote. 1912 United States presidential election in Ohio The 1912 United States presidential election in Ohio took place on November 5, 1912. Ohio voters chose 24 electors to the Electoral College, which selected the president and vice president. Ohio was won by the Democratic nominee Woodrow Wilson and his running mate Thomas R. Marshall. Ohio had been a Republican state since 1856, but\",\n \"title\": \"1912 United States presidential election in Ohio\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"16572911\",\n \"text\": \"1992 United States presidential election in Kentucky The 1992 United States presidential election in Kentucky took place on November 3, 1992, as part of the 1992 United States presidential election. As of the result of the 1990 census, Kentucky lost one electoral vote. As a result, voters chose eight representatives, or electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president. Kentucky was won by Governor Bill Clinton (D-Arkansas) with 44.55% of the popular vote over incumbent President George H.W. Bush (R-Texas) with 41.34%. Businessman Ross Perot (I-Texas) finished in third, with 13.66% of the popular vote. Clinton\",\n \"title\": \"1992 United States presidential election in Kentucky\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"19935350\",\n \"text\": \"1976 United States presidential election in Kansas The 1976 United States presidential election in Kansas took place on November 2, 1976, as part of the 1976 United States presidential election. Kansas voters chose seven representatives, or electors, to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president. Kansas was won by incumbent President Gerald Ford (R–Michigan). with 52.49% of the popular vote, against Jimmy Carter (D–Georgia), with 44.94% of the popular vote. None of the third-party candidates amounted to a significant portion of the vote, but Eugene McCarthy (I–Minnesota) won 1.38% of the popular vote in Kansas, finishing third\",\n \"title\": \"1976 United States presidential election in Kansas\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"19809951\",\n \"text\": \"1976 United States presidential election in Colorado The 1976 United States presidential election in Colorado took place on November 2, 1976, as part of the 1976 United States presidential election. Voters chose seven representatives, or electors, to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president. Colorado was won by incumbent President Gerald Ford (R–Michigan). with 54.1% of the popular vote, against Jimmy Carter (D–Georgia), with 41.6% of the popular vote. None of the third-party candidates amounted to a significant portion of the vote, but Eugene McCarthy (I–Minnesota) won 2.4% of the popular vote and came third overall in\",\n \"title\": \"1976 United States presidential election in Colorado\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"19925530\",\n \"text\": \"1976 United States presidential election in Nebraska The 1976 United States presidential election in Nebraska took place on November 2, 1976, as part of the 1976 United States presidential election. Voters chose five representatives, or electors, to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president. Nebraska was won by incumbent President Gerald Ford (R–Michigan), with 59.19% of the popular vote, against Jimmy Carter (D–Georgia), with 38.46% of the popular vote. None of the third-party candidates amounted to a significant portion of the vote, but Eugene McCarthy (I–Minnesota) won 1.55% of Nebraska's popular vote and came third overall in\",\n \"title\": \"1976 United States presidential election in Nebraska\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"18925817\",\n \"text\": \"a million write-in votes cast. During the 2016 election, \\\"pre-election polls fueled high-profile predictions that Hillary Clinton's likelihood of winning the presidency was about 90 percent, with estimates ranging from 71 to over 99 percent.\\\" National polls were generally accurate, showing a Clinton lead of about 3% in the national popular vote (she ultimately won the national popular vote by 2.1%). State-level polls \\\"showed a competitive, uncertain contest...but clearly under-estimated Trump's support in the Upper Midwest.\\\" Trump exceeded expectations on Election Day by winning the traditionally Democratic Rust Belt states of Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin by narrow margins. Clinton recorded\",\n \"title\": \"United States presidential elections in which the winner lost the popular vote\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"4432951\",\n \"text\": \"to implement. Manning led Social Credit to a third term in government with a resounding victory in the 1944 election, winning over 50% of the popular vote on the first count of ballots. The Conservative party and former United Farmers continued their strategy of running joint candidates as independents. They were not supported by the Liberals who left the coalition and lost a significant share of the popular vote. The Co-operative Commonwealth Federation entered the election with only one seat in the legislature belonging to party leader Elmer Roper who had won a 1942 by-election. Despite winning almost a quarter\",\n \"title\": \"1944 Alberta general election\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"20903454\",\n \"text\": \"and Kansas. 1936 United States presidential election in Delaware The 1936 United States presidential election in Delaware was held on November 3, 1936. The state voters chose three electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president. Delaware voted for Democratic Party candidate and incumbent President Franklin D. Roosevelt, who defeated Republican nominee, Kansas Governor Alf Landon. Roosevelt won the state by a margin of 9.77 percent. While Landon lost the state, the 44.85% of the popular vote made Delaware his fifth strongest state in the 1936 election in terms of popular vote percentage after Vermont, Maine,\",\n \"title\": \"1936 United States presidential election in Delaware\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"20903453\",\n \"text\": \"1936 United States presidential election in Delaware The 1936 United States presidential election in Delaware was held on November 3, 1936. The state voters chose three electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president. Delaware voted for Democratic Party candidate and incumbent President Franklin D. Roosevelt, who defeated Republican nominee, Kansas Governor Alf Landon. Roosevelt won the state by a margin of 9.77 percent. While Landon lost the state, the 44.85% of the popular vote made Delaware his fifth strongest state in the 1936 election in terms of popular vote percentage after Vermont, Maine, New Hampshire\",\n \"title\": \"1936 United States presidential election in Delaware\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"4862110\",\n \"text\": \"People's Electoral Movement (Aruba) The People's Electoral Movement (, ) is a social democratic political party in Aruba. In the 2001 elections for the Estates, 28 September 2001, the party won 52.4% of popular votes and 12 out of 21 seats. 23 September 2005, the party won 43% of the popular vote and 11 out of 21 seats and remained, led by Nelson Oduber in government. in the Aruban general election, 2009, MEP lost 2 seats and won 36% of the vote, subsequently losing the election. In the 2017 general election. The MEP won 37% of the vote, and gained\",\n \"title\": \"People's Electoral Movement (Aruba)\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"4956529\",\n \"text\": \"in the district was won by NDP leader Brian Mason who won a landslide with over 60% of the popular vote. Mason was re-elected in the 2008 general election against former MLA Andrew Beniuk. He won a slightly reduced majority but still won over half the popular vote. In the 2015 election, Mason was re-elected in a landslide, becoming the longest-serving MLA in the NDP government. \\\"Voters had the option of selecting 4 Candidates on the Ballot\\\" On November 19, 2004 a Student Vote was conducted at participating Alberta schools to parallel the 2004 Alberta general election results. The vote\",\n \"title\": \"Edmonton-Highlands-Norwood\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"19864945\",\n \"text\": \"popular vote; the UNC captured 50% of the national vote compared to 48% for the PNM. Minor parties fared extremely poorly in the election. The ILP and the Congress of the People, the only other parties with representation in local government, lost all of their seats and failed to win a significant share of the popular vote. The ILP won just 1.2% of the popular vote in Chaguanas, where the party had previously won a parliamentary seat in a by-election with 69% of the vote (though its share of the vote across Chaguanas had fallen to 3.1% by the 2015\",\n \"title\": \"2016 Trinidadian local elections\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"16688284\",\n \"text\": \"student organizations suing the Student Association. The Court is not very active, but was shown to still be relevant when it decided the outcome of a Presidential election in 2009. Presidential candidate Kyle Boyer won the popular vote, but was charged with a violation of election rules for failing to report the market value of a car used during campaigning. Julie Bindleglass lost the popular vote, but became President of the SA when the Joint Election Committee, active during elections, threw Boyer off the ballot. Boyer then sued the Joint Elections Committee in the Student Court. The Court used a\",\n \"title\": \"George Washington University Student Association\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"18925809\",\n \"text\": \"vote, with Tilden winning 4,288,546 votes and Hayes winning 4,034,311. Tilden was, and remains, the only candidate in American history who lost a presidential election despite receiving a majority (not just a plurality) of the popular vote. After a first count of votes, Tilden won 184 electoral votes to Hayes' 165, with 20 votes unresolved. These 20 electoral votes were in dispute in four states: in the case of Florida, Louisiana, and South Carolina, each party reported its candidate had won the state, while in Oregon one elector was declared illegal (as an \\\"elected or appointed official\\\") and replaced. The\",\n \"title\": \"United States presidential elections in which the winner lost the popular vote\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"2939907\",\n \"text\": \"won 14,185 votes, or 0.86% of the popular vote. Another western separatist party, the Western National Party, ran two candidates, who collected 474 votes (0.03% of the total). In the October 22, 1986 election, the party nominated one candidate, who won 322 votes, or 0.02% of the popular vote. In the October 17, 1991 election, the party nominated five candidates, who collected 651 votes, or 0.04% of the popular vote. In the May 17, 2005 election, the party nominated two candidates, who collected a total of 374 votes, 0.02% of the popular vote. Doug Christie won 202 votes (0.76%) in\",\n \"title\": \"Western Canada Concept Party of British Columbia\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"19851648\",\n \"text\": \"1976 United States presidential election in Delaware The 1976 United States presidential election in Delaware took place on November 2, 1976, as part of the 1976 United States presidential election. Voters chose three representatives, or electors, to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president. Delaware was won by Jimmy Carter (D–Georgia), with 51.98% of the popular vote. Carter defeated incumbent President Gerald Ford (R–Michigan), who finished with 46.57% of the popular vote. No third-party candidate amounted 1% of the vote, but Eugene McCarthy (Independent–Minnesota) finished third in Delaware with 1.03% of the statewide popular vote. Jimmy Carter\",\n \"title\": \"1976 United States presidential election in Delaware\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"17070717\",\n \"text\": \"1988 United States presidential election in Maryland The 1988 United States presidential election in Maryland took place on November 8, 1988, as part of the 1988 United States presidential election. Voters chose ten representatives, or electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president. Maryland was won by Vice President George H.W. Bush (R-Texas), with 51.11% of the popular vote, over Massachusetts Governor Mike Dukakis (D-Massachusetts) with 48.20% of the popular vote. Bush ultimately won the national vote, defeating Governor Dukakis. this is the last election in which a Republican presidential candidate has won the state of\",\n \"title\": \"1988 United States presidential election in Maryland\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"5087561\",\n \"text\": \"would make the state's textile mills uncompetitive. As a result of Johnston's support for new labor reform, Byrnes—a highly popular and influential figure in the state who won re-election in the 1936 Democratic primary with over 87% of the vote-- declined to endorse Johnston and instead supported the re-election of Smith. Following his loss in 1938, Johnston then ran for the Senate in a 1941 special election to replace Byrnes, who had just been appointed to the Supreme Court, but lost to South Carolina Governor Burnet R. Maybank. Johnston was elected Governor of South Carolina again in 1942. He won\",\n \"title\": \"Olin D. Johnston\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"2002595\",\n \"text\": \"the sovereigntist side to victory in the 1995 Quebec referendum and lost Official Opposition status in the 1997 election. It continued to lose seats in the 2000 election, however, it remained a significant presence in the House of Commons bolstered in recent years by the sponsorship scandal. The party nearly tied its 1993 vote total in 2004, but lost support to a resurgent Conservative Party in 2006. The Bloc's position continued to erode in 2008. The BQ won with 47 of Quebec's 75 seats but, saw its popular vote decline, although it remained an important force in federal politics for\",\n \"title\": \"1993 Canadian federal election\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"20519265\",\n \"text\": \"count was done Sanders had a 22-vote lead that shrunk to 10 after a recount on March 4. 1981 Burlington mayoral election The 1981 Burlington mayoral election was held March 3, 1981. The incumbent Democratic mayor Gordon Paquette lost to the future U.S. senator and presidential candidate Bernie Sanders who won with 43.4% of the popular vote with a margin of 10 votes, and assumed office on April 6, 1981. Paquette’s loss of the election is attributed to his own shortcomings, as he did not campaign or promote his candidacy since Sanders had not yet won an election in his\",\n \"title\": \"1981 Burlington mayoral election\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"3011624\",\n \"text\": \"at the response. As a result of this blunder, Ford's surge stalled and Carter was able to maintain a slight lead in the polls. In the end, Carter won the election, receiving 50.1% of the popular vote and 297 electoral votes compared with 48.0% of the popular vote and 240 electoral votes for Ford. Ford dominated in the West and performed well in New England, but Carter carried much of the South and won Ohio, Pennsylvania, and New York. Though Ford lost, in the three months between the Republican National Convention and the election he had managed to close what\",\n \"title\": \"Presidency of Gerald Ford\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"4481865\",\n \"text\": \"second consecutive term in government. The Conservative Party also lost a significant share of its popular vote, but won six additional seats for a total of fifteen, and formed the Official Opposition. Almost a third of the vote and seven seats were won by independents and by a wide variety of fringe parties. Notes: <nowiki>*</nowiki> Party did not nominate candidates in the previous election. 1920 British Columbia general election The British Columbia general election of 1920 was the fifteenth general election for the Province of British Columbia, Canada. It was held to elect members of the Legislative Assembly of British\",\n \"title\": \"1920 British Columbia general election\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"3498898\",\n \"text\": \"held shortly after Brathwaite's resignation. The NDC was thereafter in opposition for 13 years. It failed to win any seats in the 1999 elections, but only narrowly lost the 2003 elections, in which it won 45.6% of the popular vote and seven of the 15 seats. In the July 2008 general election, the NDC won 11 out of 15 seats, and party leader Tillman Thomas became Prime Minister. Despite a 40% vote share in the 2013 election, the party lost all its seats to the New National Party under Keith Mitchell, which obtained all 15 seats. The NDC was affiliated\",\n \"title\": \"National Democratic Congress (Grenada)\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"4072584\",\n \"text\": \"1971 Saskatchewan general election The Saskatchewan general election of 1971 was the seventeenth provincial election in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan. It was held on June 23, 1971, to elect members of the Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan. Under the leadership of Allan Blakeney, the New Democratic Party of Saskatchewan returned to power after seven years in opposition. The NDP won a majority government, increasing its share of the popular vote by over 10 percentage points. The Liberal government of Premier Ross Thatcher more or less held its share of the popular vote, but lost a significant number of seats in\",\n \"title\": \"1971 Saskatchewan general election\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"2906563\",\n \"text\": \"in the vacant seat. In the 1992 election, the party won 20.2% of the popular vote and 7 seats. In the 1996 election, the party won 52.20% of the popular vote and 8 seats. In the 2000 election, the party won 58.35% of the popular vote and 8 seats. In the 2003 election, the party won 51.45% of the popular vote and 8 seats. In the 2007 election to the newly named (and reorganised) Gibraltar Parliament, the party won 49.33% of the popular vote and 10 seats. In the 2011 election, the party won 46.76% of the popular vote and\",\n \"title\": \"Gibraltar Social Democrats\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"1935554\",\n \"text\": \"At the election, the Labour Party won 319 seats, allowing it to form a majority government, albeit with a narrow majority of only 3. The Conservatives and the Liberals each saw their vote share decline, and Conservative Party leader Edward Heath, who had lost three of the four elections he contested, was ousted as party leader in February 1975 and replaced with future Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. The Scottish National Party won 30% of the Scottish popular vote and 11 of Scotland's 71 seats; it was their most successful general election result until 2015, where they won 56 of 59\",\n \"title\": \"October 1974 United Kingdom general election\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"502787\",\n \"text\": \"subsequent years. The 1876 election is one of five presidential elections in which the person who won the most popular votes did not win the election, and the only such election in which the popular vote winner received a majority (rather than a plurality) of the popular vote. To date, it remains the election that recorded the smallest electoral vote victory (185–184) and the election that yielded the highest voter turnout of the eligible voting age population in American history, at 81.8%. It was also the first presidential election since 1856 in which the Democratic candidate won the popular vote.\",\n \"title\": \"1876 United States presidential election\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"18133404\",\n \"text\": \"candidacy took over twenty percent of the popular vote, the best popular vote showing by a third party until Theodore Roosevelt's 1912 candidacy. In the House, Democrats won several seats to take the plurality, but narrowly missed taking the majority. The Republican Party established itself as the second largest party in the House, replacing the Opposition Party. The American Party lost numerous seats, but continued to maintain a presence in the House. Democrat James Lawrence Orr won election as Speaker of the House. In the Senate, Democrats won minor gains, maintaining their commanding majority. The Republican Party replaced the Opposition\",\n \"title\": \"1856 United States elections\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"4476258\",\n \"text\": \"second term in government with almost 38% of the popular vote. The social democratic Co-operative Commonwealth Federation formed the official opposition with the only significant opposition caucus (14 seats). The British Columbia Liberal Party lost two of its six seats despite maintaining its 23% share of the popular vote. The Progressive Conservative Party lost three of its four seats in the legislature, as its share of the popular vote fell from almost 17% to under 6%. One seat was won by a Labour candidate. Notes: <nowiki>*</nowiki> Party did not nominate candidates in the previous election. x - less than 0.005%\",\n \"title\": \"1953 British Columbia general election\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"2906574\",\n \"text\": \"the party won (in alliance with the GSLP) 14.64% of the popular vote and 3 seats forming the new Government of Gibraltar. In the 2013 by-election, following the death of Housing Minister Charles Bruzon (GSLP), the Liberal Party backed the GSLP candidate Albert Isola, who has won 49.84% of the popular vote to fill in the vacant seat. In the 2015 election, the party won (in alliance with the GSLP) 20.61% of the popular vote and 3 seats. Contested in 2014 as a joint ticket with the Liberal Democrats. The Liberal Party of Gibraltar is a member of the Liberal\",\n \"title\": \"Liberal Party of Gibraltar\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"4232256\",\n \"text\": \"the legislature for its eighth consecutive term in government. The Liberal Party of Grant Mitchell lost about 7% of the popular vote it had won in the 1993 election. The party's legislative caucus was reduced from 32 members to 18. Pam Barrett led the New Democratic Party back into the legislature with two seats (both in Edmonton), despite winning an even smaller share of the popular vote than in 1993. The Social Credit Party also re-emerged, but did not win any seats. Overall voter turnout was 53.75%. Notes: <nowiki>*</nowiki> Party did not nominate candidates in the previous election. x –\",\n \"title\": \"1997 Alberta general election\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"14524538\",\n \"text\": \"He faced a three way battle, and lost a significant portion of his popular vote from the previous election but still took the district with a sizable majority over the other candidates. Sanders ran for a third term in the 1930 Alberta general election. He continued to lose his vote share and faced a strong challenge from Conservative candidate H.A. Blair who also ran in the previous election. Sanders managed to hang on and win his seat taking just over half the popular vote. The 1935 Alberta general election would see Sanders run for his fourth term. He would be\",\n \"title\": \"Albert Sanders\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"14625008\",\n \"text\": \"Dartmouth, Central Halifax, and suburban areas north and east of the Harbour swung from the NDP to the Liberals. Among the casualties was Dexter, who lost his own seat to Liberal challenger Tony Ince by 21 votes. He was the first premier since Ernest Armstrong to be defeated in his own riding. The NDP had very poor vote concentration in the 2013 election. In Halifax, where it won 31.29% of the vote, it won only two seats. While the party finished second in the popular vote ahead of the PCs, its support was spread out around the province and not\",\n \"title\": \"2013 Nova Scotia general election\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"1162514\",\n \"text\": \"Pakatan Rakyat. Perak however was later returned via court ruling following a constitutional crisis. Since 2008, the coalition has seen its non-Malay component parties greatly diminished in the Peninsula. The losses continued in the 2013 general election, and it recorded its worst election result at the time. BN regained Kedah, but lost several more seats in Parliament along with the popular vote to Pakatan. Despite winning only 47% of the popular vote, it managed to gain 60% of the 222 parliamentary seats, thereby retaining control of the parliament. And finally, during the 2018 general election, Barisan Nasional lost control of\",\n \"title\": \"Barisan Nasional\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"7039513\",\n \"text\": \"of the popular vote. In the 1952 Alberta general election Prowse won the second seat in Edmonton. He led the Liberals to four seats and 22% of the popular vote. In the 1955 general election the Liberals made their best showing in decades, winning 15 seats and earning 31% of the popular vote. Prowse again took the second seat in Edmonton. Prowse stepped down as leader of the Liberal party in 1958 and retired from the legislature at dissolution in 1959. He then ran for mayor of Edmonton in the 1959 municipal election; he lost to Elmer Roper. Prowse first\",\n \"title\": \"James Harper Prowse\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"17132309\",\n \"text\": \"nominees from the same home state. Clinton won the popular vote, taking 48% of the vote compared to Trump's 46% of the vote, but Trump won the electoral vote and thus the presidency. Libertarian Gary Johnson won 3.3% of the popular vote, the strongest performance by a third party presidential nominee since the 1996 election. Trump won the states of Michigan, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Florida, Ohio, and Iowa, all of which were won by Obama in 2008 and 2012. The election is one of five presidential elections in American history in which the winner of the popular vote did not win\",\n \"title\": \"2016 United States elections\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"14718010\",\n \"text\": \"in the 1944 general election. Again he faced Hugh Montgomery, who ran this time as an independent, as well as two other challengers. Wingblade held his seat with a comfortable majority. In the 1948 general election, Wingblade won a three-way battle with a larger popular vote than in the 1944 election. In the 1952 general election, Wingblade faced three challengers, including an independent Social Credit candidate. His popular vote slipped slightly from the previous election, but he held the district with a clear majority. The 1955 general election saw a four-way race in Wetaskiwin. Wingblade won on the second count.\",\n \"title\": \"John Wingblade\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"9991671\",\n \"text\": \"win the general election on November 4, 2008, winning 62% of the vote to succeed Mark Udall. In 2010, Polis won 57% of the popular vote to win re-election. In 2012, Polis ran uncontested in the Democratic primary and won a third election to Congress with 55% of popular vote. In 2014, Polis won a fourth election to Congress with 57% of the popular vote. In 2016, Polis won 56.9% of the popular vote to win re-election. In 2018, Polis announced that he would be running for governor of Colorado. Polis won election as governor with 51.1% of the vote,\",\n \"title\": \"Jared Polis\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"3741184\",\n \"text\": \"vote for Roosevelt. The group's supporters included Congressman Martin Dies Jr., former Texas governor Dan Moody, and Senator W. Lee O'Daniel. The Texas Regulars won the first convention, but lost the second convention. This defeat led them to form their own ticket of unpledged electors, not bound to any candidate. On election day, they finished third both in Texas and in the national popular vote, with 135,439 votes (0.3% of the vote nationally, and 11.8% of the vote in Texas). They won a majority in only Washington County, Texas. Roosevelt easily carried Texas with 71.4% of the statewide vote, and\",\n \"title\": \"Texas Regulars\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"505226\",\n \"text\": \"predictions of his defeat, Truman won the 1948 election, garnering 303 electoral votes to Dewey's 189. Truman won 49.6% of the popular vote compared to Dewey's 45.1%, while the third party candidacies of Thurmond and Wallace each won less than 3% of the popular vote, with Thurmond carrying four southern states. Truman's surprise victory was the fifth consecutive presidential win for the Democratic Party, the longest winning streak for either party since the 1880 election. With simultaneous success in the 1948 congressional elections, the Democrats regained control of both houses of Congress, which they had lost in 1946. Thus, Truman's\",\n \"title\": \"1948 United States presidential election\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"19851649\",\n \"text\": \"went on to become the 39th president of the United States. 1976 United States presidential election in Delaware The 1976 United States presidential election in Delaware took place on November 2, 1976, as part of the 1976 United States presidential election. Voters chose three representatives, or electors, to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president. Delaware was won by Jimmy Carter (D–Georgia), with 51.98% of the popular vote. Carter defeated incumbent President Gerald Ford (R–Michigan), who finished with 46.57% of the popular vote. No third-party candidate amounted 1% of the vote, but Eugene McCarthy (Independent–Minnesota) finished third\",\n \"title\": \"1976 United States presidential election in Delaware\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"205384\",\n \"text\": \"for his Mississippi cotton plantation. There was no uniform election day in 1844; states voted between November 1 and 12. Polk won the election with 49.5% of the popular vote and 170 of the 275 electoral votes. Becoming the first president elected despite losing his state of residence (Tennessee), Polk also lost his birth state, North Carolina. However, he won Pennsylvania and New York, where Clay lost votes to the antislavery Liberty Party candidate James G. Birney, who got more votes in New York than Polk's margin of victory. Had Clay won New York, he would have been elected president.\",\n \"title\": \"James K. Polk\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"4072552\",\n \"text\": \"1956 Saskatchewan general election The Saskatchewan general election of 1956 was the thirteenth provincial election held in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan. It was held on June 20, 1956, to elect members of the Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan. The Co-operative Commonwealth Federation government of Tommy Douglas lost a significant share of the popular vote, and 6 of the seats it had won in the 1952 election; but retained its majority in the legislature, winning a fourth term in office. The Liberal Party of Alexander H. McDonald also lost votes, but picked up an additional three seats. The Social Credit Party\",\n \"title\": \"1956 Saskatchewan general election\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"4075348\",\n \"text\": \"1929 Saskatchewan general election The Saskatchewan general election of 1929 was the seventh provincial election held in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan. It was held on June 6, 1929 to elect members of the Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan. As a result of corruption scandals, the Liberal Party of Premier James Gardiner lost a significant share of its popular vote, but more important, lost twenty-two of the seats it had won in the 1925 election. While the Liberals held the largest number of seats in the legislature, they had only a minority. Gardiner tried to continue as a minority government, but\",\n \"title\": \"1929 Saskatchewan general election\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"3057352\",\n \"text\": \"the socreds refused to prop up the government. This resulted in the 1980 election, in which the PCs were defeated by the resurgent Trudeau Liberals. Clark won the popular vote in seven provinces, while losing the popular vote nationwide, and because his Tories could only muster 2 seats in Quebec, he won only a minority government. The Liberals won only one seat west of Manitoba. This election was the last in which the Social Credit Party of Canada won seats. An unusual event occurred in the Northwest Territories: the Liberals won the popular vote in the territory, but won neither\",\n \"title\": \"1979 Canadian federal election\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"9339514\",\n \"text\": \"as the Coalition. The Coalition candidate in the contentious 1915 presidential election, Juan Luis Sanfuentes, won with just a little more than 50% of the vote. In the 1920 presidential election, the Conservative Party teamed up with a group of dissident liberals to form the National Union alliance. Their candidate in the elections was the liberal Luis Barros Borgoño, who competed with Arturo Alessandri of the Liberal Alliance. The election was very violent and in the end Barros won the popular vote but Alessandri won the electoral vote (a situation similar to the 2000 election in the USA). Finally, a\",\n \"title\": \"Conservative Party (Chile)\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"512202\",\n \"text\": \"it had achieved statehood in 1912. In 2000 and 2016, the national popular vote winner eventually lost the electoral vote and thus the presidency. 1976 United States presidential election The United States presidential election of 1976 was the 48th quadrennial presidential election, held on Tuesday, November 2, 1976. Democrat Jimmy Carter of Georgia defeated incumbent Republican President Gerald Ford from Michigan. Carter's win represented the lone Democratic victory in a presidential election held between 1968 and 1988. President Richard Nixon had won the 1972 election with Spiro Agnew as his running mate, but in 1973 Agnew resigned and Ford was\",\n \"title\": \"1976 United States presidential election\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"4956268\",\n \"text\": \"of the popular vote. He defeated a field of four other candidates. Brown stood for re-election against four other candidates in the 2008 general election. He was returned to power with a slight increase in his popular vote but still won under 50%. \\\"Voters had the option of selecting 4 Candidates on the Ballot\\\" On November 19, 2004 a Student Vote was conducted at participating Alberta schools to parallel the 2004 Alberta general election results. The vote was designed to educate students and simulate the electoral process for persons who have not yet reached the legal majority. The vote was\",\n \"title\": \"Calgary-Nose Hill\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"15874682\",\n \"text\": \"followed, Gonsalves became the country's longest continuously-serving head of government in 2017, surpassing the previous record-holder, James Mitchell who had served continuously for 16 years and 2 months. 2001 Vincentian general election General elections were held in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines on 28 March 2001. The Unity Labour Party (ULP), which had won the popular vote in the 1998 elections but lost to the New Democratic Party (NDP), this time won a landslide victory, taking 12 of the 15 seats, ending seventeen years of an NDP government. The NDP retained only three of its eight seats inclusive of the\",\n \"title\": \"2001 Vincentian general election\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"14697282\",\n \"text\": \"to lose ground. However, the SVP and Green Party both did relatively well, as did the new centrist Green Liberal Party, which won five seats. At the 2012 election, held on 28 October 2012, the Volksaktion, a populist anti-immigration party, was able to win two seats, while the Evangelical People's Party lost all but one of their seats. At the last election, held on 23 October 2016, the Social Democrats, the Greens and the Liberals won the election, while the Christian Democratic People's Party, the Green Liberals and the FDP lost popular vote and seats in the Grand Council. The\",\n \"title\": \"Grand Council of Basel-Stadt\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"13021464\",\n \"text\": \"the Electoral College vote. The winners of the nationwide popular vote and the Electoral College vote differ only in close elections. In highly competitive elections, candidates focus on turning out their vote in the contested swing states critical to winning an electoral college majority, so they do not try to maximize their popular vote by real or fraudulent vote increases in one-party areas. However, candidates can fail to get the most votes in the nationwide popular vote in a Presidential election and still win that election. In the 1824 election, Jackson won the popular vote, but no one received the\",\n \"title\": \"United States presidential election\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"2473093\",\n \"text\": \"UUP would poll 166,400 votes in these four constituencies four years later. This was the fourth of five elections in the twentieth century where a party lost the popular vote, but won the most seats. The others were January 1910, December 1910, 1929 and February 1974; it also happened in the 1874 election. Furthermore, the 1951 and 1874 elections are the only two examples of a political force winning an overall majority while losing the popular vote. The National Liberals were in alliance with the Conservatives, bringing total Conservative strength to 321 seats (51.36%); votes total 13,717,850 (47.97%). All comparisons\",\n \"title\": \"1951 United Kingdom general election\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"512255\",\n \"text\": \"fifth in the share of electoral votes received and fifth in the share of the popular vote won. No candidate since 1984 has equaled Reagan's share of the electoral or popular vote. Mondale received 40.6% of the popular vote, but carried only the District of Columbia and his home state of Minnesota. Reagan also won the highest number of electoral votes of any president thus far. Ronald Reagan—the incumbent president—was the assured nominee for the Republican Party, with only token opposition. The popular vote from the Republican primaries was as follows: Reagan was renominated by a vote of 2,233 delegates\",\n \"title\": \"1984 United States presidential election\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"4359489\",\n \"text\": \"1942 United States House of Representatives elections The 1942 United States House of Representatives elections was held in the middle of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's third term. The main factor that led to the Republican gains during this election cycle was concern over World War II and American involvement. Roosevelt's Democratic Party lost 45 seats, retaining only a slender majority even though they lost the popular vote by over 1 million votes (3.9%). This would not occur again until 1952, when the party who won the popular vote did not also win the majority of the House of Representatives. As\",\n \"title\": \"1942 United States House of Representatives elections\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"14337364\",\n \"text\": \"would remain a significant institution until the early 2000s. Billionaire businessman Ross Perot (Ref-TX), who had unsuccessfully run for president as an Independent in the previous election, won 6.4 percent of the popular vote in the Peach state, a significant total for a third-party candidate. , this is the last time that either a Democratic presidential nominee has finished within two percentage points of the Republican candidate or that any third-party candidate has won more than five percent of the popular vote in Georgia. During the concurrent U.S. Senate election in Georgia, Secretary of State of Georgia Max Cleland (D)\",\n \"title\": \"1996 United States presidential election in Georgia\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"19803036\",\n \"text\": \"2016 Grand Council of Basel-Stadt election Elections to the Grand Council of Basel-Stadt were held on 23 October 2016. The big winners were the Liberal Party of Basel-Stadt, who increased their popular vote from 9.6% in 2012 to 13.8% and gaining four additional seats. Both centre-left parties, the Social Democrats and the Green Party also gained ground and won one additional seat each. The losers of the elections were the centrist Christian Democratic People's Party, which lost one seat, the Green Liberal Party who lost one seat and the FDP who lost two seats; the right-wing anti-immigration party \\\"Volksaktion\\\" lost\",\n \"title\": \"2016 Grand Council of Basel-Stadt election\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"4469002\",\n \"text\": \"Columbia won about one-third of the popular vote, roughly the same as in the previous election, but lost four of its 16 seats in the legislature. The Liberal Party of British Columbia lost one of its six seats. Note: <nowiki>*</nowiki> Party did not nominate candidates in the previous election. 1969 British Columbia general election The British Columbia general election of 1969 was the 29th general election in the Province of British Columbia, Canada. It was held to elect members of the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia. The election was called on July 21, 1969, and held on August 27, 1969.\",\n \"title\": \"1969 British Columbia general election\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"1080467\",\n \"text\": \"Jamestown, Kentucky Jamestown is a home rule-class city in Russell County, Kentucky, in the United States. It is the seat of its county. The population was 1,624 at the 2000 U.S. census. Jamestown is located at (36.984730, -85.066840). According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of , all land. The community was established in 1826 to be the seat of the newly formed Russell County. It was briefly known as Jacksonville in honor of General Andrew Jackson, who had just won a plurality of the popular vote during the 1824 presidential election but lost\",\n \"title\": \"Jamestown, Kentucky\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"2906691\",\n \"text\": \"a full self-governing territory under the British Crown. In the 1980 election to the Gibraltar House of Assembly, the party won its first seat in the House. In the 1984 election, the party won 34.2% of the popular vote and 7 seats. In the 1988 election, the party won 58.2% of the popular vote and 8 seats to form the new government. In the 1992 election, the party won 73.1%% of the popular vote and 8 seats. In the 1996 election, the party won 42.95% of the popular vote and 7 seats. In the 1999 by-election, following the death of\",\n \"title\": \"Gibraltar Socialist Labour Party\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"20181781\",\n \"text\": \"County, Morgan County, Beaver County, Wayne County, and Daggett County. 1964 United States presidential election in Utah The 1964 United States presidential election in Utah took place on November 3, 1964, as part of the 1964 United States presidential election. Utah voters chose four representatives, or electors, to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president. Utah was won by incumbent President Lyndon B. Johnson (D–Texas), with 54.86% of the popular vote, against Senator Barry Goldwater (R–Arizona), with 45.14% of the popular vote. , this is the last time a Democratic presidential candidate has won Utah, as well\",\n \"title\": \"1964 United States presidential election in Utah\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"20181780\",\n \"text\": \"1964 United States presidential election in Utah The 1964 United States presidential election in Utah took place on November 3, 1964, as part of the 1964 United States presidential election. Utah voters chose four representatives, or electors, to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president. Utah was won by incumbent President Lyndon B. Johnson (D–Texas), with 54.86% of the popular vote, against Senator Barry Goldwater (R–Arizona), with 45.14% of the popular vote. , this is the last time a Democratic presidential candidate has won Utah, as well as Utah County, Weber County, Wasatch County, Duchesne County, Juab\",\n \"title\": \"1964 United States presidential election in Utah\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"12225984\",\n \"text\": \"was suggested by Prabowo's younger brother, Hashim Djojohadikusumo, who helped pay for Gerindra's prime-time TV advertising campaign. The party won 4.5 percent of the vote in the 2009 legislative election, and was awarded 26 seats in the People's Representative Council. In the national legislative election on 9 April 2014, the party's vote share jumped to 11.8% (from 4.5% in 2009), making it the third most popular party in Indonesia. Furthermore, Gerindra almost tripled the number of seats it won from 26 seats in 2009 to 73 seats in 2014. Prabowo lost Golkar's presidential convention on 21 April 2004. He then\",\n \"title\": \"Great Indonesia Movement Party\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"3478713\",\n \"text\": \"election to the Løgting, the party won 7.2% of the popular vote and 2 out of 33 seats. In early elections in 2011, the party's vote fell to 4.2% and it lost one seat. At the 2011 election to the Løgting, the party won 4% of the votes and got 2 members elected. New Self-Government Nýtt Sjálvstýri (previously Sjálvstýrisflokkurin) (English: \\\"New Self-Government\\\", but sometimes still referred to as the \\\"Home Rule Party\\\") is a liberal and autonomist political party in the Faroe Islands. It is currently led by the Mayor of Klaksvík Jógvan Skorheim. Nýtt Sjálvstýri traditionally supported greater autonomy\",\n \"title\": \"New Self-Government\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"16572913\",\n \"text\": \"County, Owen County, Metcalfe County, Crittenden County, Bracken County, and Robertson County voted for the Democratic candidate. 1992 United States presidential election in Kentucky The 1992 United States presidential election in Kentucky took place on November 3, 1992, as part of the 1992 United States presidential election. As of the result of the 1990 census, Kentucky lost one electoral vote. As a result, voters chose eight representatives, or electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president. Kentucky was won by Governor Bill Clinton (D-Arkansas) with 44.55% of the popular vote over incumbent President George H.W. Bush\",\n \"title\": \"1992 United States presidential election in Kentucky\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"15203106\",\n \"text\": \"Democratic Party of Russia getting 56 seats with 11.67% of the vote. 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Figures released in December 2014 showed that the Conservatives and UKIP each spent £2.96m on the campaign, the Liberal Democrats £1.5m and the Labour Party spent approximately £1m. Given the subsequent Leave vote in the 23 June 2016 referendum, this is set to be the last time the United Kingdom participated in\",\n \"title\": \"2014 European Parliament election in the United Kingdom\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"504139\",\n \"text\": \"of retirement to stump for his former vice-president. Few Americans were surprised when Van Buren lost by an electoral vote of 234 to 60. But many were amazed by the close popular vote. Of 2,400,000 votes cast, Van Buren lost by only 146,000. Given the circumstances, it is surprising that the Democrats did as well as they did. Of the 1,179 counties/independent cities making returns, Harrison won in 699 (59.29%) while Van Buren carried 477 (40.46%). Three counties (0.25%) in the South split evenly between Harrison and Van Buren. 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The Maple Leafs were mathematically eliminated from the playoffs on March 31, 2009, with six games remaining in the season. The Maple Leafs finished the season with 286 goals allowed (excluding seven shootout goals), the most out of all 30 teams. The Maple Leafs also struggled on the penalty kill, finishing 30th overall in penalty-kill percentage, at 74.68%. The Toronto Maple Leafs failed to qualify for the 2009 Stanley Cup playoffs. Denotes player spent time with another team before joining Maple Leafs. Stats reflect time with Maple Leafs only. Traded mid-season. Bold/italics denotes franchise record. On October 6,","title":"2008–09 Toronto Maple Leafs season"},{"docid":"11076925","text":"1966–67 Toronto Maple Leafs season The 1966–67 Toronto Maple Leafs season was the 50th season of the Toronto NHL franchise, fortieth as the \"Maple Leafs.\" The Leafs finished third in the NHL with a record of 32–27–11 for 75 points to qualify for the playoffs. Toronto defeated the first-place Chicago Black Hawks four games to two in the semi-finals before upending their arch-rival Montreal Canadiens in six games to win their thirteenth Stanley Cup in franchise history. As of 2017, this is the last time that the Maple Leafs won the Stanley Cup, or even made it to the Finals.","title":"1966–67 Toronto Maple Leafs season"},{"docid":"12997618","text":"1996–97 Toronto Maple Leafs season The 1996–97 Toronto Maple Leafs season was Toronto's 80th season in the National Hockey League (NHL). The Maple Leafs entered the 1996–97 NHL season with the hopes of making the post-season for the fifth consecutive year. Mike Murphy was hired prior to the season as the head coach replacing interim coach Nick Beverley. The team played mediocre for most of the season and missed the playoffs for the first time since 1992. This season, would be Cliff Fletcher's last as General Manager of the Maple Leafs. 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College station of the Toronto subway system feature a pair of murals called \"Hockey Knights in Canada\", named after \"Hockey Night in Canada\"; one depicting the Toronto Maple Leafs on the southbound side and facing the Montreal Canadiens on the northbound side, depicting the decades-old rivalry between the two clubs. They were created by Charles Pachter in 1984, when the Toronto Maple Leafs still played at nearby Maple Leaf Gardens. Toronto Maple Leafs in popular culture The National Hockey League (NHL)'s Toronto Maple Leafs has","title":"Toronto Maple Leafs in popular culture"},{"docid":"13329039","text":"did not qualify for the playoffs. 1927–28 Toronto Maple Leafs season The 1927–28 Toronto Maple Leafs season was the first under the \"Maple Leafs\" name for the Toronto National Hockey League (NHL) franchise. The club finished in fourth to miss the playoffs again. Conn Smythe left his duties as coach at the University of Toronto and became the general manager and coach of the Leafs. Smythe would be general manager for 30 years. Smythe put team captain Bert Corbeau on waivers in October. Corbeau cleared waivers and joined Toronto Ravinia of the Canadian-American Professional Hockey League. Smythe named Hap Day","title":"1927–28 Toronto Maple Leafs season"},{"docid":"12990936","text":"1978–79 Toronto Maple Leafs season The 1978–79 Toronto Maple Leafs season was the 62nd season of the Toronto NHL franchise, 52nd as the \"Maple Leafs\". The Leafs placed third in the Adams Division to make the playoffs where the Leafs won their first round series against the Atlanta Flames, only to lose in the second series to the Montreal Canadiens. Toronto Maple Leafs vs. Atlanta Flames \"Toronto wins best-of-three series 2 games to 0.\" Toronto Maple Leafs vs. Montreal Canadiens \"Montreal wins best-of-seven series 4 games to 0.\" The Maple Leafs have been involved in the following transactions during the","title":"1978–79 Toronto Maple Leafs season"},{"docid":"12990937","text":"1978-79 season. 1978–79 Toronto Maple Leafs season The 1978–79 Toronto Maple Leafs season was the 62nd season of the Toronto NHL franchise, 52nd as the \"Maple Leafs\". The Leafs placed third in the Adams Division to make the playoffs where the Leafs won their first round series against the Atlanta Flames, only to lose in the second series to the Montreal Canadiens. Toronto Maple Leafs vs. Atlanta Flames \"Toronto wins best-of-three series 2 games to 0.\" Toronto Maple Leafs vs. Montreal Canadiens \"Montreal wins best-of-seven series 4 games to 0.\" The Maple Leafs have been involved in the following transactions","title":"1978–79 Toronto Maple Leafs season"},{"docid":"10453144","text":"2007–08 Toronto Maple Leafs season The 2007–08 Toronto Maple Leafs season began October 4, 2007. It is the 91st season of the franchise, 81st season as the Maple Leafs. In an effort to return to the playoffs in 2007–08, the Leafs made two significant moves during the off-season. The first was to acquire goaltender Vesa Toskala, along with Mark Bell from the San Jose Sharks for three draft picks. Toronto also signed free agent Jason Blake to a five-year, $20 million contract. Blake topped the 40-goal mark for the first time in 2006–07. With the Leafs struggling in the Northeast","title":"2007–08 Toronto Maple Leafs season"},{"docid":"13323709","text":"Turk Broda returned from war-time duty in January, but the team continued to struggle. All-Star defenceman Babe Pratt was suspended, but was reinstated after nine games. The team won only two of the nine games and dropped out of playoff contention. The club finished in fifth place, out of the playoffs. The team was only the second team to miss the playoffs after winning the Cup. 1945–46 Toronto Maple Leafs season The 1945–46 Toronto Maple Leafs season was the 29th season of play of the Toronto NHL franchise. Although the club was the defending Stanley Cup champion, the team's play","title":"1945–46 Toronto Maple Leafs season"},{"docid":"19442458","text":"2016–17 Toronto Maple Leafs season The 2016–17 Toronto Maple Leafs season was the 100th season for the National Hockey League franchise that was established on November 22, 1917. The Maple Leafs finished the season with 95 points (a 12 year high) and qualified for the playoffs for the first time since the 2012–13 season. The off-season was relatively quiet for the Maple Leafs relative to previous seasons. On July 1, the opening day of free agency, Toronto signed forward Matt Martin to a four-year, $10 million contract, then brought back defenceman Roman Polak on a one-year deal the following day.","title":"2016–17 Toronto Maple Leafs season"},{"docid":"11404097","text":"Their ninth-place finish meant that the Maple Leafs would miss the playoffs for the first time since 1998. Throughout the season, Toronto struggled against their provincial and divisional rivals, the Ottawa Senators, winning only one game out of eight meetings with a 1–5–2 record. Excluding shootout goals, the Maple Leafs were outscored 39 to 19 and were shut-out twice. Goaltender Ed Belfour went 0–5–2 against the Senators with 34 goals allowed, a 5.20 GAA and a save percentage of .834. Six members of the Maple Leafs competed in Ice hockey at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin. Bryan McCabe represented","title":"2005–06 Toronto Maple Leafs season"},{"docid":"10621476","text":"Cup in 1962, 1963, 1964, and 1967. Winning their last championship in prior to the 1967 NHL expansion, the Maple Leafs' drought between Stanley Cups is the longest active drought in the NHL. In 1971, Ballard secured principal ownership of MLGL. During the 1970s, the Maple Leafs saw some success, only failing to qualify for the playoffs once in the decade. However, the Maple Leafs would fail to post a winning record for 12 years, from 1980–81 to 1992–93. During the 1990s and early 2000s, the team saw a resurgence in competitive play, missing the playoffs only twice from 1993","title":"History of the Toronto Maple Leafs"},{"docid":"13339135","text":"1971–72 Toronto Maple Leafs season The 1971–72 Toronto Maple Leafs season was Toronto's 55th season of operation in the National Hockey League (NHL). It was also the fortieth anniversary season of the opening of Maple Leaf Gardens. The Maple Leafs finished fourth, and qualified for the playoffs, losing in the first round to the eventual Stanley Cup champion Boston Bruins. In June, team president Stafford Smythe and vice-president Harold Ballard were arrested for theft and fraud involving funds of Maple Leaf Gardens. They were charged jointly on the theft of $146,000 of funds and securities and Smythe was further charged","title":"1971–72 Toronto Maple Leafs season"},{"docid":"15690113","text":"1951 Stanley Cup playoffs The 1951 Stanley Cup playoffs, the championship of the National Hockey League (NHL), began with four teams on March 28, 1951. It concluded on April 21, with the Toronto Maple Leafs defeating the Montreal Canadiens to win the Stanley Cup. \"All dates in 1951\" The second seed Toronto Maple Leafs eliminated the fourth seed Boston Bruins in five games, and the third seed Montreal Canadiens upset first overall Detroit Red Wings in six, setting up a Leafs – Canadiens Stanley Cup final series, won by the Leafs 4–1. Boston Bruins vs. Toronto Maple Leafs Montreal Canadiens","title":"1951 Stanley Cup playoffs"},{"docid":"15136365","text":"all the Canadian teams have qualified for the playoffs on five other occasions – 1969 (Montreal and Toronto), 1975, 1976 and 1979 (Montreal, Toronto and Vancouver), and 1986 (the same seven as in 1983), the last time to date (as of 2018) that all active Canadian teams qualified. This is also the most recent time that the Toronto Maple Leafs and the Detroit Red Wings missed the playoffs in the same season. In the Wales Conference, the Patrick Division champion Philadelphia Flyers were upset by the New York Rangers in the first round. The defending champion Islanders had qualified second","title":"1983 Stanley Cup playoffs"},{"docid":"11078411","text":"Louis Blues in a seven-game Norris final. Toronto Maple Leafs vs. Chicago Black Hawks \"Toronto wins best-of-five series 3–0\" Toronto Maple Leafs vs. St. Louis Blues \"St. Louis wins best-of-seven series 4–3\" The Maple Leafs have been involved in the following transactions during the 1985-86 season. The Maple Leafs were affiliated with the St. Catharines Saints of the AHL. 1985–86 Toronto Maple Leafs season The 1985–86 Toronto Maple Leafs season was the Toronto Maple Leafs 69th season of the franchise, 59th season as the Maple Leafs. 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The Leafs headed into the 1995-96 NHL regular season with high hopes considering the fact that the club reached the playoffs for the last three years. Pat Burns was the head coach until an eight-game losing streak (and a miserable run of 3-16-3 over January and February) lead to his dismissal. General Manager Cliff Fletcher felt that Nick Beverley could get the job done for the rest of the season and named him interim coach. The team under Beverley","title":"1995–96 Toronto Maple Leafs season"},{"docid":"10453147","text":"straight year, the Leafs did not qualify for the playoffs. Record: 5–5–3; Home: 3–4–2; Road: 2–1–1 Record: 4–6–3; Home: 1–1–3; Road: 3–5–0 Record: 6–5–2; Home: 3–2–0; Road: 3–3–2 Record:5–8–1 ; Home: 4–2–0; Road: 1–6–1 Record: 8–4–1 ; Home: 5–3–0 ; Road: 3–1–1 Record: 8–5–0; Home: 2–4–0; Road: 6–1–0 Record: 0–2–1; Home: 0–1–1; Road: 0–1–0 On March 27, 2008, the Toronto Maple Leafs were eliminated from postseason contention for the third straight season following a 4–2 loss to the Boston Bruins. Denotes player spent time with another team before joining Maple Leafs. Stats reflect time with Maple Leafs only. Traded mid-season.","title":"2007–08 Toronto Maple Leafs season"},{"docid":"11229550","text":"1944–45 Toronto Maple Leafs season The 1944–45 Toronto Maple Leafs season was the club's 28th season in the NHL. Toronto finished in third place in the regular season, with a 24–22–4 record, earning 52 points. The Leafs eliminated their archrivals Montreal Canadiens in the first round of the playoffs, and then defeated the Detroit Red Wings in seven games in the 1945 Stanley Cup Finals. Toronto was a very streaky club during the regular season, where they started off very hot, winning their first six games, and 10 of their first 14, before a mid-season slump, when they managed a","title":"1944–45 Toronto Maple Leafs season"},{"docid":"12753326","text":"1976–77 Toronto Maple Leafs season The 1976–77 Toronto Maple Leafs season was the franchise's 60th season, 50th as the \"Maple Leafs\". The Leafs finished in third place in the Adams Division with a record of 33 wins, 32 losses and 15 ties for 81 points. In the playoffs, they defeated the Pittsburgh Penguins in the preliminary round 2–1 before falling to the Philadelphia Flyers in six games in the Quarter-finals. On February 2, 1977, Toronto Maple Leafs defenceman Ian Turnbull would be the first player in NHL history to score five goals on five shots. The Maple Leafs have been","title":"1976–77 Toronto Maple Leafs season"},{"docid":"13329038","text":"1927–28 Toronto Maple Leafs season The 1927–28 Toronto Maple Leafs season was the first under the \"Maple Leafs\" name for the Toronto National Hockey League (NHL) franchise. The club finished in fourth to miss the playoffs again. Conn Smythe left his duties as coach at the University of Toronto and became the general manager and coach of the Leafs. Smythe would be general manager for 30 years. Smythe put team captain Bert Corbeau on waivers in October. Corbeau cleared waivers and joined Toronto Ravinia of the Canadian-American Professional Hockey League. Smythe named Hap Day as team captain. The Maple Leafs","title":"1927–28 Toronto Maple Leafs season"},{"docid":"15678225","text":"the well-oiled machine called the Montreal Canadiens managed to hold him to only six goals as the Canadiens swept the Black Hawks in four. The Toronto Maple Leafs, though, had a slightly tougher time against the Gordie Howe led Detroit Red Wings as it took the Leafs 6 games, including one in triple overtime, to win the series. Chicago Black Hawks vs. Montreal Canadiens \"Montreal wins best-of-seven series 4 games to 0\" Detroit Red Wings vs. Toronto Maple Leafs \"Toronto wins best-of-seven series 4 games to 2\" Toronto Maple Leafs vs. Montreal Canadiens \"Montreal wins best-of-seven series 4 games to","title":"1960 Stanley Cup playoffs"},{"docid":"12909436","text":"the third-place Toronto Maple Leafs. The second-place Montreal Canadiens played the fourth-place New York Rangers. The winner of the semi-finals series would play for the championship and Stanley Cup. Despite Chicago's impressive regular season marks, it was the third seed Toronto Maple Leafs who beat the Black Hawks in the first round of the playoffs. Montreal swept the Rangers in the minimum four games. The Maple Leafs now faced the Canadiens for the Stanley Cup. After splitting the first four games, the Maple Leafs won games five and six to win the series. 1967 Stanley Cup playoffs The 1967 Stanley","title":"1967 Stanley Cup playoffs"},{"docid":"11076928","text":"players), Stafford Smythe, Harold Ballard, John Bassette, Punch Imlach, King Clancy, Bob Haggart, Tom Nayler (7 non-players) The Maple Leafs have been involved in the following transactions during the 1966–67 season. Toronto's draft picks at the 1966 NHL Amateur Draft held at the Mount Royal Hotel in Montreal, Quebec. 1966–67 Toronto Maple Leafs season The 1966–67 Toronto Maple Leafs season was the 50th season of the Toronto NHL franchise, fortieth as the \"Maple Leafs.\" The Leafs finished third in the NHL with a record of 32–27–11 for 75 points to qualify for the playoffs. Toronto defeated the first-place Chicago Black","title":"1966–67 Toronto Maple Leafs season"},{"docid":"17334889","text":"division four times each, teams in the Metropolitan Division of the Eastern Conference three times each, and every team from the Western Conference twice. The Maple Leafs played in the NHL Winter Classic against the Detroit Red Wings on January 1, 2014, at Michigan Stadium, the home of the University of Michigan football team. The Leafs won 3–2. The Leafs were in a playoff position for much of the season but a two-win, 14-loss stretch to close the season caused them to miss the playoffs. Denotes player spent time with another team before joining the Maple Leafs. Stats reflect time","title":"2013–14 Toronto Maple Leafs season"},{"docid":"12753327","text":"involved in the following transactions during the 1976–77 season. Toronto's draft picks at the 1976 NHL Amateur Draft held in Montreal, Quebec. 1976–77 Toronto Maple Leafs season The 1976–77 Toronto Maple Leafs season was the franchise's 60th season, 50th as the \"Maple Leafs\". The Leafs finished in third place in the Adams Division with a record of 33 wins, 32 losses and 15 ties for 81 points. In the playoffs, they defeated the Pittsburgh Penguins in the preliminary round 2–1 before falling to the Philadelphia Flyers in six games in the Quarter-finals. On February 2, 1977, Toronto Maple Leafs defenceman","title":"1976–77 Toronto Maple Leafs season"},{"docid":"6395678","text":"a free agent by the Toronto Maple Leafs. Valk became a player-coach that Pat Quinn depended on, fighting off opponents in crucial situations while also being an offensive threat. Career highlights for Valk include the 1998–1999 playoffs, when he scored a key overtime goal to lift the Toronto Maple Leafs over the Pittsburgh Penguins in the second round of the NHL playoffs. After a brief stint in 2003 with the Chicago Blackhawks, Valk retired to pursue an interest in broadcasting, and to spend time with his wife, son, daughter and Boston terrier named Lola Belle. Today, Garry coaches his son's","title":"Garry Valk"},{"docid":"15690114","text":"vs. Detroit Red Wings Montreal Canadiens vs. Toronto Maple Leafs \"Note: GP = Games played; G = Goals; A = Assists; Pts = Points\" 1951 Stanley Cup playoffs The 1951 Stanley Cup playoffs, the championship of the National Hockey League (NHL), began with four teams on March 28, 1951. It concluded on April 21, with the Toronto Maple Leafs defeating the Montreal Canadiens to win the Stanley Cup. \"All dates in 1951\" The second seed Toronto Maple Leafs eliminated the fourth seed Boston Bruins in five games, and the third seed Montreal Canadiens upset first overall Detroit Red Wings in","title":"1951 Stanley Cup playoffs"},{"docid":"785853","text":"the team did not make the playoffs in 2006–07. During the 2007–08 season, John Ferguson, Jr. was fired in January 2008, and replaced by former Leafs' general manager Cliff Fletcher on an interim basis. The Leafs did not qualify for the post-season, marking the first time since 1928 the team had failed to make the playoffs for three consecutive seasons. It was also Sundin's last year with the Leafs, as his contract was due to expire at the end of the season. However, he refused Leafs management's request to waive his no-trade clause in order for the team to rebuild","title":"Toronto Maple Leafs"},{"docid":"19442460","text":"signed to professional try outs. The Maple Leafs clinched the playoffs for the first time since the 2012–13 season. They qualified as the second wildcard team in the Eastern Conference and met the Washington Capitals, the division winner with the best record, in the first round. Washington won the series in 6 games, 4-2. This became only the third playoff series in NHL history in which five games were decided in overtime (the first being the 1951 Stanley Cup Finals between the Toronto Maple Leafs and the Montreal Canadiens and the second occurring in the 2012 Western Conference Quarterfinals between","title":"2016–17 Toronto Maple Leafs season"},{"docid":"11823367","text":"manager of the Ducks, and those close to him say he was interested in the Maple Leafs' job. On May 7, the Leafs fired Head Coach Paul Maurice, along with two assistant coaches, after missing the playoffs in back-to-back seasons. On May 8, the Leafs asked the Vancouver Canucks permission to speak to Dave Nonis about hiring him for a position with the club. In mid-May, there were rumours that Wayne Gretzky was in the running for a position with the Maple Leafs. Gretzky responded to the rumours linking him to the Toronto Maple Leafs by stating that his focus","title":"2008–09 Toronto Maple Leafs season"},{"docid":"14601117","text":"2010–11 Toronto Maple Leafs season The 2010–11 Toronto Maple Leafs season was the 94th season for the National Hockey League franchise that was established on November 22, 1917, and 84th season since adopting the Maple Leafs name in February 1927. The Maple Leafs posted a regular season record of 37 wins, 34 losses, and 11 overtime/shootout losses for 85 points, failing to qualify for the Stanley Cup playoffs for the sixth consecutive season. The Maple Leafs did not have a first round selection in the 2010 NHL Entry Draft, having traded it to the Boston Bruins in the Phil Kessel","title":"2010–11 Toronto Maple Leafs season"},{"docid":"14601122","text":"in Los Angeles, California. 2010–11 Toronto Maple Leafs season The 2010–11 Toronto Maple Leafs season was the 94th season for the National Hockey League franchise that was established on November 22, 1917, and 84th season since adopting the Maple Leafs name in February 1927. The Maple Leafs posted a regular season record of 37 wins, 34 losses, and 11 overtime/shootout losses for 85 points, failing to qualify for the Stanley Cup playoffs for the sixth consecutive season. The Maple Leafs did not have a first round selection in the 2010 NHL Entry Draft, having traded it to the Boston Bruins","title":"2010–11 Toronto Maple Leafs season"},{"docid":"11147897","text":"1988–89 Toronto Maple Leafs season The 1988–89 Toronto Maple Leafs season was Toronto's 72nd season in the National Hockey League (NHL). The 1988-89 Leafs season was a disastrous one that saw John Brophy relieved from his coaching duties mid-season. Interim coach George Armstrong led the Leafs close to the playoffs, but they eventually missed out by losing to the Chicago Blackhawks on the final day of the regular season. The Leafs needed a win against Chicago to clinch a post season birth, but a Troy Murray overtime goal ended the season for Toronto. The Maple Leafs finished the regular season","title":"1988–89 Toronto Maple Leafs season"},{"docid":"10453148","text":"Bold/italics denotes franchise record. The Maple Leafs have been involved in the following transactions during the 2007–08 season. Toronto's picks at the 2007 NHL Entry Draft in Columbus, Ohio. 2007–08 Toronto Maple Leafs season The 2007–08 Toronto Maple Leafs season began October 4, 2007. It is the 91st season of the franchise, 81st season as the Maple Leafs. In an effort to return to the playoffs in 2007–08, the Leafs made two significant moves during the off-season. The first was to acquire goaltender Vesa Toskala, along with Mark Bell from the San Jose Sharks for three draft picks. Toronto also","title":"2007–08 Toronto Maple Leafs season"},{"docid":"11114224","text":"in the following transactions during the 1998-99 season. The Maple Leafs and Buffalo Sabres met in the Eastern Conference Finals. The Maple Leafs were coming off a six-game series win over the Pittsburgh Penguins, while the Sabres were coming off a six-game series win themselves, over the Boston Bruins. Toronto was having its best playoff since 1994, when they last made a Conference Final series. Buffalo, meanwhile, was in the third round for the second consecutive year. With the series victory, the Sabres advanced to the Stanley Cup Finals for the first time in 24 years. Toronto's draft picks at","title":"1998–99 Toronto Maple Leafs season"},{"docid":"7632300","text":"and the Maple Leafs clinched a playoff spot in the 2013 Stanley Cup playoffs. This marked the first time Kessel had made it to the playoffs since his move to the Maple Leafs and ended a seven-year playoff drought for the club dating back before the 2004–05 NHL lockout. To conclude the season, Kessel scored ten goals and seven assists for 17 points over his last ten games to retake the scoring lead for Toronto, leading the team in goals, assists and points for the second consecutive year. Kessel would go on to finish seventh in NHL scoring, posting his","title":"Phil Kessel"},{"docid":"13329099","text":"Cude faced an average of 35.2 shots per game, while Hainsworth faced 23.8 shots per game. ;Scoring The Maple Leafs met the Detroit Red Wings in the second round in a best of five series and lost 3–2. 1933–34 Toronto Maple Leafs season The 1933–34 Toronto Maple Leafs season was Toronto's 17th season in the National Hockey League (NHL). Toronto would face Detroit WilRed Wings and goalie Wilf Cude in series A of the Playoffs. Game #1 Detroit 2 Toronto 1, #2 Detroit 6 Toronto 3, #3 Toronto 3 Detroit 1, #4Toronto 5 Detroit 1, #5 Detroit 1 Toronto 0.","title":"1933–34 Toronto Maple Leafs season"},{"docid":"11436132","text":"The Leafs did not qualify for the playoffs again until the 2012–13 season. The Maple Leafs have been involved in the following transactions during the 2003–04 season. Toronto's draft picks at the 2003 NHL Entry Draft held at the Gaylord Entertainment Center in Nashville, Tennessee. 2003–04 Toronto Maple Leafs season The 2003–04 Toronto Maple Leafs season, the club's 87th season of existence and 77th as the Maple Leafs, saw the team finish in second place in the Northeast Division with a record of 45 wins, 24 losses, 10 ties and three overtime losses for 103 points. It was the highest","title":"2003–04 Toronto Maple Leafs season"},{"docid":"11436121","text":"2001–02 Toronto Maple Leafs season The 2001–02 Toronto Maple Leafs season was the team's 85th season as a franchise, and the 75th season as the Maple Leafs. They finished second in the Northeast Division with a record of 43–25–10–4 for 100 points. Qualifying for the Stanley Cup playoffs as the fourth seed in the Eastern Conference, they downed the New York Islanders in seven games in the Conference Quarter-finals and the Ottawa Senators in seven games in the Conference Semi-finals. However, their luck ran out in the Conference Finals, as they were eliminated by the Carolina Hurricanes in six games.","title":"2001–02 Toronto Maple Leafs season"},{"docid":"2952905","text":"for the first time since the season. The Leafs and Senators met four times in the 82-game season, two of which were decided in shootouts. The Leafs took the season series 3–1. The Senators would finish 11th in the East with 88 points, and the Leafs finished in 12th place with 84 points. The season saw the Ottawa Senators finish 7th in the Eastern Conference with 99 points, securing the first wildcard playoff position. The Toronto Maple Leafs failed to make the playoffs finishing last in the Eastern Conference with 68 points. On October 22, 2014, the Leafs vs. Senators","title":"Battle of Ontario"},{"docid":"11436123","text":"sports history by \"Sports Illustrated\". 2001–02 Toronto Maple Leafs season The 2001–02 Toronto Maple Leafs season was the team's 85th season as a franchise, and the 75th season as the Maple Leafs. They finished second in the Northeast Division with a record of 43–25–10–4 for 100 points. Qualifying for the Stanley Cup playoffs as the fourth seed in the Eastern Conference, they downed the New York Islanders in seven games in the Conference Quarter-finals and the Ottawa Senators in seven games in the Conference Semi-finals. However, their luck ran out in the Conference Finals, as they were eliminated by the","title":"2001–02 Toronto Maple Leafs season"},{"docid":"10621548","text":"First Round and lost in seven games. Following the playoffs, Lamoriello was not renewed as general manager and was transitioned to senior advisor. Kyle Dubas was subsequentley named the 17th general manager in team history. During the 2018 off-season, the Maple Leafs signed John Tavares to a seven-year, $77-million dollar contract. Tavares was subsequently named an alternate captain for the Leafs, alongside Morgan Rielly, and Patrick Marleau. History of the Toronto Maple Leafs The history of the Toronto Maple Leafs National Hockey League (NHL) team spans more than a century. The Maple Leafs and the NHL arose from disputes between","title":"History of the Toronto Maple Leafs"},{"docid":"6024830","text":"Toronto Maple Leafs (International League) The Toronto Maple Leafs were a high-level minor league baseball club located in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, that played from 1896 to 1967. While the Maple Leafs had working agreements with numerous Major League Baseball clubs after the introduction of farm systems in the 1930s, they achieved great success as an unaffiliated club during the 1950s, when they were the strongest team on the field and in attendance in the Triple-A International League. The 1902, 1918, 1920, 1926, and 1960 teams were recognized as being among the 100 greatest minor league teams of all time. Toronto","title":"Toronto Maple Leafs (International League)"},{"docid":"11114225","text":"the 1998 NHL Entry Draft held at the Marine Midland Arena in Buffalo, New York. 1998–99 Toronto Maple Leafs season The 1998–99 Toronto Maple Leafs season was the franchise's 82nd season. Two moves occurred this season. First, the club moved from the Western to the Eastern Conference of the National Hockey League (NHL). Secondly, the club moved from Maple Leaf Gardens to the new Air Canada Centre. Toronto qualified for the Stanley Cup playoffs and made it to the Eastern Conference Finals before losing to the Buffalo Sabres. The Toronto Maple Leafs moved from the Central Division of the Western","title":"1998–99 Toronto Maple Leafs season"},{"docid":"15692629","text":"1948 Stanley Cup playoffs The 1948 Stanley Cup playoffs, the championship of the National Hockey League (NHL), began with four teams on March 4, 1948. It concluded on April 14, with the Toronto Maple Leafs defeating the Detroit Red Wings to win the Stanley Cup. \"All dates in 1948\" The first round of the playoffs saw third place Boston Bruins matched up with first place Toronto Maple Leafs and fourth place New York Rangers against second place Detroit Red Wings. Toronto beat Boston 4 games to 1. Although Boston kept it close. Three of the five games were decided by","title":"1948 Stanley Cup playoffs"},{"docid":"785831","text":"head coach, to Imlach's return, the club was on a 10-game undefeated streak, building momentum before the playoffs. The Leafs made their last Cup finals in 1967. Playing against Montreal, the heavy favourite for the year, the Leafs managed to win, with Bob Pulford scoring the double-overtime winner in game three; Jim Pappin scored the series winner in Game 6. Keon was named the playoff's most valuable player, and was awarded the Conn Smythe Trophy. From 1968 to 1970, the Maple Leafs made it to the playoffs only once. They lost several players to the 1967 expansion drafts, and the","title":"Toronto Maple Leafs"},{"docid":"11114232","text":"Hockey game unless it was held in Edmonton, a statement that was realized with the 2003 Heritage Classic three years later. The Maple Leafs have been involved in the following transactions during the 1999–2000 season. Toronto's draft picks at the 1999 NHL Entry Draft held at the FleetCenter in Boston, Massachusetts. 1999–2000 Toronto Maple Leafs season The 1999–2000 Toronto Maple Leafs season saw the team finish in first place for the first time since the 1962–63 season. It was also the Maple Leafs' first 100-point season, as well as long-time NHLer Wendel Clark's last season in the NHL. The Maple","title":"1999–2000 Toronto Maple Leafs season"},{"docid":"11114221","text":"1998–99 Toronto Maple Leafs season The 1998–99 Toronto Maple Leafs season was the franchise's 82nd season. Two moves occurred this season. First, the club moved from the Western to the Eastern Conference of the National Hockey League (NHL). Secondly, the club moved from Maple Leaf Gardens to the new Air Canada Centre. Toronto qualified for the Stanley Cup playoffs and made it to the Eastern Conference Finals before losing to the Buffalo Sabres. The Toronto Maple Leafs moved from the Central Division of the Western Conference to the Northeast Division of the Eastern Conference. The 1998–99 season was a tremendous","title":"1998–99 Toronto Maple Leafs season"},{"docid":"785842","text":"Flames hours later to hand the Leafs the final spot from the Norris. However, the low finishes allowed the team to draft Wendel Clark first overall at the 1985 NHL Entry Draft. Clark managed to lead the Leafs to the playoffs from 1986 to 1988, as well as the 1990 playoffs, although they were always eliminated in the first round. Ballard died on April 11, 1990. Don Crump, Don Giffin, and Steve Stavro were named executors of Ballard's estate. Stavro succeeded Ballard as chairman of Maple Leaf Gardens Ltd. and governor of the Maple Leafs. Cliff Fletcher was hired by","title":"Toronto Maple Leafs"},{"docid":"11823374","text":"the team placed Mark Bell on waivers. Toronto's picks at the 2008 NHL Entry Draft in Ottawa. 2008–09 Toronto Maple Leafs season The 2008–09 Toronto Maple Leafs season was the franchise's 92nd, and their 82nd as the Maple Leafs. The Leafs did not qualify for the playoffs for the fourth consecutive season. The Leafs faced an off-season challenge to hire a general manager. Brian Burke was a favourite for the position held by Interim General Manager Cliff Fletcher, but Burke decided to stay with the Anaheim Ducks. He was not given permission to talk to the Leafs about their vacancy","title":"2008–09 Toronto Maple Leafs season"},{"docid":"11823366","text":"2008–09 Toronto Maple Leafs season The 2008–09 Toronto Maple Leafs season was the franchise's 92nd, and their 82nd as the Maple Leafs. The Leafs did not qualify for the playoffs for the fourth consecutive season. The Leafs faced an off-season challenge to hire a general manager. Brian Burke was a favourite for the position held by Interim General Manager Cliff Fletcher, but Burke decided to stay with the Anaheim Ducks. He was not given permission to talk to the Leafs about their vacancy by Ducks owner Henry Samueli. Burke had one more year left on his contract as the general","title":"2008–09 Toronto Maple Leafs season"},{"docid":"13323708","text":"1945–46 Toronto Maple Leafs season The 1945–46 Toronto Maple Leafs season was the 29th season of play of the Toronto NHL franchise. Although the club was the defending Stanley Cup champion, the team's play declined and the club finished in fifth, missing the playoffs. Cup hero goaltender Frank McCool held out. The Maple Leafs decided to play the tandem of Baz Bastien and Gordie Bell. Without Frank McCool, the team only won three of the first thirteen games, and the Leafs and McCool came to terms. The club continued to struggle and only won eight of the first 28 games.","title":"1945–46 Toronto Maple Leafs season"},{"docid":"11076940","text":"Eddie Shack, Dave Keon, Ed Litzenberger, John MacMillan, Punch Imlach (manager-coach), Bob Haggert (trainer) </div> 1962–63 Toronto Maple Leafs season The 1962–63 Toronto Maple Leafs season saw the team finish first in the National Hockey League (NHL) with a record of 35 wins, 23 losses, and 12 ties for 82 points. It was the first time they had finished first overall in the league since 1948. In the playoffs, they defeated their arch-rivals, the Montreal Canadiens, four games to one, in the Semi-finals. They then defeated the Detroit Red Wings in five games to win their second straight Stanley Cup.","title":"1962–63 Toronto Maple Leafs season"},{"docid":"11076938","text":"1962–63 Toronto Maple Leafs season The 1962–63 Toronto Maple Leafs season saw the team finish first in the National Hockey League (NHL) with a record of 35 wins, 23 losses, and 12 ties for 82 points. It was the first time they had finished first overall in the league since 1948. In the playoffs, they defeated their arch-rivals, the Montreal Canadiens, four games to one, in the Semi-finals. They then defeated the Detroit Red Wings in five games to win their second straight Stanley Cup. \"Note: GP = Games played; G = Goals; A = Assists; Pts = Points; PIM","title":"1962–63 Toronto Maple Leafs season"},{"docid":"11114226","text":"1999–2000 Toronto Maple Leafs season The 1999–2000 Toronto Maple Leafs season saw the team finish in first place for the first time since the 1962–63 season. It was also the Maple Leafs' first 100-point season, as well as long-time NHLer Wendel Clark's last season in the NHL. The Maple Leafs had their second consecutive 45-win season and broke the 1992–93 franchise record for most points accumulated in a season. Mats Sundin averaged a point per game, scoring 32 goals and picking up 41 assists for 73 points in 73 games. Jonas Hoglund had a career year, finishing third on the","title":"1999–2000 Toronto Maple Leafs season"},{"docid":"12001703","text":"1979–80 Toronto Maple Leafs season The 1979–80 Toronto Maple Leafs season was the 63rd season of the franchise, 53rd season as the Maple Leafs. In July 1979, Leafs owner Harold Ballard brought back Punch Imlach, a longtime friend, as general manager. Imlach traded Lanny McDonald to undermine team captain Darryl Sittler's influence on the team. The McDonald trade sent the Leafs into a downward spiral. They finished five games under .500 and only made the playoffs due to the presence of the Quebec Nordiques, a refugee from the WHA, in the Adams Division. The 1979-80 season marked the dismantling of","title":"1979–80 Toronto Maple Leafs season"},{"docid":"12693037","text":"sold the club to shopping mall magnate Edward J. DeBartolo, Sr. in February 1977, less than two years after having bought the team from the NHL. The Penguins' opponent in the first round of the Stanley Cup playoffs was once again the Toronto Maple Leafs. While the Penguins' offensive output greatly improved to ten goals scored (compared to 1976's three goals), the Maple Leafs once again dispatched the Penguins in three games. Denotes player spent time with another team before joining the Penguins. Stats reflect time with the Penguins only. Denotes player was traded mid-season. Stats reflect time with the","title":"1976–77 Pittsburgh Penguins season"},{"docid":"785872","text":"second for most Cup wins. The height of the rivalry was during the 1960s, when the Canadiens and Leafs combined to win all but one Cup. The two clubs had 15 postseason meetings. However, failing to meet each other in the playoffs since 1979, the rivalry has waned. It also suffered when Montreal and Toronto were placed in opposite conferences in , with the Leafs in the Clarence Campbell/Western Conference and the Canadiens in the Prince of Wales/Eastern Conference. The rivalry became intradivisional once again in , when the Leafs were moved into the Eastern Conference's Northeast Division. The rivalry's","title":"Toronto Maple Leafs"},{"docid":"11436120","text":"season, with just two. The Maple Leafs have been involved in the following transactions during the 2000–01 season. Toronto's draft picks at the 2000 NHL Entry Draft held at the Pengrowth Saddledome in Calgary, Alberta. 2000–01 Toronto Maple Leafs season The 2000–01 Toronto Maple Leafs season was the franchise's 84th season of existence and their 74th season as the Maple Leafs. The team finished third in the Northeast Division with a 37–29–11–5 record (90 points). In the 2001 Stanley Cup playoffs, they swept their rivals, the first-place Ottawa Senators, four games to none in the Eastern Conference Quarter-finals before falling","title":"2000–01 Toronto Maple Leafs season"},{"docid":"12402533","text":"the lowest ever for a playoff qualifier. They lost to the Red Wings in six games in the Division Semi-finals. The Maple Leafs finished last in power-play goals scored (54), power-play opportunities (347) and power-play percentage (15.56%). The Toronto Maple Leafs were defeated 4 games to 2 against the Norris Division winning Detroit Red Wings. The Maple Leafs have been involved in the following transactions during the 1987-88 season. Toronto's draft picks at the 1987 NHL Entry Draft held at the Joe Louis Arena in Detroit, Michigan. 1987–88 Toronto Maple Leafs season The 1987–88 Toronto Maple Leafs season saw the","title":"1987–88 Toronto Maple Leafs season"},{"docid":"7484211","text":"by David Alter and features longtime Leafs radio team of Joe Bowen and Jim Ralph and Sportsnet's Leafs analyst Greg Millen as analysts. It serves as the competitor show to TSN 1050's \"Leafs Lunch\". As with \"Prime Time Sports\", it is broadcast on Sportsnet 590 at 1 eastern time on weekdays as a television simulcast on Sportsnet Ontario. Available only to the viewers in most of Ontario (except Eastern Ontario), which is the designated market of the Toronto Maple Leafs. Beginning on April 30, 2013, The Score began to carry \"Hockey Central Playoff Xtra\" nightly during the Stanley Cup playoffs.","title":"Hockey Central"},{"docid":"6525027","text":"the position of senior vice-president and director of hockey operations of the Toronto Maple Leafs. Nonis accepted the post and it marked the third time he served under Brian Burke. On May 10, 2010 he signed an extension to keep his position through the 2011-12 season. On January 9, 2013, Nonis was named general manager of the Toronto Maple Leafs after Burke was relieved of his duties. Under Nonis, the Maple Leafs made the 2013 playoffs for the first time since 2004. However, after two disappointing seasons, Nonis was relieved of his duties on April 12, 2015, one day after","title":"Dave Nonis"},{"docid":"2952901","text":"game at Toronto, thereby sidelining him, may have worsened their situation. The season was a poor one for both teams, with the Senators finishing 11th and the Maple Leafs 12th in the Eastern Conference. This marked the first time that both Ontario teams failed to qualify for the Stanley Cup playoffs since the Senators joined the NHL in 1992. The season saw the Senators finish fifth in the Eastern Conference and face the Pittsburgh Penguins in the first round of the playoffs, while the Leafs finished last in the conference and failed to make the playoffs for the fifth consecutive","title":"Battle of Ontario"},{"docid":"20769477","text":"2018–19 Toronto Maple Leafs season The 2018–19 Toronto Maple Leafs season is the 102nd season for the National Hockey League franchise that was established on November 22, 1917. The Maple Leafs forward group changed significantly before the season, losing team veterans Tyler Bozak, James van Riemsdyk and Leo Komarov while adding all-star centre John Tavares in free agency, which many publications called one of the biggest signings in NHL history. The team is attempting to qualify for the playoffs for a third consecutive season. Player currently playing for the minor league affiliate Toronto Marlies of the AHL <br> Bold/italics denotes","title":"2018–19 Toronto Maple Leafs season"},{"docid":"12656965","text":"the Toronto Maple Leafs four games to one. 1950–51 Montreal Canadiens season The 1950–51 Montreal Canadiens season was the 42nd in franchise history. The team placed third in the regular season to qualify for the playoffs. The Canadiens lost in Stanley Cup final against Toronto Maple Leafs 4 games to 1. The five games were decided in overtime. The Canadiens first played the Detroit Red Wings in the semi-finals. The first four games of the series was won by the visiting team. The Canadiens then won the last two to win the series four games to two to advance to","title":"1950–51 Montreal Canadiens season"},{"docid":"4207479","text":"becoming the Toronto Marlies. The Maple Leafs were very popular throughout their existence, and they made multiple appearances in the AHL Calder Cup playoffs (only missing the playoffs in 2000, 2003 and 2004). The team was in the Calder Cup finals in their inaugural season, losing 4–3 to the Adirondack Red Wings, but they won the semifinal round by earning the most points during the regular season out of the three remaining teams in the playoffs, the others being the Red Wings and the Rochester Americans. Their first season was the only time the team made it to the finals,","title":"St. John's Maple Leafs"},{"docid":"10621510","text":"a decline in their sponsored junior system (including the Toronto St. Michael's Majors and the Toronto Marlboros). The junior system was managed by Frank J. Selke until his departure to the Canadiens in 1946. In his absence, the quality of players it produced declined. Many who were called up to the Leafs in the early 1950s were found to be seriously lacking in ability. It was only later in the decade that the Leafs' feeder clubs produced prospects that helped them become competitive again. After a two-year drought from the playoffs, the Maple Leafs clinched a berth after the 1958–59","title":"History of the Toronto Maple Leafs"},{"docid":"785823","text":"semi-finals. With the conclusion of the 1952–53 regular season, the Leafs failed to make it to the post-season for the first time since the 1945–46 playoffs. The Leafs' poor performance may be attributed partly to a decline in their sponsored junior system (including the Toronto St. Michael's Majors and the Toronto Marlboros). The junior system was managed by Frank J. Selke until his departure to the Canadiens in 1946. In his absence, the quality of players it produced declined. Many who were called up to the Leafs in the early 1950s were found to be seriously lacking in ability. It","title":"Toronto Maple Leafs"},{"docid":"11436119","text":"2000–01 Toronto Maple Leafs season The 2000–01 Toronto Maple Leafs season was the franchise's 84th season of existence and their 74th season as the Maple Leafs. The team finished third in the Northeast Division with a 37–29–11–5 record (90 points). In the 2001 Stanley Cup playoffs, they swept their rivals, the first-place Ottawa Senators, four games to none in the Eastern Conference Quarter-finals before falling to the New Jersey Devils in seven games in the Eastern Conference Semi-finals. Key dates prior to the start of the season: The Leafs scored the fewest short-handed goals in the NHL during the regular","title":"2000–01 Toronto Maple Leafs season"},{"docid":"16558730","text":"& 23, 2012. 2012–13 Toronto Maple Leafs season The 2012–13 Toronto Maple Leafs season was the 96th season for the National Hockey League franchise that was established on November 22, 1917. The regular season was reduced from its usual 82 games to 48 due to a lockout. Due to the abbreviated 48-game schedule, the Leafs played only teams from their own Eastern Conference. Within their division, they played Boston and Buffalo four times each, and played Montreal and Ottawa five times each. The Leafs played all non-divisional eastern conference opponents three times each. Toronto qualified for the playoffs for the","title":"2012–13 Toronto Maple Leafs season"},{"docid":"3151551","text":"narrowly defeated the Calgary Flames in seven games before losing to the underdog Dallas Stars in six games in the second round. On May 12, 2008, the Sharks fired Wilson, as the club failed to meet management's playoff aspirations. On June 10, 2008, the Toronto Maple Leafs hired Wilson to become the team's head coach, replacing Paul Maurice. Upon his hiring, Toronto had not made the playoffs since 2003–04. In Wilson's first year with the Leafs, 2008–09, the club went 34–35–13, earning 81 points for last place in the Northeast Division and 12th in the Eastern Conference. The Maple Leafs","title":"Ron Wilson (ice hockey, born 1955)"},{"docid":"4899346","text":"was awarded with the J. P. Bickell Memorial Trophy as most valuable Toronto Maple Leaf. After missing the entire 1955–56 season, he came out of retirement to play half of the 1956–57 season to help the Leafs who were short on players due to injuries and were struggling to make the playoffs. Kennedy returned November 27 to train himself back into shape after the Leafs had won only one game in their last 11. He scored 22 points in 30 games, but the Leafs finished out of the playoffs. He shared the captaincy with Jim Thomson. A highlight of the","title":"Ted Kennedy (ice hockey)"},{"docid":"11229557","text":"Babe Pratt, Gus Bodnar, Art Jackson, Jack McLean, Mel Hill, Nick Metz, Bob Davidson (captain), Dave Schriner, Lorne Carr, Conn Smythe (manager), Hap Day (coach), Frank Selke (business manager), Tim Daly (trainer) 1944–45 Toronto Maple Leafs season The 1944–45 Toronto Maple Leafs season was the club's 28th season in the NHL. Toronto finished in third place in the regular season, with a 24–22–4 record, earning 52 points. The Leafs eliminated their archrivals Montreal Canadiens in the first round of the playoffs, and then defeated the Detroit Red Wings in seven games in the 1945 Stanley Cup Finals. Toronto was a","title":"1944–45 Toronto Maple Leafs season"},{"docid":"15283031","text":"the Canadiens 4-3 in overtime, ending a record breaking 14 game losing streak against their rivals dating back over three years to January 18th, 2014. It was also their first win in Montreal in over four years, stretching back to October 1st, 2013. The Canadiens and Maple Leafs have met in the playoffs 15 times. To date, Montreal has won 8, Toronto 7. Scores of games won by the series winning team are in bold. Canadiens–Maple Leafs rivalry The Canadiens–Maple Leafs rivalry is a National Hockey League (NHL) rivalry between the Montreal Canadiens and Toronto Maple Leafs. Dating back to","title":"Canadiens–Maple Leafs rivalry"},{"docid":"13331361","text":"season in the WHL, the Maple Leafs finished out of the playoffs with a fifth-place 30-34-8 W-L-T record. Buck Houle was the General Manager and Frank Mario was the coach. Milan Marcetta continued as the team's top goal and point scorer with 40 goals and 35 assists. Bruce Carmichael added 30 goals. Gary Smith started 17 games for Victoria in the net. Al Smith had started the season with the Toronto Maple Leafs but arrived in time to play 55 games for Victoria. Al Smith went on to play in the NHL with Toronto and five other teams over nine","title":"Victoria Maple Leafs"},{"docid":"13329098","text":"1933–34 Toronto Maple Leafs season The 1933–34 Toronto Maple Leafs season was Toronto's 17th season in the National Hockey League (NHL). Toronto would face Detroit WilRed Wings and goalie Wilf Cude in series A of the Playoffs. Game #1 Detroit 2 Toronto 1, #2 Detroit 6 Toronto 3, #3 Toronto 3 Detroit 1, #4Toronto 5 Detroit 1, #5 Detroit 1 Toronto 0. Cude faced 43, 53, 35, 30, and 15 shots for a save % of .932 and gaa of 2.38.Hainsworth faced 31, 28, 23, 15, and 22 shots for a save % of .908 and a gaa of 2.19.","title":"1933–34 Toronto Maple Leafs season"},{"docid":"785833","text":"Stafford Smythe confronted Imlach and fired him. This act was not without controversy, with some older players, including Horton, declaring that, \"if this team doesn't want Imlach, I guess it doesn't want me\". The Maple Leafs completed the 1969–70 season out of the playoffs. With their low finish, the Leafs were able to draft Darryl Sittler at the 1970 NHL Amateur Draft. The Leafs returned to the playoffs after the 1970–71 season with the addition of Sittler, as well as Bernie Parent and Jacques Plante, who were both acquired through trades during the season. They were eliminated in the first","title":"Toronto Maple Leafs"},{"docid":"10621477","text":"to 2004. In February 1999, the Maple Leafs moved from Maple Leaf Gardens, to their new home arena, the Air Canada Centre. Following the 2004–05 NHL lockout, the Maple Leafs saw an seven-year playoff drought, failing to qualify for the playoffs from the 2006 to 2013 Stanley Cup playoffs. In August 2012, BCE Inc. and Rogers Communications completed the purchase for a combined 70 percent stake in MLSE. Shortly after the end of the 2013–14 season, Brendan Shanahan was appointed the president and alternate governor of the hockey club. The beginnings of the Maple Leafs NHL franchise arose out of","title":"History of the Toronto Maple Leafs"},{"docid":"11823368","text":"was on the Phoenix Coyotes and developing their young talent. On June 10, Ron Wilson was hired as the new head coach of the Toronto Maple Leafs. Wilson was fired in May by the San Jose Sharks after the Sharks lost to the Dallas Stars in the second round of the NHL playoffs. Wilson has also coached the Anaheim Ducks and the Washington Capitals. The former U.S. college player spent parts of three NHL seasons with the Leafs in the 1970s. The Toronto Maple Leafs hired Al Coates as their player-personnel director on June 16. Coates comes to Toronto after","title":"2008–09 Toronto Maple Leafs season"}],"string":"[\n {\n \"docid\": \"13002700\",\n \"text\": \"1969–70 Toronto Maple Leafs season The 1969–70 Toronto Maple Leafs season was the 53rd season of play of the NHL Toronto franchise and 43rd as the \\\"Maple Leafs\\\". After qualifying for the playoffs the previous season, the Leafs fell to last-place in the NHL East and did not qualify for the playoffs. Punch Imlach's term as Maple Leafs' general manager ended after the 1969 playoffs. Jim Gregory, who had been an executive with the Toronto Marlboros was named general manager, the first new GM for the Maple Leafs since 1957. The Maple Leafs have been involved in the following transactions\",\n \"title\": \"1969–70 Toronto Maple Leafs season\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"13002701\",\n \"text\": \"during the 1969–70 season. 1969–70 Toronto Maple Leafs season The 1969–70 Toronto Maple Leafs season was the 53rd season of play of the NHL Toronto franchise and 43rd as the \\\"Maple Leafs\\\". After qualifying for the playoffs the previous season, the Leafs fell to last-place in the NHL East and did not qualify for the playoffs. Punch Imlach's term as Maple Leafs' general manager ended after the 1969 playoffs. Jim Gregory, who had been an executive with the Toronto Marlboros was named general manager, the first new GM for the Maple Leafs since 1957. The Maple Leafs have been involved\",\n \"title\": \"1969–70 Toronto Maple Leafs season\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"15398049\",\n \"text\": \"the Stanley Cup playoffs for the first time since the 2003–04 season. \\\"The Hockey News\\\" predicted that the Leafs will place tenth and miss the playoffs. The Maple Leafs were ultimately eliminated from playoff contention. Denotes player spent time with another team before joining Maple Leafs. Stats reflect time with Maple Leafs only. Traded mid-season. Bold/italics denotes franchise record. The Maple Leafs have been involved in the following transactions during the 2011–12 season. Toronto's picks at the 2011 NHL Entry Draft in St. Paul, Minnesota. 2011–12 Toronto Maple Leafs season The 2011–12 Toronto Maple Leafs season was the 95th season\",\n \"title\": \"2011–12 Toronto Maple Leafs season\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"20166933\",\n \"text\": \"2017–18 Toronto Maple Leafs season The 2017–18 Toronto Maple Leafs season was the 101st season for the National Hockey League franchise that was established on November 22, 1917. The Maple Leafs set a new franchise record in wins when they earned their 46th win of the season on March 28, 2018, and as well set a new franchise record for wins at home. The following day, the Leafs officially clinched a playoff spot for a second consecutive season. The Leafs made it to the playoffs last season, and were bumped out in the first series. Their season ended in the\",\n \"title\": \"2017–18 Toronto Maple Leafs season\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"20166935\",\n \"text\": \"an additional two picks through various trades. Draft notes: 2017–18 Toronto Maple Leafs season The 2017–18 Toronto Maple Leafs season was the 101st season for the National Hockey League franchise that was established on November 22, 1917. The Maple Leafs set a new franchise record in wins when they earned their 46th win of the season on March 28, 2018, and as well set a new franchise record for wins at home. The following day, the Leafs officially clinched a playoff spot for a second consecutive season. The Leafs made it to the playoffs last season, and were bumped out\",\n \"title\": \"2017–18 Toronto Maple Leafs season\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"11823373\",\n \"text\": \"general manager. The Maple Leafs were mathematically eliminated from the playoffs on March 31, 2009, with six games remaining in the season. The Maple Leafs finished the season with 286 goals allowed (excluding seven shootout goals), the most out of all 30 teams. The Maple Leafs also struggled on the penalty kill, finishing 30th overall in penalty-kill percentage, at 74.68%. The Toronto Maple Leafs failed to qualify for the 2009 Stanley Cup playoffs. Denotes player spent time with another team before joining Maple Leafs. Stats reflect time with Maple Leafs only. Traded mid-season. Bold/italics denotes franchise record. On October 6,\",\n \"title\": \"2008–09 Toronto Maple Leafs season\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"11076925\",\n \"text\": \"1966–67 Toronto Maple Leafs season The 1966–67 Toronto Maple Leafs season was the 50th season of the Toronto NHL franchise, fortieth as the \\\"Maple Leafs.\\\" The Leafs finished third in the NHL with a record of 32–27–11 for 75 points to qualify for the playoffs. Toronto defeated the first-place Chicago Black Hawks four games to two in the semi-finals before upending their arch-rival Montreal Canadiens in six games to win their thirteenth Stanley Cup in franchise history. As of 2017, this is the last time that the Maple Leafs won the Stanley Cup, or even made it to the Finals.\",\n \"title\": \"1966–67 Toronto Maple Leafs season\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"12997618\",\n \"text\": \"1996–97 Toronto Maple Leafs season The 1996–97 Toronto Maple Leafs season was Toronto's 80th season in the National Hockey League (NHL). The Maple Leafs entered the 1996–97 NHL season with the hopes of making the post-season for the fifth consecutive year. Mike Murphy was hired prior to the season as the head coach replacing interim coach Nick Beverley. The team played mediocre for most of the season and missed the playoffs for the first time since 1992. This season, would be Cliff Fletcher's last as General Manager of the Maple Leafs. In one of his final moves, Fletcher (in February)\",\n \"title\": \"1996–97 Toronto Maple Leafs season\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"11078426\",\n \"text\": \"series 4–3\\\" The Maple Leafs defeated the Blues in seven games to win the Norris Division playoffs, despite Blues' goaltender Curtis Joseph's efforts. The Blues were heavily outshot throughout the series including more than 60 shots in game one alone. Game 7 was the first to be played at Maple Leaf Gardens since the 1964 Finals when Andy Bathgate scored the cup clinching goal. \\\"Toronto wins best-of-seven series 4–3\\\" This exciting and very heated seven-game series has long been remembered by hockey fans. The Toronto Maple Leafs iced a highly competitive team for the first time in years and were\",\n \"title\": \"1992–93 Toronto Maple Leafs season\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"12421174\",\n \"text\": \"were lost to various franchises in the Expansion Draft.\\\" The Maple Leafs were involved in the following transactions during the 1967–68 season. 1967–68 Toronto Maple Leafs season The Maple Leafs entered the season as defending Stanley Cup champions. The franchise hosted the 21st National Hockey League National Hockey League All-Star Game. It was played at Maple Leaf Gardens on January 16, 1968. The Toronto Maple Leafs defeated an all-star team by a score of 4–3. The Leafs missed the playoffs for the first time since 1958 with a record of 33–31–10 for 76 points for a fifth place in the\",\n \"title\": \"1967–68 Toronto Maple Leafs season\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"12402532\",\n \"text\": \"1987–88 Toronto Maple Leafs season The 1987–88 Toronto Maple Leafs season saw the Maple Leafs finish in fourth place in the Norris Division with a record of 21 wins, 49 losses, and 10 ties for 52 points. Despite posting the second-worst record in the league, they qualified for the Stanley Cup Playoffs on the last day of the season in part due to playing in an extremely weak Norris Division; the division champion Detroit Red Wings were the only team in the division with a winning record. Their .325 winning percentage is the third-worst in franchise history, and one of\",\n \"title\": \"1987–88 Toronto Maple Leafs season\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"13532974\",\n \"text\": \"playoffs for more consecutive years. Denotes player spent time with another team before joining Maple Leafs. Stats reflect time with Maple Leafs only. Traded mid-season. Bold/italics denotes franchise record. The Maple Leafs have been involved in the following transactions during the 2009–10 season. Toronto's picks at the 2009 NHL Entry Draft in Montreal, Quebec. 2009–10 Toronto Maple Leafs season The 2009–10 Toronto Maple Leafs season is the franchise's 93rd, and their 83rd as the Maple Leafs. The Leafs had not qualified for the post-season since the 2003–04 season, and began the regular season with its worst start in franchise history\",\n \"title\": \"2009–10 Toronto Maple Leafs season\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"14601120\",\n \"text\": \"Capitals. The Maple Leafs attempted to make the playoffs for the first time since the 2003–04 season. They were officially eliminated from playoff contention on April 5, 2011, when Buffalo Sabres beat Tampa Bay Lightning 4–2, shortly before Toronto lost to the Washington Capitals in a shoot-out. They continue to hold the second longest playoff-drought streak, second only to the Florida Panthers. Neither team have reached the playoffs since the NHL lockout. The Leafs hold the longest active Stanley Cup Finals drought streak not having competed in the finals since the 1966–67 NHL season. They also are tied with the\",\n \"title\": \"2010–11 Toronto Maple Leafs season\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"11185309\",\n \"text\": \"1970–71 Toronto Maple Leafs season The 1970–71 Toronto Maple Leafs season was the 54th season of the franchise, 44th as the Maple Leafs. Norm Ullman ranked sixth in the league in the scoring with 85 points. The Leafs placed fourth in the East to qualify for the playoffs. The Leafs lost to the New York Rangers in the first round of the playoffs. In February, the Maple Leafs and Philadelphia Flyers swung a large trade. Toronto picked up Bernie Parent and a second-round draft choice for Bruce Gamble, Mike Walton and a first-round draft choice. The Maple Leafs have been\",\n \"title\": \"1970–71 Toronto Maple Leafs season\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"13339132\",\n \"text\": \"1973–74 Toronto Maple Leafs season The 1973–74 Toronto Maple Leafs season was the 57th season of the Toronto NHL franchise, 47th as the \\\"Maple Leafs.\\\" The Leafs placed fourth to make the playoffs, but were swept in the first round by the Boston Bruins. The Maple Leafs made several signings that would improve their team. At the entry draft, the Maple Leafs chose Lanny McDonald with the fourth-overall draft pick. He would play six and a half seasons with the Maple Leafs. Bernie Parent, who had left the team for the World Hockey Association (WHA) in 1972, made it known\",\n \"title\": \"1973–74 Toronto Maple Leafs season\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"11436125\",\n \"text\": \"Entry Draft held at the Air Canada Centre in Toronto, Ontario. 2002–03 Toronto Maple Leafs season The 2002–03 Toronto Maple Leafs season was the team's 86th season of the franchise, and the 76th season as the Maple Leafs. Key dates prior to the start of the season: The Maple Leafs were the most penalized team during the regular season, being penalized 426 times. The Maple Leafs qualified for the Stanley Cup playoffs for the fifth consecutive year. They lost to the Philadelphia Flyers in 7 games in the first round. The Maple Leafs have been involved in the following transactions\",\n \"title\": \"2002–03 Toronto Maple Leafs season\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"16558729\",\n \"text\": \"(88.20%). The Maple Leafs qualified for the Stanley Cup playoffs for the first time since the 2003–04 NHL season in a game against the Ottawa Senators on April 20, 2013. They lost to the Boston Bruins in 7 games in the first round. Denotes player spent time with another team before joining the Maple Leafs. Stats reflect time with the Maple Leafs only. Traded mid-season Bold/italics denotes franchise record The Maple Leafs have been involved in the following transactions during the 2012–13 season. Toronto Maple Leafs' picks at the 2012 NHL Entry Draft, held in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania on June 22\",\n \"title\": \"2012–13 Toronto Maple Leafs season\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"11185310\",\n \"text\": \"involved in the following transactions during the 1970–71 season. 1970–71 Toronto Maple Leafs season The 1970–71 Toronto Maple Leafs season was the 54th season of the franchise, 44th as the Maple Leafs. Norm Ullman ranked sixth in the league in the scoring with 85 points. The Leafs placed fourth in the East to qualify for the playoffs. The Leafs lost to the New York Rangers in the first round of the playoffs. In February, the Maple Leafs and Philadelphia Flyers swung a large trade. Toronto picked up Bernie Parent and a second-round draft choice for Bruce Gamble, Mike Walton and\",\n \"title\": \"1970–71 Toronto Maple Leafs season\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"12421173\",\n \"text\": \"1967–68 Toronto Maple Leafs season The Maple Leafs entered the season as defending Stanley Cup champions. The franchise hosted the 21st National Hockey League National Hockey League All-Star Game. It was played at Maple Leaf Gardens on January 16, 1968. The Toronto Maple Leafs defeated an all-star team by a score of 4–3. The Leafs missed the playoffs for the first time since 1958 with a record of 33–31–10 for 76 points for a fifth place in the East Division. The Leafs finished with a better record than any of the six expansion teams that season. \\\"The following Maple Leafs\",\n \"title\": \"1967–68 Toronto Maple Leafs season\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"11436124\",\n \"text\": \"2002–03 Toronto Maple Leafs season The 2002–03 Toronto Maple Leafs season was the team's 86th season of the franchise, and the 76th season as the Maple Leafs. Key dates prior to the start of the season: The Maple Leafs were the most penalized team during the regular season, being penalized 426 times. The Maple Leafs qualified for the Stanley Cup playoffs for the fifth consecutive year. They lost to the Philadelphia Flyers in 7 games in the first round. The Maple Leafs have been involved in the following transactions during the 2002–03 season. Toronto's draft picks at the 2002 NHL\",\n \"title\": \"2002–03 Toronto Maple Leafs season\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"3843021\",\n \"text\": \"in the game. Toronto won the last two games by scores of 6 to 0, and 6 to 3 capturing its 5th Memorial Cup. In 1966–67, the Maple Leafs also won the Stanley Cup, the last year the two clubs were national champions at the same time. The Marlboros of 1972–73 lost only seven games in the regular season. The team was ranked # 1 in Canada going into the playoffs. Toronto eliminated the St. Catharines Black Hawks and Ottawa 67's before meeting the Peterborough Petes in the OHA finals. The series versus the Petes went to a seventh game\",\n \"title\": \"Toronto Marlboros\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"20603444\",\n \"text\": \"silence prior to their game, as well as lower the banner of Barilko's retired number. College station of the Toronto subway system feature a pair of murals called \\\"Hockey Knights in Canada\\\", named after \\\"Hockey Night in Canada\\\"; one depicting the Toronto Maple Leafs on the southbound side and facing the Montreal Canadiens on the northbound side, depicting the decades-old rivalry between the two clubs. They were created by Charles Pachter in 1984, when the Toronto Maple Leafs still played at nearby Maple Leaf Gardens. Toronto Maple Leafs in popular culture The National Hockey League (NHL)'s Toronto Maple Leafs has\",\n \"title\": \"Toronto Maple Leafs in popular culture\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"13329039\",\n \"text\": \"did not qualify for the playoffs. 1927–28 Toronto Maple Leafs season The 1927–28 Toronto Maple Leafs season was the first under the \\\"Maple Leafs\\\" name for the Toronto National Hockey League (NHL) franchise. The club finished in fourth to miss the playoffs again. Conn Smythe left his duties as coach at the University of Toronto and became the general manager and coach of the Leafs. Smythe would be general manager for 30 years. Smythe put team captain Bert Corbeau on waivers in October. Corbeau cleared waivers and joined Toronto Ravinia of the Canadian-American Professional Hockey League. Smythe named Hap Day\",\n \"title\": \"1927–28 Toronto Maple Leafs season\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"12990936\",\n \"text\": \"1978–79 Toronto Maple Leafs season The 1978–79 Toronto Maple Leafs season was the 62nd season of the Toronto NHL franchise, 52nd as the \\\"Maple Leafs\\\". The Leafs placed third in the Adams Division to make the playoffs where the Leafs won their first round series against the Atlanta Flames, only to lose in the second series to the Montreal Canadiens. Toronto Maple Leafs vs. Atlanta Flames \\\"Toronto wins best-of-three series 2 games to 0.\\\" Toronto Maple Leafs vs. Montreal Canadiens \\\"Montreal wins best-of-seven series 4 games to 0.\\\" The Maple Leafs have been involved in the following transactions during the\",\n \"title\": \"1978–79 Toronto Maple Leafs season\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"12990937\",\n \"text\": \"1978-79 season. 1978–79 Toronto Maple Leafs season The 1978–79 Toronto Maple Leafs season was the 62nd season of the Toronto NHL franchise, 52nd as the \\\"Maple Leafs\\\". The Leafs placed third in the Adams Division to make the playoffs where the Leafs won their first round series against the Atlanta Flames, only to lose in the second series to the Montreal Canadiens. Toronto Maple Leafs vs. Atlanta Flames \\\"Toronto wins best-of-three series 2 games to 0.\\\" Toronto Maple Leafs vs. Montreal Canadiens \\\"Montreal wins best-of-seven series 4 games to 0.\\\" The Maple Leafs have been involved in the following transactions\",\n \"title\": \"1978–79 Toronto Maple Leafs season\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"10453144\",\n \"text\": \"2007–08 Toronto Maple Leafs season The 2007–08 Toronto Maple Leafs season began October 4, 2007. It is the 91st season of the franchise, 81st season as the Maple Leafs. In an effort to return to the playoffs in 2007–08, the Leafs made two significant moves during the off-season. The first was to acquire goaltender Vesa Toskala, along with Mark Bell from the San Jose Sharks for three draft picks. Toronto also signed free agent Jason Blake to a five-year, $20 million contract. Blake topped the 40-goal mark for the first time in 2006–07. With the Leafs struggling in the Northeast\",\n \"title\": \"2007–08 Toronto Maple Leafs season\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"13323709\",\n \"text\": \"Turk Broda returned from war-time duty in January, but the team continued to struggle. All-Star defenceman Babe Pratt was suspended, but was reinstated after nine games. The team won only two of the nine games and dropped out of playoff contention. The club finished in fifth place, out of the playoffs. The team was only the second team to miss the playoffs after winning the Cup. 1945–46 Toronto Maple Leafs season The 1945–46 Toronto Maple Leafs season was the 29th season of play of the Toronto NHL franchise. Although the club was the defending Stanley Cup champion, the team's play\",\n \"title\": \"1945–46 Toronto Maple Leafs season\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"19442458\",\n \"text\": \"2016–17 Toronto Maple Leafs season The 2016–17 Toronto Maple Leafs season was the 100th season for the National Hockey League franchise that was established on November 22, 1917. The Maple Leafs finished the season with 95 points (a 12 year high) and qualified for the playoffs for the first time since the 2012–13 season. The off-season was relatively quiet for the Maple Leafs relative to previous seasons. On July 1, the opening day of free agency, Toronto signed forward Matt Martin to a four-year, $10 million contract, then brought back defenceman Roman Polak on a one-year deal the following day.\",\n \"title\": \"2016–17 Toronto Maple Leafs season\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"11404097\",\n \"text\": \"Their ninth-place finish meant that the Maple Leafs would miss the playoffs for the first time since 1998. Throughout the season, Toronto struggled against their provincial and divisional rivals, the Ottawa Senators, winning only one game out of eight meetings with a 1–5–2 record. Excluding shootout goals, the Maple Leafs were outscored 39 to 19 and were shut-out twice. Goaltender Ed Belfour went 0–5–2 against the Senators with 34 goals allowed, a 5.20 GAA and a save percentage of .834. Six members of the Maple Leafs competed in Ice hockey at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin. Bryan McCabe represented\",\n \"title\": \"2005–06 Toronto Maple Leafs season\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"10621476\",\n \"text\": \"Cup in 1962, 1963, 1964, and 1967. Winning their last championship in prior to the 1967 NHL expansion, the Maple Leafs' drought between Stanley Cups is the longest active drought in the NHL. In 1971, Ballard secured principal ownership of MLGL. During the 1970s, the Maple Leafs saw some success, only failing to qualify for the playoffs once in the decade. However, the Maple Leafs would fail to post a winning record for 12 years, from 1980–81 to 1992–93. During the 1990s and early 2000s, the team saw a resurgence in competitive play, missing the playoffs only twice from 1993\",\n \"title\": \"History of the Toronto Maple Leafs\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"13339135\",\n \"text\": \"1971–72 Toronto Maple Leafs season The 1971–72 Toronto Maple Leafs season was Toronto's 55th season of operation in the National Hockey League (NHL). It was also the fortieth anniversary season of the opening of Maple Leaf Gardens. The Maple Leafs finished fourth, and qualified for the playoffs, losing in the first round to the eventual Stanley Cup champion Boston Bruins. In June, team president Stafford Smythe and vice-president Harold Ballard were arrested for theft and fraud involving funds of Maple Leaf Gardens. They were charged jointly on the theft of $146,000 of funds and securities and Smythe was further charged\",\n \"title\": \"1971–72 Toronto Maple Leafs season\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"15690113\",\n \"text\": \"1951 Stanley Cup playoffs The 1951 Stanley Cup playoffs, the championship of the National Hockey League (NHL), began with four teams on March 28, 1951. It concluded on April 21, with the Toronto Maple Leafs defeating the Montreal Canadiens to win the Stanley Cup. \\\"All dates in 1951\\\" The second seed Toronto Maple Leafs eliminated the fourth seed Boston Bruins in five games, and the third seed Montreal Canadiens upset first overall Detroit Red Wings in six, setting up a Leafs – Canadiens Stanley Cup final series, won by the Leafs 4–1. Boston Bruins vs. Toronto Maple Leafs Montreal Canadiens\",\n \"title\": \"1951 Stanley Cup playoffs\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"15136365\",\n \"text\": \"all the Canadian teams have qualified for the playoffs on five other occasions – 1969 (Montreal and Toronto), 1975, 1976 and 1979 (Montreal, Toronto and Vancouver), and 1986 (the same seven as in 1983), the last time to date (as of 2018) that all active Canadian teams qualified. This is also the most recent time that the Toronto Maple Leafs and the Detroit Red Wings missed the playoffs in the same season. In the Wales Conference, the Patrick Division champion Philadelphia Flyers were upset by the New York Rangers in the first round. The defending champion Islanders had qualified second\",\n \"title\": \"1983 Stanley Cup playoffs\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"11078411\",\n \"text\": \"Louis Blues in a seven-game Norris final. Toronto Maple Leafs vs. Chicago Black Hawks \\\"Toronto wins best-of-five series 3–0\\\" Toronto Maple Leafs vs. St. Louis Blues \\\"St. Louis wins best-of-seven series 4–3\\\" The Maple Leafs have been involved in the following transactions during the 1985-86 season. The Maple Leafs were affiliated with the St. Catharines Saints of the AHL. 1985–86 Toronto Maple Leafs season The 1985–86 Toronto Maple Leafs season was the Toronto Maple Leafs 69th season of the franchise, 59th season as the Maple Leafs. Despite posting the fourth-worst record in the league, the Leafs qualified for the last\",\n \"title\": \"1985–86 Toronto Maple Leafs season\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"16558727\",\n \"text\": \"2012–13 Toronto Maple Leafs season The 2012–13 Toronto Maple Leafs season was the 96th season for the National Hockey League franchise that was established on November 22, 1917. The regular season was reduced from its usual 82 games to 48 due to a lockout. Due to the abbreviated 48-game schedule, the Leafs played only teams from their own Eastern Conference. Within their division, they played Boston and Buffalo four times each, and played Montreal and Ottawa five times each. The Leafs played all non-divisional eastern conference opponents three times each. Toronto qualified for the playoffs for the first time in\",\n \"title\": \"2012–13 Toronto Maple Leafs season\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"11453453\",\n \"text\": \"1995–96 Toronto Maple Leafs season The 1995–96 Toronto Maple Leafs season was Toronto's 79th season in the National Hockey League (NHL). The Leafs headed into the 1995-96 NHL regular season with high hopes considering the fact that the club reached the playoffs for the last three years. Pat Burns was the head coach until an eight-game losing streak (and a miserable run of 3-16-3 over January and February) lead to his dismissal. General Manager Cliff Fletcher felt that Nick Beverley could get the job done for the rest of the season and named him interim coach. The team under Beverley\",\n \"title\": \"1995–96 Toronto Maple Leafs season\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"10453147\",\n \"text\": \"straight year, the Leafs did not qualify for the playoffs. Record: 5–5–3; Home: 3–4–2; Road: 2–1–1 Record: 4–6–3; Home: 1–1–3; Road: 3–5–0 Record: 6–5–2; Home: 3–2–0; Road: 3–3–2 Record:5–8–1 ; Home: 4–2–0; Road: 1–6–1 Record: 8–4–1 ; Home: 5–3–0 ; Road: 3–1–1 Record: 8–5–0; Home: 2–4–0; Road: 6–1–0 Record: 0–2–1; Home: 0–1–1; Road: 0–1–0 On March 27, 2008, the Toronto Maple Leafs were eliminated from postseason contention for the third straight season following a 4–2 loss to the Boston Bruins. Denotes player spent time with another team before joining Maple Leafs. Stats reflect time with Maple Leafs only. Traded mid-season.\",\n \"title\": \"2007–08 Toronto Maple Leafs season\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"11229550\",\n \"text\": \"1944–45 Toronto Maple Leafs season The 1944–45 Toronto Maple Leafs season was the club's 28th season in the NHL. Toronto finished in third place in the regular season, with a 24–22–4 record, earning 52 points. The Leafs eliminated their archrivals Montreal Canadiens in the first round of the playoffs, and then defeated the Detroit Red Wings in seven games in the 1945 Stanley Cup Finals. Toronto was a very streaky club during the regular season, where they started off very hot, winning their first six games, and 10 of their first 14, before a mid-season slump, when they managed a\",\n \"title\": \"1944–45 Toronto Maple Leafs season\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"12753326\",\n \"text\": \"1976–77 Toronto Maple Leafs season The 1976–77 Toronto Maple Leafs season was the franchise's 60th season, 50th as the \\\"Maple Leafs\\\". The Leafs finished in third place in the Adams Division with a record of 33 wins, 32 losses and 15 ties for 81 points. In the playoffs, they defeated the Pittsburgh Penguins in the preliminary round 2–1 before falling to the Philadelphia Flyers in six games in the Quarter-finals. On February 2, 1977, Toronto Maple Leafs defenceman Ian Turnbull would be the first player in NHL history to score five goals on five shots. The Maple Leafs have been\",\n \"title\": \"1976–77 Toronto Maple Leafs season\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"13329038\",\n \"text\": \"1927–28 Toronto Maple Leafs season The 1927–28 Toronto Maple Leafs season was the first under the \\\"Maple Leafs\\\" name for the Toronto National Hockey League (NHL) franchise. The club finished in fourth to miss the playoffs again. Conn Smythe left his duties as coach at the University of Toronto and became the general manager and coach of the Leafs. Smythe would be general manager for 30 years. Smythe put team captain Bert Corbeau on waivers in October. Corbeau cleared waivers and joined Toronto Ravinia of the Canadian-American Professional Hockey League. Smythe named Hap Day as team captain. The Maple Leafs\",\n \"title\": \"1927–28 Toronto Maple Leafs season\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"15678225\",\n \"text\": \"the well-oiled machine called the Montreal Canadiens managed to hold him to only six goals as the Canadiens swept the Black Hawks in four. The Toronto Maple Leafs, though, had a slightly tougher time against the Gordie Howe led Detroit Red Wings as it took the Leafs 6 games, including one in triple overtime, to win the series. Chicago Black Hawks vs. Montreal Canadiens \\\"Montreal wins best-of-seven series 4 games to 0\\\" Detroit Red Wings vs. Toronto Maple Leafs \\\"Toronto wins best-of-seven series 4 games to 2\\\" Toronto Maple Leafs vs. Montreal Canadiens \\\"Montreal wins best-of-seven series 4 games to\",\n \"title\": \"1960 Stanley Cup playoffs\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"12909436\",\n \"text\": \"the third-place Toronto Maple Leafs. The second-place Montreal Canadiens played the fourth-place New York Rangers. The winner of the semi-finals series would play for the championship and Stanley Cup. Despite Chicago's impressive regular season marks, it was the third seed Toronto Maple Leafs who beat the Black Hawks in the first round of the playoffs. Montreal swept the Rangers in the minimum four games. The Maple Leafs now faced the Canadiens for the Stanley Cup. After splitting the first four games, the Maple Leafs won games five and six to win the series. 1967 Stanley Cup playoffs The 1967 Stanley\",\n \"title\": \"1967 Stanley Cup playoffs\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"11076928\",\n \"text\": \"players), Stafford Smythe, Harold Ballard, John Bassette, Punch Imlach, King Clancy, Bob Haggart, Tom Nayler (7 non-players) The Maple Leafs have been involved in the following transactions during the 1966–67 season. Toronto's draft picks at the 1966 NHL Amateur Draft held at the Mount Royal Hotel in Montreal, Quebec. 1966–67 Toronto Maple Leafs season The 1966–67 Toronto Maple Leafs season was the 50th season of the Toronto NHL franchise, fortieth as the \\\"Maple Leafs.\\\" The Leafs finished third in the NHL with a record of 32–27–11 for 75 points to qualify for the playoffs. Toronto defeated the first-place Chicago Black\",\n \"title\": \"1966–67 Toronto Maple Leafs season\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"17334889\",\n \"text\": \"division four times each, teams in the Metropolitan Division of the Eastern Conference three times each, and every team from the Western Conference twice. The Maple Leafs played in the NHL Winter Classic against the Detroit Red Wings on January 1, 2014, at Michigan Stadium, the home of the University of Michigan football team. The Leafs won 3–2. The Leafs were in a playoff position for much of the season but a two-win, 14-loss stretch to close the season caused them to miss the playoffs. Denotes player spent time with another team before joining the Maple Leafs. Stats reflect time\",\n \"title\": \"2013–14 Toronto Maple Leafs season\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"12753327\",\n \"text\": \"involved in the following transactions during the 1976–77 season. Toronto's draft picks at the 1976 NHL Amateur Draft held in Montreal, Quebec. 1976–77 Toronto Maple Leafs season The 1976–77 Toronto Maple Leafs season was the franchise's 60th season, 50th as the \\\"Maple Leafs\\\". The Leafs finished in third place in the Adams Division with a record of 33 wins, 32 losses and 15 ties for 81 points. In the playoffs, they defeated the Pittsburgh Penguins in the preliminary round 2–1 before falling to the Philadelphia Flyers in six games in the Quarter-finals. On February 2, 1977, Toronto Maple Leafs defenceman\",\n \"title\": \"1976–77 Toronto Maple Leafs season\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"6395678\",\n \"text\": \"a free agent by the Toronto Maple Leafs. Valk became a player-coach that Pat Quinn depended on, fighting off opponents in crucial situations while also being an offensive threat. Career highlights for Valk include the 1998–1999 playoffs, when he scored a key overtime goal to lift the Toronto Maple Leafs over the Pittsburgh Penguins in the second round of the NHL playoffs. After a brief stint in 2003 with the Chicago Blackhawks, Valk retired to pursue an interest in broadcasting, and to spend time with his wife, son, daughter and Boston terrier named Lola Belle. Today, Garry coaches his son's\",\n \"title\": \"Garry Valk\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"15690114\",\n \"text\": \"vs. Detroit Red Wings Montreal Canadiens vs. Toronto Maple Leafs \\\"Note: GP = Games played; G = Goals; A = Assists; Pts = Points\\\" 1951 Stanley Cup playoffs The 1951 Stanley Cup playoffs, the championship of the National Hockey League (NHL), began with four teams on March 28, 1951. It concluded on April 21, with the Toronto Maple Leafs defeating the Montreal Canadiens to win the Stanley Cup. \\\"All dates in 1951\\\" The second seed Toronto Maple Leafs eliminated the fourth seed Boston Bruins in five games, and the third seed Montreal Canadiens upset first overall Detroit Red Wings in\",\n \"title\": \"1951 Stanley Cup playoffs\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"785853\",\n \"text\": \"the team did not make the playoffs in 2006–07. During the 2007–08 season, John Ferguson, Jr. was fired in January 2008, and replaced by former Leafs' general manager Cliff Fletcher on an interim basis. The Leafs did not qualify for the post-season, marking the first time since 1928 the team had failed to make the playoffs for three consecutive seasons. It was also Sundin's last year with the Leafs, as his contract was due to expire at the end of the season. However, he refused Leafs management's request to waive his no-trade clause in order for the team to rebuild\",\n \"title\": \"Toronto Maple Leafs\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"19442460\",\n \"text\": \"signed to professional try outs. The Maple Leafs clinched the playoffs for the first time since the 2012–13 season. They qualified as the second wildcard team in the Eastern Conference and met the Washington Capitals, the division winner with the best record, in the first round. Washington won the series in 6 games, 4-2. This became only the third playoff series in NHL history in which five games were decided in overtime (the first being the 1951 Stanley Cup Finals between the Toronto Maple Leafs and the Montreal Canadiens and the second occurring in the 2012 Western Conference Quarterfinals between\",\n \"title\": \"2016–17 Toronto Maple Leafs season\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"11823367\",\n \"text\": \"manager of the Ducks, and those close to him say he was interested in the Maple Leafs' job. On May 7, the Leafs fired Head Coach Paul Maurice, along with two assistant coaches, after missing the playoffs in back-to-back seasons. On May 8, the Leafs asked the Vancouver Canucks permission to speak to Dave Nonis about hiring him for a position with the club. In mid-May, there were rumours that Wayne Gretzky was in the running for a position with the Maple Leafs. Gretzky responded to the rumours linking him to the Toronto Maple Leafs by stating that his focus\",\n \"title\": \"2008–09 Toronto Maple Leafs season\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"14601117\",\n \"text\": \"2010–11 Toronto Maple Leafs season The 2010–11 Toronto Maple Leafs season was the 94th season for the National Hockey League franchise that was established on November 22, 1917, and 84th season since adopting the Maple Leafs name in February 1927. The Maple Leafs posted a regular season record of 37 wins, 34 losses, and 11 overtime/shootout losses for 85 points, failing to qualify for the Stanley Cup playoffs for the sixth consecutive season. The Maple Leafs did not have a first round selection in the 2010 NHL Entry Draft, having traded it to the Boston Bruins in the Phil Kessel\",\n \"title\": \"2010–11 Toronto Maple Leafs season\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"14601122\",\n \"text\": \"in Los Angeles, California. 2010–11 Toronto Maple Leafs season The 2010–11 Toronto Maple Leafs season was the 94th season for the National Hockey League franchise that was established on November 22, 1917, and 84th season since adopting the Maple Leafs name in February 1927. The Maple Leafs posted a regular season record of 37 wins, 34 losses, and 11 overtime/shootout losses for 85 points, failing to qualify for the Stanley Cup playoffs for the sixth consecutive season. The Maple Leafs did not have a first round selection in the 2010 NHL Entry Draft, having traded it to the Boston Bruins\",\n \"title\": \"2010–11 Toronto Maple Leafs season\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"11147897\",\n \"text\": \"1988–89 Toronto Maple Leafs season The 1988–89 Toronto Maple Leafs season was Toronto's 72nd season in the National Hockey League (NHL). The 1988-89 Leafs season was a disastrous one that saw John Brophy relieved from his coaching duties mid-season. Interim coach George Armstrong led the Leafs close to the playoffs, but they eventually missed out by losing to the Chicago Blackhawks on the final day of the regular season. The Leafs needed a win against Chicago to clinch a post season birth, but a Troy Murray overtime goal ended the season for Toronto. The Maple Leafs finished the regular season\",\n \"title\": \"1988–89 Toronto Maple Leafs season\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"10453148\",\n \"text\": \"Bold/italics denotes franchise record. The Maple Leafs have been involved in the following transactions during the 2007–08 season. Toronto's picks at the 2007 NHL Entry Draft in Columbus, Ohio. 2007–08 Toronto Maple Leafs season The 2007–08 Toronto Maple Leafs season began October 4, 2007. It is the 91st season of the franchise, 81st season as the Maple Leafs. In an effort to return to the playoffs in 2007–08, the Leafs made two significant moves during the off-season. The first was to acquire goaltender Vesa Toskala, along with Mark Bell from the San Jose Sharks for three draft picks. Toronto also\",\n \"title\": \"2007–08 Toronto Maple Leafs season\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"11114224\",\n \"text\": \"in the following transactions during the 1998-99 season. The Maple Leafs and Buffalo Sabres met in the Eastern Conference Finals. The Maple Leafs were coming off a six-game series win over the Pittsburgh Penguins, while the Sabres were coming off a six-game series win themselves, over the Boston Bruins. Toronto was having its best playoff since 1994, when they last made a Conference Final series. Buffalo, meanwhile, was in the third round for the second consecutive year. With the series victory, the Sabres advanced to the Stanley Cup Finals for the first time in 24 years. Toronto's draft picks at\",\n \"title\": \"1998–99 Toronto Maple Leafs season\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"7632300\",\n \"text\": \"and the Maple Leafs clinched a playoff spot in the 2013 Stanley Cup playoffs. This marked the first time Kessel had made it to the playoffs since his move to the Maple Leafs and ended a seven-year playoff drought for the club dating back before the 2004–05 NHL lockout. To conclude the season, Kessel scored ten goals and seven assists for 17 points over his last ten games to retake the scoring lead for Toronto, leading the team in goals, assists and points for the second consecutive year. Kessel would go on to finish seventh in NHL scoring, posting his\",\n \"title\": \"Phil Kessel\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"13329099\",\n \"text\": \"Cude faced an average of 35.2 shots per game, while Hainsworth faced 23.8 shots per game. ;Scoring The Maple Leafs met the Detroit Red Wings in the second round in a best of five series and lost 3–2. 1933–34 Toronto Maple Leafs season The 1933–34 Toronto Maple Leafs season was Toronto's 17th season in the National Hockey League (NHL). Toronto would face Detroit WilRed Wings and goalie Wilf Cude in series A of the Playoffs. Game #1 Detroit 2 Toronto 1, #2 Detroit 6 Toronto 3, #3 Toronto 3 Detroit 1, #4Toronto 5 Detroit 1, #5 Detroit 1 Toronto 0.\",\n \"title\": \"1933–34 Toronto Maple Leafs season\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"11436132\",\n \"text\": \"The Leafs did not qualify for the playoffs again until the 2012–13 season. The Maple Leafs have been involved in the following transactions during the 2003–04 season. Toronto's draft picks at the 2003 NHL Entry Draft held at the Gaylord Entertainment Center in Nashville, Tennessee. 2003–04 Toronto Maple Leafs season The 2003–04 Toronto Maple Leafs season, the club's 87th season of existence and 77th as the Maple Leafs, saw the team finish in second place in the Northeast Division with a record of 45 wins, 24 losses, 10 ties and three overtime losses for 103 points. It was the highest\",\n \"title\": \"2003–04 Toronto Maple Leafs season\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"11436121\",\n \"text\": \"2001–02 Toronto Maple Leafs season The 2001–02 Toronto Maple Leafs season was the team's 85th season as a franchise, and the 75th season as the Maple Leafs. They finished second in the Northeast Division with a record of 43–25–10–4 for 100 points. Qualifying for the Stanley Cup playoffs as the fourth seed in the Eastern Conference, they downed the New York Islanders in seven games in the Conference Quarter-finals and the Ottawa Senators in seven games in the Conference Semi-finals. However, their luck ran out in the Conference Finals, as they were eliminated by the Carolina Hurricanes in six games.\",\n \"title\": \"2001–02 Toronto Maple Leafs season\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"2952905\",\n \"text\": \"for the first time since the season. The Leafs and Senators met four times in the 82-game season, two of which were decided in shootouts. The Leafs took the season series 3–1. The Senators would finish 11th in the East with 88 points, and the Leafs finished in 12th place with 84 points. The season saw the Ottawa Senators finish 7th in the Eastern Conference with 99 points, securing the first wildcard playoff position. The Toronto Maple Leafs failed to make the playoffs finishing last in the Eastern Conference with 68 points. On October 22, 2014, the Leafs vs. Senators\",\n \"title\": \"Battle of Ontario\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"11436123\",\n \"text\": \"sports history by \\\"Sports Illustrated\\\". 2001–02 Toronto Maple Leafs season The 2001–02 Toronto Maple Leafs season was the team's 85th season as a franchise, and the 75th season as the Maple Leafs. They finished second in the Northeast Division with a record of 43–25–10–4 for 100 points. Qualifying for the Stanley Cup playoffs as the fourth seed in the Eastern Conference, they downed the New York Islanders in seven games in the Conference Quarter-finals and the Ottawa Senators in seven games in the Conference Semi-finals. However, their luck ran out in the Conference Finals, as they were eliminated by the\",\n \"title\": \"2001–02 Toronto Maple Leafs season\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"10621548\",\n \"text\": \"First Round and lost in seven games. Following the playoffs, Lamoriello was not renewed as general manager and was transitioned to senior advisor. Kyle Dubas was subsequentley named the 17th general manager in team history. During the 2018 off-season, the Maple Leafs signed John Tavares to a seven-year, $77-million dollar contract. Tavares was subsequently named an alternate captain for the Leafs, alongside Morgan Rielly, and Patrick Marleau. History of the Toronto Maple Leafs The history of the Toronto Maple Leafs National Hockey League (NHL) team spans more than a century. The Maple Leafs and the NHL arose from disputes between\",\n \"title\": \"History of the Toronto Maple Leafs\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"6024830\",\n \"text\": \"Toronto Maple Leafs (International League) The Toronto Maple Leafs were a high-level minor league baseball club located in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, that played from 1896 to 1967. While the Maple Leafs had working agreements with numerous Major League Baseball clubs after the introduction of farm systems in the 1930s, they achieved great success as an unaffiliated club during the 1950s, when they were the strongest team on the field and in attendance in the Triple-A International League. The 1902, 1918, 1920, 1926, and 1960 teams were recognized as being among the 100 greatest minor league teams of all time. Toronto\",\n \"title\": \"Toronto Maple Leafs (International League)\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"11114225\",\n \"text\": \"the 1998 NHL Entry Draft held at the Marine Midland Arena in Buffalo, New York. 1998–99 Toronto Maple Leafs season The 1998–99 Toronto Maple Leafs season was the franchise's 82nd season. Two moves occurred this season. First, the club moved from the Western to the Eastern Conference of the National Hockey League (NHL). Secondly, the club moved from Maple Leaf Gardens to the new Air Canada Centre. Toronto qualified for the Stanley Cup playoffs and made it to the Eastern Conference Finals before losing to the Buffalo Sabres. The Toronto Maple Leafs moved from the Central Division of the Western\",\n \"title\": \"1998–99 Toronto Maple Leafs season\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"15692629\",\n \"text\": \"1948 Stanley Cup playoffs The 1948 Stanley Cup playoffs, the championship of the National Hockey League (NHL), began with four teams on March 4, 1948. It concluded on April 14, with the Toronto Maple Leafs defeating the Detroit Red Wings to win the Stanley Cup. \\\"All dates in 1948\\\" The first round of the playoffs saw third place Boston Bruins matched up with first place Toronto Maple Leafs and fourth place New York Rangers against second place Detroit Red Wings. Toronto beat Boston 4 games to 1. Although Boston kept it close. Three of the five games were decided by\",\n \"title\": \"1948 Stanley Cup playoffs\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"785831\",\n \"text\": \"head coach, to Imlach's return, the club was on a 10-game undefeated streak, building momentum before the playoffs. The Leafs made their last Cup finals in 1967. Playing against Montreal, the heavy favourite for the year, the Leafs managed to win, with Bob Pulford scoring the double-overtime winner in game three; Jim Pappin scored the series winner in Game 6. Keon was named the playoff's most valuable player, and was awarded the Conn Smythe Trophy. From 1968 to 1970, the Maple Leafs made it to the playoffs only once. They lost several players to the 1967 expansion drafts, and the\",\n \"title\": \"Toronto Maple Leafs\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"11114232\",\n \"text\": \"Hockey game unless it was held in Edmonton, a statement that was realized with the 2003 Heritage Classic three years later. The Maple Leafs have been involved in the following transactions during the 1999–2000 season. Toronto's draft picks at the 1999 NHL Entry Draft held at the FleetCenter in Boston, Massachusetts. 1999–2000 Toronto Maple Leafs season The 1999–2000 Toronto Maple Leafs season saw the team finish in first place for the first time since the 1962–63 season. It was also the Maple Leafs' first 100-point season, as well as long-time NHLer Wendel Clark's last season in the NHL. The Maple\",\n \"title\": \"1999–2000 Toronto Maple Leafs season\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"11114221\",\n \"text\": \"1998–99 Toronto Maple Leafs season The 1998–99 Toronto Maple Leafs season was the franchise's 82nd season. Two moves occurred this season. First, the club moved from the Western to the Eastern Conference of the National Hockey League (NHL). Secondly, the club moved from Maple Leaf Gardens to the new Air Canada Centre. Toronto qualified for the Stanley Cup playoffs and made it to the Eastern Conference Finals before losing to the Buffalo Sabres. The Toronto Maple Leafs moved from the Central Division of the Western Conference to the Northeast Division of the Eastern Conference. The 1998–99 season was a tremendous\",\n \"title\": \"1998–99 Toronto Maple Leafs season\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"785842\",\n \"text\": \"Flames hours later to hand the Leafs the final spot from the Norris. However, the low finishes allowed the team to draft Wendel Clark first overall at the 1985 NHL Entry Draft. Clark managed to lead the Leafs to the playoffs from 1986 to 1988, as well as the 1990 playoffs, although they were always eliminated in the first round. Ballard died on April 11, 1990. Don Crump, Don Giffin, and Steve Stavro were named executors of Ballard's estate. Stavro succeeded Ballard as chairman of Maple Leaf Gardens Ltd. and governor of the Maple Leafs. Cliff Fletcher was hired by\",\n \"title\": \"Toronto Maple Leafs\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"11823374\",\n \"text\": \"the team placed Mark Bell on waivers. Toronto's picks at the 2008 NHL Entry Draft in Ottawa. 2008–09 Toronto Maple Leafs season The 2008–09 Toronto Maple Leafs season was the franchise's 92nd, and their 82nd as the Maple Leafs. The Leafs did not qualify for the playoffs for the fourth consecutive season. The Leafs faced an off-season challenge to hire a general manager. Brian Burke was a favourite for the position held by Interim General Manager Cliff Fletcher, but Burke decided to stay with the Anaheim Ducks. He was not given permission to talk to the Leafs about their vacancy\",\n \"title\": \"2008–09 Toronto Maple Leafs season\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"11823366\",\n \"text\": \"2008–09 Toronto Maple Leafs season The 2008–09 Toronto Maple Leafs season was the franchise's 92nd, and their 82nd as the Maple Leafs. The Leafs did not qualify for the playoffs for the fourth consecutive season. The Leafs faced an off-season challenge to hire a general manager. Brian Burke was a favourite for the position held by Interim General Manager Cliff Fletcher, but Burke decided to stay with the Anaheim Ducks. He was not given permission to talk to the Leafs about their vacancy by Ducks owner Henry Samueli. Burke had one more year left on his contract as the general\",\n \"title\": \"2008–09 Toronto Maple Leafs season\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"13323708\",\n \"text\": \"1945–46 Toronto Maple Leafs season The 1945–46 Toronto Maple Leafs season was the 29th season of play of the Toronto NHL franchise. Although the club was the defending Stanley Cup champion, the team's play declined and the club finished in fifth, missing the playoffs. Cup hero goaltender Frank McCool held out. The Maple Leafs decided to play the tandem of Baz Bastien and Gordie Bell. Without Frank McCool, the team only won three of the first thirteen games, and the Leafs and McCool came to terms. The club continued to struggle and only won eight of the first 28 games.\",\n \"title\": \"1945–46 Toronto Maple Leafs season\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"11076940\",\n \"text\": \"Eddie Shack, Dave Keon, Ed Litzenberger, John MacMillan, Punch Imlach (manager-coach), Bob Haggert (trainer) </div> 1962–63 Toronto Maple Leafs season The 1962–63 Toronto Maple Leafs season saw the team finish first in the National Hockey League (NHL) with a record of 35 wins, 23 losses, and 12 ties for 82 points. It was the first time they had finished first overall in the league since 1948. In the playoffs, they defeated their arch-rivals, the Montreal Canadiens, four games to one, in the Semi-finals. They then defeated the Detroit Red Wings in five games to win their second straight Stanley Cup.\",\n \"title\": \"1962–63 Toronto Maple Leafs season\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"11076938\",\n \"text\": \"1962–63 Toronto Maple Leafs season The 1962–63 Toronto Maple Leafs season saw the team finish first in the National Hockey League (NHL) with a record of 35 wins, 23 losses, and 12 ties for 82 points. It was the first time they had finished first overall in the league since 1948. In the playoffs, they defeated their arch-rivals, the Montreal Canadiens, four games to one, in the Semi-finals. They then defeated the Detroit Red Wings in five games to win their second straight Stanley Cup. \\\"Note: GP = Games played; G = Goals; A = Assists; Pts = Points; PIM\",\n \"title\": \"1962–63 Toronto Maple Leafs season\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"11114226\",\n \"text\": \"1999–2000 Toronto Maple Leafs season The 1999–2000 Toronto Maple Leafs season saw the team finish in first place for the first time since the 1962–63 season. It was also the Maple Leafs' first 100-point season, as well as long-time NHLer Wendel Clark's last season in the NHL. The Maple Leafs had their second consecutive 45-win season and broke the 1992–93 franchise record for most points accumulated in a season. Mats Sundin averaged a point per game, scoring 32 goals and picking up 41 assists for 73 points in 73 games. Jonas Hoglund had a career year, finishing third on the\",\n \"title\": \"1999–2000 Toronto Maple Leafs season\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"12001703\",\n \"text\": \"1979–80 Toronto Maple Leafs season The 1979–80 Toronto Maple Leafs season was the 63rd season of the franchise, 53rd season as the Maple Leafs. In July 1979, Leafs owner Harold Ballard brought back Punch Imlach, a longtime friend, as general manager. Imlach traded Lanny McDonald to undermine team captain Darryl Sittler's influence on the team. The McDonald trade sent the Leafs into a downward spiral. They finished five games under .500 and only made the playoffs due to the presence of the Quebec Nordiques, a refugee from the WHA, in the Adams Division. The 1979-80 season marked the dismantling of\",\n \"title\": \"1979–80 Toronto Maple Leafs season\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"12693037\",\n \"text\": \"sold the club to shopping mall magnate Edward J. DeBartolo, Sr. in February 1977, less than two years after having bought the team from the NHL. The Penguins' opponent in the first round of the Stanley Cup playoffs was once again the Toronto Maple Leafs. While the Penguins' offensive output greatly improved to ten goals scored (compared to 1976's three goals), the Maple Leafs once again dispatched the Penguins in three games. Denotes player spent time with another team before joining the Penguins. Stats reflect time with the Penguins only. Denotes player was traded mid-season. Stats reflect time with the\",\n \"title\": \"1976–77 Pittsburgh Penguins season\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"785872\",\n \"text\": \"second for most Cup wins. The height of the rivalry was during the 1960s, when the Canadiens and Leafs combined to win all but one Cup. The two clubs had 15 postseason meetings. However, failing to meet each other in the playoffs since 1979, the rivalry has waned. It also suffered when Montreal and Toronto were placed in opposite conferences in , with the Leafs in the Clarence Campbell/Western Conference and the Canadiens in the Prince of Wales/Eastern Conference. The rivalry became intradivisional once again in , when the Leafs were moved into the Eastern Conference's Northeast Division. The rivalry's\",\n \"title\": \"Toronto Maple Leafs\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"11436120\",\n \"text\": \"season, with just two. The Maple Leafs have been involved in the following transactions during the 2000–01 season. Toronto's draft picks at the 2000 NHL Entry Draft held at the Pengrowth Saddledome in Calgary, Alberta. 2000–01 Toronto Maple Leafs season The 2000–01 Toronto Maple Leafs season was the franchise's 84th season of existence and their 74th season as the Maple Leafs. The team finished third in the Northeast Division with a 37–29–11–5 record (90 points). In the 2001 Stanley Cup playoffs, they swept their rivals, the first-place Ottawa Senators, four games to none in the Eastern Conference Quarter-finals before falling\",\n \"title\": \"2000–01 Toronto Maple Leafs season\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"12402533\",\n \"text\": \"the lowest ever for a playoff qualifier. They lost to the Red Wings in six games in the Division Semi-finals. The Maple Leafs finished last in power-play goals scored (54), power-play opportunities (347) and power-play percentage (15.56%). The Toronto Maple Leafs were defeated 4 games to 2 against the Norris Division winning Detroit Red Wings. The Maple Leafs have been involved in the following transactions during the 1987-88 season. Toronto's draft picks at the 1987 NHL Entry Draft held at the Joe Louis Arena in Detroit, Michigan. 1987–88 Toronto Maple Leafs season The 1987–88 Toronto Maple Leafs season saw the\",\n \"title\": \"1987–88 Toronto Maple Leafs season\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"7484211\",\n \"text\": \"by David Alter and features longtime Leafs radio team of Joe Bowen and Jim Ralph and Sportsnet's Leafs analyst Greg Millen as analysts. It serves as the competitor show to TSN 1050's \\\"Leafs Lunch\\\". As with \\\"Prime Time Sports\\\", it is broadcast on Sportsnet 590 at 1 eastern time on weekdays as a television simulcast on Sportsnet Ontario. Available only to the viewers in most of Ontario (except Eastern Ontario), which is the designated market of the Toronto Maple Leafs. Beginning on April 30, 2013, The Score began to carry \\\"Hockey Central Playoff Xtra\\\" nightly during the Stanley Cup playoffs.\",\n \"title\": \"Hockey Central\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"6525027\",\n \"text\": \"the position of senior vice-president and director of hockey operations of the Toronto Maple Leafs. Nonis accepted the post and it marked the third time he served under Brian Burke. On May 10, 2010 he signed an extension to keep his position through the 2011-12 season. On January 9, 2013, Nonis was named general manager of the Toronto Maple Leafs after Burke was relieved of his duties. Under Nonis, the Maple Leafs made the 2013 playoffs for the first time since 2004. However, after two disappointing seasons, Nonis was relieved of his duties on April 12, 2015, one day after\",\n \"title\": \"Dave Nonis\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"2952901\",\n \"text\": \"game at Toronto, thereby sidelining him, may have worsened their situation. The season was a poor one for both teams, with the Senators finishing 11th and the Maple Leafs 12th in the Eastern Conference. This marked the first time that both Ontario teams failed to qualify for the Stanley Cup playoffs since the Senators joined the NHL in 1992. The season saw the Senators finish fifth in the Eastern Conference and face the Pittsburgh Penguins in the first round of the playoffs, while the Leafs finished last in the conference and failed to make the playoffs for the fifth consecutive\",\n \"title\": \"Battle of Ontario\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"20769477\",\n \"text\": \"2018–19 Toronto Maple Leafs season The 2018–19 Toronto Maple Leafs season is the 102nd season for the National Hockey League franchise that was established on November 22, 1917. The Maple Leafs forward group changed significantly before the season, losing team veterans Tyler Bozak, James van Riemsdyk and Leo Komarov while adding all-star centre John Tavares in free agency, which many publications called one of the biggest signings in NHL history. The team is attempting to qualify for the playoffs for a third consecutive season. Player currently playing for the minor league affiliate Toronto Marlies of the AHL <br> Bold/italics denotes\",\n \"title\": \"2018–19 Toronto Maple Leafs season\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"12656965\",\n \"text\": \"the Toronto Maple Leafs four games to one. 1950–51 Montreal Canadiens season The 1950–51 Montreal Canadiens season was the 42nd in franchise history. The team placed third in the regular season to qualify for the playoffs. The Canadiens lost in Stanley Cup final against Toronto Maple Leafs 4 games to 1. The five games were decided in overtime. The Canadiens first played the Detroit Red Wings in the semi-finals. The first four games of the series was won by the visiting team. The Canadiens then won the last two to win the series four games to two to advance to\",\n \"title\": \"1950–51 Montreal Canadiens season\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"4207479\",\n \"text\": \"becoming the Toronto Marlies. The Maple Leafs were very popular throughout their existence, and they made multiple appearances in the AHL Calder Cup playoffs (only missing the playoffs in 2000, 2003 and 2004). The team was in the Calder Cup finals in their inaugural season, losing 4–3 to the Adirondack Red Wings, but they won the semifinal round by earning the most points during the regular season out of the three remaining teams in the playoffs, the others being the Red Wings and the Rochester Americans. Their first season was the only time the team made it to the finals,\",\n \"title\": \"St. John's Maple Leafs\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"10621510\",\n \"text\": \"a decline in their sponsored junior system (including the Toronto St. Michael's Majors and the Toronto Marlboros). The junior system was managed by Frank J. Selke until his departure to the Canadiens in 1946. In his absence, the quality of players it produced declined. Many who were called up to the Leafs in the early 1950s were found to be seriously lacking in ability. It was only later in the decade that the Leafs' feeder clubs produced prospects that helped them become competitive again. After a two-year drought from the playoffs, the Maple Leafs clinched a berth after the 1958–59\",\n \"title\": \"History of the Toronto Maple Leafs\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"785823\",\n \"text\": \"semi-finals. With the conclusion of the 1952–53 regular season, the Leafs failed to make it to the post-season for the first time since the 1945–46 playoffs. The Leafs' poor performance may be attributed partly to a decline in their sponsored junior system (including the Toronto St. Michael's Majors and the Toronto Marlboros). The junior system was managed by Frank J. Selke until his departure to the Canadiens in 1946. In his absence, the quality of players it produced declined. Many who were called up to the Leafs in the early 1950s were found to be seriously lacking in ability. It\",\n \"title\": \"Toronto Maple Leafs\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"11436119\",\n \"text\": \"2000–01 Toronto Maple Leafs season The 2000–01 Toronto Maple Leafs season was the franchise's 84th season of existence and their 74th season as the Maple Leafs. The team finished third in the Northeast Division with a 37–29–11–5 record (90 points). In the 2001 Stanley Cup playoffs, they swept their rivals, the first-place Ottawa Senators, four games to none in the Eastern Conference Quarter-finals before falling to the New Jersey Devils in seven games in the Eastern Conference Semi-finals. Key dates prior to the start of the season: The Leafs scored the fewest short-handed goals in the NHL during the regular\",\n \"title\": \"2000–01 Toronto Maple Leafs season\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"16558730\",\n \"text\": \"& 23, 2012. 2012–13 Toronto Maple Leafs season The 2012–13 Toronto Maple Leafs season was the 96th season for the National Hockey League franchise that was established on November 22, 1917. The regular season was reduced from its usual 82 games to 48 due to a lockout. Due to the abbreviated 48-game schedule, the Leafs played only teams from their own Eastern Conference. Within their division, they played Boston and Buffalo four times each, and played Montreal and Ottawa five times each. The Leafs played all non-divisional eastern conference opponents three times each. Toronto qualified for the playoffs for the\",\n \"title\": \"2012–13 Toronto Maple Leafs season\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"3151551\",\n \"text\": \"narrowly defeated the Calgary Flames in seven games before losing to the underdog Dallas Stars in six games in the second round. On May 12, 2008, the Sharks fired Wilson, as the club failed to meet management's playoff aspirations. On June 10, 2008, the Toronto Maple Leafs hired Wilson to become the team's head coach, replacing Paul Maurice. Upon his hiring, Toronto had not made the playoffs since 2003–04. In Wilson's first year with the Leafs, 2008–09, the club went 34–35–13, earning 81 points for last place in the Northeast Division and 12th in the Eastern Conference. The Maple Leafs\",\n \"title\": \"Ron Wilson (ice hockey, born 1955)\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"4899346\",\n \"text\": \"was awarded with the J. P. Bickell Memorial Trophy as most valuable Toronto Maple Leaf. After missing the entire 1955–56 season, he came out of retirement to play half of the 1956–57 season to help the Leafs who were short on players due to injuries and were struggling to make the playoffs. Kennedy returned November 27 to train himself back into shape after the Leafs had won only one game in their last 11. He scored 22 points in 30 games, but the Leafs finished out of the playoffs. He shared the captaincy with Jim Thomson. A highlight of the\",\n \"title\": \"Ted Kennedy (ice hockey)\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"11229557\",\n \"text\": \"Babe Pratt, Gus Bodnar, Art Jackson, Jack McLean, Mel Hill, Nick Metz, Bob Davidson (captain), Dave Schriner, Lorne Carr, Conn Smythe (manager), Hap Day (coach), Frank Selke (business manager), Tim Daly (trainer) 1944–45 Toronto Maple Leafs season The 1944–45 Toronto Maple Leafs season was the club's 28th season in the NHL. Toronto finished in third place in the regular season, with a 24–22–4 record, earning 52 points. The Leafs eliminated their archrivals Montreal Canadiens in the first round of the playoffs, and then defeated the Detroit Red Wings in seven games in the 1945 Stanley Cup Finals. Toronto was a\",\n \"title\": \"1944–45 Toronto Maple Leafs season\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"15283031\",\n \"text\": \"the Canadiens 4-3 in overtime, ending a record breaking 14 game losing streak against their rivals dating back over three years to January 18th, 2014. It was also their first win in Montreal in over four years, stretching back to October 1st, 2013. The Canadiens and Maple Leafs have met in the playoffs 15 times. To date, Montreal has won 8, Toronto 7. Scores of games won by the series winning team are in bold. Canadiens–Maple Leafs rivalry The Canadiens–Maple Leafs rivalry is a National Hockey League (NHL) rivalry between the Montreal Canadiens and Toronto Maple Leafs. Dating back to\",\n \"title\": \"Canadiens–Maple Leafs rivalry\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"13331361\",\n \"text\": \"season in the WHL, the Maple Leafs finished out of the playoffs with a fifth-place 30-34-8 W-L-T record. Buck Houle was the General Manager and Frank Mario was the coach. Milan Marcetta continued as the team's top goal and point scorer with 40 goals and 35 assists. Bruce Carmichael added 30 goals. Gary Smith started 17 games for Victoria in the net. Al Smith had started the season with the Toronto Maple Leafs but arrived in time to play 55 games for Victoria. Al Smith went on to play in the NHL with Toronto and five other teams over nine\",\n \"title\": \"Victoria Maple Leafs\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"13329098\",\n \"text\": \"1933–34 Toronto Maple Leafs season The 1933–34 Toronto Maple Leafs season was Toronto's 17th season in the National Hockey League (NHL). Toronto would face Detroit WilRed Wings and goalie Wilf Cude in series A of the Playoffs. Game #1 Detroit 2 Toronto 1, #2 Detroit 6 Toronto 3, #3 Toronto 3 Detroit 1, #4Toronto 5 Detroit 1, #5 Detroit 1 Toronto 0. Cude faced 43, 53, 35, 30, and 15 shots for a save % of .932 and gaa of 2.38.Hainsworth faced 31, 28, 23, 15, and 22 shots for a save % of .908 and a gaa of 2.19.\",\n \"title\": \"1933–34 Toronto Maple Leafs season\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"785833\",\n \"text\": \"Stafford Smythe confronted Imlach and fired him. This act was not without controversy, with some older players, including Horton, declaring that, \\\"if this team doesn't want Imlach, I guess it doesn't want me\\\". The Maple Leafs completed the 1969–70 season out of the playoffs. With their low finish, the Leafs were able to draft Darryl Sittler at the 1970 NHL Amateur Draft. The Leafs returned to the playoffs after the 1970–71 season with the addition of Sittler, as well as Bernie Parent and Jacques Plante, who were both acquired through trades during the season. They were eliminated in the first\",\n \"title\": \"Toronto Maple Leafs\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"10621477\",\n \"text\": \"to 2004. In February 1999, the Maple Leafs moved from Maple Leaf Gardens, to their new home arena, the Air Canada Centre. Following the 2004–05 NHL lockout, the Maple Leafs saw an seven-year playoff drought, failing to qualify for the playoffs from the 2006 to 2013 Stanley Cup playoffs. In August 2012, BCE Inc. and Rogers Communications completed the purchase for a combined 70 percent stake in MLSE. Shortly after the end of the 2013–14 season, Brendan Shanahan was appointed the president and alternate governor of the hockey club. The beginnings of the Maple Leafs NHL franchise arose out of\",\n \"title\": \"History of the Toronto Maple Leafs\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"11823368\",\n \"text\": \"was on the Phoenix Coyotes and developing their young talent. On June 10, Ron Wilson was hired as the new head coach of the Toronto Maple Leafs. Wilson was fired in May by the San Jose Sharks after the Sharks lost to the Dallas Stars in the second round of the NHL playoffs. Wilson has also coached the Anaheim Ducks and the Washington Capitals. The former U.S. college player spent parts of three NHL seasons with the Leafs in the 1970s. The Toronto Maple Leafs hired Al Coates as their player-personnel director on June 16. Coates comes to Toronto after\",\n \"title\": \"2008–09 Toronto Maple Leafs season\"\n }\n]","isConversational":false}}},{"rowIdx":276,"cells":{"query_id":{"kind":"string","value":"278"},"query":{"kind":"string","value":"how many championships does kentucky men 's basketball have"},"answers":{"kind":"list like","value":["8"],"string":"[\n \"8\"\n]","isConversational":false},"positive_passages":{"kind":"list like","value":[{"docid":"10877287","text":"2nd place all-time with UCLA), 12 NCAA Championship games, and has won 8 NCAA championships (second only to UCLA's 11). In addition to these titles, Kentucky won the National Invitation Tournament (NIT) in both 1946 and 1976, making it the only school to win multiple NCAA and NIT championships. Kentucky also leads all schools with sixty-two 20-win seasons, fifteen 30-win seasons, and six 35-win seasons. Throughout its history, the Kentucky basketball program has featured many notable and successful players, both on the collegiate level and the professional level. Kentucky holds the record for the most NBA Draft selections (125) as","title":"Kentucky Wildcats men's basketball"},{"docid":"10877287","text":"2nd place all-time with UCLA), 12 NCAA Championship games, and has won 8 NCAA championships (second only to UCLA's 11). In addition to these titles, Kentucky won the National Invitation Tournament (NIT) in both 1946 and 1976, making it the only school to win multiple NCAA and NIT championships. Kentucky also leads all schools with sixty-two 20-win seasons, fifteen 30-win seasons, and six 35-win seasons. Throughout its history, the Kentucky basketball program has featured many notable and successful players, both on the collegiate level and the professional level. Kentucky holds the record for the most NBA Draft selections (125) as","title":"Kentucky Wildcats men's basketball"},{"docid":"8435786","text":"stirred. Fairdale hosts the King of the Bluegrass Basketball and Wrestling Tournament annually. The King of the Bluegrass All-Team Tennis Championships were held from 2008 through 2010, and it is now known as the Decoturf High School Tennis Team Championships. Fairdale was Kentucky State Champion in men's basketball in 1990, 1991, and 1994. Tia Weston won the first female individual state track title in the 800m in a time of 2:16.50 on May 17, 2013. She holds the most individual school records for men or women at 8. Fairdale High School Fairdale High School is a high school located in","title":"Fairdale High School"},{"docid":"845858","text":"A&M. The other permanent opponents are the same as men's basketball, except for Florida-Georgia and Kentucky-South Carolina (both pairs had been permanent women's basketball opponents before the 2012 expansion). Each school plays two others home-and-home during a given season and the other 10 once each. The divisional alignments no longer play any role in scheduling. The recent history of SEC women's basketball is dominated by Tennessee, who have won regular season and/or conference tournament championships in 20 of the last 22 seasons, as well as 8 national championships since 1987. In the 28 seasons the NCAA Division I Women's Basketball","title":"Southeastern Conference"},{"docid":"14429471","text":"Field House, nicknamed \"The Pit\", served as the home of VMI basketball from the 1930s through 1980. There were many notable performances in its time, including a trio of SoCon championships and Elite 8 and Sweet Sixteen VMI squads. The 5,030-seat Cameron Hall has housed VMI basketball since 1981, and does so today. It replaced aging Cormack Field House, which is now used for indoor track and field. VMI Keydets basketball The VMI Keydets basketball team represents the Virginia Military Institute in Lexington, Virginia. They compete in the Southern Conference of the NCAA Division I. They have played their home","title":"VMI Keydets basketball"},{"docid":"18734644","text":"In 2014–2015 season the team made it to the Regional Finals (Elite 8), the farthest the team has ever gone in the tournament, defeating Iowa State, Kentucky, and Louisville, before losing to the eventual National Champion University of Connecticut Huskies. The Flyers have won Atlantic 10 conference tournament championships in 2012 and 2017, and conference regular season championships in 2013, 2014, and 2017. They have advanced to the postseason following the last ten consecutive seasons. The Flyers have had 8 coaches in their 47-year history. The current coach Jim Jabir was hired in 2003. Dayton Flyers women's basketball The Dayton","title":"Dayton Flyers women's basketball"},{"docid":"6033053","text":"Frank Ramsey (basketball) Frank Vernon Ramsey Jr. (July 13, 1931 – July 8, 2018) was an American professional basketball player and coach. A 6-3 guard, he played his entire nine-year (1954–1964) NBA career with the Boston Celtics and played a major role in the early part of their dynasty, winning seven championships as part of the team. Ramsey was also a head coach for the Kentucky Colonels of the ABA during the 1970–1971 season. Raised in Madisonville, Kentucky, Ramsey was a multi-sport athlete at the University of Kentucky, playing baseball as well as basketball. Playing under legendary coach Adolph Rupp,","title":"Frank Ramsey (basketball)"},{"docid":"6033062","text":"a bank president in Dixon, Kentucky. Ramsey died of natural causes in his hometown of Madisonville, Kentucky on July 8, 2018 at the age of 86. Frank Ramsey (basketball) Frank Vernon Ramsey Jr. (July 13, 1931 – July 8, 2018) was an American professional basketball player and coach. A 6-3 guard, he played his entire nine-year (1954–1964) NBA career with the Boston Celtics and played a major role in the early part of their dynasty, winning seven championships as part of the team. Ramsey was also a head coach for the Kentucky Colonels of the ABA during the 1970–1971 season.","title":"Frank Ramsey (basketball)"},{"docid":"9838022","text":"charged in his death. According to a family member interviewed after his death, Wright intended to return to Europe to play another two seasons before retirement. Two men were charged on November 1, 2016: Mark A. Holdbrooks, 59, and alleged accomplice David Victor, 35, have been charged with murder and other offenses after a yearlong investigation. Holdbrooks, Wright's longtime roommate, allegedly reported him missing on November 8, 2015. Bergen County Prosecutor Gurbir S. Grewal did not specify a motive or mention how Wright was killed but said he had suffered \"head trauma.\" Michael Wright (basketball) Michael Wright (January 7, 1980","title":"Michael Wright (basketball)"}],"string":"[\n {\n \"docid\": \"10877287\",\n \"text\": \"2nd place all-time with UCLA), 12 NCAA Championship games, and has won 8 NCAA championships (second only to UCLA's 11). In addition to these titles, Kentucky won the National Invitation Tournament (NIT) in both 1946 and 1976, making it the only school to win multiple NCAA and NIT championships. Kentucky also leads all schools with sixty-two 20-win seasons, fifteen 30-win seasons, and six 35-win seasons. Throughout its history, the Kentucky basketball program has featured many notable and successful players, both on the collegiate level and the professional level. Kentucky holds the record for the most NBA Draft selections (125) as\",\n \"title\": \"Kentucky Wildcats men's basketball\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"10877287\",\n \"text\": \"2nd place all-time with UCLA), 12 NCAA Championship games, and has won 8 NCAA championships (second only to UCLA's 11). In addition to these titles, Kentucky won the National Invitation Tournament (NIT) in both 1946 and 1976, making it the only school to win multiple NCAA and NIT championships. Kentucky also leads all schools with sixty-two 20-win seasons, fifteen 30-win seasons, and six 35-win seasons. Throughout its history, the Kentucky basketball program has featured many notable and successful players, both on the collegiate level and the professional level. Kentucky holds the record for the most NBA Draft selections (125) as\",\n \"title\": \"Kentucky Wildcats men's basketball\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"8435786\",\n \"text\": \"stirred. Fairdale hosts the King of the Bluegrass Basketball and Wrestling Tournament annually. The King of the Bluegrass All-Team Tennis Championships were held from 2008 through 2010, and it is now known as the Decoturf High School Tennis Team Championships. Fairdale was Kentucky State Champion in men's basketball in 1990, 1991, and 1994. Tia Weston won the first female individual state track title in the 800m in a time of 2:16.50 on May 17, 2013. She holds the most individual school records for men or women at 8. Fairdale High School Fairdale High School is a high school located in\",\n \"title\": \"Fairdale High School\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"845858\",\n \"text\": \"A&M. The other permanent opponents are the same as men's basketball, except for Florida-Georgia and Kentucky-South Carolina (both pairs had been permanent women's basketball opponents before the 2012 expansion). Each school plays two others home-and-home during a given season and the other 10 once each. The divisional alignments no longer play any role in scheduling. The recent history of SEC women's basketball is dominated by Tennessee, who have won regular season and/or conference tournament championships in 20 of the last 22 seasons, as well as 8 national championships since 1987. In the 28 seasons the NCAA Division I Women's Basketball\",\n \"title\": \"Southeastern Conference\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"14429471\",\n \"text\": \"Field House, nicknamed \\\"The Pit\\\", served as the home of VMI basketball from the 1930s through 1980. There were many notable performances in its time, including a trio of SoCon championships and Elite 8 and Sweet Sixteen VMI squads. The 5,030-seat Cameron Hall has housed VMI basketball since 1981, and does so today. It replaced aging Cormack Field House, which is now used for indoor track and field. VMI Keydets basketball The VMI Keydets basketball team represents the Virginia Military Institute in Lexington, Virginia. They compete in the Southern Conference of the NCAA Division I. They have played their home\",\n \"title\": \"VMI Keydets basketball\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"18734644\",\n \"text\": \"In 2014–2015 season the team made it to the Regional Finals (Elite 8), the farthest the team has ever gone in the tournament, defeating Iowa State, Kentucky, and Louisville, before losing to the eventual National Champion University of Connecticut Huskies. The Flyers have won Atlantic 10 conference tournament championships in 2012 and 2017, and conference regular season championships in 2013, 2014, and 2017. They have advanced to the postseason following the last ten consecutive seasons. The Flyers have had 8 coaches in their 47-year history. The current coach Jim Jabir was hired in 2003. Dayton Flyers women's basketball The Dayton\",\n \"title\": \"Dayton Flyers women's basketball\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"6033053\",\n \"text\": \"Frank Ramsey (basketball) Frank Vernon Ramsey Jr. (July 13, 1931 – July 8, 2018) was an American professional basketball player and coach. A 6-3 guard, he played his entire nine-year (1954–1964) NBA career with the Boston Celtics and played a major role in the early part of their dynasty, winning seven championships as part of the team. Ramsey was also a head coach for the Kentucky Colonels of the ABA during the 1970–1971 season. Raised in Madisonville, Kentucky, Ramsey was a multi-sport athlete at the University of Kentucky, playing baseball as well as basketball. Playing under legendary coach Adolph Rupp,\",\n \"title\": \"Frank Ramsey (basketball)\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"6033062\",\n \"text\": \"a bank president in Dixon, Kentucky. 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Holdbrooks, Wright's longtime roommate, allegedly reported him missing on November 8, 2015. Bergen County Prosecutor Gurbir S. Grewal did not specify a motive or mention how Wright was killed but said he had suffered \\\"head trauma.\\\" Michael Wright (basketball) Michael Wright (January 7, 1980\",\n \"title\": \"Michael Wright (basketball)\"\n }\n]","isConversational":false},"negative_passages":{"kind":"list like","value":[{"docid":"8115138","text":"the more intense because the two schools have consistently been among the nation's elite men's basketball teams for most of the last 50 years. Both schools are also two of the most victorious programs in NCAA men's basketball history; Kentucky is #1 on the list of all-time s in Division I Men's Basketball and Louisville #11. Kentucky has eight national championships and Louisville three. Combining for eight national championships over the last 38 years, Kentucky and Louisville have captured 22% of the national championships, or greater than one every five years. The rivalry was fueled when Rick Pitino was hired","title":"Kentucky–Louisville rivalry"},{"docid":"13860372","text":"an American football team, which competes as an independent in the Division II since Great Midwest Athletic Conference does not sponsor football. Kentucky Wesleyan has a long athletic history, and currently has men's teams competing in baseball, basketball, football, golf, cross country and soccer, and women's teams competing in basketball, golf, soccer, softball, tennis, cross country and volleyball. In the fall of 2013, the Panthers joined the new Great Midwest Athletic Conference, after previously competing in the Great Lakes Valley Conference. Kentucky Wesleyan College's athletic teams have won eighteen (18) Great Lakes Valley Conference (GLVC) championships. The KWC softball Team","title":"Kentucky Wesleyan Panthers"},{"docid":"9256988","text":"North Carolina Tar Heels men's basketball The North Carolina Tar Heels men's basketball program is the intercollegiate men's basketball team of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The Tar Heels have won seven men's college basketball national championships (1924, 1957, 1982, 1993, 2005, 2009, and 2017). North Carolina's six NCAA Tournament Championships are third-most all-time, behind UCLA and Kentucky. They have also won 18 Atlantic Coast Conference tournament titles, 31 Atlantic Coast Conference regular season titles, and an Atlantic Coast Conference record 20 outright Regular Season Championships. The program has produced many notable players who went on to","title":"North Carolina Tar Heels men's basketball"},{"docid":"17905452","text":"rivalry made even more contentious by the national success of both college basketball programs. The two schools have won a combined 11 NCAA Division I basketball championships between them (University of Kentucky has eight championships and the University of Louisville has three). However, the rivalry between the Wildcats and the Cardinals runs much deeper than geographical proximity. Unlike many of college basketball's other great rivalries, such as Duke and North Carolina, or Purdue and Indiana, the University of Kentucky and the University of Louisville do not play in the same conference and have only one scheduled meeting a year. Theirs","title":"The Rivalry: Red v. Blue"},{"docid":"13860374","text":"Kentucky Wesleyan Panthers men's basketball The Kentucky Wesleyan College Panthers men's basketball team represents Kentucky Wesleyan College, a private college of less than 1000 students located in Owensboro, Kentucky. The Panthers, a member of the Great Midwest Athletic Conference (G-MAC), have won eight NCAA Division II championships, most recently in 2001 and dating back to 1966. Joel Utley has been the \"voice of the Panthers\" since the 1962 season (including all eight championships), and calls all the Wesleyan basketball games on local Owensboro radio station WBIO. Kentucky Wesleyan is a charter member of the G-MAC (Great Midwest Athletic Conference) that","title":"Kentucky Wesleyan Panthers men's basketball"},{"docid":"9150320","text":"school athletic governing bodies, the KHSAA governs only athletics; it does not govern band, academic competitions or other extracurricular activities. These activities are governed by separate bodies. Unlike the situation in most states, the default in Kentucky is to conduct a single state championship for all schools, with no classification of schools by enrollment. Most notably, Kentucky does not divide schools into classes in basketball, with Delaware being the only other remaining state with a single state basketball championship for each sex. Of the 13 sports in which the KHSAA sanctions state championships, only three are organized in multiple classes—cross-country,","title":"Kentucky High School Athletic Association"},{"docid":"9131373","text":"the North Fork of the Kentucky River and the drainage of Panbowl Lake which once was part of the river. The boys' basketball varsity basketball team has a long line of standing tradition. The high school has always had a boys' basketball team ever since the founding of the school that started in 1927. They have won twelve regional championships and countless district championships. Many contribute to the golden years of the 1950s and 1960s with coach Fairce O. Woods. Due to his many years of success, he was elected to the KHSAA Hall of Fame. The gymnasium (which is","title":"Breathitt County High School"},{"docid":"8087531","text":"a high level of academic achievement. The school has produced scores of National Merit Finalists. Students representing Lafayette have had repeated success in speech, debate, drama, and music competitions. The Lafayette Times and the Marquis have won many awards for excellence in student journalism. In 1987 Lafayette won the Kentucky Governor's Cup, often seen as tantamount to the state academic championship. Lafayette's athletic teams have been among the most successful in Kentucky high school history. The school has claimed over 50 Kentucky High School Athletic Association (KHSAA) titles, excluding championships in boys basketball, baseball, boys and girls soccer, boys track,","title":"Lafayette High School (Lexington, Kentucky)"},{"docid":"5613331","text":"200, Dunbar's United States Academic Decathlon team won the state division for the first time and proceeded to nationals. Paul Laurence Dunbar offers many sports, including football, boys' and girls' basketball, soccer, baseball, softball, boys' lacrosse, tennis, golf, track and field, cheerleading, swimming, dancing, wrestling, and ice hockey. Altogether, Dunbar's athletic teams have won 2 state championships (cheerleading, 1; boys' soccer, ; baseball, ; girls' golf, ; girls' track and field, ; girls' cross country, ; boys' basketball, ; boys' tennis, ; swimming, ) in the school's 1 years, and the cheerleaders have won national championships. PLD had a competitive","title":"Paul Laurence Dunbar High School (Lexington, Kentucky)"},{"docid":"16383937","text":"schools' respective home courts or at nearby neutral sites led to the cancellation of the game for the 2012–13 season. The Indiana–Kentucky basketball rivalry is all the more intense because the two schools have consistently been among the nation's elite men's basketball teams. Remarkably, in 11 of the 56 meetings between Indiana and Kentucky, one of the schools has been ranked number one, which is nearly 20 percent of the meetings. Kentucky has won eight NCAA championships and has appeared in fifteen Final Fours, while Indiana has won five NCAA championships and appeared in eight Final Fours. Combining for thirteen","title":"Indiana–Kentucky rivalry"},{"docid":"13860378","text":"II, which helped get him elected to the Great Lakes Valley Conference Hall of Fame in 2002.Dazmond Starke 2012-2013, led the NCAA Division II in Field goal % with 67.4 %. Kentucky Wesleyan Panthers men's basketball The Kentucky Wesleyan College Panthers men's basketball team represents Kentucky Wesleyan College, a private college of less than 1000 students located in Owensboro, Kentucky. The Panthers, a member of the Great Midwest Athletic Conference (G-MAC), have won eight NCAA Division II championships, most recently in 2001 and dating back to 1966. Joel Utley has been the \"voice of the Panthers\" since the 1962 season","title":"Kentucky Wesleyan Panthers men's basketball"},{"docid":"8495395","text":"track & field and girls' volleyball. In 2006, Head Coach Steve Miller and his Magoffin County Lady Hornets basketball team won the 15th Regional Basketball Championship. The boys' and girls' track and field teams have produced numerous individual regional championships with respectful placings in state competitions. The Magoffin County High School Dance Team has won many regional and state championships. Magoffin County High School Magoffin County High School (MCHS) is a public secondary-level education high school located in Salyersville, Magoffin County, Kentucky and is part of the Magoffin County Public School District. MCHS is the only high school located within","title":"Magoffin County High School"},{"docid":"9093367","text":"been used by a station in Springfield, Kentucky, returned to the Louisville market on May 11, 2007, as oldies station WASE (103.5 FM), licensed to Radcliff, Kentucky with studios in Elizabethtown, became WAKY. The new station includes many nods to the original WAKY, including original and re-sung versions of \"The Big 79\"'s classic jingles. Sports programming that airs on WKRD include NASCAR Sprint Cup, Xfinity Series and Truck Series, Cincinnati Bengals football, plus University of Louisville women's basketball and volleyball. Since August 2007, Louisville football and men's basketball have aired on WKRD when their games conflict with University of Kentucky","title":"WKRD (AM)"},{"docid":"9107722","text":"have been associated with programs in the state of Kentucky: Adolph Rupp (UK), Denny Crum (UofL), and Rick Pitino (both UK and UofL). Also, several successful NBA players played in the state, including Pat Riley, Wes Unseld, and Dan Issel. Only the UCLA Bruins have won more NCAA championships than the Kentucky Wildcats, with the Wildcats ranking first in almost every other significant measure of a successful program. In addition to UK and UofL, the Western Kentucky Hilltoppers are also a historically successful basketball program. In 2011, the University of Pikeville won the NAIA Men's Basketball National Championship, followed only","title":"Sports in Kentucky"},{"docid":"7016785","text":"the Mid-South Conference. Men's sports include archery, baseball, basketball, cross country, football, golf and soccer; while women's sports include archery, basketball, cheerleading, cross country, golf, soccer, softball, and volleyball. The women's basketball team has won 15 NCCAA Division II National Championships since 1989. Several Contemporary Christian Music groups have come from KCU, including Audio Adrenaline and Bleach. Kentucky Christian University Kentucky Christian University (KCU) is a Christian university in Grayson, Kentucky. It was founded on December 1, 1919, as Christian Normal Institute, by J. W. Lusby and J. O. Snodgrass. As a \"normal school\" its programs included a high school,","title":"Kentucky Christian University"},{"docid":"9873915","text":"Sweet Sixteen (KHSAA State Basketball Championship) The Kentucky High School Athletic Association boys' and girls' state basketball championships are single elimination tournaments held each March featuring 16 high schools. Colloquially known as the Sweet Sixteen (the KHSAA holds a trademark on the phrase), the tournament takes place over four days at downtown Lexington's Rupp Arena for the boys and Highland Heights' BB&T Arena on the campus of Northern Kentucky University for the girls. The Kentucky High School Boys' Basketball State Tournament began in 1918. For fourteen years there were 18 regions that encompassed the tournament. Since 1932 there have only","title":"Sweet Sixteen (KHSAA State Basketball Championship)"},{"docid":"13296796","text":"for Indiana prevented what could have been back-to-back undefeated seasons and national championships as the Hoosiers went on to take the national title in 1976. Bob Knight would later said that this 1974-1975 team was the best he ever coached, even better than the undefeated national champions of 1976. The win put UK in the Final Four in San Diego, where they dropped the NCAA title game in what would be John Wooden's last game. 1974–75 Kentucky Wildcats men's basketball team The 1974–75 Kentucky Wildcats men's basketball team represented the University of Kentucky and was the 1975 NCAA runner-up. The","title":"1974–75 Kentucky Wildcats men's basketball team"},{"docid":"10628501","text":"in the Arena Football League. Guidugli played at Highlands High School in Fort Thomas, Kentucky. He led Highlands to two state championships in 1999 and 2000 and he also was a backup when Highlands won state in 1998. He still holds many Kentucky records for quarterbacks. He also excelled on the basketball court. He led his basketball team to the Kentucky sweet sixteen his senior season with a buzzer beating shot against Covington Holmes. Guidugli played collegiately at the University of Cincinnati from 2001 to 2004. He owns most of the school's passing and total offense records. He is ranked","title":"Gino Guidugli"},{"docid":"9873918","text":"Since 1995 Rupp Arena has hosted the tournament each year. The following is a list of Notable players that have competed in the Sweet 16: Sweet Sixteen (KHSAA State Basketball Championship) The Kentucky High School Athletic Association boys' and girls' state basketball championships are single elimination tournaments held each March featuring 16 high schools. Colloquially known as the Sweet Sixteen (the KHSAA holds a trademark on the phrase), the tournament takes place over four days at downtown Lexington's Rupp Arena for the boys and Highland Heights' BB&T Arena on the campus of Northern Kentucky University for the girls. The Kentucky","title":"Sweet Sixteen (KHSAA State Basketball Championship)"},{"docid":"9756388","text":"The rivalry was generally dormant with only occasional matchups until the teams met in the 1983 NCAA Tournament. Since then, the two teams have met each year in late December or early January. Much like the Iron Bowl, the Kentucky–Louisville rivalry is all the more intense because the two schools have consistently been among the nation's elite men's basketball teams for most of the last 50 years. Both schools are also two of the most victorious programs in NCAA men's basketball history; Kentucky is #1 on the list of all-time s in Division I Men's Basketball and Louisville #11. Kentucky","title":"Louisville Cardinals men's basketball"},{"docid":"13860371","text":"Kentucky Wesleyan Panthers The Kentucky Wesleyan College Panthers are the athletic teams of Kentucky Wesleyan College, which compete in the NCAA Division II and the Great Midwest Athletic Conference. The men's basketball team advanced to the Division II championship game six consecutive years (1998–2003), winning in 1999 and 2001. In addition to these most recent successes, they also won six other championships (1966, 1968, 1969, 1973, 1987, and 1990) and were runners-up in 1957. Overall, Kentucky Wesleyan has won eight NCAA Division II National Men's Basketball Championships, which is the most by any NCAA Division II School. Kentucky Wesleyan has","title":"Kentucky Wesleyan Panthers"},{"docid":"9244655","text":"Duke Blue Devils men's basketball The Duke Blue Devils men's basketball team represents Duke University in NCAA Division I college basketball and competes in the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC). The team is fourth all-time in wins of any NCAA men's basketball program, and is coached by Mike Krzyzewski. Duke has won 5 NCAA Championships (tied with Indiana for fourth all-time behind North Carolina, UCLA and Kentucky) and appeared in 11 Championship Games (third all-time) and 16 Final Fours (fourth all-time behind North Carolina, UCLA, and Kentucky), and has an NCAA-best .755 NCAA tournament winning percentage. Eleven Duke players have been","title":"Duke Blue Devils men's basketball"},{"docid":"9244639","text":"Duke Blue Devils men's basketball The Duke Blue Devils men's basketball team represents Duke University in NCAA Division I college basketball and competes in the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC). The team is fourth all-time in wins of any NCAA men's basketball program, and is coached by Mike Krzyzewski. Duke has won 5 NCAA Championships (tied with Indiana for fourth all-time behind North Carolina, UCLA and Kentucky) and appeared in 11 Championship Games (third all-time) and 16 Final Fours (fourth all-time behind North Carolina, UCLA, and Kentucky), and has an NCAA-best .755 NCAA tournament winning percentage. Eleven Duke players have been","title":"Duke Blue Devils men's basketball"},{"docid":"223240","text":"of the four major professional sports within the state, many Kansans are fans of the state's major college sports teams, especially the Jayhawks of the University of Kansas (KU), and the Wildcats of Kansas State University (KSU or \"K-State\"). The teams are rivals in the Big 12 Conference. Both KU and K-State have tradition-rich programs in men's basketball. The Jayhawks are a perennial national power, ranking second in all-time victories among NCAA programs, behind Kentucky. The Jayhawks have won five national titles, including NCAA tournament championships in 1952, 1988, and 2008. They also were retroactively awarded national championships by the","title":"Kansas"},{"docid":"10243967","text":"assisting students who have difficulty in core subjects. The school also offers a variety of programs to assist families requiring financial assistance Holy Cross High School offers a wider range of activities for students. Among the most popular are art, football, soccer, basketball, volleyball, golf, bowling, softball, track and field, cross country, swimming, intramural basketball, tennis, academic team, school paper, drama club, choir, Students Against Destructive Decisions (SADD), rosary club, and baseball. Among the major sports, soccer, basketball and volleyball have won the Kentucky \"All-A Tournament\" in recent years. The school has won two state sanctioned State Championships by the","title":"Holy Cross High School (Covington, Kentucky)"},{"docid":"7464763","text":"players, and legendary players from Washington, D.C.-area playgrounds. In addition to an occasional Georgetown Hoyas men's basketball game and each summer′s Kenner League games, McDonough Gymnasium hosts Georgetown women's basketball and women′s volleyball games. Each year in mid-October, McDonough Gymnasium hosts Hoya Madness, a free event for Georgetown students and athletics donors which unofficially kicks off the upcoming college basketball season and introduces Georgetown′s men′s and women′s basketball teams for that season. The event also includes performances by the Georgetown pep squad and band and by musical groups. Many concerts have been held at McDonough Gymnasium, including shows by Ray","title":"McDonough Gymnasium"},{"docid":"11464173","text":"The squad also generates vocal support and significant enthusiasm for some of the finest athletic programs in the nation. The Kentucky Wildcats men's basketball team is the winningest college basketball program in the nation and has won the NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championship eight times. In December 2009, the Kentucky Wildcats football team made its fourth consecutive bowl appearance. The squad receives substantial media exposure. Having finished in the top ten every year since the existence of the UCA National College Championships, each year the UK squad is seen on the ESPN-televised Championships Program, which airs at least eight","title":"University of Kentucky cheerleading squad"},{"docid":"4523269","text":"Assumption High School has a rich tradition of excellence in athletics. Assumption offers 15 sports sanctioned by the Kentucky High School Athletic Association (KHSAA) which include archery, basketball, bowling, cheerleading, cross country, dance, field hockey, golf, lacrosse, soccer, softball, swimming, tennis, track and field, and volleyball. Assumption has been awarded national titles in dance and volleyball, and has many times taken runner-up in track, volleyball, and field hockey. The dance team has won three national titles: 1999, 2003, and 2005. The volleyball team has won seven national championships, including in 1996, 2000, 2001, and 2005. They have also won 19","title":"Assumption High School (Kentucky)"},{"docid":"13860376","text":"straight seasons from 2008 to 2012, and were Regional Runners Up in the 2012 season http://kwcpanthers.com/index.aspx?path=mbball. The Panthers advanced to the Division II championship game six consecutive years (1998–2003), winning in 1999 and 2001; the team later forfeited its 2003 runner-up status after it was revealed they had let two ineligible transfer players play. In addition, they won six other championships (1966, 1968, 1969, 1973, 1987, and 1990) and were runners-up in 1957. Overall, Kentucky Wesleyan has won eight NCAA Division II National Men's Basketball Championships, which is the most by any NCAA Division II School. Three Kentucky Wesleyan basketball","title":"Kentucky Wesleyan Panthers men's basketball"},{"docid":"13860373","text":"won as total of four GLVC Championships, three in the 1980s (1984, 1986, and 1989) and one in 1994. The KWC men's golf team won its only GLVC championship in 1983. The KWC men's basketball team has won 13 GLVC championships. Kentucky Wesleyan Panthers The Kentucky Wesleyan College Panthers are the athletic teams of Kentucky Wesleyan College, which compete in the NCAA Division II and the Great Midwest Athletic Conference. The men's basketball team advanced to the Division II championship game six consecutive years (1998–2003), winning in 1999 and 2001. In addition to these most recent successes, they also won","title":"Kentucky Wesleyan Panthers"},{"docid":"6579382","text":"heated border rivalry with the Kentucky Wildcats. The annual basketball game between the two often carries national significance as they have combined for 13 national championships. Since 1991, the game has rotated between neutral sites in Indianapolis and Louisville. This neutrality ended during 2006 when the game was played at Rupp Arena in Lexington, Kentucky with the 2007 game played at Assembly Hall in Bloomington, Indiana. Basketball games between the Hoosiers and Wildcats have at times drawn over 30,000 fans. Although the two teams had played every season since 1969, a dispute over whether future games should be played at","title":"Indiana Hoosiers"},{"docid":"8928291","text":"All-American and four time All-SEC. He led the Wildcats to 2 NCAA Championships, in 1948 and 1949. Jones was a member of the 1948 Olympic Gold medal winning team with Adolph Rupp's \"Fabulous Five\" and the Phillips 66ers. During his four years at Kentucky, the basketball team had a combined record of 130-10 and won the SEC championship every year. He holds the unique distinction of being an All-American under both legends, Adolph Rupp (basketball) and Bear Bryant (football) when both coached at Kentucky. He is the only player to have his number retired in both football and basketball at","title":"Wallace Jones"},{"docid":"225867","text":"the facilities. As in many states, especially those without major league professional sport teams, college athletics are prominent. This is especially true of the state's three Division I Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) programs, including the Kentucky Wildcats, the Western Kentucky Hilltoppers, and the Louisville Cardinals. The Wildcats, Hilltoppers, and Cardinals are among the most tradition-rich college men's basketball teams in the United States, combining for 11 National championships and 24 NCAA Final Fours; all three are high on the lists of total all-time wins, wins per season, and average wins per season. The Kentucky Wildcats are particularly notable, leading all","title":"Kentucky"},{"docid":"10877304","text":"met as the 1949 team won one more game than the previous year including both a SEC regular season and SEC tournament championship, while also getting back to the Final Four that March. In the finals Kentucky faced the Oklahoma A&M Cowboys, a team that had previously seen success in the tournament with back-to-back championships in 1945 and 1946. The Fab Five would succeed again winning 46–36 and Kentucky's only back-to-back NCAA championship. Kentucky was the second program in NCAA history to win back-to-back championships (there have been six other schools since). With a returning star player like Bill Spivey,","title":"Kentucky Wildcats men's basketball"},{"docid":"6267105","text":"NCAA volleyball record for home match winning streaks (94), which ranks in the top five of any home court winning streak for any sport, men or women's, and is only outranked by the basketball trio of Kentucky, 1943-55 (129); St. Bonaventure, 1948-61 (99) and UCLA, 1970-76 (98). Penn State teams have won five national championships in Rec Hall: boxing (1929 and 1932), wrestling (1953) and men's gymnastics (1960 and 2007). Rec Hall Recreation Building, or Rec Hall as it is more commonly known, is a field house located on the University Park campus of the Pennsylvania State University. It was","title":"Rec Hall"},{"docid":"6795965","text":"Devils and North Carolina Tar Heels enjoy one of the great rivalries in American sports. Taken as a state, Kentucky has 11 national championships won by two schools, The University of Louisville and the University of Kentucky; North Carolina also has 11 statewide national championships, coming from the combined victories of Duke, UNC, and NC State. The National Basketball Association (NBA) is well-represented in the South as well, with franchises in Atlanta, Charlotte, Orlando, Miami, Memphis, New Orleans, Houston, Dallas, San Antonio, and Oklahoma City. Taking advantage of warmer late-winter weather, many professional baseball teams began training in Florida in","title":"Culture of the Southern United States"},{"docid":"11050806","text":"Team has won two consecutive championship titles in the 59th district, as well as two additional district wins in recent years. Although a relatively new school, the athletic program of East Ridge High School has become competitive thus far, winning championships including: On August 1, 2011 the Athletic Department of East Ridge High School announced the hiring of former Bourbon County and University of Kentucky Basketball superstar Preston \"Master Blaster\" LeMaster. District Championships: 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2012 District Championships: 2003, 2004 Regional Championships: 2004 District Championships: 2010, 2011 District Championships: 2008 East Ridge High School (Kentucky) East Ridge","title":"East Ridge High School (Kentucky)"},{"docid":"16246659","text":"Championship for the college. After Kentucky Wesleyan he was the Thundering Herd coach beginning in the 1972–73 season for the NIT appearance. Bob Daniels (basketball) Bob Daniels was an American basketball coach. Collegiately he played for the Western Kentucky University under Hall of Fame Coach Edgar Diddle. In 1957 he was drafted by the Cincinnati Royals. He started assistant coaching under Coach Guy R. Strong at Kentucky Wesleyan College and was a part of the 1965-66 National Championship team, the first of Kentucky Wesleyan's eight National Championships. During the late 1960s and early-1970s he coached the Kentucky Wesleyan Panthers for","title":"Bob Daniels (basketball)"},{"docid":"20636190","text":"Inside the Madness: Kentucky Basketball Inside the Madness: Kentucky Basketball is an American reality web television series that premiered on February 17, 2018 on Facebook Watch. It follows the players of the University of Kentucky Men's Basketball team as they make their way through their current basketball season and gear up for the upcoming NCAA tournament. \"Inside the Madness: Kentucky Basketball\" give viewers \"unprecedented access to the team and head coach John Calipari as they navigate through the season, prepare for the NCAA Tournament run and shape young men for the rest of their lives.\" On February 14, 2018, it","title":"Inside the Madness: Kentucky Basketball"},{"docid":"189578","text":"Indiana's collegiate basketball squad, the Indiana Hoosiers men's basketball team has several championships to their credit: The Hoosiers' five NCAA Championships are the fourth in history, tied with Duke, and trailing UCLA (11) Kentucky (8) and North Carolina (6). Their eight trips to the Final Four ranks seventh on the all-time list. The Hoosiers have made 32 appearances in the NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament (fifth-most in NCAA history). In those 32 appearances, Indiana has posted 52 victories, the sixth-most in NCAA history. With their only men's national championship coming in the days before the NCAA Tournament, the Purdue","title":"Hoosier Hysteria"},{"docid":"9873352","text":"IU Hoosiers lead the all-time series vs. all other Big Ten opponents, excluding instate-rival, Purdue. Updated March 2, 2018 Indiana has won five NCAA Championships in men's basketball (1940, 1953, 1976, 1981, 1987) — the first two under coach Branch McCracken and the latter three under Bob Knight — and 22 Big Ten Conference championships. The Hoosiers' five NCAA Championships are tied with Duke (5) for the fourth-most in history, trailing only UCLA (11), Kentucky (8), and North Carolina (6). Their eight trips to the Final Four ranks eighth on the all-time list. The Hoosiers have made 39 appearances in","title":"Indiana Hoosiers men's basketball"},{"docid":"17073974","text":"team, scoring 702 points. He participated in two World Championships and four European Championships and in 1992 competed in the Olympic Games. In 2000, Behnke retired from basketball. Gunther Behnke Gunther Behnke (born January 19, 1963, in Leverkusen) is a retired German professional basketball player. The 7'3\" (2.21 metres) center was on the team that won the European Championship in 1993. Behnke began playing basketball as a teenager in Pulheim near Cologne. He was recruited by head coach Joe B. Hall to play for the University of Kentucky but became homesick and never appeared in a game for Kentucky. Behnke","title":"Gunther Behnke"},{"docid":"3613066","text":"W. Bush and Dee Dee Myers, the Democratic strategist and former White House Press Secretary in the Clinton administration. The university's teams for both men and women are nicknamed \"Norse\". Their mascot is named Victor E. Viking. Northern Kentucky University joined the Horizon League on July 1, 2015 after leaving the Atlantic Sun Conference. The 2016–17 school year is the first in which NKU is eligible for NCAA Division I championships, following the completion of its four-year reclassification period to D-I. The university fields teams in baseball, men's and women's basketball, men's and women's cross country, men's and women's golf,","title":"Northern Kentucky University"},{"docid":"3612540","text":"eSports team, specifically in \"League of Legends\". GLVC schools have won 28 NCAA Division II national championships: Great Lakes Valley Conference The Great Lakes Valley Conference (GLVC) is a collegiate athletic conference affiliated at the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA)'s Division II level. Member institutions are located in the U.S. states of Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Missouri, and Wisconsin. The GLVC is considered one of the top small college basketball conferences in the nation and placed a team in the men's NCAA Division II final over 11 straight years from 1994 to 2004. The GLVC grew out of discussions that started","title":"Great Lakes Valley Conference"},{"docid":"10877338","text":"received mixed reviews among Kentucky fans who have historically enjoyed a faster, higher-scoring style of play under previous coaches. Smith was also under pressure from Kentucky fans to recruit better players. After leading Kentucky to one National Championship in 1998, Kentucky would complete a perfect 16–0 regular season conference record in 2003, win five SEC regular season championships (1998, 2000, 2001, 2003, 2005) and five SEC Tournament titles (1998, 1999, 2001, 2003, 2004). Smith led the Wildcats to six Sweet Sixteen appearances (1998, 1999, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2005) and four Elite Eight appearances (1998, 1999, 2003, 2005) in his ten","title":"Kentucky Wildcats men's basketball"},{"docid":"3612770","text":"won six other championships (1966, 1968, 1969, 1973, 1987, and 1990) and were runners-up in 1957. Overall, Kentucky Wesleyan has won eight NCAA Division II National Men's Basketball Championships, which is the most by any NCAA Division II School. Kentucky Wesleyan College Kentucky Wesleyan College (KWC) is a private Methodist college in Owensboro, Kentucky. The college is known for its liberal arts programs. Fall 2016 enrollment was 785 students. Kentucky Wesleyan College was founded in 1858 by the Kentucky Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church. It was originally located in Millersburg. Classes began in 1866 and the first commencement took","title":"Kentucky Wesleyan College"},{"docid":"16246658","text":"Bob Daniels (basketball) Bob Daniels was an American basketball coach. Collegiately he played for the Western Kentucky University under Hall of Fame Coach Edgar Diddle. In 1957 he was drafted by the Cincinnati Royals. He started assistant coaching under Coach Guy R. Strong at Kentucky Wesleyan College and was a part of the 1965-66 National Championship team, the first of Kentucky Wesleyan's eight National Championships. During the late 1960s and early-1970s he coached the Kentucky Wesleyan Panthers for five season, all five seasons he took the team to the Division II NCAA Tournament and won the second and third National","title":"Bob Daniels (basketball)"},{"docid":"13296833","text":"won by two points, 92–90. The game made \"USA Today\"s list of the greatest NCAA tournament games of all time. The win put Kentucky in the Final Four in San Diego, where they dropped the NCAA title game to UCLA in John Wooden's final game as head coach. The loss for Indiana prevented what could have been back-to-back undefeated seasons and national championships as the Hoosiers went on to take the national title in 1976. Bob Knight would later say that this 1974–75 team was the best he ever coached, even better than the undefeated national champions of 1976. !colspan=8","title":"1974–75 Indiana Hoosiers men's basketball team"},{"docid":"20078383","text":"style=|SEC Tournament !colspan=12 style=| NCAA Tournament <nowiki>*</nowiki>AP does not release post-NCAA Tournament rankings 2017–18 Kentucky Wildcats men's basketball team The 2017–18 Kentucky Wildcats men's basketball team represented the University of Kentucky in the 2017–18 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. The team played its home games in Lexington, Kentucky for the 42nd consecutive season at Rupp Arena, with a capacity of 23,500. The team, led by John Calipari in his ninth season as head coach, was a member of the Southeastern Conference. On January 22, 2018, following losses to South Carolina on the road, and to Florida at home, the","title":"2017–18 Kentucky Wildcats men's basketball team"},{"docid":"2446792","text":"performed at many fund raising events. Recently, they have connected with KIVA, a non- profit organization promoting micro financing for entrepreneurs in developing countries. They have released two of their own CDs: \"Ubuntu\" and \"We Have A Dream\". Brookfield is home to several successful sports teams, many of which have earned high rankings at municipal and even provincial championships. Boys'/Girls' Basketball, Senior/Junior Boys' Rugby 7's &15's, Boys'/Girls' Wrestling, Girls' Touch Football, Boys'/Girls Soccer, Boys'/Girls' Volleyball, Boys'/Girls' Badminton, Boys'/Girls' Curling, Boys' Hockey, Boys' Baseball, Boys'/Girls' Ultimate Frisbee, Boys' Golf, Cross country running, Nordic Skiing, and Track & Field. 2010-2011 Tier 2","title":"Brookfield High School (Ottawa)"},{"docid":"14674698","text":"contemporary basketball titles, such as \"NBA Jam\". Fox Sports College Hoops '99 Fox Sports College Hoops '99 is a college basketball sports video game developed by Z-Axis and published by Fox Interactive under the brand name Fox Sports Interactive for the Nintendo 64. It was released in North America on October 31, 1998. Jeff Sheppard of the University of Kentucky is featured on the cover. The game features 120 college basketball teams, multiplayer support for two players, and many of the college championships including the NCAA men's basketball championship. It was the first college sports game for the Nintendo 64.","title":"Fox Sports College Hoops '99"},{"docid":"680771","text":"Hopman Cup, which is also organised by the ITF and does not distribute ranking points. The Open Era, in which professional players were allowed to compete alongside amateurs, began in 1968. The first Open Tournament was the British Hard Court Championships in Bournemouth. At the first Open Wimbledon, the prize fund difference was 2.5:1 in favor of men. Billie Jean King won £750 for taking the title, while Rod Laver won £2,000. The total purses of both competitions were £14,800 for men and £5,680 for women. Confusion also reigned as no one knew how many Open Tournaments there were supposed","title":"Women's Tennis Association"},{"docid":"6734250","text":"the American Basketball Association. He tried playing professional baseball but his ban for gambling prevented him from that sport as well. Later in life, the University of Kentucky welcomed him back. The school retired his jersey number in 1995 and invited him to speak to players about point shaving. In 1985, he was inducted into the Kentucky Athletic Hall of Fame. Beard died on November 29, 2007 at his Louisville, Kentucky home. Ralph Beard Ralph Milton Beard Jr. (December 2, 1927 – November 29, 2007) was an American collegiate and professional basketball player. He won two NCAA national basketball championships","title":"Ralph Beard"},{"docid":"11047802","text":"Basketball Association for 206 games. He coached Apollo High School basketball in the late 1970s and was the head coach at Kentucky Wesleyan College from 1985 to 1990, winning two NCAA Division II National Championships. He is the father of former NBA player Rex Chapman. Wayne Chapman Wayne G. Chapman (born June 15, 1945) is an American retired basketball player. Born in Owensboro, Kentucky, Chapman graduated from Daviess County High School and played collegiately for the Western Kentucky University. He was selected by the Philadelphia 76ers in the 16th round (156th pick overall) of the 1967 NBA draft, by the","title":"Wayne Chapman"},{"docid":"8501244","text":"seven other fielders) on the defense at any time. If the defense is found to have more than nine players on the field, the umpire must determine which is the additional player(s), and the player(s) so determined shall be ejected. Professional and collegiate basketball (both men's and women's) limit teams to five players on the court at any one time. A team with more than five in play at once is assessed a technical foul for \"Too Many Players on the Court\". In March 2009, the National Basketball Association rules were changed to allow for the nullification of goals scored","title":"Too many men"},{"docid":"16091385","text":"men are the same custom that is shown in the Winster Hall photograph. In 1867 Jewitt recorded several visits to Winster Hall by groups of traditional performers (some being children, others men): 'guisers', 'mummers', the 'hobby horse' and 'Snap Dragon'. Jewitt differentiates between 'Snap Dragon' and 'Hobby Horse(s)' but does not describe how they were made, or how they differed, but implies that they did not always go out together. If Sharp is correct and Snap Dragon was made from a horse's skull, the photograph may show one such \"conjoined\" team of guisers. Jewitt also seems to have seen several","title":"Winster Guisers"},{"docid":"1079809","text":"serves as the home field for Ashland Tomcats high school and middle school football. One public high school serves the city of Ashland: Paul G. Blazer High School, named after philanthropist and founder of Ashland Inc., Paul G. Blazer. The high school is home to the Ashland Tomcats and Kittens athletic teams. The Ashland Tomcats football program has achieved 11 state championships. The Ashland Tomcats (boys') basketball program have accomplished 1 national championship, 4 state championships, 32 regional championships, and 55 district championships. The Ashland Tomcats and Kittens (girls') soccer teams play at the Ashland Soccer Complex at the high","title":"Ashland, Kentucky"},{"docid":"1975144","text":"university boasts of numerous national championships, with its latest coming in 2012 when the men's basketball team won its eighth national title. UK also boasts of a cross country national team championship (women's, 1988), eight individual championships in gymnastics, an Olympic medalist in track and field, and 21 national championships in cheerleading. After defeating number-one ranked Oklahoma 13–7 in the Sugar Bowl under legendary coach Bear Bryant, Kentucky is also an NCAA-recognized co-national champion for the 1950 season. The University of Kentucky Dance team is currently ranked 5th in the nation in Hip Hop and 7th in Pom at Universal","title":"University of Kentucky"},{"docid":"14674695","text":"Fox Sports College Hoops '99 Fox Sports College Hoops '99 is a college basketball sports video game developed by Z-Axis and published by Fox Interactive under the brand name Fox Sports Interactive for the Nintendo 64. It was released in North America on October 31, 1998. Jeff Sheppard of the University of Kentucky is featured on the cover. The game features 120 college basketball teams, multiplayer support for two players, and many of the college championships including the NCAA men's basketball championship. It was the first college sports game for the Nintendo 64. As of 2010, \"College Hoops '99\" has","title":"Fox Sports College Hoops '99"},{"docid":"13123549","text":"Auburn Tigers women's basketball The Auburn Tigers women's basketball team represents Auburn University in women's basketball. The school competes in the Southeastern Conference (SEC) of the NCAA Division I. The Tigers play home basketball games at Auburn Arena in Auburn, Alabama. The Auburn women's basketball team has been consistently competitive both nationally and within the SEC. Despite playing in the same conference as perennial powerhouse Tennessee and other competitive programs such as LSU, Georgia, Kentucky and Vanderbilt, Auburn has won five regular season SEC championships and four SEC Tournament championships. AU has made nineteen appearances in the NCAA women's basketball","title":"Auburn Tigers women's basketball"},{"docid":"20640141","text":"for UK over offers from Illinois and Georgetown. Whitney is the third commitment to commit in the 2019 class and is ranked #19 overall in the 2019 class by 247 sports. !colspan=12 style=| Big Blue Bahamas exhibition trip !colspan=12 style=| Exhibition !colspan=12 style=| Non-Conference Regular Season !colspan=12 style=| SEC Regular Season !colspan=12 style=|SEC Tournament <nowiki>*</nowiki>AP does not release post-NCAA Tournament rankings<br>^Coaches did not release a Week 2 poll. 2018–19 Kentucky Wildcats men's basketball team The 2018–19 Kentucky Wildcats men's basketball team represents the University of Kentucky in the 2018–19 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. The team is playing its","title":"2018–19 Kentucky Wildcats men's basketball team"},{"docid":"10877288","text":"well as the most #1 NBA Draft picks (3). The Wildcats have also been led by many successful head coaches, including Adolph Rupp, Joe B. Hall, Eddie Sutton, Rick Pitino, Tubby Smith, and John Calipari. Kentucky is the only program with 5 different NCAA Championship coaches (Rupp, Hall, Pitino, Smith, Calipari). Three Kentucky coaches have been enshrined in the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame: Rupp, Pitino, and Calipari. Former Wildcat players that have gone on to become head coaches include C.M. Newton, Pat Riley, Dan Issel, Dwane Casey, John Pelphrey, and Travis Ford. Records indicate that the first head","title":"Kentucky Wildcats men's basketball"},{"docid":"7524376","text":"where he played basketball for head coach George Taylor. Central City went 116-20 during Hickman's four years (1928–31) in high school. They won four region championships and went to four State Tournaments where he made the All-State Tournament team in 1929 and 1931. He was also an all-state basketball player two seasons in 1930-31. He lettered three seasons at guard at Western Kentucky for head coach Ed Diddle. WKU went 83-25 during Hickman's four years in college. They won four KIAC Tournament Championships and one SIAA Tournament Championship. He made the Kentucky All-State team in 1933 and 1934, the ALL-KIAC","title":"Bernard Hickman"},{"docid":"10914669","text":"championships, they are showing that they can compete. Even bouncing off a five-girl roster from 4 years earlier in 2011. The LCA girls team won the 2010 and 2012 All A state tournament. They were runners-up in the 2010 all schools state tournament. LCA won the KHSAA girls' basketball state championship in 2007, and won the Kentucky All \"A\" state tournament in 2007, 2008, and 2009. Men’s basketball won the 2018 All “A” State Championship for the first time. They also came runner-up in region that same year, as well as winning back to back district championships in 2017-2018 The","title":"Lexington Christian Academy (Kentucky)"},{"docid":"7474236","text":"Kentucky International Convention Center The Kentucky International Convention Center (KICC), formerly called the Commonwealth Convention Center, is a large multi-use facility in Louisville, Kentucky, United States. It, along with the Kentucky Exposition Center, hosts conventions for the Louisville area. It was built on the site of the Tyler Block and opened in 1977. The facility reopened in August 2018 after a two-year closure for a major expansion and renovation. While the convention center does not have a permanent arena, it still has hosted various sporting events, including the 2002 Ohio Valley Conference Men's Basketball Tournament and the NCAA Division II","title":"Kentucky International Convention Center"},{"docid":"11264705","text":"is 0–8. The Colonels have appeared in two NAIA Tournaments. Their combined record is 2–3. The Colonels have appeared in one College Basketball Invitational (CBI). Their record is 0–1. The Colonels have appeared in two CollegeInsider.com Postseason Tournament (CIT). Their combined record is 3–2. Eastern Kentucky Colonels men's basketball The Eastern Kentucky Colonels basketball team is a men's college basketball team at Eastern Kentucky University, located in Richmond, Kentucky, United States. The basketball team has been competing in the Ohio Valley Conference since 1948. Home games are played at Alumni Coliseum, located on EKU's campus. The team last played in","title":"Eastern Kentucky Colonels men's basketball"},{"docid":"7592384","text":"Chris Lofton Christopher Franklin Lofton (born March 27, 1986) is an American professional basketball player for Le Mans Sarthe of the LNB Pro A. He played college basketball with the University of Tennessee Volunteers. Chris Lofton is from Maysville, Kentucky, where he led the Mason County Royals (his high school basketball team) to a victory in the 2003 State Championships and led the Royals back to the state championship game the next year. Despite being named Mr. Basketball his senior year, Lofton was not recruited by Louisville or Kentucky. He was recruited by University of Tennessee coach Buzz Peterson and","title":"Chris Lofton"},{"docid":"11603645","text":"Travis Grant Travis Grant (born January 1, 1950) is a retired American professional basketball player. He is most known for being the all-time leading scorer in men's NCAA college basketball history while at Kentucky State University by amassing 4,045 points. He led Kentucky State to three straight NAIA championships while averaging 33.4 points per game over his career. Grant was a first round pick of the Los Angeles Lakers in the 1972 NBA Draft and of the Utah Stars in the 1972 ABA Draft. Grant played professionally in the National Basketball Association and American Basketball Association from 1972 to 1976,","title":"Travis Grant"},{"docid":"6853436","text":"professors. Kentucky Wesleyan reached its peak enrollment during Hamilton's tenure. Successful fundraising also allowed for the construction of several new buildings on the campus; in one campaign Hamilton enlisted the students to raise $250,000 to build a new library, and they did. Hamilton also gave great attention to Kentucky Wesleyan's athletic programs and during his tenure the school, with its student body and athletic teams racially integrated somewhat ahead of many others, won its first few Division II basketball national championships (1966, 1968 and 1969) and established a program that is still today the most successful in Division II competition.","title":"Harold P. Hamilton"},{"docid":"2753179","text":"when the tournament expanded to 64 teams, Duke has won five championships; North Carolina and Connecticut have each won four; Kentucky & Villanova have three; Kansas & Florida have two; and UCLA, Indiana, Michigan State, and Louisville have one. During that time Villanova, Michigan, UNLV, Duke, Arkansas, Arizona, Connecticut, Maryland, Syracuse, and Florida all won their first championships. The NCAA has changed the tournament format several times since its inception, most often representing an increase of the number of teams. This section describes the tournament as it has operated since 2011. A total of 68 teams qualify for the tournament","title":"NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament"},{"docid":"16756896","text":"since the school's founding in 1950. That same year student Ted Wade became the first black player on an integrated college basketball team in Kentucky. The basketball program has been coached by 11 different men and is currently headed by Louisville native, Scott Davenport. Davenport is one of two Bellarmine coaches who have also guided teams to the state high school championship. He did it in 1988 at Ballard High School (Louisville, Kentucky). The other coach who moved up to the college level was Joe Reibel, who won with St. Xavier High School (Louisville) in 1962. Reibel is Bellarmine's winningest","title":"Bellarmine Knights"},{"docid":"5436038","text":"was classified by the NJSIAA as South Jersey Group IV for football for 2017-18. School colors are brown and Vegas gold. Sports offered at the school include Tennis (women), Lacrosse (men), Lacrosse (women), Baseball, Track and Field Winter (men), Tennis (men), Track and Field Winter (women), Swimming (women), Golf (men), Swimming (men), Field Hockey, Soccer (women), Football, Soccer (men), Cross Country (women), Softball, Volleyball (women), Basketball (men), Wrestling (men), Track and Field Spring (women), Basketball (women), Track and Field Spring (men) and Cross Country (men). Teams that have won notable championships include: The principal is Dr. Jeri-Lynn Vernon. Absegami employs","title":"Absegami High School"},{"docid":"1923256","text":"disparity regarding sport related scholarships for men and women, with men getting 190 million more in funding than women. This pattern has persisted over a long period of time as, most colleges focus on their male athletics team and plow more money into them. This disparity shows the link between race and gender, and how it plays a significant role in the hierarchy of sports. In 1990, Bernadette Mattox became the first female Division I coach of a men's basketball team, serving as an assistant at the University of Kentucky. A year later, goaltender Jenny Hanley of Hamline University became","title":"Women's sports"},{"docid":"2836605","text":"Championship Tournament is held annually, currently at the Tyson Events Center and Gateway Arena in Sioux City, Iowa. The NAIA and Sioux City have extended the contract until 2014.Northwestern College has the most national titles with five. 2015 champion Morningside College has the second most national titles with three. Northwestern College has the most tournament championship game appearances with six. The NAIA announced in April 2018 that it would discontinue its Division II basketball championships for both men and women after the 2019–20 season. <nowiki>*</nowiki> Season record of 38–0; Only three teams have done this in NAIA Women's Basketball history.","title":"NAIA Women's Basketball Championships"},{"docid":"13140740","text":"in India does not follow seasons. Indian basketball has championships throughout the year for different age groups. Championship for youth are mainly organized between April to July when children are having summer break from school. Being one of the earliest countries to adopt basketball, India has so far produced numerous talented basketball players, who have earned recognition in the international arena. Indian basketball players have also won several trophies for their country. Basketball in India is mainly being run and managed by a large number of national and state level associations, spread all over India. These basketball associations are working","title":"Basketball in India"},{"docid":"14232189","text":"Co.’s Sutherland,” by Earl Cox, \"The Courier-Journal\", January 12, 1958 (5) “Alabama Signs Black Athlete,” United Press International, April 27, 1969 Jock Sutherland (basketball) Charles \"Jock\" Sutherland (born March 14, 1928) is a basketball coach from Lexington, Kentucky, who was inducted into the Kentucky Athletic Hall of Fame. Jock Sutherland was born and grew up in the shadows of the University of Kentucky's Alumni Gym and Memorial Coliseum. From an early age basketball was his first love. As a youngster he sneaked into the gym to watch Kentucky basketball practices under the legendary coach Adolph Rupp. He played high school","title":"Jock Sutherland (basketball)"},{"docid":"16788661","text":"coach, Wyoming went 23–15 and took home the 2017 CBI championship. Allen Edwards (basketball) Allen Eugene Edwards (born December 16, 1975) is a retired American basketball player and current coach. He is best known for winning two NCAA championships at the University of Kentucky as a player. Edwards is currently the head basketball coach at the University of Wyoming. He is the younger brother of former NBA player Doug Edwards and of former Miami Hurricanes player Steve Edwards. Edwards, a 6'5\" shooting guard from Miami Senior High School in Miami, Florida, went to Kentucky to play for coach Rick Pitino.","title":"Allen Edwards (basketball)"},{"docid":"16788657","text":"Allen Edwards (basketball) Allen Eugene Edwards (born December 16, 1975) is a retired American basketball player and current coach. He is best known for winning two NCAA championships at the University of Kentucky as a player. Edwards is currently the head basketball coach at the University of Wyoming. He is the younger brother of former NBA player Doug Edwards and of former Miami Hurricanes player Steve Edwards. Edwards, a 6'5\" shooting guard from Miami Senior High School in Miami, Florida, went to Kentucky to play for coach Rick Pitino. Edwards played for the Wildcats from 1994–1998, a period where the","title":"Allen Edwards (basketball)"},{"docid":"12312303","text":"on to earn a master's degree from Kentucky with a 4.0 GPA. While a graduate student, she was an assistant coach for the Kentucky Wildcats women's basketball team from 1981 to 1983 under head coach Terry Hall. Lynn eventually worked as an enforcement representative for the NCAA and was the only woman on a 10-person staff of field investigators. She then worked as the assistant executive director of USA Basketball for eleven years (1985–1996) where she organized all women’s basketball teams for participation in events such as the Olympics, World Championships and Pan-American Games. She was named the Women's Basketball","title":"Lynn Norenberg Barry"},{"docid":"3714279","text":"men's basketball team currently ranks fifth in all-time NCAA Tournament wins and has been in the top-five in average attendance each year since the 1982–83 season. Perennial rivals include the University of Kentucky, University of Cincinnati, and the University of Memphis. The team was established in 1975. The cheerleading squads have won multiple championships with the large co-ed squad winning 15 National Cheerleaders Association Collegiate National championships (1985–86, 1989, 1992, 1994, 1996, 1998–99, 2003–05, 2007–09, 2011), the all-female squad winning nine championships (1998–99, 2001–05, 2009, 2011) and the small co-ed cheerleading squad winning seven championships (2005–11). The University of Louisville","title":"Louisville Cardinals"},{"docid":"8156003","text":"in conference tournaments or in any national postseason tournament. 86 games — Connecticut 56 games and counting— Ashland University 88 games — Washington (MO) 88 games — Winnipeg (MB) The Lady Wesmen would go on to a record 118-1 in the span from 1992-1995, including 3 CIS (now U Sports) national basketball championships and beating several NCAA Women's Division I programs in North American tournaments. 88 games — UCLA By NCAA convention, the \"regular season\" does not include games in conference tournaments or in any national postseason tournament. 74 games — UCLA 129 games — Kentucky 57 games — Winona","title":"Winning streak (sports)"},{"docid":"20269509","text":"2017 Kentucky Bank Tennis Championships The 2017 Kentucky Bank Tennis Championships was a professional tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts. It was the 22nd edition, for men, and 20th edition, for women, of the tournament and part of the 2017 ATP Challenger Tour and the 2017 ITF Women's Circuit. It took place in Lexington, Kentucky, United States, on 31 July – 6 August 2017. The following players received a wildcard into the singles main draw: The following players received entry into the singles main draw using a protected ranking: The following player received entry into the singles main draw","title":"2017 Kentucky Bank Tennis Championships"},{"docid":"19633969","text":"following players received a wildcard into the singles main draw: The following players received entry from the qualifying draw: The following players received entry as lucky losers: 2016 Kentucky Bank Tennis Championships The 2016 Kentucky Bank Tennis Championships was a professional tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts. It was the 21st edition, for men, and 19th edition, for women, of the tournament and part of the 2016 ATP Challenger Tour and the 2016 ITF Women's Circuit, offering totals of $50,000, for both genders, in prize money. It took place in Lexington, Kentucky, United States, on 25–31 July 2016. The","title":"2016 Kentucky Bank Tennis Championships"},{"docid":"19633968","text":"2016 Kentucky Bank Tennis Championships The 2016 Kentucky Bank Tennis Championships was a professional tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts. It was the 21st edition, for men, and 19th edition, for women, of the tournament and part of the 2016 ATP Challenger Tour and the 2016 ITF Women's Circuit, offering totals of $50,000, for both genders, in prize money. It took place in Lexington, Kentucky, United States, on 25–31 July 2016. The following players received a wildcard into the singles main draw: The following player entered as an alternate: The following players received entry from the qualifying draw: The","title":"2016 Kentucky Bank Tennis Championships"},{"docid":"18163131","text":"2014 Kentucky Bank Tennis Championships The 2014 Kentucky Bank Tennis Championships was a professional tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts. It was the nineteenth edition for the men and the seventeenth edition for the women, and part of the 2014 ATP Challenger Tour and the 2014 ITF Women's Circuit respectively, each offering a total of $50,000 in prize money. The event took place in Lexington, Kentucky, United States, on July 21–27, 2014. The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw: The following players received entry from the qualifying draw: The following player received a special exemption into","title":"2014 Kentucky Bank Tennis Championships"},{"docid":"20050829","text":"WBI (2013). As of the end of the 2015-16 season, they have an all-time record of 623-589. Eastern Kentucky Colonels women's basketball The Eastern Kentucky Colonels women's basketball team is a women's college basketball team at Eastern Kentucky University, located in Richmond, Kentucky, United States. They are a member of the Ohio Valley Conference. Home games are played at Alumni Coliseum. Eastern Kentucky began play in 1971. They won the Kentucky Women's Intercollegiate Conference (KWIC) Tournament in 1972, 1973, 1974, 1975, and 1976. They joined the OVC in 1977. The Colonels have made the postseason four times, with two being","title":"Eastern Kentucky Colonels women's basketball"},{"docid":"17102316","text":"state cross country championships, and finished 16th in 2013. Berea Independent Schools Berea Independent Schools is a school district serving Berea, Kentucky, United States. The superintendent is Dr. Diane Hatchett. The school sports teams are called \"Pirates\". Berea Community High School (Berea Community or BCHS) is located in Berea, Kentucky, United States. Current attendance is approximately 350-400 students for grades 9 through 12. School sports include varsity Baseball, Archery, Cheerleading, Cross Country, Softball, swimming, Volleyball, American football, soccer, basketball, tennis, track and field, golf, and academic team, which competes at Governor's Cup. The school also offers many clubs for students,","title":"Berea Independent Schools"},{"docid":"15990674","text":"no three-point field goal line existed. As a pure jumpshooter, Edwards later claimed that it \"would have been interesting\" to see how many more points he would have scored if a three-point line had existed. In his first varsity season the Volunteers earned a berth into the 1971 National Invitation Tournament, reaching the quarterfinals before bowing out to Duke, 74–68. They finished in second place in the SEC with a 13–5 conference record. The following year, Edwards helped lead Tennessee to an SEC regular season co-championship with Kentucky behind a 14–4 conference record. They did not qualify for any postseason","title":"Mike Edwards (basketball)"},{"docid":"11047734","text":"they are inner city black men in a hobby that has been dominated by successful white men. Cobb, like Mastro back in the late 1980s, does not divulge the exact details of how he came to own the card. He has stated he purchased the card at an estate sale for $1,800 in 1983 or 1984, a bargain for the card at that time. When Cobb and Edwards tried to sell the card on eBay in 2002, a Newport, Kentucky attorney filed a police report against the two men because he believed the card was a reprint that was stolen","title":"T206 Honus Wagner"},{"docid":"10445162","text":"the team to be an expansion franchise. During the 2007-2008 season the Miners scored 194 points in a game, a CBA record. They finished the Season with a 26-22 record. There are now three official ABA teams in the state of Kentucky. East Kentucky Miners The East Kentucky Miners are a professional basketball team in the American Basketball Association that began play as a member of the Continental Basketball Association in the 2007-2008 season. The Miners, announced in the local paper, and on the Trinity Sports & Entertainment Group (headed by Jay Fiedler)'s website, were formally announced by the league","title":"East Kentucky Miners"},{"docid":"10445161","text":"East Kentucky Miners The East Kentucky Miners are a professional basketball team in the American Basketball Association that began play as a member of the Continental Basketball Association in the 2007-2008 season. The Miners, announced in the local paper, and on the Trinity Sports & Entertainment Group (headed by Jay Fiedler)'s website, were formally announced by the league on July 6, 2007 The Miners are coached by Kevin Keathley for the 2007-2008 season. Keathley is the former coach of the Kentucky Colonels Though the team may be considered to be a continuation of the Florida Pit Bulls/Miami Majesty, ownership considers","title":"East Kentucky Miners"},{"docid":"18900196","text":"final that took place in Athens. Nevertheless, Greek basketball was actually mainly boosted following the gold medal-winning triumph at the 1987 EuroBasket, by the senior men's Greek National Team. In the following decades, Greek teams have dominated in European-wide professional club basketball, winning many trophies in continental competitions. Greek basketball clubs have won eighteen European-wide titles in totality. Greek basketball clubs have also been runners-up in European continental-wide competition eleven times. Greek teams have won the European first-tier level competition, the EuroLeague, a total of nine times, with six EuroLeague championships being won by Panathinaikos and three EuroLeague championships being","title":"Greek basketball clubs in international competitions"}],"string":"[\n {\n \"docid\": \"8115138\",\n \"text\": \"the more intense because the two schools have consistently been among the nation's elite men's basketball teams for most of the last 50 years. Both schools are also two of the most victorious programs in NCAA men's basketball history; Kentucky is #1 on the list of all-time s in Division I Men's Basketball and Louisville #11. Kentucky has eight national championships and Louisville three. Combining for eight national championships over the last 38 years, Kentucky and Louisville have captured 22% of the national championships, or greater than one every five years. 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The KWC softball Team\",\n \"title\": \"Kentucky Wesleyan Panthers\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"9256988\",\n \"text\": \"North Carolina Tar Heels men's basketball The North Carolina Tar Heels men's basketball program is the intercollegiate men's basketball team of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The Tar Heels have won seven men's college basketball national championships (1924, 1957, 1982, 1993, 2005, 2009, and 2017). North Carolina's six NCAA Tournament Championships are third-most all-time, behind UCLA and Kentucky. They have also won 18 Atlantic Coast Conference tournament titles, 31 Atlantic Coast Conference regular season titles, and an Atlantic Coast Conference record 20 outright Regular Season Championships. 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These activities are governed by separate bodies. Unlike the situation in most states, the default in Kentucky is to conduct a single state championship for all schools, with no classification of schools by enrollment. Most notably, Kentucky does not divide schools into classes in basketball, with Delaware being the only other remaining state with a single state basketball championship for each sex. Of the 13 sports in which the KHSAA sanctions state championships, only three are organized in multiple classes—cross-country,\",\n \"title\": \"Kentucky High School Athletic Association\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"9131373\",\n \"text\": \"the North Fork of the Kentucky River and the drainage of Panbowl Lake which once was part of the river. The boys' basketball varsity basketball team has a long line of standing tradition. The high school has always had a boys' basketball team ever since the founding of the school that started in 1927. They have won twelve regional championships and countless district championships. Many contribute to the golden years of the 1950s and 1960s with coach Fairce O. Woods. Due to his many years of success, he was elected to the KHSAA Hall of Fame. The gymnasium (which is\",\n \"title\": \"Breathitt County High School\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"8087531\",\n \"text\": \"a high level of academic achievement. The school has produced scores of National Merit Finalists. Students representing Lafayette have had repeated success in speech, debate, drama, and music competitions. The Lafayette Times and the Marquis have won many awards for excellence in student journalism. In 1987 Lafayette won the Kentucky Governor's Cup, often seen as tantamount to the state academic championship. Lafayette's athletic teams have been among the most successful in Kentucky high school history. The school has claimed over 50 Kentucky High School Athletic Association (KHSAA) titles, excluding championships in boys basketball, baseball, boys and girls soccer, boys track,\",\n \"title\": \"Lafayette High School (Lexington, Kentucky)\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"5613331\",\n \"text\": \"200, Dunbar's United States Academic Decathlon team won the state division for the first time and proceeded to nationals. Paul Laurence Dunbar offers many sports, including football, boys' and girls' basketball, soccer, baseball, softball, boys' lacrosse, tennis, golf, track and field, cheerleading, swimming, dancing, wrestling, and ice hockey. Altogether, Dunbar's athletic teams have won 2 state championships (cheerleading, 1; boys' soccer, ; baseball, ; girls' golf, ; girls' track and field, ; girls' cross country, ; boys' basketball, ; boys' tennis, ; swimming, ) in the school's 1 years, and the cheerleaders have won national championships. PLD had a competitive\",\n \"title\": \"Paul Laurence Dunbar High School (Lexington, Kentucky)\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"16383937\",\n \"text\": \"schools' respective home courts or at nearby neutral sites led to the cancellation of the game for the 2012–13 season. The Indiana–Kentucky basketball rivalry is all the more intense because the two schools have consistently been among the nation's elite men's basketball teams. Remarkably, in 11 of the 56 meetings between Indiana and Kentucky, one of the schools has been ranked number one, which is nearly 20 percent of the meetings. Kentucky has won eight NCAA championships and has appeared in fifteen Final Fours, while Indiana has won five NCAA championships and appeared in eight Final Fours. Combining for thirteen\",\n \"title\": \"Indiana–Kentucky rivalry\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"13860378\",\n \"text\": \"II, which helped get him elected to the Great Lakes Valley Conference Hall of Fame in 2002.Dazmond Starke 2012-2013, led the NCAA Division II in Field goal % with 67.4 %. Kentucky Wesleyan Panthers men's basketball The Kentucky Wesleyan College Panthers men's basketball team represents Kentucky Wesleyan College, a private college of less than 1000 students located in Owensboro, Kentucky. The Panthers, a member of the Great Midwest Athletic Conference (G-MAC), have won eight NCAA Division II championships, most recently in 2001 and dating back to 1966. Joel Utley has been the \\\"voice of the Panthers\\\" since the 1962 season\",\n \"title\": \"Kentucky Wesleyan Panthers men's basketball\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"8495395\",\n \"text\": \"track & field and girls' volleyball. In 2006, Head Coach Steve Miller and his Magoffin County Lady Hornets basketball team won the 15th Regional Basketball Championship. The boys' and girls' track and field teams have produced numerous individual regional championships with respectful placings in state competitions. The Magoffin County High School Dance Team has won many regional and state championships. Magoffin County High School Magoffin County High School (MCHS) is a public secondary-level education high school located in Salyersville, Magoffin County, Kentucky and is part of the Magoffin County Public School District. MCHS is the only high school located within\",\n \"title\": \"Magoffin County High School\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"9093367\",\n \"text\": \"been used by a station in Springfield, Kentucky, returned to the Louisville market on May 11, 2007, as oldies station WASE (103.5 FM), licensed to Radcliff, Kentucky with studios in Elizabethtown, became WAKY. The new station includes many nods to the original WAKY, including original and re-sung versions of \\\"The Big 79\\\"'s classic jingles. Sports programming that airs on WKRD include NASCAR Sprint Cup, Xfinity Series and Truck Series, Cincinnati Bengals football, plus University of Louisville women's basketball and volleyball. Since August 2007, Louisville football and men's basketball have aired on WKRD when their games conflict with University of Kentucky\",\n \"title\": \"WKRD (AM)\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"9107722\",\n \"text\": \"have been associated with programs in the state of Kentucky: Adolph Rupp (UK), Denny Crum (UofL), and Rick Pitino (both UK and UofL). Also, several successful NBA players played in the state, including Pat Riley, Wes Unseld, and Dan Issel. Only the UCLA Bruins have won more NCAA championships than the Kentucky Wildcats, with the Wildcats ranking first in almost every other significant measure of a successful program. In addition to UK and UofL, the Western Kentucky Hilltoppers are also a historically successful basketball program. In 2011, the University of Pikeville won the NAIA Men's Basketball National Championship, followed only\",\n \"title\": \"Sports in Kentucky\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"7016785\",\n \"text\": \"the Mid-South Conference. Men's sports include archery, baseball, basketball, cross country, football, golf and soccer; while women's sports include archery, basketball, cheerleading, cross country, golf, soccer, softball, and volleyball. The women's basketball team has won 15 NCCAA Division II National Championships since 1989. Several Contemporary Christian Music groups have come from KCU, including Audio Adrenaline and Bleach. Kentucky Christian University Kentucky Christian University (KCU) is a Christian university in Grayson, Kentucky. It was founded on December 1, 1919, as Christian Normal Institute, by J. W. Lusby and J. O. Snodgrass. As a \\\"normal school\\\" its programs included a high school,\",\n \"title\": \"Kentucky Christian University\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"9873915\",\n \"text\": \"Sweet Sixteen (KHSAA State Basketball Championship) The Kentucky High School Athletic Association boys' and girls' state basketball championships are single elimination tournaments held each March featuring 16 high schools. Colloquially known as the Sweet Sixteen (the KHSAA holds a trademark on the phrase), the tournament takes place over four days at downtown Lexington's Rupp Arena for the boys and Highland Heights' BB&T Arena on the campus of Northern Kentucky University for the girls. The Kentucky High School Boys' Basketball State Tournament began in 1918. For fourteen years there were 18 regions that encompassed the tournament. Since 1932 there have only\",\n \"title\": \"Sweet Sixteen (KHSAA State Basketball Championship)\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"13296796\",\n \"text\": \"for Indiana prevented what could have been back-to-back undefeated seasons and national championships as the Hoosiers went on to take the national title in 1976. Bob Knight would later said that this 1974-1975 team was the best he ever coached, even better than the undefeated national champions of 1976. The win put UK in the Final Four in San Diego, where they dropped the NCAA title game in what would be John Wooden's last game. 1974–75 Kentucky Wildcats men's basketball team The 1974–75 Kentucky Wildcats men's basketball team represented the University of Kentucky and was the 1975 NCAA runner-up. The\",\n \"title\": \"1974–75 Kentucky Wildcats men's basketball team\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"10628501\",\n \"text\": \"in the Arena Football League. Guidugli played at Highlands High School in Fort Thomas, Kentucky. He led Highlands to two state championships in 1999 and 2000 and he also was a backup when Highlands won state in 1998. He still holds many Kentucky records for quarterbacks. He also excelled on the basketball court. He led his basketball team to the Kentucky sweet sixteen his senior season with a buzzer beating shot against Covington Holmes. Guidugli played collegiately at the University of Cincinnati from 2001 to 2004. He owns most of the school's passing and total offense records. He is ranked\",\n \"title\": \"Gino Guidugli\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"9873918\",\n \"text\": \"Since 1995 Rupp Arena has hosted the tournament each year. The following is a list of Notable players that have competed in the Sweet 16: Sweet Sixteen (KHSAA State Basketball Championship) The Kentucky High School Athletic Association boys' and girls' state basketball championships are single elimination tournaments held each March featuring 16 high schools. Colloquially known as the Sweet Sixteen (the KHSAA holds a trademark on the phrase), the tournament takes place over four days at downtown Lexington's Rupp Arena for the boys and Highland Heights' BB&T Arena on the campus of Northern Kentucky University for the girls. The Kentucky\",\n \"title\": \"Sweet Sixteen (KHSAA State Basketball Championship)\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"9756388\",\n \"text\": \"The rivalry was generally dormant with only occasional matchups until the teams met in the 1983 NCAA Tournament. Since then, the two teams have met each year in late December or early January. Much like the Iron Bowl, the Kentucky–Louisville rivalry is all the more intense because the two schools have consistently been among the nation's elite men's basketball teams for most of the last 50 years. Both schools are also two of the most victorious programs in NCAA men's basketball history; Kentucky is #1 on the list of all-time s in Division I Men's Basketball and Louisville #11. Kentucky\",\n \"title\": \"Louisville Cardinals men's basketball\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"13860371\",\n \"text\": \"Kentucky Wesleyan Panthers The Kentucky Wesleyan College Panthers are the athletic teams of Kentucky Wesleyan College, which compete in the NCAA Division II and the Great Midwest Athletic Conference. The men's basketball team advanced to the Division II championship game six consecutive years (1998–2003), winning in 1999 and 2001. In addition to these most recent successes, they also won six other championships (1966, 1968, 1969, 1973, 1987, and 1990) and were runners-up in 1957. Overall, Kentucky Wesleyan has won eight NCAA Division II National Men's Basketball Championships, which is the most by any NCAA Division II School. Kentucky Wesleyan has\",\n \"title\": \"Kentucky Wesleyan Panthers\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"9244655\",\n \"text\": \"Duke Blue Devils men's basketball The Duke Blue Devils men's basketball team represents Duke University in NCAA Division I college basketball and competes in the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC). The team is fourth all-time in wins of any NCAA men's basketball program, and is coached by Mike Krzyzewski. Duke has won 5 NCAA Championships (tied with Indiana for fourth all-time behind North Carolina, UCLA and Kentucky) and appeared in 11 Championship Games (third all-time) and 16 Final Fours (fourth all-time behind North Carolina, UCLA, and Kentucky), and has an NCAA-best .755 NCAA tournament winning percentage. Eleven Duke players have been\",\n \"title\": \"Duke Blue Devils men's basketball\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"9244639\",\n \"text\": \"Duke Blue Devils men's basketball The Duke Blue Devils men's basketball team represents Duke University in NCAA Division I college basketball and competes in the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC). The team is fourth all-time in wins of any NCAA men's basketball program, and is coached by Mike Krzyzewski. Duke has won 5 NCAA Championships (tied with Indiana for fourth all-time behind North Carolina, UCLA and Kentucky) and appeared in 11 Championship Games (third all-time) and 16 Final Fours (fourth all-time behind North Carolina, UCLA, and Kentucky), and has an NCAA-best .755 NCAA tournament winning percentage. Eleven Duke players have been\",\n \"title\": \"Duke Blue Devils men's basketball\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"223240\",\n \"text\": \"of the four major professional sports within the state, many Kansans are fans of the state's major college sports teams, especially the Jayhawks of the University of Kansas (KU), and the Wildcats of Kansas State University (KSU or \\\"K-State\\\"). The teams are rivals in the Big 12 Conference. Both KU and K-State have tradition-rich programs in men's basketball. The Jayhawks are a perennial national power, ranking second in all-time victories among NCAA programs, behind Kentucky. The Jayhawks have won five national titles, including NCAA tournament championships in 1952, 1988, and 2008. They also were retroactively awarded national championships by the\",\n \"title\": \"Kansas\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"10243967\",\n \"text\": \"assisting students who have difficulty in core subjects. The school also offers a variety of programs to assist families requiring financial assistance Holy Cross High School offers a wider range of activities for students. Among the most popular are art, football, soccer, basketball, volleyball, golf, bowling, softball, track and field, cross country, swimming, intramural basketball, tennis, academic team, school paper, drama club, choir, Students Against Destructive Decisions (SADD), rosary club, and baseball. Among the major sports, soccer, basketball and volleyball have won the Kentucky \\\"All-A Tournament\\\" in recent years. The school has won two state sanctioned State Championships by the\",\n \"title\": \"Holy Cross High School (Covington, Kentucky)\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"7464763\",\n \"text\": \"players, and legendary players from Washington, D.C.-area playgrounds. In addition to an occasional Georgetown Hoyas men's basketball game and each summer′s Kenner League games, McDonough Gymnasium hosts Georgetown women's basketball and women′s volleyball games. Each year in mid-October, McDonough Gymnasium hosts Hoya Madness, a free event for Georgetown students and athletics donors which unofficially kicks off the upcoming college basketball season and introduces Georgetown′s men′s and women′s basketball teams for that season. The event also includes performances by the Georgetown pep squad and band and by musical groups. Many concerts have been held at McDonough Gymnasium, including shows by Ray\",\n \"title\": \"McDonough Gymnasium\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"11464173\",\n \"text\": \"The squad also generates vocal support and significant enthusiasm for some of the finest athletic programs in the nation. The Kentucky Wildcats men's basketball team is the winningest college basketball program in the nation and has won the NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championship eight times. In December 2009, the Kentucky Wildcats football team made its fourth consecutive bowl appearance. The squad receives substantial media exposure. Having finished in the top ten every year since the existence of the UCA National College Championships, each year the UK squad is seen on the ESPN-televised Championships Program, which airs at least eight\",\n \"title\": \"University of Kentucky cheerleading squad\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"4523269\",\n \"text\": \"Assumption High School has a rich tradition of excellence in athletics. Assumption offers 15 sports sanctioned by the Kentucky High School Athletic Association (KHSAA) which include archery, basketball, bowling, cheerleading, cross country, dance, field hockey, golf, lacrosse, soccer, softball, swimming, tennis, track and field, and volleyball. Assumption has been awarded national titles in dance and volleyball, and has many times taken runner-up in track, volleyball, and field hockey. The dance team has won three national titles: 1999, 2003, and 2005. The volleyball team has won seven national championships, including in 1996, 2000, 2001, and 2005. They have also won 19\",\n \"title\": \"Assumption High School (Kentucky)\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"13860376\",\n \"text\": \"straight seasons from 2008 to 2012, and were Regional Runners Up in the 2012 season http://kwcpanthers.com/index.aspx?path=mbball. The Panthers advanced to the Division II championship game six consecutive years (1998–2003), winning in 1999 and 2001; the team later forfeited its 2003 runner-up status after it was revealed they had let two ineligible transfer players play. In addition, they won six other championships (1966, 1968, 1969, 1973, 1987, and 1990) and were runners-up in 1957. Overall, Kentucky Wesleyan has won eight NCAA Division II National Men's Basketball Championships, which is the most by any NCAA Division II School. Three Kentucky Wesleyan basketball\",\n \"title\": \"Kentucky Wesleyan Panthers men's basketball\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"13860373\",\n \"text\": \"won as total of four GLVC Championships, three in the 1980s (1984, 1986, and 1989) and one in 1994. The KWC men's golf team won its only GLVC championship in 1983. The KWC men's basketball team has won 13 GLVC championships. Kentucky Wesleyan Panthers The Kentucky Wesleyan College Panthers are the athletic teams of Kentucky Wesleyan College, which compete in the NCAA Division II and the Great Midwest Athletic Conference. The men's basketball team advanced to the Division II championship game six consecutive years (1998–2003), winning in 1999 and 2001. In addition to these most recent successes, they also won\",\n \"title\": \"Kentucky Wesleyan Panthers\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"6579382\",\n \"text\": \"heated border rivalry with the Kentucky Wildcats. The annual basketball game between the two often carries national significance as they have combined for 13 national championships. Since 1991, the game has rotated between neutral sites in Indianapolis and Louisville. This neutrality ended during 2006 when the game was played at Rupp Arena in Lexington, Kentucky with the 2007 game played at Assembly Hall in Bloomington, Indiana. Basketball games between the Hoosiers and Wildcats have at times drawn over 30,000 fans. Although the two teams had played every season since 1969, a dispute over whether future games should be played at\",\n \"title\": \"Indiana Hoosiers\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"8928291\",\n \"text\": \"All-American and four time All-SEC. He led the Wildcats to 2 NCAA Championships, in 1948 and 1949. Jones was a member of the 1948 Olympic Gold medal winning team with Adolph Rupp's \\\"Fabulous Five\\\" and the Phillips 66ers. During his four years at Kentucky, the basketball team had a combined record of 130-10 and won the SEC championship every year. He holds the unique distinction of being an All-American under both legends, Adolph Rupp (basketball) and Bear Bryant (football) when both coached at Kentucky. He is the only player to have his number retired in both football and basketball at\",\n \"title\": \"Wallace Jones\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"225867\",\n \"text\": \"the facilities. As in many states, especially those without major league professional sport teams, college athletics are prominent. This is especially true of the state's three Division I Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) programs, including the Kentucky Wildcats, the Western Kentucky Hilltoppers, and the Louisville Cardinals. The Wildcats, Hilltoppers, and Cardinals are among the most tradition-rich college men's basketball teams in the United States, combining for 11 National championships and 24 NCAA Final Fours; all three are high on the lists of total all-time wins, wins per season, and average wins per season. The Kentucky Wildcats are particularly notable, leading all\",\n \"title\": \"Kentucky\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"10877304\",\n \"text\": \"met as the 1949 team won one more game than the previous year including both a SEC regular season and SEC tournament championship, while also getting back to the Final Four that March. In the finals Kentucky faced the Oklahoma A&M Cowboys, a team that had previously seen success in the tournament with back-to-back championships in 1945 and 1946. The Fab Five would succeed again winning 46–36 and Kentucky's only back-to-back NCAA championship. Kentucky was the second program in NCAA history to win back-to-back championships (there have been six other schools since). With a returning star player like Bill Spivey,\",\n \"title\": \"Kentucky Wildcats men's basketball\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"6267105\",\n \"text\": \"NCAA volleyball record for home match winning streaks (94), which ranks in the top five of any home court winning streak for any sport, men or women's, and is only outranked by the basketball trio of Kentucky, 1943-55 (129); St. Bonaventure, 1948-61 (99) and UCLA, 1970-76 (98). Penn State teams have won five national championships in Rec Hall: boxing (1929 and 1932), wrestling (1953) and men's gymnastics (1960 and 2007). Rec Hall Recreation Building, or Rec Hall as it is more commonly known, is a field house located on the University Park campus of the Pennsylvania State University. It was\",\n \"title\": \"Rec Hall\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"6795965\",\n \"text\": \"Devils and North Carolina Tar Heels enjoy one of the great rivalries in American sports. Taken as a state, Kentucky has 11 national championships won by two schools, The University of Louisville and the University of Kentucky; North Carolina also has 11 statewide national championships, coming from the combined victories of Duke, UNC, and NC State. The National Basketball Association (NBA) is well-represented in the South as well, with franchises in Atlanta, Charlotte, Orlando, Miami, Memphis, New Orleans, Houston, Dallas, San Antonio, and Oklahoma City. Taking advantage of warmer late-winter weather, many professional baseball teams began training in Florida in\",\n \"title\": \"Culture of the Southern United States\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"11050806\",\n \"text\": \"Team has won two consecutive championship titles in the 59th district, as well as two additional district wins in recent years. Although a relatively new school, the athletic program of East Ridge High School has become competitive thus far, winning championships including: On August 1, 2011 the Athletic Department of East Ridge High School announced the hiring of former Bourbon County and University of Kentucky Basketball superstar Preston \\\"Master Blaster\\\" LeMaster. District Championships: 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2012 District Championships: 2003, 2004 Regional Championships: 2004 District Championships: 2010, 2011 District Championships: 2008 East Ridge High School (Kentucky) East Ridge\",\n \"title\": \"East Ridge High School (Kentucky)\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"16246659\",\n \"text\": \"Championship for the college. After Kentucky Wesleyan he was the Thundering Herd coach beginning in the 1972–73 season for the NIT appearance. Bob Daniels (basketball) Bob Daniels was an American basketball coach. Collegiately he played for the Western Kentucky University under Hall of Fame Coach Edgar Diddle. In 1957 he was drafted by the Cincinnati Royals. He started assistant coaching under Coach Guy R. Strong at Kentucky Wesleyan College and was a part of the 1965-66 National Championship team, the first of Kentucky Wesleyan's eight National Championships. During the late 1960s and early-1970s he coached the Kentucky Wesleyan Panthers for\",\n \"title\": \"Bob Daniels (basketball)\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"20636190\",\n \"text\": \"Inside the Madness: Kentucky Basketball Inside the Madness: Kentucky Basketball is an American reality web television series that premiered on February 17, 2018 on Facebook Watch. It follows the players of the University of Kentucky Men's Basketball team as they make their way through their current basketball season and gear up for the upcoming NCAA tournament. \\\"Inside the Madness: Kentucky Basketball\\\" give viewers \\\"unprecedented access to the team and head coach John Calipari as they navigate through the season, prepare for the NCAA Tournament run and shape young men for the rest of their lives.\\\" On February 14, 2018, it\",\n \"title\": \"Inside the Madness: Kentucky Basketball\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"189578\",\n \"text\": \"Indiana's collegiate basketball squad, the Indiana Hoosiers men's basketball team has several championships to their credit: The Hoosiers' five NCAA Championships are the fourth in history, tied with Duke, and trailing UCLA (11) Kentucky (8) and North Carolina (6). Their eight trips to the Final Four ranks seventh on the all-time list. The Hoosiers have made 32 appearances in the NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament (fifth-most in NCAA history). In those 32 appearances, Indiana has posted 52 victories, the sixth-most in NCAA history. With their only men's national championship coming in the days before the NCAA Tournament, the Purdue\",\n \"title\": \"Hoosier Hysteria\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"9873352\",\n \"text\": \"IU Hoosiers lead the all-time series vs. all other Big Ten opponents, excluding instate-rival, Purdue. Updated March 2, 2018 Indiana has won five NCAA Championships in men's basketball (1940, 1953, 1976, 1981, 1987) — the first two under coach Branch McCracken and the latter three under Bob Knight — and 22 Big Ten Conference championships. The Hoosiers' five NCAA Championships are tied with Duke (5) for the fourth-most in history, trailing only UCLA (11), Kentucky (8), and North Carolina (6). Their eight trips to the Final Four ranks eighth on the all-time list. The Hoosiers have made 39 appearances in\",\n \"title\": \"Indiana Hoosiers men's basketball\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"17073974\",\n \"text\": \"team, scoring 702 points. He participated in two World Championships and four European Championships and in 1992 competed in the Olympic Games. In 2000, Behnke retired from basketball. Gunther Behnke Gunther Behnke (born January 19, 1963, in Leverkusen) is a retired German professional basketball player. The 7'3\\\" (2.21 metres) center was on the team that won the European Championship in 1993. Behnke began playing basketball as a teenager in Pulheim near Cologne. He was recruited by head coach Joe B. Hall to play for the University of Kentucky but became homesick and never appeared in a game for Kentucky. Behnke\",\n \"title\": \"Gunther Behnke\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"3613066\",\n \"text\": \"W. Bush and Dee Dee Myers, the Democratic strategist and former White House Press Secretary in the Clinton administration. The university's teams for both men and women are nicknamed \\\"Norse\\\". Their mascot is named Victor E. Viking. Northern Kentucky University joined the Horizon League on July 1, 2015 after leaving the Atlantic Sun Conference. The 2016–17 school year is the first in which NKU is eligible for NCAA Division I championships, following the completion of its four-year reclassification period to D-I. The university fields teams in baseball, men's and women's basketball, men's and women's cross country, men's and women's golf,\",\n \"title\": \"Northern Kentucky University\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"3612540\",\n \"text\": \"eSports team, specifically in \\\"League of Legends\\\". GLVC schools have won 28 NCAA Division II national championships: Great Lakes Valley Conference The Great Lakes Valley Conference (GLVC) is a collegiate athletic conference affiliated at the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA)'s Division II level. Member institutions are located in the U.S. states of Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Missouri, and Wisconsin. The GLVC is considered one of the top small college basketball conferences in the nation and placed a team in the men's NCAA Division II final over 11 straight years from 1994 to 2004. The GLVC grew out of discussions that started\",\n \"title\": \"Great Lakes Valley Conference\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"10877338\",\n \"text\": \"received mixed reviews among Kentucky fans who have historically enjoyed a faster, higher-scoring style of play under previous coaches. Smith was also under pressure from Kentucky fans to recruit better players. After leading Kentucky to one National Championship in 1998, Kentucky would complete a perfect 16–0 regular season conference record in 2003, win five SEC regular season championships (1998, 2000, 2001, 2003, 2005) and five SEC Tournament titles (1998, 1999, 2001, 2003, 2004). Smith led the Wildcats to six Sweet Sixteen appearances (1998, 1999, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2005) and four Elite Eight appearances (1998, 1999, 2003, 2005) in his ten\",\n \"title\": \"Kentucky Wildcats men's basketball\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"3612770\",\n \"text\": \"won six other championships (1966, 1968, 1969, 1973, 1987, and 1990) and were runners-up in 1957. Overall, Kentucky Wesleyan has won eight NCAA Division II National Men's Basketball Championships, which is the most by any NCAA Division II School. Kentucky Wesleyan College Kentucky Wesleyan College (KWC) is a private Methodist college in Owensboro, Kentucky. The college is known for its liberal arts programs. Fall 2016 enrollment was 785 students. Kentucky Wesleyan College was founded in 1858 by the Kentucky Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church. It was originally located in Millersburg. Classes began in 1866 and the first commencement took\",\n \"title\": \"Kentucky Wesleyan College\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"16246658\",\n \"text\": \"Bob Daniels (basketball) Bob Daniels was an American basketball coach. Collegiately he played for the Western Kentucky University under Hall of Fame Coach Edgar Diddle. In 1957 he was drafted by the Cincinnati Royals. He started assistant coaching under Coach Guy R. Strong at Kentucky Wesleyan College and was a part of the 1965-66 National Championship team, the first of Kentucky Wesleyan's eight National Championships. During the late 1960s and early-1970s he coached the Kentucky Wesleyan Panthers for five season, all five seasons he took the team to the Division II NCAA Tournament and won the second and third National\",\n \"title\": \"Bob Daniels (basketball)\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"13296833\",\n \"text\": \"won by two points, 92–90. The game made \\\"USA Today\\\"s list of the greatest NCAA tournament games of all time. The win put Kentucky in the Final Four in San Diego, where they dropped the NCAA title game to UCLA in John Wooden's final game as head coach. The loss for Indiana prevented what could have been back-to-back undefeated seasons and national championships as the Hoosiers went on to take the national title in 1976. Bob Knight would later say that this 1974–75 team was the best he ever coached, even better than the undefeated national champions of 1976. !colspan=8\",\n \"title\": \"1974–75 Indiana Hoosiers men's basketball team\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"20078383\",\n \"text\": \"style=|SEC Tournament !colspan=12 style=| NCAA Tournament <nowiki>*</nowiki>AP does not release post-NCAA Tournament rankings 2017–18 Kentucky Wildcats men's basketball team The 2017–18 Kentucky Wildcats men's basketball team represented the University of Kentucky in the 2017–18 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. The team played its home games in Lexington, Kentucky for the 42nd consecutive season at Rupp Arena, with a capacity of 23,500. The team, led by John Calipari in his ninth season as head coach, was a member of the Southeastern Conference. On January 22, 2018, following losses to South Carolina on the road, and to Florida at home, the\",\n \"title\": \"2017–18 Kentucky Wildcats men's basketball team\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"2446792\",\n \"text\": \"performed at many fund raising events. Recently, they have connected with KIVA, a non- profit organization promoting micro financing for entrepreneurs in developing countries. They have released two of their own CDs: \\\"Ubuntu\\\" and \\\"We Have A Dream\\\". Brookfield is home to several successful sports teams, many of which have earned high rankings at municipal and even provincial championships. Boys'/Girls' Basketball, Senior/Junior Boys' Rugby 7's &15's, Boys'/Girls' Wrestling, Girls' Touch Football, Boys'/Girls Soccer, Boys'/Girls' Volleyball, Boys'/Girls' Badminton, Boys'/Girls' Curling, Boys' Hockey, Boys' Baseball, Boys'/Girls' Ultimate Frisbee, Boys' Golf, Cross country running, Nordic Skiing, and Track & Field. 2010-2011 Tier 2\",\n \"title\": \"Brookfield High School (Ottawa)\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"14674698\",\n \"text\": \"contemporary basketball titles, such as \\\"NBA Jam\\\". Fox Sports College Hoops '99 Fox Sports College Hoops '99 is a college basketball sports video game developed by Z-Axis and published by Fox Interactive under the brand name Fox Sports Interactive for the Nintendo 64. It was released in North America on October 31, 1998. Jeff Sheppard of the University of Kentucky is featured on the cover. The game features 120 college basketball teams, multiplayer support for two players, and many of the college championships including the NCAA men's basketball championship. It was the first college sports game for the Nintendo 64.\",\n \"title\": \"Fox Sports College Hoops '99\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"680771\",\n \"text\": \"Hopman Cup, which is also organised by the ITF and does not distribute ranking points. The Open Era, in which professional players were allowed to compete alongside amateurs, began in 1968. The first Open Tournament was the British Hard Court Championships in Bournemouth. At the first Open Wimbledon, the prize fund difference was 2.5:1 in favor of men. Billie Jean King won £750 for taking the title, while Rod Laver won £2,000. The total purses of both competitions were £14,800 for men and £5,680 for women. Confusion also reigned as no one knew how many Open Tournaments there were supposed\",\n \"title\": \"Women's Tennis Association\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"6734250\",\n \"text\": \"the American Basketball Association. He tried playing professional baseball but his ban for gambling prevented him from that sport as well. Later in life, the University of Kentucky welcomed him back. The school retired his jersey number in 1995 and invited him to speak to players about point shaving. In 1985, he was inducted into the Kentucky Athletic Hall of Fame. Beard died on November 29, 2007 at his Louisville, Kentucky home. Ralph Beard Ralph Milton Beard Jr. (December 2, 1927 – November 29, 2007) was an American collegiate and professional basketball player. He won two NCAA national basketball championships\",\n \"title\": \"Ralph Beard\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"11047802\",\n \"text\": \"Basketball Association for 206 games. He coached Apollo High School basketball in the late 1970s and was the head coach at Kentucky Wesleyan College from 1985 to 1990, winning two NCAA Division II National Championships. He is the father of former NBA player Rex Chapman. Wayne Chapman Wayne G. Chapman (born June 15, 1945) is an American retired basketball player. Born in Owensboro, Kentucky, Chapman graduated from Daviess County High School and played collegiately for the Western Kentucky University. He was selected by the Philadelphia 76ers in the 16th round (156th pick overall) of the 1967 NBA draft, by the\",\n \"title\": \"Wayne Chapman\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"8501244\",\n \"text\": \"seven other fielders) on the defense at any time. If the defense is found to have more than nine players on the field, the umpire must determine which is the additional player(s), and the player(s) so determined shall be ejected. Professional and collegiate basketball (both men's and women's) limit teams to five players on the court at any one time. A team with more than five in play at once is assessed a technical foul for \\\"Too Many Players on the Court\\\". In March 2009, the National Basketball Association rules were changed to allow for the nullification of goals scored\",\n \"title\": \"Too many men\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"16091385\",\n \"text\": \"men are the same custom that is shown in the Winster Hall photograph. In 1867 Jewitt recorded several visits to Winster Hall by groups of traditional performers (some being children, others men): 'guisers', 'mummers', the 'hobby horse' and 'Snap Dragon'. Jewitt differentiates between 'Snap Dragon' and 'Hobby Horse(s)' but does not describe how they were made, or how they differed, but implies that they did not always go out together. If Sharp is correct and Snap Dragon was made from a horse's skull, the photograph may show one such \\\"conjoined\\\" team of guisers. Jewitt also seems to have seen several\",\n \"title\": \"Winster Guisers\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"1079809\",\n \"text\": \"serves as the home field for Ashland Tomcats high school and middle school football. One public high school serves the city of Ashland: Paul G. Blazer High School, named after philanthropist and founder of Ashland Inc., Paul G. Blazer. The high school is home to the Ashland Tomcats and Kittens athletic teams. The Ashland Tomcats football program has achieved 11 state championships. The Ashland Tomcats (boys') basketball program have accomplished 1 national championship, 4 state championships, 32 regional championships, and 55 district championships. The Ashland Tomcats and Kittens (girls') soccer teams play at the Ashland Soccer Complex at the high\",\n \"title\": \"Ashland, Kentucky\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"1975144\",\n \"text\": \"university boasts of numerous national championships, with its latest coming in 2012 when the men's basketball team won its eighth national title. UK also boasts of a cross country national team championship (women's, 1988), eight individual championships in gymnastics, an Olympic medalist in track and field, and 21 national championships in cheerleading. After defeating number-one ranked Oklahoma 13–7 in the Sugar Bowl under legendary coach Bear Bryant, Kentucky is also an NCAA-recognized co-national champion for the 1950 season. 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Whitney is the third commitment to commit in the 2019 class and is ranked #19 overall in the 2019 class by 247 sports. !colspan=12 style=| Big Blue Bahamas exhibition trip !colspan=12 style=| Exhibition !colspan=12 style=| Non-Conference Regular Season !colspan=12 style=| SEC Regular Season !colspan=12 style=|SEC Tournament <nowiki>*</nowiki>AP does not release post-NCAA Tournament rankings<br>^Coaches did not release a Week 2 poll. 2018–19 Kentucky Wildcats men's basketball team The 2018–19 Kentucky Wildcats men's basketball team represents the University of Kentucky in the 2018–19 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. The team is playing its\",\n \"title\": \"2018–19 Kentucky Wildcats men's basketball team\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"10877288\",\n \"text\": \"well as the most #1 NBA Draft picks (3). The Wildcats have also been led by many successful head coaches, including Adolph Rupp, Joe B. Hall, Eddie Sutton, Rick Pitino, Tubby Smith, and John Calipari. Kentucky is the only program with 5 different NCAA Championship coaches (Rupp, Hall, Pitino, Smith, Calipari). Three Kentucky coaches have been enshrined in the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame: Rupp, Pitino, and Calipari. Former Wildcat players that have gone on to become head coaches include C.M. Newton, Pat Riley, Dan Issel, Dwane Casey, John Pelphrey, and Travis Ford. Records indicate that the first head\",\n \"title\": \"Kentucky Wildcats men's basketball\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"7524376\",\n \"text\": \"where he played basketball for head coach George Taylor. Central City went 116-20 during Hickman's four years (1928–31) in high school. They won four region championships and went to four State Tournaments where he made the All-State Tournament team in 1929 and 1931. He was also an all-state basketball player two seasons in 1930-31. He lettered three seasons at guard at Western Kentucky for head coach Ed Diddle. WKU went 83-25 during Hickman's four years in college. 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While the convention center does not have a permanent arena, it still has hosted various sporting events, including the 2002 Ohio Valley Conference Men's Basketball Tournament and the NCAA Division II\",\n \"title\": \"Kentucky International Convention Center\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"11264705\",\n \"text\": \"is 0–8. The Colonels have appeared in two NAIA Tournaments. Their combined record is 2–3. The Colonels have appeared in one College Basketball Invitational (CBI). Their record is 0–1. The Colonels have appeared in two CollegeInsider.com Postseason Tournament (CIT). Their combined record is 3–2. Eastern Kentucky Colonels men's basketball The Eastern Kentucky Colonels basketball team is a men's college basketball team at Eastern Kentucky University, located in Richmond, Kentucky, United States. The basketball team has been competing in the Ohio Valley Conference since 1948. Home games are played at Alumni Coliseum, located on EKU's campus. The team last played in\",\n \"title\": \"Eastern Kentucky Colonels men's basketball\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"7592384\",\n \"text\": \"Chris Lofton Christopher Franklin Lofton (born March 27, 1986) is an American professional basketball player for Le Mans Sarthe of the LNB Pro A. He played college basketball with the University of Tennessee Volunteers. Chris Lofton is from Maysville, Kentucky, where he led the Mason County Royals (his high school basketball team) to a victory in the 2003 State Championships and led the Royals back to the state championship game the next year. Despite being named Mr. Basketball his senior year, Lofton was not recruited by Louisville or Kentucky. He was recruited by University of Tennessee coach Buzz Peterson and\",\n \"title\": \"Chris Lofton\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"11603645\",\n \"text\": \"Travis Grant Travis Grant (born January 1, 1950) is a retired American professional basketball player. He is most known for being the all-time leading scorer in men's NCAA college basketball history while at Kentucky State University by amassing 4,045 points. He led Kentucky State to three straight NAIA championships while averaging 33.4 points per game over his career. Grant was a first round pick of the Los Angeles Lakers in the 1972 NBA Draft and of the Utah Stars in the 1972 ABA Draft. Grant played professionally in the National Basketball Association and American Basketball Association from 1972 to 1976,\",\n \"title\": \"Travis Grant\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"6853436\",\n \"text\": \"professors. Kentucky Wesleyan reached its peak enrollment during Hamilton's tenure. Successful fundraising also allowed for the construction of several new buildings on the campus; in one campaign Hamilton enlisted the students to raise $250,000 to build a new library, and they did. Hamilton also gave great attention to Kentucky Wesleyan's athletic programs and during his tenure the school, with its student body and athletic teams racially integrated somewhat ahead of many others, won its first few Division II basketball national championships (1966, 1968 and 1969) and established a program that is still today the most successful in Division II competition.\",\n \"title\": \"Harold P. Hamilton\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"2753179\",\n \"text\": \"when the tournament expanded to 64 teams, Duke has won five championships; North Carolina and Connecticut have each won four; Kentucky & Villanova have three; Kansas & Florida have two; and UCLA, Indiana, Michigan State, and Louisville have one. During that time Villanova, Michigan, UNLV, Duke, Arkansas, Arizona, Connecticut, Maryland, Syracuse, and Florida all won their first championships. The NCAA has changed the tournament format several times since its inception, most often representing an increase of the number of teams. This section describes the tournament as it has operated since 2011. A total of 68 teams qualify for the tournament\",\n \"title\": \"NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"16756896\",\n \"text\": \"since the school's founding in 1950. That same year student Ted Wade became the first black player on an integrated college basketball team in Kentucky. The basketball program has been coached by 11 different men and is currently headed by Louisville native, Scott Davenport. Davenport is one of two Bellarmine coaches who have also guided teams to the state high school championship. He did it in 1988 at Ballard High School (Louisville, Kentucky). The other coach who moved up to the college level was Joe Reibel, who won with St. Xavier High School (Louisville) in 1962. Reibel is Bellarmine's winningest\",\n \"title\": \"Bellarmine Knights\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"5436038\",\n \"text\": \"was classified by the NJSIAA as South Jersey Group IV for football for 2017-18. School colors are brown and Vegas gold. Sports offered at the school include Tennis (women), Lacrosse (men), Lacrosse (women), Baseball, Track and Field Winter (men), Tennis (men), Track and Field Winter (women), Swimming (women), Golf (men), Swimming (men), Field Hockey, Soccer (women), Football, Soccer (men), Cross Country (women), Softball, Volleyball (women), Basketball (men), Wrestling (men), Track and Field Spring (women), Basketball (women), Track and Field Spring (men) and Cross Country (men). Teams that have won notable championships include: The principal is Dr. Jeri-Lynn Vernon. Absegami employs\",\n \"title\": \"Absegami High School\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"1923256\",\n \"text\": \"disparity regarding sport related scholarships for men and women, with men getting 190 million more in funding than women. This pattern has persisted over a long period of time as, most colleges focus on their male athletics team and plow more money into them. This disparity shows the link between race and gender, and how it plays a significant role in the hierarchy of sports. In 1990, Bernadette Mattox became the first female Division I coach of a men's basketball team, serving as an assistant at the University of Kentucky. A year later, goaltender Jenny Hanley of Hamline University became\",\n \"title\": \"Women's sports\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"2836605\",\n \"text\": \"Championship Tournament is held annually, currently at the Tyson Events Center and Gateway Arena in Sioux City, Iowa. The NAIA and Sioux City have extended the contract until 2014.Northwestern College has the most national titles with five. 2015 champion Morningside College has the second most national titles with three. Northwestern College has the most tournament championship game appearances with six. The NAIA announced in April 2018 that it would discontinue its Division II basketball championships for both men and women after the 2019–20 season. <nowiki>*</nowiki> Season record of 38–0; Only three teams have done this in NAIA Women's Basketball history.\",\n \"title\": \"NAIA Women's Basketball Championships\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"13140740\",\n \"text\": \"in India does not follow seasons. Indian basketball has championships throughout the year for different age groups. Championship for youth are mainly organized between April to July when children are having summer break from school. Being one of the earliest countries to adopt basketball, India has so far produced numerous talented basketball players, who have earned recognition in the international arena. Indian basketball players have also won several trophies for their country. Basketball in India is mainly being run and managed by a large number of national and state level associations, spread all over India. These basketball associations are working\",\n \"title\": \"Basketball in India\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"14232189\",\n \"text\": \"Co.’s Sutherland,” by Earl Cox, \\\"The Courier-Journal\\\", January 12, 1958 (5) “Alabama Signs Black Athlete,” United Press International, April 27, 1969 Jock Sutherland (basketball) Charles \\\"Jock\\\" Sutherland (born March 14, 1928) is a basketball coach from Lexington, Kentucky, who was inducted into the Kentucky Athletic Hall of Fame. Jock Sutherland was born and grew up in the shadows of the University of Kentucky's Alumni Gym and Memorial Coliseum. From an early age basketball was his first love. As a youngster he sneaked into the gym to watch Kentucky basketball practices under the legendary coach Adolph Rupp. He played high school\",\n \"title\": \"Jock Sutherland (basketball)\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"16788661\",\n \"text\": \"coach, Wyoming went 23–15 and took home the 2017 CBI championship. Allen Edwards (basketball) Allen Eugene Edwards (born December 16, 1975) is a retired American basketball player and current coach. He is best known for winning two NCAA championships at the University of Kentucky as a player. Edwards is currently the head basketball coach at the University of Wyoming. He is the younger brother of former NBA player Doug Edwards and of former Miami Hurricanes player Steve Edwards. Edwards, a 6'5\\\" shooting guard from Miami Senior High School in Miami, Florida, went to Kentucky to play for coach Rick Pitino.\",\n \"title\": \"Allen Edwards (basketball)\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"16788657\",\n \"text\": \"Allen Edwards (basketball) Allen Eugene Edwards (born December 16, 1975) is a retired American basketball player and current coach. He is best known for winning two NCAA championships at the University of Kentucky as a player. Edwards is currently the head basketball coach at the University of Wyoming. He is the younger brother of former NBA player Doug Edwards and of former Miami Hurricanes player Steve Edwards. Edwards, a 6'5\\\" shooting guard from Miami Senior High School in Miami, Florida, went to Kentucky to play for coach Rick Pitino. Edwards played for the Wildcats from 1994–1998, a period where the\",\n \"title\": \"Allen Edwards (basketball)\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"12312303\",\n \"text\": \"on to earn a master's degree from Kentucky with a 4.0 GPA. While a graduate student, she was an assistant coach for the Kentucky Wildcats women's basketball team from 1981 to 1983 under head coach Terry Hall. Lynn eventually worked as an enforcement representative for the NCAA and was the only woman on a 10-person staff of field investigators. She then worked as the assistant executive director of USA Basketball for eleven years (1985–1996) where she organized all women’s basketball teams for participation in events such as the Olympics, World Championships and Pan-American Games. She was named the Women's Basketball\",\n \"title\": \"Lynn Norenberg Barry\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"3714279\",\n \"text\": \"men's basketball team currently ranks fifth in all-time NCAA Tournament wins and has been in the top-five in average attendance each year since the 1982–83 season. Perennial rivals include the University of Kentucky, University of Cincinnati, and the University of Memphis. The team was established in 1975. The cheerleading squads have won multiple championships with the large co-ed squad winning 15 National Cheerleaders Association Collegiate National championships (1985–86, 1989, 1992, 1994, 1996, 1998–99, 2003–05, 2007–09, 2011), the all-female squad winning nine championships (1998–99, 2001–05, 2009, 2011) and the small co-ed cheerleading squad winning seven championships (2005–11). The University of Louisville\",\n \"title\": \"Louisville Cardinals\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"8156003\",\n \"text\": \"in conference tournaments or in any national postseason tournament. 86 games — Connecticut 56 games and counting— Ashland University 88 games — Washington (MO) 88 games — Winnipeg (MB) The Lady Wesmen would go on to a record 118-1 in the span from 1992-1995, including 3 CIS (now U Sports) national basketball championships and beating several NCAA Women's Division I programs in North American tournaments. 88 games — UCLA By NCAA convention, the \\\"regular season\\\" does not include games in conference tournaments or in any national postseason tournament. 74 games — UCLA 129 games — Kentucky 57 games — Winona\",\n \"title\": \"Winning streak (sports)\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"20269509\",\n \"text\": \"2017 Kentucky Bank Tennis Championships The 2017 Kentucky Bank Tennis Championships was a professional tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts. It was the 22nd edition, for men, and 20th edition, for women, of the tournament and part of the 2017 ATP Challenger Tour and the 2017 ITF Women's Circuit. It took place in Lexington, Kentucky, United States, on 31 July – 6 August 2017. The following players received a wildcard into the singles main draw: The following players received entry into the singles main draw using a protected ranking: The following player received entry into the singles main draw\",\n \"title\": \"2017 Kentucky Bank Tennis Championships\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"19633969\",\n \"text\": \"following players received a wildcard into the singles main draw: The following players received entry from the qualifying draw: The following players received entry as lucky losers: 2016 Kentucky Bank Tennis Championships The 2016 Kentucky Bank Tennis Championships was a professional tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts. It was the 21st edition, for men, and 19th edition, for women, of the tournament and part of the 2016 ATP Challenger Tour and the 2016 ITF Women's Circuit, offering totals of $50,000, for both genders, in prize money. It took place in Lexington, Kentucky, United States, on 25–31 July 2016. The\",\n \"title\": \"2016 Kentucky Bank Tennis Championships\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"19633968\",\n \"text\": \"2016 Kentucky Bank Tennis Championships The 2016 Kentucky Bank Tennis Championships was a professional tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts. It was the 21st edition, for men, and 19th edition, for women, of the tournament and part of the 2016 ATP Challenger Tour and the 2016 ITF Women's Circuit, offering totals of $50,000, for both genders, in prize money. It took place in Lexington, Kentucky, United States, on 25–31 July 2016. The following players received a wildcard into the singles main draw: The following player entered as an alternate: The following players received entry from the qualifying draw: The\",\n \"title\": \"2016 Kentucky Bank Tennis Championships\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"18163131\",\n \"text\": \"2014 Kentucky Bank Tennis Championships The 2014 Kentucky Bank Tennis Championships was a professional tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts. It was the nineteenth edition for the men and the seventeenth edition for the women, and part of the 2014 ATP Challenger Tour and the 2014 ITF Women's Circuit respectively, each offering a total of $50,000 in prize money. The event took place in Lexington, Kentucky, United States, on July 21–27, 2014. The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw: The following players received entry from the qualifying draw: The following player received a special exemption into\",\n \"title\": \"2014 Kentucky Bank Tennis Championships\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"20050829\",\n \"text\": \"WBI (2013). As of the end of the 2015-16 season, they have an all-time record of 623-589. Eastern Kentucky Colonels women's basketball The Eastern Kentucky Colonels women's basketball team is a women's college basketball team at Eastern Kentucky University, located in Richmond, Kentucky, United States. They are a member of the Ohio Valley Conference. Home games are played at Alumni Coliseum. Eastern Kentucky began play in 1971. They won the Kentucky Women's Intercollegiate Conference (KWIC) Tournament in 1972, 1973, 1974, 1975, and 1976. They joined the OVC in 1977. The Colonels have made the postseason four times, with two being\",\n \"title\": \"Eastern Kentucky Colonels women's basketball\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"17102316\",\n \"text\": \"state cross country championships, and finished 16th in 2013. Berea Independent Schools Berea Independent Schools is a school district serving Berea, Kentucky, United States. The superintendent is Dr. Diane Hatchett. The school sports teams are called \\\"Pirates\\\". Berea Community High School (Berea Community or BCHS) is located in Berea, Kentucky, United States. Current attendance is approximately 350-400 students for grades 9 through 12. School sports include varsity Baseball, Archery, Cheerleading, Cross Country, Softball, swimming, Volleyball, American football, soccer, basketball, tennis, track and field, golf, and academic team, which competes at Governor's Cup. The school also offers many clubs for students,\",\n \"title\": \"Berea Independent Schools\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"15990674\",\n \"text\": \"no three-point field goal line existed. As a pure jumpshooter, Edwards later claimed that it \\\"would have been interesting\\\" to see how many more points he would have scored if a three-point line had existed. In his first varsity season the Volunteers earned a berth into the 1971 National Invitation Tournament, reaching the quarterfinals before bowing out to Duke, 74–68. They finished in second place in the SEC with a 13–5 conference record. The following year, Edwards helped lead Tennessee to an SEC regular season co-championship with Kentucky behind a 14–4 conference record. They did not qualify for any postseason\",\n \"title\": \"Mike Edwards (basketball)\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"11047734\",\n \"text\": \"they are inner city black men in a hobby that has been dominated by successful white men. Cobb, like Mastro back in the late 1980s, does not divulge the exact details of how he came to own the card. He has stated he purchased the card at an estate sale for $1,800 in 1983 or 1984, a bargain for the card at that time. When Cobb and Edwards tried to sell the card on eBay in 2002, a Newport, Kentucky attorney filed a police report against the two men because he believed the card was a reprint that was stolen\",\n \"title\": \"T206 Honus Wagner\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"10445162\",\n \"text\": \"the team to be an expansion franchise. During the 2007-2008 season the Miners scored 194 points in a game, a CBA record. They finished the Season with a 26-22 record. There are now three official ABA teams in the state of Kentucky. East Kentucky Miners The East Kentucky Miners are a professional basketball team in the American Basketball Association that began play as a member of the Continental Basketball Association in the 2007-2008 season. The Miners, announced in the local paper, and on the Trinity Sports & Entertainment Group (headed by Jay Fiedler)'s website, were formally announced by the league\",\n \"title\": \"East Kentucky Miners\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"10445161\",\n \"text\": \"East Kentucky Miners The East Kentucky Miners are a professional basketball team in the American Basketball Association that began play as a member of the Continental Basketball Association in the 2007-2008 season. The Miners, announced in the local paper, and on the Trinity Sports & Entertainment Group (headed by Jay Fiedler)'s website, were formally announced by the league on July 6, 2007 The Miners are coached by Kevin Keathley for the 2007-2008 season. Keathley is the former coach of the Kentucky Colonels Though the team may be considered to be a continuation of the Florida Pit Bulls/Miami Majesty, ownership considers\",\n \"title\": \"East Kentucky Miners\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"18900196\",\n \"text\": \"final that took place in Athens. Nevertheless, Greek basketball was actually mainly boosted following the gold medal-winning triumph at the 1987 EuroBasket, by the senior men's Greek National Team. In the following decades, Greek teams have dominated in European-wide professional club basketball, winning many trophies in continental competitions. Greek basketball clubs have won eighteen European-wide titles in totality. Greek basketball clubs have also been runners-up in European continental-wide competition eleven times. 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Most affiliates pushed the network shows to immediately after the game; however, Los Angeles owned-and-operated station KABC-TV postponed them until 10:00 p.m. from at least the mid-1990s until 2005 to show trivia contests and other sports shows produced locally (the longest-tenured such show was \"Monday Night Live\", hosted by sports anchor Todd Donoho). Meanwhile, KOMO, one of the stations that tape-delayed \"MNF\" in most cases, broadcast new episodes of the sitcom \"Coach\" on Saturday afternoons (usually reserved, coincidentally enough, for college football","title":"Monday Night Football"},{"docid":"13037409","text":"The final \"Monday Night Football\" broadcast on ABC aired on December 26, 2005, when the New York Jets hosted the New England Patriots from Giants Stadium. Coincidentally, both the first and last ABC \"Monday Night Football\" game telecasts ended with a score of 31–21 with the Jets on the losing end. Vinny Testaverde holds the distinction of throwing the last TD pass in ABC's \"MNF\" telecast history; it was to wide receiver Laveranues Coles. Also, Testaverde's pass set an NFL record: most consecutive seasons with a touchdown pass, 19 seasons (1987–2005). Patriots linebacker Mike Vrabel set a record of note","title":"History of Monday Night Football"},{"docid":"1602250","text":"the network hosted Super Bowl XXXVII. The scorebug was a solid color, with a more rounded shape, and a horizontally compressed font. ESPN's graphics were no longer similar to those of ABC's (with ESPN instead using a gray and black design with rounded corners). In 2005, the broadcast's final year on ABC, \"Monday Night Football\" began using a horizontal bar on the bottom of the screen rather than a scorebug, with all information being contained on a single line. After \"Monday Night Football\" moved to ESPN in 2006 (around the same time that ABC Sports rebranded as ESPN on ABC),","title":"Monday Night Football"},{"docid":"5014380","text":"(NFL) signed a contract with NBC for the rights to the Sunday night football (a package previously held by ESPN), which in turn resulted in \"Monday Night Football\", which Al Michaels had been broadcasting for nearly 20 years, ending its run on ABC after the league's 2005 season. Speculation arose that Michaels would leave ABC for NBC, however he subsequently signed a deal to remain on \"Monday Night Football\", when it moved to ESPN in 2006. However, in the weeks leading up to Super Bowl XL (ABC's final NFL broadcast to date), it was widely speculated that Michaels was attempting","title":"NBA on ABC"},{"docid":"6371444","text":"often in the middle of the night, Guam time; some sporting events that air live in primetime often air in the late-morning hours in Guam—one example was \"Monday Night Football\" which, when it was on ABC, aired on Tuesdays at 11 a.m. in Guam. KTGM's syndicated programming includes \"Entertainment Tonight\" and \"Inside Edition\". These same programs are also repeated on KEQI. In 2005, KTGM began airing repeats of their ABC children's and primetime shows (like \"Ugly Betty\") during the week after their original airings, which made them the only ABC affiliate to hold this unique programming distinction. It was discontinued","title":"KTGM"},{"docid":"1602277","text":"ESPN Sunday Night Football crew called the first game, with the ABC MNF crew calling the second game. ESPN provided wraparound studio programming, with part of the pre and postgame airing on ABC, and ESPN's Ron Jaworski often appeared from the studio for extra analysis during the first game. This arrangement lasted from 1997 through 2005, except for 2002 when ESPN/ABC's college football crew did the early game. Super Bowls on ABC in this period were treated as ESPN events. After \"MNF\" was awarded to ESPN and \"Sunday Night Football\" was acquired by NBC in 2006, the Wild Card doubleheader","title":"Monday Night Football"},{"docid":"5619504","text":"season that ABC held the rights to televise \"Monday Night Football\" after thirty-six years of airing the series. When the TV contracts were renewed near the end of the season, the rights to broadcast \"Monday Night Football\" were awarded to Disney-owned corporate sibling ESPN. NBC bought the right to televise \"Sunday Night Football\", marking the first time that the network broadcast NFL games since Super Bowl XXXII in 1998. Meanwhile, CBS and Fox renewed their television contracts to the American Football Conference and the National Football Conference packages, respectively. The 2005 season also featured the first ever regular season game","title":"2005 NFL season"},{"docid":"2417013","text":"hardly have time to comment on the action viewers were seeing because he was so hung up on a prior subplot or storyline that he felt the audience just had to know about. In 2003, he was quoted as saying, \"ABC Sports has been my professional home for the last 26 years, and I am delighted that will continue to be for several more...\" after signing a long-term contract extension. In 2005, it was announced that \"Monday Night Football\" would be moving from ABC to ESPN beginning with the 2006 season, and partner John Madden announced he would be joining","title":"Al Michaels"},{"docid":"1602247","text":"\"Heavy Action\" theme in 1989. For ABC's last MNF game in 2005, Williams Jr.'s rendition of \"Turn Out the Lights, The Party's Over\", closed the broadcast. Prior to 1997, \"Monday Night Football\" had a limited graphics package. A CGI-based intro began being used in 1984, with on-screen graphics still limited to basic text. In 1988, the entire graphics package was updated significantly to be more in line with the rest of ABC Sports' presentations. That year, it introduced the \"clashing helmets\" intro, with on-screen graphics consisting of italicized text underlined in red. It was updated in 1994, the year the","title":"Monday Night Football"},{"docid":"6092757","text":"1999, after five years with the network. Michele Tafoya joined ESPN and ABC Sports in January 2000, and her profile has steadily risen through a variety of on-air roles. Tafoya worked for ESPN and ABC Sports as a sideline reporter for \"ESPN Monday Night Football\" beginning in 2006 NFL Season. She was the sideline reporter for ABC Sports' \"Monday Night Football\" in 2004-2005. Tafoya was a co-host for the \"Mike Tirico Show\" on ESPN radio. She helped ABC in their coverage of Super Bowl XL in Detroit as a sideline reporter with Suzy Kolber. Tafoya has worked as a sideline","title":"Michele Tafoya"},{"docid":"3904290","text":"Jets re-signed Testaverde on September 27, 2005. Testaverde was named the Jets' starting quarterback in week five of the 2005 season, in a home game against the team that originally drafted him, the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. On December 26, against the New England Patriots on the final ABC telecast of \"Monday Night Football\", Testaverde set a new NFL record for most consecutive seasons with at least one touchdown pass, 19, by throwing a 27-yard pass to Laveranues Coles to secure the record. That pass is also notable as being the last touchdown pass thrown on \"Monday Night Football\" while it","title":"Vinny Testaverde"},{"docid":"13037388","text":"1999 also saw the Pro Football Hall of Fame Game being moved from Saturday afternoon to Monday night. It would remain on Monday night through 2005. Boomer Esiason replaced Gifford in 1998, and Dierdorf left for a return to CBS in 1999. Esiason's relationship with Michaels was questioned leading to his firing. Esiason and Michaels reportedly never got along, and it led to ABC firing Esiason shortly after calling Super Bowl XXXIV together. Unexpectedly, comedian Dennis Miller joined the cast in 2000, along with Dan Fouts. The move was ultimately regarded as a bust by many viewers and commentators. ABC","title":"History of Monday Night Football"},{"docid":"18489221","text":"larger audience. 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NBC took over the rights to the Sunday prime time game telecasts from ESPN, which carried the broadcasts from 1987 to 2005 (concurrently with NBC assuming the rights to Sunday evening regular-season games, ESPN took over the broadcast rights to \\\"Monday Night Football\\\" from sister network ABC beginning with the 2006 season).\",\n \"title\": \"NBC Sunday Night Football\"\n }\n]","isConversational":false},"negative_passages":{"kind":"list like","value":[{"docid":"13725060","text":"of ABC's prime time schedule and required any scripted series on Monday night to be a midseason replacement. ABC transferred its \"Monday Night Football\" rights to ESPN in 2006, clearing the Monday night time slot for regular scripted programming. (ABC now has a similar strategy with the \"ABC Saturday Night Movie\", which airs after the end of the \"Saturday Night Football\" college package.) 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Airing movies on Monday nights was far more common during the time in which ABC held rights to \"Monday Night Football\", which occupied four months","title":"The ABC Monday Night Movie"},{"docid":"394755","text":"and the subsequent integration of ESPN and ABC Sports (now ESPN on ABC). Also, the trophy presentation for this game was the last to be held in the winning team's locker room, as all subsequent Vince Lombardi Trophy presentations would be held on the field. This was the last Super Bowl broadcast by the \"Monday Night Football\" broadcast team of Michaels, Gifford and Dierdorf. This was the broadcast team for \"Monday Night Football\" from 1987–1997. They also worked ABC's coverage of Super Bowls XXII and XXV. This would also be the last Super Bowl aired on ABC until the 1999","title":"Super Bowl XXIX"},{"docid":"5012464","text":"of the open weeks with NBA telecasts. From 1987–1997, ESPN used various themes for its NFL coverage, reflecting its separate management from sister company ABC Sports (now ESPN on ABC since September 2006) at the time. In 1998, as Disney began consolidating ESPN and ABC Sports, ESPN's NFL coverage began using themes associated with \"Monday Night Football\" such as \"Heavy Action\". In-game use of these themes ended after 2000, in favor of another original theme also referred to as \"Sirens\" (for featuring sirens prominently). When ESPN gained the Monday night games, they once again began using the traditional \"Monday Night","title":"ESPN Sunday Night Football"},{"docid":"18465644","text":"\"Monday Night Football\" and the Pro Bowl. This also was the second and final year of the current \"Thursday Night Football\" contract with CBS, NBC, and NFL Network. 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During its 36-year run on ABC, \"Monday Night Football\" consistently ranked among the most popular prime time broadcasts each week during the season. As the league's broadcasters, ABC, CBS, and NBC had their own talent. Announcers such as Cosell, Frank Gifford,","title":"History of the National Football League on television"},{"docid":"17448038","text":"relatively high, if declining, TV ratings, ABC decided to end its relationship with the NFL after losing significant money on \"Monday Night Football\". In addition to the fees, part of this decision may have been the result of a resurgent ABC prime time entertainment schedule during the 2004–05 season, particularly on Sunday evening with \"Desperate Housewives\"; thus ABC would be unable to satisfy the league's reported preference for a Sunday night game on broadcast television as opposed to Monday. Because of that, \"Monday Night Football\" moved from ABC to ESPN, which are both owned by The Walt Disney Company. The","title":"History of the National Football League on television"},{"docid":"6829758","text":"22.9 million viewers, the most for the first four weeks of a prime time NFL package in 14 years (since ABC earned a 24.0 million average viewership in 1996 on four broadcasts of \"Monday Night Football\"). The Washington Redskins–Dallas Cowboys game on December 30, 2012 was the highest-rated \"Sunday Night Football\" broadcast ever, earning 30.426 million viewers (22.074 million during the period from 8:31 to 11:25 p.m. Eastern Time) and a household rating of 12.7. This also made it the most watched regular-season primetime game in 16 years, since a November 18, 1996 \"Monday Night Football\" game on ABC between","title":"NBC Sunday Night Football"},{"docid":"2724879","text":"sparked the idea for \"PTI\" well before the end of his run at ESPN Radio. The show won a Sports Emmy Award for best Daily Outstanding Studio Show in 2009 and 2017. When \"Monday Night Football\" moved from ABC to ESPN, Kornheiser received and accepted an offer to be a color analyst on \"Monday Night Football\" in early 2006. He was originally passed over in favor of \"Sunday Night Football\" commentator Joe Theismann; however, when play-by-play man Al Michaels left ABC to call \"Sunday Night Football\" for NBC, Kornheiser was brought in alongside Theismann and new play-by-play announcer Mike Tirico.","title":"Tony Kornheiser"},{"docid":"9277480","text":"New England Patriots are the only three defending Super Bowl champions to have lost. The Giants are also the only home team to have lost in the Kickoff Game twice—once in the very first edition of the contest, when the defending Super Bowl winner was not yet a regular participant, and again in 2012. 2003: The game's popularity and success saw it move to ABC as part of the \"Monday Night Football\" package. In order for the kickoff game to fit into the schedule, ABC dropped the \"Monday Night Football\" game held in the last week of the NFL season.","title":"NFL Kickoff Game"},{"docid":"13037385","text":"Night Football\". She had been the first female beat writer in the NFL when she covered the New England Patriots for the \"Boston Globe\" in the mid-1970s, and was the first and only woman to handle a Super Bowl Trophy presentation when she was a sportscaster with CBS. Visser was followed by several women, notably Melissa Stark and Lisa Guerrero, on the sideline who were perceived as \"eye candy\", none of whom affected the ratings. For the 1998 season, ABC pushed \"Monday Night Football\" back an hour (it has usually aired at 9:00 p.m. Eastern Time). A special pre-game show","title":"History of Monday Night Football"},{"docid":"5014359","text":"introduced the previous fall for its final season of \"Monday Night Football\") for the network's NBA telecasts. ESPN, along with partner network ABC, began using graphics packages inherited by ESPN's \"Monday Night Football\" broadcast starting in 2006, featuring a score banner with an oblique red and white design. The graphics were later replaced in April 2009 with a more compact grey design, with panel-like lower thirds and a permanent \"stats bar\" located underneath the score and time. This was replaced in 2010 with an updated appearance based on another redesign adopted by \"Monday Night Football\" in late 2009, featuring a","title":"NBA on ABC"},{"docid":"13037353","text":"spoke with ABC. Despite the network's status at the time as the lowest-rated of the three major broadcast networks, ABC was also reluctant to enter the risky venture. It was only after Rozelle used the threat of signing a deal with the independent Hughes Sports Network, an entity bankrolled by reclusive businessman Howard Hughes, did ABC sign a contract for the scheduled games. Speculation was that had Rozelle signed with Hughes, many ABC affiliates would have pre-empted the network's Monday lineup in favor of the games, severely damaging potential ratings. After the final contract for \"Monday Night Football\" was signed,","title":"History of Monday Night Football"},{"docid":"720935","text":"share were greatly helped by the fact that several smaller markets had grown large enough to allow full-time affiliations from all three networks. In 1970, ABC debuted \"Monday Night Football\" as part of its Monday prime time schedule; the program became a hit for the network and served as the National Football League (NFL)'s premier game of the week until 2006, when \"Sunday Night Football\", which moved to NBC that year as part of a broadcast deal that in turn saw \"MNF\" move to ESPN, took over as the league's marquee game. According to Goldenson, \"Monday Night Football\" helped earn","title":"American Broadcasting Company"},{"docid":"5012218","text":"debut, and was seeking a broadcast contract. In 1987, Fox's first full year on the air, ABC initially hedged on renewing its contract to carry \"Monday Night Football\" – then the league's crown-jewel program – as was in the middle of negotiations to reach a new contract, due to an increased expense of the rights. Fox made an offer to the National Football League to acquire the \"Monday Night Football\" contract for the same amount ABC that had been paying to carry the package, about US$1.3 billion at the time. However, the NFL, in part because Fox had not established","title":"Fox NFL"},{"docid":"6837809","text":"the United States. In response to this, the league put together a network of independent stations covering approximately 55% of the country. Games typically aired on Monday nights (beginning at 8:00 p.m. Eastern Time) or Saturday afternoons. The package was offered to local stations without a rights fee. Profits would instead be derived from the advertising, which was about evenly split between the network and the local station. The Monday night games were often billed as \"\"The NHL Game of the Week\"\". Initially, the Monday night package was marketed to ABC affiliates; the idea being that ABC carried NFL football","title":"NHL on ABC"},{"docid":"7415814","text":"night games, and by 1986, ABC only televised 13 \"Monday Night Baseball\" games. This was a fairly sharp contrast to the 18 games to that were scheduled in 1978. \"The Sporting News\" suggested that ABC paid Major League Baseball to not make them televise the regular season, opining that the network only wanted the sport for October anyway. For most of its time on ABC, the Monday night games were held on \"dead travel days\" when few games were scheduled. The team owners liked that arrangement, as the ABC games didn't compete against their stadium box offices and local telecasts.","title":"Monday Night Baseball"},{"docid":"13037390","text":"June 2000, Lesley Visser's career suffered a highly publicized setback when she was famously bounced as the \"Monday Night Football\" sideline reporter for a less experienced, much younger woman and a man, who did not have as extensive journalistic credentials as Visser. \"It was staggering to me\", Visser later recalled. However, she wound up returning to CBS Sports, philosophical as ever. \"You can have a short career if it's based on looks and youth\", she said, \"but legitimacy is what lasts.\" Which ABC replaced her with both Melissa Stark and Eric Dickerson. This was part of the overhaul when ABC","title":"History of Monday Night Football"},{"docid":"11036361","text":"covered NFL games from 1956 to 1993 and again from 1998 to the present. Ironically, CBS which was ordered by the NFL not to give American Football League scores during its NFL broadcasts of the 1960s, now covers the AFC, while Fox covers the NFC. This season was also the fortieth consecutive season that \"Monday Night Football\" has been a permanent part of the NFL schedule, though the league had played games on Monday night sporadically before this. \"Monday Night Football\" originally aired on ABC before switching to ESPN in 2006, when the two networks' sports operations were merged. The","title":"2009 NFL season"},{"docid":"5187952","text":"play-by-play announcer, calling one of NBC's two games on Wild Card Weekend. John Madden (who had last worked with Al Michaels on \"Monday Night Football\" for ABC) was one of the first people hired by NBC, chosen to continue as a color analyst. Cris Collinsworth substituted for Madden when he was unavailable, called Wild Card games alongside Hammond until 2008, and took over on a permanent basis for the 2009 season when Madden announced his retirement from broadcasting on April 16, 2009. Prior to this, he served as a studio analyst for NBC's pregame show, \"Football Night in America\". For","title":"NFL on NBC"},{"docid":"13037355","text":"Saturday night game was scheduled for Week 14 and televised live by ABC in lieu of a game on Monday night. Looking for a lightning rod to garner attention, Arledge hired controversial New York City sportscaster Howard Cosell as a commentator, along with veteran football play-by-play announcer Keith Jackson. Arledge had tried to lure Curt Gowdy and then Vin Scully to ABC for the \"MNF\" play-by-play role, but settled for Jackson after they proved unable to break their respective existing contracts with NBC Sports and the Los Angeles Dodgers. Jack Buck was also considered, but when Arledge assistant Chuck Howard","title":"History of Monday Night Football"},{"docid":"1602248","text":"network hosted Super Bowl XXIX, with a more box-like design. A permanent score bug would not be introduced until 1997. \"Monday Night Football\" began using a score bug in 1997, the second network to do so after Fox introduced the first regular on-screen scoring bug when it began airing NFL games in 1994. Prior to this, the graphics package was limited, but followed a basic \"ketchup and mustard\" color scheme of red and yellow. The first scorebug included team names, scores, time remaining, and displayed which quarter the game was in. This design was used through the 1998 season. ABC","title":"Monday Night Football"},{"docid":"4833867","text":"ratings toward the end of its ABC run, the program was a hit for the network; according to ABC president Leonard Goldenson, \"Monday Night Football\" helped regularly score ABC an audience share of 15%–16%. With the creation of \"Monday Night Football\", Arledge not only anchored ABC's primetime programming, but created a national pastime. At first, nobody – including the affiliates and the advertisers – supported the idea of primetime football games at the beginning of the week. Arledge said regarding this skepticism, \"But I thought there was something special about football, because there are so few games, and relatively few","title":"ESPN on ABC"},{"docid":"13037416","text":"all sporting events televised by ESPN and ABC (the former of which effectively took over full responsibility of ABC's sports division that year, which was rebranded as ESPN on ABC). The first regular season \"Monday Night Football\" game to air on ESPN was on September 11, 2006, featuring the visiting Minnesota Vikings at the Washington Redskins at FedExField, in which the Vikings won 19–16. The September 25 edition of \"Monday Night Football\" highlighted the New Orleans Saints' first game back in the Louisiana Superdome following Hurricane Katrina to take on the Atlanta Falcons. The game had a Super Bowl-like atmosphere","title":"History of Monday Night Football"},{"docid":"7143902","text":"York Jets for WFAN and later WABC, and would require a substitute when the Jets played on Monday night or in the playoffs. An example of the latter came in the 1998 NFC Championship Game; John Rooney substituted for an absent David in Minneapolis for Westwood One as he called that year's AFC Championship Game for WFAN from Denver. Boomer Esiason joined David and Millen for the 2000 season after being fired by ABC from the \"Monday Night Football\" telecast. It was the last season in the booth for Millen as he departed to take a position as President of","title":"NFL on Westwood One Sports"},{"docid":"13037373","text":"In the book, Cosell also said that ABC should have had the right to choose its own \"Monday Night\" schedule. In his mind, \"Monday Night Football\" is what elevated the NFL in popularity over Major League Baseball. He felt that this should have been ABC's reward for raising the league's profile. That same year, O. J. Simpson replaced Tarkenton as a fill-in when Meredith or Cosell, who also was a broadcaster for the network's coverage of the Major League Baseball playoffs, was unavailable. The season would serve as a study in contrasts as one of the most exciting Monday night","title":"History of Monday Night Football"},{"docid":"3529486","text":"short-term barter runs. Reruns have previously aired on WGN America, USA Network, and TBS. Netflix discontinued \"Coach\" on September 15, 2015. Antenna TV began airing the series with a marathon on January 1, 2018. For season seven, ABC aired original episodes of \"Coach\" on Monday night, before \"Monday Night Football\", as part of a football-themed night. This was successful on the United States east coast, where \"MNF\" games aired from 9:00 pm to 12:30 am, local time. However, on the west coast, \"MNF\" games aired from 6:00 pm to 9:30 pm (with possible overtime), leaving some Monday network programming with","title":"Coach (TV series)"},{"docid":"5800598","text":"also divided up the Super Bowl on a yearly rotation. Meanwhile, with the debut of \"Monday Night Football\" on ABC September 21, 1970, the league became the first professional sports league in the United States to have a regular series of nationally televised games in prime-time, and the only league ever to have its games televised on all of the then-three major broadcast networks at the same time. Both teams that advanced to the Super Bowl, the Baltimore Colts and the Dallas Cowboys, had suffered humiliating defeats at home on Monday Night Football during the season. Adding ABC to the","title":"1970 NFL season"},{"docid":"2417014","text":"NBC Sports, which had acquired the rights to \"Sunday Night Football\" games. Despite speculation that Michaels might be joining NBC as well, Michaels stated that he would continue as the \"MNF\" play-by-play announcer, stating, \"I feel like I'm a creature of Monday night. I'm home and I'm staying home.\" Plans were for Michaels to be teamed with Joe Theismann (who would be coming over from \"Sunday Night Football\") on the Monday night telecasts. At the time, then-ABC Television President Alex Wallau said, \"For 26 years Al has played a pivotal role here at ABC Sports, and for 17 of those","title":"Al Michaels"},{"docid":"5187948","text":"to switch the schedule so non-competitive games would not air in the league's marquee timeslot. Since this would require a move to Sunday night in order for this to happen, and since ABC decided to relinquish their rights to \"Monday Night Football\", NBC was able to bid on the \"Sunday Night Football\" package and won the rights after ESPN (corporate sibling to ABC and which had previously held those rights) elected to take over the \"Monday Night Football\" rights instead. NBC resumed airing NFL football on August 6, 2006, with coverage of the annual AFC-NFC Hall of Fame Game. NBC's","title":"NFL on NBC"},{"docid":"1602265","text":"the Minneapolis–St. Paul market, when NBC affiliate KARE took over as the local broadcaster of \"MNF\" games, if the Minnesota Vikings were playing a game being simulcast on local ABC affiliate KSTP-TV, sister independent station KSTC-TV aired \"DWTS\" live). In 2016, for the opening week Monday night game (the second in a doubleheader) between the Los Angeles Rams and San Francisco 49ers, the ABC-owned stations in both markets (KABC-TV and KGO-TV) would broadcast \"World News Tonight\" and \"DWTS\" in their live Eastern Time Zone slots, thus airing at 3:30 and 5 pm PT respectively. Since , a Spanish-language telecast is","title":"Monday Night Football"},{"docid":"17448041","text":"in selecting games in the latter part of the season. ABC did not have the right to be flexible with their \"Monday Night Football\" schedule and picked matchups based on a team's record in the previous season (as NBC does), which often led to teams with losing records playing each other on Monday night later in the season. The moves were intended to break NBC out of its ratings slump; however, at one point in the last decade, this did not happen, and although \"NBC Sunday Night Football\" had been (and continues to be) the network's top rated program and","title":"History of the National Football League on television"},{"docid":"7182774","text":"Monday Night Countdown ESPN Monday Night Countdown, which debuted in 1993 on ESPN, is a television program featuring analysis and news on that night's NFL game to be broadcast on ESPN. The show was originally titled \"NFL Prime Monday\" from 1993-97 before it was renamed \"Monday Night Countdown\" in 1998. The official name of the show is \"Monday Night Countdown served by Applebee's.\" The show's previous sponsor was UPS. When it debuted, it was one of the first cross-pollinations between ESPN and ABC Sports, which each largely operated under separate management at the time. The show was initially hosted by","title":"Monday Night Countdown"},{"docid":"17448025","text":"he launched \"NFL Countdown\" and \"NFL Prime Time\", and they have since become the top-rated pre- and post-game shows on television. The cable network's contract to show \"ESPN Sunday Night Football\" was one of the turning points in their growth, transforming them from a small cable network to a marketing empire. When ESPN first started televising NFL games in 1987, it only broadcast Sunday night games during the second half of the season. Meanwhile, ABC, CBS, and NBC maintained their rights to \"Monday Night Football\", the NFC, and the AFC, respectively. By 1990, Turner's TNT network started to broadcast Sunday","title":"History of the National Football League on television"},{"docid":"8560686","text":"broadcast team. Mike Tirico and Hubie Brown, who worked ABC games together last season, formed the number two team, with Dan Shulman replacing Tirico when he had Monday Night Football commitments. Bill Walton became ESPN's lead studio analyst, along with Stuart Scott and Stephen A. Smith. Mark Jones also hosted NBA Shootaround, and occasionally paired with Jon Barry as the third team, replacing Shulman. Tom Tolbert, who called the NBA Finals for ABC just 4 years earlier, was dropped, along with reporter Jim Gray. Rick Carlisle and Jalen Rose also were added, giving analysis on Sportscenter and occasionally appearing on","title":"NBA on ESPN"},{"docid":"13037387","text":"commercial break and that his microphone was off) replied, \"No shit.\" Nielsen ratings data for the first 17 weeks of the 1998–99 television season showed that \"Monday Night Football\" averaged a 13.9 rating, down 8% from the 15.0 average rating for the broadcasts in 1997 – the previous standard in ratings futility. In actuality, \"MNF\" ratings had been hitting all-time record lows for the previous four years. Beginning in 1999, \"Monday Night Football\" telecasts used a computer-generated yellow line to mark where a team needs to get a first down, a method first used by ABC sister cable channel ESPN.","title":"History of Monday Night Football"},{"docid":"13037410","text":"during that last ABC telecast, becoming the first player to catch two touchdown passes and record a quarterback sack in the same game. The final play of the ABC era was a Pats kneeldown by 44-year-old reserve quarterback Doug Flutie. John Madden said at the show's ending: During its final NFL television contract, ABC was awarded the telecasts to Super Bowl XXXIV, Super Bowl XXXVII and Super Bowl XL. With the end of ABC's contract, the Super Bowl XL broadcast was the network's final NFL telecast until 2016, when they simulcasted ESPN's Wild Card game production. The changes to the","title":"History of Monday Night Football"},{"docid":"1602260","text":"affiliate KITV delayed the game until 6:00 p.m. Hawaii-Aleutian Time, corresponding to 11:00 p.m. or midnight Eastern during daylight saving time on the mainland. Thus, the game, which was broadcast live on local radio starting at 3:00 or 4:00 pm, was almost over before it aired on television. In the case of Guam, KTGM, the ABC affiliate in that U.S. territory, aired \"MNF\" live on Tuesdays at 11:00 am, as Guam is a day ahead of the United States due to being located on the other side of International Date Line. The demand to broadcast \"Monday Night Football\" games live","title":"Monday Night Football"},{"docid":"4532955","text":"WBAY swapped networks on March 15, which fell on a Sunday. The station formerly pre-empted the first hour of the ABC lineup (7-8 p.m. Central) on Tuesday evenings during the football season to carry the local program \"Tuesday Night Touchback\", which was formerly known as \"Monday Night Countdown\" before it was moved in 2007 because of \"Dancing with the Stars\" and the departure of \"Monday Night Football\" from ABC (for most of the 2000s, the slot was among the lowest-rated on ABC's primetime schedule, as was the case with the pre-\"MNF\" timeslot). Programs normally seen during that hour then aired","title":"WBAY-TV"},{"docid":"9354611","text":"on shows like \"SportsCenter\" as a result. ESPN televised a minimum of 17 regular-season games and nine playoff games—including a minimum of three Wild Card games, three Divisional Playoff games, both Conference Championships and the ArenaBowl on ESPN, ESPN2 and ABC. ESPN had an exclusive window for weekly Monday night prime time games on ESPN2. Both the season opener and ArenaBowl were on ABC, where three wild card games, two divisional games and one conference championship were on ESPN and the seventeen regular season Monday night games, one wild card game, two divisional games and one conference championship game was","title":"Arena Football League on ESPN"},{"docid":"6413012","text":"to say that \"Monday Night Baseball\", as it has been presented by ABC so far this season, is the worst television treatment ever given a major sport, because by all odds somebody at sometime must have done something worse. But it is difficult to remember when or where that might have happened.\" Just like with \"Monday Night Football\", ABC brought in the concept of the three-man-booth (originally with Bob Prince, Bob Uecker, and Warner Wolf as the primary crew) to their baseball telecasts. Said ABC Sports head Roone Arledge \"It'll take something different for it to work - i.e. curb","title":"Major League Baseball on ABC"},{"docid":"9923718","text":"of television series. The ABC show, which began with a \"preview\" in late January, is one of the few that have been renewed for next season. Furthermore, although its ratings were hardly sensational, 'The Marshall' is going into the strong 8 p.m. time slot just before 'Monday Night Football.' Meanwhile, the original run is being repeated on Mondays, beginning tonight.\" When ABC canceled the show, \"Entertainment Weekly\" wrote in their Best and Worst 1995 article, \"Best 'Melrose Place' Alternative The Marshal (ABC): On Mondays, this now-canceled Jeff Fahey actioner was funnier and more exciting than Melrose. All this and music","title":"The Marshal"},{"docid":"14185265","text":"Monday Night Football on Triple M Monday Night Football on Triple M broadcasts each Monday night NRL game, ever since its most recent inception in 2007. Austereo recently extended its deal to continue broadcasting rugby league until the conclusion of the 2012 season. The rights are commercially exclusive, however ABC Radio broadcast Monday Night matches involving non-Sydney teams, permitted to be broadcast only into the regional markets of the appropriate team/s involved. Triple M also ventured into international Rugby League, acquiring the rights to the 2010 Rugby League Four Nations tournament. After years of being rumoured to have desired a","title":"Monday Night Football on Triple M"},{"docid":"1602278","text":"that had aired on ABC, as well as a share of the rotating rights to the Super Bowl, was also given to NBC. On April 22, 2014, the NFL announced that it had exercised an option in ESPN's recent contract extension for \"Monday Night Football\" rights to air a first-round Wild Card playoff game on the channel after the conclusion of the 2014 season. This was the first time that an NFL playoff game was ever broadcast exclusively on cable television in the United States, in lieu of any of the league's broadcast network partners. The \"MNF\" broadcast team of","title":"Monday Night Football"},{"docid":"13793601","text":"broadcasts games in which the Chiefs host an NFC opponent. KSHB Channel 41 (NBC) broadcasts all games in which the Chiefs play on \"NBC Sunday Night Football\" or NBC's NFL playoffs coverage. KMBC Channel 9, an ABC affiliate owned by Hearst, has aired \"Monday Night Football\" games locally since 1970. Prior to the 1994 season, WDAF was the primary station for the Chiefs as an NBC affiliate (they aired on KMBC when ABC had the AFL package through 1964), since NBC had the AFC package. The interconference home games aired on KCTV starting in 1973 (when the NFL allowed local","title":"Primary NFL television stations"},{"docid":"1944804","text":"teams Baltimore Colts, Cleveland Browns, and Pittsburgh Steelers becoming part of the newly-formed American Football Conference (AFC.) All remaining pre-merger NFL teams formed the National Football Conference (NFC.) By 1970, the NFL stood at 26 teams. In 1970, Rozelle proposed his concept, \"Monday Night Football\", to Roone Arledge, then the head of the ABC television network. After selling his idea to ABC, Monday Night Football premiered in September 1970 with the Cleveland Browns against the New York Jets; the Browns won the game, 31-21. The program is still broadcast today (it moved to ESPN in 2006) Monday Night Football aired","title":"Pete Rozelle"},{"docid":"1602258","text":"in many NFL markets, the 8:00 p.m. (Eastern Time) hour from 1999 to 2006 was replaced by affiliates with locally produced and programmed sports discussion and coaches shows, with ABC programming in that hour moved to late night or weekend slots; by the end of the ABC run, the 8:00 p.m. timeslot was filled with either newsmagazines and short-lived reality television programs which failed to make any ratings headways due to affiliate pre-emptions. From to , Fisher Broadcasting's ABC affiliates in Seattle (KOMO-TV) and Portland (KATU) aired \"MNF\" games on a one-hour tape delay starting at 7:00 p.m. Pacific Time","title":"Monday Night Football"},{"docid":"1602272","text":"broadcast rights. In , Westwood One was purchased by Dial Global. Then in , Dial Global, including Westwood One, was acquired by Cumulus Media. The Spanish-language broadcast is carried on ESPN Deportes Radio. The highest-rated \"Monday Night Football\" telecast on ABC was the Miami Dolphins' victory over the previously undefeated Chicago Bears on December 2, , which drew a national Nielsen rating of 29.6 and a share of 46. ABC's lowest-rated \"MNF\" game was the St. Louis Rams' defeat of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers on October 18, , which drew a 7.7 rating. During the 1995–1996 television season, \"Monday Night","title":"Monday Night Football"},{"docid":"5582448","text":"for the majority of the 2000s). The show now airs Monday and Saturday at 6:30 p.m., pre-empting \"Wheel of Fortune\" in that timeslot during football season. WKRN is the Nashville home and the flagship station of the Tennessee Titans Preseason Television Network, which broadcasts \"Titans Preseason Football\" during August and sometimes the very early parts of September. These games often prompt WKRN to broadcast the night's ABC primetime programming on a tape delay in the overnight hours of the following morning. WKRN also simulcasts ESPN's \"Monday Night Football\" any time the Tennessee Titans are involved in a Monday night match-up","title":"WKRN-TV"},{"docid":"13037370","text":"Cosell would voice over in a style for which he was known throughout his career. One of the most remembered moments in \"Monday Night Football\" history occurred on December 8, 1980, yet had nothing to do with the game or football in general. During a game between the Miami Dolphins and New England Patriots, Howard Cosell broke the news of famed Beatle John Lennon's assassination, news that stunned a nationwide audience. The NFL's television contract renewal in 1982 also put ABC in the Super Bowl rotation for the first time, giving it the broadcast rights to Super Bowl XIX in","title":"History of Monday Night Football"},{"docid":"13037363","text":"of marijuana at the time. Finally, during the Pittsburgh Steelers–Washington Redskins game on November 5, he referred to U.S. President Richard Nixon as \"Tricky Dick.\" Don Meredith would be absent from \"Monday Night Football\" for a broadcasting and acting career on rival NBC from 1974 to 1976. Fred Williamson, a former Kansas City Chiefs defensive back nicknamed \"The Hammer\" for his often-brutal hits, was selected by ABC to replace Meredith in 1974, but following a few pre-season broadcasts, proved so inarticulate that he was relieved of his duties prior to the start of the regular season, becoming the first \"MNF\"","title":"History of Monday Night Football"},{"docid":"7302264","text":"coverage for \"World News Tonight\" with Peter Jennings and other ABC News broadcasts. At ABC News, she covered the Oklahoma City bombing trials, the Matthew Shepard murder, the crash of TWA Flight 800, and both the civil and criminal O.J. Simpson trials. In 2012, ESPN announced that Lisa Salters would join Monday Night Football replacing Suzy Kolber as a full-time solo sideline reporter joining Mike Tirico and Jon Gruden. In 2018, ESPN announced a new Monday Night Football commentating team which will include Salters as sideline reporter and joined by Joe Tessitore, Jason Witten, and Anthony \"Booger\" McFarland. A native","title":"Lisa Salters"},{"docid":"9251773","text":"derived from the advertising, which was about evenly split between the network and the local station. The Monday night games were often billed as The NHL Game of the Week. Viewers in New York City, Buffalo, St. Louis, Pittsburgh, Detroit and Los Angeles got the \"Game of the Week\" on a different channel than their local team's games. Therefore, whenever a team had a “home” game, the NHL Network aired the home team's broadcast rather than their own. Initially, the Monday night package was marketed to ABC affiliates; the idea being that ABC carried Monday-night NFL football in the fall","title":"NHL Network (1975 TV program)"},{"docid":"5623901","text":"a format similar to that of \"Ford Super Sunday\" with a presenter (Jeff Stelling) and studio guests. In 2004–05, the analysis section was then incorporated into an additional programme shown after \"Ford Super Sunday\" called \"Ford Super Sunday: The Last Word\". The show ended after the 2006–07 season when Setanta and subsequently ESPN obtained the rights for Monday night Premier League games. \"Monday Night Football\" returned from the 2010–11 season after Sky regained the rights to Monday night Premier League games. The games broadcast kick off at 8:00 pm on Monday nights. The show also started broadcasting in high-definition. Due","title":"Monday Night Football (UK TV programme)"},{"docid":"4209917","text":"broadcasts to his repertoire. In the fall of 1985, Dierdorf was hired by CBS as part of its broadcast team for NFL games. He worked on CBS broadcasts of NFL games in 1985 and 1986. In April 1987, Dierdorf was hired by ABC to join Al Michaels and Frank Gifford on \"Monday Night Football\" broadcasts. He spent 12 seasons on \"Monday Night Football\" before resigning the post in early 1999. During his affiliation with ABC, Dierdorf also served as a blow-by-blow boxing commentator in 1989, beginning with Meldrick Taylor's first defense of his championship, served as a correspondent for the","title":"Dan Dierdorf"},{"docid":"13037356","text":"telephoned Buck with the job offer, Buck refused to respond due to anger at his treatment by ABC during an earlier stint with the network. Arledge's original choice for the third member of the trio, Frank Gifford, was unavailable since he was still under contract to CBS Sports. However, Gifford suggested former Dallas Cowboys quarterback Don Meredith, setting the stage for years of fireworks between the often-pompous Cosell and the laid-back Meredith. \"Monday Night Football\" first aired on ABC on September 21, 1970, with a game between the New York Jets and the Browns in Cleveland. Advertisers were charged US$65,000","title":"History of Monday Night Football"},{"docid":"4833866","text":"techniques such as slow motion replay, freeze frame, instant replay, split-screen, hand-held cameras, endzone cameras, underwater cameras and cameras on cranes. As part of an agreement with the National Football League (which completed its merger with the American Football League that year), \"Monday Night Football\" debuted on ABC in September 1970, which served as the NFL's premier game of the week until 2006, when \"Sunday Night Football\", which moved to NBC that year as part of a broadcast deal that in turn saw \"MNF\" move to ESPN, took over as the league's marquee game. Although it suffered a decline in","title":"ESPN on ABC"},{"docid":"8908885","text":"as host of \"Time Out For Trivia\". He also did occasional play-by-play for NBC Sports, in addition to freelance work for ABC Sports, Turner Sports, and Fox Sports Midwest. During his time at KABC, Donoho was known in the Los Angeles media market for beginning and ending his sports anchor segments with sports trivia questions and for his trademark phrase, \"take a hike\". During Donoho's time on air, KABC's 11 p.m. newscast's ratings approached those of long-time regional leader KNBC. Donoho also anchored the station's post-Monday Night Football program, titled \"Monday Night Live.\" In Los Angeles, the similarity of Todd","title":"Todd Donoho"},{"docid":"12705416","text":"season games, with exceptions as following. KCTV also broadcasts all Chiefs pre-season games. WDAF Channel 4 (Fox) broadcasts games in which the Chiefs host an NFC opponent. KSHB Channel 41 (NBC) broadcasts all games in which the Chiefs play on \"NBC Sunday Night Football\" or NBC's NFL playoffs coverage. KMBC Channel 9 (ABC) has aired \"Monday Night Football\" games locally since 1970. Prior to the 1994 season, WDAF was the primary station for the Chiefs as an NBC affiliate (they aired on KMBC when ABC had the AFL package through 1964), since NBC had the AFC package. The inter-conference home","title":"Kansas City Chiefs"},{"docid":"3818569","text":"films would fit in the time allotted, but perhaps the most controversial of these was the re-edit of the 1969 film \"On Her Majesty's Secret Service\" broadcast on the \"ABC Monday Night Movie\". ABC held the rights to the James Bond films until 1990, when \"The Living Daylights\" was the final film aired prior to Turner Broadcasting buying the TV rights to the franchise. The Bond films have also aired on several cable channels not owned by Turner. ABC broadcast the films again as a promotional tie-in when \"Die Another Day\" was in theaters in 2002, dubbed as \"The Bond","title":"The ABC Sunday Night Movie"},{"docid":"5914931","text":"broadcast in place of its regular schedule of syndicated programs. The simulcasts shifted to the team's \"Monday Night Football\" matchups after ESPN took over the rights to that package from ABC (in a compensation deal by the NFL to make up for the loss of \"Sunday Night Football\" to NBC) in 2006. Presently, the station reschedules ABC's Monday night schedule to air in place of the network's late night lineup to accommodate the game, with \"Dancing with the Stars\" (which ABC moved to Mondays in September 2006) airing after the late newscast on the affected live performance episode's original airdate,","title":"KMBC-TV"},{"docid":"4442744","text":"and even some NFL games (including hosting halftime duties for \"Monday Night Football\" and Wild Card round games). Musburger was also the main studio host during ABC's coverage of the 1998 World Cup and the 2006 World Cup, was briefly the studio host for ESPN and ABC's NASCAR coverage and has hosted Tour de France coverage for ABC. Musburger's college football duties for ESPN and ABC have included calling seven BCS National Championship games (2000, 2004, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, and 2014). Beginning in 2006, Musburger called ABC Sports' college football prime time series, along with analysts Bob Davie and","title":"Brent Musburger"},{"docid":"17084778","text":"to air \"Sunday Night Football\", the annual Kickoff game, and the primetime Thanksgiving game. ESPN continued carrying \"Monday Night Football\" and the Pro Bowl. Under a new eight-year deal, DirecTV continued to be the exclusive distributor of the NFL Sunday Ticket service. On May 12, 2015, it was announced that ABC would simulcast ESPN's wildcard game, marking the first time that ABC has broadcast any NFL game in nearly 10 years. Fox also expanded its pre-game coverage by moving \"Fox NFL Kickoff\" to the main Fox network from Fox Sports 1, serving as a lead-in to \"Fox NFL Sunday\". After","title":"2015 NFL season"},{"docid":"13037366","text":"and Gifford to work games as a duo or with newly retired Fran Tarkenton beginning in 1979. From 1977 to 1986, ABC also aired occasional NFL games on Thursday, Saturday and Sunday nights. Each of these telecasts would be billed by the network as a \"Special Thursday/Saturday/Sunday Night Edition of \"Monday Night Football\"\". One of the more somber contests in the run of the series came on November 27, 1978 when the San Francisco 49ers hosted the Pittsburgh Steelers. Earlier in the day, San Francisco mayor George Moscone and City Supervisor Harvey Milk had been murdered at City Hall. Despite","title":"History of Monday Night Football"},{"docid":"18853956","text":"hosted TV game show \"It's in the Name\" on WGN-TV in Chicago. He worked as an ABC-TV staff network announcer between 1959–1979, providing voice-over live introductions to \"Monday Night Football\", \"Monday Night Baseball\", \"Wide World of Sports,\"\"Pabst Blue Ribbon Beer Friday Night Fights,\" and the Summer and Winter Olympics programming on ABC for the 1964, 1968 and 1972 Summer and Winter Olympics. Provided on-air ABC-TV news anchoring on Chicago's WBKB (now WLS-TV) coverage while working 24 hours a day November 22–24, 1963 following President John F. Kennedy's assassination. His role as TV News reporter for WBKB-TV (ABC) Chicago included on-the-street","title":"Arthur Lawrence Hellyer Jr."},{"docid":"13037411","text":"NFL's prime time broadcasts took place with the 2006 season, as ESPN began airing the Monday night games at the same time NBC assumed the rights to the Sunday night package from ESPN. The Sunday night game is now the \"showcase\" game of the week on the NFL schedule. While the ESPN broadcasts still carry the \"MNF\" name and heritage, NBC (like ABC) is a broadcast network, whereas ESPN is a cable channel not freely available to all Americans, though per a cause in the NFL's broadcasting rules, many ESPN games air on a participating broadcast television station in the","title":"History of Monday Night Football"},{"docid":"9923715","text":"for the fall. For its second season, ABC gave \"The Marshal\" a critical slot on its schedule. Leading off the network's Monday night lineup at 8:00 p.m., the series would be serving as the lead in program for \"Monday Night Football\" for the first half of the television season. However, \"The Marshal\" faced serious competition for viewers in the timeslot from \"Melrose Place\" on Fox and the Monday comedy lineups on CBS and NBC, and thus was unable to draw the ratings ABC desired. The network canceled \"The Marshal\" toward the end of 1995 and its twenty-fifth and final episode","title":"The Marshal"},{"docid":"1602263","text":"telecasts; much of the series took place on a fictional college campus). Except for Seattle and Portland from 1970 to 1995, ABC World News Tonight was routinely preempted on most West Coast affiliates, though the ABC network-owned stations (e.g. Los Angeles) aired the program earlier in the afternoon. Since ESPN took over the coverage in 2006, games normally have a kickoff time of 8:30 pm. Eastern. However, when ESPN airs a doubleheader during the first week of the season, the games respectively start at 7:00 and 10:15 pm. Eastern. There have been issues with local stations in the ESPN era,","title":"Monday Night Football"},{"docid":"13037397","text":"Brent Musburger and Gary Danielson served as commentators for that year's AFC Wild Card game, with Jack Arute serving as the sideline reporter. After suffering through several years of dismal Pro Bowl ratings, ABC considered moving the game to Monday night. In February 2003, Madden declined to serve as color commentator for the game in Hawaii, citing his fear of flying; former \"MNF\" personality Dan Fouts took his place. The Pro Bowl held the following year was played on a Sunday as typical, but was moved to ABC's sister network ESPN. In 2003, ABC and the NFL dropped the \"Monday","title":"History of Monday Night Football"},{"docid":"5014381","text":"to get out of his contract with ESPN to join John Madden (who worked alongside Michaels for the previous four years on \"Monday Night Football\" as an analyst) at NBC. Michaels added fuel to the fire by refusing to state his future plans, and he could not \"respond to rumors... because that would become a distraction.\" On February 8, 2006, ESPN announced that its \"Monday Night Football\" team would consist of Mike Tirico on play-by-play, with football anaylst Joe Theismann and Tony Kornheiser as analysts. ESPN explicitly stated that Michaels would not return to either \"Monday Night Football\" broadcasts or","title":"NBA on ABC"},{"docid":"8938751","text":"it was cancelled due to 9/11 problems. Note: On ABC, \"The Runner\" was supposed to start when \"Monday Night Football\" concludes, but it was cancelled due to production problems. Note: \"Buffy the Vampire Slayer\" and \"Roswell\" moved to UPN from The WB this season. NOTES: 1. When ABC announced their 2001 Fall Schedule, originally the plan was for The Job to air after The Drew Carey Show starting in mid-September and NYPD Blue would air in the 10pm ET timeslot after 20/20 Downtown returned to Friday nights in late December. However, after the terrorist attacks on September 11th, 2001, ABC","title":"2001–02 United States network television schedule"},{"docid":"9094962","text":"before the start of Saturday Night Football at 8:00. ESPN College Football Saturday Primetime starts around 7:00, as does another game on ESPN2. Late-night games (often from the Pac-12 Conference) begin on ESPN and ESPN2 around 10:30 ET, in prime time on the west coast. \"Kickoff Week\" is the first weekend of the college football weekend. Games include the Advocare Classic, the Chick-fil-A Kickoff Game and other non-conference action. One game will air on ABC on Sunday night, and second game will air on ESPN on the following Monday night. After the first week of the college football season, the","title":"ESPN College Football"},{"docid":"4415753","text":"relatives (and some Nanny claimed as relatives because they were everybody's uncle) dropped by the Everett home for a visit. They include: The series first aired as a mid-season replacement on January 21, 1970, on ABC, and was last telecast on December 27, 1971. The series enjoyed initial success due to its Friday night timeslot when it was scheduled between \"The Brady Bunch\" and \"The Partridge Family\", which were shows aimed at similar demographics (largely young children and pre-teens). Ratings suffered in the third season when ABC moved the series to Monday night opposite \"Gunsmoke\" and \"Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In\".","title":"Nanny and the Professor"},{"docid":"13635332","text":"franchise has played the song after every home win at Coors Field since 1995. In 1998, ABC Records wanted to use a classic rock song for \"Monday Night Football\" that year, so they asked Walsh to rewrite the lyrics to \"Rocky Mountain Way\" for the quarterback John Elway of the Denver Broncos. \"Rocky Mountain Elway\" was the new title of the song and Walsh appeared in a video that ABC Sports showed on the \"Monday Night Football\". The Denver Broncos currently play the Godsmack cover version of the song during home games at Sports Authority Field at Mile High. In","title":"Rocky Mountain Way (song)"},{"docid":"2417017","text":"stated that Michaels would not return to either \"Monday Night Football\" broadcasts or ABC's NBA broadcasts (on which Michaels had been lead NBA play-by-play man). On February 9, 2006, NBC confirmed that Michaels would be joining Madden at the network to broadcast football on Sunday nights, thus ending Michaels's 20-year run on \"Monday Night Football\" and almost 30 years of service with ABC. In exchange for letting Michaels out of his contract with ABC and ESPN, NBC Universal sold ESPN cable rights to Friday coverage of the next four Ryder Cups, granted ESPN increased usage of Olympic highlights, and sold","title":"Al Michaels"},{"docid":"4833869","text":"it. But if you screwed up on \"Monday Night Football\", Cosell would let everyone know about it.\" Arledge proudly pointed out that the program \"changed the habits of the nation.\" In 1977, Arledge's executive responsibilities at ABC were expanded, and he was made president of ABC News while remaining as head of ABC Sports. The seeds of its eventual integration with ESPN occurred when ABC acquired a controlling interest in ESPN from Getty Oil in 1984. One year later, Capital Cities Communications purchased ABC for US$3.5 billion. Although some ESPN sportscasters such as John Saunders and Dick Vitale began to","title":"ESPN on ABC"},{"docid":"13037369","text":"Cosell. Some of the production crew teasingly referred to the segment as \"The Beauty and the Beast\". 1980 also marked some key personnel moves for the top-rated ABC show. It was the first season of Monday Night Football produced by Bob Goodrich, who would lead the production team for another 6 years. In addition, 1980 was the first year a woman joined the traveling production crew of over 40 cameramen, engineers, producers and directors. Alexis Denny, then a sophomore at Yale University, served as the stage manager of the telecasts and wrote the script for the half-time highlights that Howard","title":"History of Monday Night Football"},{"docid":"13037360","text":"and Meredith ended up announcing the rest of the contest. In 1971, Frank Gifford became available after his contract with CBS Sports concluded; Arledge brought him to ABC to serve as play-by-play announcer, replacing Jackson (who returned to broadcasting college football for the network, which he continued to do for the next 35 seasons). The former New York Giant had been an NFL analyst for CBS during the 1960s but had never called play-by-play prior to joining \"Monday Night Football\". In that capacity for \"Monday Night Football\" from 1971 to 1985, Gifford was often criticized for his see-no-evil approach in","title":"History of Monday Night Football"},{"docid":"9910452","text":"1939, but on December 23, 1951, DuMont televised the first ever live, coast-to-coast professional football game, the NFL Championship Game between the Los Angeles Rams and Cleveland Browns. DuMont paid $75,000 for the rights to broadcast the game. In 1952, DuMont only aired New York Giants games before moving to a more national scope the following season. During the 1953 and 1954 seasons, DuMont broadcast Saturday night NFL games. It was the first time that National Football League games were televised live, coast-to-coast, in prime time, for the entire season. This predated \"Monday Night Football\" on ABC by 17 years.","title":"NFL on DuMont"},{"docid":"2990093","text":"and still holds that position today. He has provided analysis and commentary for all the Kitten Bowls since Kitten Bowl II, which airs during half time of the Super Bowl. While still playing, Esiason appeared as a color analyst on the USA Network's two-year broadcast of the World League of American Football (WLAF) on Monday nights, partnered with Brad Nessler. After his retirement from playing, he went into broadcasting full-time. He was a color commentator for ABC's \"Monday Night Football\" from 1998 to 1999. Following his dismissal by ABC (due primarily to personal conflicts between him and play-by-play announcer Al","title":"Boomer Esiason"},{"docid":"1602261","text":"across the United States over ABC was difficult to reconcile with other prime time programming, which is usually set to begin at a certain local time regardless of time zone. On the East Coast, with \"MNF\" beginning at 9:00 p.m. Eastern Time, there was an hour of primetime in which to schedule regular programming. However, on the West Coast, the games lasted from 6:00 to 9:30 pm. Pacific Time (or in the case of Seattle and Portland from 1970 to 1995, 7:00 to 10:30 pm), leaving little or no time for additional network programming on Monday. As a result, network","title":"Monday Night Football"},{"docid":"5187923","text":"awarded yearly rights to 16 Monday night games, four prime time games, the AFC-NFC Pro Bowl, and the Hall of Fame Games. CBS received the rights to all National Football Conference (NFC) regular season and postseason games (except those in the ABC package) and to Super Bowls XIV and XVI. NBC received the rights to all AFC regular-season and postseason games (except those in the ABC package) and to Super Bowls XIII and XV. Industry sources considered it the largest single television package ever negotiated. After the 1975 World Series, Curt Gowdy was removed from NBC's baseball telecasts, when sponsor","title":"NFL on NBC"}],"string":"[\n {\n \"docid\": \"13725060\",\n \"text\": \"of ABC's prime time schedule and required any scripted series on Monday night to be a midseason replacement. ABC transferred its \\\"Monday Night Football\\\" rights to ESPN in 2006, clearing the Monday night time slot for regular scripted programming. (ABC now has a similar strategy with the \\\"ABC Saturday Night Movie\\\", which airs after the end of the \\\"Saturday Night Football\\\" college package.) The ABC Monday Night Movie The ABC Monday Night Movie (styled \\\"ABC Monday Movie of the Week\\\" since 2004) is an anthology series on the ABC television network. It is part of ABC's Movie of the Week\",\n \"title\": \"The ABC Monday Night Movie\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"6413048\",\n \"text\": \"1986 All-Star Game, ABC did not team them on a regular basis on \\\"Monday Night Baseball\\\" until (after three 'experiments' in ). During the 1988 Writers Guild of America strike, networks benefited from sports programming, including NBC, which relied on the Summer Olympics in September and the World Series in October, and ABC, which in addition to its postseason baseball coverage, moved up the start time for the early weeks of \\\"Monday Night Football\\\" (when Al Michaels was unavailable to do play-by-play on \\\"Monday Night Football\\\", which he had done for ABC beginning in 1986 due to his postseason baseball\",\n \"title\": \"Major League Baseball on ABC\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"1602206\",\n \"text\": \"Monday Night Football ESPN Monday Night Football (abbreviated as MNF and also known as ESPN Monday Night Football on ABC for rare live special broadcast) is a live television broadcast of weekly National Football League (NFL) games on ESPN in the United States. From to , it aired on sister broadcast network ABC. \\\"Monday Night Football\\\" was, along with \\\"Hallmark Hall of Fame\\\" and the Walt Disney anthology television series, one of the longest-running prime time programs ever on commercial network television, and one of the highest-rated, particularly among male viewers. \\\"MNF\\\" is preceded on air by \\\"Monday Night Countdown\\\".\",\n \"title\": \"Monday Night Football\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"13725059\",\n \"text\": \"The ABC Monday Night Movie The ABC Monday Night Movie (styled \\\"ABC Monday Movie of the Week\\\" since 2004) is an anthology series on the ABC television network. It is part of ABC's Movie of the Week format. It began as an extension of \\\"The ABC Sunday Night Movie\\\". Airing from January 19, 1970 until 2004 as a series, it has since run as a series of specials styled \\\"ABC Monday Movie of the Week\\\". Airing movies on Monday nights was far more common during the time in which ABC held rights to \\\"Monday Night Football\\\", which occupied four months\",\n \"title\": \"The ABC Monday Night Movie\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"394755\",\n \"text\": \"and the subsequent integration of ESPN and ABC Sports (now ESPN on ABC). Also, the trophy presentation for this game was the last to be held in the winning team's locker room, as all subsequent Vince Lombardi Trophy presentations would be held on the field. This was the last Super Bowl broadcast by the \\\"Monday Night Football\\\" broadcast team of Michaels, Gifford and Dierdorf. This was the broadcast team for \\\"Monday Night Football\\\" from 1987–1997. They also worked ABC's coverage of Super Bowls XXII and XXV. This would also be the last Super Bowl aired on ABC until the 1999\",\n \"title\": \"Super Bowl XXIX\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"5012464\",\n \"text\": \"of the open weeks with NBA telecasts. From 1987–1997, ESPN used various themes for its NFL coverage, reflecting its separate management from sister company ABC Sports (now ESPN on ABC since September 2006) at the time. In 1998, as Disney began consolidating ESPN and ABC Sports, ESPN's NFL coverage began using themes associated with \\\"Monday Night Football\\\" such as \\\"Heavy Action\\\". In-game use of these themes ended after 2000, in favor of another original theme also referred to as \\\"Sirens\\\" (for featuring sirens prominently). When ESPN gained the Monday night games, they once again began using the traditional \\\"Monday Night\",\n \"title\": \"ESPN Sunday Night Football\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"18465644\",\n \"text\": \"\\\"Monday Night Football\\\" and the Pro Bowl. This also was the second and final year of the current \\\"Thursday Night Football\\\" contract with CBS, NBC, and NFL Network. Along with ESPN's Wild Card game on ABC, ESPN announced on May 24, 2017, that the 2018 Pro Bowl would also be simulcast on ABC, marking the return of the Pro Bowl to ABC for the first time since 2003. For the first 9 weeks of the regular season, ESPN2 simulcast ESPN Deportes' Spanish-language \\\"Monday Night Football\\\" broadcasts; this served as filler programming for the channel until the start of its Monday-night\",\n \"title\": \"2017 NFL season\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"17448019\",\n \"text\": \"ABC also agreed to televise one regular season game per week on Monday night. ABC aired its first edition of \\\"Monday Night Football\\\" on September 21, 1970. \\\"MNF\\\" pushed the limits of football coverage with its halftime highlights segment, occasional banter from Howard Cosell and Dennis Miller, and celebrity guests such as John Lennon, Arnold Schwarzenegger and Bill Clinton. During its 36-year run on ABC, \\\"Monday Night Football\\\" consistently ranked among the most popular prime time broadcasts each week during the season. As the league's broadcasters, ABC, CBS, and NBC had their own talent. Announcers such as Cosell, Frank Gifford,\",\n \"title\": \"History of the National Football League on television\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"17448038\",\n \"text\": \"relatively high, if declining, TV ratings, ABC decided to end its relationship with the NFL after losing significant money on \\\"Monday Night Football\\\". In addition to the fees, part of this decision may have been the result of a resurgent ABC prime time entertainment schedule during the 2004–05 season, particularly on Sunday evening with \\\"Desperate Housewives\\\"; thus ABC would be unable to satisfy the league's reported preference for a Sunday night game on broadcast television as opposed to Monday. Because of that, \\\"Monday Night Football\\\" moved from ABC to ESPN, which are both owned by The Walt Disney Company. The\",\n \"title\": \"History of the National Football League on television\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"6829758\",\n \"text\": \"22.9 million viewers, the most for the first four weeks of a prime time NFL package in 14 years (since ABC earned a 24.0 million average viewership in 1996 on four broadcasts of \\\"Monday Night Football\\\"). The Washington Redskins–Dallas Cowboys game on December 30, 2012 was the highest-rated \\\"Sunday Night Football\\\" broadcast ever, earning 30.426 million viewers (22.074 million during the period from 8:31 to 11:25 p.m. Eastern Time) and a household rating of 12.7. This also made it the most watched regular-season primetime game in 16 years, since a November 18, 1996 \\\"Monday Night Football\\\" game on ABC between\",\n \"title\": \"NBC Sunday Night Football\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"2724879\",\n \"text\": \"sparked the idea for \\\"PTI\\\" well before the end of his run at ESPN Radio. The show won a Sports Emmy Award for best Daily Outstanding Studio Show in 2009 and 2017. When \\\"Monday Night Football\\\" moved from ABC to ESPN, Kornheiser received and accepted an offer to be a color analyst on \\\"Monday Night Football\\\" in early 2006. He was originally passed over in favor of \\\"Sunday Night Football\\\" commentator Joe Theismann; however, when play-by-play man Al Michaels left ABC to call \\\"Sunday Night Football\\\" for NBC, Kornheiser was brought in alongside Theismann and new play-by-play announcer Mike Tirico.\",\n \"title\": \"Tony Kornheiser\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"9277480\",\n \"text\": \"New England Patriots are the only three defending Super Bowl champions to have lost. The Giants are also the only home team to have lost in the Kickoff Game twice—once in the very first edition of the contest, when the defending Super Bowl winner was not yet a regular participant, and again in 2012. 2003: The game's popularity and success saw it move to ABC as part of the \\\"Monday Night Football\\\" package. In order for the kickoff game to fit into the schedule, ABC dropped the \\\"Monday Night Football\\\" game held in the last week of the NFL season.\",\n \"title\": \"NFL Kickoff Game\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"13037385\",\n \"text\": \"Night Football\\\". She had been the first female beat writer in the NFL when she covered the New England Patriots for the \\\"Boston Globe\\\" in the mid-1970s, and was the first and only woman to handle a Super Bowl Trophy presentation when she was a sportscaster with CBS. Visser was followed by several women, notably Melissa Stark and Lisa Guerrero, on the sideline who were perceived as \\\"eye candy\\\", none of whom affected the ratings. For the 1998 season, ABC pushed \\\"Monday Night Football\\\" back an hour (it has usually aired at 9:00 p.m. Eastern Time). A special pre-game show\",\n \"title\": \"History of Monday Night Football\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"5014359\",\n \"text\": \"introduced the previous fall for its final season of \\\"Monday Night Football\\\") for the network's NBA telecasts. ESPN, along with partner network ABC, began using graphics packages inherited by ESPN's \\\"Monday Night Football\\\" broadcast starting in 2006, featuring a score banner with an oblique red and white design. The graphics were later replaced in April 2009 with a more compact grey design, with panel-like lower thirds and a permanent \\\"stats bar\\\" located underneath the score and time. This was replaced in 2010 with an updated appearance based on another redesign adopted by \\\"Monday Night Football\\\" in late 2009, featuring a\",\n \"title\": \"NBA on ABC\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"13037353\",\n \"text\": \"spoke with ABC. Despite the network's status at the time as the lowest-rated of the three major broadcast networks, ABC was also reluctant to enter the risky venture. It was only after Rozelle used the threat of signing a deal with the independent Hughes Sports Network, an entity bankrolled by reclusive businessman Howard Hughes, did ABC sign a contract for the scheduled games. Speculation was that had Rozelle signed with Hughes, many ABC affiliates would have pre-empted the network's Monday lineup in favor of the games, severely damaging potential ratings. After the final contract for \\\"Monday Night Football\\\" was signed,\",\n \"title\": \"History of Monday Night Football\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"720935\",\n \"text\": \"share were greatly helped by the fact that several smaller markets had grown large enough to allow full-time affiliations from all three networks. In 1970, ABC debuted \\\"Monday Night Football\\\" as part of its Monday prime time schedule; the program became a hit for the network and served as the National Football League (NFL)'s premier game of the week until 2006, when \\\"Sunday Night Football\\\", which moved to NBC that year as part of a broadcast deal that in turn saw \\\"MNF\\\" move to ESPN, took over as the league's marquee game. According to Goldenson, \\\"Monday Night Football\\\" helped earn\",\n \"title\": \"American Broadcasting Company\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"5012218\",\n \"text\": \"debut, and was seeking a broadcast contract. In 1987, Fox's first full year on the air, ABC initially hedged on renewing its contract to carry \\\"Monday Night Football\\\" – then the league's crown-jewel program – as was in the middle of negotiations to reach a new contract, due to an increased expense of the rights. Fox made an offer to the National Football League to acquire the \\\"Monday Night Football\\\" contract for the same amount ABC that had been paying to carry the package, about US$1.3 billion at the time. However, the NFL, in part because Fox had not established\",\n \"title\": \"Fox NFL\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"6837809\",\n \"text\": \"the United States. In response to this, the league put together a network of independent stations covering approximately 55% of the country. Games typically aired on Monday nights (beginning at 8:00 p.m. Eastern Time) or Saturday afternoons. The package was offered to local stations without a rights fee. Profits would instead be derived from the advertising, which was about evenly split between the network and the local station. The Monday night games were often billed as \\\"\\\"The NHL Game of the Week\\\"\\\". Initially, the Monday night package was marketed to ABC affiliates; the idea being that ABC carried NFL football\",\n \"title\": \"NHL on ABC\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"7415814\",\n \"text\": \"night games, and by 1986, ABC only televised 13 \\\"Monday Night Baseball\\\" games. This was a fairly sharp contrast to the 18 games to that were scheduled in 1978. \\\"The Sporting News\\\" suggested that ABC paid Major League Baseball to not make them televise the regular season, opining that the network only wanted the sport for October anyway. For most of its time on ABC, the Monday night games were held on \\\"dead travel days\\\" when few games were scheduled. The team owners liked that arrangement, as the ABC games didn't compete against their stadium box offices and local telecasts.\",\n \"title\": \"Monday Night Baseball\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"13037390\",\n \"text\": \"June 2000, Lesley Visser's career suffered a highly publicized setback when she was famously bounced as the \\\"Monday Night Football\\\" sideline reporter for a less experienced, much younger woman and a man, who did not have as extensive journalistic credentials as Visser. \\\"It was staggering to me\\\", Visser later recalled. However, she wound up returning to CBS Sports, philosophical as ever. \\\"You can have a short career if it's based on looks and youth\\\", she said, \\\"but legitimacy is what lasts.\\\" Which ABC replaced her with both Melissa Stark and Eric Dickerson. This was part of the overhaul when ABC\",\n \"title\": \"History of Monday Night Football\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"11036361\",\n \"text\": \"covered NFL games from 1956 to 1993 and again from 1998 to the present. Ironically, CBS which was ordered by the NFL not to give American Football League scores during its NFL broadcasts of the 1960s, now covers the AFC, while Fox covers the NFC. This season was also the fortieth consecutive season that \\\"Monday Night Football\\\" has been a permanent part of the NFL schedule, though the league had played games on Monday night sporadically before this. \\\"Monday Night Football\\\" originally aired on ABC before switching to ESPN in 2006, when the two networks' sports operations were merged. The\",\n \"title\": \"2009 NFL season\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"5187952\",\n \"text\": \"play-by-play announcer, calling one of NBC's two games on Wild Card Weekend. John Madden (who had last worked with Al Michaels on \\\"Monday Night Football\\\" for ABC) was one of the first people hired by NBC, chosen to continue as a color analyst. Cris Collinsworth substituted for Madden when he was unavailable, called Wild Card games alongside Hammond until 2008, and took over on a permanent basis for the 2009 season when Madden announced his retirement from broadcasting on April 16, 2009. Prior to this, he served as a studio analyst for NBC's pregame show, \\\"Football Night in America\\\". For\",\n \"title\": \"NFL on NBC\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"13037355\",\n \"text\": \"Saturday night game was scheduled for Week 14 and televised live by ABC in lieu of a game on Monday night. Looking for a lightning rod to garner attention, Arledge hired controversial New York City sportscaster Howard Cosell as a commentator, along with veteran football play-by-play announcer Keith Jackson. Arledge had tried to lure Curt Gowdy and then Vin Scully to ABC for the \\\"MNF\\\" play-by-play role, but settled for Jackson after they proved unable to break their respective existing contracts with NBC Sports and the Los Angeles Dodgers. Jack Buck was also considered, but when Arledge assistant Chuck Howard\",\n \"title\": \"History of Monday Night Football\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"1602248\",\n \"text\": \"network hosted Super Bowl XXIX, with a more box-like design. A permanent score bug would not be introduced until 1997. \\\"Monday Night Football\\\" began using a score bug in 1997, the second network to do so after Fox introduced the first regular on-screen scoring bug when it began airing NFL games in 1994. Prior to this, the graphics package was limited, but followed a basic \\\"ketchup and mustard\\\" color scheme of red and yellow. The first scorebug included team names, scores, time remaining, and displayed which quarter the game was in. This design was used through the 1998 season. ABC\",\n \"title\": \"Monday Night Football\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"4833867\",\n \"text\": \"ratings toward the end of its ABC run, the program was a hit for the network; according to ABC president Leonard Goldenson, \\\"Monday Night Football\\\" helped regularly score ABC an audience share of 15%–16%. With the creation of \\\"Monday Night Football\\\", Arledge not only anchored ABC's primetime programming, but created a national pastime. At first, nobody – including the affiliates and the advertisers – supported the idea of primetime football games at the beginning of the week. Arledge said regarding this skepticism, \\\"But I thought there was something special about football, because there are so few games, and relatively few\",\n \"title\": \"ESPN on ABC\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"13037416\",\n \"text\": \"all sporting events televised by ESPN and ABC (the former of which effectively took over full responsibility of ABC's sports division that year, which was rebranded as ESPN on ABC). The first regular season \\\"Monday Night Football\\\" game to air on ESPN was on September 11, 2006, featuring the visiting Minnesota Vikings at the Washington Redskins at FedExField, in which the Vikings won 19–16. The September 25 edition of \\\"Monday Night Football\\\" highlighted the New Orleans Saints' first game back in the Louisiana Superdome following Hurricane Katrina to take on the Atlanta Falcons. The game had a Super Bowl-like atmosphere\",\n \"title\": \"History of Monday Night Football\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"7143902\",\n \"text\": \"York Jets for WFAN and later WABC, and would require a substitute when the Jets played on Monday night or in the playoffs. An example of the latter came in the 1998 NFC Championship Game; John Rooney substituted for an absent David in Minneapolis for Westwood One as he called that year's AFC Championship Game for WFAN from Denver. Boomer Esiason joined David and Millen for the 2000 season after being fired by ABC from the \\\"Monday Night Football\\\" telecast. It was the last season in the booth for Millen as he departed to take a position as President of\",\n \"title\": \"NFL on Westwood One Sports\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"13037373\",\n \"text\": \"In the book, Cosell also said that ABC should have had the right to choose its own \\\"Monday Night\\\" schedule. In his mind, \\\"Monday Night Football\\\" is what elevated the NFL in popularity over Major League Baseball. He felt that this should have been ABC's reward for raising the league's profile. That same year, O. J. Simpson replaced Tarkenton as a fill-in when Meredith or Cosell, who also was a broadcaster for the network's coverage of the Major League Baseball playoffs, was unavailable. The season would serve as a study in contrasts as one of the most exciting Monday night\",\n \"title\": \"History of Monday Night Football\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"3529486\",\n \"text\": \"short-term barter runs. Reruns have previously aired on WGN America, USA Network, and TBS. Netflix discontinued \\\"Coach\\\" on September 15, 2015. Antenna TV began airing the series with a marathon on January 1, 2018. For season seven, ABC aired original episodes of \\\"Coach\\\" on Monday night, before \\\"Monday Night Football\\\", as part of a football-themed night. This was successful on the United States east coast, where \\\"MNF\\\" games aired from 9:00 pm to 12:30 am, local time. However, on the west coast, \\\"MNF\\\" games aired from 6:00 pm to 9:30 pm (with possible overtime), leaving some Monday network programming with\",\n \"title\": \"Coach (TV series)\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"5800598\",\n \"text\": \"also divided up the Super Bowl on a yearly rotation. Meanwhile, with the debut of \\\"Monday Night Football\\\" on ABC September 21, 1970, the league became the first professional sports league in the United States to have a regular series of nationally televised games in prime-time, and the only league ever to have its games televised on all of the then-three major broadcast networks at the same time. Both teams that advanced to the Super Bowl, the Baltimore Colts and the Dallas Cowboys, had suffered humiliating defeats at home on Monday Night Football during the season. Adding ABC to the\",\n \"title\": \"1970 NFL season\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"2417014\",\n \"text\": \"NBC Sports, which had acquired the rights to \\\"Sunday Night Football\\\" games. Despite speculation that Michaels might be joining NBC as well, Michaels stated that he would continue as the \\\"MNF\\\" play-by-play announcer, stating, \\\"I feel like I'm a creature of Monday night. I'm home and I'm staying home.\\\" Plans were for Michaels to be teamed with Joe Theismann (who would be coming over from \\\"Sunday Night Football\\\") on the Monday night telecasts. At the time, then-ABC Television President Alex Wallau said, \\\"For 26 years Al has played a pivotal role here at ABC Sports, and for 17 of those\",\n \"title\": \"Al Michaels\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"5187948\",\n \"text\": \"to switch the schedule so non-competitive games would not air in the league's marquee timeslot. Since this would require a move to Sunday night in order for this to happen, and since ABC decided to relinquish their rights to \\\"Monday Night Football\\\", NBC was able to bid on the \\\"Sunday Night Football\\\" package and won the rights after ESPN (corporate sibling to ABC and which had previously held those rights) elected to take over the \\\"Monday Night Football\\\" rights instead. NBC resumed airing NFL football on August 6, 2006, with coverage of the annual AFC-NFC Hall of Fame Game. NBC's\",\n \"title\": \"NFL on NBC\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"1602265\",\n \"text\": \"the Minneapolis–St. Paul market, when NBC affiliate KARE took over as the local broadcaster of \\\"MNF\\\" games, if the Minnesota Vikings were playing a game being simulcast on local ABC affiliate KSTP-TV, sister independent station KSTC-TV aired \\\"DWTS\\\" live). In 2016, for the opening week Monday night game (the second in a doubleheader) between the Los Angeles Rams and San Francisco 49ers, the ABC-owned stations in both markets (KABC-TV and KGO-TV) would broadcast \\\"World News Tonight\\\" and \\\"DWTS\\\" in their live Eastern Time Zone slots, thus airing at 3:30 and 5 pm PT respectively. Since , a Spanish-language telecast is\",\n \"title\": \"Monday Night Football\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"17448041\",\n \"text\": \"in selecting games in the latter part of the season. ABC did not have the right to be flexible with their \\\"Monday Night Football\\\" schedule and picked matchups based on a team's record in the previous season (as NBC does), which often led to teams with losing records playing each other on Monday night later in the season. The moves were intended to break NBC out of its ratings slump; however, at one point in the last decade, this did not happen, and although \\\"NBC Sunday Night Football\\\" had been (and continues to be) the network's top rated program and\",\n \"title\": \"History of the National Football League on television\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"7182774\",\n \"text\": \"Monday Night Countdown ESPN Monday Night Countdown, which debuted in 1993 on ESPN, is a television program featuring analysis and news on that night's NFL game to be broadcast on ESPN. The show was originally titled \\\"NFL Prime Monday\\\" from 1993-97 before it was renamed \\\"Monday Night Countdown\\\" in 1998. The official name of the show is \\\"Monday Night Countdown served by Applebee's.\\\" The show's previous sponsor was UPS. When it debuted, it was one of the first cross-pollinations between ESPN and ABC Sports, which each largely operated under separate management at the time. The show was initially hosted by\",\n \"title\": \"Monday Night Countdown\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"17448025\",\n \"text\": \"he launched \\\"NFL Countdown\\\" and \\\"NFL Prime Time\\\", and they have since become the top-rated pre- and post-game shows on television. The cable network's contract to show \\\"ESPN Sunday Night Football\\\" was one of the turning points in their growth, transforming them from a small cable network to a marketing empire. When ESPN first started televising NFL games in 1987, it only broadcast Sunday night games during the second half of the season. Meanwhile, ABC, CBS, and NBC maintained their rights to \\\"Monday Night Football\\\", the NFC, and the AFC, respectively. By 1990, Turner's TNT network started to broadcast Sunday\",\n \"title\": \"History of the National Football League on television\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"8560686\",\n \"text\": \"broadcast team. Mike Tirico and Hubie Brown, who worked ABC games together last season, formed the number two team, with Dan Shulman replacing Tirico when he had Monday Night Football commitments. Bill Walton became ESPN's lead studio analyst, along with Stuart Scott and Stephen A. Smith. Mark Jones also hosted NBA Shootaround, and occasionally paired with Jon Barry as the third team, replacing Shulman. Tom Tolbert, who called the NBA Finals for ABC just 4 years earlier, was dropped, along with reporter Jim Gray. Rick Carlisle and Jalen Rose also were added, giving analysis on Sportscenter and occasionally appearing on\",\n \"title\": \"NBA on ESPN\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"13037387\",\n \"text\": \"commercial break and that his microphone was off) replied, \\\"No shit.\\\" Nielsen ratings data for the first 17 weeks of the 1998–99 television season showed that \\\"Monday Night Football\\\" averaged a 13.9 rating, down 8% from the 15.0 average rating for the broadcasts in 1997 – the previous standard in ratings futility. In actuality, \\\"MNF\\\" ratings had been hitting all-time record lows for the previous four years. Beginning in 1999, \\\"Monday Night Football\\\" telecasts used a computer-generated yellow line to mark where a team needs to get a first down, a method first used by ABC sister cable channel ESPN.\",\n \"title\": \"History of Monday Night Football\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"13037410\",\n \"text\": \"during that last ABC telecast, becoming the first player to catch two touchdown passes and record a quarterback sack in the same game. The final play of the ABC era was a Pats kneeldown by 44-year-old reserve quarterback Doug Flutie. John Madden said at the show's ending: During its final NFL television contract, ABC was awarded the telecasts to Super Bowl XXXIV, Super Bowl XXXVII and Super Bowl XL. With the end of ABC's contract, the Super Bowl XL broadcast was the network's final NFL telecast until 2016, when they simulcasted ESPN's Wild Card game production. The changes to the\",\n \"title\": \"History of Monday Night Football\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"1602260\",\n \"text\": \"affiliate KITV delayed the game until 6:00 p.m. Hawaii-Aleutian Time, corresponding to 11:00 p.m. or midnight Eastern during daylight saving time on the mainland. Thus, the game, which was broadcast live on local radio starting at 3:00 or 4:00 pm, was almost over before it aired on television. In the case of Guam, KTGM, the ABC affiliate in that U.S. territory, aired \\\"MNF\\\" live on Tuesdays at 11:00 am, as Guam is a day ahead of the United States due to being located on the other side of International Date Line. The demand to broadcast \\\"Monday Night Football\\\" games live\",\n \"title\": \"Monday Night Football\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"4532955\",\n \"text\": \"WBAY swapped networks on March 15, which fell on a Sunday. The station formerly pre-empted the first hour of the ABC lineup (7-8 p.m. Central) on Tuesday evenings during the football season to carry the local program \\\"Tuesday Night Touchback\\\", which was formerly known as \\\"Monday Night Countdown\\\" before it was moved in 2007 because of \\\"Dancing with the Stars\\\" and the departure of \\\"Monday Night Football\\\" from ABC (for most of the 2000s, the slot was among the lowest-rated on ABC's primetime schedule, as was the case with the pre-\\\"MNF\\\" timeslot). Programs normally seen during that hour then aired\",\n \"title\": \"WBAY-TV\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"9354611\",\n \"text\": \"on shows like \\\"SportsCenter\\\" as a result. ESPN televised a minimum of 17 regular-season games and nine playoff games—including a minimum of three Wild Card games, three Divisional Playoff games, both Conference Championships and the ArenaBowl on ESPN, ESPN2 and ABC. ESPN had an exclusive window for weekly Monday night prime time games on ESPN2. Both the season opener and ArenaBowl were on ABC, where three wild card games, two divisional games and one conference championship were on ESPN and the seventeen regular season Monday night games, one wild card game, two divisional games and one conference championship game was\",\n \"title\": \"Arena Football League on ESPN\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"6413012\",\n \"text\": \"to say that \\\"Monday Night Baseball\\\", as it has been presented by ABC so far this season, is the worst television treatment ever given a major sport, because by all odds somebody at sometime must have done something worse. But it is difficult to remember when or where that might have happened.\\\" Just like with \\\"Monday Night Football\\\", ABC brought in the concept of the three-man-booth (originally with Bob Prince, Bob Uecker, and Warner Wolf as the primary crew) to their baseball telecasts. Said ABC Sports head Roone Arledge \\\"It'll take something different for it to work - i.e. curb\",\n \"title\": \"Major League Baseball on ABC\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"9923718\",\n \"text\": \"of television series. The ABC show, which began with a \\\"preview\\\" in late January, is one of the few that have been renewed for next season. Furthermore, although its ratings were hardly sensational, 'The Marshall' is going into the strong 8 p.m. time slot just before 'Monday Night Football.' Meanwhile, the original run is being repeated on Mondays, beginning tonight.\\\" When ABC canceled the show, \\\"Entertainment Weekly\\\" wrote in their Best and Worst 1995 article, \\\"Best 'Melrose Place' Alternative The Marshal (ABC): On Mondays, this now-canceled Jeff Fahey actioner was funnier and more exciting than Melrose. All this and music\",\n \"title\": \"The Marshal\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"14185265\",\n \"text\": \"Monday Night Football on Triple M Monday Night Football on Triple M broadcasts each Monday night NRL game, ever since its most recent inception in 2007. Austereo recently extended its deal to continue broadcasting rugby league until the conclusion of the 2012 season. The rights are commercially exclusive, however ABC Radio broadcast Monday Night matches involving non-Sydney teams, permitted to be broadcast only into the regional markets of the appropriate team/s involved. Triple M also ventured into international Rugby League, acquiring the rights to the 2010 Rugby League Four Nations tournament. After years of being rumoured to have desired a\",\n \"title\": \"Monday Night Football on Triple M\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"1602278\",\n \"text\": \"that had aired on ABC, as well as a share of the rotating rights to the Super Bowl, was also given to NBC. On April 22, 2014, the NFL announced that it had exercised an option in ESPN's recent contract extension for \\\"Monday Night Football\\\" rights to air a first-round Wild Card playoff game on the channel after the conclusion of the 2014 season. This was the first time that an NFL playoff game was ever broadcast exclusively on cable television in the United States, in lieu of any of the league's broadcast network partners. The \\\"MNF\\\" broadcast team of\",\n \"title\": \"Monday Night Football\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"13793601\",\n \"text\": \"broadcasts games in which the Chiefs host an NFC opponent. KSHB Channel 41 (NBC) broadcasts all games in which the Chiefs play on \\\"NBC Sunday Night Football\\\" or NBC's NFL playoffs coverage. KMBC Channel 9, an ABC affiliate owned by Hearst, has aired \\\"Monday Night Football\\\" games locally since 1970. Prior to the 1994 season, WDAF was the primary station for the Chiefs as an NBC affiliate (they aired on KMBC when ABC had the AFL package through 1964), since NBC had the AFC package. The interconference home games aired on KCTV starting in 1973 (when the NFL allowed local\",\n \"title\": \"Primary NFL television stations\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"1944804\",\n \"text\": \"teams Baltimore Colts, Cleveland Browns, and Pittsburgh Steelers becoming part of the newly-formed American Football Conference (AFC.) All remaining pre-merger NFL teams formed the National Football Conference (NFC.) By 1970, the NFL stood at 26 teams. In 1970, Rozelle proposed his concept, \\\"Monday Night Football\\\", to Roone Arledge, then the head of the ABC television network. After selling his idea to ABC, Monday Night Football premiered in September 1970 with the Cleveland Browns against the New York Jets; the Browns won the game, 31-21. The program is still broadcast today (it moved to ESPN in 2006) Monday Night Football aired\",\n \"title\": \"Pete Rozelle\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"1602258\",\n \"text\": \"in many NFL markets, the 8:00 p.m. (Eastern Time) hour from 1999 to 2006 was replaced by affiliates with locally produced and programmed sports discussion and coaches shows, with ABC programming in that hour moved to late night or weekend slots; by the end of the ABC run, the 8:00 p.m. timeslot was filled with either newsmagazines and short-lived reality television programs which failed to make any ratings headways due to affiliate pre-emptions. From to , Fisher Broadcasting's ABC affiliates in Seattle (KOMO-TV) and Portland (KATU) aired \\\"MNF\\\" games on a one-hour tape delay starting at 7:00 p.m. Pacific Time\",\n \"title\": \"Monday Night Football\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"1602272\",\n \"text\": \"broadcast rights. In , Westwood One was purchased by Dial Global. Then in , Dial Global, including Westwood One, was acquired by Cumulus Media. The Spanish-language broadcast is carried on ESPN Deportes Radio. The highest-rated \\\"Monday Night Football\\\" telecast on ABC was the Miami Dolphins' victory over the previously undefeated Chicago Bears on December 2, , which drew a national Nielsen rating of 29.6 and a share of 46. ABC's lowest-rated \\\"MNF\\\" game was the St. Louis Rams' defeat of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers on October 18, , which drew a 7.7 rating. During the 1995–1996 television season, \\\"Monday Night\",\n \"title\": \"Monday Night Football\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"5582448\",\n \"text\": \"for the majority of the 2000s). The show now airs Monday and Saturday at 6:30 p.m., pre-empting \\\"Wheel of Fortune\\\" in that timeslot during football season. WKRN is the Nashville home and the flagship station of the Tennessee Titans Preseason Television Network, which broadcasts \\\"Titans Preseason Football\\\" during August and sometimes the very early parts of September. These games often prompt WKRN to broadcast the night's ABC primetime programming on a tape delay in the overnight hours of the following morning. WKRN also simulcasts ESPN's \\\"Monday Night Football\\\" any time the Tennessee Titans are involved in a Monday night match-up\",\n \"title\": \"WKRN-TV\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"13037370\",\n \"text\": \"Cosell would voice over in a style for which he was known throughout his career. One of the most remembered moments in \\\"Monday Night Football\\\" history occurred on December 8, 1980, yet had nothing to do with the game or football in general. During a game between the Miami Dolphins and New England Patriots, Howard Cosell broke the news of famed Beatle John Lennon's assassination, news that stunned a nationwide audience. The NFL's television contract renewal in 1982 also put ABC in the Super Bowl rotation for the first time, giving it the broadcast rights to Super Bowl XIX in\",\n \"title\": \"History of Monday Night Football\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"13037363\",\n \"text\": \"of marijuana at the time. Finally, during the Pittsburgh Steelers–Washington Redskins game on November 5, he referred to U.S. President Richard Nixon as \\\"Tricky Dick.\\\" Don Meredith would be absent from \\\"Monday Night Football\\\" for a broadcasting and acting career on rival NBC from 1974 to 1976. Fred Williamson, a former Kansas City Chiefs defensive back nicknamed \\\"The Hammer\\\" for his often-brutal hits, was selected by ABC to replace Meredith in 1974, but following a few pre-season broadcasts, proved so inarticulate that he was relieved of his duties prior to the start of the regular season, becoming the first \\\"MNF\\\"\",\n \"title\": \"History of Monday Night Football\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"7302264\",\n \"text\": \"coverage for \\\"World News Tonight\\\" with Peter Jennings and other ABC News broadcasts. At ABC News, she covered the Oklahoma City bombing trials, the Matthew Shepard murder, the crash of TWA Flight 800, and both the civil and criminal O.J. Simpson trials. In 2012, ESPN announced that Lisa Salters would join Monday Night Football replacing Suzy Kolber as a full-time solo sideline reporter joining Mike Tirico and Jon Gruden. In 2018, ESPN announced a new Monday Night Football commentating team which will include Salters as sideline reporter and joined by Joe Tessitore, Jason Witten, and Anthony \\\"Booger\\\" McFarland. A native\",\n \"title\": \"Lisa Salters\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"9251773\",\n \"text\": \"derived from the advertising, which was about evenly split between the network and the local station. The Monday night games were often billed as The NHL Game of the Week. Viewers in New York City, Buffalo, St. Louis, Pittsburgh, Detroit and Los Angeles got the \\\"Game of the Week\\\" on a different channel than their local team's games. Therefore, whenever a team had a “home” game, the NHL Network aired the home team's broadcast rather than their own. Initially, the Monday night package was marketed to ABC affiliates; the idea being that ABC carried Monday-night NFL football in the fall\",\n \"title\": \"NHL Network (1975 TV program)\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"5623901\",\n \"text\": \"a format similar to that of \\\"Ford Super Sunday\\\" with a presenter (Jeff Stelling) and studio guests. In 2004–05, the analysis section was then incorporated into an additional programme shown after \\\"Ford Super Sunday\\\" called \\\"Ford Super Sunday: The Last Word\\\". The show ended after the 2006–07 season when Setanta and subsequently ESPN obtained the rights for Monday night Premier League games. \\\"Monday Night Football\\\" returned from the 2010–11 season after Sky regained the rights to Monday night Premier League games. The games broadcast kick off at 8:00 pm on Monday nights. The show also started broadcasting in high-definition. Due\",\n \"title\": \"Monday Night Football (UK TV programme)\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"4209917\",\n \"text\": \"broadcasts to his repertoire. In the fall of 1985, Dierdorf was hired by CBS as part of its broadcast team for NFL games. He worked on CBS broadcasts of NFL games in 1985 and 1986. In April 1987, Dierdorf was hired by ABC to join Al Michaels and Frank Gifford on \\\"Monday Night Football\\\" broadcasts. He spent 12 seasons on \\\"Monday Night Football\\\" before resigning the post in early 1999. During his affiliation with ABC, Dierdorf also served as a blow-by-blow boxing commentator in 1989, beginning with Meldrick Taylor's first defense of his championship, served as a correspondent for the\",\n \"title\": \"Dan Dierdorf\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"13037356\",\n \"text\": \"telephoned Buck with the job offer, Buck refused to respond due to anger at his treatment by ABC during an earlier stint with the network. Arledge's original choice for the third member of the trio, Frank Gifford, was unavailable since he was still under contract to CBS Sports. However, Gifford suggested former Dallas Cowboys quarterback Don Meredith, setting the stage for years of fireworks between the often-pompous Cosell and the laid-back Meredith. \\\"Monday Night Football\\\" first aired on ABC on September 21, 1970, with a game between the New York Jets and the Browns in Cleveland. Advertisers were charged US$65,000\",\n \"title\": \"History of Monday Night Football\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"4833866\",\n \"text\": \"techniques such as slow motion replay, freeze frame, instant replay, split-screen, hand-held cameras, endzone cameras, underwater cameras and cameras on cranes. As part of an agreement with the National Football League (which completed its merger with the American Football League that year), \\\"Monday Night Football\\\" debuted on ABC in September 1970, which served as the NFL's premier game of the week until 2006, when \\\"Sunday Night Football\\\", which moved to NBC that year as part of a broadcast deal that in turn saw \\\"MNF\\\" move to ESPN, took over as the league's marquee game. Although it suffered a decline in\",\n \"title\": \"ESPN on ABC\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"8908885\",\n \"text\": \"as host of \\\"Time Out For Trivia\\\". He also did occasional play-by-play for NBC Sports, in addition to freelance work for ABC Sports, Turner Sports, and Fox Sports Midwest. During his time at KABC, Donoho was known in the Los Angeles media market for beginning and ending his sports anchor segments with sports trivia questions and for his trademark phrase, \\\"take a hike\\\". During Donoho's time on air, KABC's 11 p.m. newscast's ratings approached those of long-time regional leader KNBC. Donoho also anchored the station's post-Monday Night Football program, titled \\\"Monday Night Live.\\\" In Los Angeles, the similarity of Todd\",\n \"title\": \"Todd Donoho\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"12705416\",\n \"text\": \"season games, with exceptions as following. KCTV also broadcasts all Chiefs pre-season games. WDAF Channel 4 (Fox) broadcasts games in which the Chiefs host an NFC opponent. KSHB Channel 41 (NBC) broadcasts all games in which the Chiefs play on \\\"NBC Sunday Night Football\\\" or NBC's NFL playoffs coverage. KMBC Channel 9 (ABC) has aired \\\"Monday Night Football\\\" games locally since 1970. Prior to the 1994 season, WDAF was the primary station for the Chiefs as an NBC affiliate (they aired on KMBC when ABC had the AFL package through 1964), since NBC had the AFC package. The inter-conference home\",\n \"title\": \"Kansas City Chiefs\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"3818569\",\n \"text\": \"films would fit in the time allotted, but perhaps the most controversial of these was the re-edit of the 1969 film \\\"On Her Majesty's Secret Service\\\" broadcast on the \\\"ABC Monday Night Movie\\\". ABC held the rights to the James Bond films until 1990, when \\\"The Living Daylights\\\" was the final film aired prior to Turner Broadcasting buying the TV rights to the franchise. The Bond films have also aired on several cable channels not owned by Turner. ABC broadcast the films again as a promotional tie-in when \\\"Die Another Day\\\" was in theaters in 2002, dubbed as \\\"The Bond\",\n \"title\": \"The ABC Sunday Night Movie\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"5914931\",\n \"text\": \"broadcast in place of its regular schedule of syndicated programs. The simulcasts shifted to the team's \\\"Monday Night Football\\\" matchups after ESPN took over the rights to that package from ABC (in a compensation deal by the NFL to make up for the loss of \\\"Sunday Night Football\\\" to NBC) in 2006. Presently, the station reschedules ABC's Monday night schedule to air in place of the network's late night lineup to accommodate the game, with \\\"Dancing with the Stars\\\" (which ABC moved to Mondays in September 2006) airing after the late newscast on the affected live performance episode's original airdate,\",\n \"title\": \"KMBC-TV\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"4442744\",\n \"text\": \"and even some NFL games (including hosting halftime duties for \\\"Monday Night Football\\\" and Wild Card round games). Musburger was also the main studio host during ABC's coverage of the 1998 World Cup and the 2006 World Cup, was briefly the studio host for ESPN and ABC's NASCAR coverage and has hosted Tour de France coverage for ABC. Musburger's college football duties for ESPN and ABC have included calling seven BCS National Championship games (2000, 2004, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, and 2014). Beginning in 2006, Musburger called ABC Sports' college football prime time series, along with analysts Bob Davie and\",\n \"title\": \"Brent Musburger\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"17084778\",\n \"text\": \"to air \\\"Sunday Night Football\\\", the annual Kickoff game, and the primetime Thanksgiving game. ESPN continued carrying \\\"Monday Night Football\\\" and the Pro Bowl. Under a new eight-year deal, DirecTV continued to be the exclusive distributor of the NFL Sunday Ticket service. On May 12, 2015, it was announced that ABC would simulcast ESPN's wildcard game, marking the first time that ABC has broadcast any NFL game in nearly 10 years. Fox also expanded its pre-game coverage by moving \\\"Fox NFL Kickoff\\\" to the main Fox network from Fox Sports 1, serving as a lead-in to \\\"Fox NFL Sunday\\\". After\",\n \"title\": \"2015 NFL season\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"13037366\",\n \"text\": \"and Gifford to work games as a duo or with newly retired Fran Tarkenton beginning in 1979. From 1977 to 1986, ABC also aired occasional NFL games on Thursday, Saturday and Sunday nights. Each of these telecasts would be billed by the network as a \\\"Special Thursday/Saturday/Sunday Night Edition of \\\"Monday Night Football\\\"\\\". One of the more somber contests in the run of the series came on November 27, 1978 when the San Francisco 49ers hosted the Pittsburgh Steelers. Earlier in the day, San Francisco mayor George Moscone and City Supervisor Harvey Milk had been murdered at City Hall. Despite\",\n \"title\": \"History of Monday Night Football\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"18853956\",\n \"text\": \"hosted TV game show \\\"It's in the Name\\\" on WGN-TV in Chicago. He worked as an ABC-TV staff network announcer between 1959–1979, providing voice-over live introductions to \\\"Monday Night Football\\\", \\\"Monday Night Baseball\\\", \\\"Wide World of Sports,\\\"\\\"Pabst Blue Ribbon Beer Friday Night Fights,\\\" and the Summer and Winter Olympics programming on ABC for the 1964, 1968 and 1972 Summer and Winter Olympics. Provided on-air ABC-TV news anchoring on Chicago's WBKB (now WLS-TV) coverage while working 24 hours a day November 22–24, 1963 following President John F. Kennedy's assassination. His role as TV News reporter for WBKB-TV (ABC) Chicago included on-the-street\",\n \"title\": \"Arthur Lawrence Hellyer Jr.\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"13037411\",\n \"text\": \"NFL's prime time broadcasts took place with the 2006 season, as ESPN began airing the Monday night games at the same time NBC assumed the rights to the Sunday night package from ESPN. The Sunday night game is now the \\\"showcase\\\" game of the week on the NFL schedule. While the ESPN broadcasts still carry the \\\"MNF\\\" name and heritage, NBC (like ABC) is a broadcast network, whereas ESPN is a cable channel not freely available to all Americans, though per a cause in the NFL's broadcasting rules, many ESPN games air on a participating broadcast television station in the\",\n \"title\": \"History of Monday Night Football\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"9923715\",\n \"text\": \"for the fall. For its second season, ABC gave \\\"The Marshal\\\" a critical slot on its schedule. Leading off the network's Monday night lineup at 8:00 p.m., the series would be serving as the lead in program for \\\"Monday Night Football\\\" for the first half of the television season. However, \\\"The Marshal\\\" faced serious competition for viewers in the timeslot from \\\"Melrose Place\\\" on Fox and the Monday comedy lineups on CBS and NBC, and thus was unable to draw the ratings ABC desired. The network canceled \\\"The Marshal\\\" toward the end of 1995 and its twenty-fifth and final episode\",\n \"title\": \"The Marshal\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"1602263\",\n \"text\": \"telecasts; much of the series took place on a fictional college campus). Except for Seattle and Portland from 1970 to 1995, ABC World News Tonight was routinely preempted on most West Coast affiliates, though the ABC network-owned stations (e.g. Los Angeles) aired the program earlier in the afternoon. Since ESPN took over the coverage in 2006, games normally have a kickoff time of 8:30 pm. Eastern. However, when ESPN airs a doubleheader during the first week of the season, the games respectively start at 7:00 and 10:15 pm. Eastern. There have been issues with local stations in the ESPN era,\",\n \"title\": \"Monday Night Football\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"13037397\",\n \"text\": \"Brent Musburger and Gary Danielson served as commentators for that year's AFC Wild Card game, with Jack Arute serving as the sideline reporter. After suffering through several years of dismal Pro Bowl ratings, ABC considered moving the game to Monday night. In February 2003, Madden declined to serve as color commentator for the game in Hawaii, citing his fear of flying; former \\\"MNF\\\" personality Dan Fouts took his place. The Pro Bowl held the following year was played on a Sunday as typical, but was moved to ABC's sister network ESPN. In 2003, ABC and the NFL dropped the \\\"Monday\",\n \"title\": \"History of Monday Night Football\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"5014381\",\n \"text\": \"to get out of his contract with ESPN to join John Madden (who worked alongside Michaels for the previous four years on \\\"Monday Night Football\\\" as an analyst) at NBC. Michaels added fuel to the fire by refusing to state his future plans, and he could not \\\"respond to rumors... because that would become a distraction.\\\" On February 8, 2006, ESPN announced that its \\\"Monday Night Football\\\" team would consist of Mike Tirico on play-by-play, with football anaylst Joe Theismann and Tony Kornheiser as analysts. ESPN explicitly stated that Michaels would not return to either \\\"Monday Night Football\\\" broadcasts or\",\n \"title\": \"NBA on ABC\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"8938751\",\n \"text\": \"it was cancelled due to 9/11 problems. Note: On ABC, \\\"The Runner\\\" was supposed to start when \\\"Monday Night Football\\\" concludes, but it was cancelled due to production problems. Note: \\\"Buffy the Vampire Slayer\\\" and \\\"Roswell\\\" moved to UPN from The WB this season. NOTES: 1. When ABC announced their 2001 Fall Schedule, originally the plan was for The Job to air after The Drew Carey Show starting in mid-September and NYPD Blue would air in the 10pm ET timeslot after 20/20 Downtown returned to Friday nights in late December. However, after the terrorist attacks on September 11th, 2001, ABC\",\n \"title\": \"2001–02 United States network television schedule\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"9094962\",\n \"text\": \"before the start of Saturday Night Football at 8:00. ESPN College Football Saturday Primetime starts around 7:00, as does another game on ESPN2. Late-night games (often from the Pac-12 Conference) begin on ESPN and ESPN2 around 10:30 ET, in prime time on the west coast. \\\"Kickoff Week\\\" is the first weekend of the college football weekend. Games include the Advocare Classic, the Chick-fil-A Kickoff Game and other non-conference action. One game will air on ABC on Sunday night, and second game will air on ESPN on the following Monday night. After the first week of the college football season, the\",\n \"title\": \"ESPN College Football\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"4415753\",\n \"text\": \"relatives (and some Nanny claimed as relatives because they were everybody's uncle) dropped by the Everett home for a visit. They include: The series first aired as a mid-season replacement on January 21, 1970, on ABC, and was last telecast on December 27, 1971. The series enjoyed initial success due to its Friday night timeslot when it was scheduled between \\\"The Brady Bunch\\\" and \\\"The Partridge Family\\\", which were shows aimed at similar demographics (largely young children and pre-teens). Ratings suffered in the third season when ABC moved the series to Monday night opposite \\\"Gunsmoke\\\" and \\\"Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In\\\".\",\n \"title\": \"Nanny and the Professor\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"13635332\",\n \"text\": \"franchise has played the song after every home win at Coors Field since 1995. In 1998, ABC Records wanted to use a classic rock song for \\\"Monday Night Football\\\" that year, so they asked Walsh to rewrite the lyrics to \\\"Rocky Mountain Way\\\" for the quarterback John Elway of the Denver Broncos. \\\"Rocky Mountain Elway\\\" was the new title of the song and Walsh appeared in a video that ABC Sports showed on the \\\"Monday Night Football\\\". The Denver Broncos currently play the Godsmack cover version of the song during home games at Sports Authority Field at Mile High. In\",\n \"title\": \"Rocky Mountain Way (song)\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"2417017\",\n \"text\": \"stated that Michaels would not return to either \\\"Monday Night Football\\\" broadcasts or ABC's NBA broadcasts (on which Michaels had been lead NBA play-by-play man). On February 9, 2006, NBC confirmed that Michaels would be joining Madden at the network to broadcast football on Sunday nights, thus ending Michaels's 20-year run on \\\"Monday Night Football\\\" and almost 30 years of service with ABC. In exchange for letting Michaels out of his contract with ABC and ESPN, NBC Universal sold ESPN cable rights to Friday coverage of the next four Ryder Cups, granted ESPN increased usage of Olympic highlights, and sold\",\n \"title\": \"Al Michaels\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"4833869\",\n \"text\": \"it. But if you screwed up on \\\"Monday Night Football\\\", Cosell would let everyone know about it.\\\" Arledge proudly pointed out that the program \\\"changed the habits of the nation.\\\" In 1977, Arledge's executive responsibilities at ABC were expanded, and he was made president of ABC News while remaining as head of ABC Sports. The seeds of its eventual integration with ESPN occurred when ABC acquired a controlling interest in ESPN from Getty Oil in 1984. One year later, Capital Cities Communications purchased ABC for US$3.5 billion. Although some ESPN sportscasters such as John Saunders and Dick Vitale began to\",\n \"title\": \"ESPN on ABC\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"13037369\",\n \"text\": \"Cosell. Some of the production crew teasingly referred to the segment as \\\"The Beauty and the Beast\\\". 1980 also marked some key personnel moves for the top-rated ABC show. It was the first season of Monday Night Football produced by Bob Goodrich, who would lead the production team for another 6 years. In addition, 1980 was the first year a woman joined the traveling production crew of over 40 cameramen, engineers, producers and directors. Alexis Denny, then a sophomore at Yale University, served as the stage manager of the telecasts and wrote the script for the half-time highlights that Howard\",\n \"title\": \"History of Monday Night Football\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"13037360\",\n \"text\": \"and Meredith ended up announcing the rest of the contest. In 1971, Frank Gifford became available after his contract with CBS Sports concluded; Arledge brought him to ABC to serve as play-by-play announcer, replacing Jackson (who returned to broadcasting college football for the network, which he continued to do for the next 35 seasons). The former New York Giant had been an NFL analyst for CBS during the 1960s but had never called play-by-play prior to joining \\\"Monday Night Football\\\". In that capacity for \\\"Monday Night Football\\\" from 1971 to 1985, Gifford was often criticized for his see-no-evil approach in\",\n \"title\": \"History of Monday Night Football\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"9910452\",\n \"text\": \"1939, but on December 23, 1951, DuMont televised the first ever live, coast-to-coast professional football game, the NFL Championship Game between the Los Angeles Rams and Cleveland Browns. DuMont paid $75,000 for the rights to broadcast the game. In 1952, DuMont only aired New York Giants games before moving to a more national scope the following season. During the 1953 and 1954 seasons, DuMont broadcast Saturday night NFL games. It was the first time that National Football League games were televised live, coast-to-coast, in prime time, for the entire season. This predated \\\"Monday Night Football\\\" on ABC by 17 years.\",\n \"title\": \"NFL on DuMont\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"2990093\",\n \"text\": \"and still holds that position today. He has provided analysis and commentary for all the Kitten Bowls since Kitten Bowl II, which airs during half time of the Super Bowl. While still playing, Esiason appeared as a color analyst on the USA Network's two-year broadcast of the World League of American Football (WLAF) on Monday nights, partnered with Brad Nessler. After his retirement from playing, he went into broadcasting full-time. He was a color commentator for ABC's \\\"Monday Night Football\\\" from 1998 to 1999. Following his dismissal by ABC (due primarily to personal conflicts between him and play-by-play announcer Al\",\n \"title\": \"Boomer Esiason\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"1602261\",\n \"text\": \"across the United States over ABC was difficult to reconcile with other prime time programming, which is usually set to begin at a certain local time regardless of time zone. On the East Coast, with \\\"MNF\\\" beginning at 9:00 p.m. Eastern Time, there was an hour of primetime in which to schedule regular programming. However, on the West Coast, the games lasted from 6:00 to 9:30 pm. Pacific Time (or in the case of Seattle and Portland from 1970 to 1995, 7:00 to 10:30 pm), leaving little or no time for additional network programming on Monday. As a result, network\",\n \"title\": \"Monday Night Football\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"5187923\",\n \"text\": \"awarded yearly rights to 16 Monday night games, four prime time games, the AFC-NFC Pro Bowl, and the Hall of Fame Games. 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The group has been accused of being strongly allied with the Likud party of Israel, and the Republican Party in the US, but an AIPAC spokesman has called this a \"malicious mischaracterization\". \"The Washington Post\" described the perceived differences between AIPAC and J Street: \"While","title":"American Israel Public Affairs Committee"},{"docid":"17436286","text":"\"faces challenges from similarly ambitious businessmen, the Chinese government and Congress itself\" as he continues to pursue his political aspirations. His plotline revolves around battles with billionaire Raymond Tusk (Gerald McRaney), involving Chinese money laundering. Over the course of the season his biggest challenges are the institutional power of the Office of the President and Tusk's power as a billionaire industrialist. He finds new rivals in Tusk, who seeks to maintain his position as Walker's right-hand adviser against Underwood's intrusion, and his former communications director, Remy Danton (Mahershala Ali), who is now a lobbyist working with Tusk. At the beginning","title":"Frank Underwood (House of Cards)"},{"docid":"4644691","text":"a larger United States budget and spending process. They are preceded in that process by the president's budget proposal, congressional budget resolutions, and the 302(b) allocation. Article One of the United States Constitution, section 9, clause 7, states that \"No money shall be drawn from the Treasury, but in Consequence of Appropriations made by Law...\" This is what gives Congress the power to make these appropriations. The President, however, still has the power to veto appropriations bills. 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It noted that the\",\n \"title\": \"Navajo Nation\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"1543096\",\n \"text\": \"the United States. The group does not raise funds for political candidates itself, but its members raise money for candidates through PACs AIPAC helped establish and by other means. Its critics have stated it acts as an agent of the Israeli government with a \\\"stranglehold\\\" on the United States Congress with its power and influence. The group has been accused of being strongly allied with the Likud party of Israel, and the Republican Party in the US, but an AIPAC spokesman has called this a \\\"malicious mischaracterization\\\". \\\"The Washington Post\\\" described the perceived differences between AIPAC and J Street: \\\"While\",\n \"title\": \"American Israel Public Affairs Committee\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"17436286\",\n \"text\": \"\\\"faces challenges from similarly ambitious businessmen, the Chinese government and Congress itself\\\" as he continues to pursue his political aspirations. His plotline revolves around battles with billionaire Raymond Tusk (Gerald McRaney), involving Chinese money laundering. Over the course of the season his biggest challenges are the institutional power of the Office of the President and Tusk's power as a billionaire industrialist. He finds new rivals in Tusk, who seeks to maintain his position as Walker's right-hand adviser against Underwood's intrusion, and his former communications director, Remy Danton (Mahershala Ali), who is now a lobbyist working with Tusk. At the beginning\",\n \"title\": \"Frank Underwood (House of Cards)\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"4644691\",\n \"text\": \"a larger United States budget and spending process. They are preceded in that process by the president's budget proposal, congressional budget resolutions, and the 302(b) allocation. Article One of the United States Constitution, section 9, clause 7, states that \\\"No money shall be drawn from the Treasury, but in Consequence of Appropriations made by Law...\\\" This is what gives Congress the power to make these appropriations. The President, however, still has the power to veto appropriations bills. 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Construction was expected to start in November 2018, with commissioning of the 300 megawatts","title":"Kammwamba Thermal Power Station"},{"docid":"12497544","text":"the Government has been doing things for us and telling us what is best for Indians . . . of course there has been no progress . . .\" Progress in education was just one area in which Native Americans were gaining more independence. As tribes began to have more control over their own affairs and have more infrastructure entitled to them, they were able to be in much more command of their space, make more money, which led to power and progress. Native American self-determination Native American self-determination refers to the social movements, legislation, and beliefs by which the","title":"Native American self-determination"},{"docid":"7633173","text":"most famous book, sold over 100,000 copies in China and won acclaim from both the public and economists. She argues in \"Pitfalls\" that, as power has devolved to local government, local officials who at first favored reform later came to oppose further reform which might limit their discretion and so make it harder to trade power for money and money for power. In the latter part of \"Pitfalls\" she also discussed the revival of clan power in southern provinces such as Guangdong and Fujian. Her articles, which point to deep structural problems and declare that thoroughgoing political reform will be","title":"He Qinglian"},{"docid":"573518","text":"African leader who has amassed a stolen fortune, a bank employee who knows of a terminally ill wealthy person with no relatives, or a wealthy foreigner who deposited money in the bank just before dying in a plane crash (leaving no will or known next of kin), a US soldier who has stumbled upon a hidden cache of gold in Iraq, a business being audited by the government, a disgruntled worker or corrupt government official who has embezzled funds, a refugee, and similar characters. The money could be in the form of gold bullion, gold dust, money in a bank","title":"Advance-fee scam"},{"docid":"5313649","text":"Show\" has also covered the Cape Wind project. A feature-length documentary about the Cape Wind project, entitled \"Cape Spin: An American Power Struggle\", had pre-release screenings in the summer of 2011. Wendy Williams and Robert Whitcomb have recently written a book about the project's history called \"Cape Wind: Money, Celebrity, Class, Politics and the Battle for Our Energy Future on Nantucket Sound.\" In an interview, one of the authors states that the fight over Cape Wind is a case of \"a very small group of people, with more money than most of us can possibly imagine, who decided from the","title":"Cape Wind"},{"docid":"314653","text":"administration successfully handled the Panama Canal transfer and has been effective in administering of the Canal. Panama's official counternarcotics cooperation has historically been excellent. For example, officials of the US Drug Enforcement Administration praised the role of Manuel Noriega prior to his falling-out with the US over his own drug dealing. The Panamanian Government expanded money-laundering legislation and concluded with the US a Counternarcotics Maritime Agreement and a Stolen Vehicles Agreement. The Panamanian Government has enforced intellectual property rights and concluded the very important Bilateral Investment Treaty Amendment with the US and an agreement with the Overseas Private Investment Corporation","title":"History of Panama"},{"docid":"13009465","text":"either. People, please think. Are they your leaders? What is the guarantee that these people—who indulge in politics through their money and muscle power—will not target us tomorrow? If they turn against tomorrow, who will be on our side? Kalaignar [Karunanidhi]? Even at that point of time, he will make an announcement that the members of parliament will resign. Then, he will understand (?!) the Central Government. Then, he will once again request for a right decision, and pass a resolution in the Legislative Assembly—like actor Vadivel's comedy in the film Winner where he claims that no one has touched","title":"K. Muthukumar"},{"docid":"62676","text":"in railroads, were men who used the power of government to succeed. They tried to gain subsidies or in some way use government to stop competitors. Crony capitalism Crony capitalism is an economy in which businesses thrive not as a result of risk, but rather as a return on money amassed through a nexus between a business class and the political class. This is done using state power to crush genuine competition in handing out permits, government grants, special tax breaks, or other forms of state intervention over resources where the state exercises monopolist control over public goods, for example,","title":"Crony capitalism"},{"docid":"20600768","text":"project allocated 24 months, the parent company of the main contractor, Isolux Corsán, ran out of money and filed bankruptcy in Spain. In August 2017, Ketraco terminated the contract with Isolux, with about 30 percent of the work completed. In February 2018, the Kenya government, through Ketraco, contracted a consortium of Chinese firms at a cost of US$96 million, to complete the work left pending by Isolux. Work is expected to conclude in August 2018. The consortium, comprising \"NARI Group Corporation\" and \"Power China Guizhou Engineering Company\", has committed in writing to pay US$10 million in fines, for every month","title":"Loiyangalani–Suswa High Voltage Power Line"},{"docid":"17707855","text":"settlements in occupied territory violates international law” and calling on the US, UK, and other countries to address “the matter of long standing Israeli government impunity.” Benedict, has argued that the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has persisted because the U.S. “plays both Arab and Israel sides to generate money, power and control.” He has compared Israel to apartheid South Africa and the Soviet Union, and has implied that he looks forward to Israel's system of oppression falling as those countries systems of oppression fell. He has coordinated a number of anti-Zionist/pro-Palestinian events for AIUK according to Zionist government organisations, and in several","title":"Kristyan Benedict"},{"docid":"676877","text":"with intent to kill, arson, burglary, and larceny within any Territory of the United States. The Supreme Court affirmed the action in 1886 in United States v. Kagama, which affirmed that the US Government has plenary power over Native American tribes within its borders using the rationalization that \"The power of the general government over these remnants of a race once powerful... is necessary to their protection as well as to the safety of those among whom they dwell\" While the federal government of the United States had previously recognized the Indian Tribes as semi-independent, \"it has the right and","title":"Indian Territory"},{"docid":"1709305","text":"agencies. Traditionally, the purchasing power of money depended heavily upon the local value of gold and silver, but was also made subject to the availability and demand of certain goods on the market. Most modern fiat currencies like US dollars are traded against each other and commodity money in the secondary market for the purpose of international transfer of payment for goods and services. As Adam Smith noted, having money gives one the ability to \"command\" others' labor, so purchasing power to some extent is power over other people, to the extent that they are willing to trade their labor","title":"Purchasing power"},{"docid":"2793584","text":"Department of Justice launched a civil lawsuit to seize American assets worth over US$1 billion (4.1 billion MYR) allegedly obtained from US$3.5 billion (14.38 billion MYR) of misappropriated 1MDB funds. Within the civil lawsuit, a government official of high rank who had control over 1MDB was referred to as \"Malaysian Official 1\", and mentioned over 30 times. \"Malaysian Official 1\" was alleged to have received around US$681 million (2.797 billion MYR) of stolen 1MDB money via Falcon Bank, Singapore on 21 and 25 March 2013, of which US$650 million (2.0 bllion MYR) was sent back to Falcon Bank on 30","title":"Najib Razak"},{"docid":"14855087","text":"criticised by representatives of private investors as being too limited and for failing to clarify important concerns. Pricing policy Prices have been another important policy issue in the sector. In an effort to encourage private sector investment, the Indonesian government has been establishing a feed-in tariff scheme by instructing state electricity utility PLN to purchase power from geothermal projects at various rates ranging from around 6.5 US cents to over 12 US cents per kWh. The government is also preparing a regulation that is expected to specify the price that the PLN must purchase power from geothermal plans in the","title":"Geothermal power in Indonesia"},{"docid":"6044552","text":"much of his physical mass. His return to Earth did not prevent his demise; the adverse effects of separation from Earth's environment were irreversible, and Redstone perished. The first supervillain to appear in the \"Supreme Power\" universe, Redstone is what the US government has dubbed a \"Power.\" In essence, he is on par with the likes of Hyperion and Power Princess, but he does not yet exhibit the degree of control over his powers Hyperion possesses, though it can be inferred that this is Redstone's personal choice. Michael Redstone was an imprisoned renegade soldier and serial killer who murdered six","title":"Redstone (comics)"},{"docid":"5999457","text":"order to make the citizens happy. James Madison seemed to have had an issue with who got the power of taxation. He did not believe that the legislative branch had the right to tax to contribute in helping the welfare. Senator Ted Cruz and others believe that the legislative body has the power to limit the executive branch from over-spending. However, Federalist No. 30 argues this idea wrong since Alexander Hamilton had intended for the Constitution to prioritize paying back the debts that America owned. This means that the government would be able to spend more money in order to","title":"Federalist No. 30"},{"docid":"11469906","text":"transactions with US banks. For each attempt, the banks, concerned about the likelihood of fraud, ultimately rejected the transfer or returned the money shortly after receiving it. The government could not account for approximately US$ 2.4 billion over the period of Jaime’s three-year tenure as central bank governor.” The Angolan sovereign wealth fund (Fundo Soberano De Angola) was created in 2011 with an initial capitalization of $5 Billion USD. The President appointed his son, Jose Filomeno dos Santos, as chief executive, who the appointed long time associate Jean Claude Bastos as the funds manager. The fund has since been used","title":"Corruption in Angola"},{"docid":"9022414","text":"he was one of the number who, with Cushing, aided in blowing up the Rebel ram Albemarle, at Plymouth, N. C., October 27, 1864. When he enlisted he was a resident of this city. He is now unable to work and his family are in destitute circumstances. \"Cushing and the officers got all the prize money,\" remarked Hamilton the other day, \"while us privates received nothing. Had I my share, over two thousand dollars, I need not live as I live now. Twelve of us have not received a cent from the government, although the matter has been brought before","title":"Richard Hamilton (Medal of Honor)"},{"docid":"15510741","text":"The criminals who conceal their accounts from the government authorities include big politicians, film stars, cricketers, and businessmen. Some Indian corporations practice transfer mispricing, by under-invoicing their exports and over-invoicing their imports from tax haven countries such as Singapore, UAE, and Hong Kong. Thus the promoters of the public limited companies who hold rarely more than 10% of share capital, earn black money abroad at the cost of majority share holders and tax income to the Indian government. By the year 2008, the cumulative Illicit Financial Out flows from the country touched US$452 billions. Politicians, political parties corrupt higher officials","title":"Indian black money"},{"docid":"1963263","text":"to fossil-fuel based sources amounted to approximately $72 billion over this period and subsidies to renewable fuel sources totalled $29 billion. In the United States, the federal government has paid US$74 billion for energy subsidies to support R&D for nuclear power ($50 billion) and fossil fuels ($24 billion) from 1973 to 2003. During this same time frame, renewable energy technologies and energy efficiency received a total of US$26 billion. It has been suggested that a subsidy shift would help to level the playing field and support growing energy sectors, namely solar power, wind power, and biofuels. History shows that no","title":"Wind power"},{"docid":"17386479","text":"was revealed that \"Dumb and Dumber To\" and \"Daddy's Home\" were also financed by Malaysian government investment fund through corrupt officials and financiers. In March 2018, Red Granite Pictures has agreed to pay US$60 million to the U.S. Justice Department to settle claims it financed 3 Oscar-nominated films, \"Wolf of Wall Street\", \"Daddy's Home\" and \"Dumb and Dumber To\" using over US$100 million funds sourced from 1MDB. Riza is also known as a good friend of Low Taek Jho, who was said to be the mastermind to the 1MDB scandal with money trails linking assets including luxury paintings, a superyacht,","title":"Riza Aziz"},{"docid":"3024743","text":"it. But since there was too many of them, and in many respects the economy is dependent on them, it might lead to greater social problems. In addition, they are very much integrated into the US power elites. Therefore, and because of fears of social unrest, the US government saved them by giving them tax payers' money, helping those who were actually responsible for creating the crisis. Doing it, officials hoped that the economy would work and would start to grow after receiving a huge infusion. But despite Bush's administration 750 billion and Obama's 800 billion dollars investments nothing changed,","title":"Grigory Yavlinsky"},{"docid":"623100","text":"March 1966, Richard has followed the practice of giving away at least a tenth of his income to charity. Richard has stated that two biblical principles have guided him in how to use his money. He said: \"Firstly, it was the love of money (not money itself) that was the root of all evil. Secondly, to be good and responsible stewards of what was entrusted to us.\" In 1990, Richard said: \"Those of us who have something to offer have to be prepared to give all the time.\" For over 40 years Richard has been a supporter of Tearfund, a","title":"Cliff Richard"},{"docid":"4511991","text":"informed Parliament that Thirteen people, including four former Ministers, have been charged with corruption and money laundering offences. An international arrest warrant has been issued for former Premier Michael Misick. It is now for the courts to decide whether the persons charged are guilty. The investigations and prosecutions will proceed independently of a future elected Government. A civil recovery team was appointed to recover property and redress loses arising from corruption. The team has made significant progress including over 40 separate recoveries of money and/or land. Over US$12million has been recovered, including payments already made, judgements obtained and still to","title":"Politics of the Turks and Caicos Islands"},{"docid":"7154832","text":"his 2006–2008 \"Dark Side of the Moon Live\" tour, his 2010–2011 \"The Wall\" tour and David Gilmour's 2006 On an Island tour); saxophonist Dick Parry during \"Money\" (who played on the original recordings of \"Money\", \"Us and Them\", and \"Shine on You Crazy Diamond\"); and backing singer Carol Kenyon during \"Comfortably Numb\". During \"Breathe\", on the screen behind them, film of the iconic pig from the \"Animals\" album was shown flying over Battersea Power Station (itself visible on the horizon in television broadcasts of the performance), and during \"Money\", a shot of \"The Dark Side of the Moon\" record being","title":"Pink Floyd live performances"},{"docid":"8743198","text":"Supreme Court recognizes Federal control over navigable waterways is absolute, see Phillips Petrol v. Mississippi, 484 US 469,480 (1988), the public interest is not absolute, Dardar v. Lafourche Realty Co., Inc., 55 F.3d 1082 (5th Cir.1995). The government has the power to reroute a waterway (South Carolina v. Georgia, 93 U.S. 4 (1876)); block a navigable creek (U.S. v. Commodore Park, 324 U.S. 386(1945)); or completely de-water a river (United States v. Chandler-Dunbar Water Power Co., 229 U.S. 53 (1913)), each without recourse by those who are adversely affected by the reduction in navigable capacity. One court has held that","title":"Navigable servitude"},{"docid":"11597225","text":"to capitalize on developments\". In the meantime the government had quietly informed local officials that the agreements were a \"tactical retreat\" to buy time before decisive putting down the Buddhist movement. Diệm's regime stalled on implementing the release of Buddhists who had been released for protesting against it. This led to a discussion within the US government to push for the removal of the Nhus, who were regarded as the extremist influence over Diệm, from power. Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr. was also announced as the new US ambassador effective in late August, replacing Nolting, who had been considered too close","title":"Joint Communiqué"},{"docid":"18973196","text":"arrested by the MACC. In September 2018, he faced 25 charges relating to abuse of power and money laundering amounting to RM 2.3 billion (US$ 556 million) on top of seven charges with criminal breach of trust and power abuse brought against him in the preceding two months. The government has also issued arrest warrants against Jho Low and former director of SRC International Nik Faisal Ariff Kamil in a graft probe related to the state fund 1MDB. On 28 June 2018, two days before the end of the employment contract, 1MDB sacked its President and Chief Executive Officer Arul","title":"1Malaysia Development Berhad scandal"},{"docid":"3997009","text":"began to focus on financial matters, resuming his long-standing policy against the power of banks. This placed Randall in the growing fight over the nature of the nation's currency—those who favored the gold-backed currency were called \"hard money\" supporters, while the policy of encouraging inflation through coining silver or issuing dollars backed by government bonds (\"greenbacks\") was known as \"soft money\". Although he believed in a gold-backed dollar, Randall was friendly to greenbacks; in general, he favored allowing the amount of currency to remain constant, while replacing bank-issued dollar bills with greenbacks. He also believed the federal government should sell","title":"Samuel J. Randall"},{"docid":"12197139","text":"post. The real power is held by the Prime Minister, who is the head of government. The president is elected by the legislature every five years and has normally limited powers that are substantially expanded during the tenure of a caretaker government, mainly in controlling the transition to a new government. Bangladesh has instituted a unique system of transfer of power; at the end of the tenure of the government, power is handed over to members of a civil society for three months, who run the general elections and transfer the power to elected representatives. This system was first practiced","title":"Government of Bangladesh"},{"docid":"415190","text":"a shark sanctuary. According to the US Central Intelligence Agency's list of countries by GDP (PPP) Tokelau has the smallest economy of any country in the world. Tokelau has an annual purchasing power of about US$1,000 (€674) per capita. The government is almost entirely dependent on subsidies from New Zealand. It has annual revenues of less than US$500,000 (€336,995) against expenditures of some US$2.8 million (€1.9 million). The deficit is made up by aid from New Zealand. Tokelau annually exports around US$100,000 (€67,000) of stamps, copra and woven and carved handicrafts and imports over US$300,000 (€202,000) of foodstuffs, building materials,","title":"Tokelau"},{"docid":"2486631","text":"of awarding out contracts to US firms after the ousting of the Ba'ath regime and criticised Washington over the plans for a US-led civilian authority to hand out reconstruction contracts without the approval of an elected Iraqi government. In April 2003, the US government awarded the Bechtel Corporation a $680-million-contract to help rebuild Iraq's power, water and sewage systems as well as repair air and sea ports, Pachachi slammed this decision saying \"No one has the right to commit Iraq to obligations and costs, only an Iraqi government can do that. A parliament should also endorse the agreements.\" After much","title":"Adnan Pachachi"},{"docid":"4490914","text":"Georgia Lottery The Georgia Lottery Corporation, known as the Georgia Lottery, is overseen by the government of Georgia, United States. Headquartered in Atlanta, the lottery takes in over US$1 billion yearly. By law, half of the money goes to prizes, one-third to education, and the remainder to operating and marketing the lottery. The education money funds the HOPE Scholarship, and has become a successful model for other lotteries, including the South Carolina Education Lottery. Long unconstitutional in a highly conservative U.S. state, a government-run lottery was explicitly allowed in a 1992 constitutional amendment to Article I, Section II, Paragraph VIII","title":"Georgia Lottery"},{"docid":"9975723","text":"girlfriend wanted his money and access to his power. Winter wants money, power, beauty. Perhaps the only reason that she wants money and beauty is the access they afford her to power over others. Midnight is perhaps the only character who seems immune to greed and lust, as he \"has plans\" for living well legally. Midnight: A Gangster Love Story Midnight and the Meaning of Love A Moment of Silence (Midnight III) A Deeper Love Inside: The Porsche Santiaga Story According to the May 2008 issue of \"Vibe Magazine\", Jada Pinkett Smith was developing a film based on the book","title":"The Coldest Winter Ever"},{"docid":"20477596","text":"a third line will provide desalinated water from the Red Sea. Cairo has suffered from multiple power outages over the past few years and the government has struggled to meet demand. This has raised concerns that the government will prioritise the new capital leaving Cairo’s inhabitants with the unsolved issue of power shortages. The Egyptian Pound has experienced a 98% drop in value relative to the US dollar since the start of 1960 with a volatility score of 18.2. The lack of stability combined with rampant devaluation has made it difficult for the private sector to afford imports of basic","title":"Economy of the Egyptian Armed Forces"},{"docid":"20873346","text":"Jacques Clamorgan Jacques Clamorgan was an adventurer, fur trader and land owner from the West Indies. In 1781, he arrived in St. Louis and soon became wealthy. He laid claim to over 1 million acres of Upper Louisiana land. The government offered $8 million (In 2011 $US) in response to Clamorgan's land claims. Clamorgan refused to accept the money. Due to Clamorgan's power in the region he was given a seat in the Court of Quarter Sessions, a governmental body that existed for St. Louis composed of Judicial, Executive and Legislative powers. In a tax evasion effort, Clamorgan set his","title":"Jacques Clamorgan"},{"docid":"18689064","text":"Resistance Movement captured power in 1986. This led to a 20-year civil war in Northern Uganda, with the school campus at the centre of it, as the Lord's Resistance Army rebels invaded and ransacked the school, making it near-impossible to teach or learn. In the period between the cessation of hostilities between the UPDF and LRA on Ugandan soil in 2006 and 2010, the Government of Belgium in collaboration with the Government of Uganda, renovated the school at a cost of UGX:6 billion (approx. US$2.4 million in 2010 money). The Belgian government contributed 81.7% of the funds (approx. US$1.96 million),","title":"Sir Samuel Baker Secondary School"},{"docid":"18341759","text":"Angeles, with oversight of twelve city agencies, including the Port of Los Angeles, Department of Water and Power and the Housing Authority, with over 17,000 employees. As Deputy Mayor he focused on making the city more business-friendly and streamlining permitting processes. \"When I first heard of his appointment and that he had this Wall Street background and a lot of money, I was skeptical,\" says María Elena Durazo, the Los Angeles head of the AFL-CIO. \"And nobody called us to ask what we thought.\" Like most everybody who has worked with him, though, Durazo came away impressed. \"I'm so used","title":"Austin Beutner"},{"docid":"12073785","text":"regime. There were also restrictions placed on trade with Zimbabwe, by both individual businesses and the US Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control. A monetarist view is that a general increase in the prices of things is less a commentary on the worth of those things than on the worth of the money. This has objective and subjective components: Crucial to both components is discipline over the creation of additional money. However, the Mugabe government was printing money to finance involvement in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and, in 2000, in the Second Congo War, including higher salaries","title":"Hyperinflation in Zimbabwe"},{"docid":"2852812","text":"which is the case in 2012 for many such UK bonds, or (b) the government or other issuer defaults on the bond). This allows investors of all types to preserve the purchasing power of their money even at times of high inflation. For example, assuming 3.88% inflation over the course of 1 year (just about the 56 year average inflation rate, through most of 2006), and a real yield of 2.61% (the fixed US Treasury real yield on October 19, 2006, for a 5 yr TIPS), the adjusted principal of the fixed income would rise from 100 to 103.88 and","title":"Fixed income"},{"docid":"15774418","text":"that \"the day before US missiles began raining down on ... Libya ... security forces under the control of Yemen's US-backed president, Ali Abdullah Saleh, massacred more than fifty people who were participating in an overwhelmingly peaceful protest\". The Obama administration has since called for Saleh to hand over power to his vice president and commit to a transition to plural democracy for Yemen, but its comparative sluggishness in supporting the Yemeni protest movement versus its swift backing of Libyan protesters and rebel fighters faced some criticism. American academic and investigative journalist Nir Rosen also criticized the U.S. government for","title":"International reactions to the Arab Spring"},{"docid":"5841124","text":"the coast of Texas. Cruz rejects the scientific consensus on climate change. He has said that \"the scientific evidence doesn't support global warming\". He has also stated: \"They call anyone who questions the science who even points to the satellite data – they call you a, quote, 'denier'. Denier is not the language of science. Denier is the language of religion. It is heretic. You are a blasphemer. It's treated as a theology. But it's about power and money. At the end of the day, it's not complicated. This is liberal politicians who want government power.\" In March 2015, he","title":"Ted Cruz"},{"docid":"17476792","text":"other hand, American wind energy generates only 34% of its full capacity. The entire wind energy project is set to cost 3 billion dollars. Uruguay is aiming to develop solar energy in the near future. A private entity called Tecnova Renovables has a solar power plant that now provides the equivalent of the electrical consumption of 100 homes. The government is also developing plans for solar power. The fact that it is very unpredictable is the reason why the government remains suspect in investing large amounts of money in this energy source. Hydroelectric energy used to produce over half of","title":"Environmental issues in Uruguay"},{"docid":"7178186","text":"to showcase the ancient Dilmun Burial Mounds, telling MPs that the money should be used to construct housing over the extensive mounds, saying \"We must have pride in our Islamic roots and not some ancient civilisation from another place and time, which has only given us a jar here and a bone there.\" Along with Al-Menbar Islamic Society's Sheikh Mohammed Khalid, Sheikh Al Mouwda has clashed repeatedly with government ministers in parliament over alcohol sales and claimed credit for enforcing a ban on alcohol in five star hotels over Ramadan 2006. He has vowed to \"Clean Bahrain's tourism sector from","title":"Adel Mouwda"},{"docid":"6151432","text":"March 30, 1998, Ali Mahdi Mohamed and Hussein Aidid formed a peace plan which shared power over Mogadishu, ending a period of seven years of fighting after the ouster of Siad Barre. On February 23, 1999, militiamen loyal to Aidid murdered 60 civilians in Baidoa and Daynunay. Hussein Aidid refused to recognize the newly forming Djibouti-backed Mogadishu-based Transitional Federal Government (TFG), accusing it of \"harboring militant Islamist sympathizers.\" Instead he formed the rival Somali Reconciliation and Restoration Council (SRRC) in early 2001. At some time during late 2001, he advised US President George W. Bush that a money transfer and","title":"Hussein Farrah Aidid"},{"docid":"4028909","text":"reduction of the administration of our government; I mean an additional article taking from the Federal Government the power of borrowing. I now deny their power of making paper money or anything else a legal tender. I know that to pay all proper expenses within the year would, in a case of war, be hard on us. But not so hard as ten wars instead of one. For wars could be reduced in that proportion; besides that, the State governments would be free to lend their credit in borrowing quotas. The issue of the federal debt was next addressed by","title":"Balanced budget amendment"},{"docid":"18973209","text":"and the nature of the former's involvement in multibillion-dollar deals with 1MDB. Tim Leissner, the former chairman of Goldman Sachs' Southeast Asia branch and husband of Kimora Lee Leissner was issued a subpoena by the DOJ as part of their investigations. Within the July 2016 DOJ civil lawsuit, a high-ranking government official having control over 1MDB, who was referred to and mentioned over 30 times as \"Malaysian Official 1\" (\"MO1\"), was alleged to have received around US$ 681 million (RM 2.8 billion) of stolen 1MDB money via Falcon Bank in Singapore on 21 and 25 March 2013, of which US$","title":"1Malaysia Development Berhad scandal"},{"docid":"4601823","text":"money, which is currency that takes its value from the government declaration or law which assigns the said value to it. As such, this kind of money is not inherently valuable, but may be used in transactions as long as it is said to be legal tender. The use of fiat money is now more common than the use of hard money, especially on an international level. The US dollar, for instance, is an example of a fiat currency. In the US, hard money is sometimes referred to as Bentonian, after Senator Thomas Hart Benton, who was an advocate for","title":"Hard money (policy)"},{"docid":"5283444","text":"to US$2bn in nominal terms over 25 years. It has been estimated that at a 10% discount rate the net present value of the revenues will be six times higher than the net present value from the debt service, if all government equity was funded through concessionary lending. Revenues are expected to increase progressively from approximately US$10 million in 2009 to US$110 to 150 million per year at the end of the concession period in 2033. Thereafter the government will receive all revenues accruing to the project. The Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) between EGAT and NTPC was designed as to","title":"Nam Theun 2 Dam"},{"docid":"815036","text":"government is required to reach this aim – indeed, it is well known in economic literature that governments face a conflict of interest in this regard. In fact, \"hard money\" advocates argue that central banks have utterly failed to obtain the objective of a stable currency. Under the gold standard, for example, the price level in both England and the US remained relatively stable over hundreds of years, though with some protracted periods of deflation. Since the US Federal Reserve was formed in 1913, however, the US dollar has fallen to barely a twentieth of its former value through the","title":"Seigniorage"},{"docid":"15668624","text":"transaction involved AIG receiving a premium in exchange for a promise to pay money to party A in the event party B defaulted. However, AIG did not have the financial strength to support its many CDS commitments as the crisis progressed and was taken over by the government in September 2008. US taxpayers provided over $180 billion in government support to AIG during 2008 and early 2009, through which the money flowed to various counterparties to CDS transactions, including many large global financial institutions. The Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission (FCIC) made the major government study of the crisis. It concluded","title":"Financial crisis of 2007–2008"},{"docid":"12476874","text":"attacks in 2001, when concern increased over the financing of terrorism. The \"Washington Post\" reported that: \"International authorities say Nauru is increasingly providing cover for Russian organized crime\" and quoted a senior US Government official: The central bank of Russia has come to us and confirmed that large amounts of Russian capital are flowing into and out of Nauru, and that has raised concerns on their part and on ours and certainly raised suspicions. In 2000, the President of Nauru, René Harris, responded to claims of illegal money movements by saying \"Nauru does not tolerate criminal activities in its financial","title":"Nauru–Russia relations"},{"docid":"14297870","text":"part of Lagardère's 7.5 % stake in EADS in April 2006, allowing that latter to partially escape the June 2006 losses. Boeing has continually protested over \"launch aid\" and other forms of government aid to Airbus, while Airbus has argued that Boeing receives illegal subsidies through military and research contracts and tax breaks. In July 2004 former Boeing CEO Harry Stonecipher accused Airbus of abusing a 1992 bilateral EU-US agreement providing for disciplines for large civil aircraft support from governments. Airbus is given reimbursable launch investment (RLI), called \"launch aid\" by the US, from European governments with the money being","title":"Airbus"},{"docid":"2678867","text":"money to buy Nike Mercurys. Feeling personally responsible for the girl's death, Buy's life begins to go downhill. He contemplates suicide until he gets help from Jennifer Government, who he then begins dating. He becomes a part of both Jennifer and her daughter's life. Violet eventually sells her software to ExxonMobil who take her all over the world to exploit the software's power. This sudden disappearance leads Hack to turn to Claire, Violet's sister, which in turn destroys Violet and Hack's relationship. After the company uses Violet's virus, they never pay Violet the sums due. Angered, Violet joins ranks with","title":"Jennifer Government"},{"docid":"18701996","text":"collusion between the judicial system, the media, and government regulators. The people who carry out these raids typically work in business or government positions of power, which gives them access to the resources and power necessary to takeover the business. In recent history, corporate raiding has usually taken place in Russia and other former Soviet bloc countries such as Bulgaria. Corporate Commercial Bank's commercial activities made up 10 percent of Bulgaria's GDP at one time. It was the country’s fourth-largest bank. However, because of the deployment of a deliberate corporate raiding scheme, Corpbank was shut down, it depositors’ money was","title":"Sotir Tsatsarov"},{"docid":"16605504","text":"the US Fifth Fleet; the US Department of Defense considers the location critical for its ability to counter Iranian military power in the region. The Saudi Arabian government and other Gulf region governments strongly support the King of Bahrain. Although government officials and media often accuse the opposition of being influenced by Iran, a government-appointed commission found no evidence supporting the claim. Iran has historically claimed Bahrain as a province, but the claim was dropped after a UN 1970 survey found that most Bahraini people preferred independence over Iranian control. Bahrainis have protested sporadically throughout the last decades demanding social,","title":"Day of Rage (Bahrain)"},{"docid":"661117","text":"enough, whether the Federal Reserve is a public Cartel of private banks (also called a private banking cartel) established to protect powerful financial interests, fears of inflation, high government deficits, and whether the Federal Reserve's actions increased the severity of the Great Depression in the 1930s (and/or the severity or frequency of other boom-bust economic cycles, such as the late 2000s recession). Regarding the first question, at issue was not the federal government’s right to coin or originate US money (because the US government had already done so in the past by issuing Greenbacks) and it is a sovereign power","title":"Federal Reserve Act"},{"docid":"11438173","text":"Chinese power equipment maker over the past couple of years to $10 billion, making it the largest contract between a private Indian company and a government-owned Chinese firm. While Reliance Power has also given a $2.2 billion deal to US-based General Electric, the agreement signed with SEC is on a different plane. The Chinese company will supply boiler, turbine and generator packages for up to 30,000 MW capacity of coal-based power at six plants, including the 4000 MW ultra mega power project in Krishnapatnam, the 3960 MW Project in Chitrangi and the 4000 MW Power Project in Tilaiya. Reliance Power","title":"Reliance Power"},{"docid":"19480284","text":"could be removed for US$3.99. He chose not to sell virtual currency or power-ups so that those who paid would not have an advantage over players who did not. As there was no money to advertise for the game, the only way to advertise was the various \"let's plays\" by players on YouTube, including PewDiePie, who had more than 47 million subscribers at the time. In the weeks following the release, Howse worked on updates to stabilize the game and provide a better experience for players. In addition, he plans to add new features, such as a “friendly mode” that","title":"Slither.io"},{"docid":"7569501","text":"occupation forces that keep dropping bombs, and the so-called technocrats, who have compromised in exchange for money and power.\" Joya is a controversial figure within her native Afghanistan. More recently, she has drawn harsh criticism from some female parliamentary members who contend that her remarks pertaining to the Politicians of Afghanistan, who battled the Soviets, are unwarranted and disingenuous. Joya has written a memoir with Canadian writer Derrick O'Keefe. The US and Canadian version of the book was published in October 2009 by Scribner under the title of \"A Woman Among Warlords: The Extraordinary Story of an Afghan Who Dared","title":"Malalai Joya"},{"docid":"6189021","text":"stripped assets and transferred the money abroad to offshore tax havens like the Bahamas. This scam turned out to be a huge success for Kožený and those working with him, who allegedly stole millions of dollars from investors in his funds. In 1994, Kožený wanted to conduct a similar transaction in Azerbaijan. The country was considering privatizing its state run oil company, and Kožený offered his services. US investors handed their money to him, over $400 million in total from clients such as AIG and Columbia University. The Azerbaijan government changed its mind on privatization, but Kožený did not return","title":"Viktor Kožený"},{"docid":"12440859","text":"Fossil fuels receive large direct and indirect subsidies, such as tax benefits and not having to pay for the greenhouse gases they emit, such as through a carbon tax. Renewable energy sources receive proportionately large direct production subsidies and tax breaks in many nations, although in absolute terms they are often less than subsidies received by non-renewable energy sources. In Europe, the FP7 research program has more subsidies for nuclear power than for renewable and energy efficiency together; over 70% of this is directed at the ITER fusion project. In the US, public research money for nuclear fission declined from","title":"Nuclear power debate"},{"docid":"4223984","text":"the government and the National Assembly, even though 70% of its composition were BDG members, the Gabonese president dissolved the legislature on 21 January 1964 as an \"economy measure\". The electoral conditions were announced as such: The election 67 districts were reduced to 47. M'ba disqualified Aubame by announcing no one who held a post recently was banned. Any party would have to submit 47 candidates who had to pay US$160 or none at all. Thus, over US$7,500 would be deposited without considering campaign expenses. M'ba's idea was that no party other than his would have the money to enter","title":"Jean-Hilaire Aubame"},{"docid":"5479221","text":"paid US$20 million annually to over one hundred attorneys. Behar maintained that though the Church of Scientology portrays itself as a religion, it was actually a \"hugely profitable global racket\" which intimidated members and critics in a Mafia-like manner. Cynthia Kisser, then director of the Cult Awareness Network, was quoted: \"Scientology is quite likely the most ruthless, the most classically terroristic, the most litigious and the most lucrative cult the country has ever seen. No cult extracts more money from its members\". The Church of Scientology responded to the publication of \"The Thriving Cult of Greed and Power\" by taking","title":"The Thriving Cult of Greed and Power"},{"docid":"4339885","text":"for a line of T-shirts. He is currently a member of the crew OGs and was involved with the collective's first release, OG Season. P Money Is Power – P Money's debut album. The album received mixed reviews, with some people doubting the strength of some productions on the CD. However praise has been given to tracks such as the remix of \"What Did He Say\" and \"Sounds and Gimmicks\". Money Over Everyone – Money Over Everyone is the 2nd purchasable release from South London artist P Money. It follows on from 2008's P Money Is Power which fans and","title":"P Money"},{"docid":"16283295","text":"a $1.2 billion loan guarantee from the US government for the project. The plant is expected to generate 617,000 MWh of power annually, enough power for more than 88,000 households and to prevent the emission of over 430 kilotons of CO a year. Pacific Gas & Electric has agreed to a 25-year power purchase agreement. The plant was commissioned on 1st December, 2014. Using the desert's solar thermal energy, the facility generates steam in solar steam generators, which expands through a steam turbine generator to produce electrical power from twin, independently operable solar fields, each feeding a 125 MW power","title":"Mojave Solar Project"},{"docid":"6827377","text":"million (US$269,000). Both the number of participants and amount of money raised rose drastically over the years with 30,000 people running in 2007 (₹79.4 million, US$1,490,000). The 2017 edition hosted 42,000 runners (₹ US$329 million5,087,761). This special category is meant for highly motivated individuals who feel passionately about a cause and commit to raise a substantial sum of funds. Over the years, the Dream Team has seen a mix of business magnates, celebrities, socialites, NGO trustees and students. Levels include: The Corporate Challenge is a category for companies who wish to sponsor employee teams to participate in event and raise","title":"Mumbai Marathon"},{"docid":"20593083","text":"to support the work of the social enterprise. Our Power now has over 80 employees based in Edinburgh. It works with 67 social housing providers, community organisations and local authorities as members, and provides heat and power to around 21,000 households. The company has partnered with the charity Money Advice Scotland to launch a variable tariff for customers on restricted meters, who are unable to switch providers or access tariffs available to single rate meter customers. With the aim of turning a profit by 2020, its fourth year of operation, Our Power has now made its first forays outside Scotland:","title":"Our Power (Scotland)"},{"docid":"2073829","text":"to tax. We believe that power should be minimized\", critics at the Cato Institute have argued that \"holding the line on taxes constrains only one of the four tools (taxes, tax deductions, spending without taxation, and regulation) used by government to alter economic outcomes.\" Norquist published \"Leave Us Alone: Getting the Government's Hands Off Our Money, Our Guns, Our Lives\", in 2008. In 2012, he published \"Debacle: Obama's War on Jobs and Growth and What We Can Do Now to Regain Our Future\", with John R. Lott, Jr. He has served as a monthly \"Politics\" columnist and contributing editor to","title":"Grover Norquist"},{"docid":"9014286","text":"intervention, which is fundamentally financial. Historically, the relationship between power and economy has been defined within a narrow scope, primarily as the mercantilism of the Modern Age. However, since the U.S. stock market crash of 1929, four contemporary positions have emerged: A fifth power could refer to the influence money can have in blurring the separation of powers, influencing the decisions of a government and legislation, and misapplication of the principle of equality before law. It can also refer to monetary systems and in the processes involved in the creating of money, the way money is supplied and how the","title":"Fifth power"},{"docid":"238466","text":"WHO, WIPO, WMO Politics of Liberia Politics of Liberia takes place in a framework of a presidential representative democratic republic modeled on the government of the United States, whereby the President is the head of state and head of government; unlike the United States, however, Liberia is a unitary state as opposed to a federation and has a pluriform rather than the two-party system that characterizes US politics. Executive power is exercised by the government. Legislative power is vested in both the government and the two chambers of the legislature. Liberia is still in transition from dictatorship and civil war","title":"Politics of Liberia"},{"docid":"9557637","text":"of a South Pars phase by the Norwegian Statoil company has become infamous after extensive report of misconduct and bribery to the Horton Investments, an Iranian consultancy firm owned by Mehdi Hashemi Rafsanjani, son of former Iranian President Hashemi Rafsanjani. Statoil committed to spending US $300 million to construct three production platforms and a pipeline. The government of Mr Ahmadinejad, who came to power in 2005, has favoured local firms over foreign companies in the energy and other sectors. By the beginning of 2008, phases 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 have been brought to production and by the end","title":"South Pars/North Dome Gas-Condensate field"},{"docid":"9948929","text":"size every 3.5 years, and has every four years since. In 2008 Emirates paid dividends worth US$776 million to the Government of Dubai. The government has received Dhs3.1 billion from Emirates since dividends started being paid in 1999 for having provided an initial start-up capital of US$10m and an additional investment of circa US$80m at the time of the airline's inception. The Dubai government is the sole owner of the company. However, it does not put any new money into it, nor does it interfere with running the airline. Emirates has diversified into related industries and sectors, including airport services,","title":"The Emirates Group"},{"docid":"8707851","text":"and after a series of clever moves he obtains and then sells power of attorney over Charles' estate to Monsieur Guillaumin. Guillaumin attempts to have Emma repay him with sexual favors; however, she refuses and tries to borrow money from other people. She first asks Leon for the money. However, Leon admits that he is actually only a clerk at the law firm he works for, and has no money to lend her. Emma then asks Rodolphe, who has returned to Yonville. At first, Emma tries flirting with him; then, she breaks down and begs him for money. Rodolphe refuses","title":"Madame Bovary (1949 film)"},{"docid":"17188663","text":"markets. 9. Management of minor water bodies PESA gives to the Gram Panchayats the power to manage minor water bodies. Minor Water Bodies are generally water bodies which irrigate up to 100 Hectares of land. The rights to fishery and other riparian rights also accrue to the Gram Panchayats. 10. Exercising control over money lending Money Lending, especially usurious money lending, has been a problem of long-standing in the Scheduled areas. This arises, especially because of lack of institutional credit. PESA allows Gram Sabhas to exercise control over money-lending activities. 11. Power of Gram Sabha to exercise control over institutions","title":"Panchayats (Extension to Scheduled Areas) Act 1996"},{"docid":"15255024","text":"with those opposed to the liberal elements, led by Texas Senator Ralph Yarborough. After the assassination of John F. Kennedy in 1963, Johnson became president. In 1965, Johnson appointed Clark as the US ambassador to Australia. In 1972, Clark supported Richard Nixon for president over George McGovern. In 1974, President Nixon appointed Clark to the General Advisory Committee of the United States Arms Control and Disarmament Agency. Later, Clark supported Ronald Reagan, who became president. In 2003, Barr McClellan, an attorney who had been employed by Clark's law firm in Austin, published \"Blood, Money & Power: How LBJ Killed JFK\".","title":"Edward A. Clark"},{"docid":"1422629","text":"ask for the money back, banks have to maintain minimum reserves to service customer needs. If the reserve requirement is 10% then, in the earlier example, the bank can lend $90 and thus the money supply increases by only $90. The reserve requirement therefore acts as a limit on this multiplier effect. Because the reserve requirement only applies to the more narrow forms of money creation (corresponding to M1), but does not apply to certain types of deposits (such as time deposits), reserve requirements play a limited role in monetary policy. Currently, the US government maintains over US$800 billion in","title":"Monetary policy of the United States"},{"docid":"11883471","text":"population. However, in the rural area agriculture employs up to 80% of the population. In 2001, the agricultural sector generated US$432 million and 30% of national exports. According to the Irrigation Vice-Ministry, the agricultural sector in the eastern part of Bolivia generated US$2,160 million exporting soya, sunflower and sugarcane products. The agricultural sector of the western part of Bolivia is mostly focused on subsistence agriculture and local markets. In addition, frequent government changes over the last five years and social tensions have undermined progress in poverty reduction. The Government of President Morales—Bolivia’s first indigenous President—who came into power in January","title":"Irrigation in Bolivia"},{"docid":"1785501","text":"that the United States was unable to gain access since the establishment of Pakistan in 1947. Former US Attorney General Ramsey Clark widely suspected the United States' involvement in bringing down the Bhutto's government, and publicly accused the United States' Government after attending the trial. On the other hand, the United States refused any involvement in Bhutto's fall, and argued that it was Bhutto who had alienated himself over the five years. While witnessing the dramatic fall of Bhutto, one US diplomat in American Embassy in Islamabad wrote that: After assuming power as Chief Martial Law Administrator, Zia shortly appeared","title":"Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq"},{"docid":"3156439","text":"US dollars. Before this currency regime was in place, if the government had needed money to finance a budget deficit, it could simply print more money (thus creating inflation). Under the new system, if the government spent more than it earned through taxation in a given year, it needed to cover the gap with US dollars, rather than by simply printing more money. The only way the government could get these US dollars to finance the gap was through higher tax of exporters' earnings or through borrowing the needed US dollars. A fixed exchange rate was incompatible with a structural","title":"Debt of developing countries"},{"docid":"327979","text":"Crown a leadership role in the Commons; and, the Lord Treasurer assumed a leading position among Ministers. The power of financial initiative was not, however, absolute. Only Ministers might initiate money bills, but Parliament now reviewed and consented to them. Standing Order 66 therefore represents the beginnings of Ministerial responsibility and accountability. The term \"Prime Minister\" appears at this time as an unofficial title for the leader of the government, usually the Head of the Treasury. Jonathan Swift, for example, wrote in 1713 about \"those who are now commonly called Prime Minister among us\", referring to Sidney Godolphin, 1st Earl","title":"Prime Minister of the United Kingdom"},{"docid":"13727965","text":"laws concerning foreign specie. It fixed the weight and measure of US one-cent pieces at 4.655 grams, which was composed of 88% copper and 12% nickel. It also mandated that this new copper/nickel alloy be received as payment for the worn gold and silver coins turned in at the mint. The effective aim was to limit the domestic money supply by crushing European competition. This was the first major step towards the government essentially having a monopoly over the money supply. The act drastically altered American business. For decades, those who had accepted any form of payment as long as","title":"Coinage Act of 1857"},{"docid":"4032493","text":"US government and agencies. Can be considered of any money fund that is not a Treasury or Tax-exempt fund. A Government money fund (as of the SEC's July 24, 2014 rule release) is one that invests at least 99.5% of its total assets in cash, government securities, and/or repurchase agreements that are “collateralized fully” (i.e., collateralized by cash or government securities). A Treasury fund is a type of government money fund that invests in US Treasury Bills, Bonds and Notes. The fund invests primarily in obligations of state and local jurisdictions (\"municipal securities\") generally exempt from U.S. Federal Income Tax","title":"Money market fund"},{"docid":"20080275","text":"to sell the artifacts to the US Government for three-hundred-million dollars. At the end of the game you find the artifacts deep in the mine, of which are next to Chris Crowley, who you learn is a part of the deal with the US Government for the artifacts. After trying to convince him to tell you where Stuart is, he is shot by someone behind you. You turn around, and it's Stuart. He points the gun at you and tells you to hand over the power crystal. You do as he asks, and he then goes behind a rock and","title":"Mummy: Tomb of the Pharaoh"},{"docid":"18564449","text":"brother and his \"testaferro\" Rafael Sarria. OFAC stated that Cabello and others used their power within the Bolivarian government \"to personally profit from extortion, money laundering, and embezzlement\", with Cabello allegedly directing drug trafficking activities with Vice President of Venezuela, Tareck El Aissami while dividing profits with President Nicolás Maduro. The Office also stated that Cabello would use public information to track wealth individuals who were potentially drug trafficking and steal their drugs and property in order to get rid of potential competition. Tareck El Aissami was sanctioned by the US Treasury Department on 13 February 2017 under the Foreign","title":"Cartel of the Suns"},{"docid":"10539900","text":"equipment. ITXC Corporation ITXC Corporation (Internet Telephony Exchange Carrier) was a US-based wholesale provider of Voice over IP (VoiP), Internet-based phone calls. It was co-founded by Tom Evslin and his wife Mary in 1997 with seed money from AT&T and VocalTec (). In 2000, it had the largest Internet telephony network in the world. The company was acquired by Teleglobe Bermuda Ltd. in 2004. The technology to power ITXC's voice over IP network was initially provided by Israeli company VocalTec, who also owned 20% of the company but later sold its stake. In 2003 the company moved to exclusively use","title":"ITXC Corporation"},{"docid":"10539899","text":"ITXC Corporation ITXC Corporation (Internet Telephony Exchange Carrier) was a US-based wholesale provider of Voice over IP (VoiP), Internet-based phone calls. It was co-founded by Tom Evslin and his wife Mary in 1997 with seed money from AT&T and VocalTec (). In 2000, it had the largest Internet telephony network in the world. The company was acquired by Teleglobe Bermuda Ltd. in 2004. The technology to power ITXC's voice over IP network was initially provided by Israeli company VocalTec, who also owned 20% of the company but later sold its stake. In 2003 the company moved to exclusively use Cisco's","title":"ITXC Corporation"},{"docid":"19870531","text":"date, the center has helped over 40,000 animals return to their wild habitat, representing over 200 species. The money for the farm comes mostly from small donations. Bigger donations come from events like the open house where people tour the farm, a government grant for summer internships, and money from the TV show. In an interview with a local paper, Swinimer admits the show is \"a little hammed up,\" but it brings money into the rehab centre and children from all over the country write letters asking about the animals. A volunteer tells of meeting people in South Africa who","title":"Hope for Wildlife"},{"docid":"2462205","text":"as Mayor of Greater Manchester, he described the new powers for northern cities as \"the dawn of a new era\". Burnham feels the government does not invest enough money in the North of England. Burnham said, “Almost five years after the government promised us a northern powerhouse, we learn that public spending in the north has fallen while rising in the south. This has got to stop and it is time that the north came to the front of the queue for public investment.” Burnham has a brother, Nick, who is the principal of Cardinal Newman College, Preston. Burnham married","title":"Andy Burnham"},{"docid":"17629228","text":"President, would amount to ‘a coup against Palestinian legitimacy and the will of the Palestinian people’ The US and Israel attempted to undermine Hamas and force it from power while strengthening the position of President Abbas. The new government clashed with President Abbas, who shared power with it based on the Basic Law. Through presidential decrees, Abbas took exclusive presidential authority over several administrative powers and periodically made threats of dismissal. After refusing to accept the plan of the Hamas-led PA government to reform the security sector loyal to Abbas and Fatah, Abbas placed the security forces under his direct","title":"Battle of Gaza (2007)"},{"docid":"18594701","text":"a private psychology practice. John Ehrenreich John Ehrenreich (born February 20, 1943) is an American author, academic, and clinical psychologist who has published books on health policy, humanitarian policy, US history and US social policy. His newest book, \"Third Wave Capitalism: How Money, Power, and the Pursuit of Self-Interest have Imperiled the American Dream\", was published in 2016 by Cornell University Press in 2016. It was described by Washington Post columnist E.J. Dionne as \"a brilliant take on what ails our society and our politics,\" and by Arlie Hochschild, author of \"The Outsourced Self\", as \"a fascinating 'long look' at","title":"John Ehrenreich"},{"docid":"19599448","text":"in 1910. While the M1910 was not adopted in its original form it was eventually adopted by the US Military and evolved into the M1911A1 Colt .45 ACP US Government Handgun also known as the Colt .45 Automatic Pistol. This design by Browning set a pattern for many firearms that came later. It served as a US military handgun for over 70 years. John Browning produced a handgun with a staggered magazine which was one of the first high capacity handguns with his last design. This gun is the Browning Hi-Power The Hi-Power was created for a French Government requirement","title":"Browning BDA Handguns"},{"docid":"13921025","text":"the Constitution and concurrent powers over those enumerated in List III. Financial powers of legislature include authorisation of all expenditure, taxation and borrowing by the state government. Legislative assembly alone has power to originate money bills. Legislative council can make only recommendations in respect of changes it considers necessary within a period of fourteen days of the receipt of money bills from Assembly. Assembly can accept or reject these recommendations. The Governor of a state may reserve any Bill for the consideration of the President. Bills relating to subjects like compulsory acquisition of property, measures affecting powers and position of","title":"State governments of India"}],"string":"[\n {\n \"docid\": \"20681154\",\n \"text\": \"electricity grid. In September 2017, \\\"The Nation (Malawi)\\\" reported that the government of Malawi would own 85 percent of the power station, while CGGC of China would own 15 percent of the power station. Vale Logistics of Brazil would provide the coal needed, over a 30-year contract period. The challenge at that time was that the agreements called for the government to put down US$104 million in \\\"commitment money\\\". However, the government had only US$12.4 million available, and had requested to pay the balance in installments. Construction was expected to start in November 2018, with commissioning of the 300 megawatts\",\n \"title\": \"Kammwamba Thermal Power Station\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"12497544\",\n \"text\": \"the Government has been doing things for us and telling us what is best for Indians . . . of course there has been no progress . . .\\\" Progress in education was just one area in which Native Americans were gaining more independence. As tribes began to have more control over their own affairs and have more infrastructure entitled to them, they were able to be in much more command of their space, make more money, which led to power and progress. Native American self-determination Native American self-determination refers to the social movements, legislation, and beliefs by which the\",\n \"title\": \"Native American self-determination\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"7633173\",\n \"text\": \"most famous book, sold over 100,000 copies in China and won acclaim from both the public and economists. She argues in \\\"Pitfalls\\\" that, as power has devolved to local government, local officials who at first favored reform later came to oppose further reform which might limit their discretion and so make it harder to trade power for money and money for power. In the latter part of \\\"Pitfalls\\\" she also discussed the revival of clan power in southern provinces such as Guangdong and Fujian. Her articles, which point to deep structural problems and declare that thoroughgoing political reform will be\",\n \"title\": \"He Qinglian\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"573518\",\n \"text\": \"African leader who has amassed a stolen fortune, a bank employee who knows of a terminally ill wealthy person with no relatives, or a wealthy foreigner who deposited money in the bank just before dying in a plane crash (leaving no will or known next of kin), a US soldier who has stumbled upon a hidden cache of gold in Iraq, a business being audited by the government, a disgruntled worker or corrupt government official who has embezzled funds, a refugee, and similar characters. The money could be in the form of gold bullion, gold dust, money in a bank\",\n \"title\": \"Advance-fee scam\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"5313649\",\n \"text\": \"Show\\\" has also covered the Cape Wind project. A feature-length documentary about the Cape Wind project, entitled \\\"Cape Spin: An American Power Struggle\\\", had pre-release screenings in the summer of 2011. Wendy Williams and Robert Whitcomb have recently written a book about the project's history called \\\"Cape Wind: Money, Celebrity, Class, Politics and the Battle for Our Energy Future on Nantucket Sound.\\\" In an interview, one of the authors states that the fight over Cape Wind is a case of \\\"a very small group of people, with more money than most of us can possibly imagine, who decided from the\",\n \"title\": \"Cape Wind\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"314653\",\n \"text\": \"administration successfully handled the Panama Canal transfer and has been effective in administering of the Canal. Panama's official counternarcotics cooperation has historically been excellent. For example, officials of the US Drug Enforcement Administration praised the role of Manuel Noriega prior to his falling-out with the US over his own drug dealing. The Panamanian Government expanded money-laundering legislation and concluded with the US a Counternarcotics Maritime Agreement and a Stolen Vehicles Agreement. The Panamanian Government has enforced intellectual property rights and concluded the very important Bilateral Investment Treaty Amendment with the US and an agreement with the Overseas Private Investment Corporation\",\n \"title\": \"History of Panama\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"13009465\",\n \"text\": \"either. People, please think. Are they your leaders? What is the guarantee that these people—who indulge in politics through their money and muscle power—will not target us tomorrow? If they turn against tomorrow, who will be on our side? Kalaignar [Karunanidhi]? Even at that point of time, he will make an announcement that the members of parliament will resign. Then, he will understand (?!) the Central Government. Then, he will once again request for a right decision, and pass a resolution in the Legislative Assembly—like actor Vadivel's comedy in the film Winner where he claims that no one has touched\",\n \"title\": \"K. Muthukumar\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"62676\",\n \"text\": \"in railroads, were men who used the power of government to succeed. They tried to gain subsidies or in some way use government to stop competitors. Crony capitalism Crony capitalism is an economy in which businesses thrive not as a result of risk, but rather as a return on money amassed through a nexus between a business class and the political class. This is done using state power to crush genuine competition in handing out permits, government grants, special tax breaks, or other forms of state intervention over resources where the state exercises monopolist control over public goods, for example,\",\n \"title\": \"Crony capitalism\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"20600768\",\n \"text\": \"project allocated 24 months, the parent company of the main contractor, Isolux Corsán, ran out of money and filed bankruptcy in Spain. In August 2017, Ketraco terminated the contract with Isolux, with about 30 percent of the work completed. In February 2018, the Kenya government, through Ketraco, contracted a consortium of Chinese firms at a cost of US$96 million, to complete the work left pending by Isolux. Work is expected to conclude in August 2018. The consortium, comprising \\\"NARI Group Corporation\\\" and \\\"Power China Guizhou Engineering Company\\\", has committed in writing to pay US$10 million in fines, for every month\",\n \"title\": \"Loiyangalani–Suswa High Voltage Power Line\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"17707855\",\n \"text\": \"settlements in occupied territory violates international law” and calling on the US, UK, and other countries to address “the matter of long standing Israeli government impunity.” Benedict, has argued that the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has persisted because the U.S. “plays both Arab and Israel sides to generate money, power and control.” He has compared Israel to apartheid South Africa and the Soviet Union, and has implied that he looks forward to Israel's system of oppression falling as those countries systems of oppression fell. He has coordinated a number of anti-Zionist/pro-Palestinian events for AIUK according to Zionist government organisations, and in several\",\n \"title\": \"Kristyan Benedict\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"676877\",\n \"text\": \"with intent to kill, arson, burglary, and larceny within any Territory of the United States. The Supreme Court affirmed the action in 1886 in United States v. Kagama, which affirmed that the US Government has plenary power over Native American tribes within its borders using the rationalization that \\\"The power of the general government over these remnants of a race once powerful... is necessary to their protection as well as to the safety of those among whom they dwell\\\" While the federal government of the United States had previously recognized the Indian Tribes as semi-independent, \\\"it has the right and\",\n \"title\": \"Indian Territory\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"1709305\",\n \"text\": \"agencies. Traditionally, the purchasing power of money depended heavily upon the local value of gold and silver, but was also made subject to the availability and demand of certain goods on the market. Most modern fiat currencies like US dollars are traded against each other and commodity money in the secondary market for the purpose of international transfer of payment for goods and services. As Adam Smith noted, having money gives one the ability to \\\"command\\\" others' labor, so purchasing power to some extent is power over other people, to the extent that they are willing to trade their labor\",\n \"title\": \"Purchasing power\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"2793584\",\n \"text\": \"Department of Justice launched a civil lawsuit to seize American assets worth over US$1 billion (4.1 billion MYR) allegedly obtained from US$3.5 billion (14.38 billion MYR) of misappropriated 1MDB funds. Within the civil lawsuit, a government official of high rank who had control over 1MDB was referred to as \\\"Malaysian Official 1\\\", and mentioned over 30 times. \\\"Malaysian Official 1\\\" was alleged to have received around US$681 million (2.797 billion MYR) of stolen 1MDB money via Falcon Bank, Singapore on 21 and 25 March 2013, of which US$650 million (2.0 bllion MYR) was sent back to Falcon Bank on 30\",\n \"title\": \"Najib Razak\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"14855087\",\n \"text\": \"criticised by representatives of private investors as being too limited and for failing to clarify important concerns. Pricing policy Prices have been another important policy issue in the sector. In an effort to encourage private sector investment, the Indonesian government has been establishing a feed-in tariff scheme by instructing state electricity utility PLN to purchase power from geothermal projects at various rates ranging from around 6.5 US cents to over 12 US cents per kWh. The government is also preparing a regulation that is expected to specify the price that the PLN must purchase power from geothermal plans in the\",\n \"title\": \"Geothermal power in Indonesia\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"6044552\",\n \"text\": \"much of his physical mass. His return to Earth did not prevent his demise; the adverse effects of separation from Earth's environment were irreversible, and Redstone perished. The first supervillain to appear in the \\\"Supreme Power\\\" universe, Redstone is what the US government has dubbed a \\\"Power.\\\" In essence, he is on par with the likes of Hyperion and Power Princess, but he does not yet exhibit the degree of control over his powers Hyperion possesses, though it can be inferred that this is Redstone's personal choice. Michael Redstone was an imprisoned renegade soldier and serial killer who murdered six\",\n \"title\": \"Redstone (comics)\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"5999457\",\n \"text\": \"order to make the citizens happy. James Madison seemed to have had an issue with who got the power of taxation. He did not believe that the legislative branch had the right to tax to contribute in helping the welfare. Senator Ted Cruz and others believe that the legislative body has the power to limit the executive branch from over-spending. However, Federalist No. 30 argues this idea wrong since Alexander Hamilton had intended for the Constitution to prioritize paying back the debts that America owned. This means that the government would be able to spend more money in order to\",\n \"title\": \"Federalist No. 30\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"11469906\",\n \"text\": \"transactions with US banks. For each attempt, the banks, concerned about the likelihood of fraud, ultimately rejected the transfer or returned the money shortly after receiving it. The government could not account for approximately US$ 2.4 billion over the period of Jaime’s three-year tenure as central bank governor.” The Angolan sovereign wealth fund (Fundo Soberano De Angola) was created in 2011 with an initial capitalization of $5 Billion USD. The President appointed his son, Jose Filomeno dos Santos, as chief executive, who the appointed long time associate Jean Claude Bastos as the funds manager. The fund has since been used\",\n \"title\": \"Corruption in Angola\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"9022414\",\n \"text\": \"he was one of the number who, with Cushing, aided in blowing up the Rebel ram Albemarle, at Plymouth, N. C., October 27, 1864. When he enlisted he was a resident of this city. He is now unable to work and his family are in destitute circumstances. \\\"Cushing and the officers got all the prize money,\\\" remarked Hamilton the other day, \\\"while us privates received nothing. Had I my share, over two thousand dollars, I need not live as I live now. Twelve of us have not received a cent from the government, although the matter has been brought before\",\n \"title\": \"Richard Hamilton (Medal of Honor)\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"15510741\",\n \"text\": \"The criminals who conceal their accounts from the government authorities include big politicians, film stars, cricketers, and businessmen. Some Indian corporations practice transfer mispricing, by under-invoicing their exports and over-invoicing their imports from tax haven countries such as Singapore, UAE, and Hong Kong. Thus the promoters of the public limited companies who hold rarely more than 10% of share capital, earn black money abroad at the cost of majority share holders and tax income to the Indian government. By the year 2008, the cumulative Illicit Financial Out flows from the country touched US$452 billions. Politicians, political parties corrupt higher officials\",\n \"title\": \"Indian black money\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"1963263\",\n \"text\": \"to fossil-fuel based sources amounted to approximately $72 billion over this period and subsidies to renewable fuel sources totalled $29 billion. In the United States, the federal government has paid US$74 billion for energy subsidies to support R&D for nuclear power ($50 billion) and fossil fuels ($24 billion) from 1973 to 2003. During this same time frame, renewable energy technologies and energy efficiency received a total of US$26 billion. It has been suggested that a subsidy shift would help to level the playing field and support growing energy sectors, namely solar power, wind power, and biofuels. History shows that no\",\n \"title\": \"Wind power\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"17386479\",\n \"text\": \"was revealed that \\\"Dumb and Dumber To\\\" and \\\"Daddy's Home\\\" were also financed by Malaysian government investment fund through corrupt officials and financiers. In March 2018, Red Granite Pictures has agreed to pay US$60 million to the U.S. Justice Department to settle claims it financed 3 Oscar-nominated films, \\\"Wolf of Wall Street\\\", \\\"Daddy's Home\\\" and \\\"Dumb and Dumber To\\\" using over US$100 million funds sourced from 1MDB. Riza is also known as a good friend of Low Taek Jho, who was said to be the mastermind to the 1MDB scandal with money trails linking assets including luxury paintings, a superyacht,\",\n \"title\": \"Riza Aziz\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"3024743\",\n \"text\": \"it. But since there was too many of them, and in many respects the economy is dependent on them, it might lead to greater social problems. In addition, they are very much integrated into the US power elites. Therefore, and because of fears of social unrest, the US government saved them by giving them tax payers' money, helping those who were actually responsible for creating the crisis. Doing it, officials hoped that the economy would work and would start to grow after receiving a huge infusion. But despite Bush's administration 750 billion and Obama's 800 billion dollars investments nothing changed,\",\n \"title\": \"Grigory Yavlinsky\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"623100\",\n \"text\": \"March 1966, Richard has followed the practice of giving away at least a tenth of his income to charity. Richard has stated that two biblical principles have guided him in how to use his money. He said: \\\"Firstly, it was the love of money (not money itself) that was the root of all evil. Secondly, to be good and responsible stewards of what was entrusted to us.\\\" In 1990, Richard said: \\\"Those of us who have something to offer have to be prepared to give all the time.\\\" For over 40 years Richard has been a supporter of Tearfund, a\",\n \"title\": \"Cliff Richard\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"4511991\",\n \"text\": \"informed Parliament that Thirteen people, including four former Ministers, have been charged with corruption and money laundering offences. An international arrest warrant has been issued for former Premier Michael Misick. It is now for the courts to decide whether the persons charged are guilty. The investigations and prosecutions will proceed independently of a future elected Government. A civil recovery team was appointed to recover property and redress loses arising from corruption. The team has made significant progress including over 40 separate recoveries of money and/or land. Over US$12million has been recovered, including payments already made, judgements obtained and still to\",\n \"title\": \"Politics of the Turks and Caicos Islands\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"7154832\",\n \"text\": \"his 2006–2008 \\\"Dark Side of the Moon Live\\\" tour, his 2010–2011 \\\"The Wall\\\" tour and David Gilmour's 2006 On an Island tour); saxophonist Dick Parry during \\\"Money\\\" (who played on the original recordings of \\\"Money\\\", \\\"Us and Them\\\", and \\\"Shine on You Crazy Diamond\\\"); and backing singer Carol Kenyon during \\\"Comfortably Numb\\\". During \\\"Breathe\\\", on the screen behind them, film of the iconic pig from the \\\"Animals\\\" album was shown flying over Battersea Power Station (itself visible on the horizon in television broadcasts of the performance), and during \\\"Money\\\", a shot of \\\"The Dark Side of the Moon\\\" record being\",\n \"title\": \"Pink Floyd live performances\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"8743198\",\n \"text\": \"Supreme Court recognizes Federal control over navigable waterways is absolute, see Phillips Petrol v. Mississippi, 484 US 469,480 (1988), the public interest is not absolute, Dardar v. Lafourche Realty Co., Inc., 55 F.3d 1082 (5th Cir.1995). The government has the power to reroute a waterway (South Carolina v. Georgia, 93 U.S. 4 (1876)); block a navigable creek (U.S. v. Commodore Park, 324 U.S. 386(1945)); or completely de-water a river (United States v. Chandler-Dunbar Water Power Co., 229 U.S. 53 (1913)), each without recourse by those who are adversely affected by the reduction in navigable capacity. One court has held that\",\n \"title\": \"Navigable servitude\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"11597225\",\n \"text\": \"to capitalize on developments\\\". In the meantime the government had quietly informed local officials that the agreements were a \\\"tactical retreat\\\" to buy time before decisive putting down the Buddhist movement. Diệm's regime stalled on implementing the release of Buddhists who had been released for protesting against it. This led to a discussion within the US government to push for the removal of the Nhus, who were regarded as the extremist influence over Diệm, from power. Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr. was also announced as the new US ambassador effective in late August, replacing Nolting, who had been considered too close\",\n \"title\": \"Joint Communiqué\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"18973196\",\n \"text\": \"arrested by the MACC. In September 2018, he faced 25 charges relating to abuse of power and money laundering amounting to RM 2.3 billion (US$ 556 million) on top of seven charges with criminal breach of trust and power abuse brought against him in the preceding two months. The government has also issued arrest warrants against Jho Low and former director of SRC International Nik Faisal Ariff Kamil in a graft probe related to the state fund 1MDB. On 28 June 2018, two days before the end of the employment contract, 1MDB sacked its President and Chief Executive Officer Arul\",\n \"title\": \"1Malaysia Development Berhad scandal\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"3997009\",\n \"text\": \"began to focus on financial matters, resuming his long-standing policy against the power of banks. This placed Randall in the growing fight over the nature of the nation's currency—those who favored the gold-backed currency were called \\\"hard money\\\" supporters, while the policy of encouraging inflation through coining silver or issuing dollars backed by government bonds (\\\"greenbacks\\\") was known as \\\"soft money\\\". Although he believed in a gold-backed dollar, Randall was friendly to greenbacks; in general, he favored allowing the amount of currency to remain constant, while replacing bank-issued dollar bills with greenbacks. He also believed the federal government should sell\",\n \"title\": \"Samuel J. Randall\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"12197139\",\n \"text\": \"post. The real power is held by the Prime Minister, who is the head of government. The president is elected by the legislature every five years and has normally limited powers that are substantially expanded during the tenure of a caretaker government, mainly in controlling the transition to a new government. Bangladesh has instituted a unique system of transfer of power; at the end of the tenure of the government, power is handed over to members of a civil society for three months, who run the general elections and transfer the power to elected representatives. This system was first practiced\",\n \"title\": \"Government of Bangladesh\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"415190\",\n \"text\": \"a shark sanctuary. According to the US Central Intelligence Agency's list of countries by GDP (PPP) Tokelau has the smallest economy of any country in the world. Tokelau has an annual purchasing power of about US$1,000 (€674) per capita. The government is almost entirely dependent on subsidies from New Zealand. It has annual revenues of less than US$500,000 (€336,995) against expenditures of some US$2.8 million (€1.9 million). The deficit is made up by aid from New Zealand. Tokelau annually exports around US$100,000 (€67,000) of stamps, copra and woven and carved handicrafts and imports over US$300,000 (€202,000) of foodstuffs, building materials,\",\n \"title\": \"Tokelau\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"2486631\",\n \"text\": \"of awarding out contracts to US firms after the ousting of the Ba'ath regime and criticised Washington over the plans for a US-led civilian authority to hand out reconstruction contracts without the approval of an elected Iraqi government. In April 2003, the US government awarded the Bechtel Corporation a $680-million-contract to help rebuild Iraq's power, water and sewage systems as well as repair air and sea ports, Pachachi slammed this decision saying \\\"No one has the right to commit Iraq to obligations and costs, only an Iraqi government can do that. A parliament should also endorse the agreements.\\\" After much\",\n \"title\": \"Adnan Pachachi\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"4490914\",\n \"text\": \"Georgia Lottery The Georgia Lottery Corporation, known as the Georgia Lottery, is overseen by the government of Georgia, United States. Headquartered in Atlanta, the lottery takes in over US$1 billion yearly. By law, half of the money goes to prizes, one-third to education, and the remainder to operating and marketing the lottery. The education money funds the HOPE Scholarship, and has become a successful model for other lotteries, including the South Carolina Education Lottery. Long unconstitutional in a highly conservative U.S. state, a government-run lottery was explicitly allowed in a 1992 constitutional amendment to Article I, Section II, Paragraph VIII\",\n \"title\": \"Georgia Lottery\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"9975723\",\n \"text\": \"girlfriend wanted his money and access to his power. Winter wants money, power, beauty. Perhaps the only reason that she wants money and beauty is the access they afford her to power over others. Midnight is perhaps the only character who seems immune to greed and lust, as he \\\"has plans\\\" for living well legally. Midnight: A Gangster Love Story Midnight and the Meaning of Love A Moment of Silence (Midnight III) A Deeper Love Inside: The Porsche Santiaga Story According to the May 2008 issue of \\\"Vibe Magazine\\\", Jada Pinkett Smith was developing a film based on the book\",\n \"title\": \"The Coldest Winter Ever\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"20477596\",\n \"text\": \"a third line will provide desalinated water from the Red Sea. Cairo has suffered from multiple power outages over the past few years and the government has struggled to meet demand. This has raised concerns that the government will prioritise the new capital leaving Cairo’s inhabitants with the unsolved issue of power shortages. The Egyptian Pound has experienced a 98% drop in value relative to the US dollar since the start of 1960 with a volatility score of 18.2. The lack of stability combined with rampant devaluation has made it difficult for the private sector to afford imports of basic\",\n \"title\": \"Economy of the Egyptian Armed Forces\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"20873346\",\n \"text\": \"Jacques Clamorgan Jacques Clamorgan was an adventurer, fur trader and land owner from the West Indies. In 1781, he arrived in St. Louis and soon became wealthy. He laid claim to over 1 million acres of Upper Louisiana land. The government offered $8 million (In 2011 $US) in response to Clamorgan's land claims. Clamorgan refused to accept the money. Due to Clamorgan's power in the region he was given a seat in the Court of Quarter Sessions, a governmental body that existed for St. Louis composed of Judicial, Executive and Legislative powers. In a tax evasion effort, Clamorgan set his\",\n \"title\": \"Jacques Clamorgan\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"18689064\",\n \"text\": \"Resistance Movement captured power in 1986. This led to a 20-year civil war in Northern Uganda, with the school campus at the centre of it, as the Lord's Resistance Army rebels invaded and ransacked the school, making it near-impossible to teach or learn. In the period between the cessation of hostilities between the UPDF and LRA on Ugandan soil in 2006 and 2010, the Government of Belgium in collaboration with the Government of Uganda, renovated the school at a cost of UGX:6 billion (approx. US$2.4 million in 2010 money). The Belgian government contributed 81.7% of the funds (approx. US$1.96 million),\",\n \"title\": \"Sir Samuel Baker Secondary School\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"18341759\",\n \"text\": \"Angeles, with oversight of twelve city agencies, including the Port of Los Angeles, Department of Water and Power and the Housing Authority, with over 17,000 employees. As Deputy Mayor he focused on making the city more business-friendly and streamlining permitting processes. \\\"When I first heard of his appointment and that he had this Wall Street background and a lot of money, I was skeptical,\\\" says María Elena Durazo, the Los Angeles head of the AFL-CIO. \\\"And nobody called us to ask what we thought.\\\" Like most everybody who has worked with him, though, Durazo came away impressed. \\\"I'm so used\",\n \"title\": \"Austin Beutner\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"12073785\",\n \"text\": \"regime. There were also restrictions placed on trade with Zimbabwe, by both individual businesses and the US Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control. A monetarist view is that a general increase in the prices of things is less a commentary on the worth of those things than on the worth of the money. This has objective and subjective components: Crucial to both components is discipline over the creation of additional money. However, the Mugabe government was printing money to finance involvement in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and, in 2000, in the Second Congo War, including higher salaries\",\n \"title\": \"Hyperinflation in Zimbabwe\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"2852812\",\n \"text\": \"which is the case in 2012 for many such UK bonds, or (b) the government or other issuer defaults on the bond). This allows investors of all types to preserve the purchasing power of their money even at times of high inflation. For example, assuming 3.88% inflation over the course of 1 year (just about the 56 year average inflation rate, through most of 2006), and a real yield of 2.61% (the fixed US Treasury real yield on October 19, 2006, for a 5 yr TIPS), the adjusted principal of the fixed income would rise from 100 to 103.88 and\",\n \"title\": \"Fixed income\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"15774418\",\n \"text\": \"that \\\"the day before US missiles began raining down on ... Libya ... security forces under the control of Yemen's US-backed president, Ali Abdullah Saleh, massacred more than fifty people who were participating in an overwhelmingly peaceful protest\\\". The Obama administration has since called for Saleh to hand over power to his vice president and commit to a transition to plural democracy for Yemen, but its comparative sluggishness in supporting the Yemeni protest movement versus its swift backing of Libyan protesters and rebel fighters faced some criticism. American academic and investigative journalist Nir Rosen also criticized the U.S. government for\",\n \"title\": \"International reactions to the Arab Spring\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"5841124\",\n \"text\": \"the coast of Texas. Cruz rejects the scientific consensus on climate change. He has said that \\\"the scientific evidence doesn't support global warming\\\". He has also stated: \\\"They call anyone who questions the science who even points to the satellite data – they call you a, quote, 'denier'. Denier is not the language of science. Denier is the language of religion. It is heretic. You are a blasphemer. It's treated as a theology. But it's about power and money. At the end of the day, it's not complicated. This is liberal politicians who want government power.\\\" In March 2015, he\",\n \"title\": \"Ted Cruz\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"17476792\",\n \"text\": \"other hand, American wind energy generates only 34% of its full capacity. The entire wind energy project is set to cost 3 billion dollars. Uruguay is aiming to develop solar energy in the near future. A private entity called Tecnova Renovables has a solar power plant that now provides the equivalent of the electrical consumption of 100 homes. The government is also developing plans for solar power. The fact that it is very unpredictable is the reason why the government remains suspect in investing large amounts of money in this energy source. Hydroelectric energy used to produce over half of\",\n \"title\": \"Environmental issues in Uruguay\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"7178186\",\n \"text\": \"to showcase the ancient Dilmun Burial Mounds, telling MPs that the money should be used to construct housing over the extensive mounds, saying \\\"We must have pride in our Islamic roots and not some ancient civilisation from another place and time, which has only given us a jar here and a bone there.\\\" Along with Al-Menbar Islamic Society's Sheikh Mohammed Khalid, Sheikh Al Mouwda has clashed repeatedly with government ministers in parliament over alcohol sales and claimed credit for enforcing a ban on alcohol in five star hotels over Ramadan 2006. He has vowed to \\\"Clean Bahrain's tourism sector from\",\n \"title\": \"Adel Mouwda\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"6151432\",\n \"text\": \"March 30, 1998, Ali Mahdi Mohamed and Hussein Aidid formed a peace plan which shared power over Mogadishu, ending a period of seven years of fighting after the ouster of Siad Barre. On February 23, 1999, militiamen loyal to Aidid murdered 60 civilians in Baidoa and Daynunay. Hussein Aidid refused to recognize the newly forming Djibouti-backed Mogadishu-based Transitional Federal Government (TFG), accusing it of \\\"harboring militant Islamist sympathizers.\\\" Instead he formed the rival Somali Reconciliation and Restoration Council (SRRC) in early 2001. At some time during late 2001, he advised US President George W. Bush that a money transfer and\",\n \"title\": \"Hussein Farrah Aidid\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"4028909\",\n \"text\": \"reduction of the administration of our government; I mean an additional article taking from the Federal Government the power of borrowing. I now deny their power of making paper money or anything else a legal tender. I know that to pay all proper expenses within the year would, in a case of war, be hard on us. But not so hard as ten wars instead of one. For wars could be reduced in that proportion; besides that, the State governments would be free to lend their credit in borrowing quotas. The issue of the federal debt was next addressed by\",\n \"title\": \"Balanced budget amendment\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"18973209\",\n \"text\": \"and the nature of the former's involvement in multibillion-dollar deals with 1MDB. Tim Leissner, the former chairman of Goldman Sachs' Southeast Asia branch and husband of Kimora Lee Leissner was issued a subpoena by the DOJ as part of their investigations. Within the July 2016 DOJ civil lawsuit, a high-ranking government official having control over 1MDB, who was referred to and mentioned over 30 times as \\\"Malaysian Official 1\\\" (\\\"MO1\\\"), was alleged to have received around US$ 681 million (RM 2.8 billion) of stolen 1MDB money via Falcon Bank in Singapore on 21 and 25 March 2013, of which US$\",\n \"title\": \"1Malaysia Development Berhad scandal\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"4601823\",\n \"text\": \"money, which is currency that takes its value from the government declaration or law which assigns the said value to it. As such, this kind of money is not inherently valuable, but may be used in transactions as long as it is said to be legal tender. The use of fiat money is now more common than the use of hard money, especially on an international level. The US dollar, for instance, is an example of a fiat currency. In the US, hard money is sometimes referred to as Bentonian, after Senator Thomas Hart Benton, who was an advocate for\",\n \"title\": \"Hard money (policy)\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"5283444\",\n \"text\": \"to US$2bn in nominal terms over 25 years. It has been estimated that at a 10% discount rate the net present value of the revenues will be six times higher than the net present value from the debt service, if all government equity was funded through concessionary lending. Revenues are expected to increase progressively from approximately US$10 million in 2009 to US$110 to 150 million per year at the end of the concession period in 2033. Thereafter the government will receive all revenues accruing to the project. The Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) between EGAT and NTPC was designed as to\",\n \"title\": \"Nam Theun 2 Dam\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"815036\",\n \"text\": \"government is required to reach this aim – indeed, it is well known in economic literature that governments face a conflict of interest in this regard. In fact, \\\"hard money\\\" advocates argue that central banks have utterly failed to obtain the objective of a stable currency. Under the gold standard, for example, the price level in both England and the US remained relatively stable over hundreds of years, though with some protracted periods of deflation. Since the US Federal Reserve was formed in 1913, however, the US dollar has fallen to barely a twentieth of its former value through the\",\n \"title\": \"Seigniorage\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"15668624\",\n \"text\": \"transaction involved AIG receiving a premium in exchange for a promise to pay money to party A in the event party B defaulted. However, AIG did not have the financial strength to support its many CDS commitments as the crisis progressed and was taken over by the government in September 2008. US taxpayers provided over $180 billion in government support to AIG during 2008 and early 2009, through which the money flowed to various counterparties to CDS transactions, including many large global financial institutions. The Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission (FCIC) made the major government study of the crisis. It concluded\",\n \"title\": \"Financial crisis of 2007–2008\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"12476874\",\n \"text\": \"attacks in 2001, when concern increased over the financing of terrorism. The \\\"Washington Post\\\" reported that: \\\"International authorities say Nauru is increasingly providing cover for Russian organized crime\\\" and quoted a senior US Government official: The central bank of Russia has come to us and confirmed that large amounts of Russian capital are flowing into and out of Nauru, and that has raised concerns on their part and on ours and certainly raised suspicions. In 2000, the President of Nauru, René Harris, responded to claims of illegal money movements by saying \\\"Nauru does not tolerate criminal activities in its financial\",\n \"title\": \"Nauru–Russia relations\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"14297870\",\n \"text\": \"part of Lagardère's 7.5 % stake in EADS in April 2006, allowing that latter to partially escape the June 2006 losses. Boeing has continually protested over \\\"launch aid\\\" and other forms of government aid to Airbus, while Airbus has argued that Boeing receives illegal subsidies through military and research contracts and tax breaks. In July 2004 former Boeing CEO Harry Stonecipher accused Airbus of abusing a 1992 bilateral EU-US agreement providing for disciplines for large civil aircraft support from governments. Airbus is given reimbursable launch investment (RLI), called \\\"launch aid\\\" by the US, from European governments with the money being\",\n \"title\": \"Airbus\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"2678867\",\n \"text\": \"money to buy Nike Mercurys. Feeling personally responsible for the girl's death, Buy's life begins to go downhill. He contemplates suicide until he gets help from Jennifer Government, who he then begins dating. He becomes a part of both Jennifer and her daughter's life. Violet eventually sells her software to ExxonMobil who take her all over the world to exploit the software's power. This sudden disappearance leads Hack to turn to Claire, Violet's sister, which in turn destroys Violet and Hack's relationship. After the company uses Violet's virus, they never pay Violet the sums due. Angered, Violet joins ranks with\",\n \"title\": \"Jennifer Government\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"18701996\",\n \"text\": \"collusion between the judicial system, the media, and government regulators. The people who carry out these raids typically work in business or government positions of power, which gives them access to the resources and power necessary to takeover the business. In recent history, corporate raiding has usually taken place in Russia and other former Soviet bloc countries such as Bulgaria. Corporate Commercial Bank's commercial activities made up 10 percent of Bulgaria's GDP at one time. It was the country’s fourth-largest bank. However, because of the deployment of a deliberate corporate raiding scheme, Corpbank was shut down, it depositors’ money was\",\n \"title\": \"Sotir Tsatsarov\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"16605504\",\n \"text\": \"the US Fifth Fleet; the US Department of Defense considers the location critical for its ability to counter Iranian military power in the region. The Saudi Arabian government and other Gulf region governments strongly support the King of Bahrain. Although government officials and media often accuse the opposition of being influenced by Iran, a government-appointed commission found no evidence supporting the claim. Iran has historically claimed Bahrain as a province, but the claim was dropped after a UN 1970 survey found that most Bahraini people preferred independence over Iranian control. Bahrainis have protested sporadically throughout the last decades demanding social,\",\n \"title\": \"Day of Rage (Bahrain)\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"661117\",\n \"text\": \"enough, whether the Federal Reserve is a public Cartel of private banks (also called a private banking cartel) established to protect powerful financial interests, fears of inflation, high government deficits, and whether the Federal Reserve's actions increased the severity of the Great Depression in the 1930s (and/or the severity or frequency of other boom-bust economic cycles, such as the late 2000s recession). Regarding the first question, at issue was not the federal government’s right to coin or originate US money (because the US government had already done so in the past by issuing Greenbacks) and it is a sovereign power\",\n \"title\": \"Federal Reserve Act\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"11438173\",\n \"text\": \"Chinese power equipment maker over the past couple of years to $10 billion, making it the largest contract between a private Indian company and a government-owned Chinese firm. While Reliance Power has also given a $2.2 billion deal to US-based General Electric, the agreement signed with SEC is on a different plane. The Chinese company will supply boiler, turbine and generator packages for up to 30,000 MW capacity of coal-based power at six plants, including the 4000 MW ultra mega power project in Krishnapatnam, the 3960 MW Project in Chitrangi and the 4000 MW Power Project in Tilaiya. Reliance Power\",\n \"title\": \"Reliance Power\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"19480284\",\n \"text\": \"could be removed for US$3.99. He chose not to sell virtual currency or power-ups so that those who paid would not have an advantage over players who did not. As there was no money to advertise for the game, the only way to advertise was the various \\\"let's plays\\\" by players on YouTube, including PewDiePie, who had more than 47 million subscribers at the time. In the weeks following the release, Howse worked on updates to stabilize the game and provide a better experience for players. In addition, he plans to add new features, such as a “friendly mode” that\",\n \"title\": \"Slither.io\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"7569501\",\n \"text\": \"occupation forces that keep dropping bombs, and the so-called technocrats, who have compromised in exchange for money and power.\\\" Joya is a controversial figure within her native Afghanistan. More recently, she has drawn harsh criticism from some female parliamentary members who contend that her remarks pertaining to the Politicians of Afghanistan, who battled the Soviets, are unwarranted and disingenuous. Joya has written a memoir with Canadian writer Derrick O'Keefe. The US and Canadian version of the book was published in October 2009 by Scribner under the title of \\\"A Woman Among Warlords: The Extraordinary Story of an Afghan Who Dared\",\n \"title\": \"Malalai Joya\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"6189021\",\n \"text\": \"stripped assets and transferred the money abroad to offshore tax havens like the Bahamas. This scam turned out to be a huge success for Kožený and those working with him, who allegedly stole millions of dollars from investors in his funds. In 1994, Kožený wanted to conduct a similar transaction in Azerbaijan. The country was considering privatizing its state run oil company, and Kožený offered his services. US investors handed their money to him, over $400 million in total from clients such as AIG and Columbia University. The Azerbaijan government changed its mind on privatization, but Kožený did not return\",\n \"title\": \"Viktor Kožený\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"12440859\",\n \"text\": \"Fossil fuels receive large direct and indirect subsidies, such as tax benefits and not having to pay for the greenhouse gases they emit, such as through a carbon tax. Renewable energy sources receive proportionately large direct production subsidies and tax breaks in many nations, although in absolute terms they are often less than subsidies received by non-renewable energy sources. In Europe, the FP7 research program has more subsidies for nuclear power than for renewable and energy efficiency together; over 70% of this is directed at the ITER fusion project. In the US, public research money for nuclear fission declined from\",\n \"title\": \"Nuclear power debate\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"4223984\",\n \"text\": \"the government and the National Assembly, even though 70% of its composition were BDG members, the Gabonese president dissolved the legislature on 21 January 1964 as an \\\"economy measure\\\". The electoral conditions were announced as such: The election 67 districts were reduced to 47. M'ba disqualified Aubame by announcing no one who held a post recently was banned. Any party would have to submit 47 candidates who had to pay US$160 or none at all. Thus, over US$7,500 would be deposited without considering campaign expenses. M'ba's idea was that no party other than his would have the money to enter\",\n \"title\": \"Jean-Hilaire Aubame\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"5479221\",\n \"text\": \"paid US$20 million annually to over one hundred attorneys. Behar maintained that though the Church of Scientology portrays itself as a religion, it was actually a \\\"hugely profitable global racket\\\" which intimidated members and critics in a Mafia-like manner. Cynthia Kisser, then director of the Cult Awareness Network, was quoted: \\\"Scientology is quite likely the most ruthless, the most classically terroristic, the most litigious and the most lucrative cult the country has ever seen. No cult extracts more money from its members\\\". The Church of Scientology responded to the publication of \\\"The Thriving Cult of Greed and Power\\\" by taking\",\n \"title\": \"The Thriving Cult of Greed and Power\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"4339885\",\n \"text\": \"for a line of T-shirts. He is currently a member of the crew OGs and was involved with the collective's first release, OG Season. P Money Is Power – P Money's debut album. The album received mixed reviews, with some people doubting the strength of some productions on the CD. However praise has been given to tracks such as the remix of \\\"What Did He Say\\\" and \\\"Sounds and Gimmicks\\\". Money Over Everyone – Money Over Everyone is the 2nd purchasable release from South London artist P Money. It follows on from 2008's P Money Is Power which fans and\",\n \"title\": \"P Money\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"16283295\",\n \"text\": \"a $1.2 billion loan guarantee from the US government for the project. The plant is expected to generate 617,000 MWh of power annually, enough power for more than 88,000 households and to prevent the emission of over 430 kilotons of CO a year. Pacific Gas & Electric has agreed to a 25-year power purchase agreement. The plant was commissioned on 1st December, 2014. Using the desert's solar thermal energy, the facility generates steam in solar steam generators, which expands through a steam turbine generator to produce electrical power from twin, independently operable solar fields, each feeding a 125 MW power\",\n \"title\": \"Mojave Solar Project\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"6827377\",\n \"text\": \"million (US$269,000). Both the number of participants and amount of money raised rose drastically over the years with 30,000 people running in 2007 (₹79.4 million, US$1,490,000). The 2017 edition hosted 42,000 runners (₹ US$329 million5,087,761). This special category is meant for highly motivated individuals who feel passionately about a cause and commit to raise a substantial sum of funds. Over the years, the Dream Team has seen a mix of business magnates, celebrities, socialites, NGO trustees and students. Levels include: The Corporate Challenge is a category for companies who wish to sponsor employee teams to participate in event and raise\",\n \"title\": \"Mumbai Marathon\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"20593083\",\n \"text\": \"to support the work of the social enterprise. Our Power now has over 80 employees based in Edinburgh. It works with 67 social housing providers, community organisations and local authorities as members, and provides heat and power to around 21,000 households. The company has partnered with the charity Money Advice Scotland to launch a variable tariff for customers on restricted meters, who are unable to switch providers or access tariffs available to single rate meter customers. With the aim of turning a profit by 2020, its fourth year of operation, Our Power has now made its first forays outside Scotland:\",\n \"title\": \"Our Power (Scotland)\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"2073829\",\n \"text\": \"to tax. We believe that power should be minimized\\\", critics at the Cato Institute have argued that \\\"holding the line on taxes constrains only one of the four tools (taxes, tax deductions, spending without taxation, and regulation) used by government to alter economic outcomes.\\\" Norquist published \\\"Leave Us Alone: Getting the Government's Hands Off Our Money, Our Guns, Our Lives\\\", in 2008. In 2012, he published \\\"Debacle: Obama's War on Jobs and Growth and What We Can Do Now to Regain Our Future\\\", with John R. Lott, Jr. He has served as a monthly \\\"Politics\\\" columnist and contributing editor to\",\n \"title\": \"Grover Norquist\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"9014286\",\n \"text\": \"intervention, which is fundamentally financial. Historically, the relationship between power and economy has been defined within a narrow scope, primarily as the mercantilism of the Modern Age. However, since the U.S. stock market crash of 1929, four contemporary positions have emerged: A fifth power could refer to the influence money can have in blurring the separation of powers, influencing the decisions of a government and legislation, and misapplication of the principle of equality before law. It can also refer to monetary systems and in the processes involved in the creating of money, the way money is supplied and how the\",\n \"title\": \"Fifth power\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"238466\",\n \"text\": \"WHO, WIPO, WMO Politics of Liberia Politics of Liberia takes place in a framework of a presidential representative democratic republic modeled on the government of the United States, whereby the President is the head of state and head of government; unlike the United States, however, Liberia is a unitary state as opposed to a federation and has a pluriform rather than the two-party system that characterizes US politics. Executive power is exercised by the government. Legislative power is vested in both the government and the two chambers of the legislature. Liberia is still in transition from dictatorship and civil war\",\n \"title\": \"Politics of Liberia\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"9557637\",\n \"text\": \"of a South Pars phase by the Norwegian Statoil company has become infamous after extensive report of misconduct and bribery to the Horton Investments, an Iranian consultancy firm owned by Mehdi Hashemi Rafsanjani, son of former Iranian President Hashemi Rafsanjani. Statoil committed to spending US $300 million to construct three production platforms and a pipeline. The government of Mr Ahmadinejad, who came to power in 2005, has favoured local firms over foreign companies in the energy and other sectors. By the beginning of 2008, phases 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 have been brought to production and by the end\",\n \"title\": \"South Pars/North Dome Gas-Condensate field\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"9948929\",\n \"text\": \"size every 3.5 years, and has every four years since. In 2008 Emirates paid dividends worth US$776 million to the Government of Dubai. The government has received Dhs3.1 billion from Emirates since dividends started being paid in 1999 for having provided an initial start-up capital of US$10m and an additional investment of circa US$80m at the time of the airline's inception. The Dubai government is the sole owner of the company. However, it does not put any new money into it, nor does it interfere with running the airline. Emirates has diversified into related industries and sectors, including airport services,\",\n \"title\": \"The Emirates Group\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"8707851\",\n \"text\": \"and after a series of clever moves he obtains and then sells power of attorney over Charles' estate to Monsieur Guillaumin. Guillaumin attempts to have Emma repay him with sexual favors; however, she refuses and tries to borrow money from other people. She first asks Leon for the money. However, Leon admits that he is actually only a clerk at the law firm he works for, and has no money to lend her. Emma then asks Rodolphe, who has returned to Yonville. At first, Emma tries flirting with him; then, she breaks down and begs him for money. Rodolphe refuses\",\n \"title\": \"Madame Bovary (1949 film)\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"17188663\",\n \"text\": \"markets. 9. Management of minor water bodies PESA gives to the Gram Panchayats the power to manage minor water bodies. Minor Water Bodies are generally water bodies which irrigate up to 100 Hectares of land. The rights to fishery and other riparian rights also accrue to the Gram Panchayats. 10. Exercising control over money lending Money Lending, especially usurious money lending, has been a problem of long-standing in the Scheduled areas. This arises, especially because of lack of institutional credit. PESA allows Gram Sabhas to exercise control over money-lending activities. 11. Power of Gram Sabha to exercise control over institutions\",\n \"title\": \"Panchayats (Extension to Scheduled Areas) Act 1996\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"15255024\",\n \"text\": \"with those opposed to the liberal elements, led by Texas Senator Ralph Yarborough. After the assassination of John F. Kennedy in 1963, Johnson became president. In 1965, Johnson appointed Clark as the US ambassador to Australia. In 1972, Clark supported Richard Nixon for president over George McGovern. In 1974, President Nixon appointed Clark to the General Advisory Committee of the United States Arms Control and Disarmament Agency. Later, Clark supported Ronald Reagan, who became president. In 2003, Barr McClellan, an attorney who had been employed by Clark's law firm in Austin, published \\\"Blood, Money & Power: How LBJ Killed JFK\\\".\",\n \"title\": \"Edward A. Clark\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"1422629\",\n \"text\": \"ask for the money back, banks have to maintain minimum reserves to service customer needs. If the reserve requirement is 10% then, in the earlier example, the bank can lend $90 and thus the money supply increases by only $90. The reserve requirement therefore acts as a limit on this multiplier effect. Because the reserve requirement only applies to the more narrow forms of money creation (corresponding to M1), but does not apply to certain types of deposits (such as time deposits), reserve requirements play a limited role in monetary policy. Currently, the US government maintains over US$800 billion in\",\n \"title\": \"Monetary policy of the United States\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"11883471\",\n \"text\": \"population. However, in the rural area agriculture employs up to 80% of the population. In 2001, the agricultural sector generated US$432 million and 30% of national exports. According to the Irrigation Vice-Ministry, the agricultural sector in the eastern part of Bolivia generated US$2,160 million exporting soya, sunflower and sugarcane products. The agricultural sector of the western part of Bolivia is mostly focused on subsistence agriculture and local markets. In addition, frequent government changes over the last five years and social tensions have undermined progress in poverty reduction. The Government of President Morales—Bolivia’s first indigenous President—who came into power in January\",\n \"title\": \"Irrigation in Bolivia\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"1785501\",\n \"text\": \"that the United States was unable to gain access since the establishment of Pakistan in 1947. Former US Attorney General Ramsey Clark widely suspected the United States' involvement in bringing down the Bhutto's government, and publicly accused the United States' Government after attending the trial. On the other hand, the United States refused any involvement in Bhutto's fall, and argued that it was Bhutto who had alienated himself over the five years. While witnessing the dramatic fall of Bhutto, one US diplomat in American Embassy in Islamabad wrote that: After assuming power as Chief Martial Law Administrator, Zia shortly appeared\",\n \"title\": \"Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"3156439\",\n \"text\": \"US dollars. Before this currency regime was in place, if the government had needed money to finance a budget deficit, it could simply print more money (thus creating inflation). Under the new system, if the government spent more than it earned through taxation in a given year, it needed to cover the gap with US dollars, rather than by simply printing more money. The only way the government could get these US dollars to finance the gap was through higher tax of exporters' earnings or through borrowing the needed US dollars. A fixed exchange rate was incompatible with a structural\",\n \"title\": \"Debt of developing countries\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"327979\",\n \"text\": \"Crown a leadership role in the Commons; and, the Lord Treasurer assumed a leading position among Ministers. The power of financial initiative was not, however, absolute. Only Ministers might initiate money bills, but Parliament now reviewed and consented to them. 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The stripes will appear in those areas where the pixels for the AF are located. This is causing a lower density of image pixels in those areas. This not a lack of quality, since the effect will be seen only if heavy post-processing is applied.\" Canon EOS 750D The Canon EOS 750D, known as the Rebel T6i in the Americas or as the Kiss X8i in Japan, is a 24.2 megapixels entry-mid-level digital SLR announced by Canon on February","title":"Canon EOS 750D"},{"docid":"5450112","text":"to be bundled with the EOS 600D and 1100D. This lens is identical in specification to the previous version, and features exactly the same optics, but has a revised external design and a slightly different IS algorithm that attempts to recognize when the camera is being panned, effectively disabling IS in that direction. On 21 March 2013, the 18–55mm 3.5–5.6 IS STM was announced alongside the EOS 700D/Rebel T5i and 100D/Rebel SL1. It has a different optical formula from that of any previous Canon 18–55mm lens, and includes Canon's STM (stepping motor) technology, claimed by the company to offer quieter","title":"Canon EF-S 18–55mm lens"},{"docid":"15307010","text":"Canon EOS 600D The Canon EOS 600D is an 18.0 megapixel digital single-lens reflex camera, released by Canon on 7 February 2011. It is known as the EOS Kiss X5 in Japan and the EOS Rebel T3i in America. The 600D is the second Canon EOS camera with an articulating LCD screen and supersedes the 550D, although the earlier model was not discontinued until June 2012, when the successor of the 600D, the 650D, was announced. As with many DSLRs and unlike the SLT cameras, the 600D does not have continuous auto-focus while filming video; to keep a moving subject","title":"Canon EOS 600D"},{"docid":"15307024","text":"keep a moving subject in focus the user must either trigger the auto-focus, as when shooting stills, or manually adjust the focus while recording. Canon EOS 1100D Canon EOS 1100D is a 12.2-megapixel digital single-lens reflex camera announced by Canon on 7 February 2011. It is known as the EOS Kiss X50 in Japan and the EOS Rebel T3 in the Americas. The 1100D is Canon's most basic entry-level DSLR, and introduces movie mode to other entry level DSLRs. It replaced the 1000D and is also the only Canon EOS model currently in production that is not made in Japan","title":"Canon EOS 1100D"},{"docid":"13187213","text":"Canon EOS 500D The Canon EOS 500D is a 15-megapixel entry-level digital single-lens reflex camera, announced by Canon on 25 March 2009. It was released in May 2009. It is known as the EOS Kiss X3 in Japan, and as the EOS Rebel T1i in North America. It continues the Rebel line of mid-range DSLR cameras, is placed by Canon as the next model up from the EOS 450D, and has been superseded by the EOS 550D (T2i). It is the third digital single-lens reflex camera to feature a movie mode and the second to feature full 1080p video recording,","title":"Canon EOS 500D"},{"docid":"15307023","text":"Canon EOS 1100D Canon EOS 1100D is a 12.2-megapixel digital single-lens reflex camera announced by Canon on 7 February 2011. It is known as the EOS Kiss X50 in Japan and the EOS Rebel T3 in the Americas. The 1100D is Canon's most basic entry-level DSLR, and introduces movie mode to other entry level DSLRs. It replaced the 1000D and is also the only Canon EOS model currently in production that is not made in Japan but in Taiwan, aside from the EOS Rebel T4i. The 1100D captures 720p video, it does not have continuous auto-focus while filming video; to","title":"Canon EOS 1100D"},{"docid":"8169432","text":"in glamour photography. When used with DSLRs with cropped sensors, notably the APS-C-sized sensor with 1.6 crop factor (such as the popular Canon EOS 600D, also known as the \"Digital Rebel T3i\" or \"EOS Kiss Digital X5\"), one instead uses 50mm–85mm lenses, as these provide a 35 mm equivalent focal length of 80mm–136mm. Lenses that fit these criteria are: Canon EF portrait lenses Canon makes several lenses for the EF lens mount and EF-S lens mount that are well-suited for portrait photography. These lenses may also be used for other purposes, often being suited for indoor sports photography as well,","title":"Canon EF portrait lenses"},{"docid":"1538636","text":"Dawn\", \"Rebel Dawn\" and with the 2016 film, \"Rogue One\". The canon story changes introduced in \"Rogue One\" most strongly conflict with events presents in the second chapter of the radio drama, \"Points of Origin\". While both the radio drama and the novel contain accounts of how Princess Leia acquired the \"Death Star\" plans from rebel agents, in the radio drama the agents from a planet called Toprawa transmit the plans to the Tantive IV that dropped out of hyperspace illegally into that planetary system in the aftermath of a rebel attack on a convoy on route with the plans.","title":"Star Wars (radio)"},{"docid":"14271938","text":"Canon EOS 550D The Canon EOS 550D is an 18.0 megapixel digital single-lens reflex camera, announced by Canon on February 8, 2010. It was available since 24 February 2010 and to US dealers from early March. It is known as the EOS Kiss X4 in Japan, and as the EOS Rebel T2i in the Americas. It is part of Canon's entry/mid-level digital SLR camera series, and was the successor model to the EOS 500D. It was succeeded by the EOS 600D (Kiss X5/Rebel T3i), but remained in Canon's lineup until being discontinued in June 2012 with the announcement of the","title":"Canon EOS 550D"},{"docid":"7337592","text":"other low-priced SLRs of the time, the EOS 300 used a pentamirror viewfinder instead of a pentaprism, and had a polycarbonate body. The autofocus capabilities of this camera were identical to Canon's much more expensive Elan 7 with six single-line CMOS sensors surrounding a central cross-type sensor. The EOS 300 should not be confused with the later Canon EOS 300D (EOS Digital Rebel in the US and EOS Kiss Digital in Japan), a popular entry-level digital SLR from 2003. Canon EOS 300 The Canon EOS 300 (EOS Kiss III in Japan, EOS Rebel 2000 in North America) is a consumer-level","title":"Canon EOS 300"},{"docid":"4110012","text":"the imaging sensor, and price reductions to lure new customers. In June 2012, Canon announced the first DSLR to feature a touchscreen, the EOS 650D/Rebel T4i/Kiss X6i. Although this feature had been widely used on both compact cameras and mirrorless models, it had not made an appearance in a DSLR until the 650D. The DSLR market is dominated by Japanese companies and the top five manufacturers are Japanese: Canon, Nikon, Olympus, Pentax, and Sony. Other manufacturers of DSLRs include Mamiya, Sigma, Leica (German), and Hasselblad (Swedish). In 2007, Canon edged out Nikon with 41% of worldwide sales to the latter's","title":"Digital single-lens reflex camera"},{"docid":"12385049","text":"50D video support. The 50D compares favorably to many later Canon APS-C models in terms of light sensitivity: \"The camera is also a totally unbelievable low light performer. The 50D was designed before the megapixel race really took off. It has a 15MP APS-C sensor, so individual pixels are much larger than those on the later 18MP Rebel CMOS sensors.\". In addition to raw video, the Magic Lantern firmware add-on also enabled high bitrate compressed H.264 video at 30 frames per second. Other publications, while impressed, pointed out downsides such as no audio, expensive fast CF-cards and no Canon support","title":"Canon EOS 50D"},{"docid":"5903566","text":"however, have been shown to be mistaken. Documentary evidence written at Saint-Martin in 1500 shows that he was a secular priest, and that he was Administrator of Saint-Martin. Chacon also states that d'Estouteville was \"Doctor Decretorum\" (Doctor of Canon Law), but various papal documents of Pope Eugenius IV, in particular one of 1435, calls him a Papal Notary, a relative of the Kings of France, a Master of Arts, and of Canon Law, having passed rigorous examinations. Henri Denifle states that d'Estouteville's degree in Canon Law did not come from the University of Paris. Guillaume did possess a Canonry in","title":"Guillaume d'Estouteville"},{"docid":"18634514","text":"the band's 1975 UK number one hit \"Make Me Smile (Come Up and See Me)\". It was released as a 7\" vinyl single on 3 October 1980. The chosen B-Side was the band's 1973 European hit \"Sebastian\". The single came with a full picture sleeve, which featured the same photographs of Cockney Rebel, on both the front and back of the sleeve, as would appear on the sleeve of the compilation album. The single did not make a chart appearance in the UK, and when the compilation was released a month later, it also failed to chart. After the release","title":"The Best of Steve Harley and Cockney Rebel"},{"docid":"12298813","text":"Wii version's artificial intelligence and graphics, and stated that while some of the game's ideas \"could have worked nicely, the game is plagued by sketchy motion controls and an overall cheap feel.\" GameSpot's Carolyn Petit, reviewing the Wii version, stated that when the game was originally released for PS2 and PC, it was \"already way behind the times – a simple, unimpressive air combat game that did nothing to stand out from the pack.\" Petit stated that the Wii version \"is best ignored,\" calling it \"generic and disposable.\" Rebel Raiders: Operation Nighthawk Rebel Raiders: Operation Nighthawk (or Rebel Raiders) is","title":"Rebel Raiders: Operation Nighthawk"},{"docid":"18483262","text":"for someone with Sang's accomplishments and that he should be given a military governorship, Feng stated that he was fearful that Sang might rebel. When they pointed out that Sang was a civilian and could not rebel, Feng stated, \"Even if he did not rebel himself, he might encourage someone else to do so,\" alluding to Sang's having encouraged Shi Jingtang to rebel.) In fall 946, there were rumors that Zhao Yanshou, a major general of Later Jin's northern neighbor Liao — whose Emperor Taizong had been instrumental in Shi Jingtang's success in overthrowing Later Tang but with whom Shi","title":"Feng Yu"},{"docid":"17913471","text":"with Sang's accomplishments and that he should be given a military governorship, Feng stated that he was fearful that Sang might rebel. When they pointed out that Sang was a civilian and could not rebel, Feng stated, \"Even if he did not rebel himself, he might encourage someone else to do so,\" alluding to Sang's having encouraged Shi Jingtang to rebel.) In 946, Emperor Taizong decided to create a trap for Later Jin. He spread false news that Zhao Yanshou was intending to defect to Later Jin, rumors that were believed by Feng and Li Song. They had Du Chongwei","title":"Sang Weihan"},{"docid":"3560101","text":"and vertical). All 65 points of the 7D MkII are cross-type, but only the center point is dual-cross-type. Similarly, , all AF points on later generations of the X0D series (beginning with the 40D and continuing through the current 80D) are cross-type sensors for higher accuracy, and the center sensor is dual-cross-type for even greater accuracy and sensitivity. In June 2012, the EOS 650D (Rebel T4i) became the first consumer-level Canon to receive this AF system. Identical Canon models are sometimes marketed under different names in different parts of the world. For example, the \"EOS Rebel 2000\" known in the","title":"Canon EOS"},{"docid":"9323231","text":"works with the DIGIC III Image Processor to improve focus speed and accuracy, as well as exposure and white balance. The Canon EOS-1D Mark III uses dual DIGIC III processors to achieve a capture rate of 10 frames per second at 10.1 MP (with a maximum burst of 110 JPEG images, depending on the speed of the attached storage). The Canon EOS-1Ds Mark III also uses dual DIGIC III processors to achieve a capture rate of five frames per second at 21.1 MP. In 2008, Canon introduced the DIGIC 4 processor, used by the EOS 1100D/Rebel T3, EOS 500D/Rebel T1i,","title":"DIGIC"},{"docid":"9323232","text":"EOS 550D/Rebel T2i, EOS 600D/Rebel T3i, EOS 50D, EOS 60D, EOS 1200D/Rebel T5, EOS 5D Mark II and EOS-1D X (for metering and AF only). It is also used in newer cameras in Canon's PowerShot lines (A, G, S, SD, and SX). Canon claims improvements such as: Dual DIGIC 4 processors are used in the EOS 7D and EOS-1D Mark IV. This CPU was introduced in 2014 to replace the DIGIC 5 on mid-range compact cameras, particularly the Elph/IXUS and SX series. Full specifications were not made available at introduction, but Canon claims a 60% speed bump over the original","title":"DIGIC"},{"docid":"8844392","text":"what they would go through, in that house in Talbot Street. When he saw them in their Crossley trucks, like the fox inside his lair, Seán waited for to size them up before he did emerge, With blazing guns he met the Huns, and forced them to retreat, He shot them in pairs coming down the stairs, in that house in Talbot Street. \"Come on\", he cried, \"'Come show your hand, you have boasted for so long, How you would crush this rebel band with your armies great and strong\". \"No surrender\", was his war cry, \"Fight on lads, no","title":"Seán Treacy"},{"docid":"13554230","text":"(TCP), Xerox Network Systems (XNS), Systems Network Architecture (SNA), X.25, Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) or any other transport layer provider that function at Layer 4 of the OSI Model. XTI provides similar functionality as the Berkeley sockets interface, however it is protocol independent in contrast to the socket interface which is heavily biased toward the Internet Protocols. It is based on the UNIX System V Transport Layer Interface (TLI)., which is a transport service definition adhering to the Open Systems Interconnection (OSI) model. XTI consists of a cooperating STREAMS module, link library application programming interface (API), header files, and the","title":"X/Open Transport Interface"},{"docid":"13554234","text":"utility functions have been added: \"t_strerror()\" and \"t_getprotaddr()\". The XTI library is found in UNIX System V but also has ports for other systems, such as OpenSS7 for Linux. X/Open Transport Interface The X/Open Transport Interface (XTI) is an Open Group specification for network application programming present in UNIX System V operating systems. It provides OSI Transport Layer services with protocol independence. Although Open Group considers this specification withdrawn, an implementation is part of the standard programming interfaces on modern UNIX System V operating systems where it is implemented using the STREAMS character input/output mechanism. The X/Open Transport Interface is","title":"X/Open Transport Interface"},{"docid":"13554229","text":"X/Open Transport Interface The X/Open Transport Interface (XTI) is an Open Group specification for network application programming present in UNIX System V operating systems. It provides OSI Transport Layer services with protocol independence. Although Open Group considers this specification withdrawn, an implementation is part of the standard programming interfaces on modern UNIX System V operating systems where it is implemented using the STREAMS character input/output mechanism. The X/Open Transport Interface is a specification that defines an independent transport-service interface for network applications. Programs using XTI can be run over a variety of transport providers, such as the Transmission Control Protocol","title":"X/Open Transport Interface"},{"docid":"5423533","text":"Zhang Qing to surrender and join them. Liu Tang becomes one of the infantry leaders of Liangshan after the 108 Stars of Destiny come together in what is called the Grand Assembly. He follows the Liangshan heroes on their campaigns against the Liao invaders and rebel forces on Song territory after they received from Emperor Huizong. During the campaign against Fang La's rebel forces, Liu Tang is assigned to attack the city of Hangzhou. Eager to earn the top credit, he charges into the city when he sees that the gates are wide open. However, it turns out to be","title":"Liu Tang"},{"docid":"7499503","text":"to drive out the Manchus, unite with the Chinese, and drive out traitors.\" Du Wenxiu did not blame Han, but blamed the tensions on the Manchu regime, saying that they were foreign to China and alienated the Chinese and other minorities. Du Wenxiu also called for the complete expulsion of Manchus from all of China in order for China to once again come under Chinese rule. Total war was waged against Manchu rule. Du Wenxiu refused to surrender, unlike the other rebel Muslim commander, Ma Rulong. This may have had something to do with the sects of Islam practiced among","title":"Panthays"},{"docid":"16387168","text":"reveals details about the paleontological specimens which would otherwise be inaccessible without destroying the sample. Grating-based imaging (GBI) includes Shearing interferometry or X-ray Talbot interferometry (XTI), and polychromatic far-field interferometry (PFI). Since the first X-ray grating interferometer—consisting of two phase gratings and an analyzer crystal—was built, various slightly different setups for this method have been developed; in the following the focus lies on the nowadays standard method consisting of a phase grating and an analyzer grating. (See figure to the right). The XTI technique is based on the Talbot effect or \"self-imaging phenomenon\", which is a Fresnel diffraction effect and","title":"Phase-contrast X-ray imaging"},{"docid":"7848028","text":"can also be obtained through other means. This includes 8 cards which are available as a result of a Burger King cross-promotion; such cards are marked with the code ABK (Avatar Burger King). A second Avatar: The Last Airbender set titled \"Path to Enlightenment\" was to come out later, but the line was discontinued and the set never came out. The Avatar: The Last Airbender TCG features four Chamber Card characters that are not considered canon and did not appear in the show, despite the claims of packaging: Afiko, an elder Airbender monk of the Southern Air Temple, grew jealous","title":"Avatar: The Last Airbender Trading Card Game"},{"docid":"4620924","text":"way is to verify the serial numbers indicating the manufacture date. The latest firmware released by Canon for the EOS 350D is version 1.0.3 (released 27 October 2005). It fixes problems relating to remote release cables, as well as a problem while reviewing saved images. Canon EOS 350D The Canon EOS 350D (Canon EOS Digital Rebel XT in North America and the Canon EOS Kiss Digital N in Japan) is an 8.0-megapixel entry-level digital single-lens reflex camera manufactured by Canon. The model was initially announced in February 2005. Part of the EOS range, it is the successor to the EOS","title":"Canon EOS 350D"},{"docid":"3828888","text":"of church property, the closing of religious schools and convents, and the exile or the execution of priests. José Luis Sánchez del Río was born on March 28, 1913, in Sahuayo, Michoacán. He attended school in his hometown and later in Guadalajara in Jalisco. When the Cristero War broke out in 1926, his brothers joined the rebel forces, but his mother would not allow him to take part. The rebel general, Prudencio Mendoza, also refused his enlistment. The boy insisted that he wanted the chance to give his life for Jesus Christ and so come to Heaven easily. The general","title":"José Sánchez del Río"},{"docid":"14714357","text":"of synods, most notably at the Synod of Hippo in AD 393, produced a list of texts equal to the 46 book canon of the Old Testament that Catholics use today (and the 27-book canon of the New Testament that all use). A definitive list did not come from any early Ecumenical Council. Also, c. 400, Jerome produced a definitive Latin edition of the Bible, the contents of which, at the insistence of the Pope, was in accord with the earlier Synods. With the benefit of hindsight it can be said that this process effectively set the New Testament canon,","title":"Christian theology"},{"docid":"17873697","text":"Francesco Saverio Caruana Francesco Saverio Caruana (7 July 1759 – 17 November 1847) was a Maltese prelate who was Bishop of Malta from 1831 to his death in 1847. He was also a rebel leader during the Maltese uprising of 1798–1800. Caruana was born in Żebbuġ on 7 July 1759. At the age of 24 he was ordained priest by Archbishop Vincenzo Labini and in 1796 he became canon of the Mdina Cathedral chapter. During the French occupation of Malta Canon Caruana was made a member of the \"Commission de gouvernement\" (Government commission) but resigned some time later when he","title":"Francesco Saverio Caruana"},{"docid":"3676679","text":"It also uses the E-TTL II flash metering system and uses the DIGIC II image processor. The EOS 20D (with appropriate firmware updates) can also accept the Canon Wireless File Transmitter WFT-E1/E1A for fast file transfer to a remote file server, either through an ethernet cable or a Wi-Fi network. The Canon EOS 20D has several resolution settings: The 20D is the first Canon prosumer camera to use the EF-S lens mount; the first Canon EOS camera to use the mount was the 300D (the Digital Rebel in North America). Canon released the EOS 20Da on 14 February 2005 in","title":"Canon EOS 20D"},{"docid":"20004334","text":"the 77D to be a part of the Rebel line for all practical purposes. The camera features excellent core specs and its sensor is the same is the one in the Canon 80D. New features over the EOS 750D are: Canon EOS 77D The Canon EOS 77D, known in Japan as the EOS 9000D, is a digital single-lens reflex camera announced by Canon on February 14, 2017. It has a body-only MSRP of US$899.99, which is more expensive than Canon EOS 760D, which it replaces. The camera can be purchased as a body-only, as kit with the 18-55mm IS STM","title":"Canon EOS 77D"},{"docid":"3557872","text":"the Canon EF-S lens mount. It also takes the EF lens mount lenses. Canon introduced the EF-S 18-55mm as the kit lens alongside the 300D. It was available in a USM version in Japan and as a non-USM version elsewhere. Very late production black 300D cameras were available with the USM version in Europe. Canon EOS 300D The Canon EOS 300D, manufactured by Canon, was marketed in North America as the EOS Digital Rebel, in Japan as the EOS Kiss Digital, and was also sold as the DS6041. It is a 6.3-megapixel entry-level digital single-lens reflex camera. It was initially","title":"Canon EOS 300D"},{"docid":"12071324","text":"spot light metering. The 1000D is also the second Canon EOS model (after the 450D) to exclusively use SD Card and SDHC memory storage instead of CompactFlash. The 1000D has garnered positive reviews from independent photography review websites. Canon Live View with resolution 768x512 px can be recorded directly to a computer (not internal memory) with software: Canon EOS 1000D Canon EOS 1000D is a 10.1-megapixel digital single-lens reflex camera announced by Canon on 10 June 2008 and started shipping in mid August 2008. It is known as the EOS Kiss F in Japan and the EOS Rebel XS in","title":"Canon EOS 1000D"},{"docid":"945641","text":"the First Order, a new military power formed by remnants from the Empire. After Disney's acquisition of the franchise, Lucasfilm announced in 2014 that previous works outside the theatrical films and \"\" would no longer be considered canon, but began to be republished under the \"Legends\" banner. The \"Legends\" symbol of the Alliance is the \"Starbird\", which in the old canon was the crest of Galen Marek's family. Princess Leia selected it to honor Marek's sacrifice, declaring it a \"symbol of hope\". A Declaration of Rebellion was depicted in the 1990 book \"The Star Wars Rebel Alliance Sourcebook\": The list","title":"Rebel Alliance"},{"docid":"14398313","text":"less fuel and had fewer tire troubles than many of the other teams. Pearson would continue to use the 396 throughout the year. Canadian racer Frog Fagan participated in the race and finished in 22nd place. The average speed was while the pole position speed was . Other notable drivers included Wendell Scott, Richard Petty, Buddy Baker, Elmo Langley, and Roy Tyner. Out of the thirty-four drivers, fifteen of them did not finish the race. Total winnings for the 1968 Rebel 400 were $53,455 ($ when adjusted for inflation); first-place finisher Pearson earned $13,700 ($ when adjusted for inflation) while","title":"1968 Rebel 400"},{"docid":"2514504","text":"the D70 could only be used with lenses as wide as 20 mm. All other updates to the D70s are available for the D70 through a firmware update, which include improved auto-focus performance, updated menu design and updated in-camera printer support. The Canon EOS 350D (known as the Digital Rebel XT in the US) was its then-competitor when the D70s was introduced. Nikon D70 The Nikon D70 is a digital single-lens reflex camera, introduced at the 2004 PMA Annual Convention and Trade Show, as Nikon's first consumer-level digital SLR, and a competitor to the Canon EOS 300D. It was often","title":"Nikon D70"},{"docid":"5450113","text":"continuous autofocus while shooting video when attached to bodies that have Canon's hybrid autofocus sensor technology. The STM is also the first 18–55mm version with an internal focusing design. At introduction, it was offered as a kit lens on both the 700D and 100D; it has since become one of two alternative kit lenses for the 70D. On 14 February 2017, the 18–55mm 4–5.6 IS STM was announced alongside the EOS 800D/Rebel T7i, 200D, and the 77D. It has a different optical formula from that of any previous Canon 18–55mm lens and a smaller aperture, which made it possible to","title":"Canon EF-S 18–55mm lens"},{"docid":"5127078","text":"citizens and suspected IRA members. The infamy produced by the force became part of the push for Irish Home Rule, achieved in 1922, and an independent Irish Republic, established in 1937. In an article about the violence and bigotry surrounding Old Firm football matches, the Irish Independent said: \"Then there's the stereotypical image of the Celtic supporters wearing T-shirts of 'undefeated army' and having their phones ringing to the sound of 'Come out ye black and tans'.\" Come Out, Ye Black and Tans \"Come Out, Ye Black and Tans\" (sometimes \"Black and Tan\") is an Irish rebel song referring to","title":"Come Out, Ye Black and Tans"},{"docid":"13018245","text":"On December 3, Li Qi arrived at Chang'an. Emperor Xianzong personally questioned him as to why he rebelled. Li Qi responded, \"I did not want to rebel. It was Zhang Ziliang and others like him who told me to rebel.\" Emperor Xianzong responded, \"You are the commander. If Zhang and the others were plotting treason, why did you not execute them and then come to see me?\" Li Qi was unable to respond, and he was executed with his son Li Shihui (李師回) by being cut in half at the waist. His assets were confiscated by the imperial treasury; in","title":"Li Qi (military governor)"},{"docid":"6633448","text":"was pioneering.\" \"But now that we have made the land\" \"A garden full of promise,\" \"Old Greed must crook 'is dirty hand\" \"And come ter take it from us.\" \"So we must fly a rebel flag,\" \"As others did before us,\" \"And we must sing a rebel song\" \"And join in rebel chorus.\" \"We'll make the tyrants feel the sting\" \"O' those that they would throttle;\" \"They needn't say the fault is ours\" \"If blood should stain the wattle!\"\" Freedom on the Wallaby \"Freedom on the Wallaby\", Henry Lawson's well known poem, was written as a comment on the 1891","title":"Freedom on the Wallaby"},{"docid":"3560098","text":"has the 7-point AF system of most older Canon DSLRs. The EOS 7D, released in 2009, has a 19-point AF layout, fitting essentially within the same diamond-shaped area of the frame as the nine-point layout. The EOS 70D, released in August 2013, inherited the 7D's 19-point layout, but with fewer AF control options. The 70D system was in turn handed down to the EOS 750D (Rebel T6i) and 760D (Rebel T6s), announced in February 2015. As mentioned above, the EOS 5D Mark III, EOS-1D X, EOS 5DS/5DS R, and EOS-1D X Mark II have 61-point AF layouts. The EOS 6D,","title":"Canon EOS"},{"docid":"3557870","text":"Canon EOS 300D The Canon EOS 300D, manufactured by Canon, was marketed in North America as the EOS Digital Rebel, in Japan as the EOS Kiss Digital, and was also sold as the DS6041. It is a 6.3-megapixel entry-level digital single-lens reflex camera. It was initially announced on 20 August 2003 at a price point of $899 without lens, $999 with the \"kit\" lens. It is part of the Canon EOS line of cameras. This was a significant milestone in digital cameras, as it was the first digital SLR offered under $1000. The 300D was one of the first digital","title":"Canon EOS 300D"},{"docid":"17174732","text":"is the EOS 200D. The EOS 100D shares a similar set of features with the larger Canon EOS 700D. However, it does have an improved focus tracking system in live view mode called Hybrid CMOS AF II with 80% frame coverage. The 700D has the previous version of Hybrid CMOS AF with much reduced frame coverage. Features include: Canon EOS 100D The Canon EOS 100D, known as the EOS Rebel SL1 in the Americas and EOS Kiss X7 in Japan, is an 18.0-megapixel digital single-lens reflex camera announced by Canon on 21 March 2013. It has been described as the","title":"Canon EOS 100D"},{"docid":"20229237","text":"Canon EOS 200D The Canon EOS 200D, known as the EOS Rebel SL2 in the Americas and EOS Kiss X9 in Japan, is a 24.2-megapixel digital single-lens reflex camera made by Canon. It was announced on June 28, 2017 with a suggested retail price of $549 for the body and $699 with the Canon EF-S 18-55m f/4-5.6 IS STM lens. The European release price is significantly higher, at €599 for the body only, the equivalent of $671 at current conversion rates. Its uses an APS-C CMOS sensor, Dual Pixel CMOS AF, DIGIC 7 image processor, ISO 100-25600 range, optical viewfinder","title":"Canon EOS 200D"},{"docid":"20229235","text":"Canon EOS 200D The Canon EOS 200D, known as the EOS Rebel SL2 in the Americas and EOS Kiss X9 in Japan, is a 24.2-megapixel digital single-lens reflex camera made by Canon. It was announced on June 28, 2017 with a suggested retail price of $549 for the body and $699 with the Canon EF-S 18-55m f/4-5.6 IS STM lens. The European release price is significantly higher, at €599 for the body only, the equivalent of $671 at current conversion rates. Its uses an APS-C CMOS sensor, Dual Pixel CMOS AF, DIGIC 7 image processor, ISO 100-25600 range, optical viewfinder","title":"Canon EOS 200D"},{"docid":"17174731","text":"Canon EOS 100D The Canon EOS 100D, known as the EOS Rebel SL1 in the Americas and EOS Kiss X7 in Japan, is an 18.0-megapixel digital single-lens reflex camera announced by Canon on 21 March 2013. It has been described as the \"world's smallest and lightest DSLR camera\", either currently in production or in the APS-C format. Canon uses a smaller version of the APS-C sensor format than some other manufacturers including Nikon, Pentax, and Sony, with a crop factor of 1.6 rather than 1.5. It weighs 407 grams including battery and memory card. The successor of the EOS 100D","title":"Canon EOS 100D"},{"docid":"20004333","text":"Canon EOS 77D The Canon EOS 77D, known in Japan as the EOS 9000D, is a digital single-lens reflex camera announced by Canon on February 14, 2017. It has a body-only MSRP of US$899.99, which is more expensive than Canon EOS 760D, which it replaces. The camera can be purchased as a body-only, as kit with the 18-55mm IS STM lens at US$1,049, with the new 18-135mm IS USM lens at US$1,499. According to Canon's U.S. subsidiary, the camera \"represents a new category of advanced amateur EOS cameras, a step above the Rebel series.\" However, at least one reviewer considered","title":"Canon EOS 77D"},{"docid":"8396352","text":"girl, Rebel Davis, to seduce the council members. Jerry then promises Rebel a spot in commercials, so he shoots some featuring her for “VIP”, a nonexistent product. He has no intention that they will be shown, but the perplexed company president, Pete Ramsey, orders them broadcast on TV. Due to this mistake, Jerry needs to come up with a product quickly. He bribes a chemist, Dr. Linus Tyler, to come up with some sort of product called VIP that could be marketed. When Carol mistakes Jerry for Tyler, the inventor, he pretends to be Tyler, so that in her attempt","title":"Lover Come Back (1961 film)"},{"docid":"13754305","text":"the 650D's successor, the EOS 700D/Rebel T5i. This STM version, in some markets, is available as a kit lens for the Canon EOS 70D, as is also the Canon EF-S 18–55mm lens in its STM version. The latest addition of the 18–135 series is the \"EF-S 18-135mm f/3.5-5.6 IS USM\", announced on 17 February 2016. New features are the new Nano USM and the possibility to connect the Power Zoom Adapter PZ-E1, which allows a soft zoom for video. The lens is also available as bundle with the Canon EOS 80D, which was announced same date. Canon EF-S 18–135mm lens","title":"Canon EF-S 18–135mm lens"},{"docid":"2289254","text":"the rank-and-file sepoys who spoke to him did not know of the killing to come. Many were killed and the remaining 200 British women and children were brought back to shore and sent to a building called the Bibighar (the ladies' home). After some time, the commanders of the rebels decided to kill their hostages. The rebel soldiers refused to carry out orders and butchers from the nearby town were brought in to kill the hostages three days before the British entered the city on 18 July. The dismembered bodies were thrown into a deep well nearby. The British under","title":"Kanpur"},{"docid":"4193138","text":"integral auto-exposure. The first camera to utilize this was the 1971 Canon F-1, when equipped with the Servo EE Finder. Later, the Canon EF of 1973 had automatic exposure built-in, as did the very popular Canon A-series cameras (save the AT-1) beginning in 1976. Thus, starting with the first FD lenses produced in late 1970, all FD lenses had the capability of supporting full-aperture metering and multiple Automatic Exposure (AE) modes using both shutter-preferred and aperture-preferred modes. Even Programmed AE was possible with no modifications to the lens mount, though at the time of its introduction Canon did not have","title":"Canon FD lens mount"},{"docid":"13954538","text":"the pulpit when illness overtook him but he finished the sermon and gave out the notice of a hymn. He then asked another vicar to conduct the rest of the service, before struggling to the vestry where he collapsed. In 1938, on the centenary of Holy Trinity, the Bishop of Leicester referred in a sermon to the great social benefits brought to Britain by the Evangelical ministry of Holy Trinity. The Bishop of Chichester praised Canon Warner’s zeal as a missionary, both in Eastbourne and elsewhere. Although Canon Warner was an excellent pastor, his forte did not necessarily lie in","title":"Stephen Warner"},{"docid":"16207070","text":"area that year. In mid-2008 Voris' organization ran out of operating funds, what staff they could retain lived on unemployment compensation for between a year and eighteen months. By early 2011, the fiscal crisis ended when subscription revenues to their online services increased. In 2011 the Archdiocese of Detroit, citing canon 216 of the 1983 Code of Canon Law, published notice to Voris and RealCatholicTV that \"it [did] not regard them as being authorized to use the word 'Catholic' to identify or promote their public activities.\" In 2012 the company name RealCatholicTV.com was changed to \"ChurchMilitant.tv\" and the partnership with","title":"Michael Voris"},{"docid":"14271941","text":"were the Nikon D3200 and D5100 (respectively the replacements for the D3100 and D5000), Pentax K-r (replacement for the K-x), and the Sony Alpha 57, one of the company's SLT cameras. (The replacement for the Nikon D90, the D7000, is positioned upmarket from the 550D.) Canon EOS 550D The Canon EOS 550D is an 18.0 megapixel digital single-lens reflex camera, announced by Canon on February 8, 2010. It was available since 24 February 2010 and to US dealers from early March. It is known as the EOS Kiss X4 in Japan, and as the EOS Rebel T2i in the Americas.","title":"Canon EOS 550D"},{"docid":"20747680","text":"compared to the 1300D: Canon EOS 4000D The Canon EOS 4000D is an 18.0 megapixels digital single-lens reflex camera (DSLR) made by Canon. It was announced on 25 February 2018 with a suggested retail price of €399 including an EF-S 18-55 f/3.5-5.6 IS II lens. It is also known as the EOS 3000D in some parts of the Asia Pacific region and the EOS Rebel T100 in North America. The 4000D is an entry-level DSLR that supersedes the EOS 1300D. The main feature is the cost reduction compared to the 1300D. At the announcement date, it was not for sale","title":"Canon EOS 4000D"},{"docid":"20747679","text":"Canon EOS 4000D The Canon EOS 4000D is an 18.0 megapixels digital single-lens reflex camera (DSLR) made by Canon. It was announced on 25 February 2018 with a suggested retail price of €399 including an EF-S 18-55 f/3.5-5.6 IS II lens. It is also known as the EOS 3000D in some parts of the Asia Pacific region and the EOS Rebel T100 in North America. The 4000D is an entry-level DSLR that supersedes the EOS 1300D. The main feature is the cost reduction compared to the 1300D. At the announcement date, it was not for sale in the USA. Differences","title":"Canon EOS 4000D"},{"docid":"9323239","text":"the same. The Canon EOS 6D Mark II released in July 2017. The Canon EOS 200D, known as the EOS Rebel SL2 in the Americas and EOS Kiss X8 in Japan, released in July 2017. Currently last in this series is the Canon EOS M100, released in August 2017. The DIGIC 8 was introduced together with the Canon EOS M50 in February 2018. It can process 4k videos with up to 25 fps using MPEG-4 AVC / H.264 compression. EOS R full-frame mirrorless camera also uses the DIGIC 8. The DIGIC DV is used in Canon's single-chip CCD digital camcorders","title":"DIGIC"},{"docid":"12071323","text":"Canon EOS 1000D Canon EOS 1000D is a 10.1-megapixel digital single-lens reflex camera announced by Canon on 10 June 2008 and started shipping in mid August 2008. It is known as the EOS Kiss F in Japan and the EOS Rebel XS in the United States and Canada. The 1000D is an entry-level DSLR that has been described as being a step below the 450D. The camera shares a few features with the 450D. It offers Live View shooting, DIGIC III Image Processor, and SDHC media storage. However, it has seven focus points (opposed to nine) and does not have","title":"Canon EOS 1000D"},{"docid":"12915735","text":"basestar. Zarek keeps control of the situation from \"Colonial One\". His intentions were, as it turns out, to have Admiral Adama killed, and he is dissatisfied that this did not happen. Alone in the storage bay, Baltar and Roslin come back closer together. They realize that they finally have more in common than it seemed all along. Roslin finally makes it off the \"Galactica\" with Tyrol's help; Gaeta however orders their Raptor to be destroyed. Saul Tigh and Admiral Adama defend the storage bay from where the Raptor took off, only to be attacked by rebel marines. Both Tigh and","title":"The Oath (Battlestar Galactica)"},{"docid":"15836566","text":"first Players Association (IPTPA) was the forerunner of what is now the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP), of which Davies was to become executive director in 1982. In 1961 Davies published two books: one a teaching book, and the other a biography called \"Tennis Rebel\" (Stanley Paul, London). Davies retired in 1967, one year before Wimbledon finally allowed professionals to play. However, he did come out of retirement to play in the first Open at Wimbledon. He had missed 28 Grand Slam events during the ban. In 1967 Lamar Hunt co-founded World Championship Tennis (WCT) with his nephew, Al G.","title":"Mike Davies (tennis)"},{"docid":"2364008","text":"in Hamgyong: My grandfather died at thirty-nine. Our home was Haunseung Village, Suha Township in Dancheon County. There and in Samsu, my grandfather caused a Donghak rebellion. But [he was defeated] and fled to a village called Neuteulgol...where slash-and-burners lived. He hid in a potato container, but two Japanese soldiers opened the lid and ordered him to come out. So he suicided by splitting his stomach open with a dagger. Although Jeon Bongjun officially disbanded the rebel army after the Battle of Taein, many of the other commanders did not disband their respective armies until December. In December 1, Son","title":"Donghak Peasant Revolution"},{"docid":"3434862","text":"outnumbered, Chu forces scored a great victory after nine engagements, defeating the 300,000 strong Qin army. After the battle, other rebel forces, including those not from Chu, came to join Xiang Yu out of admiration for his martial valour. When Xiang Yu received them at the gate, the rebel chiefs were so fearful of him that they sank to their knees and did not even dare to look up at him. Zhang Han sent his deputy Sima Xin to Xianyang to request for reinforcements and supplies from the Qin imperial court. However, the eunuch Zhao Gao deceived the emperor and","title":"Xiang Yu"},{"docid":"10065652","text":"find and save his father Li Gai. However, at this time, Dou was awaiting his wife Empress Cao's giving birth and did not arrive for a while. Meanwhile, Cao Dan was insulting and pillaging the other rebel leaders south of the Yellow River who had submitted to Xia, and the rebel leaders were all resentful. One of them, Li Shanghu (), and Li Shanghu's mother Lady Huo, urged Li Shiji to carry out his plan as soon as possible, and when Li Shiji hesitated, Li Shanghu and Lady Huo acted on their own, ambushing Cao Dan, but while they killed","title":"Li Shiji"},{"docid":"20500337","text":"Pope shared with the French king. In 1311, Brunissende was widowed. Due to Archambaud being underage, she assumed the regency over the County of Périgord. During this period, her ties with the Avignon Papacy strengthened. The favours to Hélie did not stop when her husband died. On January 23, 1314, he was made canon in the Church of Cahors, with reservation of a prebend. This certainly implies some form of communication between the Pope and Brunissende, Zacour claimed that the favour was a result of Brunissende's request; as she was regent at the time, it seems logical to have come","title":"Brunissende of Foix"},{"docid":"5127072","text":"Come Out, Ye Black and Tans \"Come Out, Ye Black and Tans\" (sometimes \"Black and Tan\") is an Irish rebel song referring to the Black and Tans, the British paramilitary police auxiliary force in Ireland during the 1920s. The song was written by Dominic Behan as a tribute to his father Stephen although authorship of the song is often attributed to Stephen. The melody was adapted from an old air, Rosc Catha na Mumhan (Irish for Battlecry of Munster) by Piaras Mac Gearailt (Pierce FitzGerald c.1709-c.1792), which is also used for the loyalist song, The Boyne Water, as well as","title":"Come Out, Ye Black and Tans"},{"docid":"12952583","text":"phonotactics that would persist into Early Modern Greek. When dialects started deleting unstressed and between two consonants (such as when Myzithras became Mystras), new clusters were formed and similarly assimilated by sandhi; on the other hand it is arguable that the dissimilation of voiceless obstruents occurred before the loss of close vowels, as the clusters resulting from this development do not necessarily undergo the change to [fricative + stop], e.g. κ(ου)τί as [kti] not [xti]. The resulting clusters were: For plosives: For fricatives where the second was not : For fricatives where the second was : The disappearance of in","title":"Medieval Greek"},{"docid":"17979657","text":"rebellious military governor, An Congjin of Shannan East Circuit (山南東道, headquartered in modern Xiangyang, Hubei), would surely rebel as well, and that Shi should prepare for it. Shi asked him was his advice was. He advised Shi that Shi should leave a number of blank edicts with Shi's adoptive son (biological nephew) Shi Chonggui the Prince of Zheng, whom Shi left in charge of Kaifeng, so that when An Congjin did rebel, Shi Chonggui could react quickly and commission appropriate generals to counterattack. Shi Jingtang agreed. Subsequently, when An Congjin did rebel, Shi Chonggui was quickly able to mobilize a","title":"He Ning"},{"docid":"281420","text":"kingdom. As an additional measure, Henry took the cross, declaring himself a crusader and thereby entitled to special protection from Rome. The war was not going well for the loyalists, but Prince Louis and the rebel barons were also finding it difficult to make further progress. John's death had defused some of the rebel concerns, and the royal castles were still holding out in the occupied parts of the country. Henry's government encouraged the rebel barons to come back to his cause in exchange for the return of their lands, and reissued a version of the 1215 Charter, albeit having","title":"Magna Carta"},{"docid":"13110778","text":"and that on failing to appear, the process of forfeiture against him was suspended for a time, and he was allowed to retain undisturbed possession of his estates for about fifteen years. The treaty of 1462 did not come to light until 1475, when the Scottish government determined to proceed against John as an avowed traitor and rebel. Commission was given to Colin Campbell, 1st Earl of Argyll, to prosecute a decree of forfeiture against him; and on the appointed day, failing to appear, sentence was passed upon him. So great were the preparations now made against him, that MacDonald","title":"Lachlan Og Maclean"}],"string":"[\n {\n \"docid\": \"11477869\",\n \"text\": \"EOS system accessories. 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The XTI Procyon is water resistant\",\n \"title\": \"Insight Technology\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"16571825\",\n \"text\": \"DSLR to support the UHS-I bus . The 650D's autofocus during live view mode is approximately two times faster than the 600D. Canon EOS 650D The Canon EOS 650D, known as the Kiss X6i in Japan or the Rebel T4i in America, is an 18.0 megapixels digital single-lens reflex camera (DSLR), announced by Canon on June 8, 2012. It is the successor of the EOS 600D/Kiss X5/Rebel T3i and is the predecessor of the EOS 700D/Kiss X7i/Rebel T5i. Sales began on June 15, 2012. At introduction, recommended retail prices for the body were US$849.99, £699.99 (including VAT), and €839.99 (including\",\n \"title\": \"Canon EOS 650D\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"15307012\",\n \"text\": \"its innovative touchscreen, but also pointed out that with regard to auto-focussing in live view mode the 650D was \\\"still far behind the better mirrorless models we have seen from the likes of Panasonic and Olympus as well as rival Nikon's 1 series\\\". Canon EOS 600D The Canon EOS 600D is an 18.0 megapixel digital single-lens reflex camera, released by Canon on 7 February 2011. It is known as the EOS Kiss X5 in Japan and the EOS Rebel T3i in America. The 600D is the second Canon EOS camera with an articulating LCD screen and supersedes the 550D, although\",\n \"title\": \"Canon EOS 600D\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"1380426\",\n \"text\": \"Roger de Montgomery Earl of Shrewsbury, Robert de Mowbray Earl of Northumbria, and Odo's brother Robert Count of Mortain. The rebellion had failed by the end of the summer, but St-Calais continued to hold out in Durham, at first claiming he had never actually rebelled. When the king's army arrived, St-Calais agreed to come out, but only after receiving a safe conduct that would allow him to attend a trial while his men continued to hold the castle. St-Calais's actions suggest that he did rebel, whatever his claims to the contrary and affirmations of his innocence in northern chronicles. St-Calais\",\n \"title\": \"William de St-Calais\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"13187216\",\n \"text\": \"Nikon D5000 as well. It comes with a similar feature set to the 500D ('only' 720P video though) and performs slightly better in low light.” Alternative cameras to the Canon EOS 500D: Next level upgrade cameras from the Canon EOS 500D: Economical alternatives to the Canon EOS 500D: Canon EOS 500D The Canon EOS 500D is a 15-megapixel entry-level digital single-lens reflex camera, announced by Canon on 25 March 2009. It was released in May 2009. It is known as the EOS Kiss X3 in Japan, and as the EOS Rebel T1i in North America. It continues the Rebel line\",\n \"title\": \"Canon EOS 500D\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"7337591\",\n \"text\": \"Canon EOS 300 The Canon EOS 300 (EOS Kiss III in Japan, EOS Rebel 2000 in North America) is a consumer-level 35mm single-lens reflex camera, produced by Canon of Japan from April 1999 until September 2002 as part of their EOS system. Designed under the supervision of Yasuhiro Morishita, the camera was intended as a replacement for the Canon EOS 500N. The camera was a success for Canon, selling exceedingly well and dominating its market sector until it was replaced by the EOS 300V (Rebel Ti, Kiss 5). Canon EOS 300 won European Imaging and Sound Association Award 1999-2000. Like\",\n \"title\": \"Canon EOS 300\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"18575149\",\n \"text\": \"when the image is processed aggressively, this is particularly noticeable in astrophotography. Canon stated \\\"Canon is able to reproduce the stripes. The stripes will appear in those areas where the pixels for the AF are located. This is causing a lower density of image pixels in those areas. This not a lack of quality, since the effect will be seen only if heavy post-processing is applied.\\\" Canon EOS 750D The Canon EOS 750D, known as the Rebel T6i in the Americas or as the Kiss X8i in Japan, is a 24.2 megapixels entry-mid-level digital SLR announced by Canon on February\",\n \"title\": \"Canon EOS 750D\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"5450112\",\n \"text\": \"to be bundled with the EOS 600D and 1100D. This lens is identical in specification to the previous version, and features exactly the same optics, but has a revised external design and a slightly different IS algorithm that attempts to recognize when the camera is being panned, effectively disabling IS in that direction. On 21 March 2013, the 18–55mm 3.5–5.6 IS STM was announced alongside the EOS 700D/Rebel T5i and 100D/Rebel SL1. It has a different optical formula from that of any previous Canon 18–55mm lens, and includes Canon's STM (stepping motor) technology, claimed by the company to offer quieter\",\n \"title\": \"Canon EF-S 18–55mm lens\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"15307010\",\n \"text\": \"Canon EOS 600D The Canon EOS 600D is an 18.0 megapixel digital single-lens reflex camera, released by Canon on 7 February 2011. It is known as the EOS Kiss X5 in Japan and the EOS Rebel T3i in America. The 600D is the second Canon EOS camera with an articulating LCD screen and supersedes the 550D, although the earlier model was not discontinued until June 2012, when the successor of the 600D, the 650D, was announced. As with many DSLRs and unlike the SLT cameras, the 600D does not have continuous auto-focus while filming video; to keep a moving subject\",\n \"title\": \"Canon EOS 600D\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"15307024\",\n \"text\": \"keep a moving subject in focus the user must either trigger the auto-focus, as when shooting stills, or manually adjust the focus while recording. Canon EOS 1100D Canon EOS 1100D is a 12.2-megapixel digital single-lens reflex camera announced by Canon on 7 February 2011. It is known as the EOS Kiss X50 in Japan and the EOS Rebel T3 in the Americas. The 1100D is Canon's most basic entry-level DSLR, and introduces movie mode to other entry level DSLRs. It replaced the 1000D and is also the only Canon EOS model currently in production that is not made in Japan\",\n \"title\": \"Canon EOS 1100D\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"13187213\",\n \"text\": \"Canon EOS 500D The Canon EOS 500D is a 15-megapixel entry-level digital single-lens reflex camera, announced by Canon on 25 March 2009. It was released in May 2009. It is known as the EOS Kiss X3 in Japan, and as the EOS Rebel T1i in North America. It continues the Rebel line of mid-range DSLR cameras, is placed by Canon as the next model up from the EOS 450D, and has been superseded by the EOS 550D (T2i). It is the third digital single-lens reflex camera to feature a movie mode and the second to feature full 1080p video recording,\",\n \"title\": \"Canon EOS 500D\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"15307023\",\n \"text\": \"Canon EOS 1100D Canon EOS 1100D is a 12.2-megapixel digital single-lens reflex camera announced by Canon on 7 February 2011. It is known as the EOS Kiss X50 in Japan and the EOS Rebel T3 in the Americas. The 1100D is Canon's most basic entry-level DSLR, and introduces movie mode to other entry level DSLRs. It replaced the 1000D and is also the only Canon EOS model currently in production that is not made in Japan but in Taiwan, aside from the EOS Rebel T4i. The 1100D captures 720p video, it does not have continuous auto-focus while filming video; to\",\n \"title\": \"Canon EOS 1100D\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"8169432\",\n \"text\": \"in glamour photography. When used with DSLRs with cropped sensors, notably the APS-C-sized sensor with 1.6 crop factor (such as the popular Canon EOS 600D, also known as the \\\"Digital Rebel T3i\\\" or \\\"EOS Kiss Digital X5\\\"), one instead uses 50mm–85mm lenses, as these provide a 35 mm equivalent focal length of 80mm–136mm. Lenses that fit these criteria are: Canon EF portrait lenses Canon makes several lenses for the EF lens mount and EF-S lens mount that are well-suited for portrait photography. These lenses may also be used for other purposes, often being suited for indoor sports photography as well,\",\n \"title\": \"Canon EF portrait lenses\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"1538636\",\n \"text\": \"Dawn\\\", \\\"Rebel Dawn\\\" and with the 2016 film, \\\"Rogue One\\\". The canon story changes introduced in \\\"Rogue One\\\" most strongly conflict with events presents in the second chapter of the radio drama, \\\"Points of Origin\\\". While both the radio drama and the novel contain accounts of how Princess Leia acquired the \\\"Death Star\\\" plans from rebel agents, in the radio drama the agents from a planet called Toprawa transmit the plans to the Tantive IV that dropped out of hyperspace illegally into that planetary system in the aftermath of a rebel attack on a convoy on route with the plans.\",\n \"title\": \"Star Wars (radio)\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"14271938\",\n \"text\": \"Canon EOS 550D The Canon EOS 550D is an 18.0 megapixel digital single-lens reflex camera, announced by Canon on February 8, 2010. It was available since 24 February 2010 and to US dealers from early March. It is known as the EOS Kiss X4 in Japan, and as the EOS Rebel T2i in the Americas. It is part of Canon's entry/mid-level digital SLR camera series, and was the successor model to the EOS 500D. It was succeeded by the EOS 600D (Kiss X5/Rebel T3i), but remained in Canon's lineup until being discontinued in June 2012 with the announcement of the\",\n \"title\": \"Canon EOS 550D\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"7337592\",\n \"text\": \"other low-priced SLRs of the time, the EOS 300 used a pentamirror viewfinder instead of a pentaprism, and had a polycarbonate body. The autofocus capabilities of this camera were identical to Canon's much more expensive Elan 7 with six single-line CMOS sensors surrounding a central cross-type sensor. The EOS 300 should not be confused with the later Canon EOS 300D (EOS Digital Rebel in the US and EOS Kiss Digital in Japan), a popular entry-level digital SLR from 2003. Canon EOS 300 The Canon EOS 300 (EOS Kiss III in Japan, EOS Rebel 2000 in North America) is a consumer-level\",\n \"title\": \"Canon EOS 300\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"4110012\",\n \"text\": \"the imaging sensor, and price reductions to lure new customers. In June 2012, Canon announced the first DSLR to feature a touchscreen, the EOS 650D/Rebel T4i/Kiss X6i. Although this feature had been widely used on both compact cameras and mirrorless models, it had not made an appearance in a DSLR until the 650D. The DSLR market is dominated by Japanese companies and the top five manufacturers are Japanese: Canon, Nikon, Olympus, Pentax, and Sony. Other manufacturers of DSLRs include Mamiya, Sigma, Leica (German), and Hasselblad (Swedish). In 2007, Canon edged out Nikon with 41% of worldwide sales to the latter's\",\n \"title\": \"Digital single-lens reflex camera\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"12385049\",\n \"text\": \"50D video support. The 50D compares favorably to many later Canon APS-C models in terms of light sensitivity: \\\"The camera is also a totally unbelievable low light performer. The 50D was designed before the megapixel race really took off. It has a 15MP APS-C sensor, so individual pixels are much larger than those on the later 18MP Rebel CMOS sensors.\\\". In addition to raw video, the Magic Lantern firmware add-on also enabled high bitrate compressed H.264 video at 30 frames per second. Other publications, while impressed, pointed out downsides such as no audio, expensive fast CF-cards and no Canon support\",\n \"title\": \"Canon EOS 50D\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"5903566\",\n \"text\": \"however, have been shown to be mistaken. Documentary evidence written at Saint-Martin in 1500 shows that he was a secular priest, and that he was Administrator of Saint-Martin. Chacon also states that d'Estouteville was \\\"Doctor Decretorum\\\" (Doctor of Canon Law), but various papal documents of Pope Eugenius IV, in particular one of 1435, calls him a Papal Notary, a relative of the Kings of France, a Master of Arts, and of Canon Law, having passed rigorous examinations. Henri Denifle states that d'Estouteville's degree in Canon Law did not come from the University of Paris. Guillaume did possess a Canonry in\",\n \"title\": \"Guillaume d'Estouteville\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"18634514\",\n \"text\": \"the band's 1975 UK number one hit \\\"Make Me Smile (Come Up and See Me)\\\". It was released as a 7\\\" vinyl single on 3 October 1980. The chosen B-Side was the band's 1973 European hit \\\"Sebastian\\\". The single came with a full picture sleeve, which featured the same photographs of Cockney Rebel, on both the front and back of the sleeve, as would appear on the sleeve of the compilation album. The single did not make a chart appearance in the UK, and when the compilation was released a month later, it also failed to chart. After the release\",\n \"title\": \"The Best of Steve Harley and Cockney Rebel\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"12298813\",\n \"text\": \"Wii version's artificial intelligence and graphics, and stated that while some of the game's ideas \\\"could have worked nicely, the game is plagued by sketchy motion controls and an overall cheap feel.\\\" GameSpot's Carolyn Petit, reviewing the Wii version, stated that when the game was originally released for PS2 and PC, it was \\\"already way behind the times – a simple, unimpressive air combat game that did nothing to stand out from the pack.\\\" Petit stated that the Wii version \\\"is best ignored,\\\" calling it \\\"generic and disposable.\\\" Rebel Raiders: Operation Nighthawk Rebel Raiders: Operation Nighthawk (or Rebel Raiders) is\",\n \"title\": \"Rebel Raiders: Operation Nighthawk\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"18483262\",\n \"text\": \"for someone with Sang's accomplishments and that he should be given a military governorship, Feng stated that he was fearful that Sang might rebel. When they pointed out that Sang was a civilian and could not rebel, Feng stated, \\\"Even if he did not rebel himself, he might encourage someone else to do so,\\\" alluding to Sang's having encouraged Shi Jingtang to rebel.) In fall 946, there were rumors that Zhao Yanshou, a major general of Later Jin's northern neighbor Liao — whose Emperor Taizong had been instrumental in Shi Jingtang's success in overthrowing Later Tang but with whom Shi\",\n \"title\": \"Feng Yu\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"17913471\",\n \"text\": \"with Sang's accomplishments and that he should be given a military governorship, Feng stated that he was fearful that Sang might rebel. When they pointed out that Sang was a civilian and could not rebel, Feng stated, \\\"Even if he did not rebel himself, he might encourage someone else to do so,\\\" alluding to Sang's having encouraged Shi Jingtang to rebel.) In 946, Emperor Taizong decided to create a trap for Later Jin. He spread false news that Zhao Yanshou was intending to defect to Later Jin, rumors that were believed by Feng and Li Song. They had Du Chongwei\",\n \"title\": \"Sang Weihan\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"3560101\",\n \"text\": \"and vertical). All 65 points of the 7D MkII are cross-type, but only the center point is dual-cross-type. Similarly, , all AF points on later generations of the X0D series (beginning with the 40D and continuing through the current 80D) are cross-type sensors for higher accuracy, and the center sensor is dual-cross-type for even greater accuracy and sensitivity. In June 2012, the EOS 650D (Rebel T4i) became the first consumer-level Canon to receive this AF system. Identical Canon models are sometimes marketed under different names in different parts of the world. For example, the \\\"EOS Rebel 2000\\\" known in the\",\n \"title\": \"Canon EOS\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"9323231\",\n \"text\": \"works with the DIGIC III Image Processor to improve focus speed and accuracy, as well as exposure and white balance. The Canon EOS-1D Mark III uses dual DIGIC III processors to achieve a capture rate of 10 frames per second at 10.1 MP (with a maximum burst of 110 JPEG images, depending on the speed of the attached storage). The Canon EOS-1Ds Mark III also uses dual DIGIC III processors to achieve a capture rate of five frames per second at 21.1 MP. In 2008, Canon introduced the DIGIC 4 processor, used by the EOS 1100D/Rebel T3, EOS 500D/Rebel T1i,\",\n \"title\": \"DIGIC\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"9323232\",\n \"text\": \"EOS 550D/Rebel T2i, EOS 600D/Rebel T3i, EOS 50D, EOS 60D, EOS 1200D/Rebel T5, EOS 5D Mark II and EOS-1D X (for metering and AF only). It is also used in newer cameras in Canon's PowerShot lines (A, G, S, SD, and SX). Canon claims improvements such as: Dual DIGIC 4 processors are used in the EOS 7D and EOS-1D Mark IV. This CPU was introduced in 2014 to replace the DIGIC 5 on mid-range compact cameras, particularly the Elph/IXUS and SX series. Full specifications were not made available at introduction, but Canon claims a 60% speed bump over the original\",\n \"title\": \"DIGIC\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"8844392\",\n \"text\": \"what they would go through, in that house in Talbot Street. When he saw them in their Crossley trucks, like the fox inside his lair, Seán waited for to size them up before he did emerge, With blazing guns he met the Huns, and forced them to retreat, He shot them in pairs coming down the stairs, in that house in Talbot Street. \\\"Come on\\\", he cried, \\\"'Come show your hand, you have boasted for so long, How you would crush this rebel band with your armies great and strong\\\". \\\"No surrender\\\", was his war cry, \\\"Fight on lads, no\",\n \"title\": \"Seán Treacy\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"13554230\",\n \"text\": \"(TCP), Xerox Network Systems (XNS), Systems Network Architecture (SNA), X.25, Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) or any other transport layer provider that function at Layer 4 of the OSI Model. XTI provides similar functionality as the Berkeley sockets interface, however it is protocol independent in contrast to the socket interface which is heavily biased toward the Internet Protocols. It is based on the UNIX System V Transport Layer Interface (TLI)., which is a transport service definition adhering to the Open Systems Interconnection (OSI) model. XTI consists of a cooperating STREAMS module, link library application programming interface (API), header files, and the\",\n \"title\": \"X/Open Transport Interface\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"13554234\",\n \"text\": \"utility functions have been added: \\\"t_strerror()\\\" and \\\"t_getprotaddr()\\\". The XTI library is found in UNIX System V but also has ports for other systems, such as OpenSS7 for Linux. X/Open Transport Interface The X/Open Transport Interface (XTI) is an Open Group specification for network application programming present in UNIX System V operating systems. It provides OSI Transport Layer services with protocol independence. Although Open Group considers this specification withdrawn, an implementation is part of the standard programming interfaces on modern UNIX System V operating systems where it is implemented using the STREAMS character input/output mechanism. The X/Open Transport Interface is\",\n \"title\": \"X/Open Transport Interface\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"13554229\",\n \"text\": \"X/Open Transport Interface The X/Open Transport Interface (XTI) is an Open Group specification for network application programming present in UNIX System V operating systems. It provides OSI Transport Layer services with protocol independence. Although Open Group considers this specification withdrawn, an implementation is part of the standard programming interfaces on modern UNIX System V operating systems where it is implemented using the STREAMS character input/output mechanism. The X/Open Transport Interface is a specification that defines an independent transport-service interface for network applications. Programs using XTI can be run over a variety of transport providers, such as the Transmission Control Protocol\",\n \"title\": \"X/Open Transport Interface\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"5423533\",\n \"text\": \"Zhang Qing to surrender and join them. Liu Tang becomes one of the infantry leaders of Liangshan after the 108 Stars of Destiny come together in what is called the Grand Assembly. He follows the Liangshan heroes on their campaigns against the Liao invaders and rebel forces on Song territory after they received from Emperor Huizong. During the campaign against Fang La's rebel forces, Liu Tang is assigned to attack the city of Hangzhou. Eager to earn the top credit, he charges into the city when he sees that the gates are wide open. However, it turns out to be\",\n \"title\": \"Liu Tang\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"7499503\",\n \"text\": \"to drive out the Manchus, unite with the Chinese, and drive out traitors.\\\" Du Wenxiu did not blame Han, but blamed the tensions on the Manchu regime, saying that they were foreign to China and alienated the Chinese and other minorities. Du Wenxiu also called for the complete expulsion of Manchus from all of China in order for China to once again come under Chinese rule. Total war was waged against Manchu rule. Du Wenxiu refused to surrender, unlike the other rebel Muslim commander, Ma Rulong. This may have had something to do with the sects of Islam practiced among\",\n \"title\": \"Panthays\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"16387168\",\n \"text\": \"reveals details about the paleontological specimens which would otherwise be inaccessible without destroying the sample. Grating-based imaging (GBI) includes Shearing interferometry or X-ray Talbot interferometry (XTI), and polychromatic far-field interferometry (PFI). Since the first X-ray grating interferometer—consisting of two phase gratings and an analyzer crystal—was built, various slightly different setups for this method have been developed; in the following the focus lies on the nowadays standard method consisting of a phase grating and an analyzer grating. (See figure to the right). The XTI technique is based on the Talbot effect or \\\"self-imaging phenomenon\\\", which is a Fresnel diffraction effect and\",\n \"title\": \"Phase-contrast X-ray imaging\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"7848028\",\n \"text\": \"can also be obtained through other means. This includes 8 cards which are available as a result of a Burger King cross-promotion; such cards are marked with the code ABK (Avatar Burger King). A second Avatar: The Last Airbender set titled \\\"Path to Enlightenment\\\" was to come out later, but the line was discontinued and the set never came out. The Avatar: The Last Airbender TCG features four Chamber Card characters that are not considered canon and did not appear in the show, despite the claims of packaging: Afiko, an elder Airbender monk of the Southern Air Temple, grew jealous\",\n \"title\": \"Avatar: The Last Airbender Trading Card Game\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"4620924\",\n \"text\": \"way is to verify the serial numbers indicating the manufacture date. The latest firmware released by Canon for the EOS 350D is version 1.0.3 (released 27 October 2005). It fixes problems relating to remote release cables, as well as a problem while reviewing saved images. Canon EOS 350D The Canon EOS 350D (Canon EOS Digital Rebel XT in North America and the Canon EOS Kiss Digital N in Japan) is an 8.0-megapixel entry-level digital single-lens reflex camera manufactured by Canon. The model was initially announced in February 2005. Part of the EOS range, it is the successor to the EOS\",\n \"title\": \"Canon EOS 350D\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"3828888\",\n \"text\": \"of church property, the closing of religious schools and convents, and the exile or the execution of priests. José Luis Sánchez del Río was born on March 28, 1913, in Sahuayo, Michoacán. He attended school in his hometown and later in Guadalajara in Jalisco. When the Cristero War broke out in 1926, his brothers joined the rebel forces, but his mother would not allow him to take part. The rebel general, Prudencio Mendoza, also refused his enlistment. The boy insisted that he wanted the chance to give his life for Jesus Christ and so come to Heaven easily. The general\",\n \"title\": \"José Sánchez del Río\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"14714357\",\n \"text\": \"of synods, most notably at the Synod of Hippo in AD 393, produced a list of texts equal to the 46 book canon of the Old Testament that Catholics use today (and the 27-book canon of the New Testament that all use). A definitive list did not come from any early Ecumenical Council. Also, c. 400, Jerome produced a definitive Latin edition of the Bible, the contents of which, at the insistence of the Pope, was in accord with the earlier Synods. With the benefit of hindsight it can be said that this process effectively set the New Testament canon,\",\n \"title\": \"Christian theology\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"17873697\",\n \"text\": \"Francesco Saverio Caruana Francesco Saverio Caruana (7 July 1759 – 17 November 1847) was a Maltese prelate who was Bishop of Malta from 1831 to his death in 1847. He was also a rebel leader during the Maltese uprising of 1798–1800. Caruana was born in Żebbuġ on 7 July 1759. At the age of 24 he was ordained priest by Archbishop Vincenzo Labini and in 1796 he became canon of the Mdina Cathedral chapter. During the French occupation of Malta Canon Caruana was made a member of the \\\"Commission de gouvernement\\\" (Government commission) but resigned some time later when he\",\n \"title\": \"Francesco Saverio Caruana\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"3676679\",\n \"text\": \"It also uses the E-TTL II flash metering system and uses the DIGIC II image processor. The EOS 20D (with appropriate firmware updates) can also accept the Canon Wireless File Transmitter WFT-E1/E1A for fast file transfer to a remote file server, either through an ethernet cable or a Wi-Fi network. The Canon EOS 20D has several resolution settings: The 20D is the first Canon prosumer camera to use the EF-S lens mount; the first Canon EOS camera to use the mount was the 300D (the Digital Rebel in North America). Canon released the EOS 20Da on 14 February 2005 in\",\n \"title\": \"Canon EOS 20D\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"20004334\",\n \"text\": \"the 77D to be a part of the Rebel line for all practical purposes. The camera features excellent core specs and its sensor is the same is the one in the Canon 80D. New features over the EOS 750D are: Canon EOS 77D The Canon EOS 77D, known in Japan as the EOS 9000D, is a digital single-lens reflex camera announced by Canon on February 14, 2017. It has a body-only MSRP of US$899.99, which is more expensive than Canon EOS 760D, which it replaces. The camera can be purchased as a body-only, as kit with the 18-55mm IS STM\",\n \"title\": \"Canon EOS 77D\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"3557872\",\n \"text\": \"the Canon EF-S lens mount. It also takes the EF lens mount lenses. Canon introduced the EF-S 18-55mm as the kit lens alongside the 300D. It was available in a USM version in Japan and as a non-USM version elsewhere. Very late production black 300D cameras were available with the USM version in Europe. Canon EOS 300D The Canon EOS 300D, manufactured by Canon, was marketed in North America as the EOS Digital Rebel, in Japan as the EOS Kiss Digital, and was also sold as the DS6041. It is a 6.3-megapixel entry-level digital single-lens reflex camera. It was initially\",\n \"title\": \"Canon EOS 300D\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"12071324\",\n \"text\": \"spot light metering. The 1000D is also the second Canon EOS model (after the 450D) to exclusively use SD Card and SDHC memory storage instead of CompactFlash. The 1000D has garnered positive reviews from independent photography review websites. Canon Live View with resolution 768x512 px can be recorded directly to a computer (not internal memory) with software: Canon EOS 1000D Canon EOS 1000D is a 10.1-megapixel digital single-lens reflex camera announced by Canon on 10 June 2008 and started shipping in mid August 2008. It is known as the EOS Kiss F in Japan and the EOS Rebel XS in\",\n \"title\": \"Canon EOS 1000D\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"945641\",\n \"text\": \"the First Order, a new military power formed by remnants from the Empire. After Disney's acquisition of the franchise, Lucasfilm announced in 2014 that previous works outside the theatrical films and \\\"\\\" would no longer be considered canon, but began to be republished under the \\\"Legends\\\" banner. The \\\"Legends\\\" symbol of the Alliance is the \\\"Starbird\\\", which in the old canon was the crest of Galen Marek's family. Princess Leia selected it to honor Marek's sacrifice, declaring it a \\\"symbol of hope\\\". A Declaration of Rebellion was depicted in the 1990 book \\\"The Star Wars Rebel Alliance Sourcebook\\\": The list\",\n \"title\": \"Rebel Alliance\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"14398313\",\n \"text\": \"less fuel and had fewer tire troubles than many of the other teams. Pearson would continue to use the 396 throughout the year. Canadian racer Frog Fagan participated in the race and finished in 22nd place. The average speed was while the pole position speed was . Other notable drivers included Wendell Scott, Richard Petty, Buddy Baker, Elmo Langley, and Roy Tyner. Out of the thirty-four drivers, fifteen of them did not finish the race. Total winnings for the 1968 Rebel 400 were $53,455 ($ when adjusted for inflation); first-place finisher Pearson earned $13,700 ($ when adjusted for inflation) while\",\n \"title\": \"1968 Rebel 400\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"2514504\",\n \"text\": \"the D70 could only be used with lenses as wide as 20 mm. All other updates to the D70s are available for the D70 through a firmware update, which include improved auto-focus performance, updated menu design and updated in-camera printer support. The Canon EOS 350D (known as the Digital Rebel XT in the US) was its then-competitor when the D70s was introduced. Nikon D70 The Nikon D70 is a digital single-lens reflex camera, introduced at the 2004 PMA Annual Convention and Trade Show, as Nikon's first consumer-level digital SLR, and a competitor to the Canon EOS 300D. It was often\",\n \"title\": \"Nikon D70\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"5450113\",\n \"text\": \"continuous autofocus while shooting video when attached to bodies that have Canon's hybrid autofocus sensor technology. The STM is also the first 18–55mm version with an internal focusing design. At introduction, it was offered as a kit lens on both the 700D and 100D; it has since become one of two alternative kit lenses for the 70D. On 14 February 2017, the 18–55mm 4–5.6 IS STM was announced alongside the EOS 800D/Rebel T7i, 200D, and the 77D. It has a different optical formula from that of any previous Canon 18–55mm lens and a smaller aperture, which made it possible to\",\n \"title\": \"Canon EF-S 18–55mm lens\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"5127078\",\n \"text\": \"citizens and suspected IRA members. The infamy produced by the force became part of the push for Irish Home Rule, achieved in 1922, and an independent Irish Republic, established in 1937. In an article about the violence and bigotry surrounding Old Firm football matches, the Irish Independent said: \\\"Then there's the stereotypical image of the Celtic supporters wearing T-shirts of 'undefeated army' and having their phones ringing to the sound of 'Come out ye black and tans'.\\\" Come Out, Ye Black and Tans \\\"Come Out, Ye Black and Tans\\\" (sometimes \\\"Black and Tan\\\") is an Irish rebel song referring to\",\n \"title\": \"Come Out, Ye Black and Tans\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"13018245\",\n \"text\": \"On December 3, Li Qi arrived at Chang'an. Emperor Xianzong personally questioned him as to why he rebelled. Li Qi responded, \\\"I did not want to rebel. It was Zhang Ziliang and others like him who told me to rebel.\\\" Emperor Xianzong responded, \\\"You are the commander. If Zhang and the others were plotting treason, why did you not execute them and then come to see me?\\\" Li Qi was unable to respond, and he was executed with his son Li Shihui (李師回) by being cut in half at the waist. 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He has no intention that they will be shown, but the perplexed company president, Pete Ramsey, orders them broadcast on TV. Due to this mistake, Jerry needs to come up with a product quickly. He bribes a chemist, Dr. Linus Tyler, to come up with some sort of product called VIP that could be marketed. When Carol mistakes Jerry for Tyler, the inventor, he pretends to be Tyler, so that in her attempt\",\n \"title\": \"Lover Come Back (1961 film)\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"13754305\",\n \"text\": \"the 650D's successor, the EOS 700D/Rebel T5i. This STM version, in some markets, is available as a kit lens for the Canon EOS 70D, as is also the Canon EF-S 18–55mm lens in its STM version. The latest addition of the 18–135 series is the \\\"EF-S 18-135mm f/3.5-5.6 IS USM\\\", announced on 17 February 2016. New features are the new Nano USM and the possibility to connect the Power Zoom Adapter PZ-E1, which allows a soft zoom for video. 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Later, the Canon EF of 1973 had automatic exposure built-in, as did the very popular Canon A-series cameras (save the AT-1) beginning in 1976. Thus, starting with the first FD lenses produced in late 1970, all FD lenses had the capability of supporting full-aperture metering and multiple Automatic Exposure (AE) modes using both shutter-preferred and aperture-preferred modes. Even Programmed AE was possible with no modifications to the lens mount, though at the time of its introduction Canon did not have\",\n \"title\": \"Canon FD lens mount\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"13954538\",\n \"text\": \"the pulpit when illness overtook him but he finished the sermon and gave out the notice of a hymn. He then asked another vicar to conduct the rest of the service, before struggling to the vestry where he collapsed. In 1938, on the centenary of Holy Trinity, the Bishop of Leicester referred in a sermon to the great social benefits brought to Britain by the Evangelical ministry of Holy Trinity. 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In 2011 the Archdiocese of Detroit, citing canon 216 of the 1983 Code of Canon Law, published notice to Voris and RealCatholicTV that \\\"it [did] not regard them as being authorized to use the word 'Catholic' to identify or promote their public activities.\\\" In 2012 the company name RealCatholicTV.com was changed to \\\"ChurchMilitant.tv\\\" and the partnership with\",\n \"title\": \"Michael Voris\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"14271941\",\n \"text\": \"were the Nikon D3200 and D5100 (respectively the replacements for the D3100 and D5000), Pentax K-r (replacement for the K-x), and the Sony Alpha 57, one of the company's SLT cameras. (The replacement for the Nikon D90, the D7000, is positioned upmarket from the 550D.) Canon EOS 550D The Canon EOS 550D is an 18.0 megapixel digital single-lens reflex camera, announced by Canon on February 8, 2010. It was available since 24 February 2010 and to US dealers from early March. 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Alone in the storage bay, Baltar and Roslin come back closer together. They realize that they finally have more in common than it seemed all along. Roslin finally makes it off the \\\"Galactica\\\" with Tyrol's help; Gaeta however orders their Raptor to be destroyed. Saul Tigh and Admiral Adama defend the storage bay from where the Raptor took off, only to be attacked by rebel marines. Both Tigh and\",\n \"title\": \"The Oath (Battlestar Galactica)\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"15836566\",\n \"text\": \"first Players Association (IPTPA) was the forerunner of what is now the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP), of which Davies was to become executive director in 1982. In 1961 Davies published two books: one a teaching book, and the other a biography called \\\"Tennis Rebel\\\" (Stanley Paul, London). Davies retired in 1967, one year before Wimbledon finally allowed professionals to play. However, he did come out of retirement to play in the first Open at Wimbledon. He had missed 28 Grand Slam events during the ban. In 1967 Lamar Hunt co-founded World Championship Tennis (WCT) with his nephew, Al G.\",\n \"title\": \"Mike Davies (tennis)\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"2364008\",\n \"text\": \"in Hamgyong: My grandfather died at thirty-nine. Our home was Haunseung Village, Suha Township in Dancheon County. There and in Samsu, my grandfather caused a Donghak rebellion. But [he was defeated] and fled to a village called Neuteulgol...where slash-and-burners lived. He hid in a potato container, but two Japanese soldiers opened the lid and ordered him to come out. So he suicided by splitting his stomach open with a dagger. Although Jeon Bongjun officially disbanded the rebel army after the Battle of Taein, many of the other commanders did not disband their respective armies until December. In December 1, Son\",\n \"title\": \"Donghak Peasant Revolution\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"3434862\",\n \"text\": \"outnumbered, Chu forces scored a great victory after nine engagements, defeating the 300,000 strong Qin army. After the battle, other rebel forces, including those not from Chu, came to join Xiang Yu out of admiration for his martial valour. When Xiang Yu received them at the gate, the rebel chiefs were so fearful of him that they sank to their knees and did not even dare to look up at him. Zhang Han sent his deputy Sima Xin to Xianyang to request for reinforcements and supplies from the Qin imperial court. However, the eunuch Zhao Gao deceived the emperor and\",\n \"title\": \"Xiang Yu\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"10065652\",\n \"text\": \"find and save his father Li Gai. However, at this time, Dou was awaiting his wife Empress Cao's giving birth and did not arrive for a while. Meanwhile, Cao Dan was insulting and pillaging the other rebel leaders south of the Yellow River who had submitted to Xia, and the rebel leaders were all resentful. One of them, Li Shanghu (), and Li Shanghu's mother Lady Huo, urged Li Shiji to carry out his plan as soon as possible, and when Li Shiji hesitated, Li Shanghu and Lady Huo acted on their own, ambushing Cao Dan, but while they killed\",\n \"title\": \"Li Shiji\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"20500337\",\n \"text\": \"Pope shared with the French king. In 1311, Brunissende was widowed. Due to Archambaud being underage, she assumed the regency over the County of Périgord. During this period, her ties with the Avignon Papacy strengthened. The favours to Hélie did not stop when her husband died. On January 23, 1314, he was made canon in the Church of Cahors, with reservation of a prebend. This certainly implies some form of communication between the Pope and Brunissende, Zacour claimed that the favour was a result of Brunissende's request; as she was regent at the time, it seems logical to have come\",\n \"title\": \"Brunissende of Foix\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"5127072\",\n \"text\": \"Come Out, Ye Black and Tans \\\"Come Out, Ye Black and Tans\\\" (sometimes \\\"Black and Tan\\\") is an Irish rebel song referring to the Black and Tans, the British paramilitary police auxiliary force in Ireland during the 1920s. The song was written by Dominic Behan as a tribute to his father Stephen although authorship of the song is often attributed to Stephen. The melody was adapted from an old air, Rosc Catha na Mumhan (Irish for Battlecry of Munster) by Piaras Mac Gearailt (Pierce FitzGerald c.1709-c.1792), which is also used for the loyalist song, The Boyne Water, as well as\",\n \"title\": \"Come Out, Ye Black and Tans\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"12952583\",\n \"text\": \"phonotactics that would persist into Early Modern Greek. When dialects started deleting unstressed and between two consonants (such as when Myzithras became Mystras), new clusters were formed and similarly assimilated by sandhi; on the other hand it is arguable that the dissimilation of voiceless obstruents occurred before the loss of close vowels, as the clusters resulting from this development do not necessarily undergo the change to [fricative + stop], e.g. κ(ου)τί as [kti] not [xti]. 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Commission was given to Colin Campbell, 1st Earl of Argyll, to prosecute a decree of forfeiture against him; and on the appointed day, failing to appear, sentence was passed upon him. So great were the preparations now made against him, that MacDonald\",\n \"title\": \"Lachlan Og Maclean\"\n }\n]","isConversational":false}}},{"rowIdx":280,"cells":{"query_id":{"kind":"string","value":"282"},"query":{"kind":"string","value":"what is the main cause of conflict between india and pakistan"},"answers":{"kind":"list like","value":["Kashmir issue"],"string":"[\n \"Kashmir issue\"\n]","isConversational":false},"positive_passages":{"kind":"list like","value":[{"docid":"1271134","text":"Indo-Pakistani wars and conflicts Since the partition of British India in 1947 and creation of modern states of India and Pakistan, the two South Asian countries have been involved in four wars, including one undeclared war, and many border skirmishes and military stand-offs. 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However, he requested that the formal declaration of the Agreement should not include a final settlement of the\",\n \"title\": \"Kashmir conflict\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"6348854\",\n \"text\": \"Restarting the bus service between the Indian- and Pakistani- administered Kashmir has helped defuse tensions between the countries while both India and Pakistan have decided to co-operate on economic fronts. In 2005, General Musharraf as well as other Pakistani leaders sought to resolve the Kashmir issue through the Chenab Formula road map. Based on the 'Dixon Plan', the Chenab Formula assigns Ladakh to India, Gilgit-Baltistan (G-B) to Pakistan, proposes a plebiscite in the Kashmir Valley and splits Jammu into two-halves. On 5December 2006, Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf told an Indian TV channel that Pakistan would give up its claim on\",\n \"title\": \"Kashmir conflict\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"2466937\",\n \"text\": \"conversions as un-Islamic\\\". He has also condemned the incidents of forced conversion of Hindu girls in Sindh. Khan views the Kashmir issue as a humanitarian issue, as opposed to a territorial dispute between two countries (India and Pakistan). He also proposed secret talks to settle the issue as he thinks the vested interests on both sides will try to subvert them. He ruled out a military solution to the conflict and denied the possibility of a fourth war between India and Pakistan over the disputed mountainous region. Khan visited embassies of Iran and Saudi Arabia and met their head of\",\n \"title\": \"Imran Khan\"\n }\n]","isConversational":false},"negative_passages":{"kind":"list like","value":[{"docid":"3417404","text":"Kargil War The Kargil War, also known as the Kargil conflict, was an armed conflict between India and Pakistan that took place between May and July 1999 in the Kargil district of Kashmir and elsewhere along the Line of Control (LOC). In India, the conflict is also referred to as Operation Vijay (, literally \"Victory\") which was the name of the Indian operation to clear the Kargil sector. The cause of the war was the infiltration of Pakistani soldiers disguised as Kashmiri militants into positions on the Indian side of the LOC, which serves as the \"de facto\" border between","title":"Kargil War"},{"docid":"3417470","text":"game witnessed heightened passions and was one of the most viewed matches in the tournament. Kargil War The Kargil War, also known as the Kargil conflict, was an armed conflict between India and Pakistan that took place between May and July 1999 in the Kargil district of Kashmir and elsewhere along the Line of Control (LOC). In India, the conflict is also referred to as Operation Vijay (, literally \"Victory\") which was the name of the Indian operation to clear the Kargil sector. The cause of the war was the infiltration of Pakistani soldiers disguised as Kashmiri militants into positions","title":"Kargil War"},{"docid":"8498749","text":"India–Pakistan cricket rivalry The India–Pakistan cricket rivalry is one of the most extreme and intensified sports rivalries in the world. The arch-rival relations between the two nations, resulting from the extensive communal violence and conflict that marked the Partition of British India into India and Pakistan in 1947 and the subsequent Kashmir conflict, laid the foundations for the emergence of an intense sporting rivalry between the two nations who had otherwise shared a common cricketing heritage. The first Test series between the two teams took place in 1951–52, when Pakistan toured India. India toured Pakistan for the first time in","title":"India–Pakistan cricket rivalry"},{"docid":"7162174","text":"link between Kashmir and Ladakh, and cause Indian forces to withdraw from the Siachen Glacier, thus forcing India to negotiate a settlement of the broader Kashmir dispute. The Kargil Conflict was triggered when Pakistan occupied around 130 Indian observation posts on the Indian side of the LOC. As India responded, regular Pakistan army units were called up. The 19th, 33rd, 38th and 44th FF Battalions, and some Piffer officers serving in Northern Light Infantry battalions, participated in the conflict. In total four officers and twenty four other ranks were killed in action. The war ended after the then Prime Minister","title":"Frontier Force Regiment"},{"docid":"5794537","text":"to which he was subsequently appointed by President Jimmy Carter. As the chair of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, from 1995 to 2002, Congressman Gilman consistently advocated stronger ties with India , as a counterweight against Chinese influence in the region, particularly in Pakistan. During the Kargil War against Pakistan, he urged American lawmakers to pressure the Pakistani government to withdraw from the conflict, stating that he held Pakistan solely responsible for the conflict. During a Hearing on the Status of Negotiations between China and Tibet in April 2000, Congressman Gilman said, “The Tibetan cause enjoys the global support","title":"Benjamin Gilman"},{"docid":"8498764","text":"pre-independence. Three players have played for Pakistan after appearing for India. They are: Although Pakistan was created in 1947, Gul Mohammad continued to represent India until 1955, and played for India against Pakistan in Pakistan's first tour of India in 1951–52. India–Pakistan cricket rivalry The India–Pakistan cricket rivalry is one of the most extreme and intensified sports rivalries in the world. The arch-rival relations between the two nations, resulting from the extensive communal violence and conflict that marked the Partition of British India into India and Pakistan in 1947 and the subsequent Kashmir conflict, laid the foundations for the emergence","title":"India–Pakistan cricket rivalry"},{"docid":"9280909","text":"Siachen conflict The Siachen conflict, sometimes referred to as the Siachen War, was a military conflict between India and Pakistan over the disputed Siachen Glacier region in Kashmir. A cease-fire went into effect in 2003. The contended area is nearly of territory. The conflict began in 1984 with India's successful Operation \"Meghdoot\" during which it gained control over all of the Siachen Glacier (unoccupied and undemarcated area). India has established control over all of the Siachen Glacier and all of its tributary glaciers, as well as all the main passes and heights of the Saltoro Ridge immediately west of the","title":"Siachen conflict"},{"docid":"7434181","text":"as one possible cause for a conflict between the two nations, but to date issues such as the Nimoo Bazgo Project have been resolved through diplomacy. In 1949, India recorded close to 1 million Hindu refugees, who flooded into West Bengal and other states from East Pakistan (now Bangladesh), owing to communal violence, intimidation and repression from authorities. The plight of the refugees outraged Hindus and Indian nationalists, and the refugee population drained the resources of Indian states, which were unable to absorb them. While not ruling out war, Prime Minister Nehru and Sardar Patel invited Liaquat Ali Khan for","title":"India–Pakistan relations"},{"docid":"17184398","text":"Mughal–Persian Wars The Mughal–Persian Wars were a series of wars fought in the 17th and 18th centuries between the Safavid and Afsharid Empires of Persia, and the Mughal Empire, over what is now Afghanistan. The Mughals consolidated their control of what is today India and Pakistan in the 16th century, and gradually came into conflict with the powerful Safavids and Afsharids, led by Ismail I and Nader Shah respectively. Aside from Nader Shah's invasion of the Mughal Empire, most of the conflict between the two powers were limited to battles for control over Kandahar. The Mughal–Safavid War of 1622–23 was","title":"Mughal–Persian Wars"},{"docid":"6348679","text":"Kashmir conflict The Kashmir conflict is a territorial conflict primarily between India and Pakistan, having started just after the partition of India in 1947. China has at times played a minor role. India and Pakistan have fought three wars over Kashmir, including the Indo-Pakistani Wars of 1947 and 1965, as well as the Kargil War of 1999. The two countries have also been involved in several skirmishes over control of the Siachen Glacier. India claims the entire princely state of Jammu and Kashmir, and, , administers approximately 43% of the region. It controls Jammu, the Kashmir Valley, Ladakh, and the","title":"Kashmir conflict"},{"docid":"6348872","text":"Paper on Kashmir published by Indian government regarding plebiscite in Jammu and Kashmir in 1948. Kashmir conflict The Kashmir conflict is a territorial conflict primarily between India and Pakistan, having started just after the partition of India in 1947. China has at times played a minor role. India and Pakistan have fought three wars over Kashmir, including the Indo-Pakistani Wars of 1947 and 1965, as well as the Kargil War of 1999. The two countries have also been involved in several skirmishes over control of the Siachen Glacier. India claims the entire princely state of Jammu and Kashmir, and, ,","title":"Kashmir conflict"},{"docid":"6833690","text":"of the Indus basin. The newly formed states were at odds over how to share and manage what was essentially a cohesive and unitary network of irrigation. Furthermore, the geography of partition was such that the source rivers of the Indus basin were in India. Pakistan felt its livelihood threatened by the prospect of Indian control over the tributaries that fed water into the Pakistani portion of the basin. Where India certainly had its own ambitions for the profitable development of the basin, Pakistan felt acutely threatened by a conflict over the main source of water for its cultivable land.","title":"Indus Waters Treaty"},{"docid":"11671561","text":"about a terror group to Israel according to WikiLeaks. Compared to India-Pakistan relations, Israel-Pakistan relations have remained consistently calm with no conflict between the two nations. An attempt to establish diplomatic relations with Pakistan and Israel was made in 1947, when Israel's first Prime minister David Ben-Gurion sent a telegram to Jinnah—Pakistan's main founding father but Jinnah gave no particular response. Later in 1949, Israel's Foreign Ministry believed it might be possible to open legations in Karachi, then the capital of Pakistan, or at least to conduct trade openly. Initial contact between the ambassador (High Commissioner) of Pakistan in London","title":"Israel–Pakistan relations"},{"docid":"13899577","text":"distinction between 'proximal' and 'ultimate' causation, noting that immense confusion about attachment arises when these levels of analysis are mistaken for one another. In inquiring about the proximate cause of behavior, an attachment researcher may ask \"What made him show attachment behavior toward it at this particular moment?\" In inquiring about the ultimate cause of behavior, an attachment researcher may ask \"What is attachment behavior good for – how does it affect survival and reproduction?\" In her attention to attachment as an evolutionary phenomenon, from early in her career Main was already reflecting that a conflict might arise between an","title":"Mary Main"},{"docid":"8498753","text":"135 million in India alone. The 2015 World Cup opening match between India and Pakistan had a 14.8% TV rating (TAM data M15+ ABC) in India, with a live reach of 288 million. In total, the match is estimated to have drawn over 1billion viewers worldwide. The approximate amount of viewers for the India vs Pakistan encounter at the World T20 in 2016 was more than 83 million. The partition of British India in 1947 that led to the creation of an independent India and Pakistan was characterised by intense and bloody conflict between Hindus, Muslims and Sikhs that left","title":"India–Pakistan cricket rivalry"},{"docid":"4521438","text":"Sharma (Shah Rukh Khan) who becomes embroiled in the events to ensure that \"Project Milap\" - the releasing of civilian captives on either side of the borders of India and Pakistan - can take place as a sign of trust and peace between the two nations. \"Main Hoon Na\" is one of the most successful Indian films discussing the Indo-Pakistani conflict from a neutral point of view. The film was shot at St. Paul's School, Darjeeling, West Bengal, India. It is the first film of Shah Rukh Khan's production company Red Chillies Entertainment. It was released on 30 April 2004","title":"Main Hoon Na"},{"docid":"15715471","text":"conflicts were restarted by previously registered actors in \"Azerbaijan (Nagorno-Karabakh), India (Garoland), India–Pakistan, Israel (Palestine), Mali (Azawad), and Myanmar (Kokang)\". Finally, seven conflicts in 2013 were no longer active in 2014. The conflicts were in Central African Republic, Ethiopia (Oromiya), Malaysia (Sabah), Myanmar (Karen), Myanmar (Shan), Mozambique, and Turkey (Kurdistan). Out of the 40 conflicts, 11 have been classified at the level of war, which means that there were at least 1,000 deaths in one calendar year. The conflict between India and Pakistan was the only interstate conflict, conflict between two or more states. Out of the remaining 39 conflicts,","title":"Political violence"},{"docid":"8127963","text":"humiliation, and healthy propaganda. There are 2 playable campaigns in \"Conflict Zone\": the GHOST campaign, and the ICP campaign. Missions take place in locations where fictional conflicts take place such as: A civil war in Ukraine, wars between Indonesia and Malaysia, India and Pakistan and Nigeria and Niger. Most missions usually require the player to build a base (or a 'camp' in GHOST's case) and complete objectives in order to successfully complete the mission. Unlike most other traditional RTS games, where a main resource pool is used to produce units and buildings, Conflict Zone uses a unique system where innocent","title":"Conflict Zone"},{"docid":"1863405","text":"win. Dravid scored 145 runs from 129 balls with 17 fours and a six, becoming the second batsman in World Cup history to hit back-to-back hundreds. Dravid struck a fine fifty in the last group match as India defeated England to advance into the Super Six stage. Dravid scored 2, 61 & 29 in the three Super Six matches against Australia, Pakistan & New Zealand respectively. India failed to qualify for the semi-finals having lost to Australia and New Zealand but achieved a consolation victory against Pakistan in a tense game, what with the military conflict going on between the","title":"Rahul Dravid"},{"docid":"7434156","text":"India–Pakistan relations Relations between India and Pakistan have been complex and largely hostile due to a number of historical and political events. Relations between the two states have been defined by the violent partition of British India in 1947, the Kashmir conflict and the numerous military conflicts fought between the two nations. Consequently, their relationship has been plagued by hostility and suspicion. Northern India and Pakistan somewhat overlap in areas of certain demographics, shared lingua francas (mainly Punjabi and Hindustani) and shared cuisines inherited from the Mughal Empire. After the dissolution of the British Raj in 1947, two new sovereign","title":"India–Pakistan relations"},{"docid":"7434158","text":"and numerous territorial claims would overshadow their relationship. Since their Independence, the two countries have fought three major wars, one undeclared war and have been involved in numerous armed skirmishes and military standoffs. The Kashmir conflict is the main centre-point of all of these conflicts with the exception of the Indo-Pakistan War of 1971 and Bangladesh Liberation War, which resulted in the secession of East Pakistan (now Bangladesh). There have been numerous attempts to improve the relationship—notably, the Shimla summit, the Agra summit and the Lahore summit. Since the early 1980s, relations between the two nations soured particularly after the","title":"India–Pakistan relations"},{"docid":"3417442","text":"coverage continued). Reasons for India's increased coverage included the greater number of privately owned electronic media in India compared to Pakistan and relatively greater transparency in the Indian media. At a seminar in Karachi, Pakistani journalists agreed that while the Indian government had taken the press and the people into its confidence, Pakistan had not. The print media in India and abroad was largely sympathetic to the Indian cause, with editorials in newspapers based in the west and other neutral countries observing that Pakistan was largely responsible for the conflict. Some analysts believe that Indian media, which was both larger","title":"Kargil War"},{"docid":"6785753","text":"Pakistan Army. In spite of facilities which were nowhere near the level of those enjoyed by the Indian Military Academy at Dehra Dun, Ingall won the confidence of his cadets and instructors. When, late in 1947, the dispute over the accession of Jammu and Kashmir led to armed conflict between India and Pakistan, Ingall was able to structure the Academy’s training to enable newly commissioned officers to be immediately effective when they joined units on active service. Ingall was appointed OBE after completing his term as commandant in 1950. What probably gave him more satisfaction was the decision to name","title":"Pakistan Military Academy"},{"docid":"6348781","text":"Srinagar and Leh. By blocking the highway, they could cut off the only link between the Kashmir Valley and Ladakh. This resulted in a large-scale conflict between the Indian and Pakistani armies. The final stage involved major battles by Indian and Pakistani forces resulting in India recapturing most of the territories held by Pakistani forces. Fears of the Kargil War turning into a nuclear war provoked the then-United States President Bill Clinton to pressure Pakistan to retreat. The Pakistan Army withdrew their remaining troops from the area, ending the conflict. India regained control of the Kargil peaks, which they now","title":"Kashmir conflict"},{"docid":"11836757","text":"East Bengal Express The East Bengal Express was a railway train that was one of three train services running between India and Bangladesh (then East Pakistan). The railway link was suspended at the outbreak of the Indo-Pakistani War of 1965. Prior to 1965, when armed conflict broke out between India and Pakistan, rail links existed between India and East Pakistan. Three trains ran between the two countries carrying goods and passengers: (1) East Bengal Express between Sealdah and Goalundo Ghat via Gede-Darshana (2) East Bengal Mail between Sealdah and Parbatipur Junction via Gede-Darshana, and (3) Barisal Express between Sealdah and","title":"East Bengal Express"},{"docid":"11836753","text":"East Bengal Mail The East Bengal Mail was a railway train that was one of three train services running between India and East Pakistan (now Bangladesh). The railway link was suspended at the outbreak of the Indo-Pakistani War of 1965. Prior to 1965, when armed conflict broke out between India and Pakistan, rail links existed between India and East Pakistan. Three trains ran between the two countries carrying goods and passengers: (1) East Bengal Express between Sealdah and Goalundo Ghat via Gede-Darshana, (2) East Bengal Mail between Sealdah and Parbatipur Junction via Gede-Darshana, and (3) Barisal Express between Sealdah and","title":"East Bengal Mail"},{"docid":"19888957","text":"Borderless World Foundation Borderless World Foundation (BWF) is a non-profit, non-governmental organization registered under India's Societies Registration Act, 1860. Working in Jammu and Kashmir, along the conflict-riven border region in between India, Pakistan & China, BWF has rescued hundreds of girls orphaned in the conflict along the India-Pakistan border. BWF strives toward a vision of \"One Great Human Family\" through a variety of activities, including disaster relief and emergency medical support for the community and rescuing hundreds of children left orphaned by the ongoing conflict and providing love, support, health care and education to help them grow into a generation","title":"Borderless World Foundation"},{"docid":"15221699","text":"of Part XII of the constitution. The United Nations Military Observer Group in India and Pakistan (UNMOGIP) was deployed to supervise the ceasefire between India and Pakistan. UNMOGIP's functions were to investigate complaints of ceasefire violations and submit findings to each party and to the U.N. Secretary-General. The UN continues to remain a keen observer of the Kashmir conflict between Pakistan and India, centring on the disputed state of Jammu and Kashmir. Since the transfer of power to both countries in 1947 of the divided territory, the UN has played an extensive role in regulating and monitoring the dispute. Pakistan","title":"Pakistan and the United Nations"},{"docid":"400151","text":"the region. The conflict over Kashmir has resulted in tens of thousands of deaths. The Inter-Services Intelligence of Pakistan has been accused by India of supporting and training both pro-Pakistan and pro-independence militants to fight Indian security forces in Jammu and Kashmir, a charge that Pakistan denies. According to official figures released in the Jammu and Kashmir assembly, there were 3,400 disappearance cases and the conflict has left more than 47,000 to 100,000 people dead as of July 2009. However, violence in the state had fallen sharply after the start of a slow-moving peace process between India and Pakistan. After","title":"Self-determination"},{"docid":"12108878","text":"the Kashmir conflict. To make the bus safe and fully operational, the LoC would demined if and where necessary and other security arrangements would be made as well. Both governments announced that Indian and Pakistani citizens could travel anywhere in Indian Kashmir and Pakistani Kashmir, including the Northern Areas of Pakistan, which are part of India's claim on Kashmir and pre-1947 Kashmir. In India, all citizens would have to apply at the Regional Passport Office in Srinagar, which was the designated authority to evaluate applications, verify identities and issue entry permits. Transport between India and Pakistan Transport between India and","title":"Transport between India and Pakistan"},{"docid":"6348788","text":"Kashmir remains divided between India and Pakistan. Two-thirds of the former princely state of Jammu and Kashmir, comprising Jammu, the Kashmir Valley, and the sparsely populated Buddhist area of Ladakh are controlled by India while one-third is administered by Pakistan. The latter includes a narrow strip of land called Azad Kashmir and the Northern Areas, comprising the Gilgit Agency, Baltistan, and the former kingdoms of Hunza and Nagar. Attempts to resolve the dispute through political discussions have been unsuccessful. In September 1965, war again broke out between Pakistan and India. The United Nations called for another cease-fire, and peace was","title":"Kashmir conflict"},{"docid":"6348783","text":"Inter-Services Intelligence agency (ISI). In 2002, a team comprising Special Air Service and Delta Force personnel was sent into Indian-administered Kashmir to hunt for Osama bin Laden after reports that he was being sheltered by the Kashmiri militant group Harkat-ul-Mujahideen. US officials believed that Al-Qaeda was helping organise a campaign of terror in Kashmir to provoke conflict between India and Pakistan. Their strategy was to force Pakistan to move its troops to the border with India, thereby relieving pressure on Al-Qaeda elements hiding in northwestern Pakistan. US intelligence analysts say Al-Qaeda and Taliban operatives in Pakistan-administered Kashmir are helping terrorists","title":"Kashmir conflict"},{"docid":"6978724","text":"Team eliminated Klerbler in revenge for the brutal murder of Alan Connors. Strachen is captured and reveals Mandel to be in Kashmir. The final mission is set in Kashmir, where Mandel plans to launch Nuclear Missile at Pakistan to cause a war between them and India. Red Team disarm the missiles and Mandel is killed when his Mi-24 Hind is shot down by Red Team. The game ends with Red Team deciding to return to Colombia to find Foley. After agreeing with the idea, the game ends with a cut-scene of Red Team leaving in a helicopter. The game plays","title":"Conflict: Global Terror"},{"docid":"6348806","text":"river system that sustains communities in India and Pakistan. Both have extensively dammed the Indus River for irrigation of their crops and hydro-electricity systems. In arbitrating the conflict in 1947, Sir Cyril Radcliffe, decided to demarcate the territories as he was unable to give to one or the other the control over the river as it was a main economic resource for both areas. The Line of Control (LoC) was recognised as an international border establishing that India would have control over the upper riparian and Pakistan over the lower riparian of the Indus and its tributaries. Despite appearing to","title":"Kashmir conflict"},{"docid":"473943","text":"to participate in the NPT. Pakistan's nuclear policy became fixated on India because India refused to join the NPT and remain opened to nuclear weapons. Impetus by Indian actions spurred Pakistan's nuclear research. After nuclear weapons construction was started by Bhutto's command, the chair of Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission Usmani quit in objection. The 1999 war between Pakistan and India occurred after both acquired nuclear weapons. It is believed by some that nuclear weapons are the reason a big war has not broken out in the subcontinent. India and Pakistan still have a risk of nuclear conflict on the issue","title":"Nuclear warfare"},{"docid":"7434176","text":"wars between the two countries in 1947 and 1965, and a limited conflict in 1999. The state remains divided between the two countries by the Line of Control (LoC), which demarcates the ceasefire line agreed upon in the 1947 conflict modified in 1972 as per Simla Agreement. India and Pakistan have fought in numerous armed conflicts since their independence. There are three major wars that have taken place between the two states, namely in 1947, 1965 and the Bangladesh Liberation War in 1971. In addition to this was the unofficial Kargil War in 1999 and some border skirmishes. The Indo-Pakistani","title":"India–Pakistan relations"},{"docid":"6348717","text":"not keeping a warlike mentality but did not know what Indian intransigence would lead Pakistan and its people to. India accused Pakistan of ceasefire violations and Nehru complained of 'warmongering propaganda' in Pakistan. On 15 July 1951 the Pakistani Prime Minister complained that the bulk of the Indian Army was concentrated on the Indo-Pakistan border. The prime ministers of the two countries exchanged telegrams accusing each other of bad intentions. Liaquat Ali Khan rejected Nehru's charge of warmongering propaganda. Khan called it a distortion of the Pakistani press' discontent with India over its persistence in not holding a plebiscite and","title":"Kashmir conflict"},{"docid":"10974447","text":"conflict with India\". Responding to the India's military movement at the India-Pakistan border in 2010, General Majid told the Pakistan's media representatives at the ISPR that \"the Indian army knows the capacity of the Pakistan armed forces. Responding to the Indian Army's Chief of Staff's statement of Indian military preparations to fight China and Pakistan simultaneously, Majid told the journalists that \"leave alone China, General Deepak Kapoor knows very well what the Indian Army can not and Pakistan Armed Forces can pull off militarily. As chairman joint chiefs, Majid notably terminated all military debriefings of senior scientist Abdul Qadeer Khan","title":"Tariq Majid"},{"docid":"3021571","text":"Indo-Pakistani War of 1971 when India achieved a decisive victory over Pakistan within two weeks. China's repeated threats to intervene in the conflict in support of Pakistan increased pressure on the government to take an immediate decision to develop nuclear weapons. Despite repeated assurances, the United States did little to prevent extensive use of American arms by Pakistani forces during the conflict, thus irking India. At the same time, the United States and United Kingdom refused to supply India with sophisticated weaponry which further strained the relations between the West and India. These developments led to a significant change in","title":"Indo-Pakistani War of 1965"},{"docid":"473946","text":"further deterioration. Pakistan's foreign minister had even warned that it would \"use any weapon in our arsenal\", hinting at a nuclear strike against India. The statement was condemned by the international community, with Pakistan denying it later on. This conflict remains the only war (of any sort) between two declared nuclear powers. The 2001-2002 India-Pakistan standoff again stoked fears of nuclear war between the two countries. Despite these very serious and relatively recent threats, relations between India and Pakistan have been improving somewhat over the last few years. However, with the November 26, 2008 Mumbai terror attacks, tensions again worsened.","title":"Nuclear warfare"},{"docid":"11749133","text":"co-produce the Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-21 jet fighter in India, which the Soviet Union had earlier denied to China. In 1965 the Soviet Union served successfully as peace broker between India and Pakistan after an Indian-Pakistani border war. The Soviet Chairman of the Council of Ministers, literally Premier of the Soviet Union, Alexei Kosygin, met with representatives of India and Pakistan and helped them negotiate an end to the military conflict over Kashmir. In 1971 the former East Pakistan region initiated an effort to secede from its political union with West Pakistan. India supported the secession and, as a guarantee against possible","title":"India–Russia relations"},{"docid":"11598437","text":"books: In his book on the Siachen conflict, which is regarded as the definitive work on the subject, he notes that neither India nor Pakistan gains a strategic advantage from the occupation of the Saltoro range and offers a road map for conflict resolution. He has also edited more than a dozen other books besides writing numerous articles on strategic issues relating to India’s security. His piece on \"Limited War and Nuclear Escalation in South Asia\" in The Nonproliferation Review in 2001 concluded that there was a high probability of a nuclear exchange between India and Pakistan in the event","title":"V. R. Raghavan"},{"docid":"10020268","text":"Bilafond La Bilafond La (meaning \"Pass of the Butterflies\" in Balti language, also known as the Saltoro Pass, is a mountain pass situated on Saltoro Ridge, sitting immediately west of the vast Siachen Glacier, some directly north of map point NJ 980420 which defined the end of the 1972 Line of Control between Pakistan and India as part of the Simla Agreement. Bilafond La (Pass of the Butterflies) is on the ancient Silk Route linking undivided India and China. Bilafond La was a prominent feature during the 1984 start of military action in the Siachen Conflict between India and Pakistan.","title":"Bilafond La"},{"docid":"11520901","text":"the Indian-occupied part of Jammu and Kashmir. Zulfikar Ali Bhutto backed the plan, and Pakistan Army's SS Group was told to begin an operation, under codename Operation Gibraltar. However, even after the careful analysis, the airborne operation failed, and major war broke out between India and Pakistan. Ayub Khan blamed Bhutto for starting the conflict, while the Armed forces became increasingly involved in the war. However, both Soviet-Union and United States deescalated the conflict. China provided economic and moral help and even threatened India on its conflicted border issues. Khan along with Lal Bahadur Shastri signed the Tashkent Declaration. After","title":"Parliamentary history of Pakistan"},{"docid":"7849731","text":"Racist sentiments exist between citizens of Pakistan towards the citizens of Bangladesh. A strong anti-Bengali Pakistani regime during the Bangladesh Liberation War were strongly motivated by anti-Bengali racism within the establishment, especially against the Bengali Hindu minority. This conflict goes back to when India was first partitioned into West Pakistan and East Pakistan when citizens of today's Pakistan dominated the original Pakistani government. Between 300,000 to 3 million people were killed during the 9-month-long conflict in 1971. The Government of Bangladesh demands a formal apology for those atrocities from the Pakistani head of state, as well as putting on trial","title":"Racism in Asia"},{"docid":"15329628","text":"and 1985. This escalated to armed conflicts between the two militaries in the early 2000s (decade). The 2001 Indian–Bangladeshi border conflict was a brief armed conflict in April 2001 between India and Bangladesh over the poorly marked international border between the countries. , it was the first and only such major conflict between the two countries who have maintained friendly relations since the 1971 Bangladesh Liberation War. The Partition of Bengal in 1947 left a poorly demarcated international border between India and Bangladesh (then-East Pakistan). Ownership of several villages on both sides of the de facto border were disputed and","title":"Sarwar Azam"},{"docid":"2267020","text":"Communist Party of Bangladesh The Communist Party of Bangladesh () is a Marxist-Leninist political party in Bangladesh, founded in 1948 as the Communist Party of East Pakistan. After the partitioning of India in 1947, during the 2nd Congress of the Communist Party of India in Calcutta, the delegates coming from regions within the newly founded state of Pakistan (which included what now constitutes Bangladesh) met on March 6, 1948 in a separate session and decided to form the Communist Party of Pakistan. The main strength and activity of the newly constituted Party was in the province of East Pakistan (what","title":"Communist Party of Bangladesh"},{"docid":"12930669","text":"between India and Pakistan. In addition, troop mobilization in Operation Prakaram (December 2001 – October 2002), cost India and Pakistan a combined $3billion. A similar mobilization in the future would see a 50% increase in costs on both sides. This report focuses on the Sri Lankan Civil War, a twenty-six-year-long military conflict between the Tamil insurgents and successive Sri Lankan governments. According to the report Sri Lanka was the most militarized among the South Asian countries with 8,000 military personnel per million population. In terms of military expenditure as percentage of GDP, Sri Lanka had the largest expenditure in the","title":"Cost of conflict"},{"docid":"10020290","text":"being part of larger conflict, the Kashmir conflict. All three passes are currently held by India; Pakistan controls areas just to the west. Sia La Sia La is a mountain pass situated on Saltoro Ridge, some north-northwest of map point NJ9842 which defined the end of the 1972 Line of Control between India and Pakistan as part of the Simla Agreement. Sia La sits near the China border and immediately northwest of the upper part of the vast Siachen Glacier, connecting that glacier to the Pakistani-controlled Kondus Glacier and valley to the west. Sia La, as well as nearby passes","title":"Sia La"},{"docid":"12037295","text":"were later re-established. Nepal established diplomatic relations with India after the latter's independence in 1947, but did not do so with Pakistan. In 1950, Nepal signed a Treaty of Peace and Friendship with India, creating an extensive relationship of economic, strategic and defence cooperation. Nepal thus remained aloof from Pakistan, which was at conflict with India. However, Nepal's resentment of Indian influence perceived to be excessive prompted the Nepalese government to develop relations with the People's Republic of China and Pakistan. Diplomatic relations between Nepal and Pakistan were established on 20 March 1960. After the establishment of diplomatic relations, the","title":"Nepal–Pakistan relations"},{"docid":"7434180","text":"Army intruded across the line of control and occupied the posts. Indian army discovered this in May 1999 when the snow thawed. This resulted in intense fighting between Indian and Pakistani forces, known as the Kargil conflict. Backed by the Indian Air Force, the Indian Army regained some of the posts that Pakistan had occupied. Pakistan later withdrew from the remaining portion under international pressure and high casualties. The relations are locked in other territorial claims such as the Siachen Glacier and Kori Creek. The Indus Waters Treaty governs the rivers that flow from India into Pakistan. Water is cited","title":"India–Pakistan relations"},{"docid":"6348796","text":"Kashmir are fighting against (India). We just need to incite them,\" Musharraf told a TV channel. In 2015 Pakistan's outgoing National Security Advisor Sartaj Aziz said that Pakistan wished to have third party mediation on Kashmir, but it was unlikely to happen unless by international pressure. \"Under Shimla Accord it was decided that India and Pakistan would resolve their disputes bilaterally,\" Aziz said. \"Such bilateral talks have not yielded any results for the last 40 years. So then what is the solution?\" China states that Aksai Chin is an integral part of China and does not recognise the inclusion of","title":"Kashmir conflict"},{"docid":"7827509","text":"battle\". Between May 25 and 28, Pakistan conducted 3 missile tests. India reviewed its nuclear capability to strike back. On 7 June the Pakistan Air Force shot down an Indian unmanned aerial vehicle near Lahore. As both India and Pakistan are armed with nuclear weapons, the possibility a conventional war could escalate into a nuclear one was raised several times during the standoff. Various statements on this subject were made by Indian and Pakistani officials during the conflict, mainly concerning a no first use policy. Indian External Affairs Minister Jaswant Singh said on 5 June that India would not use","title":"2001–02 India–Pakistan standoff"},{"docid":"191358","text":"months later, however, Pakistani paramilitary forces and Pakistan Army, infiltrated in large numbers into the Kargil district of Indian Kashmir. This initiated the Kargil War after India moved in thousands of troops to successfully flush out the infiltrators. Although the conflict did not result in a full-scale war between India and Pakistan, relations between the two reached all-time low which worsened even further following the involvement of Pakistan-based terrorists in the hijacking of the Indian Airlines Flight 814 in December 1999. Attempts to normalise relations, such as the Agra summit held in July 2001, failed. An attack on the Indian","title":"Foreign relations of India"},{"docid":"18873749","text":"subdue the armymen as well as Razzaq, but chooses not to kill Razzaq. Razzaq, while accepting defeat, reveals that his opinion of India and Indians will not change. At this, Vasu forcefully replies that despite being an Indian, he does not hate Pakistan and Pakistanis and that the misguided hatred between the two countries only aggravates the India-Pakistan conflict. The movie ends with Vasu revealing the presence of the twenty-three jawans in Pakistan and ensuring their freedom, for which he is honoured by the President as well as the Prime Minister of India. In November 2013, he was working on","title":"Wagah (film)"},{"docid":"3417449","text":"many celebrities expressing their support for the Kargil cause. Indians were angered by media reports of the death of pilot Ajay Ahuja, especially after Indian authorities reported that Ahuja had been murdered and his body mutilated by Pakistani troops. The war had produced higher than expected fatalities for the Indian military, with a sizeable percentage of them including newly commissioned officers. One month after conclusion of the Kargil War, the Atlantique Incident, in which a Pakistan Navy plane was shot down by India, briefly reignited fears of a conflict between the two countries. After the war, the Indian government severed","title":"Kargil War"},{"docid":"15658581","text":"$160 million contract for missiles with South Africa, believed to be for the Kentron (now Denel) U-darter imaging-infra-red short range air-to-air missile. The Pakistan Air Force (PAF) did not see active combat during the low-intensity Kargil Conflict between India and Pakistan during the summer of 1999 but remained on high air defence alert (ADA) and performed F-16 and F-7MP combat air patrols (CAPs) near the eastern border with India. The PAF closely monitored and tracked the IAF's movements near the Line of Control in Kashmir as well as the India-Pakistan international border. The Pakistan Army faced several problems during its","title":"History of the Pakistan Air Force"},{"docid":"5272574","text":"an average altitude above . The county includes a significant part of the Trans-Karakoram Tract, disputed by India and Pakistan in the ongoing Kashmir conflict; while Pakistan has withdrawn the claim since 1963, India continues to claim it as part of the state of Jammu and Kashmir. The Muztagh Ata, at , and the Kongur Tagh, at , are the main peaks in the county, while the two main rivers are the Taxkorgan River and the Tiznap (or Tiznef) River (). By including the Trans-Karakoram Tract, the county also borders several eight-thousanders, including K2, at the second-highest mountain in the","title":"Taxkorgan Tajik Autonomous County"},{"docid":"13343090","text":"Kurukshetra (2008 film) Kurukshetra is a 2008 Indian Malayalam war film written and directed by Major Ravi. It is a sequel to the 2006 film \"Keerthi Chakra\" and the second installment in the Major Mahadevan film series, with Mohanlal reprising his role as Colonel Mahadevan The film is based on the Kargil conflict of 1999 between India and Pakistan. The political situation of the conflict is portrayed from an Indian perspective. The third film in the series \"Kandahar\" was released in 2010 and the fourth film was released in 2017. The story revolves around the 1999 Kargil War between India","title":"Kurukshetra (2008 film)"},{"docid":"5557969","text":"on the history of South Asia. In her book \"The Sole Spokesman\" (Cambridge University Press, 1985 and 1994), Jalal gives her perspective of what happened in the years between the 1937 elections and the Partition of the Indian subcontinent, identifying the factors which led to the creation of Pakistan and provides new insights into the nature of the British transfer of power in India. In particular, she focuses on the role of Mohammad Ali Jinnah, the leader of the All-India Muslim League, and the main proponent of the Two Nation Theory on which the demand for Pakistan was based. Jinnah","title":"Ayesha Jalal"},{"docid":"314149","text":"a matter of pivotal dispute between Pakistan and India ever since 1947, and the Siachen Glacier in northern Kashmir has been an important arena for fighting between the two sides since 1984, although far more soldiers have died of exposure to the cold than from any skirmishes in the conflict between their National Armies facing each other. The Pakistan-India ceasefire line runs from the Karakoram Pass west-southwest to a point about 130 kilometers northwest of Lahore. This line, about 770 kilometers long, was arranged with United Nations (UNO) assistance at the end of the Indo-Pakistani War of 1947–48. The ceasefire","title":"Geography of Pakistan"},{"docid":"18331272","text":"major road block by Indians towards her permanent seat in United Nations Security Council. Meanwhile, China provides Pakistan unconditional support in many international stages. Also China makes a large quanta of investments in Pakistan and in both Gilgit-Baltistan and Azad Kashmir). During the conflict between the India and Pakistan in August–September 2016 after Uri attack the supporting stand of China towards Pakistan lead to a popular Boycott Chinese products Campaign in India. Many shops in India also began to boycott Chinese goods. Many nationwide campaigns were held by different groups to boycott Chinese products. Albay Gov. Joey Salceda supported Filipinos","title":"Boycott Chinese products"},{"docid":"6348871","text":"compel them. In that sense, the people of Kashmir are sovereign.\" In his statement in the Lok Sabha on 31 March 1955 as published in Hindustan Times New Delhi on Ist April, 1955, Pandit Nehru said, \"Kashmir is perhaps the most difficult of all these problems between India and Pakistan. We should also remember that Kashmir is not a thing to be bandied between India and Pakistan but it has a soul of its own and an individuality of its own. Nothing can be done without the goodwill and consent of the people of Kashmir.\" There was also a White","title":"Kashmir conflict"},{"docid":"297095","text":"quite high. Kashmir is a prime cause of bilateral tension, its sovereignty being in dispute since 1948. There is persistent low level bilateral military conflict due to alleged backing of insurgency by Pakistan in India and infiltration of Pakistani state backed militants in the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir, along with the disputed status of Kashmir. Both engaged in a conventional arms race in the 1980s, including sophisticated technology and equipment capable of delivering nuclear weapons. In the 1990s the arms race quickened. In 1994 India reversed a four-year trend of reduced allocations for defence, and despite its much","title":"Nuclear proliferation"},{"docid":"6348800","text":"London, that the Pakistani government indeed helped to form underground militant groups and \"turned a blind eye\" towards their existence because they wanted India to discuss Kashmir. According to former Indian Prime-minister Manmohan Singh, one of the main reasons behind the conflict was Pakistan's \"terror-induced coercion\". He further stated at a Joint Press Conference with United States President Barack Obama in New Delhi that India is not afraid of resolving all the issues with Pakistan including that of Kashmir \"\"but it is our request that you cannot simultaneously be talking and at the same time the terror machine is as","title":"Kashmir conflict"},{"docid":"5219476","text":"soon, and had India captured Lahore it would likely have been returned in ceasefire negotiations. The War eventually ended with a United Nations (UN) backed ceasefire and was followed by the Tashkent Declaration. According to the Library of Congress Country Studies conducted by the Federal Research Division of the United States: At the time of ceasefire declaration, per neutral sources, India casualties were at 3,000 and Pakistani casualties were 3800. Pakistan lost between 200-300 tanks during the conflict and India lost approximately 150-190 tanks. However, most neutral assessments agree that India had the upper hand over Pakistan when ceasefire was","title":"Pakistan Army"},{"docid":"2466938","text":"commissions in Islamabad on 8 January 2015 to understand their stance about the conflict which is engulfing both nations after execution of Sheikh Nimr by Saudi Arabia. He urged the Government of Pakistan to play a positive role to resolve the matter between both countries. In April, 2015, after parliament passed a unanimous resolution keeping Pakistan out of the Yemen conflict, the chairman of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) as part of opposition, took credit for the decision. What Will Pakistan-Saudi Arabia Ties Look Like Under Imran Khan? He might not be able to stick to previous stand, as Saudi loans","title":"Imran Khan"},{"docid":"4623524","text":"malfunctions of materiel, both vehicles and weapons. The Siachen conflict is a military conflict between India and Pakistan over the disputed Siachen Glacier region in Kashmir. The conflict began in 1984 with India's successful Operation \"Meghdoot\" during which it gained control over all of the Siachen Glacier. A cease-fire went into effect in 2003. The following actions were fought in the Arctic by land and naval forces between 1941 and 1945 in the following theaters of operations: The Winter War was a military conflict between the Soviet Union (USSR) and Finland. It began with a Soviet invasion of Finland on","title":"Cold-weather warfare"},{"docid":"6598748","text":"in 1948. The newly created states of Pakistan and India both joined the Commonwealth, a platform for cooperation between the countries that had been part of the British Empire. Nevertheless, they soon found themselves at war beginning in October 1947, over the contested princely state of Jammu and Kashmir. Pakistani militants entered the state, alarming Maharaja Hari Singh who appealed to India for military intervention, in exchange for the signing of the Instrument of Accession and annexation into India. The region is contested to this day and two other Indo-Pakistan wars occurred as part of the Kashmir conflict. Hostilities and","title":"Dominion of India"},{"docid":"15490079","text":"the two nations to be cancelled. The Shiv Sena once again used this unique means of protest at the Feroz Shah Kotla in New Delhi in 2000 to protest against the Pakistan cricket team's proposed visit. Following the Kargil conflict, and at various other times, there have also been calls to suspend cricketing ties between the two countries. During the 2011 Cricket World Cup, is believed to have eased the relationship between India and Pakistan after the polarising 2008 Mumbai attacks. Prime Minister of India Manmohan Singh used this opportunity and greeted his Pakistani counterpart Yousuf Raza Gilani to watch","title":"Cricket diplomacy"},{"docid":"7378494","text":"conflict yet as ceasefire violations are keeping the fighting on a low burner. However, some experts predict a frozen future for this conflict as well. India and Pakistan have fought at least three wars over the disputed region of Kashmir in 1947, 1965, and 1999. India claims the entire area of the former princely state of Kashmir and Jammu, of which it administers approximately 43%. Its claims are contested by Pakistan, which controls approximately 37% of the region and urges for plebiscite in Kashmir. The remaining territory is controlled by the People's Republic of China, with which India is again","title":"Frozen conflict"},{"docid":"13764918","text":"deteriorating, and tension momentarily grew between the East and West Pakistan. A military action in East Pakistan called Operation Searchlight opened a series of bloody counter-insurgency operations led by the defected Bengali dissidents of Pakistan Armed Forces. Later, India intervened in the conflict as covert operations were successfully led by the Indian intelligence agencies. This was followed by Indo-Pakistani War of 1971, a war in the western front. Pakistan, now fighting on both fronts, lost the war after only 13 days. The war with India and East-Pakistan had caused the collapse of the military dictatorship of Yahya Khan, and dissolution","title":"Project-706"},{"docid":"7434195","text":"could reach the main disputed site, they were shot down by Indian security forces. One Hindu worshipper and two policemen were injured during the incident. The Indian intelligence agency RAW is claimed to be working in cover to malign Pakistan and train & support insurgents for Balochistan conflict. The 2001 Indian Parliament attack was an attack at the Parliament of India in New Delhi on 13 December 2001, during which fourteen people, including the five men who attacked the building, were killed. The perpetrators were Lashkar-e-Taiba (Let) and Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) terrorists. The attack led to the deaths of five terrorists,","title":"India–Pakistan relations"},{"docid":"6348711","text":"whereas Pakistan insisted on parity. The UN mediators tended towards parity, which was not to India's satisfaction. In the end, no withdrawal was ever carried out, India insisting that Pakistan had to withdraw first, and Pakistan contending that there was no guarantee that India would withdraw afterwards. No agreement could be reached between the two countries on the process of demilitarisation. Cold War historian Robert J. McMahon states that American officials increasingly blamed India for rejecting various UNCIP truce proposals under various dubious legal technicalities just to avoid a plebiscite. McMahon adds that they were 'right' since a Muslim majority","title":"Kashmir conflict"},{"docid":"6348869","text":"Pakistan as an endorsement of India's position on Kashmir that no outside power has any role in this dispute. India and Pakistan conducted nuclear tests in 1998 and the two countries each hold significant numbers of nuclear warheads. India and Pakistan fought two wars over the issue of Kashmir in 1947 and 1965. These two neighbours came dangerously close to a third war during the Kargil conflict in 1999. In telegram No.413 dated 28 October 1947 addressed to Prime Minister of Pakistan, Nehru wrote, \"That Government of India and Pakistan should make a joint request to U.N.O. to undertake a","title":"Kashmir conflict"},{"docid":"11520908","text":"\"Al-Shams\" were made by Jammat-e-Islami to support Pakistan and Pakistan Army During the conflict, the coordination between the armed forces of Pakistan were ineffective and unsupported. On major decision, the army, navy, marines and air force weren't taken on confidence. Each forces had led their own independent operations without notifying or taking on confidence the higher command. The result was the Pakistan Armed Forces surrender to the Indian forces upon which 93,000 Pakistan Armed Forces officials and 93,000 soldiers and officers became POWs, the largest since World War II. The official war between India and Pakistan ended in just a","title":"Parliamentary history of Pakistan"},{"docid":"13108875","text":"The text of the agreement was as follows: The agreement was moderately economically advantageous to Pakistan, which received grazing lands in the deal, but of far more significance politically, as it both diminished potential for conflict between China and Pakistan and, Syed indicates, \"placed China formally and firmly on record as maintaining that Kashmir did not, as yet, belong to India. India does not recognize the agreement, under which China holds of northern Kashmir, as legal. \"Time\", reporting on the matter in 1963, expressed the opinion that by signing the agreement Pakistan had further \"dimmed hopes of settlement\" of the","title":"Sino-Pakistan Agreement"},{"docid":"3533112","text":"in the Xinjiang region of China, to Abbottabad, of Pakistan. An extension of the highway southwest from Abbottabad, in the form of the N-35 highway, meets the Grand Trunk Road, N-5, at Hasan Abdal, Pakistan. The highway cuts through the between the Eurasian and Indian plates, where China, Tajikistan, Afghanistan, and Pakistan come within of each other. Owing largely to the extremely sensitive state of the Kashmir conflict between India and Pakistan, the Karakoram Highway has strategic and military importance to these nations, but particularly Pakistan and China. On 30 June 2006, a memorandum of understanding was signed between the","title":"Karakoram Highway"},{"docid":"6284287","text":"occurred between Pakistan and India upon independence due to conflict between Muslims and followers of Indian religions, most Hindus and nearly all Sikhs fled the country. Pakistani Punjab is now over 2% Christian, with very few Hindus left. Christians have made some contributions to the Pakistani national life. Pakistan's first non-Muslim Chief Justice of Pakistan Supreme Court was Justice A. R. Cornelius. Pakistani Christians also distinguished themselves as great fighter pilots in the Pakistan Air Force. Notable amongst them are Cecil Chaudhry, Peter O'Reilly and Mervyn L Middlecoat. Christians have also contributed as educationists, doctors, lawyers and businessmen. One of","title":"Christianity in Pakistan"},{"docid":"13549130","text":"him on the outskirts of the city and renamed the Inter-provincial Bridge between Quebec and Ontario as Boulevard de la Paix for a day. On his return to India in 1985, he joined the Centre for Policy Research to work on economic collaboration as means of conflict resolution in South Asia. His monographs on breaking deadlock in economic ties between India and Pakistan as well as India and Sri Lanka attracted attention of the policy makers. In 1991, he founded International Centre for Peace Initiatives, the first conflict resolution institution in South Asia. Under its auspices, he was engaged in","title":"Sundeep Waslekar"},{"docid":"200333","text":"the form of Akhanda Bharata. The region of Kashmir in north India has been the issue of a territorial dispute between India and Pakistan since 1947, the Kashmir conflict. Multiple wars have been fought over the issue, the first one immediately upon independence and partition in 1947 itself. To stave off a Pakistani and tribal invasion, Maharaja Hari Singh of the princely state of Jammu and Kashmir signed the Instrument of Accession with India. Kashmir has remained divided in three parts, administered by India, Pakistan and China, since then. However, on the basis of the instrument of accession, India continues","title":"Irredentism"},{"docid":"7827493","text":"2001 (during which twelve people, including the five terrorists who attacked the building, were killed) and the legislative Assembly on 1 October 2001. India claimed that the attacks were carried out by two Pakistan-based terror groups fighting Indian administered Kashmir, the Lashkar-e-Taiba and Jaish-e-Mohammad, both of whom India has said are backed by Pakistan's ISI – a charge that Pakistan denied. In the Western media, coverage of the standoff focused on the possibility of a nuclear war between the two countries and the implications of the potential conflict on the American-led \"Global War on Terrorism\" in nearby Afghanistan. Tensions de-escalated","title":"2001–02 India–Pakistan standoff"},{"docid":"14882348","text":"the Minister of External Affairs Jaswant Singh, but the talks were regarded as a failure and unsuccessful in stemming the conflict. Aziz claimed India had \"overreacted\", while India demanded that Pakistan stop the incursion into Indian-administered Kashmir. Aziz also represented Pakistan at the Organisation of the Islamic Conference in Burkina Faso, held during the Kargil conflict. Aziz later claimed in the media that Pakistan had achieved its aims in the Kargil conflict by \"forcing the Kashmir dispute to the top of the global agenda.\" He remained Foreign Minister of Pakistan till Oct 1999. His term ended abruptly after the Nawaz","title":"Sartaj Aziz"},{"docid":"2521886","text":"Tashkent Declaration The Tashkent Declaration was a peace agreement between India and Pakistan signed on 10 January 1966 that resolved the Indo-Pakistani War of 1965. Peace had been achieved on 23 September by the intervention of the great powers who pushed the two nations to cease fire, afraid the conflict could escalate and draw in other powers. The war between India and Pakistan in 1965 was an escalation of the small scale and irregular fighting from April 1965 to September 1965 between both countries. It was over control of the resources and population of the state of Jammu and Kashmir,","title":"Tashkent Declaration"},{"docid":"297094","text":"or materials, except for safety-related devices for a few safeguarded facilities. In May 1998 India and Pakistan each exploded several nuclear devices underground. This heightened concerns regarding an arms race between them, with Pakistan involving the People's Republic of China, an acknowledged nuclear weapons state. Both countries are opposed to the NPT as it stands, and India has consistently attacked the Treaty since its inception in 1970 labeling it as a lopsided treaty in favor of the nuclear powers. Relations between the two countries are tense and hostile, and the risks of nuclear conflict between them have long been considered","title":"Nuclear proliferation"},{"docid":"6348805","text":"has been involved in training and arming underground militant groups to fight Indian forces in Kashmir. Another reason for the dispute over Kashmir is water. Kashmir is the source of many rivers and tributaries in the Indus River basin. This basin is divided between Pakistan, which has about 60 percent of the catchment area, India with about 20 percent, Afghanistan with 5 percent and around 15 percent in China (Tibet autonomous region). The river tributaries are the Jhelum and Chenab rivers, which primarily flow into Pakistan, while other branchesthe Ravi, Beas, and the Sutlejirrigate northern India. The Indus is a","title":"Kashmir conflict"},{"docid":"5100667","text":"Siachen. It still maintains a military base there. Pakistan tried in 1987 and in 1989 to re-take the glacier but was unsuccessful. The conflict ended with Indian Victory. Ceasefire since 2003. Commonly known as the Kargil War, or Operation Vijay in India, this conflict between the two countries was mostly limited. During early 1999, Pakistani troops infiltrated across the Line of Control (LoC) and occupied Indian territory mostly in the Kargil district. India responded by launching a major military and diplomatic offensive to drive out the Pakistani infiltrators. Two months into the conflict, Indian troops had slowly retaken most of","title":"Military history of India"},{"docid":"399105","text":"Calvin states that the Sino-Indian War had caused the previously passive government to take a stand on actively modernising India's military. China offered diplomatic support to Pakistan in this war but did not offer military support. In January 1966, China condemned the Tashkent Agreement between India and Pakistan as a Soviet-US plot in the region. In the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971, Pakistan expected China to provide military support, but it was left alone as India successfully helped the rebels in East Pakistan to found the new nation-state of Bangladesh. During the conflict, Nehru wrote two desperate letters to U.S. President","title":"Sino-Indian War"},{"docid":"15261881","text":"operations in East Pakistan, the Indian Navy commenced two large-scale operations, Operation Trident and Operation Python on the Western front, prior to the start of formal conflict between India and Pakistan. The Indian Navy did not play a major role during the Indo-Pakistani War of 1965 as the war focused on land-based conflict. On 7 September, a flotilla of the Pakistan Navy under the command of Commodore S.M. Anwar carried out a bombardment, Operation Dwarka, of the Indian Navy's radar station of Dwarka, south of the Pakistani port of Karachi. While there was no damage to the radar station, this","title":"Indo-Pakistani Naval War of 1971"},{"docid":"465184","text":"out that Gandhi listened to Nixon \"without a single comment, creating an impregnable space so that no real contact was possible.\" She also refrained from assuring that India would follow Pakistan's suit if it withdrew from India's borders. As a result, the main agenda was \"dropped altogether.\" On 3 December, Yahya preemptively attacked the Indian Air Force and Gandhi retaliated, pushing into East Pakistan. Nixon issued a statement blaming Pakistan for starting the conflict and blaming India for escalating it because he favored a cease-fire. The United States was secretly encouraging the shipment of military equipment from Iran, Turkey, and","title":"Yahya Khan"},{"docid":"3021502","text":"Indo-Pakistani War of 1965 The Indo-Pakistani War of 1965 was a culmination of skirmishes that took place between April 1965 and September 1965 between Pakistan and India. The conflict began following Pakistan's Operation Gibraltar, which was designed to infiltrate forces into Jammu and Kashmir to precipitate an insurgency against Indian rule. India retaliated by launching a full-scale military attack on West Pakistan. The seventeen-day war caused thousands of casualties on both sides and witnessed the largest engagement of armored vehicles and the largest tank battle since World War II. Hostilities between the two countries ended after a United Nations-mandated ceasefire","title":"Indo-Pakistani War of 1965"},{"docid":"11749134","text":"Chinese entrance into the conflict on the side of West Pakistan, it signed with the Soviet Union the Indo-Soviet Treaty of Friendship and Cooperation in August 1971. In December, India entered the conflict and ensured the victory of the secessionists and the establishment of the new state of Bangladesh. Relations between the Soviet Union and India did not suffer much during the rightist Janata Party's coalition government in the late 1970s, although India did move to establish better economic and military relations with Western countries. To counter these efforts by India to diversify its relations, the Soviet Union proffered additional","title":"India–Russia relations"},{"docid":"8955893","text":"2001 Bangladesh–India border clashes The 2001 Bangladesh-India border dispute conflict took place in the third week of April 2001 between troops of the Bangladesh Rifles (BDR), which is now known as the Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB), and the Indian Border Security Force (BSF) on the poorly marked international border between the two countries. The Partition of Bengal in 1947 left a poorly demarcated international border between India and Bangladesh (then East Pakistan). Ownership of several villages on both sides of the de facto border were disputed and claimed by both countries. The dispute over the demarcation of the Indo-Bangladeshi border","title":"2001 Bangladesh–India border clashes"},{"docid":"8229243","text":"by military governor Rahimuddin Khan. All army action was ceased by 1978, and development and educational policies were refocused on to assuage the province. The conflict took the lives of 3,300 Pakistani troops, 5,300 Baloch, and thousands of civilians. This period forms a pivotal chapter in the longstanding Balochistan conflict, and is often cited as creating deep divisions between Balochistan and Islamabad that persist to the current day. The 1971 Indo-Pakistani War had ended with the defeat of Pakistan at the hands of India. East Pakistan declared itself to be independent. It became a new sovereign state called Bangladesh, to","title":"1970s operation in Balochistan"},{"docid":"3217238","text":"of the subsequent deaths in the Siachen Conflict have been from natural disasters, e.g. avalanches in 2010, 2012 and 2016. Simla Agreement on Bilateral Relations between India and Pakistan signed by Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, and President of Pakistan, Z. A. Bhutto, in Simla on 2 July 1972. The Delhi Agreement on the Repatriation of War and Civilian Internees is a tripartite agreement among the aforementioned states, signed on 28 August 1973. The agreement was signed by Kamal Hossain, the Foreign Minister of the Government of Bangladesh, Sardar Swaran Singh, Minister of External Affairs of India and Aziz Ahmed, the","title":"Simla Agreement"}],"string":"[\n {\n \"docid\": \"3417404\",\n \"text\": \"Kargil War The Kargil War, also known as the Kargil conflict, was an armed conflict between India and Pakistan that took place between May and July 1999 in the Kargil district of Kashmir and elsewhere along the Line of Control (LOC). In India, the conflict is also referred to as Operation Vijay (, literally \\\"Victory\\\") which was the name of the Indian operation to clear the Kargil sector. 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India toured Pakistan for the first time in\",\n \"title\": \"India–Pakistan cricket rivalry\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"7162174\",\n \"text\": \"link between Kashmir and Ladakh, and cause Indian forces to withdraw from the Siachen Glacier, thus forcing India to negotiate a settlement of the broader Kashmir dispute. The Kargil Conflict was triggered when Pakistan occupied around 130 Indian observation posts on the Indian side of the LOC. As India responded, regular Pakistan army units were called up. The 19th, 33rd, 38th and 44th FF Battalions, and some Piffer officers serving in Northern Light Infantry battalions, participated in the conflict. In total four officers and twenty four other ranks were killed in action. The war ended after the then Prime Minister\",\n \"title\": \"Frontier Force Regiment\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"5794537\",\n \"text\": \"to which he was subsequently appointed by President Jimmy Carter. As the chair of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, from 1995 to 2002, Congressman Gilman consistently advocated stronger ties with India , as a counterweight against Chinese influence in the region, particularly in Pakistan. During the Kargil War against Pakistan, he urged American lawmakers to pressure the Pakistani government to withdraw from the conflict, stating that he held Pakistan solely responsible for the conflict. During a Hearing on the Status of Negotiations between China and Tibet in April 2000, Congressman Gilman said, “The Tibetan cause enjoys the global support\",\n \"title\": \"Benjamin Gilman\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"8498764\",\n \"text\": \"pre-independence. Three players have played for Pakistan after appearing for India. They are: Although Pakistan was created in 1947, Gul Mohammad continued to represent India until 1955, and played for India against Pakistan in Pakistan's first tour of India in 1951–52. India–Pakistan cricket rivalry The India–Pakistan cricket rivalry is one of the most extreme and intensified sports rivalries in the world. The arch-rival relations between the two nations, resulting from the extensive communal violence and conflict that marked the Partition of British India into India and Pakistan in 1947 and the subsequent Kashmir conflict, laid the foundations for the emergence\",\n \"title\": \"India–Pakistan cricket rivalry\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"9280909\",\n \"text\": \"Siachen conflict The Siachen conflict, sometimes referred to as the Siachen War, was a military conflict between India and Pakistan over the disputed Siachen Glacier region in Kashmir. A cease-fire went into effect in 2003. The contended area is nearly of territory. The conflict began in 1984 with India's successful Operation \\\"Meghdoot\\\" during which it gained control over all of the Siachen Glacier (unoccupied and undemarcated area). India has established control over all of the Siachen Glacier and all of its tributary glaciers, as well as all the main passes and heights of the Saltoro Ridge immediately west of the\",\n \"title\": \"Siachen conflict\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"7434181\",\n \"text\": \"as one possible cause for a conflict between the two nations, but to date issues such as the Nimoo Bazgo Project have been resolved through diplomacy. In 1949, India recorded close to 1 million Hindu refugees, who flooded into West Bengal and other states from East Pakistan (now Bangladesh), owing to communal violence, intimidation and repression from authorities. The plight of the refugees outraged Hindus and Indian nationalists, and the refugee population drained the resources of Indian states, which were unable to absorb them. While not ruling out war, Prime Minister Nehru and Sardar Patel invited Liaquat Ali Khan for\",\n \"title\": \"India–Pakistan relations\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"17184398\",\n \"text\": \"Mughal–Persian Wars The Mughal–Persian Wars were a series of wars fought in the 17th and 18th centuries between the Safavid and Afsharid Empires of Persia, and the Mughal Empire, over what is now Afghanistan. The Mughals consolidated their control of what is today India and Pakistan in the 16th century, and gradually came into conflict with the powerful Safavids and Afsharids, led by Ismail I and Nader Shah respectively. Aside from Nader Shah's invasion of the Mughal Empire, most of the conflict between the two powers were limited to battles for control over Kandahar. The Mughal–Safavid War of 1622–23 was\",\n \"title\": \"Mughal–Persian Wars\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"6348679\",\n \"text\": \"Kashmir conflict The Kashmir conflict is a territorial conflict primarily between India and Pakistan, having started just after the partition of India in 1947. China has at times played a minor role. India and Pakistan have fought three wars over Kashmir, including the Indo-Pakistani Wars of 1947 and 1965, as well as the Kargil War of 1999. The two countries have also been involved in several skirmishes over control of the Siachen Glacier. India claims the entire princely state of Jammu and Kashmir, and, , administers approximately 43% of the region. It controls Jammu, the Kashmir Valley, Ladakh, and the\",\n \"title\": \"Kashmir conflict\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"6348872\",\n \"text\": \"Paper on Kashmir published by Indian government regarding plebiscite in Jammu and Kashmir in 1948. Kashmir conflict The Kashmir conflict is a territorial conflict primarily between India and Pakistan, having started just after the partition of India in 1947. China has at times played a minor role. India and Pakistan have fought three wars over Kashmir, including the Indo-Pakistani Wars of 1947 and 1965, as well as the Kargil War of 1999. The two countries have also been involved in several skirmishes over control of the Siachen Glacier. India claims the entire princely state of Jammu and Kashmir, and, ,\",\n \"title\": \"Kashmir conflict\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"6833690\",\n \"text\": \"of the Indus basin. The newly formed states were at odds over how to share and manage what was essentially a cohesive and unitary network of irrigation. Furthermore, the geography of partition was such that the source rivers of the Indus basin were in India. Pakistan felt its livelihood threatened by the prospect of Indian control over the tributaries that fed water into the Pakistani portion of the basin. Where India certainly had its own ambitions for the profitable development of the basin, Pakistan felt acutely threatened by a conflict over the main source of water for its cultivable land.\",\n \"title\": \"Indus Waters Treaty\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"11671561\",\n \"text\": \"about a terror group to Israel according to WikiLeaks. Compared to India-Pakistan relations, Israel-Pakistan relations have remained consistently calm with no conflict between the two nations. An attempt to establish diplomatic relations with Pakistan and Israel was made in 1947, when Israel's first Prime minister David Ben-Gurion sent a telegram to Jinnah—Pakistan's main founding father but Jinnah gave no particular response. Later in 1949, Israel's Foreign Ministry believed it might be possible to open legations in Karachi, then the capital of Pakistan, or at least to conduct trade openly. Initial contact between the ambassador (High Commissioner) of Pakistan in London\",\n \"title\": \"Israel–Pakistan relations\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"13899577\",\n \"text\": \"distinction between 'proximal' and 'ultimate' causation, noting that immense confusion about attachment arises when these levels of analysis are mistaken for one another. In inquiring about the proximate cause of behavior, an attachment researcher may ask \\\"What made him show attachment behavior toward it at this particular moment?\\\" In inquiring about the ultimate cause of behavior, an attachment researcher may ask \\\"What is attachment behavior good for – how does it affect survival and reproduction?\\\" In her attention to attachment as an evolutionary phenomenon, from early in her career Main was already reflecting that a conflict might arise between an\",\n \"title\": \"Mary Main\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"8498753\",\n \"text\": \"135 million in India alone. The 2015 World Cup opening match between India and Pakistan had a 14.8% TV rating (TAM data M15+ ABC) in India, with a live reach of 288 million. In total, the match is estimated to have drawn over 1billion viewers worldwide. The approximate amount of viewers for the India vs Pakistan encounter at the World T20 in 2016 was more than 83 million. The partition of British India in 1947 that led to the creation of an independent India and Pakistan was characterised by intense and bloody conflict between Hindus, Muslims and Sikhs that left\",\n \"title\": \"India–Pakistan cricket rivalry\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"4521438\",\n \"text\": \"Sharma (Shah Rukh Khan) who becomes embroiled in the events to ensure that \\\"Project Milap\\\" - the releasing of civilian captives on either side of the borders of India and Pakistan - can take place as a sign of trust and peace between the two nations. \\\"Main Hoon Na\\\" is one of the most successful Indian films discussing the Indo-Pakistani conflict from a neutral point of view. The film was shot at St. Paul's School, Darjeeling, West Bengal, India. It is the first film of Shah Rukh Khan's production company Red Chillies Entertainment. It was released on 30 April 2004\",\n \"title\": \"Main Hoon Na\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"15715471\",\n \"text\": \"conflicts were restarted by previously registered actors in \\\"Azerbaijan (Nagorno-Karabakh), India (Garoland), India–Pakistan, Israel (Palestine), Mali (Azawad), and Myanmar (Kokang)\\\". Finally, seven conflicts in 2013 were no longer active in 2014. The conflicts were in Central African Republic, Ethiopia (Oromiya), Malaysia (Sabah), Myanmar (Karen), Myanmar (Shan), Mozambique, and Turkey (Kurdistan). Out of the 40 conflicts, 11 have been classified at the level of war, which means that there were at least 1,000 deaths in one calendar year. The conflict between India and Pakistan was the only interstate conflict, conflict between two or more states. Out of the remaining 39 conflicts,\",\n \"title\": \"Political violence\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"8127963\",\n \"text\": \"humiliation, and healthy propaganda. There are 2 playable campaigns in \\\"Conflict Zone\\\": the GHOST campaign, and the ICP campaign. Missions take place in locations where fictional conflicts take place such as: A civil war in Ukraine, wars between Indonesia and Malaysia, India and Pakistan and Nigeria and Niger. Most missions usually require the player to build a base (or a 'camp' in GHOST's case) and complete objectives in order to successfully complete the mission. Unlike most other traditional RTS games, where a main resource pool is used to produce units and buildings, Conflict Zone uses a unique system where innocent\",\n \"title\": \"Conflict Zone\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"1863405\",\n \"text\": \"win. Dravid scored 145 runs from 129 balls with 17 fours and a six, becoming the second batsman in World Cup history to hit back-to-back hundreds. Dravid struck a fine fifty in the last group match as India defeated England to advance into the Super Six stage. Dravid scored 2, 61 & 29 in the three Super Six matches against Australia, Pakistan & New Zealand respectively. India failed to qualify for the semi-finals having lost to Australia and New Zealand but achieved a consolation victory against Pakistan in a tense game, what with the military conflict going on between the\",\n \"title\": \"Rahul Dravid\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"7434156\",\n \"text\": \"India–Pakistan relations Relations between India and Pakistan have been complex and largely hostile due to a number of historical and political events. Relations between the two states have been defined by the violent partition of British India in 1947, the Kashmir conflict and the numerous military conflicts fought between the two nations. Consequently, their relationship has been plagued by hostility and suspicion. Northern India and Pakistan somewhat overlap in areas of certain demographics, shared lingua francas (mainly Punjabi and Hindustani) and shared cuisines inherited from the Mughal Empire. After the dissolution of the British Raj in 1947, two new sovereign\",\n \"title\": \"India–Pakistan relations\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"7434158\",\n \"text\": \"and numerous territorial claims would overshadow their relationship. Since their Independence, the two countries have fought three major wars, one undeclared war and have been involved in numerous armed skirmishes and military standoffs. The Kashmir conflict is the main centre-point of all of these conflicts with the exception of the Indo-Pakistan War of 1971 and Bangladesh Liberation War, which resulted in the secession of East Pakistan (now Bangladesh). There have been numerous attempts to improve the relationship—notably, the Shimla summit, the Agra summit and the Lahore summit. Since the early 1980s, relations between the two nations soured particularly after the\",\n \"title\": \"India–Pakistan relations\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"3417442\",\n \"text\": \"coverage continued). Reasons for India's increased coverage included the greater number of privately owned electronic media in India compared to Pakistan and relatively greater transparency in the Indian media. At a seminar in Karachi, Pakistani journalists agreed that while the Indian government had taken the press and the people into its confidence, Pakistan had not. The print media in India and abroad was largely sympathetic to the Indian cause, with editorials in newspapers based in the west and other neutral countries observing that Pakistan was largely responsible for the conflict. Some analysts believe that Indian media, which was both larger\",\n \"title\": \"Kargil War\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"6785753\",\n \"text\": \"Pakistan Army. In spite of facilities which were nowhere near the level of those enjoyed by the Indian Military Academy at Dehra Dun, Ingall won the confidence of his cadets and instructors. When, late in 1947, the dispute over the accession of Jammu and Kashmir led to armed conflict between India and Pakistan, Ingall was able to structure the Academy’s training to enable newly commissioned officers to be immediately effective when they joined units on active service. Ingall was appointed OBE after completing his term as commandant in 1950. What probably gave him more satisfaction was the decision to name\",\n \"title\": \"Pakistan Military Academy\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"6348781\",\n \"text\": \"Srinagar and Leh. By blocking the highway, they could cut off the only link between the Kashmir Valley and Ladakh. This resulted in a large-scale conflict between the Indian and Pakistani armies. The final stage involved major battles by Indian and Pakistani forces resulting in India recapturing most of the territories held by Pakistani forces. Fears of the Kargil War turning into a nuclear war provoked the then-United States President Bill Clinton to pressure Pakistan to retreat. The Pakistan Army withdrew their remaining troops from the area, ending the conflict. India regained control of the Kargil peaks, which they now\",\n \"title\": \"Kashmir conflict\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"11836757\",\n \"text\": \"East Bengal Express The East Bengal Express was a railway train that was one of three train services running between India and Bangladesh (then East Pakistan). The railway link was suspended at the outbreak of the Indo-Pakistani War of 1965. Prior to 1965, when armed conflict broke out between India and Pakistan, rail links existed between India and East Pakistan. Three trains ran between the two countries carrying goods and passengers: (1) East Bengal Express between Sealdah and Goalundo Ghat via Gede-Darshana (2) East Bengal Mail between Sealdah and Parbatipur Junction via Gede-Darshana, and (3) Barisal Express between Sealdah and\",\n \"title\": \"East Bengal Express\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"11836753\",\n \"text\": \"East Bengal Mail The East Bengal Mail was a railway train that was one of three train services running between India and East Pakistan (now Bangladesh). The railway link was suspended at the outbreak of the Indo-Pakistani War of 1965. Prior to 1965, when armed conflict broke out between India and Pakistan, rail links existed between India and East Pakistan. Three trains ran between the two countries carrying goods and passengers: (1) East Bengal Express between Sealdah and Goalundo Ghat via Gede-Darshana, (2) East Bengal Mail between Sealdah and Parbatipur Junction via Gede-Darshana, and (3) Barisal Express between Sealdah and\",\n \"title\": \"East Bengal Mail\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"19888957\",\n \"text\": \"Borderless World Foundation Borderless World Foundation (BWF) is a non-profit, non-governmental organization registered under India's Societies Registration Act, 1860. Working in Jammu and Kashmir, along the conflict-riven border region in between India, Pakistan & China, BWF has rescued hundreds of girls orphaned in the conflict along the India-Pakistan border. BWF strives toward a vision of \\\"One Great Human Family\\\" through a variety of activities, including disaster relief and emergency medical support for the community and rescuing hundreds of children left orphaned by the ongoing conflict and providing love, support, health care and education to help them grow into a generation\",\n \"title\": \"Borderless World Foundation\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"15221699\",\n \"text\": \"of Part XII of the constitution. The United Nations Military Observer Group in India and Pakistan (UNMOGIP) was deployed to supervise the ceasefire between India and Pakistan. UNMOGIP's functions were to investigate complaints of ceasefire violations and submit findings to each party and to the U.N. Secretary-General. The UN continues to remain a keen observer of the Kashmir conflict between Pakistan and India, centring on the disputed state of Jammu and Kashmir. Since the transfer of power to both countries in 1947 of the divided territory, the UN has played an extensive role in regulating and monitoring the dispute. Pakistan\",\n \"title\": \"Pakistan and the United Nations\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"400151\",\n \"text\": \"the region. The conflict over Kashmir has resulted in tens of thousands of deaths. The Inter-Services Intelligence of Pakistan has been accused by India of supporting and training both pro-Pakistan and pro-independence militants to fight Indian security forces in Jammu and Kashmir, a charge that Pakistan denies. According to official figures released in the Jammu and Kashmir assembly, there were 3,400 disappearance cases and the conflict has left more than 47,000 to 100,000 people dead as of July 2009. However, violence in the state had fallen sharply after the start of a slow-moving peace process between India and Pakistan. After\",\n \"title\": \"Self-determination\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"12108878\",\n \"text\": \"the Kashmir conflict. To make the bus safe and fully operational, the LoC would demined if and where necessary and other security arrangements would be made as well. Both governments announced that Indian and Pakistani citizens could travel anywhere in Indian Kashmir and Pakistani Kashmir, including the Northern Areas of Pakistan, which are part of India's claim on Kashmir and pre-1947 Kashmir. In India, all citizens would have to apply at the Regional Passport Office in Srinagar, which was the designated authority to evaluate applications, verify identities and issue entry permits. Transport between India and Pakistan Transport between India and\",\n \"title\": \"Transport between India and Pakistan\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"6348788\",\n \"text\": \"Kashmir remains divided between India and Pakistan. Two-thirds of the former princely state of Jammu and Kashmir, comprising Jammu, the Kashmir Valley, and the sparsely populated Buddhist area of Ladakh are controlled by India while one-third is administered by Pakistan. The latter includes a narrow strip of land called Azad Kashmir and the Northern Areas, comprising the Gilgit Agency, Baltistan, and the former kingdoms of Hunza and Nagar. Attempts to resolve the dispute through political discussions have been unsuccessful. In September 1965, war again broke out between Pakistan and India. The United Nations called for another cease-fire, and peace was\",\n \"title\": \"Kashmir conflict\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"6348783\",\n \"text\": \"Inter-Services Intelligence agency (ISI). In 2002, a team comprising Special Air Service and Delta Force personnel was sent into Indian-administered Kashmir to hunt for Osama bin Laden after reports that he was being sheltered by the Kashmiri militant group Harkat-ul-Mujahideen. US officials believed that Al-Qaeda was helping organise a campaign of terror in Kashmir to provoke conflict between India and Pakistan. Their strategy was to force Pakistan to move its troops to the border with India, thereby relieving pressure on Al-Qaeda elements hiding in northwestern Pakistan. US intelligence analysts say Al-Qaeda and Taliban operatives in Pakistan-administered Kashmir are helping terrorists\",\n \"title\": \"Kashmir conflict\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"6978724\",\n \"text\": \"Team eliminated Klerbler in revenge for the brutal murder of Alan Connors. Strachen is captured and reveals Mandel to be in Kashmir. The final mission is set in Kashmir, where Mandel plans to launch Nuclear Missile at Pakistan to cause a war between them and India. Red Team disarm the missiles and Mandel is killed when his Mi-24 Hind is shot down by Red Team. The game ends with Red Team deciding to return to Colombia to find Foley. After agreeing with the idea, the game ends with a cut-scene of Red Team leaving in a helicopter. The game plays\",\n \"title\": \"Conflict: Global Terror\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"6348806\",\n \"text\": \"river system that sustains communities in India and Pakistan. Both have extensively dammed the Indus River for irrigation of their crops and hydro-electricity systems. In arbitrating the conflict in 1947, Sir Cyril Radcliffe, decided to demarcate the territories as he was unable to give to one or the other the control over the river as it was a main economic resource for both areas. The Line of Control (LoC) was recognised as an international border establishing that India would have control over the upper riparian and Pakistan over the lower riparian of the Indus and its tributaries. Despite appearing to\",\n \"title\": \"Kashmir conflict\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"473943\",\n \"text\": \"to participate in the NPT. Pakistan's nuclear policy became fixated on India because India refused to join the NPT and remain opened to nuclear weapons. Impetus by Indian actions spurred Pakistan's nuclear research. After nuclear weapons construction was started by Bhutto's command, the chair of Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission Usmani quit in objection. The 1999 war between Pakistan and India occurred after both acquired nuclear weapons. It is believed by some that nuclear weapons are the reason a big war has not broken out in the subcontinent. India and Pakistan still have a risk of nuclear conflict on the issue\",\n \"title\": \"Nuclear warfare\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"7434176\",\n \"text\": \"wars between the two countries in 1947 and 1965, and a limited conflict in 1999. The state remains divided between the two countries by the Line of Control (LoC), which demarcates the ceasefire line agreed upon in the 1947 conflict modified in 1972 as per Simla Agreement. India and Pakistan have fought in numerous armed conflicts since their independence. There are three major wars that have taken place between the two states, namely in 1947, 1965 and the Bangladesh Liberation War in 1971. In addition to this was the unofficial Kargil War in 1999 and some border skirmishes. The Indo-Pakistani\",\n \"title\": \"India–Pakistan relations\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"6348717\",\n \"text\": \"not keeping a warlike mentality but did not know what Indian intransigence would lead Pakistan and its people to. India accused Pakistan of ceasefire violations and Nehru complained of 'warmongering propaganda' in Pakistan. On 15 July 1951 the Pakistani Prime Minister complained that the bulk of the Indian Army was concentrated on the Indo-Pakistan border. The prime ministers of the two countries exchanged telegrams accusing each other of bad intentions. Liaquat Ali Khan rejected Nehru's charge of warmongering propaganda. Khan called it a distortion of the Pakistani press' discontent with India over its persistence in not holding a plebiscite and\",\n \"title\": \"Kashmir conflict\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"10974447\",\n \"text\": \"conflict with India\\\". Responding to the India's military movement at the India-Pakistan border in 2010, General Majid told the Pakistan's media representatives at the ISPR that \\\"the Indian army knows the capacity of the Pakistan armed forces. Responding to the Indian Army's Chief of Staff's statement of Indian military preparations to fight China and Pakistan simultaneously, Majid told the journalists that \\\"leave alone China, General Deepak Kapoor knows very well what the Indian Army can not and Pakistan Armed Forces can pull off militarily. As chairman joint chiefs, Majid notably terminated all military debriefings of senior scientist Abdul Qadeer Khan\",\n \"title\": \"Tariq Majid\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"3021571\",\n \"text\": \"Indo-Pakistani War of 1971 when India achieved a decisive victory over Pakistan within two weeks. China's repeated threats to intervene in the conflict in support of Pakistan increased pressure on the government to take an immediate decision to develop nuclear weapons. Despite repeated assurances, the United States did little to prevent extensive use of American arms by Pakistani forces during the conflict, thus irking India. At the same time, the United States and United Kingdom refused to supply India with sophisticated weaponry which further strained the relations between the West and India. These developments led to a significant change in\",\n \"title\": \"Indo-Pakistani War of 1965\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"473946\",\n \"text\": \"further deterioration. Pakistan's foreign minister had even warned that it would \\\"use any weapon in our arsenal\\\", hinting at a nuclear strike against India. The statement was condemned by the international community, with Pakistan denying it later on. This conflict remains the only war (of any sort) between two declared nuclear powers. The 2001-2002 India-Pakistan standoff again stoked fears of nuclear war between the two countries. Despite these very serious and relatively recent threats, relations between India and Pakistan have been improving somewhat over the last few years. However, with the November 26, 2008 Mumbai terror attacks, tensions again worsened.\",\n \"title\": \"Nuclear warfare\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"11749133\",\n \"text\": \"co-produce the Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-21 jet fighter in India, which the Soviet Union had earlier denied to China. In 1965 the Soviet Union served successfully as peace broker between India and Pakistan after an Indian-Pakistani border war. The Soviet Chairman of the Council of Ministers, literally Premier of the Soviet Union, Alexei Kosygin, met with representatives of India and Pakistan and helped them negotiate an end to the military conflict over Kashmir. In 1971 the former East Pakistan region initiated an effort to secede from its political union with West Pakistan. India supported the secession and, as a guarantee against possible\",\n \"title\": \"India–Russia relations\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"11598437\",\n \"text\": \"books: In his book on the Siachen conflict, which is regarded as the definitive work on the subject, he notes that neither India nor Pakistan gains a strategic advantage from the occupation of the Saltoro range and offers a road map for conflict resolution. He has also edited more than a dozen other books besides writing numerous articles on strategic issues relating to India’s security. His piece on \\\"Limited War and Nuclear Escalation in South Asia\\\" in The Nonproliferation Review in 2001 concluded that there was a high probability of a nuclear exchange between India and Pakistan in the event\",\n \"title\": \"V. R. Raghavan\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"10020268\",\n \"text\": \"Bilafond La Bilafond La (meaning \\\"Pass of the Butterflies\\\" in Balti language, also known as the Saltoro Pass, is a mountain pass situated on Saltoro Ridge, sitting immediately west of the vast Siachen Glacier, some directly north of map point NJ 980420 which defined the end of the 1972 Line of Control between Pakistan and India as part of the Simla Agreement. Bilafond La (Pass of the Butterflies) is on the ancient Silk Route linking undivided India and China. Bilafond La was a prominent feature during the 1984 start of military action in the Siachen Conflict between India and Pakistan.\",\n \"title\": \"Bilafond La\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"11520901\",\n \"text\": \"the Indian-occupied part of Jammu and Kashmir. Zulfikar Ali Bhutto backed the plan, and Pakistan Army's SS Group was told to begin an operation, under codename Operation Gibraltar. However, even after the careful analysis, the airborne operation failed, and major war broke out between India and Pakistan. Ayub Khan blamed Bhutto for starting the conflict, while the Armed forces became increasingly involved in the war. However, both Soviet-Union and United States deescalated the conflict. China provided economic and moral help and even threatened India on its conflicted border issues. Khan along with Lal Bahadur Shastri signed the Tashkent Declaration. After\",\n \"title\": \"Parliamentary history of Pakistan\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"7849731\",\n \"text\": \"Racist sentiments exist between citizens of Pakistan towards the citizens of Bangladesh. A strong anti-Bengali Pakistani regime during the Bangladesh Liberation War were strongly motivated by anti-Bengali racism within the establishment, especially against the Bengali Hindu minority. This conflict goes back to when India was first partitioned into West Pakistan and East Pakistan when citizens of today's Pakistan dominated the original Pakistani government. Between 300,000 to 3 million people were killed during the 9-month-long conflict in 1971. The Government of Bangladesh demands a formal apology for those atrocities from the Pakistani head of state, as well as putting on trial\",\n \"title\": \"Racism in Asia\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"15329628\",\n \"text\": \"and 1985. This escalated to armed conflicts between the two militaries in the early 2000s (decade). The 2001 Indian–Bangladeshi border conflict was a brief armed conflict in April 2001 between India and Bangladesh over the poorly marked international border between the countries. , it was the first and only such major conflict between the two countries who have maintained friendly relations since the 1971 Bangladesh Liberation War. The Partition of Bengal in 1947 left a poorly demarcated international border between India and Bangladesh (then-East Pakistan). Ownership of several villages on both sides of the de facto border were disputed and\",\n \"title\": \"Sarwar Azam\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"2267020\",\n \"text\": \"Communist Party of Bangladesh The Communist Party of Bangladesh () is a Marxist-Leninist political party in Bangladesh, founded in 1948 as the Communist Party of East Pakistan. After the partitioning of India in 1947, during the 2nd Congress of the Communist Party of India in Calcutta, the delegates coming from regions within the newly founded state of Pakistan (which included what now constitutes Bangladesh) met on March 6, 1948 in a separate session and decided to form the Communist Party of Pakistan. The main strength and activity of the newly constituted Party was in the province of East Pakistan (what\",\n \"title\": \"Communist Party of Bangladesh\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"12930669\",\n \"text\": \"between India and Pakistan. In addition, troop mobilization in Operation Prakaram (December 2001 – October 2002), cost India and Pakistan a combined $3billion. A similar mobilization in the future would see a 50% increase in costs on both sides. This report focuses on the Sri Lankan Civil War, a twenty-six-year-long military conflict between the Tamil insurgents and successive Sri Lankan governments. According to the report Sri Lanka was the most militarized among the South Asian countries with 8,000 military personnel per million population. In terms of military expenditure as percentage of GDP, Sri Lanka had the largest expenditure in the\",\n \"title\": \"Cost of conflict\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"10020290\",\n \"text\": \"being part of larger conflict, the Kashmir conflict. All three passes are currently held by India; Pakistan controls areas just to the west. Sia La Sia La is a mountain pass situated on Saltoro Ridge, some north-northwest of map point NJ9842 which defined the end of the 1972 Line of Control between India and Pakistan as part of the Simla Agreement. Sia La sits near the China border and immediately northwest of the upper part of the vast Siachen Glacier, connecting that glacier to the Pakistani-controlled Kondus Glacier and valley to the west. Sia La, as well as nearby passes\",\n \"title\": \"Sia La\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"12037295\",\n \"text\": \"were later re-established. Nepal established diplomatic relations with India after the latter's independence in 1947, but did not do so with Pakistan. In 1950, Nepal signed a Treaty of Peace and Friendship with India, creating an extensive relationship of economic, strategic and defence cooperation. Nepal thus remained aloof from Pakistan, which was at conflict with India. However, Nepal's resentment of Indian influence perceived to be excessive prompted the Nepalese government to develop relations with the People's Republic of China and Pakistan. Diplomatic relations between Nepal and Pakistan were established on 20 March 1960. After the establishment of diplomatic relations, the\",\n \"title\": \"Nepal–Pakistan relations\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"7434180\",\n \"text\": \"Army intruded across the line of control and occupied the posts. Indian army discovered this in May 1999 when the snow thawed. This resulted in intense fighting between Indian and Pakistani forces, known as the Kargil conflict. Backed by the Indian Air Force, the Indian Army regained some of the posts that Pakistan had occupied. Pakistan later withdrew from the remaining portion under international pressure and high casualties. The relations are locked in other territorial claims such as the Siachen Glacier and Kori Creek. The Indus Waters Treaty governs the rivers that flow from India into Pakistan. Water is cited\",\n \"title\": \"India–Pakistan relations\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"6348796\",\n \"text\": \"Kashmir are fighting against (India). We just need to incite them,\\\" Musharraf told a TV channel. In 2015 Pakistan's outgoing National Security Advisor Sartaj Aziz said that Pakistan wished to have third party mediation on Kashmir, but it was unlikely to happen unless by international pressure. \\\"Under Shimla Accord it was decided that India and Pakistan would resolve their disputes bilaterally,\\\" Aziz said. \\\"Such bilateral talks have not yielded any results for the last 40 years. So then what is the solution?\\\" China states that Aksai Chin is an integral part of China and does not recognise the inclusion of\",\n \"title\": \"Kashmir conflict\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"7827509\",\n \"text\": \"battle\\\". Between May 25 and 28, Pakistan conducted 3 missile tests. India reviewed its nuclear capability to strike back. On 7 June the Pakistan Air Force shot down an Indian unmanned aerial vehicle near Lahore. As both India and Pakistan are armed with nuclear weapons, the possibility a conventional war could escalate into a nuclear one was raised several times during the standoff. Various statements on this subject were made by Indian and Pakistani officials during the conflict, mainly concerning a no first use policy. Indian External Affairs Minister Jaswant Singh said on 5 June that India would not use\",\n \"title\": \"2001–02 India–Pakistan standoff\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"191358\",\n \"text\": \"months later, however, Pakistani paramilitary forces and Pakistan Army, infiltrated in large numbers into the Kargil district of Indian Kashmir. This initiated the Kargil War after India moved in thousands of troops to successfully flush out the infiltrators. Although the conflict did not result in a full-scale war between India and Pakistan, relations between the two reached all-time low which worsened even further following the involvement of Pakistan-based terrorists in the hijacking of the Indian Airlines Flight 814 in December 1999. Attempts to normalise relations, such as the Agra summit held in July 2001, failed. An attack on the Indian\",\n \"title\": \"Foreign relations of India\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"18873749\",\n \"text\": \"subdue the armymen as well as Razzaq, but chooses not to kill Razzaq. Razzaq, while accepting defeat, reveals that his opinion of India and Indians will not change. At this, Vasu forcefully replies that despite being an Indian, he does not hate Pakistan and Pakistanis and that the misguided hatred between the two countries only aggravates the India-Pakistan conflict. The movie ends with Vasu revealing the presence of the twenty-three jawans in Pakistan and ensuring their freedom, for which he is honoured by the President as well as the Prime Minister of India. In November 2013, he was working on\",\n \"title\": \"Wagah (film)\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"3417449\",\n \"text\": \"many celebrities expressing their support for the Kargil cause. Indians were angered by media reports of the death of pilot Ajay Ahuja, especially after Indian authorities reported that Ahuja had been murdered and his body mutilated by Pakistani troops. The war had produced higher than expected fatalities for the Indian military, with a sizeable percentage of them including newly commissioned officers. One month after conclusion of the Kargil War, the Atlantique Incident, in which a Pakistan Navy plane was shot down by India, briefly reignited fears of a conflict between the two countries. After the war, the Indian government severed\",\n \"title\": \"Kargil War\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"15658581\",\n \"text\": \"$160 million contract for missiles with South Africa, believed to be for the Kentron (now Denel) U-darter imaging-infra-red short range air-to-air missile. The Pakistan Air Force (PAF) did not see active combat during the low-intensity Kargil Conflict between India and Pakistan during the summer of 1999 but remained on high air defence alert (ADA) and performed F-16 and F-7MP combat air patrols (CAPs) near the eastern border with India. The PAF closely monitored and tracked the IAF's movements near the Line of Control in Kashmir as well as the India-Pakistan international border. The Pakistan Army faced several problems during its\",\n \"title\": \"History of the Pakistan Air Force\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"5272574\",\n \"text\": \"an average altitude above . The county includes a significant part of the Trans-Karakoram Tract, disputed by India and Pakistan in the ongoing Kashmir conflict; while Pakistan has withdrawn the claim since 1963, India continues to claim it as part of the state of Jammu and Kashmir. The Muztagh Ata, at , and the Kongur Tagh, at , are the main peaks in the county, while the two main rivers are the Taxkorgan River and the Tiznap (or Tiznef) River (). By including the Trans-Karakoram Tract, the county also borders several eight-thousanders, including K2, at the second-highest mountain in the\",\n \"title\": \"Taxkorgan Tajik Autonomous County\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"13343090\",\n \"text\": \"Kurukshetra (2008 film) Kurukshetra is a 2008 Indian Malayalam war film written and directed by Major Ravi. It is a sequel to the 2006 film \\\"Keerthi Chakra\\\" and the second installment in the Major Mahadevan film series, with Mohanlal reprising his role as Colonel Mahadevan The film is based on the Kargil conflict of 1999 between India and Pakistan. The political situation of the conflict is portrayed from an Indian perspective. The third film in the series \\\"Kandahar\\\" was released in 2010 and the fourth film was released in 2017. The story revolves around the 1999 Kargil War between India\",\n \"title\": \"Kurukshetra (2008 film)\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"5557969\",\n \"text\": \"on the history of South Asia. In her book \\\"The Sole Spokesman\\\" (Cambridge University Press, 1985 and 1994), Jalal gives her perspective of what happened in the years between the 1937 elections and the Partition of the Indian subcontinent, identifying the factors which led to the creation of Pakistan and provides new insights into the nature of the British transfer of power in India. In particular, she focuses on the role of Mohammad Ali Jinnah, the leader of the All-India Muslim League, and the main proponent of the Two Nation Theory on which the demand for Pakistan was based. Jinnah\",\n \"title\": \"Ayesha Jalal\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"314149\",\n \"text\": \"a matter of pivotal dispute between Pakistan and India ever since 1947, and the Siachen Glacier in northern Kashmir has been an important arena for fighting between the two sides since 1984, although far more soldiers have died of exposure to the cold than from any skirmishes in the conflict between their National Armies facing each other. The Pakistan-India ceasefire line runs from the Karakoram Pass west-southwest to a point about 130 kilometers northwest of Lahore. This line, about 770 kilometers long, was arranged with United Nations (UNO) assistance at the end of the Indo-Pakistani War of 1947–48. The ceasefire\",\n \"title\": \"Geography of Pakistan\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"18331272\",\n \"text\": \"major road block by Indians towards her permanent seat in United Nations Security Council. Meanwhile, China provides Pakistan unconditional support in many international stages. Also China makes a large quanta of investments in Pakistan and in both Gilgit-Baltistan and Azad Kashmir). During the conflict between the India and Pakistan in August–September 2016 after Uri attack the supporting stand of China towards Pakistan lead to a popular Boycott Chinese products Campaign in India. Many shops in India also began to boycott Chinese goods. Many nationwide campaigns were held by different groups to boycott Chinese products. Albay Gov. Joey Salceda supported Filipinos\",\n \"title\": \"Boycott Chinese products\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"6348871\",\n \"text\": \"compel them. In that sense, the people of Kashmir are sovereign.\\\" In his statement in the Lok Sabha on 31 March 1955 as published in Hindustan Times New Delhi on Ist April, 1955, Pandit Nehru said, \\\"Kashmir is perhaps the most difficult of all these problems between India and Pakistan. We should also remember that Kashmir is not a thing to be bandied between India and Pakistan but it has a soul of its own and an individuality of its own. Nothing can be done without the goodwill and consent of the people of Kashmir.\\\" There was also a White\",\n \"title\": \"Kashmir conflict\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"297095\",\n \"text\": \"quite high. Kashmir is a prime cause of bilateral tension, its sovereignty being in dispute since 1948. There is persistent low level bilateral military conflict due to alleged backing of insurgency by Pakistan in India and infiltration of Pakistani state backed militants in the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir, along with the disputed status of Kashmir. Both engaged in a conventional arms race in the 1980s, including sophisticated technology and equipment capable of delivering nuclear weapons. In the 1990s the arms race quickened. In 1994 India reversed a four-year trend of reduced allocations for defence, and despite its much\",\n \"title\": \"Nuclear proliferation\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"6348800\",\n \"text\": \"London, that the Pakistani government indeed helped to form underground militant groups and \\\"turned a blind eye\\\" towards their existence because they wanted India to discuss Kashmir. According to former Indian Prime-minister Manmohan Singh, one of the main reasons behind the conflict was Pakistan's \\\"terror-induced coercion\\\". He further stated at a Joint Press Conference with United States President Barack Obama in New Delhi that India is not afraid of resolving all the issues with Pakistan including that of Kashmir \\\"\\\"but it is our request that you cannot simultaneously be talking and at the same time the terror machine is as\",\n \"title\": \"Kashmir conflict\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"5219476\",\n \"text\": \"soon, and had India captured Lahore it would likely have been returned in ceasefire negotiations. The War eventually ended with a United Nations (UN) backed ceasefire and was followed by the Tashkent Declaration. According to the Library of Congress Country Studies conducted by the Federal Research Division of the United States: At the time of ceasefire declaration, per neutral sources, India casualties were at 3,000 and Pakistani casualties were 3800. Pakistan lost between 200-300 tanks during the conflict and India lost approximately 150-190 tanks. However, most neutral assessments agree that India had the upper hand over Pakistan when ceasefire was\",\n \"title\": \"Pakistan Army\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"2466938\",\n \"text\": \"commissions in Islamabad on 8 January 2015 to understand their stance about the conflict which is engulfing both nations after execution of Sheikh Nimr by Saudi Arabia. He urged the Government of Pakistan to play a positive role to resolve the matter between both countries. In April, 2015, after parliament passed a unanimous resolution keeping Pakistan out of the Yemen conflict, the chairman of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) as part of opposition, took credit for the decision. What Will Pakistan-Saudi Arabia Ties Look Like Under Imran Khan? He might not be able to stick to previous stand, as Saudi loans\",\n \"title\": \"Imran Khan\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"4623524\",\n \"text\": \"malfunctions of materiel, both vehicles and weapons. The Siachen conflict is a military conflict between India and Pakistan over the disputed Siachen Glacier region in Kashmir. The conflict began in 1984 with India's successful Operation \\\"Meghdoot\\\" during which it gained control over all of the Siachen Glacier. A cease-fire went into effect in 2003. The following actions were fought in the Arctic by land and naval forces between 1941 and 1945 in the following theaters of operations: The Winter War was a military conflict between the Soviet Union (USSR) and Finland. It began with a Soviet invasion of Finland on\",\n \"title\": \"Cold-weather warfare\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"6598748\",\n \"text\": \"in 1948. The newly created states of Pakistan and India both joined the Commonwealth, a platform for cooperation between the countries that had been part of the British Empire. Nevertheless, they soon found themselves at war beginning in October 1947, over the contested princely state of Jammu and Kashmir. Pakistani militants entered the state, alarming Maharaja Hari Singh who appealed to India for military intervention, in exchange for the signing of the Instrument of Accession and annexation into India. The region is contested to this day and two other Indo-Pakistan wars occurred as part of the Kashmir conflict. Hostilities and\",\n \"title\": \"Dominion of India\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"15490079\",\n \"text\": \"the two nations to be cancelled. The Shiv Sena once again used this unique means of protest at the Feroz Shah Kotla in New Delhi in 2000 to protest against the Pakistan cricket team's proposed visit. Following the Kargil conflict, and at various other times, there have also been calls to suspend cricketing ties between the two countries. During the 2011 Cricket World Cup, is believed to have eased the relationship between India and Pakistan after the polarising 2008 Mumbai attacks. Prime Minister of India Manmohan Singh used this opportunity and greeted his Pakistani counterpart Yousuf Raza Gilani to watch\",\n \"title\": \"Cricket diplomacy\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"7378494\",\n \"text\": \"conflict yet as ceasefire violations are keeping the fighting on a low burner. However, some experts predict a frozen future for this conflict as well. India and Pakistan have fought at least three wars over the disputed region of Kashmir in 1947, 1965, and 1999. India claims the entire area of the former princely state of Kashmir and Jammu, of which it administers approximately 43%. Its claims are contested by Pakistan, which controls approximately 37% of the region and urges for plebiscite in Kashmir. The remaining territory is controlled by the People's Republic of China, with which India is again\",\n \"title\": \"Frozen conflict\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"13764918\",\n \"text\": \"deteriorating, and tension momentarily grew between the East and West Pakistan. A military action in East Pakistan called Operation Searchlight opened a series of bloody counter-insurgency operations led by the defected Bengali dissidents of Pakistan Armed Forces. Later, India intervened in the conflict as covert operations were successfully led by the Indian intelligence agencies. This was followed by Indo-Pakistani War of 1971, a war in the western front. Pakistan, now fighting on both fronts, lost the war after only 13 days. The war with India and East-Pakistan had caused the collapse of the military dictatorship of Yahya Khan, and dissolution\",\n \"title\": \"Project-706\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"7434195\",\n \"text\": \"could reach the main disputed site, they were shot down by Indian security forces. One Hindu worshipper and two policemen were injured during the incident. The Indian intelligence agency RAW is claimed to be working in cover to malign Pakistan and train & support insurgents for Balochistan conflict. The 2001 Indian Parliament attack was an attack at the Parliament of India in New Delhi on 13 December 2001, during which fourteen people, including the five men who attacked the building, were killed. The perpetrators were Lashkar-e-Taiba (Let) and Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) terrorists. The attack led to the deaths of five terrorists,\",\n \"title\": \"India–Pakistan relations\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"6348711\",\n \"text\": \"whereas Pakistan insisted on parity. The UN mediators tended towards parity, which was not to India's satisfaction. In the end, no withdrawal was ever carried out, India insisting that Pakistan had to withdraw first, and Pakistan contending that there was no guarantee that India would withdraw afterwards. No agreement could be reached between the two countries on the process of demilitarisation. Cold War historian Robert J. McMahon states that American officials increasingly blamed India for rejecting various UNCIP truce proposals under various dubious legal technicalities just to avoid a plebiscite. McMahon adds that they were 'right' since a Muslim majority\",\n \"title\": \"Kashmir conflict\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"6348869\",\n \"text\": \"Pakistan as an endorsement of India's position on Kashmir that no outside power has any role in this dispute. India and Pakistan conducted nuclear tests in 1998 and the two countries each hold significant numbers of nuclear warheads. India and Pakistan fought two wars over the issue of Kashmir in 1947 and 1965. These two neighbours came dangerously close to a third war during the Kargil conflict in 1999. In telegram No.413 dated 28 October 1947 addressed to Prime Minister of Pakistan, Nehru wrote, \\\"That Government of India and Pakistan should make a joint request to U.N.O. to undertake a\",\n \"title\": \"Kashmir conflict\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"11520908\",\n \"text\": \"\\\"Al-Shams\\\" were made by Jammat-e-Islami to support Pakistan and Pakistan Army During the conflict, the coordination between the armed forces of Pakistan were ineffective and unsupported. On major decision, the army, navy, marines and air force weren't taken on confidence. Each forces had led their own independent operations without notifying or taking on confidence the higher command. The result was the Pakistan Armed Forces surrender to the Indian forces upon which 93,000 Pakistan Armed Forces officials and 93,000 soldiers and officers became POWs, the largest since World War II. The official war between India and Pakistan ended in just a\",\n \"title\": \"Parliamentary history of Pakistan\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"13108875\",\n \"text\": \"The text of the agreement was as follows: The agreement was moderately economically advantageous to Pakistan, which received grazing lands in the deal, but of far more significance politically, as it both diminished potential for conflict between China and Pakistan and, Syed indicates, \\\"placed China formally and firmly on record as maintaining that Kashmir did not, as yet, belong to India. India does not recognize the agreement, under which China holds of northern Kashmir, as legal. \\\"Time\\\", reporting on the matter in 1963, expressed the opinion that by signing the agreement Pakistan had further \\\"dimmed hopes of settlement\\\" of the\",\n \"title\": \"Sino-Pakistan Agreement\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"3533112\",\n \"text\": \"in the Xinjiang region of China, to Abbottabad, of Pakistan. An extension of the highway southwest from Abbottabad, in the form of the N-35 highway, meets the Grand Trunk Road, N-5, at Hasan Abdal, Pakistan. The highway cuts through the between the Eurasian and Indian plates, where China, Tajikistan, Afghanistan, and Pakistan come within of each other. Owing largely to the extremely sensitive state of the Kashmir conflict between India and Pakistan, the Karakoram Highway has strategic and military importance to these nations, but particularly Pakistan and China. On 30 June 2006, a memorandum of understanding was signed between the\",\n \"title\": \"Karakoram Highway\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"6284287\",\n \"text\": \"occurred between Pakistan and India upon independence due to conflict between Muslims and followers of Indian religions, most Hindus and nearly all Sikhs fled the country. Pakistani Punjab is now over 2% Christian, with very few Hindus left. Christians have made some contributions to the Pakistani national life. Pakistan's first non-Muslim Chief Justice of Pakistan Supreme Court was Justice A. R. Cornelius. Pakistani Christians also distinguished themselves as great fighter pilots in the Pakistan Air Force. Notable amongst them are Cecil Chaudhry, Peter O'Reilly and Mervyn L Middlecoat. Christians have also contributed as educationists, doctors, lawyers and businessmen. One of\",\n \"title\": \"Christianity in Pakistan\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"13549130\",\n \"text\": \"him on the outskirts of the city and renamed the Inter-provincial Bridge between Quebec and Ontario as Boulevard de la Paix for a day. On his return to India in 1985, he joined the Centre for Policy Research to work on economic collaboration as means of conflict resolution in South Asia. His monographs on breaking deadlock in economic ties between India and Pakistan as well as India and Sri Lanka attracted attention of the policy makers. In 1991, he founded International Centre for Peace Initiatives, the first conflict resolution institution in South Asia. Under its auspices, he was engaged in\",\n \"title\": \"Sundeep Waslekar\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"200333\",\n \"text\": \"the form of Akhanda Bharata. The region of Kashmir in north India has been the issue of a territorial dispute between India and Pakistan since 1947, the Kashmir conflict. Multiple wars have been fought over the issue, the first one immediately upon independence and partition in 1947 itself. To stave off a Pakistani and tribal invasion, Maharaja Hari Singh of the princely state of Jammu and Kashmir signed the Instrument of Accession with India. Kashmir has remained divided in three parts, administered by India, Pakistan and China, since then. However, on the basis of the instrument of accession, India continues\",\n \"title\": \"Irredentism\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"7827493\",\n \"text\": \"2001 (during which twelve people, including the five terrorists who attacked the building, were killed) and the legislative Assembly on 1 October 2001. India claimed that the attacks were carried out by two Pakistan-based terror groups fighting Indian administered Kashmir, the Lashkar-e-Taiba and Jaish-e-Mohammad, both of whom India has said are backed by Pakistan's ISI – a charge that Pakistan denied. In the Western media, coverage of the standoff focused on the possibility of a nuclear war between the two countries and the implications of the potential conflict on the American-led \\\"Global War on Terrorism\\\" in nearby Afghanistan. Tensions de-escalated\",\n \"title\": \"2001–02 India–Pakistan standoff\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"14882348\",\n \"text\": \"the Minister of External Affairs Jaswant Singh, but the talks were regarded as a failure and unsuccessful in stemming the conflict. Aziz claimed India had \\\"overreacted\\\", while India demanded that Pakistan stop the incursion into Indian-administered Kashmir. Aziz also represented Pakistan at the Organisation of the Islamic Conference in Burkina Faso, held during the Kargil conflict. Aziz later claimed in the media that Pakistan had achieved its aims in the Kargil conflict by \\\"forcing the Kashmir dispute to the top of the global agenda.\\\" He remained Foreign Minister of Pakistan till Oct 1999. His term ended abruptly after the Nawaz\",\n \"title\": \"Sartaj Aziz\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"2521886\",\n \"text\": \"Tashkent Declaration The Tashkent Declaration was a peace agreement between India and Pakistan signed on 10 January 1966 that resolved the Indo-Pakistani War of 1965. Peace had been achieved on 23 September by the intervention of the great powers who pushed the two nations to cease fire, afraid the conflict could escalate and draw in other powers. The war between India and Pakistan in 1965 was an escalation of the small scale and irregular fighting from April 1965 to September 1965 between both countries. It was over control of the resources and population of the state of Jammu and Kashmir,\",\n \"title\": \"Tashkent Declaration\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"297094\",\n \"text\": \"or materials, except for safety-related devices for a few safeguarded facilities. In May 1998 India and Pakistan each exploded several nuclear devices underground. This heightened concerns regarding an arms race between them, with Pakistan involving the People's Republic of China, an acknowledged nuclear weapons state. Both countries are opposed to the NPT as it stands, and India has consistently attacked the Treaty since its inception in 1970 labeling it as a lopsided treaty in favor of the nuclear powers. Relations between the two countries are tense and hostile, and the risks of nuclear conflict between them have long been considered\",\n \"title\": \"Nuclear proliferation\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"6348805\",\n \"text\": \"has been involved in training and arming underground militant groups to fight Indian forces in Kashmir. Another reason for the dispute over Kashmir is water. Kashmir is the source of many rivers and tributaries in the Indus River basin. This basin is divided between Pakistan, which has about 60 percent of the catchment area, India with about 20 percent, Afghanistan with 5 percent and around 15 percent in China (Tibet autonomous region). The river tributaries are the Jhelum and Chenab rivers, which primarily flow into Pakistan, while other branchesthe Ravi, Beas, and the Sutlejirrigate northern India. The Indus is a\",\n \"title\": \"Kashmir conflict\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"5100667\",\n \"text\": \"Siachen. It still maintains a military base there. Pakistan tried in 1987 and in 1989 to re-take the glacier but was unsuccessful. The conflict ended with Indian Victory. Ceasefire since 2003. Commonly known as the Kargil War, or Operation Vijay in India, this conflict between the two countries was mostly limited. During early 1999, Pakistani troops infiltrated across the Line of Control (LoC) and occupied Indian territory mostly in the Kargil district. India responded by launching a major military and diplomatic offensive to drive out the Pakistani infiltrators. Two months into the conflict, Indian troops had slowly retaken most of\",\n \"title\": \"Military history of India\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"399105\",\n \"text\": \"Calvin states that the Sino-Indian War had caused the previously passive government to take a stand on actively modernising India's military. China offered diplomatic support to Pakistan in this war but did not offer military support. In January 1966, China condemned the Tashkent Agreement between India and Pakistan as a Soviet-US plot in the region. In the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971, Pakistan expected China to provide military support, but it was left alone as India successfully helped the rebels in East Pakistan to found the new nation-state of Bangladesh. During the conflict, Nehru wrote two desperate letters to U.S. President\",\n \"title\": \"Sino-Indian War\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"15261881\",\n \"text\": \"operations in East Pakistan, the Indian Navy commenced two large-scale operations, Operation Trident and Operation Python on the Western front, prior to the start of formal conflict between India and Pakistan. The Indian Navy did not play a major role during the Indo-Pakistani War of 1965 as the war focused on land-based conflict. On 7 September, a flotilla of the Pakistan Navy under the command of Commodore S.M. Anwar carried out a bombardment, Operation Dwarka, of the Indian Navy's radar station of Dwarka, south of the Pakistani port of Karachi. While there was no damage to the radar station, this\",\n \"title\": \"Indo-Pakistani Naval War of 1971\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"465184\",\n \"text\": \"out that Gandhi listened to Nixon \\\"without a single comment, creating an impregnable space so that no real contact was possible.\\\" She also refrained from assuring that India would follow Pakistan's suit if it withdrew from India's borders. As a result, the main agenda was \\\"dropped altogether.\\\" On 3 December, Yahya preemptively attacked the Indian Air Force and Gandhi retaliated, pushing into East Pakistan. Nixon issued a statement blaming Pakistan for starting the conflict and blaming India for escalating it because he favored a cease-fire. The United States was secretly encouraging the shipment of military equipment from Iran, Turkey, and\",\n \"title\": \"Yahya Khan\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"3021502\",\n \"text\": \"Indo-Pakistani War of 1965 The Indo-Pakistani War of 1965 was a culmination of skirmishes that took place between April 1965 and September 1965 between Pakistan and India. The conflict began following Pakistan's Operation Gibraltar, which was designed to infiltrate forces into Jammu and Kashmir to precipitate an insurgency against Indian rule. India retaliated by launching a full-scale military attack on West Pakistan. The seventeen-day war caused thousands of casualties on both sides and witnessed the largest engagement of armored vehicles and the largest tank battle since World War II. Hostilities between the two countries ended after a United Nations-mandated ceasefire\",\n \"title\": \"Indo-Pakistani War of 1965\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"11749134\",\n \"text\": \"Chinese entrance into the conflict on the side of West Pakistan, it signed with the Soviet Union the Indo-Soviet Treaty of Friendship and Cooperation in August 1971. In December, India entered the conflict and ensured the victory of the secessionists and the establishment of the new state of Bangladesh. Relations between the Soviet Union and India did not suffer much during the rightist Janata Party's coalition government in the late 1970s, although India did move to establish better economic and military relations with Western countries. To counter these efforts by India to diversify its relations, the Soviet Union proffered additional\",\n \"title\": \"India–Russia relations\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"8955893\",\n \"text\": \"2001 Bangladesh–India border clashes The 2001 Bangladesh-India border dispute conflict took place in the third week of April 2001 between troops of the Bangladesh Rifles (BDR), which is now known as the Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB), and the Indian Border Security Force (BSF) on the poorly marked international border between the two countries. The Partition of Bengal in 1947 left a poorly demarcated international border between India and Bangladesh (then East Pakistan). Ownership of several villages on both sides of the de facto border were disputed and claimed by both countries. The dispute over the demarcation of the Indo-Bangladeshi border\",\n \"title\": \"2001 Bangladesh–India border clashes\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"8229243\",\n \"text\": \"by military governor Rahimuddin Khan. All army action was ceased by 1978, and development and educational policies were refocused on to assuage the province. The conflict took the lives of 3,300 Pakistani troops, 5,300 Baloch, and thousands of civilians. This period forms a pivotal chapter in the longstanding Balochistan conflict, and is often cited as creating deep divisions between Balochistan and Islamabad that persist to the current day. The 1971 Indo-Pakistani War had ended with the defeat of Pakistan at the hands of India. East Pakistan declared itself to be independent. It became a new sovereign state called Bangladesh, to\",\n \"title\": \"1970s operation in Balochistan\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"3217238\",\n \"text\": \"of the subsequent deaths in the Siachen Conflict have been from natural disasters, e.g. avalanches in 2010, 2012 and 2016. Simla Agreement on Bilateral Relations between India and Pakistan signed by Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, and President of Pakistan, Z. A. Bhutto, in Simla on 2 July 1972. The Delhi Agreement on the Repatriation of War and Civilian Internees is a tripartite agreement among the aforementioned states, signed on 28 August 1973. The agreement was signed by Kamal Hossain, the Foreign Minister of the Government of Bangladesh, Sardar Swaran Singh, Minister of External Affairs of India and Aziz Ahmed, the\",\n \"title\": \"Simla Agreement\"\n }\n]","isConversational":false}}},{"rowIdx":281,"cells":{"query_id":{"kind":"string","value":"283"},"query":{"kind":"string","value":"which african american led the back to africa movement during the early 20th century"},"answers":{"kind":"list like","value":["Marcus Garvey"],"string":"[\n \"Marcus Garvey\"\n]","isConversational":false},"positive_passages":{"kind":"list like","value":[{"docid":"9279945","text":"the back-to-Africa movement of the 1920s, established by Marcus Garvey although there were earlier attempts at resettlement such as that by Chief Alfred Sam in 1913-15. 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Following a period of intense debate, the native and African populace of Jamaica were granted the right to vote; as the 19th century continued the government allowed some of them to hold public office. Despite these accomplishments, the white members of Jamaican colonial society continued to hold the real power. During the first half of the 20th century the most notable Black leader was Marcus Garvey, a labor leader and advocate of Black nationalism. Garvey, rather than advocating independence of Jamaica and other colonies, promoted the Back-to-Africa movement, which called for everyone of African descent to return to the\",\n \"title\": \"Independence of Jamaica\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"5147701\",\n \"text\": \"United States of Africa The United States of Africa is a proposed concept for a federation of some or all of the 55 sovereign states on the African continent. The concept takes its origin from Marcus Garvey's 1924 poem \\\"Hail, United States of Africa\\\".. The idea of a multinational unifying African state has been compared to various medieval African empires, including the Ethiopian Empire, the Ghana Empire, the Mali Empire, the Songhai Empire, the Benin Empire, the Kanem Empire, and other historic nation states. During the late 19th and early 20th century the majority of African land was controlled by\",\n \"title\": \"United States of Africa\"\n }\n]","isConversational":false},"negative_passages":{"kind":"list like","value":[{"docid":"9279932","text":"Back-to-Africa movement The Back-to-Africa movement, also known as the Colonization movement or After slave act, originated in the United States during the 19th century. It encouraged those of African descent to return to the African homelands of their ancestors. This movement would eventually inspire other movements, ranging from the Nation of Islam to the Rastafari movement and proved to be popular among African Americans. In the early 19th century, the black population in the United States increased dramatically. Many of these African Americans were freed people seeking opportunity. Many Southern freed blacks migrated to the industrial North to seek employment,","title":"Back-to-Africa movement"},{"docid":"6102442","text":"with Pan-Africanism which may seek the federation of several or all nation states in Africa. Nationalist ideas in Sub-Saharan Africa emerged during the mid-19th century among the emerging black middle classes in West Africa. Early nationalists hoped to overcome ethnic fragmentation by creating nation-states. In its earliest period, it was inspired by African-American and Afro-Caribbean intellectuals from the Back-to-Africa movement who imported nationalist ideals current in Europe and the Americas at the time. The early African nationalists were elitist and believed in the supremacy of Western culture but sought a greater role for themselves in political decision-making. They rejected African","title":"African nationalism"},{"docid":"7158870","text":"John G. Lake John Graham Lake (March 18, 1870 – September 16, 1935) was a Canadian-American leader in the Pentecostal movement that began in the early 20th century, and is known as a faith healer, missionary, and with Thomas Hezmalhalch, co-founder of the Apostolic Faith Mission of South Africa. Through his 1908–13 African missionary work, Lake played a decisive role in the spread of Pentecostalism in South Africa, the most successful southern African religious movement of the 20th century. After completing his missionary work in Africa, Lake evangelized for 20 years, primarily along the west coast of the United States","title":"John G. Lake"},{"docid":"8454932","text":"the mid-20th century, African theology as a theological field came into being. This movement began to protest against negative colonial and missionary interpretations of the religion and culture in Africa. Realizing that theology is a contextual phenomenon, African Christians began to read the bible using their own cultural lens, which of course resulted in some interpretations that did not always agree with how Western theology interpreted things. As such, African theology stands on the shoulders of the early African independent churches that broke away from missionary churches in the late 19th century or early 20th century. African theology is engaged","title":"African theology"},{"docid":"5653225","text":"film director, best known for her film \"From a Whisper,\" which was awarded Best Director, Best Screenplay, and Best Picture at the Africa Movie Academy Awards in 2009. Cinema of Africa African cinema is film production in Africa. It dates back to the early 20th century, when film reels were the primary cinematic technology in use. During the colonial era, African life was shown only by the work of white, colonial, Western filmmakers, who depicted blacks in a negative fashion, as exotic \"others\". There is no one single African cinema; there are differences between North African and Sub-Saharan cinema, and","title":"Cinema of Africa"},{"docid":"9279953","text":"tribes. It would take Americo-Liberians a century and more to become truly accepted as one of Liberia's ethnic groups(...). All of which certainly contributed to most Black Americans rejecting the Back-to-Africa option and opting instead for seeking equal rights in America.\" Ex-slave repatriation or the immigration of African-American, Caribbean, and Black British slaves to Africa occurred mainly during the late 18th century to mid-19th century. In the cases of Liberia and Sierra Leone both were established by former slaves who were repatriated to Africa within a 28-year period. The first attempt by the British government to settle people in Sierra","title":"Back-to-Africa movement"},{"docid":"20541635","text":"Scipio Vaughan Scipio Vaughan (1784 – 1840) was an African-American artisan and former slave who inspired a \"back to Africa\" movement among some of his offspring to connect with their roots in Africa, specifically, the Yoruba of West Africa in the early 19th century. After gaining his freedom, he spent the latter part of his life in the United States and started the movement with his immediate family members in his final moments. Several generations of Scipio's descendants are dispersed across three continents where they mostly live or lived, except for occasional cousin reunions, which includes Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Liberia,","title":"Scipio Vaughan"},{"docid":"9279957","text":"to his ancestral descent from the Mendes. Due to this, other members of the African diaspora that are also of Sierra Leonean descent can apply for citizenship as well if their descent is verified by a DNA test, as Mr. Washington's was. Back-to-Africa movement The Back-to-Africa movement, also known as the Colonization movement or After slave act, originated in the United States during the 19th century. It encouraged those of African descent to return to the African homelands of their ancestors. This movement would eventually inspire other movements, ranging from the Nation of Islam to the Rastafari movement and proved","title":"Back-to-Africa movement"},{"docid":"4046954","text":"peace, and the discourse of the state of black people in our current social structures. From its early origins in slave communities, through the end of the 20th century, African-American art has made a vital contribution to the art of the United States. During the period between the 17th century and the early 19th century, art took the form of small drums, quilts, wrought-iron figures, and ceramic vessels in the southern United States. These artifacts have similarities with comparable crafts in West and Central Africa. In contrast, African-American artisans like the New England–based engraver Scipio Moorhead and the Baltimore portrait","title":"African-American culture"},{"docid":"23346","text":"for whites. Forty percent of prison inmates are African-American. African Americans experience a higher rate of unemployment than the general population. African American males are more likely to be killed by police. This is one of the factors that led to the creation of the Black Lives Matter movement. African Americans have a long and diverse history of business ownership. Although the first African-American business is unknown, slaves captured from West Africa are believed to have established commercial enterprises as peddlers and skilled craftspeople as far back as the 17th century. Around 1900, Booker T. Washington became the most famous","title":"African Americans"},{"docid":"2879256","text":"Garland Encyclopedia of Music says, \"Fundamental to much of the musical mix (of Graceland) was the influence of the African-American jazz, introduced into South Africa by transnational record-distribution networks in the 1920s. Most South African jazz musicians could not read scores, so they developed their own jazz flavor, mixing american swing with african melodies. The dynamic blend of african-american structure and african style became the basis for early south african township jazz known as marabi.\" Marabi Marabi is a style of township music that evolved in South Africa over the last century. The early part of the 20th century saw","title":"Marabi"},{"docid":"16500431","text":"Swaziland which became independent from the United Kingdom in 1966-1968. Greater South Africa During the late 19th century and early 20th century, a number of South African and British political leaders advocated for a Greater South Africa. This irredentism can be regarded as an early form of Pan-Africanism, albeit strictly limited to White Africans of European ancestry. Statesman Jan Smuts repeatedly had called for South African expansion since 1895, envisioning a future South African border along the river Zambesi or even the equator. German South-West Africa, Southern Rhodesia, and at least the southern parts of Portuguese Mozambique (especially the port","title":"Greater South Africa"},{"docid":"5653206","text":"Cinema of Africa African cinema is film production in Africa. It dates back to the early 20th century, when film reels were the primary cinematic technology in use. During the colonial era, African life was shown only by the work of white, colonial, Western filmmakers, who depicted blacks in a negative fashion, as exotic \"others\". There is no one single African cinema; there are differences between North African and Sub-Saharan cinema, and between the cinemas of different countries. The cinema of Egypt is one of the oldest in the world. Auguste and Louis Lumière screened their films in Alexandria and","title":"Cinema of Africa"},{"docid":"13131266","text":"them being deported following the Bahia Malê Revolt in 1835); they constitute a minority ethnic group on the coastal regions of modern-day Ghana and Togo. Following the end of slavery in the Americas, numerous movements for African-American settlement in Africa sprung up and fluctuated in popularity, many of them involving Liberia. African-American abolitionist and Army officer Martin Delany supported a project for African-American immigration to Liberia later in his lifetime. However, it declined by the end of the 19th century following a string of hoaxes and fraudulent activities associated with the movement. The Back-to-Africa movement achieved popularity again with Jamaican","title":"African-American settlement in Africa"},{"docid":"8936862","text":"by early 20th-century African-American poet Paul Laurence Dunbar as epigraphs for each symphonic movement. Still composed the \"Afro-American Symphony\" over 3 months, during which he had no steady work. Sketches for the symphony, including a layout of its four movements, are found in a journal which Still was using to collect material for an opera called \"Rashana,\" which he never finished. In his journal, Still wrote: \"I seek in the 'Afro-American Symphony' to portray not the higher type of colored American, but the sons of the soil, who still retain so many of the traits peculiar to their African forebears;","title":"Symphony No. 1 \"Afro-American\""},{"docid":"13163734","text":"one of the main events which paved the road to the modern-day political relations. The development of modern-day relations has gone through two main periods. During the period of colonialism and liberation wars, political relations became stronger. At the wake of the Cold War, many African countries joined the non-aligned movement pioneered by Egypt, Ghana, India, Indonesia and Yugoslavia. During the years of decolonisation, India exerted considerable political and ideological influence in Africa as a role model and a leader of the Non-Aligned Movement. But India’s ability to develop a broader strategic role in Africa during the 20th century was","title":"Africa–India relations"},{"docid":"1459071","text":"late 19th and early 20th century varnish manufacturers in England and America were using it on train carriages, greatly swelling its demand. In 1859 Americans consumed 68 percent of the East African trade, which was controlled through the Sultan of Zanzibar, with Germany receiving 24 percent. The American Civil War and the creation of the Suez Canal led to Germany, India and Hong Kong taking the majority by the end of that century. East Africa apparently had a higher amount of subfossil copal, which is found one or two meters below living copal trees, from roots of trees that may","title":"Copal"},{"docid":"4890326","text":"African Blood Brotherhood The African Blood Brotherhood for African Liberation and Redemption (ABB) was a radical U.S. black liberation organization established in 1919 in New York City by journalist Cyril Briggs. The group was established as a propaganda organization built on the model of the secret society. The group's socialist orientation caught the attention of the fledgling American communist movement and the ABB soon evolved into a propaganda arm of the Communist Party of America. The group was terminated in the early 1920s. During the second decade of the 20th century, a socialist movement for the liberation of American blacks","title":"African Blood Brotherhood"},{"docid":"20541648","text":"22 states – along with their Nigerian cousins. From the daughters, who remained in the United States, the cousins have traced the eight main family lines - Barnes, Brevard, Bufford, Cauthen, McGriff, Peay, Truesdale and Vaughan. Scipio Vaughan Scipio Vaughan (1784 – 1840) was an African-American artisan and former slave who inspired a \"back to Africa\" movement among some of his offspring to connect with their roots in Africa, specifically, the Yoruba of West Africa in the early 19th century. After gaining his freedom, he spent the latter part of his life in the United States and started the movement","title":"Scipio Vaughan"},{"docid":"4046941","text":"musical forms entered American popular music. African-American artists such as William H. Johnson and Palmer Hayden created unique works of art featuring African Americans. The Harlem Renaissance was also a time of increased political involvement for African Americans. Among the notable African-American political movements founded in the early 20th century are the Universal Negro Improvement Association and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. The Nation of Islam, a notable quasi-Islamic religious movement, also began in the early 1930s. The Black Power movement of the 1960s and 1970s followed in the wake of the non-violent Civil Rights Movement.","title":"African-American culture"},{"docid":"1639691","text":"the African-American director and producer Oscar Micheaux. Following the Civil Rights Movement during the 20th century, interest in the works of Chesnutt was revived. Several of his books were published in new editions, and he received formal recognition. A commemorative stamp was printed in 2008. During the early 20th century in Cleveland, Chesnutt established what became a highly successful court reporting business, which provided his main income. He became active in the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, writing articles supporting education as well as legal challenges to discriminatory laws. Chesnutt was born in Cleveland, Ohio, to Andrew","title":"Charles W. Chesnutt"},{"docid":"4953868","text":"Beer in South Africa Beer in South Africa has a long history, with a corporate history dating back to the early 20th century. South African beer has had two main influences on its development. Firstly, European settlers who colonised the country brought expertise and know-how as the country was populated. Dutch immigrants from the 1650s onwards, and British, immigrants during the 19th and 20th centuries both contributed in different ways to the knowledge of alcohol production. Another important but often overlooked influence has been indigenous knowledge. Local breweries, operated by the black population, especially groups such as the Sotho, Zulu","title":"Beer in South Africa"},{"docid":"4046960","text":"as Phillis Wheatley and Olaudah Equiano. These authors reached early high points by telling slave narratives. During the early 20th century Harlem Renaissance, numerous authors and poets, such as Langston Hughes, W. E. B. Du Bois, and Booker T. Washington, grappled with how to respond to discrimination in America. Authors during the Civil Rights Movement, such as Richard Wright, James Baldwin, and Gwendolyn Brooks wrote about issues of racial segregation, oppression, and other aspects of African-American life. This tradition continues today with authors who have been accepted as an integral part of American literature, with works such as \"\" by","title":"African-American culture"},{"docid":"591193","text":"counties. Before that, the city had to get state bills approved in order to change its charter and for other policies and programs. Since 1963, it can change the charter by popular approval of the electorate. During the 1960s, the city was at the center of the Civil Rights Movement, as its large African-American population had been affected by state segregation practices and disenfranchisement in the early 20th century. African-American residents drew from the civil rights movement to improve their lives. In 1968, the Memphis sanitation strike began for living wages and better working conditions; the workers were overwhelmingly African","title":"Memphis, Tennessee"},{"docid":"20193439","text":"Berber separatism in North Africa Berber separatism in North Africa refers to a century-long independence struggle of ethnic Berber groups in the areas of modern Morocco, Algeria, Mali and Libya. The first chapter of this modern separatism was embodied in the Rif War, which led to the creation of short-lived Rif Republic (1920–1926). Despite the disintegration of this Berber state, the independence movement continued during the 20th century in Algeria and in 21st century was led by Tuareg tribes in Mali and Libya (the failed attempt to form the Azawad state within Mali in 2012 and \"de facto\" formation of","title":"Berber separatism in North Africa"},{"docid":"11424338","text":"mid-1960s Memphis had annexed Frayser, Tennessee on the north side of the Wolf River. It had also annexed Berclair, Tennessee and all of White Station on its eastern border, extending south-westward along Poplar Avenue, past the recently built freeway that is today designated I-240, and bordering on Germantown, Tennessee, Memphis' current eastern limit. During the 1960s, the city was a center of activity during the Civil Rights Movement, as its large African-American population had been affected by state segregation practices and disenfranchisement in the early 20th century. African-American residents drew from the civil rights movement to improve their lives. In","title":"History of Memphis, Tennessee"},{"docid":"5432159","text":"of Southern and Central Africa in the 20th century, but without the same social and political impact as in Nyasaland. In much of South Africa and Southern and North-Western Rhodesia, the growth of the money economy led rapidly to waged employment rather than labour in lieu of rent, and in North-Eastern Rhodesia estate agriculture was less dominant and land reasonably plentiful. In early Natal, the shortage of capital caused landowners to extract rent from African tenants in the forms of produce or labour, and this applied in Zululand until the early 20th century. However, in central Natal, employment for wages","title":"Thangata"},{"docid":"16500424","text":"Greater South Africa During the late 19th century and early 20th century, a number of South African and British political leaders advocated for a Greater South Africa. This irredentism can be regarded as an early form of Pan-Africanism, albeit strictly limited to White Africans of European ancestry. Statesman Jan Smuts repeatedly had called for South African expansion since 1895, envisioning a future South African border along the river Zambesi or even the equator. German South-West Africa, Southern Rhodesia, and at least the southern parts of Portuguese Mozambique (especially the port of Lourenço Marques in the Delagoa Bay) along with the","title":"Greater South Africa"},{"docid":"9279938","text":"The American Colonization Society (ACS) was an early advocate of the idea of resettling American-born blacks in Africa. Founded in 1816 by Charles Fenton Mercer, it was made up of two groups: \"philanthropists, clergy and abolitionists who wanted to free African slaves and their descendants and provide them with the opportunity to return to Africa. The other group was the slave owners who feared free people of color and wanted to expel them from America.\" Since its inception, the American Colonization Society struggled to garner support from within free black communities; however, during the late 1840s and early 1850s, the","title":"Back-to-Africa movement"},{"docid":"9279948","text":"in Liberia. Liberia gained independence on 26 July 1847. With an elected black government and the offer of free land to African American settlers, Liberia became the most common destination of emigrating African Americans during the 19th century. Once African Americans arrived in Liberia, they faced a whole host of challenges, which included broken family ties, high mortality rates, and a difficult adjustment period. A group of 43 African Americans from Christiansburg, Virginia, left for Liberia in 1830 and suffered high mortality rates. \"Eighty percent of the emigrants were dead within ten years of landing there, most of them victims","title":"Back-to-Africa movement"},{"docid":"8402804","text":"Quindaro, Kansas, thrived for some period before, during, and after the Exoduster movement. Similarly, in the early 20th century, black migrations to the American West and Southwest would continue, and several additional all-black towns would be established, especially in Indian Territory, which would become the state of Oklahoma. The impact of the Exoduster migration on subsequent white treatment of African Americans was mixed. On the one hand, the exodus did little to alleviate the national propensity for violence towards blacks. From the 1880s through the 1930s, the lynching of African Americans increased, and some 3,000 lynchings took place during that","title":"Exodusters"},{"docid":"18789146","text":"Civil Rights Movement. The Ahmadi Muslims offered the first multi-racial community experience for African American Muslims, which included elements of Indian culture and Pan-Africanism. Over the late 20th century, the Ahmadiyya influence on African American Islam subsided to a degree. The Community did not draw as many followers as it did in its early history. However, Ahmadi Muslims continued to be an influential force, educating numerous African Americans that passed through its ranks. Often working behind the scenes, the Community had a profound influence in the African American-Isam relations including the early development of the Nation of Islam, the Moorish","title":"Ahmadiyya in the United States"},{"docid":"17341754","text":"African-American history of agriculture in the United States The role of African Americans in the agricultural history of the United States is extremely important. Given that the majority of blacks were employed in agriculture in the United States, particularly during the 19th and early 20th century, represents a major part of their history and the economic progress of the nation. Plantation owners brought mass supplies of slaves from Africa and the Caribbean and Mexico to farm the fields during cotton harvests. Black women and children were also enslaved in the industry. The growth of Slavery in the United States is","title":"African-American history of agriculture in the United States"},{"docid":"850255","text":"between racial groups. In the early 20th century, to institutionalize racial segregation, most southern states adopted the \"one drop rule\", which defined and recorded anyone with any discernible African ancestry as black, even of obvious majority white or Native American ancestry. One of the results of this implementation was the loss of records of Native-identified groups, who were classified only as black because of being mixed race. See Emigration from Africa for a general treatment of voluntary population movements since the late 20th century. From the very onset of Spanish exploration and colonial activities in the Americas, Africans participated both","title":"African diaspora"},{"docid":"5835626","text":"Picasso's African Period Picasso's African Period, which was three years long, lasted from 1906 to 1909, was the period when Pablo Picasso painted in a style which was strongly influenced by African sculpture and particularly traditional African masks. This proto-Cubist period following Picasso's Blue Period and Rose Period has also been called the Negro Period, or Black Period. In the early 20th century, African artworks were being brought back to Paris museums in consequence of the expansion of the French empire into Sub-Saharan Africa. The press was abuzz with exaggerated stories of cannibalism and exotic tales about the African kingdom","title":"Picasso's African Period"},{"docid":"6094914","text":"featuring mostly 20th-century composers. The Baltimore Women's String Symphony Orchestra was led by Stephen Deak and Wolfgang Martin from 1936 to 1940, a time when women were barred from the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, though they were allowed in the Baltimore Colored Symphony Orchestra. In the early 20th century, Baltimore was home to several African American classically oriented music institutions which drew on a rich tradition of symphonic music, chamber concerts, oratorios, documented in large part by the \"Baltimore Afro-American\", a local periodical. Inspired by A. Jack Thomas, who had been appointed conductor of the city's municipally supported African American performance","title":"Music of Baltimore"},{"docid":"5835629","text":"St. Petersburg). Picasso's African Period Picasso's African Period, which was three years long, lasted from 1906 to 1909, was the period when Pablo Picasso painted in a style which was strongly influenced by African sculpture and particularly traditional African masks. This proto-Cubist period following Picasso's Blue Period and Rose Period has also been called the Negro Period, or Black Period. In the early 20th century, African artworks were being brought back to Paris museums in consequence of the expansion of the French empire into Sub-Saharan Africa. The press was abuzz with exaggerated stories of cannibalism and exotic tales about the","title":"Picasso's African Period"},{"docid":"9832981","text":"Military history of Ethiopia The military history of Ethiopia dates back to the foundation of early Ethiopian Kingdoms in 980 BC. Ethiopia has been involved many of the major conflicts in the horn of Africa, and was the only native African nation which remained independent after the Scramble for Africa, managing to create a modern army. 19th and 20th century Ethiopian Military history is characterized by conflicts between Ethiopia and Italy, which repeatedly attempted to annex the mineral rich nation, and unite its East African holdings. From 1895 to 1896, the First Italian-Abyssinian War was fought between the Kingdom of","title":"Military history of Ethiopia"},{"docid":"9832995","text":"troops, and all Ethiopian forces had left the country by January 15, 2009. Military history of Ethiopia The military history of Ethiopia dates back to the foundation of early Ethiopian Kingdoms in 980 BC. Ethiopia has been involved many of the major conflicts in the horn of Africa, and was the only native African nation which remained independent after the Scramble for Africa, managing to create a modern army. 19th and 20th century Ethiopian Military history is characterized by conflicts between Ethiopia and Italy, which repeatedly attempted to annex the mineral rich nation, and unite its East African holdings. From","title":"Military history of Ethiopia"},{"docid":"16597239","text":"perspective, during the early 1960s trade between these two large parts of the world were in the mere hundreds of millions of dollars back then. Europe dominated African trade during these formative years of European decolonization process in the African continent. Even as early as the 1980s, trade between China and Africa was minuscule. Trade between China and Africa largely grew exponentially following China's joining of the World Trade Organization (WTO) and the opening up of China to emigration (of Chinese people to Africa) and the free movement of companies, peoples, and products both to and from the African continent","title":"Africa–China economic relations"},{"docid":"1155107","text":"As early as 1890, Syrian and Lebanese immigrants also arrived in Paterson. In addition to many African Americans of Southern heritage, more recent immigrants have come from the Caribbean and Africa. Paterson's black population increased during the Great Migration of the 20th century, but there have been Patersonians of African descent since before the Civil War. However, Paterson's black population declined between the years 2000 and 2010, consistent with the overall return migration of African Americans from Northern New Jersey back to the Southern United States. A house once existing at Bridge Street and Broadway was a station on the","title":"Paterson, New Jersey"},{"docid":"9432511","text":"1928 for a new school for African-American children. The school was to be named after Frederick Douglass, the great orator, journalist and abolishionist during the anti-slavery movement of the 19th century and was built at the corner of Center Street and East Sevier Avenue. The school built in 1928 was an historic Rosenwald School, funded partially by the Rosenwald Foundation. Julius Rosenwald was an industrialist from Chicago, the first CEO of Sears, Roebuck and Company. He established a foundation to fund the construction of hundreds of school buildings for African-American children in the early 20th century, and residents in the","title":"Douglass High School (Kingsport, Tennessee)"},{"docid":"20193448","text":"Demonstrators proclaimed “We are all Zefzafi” and waved Berber flags, with around 40 people arrested. By 30 May, the number of arrested protesters reached 70. Berber separatism in North Africa Berber separatism in North Africa refers to a century-long independence struggle of ethnic Berber groups in the areas of modern Morocco, Algeria, Mali and Libya. The first chapter of this modern separatism was embodied in the Rif War, which led to the creation of short-lived Rif Republic (1920–1926). Despite the disintegration of this Berber state, the independence movement continued during the 20th century in Algeria and in 21st century was","title":"Berber separatism in North Africa"},{"docid":"18789137","text":"Ahmadi Muslim ideal of an American society. Consequently, the American Ahmadi missionary activity shifted more towards the African American populations. In 1950, the American Ahmadiyya movement shifted their headquarters to Washington, D.C., and established the American Fazl Mosque which served as the headquarters for over four decades, until the early 1990s. The 1950s was an era when many African American musicians were introduced to Islam and thrived as members of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community. Over the late 20th century, the Ahmadiyya influence on African American Islam subsided to a degree. The Community did not draw as many followers as it","title":"Ahmadiyya in the United States"},{"docid":"4021529","text":"early 20th century, the view of slavery as a negative influence on Africa prevailed among professional academic historians in Europe and the United States. During the decolonization period following World War II, an influential group of scholars, led by J.D. Fage, argued that the negative effects of slavery had been exaggerated, and that the export of slaves had been offset by population growth. Walter Rodney, a specialist on the Upper Guinea Coast, countered that European demand for slaves had vastly increased the economic importance of the slave trade in West Africa, with catastrophic effects. Rodney, who was active in Pan-African","title":"Economic history of Africa"},{"docid":"2385593","text":"of peoples across western and sub-Saharan Africa. These musical forms had a wide-ranging influence on the development of music within the United States and around the world during the 20th century. The modern genres of blues and ragtime were developed during the late 19th century by fusing West African vocalizations - which employed the natural harmonic series, and blue notes. The earliest jazz and blues recordings were made in the 1920s. African-American musicians developed related styles such as Rhythm and Blues in the 1940s. In the 1960s, soul performers had a major influence on white US and UK singers. In","title":"African-American music"},{"docid":"13472417","text":"United Africa Company The United Africa Company (UAC) was a British company which principally traded in West Africa during the 20th century. The United Africa Company was formed in 1929 as a result of the merger of The Niger Company, which had been effectively owned by Lever Brothers since 1920, and the African & Eastern Trade Corporation. In the early 1930s the United Africa Company was nearly reduced to bankruptcy and as a result it came under the control of Unilever which had just been formed. Unilever had only been created from the merger of Lever Brothers and the Dutch","title":"United Africa Company"},{"docid":"11905412","text":"African Political Organization The African Political Organization, later known as the African People's Organization (APO), was a coloured political organisation in early-20th-century South Africa. Founded in Cape Town in 1902, the organisation rallied South African coloureds against the South Africa Act 1909. Trafalgar High School was created as a direct result of criticism of the Cape School Board in the APO newspaper in August 1911. Investigations found that the board had created no benefit at all for students who were non-white. Abdullah Abdurahman lobbied the board and the first school for coloured children was created. The school was led by","title":"African Political Organization"},{"docid":"14593322","text":"Raymond V. Haysbert Raymond V. Haysbert Sr. (January 19, 1920 – May 24, 2010) was a prominent African-American business executive and civil rights leader during the second half of the 20th century in Baltimore, Maryland. During World War II, he served in Africa and Italy with the renowned Tuskegee Airmen. Haysbert joined Baltimore-based Parks Sausage Company in 1952, becoming CEO as it grew into one of the largest black-owned U.S. businesses. In later years, he was active in politics and the American civil rights movement. Haysbert was chairman of the Greater Baltimore Urban League when he died at age 90","title":"Raymond V. Haysbert"},{"docid":"1357960","text":"Calypso music Calypso is a style of Afro-Caribbean music that originated in Trinidad and Tobago during the early to mid-19th century and eventually spread to the rest of the Caribbean Antilles and Venezuela by the mid-20th century. Its rhythms can be traced back to West African Kaiso and the arrival of French planters and their slaves from the French Antilles in the 18th century. Calypso drew upon African and French influences, and became the voice of the people. It was characterized by highly rhythmic and harmonic vocals, and was most often sung in a French creole and led by a","title":"Calypso music"},{"docid":"11604196","text":"Martin Delany (1812 – 1885), arguably the first proponent of American black nationalism and the first African-American field officer in the United States Army during the American Civil War. However, between 1822 and the second half of the 19th century, with the abolition of slavery in the United States, many slaves (probably of different African origins) returned to Africa, settling in West Africa and founding Liberia (integrating regions populated already since before of arrived of Afro American). Thus, the Liberian migration in the United States not touched again until the 20th century. In this moment, the first Liberians that came","title":"Liberian Americans"},{"docid":"18144841","text":"Herbert Adams Gibbons Herbert Adams Gibbons (April 8, 1880 – August 7, 1934) was an American journalist who wrote about international politics and European colonialism during the early 20th century. He is best known for his books, \"The New Map of Asia\", \"The New Map of Africa\", and \"The New Map of Europe\". He is also known for his seminal study, \"The Foundation of the Ottoman Empire\", which he wrote in Istanbul during the early 20th century. Between 1908 and 1934, Gibbons was a foreign correspondent for several large New York newspapers. He was stationed in Greece, Spain, Turkey, Africa","title":"Herbert Adams Gibbons"},{"docid":"9279942","text":"interested in African colonization.\" With the help of some Quakers in Philadelphia he was able to transport 38 blacks to Freetown, Sierra Leone, in 1815. The back-to-Africa movement began to decline but revived again in 1877 at the end of the Reconstruction era as many blacks in the South faced violence from groups such as the Ku Klux Klan. Interest among the South's black population in African emigration peaked during the 1890s, a time when racism reached its peak and the greatest number of lynchings in American history took place. The continued experience of segregation and discrimination of African Americans","title":"Back-to-Africa movement"},{"docid":"8038959","text":"Biographer Meyers sees the story as a blend of American primitivism and sophistication; Nick evidences a sense of loss which is \"not simply grace under pressure—but under siege\". Nature is perceived as good and civilization as bad—a pervasive theme in American literature, found in such American classics as Mark Twain's 19th-century \"Huckleberry Finn\" and in William Faulkner's 20th-century \"Go Down, Moses\". According to Hemingway scholar Susan Beegel, Hemingway is fundamentally an American nature writer. She attributes it to his upbringing: his mother, Grace Hemingway, believed avidly in the early 20th-century \"back to nature\" movement, and his father was a physician","title":"Big Two-Hearted River"},{"docid":"5543766","text":"although recent investigations suggest that the number of black deaths could be considerably higher. Black literacy levels, which rose during Reconstruction, continued to increase through this period. The NAACP was established in 1909, and by 1920 the group won a few important anti-discrimination lawsuits. African Americans, such as Du Bois and Wells-Barnett, continued the tradition of advocacy, organizing, and journalism which helped spur abolitionism, and also developed new tactics that helped to spur the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 1960s. The Harlem Renaissance and the popularity of jazz music during the early part of the 20th century made","title":"Nadir of American race relations"},{"docid":"18967801","text":"pervasive homophobia led both conservative and liberal politicians to endorse policies to remove homosexuals from administrative and military positions within the American government. The same fears led to ideological divisions within early homophile movement organizations such as the Mattachine Society. Mid-20th century homophile activists who pursued civil rights for gays and lesbians in the United States were primarily informed by Marxist political ideology and had ties to the American Communist Party. During an era dominated by anti-communist rhetoric, governmental, and social ideological policing, homophile movement organizations experienced pressure to deny communist affiliations. For the Mattachine Society, the divisions publicly erupted","title":"LGBT conservatism in the United States"},{"docid":"5955004","text":"of the former Confederacy passed statutes and amendments to their state constitutions that effectively disenfranchised most African Americans and tens of thousands of poor whites. They did this through devices such as poll taxes and literacy tests. In the 1890s the South split bitterly, with poor cotton farmers moving to the Populist movement. In coalition with the remaining Republicans, the Populists briefly controlled Alabama and North Carolina. The local elites, townspeople, and landowners fought back, regaining control of the Democratic party by 1898. During the 20th century, civil rights of African Americans became a central issue. Before 1964 African American","title":"Politics of the Southern United States"},{"docid":"12034609","text":"Anti-tobacco movement in Nazi Germany In the early 20th century, German researchers made advances in linking smoking to health harms, which strengthened the anti-tobacco movement in the Weimar Republic and led to a state-supported anti-smoking campaign. Early anti-tobacco movements grew in many nations from the middle of the 19th century. The 1933–1945 anti-tobacco campaigns in Nazi Germany have been widely publicized, although stronger laws than those passed in Germany were passed in some American states, the UK, and elsewhere between 1890 and 1930. After 1941, anti-tobacco campaigns were restricted by the Nazi government. The German movement was the most powerful","title":"Anti-tobacco movement in Nazi Germany"},{"docid":"6586664","text":"work force. The migration expanded the market for African American business. \"The most notable breakthrough in black business came in the insurance field.\" There were four major insurance companies founded in Chicago. Then, in the early 20th century, service establishments took over. The African-American market on State Street during this time consisted of barber shops, restaurants, pool rooms, saloons, and beauty salons. African Americans used these trades to build their own communities. These shops gave the blacks a chance to establish their families, earn money, and become an active part of the community. In the early 20th century many prominent","title":"History of African Americans in Chicago"},{"docid":"8790379","text":"African Resistance Movement The African Resistance Movement (ARM) was a militant anti-apartheid resistance movement, which operated in South Africa during the early and mid-1960s. It was founded in 1960, as the National Committee of Liberation (NCL), by members of South Africa’s Liberal Party, which advocated for the dismantling of apartheid and gradually transforming South Africa into a free multiracial society. It was renamed \"African Resistance Movement\" in 1964. Immediately after the 1960 Sharpeville Massacre, the apartheid government imposed a state of emergency, which allowed it to apply a broad range of sanctions against its political opponents, such as detention without","title":"African Resistance Movement"},{"docid":"19980817","text":"for reelection and emigrated to South Africa shortly after. In 1985, Cronjé left Zimbabwe and emigrated to South Africa, where he became involved in the Afrikaner volkstaat movement, which proposed a separate state with self-determination for the Afrikaner population in South Africa. He relocated to Bophuthatswana, a bantustan which the South African government made independent in 1977 and which was led by President Lucas Mangope. During the transition away from apartheid in South in the early 1990s, the Mangope administration in Bophuthatswana allied itself with Afrikaner nationalists, as they both shared the common goal of a future South Africa of","title":"Rowan Cronjé"},{"docid":"1621496","text":"convention that dancers must be thin and young. Their belief, put into action in their hiring practices and performances, is that graceful, exciting movement is not restricted by age or body type. African American contributions to modern dance were substantial, they included \"pure\" modern dance works or blended modern dance with African American vernacular dance, African dance and Caribbean influences. Modern dance in the United States Closely related to the development of American music in the early 20th century was the emergence of a new, and distinctively American, art form -- modern dance. Among the early innovators was Isadora Duncan","title":"Modern dance in the United States"},{"docid":"20144139","text":"and rhythm and blues.The Fisk Jubilee Singers were a mixed group who became popular throughout the world for singing traditional spirituals and touring both the United States and England. Sexist attitudes during the early 20th century made it difficult for African-American women to have a strong presence in mainstream music but despite this, many were still extremely influential in the genres of blues, jazz, and R&B. The return of African American soldiers from World War I and the movement North of the Great Migration, both contributed to Harlem's rise as a hive of cultural and artistic activity known as the","title":"Black women in the music industry"},{"docid":"11334352","text":"simple, direct, joyous, and infectious tune enhanced onstage by improvisational dancing. In 1948 Harry S. Truman selected \"I'm Just Wild About Harry\" as his campaign song for the United States presidential election of 1948. Its success in politics led to a popular revival. Both \"I'm Just Wild About Harry\" and the show \"Shuffle Along\" broke racial taboos. During the early 20th century African-Americans were excluded from most mainstream theater in the United States: white Vaudeville refused to book more than one African-American act on a bill and for over a decade no Broadway show used African-American performers at all. Blake","title":"I'm Just Wild About Harry"},{"docid":"4046947","text":"of the blackface minstrel show, African-American music entered mainstream American society. By the early 20th century, several musical forms with origins in the African-American community had transformed American popular music. Aided by the technological innovations of radio and phonograph records, ragtime, jazz, blues, and swing also became popular overseas, and the 1920s became known as the Jazz Age. The early 20th century also saw the creation of the first African-American Broadway shows, films such as King Vidor's \"Hallelujah!\", and operas such as George Gershwin's \"Porgy and Bess\". Rock and roll, doo wop, soul, and R&B developed in the mid-20th century.","title":"African-American culture"},{"docid":"5817046","text":"births]] [[Category:1991 deaths]] [[Category:American women journalists]] [[Category:African-American journalists]] [[Category:20th-century American journalists]] [[Category:Bandung Conference attendees]] [[Category:Delta Sigma Theta members]] [[Category:African-American women journalists]] [[Category:20th-century American non-fiction writers]] [[Category:20th-century American women writers]] Ethel L. Payne Ethel Lois Payne (August 14, 1911 – May 28, 1991) was an African-American journalist. Known as the \"First Lady of the Black Press\", she was a columnist, lecturer, and [[Freelancer|freelance]] writer. She combined advocacy with journalism as she reported on the [[Civil Rights Movement]] during the 1950s and 1960s, and was known for asking questions others dared not ask. First published in \"[[The Chicago Defender]]\" in 1950, she","title":"Ethel L. Payne"},{"docid":"7748938","text":"ancestry in Cuba is 72% European, 20% African, and 8% Indigenous. Around 35% of maternal lineages derive from Cuban Indigenous People, compared to 39% from Africa and 26% from Europe, but male lineages were European (82%) and African (18%), indicating a historical bias towards mating between foreign men and native women rather than the inverse. Asians make up about 1% of the population, and are largely of Chinese ancestry, followed by Japanese. Many are descendants of farm laborers brought to the island by Spanish and American contractors during the 19th and early 20th century. The current recorded number of Cubans","title":"Cuba"},{"docid":"14971530","text":"during the Second Industrial Revolution of the late 19th century, and continuing development and urbanization during the early 20th century before World War I. 'American Movements' is a broader design and art movement phrase used in the visual arts of the United States. It refers to U.S. centric art and design movements that originated during any century of the country's history. Bungalow/Craftsman is a term commonly appearing in NRHP listings, which reflects American Craftsman and Bungalow styles. American Craftsman is often a term used for the Arts and Crafts movement works and philosophy expressed in the United States. It can","title":"National Register of Historic Places architectural style categories"},{"docid":"9279956","text":"freed slaves from the United States strengthened the institution of slavery. The repatriation of slaves to Africa from the United Kingdom, and its dependencies, was initiated by the Committee for the Relief of the Black Poor, and was later on taken up by the Sierra Leone Company. In time, African American Black Loyalists and West Indians would immigrate to the colony of Freetown, Sierra Leone, in smaller numbers in efforts led by black merchants or beneficiaries such as Paul Cuffe. More recently the African-American actor Isaiah Washington, a titled chief of the Mende people, has received Sierra Leonean citizenship due","title":"Back-to-Africa movement"},{"docid":"1391730","text":"they were calling the church back to a closer Biblical picture of Christianity, in which the gifts of the Spirit would be restored to the Church. The Jesus movement left a legacy of various denominations and other Christian organizations, and influenced both the development of the contemporary Christian right and the Christian left. Jesus music, which grew out of the movement, helped influence and create various musical subgenres under the late 20th and early 21st century contemporary Christian music, such as Jesus Culture and Hillsong in America and the UK. This also led to new instruments such as the guitar","title":"Jesus movement"},{"docid":"14208579","text":"Linconia Linconia was the name of a proposed Central American colony suggested by United States Senator Samuel Pomeroy of Kansas in 1862, after U.S. President Abraham Lincoln asked the Senator and United States Secretary of the Interior Caleb Smith to work on a plan to resettle African Americans from the United States. Since his early political career, Abraham Lincoln supported the American Colonization Society, a group which spawned in the early 19th century to return former African American slaves back to the continent of Africa. They helped to establish the colony of Liberia in 1821. Similarly to Linconia, the name","title":"Linconia"},{"docid":"4189125","text":"which are: Islam in Italy Muslim presence in Italy dates back to the 9th century, when Sicily came under control of the Abbasid Caliphate. There was a large Muslim presence in Italy from 827 (the first occupation of Mazara) until the 12th century. The Norman conquest of Sicily led to a gradual decline of Islam, due to conversions and emigration of Muslims toward Northern Africa. A small Muslim community however survived at least until 1300 (the destruction of the Muslim settlement of Lucera). Thereafter, until the 20th century, Islam was virtually non-existent in Italy. During the 20th century, the first","title":"Islam in Italy"},{"docid":"9398307","text":"Photo-Secession The Photo-Secession was an early 20th century movement that promoted photography as a fine art in general and photographic pictorialism in particular. A group of photographers, led by Alfred Stieglitz and F. Holland Day in the early 20th century, held the then controversial viewpoint that what was significant about a photograph was not what was in front of the camera but the manipulation of the image by the artist/photographer to achieve his or her subjective vision. The movement helped to raise standards and awareness of art photography. The group is the American counterpart to the Linked Ring, an invitation-only","title":"Photo-Secession"},{"docid":"19154695","text":"both in Sokoto and Masina, as were reasonably strong armed forces. The leaders and teachings offthe Caliphates were largely supported and enjoyed legitimacy in their rule. The spread of Islamic teachings spread across law, politics and daily life and resulted in the Muslim population growing. The obvious failure was that although they delayed it, they were unable to stop the European colonization of Africa and by the early 20th century most of the Islamic societies had been colonized by the British, French or Germans. West African jihads The jihad reforms that occurred across Africa during the 19th century had certain","title":"West African jihads"},{"docid":"5019836","text":"was slow up until the mid-20th century. By 1977, 54 African countries had seceded from European colonial rulers. During the world wars, African soldiers were conscripted into imperial militaries. This led to a deeper political awareness and the expectation of greater respect and self-determination, which was left largely unfulfilled. During the 1941 Atlantic Conference, the British and the US leaders met to discuss ideas for the post-war world. One of the provisions added by President Roosevelt was that all people had the right to self-determination, inspiring hope in British colonies. On February 12, 1941, United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt","title":"Decolonisation of Africa"},{"docid":"6997518","text":"became known as the \"Mad Fiddler from Philly\". Others included Stan Getz, Jimmy Amadie, Robert Chudnick and Jan Savitt, who, with his band the Top Hatters, toured with George Tunnell, one of the first African American singers in the city to consistently sing with a major white band. The city's early 20th century mainstream dance scene was led by the bandleader Howard Lanin, whose band performed popular showtunes, waltzes and light jazz. Philadelphia's African American population grew greatly as a result of immigration from the south during World War 2, when future luminaries like the Heath Brothers, Dizzy Gillespie and","title":"Music of Philadelphia"},{"docid":"9279936","text":"country.\" Similarly, black leaders, such as James Forten, who had previously supported the Colonization Movement, changed their minds as a result of widespread black resistance to the idea. Following the Great Awakening, during which America was swept by a wave of religious fervor causing many enslaved African Americans to convert to Christianity, many religious people in America struggled with reconciling slavery with their beliefs. When the enslaved population of America was mostly Muslim or practiced indigenous African religions, it was easy for them to justify slavery on Christian evangelical grounds, but in the 19th century, many religious Americans found it","title":"Back-to-Africa movement"},{"docid":"1114178","text":"African American, was elected to the Minnesota House of Representatives representing District 42, which included all of Edina. Wheaton beat his white Democratic opponent in every Minneapolis city ward and in every village within the legislative district, including Edina, even though the legislative district had only approximately 100 African American residents out of a total of 40,000 residents. In the early 20th century suburban development brought discriminatory policies that led to nearly all of the African Americans who had been living in Edina to move away. Jewish residents were also affected by exclusionary deed covenants. In the 1960s, some residents","title":"Edina, Minnesota"},{"docid":"11422851","text":"Bata LoBagola Bata Kindai Amgoza ibn LoBagola (1877–1947) was an early 20th-century American impostor and entertainer who presented an exoticized identity as a native of Africa, when in reality he was born Joseph Howard Lee in Baltimore, Maryland. Despite an impoverished start in life and a lack of education, and a series of scandalous arrests related to homosexual activities, mainly involving underage individuals, LoBagola maintained a long and colorful career posing as an African \"savage\", during which he delivered lectures to many institutions and conducted public debates. LoBagola published some articles in \"Scribner's Magazine\" in 1929 and the publishers A.A.","title":"Bata LoBagola"},{"docid":"4077828","text":"dung left at the encampments. By 1850, however, the species had disappeared from Egypt both as a breeding and migrant population, with the last, albeit questionable, sighting in 1864. The species didn't breed in southern Africa before the beginning of the 20th century, but it has benefited from irrigation, dams, and commercial agricultural practices such as dung heaps, carrion and refuse tips. It began to breed in the early 20th century, and in the 1970s the first colonies of ibises were recorded in Zimbabwe and South Africa. Its population for example expanded 2-3-fold during the period between 1972-1995 in Orange","title":"African sacred ibis"},{"docid":"918875","text":"stitches made by home sewing machines, and the use of Western clothing patterns, led to a movement towards wearing Western-style clothing during the early 20th century. Western sewing and clothing styles were disseminated in sub-Saharan Africa by Christian missionaries from the 1830s onward. Indigenous cultures, such as the Zulu and Tswana, were indoctrinated in the Western way of dress as a sign of conversion to Christianity. First Western hand sewing techniques, and later machine sewing, spread throughout the regions where the European colonists settled. However, a recent examination of new online learning methods demonstrated that technology can be adapted to","title":"Sewing"},{"docid":"4059434","text":"ideals. Under Wilbur Glenn Voliva, Dowie's successor, the church was noted for its adherence to a flat earth cosmology. The succession of pastors after Voliva moved the church back to mainstream Protestant doctrine. In the early 20th century, the Christian Catholic Church had worldwide appeal. The church's magazine, \"The Leaves of Healing\", was distributed in the U.S., Australia, Europe, and southern Africa. At its height, Dowie's movement had some 20,000 adherents. The Zionist Churches of southern Africa trace their spiritual heritage back to Dowie and the Christian Catholic Church. Because of Dowie's emphasis on faith healing and restorationism the church","title":"Christ Community Church"},{"docid":"4959688","text":"east of Rock Creek Park. Large sections of the central city remained blighted for decades. By contrast, areas west of the Park, including virtually the entire portion of the District between the Georgetown and Chevy Chase neighborhoods (the latter of which spills into neighboring Chevy Chase, Maryland), contain some of the nation's most affluent and notable neighborhoods. During the early 20th century, the U Street Corridor served as an important center for African American culture in DC. The Washington Metro opened in 1976. A rising economy and gentrification in the late 1990s and early 2000s led to revitalization of many","title":"History of Washington, D.C."},{"docid":"3563922","text":"Spain. Finally, for [[Leopold II of Belgium|King Leopold]] (ruled from 1865 to 1909), there was the large “piece of that great African cake” known as the [[Belgian Congo|Congo]], which became his personal fiefdom. By 1914, almost the entire continent was under European control. [[Liberia]], which was settled by freed American slaves in the 1820s, and Abyssinia ([[Ethiopia]]) in eastern Africa were the last remaining independent African states. [[File:View of Kobe LACMA M.91.377.8.jpg|left|thumb|Kobe Japan and its harbor, 1865. Hand colored.]] Around the end of the 19th century and into the 20th century, the [[Meiji era]] occurred during the reign of the","title":"Modern history"},{"docid":"579393","text":"Arabic, 0.85% (19,388) various Indic languages, 0.70% (15,936) Urdu, and African languages were spoken as a main language by 0.54% (12,305) of the population over the age of five. In total, 45.88% (1,051,456) of Brooklyn's population ages 5 and older spoke a mother language other than English. Brooklyn's neighborhoods are dynamic in ethnic composition. For example, during the early to mid-20th century, Brownsville had a majority of Jewish residents; since the 1970s it has been majority African American. Midwood during the early 20th century was filled with ethnic Irish, then filled with Jewish residents for nearly 50 years, and is","title":"Brooklyn"},{"docid":"16985866","text":"soon set up state Baptist associations, aided by churches in the Midwest, and eventually the National Baptist Convention (which split in the 20th century). The \"white\" Canaan Baptist church also still operates in Bessemer as part of the Southern Baptist Convention. Canaan Baptist Church in Bessemer was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005 for its role as a locally significant property and key strategy center in the city during the Civil Rights Movement in the Birmingham area from the early to mid-1960s. The African-American congregation of Canaan Baptist has occupied this lot in downtown Bessemer since","title":"Canaan Baptist Church (Bessemer, Alabama)"},{"docid":"1128860","text":"Natural History and Culture, University of East Tennessee began conducting surveys in 1995 to explore African-American life and culture from the slavery period through emancipation and into the early 20th century. He has led teams in excavating several households, a schoolhouse, a church, and a Masonic Lodge that were part of Arrow Rock's African-American community. Dr. Baumann confirmed that the Masonic Lodge had been built over the site of the Caldwell Pottery Works, the third largest pottery works in Missouri during the 1850s and 1860s. Remains of a beehive kiln, outbuildings and thousands of shards of pottery and testing clay","title":"Arrow Rock, Missouri"},{"docid":"33995","text":"back to the music of Africa. That blue notes predate their use in blues and have an African origin is attested to by \"A Negro Love Song\", by the English composer Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, from his \"African Suite for Piano\", written in 1898, which contains blue third and seventh notes. The Diddley bow (a homemade one-stringed instrument found in parts of the American South in the early twentieth century) and the banjo are African-derived instruments that may have helped in the transfer of African performance techniques into the early blues instrumental vocabulary. The banjo seems to be directly imported from West","title":"Blues"},{"docid":"18422728","text":"political movement, anti-imperialism originated in Europe in the late 19th and early 20th centuries in opposition to the growing European colonial empires and the United States control of the Philippines after 1898. However, it reached its highest level of popular support in the colonies themselves, where it formed the basis for a wide variety of national liberation movements during the mid-20th century and later. These movements, and their anti-imperialist ideas, were instrumental in the decolonization process of the 1950s and 1960s, which saw most European colonies in Asia and Africa achieving their independence. An early use of the term \"anti-imperialist\"","title":"Anti-imperialism"},{"docid":"9873926","text":"terrified the population of African Americans in the community and effectively segregated them from the rest of the city, the civil rights movement in Omaha did not gain large-scale momentum until the 1920s. With early 20th century growth in the number of African American migrants recruited by the meatpacking industry, the population doubled from 1910 to 1920. Some groups in the city resisted such changes. Some public places discriminated against African Americans, although segregation was not legal. Up to the 1940s and 1950s, many of the city's restaurants were effectively segregated, with signs that stated, \"We Don't Serve Any Colored","title":"Civil rights movement in Omaha, Nebraska"},{"docid":"1206556","text":"burgeoning Civil Rights Movement in the early 20th century, notably under the leadership of A. Philip Randolph. Because they moved about the country, Pullman porters also became an important means of communication for news and cultural information of all kinds. The African-American newspaper, the \"Chicago Defender\", gained a national circulation in this way. Porters also used to re-sell phonograph records bought in the great metropolitan centres, greatly adding to the distribution of jazz and blues and the popularity of the artists. From the 19th to the mid-20th century, the most common type of sleeping car accommodation on North American trains","title":"Sleeping car"},{"docid":"2420543","text":"the factions began after Washington died in 1915. The NAACP went on to become the leading African-American civil rights organization of the 20th century. Niagara Movement The Niagara Movement was a black civil rights organization founded in 1905 by a group led by W. E. B. Du Bois and William Monroe Trotter. It was named for the \"mighty current\" of change the group wanted to effect and Niagara Falls, near Fort Erie, Ontario, was where the first meeting took place in July 1905. The Niagara Movement was a call for opposition to racial segregation and disenfranchisement, and it was opposed","title":"Niagara Movement"},{"docid":"4149756","text":"include the nativist United States American Party, often called the Know Nothing movement of the mid-19th century, which objected to increased Catholic immigration of predominantly Irish and German origin; the Immigration Restriction League, which objected to greatly increased immigration from southern and eastern Europe during the late-19th and early 20th centuries, and the joint congressional Dillingham Commission, which studied this latter complaint and proposed numerical restrictions. Eventually, following World War I, these studies led to the Emergency Quota Act of 1921 and the Immigration Act of 1924. Organized labor and parts of the political left have also had an ongoing","title":"Immigration reduction in the United States"},{"docid":"4877287","text":"its philosophy solidified and its influence quickly grew and by around the start of the 20th century the SLP was the foremost American socialist party. Bringing to light the resemblance of the American party's politics to those of Lassalle, Daniel De Leon emerged as an early leader of the Socialist Labor Party. He also adamantly supported unions, but criticized the collective bargaining movement within the United States at the time, favoring a slightly different approach. The resulting disagreement between De Leon's supporters and detractors within the party led to an early schism. De Leon's opponents, led by Morris Hillquit, left","title":"History of the socialist movement in the United States"},{"docid":"4404002","text":"Keep Left (South Africa) Keep Left is a small Trotskyist group in South Africa which is affiliated to the International Socialist Tendency led by the Socialist Workers Party of Britain. The roots of the group go back to around 1987, and it has previously been called the International Socialists of South Africa (ISSA) and the Socialist Workers Organisation (SWO). ISSA attempted unite all South African groups in the International Socialist Tendency current, but the Keep Left tradition and the International Socialist Movement (South Africa) have tended to remain separate. Keep Left joined the South African Communist Party in the late","title":"Keep Left (South Africa)"},{"docid":"20581720","text":"became interested in film, which became a focus of her second book project: \"Hollywood Be Thy Name: African American Religion in American Film, 1929-1949.\" In 2017, Weisenfeld published her third book, \"New World A-Coming: Black Religion and Racial Identity during the Great Migration\". The book develops a \"comprehensive study of the formation of early 20th-century black religious movements\", incorporating into her analysis religious practices outside the Christian tradition that has traditionally been the focus of such scholarship. Weisenfeld taught at Barnard from 1991 until 2000, then Vassar College, where she earned tenure and chaired the Religion Department and led the","title":"Judith Weisenfeld"},{"docid":"1647101","text":"in South African music. In the late 19th century gold was discovered in Johannesburg, and people from different tribes began to migrate to the Johannesburg area. As a result of the rich diversity of various South African tribes, traditional music of South Africa mixed with European music led to the development of a different sound. The musical and social movement of hip hop in South Africa has grown exponentially in the last two decades, most notoriously in the form of home-grown Kwaito, which is actually a distinct musical genre in itself. Much of hip hop and Kwaito in South Africa","title":"African hip hop"},{"docid":"469579","text":"fever, polio, measles, hepatitis among others. However, war, genocide and Holocausts have led to many millions of deaths throughout the century, and late in the century AIDS had already killed millions, particularly in Africa and south-east Asia. Cancer also killed millions via lifestyle and pollution generated by increased work in factories. During the 20th century, an enormous improvement in public health led to an overall decrease in death rates. Infant mortality rates and maternal mortality rates have dramatically decreased. In the early 1900s, 6-9 women died in pregnancy-related complications for every 1,000 births, while 100 infants died before they were","title":"Death rates in the 20th century"}],"string":"[\n {\n \"docid\": \"9279932\",\n \"text\": \"Back-to-Africa movement The Back-to-Africa movement, also known as the Colonization movement or After slave act, originated in the United States during the 19th century. It encouraged those of African descent to return to the African homelands of their ancestors. This movement would eventually inspire other movements, ranging from the Nation of Islam to the Rastafari movement and proved to be popular among African Americans. In the early 19th century, the black population in the United States increased dramatically. Many of these African Americans were freed people seeking opportunity. Many Southern freed blacks migrated to the industrial North to seek employment,\",\n \"title\": \"Back-to-Africa movement\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"6102442\",\n \"text\": \"with Pan-Africanism which may seek the federation of several or all nation states in Africa. Nationalist ideas in Sub-Saharan Africa emerged during the mid-19th century among the emerging black middle classes in West Africa. Early nationalists hoped to overcome ethnic fragmentation by creating nation-states. In its earliest period, it was inspired by African-American and Afro-Caribbean intellectuals from the Back-to-Africa movement who imported nationalist ideals current in Europe and the Americas at the time. The early African nationalists were elitist and believed in the supremacy of Western culture but sought a greater role for themselves in political decision-making. They rejected African\",\n \"title\": \"African nationalism\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"7158870\",\n \"text\": \"John G. Lake John Graham Lake (March 18, 1870 – September 16, 1935) was a Canadian-American leader in the Pentecostal movement that began in the early 20th century, and is known as a faith healer, missionary, and with Thomas Hezmalhalch, co-founder of the Apostolic Faith Mission of South Africa. Through his 1908–13 African missionary work, Lake played a decisive role in the spread of Pentecostalism in South Africa, the most successful southern African religious movement of the 20th century. After completing his missionary work in Africa, Lake evangelized for 20 years, primarily along the west coast of the United States\",\n \"title\": \"John G. Lake\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"8454932\",\n \"text\": \"the mid-20th century, African theology as a theological field came into being. This movement began to protest against negative colonial and missionary interpretations of the religion and culture in Africa. Realizing that theology is a contextual phenomenon, African Christians began to read the bible using their own cultural lens, which of course resulted in some interpretations that did not always agree with how Western theology interpreted things. As such, African theology stands on the shoulders of the early African independent churches that broke away from missionary churches in the late 19th century or early 20th century. African theology is engaged\",\n \"title\": \"African theology\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"5653225\",\n \"text\": \"film director, best known for her film \\\"From a Whisper,\\\" which was awarded Best Director, Best Screenplay, and Best Picture at the Africa Movie Academy Awards in 2009. Cinema of Africa African cinema is film production in Africa. It dates back to the early 20th century, when film reels were the primary cinematic technology in use. During the colonial era, African life was shown only by the work of white, colonial, Western filmmakers, who depicted blacks in a negative fashion, as exotic \\\"others\\\". There is no one single African cinema; there are differences between North African and Sub-Saharan cinema, and\",\n \"title\": \"Cinema of Africa\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"9279953\",\n \"text\": \"tribes. It would take Americo-Liberians a century and more to become truly accepted as one of Liberia's ethnic groups(...). All of which certainly contributed to most Black Americans rejecting the Back-to-Africa option and opting instead for seeking equal rights in America.\\\" Ex-slave repatriation or the immigration of African-American, Caribbean, and Black British slaves to Africa occurred mainly during the late 18th century to mid-19th century. In the cases of Liberia and Sierra Leone both were established by former slaves who were repatriated to Africa within a 28-year period. The first attempt by the British government to settle people in Sierra\",\n \"title\": \"Back-to-Africa movement\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"20541635\",\n \"text\": \"Scipio Vaughan Scipio Vaughan (1784 – 1840) was an African-American artisan and former slave who inspired a \\\"back to Africa\\\" movement among some of his offspring to connect with their roots in Africa, specifically, the Yoruba of West Africa in the early 19th century. After gaining his freedom, he spent the latter part of his life in the United States and started the movement with his immediate family members in his final moments. Several generations of Scipio's descendants are dispersed across three continents where they mostly live or lived, except for occasional cousin reunions, which includes Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Liberia,\",\n \"title\": \"Scipio Vaughan\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"9279957\",\n \"text\": \"to his ancestral descent from the Mendes. Due to this, other members of the African diaspora that are also of Sierra Leonean descent can apply for citizenship as well if their descent is verified by a DNA test, as Mr. Washington's was. Back-to-Africa movement The Back-to-Africa movement, also known as the Colonization movement or After slave act, originated in the United States during the 19th century. It encouraged those of African descent to return to the African homelands of their ancestors. This movement would eventually inspire other movements, ranging from the Nation of Islam to the Rastafari movement and proved\",\n \"title\": \"Back-to-Africa movement\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"4046954\",\n \"text\": \"peace, and the discourse of the state of black people in our current social structures. From its early origins in slave communities, through the end of the 20th century, African-American art has made a vital contribution to the art of the United States. During the period between the 17th century and the early 19th century, art took the form of small drums, quilts, wrought-iron figures, and ceramic vessels in the southern United States. These artifacts have similarities with comparable crafts in West and Central Africa. In contrast, African-American artisans like the New England–based engraver Scipio Moorhead and the Baltimore portrait\",\n \"title\": \"African-American culture\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"23346\",\n \"text\": \"for whites. Forty percent of prison inmates are African-American. African Americans experience a higher rate of unemployment than the general population. African American males are more likely to be killed by police. This is one of the factors that led to the creation of the Black Lives Matter movement. African Americans have a long and diverse history of business ownership. Although the first African-American business is unknown, slaves captured from West Africa are believed to have established commercial enterprises as peddlers and skilled craftspeople as far back as the 17th century. Around 1900, Booker T. Washington became the most famous\",\n \"title\": \"African Americans\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"2879256\",\n \"text\": \"Garland Encyclopedia of Music says, \\\"Fundamental to much of the musical mix (of Graceland) was the influence of the African-American jazz, introduced into South Africa by transnational record-distribution networks in the 1920s. Most South African jazz musicians could not read scores, so they developed their own jazz flavor, mixing american swing with african melodies. The dynamic blend of african-american structure and african style became the basis for early south african township jazz known as marabi.\\\" Marabi Marabi is a style of township music that evolved in South Africa over the last century. The early part of the 20th century saw\",\n \"title\": \"Marabi\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"16500431\",\n \"text\": \"Swaziland which became independent from the United Kingdom in 1966-1968. Greater South Africa During the late 19th century and early 20th century, a number of South African and British political leaders advocated for a Greater South Africa. This irredentism can be regarded as an early form of Pan-Africanism, albeit strictly limited to White Africans of European ancestry. Statesman Jan Smuts repeatedly had called for South African expansion since 1895, envisioning a future South African border along the river Zambesi or even the equator. German South-West Africa, Southern Rhodesia, and at least the southern parts of Portuguese Mozambique (especially the port\",\n \"title\": \"Greater South Africa\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"5653206\",\n \"text\": \"Cinema of Africa African cinema is film production in Africa. It dates back to the early 20th century, when film reels were the primary cinematic technology in use. During the colonial era, African life was shown only by the work of white, colonial, Western filmmakers, who depicted blacks in a negative fashion, as exotic \\\"others\\\". There is no one single African cinema; there are differences between North African and Sub-Saharan cinema, and between the cinemas of different countries. The cinema of Egypt is one of the oldest in the world. Auguste and Louis Lumière screened their films in Alexandria and\",\n \"title\": \"Cinema of Africa\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"13131266\",\n \"text\": \"them being deported following the Bahia Malê Revolt in 1835); they constitute a minority ethnic group on the coastal regions of modern-day Ghana and Togo. Following the end of slavery in the Americas, numerous movements for African-American settlement in Africa sprung up and fluctuated in popularity, many of them involving Liberia. African-American abolitionist and Army officer Martin Delany supported a project for African-American immigration to Liberia later in his lifetime. However, it declined by the end of the 19th century following a string of hoaxes and fraudulent activities associated with the movement. The Back-to-Africa movement achieved popularity again with Jamaican\",\n \"title\": \"African-American settlement in Africa\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"8936862\",\n \"text\": \"by early 20th-century African-American poet Paul Laurence Dunbar as epigraphs for each symphonic movement. Still composed the \\\"Afro-American Symphony\\\" over 3 months, during which he had no steady work. Sketches for the symphony, including a layout of its four movements, are found in a journal which Still was using to collect material for an opera called \\\"Rashana,\\\" which he never finished. In his journal, Still wrote: \\\"I seek in the 'Afro-American Symphony' to portray not the higher type of colored American, but the sons of the soil, who still retain so many of the traits peculiar to their African forebears;\",\n \"title\": \"Symphony No. 1 \\\"Afro-American\\\"\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"13163734\",\n \"text\": \"one of the main events which paved the road to the modern-day political relations. The development of modern-day relations has gone through two main periods. During the period of colonialism and liberation wars, political relations became stronger. At the wake of the Cold War, many African countries joined the non-aligned movement pioneered by Egypt, Ghana, India, Indonesia and Yugoslavia. During the years of decolonisation, India exerted considerable political and ideological influence in Africa as a role model and a leader of the Non-Aligned Movement. But India’s ability to develop a broader strategic role in Africa during the 20th century was\",\n \"title\": \"Africa–India relations\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"1459071\",\n \"text\": \"late 19th and early 20th century varnish manufacturers in England and America were using it on train carriages, greatly swelling its demand. In 1859 Americans consumed 68 percent of the East African trade, which was controlled through the Sultan of Zanzibar, with Germany receiving 24 percent. The American Civil War and the creation of the Suez Canal led to Germany, India and Hong Kong taking the majority by the end of that century. East Africa apparently had a higher amount of subfossil copal, which is found one or two meters below living copal trees, from roots of trees that may\",\n \"title\": \"Copal\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"4890326\",\n \"text\": \"African Blood Brotherhood The African Blood Brotherhood for African Liberation and Redemption (ABB) was a radical U.S. black liberation organization established in 1919 in New York City by journalist Cyril Briggs. The group was established as a propaganda organization built on the model of the secret society. The group's socialist orientation caught the attention of the fledgling American communist movement and the ABB soon evolved into a propaganda arm of the Communist Party of America. The group was terminated in the early 1920s. During the second decade of the 20th century, a socialist movement for the liberation of American blacks\",\n \"title\": \"African Blood Brotherhood\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"20541648\",\n \"text\": \"22 states – along with their Nigerian cousins. From the daughters, who remained in the United States, the cousins have traced the eight main family lines - Barnes, Brevard, Bufford, Cauthen, McGriff, Peay, Truesdale and Vaughan. Scipio Vaughan Scipio Vaughan (1784 – 1840) was an African-American artisan and former slave who inspired a \\\"back to Africa\\\" movement among some of his offspring to connect with their roots in Africa, specifically, the Yoruba of West Africa in the early 19th century. After gaining his freedom, he spent the latter part of his life in the United States and started the movement\",\n \"title\": \"Scipio Vaughan\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"4046941\",\n \"text\": \"musical forms entered American popular music. African-American artists such as William H. Johnson and Palmer Hayden created unique works of art featuring African Americans. The Harlem Renaissance was also a time of increased political involvement for African Americans. Among the notable African-American political movements founded in the early 20th century are the Universal Negro Improvement Association and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. The Nation of Islam, a notable quasi-Islamic religious movement, also began in the early 1930s. The Black Power movement of the 1960s and 1970s followed in the wake of the non-violent Civil Rights Movement.\",\n \"title\": \"African-American culture\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"1639691\",\n \"text\": \"the African-American director and producer Oscar Micheaux. Following the Civil Rights Movement during the 20th century, interest in the works of Chesnutt was revived. Several of his books were published in new editions, and he received formal recognition. A commemorative stamp was printed in 2008. During the early 20th century in Cleveland, Chesnutt established what became a highly successful court reporting business, which provided his main income. He became active in the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, writing articles supporting education as well as legal challenges to discriminatory laws. Chesnutt was born in Cleveland, Ohio, to Andrew\",\n \"title\": \"Charles W. Chesnutt\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"4953868\",\n \"text\": \"Beer in South Africa Beer in South Africa has a long history, with a corporate history dating back to the early 20th century. South African beer has had two main influences on its development. Firstly, European settlers who colonised the country brought expertise and know-how as the country was populated. Dutch immigrants from the 1650s onwards, and British, immigrants during the 19th and 20th centuries both contributed in different ways to the knowledge of alcohol production. Another important but often overlooked influence has been indigenous knowledge. Local breweries, operated by the black population, especially groups such as the Sotho, Zulu\",\n \"title\": \"Beer in South Africa\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"4046960\",\n \"text\": \"as Phillis Wheatley and Olaudah Equiano. These authors reached early high points by telling slave narratives. During the early 20th century Harlem Renaissance, numerous authors and poets, such as Langston Hughes, W. E. B. Du Bois, and Booker T. Washington, grappled with how to respond to discrimination in America. Authors during the Civil Rights Movement, such as Richard Wright, James Baldwin, and Gwendolyn Brooks wrote about issues of racial segregation, oppression, and other aspects of African-American life. This tradition continues today with authors who have been accepted as an integral part of American literature, with works such as \\\"\\\" by\",\n \"title\": \"African-American culture\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"591193\",\n \"text\": \"counties. Before that, the city had to get state bills approved in order to change its charter and for other policies and programs. Since 1963, it can change the charter by popular approval of the electorate. During the 1960s, the city was at the center of the Civil Rights Movement, as its large African-American population had been affected by state segregation practices and disenfranchisement in the early 20th century. African-American residents drew from the civil rights movement to improve their lives. In 1968, the Memphis sanitation strike began for living wages and better working conditions; the workers were overwhelmingly African\",\n \"title\": \"Memphis, Tennessee\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"20193439\",\n \"text\": \"Berber separatism in North Africa Berber separatism in North Africa refers to a century-long independence struggle of ethnic Berber groups in the areas of modern Morocco, Algeria, Mali and Libya. The first chapter of this modern separatism was embodied in the Rif War, which led to the creation of short-lived Rif Republic (1920–1926). Despite the disintegration of this Berber state, the independence movement continued during the 20th century in Algeria and in 21st century was led by Tuareg tribes in Mali and Libya (the failed attempt to form the Azawad state within Mali in 2012 and \\\"de facto\\\" formation of\",\n \"title\": \"Berber separatism in North Africa\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"11424338\",\n \"text\": \"mid-1960s Memphis had annexed Frayser, Tennessee on the north side of the Wolf River. It had also annexed Berclair, Tennessee and all of White Station on its eastern border, extending south-westward along Poplar Avenue, past the recently built freeway that is today designated I-240, and bordering on Germantown, Tennessee, Memphis' current eastern limit. During the 1960s, the city was a center of activity during the Civil Rights Movement, as its large African-American population had been affected by state segregation practices and disenfranchisement in the early 20th century. African-American residents drew from the civil rights movement to improve their lives. In\",\n \"title\": \"History of Memphis, Tennessee\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"5432159\",\n \"text\": \"of Southern and Central Africa in the 20th century, but without the same social and political impact as in Nyasaland. In much of South Africa and Southern and North-Western Rhodesia, the growth of the money economy led rapidly to waged employment rather than labour in lieu of rent, and in North-Eastern Rhodesia estate agriculture was less dominant and land reasonably plentiful. In early Natal, the shortage of capital caused landowners to extract rent from African tenants in the forms of produce or labour, and this applied in Zululand until the early 20th century. However, in central Natal, employment for wages\",\n \"title\": \"Thangata\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"16500424\",\n \"text\": \"Greater South Africa During the late 19th century and early 20th century, a number of South African and British political leaders advocated for a Greater South Africa. This irredentism can be regarded as an early form of Pan-Africanism, albeit strictly limited to White Africans of European ancestry. Statesman Jan Smuts repeatedly had called for South African expansion since 1895, envisioning a future South African border along the river Zambesi or even the equator. German South-West Africa, Southern Rhodesia, and at least the southern parts of Portuguese Mozambique (especially the port of Lourenço Marques in the Delagoa Bay) along with the\",\n \"title\": \"Greater South Africa\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"9279938\",\n \"text\": \"The American Colonization Society (ACS) was an early advocate of the idea of resettling American-born blacks in Africa. Founded in 1816 by Charles Fenton Mercer, it was made up of two groups: \\\"philanthropists, clergy and abolitionists who wanted to free African slaves and their descendants and provide them with the opportunity to return to Africa. The other group was the slave owners who feared free people of color and wanted to expel them from America.\\\" Since its inception, the American Colonization Society struggled to garner support from within free black communities; however, during the late 1840s and early 1850s, the\",\n \"title\": \"Back-to-Africa movement\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"9279948\",\n \"text\": \"in Liberia. Liberia gained independence on 26 July 1847. With an elected black government and the offer of free land to African American settlers, Liberia became the most common destination of emigrating African Americans during the 19th century. Once African Americans arrived in Liberia, they faced a whole host of challenges, which included broken family ties, high mortality rates, and a difficult adjustment period. A group of 43 African Americans from Christiansburg, Virginia, left for Liberia in 1830 and suffered high mortality rates. \\\"Eighty percent of the emigrants were dead within ten years of landing there, most of them victims\",\n \"title\": \"Back-to-Africa movement\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"8402804\",\n \"text\": \"Quindaro, Kansas, thrived for some period before, during, and after the Exoduster movement. Similarly, in the early 20th century, black migrations to the American West and Southwest would continue, and several additional all-black towns would be established, especially in Indian Territory, which would become the state of Oklahoma. The impact of the Exoduster migration on subsequent white treatment of African Americans was mixed. On the one hand, the exodus did little to alleviate the national propensity for violence towards blacks. From the 1880s through the 1930s, the lynching of African Americans increased, and some 3,000 lynchings took place during that\",\n \"title\": \"Exodusters\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"18789146\",\n \"text\": \"Civil Rights Movement. The Ahmadi Muslims offered the first multi-racial community experience for African American Muslims, which included elements of Indian culture and Pan-Africanism. Over the late 20th century, the Ahmadiyya influence on African American Islam subsided to a degree. The Community did not draw as many followers as it did in its early history. However, Ahmadi Muslims continued to be an influential force, educating numerous African Americans that passed through its ranks. Often working behind the scenes, the Community had a profound influence in the African American-Isam relations including the early development of the Nation of Islam, the Moorish\",\n \"title\": \"Ahmadiyya in the United States\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"17341754\",\n \"text\": \"African-American history of agriculture in the United States The role of African Americans in the agricultural history of the United States is extremely important. Given that the majority of blacks were employed in agriculture in the United States, particularly during the 19th and early 20th century, represents a major part of their history and the economic progress of the nation. Plantation owners brought mass supplies of slaves from Africa and the Caribbean and Mexico to farm the fields during cotton harvests. Black women and children were also enslaved in the industry. The growth of Slavery in the United States is\",\n \"title\": \"African-American history of agriculture in the United States\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"850255\",\n \"text\": \"between racial groups. In the early 20th century, to institutionalize racial segregation, most southern states adopted the \\\"one drop rule\\\", which defined and recorded anyone with any discernible African ancestry as black, even of obvious majority white or Native American ancestry. One of the results of this implementation was the loss of records of Native-identified groups, who were classified only as black because of being mixed race. See Emigration from Africa for a general treatment of voluntary population movements since the late 20th century. From the very onset of Spanish exploration and colonial activities in the Americas, Africans participated both\",\n \"title\": \"African diaspora\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"5835626\",\n \"text\": \"Picasso's African Period Picasso's African Period, which was three years long, lasted from 1906 to 1909, was the period when Pablo Picasso painted in a style which was strongly influenced by African sculpture and particularly traditional African masks. This proto-Cubist period following Picasso's Blue Period and Rose Period has also been called the Negro Period, or Black Period. In the early 20th century, African artworks were being brought back to Paris museums in consequence of the expansion of the French empire into Sub-Saharan Africa. The press was abuzz with exaggerated stories of cannibalism and exotic tales about the African kingdom\",\n \"title\": \"Picasso's African Period\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"6094914\",\n \"text\": \"featuring mostly 20th-century composers. The Baltimore Women's String Symphony Orchestra was led by Stephen Deak and Wolfgang Martin from 1936 to 1940, a time when women were barred from the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, though they were allowed in the Baltimore Colored Symphony Orchestra. In the early 20th century, Baltimore was home to several African American classically oriented music institutions which drew on a rich tradition of symphonic music, chamber concerts, oratorios, documented in large part by the \\\"Baltimore Afro-American\\\", a local periodical. Inspired by A. Jack Thomas, who had been appointed conductor of the city's municipally supported African American performance\",\n \"title\": \"Music of Baltimore\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"5835629\",\n \"text\": \"St. Petersburg). Picasso's African Period Picasso's African Period, which was three years long, lasted from 1906 to 1909, was the period when Pablo Picasso painted in a style which was strongly influenced by African sculpture and particularly traditional African masks. This proto-Cubist period following Picasso's Blue Period and Rose Period has also been called the Negro Period, or Black Period. In the early 20th century, African artworks were being brought back to Paris museums in consequence of the expansion of the French empire into Sub-Saharan Africa. The press was abuzz with exaggerated stories of cannibalism and exotic tales about the\",\n \"title\": \"Picasso's African Period\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"9832981\",\n \"text\": \"Military history of Ethiopia The military history of Ethiopia dates back to the foundation of early Ethiopian Kingdoms in 980 BC. Ethiopia has been involved many of the major conflicts in the horn of Africa, and was the only native African nation which remained independent after the Scramble for Africa, managing to create a modern army. 19th and 20th century Ethiopian Military history is characterized by conflicts between Ethiopia and Italy, which repeatedly attempted to annex the mineral rich nation, and unite its East African holdings. From 1895 to 1896, the First Italian-Abyssinian War was fought between the Kingdom of\",\n \"title\": \"Military history of Ethiopia\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"9832995\",\n \"text\": \"troops, and all Ethiopian forces had left the country by January 15, 2009. Military history of Ethiopia The military history of Ethiopia dates back to the foundation of early Ethiopian Kingdoms in 980 BC. Ethiopia has been involved many of the major conflicts in the horn of Africa, and was the only native African nation which remained independent after the Scramble for Africa, managing to create a modern army. 19th and 20th century Ethiopian Military history is characterized by conflicts between Ethiopia and Italy, which repeatedly attempted to annex the mineral rich nation, and unite its East African holdings. From\",\n \"title\": \"Military history of Ethiopia\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"16597239\",\n \"text\": \"perspective, during the early 1960s trade between these two large parts of the world were in the mere hundreds of millions of dollars back then. Europe dominated African trade during these formative years of European decolonization process in the African continent. Even as early as the 1980s, trade between China and Africa was minuscule. Trade between China and Africa largely grew exponentially following China's joining of the World Trade Organization (WTO) and the opening up of China to emigration (of Chinese people to Africa) and the free movement of companies, peoples, and products both to and from the African continent\",\n \"title\": \"Africa–China economic relations\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"1155107\",\n \"text\": \"As early as 1890, Syrian and Lebanese immigrants also arrived in Paterson. In addition to many African Americans of Southern heritage, more recent immigrants have come from the Caribbean and Africa. Paterson's black population increased during the Great Migration of the 20th century, but there have been Patersonians of African descent since before the Civil War. However, Paterson's black population declined between the years 2000 and 2010, consistent with the overall return migration of African Americans from Northern New Jersey back to the Southern United States. A house once existing at Bridge Street and Broadway was a station on the\",\n \"title\": \"Paterson, New Jersey\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"9432511\",\n \"text\": \"1928 for a new school for African-American children. The school was to be named after Frederick Douglass, the great orator, journalist and abolishionist during the anti-slavery movement of the 19th century and was built at the corner of Center Street and East Sevier Avenue. The school built in 1928 was an historic Rosenwald School, funded partially by the Rosenwald Foundation. Julius Rosenwald was an industrialist from Chicago, the first CEO of Sears, Roebuck and Company. He established a foundation to fund the construction of hundreds of school buildings for African-American children in the early 20th century, and residents in the\",\n \"title\": \"Douglass High School (Kingsport, Tennessee)\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"20193448\",\n \"text\": \"Demonstrators proclaimed “We are all Zefzafi” and waved Berber flags, with around 40 people arrested. By 30 May, the number of arrested protesters reached 70. Berber separatism in North Africa Berber separatism in North Africa refers to a century-long independence struggle of ethnic Berber groups in the areas of modern Morocco, Algeria, Mali and Libya. The first chapter of this modern separatism was embodied in the Rif War, which led to the creation of short-lived Rif Republic (1920–1926). Despite the disintegration of this Berber state, the independence movement continued during the 20th century in Algeria and in 21st century was\",\n \"title\": \"Berber separatism in North Africa\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"18789137\",\n \"text\": \"Ahmadi Muslim ideal of an American society. Consequently, the American Ahmadi missionary activity shifted more towards the African American populations. In 1950, the American Ahmadiyya movement shifted their headquarters to Washington, D.C., and established the American Fazl Mosque which served as the headquarters for over four decades, until the early 1990s. The 1950s was an era when many African American musicians were introduced to Islam and thrived as members of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community. Over the late 20th century, the Ahmadiyya influence on African American Islam subsided to a degree. The Community did not draw as many followers as it\",\n \"title\": \"Ahmadiyya in the United States\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"4021529\",\n \"text\": \"early 20th century, the view of slavery as a negative influence on Africa prevailed among professional academic historians in Europe and the United States. During the decolonization period following World War II, an influential group of scholars, led by J.D. Fage, argued that the negative effects of slavery had been exaggerated, and that the export of slaves had been offset by population growth. Walter Rodney, a specialist on the Upper Guinea Coast, countered that European demand for slaves had vastly increased the economic importance of the slave trade in West Africa, with catastrophic effects. Rodney, who was active in Pan-African\",\n \"title\": \"Economic history of Africa\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"2385593\",\n \"text\": \"of peoples across western and sub-Saharan Africa. These musical forms had a wide-ranging influence on the development of music within the United States and around the world during the 20th century. The modern genres of blues and ragtime were developed during the late 19th century by fusing West African vocalizations - which employed the natural harmonic series, and blue notes. The earliest jazz and blues recordings were made in the 1920s. African-American musicians developed related styles such as Rhythm and Blues in the 1940s. In the 1960s, soul performers had a major influence on white US and UK singers. In\",\n \"title\": \"African-American music\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"13472417\",\n \"text\": \"United Africa Company The United Africa Company (UAC) was a British company which principally traded in West Africa during the 20th century. The United Africa Company was formed in 1929 as a result of the merger of The Niger Company, which had been effectively owned by Lever Brothers since 1920, and the African & Eastern Trade Corporation. In the early 1930s the United Africa Company was nearly reduced to bankruptcy and as a result it came under the control of Unilever which had just been formed. Unilever had only been created from the merger of Lever Brothers and the Dutch\",\n \"title\": \"United Africa Company\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"11905412\",\n \"text\": \"African Political Organization The African Political Organization, later known as the African People's Organization (APO), was a coloured political organisation in early-20th-century South Africa. Founded in Cape Town in 1902, the organisation rallied South African coloureds against the South Africa Act 1909. Trafalgar High School was created as a direct result of criticism of the Cape School Board in the APO newspaper in August 1911. Investigations found that the board had created no benefit at all for students who were non-white. Abdullah Abdurahman lobbied the board and the first school for coloured children was created. The school was led by\",\n \"title\": \"African Political Organization\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"14593322\",\n \"text\": \"Raymond V. Haysbert Raymond V. Haysbert Sr. (January 19, 1920 – May 24, 2010) was a prominent African-American business executive and civil rights leader during the second half of the 20th century in Baltimore, Maryland. During World War II, he served in Africa and Italy with the renowned Tuskegee Airmen. Haysbert joined Baltimore-based Parks Sausage Company in 1952, becoming CEO as it grew into one of the largest black-owned U.S. businesses. In later years, he was active in politics and the American civil rights movement. Haysbert was chairman of the Greater Baltimore Urban League when he died at age 90\",\n \"title\": \"Raymond V. Haysbert\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"1357960\",\n \"text\": \"Calypso music Calypso is a style of Afro-Caribbean music that originated in Trinidad and Tobago during the early to mid-19th century and eventually spread to the rest of the Caribbean Antilles and Venezuela by the mid-20th century. Its rhythms can be traced back to West African Kaiso and the arrival of French planters and their slaves from the French Antilles in the 18th century. Calypso drew upon African and French influences, and became the voice of the people. It was characterized by highly rhythmic and harmonic vocals, and was most often sung in a French creole and led by a\",\n \"title\": \"Calypso music\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"11604196\",\n \"text\": \"Martin Delany (1812 – 1885), arguably the first proponent of American black nationalism and the first African-American field officer in the United States Army during the American Civil War. However, between 1822 and the second half of the 19th century, with the abolition of slavery in the United States, many slaves (probably of different African origins) returned to Africa, settling in West Africa and founding Liberia (integrating regions populated already since before of arrived of Afro American). Thus, the Liberian migration in the United States not touched again until the 20th century. In this moment, the first Liberians that came\",\n \"title\": \"Liberian Americans\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"18144841\",\n \"text\": \"Herbert Adams Gibbons Herbert Adams Gibbons (April 8, 1880 – August 7, 1934) was an American journalist who wrote about international politics and European colonialism during the early 20th century. He is best known for his books, \\\"The New Map of Asia\\\", \\\"The New Map of Africa\\\", and \\\"The New Map of Europe\\\". He is also known for his seminal study, \\\"The Foundation of the Ottoman Empire\\\", which he wrote in Istanbul during the early 20th century. Between 1908 and 1934, Gibbons was a foreign correspondent for several large New York newspapers. He was stationed in Greece, Spain, Turkey, Africa\",\n \"title\": \"Herbert Adams Gibbons\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"9279942\",\n \"text\": \"interested in African colonization.\\\" With the help of some Quakers in Philadelphia he was able to transport 38 blacks to Freetown, Sierra Leone, in 1815. The back-to-Africa movement began to decline but revived again in 1877 at the end of the Reconstruction era as many blacks in the South faced violence from groups such as the Ku Klux Klan. Interest among the South's black population in African emigration peaked during the 1890s, a time when racism reached its peak and the greatest number of lynchings in American history took place. The continued experience of segregation and discrimination of African Americans\",\n \"title\": \"Back-to-Africa movement\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"8038959\",\n \"text\": \"Biographer Meyers sees the story as a blend of American primitivism and sophistication; Nick evidences a sense of loss which is \\\"not simply grace under pressure—but under siege\\\". Nature is perceived as good and civilization as bad—a pervasive theme in American literature, found in such American classics as Mark Twain's 19th-century \\\"Huckleberry Finn\\\" and in William Faulkner's 20th-century \\\"Go Down, Moses\\\". According to Hemingway scholar Susan Beegel, Hemingway is fundamentally an American nature writer. She attributes it to his upbringing: his mother, Grace Hemingway, believed avidly in the early 20th-century \\\"back to nature\\\" movement, and his father was a physician\",\n \"title\": \"Big Two-Hearted River\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"5543766\",\n \"text\": \"although recent investigations suggest that the number of black deaths could be considerably higher. Black literacy levels, which rose during Reconstruction, continued to increase through this period. The NAACP was established in 1909, and by 1920 the group won a few important anti-discrimination lawsuits. African Americans, such as Du Bois and Wells-Barnett, continued the tradition of advocacy, organizing, and journalism which helped spur abolitionism, and also developed new tactics that helped to spur the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 1960s. The Harlem Renaissance and the popularity of jazz music during the early part of the 20th century made\",\n \"title\": \"Nadir of American race relations\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"18967801\",\n \"text\": \"pervasive homophobia led both conservative and liberal politicians to endorse policies to remove homosexuals from administrative and military positions within the American government. The same fears led to ideological divisions within early homophile movement organizations such as the Mattachine Society. Mid-20th century homophile activists who pursued civil rights for gays and lesbians in the United States were primarily informed by Marxist political ideology and had ties to the American Communist Party. During an era dominated by anti-communist rhetoric, governmental, and social ideological policing, homophile movement organizations experienced pressure to deny communist affiliations. For the Mattachine Society, the divisions publicly erupted\",\n \"title\": \"LGBT conservatism in the United States\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"5955004\",\n \"text\": \"of the former Confederacy passed statutes and amendments to their state constitutions that effectively disenfranchised most African Americans and tens of thousands of poor whites. They did this through devices such as poll taxes and literacy tests. In the 1890s the South split bitterly, with poor cotton farmers moving to the Populist movement. In coalition with the remaining Republicans, the Populists briefly controlled Alabama and North Carolina. The local elites, townspeople, and landowners fought back, regaining control of the Democratic party by 1898. During the 20th century, civil rights of African Americans became a central issue. Before 1964 African American\",\n \"title\": \"Politics of the Southern United States\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"12034609\",\n \"text\": \"Anti-tobacco movement in Nazi Germany In the early 20th century, German researchers made advances in linking smoking to health harms, which strengthened the anti-tobacco movement in the Weimar Republic and led to a state-supported anti-smoking campaign. Early anti-tobacco movements grew in many nations from the middle of the 19th century. The 1933–1945 anti-tobacco campaigns in Nazi Germany have been widely publicized, although stronger laws than those passed in Germany were passed in some American states, the UK, and elsewhere between 1890 and 1930. After 1941, anti-tobacco campaigns were restricted by the Nazi government. The German movement was the most powerful\",\n \"title\": \"Anti-tobacco movement in Nazi Germany\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"6586664\",\n \"text\": \"work force. The migration expanded the market for African American business. \\\"The most notable breakthrough in black business came in the insurance field.\\\" There were four major insurance companies founded in Chicago. Then, in the early 20th century, service establishments took over. The African-American market on State Street during this time consisted of barber shops, restaurants, pool rooms, saloons, and beauty salons. African Americans used these trades to build their own communities. These shops gave the blacks a chance to establish their families, earn money, and become an active part of the community. In the early 20th century many prominent\",\n \"title\": \"History of African Americans in Chicago\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"8790379\",\n \"text\": \"African Resistance Movement The African Resistance Movement (ARM) was a militant anti-apartheid resistance movement, which operated in South Africa during the early and mid-1960s. It was founded in 1960, as the National Committee of Liberation (NCL), by members of South Africa’s Liberal Party, which advocated for the dismantling of apartheid and gradually transforming South Africa into a free multiracial society. It was renamed \\\"African Resistance Movement\\\" in 1964. Immediately after the 1960 Sharpeville Massacre, the apartheid government imposed a state of emergency, which allowed it to apply a broad range of sanctions against its political opponents, such as detention without\",\n \"title\": \"African Resistance Movement\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"19980817\",\n \"text\": \"for reelection and emigrated to South Africa shortly after. In 1985, Cronjé left Zimbabwe and emigrated to South Africa, where he became involved in the Afrikaner volkstaat movement, which proposed a separate state with self-determination for the Afrikaner population in South Africa. He relocated to Bophuthatswana, a bantustan which the South African government made independent in 1977 and which was led by President Lucas Mangope. During the transition away from apartheid in South in the early 1990s, the Mangope administration in Bophuthatswana allied itself with Afrikaner nationalists, as they both shared the common goal of a future South Africa of\",\n \"title\": \"Rowan Cronjé\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"1621496\",\n \"text\": \"convention that dancers must be thin and young. Their belief, put into action in their hiring practices and performances, is that graceful, exciting movement is not restricted by age or body type. African American contributions to modern dance were substantial, they included \\\"pure\\\" modern dance works or blended modern dance with African American vernacular dance, African dance and Caribbean influences. Modern dance in the United States Closely related to the development of American music in the early 20th century was the emergence of a new, and distinctively American, art form -- modern dance. Among the early innovators was Isadora Duncan\",\n \"title\": \"Modern dance in the United States\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"20144139\",\n \"text\": \"and rhythm and blues.The Fisk Jubilee Singers were a mixed group who became popular throughout the world for singing traditional spirituals and touring both the United States and England. Sexist attitudes during the early 20th century made it difficult for African-American women to have a strong presence in mainstream music but despite this, many were still extremely influential in the genres of blues, jazz, and R&B. The return of African American soldiers from World War I and the movement North of the Great Migration, both contributed to Harlem's rise as a hive of cultural and artistic activity known as the\",\n \"title\": \"Black women in the music industry\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"11334352\",\n \"text\": \"simple, direct, joyous, and infectious tune enhanced onstage by improvisational dancing. In 1948 Harry S. Truman selected \\\"I'm Just Wild About Harry\\\" as his campaign song for the United States presidential election of 1948. Its success in politics led to a popular revival. Both \\\"I'm Just Wild About Harry\\\" and the show \\\"Shuffle Along\\\" broke racial taboos. During the early 20th century African-Americans were excluded from most mainstream theater in the United States: white Vaudeville refused to book more than one African-American act on a bill and for over a decade no Broadway show used African-American performers at all. Blake\",\n \"title\": \"I'm Just Wild About Harry\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"4046947\",\n \"text\": \"of the blackface minstrel show, African-American music entered mainstream American society. By the early 20th century, several musical forms with origins in the African-American community had transformed American popular music. Aided by the technological innovations of radio and phonograph records, ragtime, jazz, blues, and swing also became popular overseas, and the 1920s became known as the Jazz Age. The early 20th century also saw the creation of the first African-American Broadway shows, films such as King Vidor's \\\"Hallelujah!\\\", and operas such as George Gershwin's \\\"Porgy and Bess\\\". Rock and roll, doo wop, soul, and R&B developed in the mid-20th century.\",\n \"title\": \"African-American culture\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"5817046\",\n \"text\": \"births]] [[Category:1991 deaths]] [[Category:American women journalists]] [[Category:African-American journalists]] [[Category:20th-century American journalists]] [[Category:Bandung Conference attendees]] [[Category:Delta Sigma Theta members]] [[Category:African-American women journalists]] [[Category:20th-century American non-fiction writers]] [[Category:20th-century American women writers]] Ethel L. Payne Ethel Lois Payne (August 14, 1911 – May 28, 1991) was an African-American journalist. Known as the \\\"First Lady of the Black Press\\\", she was a columnist, lecturer, and [[Freelancer|freelance]] writer. She combined advocacy with journalism as she reported on the [[Civil Rights Movement]] during the 1950s and 1960s, and was known for asking questions others dared not ask. First published in \\\"[[The Chicago Defender]]\\\" in 1950, she\",\n \"title\": \"Ethel L. Payne\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"7748938\",\n \"text\": \"ancestry in Cuba is 72% European, 20% African, and 8% Indigenous. Around 35% of maternal lineages derive from Cuban Indigenous People, compared to 39% from Africa and 26% from Europe, but male lineages were European (82%) and African (18%), indicating a historical bias towards mating between foreign men and native women rather than the inverse. Asians make up about 1% of the population, and are largely of Chinese ancestry, followed by Japanese. Many are descendants of farm laborers brought to the island by Spanish and American contractors during the 19th and early 20th century. The current recorded number of Cubans\",\n \"title\": \"Cuba\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"14971530\",\n \"text\": \"during the Second Industrial Revolution of the late 19th century, and continuing development and urbanization during the early 20th century before World War I. 'American Movements' is a broader design and art movement phrase used in the visual arts of the United States. It refers to U.S. centric art and design movements that originated during any century of the country's history. Bungalow/Craftsman is a term commonly appearing in NRHP listings, which reflects American Craftsman and Bungalow styles. American Craftsman is often a term used for the Arts and Crafts movement works and philosophy expressed in the United States. It can\",\n \"title\": \"National Register of Historic Places architectural style categories\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"9279956\",\n \"text\": \"freed slaves from the United States strengthened the institution of slavery. The repatriation of slaves to Africa from the United Kingdom, and its dependencies, was initiated by the Committee for the Relief of the Black Poor, and was later on taken up by the Sierra Leone Company. In time, African American Black Loyalists and West Indians would immigrate to the colony of Freetown, Sierra Leone, in smaller numbers in efforts led by black merchants or beneficiaries such as Paul Cuffe. More recently the African-American actor Isaiah Washington, a titled chief of the Mende people, has received Sierra Leonean citizenship due\",\n \"title\": \"Back-to-Africa movement\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"1391730\",\n \"text\": \"they were calling the church back to a closer Biblical picture of Christianity, in which the gifts of the Spirit would be restored to the Church. The Jesus movement left a legacy of various denominations and other Christian organizations, and influenced both the development of the contemporary Christian right and the Christian left. Jesus music, which grew out of the movement, helped influence and create various musical subgenres under the late 20th and early 21st century contemporary Christian music, such as Jesus Culture and Hillsong in America and the UK. This also led to new instruments such as the guitar\",\n \"title\": \"Jesus movement\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"14208579\",\n \"text\": \"Linconia Linconia was the name of a proposed Central American colony suggested by United States Senator Samuel Pomeroy of Kansas in 1862, after U.S. President Abraham Lincoln asked the Senator and United States Secretary of the Interior Caleb Smith to work on a plan to resettle African Americans from the United States. Since his early political career, Abraham Lincoln supported the American Colonization Society, a group which spawned in the early 19th century to return former African American slaves back to the continent of Africa. They helped to establish the colony of Liberia in 1821. Similarly to Linconia, the name\",\n \"title\": \"Linconia\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"4189125\",\n \"text\": \"which are: Islam in Italy Muslim presence in Italy dates back to the 9th century, when Sicily came under control of the Abbasid Caliphate. There was a large Muslim presence in Italy from 827 (the first occupation of Mazara) until the 12th century. The Norman conquest of Sicily led to a gradual decline of Islam, due to conversions and emigration of Muslims toward Northern Africa. A small Muslim community however survived at least until 1300 (the destruction of the Muslim settlement of Lucera). Thereafter, until the 20th century, Islam was virtually non-existent in Italy. During the 20th century, the first\",\n \"title\": \"Islam in Italy\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"9398307\",\n \"text\": \"Photo-Secession The Photo-Secession was an early 20th century movement that promoted photography as a fine art in general and photographic pictorialism in particular. A group of photographers, led by Alfred Stieglitz and F. Holland Day in the early 20th century, held the then controversial viewpoint that what was significant about a photograph was not what was in front of the camera but the manipulation of the image by the artist/photographer to achieve his or her subjective vision. The movement helped to raise standards and awareness of art photography. The group is the American counterpart to the Linked Ring, an invitation-only\",\n \"title\": \"Photo-Secession\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"19154695\",\n \"text\": \"both in Sokoto and Masina, as were reasonably strong armed forces. The leaders and teachings offthe Caliphates were largely supported and enjoyed legitimacy in their rule. The spread of Islamic teachings spread across law, politics and daily life and resulted in the Muslim population growing. The obvious failure was that although they delayed it, they were unable to stop the European colonization of Africa and by the early 20th century most of the Islamic societies had been colonized by the British, French or Germans. West African jihads The jihad reforms that occurred across Africa during the 19th century had certain\",\n \"title\": \"West African jihads\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"5019836\",\n \"text\": \"was slow up until the mid-20th century. By 1977, 54 African countries had seceded from European colonial rulers. During the world wars, African soldiers were conscripted into imperial militaries. This led to a deeper political awareness and the expectation of greater respect and self-determination, which was left largely unfulfilled. During the 1941 Atlantic Conference, the British and the US leaders met to discuss ideas for the post-war world. One of the provisions added by President Roosevelt was that all people had the right to self-determination, inspiring hope in British colonies. On February 12, 1941, United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt\",\n \"title\": \"Decolonisation of Africa\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"6997518\",\n \"text\": \"became known as the \\\"Mad Fiddler from Philly\\\". Others included Stan Getz, Jimmy Amadie, Robert Chudnick and Jan Savitt, who, with his band the Top Hatters, toured with George Tunnell, one of the first African American singers in the city to consistently sing with a major white band. The city's early 20th century mainstream dance scene was led by the bandleader Howard Lanin, whose band performed popular showtunes, waltzes and light jazz. Philadelphia's African American population grew greatly as a result of immigration from the south during World War 2, when future luminaries like the Heath Brothers, Dizzy Gillespie and\",\n \"title\": \"Music of Philadelphia\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"9279936\",\n \"text\": \"country.\\\" Similarly, black leaders, such as James Forten, who had previously supported the Colonization Movement, changed their minds as a result of widespread black resistance to the idea. Following the Great Awakening, during which America was swept by a wave of religious fervor causing many enslaved African Americans to convert to Christianity, many religious people in America struggled with reconciling slavery with their beliefs. When the enslaved population of America was mostly Muslim or practiced indigenous African religions, it was easy for them to justify slavery on Christian evangelical grounds, but in the 19th century, many religious Americans found it\",\n \"title\": \"Back-to-Africa movement\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"1114178\",\n \"text\": \"African American, was elected to the Minnesota House of Representatives representing District 42, which included all of Edina. Wheaton beat his white Democratic opponent in every Minneapolis city ward and in every village within the legislative district, including Edina, even though the legislative district had only approximately 100 African American residents out of a total of 40,000 residents. In the early 20th century suburban development brought discriminatory policies that led to nearly all of the African Americans who had been living in Edina to move away. Jewish residents were also affected by exclusionary deed covenants. In the 1960s, some residents\",\n \"title\": \"Edina, Minnesota\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"11422851\",\n \"text\": \"Bata LoBagola Bata Kindai Amgoza ibn LoBagola (1877–1947) was an early 20th-century American impostor and entertainer who presented an exoticized identity as a native of Africa, when in reality he was born Joseph Howard Lee in Baltimore, Maryland. Despite an impoverished start in life and a lack of education, and a series of scandalous arrests related to homosexual activities, mainly involving underage individuals, LoBagola maintained a long and colorful career posing as an African \\\"savage\\\", during which he delivered lectures to many institutions and conducted public debates. LoBagola published some articles in \\\"Scribner's Magazine\\\" in 1929 and the publishers A.A.\",\n \"title\": \"Bata LoBagola\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"4077828\",\n \"text\": \"dung left at the encampments. By 1850, however, the species had disappeared from Egypt both as a breeding and migrant population, with the last, albeit questionable, sighting in 1864. The species didn't breed in southern Africa before the beginning of the 20th century, but it has benefited from irrigation, dams, and commercial agricultural practices such as dung heaps, carrion and refuse tips. It began to breed in the early 20th century, and in the 1970s the first colonies of ibises were recorded in Zimbabwe and South Africa. Its population for example expanded 2-3-fold during the period between 1972-1995 in Orange\",\n \"title\": \"African sacred ibis\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"918875\",\n \"text\": \"stitches made by home sewing machines, and the use of Western clothing patterns, led to a movement towards wearing Western-style clothing during the early 20th century. Western sewing and clothing styles were disseminated in sub-Saharan Africa by Christian missionaries from the 1830s onward. Indigenous cultures, such as the Zulu and Tswana, were indoctrinated in the Western way of dress as a sign of conversion to Christianity. First Western hand sewing techniques, and later machine sewing, spread throughout the regions where the European colonists settled. However, a recent examination of new online learning methods demonstrated that technology can be adapted to\",\n \"title\": \"Sewing\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"4059434\",\n \"text\": \"ideals. Under Wilbur Glenn Voliva, Dowie's successor, the church was noted for its adherence to a flat earth cosmology. The succession of pastors after Voliva moved the church back to mainstream Protestant doctrine. In the early 20th century, the Christian Catholic Church had worldwide appeal. The church's magazine, \\\"The Leaves of Healing\\\", was distributed in the U.S., Australia, Europe, and southern Africa. At its height, Dowie's movement had some 20,000 adherents. The Zionist Churches of southern Africa trace their spiritual heritage back to Dowie and the Christian Catholic Church. Because of Dowie's emphasis on faith healing and restorationism the church\",\n \"title\": \"Christ Community Church\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"4959688\",\n \"text\": \"east of Rock Creek Park. Large sections of the central city remained blighted for decades. By contrast, areas west of the Park, including virtually the entire portion of the District between the Georgetown and Chevy Chase neighborhoods (the latter of which spills into neighboring Chevy Chase, Maryland), contain some of the nation's most affluent and notable neighborhoods. During the early 20th century, the U Street Corridor served as an important center for African American culture in DC. The Washington Metro opened in 1976. A rising economy and gentrification in the late 1990s and early 2000s led to revitalization of many\",\n \"title\": \"History of Washington, D.C.\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"3563922\",\n \"text\": \"Spain. Finally, for [[Leopold II of Belgium|King Leopold]] (ruled from 1865 to 1909), there was the large “piece of that great African cake” known as the [[Belgian Congo|Congo]], which became his personal fiefdom. By 1914, almost the entire continent was under European control. [[Liberia]], which was settled by freed American slaves in the 1820s, and Abyssinia ([[Ethiopia]]) in eastern Africa were the last remaining independent African states. [[File:View of Kobe LACMA M.91.377.8.jpg|left|thumb|Kobe Japan and its harbor, 1865. Hand colored.]] Around the end of the 19th century and into the 20th century, the [[Meiji era]] occurred during the reign of the\",\n \"title\": \"Modern history\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"579393\",\n \"text\": \"Arabic, 0.85% (19,388) various Indic languages, 0.70% (15,936) Urdu, and African languages were spoken as a main language by 0.54% (12,305) of the population over the age of five. In total, 45.88% (1,051,456) of Brooklyn's population ages 5 and older spoke a mother language other than English. Brooklyn's neighborhoods are dynamic in ethnic composition. For example, during the early to mid-20th century, Brownsville had a majority of Jewish residents; since the 1970s it has been majority African American. Midwood during the early 20th century was filled with ethnic Irish, then filled with Jewish residents for nearly 50 years, and is\",\n \"title\": \"Brooklyn\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"16985866\",\n \"text\": \"soon set up state Baptist associations, aided by churches in the Midwest, and eventually the National Baptist Convention (which split in the 20th century). The \\\"white\\\" Canaan Baptist church also still operates in Bessemer as part of the Southern Baptist Convention. Canaan Baptist Church in Bessemer was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005 for its role as a locally significant property and key strategy center in the city during the Civil Rights Movement in the Birmingham area from the early to mid-1960s. The African-American congregation of Canaan Baptist has occupied this lot in downtown Bessemer since\",\n \"title\": \"Canaan Baptist Church (Bessemer, Alabama)\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"1128860\",\n \"text\": \"Natural History and Culture, University of East Tennessee began conducting surveys in 1995 to explore African-American life and culture from the slavery period through emancipation and into the early 20th century. He has led teams in excavating several households, a schoolhouse, a church, and a Masonic Lodge that were part of Arrow Rock's African-American community. Dr. Baumann confirmed that the Masonic Lodge had been built over the site of the Caldwell Pottery Works, the third largest pottery works in Missouri during the 1850s and 1860s. Remains of a beehive kiln, outbuildings and thousands of shards of pottery and testing clay\",\n \"title\": \"Arrow Rock, Missouri\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"33995\",\n \"text\": \"back to the music of Africa. That blue notes predate their use in blues and have an African origin is attested to by \\\"A Negro Love Song\\\", by the English composer Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, from his \\\"African Suite for Piano\\\", written in 1898, which contains blue third and seventh notes. The Diddley bow (a homemade one-stringed instrument found in parts of the American South in the early twentieth century) and the banjo are African-derived instruments that may have helped in the transfer of African performance techniques into the early blues instrumental vocabulary. The banjo seems to be directly imported from West\",\n \"title\": \"Blues\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"18422728\",\n \"text\": \"political movement, anti-imperialism originated in Europe in the late 19th and early 20th centuries in opposition to the growing European colonial empires and the United States control of the Philippines after 1898. However, it reached its highest level of popular support in the colonies themselves, where it formed the basis for a wide variety of national liberation movements during the mid-20th century and later. These movements, and their anti-imperialist ideas, were instrumental in the decolonization process of the 1950s and 1960s, which saw most European colonies in Asia and Africa achieving their independence. An early use of the term \\\"anti-imperialist\\\"\",\n \"title\": \"Anti-imperialism\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"9873926\",\n \"text\": \"terrified the population of African Americans in the community and effectively segregated them from the rest of the city, the civil rights movement in Omaha did not gain large-scale momentum until the 1920s. With early 20th century growth in the number of African American migrants recruited by the meatpacking industry, the population doubled from 1910 to 1920. Some groups in the city resisted such changes. 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He played Sheriff Graham Humbert in the ABC series \"Once Upon a Time\" (2011–2013), and serial killer Paul Spector in the BBC Two and RTÉ One crime drama series \"The Fall\" (2013–2016), the latter of which won him an Irish Film and Television Award for Best Actor in Television and was nominated for a British Academy Television Award for Best Actor . In film, he portrayed Axel von Fersen in Sofia Coppola's \"Marie Antoinette\" (2006), Christian Grey in the \"Fifty Shades\" franchise (2015–2018),","title":"Jamie Dornan"}],"string":"[\n {\n \"docid\": \"8373477\",\n \"text\": \"Jamie Dornan James Dornan (born 1 May 1982) is an actor, model, and musician from Northern Ireland. 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By chance, youngster Arthur \"Pinky\" Thompson (Ted Donaldson) shows him \"Curly\" (the original title of the film), a caterpillar that gets up on its tail and dances when Pinky plays \"Yes Sir, That's My Baby\" on his harmonica. Pinky refuses to let Jerry buy","title":"Once Upon a Time (1944 film)"},{"docid":"17610138","text":"like everybody else. He's human.\" Dallas subsequently began dating his \"Once Upon a Time\" co-star Goodwin in fall 2011. Dallas and Goodwin became engaged in October 2013, and married on April 12, 2014 in California. They have one child, a son, born in May 2014. David Nolan (Once Upon a Time) David Nolan, also known as Prince Charming, is a fictional character in ABC's television series \"Once Upon a Time\". He is portrayed by Josh Dallas, who also happens to be married to series co-star Ginnifer Goodwin, who plays David's wife Snow White/Mary Margaret Blanchard. The leader of the Enchanted","title":"David Nolan (Once Upon a Time)"},{"docid":"16253989","text":"27 January. Jesse Kewley-Graham Jesse James Kewley-Graham (born 15 June 1993) is an English footballer who plays for Combined Counties Premier Division club Walton & Hersham as a midfielder. He has also played for Wycombe Wanderers, Staines Town, Havant & Waterlooville, Hampton & Richmond Borough and Hanwell Town. Kewley-Graham progressed through the youth ranks at Brentford and Wycombe Wanderers before signing a professional contract in 2011. On 21 January 2012, he made his professional debut as an injury time substitute in a 3–0 League One win against Rochdale. He signed a one-year extension in June 2013, and was released upon","title":"Jesse Kewley-Graham"},{"docid":"16253986","text":"Jesse Kewley-Graham Jesse James Kewley-Graham (born 15 June 1993) is an English footballer who plays for Combined Counties Premier Division club Walton & Hersham as a midfielder. He has also played for Wycombe Wanderers, Staines Town, Havant & Waterlooville, Hampton & Richmond Borough and Hanwell Town. Kewley-Graham progressed through the youth ranks at Brentford and Wycombe Wanderers before signing a professional contract in 2011. On 21 January 2012, he made his professional debut as an injury time substitute in a 3–0 League One win against Rochdale. He signed a one-year extension in June 2013, and was released upon the expiration","title":"Jesse Kewley-Graham"},{"docid":"16499612","text":"and \"RPA\". In 2009, the Special Broadcasting Service (SBS) commissioned Fredbird Entertainment, Graham's independent production company, to produce \"Zumbo\", an Australian observational documentary series about master patissier Adriano Zumbo. Fredbird Entertainment and Northern Pictures co-produced \"Once Upon a Time in Cabramatta\" for SBS. The first episode attracted 620,000 viewers. Graham produced the mini-series, broadcast in January 2012, which described the turbulent story of a multicultural Sydney suburb. \"The Age\" described Graham as a \"gifted storyteller\" whose treatment of the subject was \"pitch-perfect, the ideal blend of exposition and witness accounts\". In October 2012 \"Once Upon A Time in Cabramatta\" was","title":"Craig Graham"},{"docid":"9162543","text":"Once Upon a Time in Manila Once Upon a Time in Manila is a 1994 Filipino action comedy film. Vic Sotto plays a barangay tanod who always seems to have a knack for saving the local folks from dangerous situations, just in the nick of time. Cynthia Luster is Lt. Cynthia Wang, is a Royal Hong Kong Police on the look-out for Nikita, the infamous gang leader. Amparo Lagman (played by Ms. Gloria Sevilla), working as a domestic helper, becomes the unwitting target of the Nikita's gang when she comes into possession of some important documents and papers. Nikita follows","title":"Once Upon a Time in Manila"},{"docid":"17610122","text":"David Nolan (Once Upon a Time) David Nolan, also known as Prince Charming, is a fictional character in ABC's television series \"Once Upon a Time\". He is portrayed by Josh Dallas, who also happens to be married to series co-star Ginnifer Goodwin, who plays David's wife Snow White/Mary Margaret Blanchard. The leader of the Enchanted Forest's War Council who is comatose in Storybrooke. While initially he is known simply as \"John Doe\" in Storybrooke because of his comatose state, he is eventually revealed to be called David Nolan, after waking up. The creators also mixed Charming's history with that of","title":"David Nolan (Once Upon a Time)"},{"docid":"9162544","text":"her to the Philippines, along with Lt. Cynthia Wang who is in pursuit of Nikita. A game of cat-and-mouse ensues as everyone gets swept up in a tale of international espionage with a dash of love and romance thrown into the crazy mix. Once Upon a Time in Manila Once Upon a Time in Manila is a 1994 Filipino action comedy film. Vic Sotto plays a barangay tanod who always seems to have a knack for saving the local folks from dangerous situations, just in the nick of time. Cynthia Luster is Lt. Cynthia Wang, is a Royal Hong Kong","title":"Once Upon a Time in Manila"},{"docid":"13682307","text":"that Curly has transformed into a butterfly. The film's working titles were \"Curly\", \"My Friend Curly\", \"My Client Curly\" and \"Yes Sir, That's My Baby\". Once Upon a Time (1944 film) Once Upon a Time is a 1944 fantasy film involving a dancing caterpillar who lives in a small box. Cary Grant plays a conniving showman who desperately needs money to save his theater. Jerry Flynn (Cary Grant) has to come up with $100,000 within a week to keep his theater. By chance, youngster Arthur \"Pinky\" Thompson (Ted Donaldson) shows him \"Curly\" (the original title of the film), a caterpillar","title":"Once Upon a Time (1944 film)"},{"docid":"17288207","text":"at her core, she is a steadfastly filled with optimism. It was later announced that Sunny Mabrey was cast as the character. After \"Once Upon a Time in Wonderland\" was canceled, it was reported that Michael Socha, who plays the Knave of Hearts, was in talks to join the main cast in Season 4. On April 2014, it was confirmed that Michael Socha will become a regular for Once Upon a Time's fourth season. On September 12, 2013, ABC released the original cast promotional photos for the season. However, due to fan backlash, the photos were removed. Instead, new photos","title":"Once Upon a Time (season 3)"},{"docid":"15309484","text":"Goodwin, Jennifer Morrison, Johnny Depp, Maury Chaykin, Paul Sorvino, Dean McDermott and Jenny McCarthy. Mig plays the iconic Disney character Bashful of the 7 dwarfs on the hit ABC series Once Upon A Time. Macario has had roles on the Gemini award winning, dark comedy \"Less Than Kind\", \"Level Up\", Sanctuary, \"FRINGE\" for Fox and Nickelodeon's \"The Troop\". ↑ 1.0 1.1 https://twitter.com/MigMacario/status/312618874812133378 http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/tv/la-et-st-once-upon-a-time-witch-hunt-pictures-004-photo.html http://www.wevancouver.com/arts/film-television/once-upon-a-time-actor-rallies-for-typhoon-haiyan-1.880776 http://canadianimmigrant.ca/immigrant-stories/fantasy-career-for-filipino-actor-mig-macario http://onequestioninterviews.com/2013/11/mig-macario-how-can-we-help-typhoon-haiyan-recovery-in-the-philippines/ http://www.onceuponafans.com/mig-macario http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/entertainment/.../fil-canadian-cast-hit-us-tv-show http://wormholeriders.net/sanctuary/?p=94 http://wormholeriders.net/sanctuary/?p=30307 Mig Macario Mig Macario is a Filipino-Canadian actor. He plays the iconic role of Bashful of the 7 dwarfs on the hit ABC series \"Once Upon A Time\", the role","title":"Mig Macario"},{"docid":"19707233","text":"to injury, Graham was signed for the 2016–17 season with the Sydney Uni Flames. Graham made her international debut at the 2009 Summer Universiade where she helped Australia take home the bronze medal in Belgrade, Serbia. She once again suited up for Australia at the 2011 Summer Universiade where they would once again take home the bronze medal in Shenzhen, China. Sarah Graham (basketball) Sarah Graham (born 22 August 1989) is an Australian basketball player who currently plays for the Sydney Uni Flames in the Women's National Basketball League. Graham began her professional career in 2007, for the Dandenong Rangers.","title":"Sarah Graham (basketball)"},{"docid":"2566077","text":"Upon a Time in the West\". \"Deborah's Theme\" was written for another film in the 1970s but was rejected; Morricone presented the piece to Leone, who was initially reluctant to include it, considering it too similar to Morricone's main title music for \"Once Upon a Time in the West\". The score is also notable for Morricone’s incorporation of the music of Gheorghe Zamfir, who plays a pan flute. At times this music is used to convey remembrance, at other times terror. Zamfir’s flute music was used to similarly haunting effect in Peter Weir’s \"Picnic at Hanging Rock\" (1975). Morricone also","title":"Once Upon a Time in America"},{"docid":"10419581","text":"qualifier meeting with Galway. Callanan was introduced as a late substitute once again, however, Cork were knocked out of the championship by 1-19 to 0-15. Cork Senior Hurling Championship: Graham Callinan Graham Callinan (born 1982 in Blackpool, Cork) is an Irish sportsperson. He plays hurling with his local club Glen Rovers and has been a member of the Cork senior inter-county team since 2008. Callanan plays club hurling with Glen Rovers, one of the most famous clubs of all-time. He first came to prominence with 'the Glen' as a member of the minor hurling team. In 1999 he lined out","title":"Graham Callinan"},{"docid":"16122618","text":"The Shepherd (Once Upon a Time) \"The Shepherd\" is the sixth episode of the American Fairy Tale/Drama television series \"Once Upon a Time\". The series takes place in the fictional seaside town of Storybrooke, Maine, in which the residents are actually characters from various fairy tales that were transported to the \"real world\" town by a powerful curse. This episode revolves around David's (Josh Dallas) increasing attraction to Mary Margaret (Ginnifer Goodwin), the back story behind Prince Charming's (Dallas) past, and Sheriff Graham (Jamie Dornan) getting caught lying. It was co-written by Ian B. Goldberg and Andrew Chambliss, while being","title":"The Shepherd (Once Upon a Time)"},{"docid":"16138468","text":"Kitsis [took] one step forward and two steps back with this development.\" The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (Once Upon a Time) \"The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter\" is the seventh episode of the first season of the American fairy tale/drama television series \"Once Upon a Time\", and the seventh overall. The episode was co-written by series creators Adam Horowitz and Edward Kitsis, while being directed by David M. Barrett. Horowitz and Kitsis had intended to kill off Graham since the pilot episode was picked up, believing that it would add \"stakes\" to the series and show viewers that the","title":"The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (Once Upon a Time)"},{"docid":"16138444","text":"The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (Once Upon a Time) \"The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter\" is the seventh episode of the first season of the American fairy tale/drama television series \"Once Upon a Time\", and the seventh overall. The episode was co-written by series creators Adam Horowitz and Edward Kitsis, while being directed by David M. Barrett. Horowitz and Kitsis had intended to kill off Graham since the pilot episode was picked up, believing that it would add \"stakes\" to the series and show viewers that the story is \"not in Henry's head.\" The episode is considered significant, as","title":"The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (Once Upon a Time)"},{"docid":"16138451","text":"Graham and Emma then encounter the wolf from Graham's visions, and follow it to a graveyard and vault marked with a symbol Graham saw in his visions and in Henry's book. Looking for his heart, Graham fervently searches the vault, which turns out to be the tomb of Henry Mills. Regina arrives to place flowers on her father's grave and is furious to find them there. Regina accuses Emma of stealing the sheriff from her, and Emma responds that Regina has chased everyone away. Graham defends Emma, and the women exchange blows. Later, while Graham cleans Emma's wounds, Regina pushes","title":"The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (Once Upon a Time)"},{"docid":"16138462","text":"kill Graham by squeezing the heart of his fairytale counterpart. The revelation of the vault, Kitsis and Horowitz explained, \"is a very important thing for us in terms of moving forward in the season in that we wanted to send a very clear message that Regina knows what’s going on and has some very clear intentions in Storybrooke.\" The episode was included in \"Reawakened: A Once Upon a Time Tale\" – a novelization of the first season – which was published by Hyperion Books in 2013. For the third week in a row, the ratings once again slipped, as it","title":"The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (Once Upon a Time)"},{"docid":"16499613","text":"nominated for the 2012 Walkley awards for Excellence in Journalism. Craig Graham Craig Graham is an Australian producer of television shows such as \"The Embassy\", 2014 Channel 9. \"Air Rescue\", 2013 Channel 7. \"Hatch, Match and Dispatch\", 2016 ABC. \"Moment of Truth\", 2016 ABC iView. \"Maurice's Big Adventure\", 2016 ABC Kids. \"The Justine Clarke Show\", 2017 ABC Kids. \"RPA,\" \"Once Upon a Time in Cabramatta\", \"The Great Outdoors\", \"\", \"Zumbo\", and \"Contract Killers\". Graham got his first break in television as a researcher on \"Money\". In 2001, he produced \"The Great Outdoors\" (2001–2003) for the Seven Network. It was a","title":"Craig Graham"},{"docid":"16499610","text":"Craig Graham Craig Graham is an Australian producer of television shows such as \"The Embassy\", 2014 Channel 9. \"Air Rescue\", 2013 Channel 7. \"Hatch, Match and Dispatch\", 2016 ABC. \"Moment of Truth\", 2016 ABC iView. \"Maurice's Big Adventure\", 2016 ABC Kids. \"The Justine Clarke Show\", 2017 ABC Kids. \"RPA,\" \"Once Upon a Time in Cabramatta\", \"The Great Outdoors\", \"\", \"Zumbo\", and \"Contract Killers\". Graham got his first break in television as a researcher on \"Money\". In 2001, he produced \"The Great Outdoors\" (2001–2003) for the Seven Network. It was a presenter-driven lifestyle series about the best places to visit in","title":"Craig Graham"},{"docid":"20096462","text":"car accident on the M6 motorway to make a total of 11 appearances for Kevin Davies's \"Sandgrounders\". Upon his return to Vale Park he was informed by manager Neil Aspin that he would not be retained beyond the summer. On 2 August 2018, Kelly joined NIFL Championship side Larne. Kelly won four caps at for the Republic of Ireland at both under-18 and under-19 level, and scored for the under-19s against Latvia in November 2015. Graham Kelly (footballer, born 1997) Graham Kelly (born 16 October 1997) is an Irish professional footballer who plays as a left-back for NIFL Championship side","title":"Graham Kelly (footballer, born 1997)"},{"docid":"10207399","text":"pop singles chart. The song's co-writer, Dave Hamilton, plays the vibraharp solo. Once Upon a Time (Marvin Gaye and Mary Wells song) \"Once Upon a Time\" is a 1964 single released by Marvin Gaye and Mary Wells from their sole duet album, \"Together\". Written by Clarence Paul, Barney Ales, Dave Hamilton and William \"Mickey\" Stevenson, the song discussed how the two narrators felt lonely until they met each other referring to their past as it happened \"once upon a time\". The song brought simultaneous top forty pop success for the duo as the single hit number nineteen while its b-side,","title":"Once Upon a Time (Marvin Gaye and Mary Wells song)"},{"docid":"16138448","text":"he runs into Mr. Gold (Robert Carlyle). Graham tells him about the wolf, and Mr. Gold suggests to him that dreams are memories from another life. The following morning, Emma discovers flowers on the table and throws them out, assuming they are from Graham, but Mary Margaret (Ginnifer Goodwin) says that they were hers from Dr. Whale (David Anders), with whom she had a one-night stand. Emma is glad to hear that Mary Margaret appears to be getting over David (Josh Dallas). Mary Margaret tells Emma that it is obvious that she has feelings for Graham, but does not acknowledge","title":"The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (Once Upon a Time)"},{"docid":"17519653","text":"lacks an actual identity (not forgetting the quite frankly unnecessary length), while it’s multiple genres makes it ‘Once Upon a Time’s Achilles’ heel and leaves it lacking the organic sound an album should possess.\" Wilfred Okiche of \"YNaija\" said: \"At 21 songs, there are just too many fillers, too much autotune, too much Don Jazzy and an over dependence on the gloss. One has to dig deep to find the real substance. It plays like Ms Savage is just pandering, surrendering to market dictates while throwing a bit of her true self in between.\" \"Once Upon a Time\" was nominated","title":"Once Upon a Time (Tiwa Savage album)"},{"docid":"16138447","text":"of a wolf, only to have Emma push him away. Frustrated by Emma's lack of understanding, Graham, drunk, later has sex with Regina. In the middle of the night, he awakens abruptly from a dream of a deer and a wolf. When Graham tells Regina that the dream felt like a memory, Regina tries to convince him to stay, telling him that he's still drunk, but Graham leaves. As Graham attempts to get to his car, the wolf from his visions appears next to him, startling him before it leaves. As he tries to find the wolf in the woods,","title":"The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (Once Upon a Time)"},{"docid":"1976194","text":"the DVD release. Actor Al Mulock (featured as Knuckles in the opening train sequence, as well as in Leone's \"The Good, the Bad and the Ugly\") committed suicide during shooting of the film by leaping from his Guadix hotel room in full costume. Frank Wolff, the actor who plays McBain, also committed suicide in a Rome hotel in 1971. Following the film's completion, \"Once Upon a Time in the West\" was dubbed into several languages, including Italian, French, German, Spanish and English. For the English dub, the voices of much of the American cast, including Fonda, Bronson, Jason Robards, Jack","title":"Once Upon a Time in the West"},{"docid":"9759924","text":"to jump out. Jamie convinces Graham that tenting is fun. Jamie stands in the small shop choosing gear while Graham remains outside with his caseworker. She quickly tells Graham to beware of knots for once they are tied they are harder to get out from. It's a happy experience, Jamie plays in a creek while teaching an inept Graham the ways of camping or as the English refer to it as tenting. Jamie tests Graham as well by finding a stick and giving himself and injury on his forehead. He tells Graham while remembering an experience by his birth father,","title":"Second Best (film)"},{"docid":"9922363","text":"Where's That Fire? Where's That Fire? is a 1940 British comedy film, produced by Twentieth Century Fox, directed by Marcel Varnel and starring Will Hay, Moore Marriott and Graham Moffatt. It was the last film Will Hay made with his stuntmen Moore Marriott and Graham Moffatt and the humour of Hay's films after he dropped work with them changed. Will Hay plays the incompetent Fire Captain Viking who fails to find a large fire, gets lost in the process and ends up on a newspaper headline as 'The engine that never made it'. Finally upon arriving at the location of","title":"Where's That Fire?"},{"docid":"5846037","text":"Once Upon a Time in China and America Once Upon a Time in China and America, also known as Once Upon a Time in China VI, is a 1997 Hong Kong–Chinese martial arts film directed by Lau Kar-wing and Sammo Hung in his last directorial effort until \"The Bodyguard\", who also worked on the film's fight choreography. The film is the sixth and final installment in the \"Once Upon a Time in China\" film series. It also saw the return of Jet Li as Chinese martial arts master and folk hero of Cantonese ethnicity, Wong Fei-hung, who was replaced by","title":"Once Upon a Time in China and America"},{"docid":"19170080","text":"in which she played Elizabeth Berkley. In early 2017, she began playing the recurring role of Polly Cooper on The CW teen drama series \"Riverdale\". Skovbye played the recurring role of Robin, the daughter of Zelena and Robin Hood, during the seventh season of \"Once Upon a Time\". In 2018, Skovbye appeared in the horror mystery film \"Summer of 84\", opposite Graham Verchere, Judah Lewis and Rich Sommer. Skovbye was born in Vancouver, British Columbia. She has a younger sister, Ali, who is also an actress. On August 14, 2017, Skovbye announced her engagement to Jameson Parker. Tiera Skovbye Tiera","title":"Tiera Skovbye"},{"docid":"6152639","text":"(the \"lethal liquid\"). At the village square, Graham manages to get a map copy done for him, which he then shows to Ali to obtain the location of the item. Upon visiting Shamir at the Castle, Graham finds out that the genie once belonged to one of the members of the so-called \"Black Cloak Society\", who might be the owner of the cloak. Knowing that Valanice (and, thus, his own children) are descendants of the \"Silver Cloaks\", who were an ancient clan of magic protectors, Graham wonders if both are related. He then thanks Shamir and makes his way by","title":"The Silver Lining (video game)"},{"docid":"16138464","text":"Hunter\" received mixed reviews from television critics. TV Fanatic writer C. Orlando enjoyed the episode, remarking \"I love \"Once Upon a Time\" because it's like a mini-movie every week and I'm completely enthralled by this intriguing other world filled with characters that feel familiar yet completely new.\" He called the ending scene \"heartbreaking.\" IGN writer Amy Ratcliffe rated the episode 9/10, giving particular praise to Jamie Dornan's ability to be \"magnetic in every scene.\" Ratcliffe called his backstory her favorite fairytale of the series up to that point. Television Without Pity's Cindy McLennan wished they had not killed Graham, but","title":"The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (Once Upon a Time)"},{"docid":"13071664","text":"Graham Carey Graham Carey (born 20 May 1989) is an Irish professional footballer who plays for Football League One club Plymouth Argyle. He plays as a left sided attacking midfielder. Carey joined Celtic in 2005 from Shelbourne's youth team and made his Celtic debut in 2009 against Rapid Vienna in the UEFA Europa League, He has played six times for the Republic of Ireland Under 21 team, having been capped at all International levels from under 15. During his time at Celtic Carey had loan spells with Bohemians in the League of Ireland, St Mirren and Huddersfield Town in League","title":"Graham Carey"},{"docid":"16138458","text":"place, trying to come to terms with her feelings about what she discovered about Graham. Graham is also in a very raw emotional place because he's clearly conflicted and it's this cauldron of emotions that leads to the kiss.\" Kitsis added that, \"We're really excited that the kiss that you've seen is really just the jumping off point of the story we're telling. It's not like it ends with the kiss, it starts with that and it takes us somewhere that we're excited to show you.\" In the episode, the character of Sheriff Graham was killed off, something that actor","title":"The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (Once Upon a Time)"},{"docid":"16138450","text":"Henry about his book. Meanwhile, at the sheriff's office, Regina shows up and warns Emma to stay away from Graham, apparently jealous of his connection with Emma. Graham visits Henry (Jared S. Gilmore) and describes his visions, to which Henry replies that he must be the queen's Huntsman. The Huntsman was hired by the Evil Queen to remove Snow White's heart and bring it back to her, but when he does not do so, she removes his heart. Graham later attempts to explain to Emma that he could not feel anything with Regina because he does not have a heart.","title":"The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (Once Upon a Time)"},{"docid":"16138446","text":"and CBS. The episode received mixed reviews from television critics, as some praised Dornan's character but were divided on the ending sequence. It was the series' mid-season finale. A wolf is shown in the forest. In Granny's Cafe, Sheriff Graham (Jamie Dornan) throws darts at a picture of a deer very accurately. Emma Swan (Jennifer Morrison) arrives but leaves immediately because she has not forgiven him for hiding his relationship with Regina (Lana Parrilla). Emma attempts to avoid conversation, but Graham is insistent on explaining to her he feels nothing for Regina. He kisses Emma and suddenly sees a vision","title":"The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (Once Upon a Time)"},{"docid":"8373481","text":"in a film was Count Axel Fersen in the Sofia Coppola film \"Marie Antoinette\" (2006). Dornan also appeared in the drama film \"Shadows in the Sun\" (2009), which starred three-time Academy Award nominee Jean Simmons. In 2008, he played the lead role of Ed in the Hammer Horror production \"Beyond the Rave\". In 2011, Dornan appeared in nine episodes of the ABC television series \"Once Upon a Time\", playing the role of Sheriff Graham. While Graham from Storybrooke was killed by the town's mayor Regina (The Evil Queen) in the episode \"The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter\", Dornan stated that","title":"Jamie Dornan"},{"docid":"470802","text":"stampede over the railroad. The construction of what presumably is – or is suggested to be – the Transcontinental Railroad provides the backdrop of the 1968 epic spaghetti western \"Once Upon a Time in the West\", directed by Italian director Sergio Leone. Kristiana Gregory's book \"The Great Railroad Race\" (part of the \"Dear America\" series) is written as the fictional diary of Libby West, who chronicles the end of the railroad construction and the excitement which engulfed the country at the time. Graham Masterton's 1981 novel \"A Man of Destiny\" (published in the UK as \"Railroad\") is a fictionalized account","title":"First Transcontinental Railroad"},{"docid":"12769669","text":"Once Upon a Christmas Song \"Once Upon a Christmas Song\" was the second single by fictional character Geraldine McQueen from \"Britain's Got the Pop Factor...\", a mock talent contest/comedy by British comedian Peter Kay who also plays Geraldine. The CD was released on 15 December 2008, with the download available a day earlier. It was a charity single with proceeds going to the NSPCC. The song was co-written by Peter Kay and Gary Barlow. In 2016, an instrumental version of the song served as the theme tune to BBC One's compilation series \"Peter Kay's Comedy Shuffle\". The video for \"Once","title":"Once Upon a Christmas Song"},{"docid":"13496196","text":"Graham Bencini Graham Bencini (born 25 July 1976 in Sliema, Malta) is a former professional footballer who last played for Maltese First Division side Tarxien Rainbows, where he played as a defender. Bencini played twice for the Malta national team in 1999, once in a friendly match against Bosnia and Herzegovina and once in a Euro 2000 qualifier against FR Yugoslavia. Bencini began playing football when he was eight years old. He joined the Sliema Wanderers nursery, where he stayed for ten years winning all youth championship honours during that time. At 18 years old, Graham was promoted to the","title":"Graham Bencini"},{"docid":"16005290","text":"Would You Rather...? with Graham Norton Would You Rather...? with Graham Norton is a panel game hosted by Graham Norton on BBC America. The show features a panel of American comedians and celebrities who answer \"would you rather\" questions in the style of the popular parlor game. An example of a question used on the program is, \"Would you rather watch your parents have sex every day for a year, or join in once just to make it stop?\" The show premiered on 3 December 2011, in its regular time slot of Saturdays at 11 pm following \"The Graham Norton","title":"Would You Rather...? with Graham Norton"},{"docid":"16122622","text":"Sheriff Graham can volunteer at the animal shelter. While on patrol, Emma sees a person climbing out of the Mayor's home. As she stops to capture the individual, she is shocked to see that it is none other than Sheriff Graham himself and realizes he is having an affair with Regina. Disgusted, Emma storms off and tells the Sheriff he can finish her shift. Meanwhile, in the Enchanted Forest, Prince James (Dallas) competes in a battle against a challenger, preparing for his acceptance from King Midas (Alex Zahara) to slay a dragon as part of a deal between him and","title":"The Shepherd (Once Upon a Time)"},{"docid":"11323697","text":"pidgin fairy tale plays which would include sequels \"Once Upon One Noddah Time\" and \"Once Upon One Kapakahi Time\", as well as \"Happily Eva Afta\" and \"On Dragonfly Wings\". In 1995, she founded ‘Ōhi‘a Productions, a company which still produces some of her shows; she and her cousin Michael Furuya jointly chose the name, which refers to the plant \"Metrosideros polymorpha\", known locally as \"ʻōhiʻa lehua\". However, she began to move beyond her standard formula with \"The Princess and the Iso Peanut\", first performed at the Diamond Head Theatre in July 1999. \"The Princess and the Iso Peanut\", based on","title":"Lisa Matsumoto"},{"docid":"18322647","text":"will remember her eventually, but when he asked if she needs his help, the Snow Queen declined, and stated that when she's ready to make a deal, she'll come to him. Gold says that he eagerly awaits that moment and walks away. As Emma tries to remember her past encounter with the Snow Queen, Hook confronts her, and explains that after losing Neal, Graham and Walsh, she did not want to lose Hook either. They then share a kiss together. While all this is going on, Regina and Henry team up to attempt to find out the identity of who","title":"Rocky Road (Once Upon a Time)"},{"docid":"20344352","text":"The Serpent (Once Upon a Time in Wonderland) \"The Serpent\" is the fourth episode of the \"Once Upon a Time\" spin-off series \"Once Upon a Time in Wonderland\". The Knave of Hearts is kidnapped by the Red Queen (on behalf of Jafar) after saving him from Caterpillar's Collectors. Jafar wants him publicly beheaded to serve as an example of what happens to anyone who helps Alice. Alice befriends a collector named \"Lizard\" who helps Alice in her mission to rescue the Knave of Hearts. Meanwhile, the Red Queen is hesitant to kill the Knave since she's still in love with","title":"The Serpent (Once Upon a Time in Wonderland)"},{"docid":"14468991","text":"\"Tu vuò fà l'americano\" in another. In another scene the Italian song \"La Bambola\" by Patty Pravo plays. \"Once Upon a Time in the West\", with Henry Fonda facing off as villain in a gunfight, is playing on a television on the back wall of a modest restaurant where Jack has been eating. In the DVD commentary, Corbijn notes this homage and says the American Western—and more specifically the Italian-American spaghetti westerns by Leone and others—were explicit models for \"The American\". Corbijn also notes the Ennio Morricone scores made famous in \"Once Upon a Time in the West\", \"The Good,","title":"The American (2010 film)"},{"docid":"16138453","text":"the Queen seemingly comfort each other over the loss. The Queen consults her magic mirror (Esposito) to ask how she can kill Snow, who is beloved by the people but a threat to her bid for the throne. She says that the king's knights will not kill his daughter, and the mirror tells her that she needs a huntsman. As Graham saw in his flashbacks, the Huntsman (Dornan) and his brother wolf seem to enjoy living a peaceful life in the woods. The Huntsman kills only for himself to live, and has no compassion for humans, who do not understand","title":"The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (Once Upon a Time)"},{"docid":"5365318","text":"A Time: The Singles\" the 7th Greatest Album of All-Time by a Female Artist. In 2012, \"Rolling Stone\" ranked the album 44th on its \"Women Who Rock: The 50 Greatest Albums of All Time\" list. A vinyl 180g reissue is scheduled to be released for early 2019. Once Upon a Time: The Singles Once Upon a Time: The Singles is Siouxsie and the Banshees's 1981 compilation album featuring the band's UK single releases to date. The album featured several songs that had been released as singles yet had not appeared on any of the Banshees' four albums. \"Once Upon a","title":"Once Upon a Time: The Singles"},{"docid":"16131743","text":"Neal, equally rebellious and feeling abandoned by his own father. As Emma stays in Storybrooke and is soon elected as Sheriff following the sudden death of the previous Sheriff, Graham Humbert (Jamie Dornan), who was really the Huntsman, Regina's antagonistic attitude raises her suspicions and prompts her to move in with Henry's teacher Mary Margaret Blanchard, who is really her mother Snow White. Regina's bitter rivalry with Storybrooke's wealthiest resident, Mr. Gold, becomes heated when she learns he is aware of his true identity as Rumplestiltskin when she asks about Emma's relationship to the curse. Mary Margaret falls in love","title":"Once Upon a Time (season 1)"},{"docid":"16131755","text":"7, 2013 in paperback form. Once Upon a Time (season 1) The first season of the ABC television series \"Once Upon a Time\" premiered on October 23, 2011 and concluded on May 13, 2012. The series was created by Edward Kitsis and Adam Horowitz. The series centers around the Enchanted Forest and Storybrooke, and the Evil Queen's (Lana Parrilla) plot to destroy everyone's happiness so she can be the only one with a happy ending. \"Once Upon a Time\"s first season received generally favorable reviews from critics who praised its cast, visuals, and twists on fairy tales, though some criticized","title":"Once Upon a Time (season 1)"},{"docid":"16131738","text":"Once Upon a Time (season 1) The first season of the ABC television series \"Once Upon a Time\" premiered on October 23, 2011 and concluded on May 13, 2012. The series was created by Edward Kitsis and Adam Horowitz. The series centers around the Enchanted Forest and Storybrooke, and the Evil Queen's (Lana Parrilla) plot to destroy everyone's happiness so she can be the only one with a happy ending. \"Once Upon a Time\"s first season received generally favorable reviews from critics who praised its cast, visuals, and twists on fairy tales, though some criticized its uneven tone. The pilot","title":"Once Upon a Time (season 1)"},{"docid":"16744737","text":"Graham Burke Graham Dylan Burke (born 21 September 1993) is an Irish professional footballer who plays as a forward for Championship club Preston North End. Burke has represented the Republic of Ireland at senior level. Burke was born in Dublin. He was first called up to a first-team matchday squad for Aston Villa's 2–0 home defeat against Bolton Wanderers in the third round of the League Cup on 20 September 2011, remaining an unused substitute. On 18 December he was included in the squad for the first time in the Premier League, again unused in a loss by the same","title":"Graham Burke"},{"docid":"17567245","text":"Jonny Coyne Jonathan Coyne is an English actor, the middle child of a seamstress and a professional footballer. He is best known for playing Warden Edwin James on Fox's short-lived series, \"Alcatraz\" (2012).<ref name=\"http://www.deadline.com\"></ref> He also appeared as Dr. Lydgate in \"Once Upon a Time in Wonderland\" and \"Once Upon a Time\"<ref name=\"http://onceuponatimeinwonderland.com\"></ref> and recurred as George de Mohrenschildt in 11.22.63. Coyne's earliest performances were in school plays. He played leading roles in two productions: The Judge in Oscar Wilde's \"Hang of the Gaol\" and Phaeton in Ovid's \"Chariot of the Sun\". He won rave reviews for his performances in","title":"Jonny Coyne"},{"docid":"16547793","text":"before the age of majority, and received those letters of dispensation on 7 October 1587. He was married to Mary Campbell on 22 October 1587. Upon his receiving the earldom, the same year that he married, he was again in a lawsuit with his mother over certain lands, which she stated were given to her by her husband, William Graham, the 5th Earl, but were now demanded by John Graham of Fintry, who was tutoring the young Earl at that time. After the lawsuit, a small clash broke out in the lands of Kelwode (Kolwod), where Margaret Graham resided, and","title":"John Graham, 6th Earl of Menteith"},{"docid":"5331418","text":"\"Gluefingers\" – a name bestowed upon him by Browns announcer Bob Neal – was more widely used. He practiced with Graham tirelessly to refine routes and was not afraid to run over the middle, where he risked a pounding from defenders when the ball came his way. \"Dante was the greatest guy at catching a ball in a crowd that I have ever seen,\" Brown once said. Among other innovations, he and Graham also mastered sideline patterns at a time when few teams used them. The Browns won another championship in 1954, thanks in part to a strong regular-season performance","title":"Dante Lavelli"},{"docid":"15640549","text":"at the box office without diminishing each other's profits. \"Once Upon Time in Mumbai Dobaara\" was released on 1,300–1,600 screens for India's 67th Independence Day, and some cinemas were sold out. The screen count increased on 16 August to 2,500–2,700 nationwide. \"Once Upon Time in Mumbai Dobaara!\" received mixed-to-negative reviews. Anupama Chopra gave the film three out of five stars in \"The Hindustan Times\": \"Once Upon Ay Time in Mumbaai Dobaara! had me cheering for the bad guy. Which, at least in the movies, is never a bad thing. The film gets one extra star for Akshay Kumar, who makes","title":"Once Upon ay Time in Mumbai Dobaara!"},{"docid":"12111716","text":"out for the rest of the season. Wade Graham Wade Graham (born 25 October 1990) is a rugby league footballer who plays for the Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks in the National Rugby League. Graham previously played for the Penrith Panthers between 2008 and 2010 and primarily plays as a and . Graham has represented both Australia and Portugal and is a New South Wales State of Origin, City Origin and Indigenous All Stars representative. Born in Blacktown, New South Wales, Graham is of Indigenous Australian descent. Graham played his junior rugby league for Blacktown City and attended The Hills Sports High School","title":"Wade Graham"},{"docid":"12111706","text":"Wade Graham Wade Graham (born 25 October 1990) is a rugby league footballer who plays for the Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks in the National Rugby League. Graham previously played for the Penrith Panthers between 2008 and 2010 and primarily plays as a and . Graham has represented both Australia and Portugal and is a New South Wales State of Origin, City Origin and Indigenous All Stars representative. Born in Blacktown, New South Wales, Graham is of Indigenous Australian descent. Graham played his junior rugby league for Blacktown City and attended The Hills Sports High School before being signed by the Penrith Panthers.","title":"Wade Graham"},{"docid":"7717543","text":"TV and Movie Stars: Christopher Judge, (Stargate SG-1) and (The Dark Knight Rises); Marina Sirtis, (Star Trek Next generation); David Nykl, (Stargate Atlantis); Wrestling Guest Haku (King Tonga). 4–6 June, Westpac stadium, Wellington Armageddon TV and Movie guests:Rose McIver- (izombie & Once Upon a Time), David Giuntoli (Grimm), Bitsie Tulloch – (Grimm), Natalia Tena (Harry Potter films, Game of Thrones), Robert Picardo (Star Trek Voyager, Stargate Atlantis), Samuel Anderson Doctor Who, Ray Santiago (Ash Vs Evil Dead), Dana DeLorenzo Ash Vs Evil Dead, Ted Raimi (Xena, Seaquest DSV), Tahmoh Penikett Supernatural, Dollhouse, Battlestar Galactica; Cliff Simon Stargate sg1; Graham McTavish","title":"Armageddon (convention)"},{"docid":"2435491","text":"Game in 1970 for his tenth and final time. The college stars lost for the seventh time in a row that year, falling 24–3 to the Kansas City Chiefs. He was replaced in 1971 by Blanton Collier, who had retired after succeeding Brown as Cleveland's head coach. In 1974, Graham was named Coast Guard's football coach once again, although he resigned two years later to focus on his duties as athletic director. In nine years of coaching, Graham's Coast Guard teams had a combined record of 44–32–1. After eight more years as the school's athletic director, Graham retired in 1984.","title":"Otto Graham"},{"docid":"11254713","text":"down, the Sooners elected to make their first punt. On the next Tech possession, Graham Harrell was sacked on two consecutive plays, once by Adrian Taylor and the other by Gerald McCoy. Coming into the game, the Red Raiders ranked second in the nation in sacks allowed, with only 5. The Sooners ended the first quarter with a 42-yard reception by tight end Jermaine Gresham and two rushes by Chris Brown for a combined 12 yards. Once the second quarter commenced, both Brown and Gresham moved the ball for a touchdown on three different plays. Tech started their next drive","title":"2008 Texas Tech Red Raiders football team"},{"docid":"18150699","text":"Helpert. She plays Sam Walden, a teenager surviving as one of the last people on an abandoned post-cataclysmic Earth, who is racing to find a cure for her poisoned home world before the last shuttle off the planet to the distant human space colony leaves her stranded. In 2019, Qualley will appear in Quentin Tarantino's upcoming film \"Once Upon a Time in Hollywood\", playing a character named Kitty Kat. In 2015, Qualley appeared in the short promotional film \"L’Américaine\" for American fashion label Tory Burch. The film was directed by Dianna Agron, who would later be Qualley's costar on \"Novitiate\".","title":"Margaret Qualley"},{"docid":"11801836","text":"Once Upon a Time (2008 film) Once Upon a Time () is a 2008 South Korean film, directed by Jeong Yong-ki and adapted from a screenplay by Cheon Seong-il. The film is a heist comedy film set in 1940s Korea, and stars Park Yong-woo and Lee Bo-young as a con artist and a jazz singer, respectively, who each plot to steal a valuable diamond from the Japanese authorities. \"Once Upon a Time\" was the first major investment by SK Telecom's film division, established late 2007, and was released in South Korea on January 30, 2008, under the company's CH Entertainment","title":"Once Upon a Time (2008 film)"},{"docid":"15475189","text":"Guy Adams Guy Adams (born 6 January 1976) is an English author, comedian, and actor, possibly best known for the novel \"The World House\". Adams is also a regular writer for Big Finish productions, who produce audio plays based on \"Doctor Who\", as well as several other properties. Adams has also written several books for the Doctor Who franchise, including the BBC Books \"Torchwood\" novel, \"The House That Jack Built\". Adams second book in his The Heaven's Gate Chronicles series, entitled \"Once Upon Time in Hell\" was published in January 2014. First book was also published in the 2013 and","title":"Guy Adams"},{"docid":"18322635","text":"Rocky Road (Once Upon a Time) \"Rocky Road\" is the third episode of the fourth season of the American fantasy drama series \"Once Upon a Time\", which aired on October 12, 2014. In this episode, Elsa is framed, while flashbacks show Elsa meeting her aunt, The Snow Queen. This episode marks the introduction of Michael Socha as Will Scarlet to the main cast, who recently featured in the spin-off series \"Once Upon a Time in Wonderland\". The Snow Queen's ice cream shop, \"Any Given Sundae\", is shown in the forest. The Arendelle events take place after \"A Tale of Two","title":"Rocky Road (Once Upon a Time)"},{"docid":"18322653","text":"themselves.\" \"TV Fanatic\" gave the episode 4.6 out of 5 stars. Rocky Road (Once Upon a Time) \"Rocky Road\" is the third episode of the fourth season of the American fantasy drama series \"Once Upon a Time\", which aired on October 12, 2014. In this episode, Elsa is framed, while flashbacks show Elsa meeting her aunt, The Snow Queen. This episode marks the introduction of Michael Socha as Will Scarlet to the main cast, who recently featured in the spin-off series \"Once Upon a Time in Wonderland\". The Snow Queen's ice cream shop, \"Any Given Sundae\", is shown in the","title":"Rocky Road (Once Upon a Time)"},{"docid":"16138449","text":"them because she is putting up a \"wall\" to keep herself from getting hurt. The sheriff finds the wolf in the woods, and when he whistles, the wolf goes to him. As he pets the wolf's head, he sees himself holding a knife, about to hurt the woman he only knows as Mary Margaret. Graham pays a visit to her classroom, telling her that he believes they know each other from another life, before Storybrooke. Mary Margaret assumes that the sheriff has been talking to Henry, and while this is not the case, this gives Graham the idea to consult","title":"The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (Once Upon a Time)"},{"docid":"9044640","text":"\"Shot Caller\". In 2016, he appears in \"Preacher (TV series)\". He plays one of Odin's employee's named Verne, first appearing in the episode \"SEE\", seen playing poker. The Dean of Mean makes a brief cameo in Once Upon a Time in Venice where he clobbers Bruce Willis character after failing to repay a debt. Jardine also plays Dyer Howe, a member of Frank Griffin's gang in the Netflix series 'Godless' released in November, 2017. He will appear, as the character Pete, in Vincent D'Onofrio 2019 film \"The Kid\". Jardine is currently engaged to MMA Women's Atomweight fighter Jodie Esquibel, who","title":"Keith Jardine"},{"docid":"13030078","text":"Once Upon a Time in Springfield \"Once Upon a Time in Springfield\" is the tenth episode of \"The Simpsons\" twenty-first season. It originally aired on the Fox network in the United States on January 10, 2010. It was promoted as the 450th episode of the series, but is actually the 451st, and aired alongside \"The Simpsons 20th Anniversary Special – In 3-D! On Ice!\". The episode is dedicated to Eartha Kitt, who died December 25, 2008, over one year before the episode first aired. In the episode, \"The Krusty the Clown Show\" is once again reconstructed. This time, in a","title":"Once Upon a Time in Springfield"},{"docid":"17598348","text":"Down the Rabbit Hole (Once Upon a Time in Wonderland) \"Down the Rabbit Hole\" is the first episode of the \"Once Upon a Time\" spin-off series \"Once Upon a Time in Wonderland\". The premiere received generally positive reviews from critics, despite low ratings; the episode was watched by 5.8 million viewers. A title card which states \"Once Upon a Time...\" Alice (Sophie Lowe) returns home to her father (Shaun Smyth), who tells her that everyone thought she was dead. Her imaginative stories about a talking White Rabbit (John Lithgow) and a mystical place called Wonderland end up get the attention","title":"Down the Rabbit Hole (Once Upon a Time in Wonderland)"},{"docid":"5022967","text":"the Collector, Henry Woolf, had deep bushy eyebrows, very reminiscent of the then-Chancellor of the Exchequer, Denis Healey. However, Holmes presented the villains of the piece as working for a private corporation rather than a government. The director had originally intended that the giant credit cards featured in the story should resemble Barclaycards. This was vetoed by producer Graham Williams who said that it would be free publicity for the bank. Near the end of Part Two, when prompted by Mandrel for a story, the Doctor begins, \"Once upon a time, there were three sisters...\" mirroring the same story he","title":"The Sun Makers"},{"docid":"16532966","text":"potential to become recurring. \"Caprica\" actor John Pyper-Ferguson guest starred in \"Welcome to Storybrooke\" as Kurt Flynn, a widower who longs to aid his son after experiencing the loss of his mother. Season one co-star Jamie Dornan also reprised his role as Sheriff Graham Humbert in the episode. Since the first season, \"Kings\" actor Sebastian Stan had portrayed Jefferson/The Mad Hatter in a recurring role; he has since departed from the show with obligations to the Broadway play \"Picnic\" and the feature film \"\". It was reported that ABC was set to recast the role with the potential for a","title":"Once Upon a Time (season 2)"},{"docid":"16018009","text":"out. She is arrested and taken to Storybrooke Jail. When Henry runs away again, Emma makes a deal with the Mayor and Sheriff Graham (Jamie Dornan): if they release her, she will find him. After exhausting all possibilities she speaks with Mary Margaret, who tells Emma to \"Check his castle.\" After finding Henry at a wooden jungle gym (which bears a resemblance to Prince Charming's castle), they talk and Emma decides to stay in Storybrooke temporarily, especially after Regina warns her to leave town. This leads Emma to be suspicious of the mayor's motives. Shortly after her conversation with Emma,","title":"Pilot (Once Upon a Time)"},{"docid":"18830988","text":"that Adam Croasdell was cast as Hook's father, who will appear in a flashback before the midseason finale, and was later revealed to be called Brennan. The fifth episode, \"Dreamcatcher\", saw the introduction of Ryan Robbins as Sir Morgan, Violet's father, and Guy Fauchon as Vortigan. The sixth episode of the season, \"The Bear and the Bow\", introduced Paul Telfer as Lord Macintosh, Marco D'Angelo as Lord MacGuffin and Josh Hallem as Lord Dingwall while the seventh episode, \"Nimue\", saw the introductions of Jason Simpson as Adda, Caroline Ford as Nimue, Darren Moore as Vortigan and Graham Verchere as a","title":"Once Upon a Time (season 5)"},{"docid":"9854969","text":"Once Upon a Time in China IV Once Upon a Time in China IV is a 1993 Hong Kong–Chinese martial arts film and the fourth installment in the \"Once Upon a Time in China\" film series. It was directed by Yuen Bun and produced by Tsui Hark, who directed the first three films. Vincent Zhao starred as Chinese martial arts master and folk hero of Cantonese ethnicity, Wong Fei-hung, who was portrayed by Jet Li in the first three films. The film is set in Beijing, China in 1900 during the Qing dynasty. Wong Fei-hung plans to return to Foshan","title":"Once Upon a Time in China IV"},{"docid":"13869405","text":"first place on TV.com, both episodes sharing an 8.8 over 10. Todd VanDerWerff of \"The A.V. Club\" rated this episode a C-. Once Upon a Time in Texas \"Once Upon a Time in Texas\" is the seventh episode of the fourth season of the NBC science fiction drama series \"Heroes\" and sixty-sixth episode overall. The episode aired on November 2, 2009. Hiro Nakamura arrives three years in the past to save the love of his life, Charlie Andrews. Shortly after arriving, Hiro encounters Sylar, who proceeds into the diner. Charlie pours coffee for her would-be assassin, who startles her after","title":"Once Upon a Time in Texas"},{"docid":"12877682","text":"Waiting in the Wings (play) Waiting in the Wings is a play by Noël Coward. Set in a retirement home for actresses, it focuses on a feud between residents Lotta Bainbridge and May Davenport, who once both loved the same man. \"Waiting in the Wings\" was Coward's fiftieth play. It premiered in Dublin on 8 August 1960 at the Olympia Theatre, and in the West End at the Duke of York's Theatre on 7 September 1960. It was directed by Margaret Webster and starred Sybil Thorndike, Lewis Casson, Marie Lohr and Graham Payn. Binkie Beaumont, who usually presented Coward's plays","title":"Waiting in the Wings (play)"},{"docid":"10419574","text":"Graham Callinan Graham Callinan (born 1982 in Blackpool, Cork) is an Irish sportsperson. He plays hurling with his local club Glen Rovers and has been a member of the Cork senior inter-county team since 2008. Callanan plays club hurling with Glen Rovers, one of the most famous clubs of all-time. He first came to prominence with 'the Glen' as a member of the minor hurling team. In 1999 he lined out in the final of the county minor championship, with Erin's Own providing the opposition. Callanan ended up on the losing side on that occasion as the men from East","title":"Graham Callinan"},{"docid":"6741022","text":"kids. \"Ben 10: Race Against Time\" is the first film in the series. It revolves around Ben (Graham Phillips), Gwen (Haley Ramm) and Grandpa Max (Lee Majors) returning to their hometown of Bellwood and attempting to adjust to being ‘normal’ again. Unfortunately, their lives are once again disrupted by a mysterious alien known as Eon (Christien Anholt), who has an unexpected connection to the Omnitrix. \"Ben 10: Alien Swarm\" is the second film in the series. It is about Ben (Ryan Kelley), Gwen (Galadriel Stineman), Kevin (Nathan Keyes) and Grandpa Max (Barry Corbin). In the movie the group stumbles upon","title":"Ben 10 (2005 TV series)"},{"docid":"15283296","text":"in a friend's home studio in Drogheda and sent it to the United States. He plays guitar and sings in a band called The Enemies, formed in 2003 in Ireland. In 2012, O'Donoghue was cast as Captain Hook/Killian Jones in the second season of the hit ABC series \"Once Upon a Time\". In 2014, O'Donoghue was cast as the main character in \"The Dust Storm\", an independent film set in Nashville, Tennessee as a musician called \"Brennan\". Christina Perri wrote a song, \"The Words\", which she dedicated to Colin's character (Captain Hook) in \"Once Upon a Time\". O'Donoghue was part","title":"Colin O'Donoghue"},{"docid":"17605841","text":"Forget Me Not (Once Upon a Time in Wonderland) \"Forget Me Not\" is the third episode of the \"Once Upon a Time\" spin-off series \"Once Upon a Time in Wonderland\". With the Genie's bottle in her clutches, the Red Queen sends the Bandersnatch after Alice since Jafar needs her in order to use Cyrus (who is discovered to have contacted her). Alice and the Knave of Hearts head to the house of the Grendel in the Whispering Woods to obtain the Forget-Me-Knot so that they can find out who stole Cyrus's bottle before Jafar could steal it. In the Knave","title":"Forget Me Not (Once Upon a Time in Wonderland)"},{"docid":"9220189","text":"he believed that the gunman was high on cocaine at the time of the shooting, and they both believed that Graham was only wounded, as he was last seen still alive, on all fours beside his car. In 1998, Northumbria Police questioned five men about an alleged conspiracy to murder the bouncer. In 2002, Tyneside career criminal Lee Shaun Watson turned supergrass, after he admitted the murder of Freddie Knights in Longbenton, Newcastle upon Tyne. During the 'Knights Murder Trial', the jury at Leeds Crown Court heard how Watson had told police who was responsible for the shooting of Graham.","title":"Viv Graham"},{"docid":"11809087","text":"Karen David Karen Shenaz David (born 15 April 1979 or 1980) is an Indo-Canadian actress, singer and songwriter, who is best known for portraying Princess Isabella Maria Lucia Elizabetta of Valencia in ABC's fairytale-themed musical-comedy television series, \"Galavant\", as well as Francesca \"Cesca\" Montoya in the BBC television series \"Waterloo Road\", and Layla in the American action film \"\". She starred as Angela in the ITV television series \"Cold Feet\" and plays Princess Jasmine (from \"Aladdin\") in the American television series \"Once Upon a Time\". David also starred in \"Pixelface\", a CBBC children's television series, where she plays Alexia, the","title":"Karen David"},{"docid":"8277676","text":"led K-State to the Rose Bowl in 1931 before getting injured. Following his senior season, Graham was a starter in the East–West Shrine Game, becoming the first Kansas State football player to be named to an all-star game. Graham graduated as the all-time leading scorer at Kansas State, and held that record for 64 years until it was surpassed by kicker Martín Gramática in 1997. Upon graduation in 1934, Graham entered the football coaching profession as an assistant to McMillin, who moved from Kansas State to Indiana University that season. Graham remained an assistant football and basketball coach at Indiana","title":"Ralph Graham"},{"docid":"13869394","text":"Once Upon a Time in Texas \"Once Upon a Time in Texas\" is the seventh episode of the fourth season of the NBC science fiction drama series \"Heroes\" and sixty-sixth episode overall. The episode aired on November 2, 2009. Hiro Nakamura arrives three years in the past to save the love of his life, Charlie Andrews. Shortly after arriving, Hiro encounters Sylar, who proceeds into the diner. Charlie pours coffee for her would-be assassin, who startles her after Sylar reveals he knows about her aneurysm. Hiro watches from afar, wondering how he can stop Sylar. Meanwhile, in the present, Samuel","title":"Once Upon a Time in Texas"},{"docid":"20299524","text":"to positive reviews with critics citing Mekia Cox's performance helped lifted a less impressive story in this installment, but saved the best takeaways for Adelaide Kane during the episode's final scene. Paul Dailly of \"TV Fanatic\" gave it a 4.2 out of 5 stars: “‘Greenbacks' was another solid episode of Once Upon a Time Season 7. There have been some rough points in this rebooted version of the show, but it is finally finding its footing, and I cannot wait to see how the rest of the season plays out.” \"Entertainment Weekly\"'s Justin Kirkland gave it a B. Nick Hogan","title":"Greenbacks (Once Upon a Time)"},{"docid":"20630751","text":"it constantly keeps you guessing.\" The Bombmaker The Bombmaker is a two-part British television drama serial, written and created by Stephen Leather, and directed by Graham Theakston. It first broadcast on Sky One on 8 April 2001, with the second and final episode following a week later on 15 April. The series, based upon Leather's novel of the same name, stars Dervla Kirwan as Andrea Hayes, a former IRA bombmaker who is forced to come out of retirement when her daughter is kidnapped and held to ransom. Mark Womack stars as Andrea's husband Martin, while Ciara Lyons plays the role","title":"The Bombmaker"},{"docid":"20630748","text":"The Bombmaker The Bombmaker is a two-part British television drama serial, written and created by Stephen Leather, and directed by Graham Theakston. It first broadcast on Sky One on 8 April 2001, with the second and final episode following a week later on 15 April. The series, based upon Leather's novel of the same name, stars Dervla Kirwan as Andrea Hayes, a former IRA bombmaker who is forced to come out of retirement when her daughter is kidnapped and held to ransom. Mark Womack stars as Andrea's husband Martin, while Ciara Lyons plays the role of her daughter, Katie. David","title":"The Bombmaker"},{"docid":"8525777","text":"2006 preseasons, leading former coach Jon Gruden to dub him \"Mr. August\". However, he was not given the opportunity to carry the ball once the regular season began. Instead, Graham played extensively on special teams, leading the team in special teams tackles in 2005 and 2006. Graham started the 2007 season playing predominantly on special teams once again. However, injuries to Bucs' running backs Carnell Williams, Mike Alstott, Michael Pittman allowed Graham to get significant playing at running back for the first time in his pro career. He scored the first two touchdowns of his career on September 23, 2007","title":"Earnest Graham"},{"docid":"20500062","text":"to the extended Scotland national team training squad. In October 2018 Graham was called up again to the training squad; he was then promoted to the main squad. He was selected on the bench against Wales on 3 November 2018. Darcy Graham Darcy Graham (born 21 July 1997) is a Scottish Rugby Union player who plays for Edinburgh Rugby as a winger or fullback. Graham played for Hawick Rugby Club, playing in the Scottish Cup final aged only 17. Having been a Scottish Rugby Academy stage 2 player, in 2017 Graham was signed by Edinburgh on a two year professional","title":"Darcy Graham"},{"docid":"11254685","text":"scored rushing touchdowns to bring the final score to 49–24. During the game, the Red Raiders rushed 25 time for a total of 103 yards. Quarterback Graham Harrell completed 43 out of 58 pass attempts for 536 yards, two touchdowns and was intercepted once. He was named AT&T ESPN All-America Player of the Week for his performance. The team had a school record 18 penalties for 169 yards. The Red Raiders started off with the ball to begin the game. After failing to get a first down on the first three plays, Texas Tech decided to go for it on","title":"2008 Texas Tech Red Raiders football team"},{"docid":"20714838","text":"Wish Granny who have fallen on tough times. It was cut for time, because it was the only scene that could be cut without disrupting the whole flow. However, the scene can still be seen in promotional pictures. This scene is included on the Once Upon a Time: The Complete Seventh and Final Season Blu-ray, but not the DVD. The episode received good reviews. \"TV Fanatic\" gave the episode a 4.0 out of 5 stars. \"Entertainment Weekly\"'s Justin Kirkland gave the episode no ratings. Homecoming (Once Upon a Time) \"Homecoming\" is the twenty-first episode of the seventh season and the","title":"Homecoming (Once Upon a Time)"},{"docid":"15296798","text":"Once Upon a Time in Anatolia Once Upon a Time in Anatolia () is a 2011 internationally co-produced drama film, co-written and directed by Nuri Bilge Ceylan based on the true experience of one of the film's writers, telling the story of a group of men who search for a dead body on the Anatolian steppe. The film, which went on nationwide general release across Turkey on , premiered at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival where it was a co-winner of the Grand Prix. Through the night, three cars carry a small group of menpolice officers, a doctor, a prosecutor,","title":"Once Upon a Time in Anatolia"},{"docid":"15296813","text":"film critics from around the world. Once Upon a Time in Anatolia Once Upon a Time in Anatolia () is a 2011 internationally co-produced drama film, co-written and directed by Nuri Bilge Ceylan based on the true experience of one of the film's writers, telling the story of a group of men who search for a dead body on the Anatolian steppe. The film, which went on nationwide general release across Turkey on , premiered at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival where it was a co-winner of the Grand Prix. Through the night, three cars carry a small group of","title":"Once Upon a Time in Anatolia"},{"docid":"9977166","text":"18 June 2007 at 19:20 (BST) on Radio 1. \"Once Upon a Time in the West\" was finally released on 3 September 2007. The band launched the album on the midnight of release at Virgin Megastore in Oxford Street, London with a performance of a selected number of songs followed by a CD signing. The following day the band performed at Maida Vale Studios to a small audience who earned their tickets through Radio 1. On 9 September, \"Once Upon a Time in the West\" went straight in at #1 in the Album Charts, giving the band their second consecutive","title":"Once Upon a Time in the West (album)"},{"docid":"18356735","text":"about the photos and to seek out Sidney's help, offers to help Regina revive Marian, with Regina telling Emma that she'll never have her back and vice versa. As this plays out, Elsa starts seeing what looks like Anna in the cemetery calling out for help, and she gets out of the vehicle. Emma then races out and finds her missing, followed by Regina, who then opens her compact mirror to see Sidney, who informs her that he found Ingrid. Wasting no time tracking Elsa to the east of the toll bridge, Emma and Regina walk through the woods when","title":"Breaking Glass (Once Upon a Time)"},{"docid":"19950527","text":"leave Storybrooke. Later, as the Queen wishes for a fresh start, she is sent to the Wish Realm, where she reunites with Robin in a local bar. True to the image on Page 23, a bond begins to blossom. Josh Dallas, Robert Carlyle, and Emile de Ravin are credited but do not appear in this episode. Hesham Hammoud, who plays the Crewman in this episode, also played Ghazi in the \"Once Upon a Time in Wonderland\" episode \"Who's Alice\". The title of this episode was revealed by Adam Horowitz via his Twitter account on November 30, 2016. The title of","title":"Page 23"},{"docid":"10152675","text":"the 2007 NFL Draft. In 2008, Graham started at cornerback alongside longtime Bear Charles Tillman. Graham registered his first career interception on October 19, 2008 off of Minnesota Vikings quarterback Gus Frerotte. Graham also recorded 91 tackles in the 2008 season. Graham was selected to his first Pro Bowl in 2011 after a season in which he recorded 16 total tackles, deflected three passes, forced a fumble, and caught three interceptions. Graham signed with the Baltimore Ravens on March 23, 2012. Graham said that upon signing with the Ravens, he looks to see more time on defense, as well as","title":"Corey Graham"},{"docid":"6459886","text":"Gonna Be Your Friend\" touches upon themes of male homosexuality, not unlike the video for \"Belief\" in \"Youth Society\". Selina, Hebe and Ella are three girls who are fawning over a male friend of theirs, only to find out that the friend is gay and already has a boyfriend. N.B. None of the album's songs charted until January. Once Upon a Time (S.H.E album) Once Upon a Time () is the seventh studio album by Taiwanese Mandopop girl group S.H.E. It was released on November 25, 2005 by HIM International Music. As of 14 December 2005, the album had shipped","title":"Once Upon a Time (S.H.E album)"}],"string":"[\n {\n \"docid\": \"13682304\",\n \"text\": \"Once Upon a Time (1944 film) Once Upon a Time is a 1944 fantasy film involving a dancing caterpillar who lives in a small box. Cary Grant plays a conniving showman who desperately needs money to save his theater. Jerry Flynn (Cary Grant) has to come up with $100,000 within a week to keep his theater. By chance, youngster Arthur \\\"Pinky\\\" Thompson (Ted Donaldson) shows him \\\"Curly\\\" (the original title of the film), a caterpillar that gets up on its tail and dances when Pinky plays \\\"Yes Sir, That's My Baby\\\" on his harmonica. Pinky refuses to let Jerry buy\",\n \"title\": \"Once Upon a Time (1944 film)\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"17610138\",\n \"text\": \"like everybody else. He's human.\\\" Dallas subsequently began dating his \\\"Once Upon a Time\\\" co-star Goodwin in fall 2011. Dallas and Goodwin became engaged in October 2013, and married on April 12, 2014 in California. They have one child, a son, born in May 2014. David Nolan (Once Upon a Time) David Nolan, also known as Prince Charming, is a fictional character in ABC's television series \\\"Once Upon a Time\\\". He is portrayed by Josh Dallas, who also happens to be married to series co-star Ginnifer Goodwin, who plays David's wife Snow White/Mary Margaret Blanchard. The leader of the Enchanted\",\n \"title\": \"David Nolan (Once Upon a Time)\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"16253989\",\n \"text\": \"27 January. Jesse Kewley-Graham Jesse James Kewley-Graham (born 15 June 1993) is an English footballer who plays for Combined Counties Premier Division club Walton & Hersham as a midfielder. He has also played for Wycombe Wanderers, Staines Town, Havant & Waterlooville, Hampton & Richmond Borough and Hanwell Town. Kewley-Graham progressed through the youth ranks at Brentford and Wycombe Wanderers before signing a professional contract in 2011. On 21 January 2012, he made his professional debut as an injury time substitute in a 3–0 League One win against Rochdale. He signed a one-year extension in June 2013, and was released upon\",\n \"title\": \"Jesse Kewley-Graham\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"16253986\",\n \"text\": \"Jesse Kewley-Graham Jesse James Kewley-Graham (born 15 June 1993) is an English footballer who plays for Combined Counties Premier Division club Walton & Hersham as a midfielder. He has also played for Wycombe Wanderers, Staines Town, Havant & Waterlooville, Hampton & Richmond Borough and Hanwell Town. Kewley-Graham progressed through the youth ranks at Brentford and Wycombe Wanderers before signing a professional contract in 2011. On 21 January 2012, he made his professional debut as an injury time substitute in a 3–0 League One win against Rochdale. He signed a one-year extension in June 2013, and was released upon the expiration\",\n \"title\": \"Jesse Kewley-Graham\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"16499612\",\n \"text\": \"and \\\"RPA\\\". In 2009, the Special Broadcasting Service (SBS) commissioned Fredbird Entertainment, Graham's independent production company, to produce \\\"Zumbo\\\", an Australian observational documentary series about master patissier Adriano Zumbo. Fredbird Entertainment and Northern Pictures co-produced \\\"Once Upon a Time in Cabramatta\\\" for SBS. The first episode attracted 620,000 viewers. Graham produced the mini-series, broadcast in January 2012, which described the turbulent story of a multicultural Sydney suburb. \\\"The Age\\\" described Graham as a \\\"gifted storyteller\\\" whose treatment of the subject was \\\"pitch-perfect, the ideal blend of exposition and witness accounts\\\". In October 2012 \\\"Once Upon A Time in Cabramatta\\\" was\",\n \"title\": \"Craig Graham\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"9162543\",\n \"text\": \"Once Upon a Time in Manila Once Upon a Time in Manila is a 1994 Filipino action comedy film. Vic Sotto plays a barangay tanod who always seems to have a knack for saving the local folks from dangerous situations, just in the nick of time. Cynthia Luster is Lt. Cynthia Wang, is a Royal Hong Kong Police on the look-out for Nikita, the infamous gang leader. Amparo Lagman (played by Ms. Gloria Sevilla), working as a domestic helper, becomes the unwitting target of the Nikita's gang when she comes into possession of some important documents and papers. Nikita follows\",\n \"title\": \"Once Upon a Time in Manila\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"17610122\",\n \"text\": \"David Nolan (Once Upon a Time) David Nolan, also known as Prince Charming, is a fictional character in ABC's television series \\\"Once Upon a Time\\\". He is portrayed by Josh Dallas, who also happens to be married to series co-star Ginnifer Goodwin, who plays David's wife Snow White/Mary Margaret Blanchard. The leader of the Enchanted Forest's War Council who is comatose in Storybrooke. While initially he is known simply as \\\"John Doe\\\" in Storybrooke because of his comatose state, he is eventually revealed to be called David Nolan, after waking up. The creators also mixed Charming's history with that of\",\n \"title\": \"David Nolan (Once Upon a Time)\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"9162544\",\n \"text\": \"her to the Philippines, along with Lt. Cynthia Wang who is in pursuit of Nikita. A game of cat-and-mouse ensues as everyone gets swept up in a tale of international espionage with a dash of love and romance thrown into the crazy mix. Once Upon a Time in Manila Once Upon a Time in Manila is a 1994 Filipino action comedy film. Vic Sotto plays a barangay tanod who always seems to have a knack for saving the local folks from dangerous situations, just in the nick of time. Cynthia Luster is Lt. Cynthia Wang, is a Royal Hong Kong\",\n \"title\": \"Once Upon a Time in Manila\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"13682307\",\n \"text\": \"that Curly has transformed into a butterfly. The film's working titles were \\\"Curly\\\", \\\"My Friend Curly\\\", \\\"My Client Curly\\\" and \\\"Yes Sir, That's My Baby\\\". Once Upon a Time (1944 film) Once Upon a Time is a 1944 fantasy film involving a dancing caterpillar who lives in a small box. Cary Grant plays a conniving showman who desperately needs money to save his theater. Jerry Flynn (Cary Grant) has to come up with $100,000 within a week to keep his theater. By chance, youngster Arthur \\\"Pinky\\\" Thompson (Ted Donaldson) shows him \\\"Curly\\\" (the original title of the film), a caterpillar\",\n \"title\": \"Once Upon a Time (1944 film)\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"17288207\",\n \"text\": \"at her core, she is a steadfastly filled with optimism. It was later announced that Sunny Mabrey was cast as the character. After \\\"Once Upon a Time in Wonderland\\\" was canceled, it was reported that Michael Socha, who plays the Knave of Hearts, was in talks to join the main cast in Season 4. On April 2014, it was confirmed that Michael Socha will become a regular for Once Upon a Time's fourth season. On September 12, 2013, ABC released the original cast promotional photos for the season. However, due to fan backlash, the photos were removed. Instead, new photos\",\n \"title\": \"Once Upon a Time (season 3)\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"15309484\",\n \"text\": \"Goodwin, Jennifer Morrison, Johnny Depp, Maury Chaykin, Paul Sorvino, Dean McDermott and Jenny McCarthy. Mig plays the iconic Disney character Bashful of the 7 dwarfs on the hit ABC series Once Upon A Time. Macario has had roles on the Gemini award winning, dark comedy \\\"Less Than Kind\\\", \\\"Level Up\\\", Sanctuary, \\\"FRINGE\\\" for Fox and Nickelodeon's \\\"The Troop\\\". ↑ 1.0 1.1 https://twitter.com/MigMacario/status/312618874812133378 http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/tv/la-et-st-once-upon-a-time-witch-hunt-pictures-004-photo.html http://www.wevancouver.com/arts/film-television/once-upon-a-time-actor-rallies-for-typhoon-haiyan-1.880776 http://canadianimmigrant.ca/immigrant-stories/fantasy-career-for-filipino-actor-mig-macario http://onequestioninterviews.com/2013/11/mig-macario-how-can-we-help-typhoon-haiyan-recovery-in-the-philippines/ http://www.onceuponafans.com/mig-macario http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/entertainment/.../fil-canadian-cast-hit-us-tv-show http://wormholeriders.net/sanctuary/?p=94 http://wormholeriders.net/sanctuary/?p=30307 Mig Macario Mig Macario is a Filipino-Canadian actor. He plays the iconic role of Bashful of the 7 dwarfs on the hit ABC series \\\"Once Upon A Time\\\", the role\",\n \"title\": \"Mig Macario\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"19707233\",\n \"text\": \"to injury, Graham was signed for the 2016–17 season with the Sydney Uni Flames. Graham made her international debut at the 2009 Summer Universiade where she helped Australia take home the bronze medal in Belgrade, Serbia. She once again suited up for Australia at the 2011 Summer Universiade where they would once again take home the bronze medal in Shenzhen, China. Sarah Graham (basketball) Sarah Graham (born 22 August 1989) is an Australian basketball player who currently plays for the Sydney Uni Flames in the Women's National Basketball League. Graham began her professional career in 2007, for the Dandenong Rangers.\",\n \"title\": \"Sarah Graham (basketball)\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"2566077\",\n \"text\": \"Upon a Time in the West\\\". \\\"Deborah's Theme\\\" was written for another film in the 1970s but was rejected; Morricone presented the piece to Leone, who was initially reluctant to include it, considering it too similar to Morricone's main title music for \\\"Once Upon a Time in the West\\\". The score is also notable for Morricone’s incorporation of the music of Gheorghe Zamfir, who plays a pan flute. At times this music is used to convey remembrance, at other times terror. Zamfir’s flute music was used to similarly haunting effect in Peter Weir’s \\\"Picnic at Hanging Rock\\\" (1975). Morricone also\",\n \"title\": \"Once Upon a Time in America\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"10419581\",\n \"text\": \"qualifier meeting with Galway. Callanan was introduced as a late substitute once again, however, Cork were knocked out of the championship by 1-19 to 0-15. Cork Senior Hurling Championship: Graham Callinan Graham Callinan (born 1982 in Blackpool, Cork) is an Irish sportsperson. He plays hurling with his local club Glen Rovers and has been a member of the Cork senior inter-county team since 2008. Callanan plays club hurling with Glen Rovers, one of the most famous clubs of all-time. He first came to prominence with 'the Glen' as a member of the minor hurling team. In 1999 he lined out\",\n \"title\": \"Graham Callinan\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"16122618\",\n \"text\": \"The Shepherd (Once Upon a Time) \\\"The Shepherd\\\" is the sixth episode of the American Fairy Tale/Drama television series \\\"Once Upon a Time\\\". The series takes place in the fictional seaside town of Storybrooke, Maine, in which the residents are actually characters from various fairy tales that were transported to the \\\"real world\\\" town by a powerful curse. This episode revolves around David's (Josh Dallas) increasing attraction to Mary Margaret (Ginnifer Goodwin), the back story behind Prince Charming's (Dallas) past, and Sheriff Graham (Jamie Dornan) getting caught lying. It was co-written by Ian B. Goldberg and Andrew Chambliss, while being\",\n \"title\": \"The Shepherd (Once Upon a Time)\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"16138468\",\n \"text\": \"Kitsis [took] one step forward and two steps back with this development.\\\" The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (Once Upon a Time) \\\"The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter\\\" is the seventh episode of the first season of the American fairy tale/drama television series \\\"Once Upon a Time\\\", and the seventh overall. The episode was co-written by series creators Adam Horowitz and Edward Kitsis, while being directed by David M. Barrett. Horowitz and Kitsis had intended to kill off Graham since the pilot episode was picked up, believing that it would add \\\"stakes\\\" to the series and show viewers that the\",\n \"title\": \"The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (Once Upon a Time)\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"16138444\",\n \"text\": \"The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (Once Upon a Time) \\\"The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter\\\" is the seventh episode of the first season of the American fairy tale/drama television series \\\"Once Upon a Time\\\", and the seventh overall. The episode was co-written by series creators Adam Horowitz and Edward Kitsis, while being directed by David M. Barrett. Horowitz and Kitsis had intended to kill off Graham since the pilot episode was picked up, believing that it would add \\\"stakes\\\" to the series and show viewers that the story is \\\"not in Henry's head.\\\" The episode is considered significant, as\",\n \"title\": \"The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (Once Upon a Time)\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"16138451\",\n \"text\": \"Graham and Emma then encounter the wolf from Graham's visions, and follow it to a graveyard and vault marked with a symbol Graham saw in his visions and in Henry's book. Looking for his heart, Graham fervently searches the vault, which turns out to be the tomb of Henry Mills. Regina arrives to place flowers on her father's grave and is furious to find them there. Regina accuses Emma of stealing the sheriff from her, and Emma responds that Regina has chased everyone away. Graham defends Emma, and the women exchange blows. Later, while Graham cleans Emma's wounds, Regina pushes\",\n \"title\": \"The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (Once Upon a Time)\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"16138462\",\n \"text\": \"kill Graham by squeezing the heart of his fairytale counterpart. The revelation of the vault, Kitsis and Horowitz explained, \\\"is a very important thing for us in terms of moving forward in the season in that we wanted to send a very clear message that Regina knows what’s going on and has some very clear intentions in Storybrooke.\\\" The episode was included in \\\"Reawakened: A Once Upon a Time Tale\\\" – a novelization of the first season – which was published by Hyperion Books in 2013. For the third week in a row, the ratings once again slipped, as it\",\n \"title\": \"The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (Once Upon a Time)\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"16499613\",\n \"text\": \"nominated for the 2012 Walkley awards for Excellence in Journalism. Craig Graham Craig Graham is an Australian producer of television shows such as \\\"The Embassy\\\", 2014 Channel 9. \\\"Air Rescue\\\", 2013 Channel 7. \\\"Hatch, Match and Dispatch\\\", 2016 ABC. \\\"Moment of Truth\\\", 2016 ABC iView. \\\"Maurice's Big Adventure\\\", 2016 ABC Kids. \\\"The Justine Clarke Show\\\", 2017 ABC Kids. \\\"RPA,\\\" \\\"Once Upon a Time in Cabramatta\\\", \\\"The Great Outdoors\\\", \\\"\\\", \\\"Zumbo\\\", and \\\"Contract Killers\\\". Graham got his first break in television as a researcher on \\\"Money\\\". In 2001, he produced \\\"The Great Outdoors\\\" (2001–2003) for the Seven Network. It was a\",\n \"title\": \"Craig Graham\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"16499610\",\n \"text\": \"Craig Graham Craig Graham is an Australian producer of television shows such as \\\"The Embassy\\\", 2014 Channel 9. \\\"Air Rescue\\\", 2013 Channel 7. \\\"Hatch, Match and Dispatch\\\", 2016 ABC. \\\"Moment of Truth\\\", 2016 ABC iView. \\\"Maurice's Big Adventure\\\", 2016 ABC Kids. \\\"The Justine Clarke Show\\\", 2017 ABC Kids. \\\"RPA,\\\" \\\"Once Upon a Time in Cabramatta\\\", \\\"The Great Outdoors\\\", \\\"\\\", \\\"Zumbo\\\", and \\\"Contract Killers\\\". Graham got his first break in television as a researcher on \\\"Money\\\". In 2001, he produced \\\"The Great Outdoors\\\" (2001–2003) for the Seven Network. It was a presenter-driven lifestyle series about the best places to visit in\",\n \"title\": \"Craig Graham\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"20096462\",\n \"text\": \"car accident on the M6 motorway to make a total of 11 appearances for Kevin Davies's \\\"Sandgrounders\\\". Upon his return to Vale Park he was informed by manager Neil Aspin that he would not be retained beyond the summer. On 2 August 2018, Kelly joined NIFL Championship side Larne. Kelly won four caps at for the Republic of Ireland at both under-18 and under-19 level, and scored for the under-19s against Latvia in November 2015. Graham Kelly (footballer, born 1997) Graham Kelly (born 16 October 1997) is an Irish professional footballer who plays as a left-back for NIFL Championship side\",\n \"title\": \"Graham Kelly (footballer, born 1997)\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"10207399\",\n \"text\": \"pop singles chart. The song's co-writer, Dave Hamilton, plays the vibraharp solo. Once Upon a Time (Marvin Gaye and Mary Wells song) \\\"Once Upon a Time\\\" is a 1964 single released by Marvin Gaye and Mary Wells from their sole duet album, \\\"Together\\\". Written by Clarence Paul, Barney Ales, Dave Hamilton and William \\\"Mickey\\\" Stevenson, the song discussed how the two narrators felt lonely until they met each other referring to their past as it happened \\\"once upon a time\\\". The song brought simultaneous top forty pop success for the duo as the single hit number nineteen while its b-side,\",\n \"title\": \"Once Upon a Time (Marvin Gaye and Mary Wells song)\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"16138448\",\n \"text\": \"he runs into Mr. Gold (Robert Carlyle). Graham tells him about the wolf, and Mr. Gold suggests to him that dreams are memories from another life. The following morning, Emma discovers flowers on the table and throws them out, assuming they are from Graham, but Mary Margaret (Ginnifer Goodwin) says that they were hers from Dr. Whale (David Anders), with whom she had a one-night stand. Emma is glad to hear that Mary Margaret appears to be getting over David (Josh Dallas). Mary Margaret tells Emma that it is obvious that she has feelings for Graham, but does not acknowledge\",\n \"title\": \"The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (Once Upon a Time)\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"17519653\",\n \"text\": \"lacks an actual identity (not forgetting the quite frankly unnecessary length), while it’s multiple genres makes it ‘Once Upon a Time’s Achilles’ heel and leaves it lacking the organic sound an album should possess.\\\" Wilfred Okiche of \\\"YNaija\\\" said: \\\"At 21 songs, there are just too many fillers, too much autotune, too much Don Jazzy and an over dependence on the gloss. One has to dig deep to find the real substance. It plays like Ms Savage is just pandering, surrendering to market dictates while throwing a bit of her true self in between.\\\" \\\"Once Upon a Time\\\" was nominated\",\n \"title\": \"Once Upon a Time (Tiwa Savage album)\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"16138447\",\n \"text\": \"of a wolf, only to have Emma push him away. Frustrated by Emma's lack of understanding, Graham, drunk, later has sex with Regina. In the middle of the night, he awakens abruptly from a dream of a deer and a wolf. When Graham tells Regina that the dream felt like a memory, Regina tries to convince him to stay, telling him that he's still drunk, but Graham leaves. As Graham attempts to get to his car, the wolf from his visions appears next to him, startling him before it leaves. As he tries to find the wolf in the woods,\",\n \"title\": \"The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (Once Upon a Time)\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"1976194\",\n \"text\": \"the DVD release. Actor Al Mulock (featured as Knuckles in the opening train sequence, as well as in Leone's \\\"The Good, the Bad and the Ugly\\\") committed suicide during shooting of the film by leaping from his Guadix hotel room in full costume. Frank Wolff, the actor who plays McBain, also committed suicide in a Rome hotel in 1971. Following the film's completion, \\\"Once Upon a Time in the West\\\" was dubbed into several languages, including Italian, French, German, Spanish and English. For the English dub, the voices of much of the American cast, including Fonda, Bronson, Jason Robards, Jack\",\n \"title\": \"Once Upon a Time in the West\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"9759924\",\n \"text\": \"to jump out. Jamie convinces Graham that tenting is fun. Jamie stands in the small shop choosing gear while Graham remains outside with his caseworker. She quickly tells Graham to beware of knots for once they are tied they are harder to get out from. It's a happy experience, Jamie plays in a creek while teaching an inept Graham the ways of camping or as the English refer to it as tenting. Jamie tests Graham as well by finding a stick and giving himself and injury on his forehead. He tells Graham while remembering an experience by his birth father,\",\n \"title\": \"Second Best (film)\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"9922363\",\n \"text\": \"Where's That Fire? Where's That Fire? is a 1940 British comedy film, produced by Twentieth Century Fox, directed by Marcel Varnel and starring Will Hay, Moore Marriott and Graham Moffatt. It was the last film Will Hay made with his stuntmen Moore Marriott and Graham Moffatt and the humour of Hay's films after he dropped work with them changed. Will Hay plays the incompetent Fire Captain Viking who fails to find a large fire, gets lost in the process and ends up on a newspaper headline as 'The engine that never made it'. Finally upon arriving at the location of\",\n \"title\": \"Where's That Fire?\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"5846037\",\n \"text\": \"Once Upon a Time in China and America Once Upon a Time in China and America, also known as Once Upon a Time in China VI, is a 1997 Hong Kong–Chinese martial arts film directed by Lau Kar-wing and Sammo Hung in his last directorial effort until \\\"The Bodyguard\\\", who also worked on the film's fight choreography. The film is the sixth and final installment in the \\\"Once Upon a Time in China\\\" film series. It also saw the return of Jet Li as Chinese martial arts master and folk hero of Cantonese ethnicity, Wong Fei-hung, who was replaced by\",\n \"title\": \"Once Upon a Time in China and America\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"19170080\",\n \"text\": \"in which she played Elizabeth Berkley. In early 2017, she began playing the recurring role of Polly Cooper on The CW teen drama series \\\"Riverdale\\\". Skovbye played the recurring role of Robin, the daughter of Zelena and Robin Hood, during the seventh season of \\\"Once Upon a Time\\\". In 2018, Skovbye appeared in the horror mystery film \\\"Summer of 84\\\", opposite Graham Verchere, Judah Lewis and Rich Sommer. Skovbye was born in Vancouver, British Columbia. She has a younger sister, Ali, who is also an actress. On August 14, 2017, Skovbye announced her engagement to Jameson Parker. Tiera Skovbye Tiera\",\n \"title\": \"Tiera Skovbye\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"6152639\",\n \"text\": \"(the \\\"lethal liquid\\\"). At the village square, Graham manages to get a map copy done for him, which he then shows to Ali to obtain the location of the item. Upon visiting Shamir at the Castle, Graham finds out that the genie once belonged to one of the members of the so-called \\\"Black Cloak Society\\\", who might be the owner of the cloak. Knowing that Valanice (and, thus, his own children) are descendants of the \\\"Silver Cloaks\\\", who were an ancient clan of magic protectors, Graham wonders if both are related. He then thanks Shamir and makes his way by\",\n \"title\": \"The Silver Lining (video game)\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"16138464\",\n \"text\": \"Hunter\\\" received mixed reviews from television critics. TV Fanatic writer C. Orlando enjoyed the episode, remarking \\\"I love \\\"Once Upon a Time\\\" because it's like a mini-movie every week and I'm completely enthralled by this intriguing other world filled with characters that feel familiar yet completely new.\\\" He called the ending scene \\\"heartbreaking.\\\" IGN writer Amy Ratcliffe rated the episode 9/10, giving particular praise to Jamie Dornan's ability to be \\\"magnetic in every scene.\\\" Ratcliffe called his backstory her favorite fairytale of the series up to that point. Television Without Pity's Cindy McLennan wished they had not killed Graham, but\",\n \"title\": \"The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (Once Upon a Time)\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"13071664\",\n \"text\": \"Graham Carey Graham Carey (born 20 May 1989) is an Irish professional footballer who plays for Football League One club Plymouth Argyle. He plays as a left sided attacking midfielder. Carey joined Celtic in 2005 from Shelbourne's youth team and made his Celtic debut in 2009 against Rapid Vienna in the UEFA Europa League, He has played six times for the Republic of Ireland Under 21 team, having been capped at all International levels from under 15. During his time at Celtic Carey had loan spells with Bohemians in the League of Ireland, St Mirren and Huddersfield Town in League\",\n \"title\": \"Graham Carey\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"16138458\",\n \"text\": \"place, trying to come to terms with her feelings about what she discovered about Graham. Graham is also in a very raw emotional place because he's clearly conflicted and it's this cauldron of emotions that leads to the kiss.\\\" Kitsis added that, \\\"We're really excited that the kiss that you've seen is really just the jumping off point of the story we're telling. It's not like it ends with the kiss, it starts with that and it takes us somewhere that we're excited to show you.\\\" In the episode, the character of Sheriff Graham was killed off, something that actor\",\n \"title\": \"The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (Once Upon a Time)\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"16138450\",\n \"text\": \"Henry about his book. Meanwhile, at the sheriff's office, Regina shows up and warns Emma to stay away from Graham, apparently jealous of his connection with Emma. Graham visits Henry (Jared S. Gilmore) and describes his visions, to which Henry replies that he must be the queen's Huntsman. The Huntsman was hired by the Evil Queen to remove Snow White's heart and bring it back to her, but when he does not do so, she removes his heart. Graham later attempts to explain to Emma that he could not feel anything with Regina because he does not have a heart.\",\n \"title\": \"The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (Once Upon a Time)\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"16138446\",\n \"text\": \"and CBS. The episode received mixed reviews from television critics, as some praised Dornan's character but were divided on the ending sequence. It was the series' mid-season finale. A wolf is shown in the forest. In Granny's Cafe, Sheriff Graham (Jamie Dornan) throws darts at a picture of a deer very accurately. Emma Swan (Jennifer Morrison) arrives but leaves immediately because she has not forgiven him for hiding his relationship with Regina (Lana Parrilla). Emma attempts to avoid conversation, but Graham is insistent on explaining to her he feels nothing for Regina. He kisses Emma and suddenly sees a vision\",\n \"title\": \"The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (Once Upon a Time)\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"8373481\",\n \"text\": \"in a film was Count Axel Fersen in the Sofia Coppola film \\\"Marie Antoinette\\\" (2006). Dornan also appeared in the drama film \\\"Shadows in the Sun\\\" (2009), which starred three-time Academy Award nominee Jean Simmons. In 2008, he played the lead role of Ed in the Hammer Horror production \\\"Beyond the Rave\\\". In 2011, Dornan appeared in nine episodes of the ABC television series \\\"Once Upon a Time\\\", playing the role of Sheriff Graham. While Graham from Storybrooke was killed by the town's mayor Regina (The Evil Queen) in the episode \\\"The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter\\\", Dornan stated that\",\n \"title\": \"Jamie Dornan\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"470802\",\n \"text\": \"stampede over the railroad. The construction of what presumably is – or is suggested to be – the Transcontinental Railroad provides the backdrop of the 1968 epic spaghetti western \\\"Once Upon a Time in the West\\\", directed by Italian director Sergio Leone. Kristiana Gregory's book \\\"The Great Railroad Race\\\" (part of the \\\"Dear America\\\" series) is written as the fictional diary of Libby West, who chronicles the end of the railroad construction and the excitement which engulfed the country at the time. Graham Masterton's 1981 novel \\\"A Man of Destiny\\\" (published in the UK as \\\"Railroad\\\") is a fictionalized account\",\n \"title\": \"First Transcontinental Railroad\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"12769669\",\n \"text\": \"Once Upon a Christmas Song \\\"Once Upon a Christmas Song\\\" was the second single by fictional character Geraldine McQueen from \\\"Britain's Got the Pop Factor...\\\", a mock talent contest/comedy by British comedian Peter Kay who also plays Geraldine. The CD was released on 15 December 2008, with the download available a day earlier. It was a charity single with proceeds going to the NSPCC. The song was co-written by Peter Kay and Gary Barlow. In 2016, an instrumental version of the song served as the theme tune to BBC One's compilation series \\\"Peter Kay's Comedy Shuffle\\\". The video for \\\"Once\",\n \"title\": \"Once Upon a Christmas Song\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"13496196\",\n \"text\": \"Graham Bencini Graham Bencini (born 25 July 1976 in Sliema, Malta) is a former professional footballer who last played for Maltese First Division side Tarxien Rainbows, where he played as a defender. Bencini played twice for the Malta national team in 1999, once in a friendly match against Bosnia and Herzegovina and once in a Euro 2000 qualifier against FR Yugoslavia. Bencini began playing football when he was eight years old. He joined the Sliema Wanderers nursery, where he stayed for ten years winning all youth championship honours during that time. At 18 years old, Graham was promoted to the\",\n \"title\": \"Graham Bencini\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"16005290\",\n \"text\": \"Would You Rather...? with Graham Norton Would You Rather...? with Graham Norton is a panel game hosted by Graham Norton on BBC America. The show features a panel of American comedians and celebrities who answer \\\"would you rather\\\" questions in the style of the popular parlor game. An example of a question used on the program is, \\\"Would you rather watch your parents have sex every day for a year, or join in once just to make it stop?\\\" The show premiered on 3 December 2011, in its regular time slot of Saturdays at 11 pm following \\\"The Graham Norton\",\n \"title\": \"Would You Rather...? with Graham Norton\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"16122622\",\n \"text\": \"Sheriff Graham can volunteer at the animal shelter. While on patrol, Emma sees a person climbing out of the Mayor's home. As she stops to capture the individual, she is shocked to see that it is none other than Sheriff Graham himself and realizes he is having an affair with Regina. Disgusted, Emma storms off and tells the Sheriff he can finish her shift. Meanwhile, in the Enchanted Forest, Prince James (Dallas) competes in a battle against a challenger, preparing for his acceptance from King Midas (Alex Zahara) to slay a dragon as part of a deal between him and\",\n \"title\": \"The Shepherd (Once Upon a Time)\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"11323697\",\n \"text\": \"pidgin fairy tale plays which would include sequels \\\"Once Upon One Noddah Time\\\" and \\\"Once Upon One Kapakahi Time\\\", as well as \\\"Happily Eva Afta\\\" and \\\"On Dragonfly Wings\\\". In 1995, she founded ‘Ōhi‘a Productions, a company which still produces some of her shows; she and her cousin Michael Furuya jointly chose the name, which refers to the plant \\\"Metrosideros polymorpha\\\", known locally as \\\"ʻōhiʻa lehua\\\". However, she began to move beyond her standard formula with \\\"The Princess and the Iso Peanut\\\", first performed at the Diamond Head Theatre in July 1999. \\\"The Princess and the Iso Peanut\\\", based on\",\n \"title\": \"Lisa Matsumoto\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"18322647\",\n \"text\": \"will remember her eventually, but when he asked if she needs his help, the Snow Queen declined, and stated that when she's ready to make a deal, she'll come to him. Gold says that he eagerly awaits that moment and walks away. As Emma tries to remember her past encounter with the Snow Queen, Hook confronts her, and explains that after losing Neal, Graham and Walsh, she did not want to lose Hook either. They then share a kiss together. While all this is going on, Regina and Henry team up to attempt to find out the identity of who\",\n \"title\": \"Rocky Road (Once Upon a Time)\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"20344352\",\n \"text\": \"The Serpent (Once Upon a Time in Wonderland) \\\"The Serpent\\\" is the fourth episode of the \\\"Once Upon a Time\\\" spin-off series \\\"Once Upon a Time in Wonderland\\\". The Knave of Hearts is kidnapped by the Red Queen (on behalf of Jafar) after saving him from Caterpillar's Collectors. Jafar wants him publicly beheaded to serve as an example of what happens to anyone who helps Alice. Alice befriends a collector named \\\"Lizard\\\" who helps Alice in her mission to rescue the Knave of Hearts. Meanwhile, the Red Queen is hesitant to kill the Knave since she's still in love with\",\n \"title\": \"The Serpent (Once Upon a Time in Wonderland)\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"14468991\",\n \"text\": \"\\\"Tu vuò fà l'americano\\\" in another. In another scene the Italian song \\\"La Bambola\\\" by Patty Pravo plays. \\\"Once Upon a Time in the West\\\", with Henry Fonda facing off as villain in a gunfight, is playing on a television on the back wall of a modest restaurant where Jack has been eating. In the DVD commentary, Corbijn notes this homage and says the American Western—and more specifically the Italian-American spaghetti westerns by Leone and others—were explicit models for \\\"The American\\\". Corbijn also notes the Ennio Morricone scores made famous in \\\"Once Upon a Time in the West\\\", \\\"The Good,\",\n \"title\": \"The American (2010 film)\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"16138453\",\n \"text\": \"the Queen seemingly comfort each other over the loss. The Queen consults her magic mirror (Esposito) to ask how she can kill Snow, who is beloved by the people but a threat to her bid for the throne. She says that the king's knights will not kill his daughter, and the mirror tells her that she needs a huntsman. As Graham saw in his flashbacks, the Huntsman (Dornan) and his brother wolf seem to enjoy living a peaceful life in the woods. The Huntsman kills only for himself to live, and has no compassion for humans, who do not understand\",\n \"title\": \"The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (Once Upon a Time)\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"5365318\",\n \"text\": \"A Time: The Singles\\\" the 7th Greatest Album of All-Time by a Female Artist. In 2012, \\\"Rolling Stone\\\" ranked the album 44th on its \\\"Women Who Rock: The 50 Greatest Albums of All Time\\\" list. A vinyl 180g reissue is scheduled to be released for early 2019. Once Upon a Time: The Singles Once Upon a Time: The Singles is Siouxsie and the Banshees's 1981 compilation album featuring the band's UK single releases to date. The album featured several songs that had been released as singles yet had not appeared on any of the Banshees' four albums. \\\"Once Upon a\",\n \"title\": \"Once Upon a Time: The Singles\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"16131743\",\n \"text\": \"Neal, equally rebellious and feeling abandoned by his own father. As Emma stays in Storybrooke and is soon elected as Sheriff following the sudden death of the previous Sheriff, Graham Humbert (Jamie Dornan), who was really the Huntsman, Regina's antagonistic attitude raises her suspicions and prompts her to move in with Henry's teacher Mary Margaret Blanchard, who is really her mother Snow White. Regina's bitter rivalry with Storybrooke's wealthiest resident, Mr. Gold, becomes heated when she learns he is aware of his true identity as Rumplestiltskin when she asks about Emma's relationship to the curse. Mary Margaret falls in love\",\n \"title\": \"Once Upon a Time (season 1)\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"16131755\",\n \"text\": \"7, 2013 in paperback form. Once Upon a Time (season 1) The first season of the ABC television series \\\"Once Upon a Time\\\" premiered on October 23, 2011 and concluded on May 13, 2012. The series was created by Edward Kitsis and Adam Horowitz. The series centers around the Enchanted Forest and Storybrooke, and the Evil Queen's (Lana Parrilla) plot to destroy everyone's happiness so she can be the only one with a happy ending. \\\"Once Upon a Time\\\"s first season received generally favorable reviews from critics who praised its cast, visuals, and twists on fairy tales, though some criticized\",\n \"title\": \"Once Upon a Time (season 1)\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"16131738\",\n \"text\": \"Once Upon a Time (season 1) The first season of the ABC television series \\\"Once Upon a Time\\\" premiered on October 23, 2011 and concluded on May 13, 2012. The series was created by Edward Kitsis and Adam Horowitz. The series centers around the Enchanted Forest and Storybrooke, and the Evil Queen's (Lana Parrilla) plot to destroy everyone's happiness so she can be the only one with a happy ending. \\\"Once Upon a Time\\\"s first season received generally favorable reviews from critics who praised its cast, visuals, and twists on fairy tales, though some criticized its uneven tone. The pilot\",\n \"title\": \"Once Upon a Time (season 1)\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"16744737\",\n \"text\": \"Graham Burke Graham Dylan Burke (born 21 September 1993) is an Irish professional footballer who plays as a forward for Championship club Preston North End. Burke has represented the Republic of Ireland at senior level. Burke was born in Dublin. He was first called up to a first-team matchday squad for Aston Villa's 2–0 home defeat against Bolton Wanderers in the third round of the League Cup on 20 September 2011, remaining an unused substitute. On 18 December he was included in the squad for the first time in the Premier League, again unused in a loss by the same\",\n \"title\": \"Graham Burke\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"17567245\",\n \"text\": \"Jonny Coyne Jonathan Coyne is an English actor, the middle child of a seamstress and a professional footballer. He is best known for playing Warden Edwin James on Fox's short-lived series, \\\"Alcatraz\\\" (2012).<ref name=\\\"http://www.deadline.com\\\"></ref> He also appeared as Dr. Lydgate in \\\"Once Upon a Time in Wonderland\\\" and \\\"Once Upon a Time\\\"<ref name=\\\"http://onceuponatimeinwonderland.com\\\"></ref> and recurred as George de Mohrenschildt in 11.22.63. Coyne's earliest performances were in school plays. He played leading roles in two productions: The Judge in Oscar Wilde's \\\"Hang of the Gaol\\\" and Phaeton in Ovid's \\\"Chariot of the Sun\\\". He won rave reviews for his performances in\",\n \"title\": \"Jonny Coyne\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"16547793\",\n \"text\": \"before the age of majority, and received those letters of dispensation on 7 October 1587. He was married to Mary Campbell on 22 October 1587. Upon his receiving the earldom, the same year that he married, he was again in a lawsuit with his mother over certain lands, which she stated were given to her by her husband, William Graham, the 5th Earl, but were now demanded by John Graham of Fintry, who was tutoring the young Earl at that time. After the lawsuit, a small clash broke out in the lands of Kelwode (Kolwod), where Margaret Graham resided, and\",\n \"title\": \"John Graham, 6th Earl of Menteith\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"5331418\",\n \"text\": \"\\\"Gluefingers\\\" – a name bestowed upon him by Browns announcer Bob Neal – was more widely used. He practiced with Graham tirelessly to refine routes and was not afraid to run over the middle, where he risked a pounding from defenders when the ball came his way. \\\"Dante was the greatest guy at catching a ball in a crowd that I have ever seen,\\\" Brown once said. Among other innovations, he and Graham also mastered sideline patterns at a time when few teams used them. The Browns won another championship in 1954, thanks in part to a strong regular-season performance\",\n \"title\": \"Dante Lavelli\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"15640549\",\n \"text\": \"at the box office without diminishing each other's profits. \\\"Once Upon Time in Mumbai Dobaara\\\" was released on 1,300–1,600 screens for India's 67th Independence Day, and some cinemas were sold out. The screen count increased on 16 August to 2,500–2,700 nationwide. \\\"Once Upon Time in Mumbai Dobaara!\\\" received mixed-to-negative reviews. Anupama Chopra gave the film three out of five stars in \\\"The Hindustan Times\\\": \\\"Once Upon Ay Time in Mumbaai Dobaara! had me cheering for the bad guy. Which, at least in the movies, is never a bad thing. The film gets one extra star for Akshay Kumar, who makes\",\n \"title\": \"Once Upon ay Time in Mumbai Dobaara!\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"12111716\",\n \"text\": \"out for the rest of the season. Wade Graham Wade Graham (born 25 October 1990) is a rugby league footballer who plays for the Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks in the National Rugby League. Graham previously played for the Penrith Panthers between 2008 and 2010 and primarily plays as a and . Graham has represented both Australia and Portugal and is a New South Wales State of Origin, City Origin and Indigenous All Stars representative. Born in Blacktown, New South Wales, Graham is of Indigenous Australian descent. Graham played his junior rugby league for Blacktown City and attended The Hills Sports High School\",\n \"title\": \"Wade Graham\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"12111706\",\n \"text\": \"Wade Graham Wade Graham (born 25 October 1990) is a rugby league footballer who plays for the Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks in the National Rugby League. Graham previously played for the Penrith Panthers between 2008 and 2010 and primarily plays as a and . Graham has represented both Australia and Portugal and is a New South Wales State of Origin, City Origin and Indigenous All Stars representative. Born in Blacktown, New South Wales, Graham is of Indigenous Australian descent. Graham played his junior rugby league for Blacktown City and attended The Hills Sports High School before being signed by the Penrith Panthers.\",\n \"title\": \"Wade Graham\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"7717543\",\n \"text\": \"TV and Movie Stars: Christopher Judge, (Stargate SG-1) and (The Dark Knight Rises); Marina Sirtis, (Star Trek Next generation); David Nykl, (Stargate Atlantis); Wrestling Guest Haku (King Tonga). 4–6 June, Westpac stadium, Wellington Armageddon TV and Movie guests:Rose McIver- (izombie & Once Upon a Time), David Giuntoli (Grimm), Bitsie Tulloch – (Grimm), Natalia Tena (Harry Potter films, Game of Thrones), Robert Picardo (Star Trek Voyager, Stargate Atlantis), Samuel Anderson Doctor Who, Ray Santiago (Ash Vs Evil Dead), Dana DeLorenzo Ash Vs Evil Dead, Ted Raimi (Xena, Seaquest DSV), Tahmoh Penikett Supernatural, Dollhouse, Battlestar Galactica; Cliff Simon Stargate sg1; Graham McTavish\",\n \"title\": \"Armageddon (convention)\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"2435491\",\n \"text\": \"Game in 1970 for his tenth and final time. The college stars lost for the seventh time in a row that year, falling 24–3 to the Kansas City Chiefs. He was replaced in 1971 by Blanton Collier, who had retired after succeeding Brown as Cleveland's head coach. In 1974, Graham was named Coast Guard's football coach once again, although he resigned two years later to focus on his duties as athletic director. In nine years of coaching, Graham's Coast Guard teams had a combined record of 44–32–1. After eight more years as the school's athletic director, Graham retired in 1984.\",\n \"title\": \"Otto Graham\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"11254713\",\n \"text\": \"down, the Sooners elected to make their first punt. On the next Tech possession, Graham Harrell was sacked on two consecutive plays, once by Adrian Taylor and the other by Gerald McCoy. Coming into the game, the Red Raiders ranked second in the nation in sacks allowed, with only 5. The Sooners ended the first quarter with a 42-yard reception by tight end Jermaine Gresham and two rushes by Chris Brown for a combined 12 yards. Once the second quarter commenced, both Brown and Gresham moved the ball for a touchdown on three different plays. Tech started their next drive\",\n \"title\": \"2008 Texas Tech Red Raiders football team\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"18150699\",\n \"text\": \"Helpert. She plays Sam Walden, a teenager surviving as one of the last people on an abandoned post-cataclysmic Earth, who is racing to find a cure for her poisoned home world before the last shuttle off the planet to the distant human space colony leaves her stranded. In 2019, Qualley will appear in Quentin Tarantino's upcoming film \\\"Once Upon a Time in Hollywood\\\", playing a character named Kitty Kat. In 2015, Qualley appeared in the short promotional film \\\"L’Américaine\\\" for American fashion label Tory Burch. The film was directed by Dianna Agron, who would later be Qualley's costar on \\\"Novitiate\\\".\",\n \"title\": \"Margaret Qualley\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"11801836\",\n \"text\": \"Once Upon a Time (2008 film) Once Upon a Time () is a 2008 South Korean film, directed by Jeong Yong-ki and adapted from a screenplay by Cheon Seong-il. The film is a heist comedy film set in 1940s Korea, and stars Park Yong-woo and Lee Bo-young as a con artist and a jazz singer, respectively, who each plot to steal a valuable diamond from the Japanese authorities. \\\"Once Upon a Time\\\" was the first major investment by SK Telecom's film division, established late 2007, and was released in South Korea on January 30, 2008, under the company's CH Entertainment\",\n \"title\": \"Once Upon a Time (2008 film)\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"15475189\",\n \"text\": \"Guy Adams Guy Adams (born 6 January 1976) is an English author, comedian, and actor, possibly best known for the novel \\\"The World House\\\". Adams is also a regular writer for Big Finish productions, who produce audio plays based on \\\"Doctor Who\\\", as well as several other properties. Adams has also written several books for the Doctor Who franchise, including the BBC Books \\\"Torchwood\\\" novel, \\\"The House That Jack Built\\\". Adams second book in his The Heaven's Gate Chronicles series, entitled \\\"Once Upon Time in Hell\\\" was published in January 2014. First book was also published in the 2013 and\",\n \"title\": \"Guy Adams\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"18322635\",\n \"text\": \"Rocky Road (Once Upon a Time) \\\"Rocky Road\\\" is the third episode of the fourth season of the American fantasy drama series \\\"Once Upon a Time\\\", which aired on October 12, 2014. In this episode, Elsa is framed, while flashbacks show Elsa meeting her aunt, The Snow Queen. This episode marks the introduction of Michael Socha as Will Scarlet to the main cast, who recently featured in the spin-off series \\\"Once Upon a Time in Wonderland\\\". The Snow Queen's ice cream shop, \\\"Any Given Sundae\\\", is shown in the forest. The Arendelle events take place after \\\"A Tale of Two\",\n \"title\": \"Rocky Road (Once Upon a Time)\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"18322653\",\n \"text\": \"themselves.\\\" \\\"TV Fanatic\\\" gave the episode 4.6 out of 5 stars. Rocky Road (Once Upon a Time) \\\"Rocky Road\\\" is the third episode of the fourth season of the American fantasy drama series \\\"Once Upon a Time\\\", which aired on October 12, 2014. In this episode, Elsa is framed, while flashbacks show Elsa meeting her aunt, The Snow Queen. This episode marks the introduction of Michael Socha as Will Scarlet to the main cast, who recently featured in the spin-off series \\\"Once Upon a Time in Wonderland\\\". The Snow Queen's ice cream shop, \\\"Any Given Sundae\\\", is shown in the\",\n \"title\": \"Rocky Road (Once Upon a Time)\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"16138449\",\n \"text\": \"them because she is putting up a \\\"wall\\\" to keep herself from getting hurt. The sheriff finds the wolf in the woods, and when he whistles, the wolf goes to him. As he pets the wolf's head, he sees himself holding a knife, about to hurt the woman he only knows as Mary Margaret. Graham pays a visit to her classroom, telling her that he believes they know each other from another life, before Storybrooke. Mary Margaret assumes that the sheriff has been talking to Henry, and while this is not the case, this gives Graham the idea to consult\",\n \"title\": \"The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (Once Upon a Time)\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"9044640\",\n \"text\": \"\\\"Shot Caller\\\". In 2016, he appears in \\\"Preacher (TV series)\\\". He plays one of Odin's employee's named Verne, first appearing in the episode \\\"SEE\\\", seen playing poker. The Dean of Mean makes a brief cameo in Once Upon a Time in Venice where he clobbers Bruce Willis character after failing to repay a debt. Jardine also plays Dyer Howe, a member of Frank Griffin's gang in the Netflix series 'Godless' released in November, 2017. He will appear, as the character Pete, in Vincent D'Onofrio 2019 film \\\"The Kid\\\". Jardine is currently engaged to MMA Women's Atomweight fighter Jodie Esquibel, who\",\n \"title\": \"Keith Jardine\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"13030078\",\n \"text\": \"Once Upon a Time in Springfield \\\"Once Upon a Time in Springfield\\\" is the tenth episode of \\\"The Simpsons\\\" twenty-first season. It originally aired on the Fox network in the United States on January 10, 2010. It was promoted as the 450th episode of the series, but is actually the 451st, and aired alongside \\\"The Simpsons 20th Anniversary Special – In 3-D! On Ice!\\\". The episode is dedicated to Eartha Kitt, who died December 25, 2008, over one year before the episode first aired. In the episode, \\\"The Krusty the Clown Show\\\" is once again reconstructed. This time, in a\",\n \"title\": \"Once Upon a Time in Springfield\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"17598348\",\n \"text\": \"Down the Rabbit Hole (Once Upon a Time in Wonderland) \\\"Down the Rabbit Hole\\\" is the first episode of the \\\"Once Upon a Time\\\" spin-off series \\\"Once Upon a Time in Wonderland\\\". The premiere received generally positive reviews from critics, despite low ratings; the episode was watched by 5.8 million viewers. A title card which states \\\"Once Upon a Time...\\\" Alice (Sophie Lowe) returns home to her father (Shaun Smyth), who tells her that everyone thought she was dead. Her imaginative stories about a talking White Rabbit (John Lithgow) and a mystical place called Wonderland end up get the attention\",\n \"title\": \"Down the Rabbit Hole (Once Upon a Time in Wonderland)\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"5022967\",\n \"text\": \"the Collector, Henry Woolf, had deep bushy eyebrows, very reminiscent of the then-Chancellor of the Exchequer, Denis Healey. However, Holmes presented the villains of the piece as working for a private corporation rather than a government. The director had originally intended that the giant credit cards featured in the story should resemble Barclaycards. This was vetoed by producer Graham Williams who said that it would be free publicity for the bank. Near the end of Part Two, when prompted by Mandrel for a story, the Doctor begins, \\\"Once upon a time, there were three sisters...\\\" mirroring the same story he\",\n \"title\": \"The Sun Makers\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"16532966\",\n \"text\": \"potential to become recurring. \\\"Caprica\\\" actor John Pyper-Ferguson guest starred in \\\"Welcome to Storybrooke\\\" as Kurt Flynn, a widower who longs to aid his son after experiencing the loss of his mother. Season one co-star Jamie Dornan also reprised his role as Sheriff Graham Humbert in the episode. Since the first season, \\\"Kings\\\" actor Sebastian Stan had portrayed Jefferson/The Mad Hatter in a recurring role; he has since departed from the show with obligations to the Broadway play \\\"Picnic\\\" and the feature film \\\"\\\". It was reported that ABC was set to recast the role with the potential for a\",\n \"title\": \"Once Upon a Time (season 2)\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"16018009\",\n \"text\": \"out. She is arrested and taken to Storybrooke Jail. When Henry runs away again, Emma makes a deal with the Mayor and Sheriff Graham (Jamie Dornan): if they release her, she will find him. After exhausting all possibilities she speaks with Mary Margaret, who tells Emma to \\\"Check his castle.\\\" After finding Henry at a wooden jungle gym (which bears a resemblance to Prince Charming's castle), they talk and Emma decides to stay in Storybrooke temporarily, especially after Regina warns her to leave town. This leads Emma to be suspicious of the mayor's motives. Shortly after her conversation with Emma,\",\n \"title\": \"Pilot (Once Upon a Time)\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"18830988\",\n \"text\": \"that Adam Croasdell was cast as Hook's father, who will appear in a flashback before the midseason finale, and was later revealed to be called Brennan. The fifth episode, \\\"Dreamcatcher\\\", saw the introduction of Ryan Robbins as Sir Morgan, Violet's father, and Guy Fauchon as Vortigan. The sixth episode of the season, \\\"The Bear and the Bow\\\", introduced Paul Telfer as Lord Macintosh, Marco D'Angelo as Lord MacGuffin and Josh Hallem as Lord Dingwall while the seventh episode, \\\"Nimue\\\", saw the introductions of Jason Simpson as Adda, Caroline Ford as Nimue, Darren Moore as Vortigan and Graham Verchere as a\",\n \"title\": \"Once Upon a Time (season 5)\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"9854969\",\n \"text\": \"Once Upon a Time in China IV Once Upon a Time in China IV is a 1993 Hong Kong–Chinese martial arts film and the fourth installment in the \\\"Once Upon a Time in China\\\" film series. It was directed by Yuen Bun and produced by Tsui Hark, who directed the first three films. Vincent Zhao starred as Chinese martial arts master and folk hero of Cantonese ethnicity, Wong Fei-hung, who was portrayed by Jet Li in the first three films. The film is set in Beijing, China in 1900 during the Qing dynasty. Wong Fei-hung plans to return to Foshan\",\n \"title\": \"Once Upon a Time in China IV\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"13869405\",\n \"text\": \"first place on TV.com, both episodes sharing an 8.8 over 10. Todd VanDerWerff of \\\"The A.V. Club\\\" rated this episode a C-. Once Upon a Time in Texas \\\"Once Upon a Time in Texas\\\" is the seventh episode of the fourth season of the NBC science fiction drama series \\\"Heroes\\\" and sixty-sixth episode overall. The episode aired on November 2, 2009. Hiro Nakamura arrives three years in the past to save the love of his life, Charlie Andrews. Shortly after arriving, Hiro encounters Sylar, who proceeds into the diner. Charlie pours coffee for her would-be assassin, who startles her after\",\n \"title\": \"Once Upon a Time in Texas\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"12877682\",\n \"text\": \"Waiting in the Wings (play) Waiting in the Wings is a play by Noël Coward. Set in a retirement home for actresses, it focuses on a feud between residents Lotta Bainbridge and May Davenport, who once both loved the same man. \\\"Waiting in the Wings\\\" was Coward's fiftieth play. It premiered in Dublin on 8 August 1960 at the Olympia Theatre, and in the West End at the Duke of York's Theatre on 7 September 1960. It was directed by Margaret Webster and starred Sybil Thorndike, Lewis Casson, Marie Lohr and Graham Payn. Binkie Beaumont, who usually presented Coward's plays\",\n \"title\": \"Waiting in the Wings (play)\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"10419574\",\n \"text\": \"Graham Callinan Graham Callinan (born 1982 in Blackpool, Cork) is an Irish sportsperson. He plays hurling with his local club Glen Rovers and has been a member of the Cork senior inter-county team since 2008. Callanan plays club hurling with Glen Rovers, one of the most famous clubs of all-time. He first came to prominence with 'the Glen' as a member of the minor hurling team. In 1999 he lined out in the final of the county minor championship, with Erin's Own providing the opposition. Callanan ended up on the losing side on that occasion as the men from East\",\n \"title\": \"Graham Callinan\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"6741022\",\n \"text\": \"kids. \\\"Ben 10: Race Against Time\\\" is the first film in the series. It revolves around Ben (Graham Phillips), Gwen (Haley Ramm) and Grandpa Max (Lee Majors) returning to their hometown of Bellwood and attempting to adjust to being ‘normal’ again. Unfortunately, their lives are once again disrupted by a mysterious alien known as Eon (Christien Anholt), who has an unexpected connection to the Omnitrix. \\\"Ben 10: Alien Swarm\\\" is the second film in the series. It is about Ben (Ryan Kelley), Gwen (Galadriel Stineman), Kevin (Nathan Keyes) and Grandpa Max (Barry Corbin). In the movie the group stumbles upon\",\n \"title\": \"Ben 10 (2005 TV series)\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"15283296\",\n \"text\": \"in a friend's home studio in Drogheda and sent it to the United States. He plays guitar and sings in a band called The Enemies, formed in 2003 in Ireland. In 2012, O'Donoghue was cast as Captain Hook/Killian Jones in the second season of the hit ABC series \\\"Once Upon a Time\\\". In 2014, O'Donoghue was cast as the main character in \\\"The Dust Storm\\\", an independent film set in Nashville, Tennessee as a musician called \\\"Brennan\\\". Christina Perri wrote a song, \\\"The Words\\\", which she dedicated to Colin's character (Captain Hook) in \\\"Once Upon a Time\\\". O'Donoghue was part\",\n \"title\": \"Colin O'Donoghue\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"17605841\",\n \"text\": \"Forget Me Not (Once Upon a Time in Wonderland) \\\"Forget Me Not\\\" is the third episode of the \\\"Once Upon a Time\\\" spin-off series \\\"Once Upon a Time in Wonderland\\\". With the Genie's bottle in her clutches, the Red Queen sends the Bandersnatch after Alice since Jafar needs her in order to use Cyrus (who is discovered to have contacted her). Alice and the Knave of Hearts head to the house of the Grendel in the Whispering Woods to obtain the Forget-Me-Knot so that they can find out who stole Cyrus's bottle before Jafar could steal it. In the Knave\",\n \"title\": \"Forget Me Not (Once Upon a Time in Wonderland)\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"9220189\",\n \"text\": \"he believed that the gunman was high on cocaine at the time of the shooting, and they both believed that Graham was only wounded, as he was last seen still alive, on all fours beside his car. In 1998, Northumbria Police questioned five men about an alleged conspiracy to murder the bouncer. In 2002, Tyneside career criminal Lee Shaun Watson turned supergrass, after he admitted the murder of Freddie Knights in Longbenton, Newcastle upon Tyne. During the 'Knights Murder Trial', the jury at Leeds Crown Court heard how Watson had told police who was responsible for the shooting of Graham.\",\n \"title\": \"Viv Graham\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"11809087\",\n \"text\": \"Karen David Karen Shenaz David (born 15 April 1979 or 1980) is an Indo-Canadian actress, singer and songwriter, who is best known for portraying Princess Isabella Maria Lucia Elizabetta of Valencia in ABC's fairytale-themed musical-comedy television series, \\\"Galavant\\\", as well as Francesca \\\"Cesca\\\" Montoya in the BBC television series \\\"Waterloo Road\\\", and Layla in the American action film \\\"\\\". She starred as Angela in the ITV television series \\\"Cold Feet\\\" and plays Princess Jasmine (from \\\"Aladdin\\\") in the American television series \\\"Once Upon a Time\\\". David also starred in \\\"Pixelface\\\", a CBBC children's television series, where she plays Alexia, the\",\n \"title\": \"Karen David\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"8277676\",\n \"text\": \"led K-State to the Rose Bowl in 1931 before getting injured. Following his senior season, Graham was a starter in the East–West Shrine Game, becoming the first Kansas State football player to be named to an all-star game. Graham graduated as the all-time leading scorer at Kansas State, and held that record for 64 years until it was surpassed by kicker Martín Gramática in 1997. Upon graduation in 1934, Graham entered the football coaching profession as an assistant to McMillin, who moved from Kansas State to Indiana University that season. Graham remained an assistant football and basketball coach at Indiana\",\n \"title\": \"Ralph Graham\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"13869394\",\n \"text\": \"Once Upon a Time in Texas \\\"Once Upon a Time in Texas\\\" is the seventh episode of the fourth season of the NBC science fiction drama series \\\"Heroes\\\" and sixty-sixth episode overall. The episode aired on November 2, 2009. Hiro Nakamura arrives three years in the past to save the love of his life, Charlie Andrews. Shortly after arriving, Hiro encounters Sylar, who proceeds into the diner. Charlie pours coffee for her would-be assassin, who startles her after Sylar reveals he knows about her aneurysm. Hiro watches from afar, wondering how he can stop Sylar. Meanwhile, in the present, Samuel\",\n \"title\": \"Once Upon a Time in Texas\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"20299524\",\n \"text\": \"to positive reviews with critics citing Mekia Cox's performance helped lifted a less impressive story in this installment, but saved the best takeaways for Adelaide Kane during the episode's final scene. Paul Dailly of \\\"TV Fanatic\\\" gave it a 4.2 out of 5 stars: “‘Greenbacks' was another solid episode of Once Upon a Time Season 7. There have been some rough points in this rebooted version of the show, but it is finally finding its footing, and I cannot wait to see how the rest of the season plays out.” \\\"Entertainment Weekly\\\"'s Justin Kirkland gave it a B. Nick Hogan\",\n \"title\": \"Greenbacks (Once Upon a Time)\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"20630751\",\n \"text\": \"it constantly keeps you guessing.\\\" The Bombmaker The Bombmaker is a two-part British television drama serial, written and created by Stephen Leather, and directed by Graham Theakston. It first broadcast on Sky One on 8 April 2001, with the second and final episode following a week later on 15 April. The series, based upon Leather's novel of the same name, stars Dervla Kirwan as Andrea Hayes, a former IRA bombmaker who is forced to come out of retirement when her daughter is kidnapped and held to ransom. Mark Womack stars as Andrea's husband Martin, while Ciara Lyons plays the role\",\n \"title\": \"The Bombmaker\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"20630748\",\n \"text\": \"The Bombmaker The Bombmaker is a two-part British television drama serial, written and created by Stephen Leather, and directed by Graham Theakston. It first broadcast on Sky One on 8 April 2001, with the second and final episode following a week later on 15 April. The series, based upon Leather's novel of the same name, stars Dervla Kirwan as Andrea Hayes, a former IRA bombmaker who is forced to come out of retirement when her daughter is kidnapped and held to ransom. Mark Womack stars as Andrea's husband Martin, while Ciara Lyons plays the role of her daughter, Katie. David\",\n \"title\": \"The Bombmaker\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"8525777\",\n \"text\": \"2006 preseasons, leading former coach Jon Gruden to dub him \\\"Mr. August\\\". However, he was not given the opportunity to carry the ball once the regular season began. Instead, Graham played extensively on special teams, leading the team in special teams tackles in 2005 and 2006. Graham started the 2007 season playing predominantly on special teams once again. However, injuries to Bucs' running backs Carnell Williams, Mike Alstott, Michael Pittman allowed Graham to get significant playing at running back for the first time in his pro career. He scored the first two touchdowns of his career on September 23, 2007\",\n \"title\": \"Earnest Graham\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"20500062\",\n \"text\": \"to the extended Scotland national team training squad. In October 2018 Graham was called up again to the training squad; he was then promoted to the main squad. He was selected on the bench against Wales on 3 November 2018. Darcy Graham Darcy Graham (born 21 July 1997) is a Scottish Rugby Union player who plays for Edinburgh Rugby as a winger or fullback. Graham played for Hawick Rugby Club, playing in the Scottish Cup final aged only 17. Having been a Scottish Rugby Academy stage 2 player, in 2017 Graham was signed by Edinburgh on a two year professional\",\n \"title\": \"Darcy Graham\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"11254685\",\n \"text\": \"scored rushing touchdowns to bring the final score to 49–24. During the game, the Red Raiders rushed 25 time for a total of 103 yards. Quarterback Graham Harrell completed 43 out of 58 pass attempts for 536 yards, two touchdowns and was intercepted once. He was named AT&T ESPN All-America Player of the Week for his performance. The team had a school record 18 penalties for 169 yards. The Red Raiders started off with the ball to begin the game. After failing to get a first down on the first three plays, Texas Tech decided to go for it on\",\n \"title\": \"2008 Texas Tech Red Raiders football team\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"20714838\",\n \"text\": \"Wish Granny who have fallen on tough times. It was cut for time, because it was the only scene that could be cut without disrupting the whole flow. However, the scene can still be seen in promotional pictures. This scene is included on the Once Upon a Time: The Complete Seventh and Final Season Blu-ray, but not the DVD. The episode received good reviews. \\\"TV Fanatic\\\" gave the episode a 4.0 out of 5 stars. \\\"Entertainment Weekly\\\"'s Justin Kirkland gave the episode no ratings. Homecoming (Once Upon a Time) \\\"Homecoming\\\" is the twenty-first episode of the seventh season and the\",\n \"title\": \"Homecoming (Once Upon a Time)\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"15296798\",\n \"text\": \"Once Upon a Time in Anatolia Once Upon a Time in Anatolia () is a 2011 internationally co-produced drama film, co-written and directed by Nuri Bilge Ceylan based on the true experience of one of the film's writers, telling the story of a group of men who search for a dead body on the Anatolian steppe. The film, which went on nationwide general release across Turkey on , premiered at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival where it was a co-winner of the Grand Prix. Through the night, three cars carry a small group of menpolice officers, a doctor, a prosecutor,\",\n \"title\": \"Once Upon a Time in Anatolia\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"15296813\",\n \"text\": \"film critics from around the world. Once Upon a Time in Anatolia Once Upon a Time in Anatolia () is a 2011 internationally co-produced drama film, co-written and directed by Nuri Bilge Ceylan based on the true experience of one of the film's writers, telling the story of a group of men who search for a dead body on the Anatolian steppe. The film, which went on nationwide general release across Turkey on , premiered at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival where it was a co-winner of the Grand Prix. Through the night, three cars carry a small group of\",\n \"title\": \"Once Upon a Time in Anatolia\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"9977166\",\n \"text\": \"18 June 2007 at 19:20 (BST) on Radio 1. \\\"Once Upon a Time in the West\\\" was finally released on 3 September 2007. The band launched the album on the midnight of release at Virgin Megastore in Oxford Street, London with a performance of a selected number of songs followed by a CD signing. The following day the band performed at Maida Vale Studios to a small audience who earned their tickets through Radio 1. On 9 September, \\\"Once Upon a Time in the West\\\" went straight in at #1 in the Album Charts, giving the band their second consecutive\",\n \"title\": \"Once Upon a Time in the West (album)\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"18356735\",\n \"text\": \"about the photos and to seek out Sidney's help, offers to help Regina revive Marian, with Regina telling Emma that she'll never have her back and vice versa. As this plays out, Elsa starts seeing what looks like Anna in the cemetery calling out for help, and she gets out of the vehicle. Emma then races out and finds her missing, followed by Regina, who then opens her compact mirror to see Sidney, who informs her that he found Ingrid. Wasting no time tracking Elsa to the east of the toll bridge, Emma and Regina walk through the woods when\",\n \"title\": \"Breaking Glass (Once Upon a Time)\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"19950527\",\n \"text\": \"leave Storybrooke. Later, as the Queen wishes for a fresh start, she is sent to the Wish Realm, where she reunites with Robin in a local bar. True to the image on Page 23, a bond begins to blossom. Josh Dallas, Robert Carlyle, and Emile de Ravin are credited but do not appear in this episode. Hesham Hammoud, who plays the Crewman in this episode, also played Ghazi in the \\\"Once Upon a Time in Wonderland\\\" episode \\\"Who's Alice\\\". The title of this episode was revealed by Adam Horowitz via his Twitter account on November 30, 2016. The title of\",\n \"title\": \"Page 23\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"10152675\",\n \"text\": \"the 2007 NFL Draft. In 2008, Graham started at cornerback alongside longtime Bear Charles Tillman. Graham registered his first career interception on October 19, 2008 off of Minnesota Vikings quarterback Gus Frerotte. Graham also recorded 91 tackles in the 2008 season. Graham was selected to his first Pro Bowl in 2011 after a season in which he recorded 16 total tackles, deflected three passes, forced a fumble, and caught three interceptions. Graham signed with the Baltimore Ravens on March 23, 2012. 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As of 14 December 2005, the album had shipped\",\n \"title\": \"Once Upon a Time (S.H.E album)\"\n }\n]","isConversational":false}}},{"rowIdx":283,"cells":{"query_id":{"kind":"string","value":"285"},"query":{"kind":"string","value":"x factor judges thought she was lip syncing"},"answers":{"kind":"list like","value":["Aida Yurijivna Nikolaychuk"],"string":"[\n \"Aida Yurijivna Nikolaychuk\"\n]","isConversational":false},"positive_passages":{"kind":"list like","value":[{"docid":"17585239","text":"Aida Nikolaychuk Aida Yurijivna Nikolaychuk, sometimes spelled Nikolaichuk, () is a Ukrainian pop singer and model. She was the winner of the third season of Ukraine's \"X-Factor\" TV talent competition in 2012. She drew special attention during the show's second season when judges interrupted her performance of Polina Gagarina's \"Lullaby\" (Колыбельная, Kalybelnaya), suspecting her voice was actually a digital recording. They challenged her to sing the song \"a cappella\". 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She started singing in the first grade,\",\n \"title\": \"Aida Nikolaychuk\"\n }\n]","isConversational":false},"negative_passages":{"kind":"list like","value":[{"docid":"14917675","text":"recording of \"The X Factor\". On 24 October, Cole performed \"Promise This\" on \"The X Factor\"'s results show. She donned a white tuxedo jacket, \"frilly black knickers,\" knee-high zebra print tights, and leather boots and was joined by multiple back-up dancers. She \"showcased her vocal and dancing skills with an energetic, raunchy routine that earned a standing ovation from her fellow judges.\" Similar to her 2009 performance of \"Fight for This Love\" on \"The X Factor\", the media speculated whether Cole lip synced or not. An ITV spokesperson insisted that Cole did not mime, although the performance was pre-recorded. \"The","title":"Messy Little Raindrops"},{"docid":"20129400","text":"the other hand, Michael Arceneaux of \"The Root\" was more critical of Braxton; he thought she was lip syncing and overly dramatic. For Braxton's appearance on the game show \"Hip Hop Squares\", host DeRay Davis joked that she was lip syncing during the performance. In an interview with the radio show \"The Breakfast Club\", Braxton responded that she is close friends with Davis. Credits adapted from the liner notes of \"My Man\". My Man (Tamar Braxton song) \"My Man\" is a song recorded by American singer Tamar Braxton from her fifth studio album \"Bluebird of Happiness\" (2017). It was released","title":"My Man (Tamar Braxton song)"},{"docid":"9544633","text":"Allen song \"Cheryl Tweedy\" was written about her. It has been widely reported that Cheryl lip-syncs during live performances. Whilst performing \"Fight for this Love\" in 2009 on \"The X Factor\", media speculated that the performance was mimed, something that she denied though she admitted to having some pre-recorded vocals to help the live performance. In 2010, during her second performance on \"The X Factor\", in which she performed \"Promise This\", she \"showcased her vocal and dancing skills with an energetic, raunchy routine that earned a standing ovation from her fellow judges.\" Similar to her 2009 performance of \"Fight for","title":"Cheryl (singer)"},{"docid":"14916775","text":"X Factor\"'s results show. She donned a white tuxedo jacket, \"frilly black knickers,\" knee-high zebra print tights, and leather boots and was joined by multiple back-up dancers. She \"showcased her vocal and dancing skills with an energetic, raunchy routine that earned a standing ovation from her fellow judges.\" Similar to her 2009 performance of \"Fight for This Love\" on \"The X Factor\", the media speculated whether Cole lip synced or not. An ITV spokesperson insisted that Cole did not mime, although the performance was pre-recorded. British recording artist Adele covered \"Promise This\" on 27 January 2011 for BBC Radio 1's","title":"Promise This"},{"docid":"17242797","text":"in the bottom two, lip syncing against Vivienne Pinay to Britney Spears' Oops I Did It Again. After the performance, both Mulugeta and Pinay were eliminated in a double elimination. After Mulugeta was eliminated, when asked to choose who he would like to win, he picked Seattle-based Jinkx Monsoon, who did end up taking the crown. At the beginning of season 6 of \"Drag Race\", Mulugeta stated that he was \"Team Courtney\" for who should win, referring to Courtney Act. Mulugeta and Act had met when both auditioned for \"The X Factor\". In 2010, Mulugeta released a cover of Adele’s","title":"Honey Mahogany"},{"docid":"20583504","text":"left side, or a tone-deaf vocalist on the right which is matched to a designated contestant. Identify the skilled vocalists who are lip-syncing to their own voice and the tone-deaf vocalists who are lip-syncing to someone else's voice that have their similar voice tone. Both the contestant and lip-sync substitute appeared together and they are lip-syncing to the same song, but only one is the lip-sync owner. They must perform lip syncing with a non-lyrical part of a song (i.e. screaming, whistling, or interjective words), or the lip syncing voice may be replaced by 'nonsense sound effects' (i.e. animal sounds,","title":"I Can See Your Voice"},{"docid":"12713033","text":"On 18 November a teaser trailer was released showing Ryan Tubridy lip syncing All I Want For Christmas in an X Factor-style singing contest. A three-part documentary, \"The Late Late Toy Show Unwrapped\", was also shown in the three days leading up to the show from Wednesday 30 November and followed the toy show performers through the auditions and preparations stages for the toy show, this was presented by Nicky Byrne Over 125,000 people applied for tickets for the show. There were 200 seats available for the studio audience and tickets were allocated on a lottery basis. Advertisers paid €32,000","title":"The Late Late Toy Show"},{"docid":"11453735","text":"performed a dance routine with several back-up dancers while Jackson played bass guitar with the band. Although she lip-synced, the performance still managed to receive some favorable reviews. A reviewer from MTV wrote, \"sure, her pre-game performance of 'Dance Like There's No Tomorrow' was pretaped. And yes, it certainly looked like she was lip-syncing Cotillard-style. But I have to admit, I thought she nailed it.\" Another MTV review was less kind: \"The painfully '80s Janet Jackson rip-off tune and skinny-tie-era backup dancers made Adbul look like the Mrs. Robinson of dance pop. Judging those kids on 'Idol' just got a","title":"Dance Like There's No Tomorrow"},{"docid":"2462337","text":"he thought had the best voice. Cowell immediately answered that Clarkson did \"by a mile\", noting that she was \"up there\" with other great singers such as Celine Dion. \"Esquire\" wrote that Clarkson has \"the best voice in the history of pop music\". Reviewing \"Stronger\", Jody Rosen of \"Rolling Stone\" states, Clarkson has, \"One of music's most remarkable voices.\" Jason Lipshutz from \"Billboard\" considered Clarkson as one of the greatest singers in pop music. Regarding the controversial practice of lip-syncing, Clarkson claims that she never has, and never will lip-sync, elaborating in an interview with Cory Myers; \"I've actually never","title":"Kelly Clarkson"},{"docid":"17395895","text":"some controversy as Morissette was accused of lip-syncing Ariana Grande's \"Break Free\", after judges praised her for keeping her voice steady despite dancing and singing from one side of the stage to another. She clarified that it was a live performance and that she owed it to the audience to give them one. Before ASAP she recorded the theme song of the drama series \"Moon of Desire\", the self-titled original song composed by Trina Belamide. This served as her first project for ABS-CBN and opened doors for more theme songs on ABS-CBN's \"teleseryes\". On May 2014, Amon held her very","title":"Morissette Amon"},{"docid":"1910428","text":"\"The X Factor\" and was replaced by Rita Ora. She began presenting \"Lip Sync Battle UK\", the British adaption of \"Lip Sync Battle\", on Channel 5 in January 2016, alongside Professor Green. In 2016, Brown guest judged at The X Factor at the London auditions, standing in for Scherzinger, while she had other commitments. In 2016 she announced that the Spice Girls – except for Victoria Beckham and Melanie C – were working on new material and a 20th anniversary tour for 2017. The song “Song for Her” was later leaked online featuring the bandmembers. Plans for a reunion were","title":"Mel B"},{"docid":"3159678","text":"or she will hit a wrong note. Sometimes lip-syncing is incorrectly identified by fans sitting in the back of a stadium seeing a drummer hit a kit before they actually hear the sound; the delay can be mistaken for poor synchronization of miming artists and a backing track. It is also possible that fans who are watching a performer who is not lip syncing on a large screen video display, either in the venue or remotely as in a live broadcast, are actually seeing a real lip sync timing error. These can be created by the video signal processing delay","title":"Lip sync"},{"docid":"13502509","text":"Wendy Williams Show\". During both performances, DeBarge was accompanied by several female back-up dancers. On June 18, the single was performed yet again on the reality dancing competition, \"So You Think You Can Dance' The performance was met with mixed reviews, mainly due to the fact that DeBarge had lip-synced her way through the song. Oh No They Didn't mocked the performance. Neon Limelight praised the dancing performed during the performance, however, they were not thrilled with the lip-syncing, stating \"It's just a major shame she did not perform the song live. The obvious lip syncing took some of the","title":"Exposed (Kristinia DeBarge album)"},{"docid":"14964447","text":"tried out for \"The X Factor\" but it did not turn out too well, maybe because I did not have the confidence. I thought I would try \"Britain's Got Talent\" or \"The X Factor\" again and if that did not work out, I would have to think about what I was going to do.\" Ferguson sang \"A Change Is Gonna Come\" for her audition in front of judges, Simon Cowell, Louis Walsh and guest judge, Nicole Scherzinger. At her bootcamp audition, she sang \"Like a Star\" to which Cowell said \"That is a recording voice!\" and Scherzinger said, \"I told","title":"Rebecca Ferguson (singer)"},{"docid":"1410942","text":"lip syncing during live performances. On April 16, 2014, Scantlin had an on-stage meltdown during a show at Trees Dallas, in which he threw a microphone and beer into the audience, as well as appearing to threaten and attempt to physically attack members of the audience. He also received criticism as he appeared to be lip-syncing during the performance. On June 20, 2015, the band was booed off stage at a show in Versailles, Ohio after Scantlin was spotted lip syncing to the songs. In response to the social media backlash, the band subsequently deleted their Facebook page. With the","title":"Puddle of Mudd"},{"docid":"7733026","text":"\"Battle of Bay Avenue.\" Toms River High School East was recognized across the state and even the country for their \"Lip Dub 1\" and \"Lip Dub 2\" videos. The lip dub videos feature East students lip-syncing and dancing through the halls and campus of the school. The videos were created and produced by the Toms River Regional Schools TV Network and television production class. The students spent roughly three months planning \"Lip Dub 1\", planning camera movement and timing out cues for the students who were lip-syncing in the video. \"Lip Dub 1\" features about 150 students involved in many","title":"Toms River High School East"},{"docid":"18635585","text":"Macedonia, Alice, this year. There was a soloist from Kosovo, Floriana Rexhepi, this year too. The 14 eliminated acts were: The final 16 finalists were confirmed as follows; Key: Judges' votes to eliminate Judges' votes to eliminate Judges' votes to eliminate Judges' votes to eliminate Judges' votes to eliminate Judges' votes to eliminate Judges' votes to eliminate Judges' votes to eliminate Judges' votes to eliminate Judges' votes to eliminate Judges' votes to eliminate Judges' votes to eliminate X Factor (Albania season 4) X Factor is an Albanian television music competition to find new singing talents. The fourth season began on","title":"X Factor (Albania season 4)"},{"docid":"17732088","text":"other scenes shot in black-and-white, showing Beyoncé headbanging and moshing with members of a punk subculture, as well as dancing with a team of street dancers in a graffiti covered alley. Throughout the video, she is seen lip-syncing the lyrics of the song and moving in accordance with its melody while the camera focuses only on her. Many of the scenes are also shot using the slow motion filming technique. It ends with McMahon announcing the winners of \"Star Search\", Skeleton Crew, which receive four stars from the judges of the show, while Girl's Tyme receive three stars, losing the","title":"Flawless (Beyoncé song)"},{"docid":"16859244","text":"that she openly struggled with. The X Factor (U.S. season 3) The third and final season of the American music competition television show \"The X Factor\" premiered on Fox on September 11, 2013 and ended on December 19, 2013. This season was hosted by Mario Lopez. Simon Cowell and Demi Lovato returned to the judging panel, while Kelly Rowland and Paulina Rubio joined the panel as replacements for the departing judges.<del></del> Producer auditions began on March 6, 2013, in Los Angeles, and ended on May 4, 2013, in Denver. The judges auditions, which are televised, began on May 21, 2013,","title":"The X Factor (U.S. season 3)"},{"docid":"16666430","text":"judges' houses each act performed one song for their mentor and his/her guest, before the last performance, they practiced the song with their mentor and his/her guest. The twelve eliminated acts were: Key: Contestants' colour key: X Factor (Germany season 3) The third Season of X Factor started on 25 August 2012. The auditions were held in April/May 2012. The show was broadcast every Sunday. The judges were Sarah Connor, H.P. Baxxter, Sandra Nasic and . In October 2012 Connor announced that she would not return to the judging panel for the Fourth Season. There were four phases: 1. Auditions","title":"X Factor (Germany season 3)"},{"docid":"18906041","text":"that Lina Rafn was considering leaving \"X Factor\". Five days later, it was reported that Rafn would be leaving the show. At the final of season 8 on March 27, Rafn said in an interview that she did not know if she would continue as a judge. Thomas Blachman said it was maybe time for three new judges. On June 22, Rafn said that she was in doubt about returning to \"X Factor\" because she also wanted to focus on her own career. On June 26, Eva Harlou announced that she would not be returning as host for season 9.","title":"X Factor (Denmark season 9)"},{"docid":"17269626","text":"Judges' votes to eliminate Judges' votes to eliminate Judges' votes to eliminate Judges' votes to eliminate Judges' votes to eliminate Judges' votes to eliminate Judges' votes to eliminate Judges' votes to eliminate Judges' votes to eliminate X Factor (Albania season 3) X Factor is an Albanian television music competition to find new singing talents. The third season began on 15 September on TV Klan. Based on the UK format, the competition consists of auditions, in front of producers and then the judges with a live audience; bootcamp; judges' houses and then the live finals. The producers' auditions for the show","title":"X Factor (Albania season 3)"},{"docid":"16527628","text":"eliminate Judges' votes to eliminate Judges' votes to eliminate Judges' votes to eliminate Judges' votes to eliminate Judges' votes to eliminate Judges' votes to eliminate Judges' votes to eliminate Judges' votes to eliminate X Factor (Albania season 2) X Factor is an Albanian television music competition to find new singing talents. The second season began on 28 October 2012 on TV Klan. Based on the UK format, the competition consists of auditions, in front of producers and then the judges with a live audience; bootcamp; judges' houses and then the live finals. Auditions for the show began in August and","title":"X Factor (Albania season 2)"},{"docid":"12570142","text":"fifth season of X Factor was broadcast from April 27 to July 20, 2017 on Skai TV. The host Sakis Rouvas remained with Evaggelia Aravani in backstage. Tamta remained from the judges of the past seasons with Giorgos Mazonakis, Giorgos Papadopoulos and Babis Stokas being the new judges. The winner of this series was Panagiotis Koufogiannis from Cyprus. A sixth season of X Factor will begin broadcast from January 2019 on Open TV. The X Factor (Greek TV series) The X Factor is the Greek version of \"The X Factor\", a show originating in the United Kingdom. It is a","title":"The X Factor (Greek TV series)"},{"docid":"20829947","text":"at every contestant based on its appearance and singing visual. They will show a muted video of each contestant's singing that reveals only 0.3 seconds of their singing voice. Identify the skilled vocalists who are lip-syncing to their own voice and the tone-deaf vocalists who are lip-syncing to someone else's voice that have their similar voice tone. For 30 seconds, three randomly selected panelists must hear the contestant's singing voice using its headphones first. Afterwards, he or she must \"defend\" and \"convince\" the contestant to seek their evidence and then the guest artist may ask one question to each panelist.","title":"I Can See Your Voice Malaysia (season 1)"},{"docid":"20829500","text":"a platform referred to as \"SEE-cret songers\", with their own \"aliases\" to make them keep secret. They do not speak until the final reveal. The guest artist(s) must look at every contestant based on its and . They will show a muted video of each contestant's singing that reveals only 0.3 seconds of their singing voice. Identify the skilled vocalists who are lip-syncing to their own voice and the tone-deaf vocalists who are lip-syncing to someone else's voice that have their similar voice tone. The panelist must hear the defender's singing voice using its headphones first. Afterwards, he or she","title":"I Can See Your Voice Malaysia"},{"docid":"20965341","text":"The guest artist(s) must look at every contestant based on its and . They will show a muted video of each contestant's singing that reveals only 0.3 seconds of their singing voice. Identify the skilled vocalists who are lip-syncing to their own voice and the tone-deaf vocalists who are lip-syncing to someone else's voice that have their similar voice tone. They must perform lip syncing with a non-lyrical part of a song (i.e. screaming, whistling, or interjective words). They will provide proofs of each contestant's singing ability (i.e. photo, video, certificates, etc). Skilled vocalists had their own evidences while the","title":"I Can See Your Voice (Philippines season 2)"},{"docid":"20348351","text":"every contestant based on its and . They will show a muted video of each contestant's singing that reveals only 0.3 seconds of their singing voice. Identify the skilled vocalists who are lip-syncing to their own voice and the tone-deaf vocalists who are lip-syncing to someone else's voice that have their similar voice tone. They must perform lip syncing with a non-lyrical part of a song (i.e. screaming, whistling, or interjective words). They will provide proofs of each contestant's singing ability (i.e. photo, video, certificates, etc). Skilled vocalists had their own evidences while the tone-deaf vocalists had their evidences fabricated.","title":"I Can See Your Voice (Philippine game show)"},{"docid":"12570140","text":"Factor started airing in October 2008 on ANT1 and was hosted by singer Sakis Rouvas. The judges were Giorgos Levendis, songwriter Giorgos Theofanous, marketing executive of ANT1 TV, Katerina Gagaki and music critic Nikos Mouratidis. The winner of the 1st X-Factor was Loukas Giorkas, who released his debut EP album on September 2009. A second series of X Factor was broadcated by ANT1 TV. The live shows debuted on October 30. The host and the judges remain the same as in the first series.The winner of the 2nd X-Factor was Stavros Michalakakos. A third season of X Factor was broadcast","title":"The X Factor (Greek TV series)"},{"docid":"16123046","text":"X Factor (Albanian TV series) X Factor Albania is the Albanian version of \"The X Factor\", adapted from the original UK series to find new singing talent. The first season started in January 8, 2012, and it is broadcast by TV Klan. The judges are: Albanian singer from Macedonia Altuna Sejdiu, Albanian singer Soni Malaj, Albanian superstar Alban Skënderaj, and the famous composer Pandi Laço. The show is hosted by Alketa Vejsiu. She applied to acquire the rights of the show along with Top Channel and TV Klan. Syco TV gave the rights to her, then she sold parts of","title":"X Factor (Albanian TV series)"},{"docid":"15605405","text":"on \"The X Factor USA\". On 14 May 2011, Dannii Minogue announced that she would not appear as a judge on the eighth series either, due to a clash with \"Australia's Got Talent\", another show for which she judges. Of her decision, Minogue said, \"During discussions for me to return to \"The X Factor\" it became clear that unfortunately, this year, \"The X Factor\" audition dates in the UK clash with the live shows of \"Australia's Got Talent\" during June and July. For this reason I am unable to return\". After Cowell and Cole announced their departures, a number of","title":"The X Factor (UK series 8)"},{"docid":"555397","text":"Shine (2017 TV series) alongside fellow judges Martin Kemp and Barlow. In 2007, Minogue was hired by Simon Cowell to become a judge on the Seven Network talent show \"Australia's Got Talent\" along with Red Symons and Tom Burlinson. It was after this series that Minogue was offered the role on \"The X Factor UK\" after Cowell thought she proved good as a judge on \"Australia's Got Talent\". She returned to the panel for seasons two and three in 2008 and 2009. \"Australia's Got Talent\" returned for a fourth season in 2010, and Minogue was the only original judge to","title":"Dannii Minogue"},{"docid":"20538625","text":"The X Factor Israel (season 3) The X Factor Israel is the Israeli version of the British television music competition \"The X Factor\". The third started its run on Thursday, October 18, 2017. The show airs during prime time on Reshet network in Channel 2 and after October 31, 2017, in Reshet 13. It was announced that Bar Refaeli, an Israeli fashion model, will host the third season. Contrary to most other versions of the \"X Factor\" where the judges panels was a mixture of singers and music industry figures, the Israeli version was composed entirely of musicians. The judges","title":"The X Factor Israel (season 3)"},{"docid":"17802841","text":"The X Factor Israel (season 2) The X Factor Israel is the Israeli version of the British television music competition \"The X Factor\". The second started its run on Thursday, June 13, 2015. The show airs during prime time on Reshet network on Wednesdays and Saturdays. The season concluded on September 5, 2015. It was announced that Bar Refaeli, an Israeli fashion model, will host the second season. Contrary to most other versions of the \"X Factor\" where the judges panels was a mixture of singers and music industry figures, the Israeli version was composed entirely of musicians. The judges","title":"The X Factor Israel (season 2)"},{"docid":"17338834","text":"her education at Greymouth High School. After school, she worked at her father's meatworks in Greymouth before moving to Auckland in January 2013. Prior to entering \"The X Factor\", Thomas had little professional performance experience. Thomas initially attended the Greymouth pre-audition on 11 January 2013, where she was put through to the judges' auditions. At her judges' audition Thomas performed Birdy's version of the Bon Iver song \"Skinny Love\", prompting judge Melanie Blatt to declare \"I think I've just witnessed a performance from the winner of \"X Factor.\"\" After Thomas' audition screened, Birdy's 2011 recording of \"Skinny Love\" entered the","title":"Jackie Thomas (singer)"},{"docid":"16011743","text":"X Factor (Poland series 2) The second series of Polish television music competition \"X Factor\" started on TVN on 3 March and will end in June 2012. The pre-auditions took place in December 2011 and filmed auditions began on 10 January 2012 in Zabrze. Two of the judges, Czesław Mozil and Kuba Wojewódzki returned, though Maja Sablewska had left the show after the first series. She was replaced by a new judge, Tatiana Okupnik. Jarosław Kuźniar returned to present the show. The judging panel line-up for the second series of \"X Factor\" was revealed on 5 January 2012. Kuba Wojewódzki","title":"X Factor (Poland series 2)"},{"docid":"9092678","text":"Key: X Factor (Icelandic TV series) X Factor was the Icelandic version of the popular British television show The X Factor. It premiered in Reykjavík on November 17, 2006 with actress Halla Vilhjálmsdóttir hosting the show. The judges were the talent agent and businessman Einar Bárðarson, rock musician Elínborg Halldórsdóttir and pop singer Paul Oscar. Previously both Einar and Páll Óskar had been judges in \"Idol stjörnuleit\", the Icelandic version of \"Pop Idol\". In the finals of \"X Factor\" held in Vetrargarðinum, Smáralind, a large shopping center in Iceland, singer and hair dresser Jógvan Hansen from Faroe Islands was the","title":"X Factor (Icelandic TV series)"},{"docid":"9092677","text":"X Factor (Icelandic TV series) X Factor was the Icelandic version of the popular British television show The X Factor. It premiered in Reykjavík on November 17, 2006 with actress Halla Vilhjálmsdóttir hosting the show. The judges were the talent agent and businessman Einar Bárðarson, rock musician Elínborg Halldórsdóttir and pop singer Paul Oscar. Previously both Einar and Páll Óskar had been judges in \"Idol stjörnuleit\", the Icelandic version of \"Pop Idol\". In the finals of \"X Factor\" held in Vetrargarðinum, Smáralind, a large shopping center in Iceland, singer and hair dresser Jógvan Hansen from Faroe Islands was the winner.","title":"X Factor (Icelandic TV series)"},{"docid":"15829270","text":"\"Titanium\" in the third series of \"The X Factor Australia\". \"Titanium\" was also covered by Martin Madeja on the second season of \"X Factor Germany\" on November 8, 2011. On February 10, 2012, Morten Benjamin performed the song on the fifth season of \"X Factor Denmark\". On October 11, 2012, 13-year-old Beatrice Miller performed \"Titanium\" during the judges' houses round of the second season of \"The X Factor USA\". The song was also performed by Jahméne Douglas during the judges' houses round and Lucy Spraggan during the third live show of the ninth series of \"The X Factor UK\" on","title":"Titanium (song)"},{"docid":"17716372","text":"that was a great, great vocal performance.\" They later faced off against the others in a group performance 'Cry Me A River', in which they received praise from Kelly, who said they \"soared\". For Divas/Unplugged night, the couple sang two songs. Their \"Diva\" song was \"Say My Name\" by Destiny's Child. The song earned them praise from Kelly, who said she adored the new sassy side of Sierra. Their \"Unplugged\" song, \"Say Something\" by A Great Big World and Christina Aguilera (thought by many as their best X Factor performance) earned them praise by the judges; Kelly said she felt","title":"Alex & Sierra"},{"docid":"11122596","text":"Roberta Howett Roberta Howett (born 26 September 1981 in Dublin, Ireland) is an Irish singer who finished in ninth place in the first UK series of television talent show \"The X Factor\" in 2004. Howett successfully auditioned for the first series of \"The X Factor\" in 2004 and made it to \"bootcamp\", \"judges' houses\" and the live shows, but was eliminated in the first live show. Performances on \"The X Factor\" In 2007, Howett sang on Toni Castells's debut album, \"Unharmed\". She announced on Irish Radio that she would release three singles in Ireland, before finally releasing her debut album.","title":"Roberta Howett"},{"docid":"16806792","text":"Singe was featured on fellow \"X Factor\" contestant Bella Ferraro's single \"Forgot You\" which peaked at number 75 on the ARIA Singles Chart. On 18 February 2015, Singe announced on Facebook that he had left The Collective to pursue his solo career. In April 2015, he was featured on the single \"Don't Need 'Em\" by Donell Lewis and Fortafy. Zachariah Russell, born , is from Rockhampton, Queensland. Russell auditioned for \"The X Factor\" singing Stevie Wonder's \"Superstition\" and received a mixed response from the judges. Mel B thought his rendition was annoying, Natalie Bassingthwaighte said he \"butchered the song\" but","title":"The Collective (band)"},{"docid":"17712929","text":"or she put through to the live shows. Key: The categories and 15 final acts were as follows: Key: The categories and 16 final acts were as follows: Key: Factor X (Portuguese TV series) Factor X was the Portuguese version of the television music competition \"The X Factor\", originally created by Simon Cowell. The first episode premiered on October 6, 2013 hosted by Bárbara Guimarães, João Manzarra, Carolina Torres and Tiago Silva. The three judges are Paulo Junqueiro, Sónia Tavares and Paulo Ventura. To date, two series have been broadcast, as summarised below. In each season, each judge is allocated","title":"Factor X (Portuguese TV series)"},{"docid":"14996065","text":"their number of acts down to three, without a public vote. For the first time in X Factor Armenia history, viewers voted on the official web page of Shant TV to determine which of the judges was allocated each of the four categories. The judges learnt the result during the four-chair challenge. André will be mentoring the Boys, Erik has the Girls, Garik Papoyan will look after the Groups and Shushanik Arevshatyan has been assigned the Over 22s. Contestants' colour key: X-Factor (Armenian TV series) X-Factor () is the Armenian version of \"The X Factor\", a show originating in the","title":"X-Factor (Armenian TV series)"},{"docid":"1455675","text":"\"H.I.T.S.\". The song peaked at No. 16 on the US charts and No. 9 in the UK charts. Meanwhile, as the music industry was still reeling from the Milli Vanilli lip-syncing scandal, the group found themselves accused of lip-syncing by Gregory McPherson, also a music teacher at Berklee College of Music, who was listed as an associate producer and string arranger on the group's third album, \"Step by Step\". McPherson alleged that Maurice Starr sang the vocals while the group lip-synced to pre-recorded vocals during their live performances. McPherson also filed a breach of contract and creative infringement lawsuit against","title":"New Kids on the Block"},{"docid":"8553946","text":"city preliminaries, where the winner and first alternate advance to the state pageant. Historically, pageant competition consisted of interview, evening gown and talent categories. Later a Contemporary Fashion category for sportswear was added. After about a decade it was changed to Creative Fashion, a category that was never fully understood by judges or contestants and was later changed to Creative Costume. It was eventually replaced with Solo Talent. While some of the contestants perform live vocal, dance or comedy skits, the vast majority showcase their talent of lip syncing to prerecorded music. Current categories are Male Interview, Solo Talent, Evening","title":"Miss Gay America"},{"docid":"4808864","text":"\"The Xtra Factor\" on the Seven Network's digital channel 7Two. The show was not renewed when \"The X Factor\" returned for a third season in 2011. The voiceover for both series of \"The Xtra Factor\" was Nicholas McKay. The show featured behind-the-scenes footage of \"The X Factor\" and the emotional responses of the contestants after the judges commented on their performances. A celebrity panel was usually featured, who gave their opinions on the contestants. The judges and contestants also answered phone calls from viewers, while Facebook statuses, tweets, and SMS messages appeared on screen. \"The Xtra Factor\" also showed extra","title":"The X Factor (Australian TV series)"},{"docid":"13482990","text":"the base software package. Papagayo (software) Papagayo is a free Lip-syncing software made in Python for Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X and Linux. It works by importing an audio file, as well as writing the text for the audio and placing it accordingly. The program then uses a built-in dictionary to select the appropriate mouth for the spoken text. Modifications and dictionaries are available on the forum. Originally created as a tool for LostMarble's own Moho editor, the tool is being adopted by users and developers of several open source animation products (including Blender and Synfig Studio) to add lip-sync","title":"Papagayo (software)"},{"docid":"13482989","text":"Papagayo (software) Papagayo is a free Lip-syncing software made in Python for Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X and Linux. It works by importing an audio file, as well as writing the text for the audio and placing it accordingly. The program then uses a built-in dictionary to select the appropriate mouth for the spoken text. Modifications and dictionaries are available on the forum. Originally created as a tool for LostMarble's own Moho editor, the tool is being adopted by users and developers of several open source animation products (including Blender and Synfig Studio) to add lip-sync features not available in","title":"Papagayo (software)"},{"docid":"11039473","text":"Sky Uno and FremantleMedia Italia announced that Argento had been fired from \"The X Factor Italy\" following these allegations, making her the third judge fired from the X Factor franchise. The twelfth series of \"The X Factor Italy\" premiered in September with Alessandro Cattelan, Manuel Agnelli, Fedez and Mara Maionchi returning as host and judges, respectively. A fourth new judge, Italian singer Lodovico Guenzi, of the band Lo Stato Sociale, replaced Argento in the live shows. On the second series of \"The X Factor\" during filming of the final judges' auditions session in December 2014, whilst giving feedback to busker","title":"The X Factor"},{"docid":"18826847","text":"and the tone-deaf vocalists who are lip-syncing to someone else's voice that have their similar voice tone. Both the contestant and lip-sync substitute appeared together and they are lip-syncing to the same song, but only one is the lip-sync owner. On the first two episodes, identify the good and bad singers within 100 seconds based on its true statement. This have been changed on the rest of eight episodes, the guest artist(s) must have then 100 seconds to discuss three contestants before making the final decision. These answers depends on the contestant if they're told the truth or lied their","title":"I Can See Your Voice (South Korean TV series)"},{"docid":"16130931","text":"Kosovar pop singer Vesa Luma, Albania's representative at the 2010 Eurovision Song Contest Juliana Pasha and the Albanian superstar Alban Skënderaj. The winner of the first season of X factor Albania was Sheila Haxhiraj. The X Factor's host television Klan invited over 10 Albanian artists to be a part of The X Factor judging panel. It was rumored that Albanian singer Aurela Gaçe will be a judge/mentor. But, after giving birth to her first child, Aurela posted in Facebook that she will be staying with her family the whole month. Until the show started, the judges were not confirmed. In","title":"X Factor (Albania season 1)"},{"docid":"12570141","text":"from October 2010 to February 2011. The third series of X Factor was won by Greek-Cypriot Haris Antoniou. The program was broadcast by ANT1 TV and the host and the judges remained the same as the previous year. A fourth season of X Factor was broadcast from 4 April to 8 July 2016 on Skai TV. The host Sakis Rouvas remained with Evaggelia Aravani in backstage. Giorgos Theofanous remained from the judges of the past seasons with Peggy Zina, Tamta and Thodoris Marantinis from Onirama being the new judges. The winner of this series was Andreas Leontas from Cyprus. A","title":"The X Factor (Greek TV series)"},{"docid":"12570074","text":"part in the second series of \"Star for a Night\". She became the runner-up of the series, behind Joss Stone. She went on to audition for the second series of \"The X Factor\" in 2005, where she made it to judges houses before her mentor Louis Walsh decided she was too young to continue in the competition. She returned to \"The X Factor\" for its fifth series in 2008, where she went on to win the competition with 58% of the public vote. In 2010, she was a guest judge on the British version of \"So You Think You Can","title":"Alexandra Burke"},{"docid":"15932730","text":"judges' houses stage in series 8 and bootcamp in series 9, as had McCabe in both series, as well as also reaching bootcamp in series 5. McCabe's exit was met with outrage on Twitter, as she had been considered as one of the favourites to win the series. In interviews given shortly before judges' houses was screened, both contestants had vowed never to return again if they were rejected. There is anecdotal evidence from blogs and discussion forums that some of the first-round \"X Factor\" audition sessions held in front of the producers have been poorly organised, with auditionees forced","title":"Controversy and criticism of The X Factor (UK)"},{"docid":"15730654","text":"X Factor (Germany season 2) The second Season of X Factor started on 30 August 2011. The auditions were held in April/May 2011. The show was broadcast every Tuesday and Sunday . The Judges were Sarah Connor, and Till Brönner . There were four phases: This year twelve acts had been a part of the live shows, and not nine. Furthermore, from the first to sixth live show the judges decided which act had to leave the X Factor. In the final were three acts. The first appeal for applicants for series 2 was broadcast during series 1 on 9","title":"X Factor (Germany season 2)"},{"docid":"3159687","text":"\"affront to all legitimate live performers who risk lyric mistakes and cracking voices to give an authentic performance\". The author argues that lip-syncing in live concerts will \"...destroy our ability to enjoy great live performances the way we once could, thrilling to the certain knowledge that we are witnessing something extraordinary from a great talent\". The author argues that this \"...makes lip-syncing in public performances wrong. Not only is the audience being lied to; it is being made cynical\". While Michael Jackson's performance on the television special \"\" (1983) changed the scope of live stage show, as he mixed singing","title":"Lip sync"},{"docid":"15403384","text":"Nagima Eskalieva, Nurbergen Makhambetov and Eva Becher as judges. The seventh series was aired from 1 September to December 2018 with Nagima Eskalieva, Dilnaz Akhmadieva and Nurbergen Makhambetov as judges. X Factor (Kazakh TV series) X Factor is a television music talent show in Kazakhstan contested by aspiring pop singers drawn from public auditions. It is the Kazakh version of the international \"The X Factor\" series and is broadcast on the Perviy Kanal Evraziya channel in Kazakhstan. In each season, each judge is allocated a category to mentor and chooses three acts to progress to the live shows. This table","title":"X Factor (Kazakh TV series)"},{"docid":"16011746","text":"the judging role on the show. On 8 November 2011, \"Fakt\" reported that Edyta Górniak was one of the favourites to become the permanent judge or only appear at the judges' houses stage of the show. Few days later, in an interview with \"Plejada\" she confirmed that she had been offered a judging role on \"X Factor\" and its rival show, \"Bitwa na głosy\". She revealed that she was considering both offers, but \"not as seriously as media reports\". She also added that she wanted to focus on her upcoming concerts and might not have enough time to serve as","title":"X Factor (Poland series 2)"},{"docid":"1910427","text":"of \"The X Factor\", replacing Nicole Scherzinger. Emma Bunton joined her in Cancun, Mexico for the judges' houses stage of \"The X Factor\". In December 2014, it was announced that Brown would miss \"The X Factor\" final due to illness. In the same year, Brown became a guest co-host on the Breakfast program of Sydney radio station 2Day FM, alongside Jules Lund, Merrick Watts and Sophie Monk. Brown's and co-hosts replaced top hosts Kyle and Jackie O who moved to a rival station. On 16 June 2015, it was confirmed that she would not return for the twelfth series of","title":"Mel B"},{"docid":"7039204","text":"with this mindset until the end\". In 2006, Hadise presented \"\" (Turkish version of \"Popstars\"). It was her first presenting role in Turkey. From 2008 to 2009, she got a job as a presenter for the first time in Belgium. She was the presenter of the second season of Belgian \"X Factor\" at VTM. Although it was her first television job in Belgium, Hadise garnered much praise. She handled a critical moment when Maurice Engelen, one of the judges, left the contest during a live television cast. Hadise was also praised by the candidats of \"X Factor\" for guiding them.","title":"Hadise"},{"docid":"19115392","text":"first 3 seasons of X Factor Bulgaria, but she never made it through the judges, mostly because of her age. In 2015, after 3 attempts she finally made it through the judges and performed perfectly. She also has no problems to make it to the finals of the show and finally to perform on a big scene. She left the show on week 9, even as she was expected to get to the final. The judges said, that the reason she is leaving on 6th place is that she never believed she could win and that she lacks confidence. Even","title":"Victoria Georgieva"},{"docid":"9544621","text":"on the UK Singles Chart upon the single's release, therefore becoming Cheryl's lowest-charting single to date. In 2014, the singer also returned as a judge on the UK version of \"The X Factor\" for its 11th series to replace Sharon Osbourne, signing a £1.5 million contract. She was joined by Simon Cowell, Louis Walsh and Mel B on the judging panel. She was again selected to mentor the girls category, with her final act Lauren Platt coming fourth. In 2015, Cheryl returned to \"The X Factor\" for its 12th series; she was joined by Cowell and new judges Ora and","title":"Cheryl (singer)"},{"docid":"5845243","text":"The X Factor (UK series 1) The X Factor is a British television music competition to find new singing talent; the winner of which receives a £1 million recording contract with the Syco Music record label. The first series was broadcast from 4 September to 11 December 2004. The competition was split into several stages: auditions, bootcamp, judges' homes and live shows, with Louis Walsh, Sharon Osbourne and Simon Cowell as judges. Kate Thornton presented the show on ITV, whilst Ben Shephard presented the spin-off show \"The Xtra Factor\" on ITV2. Auditions were held in Dublin, Newcastle, London, Leeds, Birmingham","title":"The X Factor (UK series 1)"},{"docid":"15932723","text":"to the judges' houses stage in Cheryl’s category. Viewers expressed anger when Cheryl did not pick Nhengu for the live shows, despite a well received performance. Instead, Katie Waissel and Cher Lloyd were chosen, despite neither managing to finish their performance. Cheryl later defended herself by saying \"I went by my gut instinct and I thought my decision was best\". Waissel's inclusion in the show was further surrounded by controversy as it was revealed that she already had a recording contract in the United States prior to auditioning. In series 8, contestant Ceri Rees was reportedly persuaded to return to","title":"Controversy and criticism of The X Factor (UK)"},{"docid":"16666426","text":"X Factor (Germany season 3) The third Season of X Factor started on 25 August 2012. The auditions were held in April/May 2012. The show was broadcast every Sunday. The judges were Sarah Connor, H.P. Baxxter, Sandra Nasic and . In October 2012 Connor announced that she would not return to the judging panel for the Fourth Season. There were four phases: 1. Auditions 2. Bootcamp 3. Judge's House 4. Live Shows This year twelve acts had been a part of the live shows, but not in 3 categories like the two seasons before. In season 3 there were four","title":"X Factor (Germany season 3)"},{"docid":"18719928","text":"out of 4 judges voting to send her home. Bayliss came 6th overall in the competition. Lili Bayliss Lili Bayliss (born 1993) is a New Zealand singer from Wellington who placed 6th on the second season of \"The X Factor\" (New Zealand). Bayliss was born in Wellington, New Zealand in 1993. Prior to auditioning for \"The X Factor\" she was a student at Otago University. Bayliss had a regular role in Peter Jackson's films. She has a credit in the Peter Jackson film \"The Lovely Bones\" where she played \"Mr Harvey's victim\". Bayliss also appears in other films such as","title":"Lili Bayliss"},{"docid":"4261331","text":"(2015). Kelly decided to cover the song because she was obsessed with \"Pocahontas\" as a child. Australian soprano Mirusia Louwerse covered \"Colors of the Wind\" for \"This Time Tomorrow\" (2016), her debut solo album. The singer's arrangement has been described as featuring \"a simple and unobtrusive accompaniment on acoustic guitar.\" Postmodern Jukebox, a musical collective that creates vintage-style covers of popular songs, released a cover of the song in the style of 1970s soul music. Actress Melissa McCarthy lip synced the song during an episode of \"Lip Sync Battle\". Before lip syncing the track, McCarthy donned protective goggles. Then a","title":"Colors of the Wind"},{"docid":"15605415","text":"two songs for their mentor and his/her guest judge, although only one song was mentioned and shown on the main show, with the other song shown on \"The Xtra Factor\" instead. Sian Phillips was originally selected for the judges' houses, but due to visa issues, she was unable to travel to Miami and was thus replaced by Sarah Watson in the Girls category. Goldie Cheung was initially put through to the finals by Walsh, but pulled out of the competition at the end of the judges' houses stage, stating that she did not want to be away from her family.","title":"The X Factor (UK series 8)"},{"docid":"16319809","text":"The X Factor (UK series 9) The X Factor is a British television music competition to find new singing talent. The ninth series began airing on ITV on 18 August 2012 and ended on 9 December 2012. Dermot O'Leary returned as presenter of the main show on ITV, whilst Caroline Flack and Olly Murs returned to co-present \"The Xtra Factor\" on ITV2. Louis Walsh, Gary Barlow and Tulisa returned as judges. Nicole Scherzinger was confirmed as the fourth permanent judge after Geri Halliwell, Leona Lewis, Rita Ora, Mel B, Anastacia and Scherzinger herself stood in as guest judges for the","title":"The X Factor (UK series 9)"},{"docid":"20053436","text":"when he was fifteen with Dragula contestant Melissa Befierce. He started doing professional drag when he was eighteen. He auditioned for \"Drag Race\" three different times. Kimora Blac was announced as one of fourteen contestants for the ninth season of RuPaul's Drag Race on February 2, 2017. After being declared safe in episode one, she was placed in the bottom two in the second episode with Jaymes Mansfield and won a lip sync against her to \"Love Shack\" by The B-52's. She was eliminated in the third episode after lip syncing to \"Holding Out for a Hero\" by Bonnie Tyler,","title":"Kimora Blac"},{"docid":"16130941","text":"X Factor\", decided to eliminate none of the performers. X Factor (Albania season 1) X Factor is an Albanian television music competition to find new singing talents. The first season began on 8 January 2012 on TV Klan. Based on the UK format, the competition consists of auditions, in front of producers and then the judges with a live audience; bootcamp; judges' houses and then the live finals. Auditions for the show began in September and concluded in October 2011. The show is hosted by Albanian singer Alketa Vejsiu, while the judging panel consists of the biggest Albanian artists. Albanian","title":"X Factor (Albania season 1)"},{"docid":"17269623","text":"X Factor (Albania season 3) X Factor is an Albanian television music competition to find new singing talents. The third season began on 15 September on TV Klan. Based on the UK format, the competition consists of auditions, in front of producers and then the judges with a live audience; bootcamp; judges' houses and then the live finals. The producers' auditions for the show are due began on April 2013 in Albania, Kosovo and Macedonia. The winners were later called back to perform in front of the judges, held from May 19–21 in Tirana. However, the auditions were broadcast in","title":"X Factor (Albania season 3)"},{"docid":"10741199","text":"be interpreted in a more expansive way: \"[The] song is about David, but it's also about the way fantasy and reality can blur, and how giddy, hot, and excellent that can be.\" \"The X-Files\" set received and two of the show's assistants, Charles Forsch and Will Shivers, created a humorous video for the song for the set's Christmas party with permission from Sharp's label. The video mixes clips of Duchovny with footage of \"X-Files\" crew members and numerous celebrities lip-syncing the lyrics, including series co-star Gillian Anderson, Brad Pitt, George Clooney, Pamela Anderson, Whoopi Goldberg, Rosie O'Donnell, Jenna Elfman, Sarah","title":"David Duchovny (song)"},{"docid":"19773947","text":"Tita (singer) Hristina Hristova (), better known by her stage name Tita, is a Bulgarian singer, actress and a model, who rose to fame in late 2014 after participating in \"X Factor Bulgaria\". Tita is currently signed to Bulgarian hip hop artist Krisko's record label imprint Adamand Records. Born in Tutrakan, in 2014 Hristina auditioned in the Bulgarian version of the reality show \"The X Factor\" as part of the Sweet 16 girl band. She joined the show as a solo performer, but later X-Factor judges formed a girl's group with Hristina, Gery-Nikol and Mishel Straminski, with Bulgarian singer Zaki","title":"Tita (singer)"},{"docid":"20409887","text":"only made in jest and were not to be taken literally, but that they were misappropriated by other people including \"The X Factor\"’s production company due to Stern wanting to give Cowell a bad reputation by using his radio show. She added that although the company wanted to fire her, Cowell was not upset with the comments and wanted her to remain on the show, but that it was ultimately her decision to step down out of fear of awkwardness between her and fellow judges Williams and Field, with whom she is close friends, though she did not rule out","title":"The X Factor (UK series 15)"},{"docid":"16319848","text":"\"The X Factor\". If [Cowell] doesn't feel the same then you'll have to ask him why.\" During the first auditions episode, broadcast on 18 August, one of the auditionees in Cardiff, Zoe Alexander, a Pink tribute singer, tried to \"smash\" equipment after arguing with the judges about her claim that she was told to sing a Pink song after she sang \"So What\". Barlow asked her to sing a second song, which was \"Next to Me\" by Emeli Sandé. After being criticised and given a \"no\", Alexander threw down her microphone as she left the stage. Her father brought her","title":"The X Factor (UK series 9)"},{"docid":"2989348","text":"star would be booked at the last minute, such as Lorne Greene, who agreed to appear on the show only four hours before the episode was taped. Mie and Kei wanted to sing the songs that had made them famous in their native country, but NBC insisted they perform in English. This resulted in recording English songs phonetically and lip-syncing for the show's tapings. Lip-syncing was already a common practice on American variety shows, but it was especially noticeable since the ladies were performing in a language that was foreign to them. Additional problems were caused when the network insisted","title":"Pink Lady (TV series)"},{"docid":"14408746","text":"of \"Got Talent\" series. It was broadcast on TV JOJ in Slovakia and on TV Prima in the Czech Republic. In 2013, McCloud made a comeback taking part in season 3 of the American singing competition \"The X Factor\" identified as Lillie McCloud, her birth name. At the time of applying to \"The X Factor\", she was 54 years old with three children (a son and two daughters) and seven grand children. Her audition was broadcast on September 12, 2013. She received a standing ovation and four \"yes\" votes from judges Simon Cowell, Demi Lovato, Paulina Rubio, and Kelly Rowland","title":"Lillie McCloud"},{"docid":"8672989","text":"The X Factor: Battle of the Stars The X Factor: Battle of the Stars was a UK celebrity special edition of \"The X Factor\", which screened on ITV, started on 29 May 2006 and lasting for eight consecutive nights. \"Pop Idol\" was meant to air in its place as \"Celebrity Pop Idol\" but was stopped shortly before transmission, when ITV picked \"The X Factor\" over it. Nine celebrity acts participated, singing live in front of the nation and facing the judges of the previous \"The X Factor\" series, Simon Cowell, Sharon Osbourne and Louis Walsh. Voting revenues were donated to","title":"The X Factor: Battle of the Stars"},{"docid":"18969719","text":"couple's main communication is through lip syncing audio clips from popular songs, films and TV series. After they personally met in September 2015 and Yaya Dub was later allowed to speak, the couple's interaction is no longer limited to split screen and lip-syncing. Outside Kalyeserye, they still referred to as AlDub even if they no longer portraying their Kalyeserye characters. They have been product endorsers and appeared in films, notably \"\" and their very first solo film \"Imagine You and Me\". In 2017, AlDub starred in the romantic comedy teleserye \"Destined to Be Yours\", which aired from February 27, 2017","title":"AlDub"},{"docid":"20772089","text":"progress to the live finals. This table shows, for each series, which category each judge was allocated and which acts he or she put through to the live finals. Key: On 2 July 2018, it was announced that Ben Camille was selected to host the show. The full judges' panel was revealed on the 31 July 2018, and will be composed of music producer Howard Keith Debono, The Rifffs' frontman Ray Mercieca, Maltese singer and songwriter Alexandra Alden, and singer Ira Losco. The senior producers are Gordon Bonello and Olwyn Jo. The 24 successful acts were: X Factor Malta X","title":"X Factor Malta"},{"docid":"15215955","text":"X Factor (Poland series 1) The first series of X Factor premiered on 6 March 2011 at 20:00 on TVN. The auditions for the first series were held in January and February. Jarosław Kuźniar hosts the show and the judges are Czesław Mozil, Maja Sablewska and Kuba Wojewódzki. The series was won by Gienek Loska who was mentored by Czesław Mozil. The second place was taken by Michał Szpak and the third finalist was Ada Szulc. Filming of the first series began with the first audition with judges and audience on 24 January in Zabrze. The live shows began on","title":"X Factor (Poland series 1)"},{"docid":"555396","text":"Story\" where she talked about her time on \"The X Factor\" and working on talent shows. Other \"The X Factor\" judges who were interviewed included Gary Barlow, Walsh, Tulisa, Rowland and Simon Cowell as well as the host Dermot O'Leary. In June 2013, Minogue joined Elle Macpherson and Tyson Beckford on the judging panel for the ninth series of Sky Living's \"Britain & Ireland's Next Top Model\". She replaced Whitney Port and Julien McDonald. In September 2016, it was revealed Minogue was returning to British television, as a judge on the judging panel of Gary Barlow talent show Let It","title":"Dannii Minogue"},{"docid":"15959487","text":"eliminated in weeks 3 and 5 had the judges' vote been taken to deadlock. Brucknell was eliminated in week 6 after being voted off by Tulisa, Rowland and Barlow, despite having received a higher vote share than Misha B. Following the X Factor, Brucknell began teasing the release of her track \"Red Shoes\". Brucknell returned to \"The X Factor\" in 2013 when she performed alongside other former contestants such as Rylan Clark, Jedward, Wagner, 2 Shoes, Diva Fever and Johnny Robinson at the final in Wembley Arena. In January 2013, She went on her first tour which was dubbed the","title":"Kitty Brucknell"},{"docid":"5581735","text":"moment that no one wanted any mistakes. They didn't want any feedback, they didn't want any technical difficulties ... and it was great.\" When Jennifer Hudson delivered a lip-syncing of \"The Star Spangled Banner\" at Super Bowl XLIII in February 2009, it caused a little controversy once again. But most critics and many in the music industry didn't make a criticism of it. David Hinckley of \"New York Daily News\" made a remark on lip-syncing the national anthem that it was of secondary importance, writing \"The national anthem is different. Yes, it's a musical performance and yes, we're interested in","title":"The Star Spangled Banner (Whitney Houston recording)"},{"docid":"12061483","text":"readmitted to the concert area, to appear as themselves in the video. The band was filmed on stage, lip syncing the \"Touch of Grey\" studio recording. Then the marionettes were filmed in the band members' places, also lip syncing the recording. The audience, coached with cue cards, was also filmed. The visuals were naturally enhanced by fog that had rolled in from the nearby Pacific Ocean. The last section of \"Dead Ringers\" consists of the \"Touch of Grey\" music video. The video shows the band performing \"Touch of Grey\" on stage before an enthusiastic audience of Deadheads. During the first","title":"Dead Ringers: The Making of Touch of Grey"},{"docid":"18307052","text":"re-audition for \"The X Factor\". In June 2014, East auditioned for the eleventh series of \"The X Factor\". She sang John Legend's \"Ordinary People\" in her room audition, where she received three \"yes\" votes and progressed through to the arena auditions. She sang Chris Brown's \"Fine China\" at the arena and progressed to the boot camp stage with four \"yes\" votes. East made it past the six chair challenge and through to the judges' houses stage in the \"Over 25s\" category, mentored by Cowell once again, to whom she performed \"Bang Bang\" by Jessie J, Ariana Grande and Nicki Minaj.","title":"Fleur East"},{"docid":"6518558","text":"program \"In Concert\" on June 21, 1991 where she performed \"Love Hurts\", \"Love and Understanding\", \"Save Up All Your Tears\" and \"A World Without Heroes\". This particular performance was highly criticized because Cher lip-synced all songs from the album, veering from the ABC show's premise to showcase \"honest\" live rock. Later, during an interview, Cher defended her lip-syncing and \"In Concert\" offered her a chance to reappear (with her band plugged in and playing) later in 1991, but the performance never happened. Cher also promoted the album in some European countries. In the UK she performed \"Love and Understanding\", \"Save","title":"Love Hurts (Cher album)"},{"docid":"8195459","text":"the UK show in 2010, and was re-contracted to work on the American version of the show, \"The X Factor USA\", alongside the contestants and judges; Simon Cowell, Nicole Scherzinger, L.A. Reid, Paula Abdul, and formerly Cheryl Cole. Friedman finished his judging duties on MTV's \"Top Pop Group\" and directed, choreographed, and danced on \"Dancing with the Stars\", before acting as producer and creative director for \"America's Got Talent\", and as creative director for \"The X Factor USA\". In 2012, Friedman returned to work on \"The X Factor UK\" for the ninth series alongside the judges Gary Barlow, Tulisa Contostavlos,","title":"Brian Friedman"},{"docid":"16747676","text":"X Factor Indonesia (season 1) X Factor Indonesia is an Indonesian television music competition to find new singing talent; the winner of which receives a 1 billion rupiahs recording contract with Sony Music Indonesia. The first season was started on RCTI on December 28, 2012 and ended on May 24, 2013. Fatin Shidqia was announced as the winner with debut single \"Aku Memilih Setia\", and Rossa emerged as the winning mentor. Based on the UK format, the competition consists of auditions, in front of producers and then the judges with a live audience; bootcamp; judges' homes and then the live","title":"X Factor Indonesia (season 1)"},{"docid":"14828997","text":"guest judges, including Kelly Rowland, Sir Richard Branson, Boyzone, Snoop Dogg and Usher. The live shows began on 19 September 2010. The second season had sparked controversy, including Childs' disappearance from the show and claims of a clash between the Girls. The grand final decider was watched by 1.63 million people, making it the highest rated television episode of the series. On 16 May 2010, it was announced that the Seven Network would relaunch \"The X Factor\" with Natalie Imbruglia, Guy Sebastian, Ronan Keating and Kyle Sandilands confirmed as the four judges. \"The X Factor\" first screened on Network Ten","title":"The X Factor (Australia season 2)"},{"docid":"14297431","text":"when there are just a few acts left, the judges do not vote, only comment on the performances. Only the public vote counts in the results shows. The first season of Ukrainian X-Factor began on 4 September 2010, presented by Oksana Marchenko. The judges were: showman Ihor Kondratiuk, singer Yolka, rapper Seryoga and music critic Sergei Sosedov. The winner was Oleksiy Kuznetsov (in Ukrainian Олексiй Кузнецов) mentored by Yolka with Mariya Rak (in Ukrainian Марія Рак) mentored by Ihor Kondratiuk as runner-up The second season of Ukrainian X-Factor was launched in August 2011 with live broadcasts starting on 22 October","title":"X-Factor (Ukrainian TV series)"},{"docid":"5386430","text":"\"New York Post\". Additionally, she has been called a \"virtuoso violinist\" by both \"The Guardian\" and \"The Independent\". Billed as the \"Bach Babe\" in tabloids in the UK, Brava has been featured in the front-page article of \"The Sun\", while she has also been featured in such British publications as \"Classic CD\", the \"Daily Mail\", the \"Evening Standard\", \"Q\", \"The Daily Telegraph\", and \"The European\". In 2010, Brava was one of the judges of the 1st season of \"X Factor\" in Finland, a singing competition based on Simon Cowell's \"The X Factor\" franchise. Linda Brava Linda Cullberg Lampenius, better known","title":"Linda Brava"},{"docid":"20085004","text":"United States are sponsored by PepsiCo, while the UK shows are sponsored by Britney Spears Fragrances. The tour received polarizing reviews throughout its run. Cristina Jerome from the \"Miami New Times\" stated \"The Piece of Me Tour was for Britney Spears’ day-one fans. The Princess of Pop allowed her audience to experience her career from the late '90s to the present day while sprinkling in a few hits from her latest studio album, Glory.\" Although complementing Spears' show production and stage presence, accusations of lip-syncing were mentioned. In defence of Spears' lip-syncing accusations, Louis Staples from \"The Independent\" reviews the","title":"Britney Spears: Piece of Me Tour"},{"docid":"4269972","text":"ITV series \"The Big Big Talent Show\", hosted by Jonathan Ross. In early 2004, Brookstein auditioned for the first series of \"The X Factor\", a new television talent show that aimed to discover a star recording artist in the UK (effectively replacing \"Pop Idol\"). His audition failed to impress two of the judges, Sharon Osbourne and Louis Walsh, who thought he lacked the motivation and confidence to succeed but the third, Simon Cowell, asked Brookstein to return the following day and sing again. At the second audition, Brookstein managed to impress the other judges and was put through to the","title":"Steve Brookstein"},{"docid":"9534563","text":"Mail\" reported that Cowell was forced to sit the judges down, asking them to maintain a civil relationship with each other behind the scenes. The apparent flirting between Cowell and Minogue also generated comment in the popular media. Series 4 presented a change in the panellists' judging style. Simon Cowell said at the ITV Autumn Launch: \"We tried to be bit more impartial as judges, and that, you'll see a lot more of on X Factor. There's still competition within the judges but our job essentially is to find a star.\" This ethic was put into practice with the judges","title":"The X Factor (UK series 4)"},{"docid":"9506710","text":"can be a star\", and the famous Cara song was used in TV spots and montages instead. ANT1 premiered The X Factor in its Fall 2008 lineup, thus switching to competitor FremantleMedia's The X Factor franchise. Ιn March 17, 2017 premiered the fifth season with the title Star Academy of Greece on E Channel. The Judges was Anna Vissi, Nikos Mouratides, Petros Kostopoulos and Natalia Germanou with the host Menios Fourthiotis. Finalists:<br> Judges: Host: Finalists:<br> Judges:<br> Host:<br> Finalists: <br> Judges: <br> Host:<br> Notes:<br> The first, second and third place contestants of Season 3 all received record deals and cash prizes","title":"Fame Story"},{"docid":"18207283","text":"entered \"The X Factor\" and that the New Zealand justice system considers that Brider has paid his debt to society and apologised for any distress the episode may have caused viewers. Donna Travers, the mother of Brider's victim, told media she was \"devastated\" by Brider's \"X Factor\" appearance and felt \"revictimised\". Brider later told media that he regretted appearing on the series and had not thought through the impact of his appearance. TV3 announced that the first two bootcamp episodes would start with an apology to Travers and her family. International \"The X Factor\" producers FremantleMedia Australia and Syco Entertainment","title":"The X Factor (New Zealand series 2)"},{"docid":"16859229","text":"The X Factor (U.S. season 3) The third and final season of the American music competition television show \"The X Factor\" premiered on Fox on September 11, 2013 and ended on December 19, 2013. This season was hosted by Mario Lopez. Simon Cowell and Demi Lovato returned to the judging panel, while Kelly Rowland and Paulina Rubio joined the panel as replacements for the departing judges.<del></del> Producer auditions began on March 6, 2013, in Los Angeles, and ended on May 4, 2013, in Denver. The judges auditions, which are televised, began on May 21, 2013, in Charleston, and ended on","title":"The X Factor (U.S. season 3)"}],"string":"[\n {\n \"docid\": \"14917675\",\n \"text\": \"recording of \\\"The X Factor\\\". On 24 October, Cole performed \\\"Promise This\\\" on \\\"The X Factor\\\"'s results show. 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In 2010, during her second performance on \\\"The X Factor\\\", in which she performed \\\"Promise This\\\", she \\\"showcased her vocal and dancing skills with an energetic, raunchy routine that earned a standing ovation from her fellow judges.\\\" Similar to her 2009 performance of \\\"Fight for\",\n \"title\": \"Cheryl (singer)\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"14916775\",\n \"text\": \"X Factor\\\"'s results show. She donned a white tuxedo jacket, \\\"frilly black knickers,\\\" knee-high zebra print tights, and leather boots and was joined by multiple back-up dancers. She \\\"showcased her vocal and dancing skills with an energetic, raunchy routine that earned a standing ovation from her fellow judges.\\\" Similar to her 2009 performance of \\\"Fight for This Love\\\" on \\\"The X Factor\\\", the media speculated whether Cole lip synced or not. An ITV spokesperson insisted that Cole did not mime, although the performance was pre-recorded. British recording artist Adele covered \\\"Promise This\\\" on 27 January 2011 for BBC Radio 1's\",\n \"title\": \"Promise This\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"17242797\",\n \"text\": \"in the bottom two, lip syncing against Vivienne Pinay to Britney Spears' Oops I Did It Again. After the performance, both Mulugeta and Pinay were eliminated in a double elimination. After Mulugeta was eliminated, when asked to choose who he would like to win, he picked Seattle-based Jinkx Monsoon, who did end up taking the crown. At the beginning of season 6 of \\\"Drag Race\\\", Mulugeta stated that he was \\\"Team Courtney\\\" for who should win, referring to Courtney Act. Mulugeta and Act had met when both auditioned for \\\"The X Factor\\\". In 2010, Mulugeta released a cover of Adele’s\",\n \"title\": \"Honey Mahogany\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"20583504\",\n \"text\": \"left side, or a tone-deaf vocalist on the right which is matched to a designated contestant. Identify the skilled vocalists who are lip-syncing to their own voice and the tone-deaf vocalists who are lip-syncing to someone else's voice that have their similar voice tone. Both the contestant and lip-sync substitute appeared together and they are lip-syncing to the same song, but only one is the lip-sync owner. They must perform lip syncing with a non-lyrical part of a song (i.e. screaming, whistling, or interjective words), or the lip syncing voice may be replaced by 'nonsense sound effects' (i.e. animal sounds,\",\n \"title\": \"I Can See Your Voice\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"12713033\",\n \"text\": \"On 18 November a teaser trailer was released showing Ryan Tubridy lip syncing All I Want For Christmas in an X Factor-style singing contest. A three-part documentary, \\\"The Late Late Toy Show Unwrapped\\\", was also shown in the three days leading up to the show from Wednesday 30 November and followed the toy show performers through the auditions and preparations stages for the toy show, this was presented by Nicky Byrne Over 125,000 people applied for tickets for the show. There were 200 seats available for the studio audience and tickets were allocated on a lottery basis. Advertisers paid €32,000\",\n \"title\": \"The Late Late Toy Show\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"11453735\",\n \"text\": \"performed a dance routine with several back-up dancers while Jackson played bass guitar with the band. Although she lip-synced, the performance still managed to receive some favorable reviews. A reviewer from MTV wrote, \\\"sure, her pre-game performance of 'Dance Like There's No Tomorrow' was pretaped. And yes, it certainly looked like she was lip-syncing Cotillard-style. But I have to admit, I thought she nailed it.\\\" Another MTV review was less kind: \\\"The painfully '80s Janet Jackson rip-off tune and skinny-tie-era backup dancers made Adbul look like the Mrs. Robinson of dance pop. Judging those kids on 'Idol' just got a\",\n \"title\": \"Dance Like There's No Tomorrow\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"2462337\",\n \"text\": \"he thought had the best voice. Cowell immediately answered that Clarkson did \\\"by a mile\\\", noting that she was \\\"up there\\\" with other great singers such as Celine Dion. \\\"Esquire\\\" wrote that Clarkson has \\\"the best voice in the history of pop music\\\". Reviewing \\\"Stronger\\\", Jody Rosen of \\\"Rolling Stone\\\" states, Clarkson has, \\\"One of music's most remarkable voices.\\\" Jason Lipshutz from \\\"Billboard\\\" considered Clarkson as one of the greatest singers in pop music. Regarding the controversial practice of lip-syncing, Clarkson claims that she never has, and never will lip-sync, elaborating in an interview with Cory Myers; \\\"I've actually never\",\n \"title\": \"Kelly Clarkson\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"17395895\",\n \"text\": \"some controversy as Morissette was accused of lip-syncing Ariana Grande's \\\"Break Free\\\", after judges praised her for keeping her voice steady despite dancing and singing from one side of the stage to another. She clarified that it was a live performance and that she owed it to the audience to give them one. Before ASAP she recorded the theme song of the drama series \\\"Moon of Desire\\\", the self-titled original song composed by Trina Belamide. This served as her first project for ABS-CBN and opened doors for more theme songs on ABS-CBN's \\\"teleseryes\\\". On May 2014, Amon held her very\",\n \"title\": \"Morissette Amon\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"1910428\",\n \"text\": \"\\\"The X Factor\\\" and was replaced by Rita Ora. She began presenting \\\"Lip Sync Battle UK\\\", the British adaption of \\\"Lip Sync Battle\\\", on Channel 5 in January 2016, alongside Professor Green. In 2016, Brown guest judged at The X Factor at the London auditions, standing in for Scherzinger, while she had other commitments. In 2016 she announced that the Spice Girls – except for Victoria Beckham and Melanie C – were working on new material and a 20th anniversary tour for 2017. The song “Song for Her” was later leaked online featuring the bandmembers. Plans for a reunion were\",\n \"title\": \"Mel B\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"3159678\",\n \"text\": \"or she will hit a wrong note. Sometimes lip-syncing is incorrectly identified by fans sitting in the back of a stadium seeing a drummer hit a kit before they actually hear the sound; the delay can be mistaken for poor synchronization of miming artists and a backing track. It is also possible that fans who are watching a performer who is not lip syncing on a large screen video display, either in the venue or remotely as in a live broadcast, are actually seeing a real lip sync timing error. These can be created by the video signal processing delay\",\n \"title\": \"Lip sync\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"13502509\",\n \"text\": \"Wendy Williams Show\\\". During both performances, DeBarge was accompanied by several female back-up dancers. On June 18, the single was performed yet again on the reality dancing competition, \\\"So You Think You Can Dance' The performance was met with mixed reviews, mainly due to the fact that DeBarge had lip-synced her way through the song. Oh No They Didn't mocked the performance. Neon Limelight praised the dancing performed during the performance, however, they were not thrilled with the lip-syncing, stating \\\"It's just a major shame she did not perform the song live. The obvious lip syncing took some of the\",\n \"title\": \"Exposed (Kristinia DeBarge album)\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"14964447\",\n \"text\": \"tried out for \\\"The X Factor\\\" but it did not turn out too well, maybe because I did not have the confidence. I thought I would try \\\"Britain's Got Talent\\\" or \\\"The X Factor\\\" again and if that did not work out, I would have to think about what I was going to do.\\\" Ferguson sang \\\"A Change Is Gonna Come\\\" for her audition in front of judges, Simon Cowell, Louis Walsh and guest judge, Nicole Scherzinger. At her bootcamp audition, she sang \\\"Like a Star\\\" to which Cowell said \\\"That is a recording voice!\\\" and Scherzinger said, \\\"I told\",\n \"title\": \"Rebecca Ferguson (singer)\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"1410942\",\n \"text\": \"lip syncing during live performances. On April 16, 2014, Scantlin had an on-stage meltdown during a show at Trees Dallas, in which he threw a microphone and beer into the audience, as well as appearing to threaten and attempt to physically attack members of the audience. He also received criticism as he appeared to be lip-syncing during the performance. On June 20, 2015, the band was booed off stage at a show in Versailles, Ohio after Scantlin was spotted lip syncing to the songs. In response to the social media backlash, the band subsequently deleted their Facebook page. With the\",\n \"title\": \"Puddle of Mudd\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"7733026\",\n \"text\": \"\\\"Battle of Bay Avenue.\\\" Toms River High School East was recognized across the state and even the country for their \\\"Lip Dub 1\\\" and \\\"Lip Dub 2\\\" videos. The lip dub videos feature East students lip-syncing and dancing through the halls and campus of the school. The videos were created and produced by the Toms River Regional Schools TV Network and television production class. The students spent roughly three months planning \\\"Lip Dub 1\\\", planning camera movement and timing out cues for the students who were lip-syncing in the video. \\\"Lip Dub 1\\\" features about 150 students involved in many\",\n \"title\": \"Toms River High School East\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"18635585\",\n \"text\": \"Macedonia, Alice, this year. There was a soloist from Kosovo, Floriana Rexhepi, this year too. The 14 eliminated acts were: The final 16 finalists were confirmed as follows; Key: Judges' votes to eliminate Judges' votes to eliminate Judges' votes to eliminate Judges' votes to eliminate Judges' votes to eliminate Judges' votes to eliminate Judges' votes to eliminate Judges' votes to eliminate Judges' votes to eliminate Judges' votes to eliminate Judges' votes to eliminate Judges' votes to eliminate X Factor (Albania season 4) X Factor is an Albanian television music competition to find new singing talents. The fourth season began on\",\n \"title\": \"X Factor (Albania season 4)\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"17732088\",\n \"text\": \"other scenes shot in black-and-white, showing Beyoncé headbanging and moshing with members of a punk subculture, as well as dancing with a team of street dancers in a graffiti covered alley. Throughout the video, she is seen lip-syncing the lyrics of the song and moving in accordance with its melody while the camera focuses only on her. Many of the scenes are also shot using the slow motion filming technique. It ends with McMahon announcing the winners of \\\"Star Search\\\", Skeleton Crew, which receive four stars from the judges of the show, while Girl's Tyme receive three stars, losing the\",\n \"title\": \"Flawless (Beyoncé song)\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"16859244\",\n \"text\": \"that she openly struggled with. The X Factor (U.S. season 3) The third and final season of the American music competition television show \\\"The X Factor\\\" premiered on Fox on September 11, 2013 and ended on December 19, 2013. This season was hosted by Mario Lopez. Simon Cowell and Demi Lovato returned to the judging panel, while Kelly Rowland and Paulina Rubio joined the panel as replacements for the departing judges.<del></del> Producer auditions began on March 6, 2013, in Los Angeles, and ended on May 4, 2013, in Denver. The judges auditions, which are televised, began on May 21, 2013,\",\n \"title\": \"The X Factor (U.S. season 3)\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"16666430\",\n \"text\": \"judges' houses each act performed one song for their mentor and his/her guest, before the last performance, they practiced the song with their mentor and his/her guest. The twelve eliminated acts were: Key: Contestants' colour key: X Factor (Germany season 3) The third Season of X Factor started on 25 August 2012. The auditions were held in April/May 2012. The show was broadcast every Sunday. The judges were Sarah Connor, H.P. Baxxter, Sandra Nasic and . In October 2012 Connor announced that she would not return to the judging panel for the Fourth Season. There were four phases: 1. Auditions\",\n \"title\": \"X Factor (Germany season 3)\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"18906041\",\n \"text\": \"that Lina Rafn was considering leaving \\\"X Factor\\\". Five days later, it was reported that Rafn would be leaving the show. At the final of season 8 on March 27, Rafn said in an interview that she did not know if she would continue as a judge. Thomas Blachman said it was maybe time for three new judges. On June 22, Rafn said that she was in doubt about returning to \\\"X Factor\\\" because she also wanted to focus on her own career. On June 26, Eva Harlou announced that she would not be returning as host for season 9.\",\n \"title\": \"X Factor (Denmark season 9)\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"17269626\",\n \"text\": \"Judges' votes to eliminate Judges' votes to eliminate Judges' votes to eliminate Judges' votes to eliminate Judges' votes to eliminate Judges' votes to eliminate Judges' votes to eliminate Judges' votes to eliminate Judges' votes to eliminate X Factor (Albania season 3) X Factor is an Albanian television music competition to find new singing talents. The third season began on 15 September on TV Klan. Based on the UK format, the competition consists of auditions, in front of producers and then the judges with a live audience; bootcamp; judges' houses and then the live finals. The producers' auditions for the show\",\n \"title\": \"X Factor (Albania season 3)\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"16527628\",\n \"text\": \"eliminate Judges' votes to eliminate Judges' votes to eliminate Judges' votes to eliminate Judges' votes to eliminate Judges' votes to eliminate Judges' votes to eliminate Judges' votes to eliminate Judges' votes to eliminate X Factor (Albania season 2) X Factor is an Albanian television music competition to find new singing talents. The second season began on 28 October 2012 on TV Klan. Based on the UK format, the competition consists of auditions, in front of producers and then the judges with a live audience; bootcamp; judges' houses and then the live finals. Auditions for the show began in August and\",\n \"title\": \"X Factor (Albania season 2)\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"12570142\",\n \"text\": \"fifth season of X Factor was broadcast from April 27 to July 20, 2017 on Skai TV. The host Sakis Rouvas remained with Evaggelia Aravani in backstage. Tamta remained from the judges of the past seasons with Giorgos Mazonakis, Giorgos Papadopoulos and Babis Stokas being the new judges. The winner of this series was Panagiotis Koufogiannis from Cyprus. A sixth season of X Factor will begin broadcast from January 2019 on Open TV. The X Factor (Greek TV series) The X Factor is the Greek version of \\\"The X Factor\\\", a show originating in the United Kingdom. It is a\",\n \"title\": \"The X Factor (Greek TV series)\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"20829947\",\n \"text\": \"at every contestant based on its appearance and singing visual. They will show a muted video of each contestant's singing that reveals only 0.3 seconds of their singing voice. Identify the skilled vocalists who are lip-syncing to their own voice and the tone-deaf vocalists who are lip-syncing to someone else's voice that have their similar voice tone. For 30 seconds, three randomly selected panelists must hear the contestant's singing voice using its headphones first. Afterwards, he or she must \\\"defend\\\" and \\\"convince\\\" the contestant to seek their evidence and then the guest artist may ask one question to each panelist.\",\n \"title\": \"I Can See Your Voice Malaysia (season 1)\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"20829500\",\n \"text\": \"a platform referred to as \\\"SEE-cret songers\\\", with their own \\\"aliases\\\" to make them keep secret. They do not speak until the final reveal. The guest artist(s) must look at every contestant based on its and . They will show a muted video of each contestant's singing that reveals only 0.3 seconds of their singing voice. Identify the skilled vocalists who are lip-syncing to their own voice and the tone-deaf vocalists who are lip-syncing to someone else's voice that have their similar voice tone. The panelist must hear the defender's singing voice using its headphones first. Afterwards, he or she\",\n \"title\": \"I Can See Your Voice Malaysia\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"20965341\",\n \"text\": \"The guest artist(s) must look at every contestant based on its and . They will show a muted video of each contestant's singing that reveals only 0.3 seconds of their singing voice. Identify the skilled vocalists who are lip-syncing to their own voice and the tone-deaf vocalists who are lip-syncing to someone else's voice that have their similar voice tone. They must perform lip syncing with a non-lyrical part of a song (i.e. screaming, whistling, or interjective words). They will provide proofs of each contestant's singing ability (i.e. photo, video, certificates, etc). Skilled vocalists had their own evidences while the\",\n \"title\": \"I Can See Your Voice (Philippines season 2)\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"20348351\",\n \"text\": \"every contestant based on its and . They will show a muted video of each contestant's singing that reveals only 0.3 seconds of their singing voice. Identify the skilled vocalists who are lip-syncing to their own voice and the tone-deaf vocalists who are lip-syncing to someone else's voice that have their similar voice tone. They must perform lip syncing with a non-lyrical part of a song (i.e. screaming, whistling, or interjective words). They will provide proofs of each contestant's singing ability (i.e. photo, video, certificates, etc). Skilled vocalists had their own evidences while the tone-deaf vocalists had their evidences fabricated.\",\n \"title\": \"I Can See Your Voice (Philippine game show)\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"12570140\",\n \"text\": \"Factor started airing in October 2008 on ANT1 and was hosted by singer Sakis Rouvas. The judges were Giorgos Levendis, songwriter Giorgos Theofanous, marketing executive of ANT1 TV, Katerina Gagaki and music critic Nikos Mouratidis. The winner of the 1st X-Factor was Loukas Giorkas, who released his debut EP album on September 2009. A second series of X Factor was broadcated by ANT1 TV. The live shows debuted on October 30. The host and the judges remain the same as in the first series.The winner of the 2nd X-Factor was Stavros Michalakakos. A third season of X Factor was broadcast\",\n \"title\": \"The X Factor (Greek TV series)\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"16123046\",\n \"text\": \"X Factor (Albanian TV series) X Factor Albania is the Albanian version of \\\"The X Factor\\\", adapted from the original UK series to find new singing talent. The first season started in January 8, 2012, and it is broadcast by TV Klan. The judges are: Albanian singer from Macedonia Altuna Sejdiu, Albanian singer Soni Malaj, Albanian superstar Alban Skënderaj, and the famous composer Pandi Laço. The show is hosted by Alketa Vejsiu. She applied to acquire the rights of the show along with Top Channel and TV Klan. Syco TV gave the rights to her, then she sold parts of\",\n \"title\": \"X Factor (Albanian TV series)\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"15605405\",\n \"text\": \"on \\\"The X Factor USA\\\". On 14 May 2011, Dannii Minogue announced that she would not appear as a judge on the eighth series either, due to a clash with \\\"Australia's Got Talent\\\", another show for which she judges. Of her decision, Minogue said, \\\"During discussions for me to return to \\\"The X Factor\\\" it became clear that unfortunately, this year, \\\"The X Factor\\\" audition dates in the UK clash with the live shows of \\\"Australia's Got Talent\\\" during June and July. For this reason I am unable to return\\\". After Cowell and Cole announced their departures, a number of\",\n \"title\": \"The X Factor (UK series 8)\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"555397\",\n \"text\": \"Shine (2017 TV series) alongside fellow judges Martin Kemp and Barlow. In 2007, Minogue was hired by Simon Cowell to become a judge on the Seven Network talent show \\\"Australia's Got Talent\\\" along with Red Symons and Tom Burlinson. It was after this series that Minogue was offered the role on \\\"The X Factor UK\\\" after Cowell thought she proved good as a judge on \\\"Australia's Got Talent\\\". She returned to the panel for seasons two and three in 2008 and 2009. \\\"Australia's Got Talent\\\" returned for a fourth season in 2010, and Minogue was the only original judge to\",\n \"title\": \"Dannii Minogue\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"20538625\",\n \"text\": \"The X Factor Israel (season 3) The X Factor Israel is the Israeli version of the British television music competition \\\"The X Factor\\\". The third started its run on Thursday, October 18, 2017. The show airs during prime time on Reshet network in Channel 2 and after October 31, 2017, in Reshet 13. It was announced that Bar Refaeli, an Israeli fashion model, will host the third season. Contrary to most other versions of the \\\"X Factor\\\" where the judges panels was a mixture of singers and music industry figures, the Israeli version was composed entirely of musicians. The judges\",\n \"title\": \"The X Factor Israel (season 3)\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"17802841\",\n \"text\": \"The X Factor Israel (season 2) The X Factor Israel is the Israeli version of the British television music competition \\\"The X Factor\\\". The second started its run on Thursday, June 13, 2015. The show airs during prime time on Reshet network on Wednesdays and Saturdays. The season concluded on September 5, 2015. It was announced that Bar Refaeli, an Israeli fashion model, will host the second season. Contrary to most other versions of the \\\"X Factor\\\" where the judges panels was a mixture of singers and music industry figures, the Israeli version was composed entirely of musicians. The judges\",\n \"title\": \"The X Factor Israel (season 2)\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"17338834\",\n \"text\": \"her education at Greymouth High School. After school, she worked at her father's meatworks in Greymouth before moving to Auckland in January 2013. Prior to entering \\\"The X Factor\\\", Thomas had little professional performance experience. Thomas initially attended the Greymouth pre-audition on 11 January 2013, where she was put through to the judges' auditions. At her judges' audition Thomas performed Birdy's version of the Bon Iver song \\\"Skinny Love\\\", prompting judge Melanie Blatt to declare \\\"I think I've just witnessed a performance from the winner of \\\"X Factor.\\\"\\\" After Thomas' audition screened, Birdy's 2011 recording of \\\"Skinny Love\\\" entered the\",\n \"title\": \"Jackie Thomas (singer)\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"16011743\",\n \"text\": \"X Factor (Poland series 2) The second series of Polish television music competition \\\"X Factor\\\" started on TVN on 3 March and will end in June 2012. The pre-auditions took place in December 2011 and filmed auditions began on 10 January 2012 in Zabrze. Two of the judges, Czesław Mozil and Kuba Wojewódzki returned, though Maja Sablewska had left the show after the first series. She was replaced by a new judge, Tatiana Okupnik. Jarosław Kuźniar returned to present the show. The judging panel line-up for the second series of \\\"X Factor\\\" was revealed on 5 January 2012. Kuba Wojewódzki\",\n \"title\": \"X Factor (Poland series 2)\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"9092678\",\n \"text\": \"Key: X Factor (Icelandic TV series) X Factor was the Icelandic version of the popular British television show The X Factor. It premiered in Reykjavík on November 17, 2006 with actress Halla Vilhjálmsdóttir hosting the show. The judges were the talent agent and businessman Einar Bárðarson, rock musician Elínborg Halldórsdóttir and pop singer Paul Oscar. Previously both Einar and Páll Óskar had been judges in \\\"Idol stjörnuleit\\\", the Icelandic version of \\\"Pop Idol\\\". In the finals of \\\"X Factor\\\" held in Vetrargarðinum, Smáralind, a large shopping center in Iceland, singer and hair dresser Jógvan Hansen from Faroe Islands was the\",\n \"title\": \"X Factor (Icelandic TV series)\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"9092677\",\n \"text\": \"X Factor (Icelandic TV series) X Factor was the Icelandic version of the popular British television show The X Factor. It premiered in Reykjavík on November 17, 2006 with actress Halla Vilhjálmsdóttir hosting the show. The judges were the talent agent and businessman Einar Bárðarson, rock musician Elínborg Halldórsdóttir and pop singer Paul Oscar. Previously both Einar and Páll Óskar had been judges in \\\"Idol stjörnuleit\\\", the Icelandic version of \\\"Pop Idol\\\". In the finals of \\\"X Factor\\\" held in Vetrargarðinum, Smáralind, a large shopping center in Iceland, singer and hair dresser Jógvan Hansen from Faroe Islands was the winner.\",\n \"title\": \"X Factor (Icelandic TV series)\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"15829270\",\n \"text\": \"\\\"Titanium\\\" in the third series of \\\"The X Factor Australia\\\". \\\"Titanium\\\" was also covered by Martin Madeja on the second season of \\\"X Factor Germany\\\" on November 8, 2011. On February 10, 2012, Morten Benjamin performed the song on the fifth season of \\\"X Factor Denmark\\\". On October 11, 2012, 13-year-old Beatrice Miller performed \\\"Titanium\\\" during the judges' houses round of the second season of \\\"The X Factor USA\\\". The song was also performed by Jahméne Douglas during the judges' houses round and Lucy Spraggan during the third live show of the ninth series of \\\"The X Factor UK\\\" on\",\n \"title\": \"Titanium (song)\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"17716372\",\n \"text\": \"that was a great, great vocal performance.\\\" They later faced off against the others in a group performance 'Cry Me A River', in which they received praise from Kelly, who said they \\\"soared\\\". For Divas/Unplugged night, the couple sang two songs. Their \\\"Diva\\\" song was \\\"Say My Name\\\" by Destiny's Child. The song earned them praise from Kelly, who said she adored the new sassy side of Sierra. Their \\\"Unplugged\\\" song, \\\"Say Something\\\" by A Great Big World and Christina Aguilera (thought by many as their best X Factor performance) earned them praise by the judges; Kelly said she felt\",\n \"title\": \"Alex & Sierra\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"11122596\",\n \"text\": \"Roberta Howett Roberta Howett (born 26 September 1981 in Dublin, Ireland) is an Irish singer who finished in ninth place in the first UK series of television talent show \\\"The X Factor\\\" in 2004. Howett successfully auditioned for the first series of \\\"The X Factor\\\" in 2004 and made it to \\\"bootcamp\\\", \\\"judges' houses\\\" and the live shows, but was eliminated in the first live show. Performances on \\\"The X Factor\\\" In 2007, Howett sang on Toni Castells's debut album, \\\"Unharmed\\\". She announced on Irish Radio that she would release three singles in Ireland, before finally releasing her debut album.\",\n \"title\": \"Roberta Howett\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"16806792\",\n \"text\": \"Singe was featured on fellow \\\"X Factor\\\" contestant Bella Ferraro's single \\\"Forgot You\\\" which peaked at number 75 on the ARIA Singles Chart. On 18 February 2015, Singe announced on Facebook that he had left The Collective to pursue his solo career. In April 2015, he was featured on the single \\\"Don't Need 'Em\\\" by Donell Lewis and Fortafy. Zachariah Russell, born , is from Rockhampton, Queensland. Russell auditioned for \\\"The X Factor\\\" singing Stevie Wonder's \\\"Superstition\\\" and received a mixed response from the judges. Mel B thought his rendition was annoying, Natalie Bassingthwaighte said he \\\"butchered the song\\\" but\",\n \"title\": \"The Collective (band)\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"17712929\",\n \"text\": \"or she put through to the live shows. Key: The categories and 15 final acts were as follows: Key: The categories and 16 final acts were as follows: Key: Factor X (Portuguese TV series) Factor X was the Portuguese version of the television music competition \\\"The X Factor\\\", originally created by Simon Cowell. The first episode premiered on October 6, 2013 hosted by Bárbara Guimarães, João Manzarra, Carolina Torres and Tiago Silva. The three judges are Paulo Junqueiro, Sónia Tavares and Paulo Ventura. To date, two series have been broadcast, as summarised below. In each season, each judge is allocated\",\n \"title\": \"Factor X (Portuguese TV series)\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"14996065\",\n \"text\": \"their number of acts down to three, without a public vote. For the first time in X Factor Armenia history, viewers voted on the official web page of Shant TV to determine which of the judges was allocated each of the four categories. The judges learnt the result during the four-chair challenge. André will be mentoring the Boys, Erik has the Girls, Garik Papoyan will look after the Groups and Shushanik Arevshatyan has been assigned the Over 22s. Contestants' colour key: X-Factor (Armenian TV series) X-Factor () is the Armenian version of \\\"The X Factor\\\", a show originating in the\",\n \"title\": \"X-Factor (Armenian TV series)\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"1455675\",\n \"text\": \"\\\"H.I.T.S.\\\". The song peaked at No. 16 on the US charts and No. 9 in the UK charts. Meanwhile, as the music industry was still reeling from the Milli Vanilli lip-syncing scandal, the group found themselves accused of lip-syncing by Gregory McPherson, also a music teacher at Berklee College of Music, who was listed as an associate producer and string arranger on the group's third album, \\\"Step by Step\\\". McPherson alleged that Maurice Starr sang the vocals while the group lip-synced to pre-recorded vocals during their live performances. McPherson also filed a breach of contract and creative infringement lawsuit against\",\n \"title\": \"New Kids on the Block\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"8553946\",\n \"text\": \"city preliminaries, where the winner and first alternate advance to the state pageant. Historically, pageant competition consisted of interview, evening gown and talent categories. Later a Contemporary Fashion category for sportswear was added. After about a decade it was changed to Creative Fashion, a category that was never fully understood by judges or contestants and was later changed to Creative Costume. It was eventually replaced with Solo Talent. While some of the contestants perform live vocal, dance or comedy skits, the vast majority showcase their talent of lip syncing to prerecorded music. Current categories are Male Interview, Solo Talent, Evening\",\n \"title\": \"Miss Gay America\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"4808864\",\n \"text\": \"\\\"The Xtra Factor\\\" on the Seven Network's digital channel 7Two. The show was not renewed when \\\"The X Factor\\\" returned for a third season in 2011. The voiceover for both series of \\\"The Xtra Factor\\\" was Nicholas McKay. The show featured behind-the-scenes footage of \\\"The X Factor\\\" and the emotional responses of the contestants after the judges commented on their performances. A celebrity panel was usually featured, who gave their opinions on the contestants. The judges and contestants also answered phone calls from viewers, while Facebook statuses, tweets, and SMS messages appeared on screen. \\\"The Xtra Factor\\\" also showed extra\",\n \"title\": \"The X Factor (Australian TV series)\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"13482990\",\n \"text\": \"the base software package. Papagayo (software) Papagayo is a free Lip-syncing software made in Python for Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X and Linux. It works by importing an audio file, as well as writing the text for the audio and placing it accordingly. The program then uses a built-in dictionary to select the appropriate mouth for the spoken text. Modifications and dictionaries are available on the forum. Originally created as a tool for LostMarble's own Moho editor, the tool is being adopted by users and developers of several open source animation products (including Blender and Synfig Studio) to add lip-sync\",\n \"title\": \"Papagayo (software)\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"13482989\",\n \"text\": \"Papagayo (software) Papagayo is a free Lip-syncing software made in Python for Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X and Linux. It works by importing an audio file, as well as writing the text for the audio and placing it accordingly. The program then uses a built-in dictionary to select the appropriate mouth for the spoken text. Modifications and dictionaries are available on the forum. Originally created as a tool for LostMarble's own Moho editor, the tool is being adopted by users and developers of several open source animation products (including Blender and Synfig Studio) to add lip-sync features not available in\",\n \"title\": \"Papagayo (software)\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"11039473\",\n \"text\": \"Sky Uno and FremantleMedia Italia announced that Argento had been fired from \\\"The X Factor Italy\\\" following these allegations, making her the third judge fired from the X Factor franchise. The twelfth series of \\\"The X Factor Italy\\\" premiered in September with Alessandro Cattelan, Manuel Agnelli, Fedez and Mara Maionchi returning as host and judges, respectively. A fourth new judge, Italian singer Lodovico Guenzi, of the band Lo Stato Sociale, replaced Argento in the live shows. On the second series of \\\"The X Factor\\\" during filming of the final judges' auditions session in December 2014, whilst giving feedback to busker\",\n \"title\": \"The X Factor\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"18826847\",\n \"text\": \"and the tone-deaf vocalists who are lip-syncing to someone else's voice that have their similar voice tone. Both the contestant and lip-sync substitute appeared together and they are lip-syncing to the same song, but only one is the lip-sync owner. On the first two episodes, identify the good and bad singers within 100 seconds based on its true statement. This have been changed on the rest of eight episodes, the guest artist(s) must have then 100 seconds to discuss three contestants before making the final decision. These answers depends on the contestant if they're told the truth or lied their\",\n \"title\": \"I Can See Your Voice (South Korean TV series)\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"16130931\",\n \"text\": \"Kosovar pop singer Vesa Luma, Albania's representative at the 2010 Eurovision Song Contest Juliana Pasha and the Albanian superstar Alban Skënderaj. The winner of the first season of X factor Albania was Sheila Haxhiraj. The X Factor's host television Klan invited over 10 Albanian artists to be a part of The X Factor judging panel. It was rumored that Albanian singer Aurela Gaçe will be a judge/mentor. But, after giving birth to her first child, Aurela posted in Facebook that she will be staying with her family the whole month. Until the show started, the judges were not confirmed. In\",\n \"title\": \"X Factor (Albania season 1)\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"12570141\",\n \"text\": \"from October 2010 to February 2011. The third series of X Factor was won by Greek-Cypriot Haris Antoniou. The program was broadcast by ANT1 TV and the host and the judges remained the same as the previous year. A fourth season of X Factor was broadcast from 4 April to 8 July 2016 on Skai TV. The host Sakis Rouvas remained with Evaggelia Aravani in backstage. Giorgos Theofanous remained from the judges of the past seasons with Peggy Zina, Tamta and Thodoris Marantinis from Onirama being the new judges. The winner of this series was Andreas Leontas from Cyprus. A\",\n \"title\": \"The X Factor (Greek TV series)\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"12570074\",\n \"text\": \"part in the second series of \\\"Star for a Night\\\". She became the runner-up of the series, behind Joss Stone. She went on to audition for the second series of \\\"The X Factor\\\" in 2005, where she made it to judges houses before her mentor Louis Walsh decided she was too young to continue in the competition. She returned to \\\"The X Factor\\\" for its fifth series in 2008, where she went on to win the competition with 58% of the public vote. In 2010, she was a guest judge on the British version of \\\"So You Think You Can\",\n \"title\": \"Alexandra Burke\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"15932730\",\n \"text\": \"judges' houses stage in series 8 and bootcamp in series 9, as had McCabe in both series, as well as also reaching bootcamp in series 5. McCabe's exit was met with outrage on Twitter, as she had been considered as one of the favourites to win the series. In interviews given shortly before judges' houses was screened, both contestants had vowed never to return again if they were rejected. There is anecdotal evidence from blogs and discussion forums that some of the first-round \\\"X Factor\\\" audition sessions held in front of the producers have been poorly organised, with auditionees forced\",\n \"title\": \"Controversy and criticism of The X Factor (UK)\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"15730654\",\n \"text\": \"X Factor (Germany season 2) The second Season of X Factor started on 30 August 2011. The auditions were held in April/May 2011. The show was broadcast every Tuesday and Sunday . The Judges were Sarah Connor, and Till Brönner . There were four phases: This year twelve acts had been a part of the live shows, and not nine. Furthermore, from the first to sixth live show the judges decided which act had to leave the X Factor. In the final were three acts. The first appeal for applicants for series 2 was broadcast during series 1 on 9\",\n \"title\": \"X Factor (Germany season 2)\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"3159687\",\n \"text\": \"\\\"affront to all legitimate live performers who risk lyric mistakes and cracking voices to give an authentic performance\\\". The author argues that lip-syncing in live concerts will \\\"...destroy our ability to enjoy great live performances the way we once could, thrilling to the certain knowledge that we are witnessing something extraordinary from a great talent\\\". The author argues that this \\\"...makes lip-syncing in public performances wrong. Not only is the audience being lied to; it is being made cynical\\\". While Michael Jackson's performance on the television special \\\"\\\" (1983) changed the scope of live stage show, as he mixed singing\",\n \"title\": \"Lip sync\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"15403384\",\n \"text\": \"Nagima Eskalieva, Nurbergen Makhambetov and Eva Becher as judges. The seventh series was aired from 1 September to December 2018 with Nagima Eskalieva, Dilnaz Akhmadieva and Nurbergen Makhambetov as judges. X Factor (Kazakh TV series) X Factor is a television music talent show in Kazakhstan contested by aspiring pop singers drawn from public auditions. It is the Kazakh version of the international \\\"The X Factor\\\" series and is broadcast on the Perviy Kanal Evraziya channel in Kazakhstan. In each season, each judge is allocated a category to mentor and chooses three acts to progress to the live shows. This table\",\n \"title\": \"X Factor (Kazakh TV series)\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"16011746\",\n \"text\": \"the judging role on the show. On 8 November 2011, \\\"Fakt\\\" reported that Edyta Górniak was one of the favourites to become the permanent judge or only appear at the judges' houses stage of the show. Few days later, in an interview with \\\"Plejada\\\" she confirmed that she had been offered a judging role on \\\"X Factor\\\" and its rival show, \\\"Bitwa na głosy\\\". She revealed that she was considering both offers, but \\\"not as seriously as media reports\\\". She also added that she wanted to focus on her upcoming concerts and might not have enough time to serve as\",\n \"title\": \"X Factor (Poland series 2)\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"1910427\",\n \"text\": \"of \\\"The X Factor\\\", replacing Nicole Scherzinger. Emma Bunton joined her in Cancun, Mexico for the judges' houses stage of \\\"The X Factor\\\". In December 2014, it was announced that Brown would miss \\\"The X Factor\\\" final due to illness. In the same year, Brown became a guest co-host on the Breakfast program of Sydney radio station 2Day FM, alongside Jules Lund, Merrick Watts and Sophie Monk. Brown's and co-hosts replaced top hosts Kyle and Jackie O who moved to a rival station. On 16 June 2015, it was confirmed that she would not return for the twelfth series of\",\n \"title\": \"Mel B\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"7039204\",\n \"text\": \"with this mindset until the end\\\". In 2006, Hadise presented \\\"\\\" (Turkish version of \\\"Popstars\\\"). It was her first presenting role in Turkey. From 2008 to 2009, she got a job as a presenter for the first time in Belgium. She was the presenter of the second season of Belgian \\\"X Factor\\\" at VTM. Although it was her first television job in Belgium, Hadise garnered much praise. She handled a critical moment when Maurice Engelen, one of the judges, left the contest during a live television cast. Hadise was also praised by the candidats of \\\"X Factor\\\" for guiding them.\",\n \"title\": \"Hadise\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"19115392\",\n \"text\": \"first 3 seasons of X Factor Bulgaria, but she never made it through the judges, mostly because of her age. In 2015, after 3 attempts she finally made it through the judges and performed perfectly. She also has no problems to make it to the finals of the show and finally to perform on a big scene. She left the show on week 9, even as she was expected to get to the final. The judges said, that the reason she is leaving on 6th place is that she never believed she could win and that she lacks confidence. Even\",\n \"title\": \"Victoria Georgieva\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"9544621\",\n \"text\": \"on the UK Singles Chart upon the single's release, therefore becoming Cheryl's lowest-charting single to date. In 2014, the singer also returned as a judge on the UK version of \\\"The X Factor\\\" for its 11th series to replace Sharon Osbourne, signing a £1.5 million contract. She was joined by Simon Cowell, Louis Walsh and Mel B on the judging panel. She was again selected to mentor the girls category, with her final act Lauren Platt coming fourth. In 2015, Cheryl returned to \\\"The X Factor\\\" for its 12th series; she was joined by Cowell and new judges Ora and\",\n \"title\": \"Cheryl (singer)\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"5845243\",\n \"text\": \"The X Factor (UK series 1) The X Factor is a British television music competition to find new singing talent; the winner of which receives a £1 million recording contract with the Syco Music record label. The first series was broadcast from 4 September to 11 December 2004. The competition was split into several stages: auditions, bootcamp, judges' homes and live shows, with Louis Walsh, Sharon Osbourne and Simon Cowell as judges. Kate Thornton presented the show on ITV, whilst Ben Shephard presented the spin-off show \\\"The Xtra Factor\\\" on ITV2. Auditions were held in Dublin, Newcastle, London, Leeds, Birmingham\",\n \"title\": \"The X Factor (UK series 1)\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"15932723\",\n \"text\": \"to the judges' houses stage in Cheryl’s category. Viewers expressed anger when Cheryl did not pick Nhengu for the live shows, despite a well received performance. Instead, Katie Waissel and Cher Lloyd were chosen, despite neither managing to finish their performance. Cheryl later defended herself by saying \\\"I went by my gut instinct and I thought my decision was best\\\". Waissel's inclusion in the show was further surrounded by controversy as it was revealed that she already had a recording contract in the United States prior to auditioning. In series 8, contestant Ceri Rees was reportedly persuaded to return to\",\n \"title\": \"Controversy and criticism of The X Factor (UK)\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"16666426\",\n \"text\": \"X Factor (Germany season 3) The third Season of X Factor started on 25 August 2012. The auditions were held in April/May 2012. The show was broadcast every Sunday. The judges were Sarah Connor, H.P. Baxxter, Sandra Nasic and . In October 2012 Connor announced that she would not return to the judging panel for the Fourth Season. There were four phases: 1. Auditions 2. Bootcamp 3. Judge's House 4. Live Shows This year twelve acts had been a part of the live shows, but not in 3 categories like the two seasons before. In season 3 there were four\",\n \"title\": \"X Factor (Germany season 3)\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"18719928\",\n \"text\": \"out of 4 judges voting to send her home. Bayliss came 6th overall in the competition. Lili Bayliss Lili Bayliss (born 1993) is a New Zealand singer from Wellington who placed 6th on the second season of \\\"The X Factor\\\" (New Zealand). Bayliss was born in Wellington, New Zealand in 1993. Prior to auditioning for \\\"The X Factor\\\" she was a student at Otago University. Bayliss had a regular role in Peter Jackson's films. She has a credit in the Peter Jackson film \\\"The Lovely Bones\\\" where she played \\\"Mr Harvey's victim\\\". Bayliss also appears in other films such as\",\n \"title\": \"Lili Bayliss\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"4261331\",\n \"text\": \"(2015). Kelly decided to cover the song because she was obsessed with \\\"Pocahontas\\\" as a child. Australian soprano Mirusia Louwerse covered \\\"Colors of the Wind\\\" for \\\"This Time Tomorrow\\\" (2016), her debut solo album. The singer's arrangement has been described as featuring \\\"a simple and unobtrusive accompaniment on acoustic guitar.\\\" Postmodern Jukebox, a musical collective that creates vintage-style covers of popular songs, released a cover of the song in the style of 1970s soul music. Actress Melissa McCarthy lip synced the song during an episode of \\\"Lip Sync Battle\\\". Before lip syncing the track, McCarthy donned protective goggles. Then a\",\n \"title\": \"Colors of the Wind\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"15605415\",\n \"text\": \"two songs for their mentor and his/her guest judge, although only one song was mentioned and shown on the main show, with the other song shown on \\\"The Xtra Factor\\\" instead. Sian Phillips was originally selected for the judges' houses, but due to visa issues, she was unable to travel to Miami and was thus replaced by Sarah Watson in the Girls category. Goldie Cheung was initially put through to the finals by Walsh, but pulled out of the competition at the end of the judges' houses stage, stating that she did not want to be away from her family.\",\n \"title\": \"The X Factor (UK series 8)\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"16319809\",\n \"text\": \"The X Factor (UK series 9) The X Factor is a British television music competition to find new singing talent. The ninth series began airing on ITV on 18 August 2012 and ended on 9 December 2012. Dermot O'Leary returned as presenter of the main show on ITV, whilst Caroline Flack and Olly Murs returned to co-present \\\"The Xtra Factor\\\" on ITV2. Louis Walsh, Gary Barlow and Tulisa returned as judges. Nicole Scherzinger was confirmed as the fourth permanent judge after Geri Halliwell, Leona Lewis, Rita Ora, Mel B, Anastacia and Scherzinger herself stood in as guest judges for the\",\n \"title\": \"The X Factor (UK series 9)\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"20053436\",\n \"text\": \"when he was fifteen with Dragula contestant Melissa Befierce. He started doing professional drag when he was eighteen. He auditioned for \\\"Drag Race\\\" three different times. Kimora Blac was announced as one of fourteen contestants for the ninth season of RuPaul's Drag Race on February 2, 2017. After being declared safe in episode one, she was placed in the bottom two in the second episode with Jaymes Mansfield and won a lip sync against her to \\\"Love Shack\\\" by The B-52's. She was eliminated in the third episode after lip syncing to \\\"Holding Out for a Hero\\\" by Bonnie Tyler,\",\n \"title\": \"Kimora Blac\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"16130941\",\n \"text\": \"X Factor\\\", decided to eliminate none of the performers. X Factor (Albania season 1) X Factor is an Albanian television music competition to find new singing talents. The first season began on 8 January 2012 on TV Klan. Based on the UK format, the competition consists of auditions, in front of producers and then the judges with a live audience; bootcamp; judges' houses and then the live finals. Auditions for the show began in September and concluded in October 2011. The show is hosted by Albanian singer Alketa Vejsiu, while the judging panel consists of the biggest Albanian artists. Albanian\",\n \"title\": \"X Factor (Albania season 1)\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"17269623\",\n \"text\": \"X Factor (Albania season 3) X Factor is an Albanian television music competition to find new singing talents. The third season began on 15 September on TV Klan. Based on the UK format, the competition consists of auditions, in front of producers and then the judges with a live audience; bootcamp; judges' houses and then the live finals. The producers' auditions for the show are due began on April 2013 in Albania, Kosovo and Macedonia. The winners were later called back to perform in front of the judges, held from May 19–21 in Tirana. However, the auditions were broadcast in\",\n \"title\": \"X Factor (Albania season 3)\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"10741199\",\n \"text\": \"be interpreted in a more expansive way: \\\"[The] song is about David, but it's also about the way fantasy and reality can blur, and how giddy, hot, and excellent that can be.\\\" \\\"The X-Files\\\" set received and two of the show's assistants, Charles Forsch and Will Shivers, created a humorous video for the song for the set's Christmas party with permission from Sharp's label. The video mixes clips of Duchovny with footage of \\\"X-Files\\\" crew members and numerous celebrities lip-syncing the lyrics, including series co-star Gillian Anderson, Brad Pitt, George Clooney, Pamela Anderson, Whoopi Goldberg, Rosie O'Donnell, Jenna Elfman, Sarah\",\n \"title\": \"David Duchovny (song)\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"19773947\",\n \"text\": \"Tita (singer) Hristina Hristova (), better known by her stage name Tita, is a Bulgarian singer, actress and a model, who rose to fame in late 2014 after participating in \\\"X Factor Bulgaria\\\". Tita is currently signed to Bulgarian hip hop artist Krisko's record label imprint Adamand Records. Born in Tutrakan, in 2014 Hristina auditioned in the Bulgarian version of the reality show \\\"The X Factor\\\" as part of the Sweet 16 girl band. She joined the show as a solo performer, but later X-Factor judges formed a girl's group with Hristina, Gery-Nikol and Mishel Straminski, with Bulgarian singer Zaki\",\n \"title\": \"Tita (singer)\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"20409887\",\n \"text\": \"only made in jest and were not to be taken literally, but that they were misappropriated by other people including \\\"The X Factor\\\"’s production company due to Stern wanting to give Cowell a bad reputation by using his radio show. She added that although the company wanted to fire her, Cowell was not upset with the comments and wanted her to remain on the show, but that it was ultimately her decision to step down out of fear of awkwardness between her and fellow judges Williams and Field, with whom she is close friends, though she did not rule out\",\n \"title\": \"The X Factor (UK series 15)\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"16319848\",\n \"text\": \"\\\"The X Factor\\\". If [Cowell] doesn't feel the same then you'll have to ask him why.\\\" During the first auditions episode, broadcast on 18 August, one of the auditionees in Cardiff, Zoe Alexander, a Pink tribute singer, tried to \\\"smash\\\" equipment after arguing with the judges about her claim that she was told to sing a Pink song after she sang \\\"So What\\\". Barlow asked her to sing a second song, which was \\\"Next to Me\\\" by Emeli Sandé. After being criticised and given a \\\"no\\\", Alexander threw down her microphone as she left the stage. Her father brought her\",\n \"title\": \"The X Factor (UK series 9)\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"2989348\",\n \"text\": \"star would be booked at the last minute, such as Lorne Greene, who agreed to appear on the show only four hours before the episode was taped. Mie and Kei wanted to sing the songs that had made them famous in their native country, but NBC insisted they perform in English. This resulted in recording English songs phonetically and lip-syncing for the show's tapings. Lip-syncing was already a common practice on American variety shows, but it was especially noticeable since the ladies were performing in a language that was foreign to them. Additional problems were caused when the network insisted\",\n \"title\": \"Pink Lady (TV series)\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"14408746\",\n \"text\": \"of \\\"Got Talent\\\" series. It was broadcast on TV JOJ in Slovakia and on TV Prima in the Czech Republic. In 2013, McCloud made a comeback taking part in season 3 of the American singing competition \\\"The X Factor\\\" identified as Lillie McCloud, her birth name. At the time of applying to \\\"The X Factor\\\", she was 54 years old with three children (a son and two daughters) and seven grand children. Her audition was broadcast on September 12, 2013. She received a standing ovation and four \\\"yes\\\" votes from judges Simon Cowell, Demi Lovato, Paulina Rubio, and Kelly Rowland\",\n \"title\": \"Lillie McCloud\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"8672989\",\n \"text\": \"The X Factor: Battle of the Stars The X Factor: Battle of the Stars was a UK celebrity special edition of \\\"The X Factor\\\", which screened on ITV, started on 29 May 2006 and lasting for eight consecutive nights. \\\"Pop Idol\\\" was meant to air in its place as \\\"Celebrity Pop Idol\\\" but was stopped shortly before transmission, when ITV picked \\\"The X Factor\\\" over it. Nine celebrity acts participated, singing live in front of the nation and facing the judges of the previous \\\"The X Factor\\\" series, Simon Cowell, Sharon Osbourne and Louis Walsh. Voting revenues were donated to\",\n \"title\": \"The X Factor: Battle of the Stars\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"18969719\",\n \"text\": \"couple's main communication is through lip syncing audio clips from popular songs, films and TV series. After they personally met in September 2015 and Yaya Dub was later allowed to speak, the couple's interaction is no longer limited to split screen and lip-syncing. Outside Kalyeserye, they still referred to as AlDub even if they no longer portraying their Kalyeserye characters. They have been product endorsers and appeared in films, notably \\\"\\\" and their very first solo film \\\"Imagine You and Me\\\". In 2017, AlDub starred in the romantic comedy teleserye \\\"Destined to Be Yours\\\", which aired from February 27, 2017\",\n \"title\": \"AlDub\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"20772089\",\n \"text\": \"progress to the live finals. This table shows, for each series, which category each judge was allocated and which acts he or she put through to the live finals. Key: On 2 July 2018, it was announced that Ben Camille was selected to host the show. The full judges' panel was revealed on the 31 July 2018, and will be composed of music producer Howard Keith Debono, The Rifffs' frontman Ray Mercieca, Maltese singer and songwriter Alexandra Alden, and singer Ira Losco. The senior producers are Gordon Bonello and Olwyn Jo. The 24 successful acts were: X Factor Malta X\",\n \"title\": \"X Factor Malta\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"15215955\",\n \"text\": \"X Factor (Poland series 1) The first series of X Factor premiered on 6 March 2011 at 20:00 on TVN. The auditions for the first series were held in January and February. Jarosław Kuźniar hosts the show and the judges are Czesław Mozil, Maja Sablewska and Kuba Wojewódzki. The series was won by Gienek Loska who was mentored by Czesław Mozil. The second place was taken by Michał Szpak and the third finalist was Ada Szulc. Filming of the first series began with the first audition with judges and audience on 24 January in Zabrze. The live shows began on\",\n \"title\": \"X Factor (Poland series 1)\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"555396\",\n \"text\": \"Story\\\" where she talked about her time on \\\"The X Factor\\\" and working on talent shows. Other \\\"The X Factor\\\" judges who were interviewed included Gary Barlow, Walsh, Tulisa, Rowland and Simon Cowell as well as the host Dermot O'Leary. In June 2013, Minogue joined Elle Macpherson and Tyson Beckford on the judging panel for the ninth series of Sky Living's \\\"Britain & Ireland's Next Top Model\\\". She replaced Whitney Port and Julien McDonald. In September 2016, it was revealed Minogue was returning to British television, as a judge on the judging panel of Gary Barlow talent show Let It\",\n \"title\": \"Dannii Minogue\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"15959487\",\n \"text\": \"eliminated in weeks 3 and 5 had the judges' vote been taken to deadlock. Brucknell was eliminated in week 6 after being voted off by Tulisa, Rowland and Barlow, despite having received a higher vote share than Misha B. Following the X Factor, Brucknell began teasing the release of her track \\\"Red Shoes\\\". Brucknell returned to \\\"The X Factor\\\" in 2013 when she performed alongside other former contestants such as Rylan Clark, Jedward, Wagner, 2 Shoes, Diva Fever and Johnny Robinson at the final in Wembley Arena. In January 2013, She went on her first tour which was dubbed the\",\n \"title\": \"Kitty Brucknell\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"5581735\",\n \"text\": \"moment that no one wanted any mistakes. They didn't want any feedback, they didn't want any technical difficulties ... and it was great.\\\" When Jennifer Hudson delivered a lip-syncing of \\\"The Star Spangled Banner\\\" at Super Bowl XLIII in February 2009, it caused a little controversy once again. But most critics and many in the music industry didn't make a criticism of it. David Hinckley of \\\"New York Daily News\\\" made a remark on lip-syncing the national anthem that it was of secondary importance, writing \\\"The national anthem is different. Yes, it's a musical performance and yes, we're interested in\",\n \"title\": \"The Star Spangled Banner (Whitney Houston recording)\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"12061483\",\n \"text\": \"readmitted to the concert area, to appear as themselves in the video. The band was filmed on stage, lip syncing the \\\"Touch of Grey\\\" studio recording. Then the marionettes were filmed in the band members' places, also lip syncing the recording. The audience, coached with cue cards, was also filmed. The visuals were naturally enhanced by fog that had rolled in from the nearby Pacific Ocean. The last section of \\\"Dead Ringers\\\" consists of the \\\"Touch of Grey\\\" music video. The video shows the band performing \\\"Touch of Grey\\\" on stage before an enthusiastic audience of Deadheads. During the first\",\n \"title\": \"Dead Ringers: The Making of Touch of Grey\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"18307052\",\n \"text\": \"re-audition for \\\"The X Factor\\\". In June 2014, East auditioned for the eleventh series of \\\"The X Factor\\\". She sang John Legend's \\\"Ordinary People\\\" in her room audition, where she received three \\\"yes\\\" votes and progressed through to the arena auditions. She sang Chris Brown's \\\"Fine China\\\" at the arena and progressed to the boot camp stage with four \\\"yes\\\" votes. East made it past the six chair challenge and through to the judges' houses stage in the \\\"Over 25s\\\" category, mentored by Cowell once again, to whom she performed \\\"Bang Bang\\\" by Jessie J, Ariana Grande and Nicki Minaj.\",\n \"title\": \"Fleur East\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"6518558\",\n \"text\": \"program \\\"In Concert\\\" on June 21, 1991 where she performed \\\"Love Hurts\\\", \\\"Love and Understanding\\\", \\\"Save Up All Your Tears\\\" and \\\"A World Without Heroes\\\". This particular performance was highly criticized because Cher lip-synced all songs from the album, veering from the ABC show's premise to showcase \\\"honest\\\" live rock. Later, during an interview, Cher defended her lip-syncing and \\\"In Concert\\\" offered her a chance to reappear (with her band plugged in and playing) later in 1991, but the performance never happened. Cher also promoted the album in some European countries. 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The winner was Oleksiy Kuznetsov (in Ukrainian Олексiй Кузнецов) mentored by Yolka with Mariya Rak (in Ukrainian Марія Рак) mentored by Ihor Kondratiuk as runner-up The second season of Ukrainian X-Factor was launched in August 2011 with live broadcasts starting on 22 October\",\n \"title\": \"X-Factor (Ukrainian TV series)\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"5386430\",\n \"text\": \"\\\"New York Post\\\". Additionally, she has been called a \\\"virtuoso violinist\\\" by both \\\"The Guardian\\\" and \\\"The Independent\\\". Billed as the \\\"Bach Babe\\\" in tabloids in the UK, Brava has been featured in the front-page article of \\\"The Sun\\\", while she has also been featured in such British publications as \\\"Classic CD\\\", the \\\"Daily Mail\\\", the \\\"Evening Standard\\\", \\\"Q\\\", \\\"The Daily Telegraph\\\", and \\\"The European\\\". 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Brider later told media that he regretted appearing on the series and had not thought through the impact of his appearance. TV3 announced that the first two bootcamp episodes would start with an apology to Travers and her family. International \\\"The X Factor\\\" producers FremantleMedia Australia and Syco Entertainment\",\n \"title\": \"The X Factor (New Zealand series 2)\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"16859229\",\n \"text\": \"The X Factor (U.S. season 3) The third and final season of the American music competition television show \\\"The X Factor\\\" premiered on Fox on September 11, 2013 and ended on December 19, 2013. This season was hosted by Mario Lopez. Simon Cowell and Demi Lovato returned to the judging panel, while Kelly Rowland and Paulina Rubio joined the panel as replacements for the departing judges.<del></del> Producer auditions began on March 6, 2013, in Los Angeles, and ended on May 4, 2013, in Denver. 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He holds","title":"Goodluck Jonathan"},{"docid":"6648013","text":"Goodluck Jonathan Goodluck Ebele Azikiwe Jonathan (born 20 November 1957) is a Nigerian politician who served as the President of Nigeria from 2010 to 2015. Prior to that he served as Vice-President of Nigeria from 2007 to 2010 and as Governor of Bayelsa State from 2005 to 2007. He lost the 2015 presidential election to Muhammadu Buhari, becoming the first sitting Nigerian president to concede electoral defeat. Jonathan was born in what is now Bayelsa State to a family of canoe makers. He holds a B.Sc. degree in Zoology(Second Class Honours), an M.Sc. degree in Hydrobiology and Fisheries biology and","title":"Goodluck Jonathan"},{"docid":"19428454","text":"from Nigeria in the last 10 years,\" said Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari said April 7, 2016. He added that he planned to ask United States President Barack Obama for help. President of the Nigerian Senate Bukola Saraki was found, through the Panama Papers leak, to have ties to at least four offshore companies he failed to declare to the Code of Conduct Bureau as Nigerian law requires. His wife Toyin also had shell companies listed in her name in the Mossack Fonseca documents: Girol Properties Ltd, Sandon Development Limited and *Landfield International Developments Ltd. Saraki has said that the assets","title":"Panama Papers"},{"docid":"2782347","text":"President of Nigeria The President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria is the head of state and head of the national executive of Nigeria. The President of Nigeria is also the commander-in-chief of the Nigerian Armed Forces. The President is elected in national elections which take place every four years. The first President of Nigeria was Nnamdi Azikiwe, who took office on October 1, 1963. The current President, Muhammadu Buhari took office on May 29, 2015 as the 15th President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. As of September of 2018, multiple Nigerian leaders had claimed Muhammadu Buhari died in","title":"President of Nigeria"},{"docid":"2835691","text":"President Goodluck Jonathan. Recently the Nigerian Government has approached Pakistan for the purchase of joint Chinese-Pakistani made CAC/PAC JF-17 Thunder multirole fighter aircraft; however, the number of aircraft to be purchased is yet to be finalized by Pakistan Aeronautical Complex and Nigeria. According to reports, Nigeria will also buy Super mushak training jets from Pakistan. In December 2015, the Government of President Muhammadu Buhari presented a budget to the National Assembly that included N5bn for 3 JF-17 aircraft. The Nigerian Air force are modernizing at an appreciable pace and on account of this insurgency. 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Goodluck Jonathan Goodluck Ebele Azikiwe Jonathan (born 20 November 1957) is a Nigerian politician who served as the President of Nigeria from 2010 to 2015. Prior to that he served as Vice-President of Nigeria from 2007 to 2010 and as Governor of Bayelsa State from 2005 to 2007. He lost the 2015 presidential election to Muhammadu Buhari, becoming the first sitting Nigerian president to concede electoral defeat. Jonathan was born in what is now Bayelsa State to a family of canoe makers. He holds\",\n \"title\": \"Goodluck Jonathan\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"6648013\",\n \"text\": \"Goodluck Jonathan Goodluck Ebele Azikiwe Jonathan (born 20 November 1957) is a Nigerian politician who served as the President of Nigeria from 2010 to 2015. Prior to that he served as Vice-President of Nigeria from 2007 to 2010 and as Governor of Bayelsa State from 2005 to 2007. He lost the 2015 presidential election to Muhammadu Buhari, becoming the first sitting Nigerian president to concede electoral defeat. Jonathan was born in what is now Bayelsa State to a family of canoe makers. He holds a B.Sc. degree in Zoology(Second Class Honours), an M.Sc. degree in Hydrobiology and Fisheries biology and\",\n \"title\": \"Goodluck Jonathan\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"19428454\",\n \"text\": \"from Nigeria in the last 10 years,\\\" said Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari said April 7, 2016. He added that he planned to ask United States President Barack Obama for help. President of the Nigerian Senate Bukola Saraki was found, through the Panama Papers leak, to have ties to at least four offshore companies he failed to declare to the Code of Conduct Bureau as Nigerian law requires. His wife Toyin also had shell companies listed in her name in the Mossack Fonseca documents: Girol Properties Ltd, Sandon Development Limited and *Landfield International Developments Ltd. Saraki has said that the assets\",\n \"title\": \"Panama Papers\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"2782347\",\n \"text\": \"President of Nigeria The President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria is the head of state and head of the national executive of Nigeria. The President of Nigeria is also the commander-in-chief of the Nigerian Armed Forces. The President is elected in national elections which take place every four years. The first President of Nigeria was Nnamdi Azikiwe, who took office on October 1, 1963. The current President, Muhammadu Buhari took office on May 29, 2015 as the 15th President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. As of September of 2018, multiple Nigerian leaders had claimed Muhammadu Buhari died in\",\n \"title\": \"President of Nigeria\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"2835691\",\n \"text\": \"President Goodluck Jonathan. Recently the Nigerian Government has approached Pakistan for the purchase of joint Chinese-Pakistani made CAC/PAC JF-17 Thunder multirole fighter aircraft; however, the number of aircraft to be purchased is yet to be finalized by Pakistan Aeronautical Complex and Nigeria. According to reports, Nigeria will also buy Super mushak training jets from Pakistan. In December 2015, the Government of President Muhammadu Buhari presented a budget to the National Assembly that included N5bn for 3 JF-17 aircraft. The Nigerian Air force are modernizing at an appreciable pace and on account of this insurgency. The Nigerian Air force constructed the\",\n \"title\": \"Nigerian Air Force\"\n }\n]","isConversational":false},"negative_passages":{"kind":"list like","value":[{"docid":"13883458","text":"by the Nigerian President Goodluck: \"What many Nigerians refer to as corruption is actually stealing. Stealing is not the same thing as corruption.\" Independent Corrupt Practices Commission The Independent Corrupt Practices Commission (ICPC), (in full the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission) is a Nigerian agency that was inaugurated on 29 September 2000 following the recommendation of President Olusegun Obasanjo. The mandate is to receive and investigate reports of corruption and in appropriate cases prosecute the offender(s), to examine, review and enforce the correction of corruption prone systems and procedures of public bodies, with a view to eliminating","title":"Independent Corrupt Practices Commission"},{"docid":"20787167","text":"Nigerian Army Band Corps The Nigerian Army Band Corps (NABC) is the official military band of the Nigerian Army. It was founded as a regimental band in 1932, with Captain J. Cooper from the Royal Life Guards Band in London originally leading the band. In 1935, the NABC was converted into a full-fledged military band, being part of the Royal West African Frontier Force (RWAFF). Two years before the country's independence in 1960, the band was transferred from its rehearsal space in Kaduna to what is today the Nigerian capital of Abuja. As part of the government policy of the","title":"Nigerian Army Band Corps"},{"docid":"14280025","text":"installations, and existing resource consent licences. The full name of the treaty is \"Treaty between the Federal Republic of Nigeria and the Republic of Equatorial Guinea concerning their maritime boundary\". Equatorial Guinea–Nigeria Maritime Boundary Treaty The Equatorial Guinea – Nigeria Maritime Boundary Treaty is a 2000 treaty between Equatorial Guinea and Nigeria which delimits a portion of the maritime boundary between the two countries. The treaty was signed in Malabo on 23 September 2000 by Equatoguinean president Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo and Nigerian president Olusegun Obasanjo. The boundary set out by the text of the treaty does not demarcate the","title":"Equatorial Guinea–Nigeria Maritime Boundary Treaty"},{"docid":"16373542","text":"(1) Subject to the other provisions of this section, a person shall forfeit forthwith his Nigerian citizenship if, not being a citizen of Nigeria by birth, he acquires or retains the citizenship or nationality of a country, other than Nigeria, of which he is not a citizen by birth. 29. (1) Any citizen of Nigeria of full age who wishes to renounce his Nigerian citizenship shall make a declaration in the prescribed manner for the renunciation. (2) The President shall cause the declaration made under subsection (1) of this section to be registered and upon such registration, the person who","title":"Nigerian nationality law"},{"docid":"14515711","text":"Saidu Barda Alhaji Sa'idu Barda is a Nigerian politician who was elected on the National Republican Convention (NRC) platform as Governor of Katsina State, Nigeria, holding office between January 1992 and November 1993 during the Nigerian Third Republic. He remained active in politics in the Nigerian Fourth Republic. In the December 1991 elections for governor of Katsina State, Barda defeated Umaru Yar'Adua, the Social Democratic Party (SDP) candidate. Yar'Adua later went on to be elected president in April 2007. Umaru's elder brother General Shehu Yar'Adua, then a prominent politician with presidential ambitions, had failed to give his full backing to","title":"Saidu Barda"},{"docid":"20692746","text":"Think Tank of the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. He is the Special Adviser (Economic and Social Affairs) to the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria in the Office of the Vice-President Federal Republic of Nigeria. He has two honours to his name, the first was the Afgrad Fellow African American Institute 1975 and 1976 and the second; Fellow of the Nigerian Economic Society (FNES) 2007. Michael Kwanashie Michael Kanashie is a Nigerian Vice Chancellor of Veritas Governance University, Nigeria. Michael obtained his B.Sc. degree in Economics, from Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria in the year 1974. After","title":"Michael Kwanashie"},{"docid":"16373547","text":"giving effect to the provisions of this Chapter, and for granting special immigrant status with full residential rights to non-Nigerian spouses of citizens of Nigeria who do not wish to acquire Nigerian citizenship. (2) Any regulations made by the president pursuant to the provisions of this section shall be laid before the National Assembly NIGERIA CITIZENSHIP: Citizenship is based upon the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, dated 1989. (UKC-Commonwealth Nation) Those born before or on the date of independence, October 1, 1960, whose parents or grandparents were born in Nigeria and who were legally residing in Nigeria at","title":"Nigerian nationality law"},{"docid":"15563782","text":"Nigerian state governors 2011–15 term The Nigerian state governors 2011–2015 term formally begins in May 2011 for the 26 state Governors in Nigeria elected in April 2011. In the 10 other states, elections were delayed until the current incumbent had served their full term. Governors are normally elected for a four-year term during the national elections in which the President and members of the upper and lower house are also elected, as are the state legislators. In some cases, the first officeholder may be replaced by another, for example through death, impeachment or if an election is annulled. Elections for","title":"Nigerian state governors 2011–15 term"},{"docid":"18852145","text":"Adeola Fayehun Adeola \"Eunice\" Oladele Fayehun (born July 6, 1984) is a Nigerian journalist who specializes in discussing current geopolitical, social and economic issues that affect the daily lives of Africans living on the continent. She is well known for a controversial 2015 on-street interview where she and fellow Sahara TV journalist Omoyele Sowore asked Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe about when he would be stepping down from office. In 2013, she interviewed former Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan on the streets of New York, asking him what he was doing about the then on-going Boko Haram insurgency. Fayehun works from New","title":"Adeola Fayehun"},{"docid":"5717927","text":"Nnedi Okorafor Nnedi Okorafor (full name: Nnedimma Nkemdili Okorafor; previously known as Nnedi Okorafor-Mbachu; translated from Igbo into English as \"mother is good\"; born April 8, 1974) is a Nigerian-American writer of fantasy and science fiction for both children and adults. She is best known for \"Binti\", \"Who Fears Death\", \"Zahrah the Windseeker\", and \"Akata Witch\". Okorafor's parents traveled to America to go to school, but they could not return to Nigeria because of the Nigerian Civil War. The American-born daughter of Igbo Nigerian parents, Okorafor has been visiting Nigeria since she was very young. During her years attending Homewood-Flossmoor","title":"Nnedi Okorafor"},{"docid":"5717911","text":"Nnedi Okorafor Nnedi Okorafor (full name: Nnedimma Nkemdili Okorafor; previously known as Nnedi Okorafor-Mbachu; translated from Igbo into English as \"mother is good\"; born April 8, 1974) is a Nigerian-American writer of fantasy and science fiction for both children and adults. She is best known for \"Binti\", \"Who Fears Death\", \"Zahrah the Windseeker\", and \"Akata Witch\". Okorafor's parents traveled to America to go to school, but they could not return to Nigeria because of the Nigerian Civil War. The American-born daughter of Igbo Nigerian parents, Okorafor has been visiting Nigeria since she was very young. During her years attending Homewood-Flossmoor","title":"Nnedi Okorafor"},{"docid":"18432484","text":"to join Edison Group and Partners. He became the President of the Nigerian Society of Engineers (NSE) in 1985 and served in that capacity for one year, a tenure that ended in 1986. He later became the president of COREN. He also served as President of the Nigerian Academy of Engineering. Akinsola Olusegun Faluyi His middle name \"Olusegun\" translates to \"God is Victorious\" in Yoruba He attended Ibadan Boys High School, Oyo State, Nigeria where he obtained the West Africa School Certificate (WASC) and later proceeded to Loughborough University where he obtained a first degree (B.Eng) in Mechanical engineering (1953-1985).","title":"Akinsola Olusegun Faluyi"},{"docid":"16373543","text":"made the declaration shall cease to be a citizen of Nigeria. (3) The President may withhold the registration of any declaration made under subsection (1) of this section if- (a) The declaration is made during any war in which Nigeria is physically involved; or (b) In his opinion, it is otherwise contrary to public policy. (4) For the purposes of subsection (1) of this section. (a) \"full age\" means the age of eighteen years and above; (b) Any woman who is married shall be deemed to be of full age. 30. (1) The President may deprive a person, other than","title":"Nigerian nationality law"},{"docid":"19803153","text":"the Vice President in charge of Corporate Relations. He worked in this position for two years and half before leaving to run Caritas on a full-time basis. Ojo is the Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director of Caritas, a reputation management consultancy with specialist services for all sectors of the Nigerian economy, including the power and energy sector. Ojo is also the Chairman, Board of Directors of a Lagos radio, City FM 105.1 Adedayo Ojo Adedayo Ojo (born May 11, 1960) is a Nigerian corporate communications strategist who founded Caritas Communications Limited, a reputation management consultancy. Caritas is the first","title":"Adedayo Ojo"},{"docid":"18901177","text":"the department of chemistry, where he became a full professor in 1980 and in 1983, he was appointed, Dean, Faculty of Science, Olabisi Onabanjo University, the then Ogun State University. In 1981, he was elected as fellow of the Nigerian Academy of Science and on January 2003, he was elected President of the Nigerian Academy of Science to succeeded Professor Alexander Animalu. In 2005, he retired from the University of Ibadan and in 2004, prior to his retirement, he was appointed as Member, Honorary Presidential Advisory Council on Science and Technology to the President of Nigeria. Gabriel Babatunde Ogunmola Gabriel","title":"Gabriel Babatunde Ogunmola"},{"docid":"14323523","text":"He was later released on bail. In March 2007, he spoke out against the failure of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to include Atiku's name on the list of candidates. Iyorchia Ayu Iyorchia Ayu is a former Nigerian Senator who was elected President of the Senate during the Nigerian Third Republic (1992–1993). He later served in various Ministerial positions in the Cabinet of President Olusegun Obasanjo between 1999 and 2007. Ayu was born in Gboko in Benue State. He taught sociology in the University of Jos, including courses on the art and science of Marxism, and was the Chairman","title":"Iyorchia Ayu"},{"docid":"13537419","text":"Nigaz Nigaz is a joint venture between the Russian gas company Gazprom EP International B.V. (100% affiliate of OAO Gazprom) and the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation. Nigaz was established in 2009. It plans to invest US$2.5 billion to build oil and gas refineries, pipelines and gas power stations in Nigeria. Launching the company, Russian president Dmitry Medvedev announced his intention to form a major energy partnership with Nigeria at a meeting in Abuja with Nigerian president Umaru Yar'Adua. The company's name, a portmanteau of \"Nigeria\" and \"Gazprom\", attracted media attention because of its similarity to the potentially offensive word \"nigga\"","title":"Nigaz"},{"docid":"4206030","text":".ng .ng is the Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for Nigeria. On May 13, 2009, IANA (Internet Assigned Numbers Authority) completed the process of re-delegation of the .ng domain name from temporary authorities to the current Nigerian ones. For many years, Randy Bush had been the Technical contact of the .ng domain name. With the IANA re-delegation, the technical contact is now the local Nigerian DNS administrator, while the administrative contact is the president of Nigeria Internet Registration Association. To speed up the process of registering .ng domain names, NIRA has accredited a first batch of 29 Domain registrars,","title":".ng"},{"docid":"13537420","text":"and slang derivative \"niggaz\" in African American Vernacular English. \"The Economist\" said the name choice showed \"a refreshing ignorance of politically incorrect language\". Nigaz Nigaz is a joint venture between the Russian gas company Gazprom EP International B.V. (100% affiliate of OAO Gazprom) and the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation. Nigaz was established in 2009. It plans to invest US$2.5 billion to build oil and gas refineries, pipelines and gas power stations in Nigeria. Launching the company, Russian president Dmitry Medvedev announced his intention to form a major energy partnership with Nigeria at a meeting in Abuja with Nigerian president Umaru","title":"Nigaz"},{"docid":"18759482","text":"and reduce piracy. The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has been reported to be in talks with stakeholders to propose a digital copyright piracy bill to the 8th National Assembly of Nigeria. The bill, called the Nigerian Copyright Act, will impose strict sanctions on digital copyright offenders while aiming to give content owners what is rightfully theirs. MyMusic is available on desktop as a full website with scaled up functionality, and as mobile website for smartphones and advanced feature phones. Supported devices include Symbian, Windows Phone, BlackBerry OS and Android OS. Mobile apps are also available for these devices. The web","title":"MyMusic.com.ng"},{"docid":"17849030","text":"the Nigerian Coal Corporation and the Nigerian Groundnut Marketing Board. In the 1964, election, he had to contend with a Young NEPU candidate who was a School teacher by name Musa Said Abubakar Magami and future governor of Kano, Abubakar Rimi who contested as an independent candidate but all of them pulled out of the race before the elections were contested see Chapter 10 page 204 of African Revolutionary The Life and Times of Nigeria's Aminu Kano by Alan Feinstein . Inuwa Wada is an uncle of the late Murtala Mohammed, former Nigerian president. He ran a fairly successful transport","title":"Inuwa Wada"},{"docid":"18749227","text":"President of the Nigerian courts of appeals The President of the Nigerian courts of appeal is the head of the Nigerian courts of appeal. The incumbent president is Justice Zainab Adamu Bulkachuwa, sworn-in on April 17, 2014 by Aloma Mariam Mukhtar, the former Chief Justice of Nigeria and first female Chief Justice of Nigeria. The appointed Justice is usually a serving Justice of the court of appeal or the Supreme Court of Nigeria and are often recommended by the National Judicial Council to the President of Nigeria, who will send the names to the Senate for confirmation. The appointed Justice","title":"President of the Nigerian courts of appeals"},{"docid":"3066818","text":"the desire of central government of Nigeria to pursue total and unconditional victory and by the fear of the Ibo people that surrender means wholesale atrocities and genocide. But genocide is what is taking place right now – and starvation is the grim reaper. When Nixon became President in 1969, he found there was little he could do to change the established stance aside from call for another round of peace talks. Despite this, he continued to personally support Biafra. Gulf Oil Nigeria, the third major player in Nigerian oil, was producing 9% of the oil coming out of Nigeria","title":"Nigerian Civil War"},{"docid":"14947130","text":"On Tuesdays, they have Bible Class at 6 pm. On Wednesdays, the women meet to pray from 9am to 3pm and later in the night, the men meet to pray from 12am. On Thursdays, they have what they call \"Mid-week Full Service\" at 6pm. At 6 pm on Fridays, they have \"Protection Mark/Sealing Service. Finally, on Saturdays, a vigil is observed from midnight until 2am. Cherubim and Seraphim (Nigerian church) The Cherubim and Seraphim movement church, also known as the C&S, is a church denomination in Nigeria that was founded by Moses Orimolade Tunolase in 1925. Orimolade received considerable media","title":"Cherubim and Seraphim (Nigerian church)"},{"docid":"18749228","text":"are usually sworn-in by the Chief Justice of Nigeria after confirmation by the Senate, the upper chamber of the National Assembly. President of the Nigerian courts of appeals The President of the Nigerian courts of appeal is the head of the Nigerian courts of appeal. The incumbent president is Justice Zainab Adamu Bulkachuwa, sworn-in on April 17, 2014 by Aloma Mariam Mukhtar, the former Chief Justice of Nigeria and first female Chief Justice of Nigeria. The appointed Justice is usually a serving Justice of the court of appeal or the Supreme Court of Nigeria and are often recommended by the","title":"President of the Nigerian courts of appeals"},{"docid":"14147181","text":"Abuja. In 2011, the group which goes by the name of \"G 57 Transparency Group\", made headlines during the fuel subsidy crisis in Nigeria. The group had bought newspaper space in which they strongly criticized the Nigerian government. G 57 The G-57 is a pressure group of Nigerian professionals who came into being as a result of the constitutional crisis that engulfed Nigeria in the wake of the flawed elections of 2007 which brought President Umaru Musa Yar'adua to power. Initially it was called G-53. It was soon expanded to include other pro democratic Nigerians and changed its name to","title":"G 57"},{"docid":"7280601","text":"swimming in the pool. Despite Mia's obvious flirting, he expresses interest in Jazmin. He introduces himself as Dr. Tunde, but Jazmin is tongue tied, too distracted by his good looks to remember her own name. He and his friends find Jazmin and Stacey beautiful. However, they think Mia is too skinny and wonder if she is sick. They invite the women to a Nigerian party, Tunde, speaking Nigerian with his friends Dr. Akibo and Dr. Godwin, tells them he has never seen such beautiful full figured women in America. Upon their night out, Tunde expresses even more interest with her","title":"Phat Girlz"},{"docid":"10796368","text":"Nigerian Senate in 1999 to represent the Imo-East Senatorial Zone He became the first President of the Nigerian Senate during Nigeria's Fourth Republic. Enwerem beat his chief rival, Senator Chuba Okadigbo, for the Senate presidency on June 3, 1999. Former Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo backed Enwerem for President of the Senate against Okadigbo. With the support of the Obasanjo's allies in the governing parties, plus support from two Nigerian opposition parties, Enwerem easily defeated Okadigbo with 66 votes to Okadigbo's 43 votes. Enwerem did not hold the post of President of the Nigerian Senate for very long. A Nigerian Senate","title":"Evan Enwerem"},{"docid":"17497158","text":"Chioma Toplis Chioma Elizabeth Toplis is a Nigerian born actress in Nigeria's movie industry (popularly called \"Nollywood\"). She made her career debut in 2004 in the movie \"Stolen Bible\" alongside Kate Henshaw but gained prominence when she appeared in a lead role in a 2005 movie \"Trinity\" with several other prominent Nigerian actors Toplis, whose English name is Elizabeth, is a native of Umuahia, Abia State, in the South-eastern part of Nigeria. She is related to another popular Nollywood actor and past President of the Actors Guild of Nigeria, Ejike Asiegbu. Between 1979 and 1985, she did her primary school","title":"Chioma Toplis"},{"docid":"5066397","text":"allowed present-day Southwestern Cameroon to separate from Nigeria (from the region of what is now Akwa Ibom and Cross River states) through a plebiscite while the leadership of the then Northern Region took the necessary steps to keep Northwestern Cameroon in Nigeria, in present-day Adamawa and Taraba states. The aftermath of the 1961 plebiscite has led to a dispute between Cameroon and Nigeria over the small territory of Bakassi. A new phase of the struggle saw the declaration of an Independent Niger Delta Republic by Isaac Adaka Boro during Nigerian president Ironsi's administration, just before the Nigerian Civil War. Also","title":"Niger Delta"},{"docid":"13389592","text":"the name of her former group. In 1996, Idowu returned to her homeland where she released the album \"Simply Weird\" - a blend of American-style hip hop and Afrobeat - and featured the self-produced video-single \"Allen Avenue\", making her the first Nigerian artist to release a song via that medium. Although \"Simply Weird\" has been described as the first ever full-length rap album, this milestone had been reached nearly a decade earlier by Nigerian/American band Sound on Sound with the album \"From Africa From Scratch\", and Pidgin rap duo Junior and Pretty were also a household name in the early","title":"Weird MC"},{"docid":"10986222","text":"was unable to formally empower the vice president to exercise full powers as acting president, as provided for in Section 145 of the country's constitution. No provision of the Nigerian constitution empowering the National Assembly to pass any such resolution, causing Senate President David Mark to assert that the Senate had been guided by the \"doctrine of necessity\" in arriving at its decision. Doctrine of necessity The doctrine of necessity is the basis on which extra-legal actions by state actors, which are designed to restore order, are found to be constitutional. The maxim on which the doctrine is based originated","title":"Doctrine of necessity"},{"docid":"4118470","text":"a bet to then Royal Bank President Earle McLaughlin, making payment in full (US$0.10) in an elaborate dime encased in acrylic. Exactly what the bet concerned is unknown. In 1975 Air Canada's headquarters were at 1 Place Ville Marie. Mayor Jean Drapeau chose the name himself. Ville-Marie was the name of the Catholic colony founded at what is now Montreal in 1642. On 12 March 1976 Canada Post issued 'Place Ville Marie and Notre-Dame Church' designed by Jean Mercier & Pierre Mercieron. The $1 stamps are perforated 13.5 x 13 and were printed by British American Bank Note Company. The","title":"Place Ville Marie"},{"docid":"9963406","text":"The state was to publish at least twenty titles in 2008 alone. Speaking in October 2009 at a convention of the Association of Nigerian Authors, Aliyu said that over 90 percent of Nigerian politicians have criminal intentions, spending huge amounts to gain office for their own benefit rather than to serve the public. In 2004 it awarded the following prizes: Association of Nigerian Authors The Association of Nigerian Authors (ANA) represents Nigerian creative writers at home and abroad. It was founded in 1981 with the novelist Chinua Achebe as its president. The current president is Hon. (Dr) Wale Okediran. The","title":"Association of Nigerian Authors"},{"docid":"10906894","text":"President on 19 June 2007 with 72 votes over Anglican Primate Peter Akinola who had 33 votes. In 2010 he was succeeded by Ayo Oritsejafor. John Onaiyekan John Olorunfemi Onaiyekan (born 29 January 1944) is a Nigerian prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He has been Archbishop of Abuja since 1994 and was made a Cardinal in 2012. He has served as President of the Christian Association of Nigeria, President of the Catholic Bishops' Conference of Nigeria and Bishop of Ilorin. Onaiyekan was born in the town of Kabba, in what is now Kogi State, to Bartholomew and Joann Onaiyekan.","title":"John Onaiyekan"},{"docid":"20634128","text":"Organizations. Prince Julius Adewale Adelusi-Adeluyi Prince Julius Adewale Adelusi-Adeluyi (born, August 2, 1940) is a Nigerian Pharmacist and legal practitioner. He is the founder and Chairman of Juli Plc, the first indigenously promoted company quoted on the Nigerian Stock Exchange. He is the National President of the Nigeria Academy of Pharmacy. He is a past National President of the Alumni Association of the National Institute for Policy and Strategic Studies (NIPSS) Kuru (AANI). Prince Adelusi-Adeluyi is a former National President of the Nigerian American Chamber of Commerce as well as the National President of the National Council for Population and","title":"Prince Julius Adewale Adelusi-Adeluyi"},{"docid":"20634114","text":"Prince Julius Adewale Adelusi-Adeluyi Prince Julius Adewale Adelusi-Adeluyi (born, August 2, 1940) is a Nigerian Pharmacist and legal practitioner. He is the founder and Chairman of Juli Plc, the first indigenously promoted company quoted on the Nigerian Stock Exchange. He is the National President of the Nigeria Academy of Pharmacy. He is a past National President of the Alumni Association of the National Institute for Policy and Strategic Studies (NIPSS) Kuru (AANI). Prince Adelusi-Adeluyi is a former National President of the Nigerian American Chamber of Commerce as well as the National President of the National Council for Population and Environmental","title":"Prince Julius Adewale Adelusi-Adeluyi"},{"docid":"6515265","text":"I Write What I Like I Write What I Like (full name \"I Write What I Like: Selected Writings by Steve Biko\") is a compilation of writings from anti-apartheid activist Steve Biko. \"I Write What I Like\" contains a selection of Biko's writings from 1969, when he became the president of the South African Student Organisation, to 1972, when he was prohibited from publishing. Originally published in 1978, the book was republished in 1987 and April 2002. The book's title was taken from the title under which he had published his writings in the SASO newsletter under the pseudonym Frank","title":"I Write What I Like"},{"docid":"15717064","text":"Kongi's Harvest (film) Kongi's Harvest is a 1970 Nigerian film directed by Ossie Davis, from a screenplay by Wole Soyinka adapted from his 1965 play by the same name. Soyinka also starred in the leading role as the dictator of an African nation. The film was shot in Nigeria. It was the first production by a Nigerian indigenous company whose aim was to change perceptions about the country and the African continent. President Kongi (Wole Soyinka), the dictator of an African developing nation, is trying to modernize his nation after deposing King Oba Danlola (Rasidi Onikoyi). The different tribes are","title":"Kongi's Harvest (film)"},{"docid":"17351669","text":"left the country in late 1965, first for Europe, then on a cruise to the Caribbean. Under the law, the Senate president, Nwafor Orizu, became acting president during his absence and had all the powers of the president. Late in the morning of 15 January 1966, at a meeting with some local journalists in Kaduna seeking to find out what was going on, it was brought to Major Nzeogwu's attention that the only information about the events then was what was being broadcast by the BBC. Nzeogwu was surprised because he had expected a radio broadcast of the rebels from","title":"1966 Nigerian coup d'état"},{"docid":"9447226","text":"is physically involved in a war or when the President of Nigeria is of the opinion that the renunciation is contrary to public policy. Under § 29(4)(a), a person of either gender becomes \"of full age\" at eighteen years, while under § 29(4)(b) a girl younger than that is still deemed to be \"of full age\" if she is married. In 2013, the Senate of Nigeria proposed a constitutional amendment to delete § 29(4)(b), which would have the effect that girls could only renounce Nigerian citizenship at the age of eighteen or older regardless of their marital status; the amendment","title":"Renunciation of citizenship"},{"docid":"18748911","text":"Democratic Party, a case that was dismissed by the Supreme Court of Nigeria. On April 17, 2014, she was appointed as President of the Nigerian courts of appeals by President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan, sworn-in by Aloma Mariam Mukhtar, the former Chief Justice of Nigeria and first female Chief Justice of Nigeria. Zainab Adamu Bulkachuwa Zainab Adamu Bulkachuwa, OFR (born March 1950) is a Nigerian Judge and President of the Nigerian courts of appeal Justice Zainab was born on March 1950. She was Call to the bar in 1976 and was appointed to the bench of the Nigerian courts of appeals","title":"Zainab Adamu Bulkachuwa"},{"docid":"16172396","text":"National Archives of Nigeria The National Archives of Nigeria is headquartered in Abuja, Nigeria, with branches in Enugu, Ibadan, and Kaduna. As of 2017, the current Director of Archives is Malam Abdulyekin Umar. Professor Kenneth Onwuka Dike did a survey of Nigerian public records from 1951 to 1953. Based on what was found, he made a recommendation to have a public record office. This led to the founding of the Nigerian Record Office on April 1, 1954. In 1957, the Public Archives Ordinance No. 43 was enacted and became effective on November 14, 1957. It changed the name of the","title":"National Archives of Nigeria"},{"docid":"10689236","text":"President of Nigeria. However, President Umaru Yar'Adua was unavailable on account of ill health since November 2009, and had failed to hand over to his Vice President. A. I. Katsina-Alu Aloysius Iyorgyer Katsina-Alu (28 August 1941 – 18 July 2018) was a Nigerian lawyer who served as chief justice of the Supreme Court of Nigeria. He is from Ushongo in what is now Benue State. Katsina-Alu has been a member of the court since 1998. He was sworn in as the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Nigeria on Wednesday 30 December 2009 by his predecessor as Chief Justice","title":"A. I. Katsina-Alu"},{"docid":"15702280","text":"member of the Financial Reporting Council of Nigeria. As of 2011, Dr. Muhammad Mainoma was President of the NAA. Prof. Suleiman A.S. Aruwa is the current president of the association. Prof. Suleiman A.S. Aruwa also serves as the NAA contact person on the International Association for Accounting Education & Research (IAAER). Nigerian Accounting Association The Nigerian Accounting Association (NAA) is a member driven association of academics in the accountancy profession. It is the successor to the defunct Nigerian Association of Accounting Teachers (NATA). NATA was established in 1972 with the objective of \"contributing through research and education, to the improvement","title":"Nigerian Accounting Association"},{"docid":"18498608","text":"movies. He was a pioneer member of the Association of Nigerian Theatre Arts Practitioners, and also served as president of the association. Adebayo Salami (actor) Adebayo Salami popularly known by his stage name Oga Bello, is a veteran Nigerian actor, filmmaker, movie producer and director. Albeit of Kwara descent, Salami was born on 9th Of May, 1953 in Lagos State where he had both primary and secondary education. He began his acting career in 1964, with a group called Young Concert Party, under the leadership of Ojo Ladipo, popularly known as Baba Mero. After a few years, the group changed","title":"Adebayo Salami (actor)"},{"docid":"2862575","text":"titles of the \"Ochiebuzo\" of Ogbaland, the \"Ezediale\" of Aboucha and the \"Baba Korede\" of Ado Ekiti. He worked as a teacher for a brief period before entering politics in 1951 and in 1954 was elected to the federal House of Representatives. At , he is currently the oldest living former Nigerian president. Shehu Usman Shagari was born in 1925 in the northern Shagari village founded by his great-grandfather, Ahmadu Rufa'i, who was also the Village Head, and took the name Shagari as his family name. His father's name is Aliyu and his mother's name is Mariamu. His name, Usman,","title":"Shehu Shagari"},{"docid":"9963405","text":"Association of Nigerian Authors The Association of Nigerian Authors (ANA) represents Nigerian creative writers at home and abroad. It was founded in 1981 with the novelist Chinua Achebe as its president. The current president is Hon. (Dr) Wale Okediran. The association has branches in almost all the states in Nigeria. Niger State Governor Mu'azu Babangida Aliyu has been a supporter of the association. In January 2008, he said to a delegation from the Association of Nigerian Authors, Niger State, \"I think Niger State will be the most published state in 2008. We want to publish you; we shall publish you...\"","title":"Association of Nigerian Authors"},{"docid":"15185901","text":"African member of the Editorial Board of the \"Hadronic Journal\", he is also the founding editor of the \"Nigerian Journal of Solar Energy\" and one of the pioneering editors of the \"Bulletin of the Nigerian Institute of Physics\". Foundation President of the Solar Energy Society of Nigeria, foundation editor, \"Nigerian Journal of Solar Energy\", foundation member, United States Energy Research and Development Administration and Foundation member and former President of the Nigerian Academy of Science, Animalu is author of 28 books in both the sciences and the humanities, including the famous Intermediate Quantum Theory of Crystalline Solids and biographies of","title":"Alexander Animalu"},{"docid":"18742502","text":"Nigerian Bar Association, a position he held until he was succeeded by Okey Wali on July 2012. He was a member of the Nigerian Body of Benchers for 8 years ( 2002 - 2010) and became a Life Bencher in 2010, the same year he was elected, president of the NBA. He is an honourable member of the International Council of Jurists, where he served as secretary-general. Joseph Bodurin Daudu Chief Joseph Bodurin Daudu, SAN, (born December 27, 1959) is a prominent Nigerian Jurist, Bencher and former President of the Nigerian Bar Association. Daudu was born on December 27, 1959","title":"Joseph Bodurin Daudu"},{"docid":"17905069","text":"Nigerian immigration to Brazil A Nigerian Brazilian () is a Brazilian person of full, partial, or predominantly Nigerian ancestry, or a Nigerian-born person residing in Brazil. Over 2,000 Nigerians living illegally in Brazil without proper documentation before 9 February 2009 and are to be benefited from amnesty offers by the Brazilian Government. The Nigerian Ambassador to Brazil, Kayode Garrick, made this known to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Brasília. Garrick, said that over 2,000 Nigerian potential beneficiaries of the Brazilian amnesty proclamation were among the 5,000 Nigerians currently living in the country. In September 2008, the Nigerian government","title":"Nigerian immigration to Brazil"},{"docid":"17966179","text":"strategy at what is now Stanbic IBTC Bank., where he is credited with being largely responsible for the development of investment research in Nigeria while being head of research at what is now Stanbic IBTC. Kale was awarded the African Financial Analyst of the Year award by the African Investor magazine in 2009. Kale was also awarded the National Productivity Order of Merit by the Nigerian President in February 2017. He has served on several presidential committees and advisory bodies and is an alumnus of the Harvard Kennedy School of Government leadership in government programs. Yemi Kale Dr. Yemi Kale","title":"Yemi Kale"},{"docid":"20807287","text":"Daniel Onjeh Daniel Onjeh is a Nigerian politician, activist, the former president of West African Students' Union and National Association of Nigerian Students and currently the Chairman Governing Board of Project Development Institute (PRODA). Onjeh was born in December 13, 1973 and he is a native of Orokam, Ogbadibo Local Government Area of Benue State. He was Elected the President of National Association of Nigerian students in 2002 and subsequently the President of West African Students' Union in 2006. He holds a bachelors degree in Political Science and Economics form the prestigious University of Ghana, Legon. Daniel Onjeh's passion for","title":"Daniel Onjeh"},{"docid":"14544799","text":"3V also contributes a percentage of its net income to support value based leadership programmes, and initiatives to reduce poverty. In July 2011, Aganga was redeployed by the President to the new Ministry of Trade and Investment, to make way for Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala to return as the Nigerian Minister of Finance. On 9 March 2013, the Nigerian Government changed the name of the Ministry of Trade and Investment to Ministry of Industry, Trade and Investment. He is married and has four children. In 2010, Aganga's ministerial nomination was resisted by the Lagos State chapter of the PDP on the basis","title":"Olusegun Olutoyin Aganga"},{"docid":"14002758","text":"in the 1950s as ‘Army Wives Association’ (AWA). The association ventured into charitable activities during the tenure of Welby Everald between 1962 and 1965. Members were encouraged to donate to orphanages, thus forming the basis for the modern aims and objectives of the association. The name of the association was changed to Nigerian Army Officers’ Wives Association (NAOWA) on attainment of Nigeria’s Republican status in 1963. Victoria Aguyi-Ironsi was the first indigenous president of the association. Since then, NAOWA has had 23 distinguished successive national presidents with varying lengths of tenure. Since the association is non-governmental and non-profit making with","title":"Nigerian Army Officers' Wives Association"},{"docid":"20253900","text":"of Institute of Directors Industry Committee (2003–2007); and fellow; Academy for Entrepreneurial Studies, Nigeria (AES). He was awarded the Nigeria National Honours of Member of the Order of the Federal Republic in December 2007 by Nigerian President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua. In 2014, he was awarded the National Productivity and Order of Merit courtesy of the former Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan. He is married to Anuli Ausbeth-Ajagu and has three children. Ausbeth Ajagu Ausbeth Ajagu (born October 26, 1965) is a Nigerian political economist. He is the chairman of Betcy Group of Companies and President of Academy of Entrepreneurial Studies. Ajagu","title":"Ausbeth Ajagu"},{"docid":"12539637","text":"began to unfold. The President's supporters and cabinet ministers, led by his wife Turai Yar'Adua, resisted the suggestion that the Vice-President should take over power whilst the President was incapacitated even though this was what the Nigerian constitution prescribed, Fani-Kayode added his voice to that of President Obasanjo, President Shehu Shagari, General Yakubu Gowon, Ernest Shonekan and other former heads of government, former cabinet ministers, former legislators, leading opposition figures and leading members of the ruling PDP party by publicly calling for the resignation of President Yaradua and for the transference of power to Vice-President Goodluck Jonathan at that critical","title":"Femi Fani-Kayode"},{"docid":"17905070","text":"opened the \"Casa da Nigéria\" or \"Nigerian Culture House\" in the historic Pelourinho neighborhood of Salvador, Bahia, with the support of the governments of Bahia and Brazil. A case of xenophobic/racist prejudice of a university professor against a Nigerian student in the Federal University of Maranhão shocked the country in mid-2011. Thousands of students subsequently signed a petition calling for the expelling of the professor. Nigerian immigration to Brazil A Nigerian Brazilian () is a Brazilian person of full, partial, or predominantly Nigerian ancestry, or a Nigerian-born person residing in Brazil. Over 2,000 Nigerians living illegally in Brazil without proper","title":"Nigerian immigration to Brazil"},{"docid":"10906888","text":"John Onaiyekan John Olorunfemi Onaiyekan (born 29 January 1944) is a Nigerian prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He has been Archbishop of Abuja since 1994 and was made a Cardinal in 2012. He has served as President of the Christian Association of Nigeria, President of the Catholic Bishops' Conference of Nigeria and Bishop of Ilorin. Onaiyekan was born in the town of Kabba, in what is now Kogi State, to Bartholomew and Joann Onaiyekan. He attended St. Mary's Catholic School in Kabba from 1949 until 1956, Mount St. Michael's Secondary School in Aliade, Benue State, from 1957 until 1962,","title":"John Onaiyekan"},{"docid":"8818857","text":"his next assignment. (Mouse Felter had a great deal to do with it, arranging for President Eisenhower to send his name to the Senate for confirmation as a full colonel.) Colonel Hanrahan was named Commandant of the John F. Kennedy Special Warfare Center and School at Fort Bragg. He remains there for the rest of his career, fighting with the regular Army establishment to make them understand that what the Green Berets do is unorthodox by regular Army standards, but is as important as what the other combat branches do. He is promoted to the rank of Brigadier General by","title":"Brotherhood of War"},{"docid":"6956584","text":"MEND threatens violence and has said \"The gates of hell have just been let loose.\" March 31: The Joint Task Force captured 12 MEND gunmen while stealing oil out of a pipeline. April 4: MEND spokesmen Jomo Gbomo sent an email to president Goodluck Jonathan stating that starting on April 5 MEND would resume hostilities on Nigerian oil installations. April 5: MEND militants who had accepted amnesty 4 years earlier stormed the Nigerian National Assembly demanding more than what the government had given them. The ex-militants threatened to return to fighting if their demands were not met. April 6: 12","title":"Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta"},{"docid":"18932833","text":"Sani Abacha. The Nigerian police arrested 7 persons in connection with his murder but 5 of the suspects died while in detention, the remaining two were freed based on weak evidence from the prosecution. Alfred Rewane Alfred Rewane was a Nigerian businessman who was murdered on October 6, 1995 at his residence in Ikeja, Lagos. He was a financier of NADECO and was a close associate of Obafemi Awolowo. Rewane's full name at birth was Ogbeyiwa Erewarone, he was born in Warri to the family of Jemide Erewarone. His father was a trader who was based in Agbor, when his","title":"Alfred Rewane"},{"docid":"19313188","text":": Third Term And The Myth Of The Indispensable Man In Africa,with the former chairman of the National Human Rights president Chidi Odinkalu. The book put to scrutiny the former president of the Nigerian Federation's -President Olusegun Obasanjo - claim that he did not seek a third term in office. Ayisha Osori Ayisha Osori is a Nigerian lawyer, author, international development consultant, journalist and politician known for her work on good governance, gender equality, women’s economic and political participation and ending violence against women in Nigeria. Her book Love Does Not Win Elections gives insight into the Unique Nigerian Politics.","title":"Ayisha Osori"},{"docid":"15681999","text":"Chartered Institute of Administration The Chartered Institute of Administration (CIA) is a Nigerian professional body established in 1987 that regulates training and practice of Administration in the public and private sectors. The CIA was chartered by Act No 103, No. 76 Vol. 79 of 31 December 1992. In December 2012 the CIA invested its seventh president, Dr. Goddy Idaminabo (now the immediate past president), at the institute's 23rd induction ceremony, which was held in Lagos. Three fellows were inducted, nine full members and 122 associate members. In May 2013, Idaminabo criticized the Central Bank of Nigeria for a \"policy somersault\"","title":"Chartered Institute of Administration"},{"docid":"7368043","text":"over their resources most especially the South South and South East of Nigeria. Atiku Abubakar Atiku Abubakar GCON (born 25 November 1946) is a Nigerian politician and business tycoon. He was the vice-president of Nigeria (1999-2007) under President Olusegun Obasanjo representing the People's Democratic Party (PDP). Abubakar worked in the Nigeria Customs Service for twenty years, rising to become the Deputy Director, as the second highest position in the Service was then known. He retired in April 1989 and took up full-time business and politics. He ran for the office of governor in the Gongola State (now Adamawa and Taraba","title":"Atiku Abubakar"},{"docid":"7368008","text":"Atiku Abubakar Atiku Abubakar GCON (born 25 November 1946) is a Nigerian politician and business tycoon. He was the vice-president of Nigeria (1999-2007) under President Olusegun Obasanjo representing the People's Democratic Party (PDP). Abubakar worked in the Nigeria Customs Service for twenty years, rising to become the Deputy Director, as the second highest position in the Service was then known. He retired in April 1989 and took up full-time business and politics. He ran for the office of governor in the Gongola State (now Adamawa and Taraba States) in 1991, and for the Presidency in 1993, placing third after MKO","title":"Atiku Abubakar"},{"docid":"9380728","text":"British Nigerian British Nigerian is a term sometimes used to describe British people of Nigerian descent or Nigerians of British descent. This article is about residents and citizens of Nigerian descent living in Britain. Many Nigerians and their British-born descendants in Britain live in South London. They are one of the larger immigrant groups in the country. Nigerians have formed long-established communities in London, Liverpool and other industrial cities. The earliest known Nigerian presence in London took place over 200 years ago as a direct result of the transatlantic slave trade. Olaudah Equiano, born in what is now Nigeria and","title":"British Nigerian"},{"docid":"2561988","text":"serve until the great National Convention in latter part of June 1963. John Mears President, J.C. Hibbard Vice-President, Gordon Lindsay Secretary-Treasurer, W. A. Raiford Executive Secretary. June 28, 1963, A. C. Valdez was elected president. The implication of the terminology \"Full Gospel\" is that many mainline denominations leave out parts of the gospel - such as miracles, speaking in tongues, divine healing, while the \"Full Gospel\" maintains it in its entirety and for every aspect of the individual. Though its full constitutional name is still the \"Full Gospel Fellowship of Churches & Ministers International\", its shortened name for common use","title":"The Fellowship (FGFCMI)"},{"docid":"19595426","text":"handled by Macrocon Systems was the deregulation of Nigerian Telecommunications and the establishment of the regulator, the Nigerian Communications Commission, NCC, in 1992. Maduka is currently a facilitator at the School of Media and Communication (SMC), Pan-Atlantic University. He teaches Creativity and Innovation as a course to the Masters' students. Maduka has served as President of the Nigerian Society of Engineers (1992–1993) and President, Nigeria Academy of Engineers (2004–2005). He was vice-chairman of the pastoral council, St. Charles Borromeo Catholic Church, Victoria Island, Lagos. He was president of Lions Club of Victoria Island and he was for several years, the","title":"Vincent I. Maduka"},{"docid":"5703372","text":"create a true nationalist party. It embraced different sets of groups from the religious, to tribal and to trade groups with the exception of a few notable ones such as the Egbe Omo Oduduwa and early on the Nigerian Union of Teachers. Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe became its 2nd president and Dr. M.I. Okpara, its 3rd president, when Dr. Azikiwe went on to become the first indegenious President of Nigeria. The party is considered to be the third prominent political party formed in Nigeria after a Lagos-based party, the Nigerian National Democratic Party and the Nigerian Youth Movementformed by Professor Eyo","title":"National Council of Nigeria and the Cameroons"},{"docid":"15366050","text":"Sudanese and Nigerian politics. He was a very close personal friend of Sudan's late President Ja'far Numeiri. He is a close ally of President Omar al-Bashir. He played a prominent role in getting the North and South of Sudan to negotiate the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) 2005, in the Nigerian capital Abuja. This in turn led to the end of the 21-year-old Civil War in Sudan. For his many contributions to the Sudanese and Nigerian communities, Osman Eltayeb received the Nilein Award (Highest degree) from Sudan's President Omar al-Bashir and the Order of the Federal Republic (OFR) award from Nigeria's","title":"Osman Eltayeb"},{"docid":"20669467","text":"of Lancaster respectively. He is considered an expert in higher education. Munzali Jibril Munzali Jibril is a Nigerian emeritus professor of English, and the former Executive Secretary of the National University Commission. He is also a former Deputy Vice-Chancellor of Bayero University, Kano State, Nigeria. He was the coordinator of the Nigeria Police Academy in Wudil. He was appointed in 2010 by Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan. He is currently the Pro-chancellor of Federal University Lafia. Jibril was also the 20th President and Chairman of Council for the Nigerian Institute of Management. He had his Bachelor's , Masters and doctorate degree","title":"Munzali Jibril"},{"docid":"7299506","text":"Nigerian Americans Nigerian Americans are Americans who are of Nigerian ancestry. The 2016 American Community Survey estimates that 380,785 US residents report Nigerian ancestry. The 2012-2016 ACS estimates that 277,027 American residents were born in Nigeria. Nigeria is both the most populous country in Africa—190.8 million as of 2018—and the African country of origin with the most migrants in the United States, as of 2013. The first people of Nigerian ancestry in what is now the modern United States were imported as slaves or indentured laborers from the 17th century onwards. Calabar, Nigeria, became a major point of export of","title":"Nigerian Americans"},{"docid":"7299524","text":"interests of determined groups include: Nigerian Americans Nigerian Americans are Americans who are of Nigerian ancestry. The 2016 American Community Survey estimates that 380,785 US residents report Nigerian ancestry. The 2012-2016 ACS estimates that 277,027 American residents were born in Nigeria. Nigeria is both the most populous country in Africa—190.8 million as of 2018—and the African country of origin with the most migrants in the United States, as of 2013. The first people of Nigerian ancestry in what is now the modern United States were imported as slaves or indentured laborers from the 17th century onwards. Calabar, Nigeria, became a","title":"Nigerian Americans"},{"docid":"13424444","text":"insurance brokerage and trading in supply for the oil industry. Investments have been made in banking, publishing and property. Edet Amana was a founding director of Citibank Nigeria Limited and served on the board of that bank from 1985 to 2010. Today Edet Amana is the chairman of Amana Group of Companies and president of the Nigerian Academy of Engineering. He is also fellow of the Nigerian Society of Engineers (NSE), immediate past president of the Association of Consulting Engineers Nigeria(ACEN), fellow Nigerian Institute of Management and fellow International Institute of Directors. He is also a member of the American","title":"Edet Amana"},{"docid":"20669466","text":"Munzali Jibril Munzali Jibril is a Nigerian emeritus professor of English, and the former Executive Secretary of the National University Commission. He is also a former Deputy Vice-Chancellor of Bayero University, Kano State, Nigeria. He was the coordinator of the Nigeria Police Academy in Wudil. He was appointed in 2010 by Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan. He is currently the Pro-chancellor of Federal University Lafia. Jibril was also the 20th President and Chairman of Council for the Nigerian Institute of Management. He had his Bachelor's , Masters and doctorate degree in Art from Ahmadu Bello University, University of Leeds and University","title":"Munzali Jibril"},{"docid":"19211774","text":"not that classic thing of an African female novelist. I often get Ama Ata Aidoo or Flora Nwapa. I have a deep respect for Gordimer and what she stands for and what she is. Her fiction is, to use that overloaded word, amazing, in many ways”. Obiwu Obiwu is the pen name of Obioma Paul Iwuanyanwu (born 1962), a Nigerian-American writer and professor. He is a survivor of the Igbo genocide in Nigeria (1966-1970), and teaches World Literature and Critical Theory in the Humanities Department at Central State University. Obiwu was born in Umuahia, the capital of Abia State in","title":"Obiwu"},{"docid":"18890401","text":"Nigerian Academy of Science The Nigerian Academy of Science is the official science academy of Nigeria. The academy of science was established on January 18, 1977 as an association of Nigeria's foremost scientist, and incorporated in 1986. It is the apex scientific organization in Nigeria. The academy today acts as a scientific advisor to the Federal Government of Nigeria, funds research fellowships, and scientific start-up companies. The academy is governed by its council, which is chaired by the academy's president, according to a set of Statutes and Bye-laws. The members of council and the president are elected from, and by","title":"Nigerian Academy of Science"},{"docid":"20691955","text":"as Executive director Port Harcourt district. In August 2015, Kida was appointed as the deputy managing director, Deepwater district in Lagos, of Total E&P Nigeria limited. kida was elected as the President of the Nigerian Basketball Federation (NBBF) in June, 2017. Kida is married and he has four children. Ahmadu Musa Kida Ahmadu Musa Kida is a Nigerian Engineer and former Basketball player. He is the Deputy Managing Director deep water services of Total Nigeria and he is also the President of the Nigerian Basketball Federation. Kida received his degree in Civil Engineering from Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria in 1984.","title":"Ahmadu Musa Kida"},{"docid":"7497216","text":"attitude, in accordance with the Baptist tradition of ethical behavior, social responsibility and democratic ethos”. Nigerian Baptist Convention Nigerian Baptist Convention is a Baptist Christian denomination, affiliated with the Baptist World Alliance, in Nigeria. Rev. Dr. Samson Olasupo Adeniyi Ayokunle is the president. The headquarters is in Ibadan, Nigeria. The Nigerian Baptist Convention has its origins a foreign mission of the Southern Baptist Convention of the United States of America in 1850 The Nigerian Baptist Convention was officially formed in 1914. It has started other Baptist conventions in West Africa notably in Ghana (now the Ghana Baptist Convention), and in","title":"Nigerian Baptist Convention"},{"docid":"7497212","text":"Nigerian Baptist Convention Nigerian Baptist Convention is a Baptist Christian denomination, affiliated with the Baptist World Alliance, in Nigeria. Rev. Dr. Samson Olasupo Adeniyi Ayokunle is the president. The headquarters is in Ibadan, Nigeria. The Nigerian Baptist Convention has its origins a foreign mission of the Southern Baptist Convention of the United States of America in 1850 The Nigerian Baptist Convention was officially formed in 1914. It has started other Baptist conventions in West Africa notably in Ghana (now the Ghana Baptist Convention), and in Sierra Leone, now the (Baptist Convention of Sierra Leone). In 2016, it has 13,000 churches","title":"Nigerian Baptist Convention"},{"docid":"16373549","text":"following conditions: Person is of full age (17), has resided in Nigeria for at least 15 years, is of good character, plans to remain in Nigeria, is familiar with Nigerian language and customs, has a viable means of support, and has renounced previous citizenship. LOSS OF CITIZENSHIP: VOLUNTARY: Voluntary renunciation of Nigerian citizenship is permitted by law. Contact the Embassy for details and required paperwork. INVOLUNTARY: The following are grounds for involuntary loss of Nigerian citizenship: Registered or Naturalized citizen voluntarily acquires the citizenship of a foreign country. Naturalized citizen, before seven years of residence, sentenced to prison for three","title":"Nigerian nationality law"},{"docid":"8660500","text":"Adé who was his lead guitar player. In October 2018, Baba Sala died of what was referred by his media aide as \"old-age related sickness\". After his death, Best of Nollywood Magazine announced that the category \"comedy of the year\" will now be known as \"Moses Adejumo Comedy of the Year\" to honour him for his contribution to the industry. Moses Olaiya Moses Olaiya (18 May 1936 – 7 October 2018), better known by his stage name \"Baba Sala\", was a Nigerian comedian, dramatist and actor. A Yoruba from Ijesha, Baba Sala, regarded as the father of modern Nigerian comedy,","title":"Moses Olaiya"},{"docid":"8398482","text":"Nigerian Railway Corporation Nigerian Railway Corporation (commonly abbreviated as NRC) is the state-owned enterprise with exclusive rights to operate railways in Nigeria. The Nigerian Railway Corporation traces its history to the year 1898, when the first railroad in Nigeria was constructed by the British colonial government. On October 3, 1912 the Lagos Government Railway and the Baro-Kano Railway were amalgamated, starting nationwide rail service under the name Government Department of Railways. With the passing of the Nigerian Railway Corporation Act of 1955, the company gained its current name as well as the exclusive legal right to construct and operate rail","title":"Nigerian Railway Corporation"},{"docid":"18222273","text":"2008. He was promoted to the professorial cadre in 2010. Between 2007 and 2011, Adebiyi was the vice president of African Society for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology. After his tenure, he became the secretary of the professional body. He is also the president of Nigeria Society of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (NISBCB). Adebiyi is fluent in Yoruba, English and German. Ezekiel Adebiyi Ezekiel Adebiyi is a Nigerian bioinformatics professor and research scientist. He is the current president of Nigerian Society of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology. He is also the current vice-president of African Society for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology. In","title":"Ezekiel Adebiyi"},{"docid":"10302526","text":"chairmanship of the paper's publishing arm, the Nigerian Printing and Publishing Company. He was also a member of the governor's executive council and was president of the Nigerian Youth Movement. He was heavily influenced by the tidal waves of cultural nationalism in Nigeria during the early twentieth century. It was this self-assertiveness that led his family to abandon their assimilated Portuguese name in favour of a \"native\" one, Alakija, in 1913. Towards the end of his life it culminated in his ascending to the aristocracy of his tribe, as he was created the Bariyun of the Ake Lineage of Egbaland","title":"Adeyemo Alakija"},{"docid":"18888101","text":"Nigerian National Order of Merit Award The Nigerian National Order of Merit Award (NNOM) is an academic award conferred on distinguished academicians and intellectuals who have made outstanding contributions to the academic, growth and development of Nigeria. The award is often conferred on its recipient by the Federal Government of Nigeria following a nomination and approval of the Governing Board of the Nigerian National Merit Award. Its recipient is often decorated by the President of Nigeria. Recipients of the award have the legal right to use the postnominal title: Nigerian National Order of Merit (NNOM). It is the highest academic","title":"Nigerian National Order of Merit Award"},{"docid":"14495203","text":"\"Gusau\" in his name, it has been widely adopted by the media. He enrolled as an officer cadet at the Nigerian Defence Academy in 1964 and was commissioned into the Nigerian Army as a 2nd Lieutenant in 1967. He was Commander of 9 Infantry brigade, Abeokuta (April 1976 – July 1978), Adjutant General of 2 Mechanised Division (July 1978 – September 1979) and Director of Personnel Services, Army Headquarters (October 1979 – November 1979). From November 1979 to December 1983 Aliyu was Director of Military Intelligence (DMI). He played an important role in the coup that ousted President Shehu Shagari","title":"Aliyu Mohammed Gusau"},{"docid":"7951272","text":"James Tanimola Ayorinde James Tanimola Ayorinde, more well known as J.T. Ayorinde was born in 1907 and died in the 1970s. He was the first Nigerian General Secretary (and chief executive officer) of the Nigerian Baptist Convention, in the 1960s. Ayorinde served as General Secretary from 1962 until his retirement in the 1970s. Based on the customs of Yoruba, \"it was revealed to the Ifa priest who performed a divination at the naming ceremony that he would be an Ifa priest.\" His name, Tanimola, means, \"Who knows honor?\" Rev. Dr. Ayorinde was married to Mobola Ayorinde, who was President of","title":"James Tanimola Ayorinde"},{"docid":"20662653","text":"Presidential Guard Brigade (Nigeria) The Presidential Guard Brigade is a special arm of the Nigerian Army, which is responsible for protecting the President of Nigeria. The members of the brigade are a group of elite Nigerian soldiers which guards the residence of the President and his guests, as well as perform ceremonial duties. It is, also a combat unit, akin to the American Secret Service. The Presidential Guard Brigade of the Nigerian Army was formed in September 1962 as the Federal Guards. It was created for the purpose of carrying out ceremonial and security duties in Lagos and Abuja similar","title":"Presidential Guard Brigade (Nigeria)"},{"docid":"16686921","text":"Munzali Dantata Munzali Dantata, a Nigerian lawyer by training with a Ph.D (Law) degree, is an acknowledged tourism enthusiast and activist in both the public and private sectors of the Nigerian tourism industry. He was Director General for the National Institute for Hospitality and Tourism from 2006 to 2014, a government run tourism training institute. Before his stint in the public sector, he was visible in the private sector as President of the National Association of Nigerian Travel Agents (1991-1993), and President of Federation of Tourism Associations of Nigeria (2003-2006). Munzali Dantata is a father of 6. He is a","title":"Munzali Dantata"},{"docid":"19024194","text":"National Association of Nigerian Prostitutes The National Association of Nigerian Prostitutes (NANP) is a professional organization based in Nigeria to assist adult sex workers. The organization was formed out of opposition to the country's prostitution laws which criminalize sex work and all of its related activities. NANP campaigns for equal access to healthcare, a safe work environment and protection from abuse and exploitation. It is headed by a president who is elected by association members every 12 months. As of August 2015, the president of NANP was Jessica Elvis. She held the post until her death from a heart-related disease","title":"National Association of Nigerian Prostitutes"},{"docid":"19024195","text":"on 25 October 2015. The current president and secretary general are Tamar Tion and Sandra Efosa respectively. National Association of Nigerian Prostitutes The National Association of Nigerian Prostitutes (NANP) is a professional organization based in Nigeria to assist adult sex workers. The organization was formed out of opposition to the country's prostitution laws which criminalize sex work and all of its related activities. NANP campaigns for equal access to healthcare, a safe work environment and protection from abuse and exploitation. It is headed by a president who is elected by association members every 12 months. As of August 2015, the","title":"National Association of Nigerian Prostitutes"},{"docid":"14246066","text":"High Commission of Nigeria, Accra The Nigerian High Commission in Accra is the primary diplomatic mission of Nigeria in Ghana. It is on 20/21 Onyasia Crescent Roman Ridge in Accra. The previous High Commissioner was former Senator for Lagos Central Musiliu Olatunde Obanikoro, appointed by President Umaru Yar'Adua in May 2008. The High Commissioner in 2012 is Hon. Ademola Oluseyi Onafowokan. In August 2007 the Nigerian High Commission in Ghana launched Nigeria's 47th Independence anniversary celebrations in Accra. Ambassadorial Minister Simon Ejike Eze thanked Ghana for honoring Nigerians by naming a major stretch of road after former Nigerian president, Olusegun","title":"High Commission of Nigeria, Accra"},{"docid":"14759713","text":"to name a few. He has held the position of general secretary at NAAE for eight years and later became the president for another four years, (?) regional director IFATSEA. He is currently the Deputy Chairman Civil Air Navigation Services Organisation (CANSO) Africa. He was the first male Nigerian member of Women in Aviation International (WAI) featured on the first edition of Woman Aviator, the official publication of Women in Aviation, Nigeria. He is the President General Nzuko Arochukwu Worldwide and a lover of football. He hails from Ibom in Arochukwu and is also a devoted Christian. Nnamdi Udoh Elder","title":"Nnamdi Udoh"}],"string":"[\n {\n \"docid\": \"13883458\",\n \"text\": \"by the Nigerian President Goodluck: \\\"What many Nigerians refer to as corruption is actually stealing. Stealing is not the same thing as corruption.\\\" Independent Corrupt Practices Commission The Independent Corrupt Practices Commission (ICPC), (in full the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission) is a Nigerian agency that was inaugurated on 29 September 2000 following the recommendation of President Olusegun Obasanjo. The mandate is to receive and investigate reports of corruption and in appropriate cases prosecute the offender(s), to examine, review and enforce the correction of corruption prone systems and procedures of public bodies, with a view to eliminating\",\n \"title\": \"Independent Corrupt Practices Commission\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"20787167\",\n \"text\": \"Nigerian Army Band Corps The Nigerian Army Band Corps (NABC) is the official military band of the Nigerian Army. It was founded as a regimental band in 1932, with Captain J. Cooper from the Royal Life Guards Band in London originally leading the band. In 1935, the NABC was converted into a full-fledged military band, being part of the Royal West African Frontier Force (RWAFF). Two years before the country's independence in 1960, the band was transferred from its rehearsal space in Kaduna to what is today the Nigerian capital of Abuja. As part of the government policy of the\",\n \"title\": \"Nigerian Army Band Corps\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"14280025\",\n \"text\": \"installations, and existing resource consent licences. The full name of the treaty is \\\"Treaty between the Federal Republic of Nigeria and the Republic of Equatorial Guinea concerning their maritime boundary\\\". Equatorial Guinea–Nigeria Maritime Boundary Treaty The Equatorial Guinea – Nigeria Maritime Boundary Treaty is a 2000 treaty between Equatorial Guinea and Nigeria which delimits a portion of the maritime boundary between the two countries. The treaty was signed in Malabo on 23 September 2000 by Equatoguinean president Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo and Nigerian president Olusegun Obasanjo. The boundary set out by the text of the treaty does not demarcate the\",\n \"title\": \"Equatorial Guinea–Nigeria Maritime Boundary Treaty\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"16373542\",\n \"text\": \"(1) Subject to the other provisions of this section, a person shall forfeit forthwith his Nigerian citizenship if, not being a citizen of Nigeria by birth, he acquires or retains the citizenship or nationality of a country, other than Nigeria, of which he is not a citizen by birth. 29. (1) Any citizen of Nigeria of full age who wishes to renounce his Nigerian citizenship shall make a declaration in the prescribed manner for the renunciation. (2) The President shall cause the declaration made under subsection (1) of this section to be registered and upon such registration, the person who\",\n \"title\": \"Nigerian nationality law\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"14515711\",\n \"text\": \"Saidu Barda Alhaji Sa'idu Barda is a Nigerian politician who was elected on the National Republican Convention (NRC) platform as Governor of Katsina State, Nigeria, holding office between January 1992 and November 1993 during the Nigerian Third Republic. He remained active in politics in the Nigerian Fourth Republic. In the December 1991 elections for governor of Katsina State, Barda defeated Umaru Yar'Adua, the Social Democratic Party (SDP) candidate. Yar'Adua later went on to be elected president in April 2007. Umaru's elder brother General Shehu Yar'Adua, then a prominent politician with presidential ambitions, had failed to give his full backing to\",\n \"title\": \"Saidu Barda\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"20692746\",\n \"text\": \"Think Tank of the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. He is the Special Adviser (Economic and Social Affairs) to the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria in the Office of the Vice-President Federal Republic of Nigeria. He has two honours to his name, the first was the Afgrad Fellow African American Institute 1975 and 1976 and the second; Fellow of the Nigerian Economic Society (FNES) 2007. Michael Kwanashie Michael Kanashie is a Nigerian Vice Chancellor of Veritas Governance University, Nigeria. Michael obtained his B.Sc. degree in Economics, from Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria in the year 1974. After\",\n \"title\": \"Michael Kwanashie\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"16373547\",\n \"text\": \"giving effect to the provisions of this Chapter, and for granting special immigrant status with full residential rights to non-Nigerian spouses of citizens of Nigeria who do not wish to acquire Nigerian citizenship. (2) Any regulations made by the president pursuant to the provisions of this section shall be laid before the National Assembly NIGERIA CITIZENSHIP: Citizenship is based upon the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, dated 1989. (UKC-Commonwealth Nation) Those born before or on the date of independence, October 1, 1960, whose parents or grandparents were born in Nigeria and who were legally residing in Nigeria at\",\n \"title\": \"Nigerian nationality law\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"15563782\",\n \"text\": \"Nigerian state governors 2011–15 term The Nigerian state governors 2011–2015 term formally begins in May 2011 for the 26 state Governors in Nigeria elected in April 2011. In the 10 other states, elections were delayed until the current incumbent had served their full term. Governors are normally elected for a four-year term during the national elections in which the President and members of the upper and lower house are also elected, as are the state legislators. In some cases, the first officeholder may be replaced by another, for example through death, impeachment or if an election is annulled. Elections for\",\n \"title\": \"Nigerian state governors 2011–15 term\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"18852145\",\n \"text\": \"Adeola Fayehun Adeola \\\"Eunice\\\" Oladele Fayehun (born July 6, 1984) is a Nigerian journalist who specializes in discussing current geopolitical, social and economic issues that affect the daily lives of Africans living on the continent. She is well known for a controversial 2015 on-street interview where she and fellow Sahara TV journalist Omoyele Sowore asked Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe about when he would be stepping down from office. In 2013, she interviewed former Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan on the streets of New York, asking him what he was doing about the then on-going Boko Haram insurgency. Fayehun works from New\",\n \"title\": \"Adeola Fayehun\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"5717927\",\n \"text\": \"Nnedi Okorafor Nnedi Okorafor (full name: Nnedimma Nkemdili Okorafor; previously known as Nnedi Okorafor-Mbachu; translated from Igbo into English as \\\"mother is good\\\"; born April 8, 1974) is a Nigerian-American writer of fantasy and science fiction for both children and adults. She is best known for \\\"Binti\\\", \\\"Who Fears Death\\\", \\\"Zahrah the Windseeker\\\", and \\\"Akata Witch\\\". Okorafor's parents traveled to America to go to school, but they could not return to Nigeria because of the Nigerian Civil War. The American-born daughter of Igbo Nigerian parents, Okorafor has been visiting Nigeria since she was very young. During her years attending Homewood-Flossmoor\",\n \"title\": \"Nnedi Okorafor\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"5717911\",\n \"text\": \"Nnedi Okorafor Nnedi Okorafor (full name: Nnedimma Nkemdili Okorafor; previously known as Nnedi Okorafor-Mbachu; translated from Igbo into English as \\\"mother is good\\\"; born April 8, 1974) is a Nigerian-American writer of fantasy and science fiction for both children and adults. She is best known for \\\"Binti\\\", \\\"Who Fears Death\\\", \\\"Zahrah the Windseeker\\\", and \\\"Akata Witch\\\". Okorafor's parents traveled to America to go to school, but they could not return to Nigeria because of the Nigerian Civil War. The American-born daughter of Igbo Nigerian parents, Okorafor has been visiting Nigeria since she was very young. During her years attending Homewood-Flossmoor\",\n \"title\": \"Nnedi Okorafor\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"18432484\",\n \"text\": \"to join Edison Group and Partners. He became the President of the Nigerian Society of Engineers (NSE) in 1985 and served in that capacity for one year, a tenure that ended in 1986. He later became the president of COREN. He also served as President of the Nigerian Academy of Engineering. Akinsola Olusegun Faluyi His middle name \\\"Olusegun\\\" translates to \\\"God is Victorious\\\" in Yoruba He attended Ibadan Boys High School, Oyo State, Nigeria where he obtained the West Africa School Certificate (WASC) and later proceeded to Loughborough University where he obtained a first degree (B.Eng) in Mechanical engineering (1953-1985).\",\n \"title\": \"Akinsola Olusegun Faluyi\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"16373543\",\n \"text\": \"made the declaration shall cease to be a citizen of Nigeria. (3) The President may withhold the registration of any declaration made under subsection (1) of this section if- (a) The declaration is made during any war in which Nigeria is physically involved; or (b) In his opinion, it is otherwise contrary to public policy. (4) For the purposes of subsection (1) of this section. (a) \\\"full age\\\" means the age of eighteen years and above; (b) Any woman who is married shall be deemed to be of full age. 30. (1) The President may deprive a person, other than\",\n \"title\": \"Nigerian nationality law\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"19803153\",\n \"text\": \"the Vice President in charge of Corporate Relations. He worked in this position for two years and half before leaving to run Caritas on a full-time basis. Ojo is the Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director of Caritas, a reputation management consultancy with specialist services for all sectors of the Nigerian economy, including the power and energy sector. Ojo is also the Chairman, Board of Directors of a Lagos radio, City FM 105.1 Adedayo Ojo Adedayo Ojo (born May 11, 1960) is a Nigerian corporate communications strategist who founded Caritas Communications Limited, a reputation management consultancy. Caritas is the first\",\n \"title\": \"Adedayo Ojo\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"18901177\",\n \"text\": \"the department of chemistry, where he became a full professor in 1980 and in 1983, he was appointed, Dean, Faculty of Science, Olabisi Onabanjo University, the then Ogun State University. In 1981, he was elected as fellow of the Nigerian Academy of Science and on January 2003, he was elected President of the Nigerian Academy of Science to succeeded Professor Alexander Animalu. In 2005, he retired from the University of Ibadan and in 2004, prior to his retirement, he was appointed as Member, Honorary Presidential Advisory Council on Science and Technology to the President of Nigeria. Gabriel Babatunde Ogunmola Gabriel\",\n \"title\": \"Gabriel Babatunde Ogunmola\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"14323523\",\n \"text\": \"He was later released on bail. In March 2007, he spoke out against the failure of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to include Atiku's name on the list of candidates. Iyorchia Ayu Iyorchia Ayu is a former Nigerian Senator who was elected President of the Senate during the Nigerian Third Republic (1992–1993). He later served in various Ministerial positions in the Cabinet of President Olusegun Obasanjo between 1999 and 2007. Ayu was born in Gboko in Benue State. He taught sociology in the University of Jos, including courses on the art and science of Marxism, and was the Chairman\",\n \"title\": \"Iyorchia Ayu\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"13537419\",\n \"text\": \"Nigaz Nigaz is a joint venture between the Russian gas company Gazprom EP International B.V. (100% affiliate of OAO Gazprom) and the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation. Nigaz was established in 2009. It plans to invest US$2.5 billion to build oil and gas refineries, pipelines and gas power stations in Nigeria. Launching the company, Russian president Dmitry Medvedev announced his intention to form a major energy partnership with Nigeria at a meeting in Abuja with Nigerian president Umaru Yar'Adua. The company's name, a portmanteau of \\\"Nigeria\\\" and \\\"Gazprom\\\", attracted media attention because of its similarity to the potentially offensive word \\\"nigga\\\"\",\n \"title\": \"Nigaz\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"4206030\",\n \"text\": \".ng .ng is the Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for Nigeria. On May 13, 2009, IANA (Internet Assigned Numbers Authority) completed the process of re-delegation of the .ng domain name from temporary authorities to the current Nigerian ones. For many years, Randy Bush had been the Technical contact of the .ng domain name. With the IANA re-delegation, the technical contact is now the local Nigerian DNS administrator, while the administrative contact is the president of Nigeria Internet Registration Association. To speed up the process of registering .ng domain names, NIRA has accredited a first batch of 29 Domain registrars,\",\n \"title\": \".ng\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"13537420\",\n \"text\": \"and slang derivative \\\"niggaz\\\" in African American Vernacular English. \\\"The Economist\\\" said the name choice showed \\\"a refreshing ignorance of politically incorrect language\\\". Nigaz Nigaz is a joint venture between the Russian gas company Gazprom EP International B.V. (100% affiliate of OAO Gazprom) and the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation. Nigaz was established in 2009. It plans to invest US$2.5 billion to build oil and gas refineries, pipelines and gas power stations in Nigeria. Launching the company, Russian president Dmitry Medvedev announced his intention to form a major energy partnership with Nigeria at a meeting in Abuja with Nigerian president Umaru\",\n \"title\": \"Nigaz\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"18759482\",\n \"text\": \"and reduce piracy. The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has been reported to be in talks with stakeholders to propose a digital copyright piracy bill to the 8th National Assembly of Nigeria. The bill, called the Nigerian Copyright Act, will impose strict sanctions on digital copyright offenders while aiming to give content owners what is rightfully theirs. MyMusic is available on desktop as a full website with scaled up functionality, and as mobile website for smartphones and advanced feature phones. Supported devices include Symbian, Windows Phone, BlackBerry OS and Android OS. Mobile apps are also available for these devices. The web\",\n \"title\": \"MyMusic.com.ng\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"17849030\",\n \"text\": \"the Nigerian Coal Corporation and the Nigerian Groundnut Marketing Board. In the 1964, election, he had to contend with a Young NEPU candidate who was a School teacher by name Musa Said Abubakar Magami and future governor of Kano, Abubakar Rimi who contested as an independent candidate but all of them pulled out of the race before the elections were contested see Chapter 10 page 204 of African Revolutionary The Life and Times of Nigeria's Aminu Kano by Alan Feinstein . Inuwa Wada is an uncle of the late Murtala Mohammed, former Nigerian president. He ran a fairly successful transport\",\n \"title\": \"Inuwa Wada\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"18749227\",\n \"text\": \"President of the Nigerian courts of appeals The President of the Nigerian courts of appeal is the head of the Nigerian courts of appeal. The incumbent president is Justice Zainab Adamu Bulkachuwa, sworn-in on April 17, 2014 by Aloma Mariam Mukhtar, the former Chief Justice of Nigeria and first female Chief Justice of Nigeria. The appointed Justice is usually a serving Justice of the court of appeal or the Supreme Court of Nigeria and are often recommended by the National Judicial Council to the President of Nigeria, who will send the names to the Senate for confirmation. The appointed Justice\",\n \"title\": \"President of the Nigerian courts of appeals\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"3066818\",\n \"text\": \"the desire of central government of Nigeria to pursue total and unconditional victory and by the fear of the Ibo people that surrender means wholesale atrocities and genocide. But genocide is what is taking place right now – and starvation is the grim reaper. When Nixon became President in 1969, he found there was little he could do to change the established stance aside from call for another round of peace talks. Despite this, he continued to personally support Biafra. Gulf Oil Nigeria, the third major player in Nigerian oil, was producing 9% of the oil coming out of Nigeria\",\n \"title\": \"Nigerian Civil War\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"14947130\",\n \"text\": \"On Tuesdays, they have Bible Class at 6 pm. On Wednesdays, the women meet to pray from 9am to 3pm and later in the night, the men meet to pray from 12am. On Thursdays, they have what they call \\\"Mid-week Full Service\\\" at 6pm. At 6 pm on Fridays, they have \\\"Protection Mark/Sealing Service. Finally, on Saturdays, a vigil is observed from midnight until 2am. Cherubim and Seraphim (Nigerian church) The Cherubim and Seraphim movement church, also known as the C&S, is a church denomination in Nigeria that was founded by Moses Orimolade Tunolase in 1925. Orimolade received considerable media\",\n \"title\": \"Cherubim and Seraphim (Nigerian church)\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"18749228\",\n \"text\": \"are usually sworn-in by the Chief Justice of Nigeria after confirmation by the Senate, the upper chamber of the National Assembly. President of the Nigerian courts of appeals The President of the Nigerian courts of appeal is the head of the Nigerian courts of appeal. The incumbent president is Justice Zainab Adamu Bulkachuwa, sworn-in on April 17, 2014 by Aloma Mariam Mukhtar, the former Chief Justice of Nigeria and first female Chief Justice of Nigeria. The appointed Justice is usually a serving Justice of the court of appeal or the Supreme Court of Nigeria and are often recommended by the\",\n \"title\": \"President of the Nigerian courts of appeals\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"14147181\",\n \"text\": \"Abuja. In 2011, the group which goes by the name of \\\"G 57 Transparency Group\\\", made headlines during the fuel subsidy crisis in Nigeria. The group had bought newspaper space in which they strongly criticized the Nigerian government. G 57 The G-57 is a pressure group of Nigerian professionals who came into being as a result of the constitutional crisis that engulfed Nigeria in the wake of the flawed elections of 2007 which brought President Umaru Musa Yar'adua to power. Initially it was called G-53. It was soon expanded to include other pro democratic Nigerians and changed its name to\",\n \"title\": \"G 57\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"7280601\",\n \"text\": \"swimming in the pool. Despite Mia's obvious flirting, he expresses interest in Jazmin. He introduces himself as Dr. Tunde, but Jazmin is tongue tied, too distracted by his good looks to remember her own name. He and his friends find Jazmin and Stacey beautiful. However, they think Mia is too skinny and wonder if she is sick. They invite the women to a Nigerian party, Tunde, speaking Nigerian with his friends Dr. Akibo and Dr. Godwin, tells them he has never seen such beautiful full figured women in America. Upon their night out, Tunde expresses even more interest with her\",\n \"title\": \"Phat Girlz\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"10796368\",\n \"text\": \"Nigerian Senate in 1999 to represent the Imo-East Senatorial Zone He became the first President of the Nigerian Senate during Nigeria's Fourth Republic. Enwerem beat his chief rival, Senator Chuba Okadigbo, for the Senate presidency on June 3, 1999. Former Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo backed Enwerem for President of the Senate against Okadigbo. With the support of the Obasanjo's allies in the governing parties, plus support from two Nigerian opposition parties, Enwerem easily defeated Okadigbo with 66 votes to Okadigbo's 43 votes. Enwerem did not hold the post of President of the Nigerian Senate for very long. A Nigerian Senate\",\n \"title\": \"Evan Enwerem\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"17497158\",\n \"text\": \"Chioma Toplis Chioma Elizabeth Toplis is a Nigerian born actress in Nigeria's movie industry (popularly called \\\"Nollywood\\\"). She made her career debut in 2004 in the movie \\\"Stolen Bible\\\" alongside Kate Henshaw but gained prominence when she appeared in a lead role in a 2005 movie \\\"Trinity\\\" with several other prominent Nigerian actors Toplis, whose English name is Elizabeth, is a native of Umuahia, Abia State, in the South-eastern part of Nigeria. She is related to another popular Nollywood actor and past President of the Actors Guild of Nigeria, Ejike Asiegbu. Between 1979 and 1985, she did her primary school\",\n \"title\": \"Chioma Toplis\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"5066397\",\n \"text\": \"allowed present-day Southwestern Cameroon to separate from Nigeria (from the region of what is now Akwa Ibom and Cross River states) through a plebiscite while the leadership of the then Northern Region took the necessary steps to keep Northwestern Cameroon in Nigeria, in present-day Adamawa and Taraba states. The aftermath of the 1961 plebiscite has led to a dispute between Cameroon and Nigeria over the small territory of Bakassi. A new phase of the struggle saw the declaration of an Independent Niger Delta Republic by Isaac Adaka Boro during Nigerian president Ironsi's administration, just before the Nigerian Civil War. Also\",\n \"title\": \"Niger Delta\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"13389592\",\n \"text\": \"the name of her former group. In 1996, Idowu returned to her homeland where she released the album \\\"Simply Weird\\\" - a blend of American-style hip hop and Afrobeat - and featured the self-produced video-single \\\"Allen Avenue\\\", making her the first Nigerian artist to release a song via that medium. Although \\\"Simply Weird\\\" has been described as the first ever full-length rap album, this milestone had been reached nearly a decade earlier by Nigerian/American band Sound on Sound with the album \\\"From Africa From Scratch\\\", and Pidgin rap duo Junior and Pretty were also a household name in the early\",\n \"title\": \"Weird MC\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"10986222\",\n \"text\": \"was unable to formally empower the vice president to exercise full powers as acting president, as provided for in Section 145 of the country's constitution. No provision of the Nigerian constitution empowering the National Assembly to pass any such resolution, causing Senate President David Mark to assert that the Senate had been guided by the \\\"doctrine of necessity\\\" in arriving at its decision. Doctrine of necessity The doctrine of necessity is the basis on which extra-legal actions by state actors, which are designed to restore order, are found to be constitutional. The maxim on which the doctrine is based originated\",\n \"title\": \"Doctrine of necessity\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"4118470\",\n \"text\": \"a bet to then Royal Bank President Earle McLaughlin, making payment in full (US$0.10) in an elaborate dime encased in acrylic. Exactly what the bet concerned is unknown. In 1975 Air Canada's headquarters were at 1 Place Ville Marie. Mayor Jean Drapeau chose the name himself. Ville-Marie was the name of the Catholic colony founded at what is now Montreal in 1642. On 12 March 1976 Canada Post issued 'Place Ville Marie and Notre-Dame Church' designed by Jean Mercier & Pierre Mercieron. The $1 stamps are perforated 13.5 x 13 and were printed by British American Bank Note Company. The\",\n \"title\": \"Place Ville Marie\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"9963406\",\n \"text\": \"The state was to publish at least twenty titles in 2008 alone. Speaking in October 2009 at a convention of the Association of Nigerian Authors, Aliyu said that over 90 percent of Nigerian politicians have criminal intentions, spending huge amounts to gain office for their own benefit rather than to serve the public. In 2004 it awarded the following prizes: Association of Nigerian Authors The Association of Nigerian Authors (ANA) represents Nigerian creative writers at home and abroad. It was founded in 1981 with the novelist Chinua Achebe as its president. The current president is Hon. (Dr) Wale Okediran. The\",\n \"title\": \"Association of Nigerian Authors\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"10906894\",\n \"text\": \"President on 19 June 2007 with 72 votes over Anglican Primate Peter Akinola who had 33 votes. In 2010 he was succeeded by Ayo Oritsejafor. John Onaiyekan John Olorunfemi Onaiyekan (born 29 January 1944) is a Nigerian prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He has been Archbishop of Abuja since 1994 and was made a Cardinal in 2012. He has served as President of the Christian Association of Nigeria, President of the Catholic Bishops' Conference of Nigeria and Bishop of Ilorin. Onaiyekan was born in the town of Kabba, in what is now Kogi State, to Bartholomew and Joann Onaiyekan.\",\n \"title\": \"John Onaiyekan\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"20634128\",\n \"text\": \"Organizations. Prince Julius Adewale Adelusi-Adeluyi Prince Julius Adewale Adelusi-Adeluyi (born, August 2, 1940) is a Nigerian Pharmacist and legal practitioner. He is the founder and Chairman of Juli Plc, the first indigenously promoted company quoted on the Nigerian Stock Exchange. He is the National President of the Nigeria Academy of Pharmacy. He is a past National President of the Alumni Association of the National Institute for Policy and Strategic Studies (NIPSS) Kuru (AANI). Prince Adelusi-Adeluyi is a former National President of the Nigerian American Chamber of Commerce as well as the National President of the National Council for Population and\",\n \"title\": \"Prince Julius Adewale Adelusi-Adeluyi\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"20634114\",\n \"text\": \"Prince Julius Adewale Adelusi-Adeluyi Prince Julius Adewale Adelusi-Adeluyi (born, August 2, 1940) is a Nigerian Pharmacist and legal practitioner. He is the founder and Chairman of Juli Plc, the first indigenously promoted company quoted on the Nigerian Stock Exchange. He is the National President of the Nigeria Academy of Pharmacy. He is a past National President of the Alumni Association of the National Institute for Policy and Strategic Studies (NIPSS) Kuru (AANI). Prince Adelusi-Adeluyi is a former National President of the Nigerian American Chamber of Commerce as well as the National President of the National Council for Population and Environmental\",\n \"title\": \"Prince Julius Adewale Adelusi-Adeluyi\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"6515265\",\n \"text\": \"I Write What I Like I Write What I Like (full name \\\"I Write What I Like: Selected Writings by Steve Biko\\\") is a compilation of writings from anti-apartheid activist Steve Biko. \\\"I Write What I Like\\\" contains a selection of Biko's writings from 1969, when he became the president of the South African Student Organisation, to 1972, when he was prohibited from publishing. Originally published in 1978, the book was republished in 1987 and April 2002. The book's title was taken from the title under which he had published his writings in the SASO newsletter under the pseudonym Frank\",\n \"title\": \"I Write What I Like\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"15717064\",\n \"text\": \"Kongi's Harvest (film) Kongi's Harvest is a 1970 Nigerian film directed by Ossie Davis, from a screenplay by Wole Soyinka adapted from his 1965 play by the same name. Soyinka also starred in the leading role as the dictator of an African nation. The film was shot in Nigeria. It was the first production by a Nigerian indigenous company whose aim was to change perceptions about the country and the African continent. President Kongi (Wole Soyinka), the dictator of an African developing nation, is trying to modernize his nation after deposing King Oba Danlola (Rasidi Onikoyi). The different tribes are\",\n \"title\": \"Kongi's Harvest (film)\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"17351669\",\n \"text\": \"left the country in late 1965, first for Europe, then on a cruise to the Caribbean. Under the law, the Senate president, Nwafor Orizu, became acting president during his absence and had all the powers of the president. Late in the morning of 15 January 1966, at a meeting with some local journalists in Kaduna seeking to find out what was going on, it was brought to Major Nzeogwu's attention that the only information about the events then was what was being broadcast by the BBC. Nzeogwu was surprised because he had expected a radio broadcast of the rebels from\",\n \"title\": \"1966 Nigerian coup d'état\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"9447226\",\n \"text\": \"is physically involved in a war or when the President of Nigeria is of the opinion that the renunciation is contrary to public policy. Under § 29(4)(a), a person of either gender becomes \\\"of full age\\\" at eighteen years, while under § 29(4)(b) a girl younger than that is still deemed to be \\\"of full age\\\" if she is married. In 2013, the Senate of Nigeria proposed a constitutional amendment to delete § 29(4)(b), which would have the effect that girls could only renounce Nigerian citizenship at the age of eighteen or older regardless of their marital status; the amendment\",\n \"title\": \"Renunciation of citizenship\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"18748911\",\n \"text\": \"Democratic Party, a case that was dismissed by the Supreme Court of Nigeria. On April 17, 2014, she was appointed as President of the Nigerian courts of appeals by President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan, sworn-in by Aloma Mariam Mukhtar, the former Chief Justice of Nigeria and first female Chief Justice of Nigeria. Zainab Adamu Bulkachuwa Zainab Adamu Bulkachuwa, OFR (born March 1950) is a Nigerian Judge and President of the Nigerian courts of appeal Justice Zainab was born on March 1950. She was Call to the bar in 1976 and was appointed to the bench of the Nigerian courts of appeals\",\n \"title\": \"Zainab Adamu Bulkachuwa\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"16172396\",\n \"text\": \"National Archives of Nigeria The National Archives of Nigeria is headquartered in Abuja, Nigeria, with branches in Enugu, Ibadan, and Kaduna. As of 2017, the current Director of Archives is Malam Abdulyekin Umar. Professor Kenneth Onwuka Dike did a survey of Nigerian public records from 1951 to 1953. Based on what was found, he made a recommendation to have a public record office. This led to the founding of the Nigerian Record Office on April 1, 1954. In 1957, the Public Archives Ordinance No. 43 was enacted and became effective on November 14, 1957. It changed the name of the\",\n \"title\": \"National Archives of Nigeria\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"10689236\",\n \"text\": \"President of Nigeria. However, President Umaru Yar'Adua was unavailable on account of ill health since November 2009, and had failed to hand over to his Vice President. A. I. Katsina-Alu Aloysius Iyorgyer Katsina-Alu (28 August 1941 – 18 July 2018) was a Nigerian lawyer who served as chief justice of the Supreme Court of Nigeria. He is from Ushongo in what is now Benue State. Katsina-Alu has been a member of the court since 1998. He was sworn in as the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Nigeria on Wednesday 30 December 2009 by his predecessor as Chief Justice\",\n \"title\": \"A. I. Katsina-Alu\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"15702280\",\n \"text\": \"member of the Financial Reporting Council of Nigeria. As of 2011, Dr. Muhammad Mainoma was President of the NAA. Prof. Suleiman A.S. Aruwa is the current president of the association. Prof. Suleiman A.S. Aruwa also serves as the NAA contact person on the International Association for Accounting Education & Research (IAAER). Nigerian Accounting Association The Nigerian Accounting Association (NAA) is a member driven association of academics in the accountancy profession. It is the successor to the defunct Nigerian Association of Accounting Teachers (NATA). NATA was established in 1972 with the objective of \\\"contributing through research and education, to the improvement\",\n \"title\": \"Nigerian Accounting Association\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"18498608\",\n \"text\": \"movies. He was a pioneer member of the Association of Nigerian Theatre Arts Practitioners, and also served as president of the association. Adebayo Salami (actor) Adebayo Salami popularly known by his stage name Oga Bello, is a veteran Nigerian actor, filmmaker, movie producer and director. Albeit of Kwara descent, Salami was born on 9th Of May, 1953 in Lagos State where he had both primary and secondary education. He began his acting career in 1964, with a group called Young Concert Party, under the leadership of Ojo Ladipo, popularly known as Baba Mero. After a few years, the group changed\",\n \"title\": \"Adebayo Salami (actor)\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"2862575\",\n \"text\": \"titles of the \\\"Ochiebuzo\\\" of Ogbaland, the \\\"Ezediale\\\" of Aboucha and the \\\"Baba Korede\\\" of Ado Ekiti. He worked as a teacher for a brief period before entering politics in 1951 and in 1954 was elected to the federal House of Representatives. At , he is currently the oldest living former Nigerian president. Shehu Usman Shagari was born in 1925 in the northern Shagari village founded by his great-grandfather, Ahmadu Rufa'i, who was also the Village Head, and took the name Shagari as his family name. His father's name is Aliyu and his mother's name is Mariamu. His name, Usman,\",\n \"title\": \"Shehu Shagari\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"9963405\",\n \"text\": \"Association of Nigerian Authors The Association of Nigerian Authors (ANA) represents Nigerian creative writers at home and abroad. It was founded in 1981 with the novelist Chinua Achebe as its president. The current president is Hon. (Dr) Wale Okediran. The association has branches in almost all the states in Nigeria. Niger State Governor Mu'azu Babangida Aliyu has been a supporter of the association. In January 2008, he said to a delegation from the Association of Nigerian Authors, Niger State, \\\"I think Niger State will be the most published state in 2008. We want to publish you; we shall publish you...\\\"\",\n \"title\": \"Association of Nigerian Authors\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"15185901\",\n \"text\": \"African member of the Editorial Board of the \\\"Hadronic Journal\\\", he is also the founding editor of the \\\"Nigerian Journal of Solar Energy\\\" and one of the pioneering editors of the \\\"Bulletin of the Nigerian Institute of Physics\\\". Foundation President of the Solar Energy Society of Nigeria, foundation editor, \\\"Nigerian Journal of Solar Energy\\\", foundation member, United States Energy Research and Development Administration and Foundation member and former President of the Nigerian Academy of Science, Animalu is author of 28 books in both the sciences and the humanities, including the famous Intermediate Quantum Theory of Crystalline Solids and biographies of\",\n \"title\": \"Alexander Animalu\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"18742502\",\n \"text\": \"Nigerian Bar Association, a position he held until he was succeeded by Okey Wali on July 2012. He was a member of the Nigerian Body of Benchers for 8 years ( 2002 - 2010) and became a Life Bencher in 2010, the same year he was elected, president of the NBA. He is an honourable member of the International Council of Jurists, where he served as secretary-general. Joseph Bodurin Daudu Chief Joseph Bodurin Daudu, SAN, (born December 27, 1959) is a prominent Nigerian Jurist, Bencher and former President of the Nigerian Bar Association. Daudu was born on December 27, 1959\",\n \"title\": \"Joseph Bodurin Daudu\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"17905069\",\n \"text\": \"Nigerian immigration to Brazil A Nigerian Brazilian () is a Brazilian person of full, partial, or predominantly Nigerian ancestry, or a Nigerian-born person residing in Brazil. Over 2,000 Nigerians living illegally in Brazil without proper documentation before 9 February 2009 and are to be benefited from amnesty offers by the Brazilian Government. The Nigerian Ambassador to Brazil, Kayode Garrick, made this known to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Brasília. Garrick, said that over 2,000 Nigerian potential beneficiaries of the Brazilian amnesty proclamation were among the 5,000 Nigerians currently living in the country. In September 2008, the Nigerian government\",\n \"title\": \"Nigerian immigration to Brazil\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"17966179\",\n \"text\": \"strategy at what is now Stanbic IBTC Bank., where he is credited with being largely responsible for the development of investment research in Nigeria while being head of research at what is now Stanbic IBTC. Kale was awarded the African Financial Analyst of the Year award by the African Investor magazine in 2009. Kale was also awarded the National Productivity Order of Merit by the Nigerian President in February 2017. He has served on several presidential committees and advisory bodies and is an alumnus of the Harvard Kennedy School of Government leadership in government programs. Yemi Kale Dr. Yemi Kale\",\n \"title\": \"Yemi Kale\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"20807287\",\n \"text\": \"Daniel Onjeh Daniel Onjeh is a Nigerian politician, activist, the former president of West African Students' Union and National Association of Nigerian Students and currently the Chairman Governing Board of Project Development Institute (PRODA). Onjeh was born in December 13, 1973 and he is a native of Orokam, Ogbadibo Local Government Area of Benue State. He was Elected the President of National Association of Nigerian students in 2002 and subsequently the President of West African Students' Union in 2006. He holds a bachelors degree in Political Science and Economics form the prestigious University of Ghana, Legon. Daniel Onjeh's passion for\",\n \"title\": \"Daniel Onjeh\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"14544799\",\n \"text\": \"3V also contributes a percentage of its net income to support value based leadership programmes, and initiatives to reduce poverty. In July 2011, Aganga was redeployed by the President to the new Ministry of Trade and Investment, to make way for Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala to return as the Nigerian Minister of Finance. On 9 March 2013, the Nigerian Government changed the name of the Ministry of Trade and Investment to Ministry of Industry, Trade and Investment. He is married and has four children. In 2010, Aganga's ministerial nomination was resisted by the Lagos State chapter of the PDP on the basis\",\n \"title\": \"Olusegun Olutoyin Aganga\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"14002758\",\n \"text\": \"in the 1950s as ‘Army Wives Association’ (AWA). The association ventured into charitable activities during the tenure of Welby Everald between 1962 and 1965. Members were encouraged to donate to orphanages, thus forming the basis for the modern aims and objectives of the association. The name of the association was changed to Nigerian Army Officers’ Wives Association (NAOWA) on attainment of Nigeria’s Republican status in 1963. Victoria Aguyi-Ironsi was the first indigenous president of the association. Since then, NAOWA has had 23 distinguished successive national presidents with varying lengths of tenure. Since the association is non-governmental and non-profit making with\",\n \"title\": \"Nigerian Army Officers' Wives Association\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"20253900\",\n \"text\": \"of Institute of Directors Industry Committee (2003–2007); and fellow; Academy for Entrepreneurial Studies, Nigeria (AES). He was awarded the Nigeria National Honours of Member of the Order of the Federal Republic in December 2007 by Nigerian President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua. In 2014, he was awarded the National Productivity and Order of Merit courtesy of the former Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan. He is married to Anuli Ausbeth-Ajagu and has three children. Ausbeth Ajagu Ausbeth Ajagu (born October 26, 1965) is a Nigerian political economist. He is the chairman of Betcy Group of Companies and President of Academy of Entrepreneurial Studies. Ajagu\",\n \"title\": \"Ausbeth Ajagu\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"12539637\",\n \"text\": \"began to unfold. The President's supporters and cabinet ministers, led by his wife Turai Yar'Adua, resisted the suggestion that the Vice-President should take over power whilst the President was incapacitated even though this was what the Nigerian constitution prescribed, Fani-Kayode added his voice to that of President Obasanjo, President Shehu Shagari, General Yakubu Gowon, Ernest Shonekan and other former heads of government, former cabinet ministers, former legislators, leading opposition figures and leading members of the ruling PDP party by publicly calling for the resignation of President Yaradua and for the transference of power to Vice-President Goodluck Jonathan at that critical\",\n \"title\": \"Femi Fani-Kayode\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"17905070\",\n \"text\": \"opened the \\\"Casa da Nigéria\\\" or \\\"Nigerian Culture House\\\" in the historic Pelourinho neighborhood of Salvador, Bahia, with the support of the governments of Bahia and Brazil. A case of xenophobic/racist prejudice of a university professor against a Nigerian student in the Federal University of Maranhão shocked the country in mid-2011. Thousands of students subsequently signed a petition calling for the expelling of the professor. Nigerian immigration to Brazil A Nigerian Brazilian () is a Brazilian person of full, partial, or predominantly Nigerian ancestry, or a Nigerian-born person residing in Brazil. Over 2,000 Nigerians living illegally in Brazil without proper\",\n \"title\": \"Nigerian immigration to Brazil\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"10906888\",\n \"text\": \"John Onaiyekan John Olorunfemi Onaiyekan (born 29 January 1944) is a Nigerian prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He has been Archbishop of Abuja since 1994 and was made a Cardinal in 2012. He has served as President of the Christian Association of Nigeria, President of the Catholic Bishops' Conference of Nigeria and Bishop of Ilorin. Onaiyekan was born in the town of Kabba, in what is now Kogi State, to Bartholomew and Joann Onaiyekan. He attended St. Mary's Catholic School in Kabba from 1949 until 1956, Mount St. Michael's Secondary School in Aliade, Benue State, from 1957 until 1962,\",\n \"title\": \"John Onaiyekan\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"8818857\",\n \"text\": \"his next assignment. (Mouse Felter had a great deal to do with it, arranging for President Eisenhower to send his name to the Senate for confirmation as a full colonel.) Colonel Hanrahan was named Commandant of the John F. Kennedy Special Warfare Center and School at Fort Bragg. He remains there for the rest of his career, fighting with the regular Army establishment to make them understand that what the Green Berets do is unorthodox by regular Army standards, but is as important as what the other combat branches do. He is promoted to the rank of Brigadier General by\",\n \"title\": \"Brotherhood of War\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"6956584\",\n \"text\": \"MEND threatens violence and has said \\\"The gates of hell have just been let loose.\\\" March 31: The Joint Task Force captured 12 MEND gunmen while stealing oil out of a pipeline. April 4: MEND spokesmen Jomo Gbomo sent an email to president Goodluck Jonathan stating that starting on April 5 MEND would resume hostilities on Nigerian oil installations. April 5: MEND militants who had accepted amnesty 4 years earlier stormed the Nigerian National Assembly demanding more than what the government had given them. The ex-militants threatened to return to fighting if their demands were not met. April 6: 12\",\n \"title\": \"Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"18932833\",\n \"text\": \"Sani Abacha. The Nigerian police arrested 7 persons in connection with his murder but 5 of the suspects died while in detention, the remaining two were freed based on weak evidence from the prosecution. Alfred Rewane Alfred Rewane was a Nigerian businessman who was murdered on October 6, 1995 at his residence in Ikeja, Lagos. He was a financier of NADECO and was a close associate of Obafemi Awolowo. Rewane's full name at birth was Ogbeyiwa Erewarone, he was born in Warri to the family of Jemide Erewarone. His father was a trader who was based in Agbor, when his\",\n \"title\": \"Alfred Rewane\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"19313188\",\n \"text\": \": Third Term And The Myth Of The Indispensable Man In Africa,with the former chairman of the National Human Rights president Chidi Odinkalu. The book put to scrutiny the former president of the Nigerian Federation's -President Olusegun Obasanjo - claim that he did not seek a third term in office. Ayisha Osori Ayisha Osori is a Nigerian lawyer, author, international development consultant, journalist and politician known for her work on good governance, gender equality, women’s economic and political participation and ending violence against women in Nigeria. Her book Love Does Not Win Elections gives insight into the Unique Nigerian Politics.\",\n \"title\": \"Ayisha Osori\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"15681999\",\n \"text\": \"Chartered Institute of Administration The Chartered Institute of Administration (CIA) is a Nigerian professional body established in 1987 that regulates training and practice of Administration in the public and private sectors. The CIA was chartered by Act No 103, No. 76 Vol. 79 of 31 December 1992. In December 2012 the CIA invested its seventh president, Dr. Goddy Idaminabo (now the immediate past president), at the institute's 23rd induction ceremony, which was held in Lagos. Three fellows were inducted, nine full members and 122 associate members. In May 2013, Idaminabo criticized the Central Bank of Nigeria for a \\\"policy somersault\\\"\",\n \"title\": \"Chartered Institute of Administration\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"7368043\",\n \"text\": \"over their resources most especially the South South and South East of Nigeria. Atiku Abubakar Atiku Abubakar GCON (born 25 November 1946) is a Nigerian politician and business tycoon. He was the vice-president of Nigeria (1999-2007) under President Olusegun Obasanjo representing the People's Democratic Party (PDP). Abubakar worked in the Nigeria Customs Service for twenty years, rising to become the Deputy Director, as the second highest position in the Service was then known. He retired in April 1989 and took up full-time business and politics. He ran for the office of governor in the Gongola State (now Adamawa and Taraba\",\n \"title\": \"Atiku Abubakar\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"7368008\",\n \"text\": \"Atiku Abubakar Atiku Abubakar GCON (born 25 November 1946) is a Nigerian politician and business tycoon. He was the vice-president of Nigeria (1999-2007) under President Olusegun Obasanjo representing the People's Democratic Party (PDP). Abubakar worked in the Nigeria Customs Service for twenty years, rising to become the Deputy Director, as the second highest position in the Service was then known. He retired in April 1989 and took up full-time business and politics. He ran for the office of governor in the Gongola State (now Adamawa and Taraba States) in 1991, and for the Presidency in 1993, placing third after MKO\",\n \"title\": \"Atiku Abubakar\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"9380728\",\n \"text\": \"British Nigerian British Nigerian is a term sometimes used to describe British people of Nigerian descent or Nigerians of British descent. This article is about residents and citizens of Nigerian descent living in Britain. Many Nigerians and their British-born descendants in Britain live in South London. They are one of the larger immigrant groups in the country. Nigerians have formed long-established communities in London, Liverpool and other industrial cities. The earliest known Nigerian presence in London took place over 200 years ago as a direct result of the transatlantic slave trade. Olaudah Equiano, born in what is now Nigeria and\",\n \"title\": \"British Nigerian\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"2561988\",\n \"text\": \"serve until the great National Convention in latter part of June 1963. John Mears President, J.C. Hibbard Vice-President, Gordon Lindsay Secretary-Treasurer, W. A. Raiford Executive Secretary. June 28, 1963, A. C. Valdez was elected president. The implication of the terminology \\\"Full Gospel\\\" is that many mainline denominations leave out parts of the gospel - such as miracles, speaking in tongues, divine healing, while the \\\"Full Gospel\\\" maintains it in its entirety and for every aspect of the individual. Though its full constitutional name is still the \\\"Full Gospel Fellowship of Churches & Ministers International\\\", its shortened name for common use\",\n \"title\": \"The Fellowship (FGFCMI)\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"19595426\",\n \"text\": \"handled by Macrocon Systems was the deregulation of Nigerian Telecommunications and the establishment of the regulator, the Nigerian Communications Commission, NCC, in 1992. Maduka is currently a facilitator at the School of Media and Communication (SMC), Pan-Atlantic University. He teaches Creativity and Innovation as a course to the Masters' students. Maduka has served as President of the Nigerian Society of Engineers (1992–1993) and President, Nigeria Academy of Engineers (2004–2005). He was vice-chairman of the pastoral council, St. Charles Borromeo Catholic Church, Victoria Island, Lagos. He was president of Lions Club of Victoria Island and he was for several years, the\",\n \"title\": \"Vincent I. Maduka\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"5703372\",\n \"text\": \"create a true nationalist party. It embraced different sets of groups from the religious, to tribal and to trade groups with the exception of a few notable ones such as the Egbe Omo Oduduwa and early on the Nigerian Union of Teachers. Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe became its 2nd president and Dr. M.I. Okpara, its 3rd president, when Dr. Azikiwe went on to become the first indegenious President of Nigeria. The party is considered to be the third prominent political party formed in Nigeria after a Lagos-based party, the Nigerian National Democratic Party and the Nigerian Youth Movementformed by Professor Eyo\",\n \"title\": \"National Council of Nigeria and the Cameroons\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"15366050\",\n \"text\": \"Sudanese and Nigerian politics. He was a very close personal friend of Sudan's late President Ja'far Numeiri. He is a close ally of President Omar al-Bashir. He played a prominent role in getting the North and South of Sudan to negotiate the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) 2005, in the Nigerian capital Abuja. This in turn led to the end of the 21-year-old Civil War in Sudan. For his many contributions to the Sudanese and Nigerian communities, Osman Eltayeb received the Nilein Award (Highest degree) from Sudan's President Omar al-Bashir and the Order of the Federal Republic (OFR) award from Nigeria's\",\n \"title\": \"Osman Eltayeb\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"20669467\",\n \"text\": \"of Lancaster respectively. He is considered an expert in higher education. Munzali Jibril Munzali Jibril is a Nigerian emeritus professor of English, and the former Executive Secretary of the National University Commission. He is also a former Deputy Vice-Chancellor of Bayero University, Kano State, Nigeria. He was the coordinator of the Nigeria Police Academy in Wudil. He was appointed in 2010 by Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan. He is currently the Pro-chancellor of Federal University Lafia. Jibril was also the 20th President and Chairman of Council for the Nigerian Institute of Management. He had his Bachelor's , Masters and doctorate degree\",\n \"title\": \"Munzali Jibril\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"7299506\",\n \"text\": \"Nigerian Americans Nigerian Americans are Americans who are of Nigerian ancestry. The 2016 American Community Survey estimates that 380,785 US residents report Nigerian ancestry. The 2012-2016 ACS estimates that 277,027 American residents were born in Nigeria. Nigeria is both the most populous country in Africa—190.8 million as of 2018—and the African country of origin with the most migrants in the United States, as of 2013. The first people of Nigerian ancestry in what is now the modern United States were imported as slaves or indentured laborers from the 17th century onwards. Calabar, Nigeria, became a major point of export of\",\n \"title\": \"Nigerian Americans\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"7299524\",\n \"text\": \"interests of determined groups include: Nigerian Americans Nigerian Americans are Americans who are of Nigerian ancestry. The 2016 American Community Survey estimates that 380,785 US residents report Nigerian ancestry. The 2012-2016 ACS estimates that 277,027 American residents were born in Nigeria. Nigeria is both the most populous country in Africa—190.8 million as of 2018—and the African country of origin with the most migrants in the United States, as of 2013. The first people of Nigerian ancestry in what is now the modern United States were imported as slaves or indentured laborers from the 17th century onwards. Calabar, Nigeria, became a\",\n \"title\": \"Nigerian Americans\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"13424444\",\n \"text\": \"insurance brokerage and trading in supply for the oil industry. Investments have been made in banking, publishing and property. Edet Amana was a founding director of Citibank Nigeria Limited and served on the board of that bank from 1985 to 2010. Today Edet Amana is the chairman of Amana Group of Companies and president of the Nigerian Academy of Engineering. He is also fellow of the Nigerian Society of Engineers (NSE), immediate past president of the Association of Consulting Engineers Nigeria(ACEN), fellow Nigerian Institute of Management and fellow International Institute of Directors. He is also a member of the American\",\n \"title\": \"Edet Amana\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"20669466\",\n \"text\": \"Munzali Jibril Munzali Jibril is a Nigerian emeritus professor of English, and the former Executive Secretary of the National University Commission. He is also a former Deputy Vice-Chancellor of Bayero University, Kano State, Nigeria. He was the coordinator of the Nigeria Police Academy in Wudil. He was appointed in 2010 by Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan. He is currently the Pro-chancellor of Federal University Lafia. Jibril was also the 20th President and Chairman of Council for the Nigerian Institute of Management. He had his Bachelor's , Masters and doctorate degree in Art from Ahmadu Bello University, University of Leeds and University\",\n \"title\": \"Munzali Jibril\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"19211774\",\n \"text\": \"not that classic thing of an African female novelist. I often get Ama Ata Aidoo or Flora Nwapa. I have a deep respect for Gordimer and what she stands for and what she is. Her fiction is, to use that overloaded word, amazing, in many ways”. Obiwu Obiwu is the pen name of Obioma Paul Iwuanyanwu (born 1962), a Nigerian-American writer and professor. He is a survivor of the Igbo genocide in Nigeria (1966-1970), and teaches World Literature and Critical Theory in the Humanities Department at Central State University. 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In August 2015, Kida was appointed as the deputy managing director, Deepwater district in Lagos, of Total E&P Nigeria limited. kida was elected as the President of the Nigerian Basketball Federation (NBBF) in June, 2017. Kida is married and he has four children. Ahmadu Musa Kida Ahmadu Musa Kida is a Nigerian Engineer and former Basketball player. He is the Deputy Managing Director deep water services of Total Nigeria and he is also the President of the Nigerian Basketball Federation. Kida received his degree in Civil Engineering from Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria in 1984.\",\n \"title\": \"Ahmadu Musa Kida\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"7497216\",\n \"text\": \"attitude, in accordance with the Baptist tradition of ethical behavior, social responsibility and democratic ethos”. Nigerian Baptist Convention Nigerian Baptist Convention is a Baptist Christian denomination, affiliated with the Baptist World Alliance, in Nigeria. Rev. Dr. Samson Olasupo Adeniyi Ayokunle is the president. 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Naturalized citizen, before seven years of residence, sentenced to prison for three\",\n \"title\": \"Nigerian nationality law\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"8660500\",\n \"text\": \"Adé who was his lead guitar player. In October 2018, Baba Sala died of what was referred by his media aide as \\\"old-age related sickness\\\". After his death, Best of Nollywood Magazine announced that the category \\\"comedy of the year\\\" will now be known as \\\"Moses Adejumo Comedy of the Year\\\" to honour him for his contribution to the industry. Moses Olaiya Moses Olaiya (18 May 1936 – 7 October 2018), better known by his stage name \\\"Baba Sala\\\", was a Nigerian comedian, dramatist and actor. 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Between 2007 and 2011, Adebiyi was the vice president of African Society for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology. After his tenure, he became the secretary of the professional body. He is also the president of Nigeria Society of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (NISBCB). Adebiyi is fluent in Yoruba, English and German. Ezekiel Adebiyi Ezekiel Adebiyi is a Nigerian bioinformatics professor and research scientist. He is the current president of Nigerian Society of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology. He is also the current vice-president of African Society for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology. In\",\n \"title\": \"Ezekiel Adebiyi\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"10302526\",\n \"text\": \"chairmanship of the paper's publishing arm, the Nigerian Printing and Publishing Company. He was also a member of the governor's executive council and was president of the Nigerian Youth Movement. He was heavily influenced by the tidal waves of cultural nationalism in Nigeria during the early twentieth century. It was this self-assertiveness that led his family to abandon their assimilated Portuguese name in favour of a \\\"native\\\" one, Alakija, in 1913. Towards the end of his life it culminated in his ascending to the aristocracy of his tribe, as he was created the Bariyun of the Ake Lineage of Egbaland\",\n \"title\": \"Adeyemo Alakija\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"18888101\",\n \"text\": \"Nigerian National Order of Merit Award The Nigerian National Order of Merit Award (NNOM) is an academic award conferred on distinguished academicians and intellectuals who have made outstanding contributions to the academic, growth and development of Nigeria. The award is often conferred on its recipient by the Federal Government of Nigeria following a nomination and approval of the Governing Board of the Nigerian National Merit Award. Its recipient is often decorated by the President of Nigeria. Recipients of the award have the legal right to use the postnominal title: Nigerian National Order of Merit (NNOM). It is the highest academic\",\n \"title\": \"Nigerian National Order of Merit Award\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"14495203\",\n \"text\": \"\\\"Gusau\\\" in his name, it has been widely adopted by the media. He enrolled as an officer cadet at the Nigerian Defence Academy in 1964 and was commissioned into the Nigerian Army as a 2nd Lieutenant in 1967. He was Commander of 9 Infantry brigade, Abeokuta (April 1976 – July 1978), Adjutant General of 2 Mechanised Division (July 1978 – September 1979) and Director of Personnel Services, Army Headquarters (October 1979 – November 1979). From November 1979 to December 1983 Aliyu was Director of Military Intelligence (DMI). 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The so-called black eye is caused by bleeding beneath the skin and around the eye. Sometimes a black eye can worsen if not referred to a doctor if not resolved after a few months, indicating a more extensive injury - potentially even a skull fracture, particularly if the area around both eyes has bruised (raccoon eyes), or if there has been a prior","title":"Black eye"},{"docid":"2608075","text":"Black Eye Galaxy The Black Eye Galaxy (also called Evil Eye Galaxy and designated Messier 64, M64, or NGC 4826) is a relatively isolated spiral galaxy located 17 million light years away in the northern constellation of Coma Berenices. It was discovered by Edward Pigott in March 1779, and independently by Johann Elert Bode in April of the same year, as well as by Charles Messier in 1780. A dark band of absorbing dust in front of the galaxy's bright nucleus gave rise to its nicknames of the \"Black Eye\" or \"Evil Eye\" galaxy. M64 is well known among amateur","title":"Black Eye Galaxy"},{"docid":"13272571","text":"with S3RL called R0bots. They later hired Greg Rudawski as drummer for live shows and were signed to Modern Art Records, a local Phoenix indie label distributed by Epic Records. They wrote and recorded their debut album \"Whats Your Medium\" and it was released June 10, 2008. \"Whats Your Medium\" reached no. 33 on the Billboard Heatseekers chart. The band was heavily inspired by 1980's popular culture, their name referencing a character from the \"Star Wars\" sequel \"The Empire Strikes Back\", and recording a version of the Madonna anthem \"Into the Groove\". The Medic Droid went on a \"Spring Tour\"","title":"The Medic Droid"},{"docid":"12267864","text":"Black Eye Productions Black Eye Productions (also called Black Eye Books) was a short-lived but influential Canadian comic book publishing company founded by Michel Vrana. Under the auspices of Vrana, Black Eye was known as a publisher of artfully designed alternative comics and graphic novels, most of whose cartoonists have gone on to successful careers with fellow Canadian publisher Drawn and Quarterly. Vrana still acts as Drawn and Quarterly's exclusive outside design consultant. Vrana's first publishing venture was Tragedy Strikes Press, which operated out of Guelph, Ontario, from 1991–1993. Comics published by Tragedy Strikes Press included Nick Craine's \"The Cheeseheads\",","title":"Black Eye Productions"},{"docid":"8748119","text":"the Mukojima white-eye, is extinct. Bonin white-eye The Bonin white-eye (\"Apalopteron familiare\") or is a small yellow and grey bird endemic to the Ogasawara Islands (formerly Bonin Islands) of Japan. Until recently it was considered part of the family Meliphagidae of honeyeaters and was called the Bonin honeyeater. A distinctive feature of the bird is the white rim around the eyes, which is then surrounded by black masking. Presently its habitat is restricted to Haha-jima Island. Until several years ago it could also be found on Chichi-jima Island. Because of the bird's small range of habitat, its status is listed","title":"Bonin white-eye"},{"docid":"3457056","text":"Rudbeckia hirta Rudbeckia hirta, commonly called black-eyed Susan, is a North American flowering plant in the sunflower family, native to Eastern and Central North America and naturalized in the Western part of the continent as well as in China. It has now been found in all 10 Canadian Provinces and all 48 of the states in the contiguous United States. \"Rudbeckia hirta\" is one of a number of plants with the common name black-eyed Susan. Other common names for this plant include: brown-eyed Susan, brown betty, gloriosa daisy, golden Jerusalem, English bull's eye, poor-land daisy, yellow daisy, and yellow ox-eye","title":"Rudbeckia hirta"},{"docid":"3543660","text":"VG. 39 Kolkata: Inmaniacs, 51 New Delhi: Telangana Is an Oily Song, 57 Mega-Whats Title Winners 2009—QED, Chennai Mega-Whats Face-off Winners 2009-10—QED, Chennai Bangalore: MetaQuizziks, 71 Chennai: QED, 76 Hyderabad: Swami and Friends, 46 Thrissur: Guessworks Inc., 43 Mumbai: Travelling Pilsbury, 53 Pune: Mega WTF, 32 Goa: Feni, Vidi, Vici, Twitchy., 41 Kolkata: Bong Connection, 52 New Delhi: Daydreamers, 42 Coimbatore: Quizzyleaks, 16 Mega-Whats Title Winners 2010—QED, Chennai Mega-Whats Face-off Winners 2010-11—Insignificant Others, Chennai Karnataka Quiz Association The Karnataka Quiz Association (or KQA) was founded in 1983 by the late Wing Commander G.R.Mulky, Deepak Murdeshwar, Rajeev Gowda, Thomas Uthup, K.N.Mahabala,","title":"Karnataka Quiz Association"},{"docid":"11885992","text":"Third Eye Open (Hardware album) Third Eye Open is a 1992 album by American funk/rock supergroup Hardware. Hardware consists of lead guitarist Stevie Salas, P-Funk bassist Bootsy Collins, and drummer Buddy Miles, formerly of the Band of Gypsys. The album was produced by Bill Laswell and Salas, and was the first release to be part of Laswell's Black Arc Series, which includes \"Lord of the Harvest\" by Zillatron, \"Out of the Dark\" by O.G. Funk, and \"Under the 6\" by Slave Master. When the album was first released in Japan on the Polystar label, the band was called The Third","title":"Third Eye Open (Hardware album)"},{"docid":"8748118","text":"Bonin white-eye The Bonin white-eye (\"Apalopteron familiare\") or is a small yellow and grey bird endemic to the Ogasawara Islands (formerly Bonin Islands) of Japan. Until recently it was considered part of the family Meliphagidae of honeyeaters and was called the Bonin honeyeater. A distinctive feature of the bird is the white rim around the eyes, which is then surrounded by black masking. Presently its habitat is restricted to Haha-jima Island. Until several years ago it could also be found on Chichi-jima Island. Because of the bird's small range of habitat, its status is listed as Near Threatened. A subspecies,","title":"Bonin white-eye"},{"docid":"13627734","text":"such as PRSPCT Recordings, Lost Soul Recordings, Evol Intent Recordings, Black Sun Empire Recordings and Ruff-Teck Records. He has collaborated with artists such as SPL, Black Sun Empire, Counterstrike, and Evol Intent. Eye-D collaborates very frequently with DJ Hidden with whom he forms The Outside Agency. Since the release of The Outside Agency's first EP on Black Monolith Records in 2001, the 'Eye-D' moniker has been limited to his drum & bass material. Eye-D regularly performs at musical events internationally, both as Eye-D and as part of The Outside Agency. In the Netherlands, Eye-D and DJ Hidden are frequent guests","title":"Eye-D"},{"docid":"5153265","text":"head injury. Although most black eye injuries are not serious, bleeding within the eye, called a hyphema, is serious and can reduce vision and damage the cornea. In some cases, abnormally high pressure inside the eyeball (ocular hypertension) can also result. Despite the name, the eye itself is not affected. Blunt force or trauma to the eye socket results in burst capillaries and subsequent haemorrhaging (hematoma). The fatty tissue along with the lack of muscle around the eye socket allows a potential space for blood accumulation. As this blood is reabsorbed, various pigments are released similar to a bruise lending","title":"Black eye"},{"docid":"2608078","text":"interstellar medium of Messier 64 consists of two counter-rotating disks that are approximately equal in mass. The inner disk contains the prominent dust lanes of the galaxy. The stellar population of the galaxy exhibits no measurable counter-rotation. Possible formation scenarios include a merger with a gas-rich satellite galaxy in a retrograde orbit, or the continued accretion of gas clouds from the intergalactic medium. It has a diameter of . Black Eye Galaxy The Black Eye Galaxy (also called Evil Eye Galaxy and designated Messier 64, M64, or NGC 4826) is a relatively isolated spiral galaxy located 17 million light years","title":"Black Eye Galaxy"},{"docid":"10248365","text":"dated 8 October 2007 an SBS spokesperson wrote: A second series of \"Kick\" is currently in development. At this stage no date has been set to screen the second series. However, we are pleased to inform you we do have the rights to repeat \"Kick\" series one. Currently no date has been set by us to re-screen it, but we expect to do so in approximately 8-12 months. Please keep an eye on the published TV guides or to our Whats On website for advanced notice of its transmission at: www.sbs.com.au/whatson. As of June 2017, no second series has been","title":"Kick (TV series)"},{"docid":"47582","text":"no visible light reaches the eye. Pigments or dyes that absorb light rather than reflect it back to the eye \"look black\". A black pigment can, however, result from a \"combination\" of several pigments that collectively absorb all colors. If appropriate proportions of three primary pigments are mixed, the result reflects so little light as to be called \"black\". This provides two superficially opposite but actually complementary descriptions of black. Black is the absorption of all colors of light, or an exhaustive combination of multiple colors of pigment. See also primary colors. In physics, a black body is a perfect","title":"Black"},{"docid":"3334724","text":"black groups: The black group surrounding c and d can never be captured, and is called \"alive\". The group can live because it has two—separated—inner liberties, where white can't play. A group such as b that cannot become alive is called \"dead\". Groups that are neither \"alive\", nor \"dead\", are called \"unsettled\". Liberties inside a group are called \"eyes\". In the previous example, a, b, c and d are eyes. An \"eye\" may be a single empty intersection, or more of them. In the diagram on the left, the intersections marked e form a single eye, and f forms another","title":"Life and death"},{"docid":"6270783","text":"deep shades of red and dark wine colors worn as part of night makeup. Blue-frosted eye shadow became fashionable, and was eventually integrated into the Y2K makeup of the late 1990s/early 2000s (decade). Gothic makeup had broken into the mainstream, having been made up of vamp lipstick (or even black lipstick), heavy mascara and eyeliner, often purple-tinted eye shadow (or else very dark blue), and extremely pale foundation. The Gothic makeup remained relevant in the later years of the decade. By 1999, glittery, sparkling makeup had come into style. This was called \"Y2K makeup\", consisting of facial glitter and lip","title":"1990s in fashion"},{"docid":"9096533","text":"for the most part hold an upbeat key, coming into contact with the abrasive chorus. Hemsworth provided a folksy tone and Canadian raising, and added some unique touches. To illustrate resentment for the flies, he places heavy emphasis on \"black\" in the words \"black fly\", but arguably the most distinct part of the song is where the word \"Ontario\" is stretched to \"On-terr-eye-oh-eye-oh\" (a pronunciation also used at times by other artists, such as Alan Mills and Stan Rogers). First Verse 'Twas early in the spring when I decided to go<br> To work up in the woods in North Ontario<br>","title":"The Black Fly Song"},{"docid":"8488003","text":"Black Water, Best of 2011-2012 1997: \"Camille\" 1997: \"The Eye in the Door, Part One: Urban Sirens\" 1998: \"Untitled #1\" 1998: \"The Eye in the Door, Part Two: Breakfast of Champions\" 1999: \"The Eye in the Door, Part Three: The Bicycle\" 2000: \"The City Itself, Part One: The Car\" 2001: \"You Are Here\" 2003: \"The Orange Grove\" (review 1; review 2) 2004: \"Pipes\" (review) 2004: \"The City Itself series: The Car, The Sidewalk and The House\" (review1; review 2) 2006: \"Days and Nights series: A Quiet Ambition, Time For Bed and The Hidden Room\" (review 1; review 2; review 3)","title":"Skewed Visions"},{"docid":"10652308","text":"Cinnamon-rumped trogon The cinnamon-rumped trogon (\"Harpactes orrhophaeus\") is a species of bird in the family Trogonidae. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and subtropical or tropical moist montane forests. It is threatened by habitat loss. The male has a black hood, blue bill, an eyebrow and an eye ring. The upper part is pale brown and the lower part is pink-red. The tail is brown above and it has a white under tail with black borders. Females have a dark brown head with chestnut around the eye and lores. The lower part is yellowish. This bird","title":"Cinnamon-rumped trogon"},{"docid":"6818144","text":"midbody, smooth, or feebly keeled on the posterior part of the body and on the tail. The ventrals number 220-265; the anal plate is entire; and the subcaudals number 75-94. The young are pale brown above, with black crossbands, each crossband enclosing four to six white ocelli. The adults are darker brown, with a transverse series of squarish black spots, or with more or less distinct traces of the color pattern of the young. There is a vertical black streak below the eye, and an oblique black streak behind the eye. Some specimens have a white, black-edged collar; others have","title":"Trinket snake"},{"docid":"1949033","text":"Tiger's eye Tiger's eye (also called tiger eye) is a chatoyant gemstone that is usually a metamorphic rock with a golden to red-brown colour and a silky lustre. As members of the quartz group, tiger's eye and the related blue-coloured mineral hawk's eye gain their silky, lustrous appearance from the parallel intergrowth of quartz crystals and altered amphibole fibres that have mostly turned into limonite. \"Tiger iron\" is an altered rock composed chiefly of tiger's eye, red jasper and black hematite. The undulating, contrasting bands of colour and lustre make for an attractive motif and it is mainly used for","title":"Tiger's eye"},{"docid":"2900377","text":"experienced by one character that underscores Lovecraftian themes like cosmic indifference. In the 1988 album \"Passage to Arcturo\" by Rotting Christ, the song \"Inside The Eye of Algond\" nominates the Mystical Carcosa as part of the singer's journey. In 2016 DigiTech released a Fuzz pedal called the Carcosa. The pedal featured two modes, named \"Hali\" and \"Demhe.\" \"Maria\", a film by King Abalos, takes place in a mysterious mountain called Carcosa. In the Mass Effect 3 universe there is a planet named Carcosa. In 2001 the Belgian black metal band Ancient Rites released the album Dim Carcosa. The title track's","title":"Carcosa"},{"docid":"2603525","text":"crimson primary feathers that are very distinct in flight. In the westernmost subspecies \"buffoni\", which sometimes is known as the Buffon's turaco, there is a white line above and in front of the eye and a black line below the eye. In the nominate subspecies (\"T. persa persa\") of the central part of its range and \"zenkeri\" of the southeastern part there also is a second white line below the black line. Unlike similar turacos with red bills, even adult Guinea turacos lack a white rear edge to the crest. This species is a common in climax forest with plentiful","title":"Guinea turaco"},{"docid":"743582","text":"as both have at least two eyes. The groups in the lower corners are dead, as both have only one eye. The group in the lower left may seem to have two eyes, but the surrounded empty point marked \"a\" is not actually an eye. White can play there and take a black stone. Such a point is often called a \"false\" eye. There is an exception to the requirement that a group must have two eyes to be alive, a situation called \"seki\" (or \"mutual life\"). Where different colored groups are adjacent and share liberties, the situation may reach","title":"Go (game)"},{"docid":"6875239","text":"Duttaphrynus melanostictus Duttaphrynus melanostictus is commonly called Asian common toad, Asian black-spined toad, Asian toad, black-spectacled toad, common Sunda toad, and Javanese toad. It is probably a complex of more than one true toad species that is widely distributed in South and Southeast Asia. The species grows to about long. Asian common toads breed during the monsoon, and their tadpoles are black. Young toads may be seen in large numbers after monsoon rains finish. The top of the head has several bony ridges, along the edge of the snout (canthal ridge), in front of the eye (preorbital), above the eye","title":"Duttaphrynus melanostictus"},{"docid":"609388","text":"(\"Home of Love\"), an orphanage in Honduras. In 2012, the foundation began hosting an annual music festival, known as \"Left Eye Music Fest\", in Decatur, Georgia. In the 2018 Boots Riley film \"Sorry to Bother You\", members of a fictional activist group called \"Left Eye\" use as their symbol a stripe of eye black under the left eye, in unmentioned reference to Lopes. Lisa Lopes Lisa Nicole Lopes (May 27, 1971 – April 25, 2002), better known by her stage name Left Eye, was an American hip hop singer, rapper, songwriter, and producer. Lopes was best known as one-third of","title":"Lisa Lopes"},{"docid":"2776497","text":"white. Registries prefer that parti poodles have the same points as its correlating solid-coloured descendants. Brown and white parti poodles have liver-coloured noses, eye rims and lips, dark or self-coloured toenails and amber eyes. This is also permitted, but not preferred, in apricot and white parti poodles. Black/white, Blue/white, and silver/white poodles have black noses, eye rims and lips, black or self-coloured toenails and very dark eyes. When the dog has markings that resemble those of a tuxedo, it is called a \"tuxedo\" poodle. The upper coat is solid: head, back, tail; and the lower coat is white: neck, chest,","title":"Poodle"},{"docid":"19298452","text":"and October. The series will begin in Sunderland on April 2 and then move to London, Brighton & Hove, Worcester, Cardiff, Norwich and Bristol. The Lead Charity is Prostate Cancer UK and the three new National Charity Partners are Bowel Cancer UK, Orchid and Campaign Against Living Miserably (CALM). Each run also has a local care based or hospice charity partner. http://www.dailypost.co.uk/news/north-wales-news/go-dad-run-return-2015-8543298 http://www.bristolpost.co.uk/Bristol-based-Wealth-Manager-Sanlam-UK-sponsors/story-21199723-detail/story.html http://www.birminghammail.co.uk/whats-on/family-kids-news/watch-colin-jacksons-go-dad-7273649 http://www.barkinganddagenhampost.co.uk/sport/athletics/jackson_continues_support_for_go_dad_run_1_4354035 http://www.northwaleschronicle.co.uk/news/123740/llangefni-go-dad-run-a-big-success-says-colin-jackson.aspx https://walesexpress.com/colin-jackson-delighted-sanlan-dad-run-llangefni/ http://www.sunderlandecho.com/our-region/sunderland/runners-say-y-not-to-new-event-for-wearside-1-7960286 http://www.walesonline.co.uk/whats-on/whats-on-news/fathers-day-remember-hundreds-men-11493626 http://www.worcesternews.co.uk/news/14181121.Registration_opens_for_this_year_s_Go_Dad_Run_charity_event/ www.godadrun.co.uk www.prostatecanceruk.org www.bowelcanceruk.org.uk www.orchid-cancer.org.uk www.thecalmzone.net Go Dad Run Go Dad Run is a charitable project that was created in 2013 by former world champion athlete Colin Jackson in order to","title":"Go Dad Run"},{"docid":"15189093","text":"the Tswana people. The governments Department of Native Affairs drilled bore holes to assist the black farmers in 1940 however, this was still insufficient to sustain cultivation. In 1962, Apartheid legislation led to the forced removal of black people from Seodin. The ‘whites-only’ irrigation project never commercialised despite state aid. The Eye of Kuruman cave forms part of the eight caves on the dolomitic Ghaap Plateau of the Northern Cape. The Eye of Kuruman cave from which the springs emerge has been documented form as early as the nineteenth century. The first sketch of the cave was made in 1907","title":"Eye of Kuruman"},{"docid":"8675202","text":"\"been in rehearsal for a couple of weeks now\" but were not going to announce \"anything until some shows\" are booked for March. Members of the band will still be in their other projects such as Kill Detail, Cellphish and Black Fag. Joe Doherty co-hosts the podcast Raised by Wolves. Asked if the band was planning a new album and tour, Doherty replied \"we have been tinkering around with some new stuff, but are sticking with whats in front of us which is picking what songs we are going to do in March, it's boiled down to about 40 songs","title":"Jughead's Revenge"},{"docid":"11921391","text":"BBC drama series White Heat written by Bafta winning Paula Milne. Stage work includes The Container at the Young Vic where the London Paper wrote of his work 'Abhin Galeya is a revelation.' The Evening Standard wrote 'Abhin Galeya is particularly distinguished as Jemal.' Whats on Stage wrote 'exciting young actor Abhin Galeya adds the human edge.' He was also appeared in all three plays in the 'Not Black and White' season at London's Tricycle theatre. The three plays explored race politics in Britain and they were Category B by Roy Williams, Seize the Day by Kwame Kwei Armah and","title":"Abhin Galeya"},{"docid":"17540754","text":"Battlefield One video game In 2016, she appeared in \"Hated in the Nation\", an episode of the anthology series \"Black Mirror\". Kingsley is married to actor/singer Dominic Tighe, whom she met while filming an advertisement for a shampoo. 2009 - Oliver Award for Best Supporting Actress in a Musical for Piaf at The Donmar Warehouse and Vaudeville Theatre. 2012 - Olivier Award for Best Supporting Actress in a Musical for Lina Lamont in Singin' In The Rain at The Palace Theatre. 2012 - Whats On Stage Award for Best Supporting Actress in a Musical for Lina Lamont in Singin' In","title":"Katherine Kingsley"},{"docid":"18434154","text":"Janne Haavisto Janne Pekka Haavisto (born 28 November 1964 in Espoo, Finland) is a Finnish drummer, recording engineer and record producer. He has been a professional musician since the age of 16, that is, from 1983 on. In his youth, Haavisto attended the Sibelius High School in Helsinki and played drums in a band called Bablers together with e.g. Sam Yaffa and Arto Tamminen. The band made a record called \"Whats all about\" in 1980. At the age of 16 Haavisto was given, with the aid of his older brother Olli Haavisto, a job as a drummer for J. Karjalainen","title":"Janne Haavisto"},{"docid":"3228482","text":"B (Urban Nature album). Cristian also wrote the collaboration with Sean Kingston on the song titled \"Remember You\". As the album was to be released, called \"All Your Love\", Cristian abruptly left the record company Whats Up Entertainment citing creative differences with the company heads. He then quickly moved on to his next project, another solo album called \"Born Again Cristian\". The meaning behind the album is a rebirth of the artist after he told Malaysian interviewers the music is like nothing he's heard before. The first two singles are \"Show Me Your Soul feat Roy'al\" and \"Nothing Like This\"","title":"Cristian Alexanda"},{"docid":"20754547","text":"The Eye of Silence The Eye of Silence (), 1943–44, is a painting by German dadaist and surrealist Max Ernst. For \"The Eye of Silence\" Ernst employed a technique called decalcomania to create arbitrary textures on the canvas, which he then reworked to resemble rock formations and forms of animals, plants, and architecture. The imagery on the surrealist canvas has been described as a primordial-like landscape, \"in which rock-hard and gelatinous formations coexist under a forbidding sky.\" \"The Eye of Silence\" has also been described as, \"part vegetation, part rock and part bejewelled baroque palace. A fusion of animal, mineral","title":"The Eye of Silence"},{"docid":"18337123","text":"both a part of the striatula-group due to shared descriptive characteristics such as the length and width of the petiole and the separation of the clypeus from the eye. The Black hover wasp is characterized by their brown-black coloration. Similar to other species in the Stenogastrinae subfamily, \"P. alternata\" can be distinguished by their significantly narrow mandibles. Another descriptor is the long, pointed clypeus separate from the eye shared by \"Parischnogaster striatula\". The Black hover wasps inhabit the tropical rain forests of two Southeast Asian countries: Malaysia (Sarawak and Sabah) and Singapore. \"P. alternata\" builds dense clusters of nests in","title":"Parischnogaster alternata"},{"docid":"8815168","text":"record, but the company name was now written in capital letters within a rectangular black block in the lower part of the label. The first release to feature the new label design appears to have been WIP-6060 and the last to feature the orange-and-black \"eye\" design WIP-6061, a reissue of \"Incense\" by the Anglos, which had actually been released the previous month. One or two earlier releases which were evidently still selling were re-pressed with the new design (e.g. WIP-6056, which exists with both the orange-and-black \"eye\" and the \"block\" label designs). Towards the end of 1969, artists signed to","title":"Island Records discography"},{"docid":"2874015","text":"a contrast ratio of 1,000. What enables the wider reach is that the eye adapts its definition of what is black. The eye takes approximately 20–30 minutes to fully adapt from bright sunlight to complete darkness and becomes 10,000 to 1,000,000 times more sensitive than at full daylight. In this process, the eye's perception of color changes as well (this is called the Purkinje effect). However, it takes approximately five minutes for the eye to adapt from darkness to bright sunlight. This is due to cones obtaining more sensitivity when first entering the dark for the first five minutes but","title":"Adaptation (eye)"},{"docid":"12117770","text":"weeks earlier. In London the show received good reviews - The Stage called it \"A remarkable collaboration of all round talent\"; Whats On Stage.com called it \"Witty & Poignant\". Laurence Mark Wythe's website. A 2008 production ran at Spirit of Broadway Theatre in Norwich, Connecticut. The Off-Broadway production received mixed reviews. \"Backstage\" praised Wythe but commented: \"Though smart and pleasant from moment to moment, the show is lukewarm and unoriginal overall.\" The \"New York Post\" similarly wrote that the show \"conveys the less-than-revelatory message that marriage can lead to divorce.\" \"Talkin' Broadway\" gave the musical a positive review, calling it","title":"Tomorrow Morning (musical)"},{"docid":"6773244","text":"Eye black Eye black is a grease or strip applied under the eyes to reduce glare. It is often used by American football, baseball, and lacrosse players to mitigate the effects of bright sunlight or stadium floodlights. It is a form of functional makeup. One of the earliest known instances of a player wearing eye black is baseball legend Babe Ruth, who, in or around the 1930s, used the grease in an attempt to reduce sun glare. According to Paul Lukas of \"ESPN.com\", eye black caught on with American football player Andy Farkas. He also states that the original eye","title":"Eye black"},{"docid":"15060620","text":"gave the film a rating of 2 out of 5 stars and wrote, \"\"Players\" is lacklustre and unimaginative\". Mayank Shekhar of the \"Hindustan Times\" gave it 1.5 out of 5. Komal Nahta from Koimoi rated it 1 out of 5 and wrote, \"Whats good? The train robbery sequence; some comedy in the second half; Omi Vaidya and Neil Nitin Mukesh’s acting. Whats bad? The loose and uninteresting screenplay; the poor music; the dull acting of Abhishek, Sonam and Bobby\". Yahoo! Movies gave the film a rating of \"Game Over\" and said that, \"the remake of \"The Italian Job is definitely","title":"Players (film)"},{"docid":"17382501","text":"a single confident idiom, and between the big numbers there are lulls, especially in the overlong first half.\" Letts praised Campbell for his vocal talents, stating that he \"does some worthy old-fashioned crooning – in a pleasant song called 'Marking Time' there are moments when he actually sounds like Nat King Cole.\" Taylor predicted on 24 October 2013, \"Wags have quipped that it should be called \"From Here to November\". But I reckon it's going to survive quite a bit longer than that.\" On 6 December 2013, it was announced the production had received four Whats on Stage awards nominations,","title":"From Here to Eternity the Musical"},{"docid":"4182395","text":"Herbs (band) Herbs are a multi-cultural New Zealand reggae group, which since its foundation has featured Samoans, Tongans, Cook Islanders and Maori members. 11th inductee into the New Zealand Music Hall of Fame, they formed in 1979, and were once described as \"New Zealand's most soulful, heartfelt and consistent contemporary musical voice\". It has been said their debut EP \"Whats' Be Happen?\" \"set a standard for Pacific reggae which has arguably never been surpassed\". The band has always been political, with links to the Polynesian Panthers and the cover of \"Whats' Be Happen\" (released during the 1981 Springbok tour) being","title":"Herbs (band)"},{"docid":"6672639","text":"(IRTC), Palakkad is implementing the NABARD WADI Tribal development project in Attappadi. Attappadi Social Service Organisation (ASSO) is one of the major Social Service Organization functioning in Attappadi. It successfully implemented World Bank aided 'Jalanidhi' project to provide drinking water facility for the tribal community. the other main development project that depend upon a social media, face book and a whats app group the face book book have appox 23k likes and whats app page also having to support fb they have 11 nos admin panel and a 3 team leaders also having this group also having small local area","title":"Attappadi"},{"docid":"1927071","text":"tune into the correct \"vibration\" of the universe and gain a solid foundation on which to reach more advanced meditation levels. Taoism teaches that the third eye, also called the mind's eye, is situated between the two physical eyes, and expands up to the middle of the forehead when opened. Taoism claims that the third eye is one of the main energy centers of the body located at the sixth Chakra, forming a part of the main meridian, the line separating left and right hemispheres of the body. In Taoist alchemical traditions, the third eye is the frontal part of","title":"Third eye"},{"docid":"10646296","text":"Black-spotted bare-eye The black-spotted bare-eye (\"Phlegopsis nigromaculata\") is a species of insectivoire passerine bird in the antbird family, Thamnophilidae. It is found in Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests. The black-spotted bare-eye was described by the French naturalists Alcide d'Orbigny and Frédéric de Lafresnaye in 1837 and given the binomial name \"Myothera nigro-maculata\". The specific epithet combines the Latin words \"niger\" for \"black\" and \"maculatus \" for \"spotted\". There are four subspecies: The black-spotted bare-eye is in length and weighs . The sexes are alike. This species is a specialist","title":"Black-spotted bare-eye"},{"docid":"8787325","text":"the preliminary design focuses on creating the general framework to build the project on. S. Blanchard and J. Fabrycky describe it as: “The ‘whats’ initiating conceptual design produce ‘hows’ from the conceptual design evaluation effort applied to feasible conceptual design concepts. Next, the ‘hows’ are taken into preliminary design through the means of allocated requirements. There they become ‘whats’ and drive preliminary design to address ‘hows’ at this lower level.” Following FEED is the Detailed Design (Detailed Engineering) phase, which may consist of [[procurement]] of materials as well. This phase further elaborates each aspect of the project/product by complete description","title":"Engineering design process"},{"docid":"17042577","text":"Count: There were sixteen contestants overall. The episode began with the introduction of all the roadies of Ranvijay's Team in traditional Nagaland custom who were selected for the journey .One by the one all the roadies were introduced with flashbacks from their PI's which told whats the reason for their selection,whats their personality like and what would be their future in Ranvijays team. He introduced the winner of roadies battleground 5 Abhimanyu and told him to challenge anyone to swap with his position in the team he picked Gaurav and he lost to Gaurav and had to leave the show","title":"MTV Roadies (season 10)"},{"docid":"15594197","text":"\"whats\" do not decompose into product/system/software requirement \"hows\". Rather, products and their requirements represent a response to business requirements — presumably, \"how\" to satisfy \"what\". Business requirements exist within the business environment and must be discovered, whereas product requirements are human-defined (specified). Business requirements are not limited to high-level existence, but need to be driven down to detail. Regardless of their level of detail, however, business requirements are always business deliverable \"whats\" that provide value when satisfied; driving them down to detail never turns business requirements into product requirements. In system or software development projects, business requirements usually require authority","title":"Business requirements"},{"docid":"5980413","text":"ancestor, the Crusader Sir Eobar Garrington until Garrington died due to the Evil Eye. Meanwhile, Whitman chose to stay in the 12th century and was cared for by fellow Defender Valkyrie. Whitman then battled the Fomor, alongside the time-traveling Avengers. He then employed the Evil Eye to seal the portal between Earth and Avalon. Whitman returned to the 20th century and his original body was restored. He was accompanied by a gift from Amergin: a black, winged horse called Valinor, named after the fictional location of that name. Some time later Merlyn sent Whitman to locate the lost hero Captain","title":"Black Knight (Dane Whitman)"},{"docid":"6317458","text":"with the edition published on 7 December being the final one. \"City Life\" now lives on as a 20-page supplement every Friday within the Manchester Evening News and continues to be the most read Whats On guide on the North of England (333k readers. Source: JICREG April 2014). Its website http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/whats-on/ regularly generates over a million page views every month from more than 250k unique users (Source: Omniture September 2014) CityLife's sister title 'CityLife Extra' is a Free solus publication delivered every Thursday to 16k City Centre apartments and a further 6k copies handed out with the Manchester Evening News.","title":"City Life (magazine)"},{"docid":"6746761","text":"face with a pattern similar to that of the adult female in black and a dark gray eye patch. Their black crown extends in a V-shape from the base of the bill to the back of the neck. The rump and flanks are white, the back and tail black. Neck, breast and belly are light-gray to white the wings are black. The lower part of the bill is pink, the upper part is gray with alight brown tip and the feet are dark-gray to black. The African pygmy goose is known to be nomadic. It can be found across a","title":"African pygmy goose"},{"docid":"5153266","text":"itself to the extreme outward appearance. The dramatic appearance (discoloration purple black and blue and swelling) does not necessarily indicate a serious injury, and most black eyes resolve within a week. The tissues around the eye are soft and thus bruise easily when pinched against margins of bone which surround the eye socket. The treatment of black eye is the same as that for bruises in other parts of the body – cold compresses during the first twenty-four hours and contrasting hot and cold thereafter. During the process of healing, a black eye can be made less conspicuous by using","title":"Black eye"},{"docid":"16584293","text":"decreases its lightness while nearly conserving its chromaticity. Strictly speaking, a \"shade of black\" is always a pure black itself and a \"tint of black\" would be a neutral gray. Unlike these, many off-black colors possess a hue and a colorfulness (also called saturation). Colors often considered \"shades of black\" include \"onyx\", \"black olive\", \"charcoal\", and \"jet\"; these colors and other variations of black are shown below. Black is a color, the perception of which is evoked by the total absence of light that stimulates any of the three types of color sensitive cone cells in the human eye and","title":"Shades of black"},{"docid":"1878696","text":"to oxidize and lose its reflective characteristics. This was a problem that was termed \"laser rot\" among LD enthusiasts, also called \"color flash\" internally by LaserDisc-pressing plants. Some forms of laser rot could appear as black spots that looked like mold or burned plastic which cause the disc to skip and the movie to exhibit excessive speckling noise. But, for the most part, rotted discs could actually appear perfectly fine to the naked eye. Later optical standards have been known to suffer similar problems, including a notorious batch of defective CDs manufactured by Philips-DuPont Optical at their Blackburn, Lancashire facility","title":"LaserDisc"},{"docid":"3543659","text":"2007: Siddhartha Sen, Bangalore 2008: Kiran Vijayakumar, Chennai 2009: Jayakanthan, Chennai 2010: Arun Hiregange, Bangalore 2011: Thejaswi Udupa, Bangalore Mega-Whats is the National Open Quizzing Championship, begun in 2009. The contest is held simultaneously in several Indian cities on the second Sunday in December every year. Winners from these cities then meet each other for the Mega-Whats Face-off the following June during the KQA Anniversary. Bangalore: We Are Like This Wonly, 61 Chennai: QED, 67 Hyderabad: Swami and Friends, 42 Thrissur: Insert Uncool Name Here, 47 Mumbai: Travelling Pillsburies, 58 Pune: Ajgar Jurrat Ke Sapole, 36 Goa: Feni, Vidi, Vici,","title":"Karnataka Quiz Association"},{"docid":"6773245","text":"black was made from the ashes of burned cork. A 2003 study by Brian DeBroff and Patricia Pahk tested whether black eye grease actually had anti-glare properties. The subjects of the study were divided into three groups: wearers of eye black, wearers of anti-glare stickers, and wearers of petroleum jelly. The subjects' vision was tested using an eye chart while being exposed to natural sunlight. The study concluded that eye black reduced glare of the sun and improved contrast sensitivity, whereas commercial anti-glare stickers and petroleum jelly (the control substance) were found to be ineffective. However, the study was subject","title":"Eye black"},{"docid":"15118322","text":"B7 \"Rahasia\". Black Opal Eye Black Opal Eye is an adventure module published in 1983 for the \"Dungeons & Dragons\" fantasy role-playing game. The scenario \"Black Opal Eye\" was a sequel to RPGA1 \"Rahasia\". The player characters brave the ruins of an ancient castle to find the enemy who has been preying on the elves. RPGA2 \"Black Opal Eye\" was written by Tracy and Laura Hickman, and published by TSR/RPGA in 1983 as a 16-page booklet with an outer folder. The module was a limited edition, sold only to members of the RPGA. This adventure was later collected with RPGA1","title":"Black Opal Eye"},{"docid":"15118321","text":"Black Opal Eye Black Opal Eye is an adventure module published in 1983 for the \"Dungeons & Dragons\" fantasy role-playing game. The scenario \"Black Opal Eye\" was a sequel to RPGA1 \"Rahasia\". The player characters brave the ruins of an ancient castle to find the enemy who has been preying on the elves. RPGA2 \"Black Opal Eye\" was written by Tracy and Laura Hickman, and published by TSR/RPGA in 1983 as a 16-page booklet with an outer folder. The module was a limited edition, sold only to members of the RPGA. This adventure was later collected with RPGA1 \"Rahasia\" into","title":"Black Opal Eye"},{"docid":"16509728","text":"all the necessary funding to undertake such a massive project. \"The Eye of Wendor\" overture was written as the title music for the movie, and the track that came to be called \"Silesandre\" was originally entitled \"Black Riders\". When the movie production was cancelled Rohl decided to write \"The Eye of Wendor\" story and compose a whole triple album of music for it. He did not have a working band at that point, so he called on his friends in the UK music industry to help out, and they played most of the instruments and sang the vocals while Rohl","title":"Mandalaband"},{"docid":"5517357","text":"reunion show at Finsbury Park. Fluffy were also the opening band during the European part of Marilyn Manson's 'Anti-Christ Superstar' tour, and toured the U.S. with the Neurotic Outsiders. Their music video for \"Black Eye\" was shot in New Orleans by Floria Sigismondi, and the making of the video was documented by MTV. Their album \"Black Eye\" was produced by Bill Price, who also recorded \"Never Mind the Bollocks\". The band was regularly featured in several magazines; \"Kerrang\", \"Q\", \"Select\", \"NME\", and \"Melody Maker\". They also appeared on several UK television shows, including \"The Big Breakfast\", \"Hotel Babylon\", and \"Top","title":"Fluffy (band)"},{"docid":"10237193","text":"when she replaced the original choice for the lead, Anne Francis, in the title role. It was based on a novel by Erskine Caldwell. Warners gave her another lead role in a feature, \"Black Gold\" (1962), but it was not a success. She returned to guest starring on shows like \"Hawaiian Eye\". Producer Hal Bartlett borrowed McBain for a role in \"The Caretakers\" (1963) with Polly Bergen and Joan Crawford. When \"77 Sunset Strip\" kicked off its sixth and final season in 1963 with a special five-part story called 'Five', McBain played opposite Efrem Zimbalist, Jr. as \"Carla Stevens\". She","title":"Diane McBain"},{"docid":"6384366","text":"Mel Novak Mel Novak (born June 16, 1934) is an American actor who is best known for villainous roles in \"Black Belt Jones\", \"Game of Death\", and \"An Eye for an Eye\". He is also known for doing all of his own stunts and fighting scenes. Born in Pittsburgh to Serbian parents as Milan Mrdjenovich (, \"Milan Mrđenović\"), Novak made his film debut in 1974, appearing in two blaxploitation films, \"Truck Turner\" starring Isaac Hayes and \"Black Belt Jones\" starring Jim Kelly that was directed by Robert Clouse that led to a part in Clouse's \"The Ultimate Warrior\" (1975) starring","title":"Mel Novak"},{"docid":"4925797","text":"Sanshiro Sugata Part II It is believed to be the earliest known film sequel whose title is simply the original title followed by a number, predating the likes of \"French Connection II\" (1975) by decades. In the 1880s, a martial arts student continues his quest to become a Judo master, from that discipline's founder. Eventually, he learns enough to demonstrate his skill in a boxing match between American and Japanese fighters- at the end of the movie. The whole movie is actually about the rivalry between karate and judo martial artists, and Sanshiro's struggle to do whats right. On one","title":"Sanshiro Sugata Part II"},{"docid":"4925792","text":"Sanshiro Sugata Part II It is believed to be the earliest known film sequel whose title is simply the original title followed by a number, predating the likes of \"French Connection II\" (1975) by decades. In the 1880s, a martial arts student continues his quest to become a Judo master, from that discipline's founder. Eventually, he learns enough to demonstrate his skill in a boxing match between American and Japanese fighters- at the end of the movie. The whole movie is actually about the rivalry between karate and judo martial artists, and Sanshiro's struggle to do whats right. On one","title":"Sanshiro Sugata Part II"},{"docid":"12019806","text":"revealed) came out dressed as the Black Scorpion, who the real Black Scorpion called \"messengers\". Then The Black Scorpion made his entrance through a thing Jim Ross described as \"a spaceship\". The match started back and forth until The Black Scorpion performed a gutwrench suplex, and applied the figure four necklock. After an inverted atomic drop and a corner clothesline, The Black Scorpion applied the chinlock. Sting fought back with a gorilla press slam, and sent The Black Scorpion into the cage. The Black Scorpion fought back with an eye rake, and sent Sting into the cage. Sting performed a","title":"Starrcade (1990)"},{"docid":"13424276","text":"a temporary Nova Prime during the second Kree-Shi'ar War, was captured by Shi'ar forces and tortured. After the torture was over, a man claiming to be Garthan Saal arrived to rescue him. There was a black ops unit of the Nova Corps called the Supernovas. They were also called the Black Novas because their helmets were black instead of gold. During the \"Original Sin\" storyline, Sam Alexander learned from the eye of the murdered Uatu the Watcher that its membership consisted of thieves and killers. Supernova (Marvel Comics) Supernova, a.k.a. Nova Omega and (Garthan Saal), is a fictional character appearing","title":"Supernova (Marvel Comics)"},{"docid":"10101282","text":"the area to the base of the neck, there is an indigo-violet stripe. The lower part of the nape of the neck, to the top of the back, is a bluish black. The main part of the back, as well as the rump, is red. Wing coverts and flights are red with black tips. The upper part of the tail feathers are a reddish black, and the underside of the tail is a muted red. The iris of the eye is orange-red. The beak is sharply curved, short, and bright red-orange. The feet are medium gray, and the claws are","title":"Blue-streaked lory"},{"docid":"3732226","text":"Uvea The uvea (/ˈjuːvɪə/) (Lat. \"uva\", grape), also called the \"uveal layer\", \"uveal coat\", \"uveal tract\", \"vascular tunic\" or \"vascular layer\" is the pigmented middle of the three concentric layers that make up an eye. The name is possibly a reference to its reddish-blue or almost black colour, wrinkled appearance and grape-like size and shape when stripped intact from a cadaveric eye. Its use as a technical term in anatomy and ophthalmology is relatively modern. The uvea is the vascular middle layer of the eye. It is traditionally divided into three areas, from front to back, the: The prime functions","title":"Uvea"},{"docid":"13199750","text":"place on April 2, 2009. A steakhouse called NYY Steak is located beyond right field. Celebrity chefs will occasionally make appearances at the ballpark's restaurants and help prepare food for fans in premium seating over the course of the season. Above Monument Park in center field is the Mohegan Sun sports bar, whose tinted black glass acts as the ballpark's batter's eye. After the 2016 season, the Yankees began doing updates to Yankee Stadium including the Masterpass Batter's Eye Deck and Frank's Red Hot Terrace and Toyota Terrace. The Masterpass Batter's Eye Deck above the Mohegan Sun sports bar is","title":"Yankee Stadium"},{"docid":"10418928","text":"to creamy colors on the inner part of the extremities, mammary gland, inner part of the thigh and perineal areas. Intensification of the color with black hairs in the edge of the ears and less intense on the edge of the dewlap. The ends, snout, budding horns, eye circles, tail end, and scrotum circle in males, are black as well as the eyelids and eyelashes. The mucous membranes of the nose, mouth, tongue, anus, and vulva are black or slate black. ASEAMO represents associated farmers in Asturias, Cantabria, the Basque Country, Castille-León, Madrid, and La Rioja, Spain. Despite of the","title":"Asturian Mountain cattle"},{"docid":"10650820","text":"a threatened species by the IUCN. Black-crowned white-eye The black-crowned white-eye (\"Zosterops atrifrons\") is a songbird species. It is closely related to the Old World babblers, and its family Zosteropidae might better be included in the Tiimalidae. Its subspecies from the Sulawesi region might warrant recognition as distinct species \"Z. subatrifrons\". The Sangihe white-eye (\"Z. nehrkorni\") and the Seram white-eye (\"Z. stalkeri\") were formerly included in \"Z. atrifrons\", as is still, on occasion, the black-fronted white-eye (\"Z. minor\"). It is endemic to Indonesia. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and subtropical or tropical moist montane forests.","title":"Black-crowned white-eye"},{"docid":"10650819","text":"Black-crowned white-eye The black-crowned white-eye (\"Zosterops atrifrons\") is a songbird species. It is closely related to the Old World babblers, and its family Zosteropidae might better be included in the Tiimalidae. Its subspecies from the Sulawesi region might warrant recognition as distinct species \"Z. subatrifrons\". The Sangihe white-eye (\"Z. nehrkorni\") and the Seram white-eye (\"Z. stalkeri\") were formerly included in \"Z. atrifrons\", as is still, on occasion, the black-fronted white-eye (\"Z. minor\"). It is endemic to Indonesia. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and subtropical or tropical moist montane forests. Quite common, it is not considered","title":"Black-crowned white-eye"},{"docid":"5113649","text":"that the black color is only a permanent fixture with telescope eye goldfish. However, with the recent entry of black lionheads, black orandas, black ranchus, black ryukins, black pearlscales, black comets, black bubble eyes, black crosses of two or more goldfish, and black \"hibunas\", this view is no longer true. In fact, black telescopes do sometimes throw normal-eye offsprings, and they are black also. However, they are often culled as they do not conform to the telescope eye feature for the Moor variety. In 1941, Moscow aquarist P. Andrianov, bred a kind of black telescope with orange-red eyes. The panda","title":"Telescope (goldfish)"},{"docid":"3189823","text":"killed by Avaia, the carnivorous black swan; and Leila, a 15-year-old who calls Finn to \"The Longest Road\" via a game called the \"takiena\" and succeeds Jaelle as High Priestess. The Dalrei, plains-dwelling tribes of nomadic hunters who both hunt and guard the vast herds of eltor in the northern part of Fionavar. Each tribe is led its own chieftain, helped by the tribe's shaman who is ritually blinded in youth the better to focus the sight of his inner eye. Of particular interest to the story is the Third Tribe, under the leadership of Ivor dan Bannor and their","title":"The Fionavar Tapestry"},{"docid":"17944576","text":"by Jason Byron. The 200 vinyls sold out immediately. \"Hubardo\" was released to extremely positive reception, receiving a 4.7 out of 5 on SputnikMusic and being called \"their finest work since Choirs of the Eye.\" They later called it the 4th best album of 2013, saying it recalled the \"black metal chamber music of Choirs of the Eye\" and that it is \"simultaneously focused and sprawling. \"ContactMusic\" gave it a 9/10, calling it the most \"enjoyable metal album of the year.\" \"Bearded Gentlemen\" gave the album a perfect 5/5, saying that \"[t]he addition of actual memorable musical segments makes the","title":"Hubardo"},{"docid":"17033260","text":"to that series, an animated TV show called \"Tom of T.H.U.M.B.\", aired as a part of The King Kong Show. In 1973 the Hanna-Barbera's animated series \"Inch High, Private Eye\", about a similarly small detective, premiered on NBC, airing for only one season. World of Giants World of Giants (a.k.a. W-O-G) is an American black-and-white science fiction spy-fi television series that aired in syndication from September 5, 1959 until November 28, 1959. It starred Marshall Thompson and Arthur Franz. American spy Mel Hunter, while on a covert mission, is shrunk to a height of six inches after an accident. This","title":"World of Giants"},{"docid":"7336379","text":"Cyclops (genus) Cyclops is one of the most common genera of freshwater copepods, comprising over 400 species . Together with other similar-sized non-copepod fresh-water crustaceans, especially cladocera, they are commonly called water fleas. The name \"Cyclops\" comes from the Cyclops of Greek mythology which shares the quality of having a single large eye, which may be either red or black in \"Cyclops\". \"Cyclops\" individuals may range from ½–5 mm long and are clearly divided into two sections. The broadly oval front section comprises the head and the first five thoracic segments. The hind part is considerably slimmer and is made","title":"Cyclops (genus)"},{"docid":"10000472","text":"sunbirds the bill is long and decurved. The eye is dark brown while the beak, legs and feet are black. The adult female has dark greyish-brown upper parts and a blackish-brown tail. The chin and supercillium are greyish-buff and the underparts brownish-grey, with the central part of the lower breast and belly being yellowish. Rwenzori double-collared sunbird The Rwenzori double-collared sunbird (\"Cinnyris stuhlmanni\"), also called Stuhlmann's Sunbird or Rwanda double-collared sunbird, is a species of bird in the Nectariniidae family. It is found in the Ruwenzori range of mountains in south central Africa. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical","title":"Rwenzori double-collared sunbird"},{"docid":"13926629","text":"Texas in 1999. Fredric (Paul McAtee) and Marshal were originally members of a Goth band called, “Morphine Angel”, formed in Lincoln, Nebraska in 1993, and later based in Chicago, Illinois. During this time, part of Fredric's musical training came from work with Thomas Thorn, lead vocalist for the industrial metal band Electric Hellfire Club, contributing vocals for EHC's song \"Pack 44\". Recording on the St. Thomas, Black Pepper and [http://www.delinquentrecordsusa.com Delinquent Records labels, Morphine Angel developed a significant following. Their song \"Age of Man\" was included in the soundtrack to the independent film, \"Shut Eye\", alongside other popular goth-oriented electro","title":"Asmodeus X"},{"docid":"5229841","text":"Extraocular muscles The extraocular muscles are the six muscles that control movement of the eye and one muscle that controls eyelid elevation (levator palpebrae). The actions of the six muscles responsible for eye movement depend on the position of the eye at the time of muscle contraction. Since only a small part of the eye called the fovea provides sharp vision, the eye must move to follow a target. Eye movements must be precise and fast. This is seen in scenarios like reading, where the reader must shift gaze constantly. Although under voluntary control, most eye movement is accomplished without","title":"Extraocular muscles"},{"docid":"14181715","text":"Mohamad and Mohamad Azmin Ali, were both held separately as part of police investigations into the \"50 Reasons\" book. Both were later released. On 29 September 1998, Anwar appeared in court and pleaded innocent to charges of corruption and sodomy. A photo of Anwar with a black eye (incurred from a beating by then Inspector General of Police Rahim Noor) and one hand raised became a symbol of the political opposition in many \"reformasi\" posters. The black eye was explained by Mahathir Mohamad and Rahim Noor as being \"self-inflicted\" and caused by \"pressing a glass over his eyes\". Only after","title":"Anwar Ibrahim sodomy trials"},{"docid":"10370038","text":"a patch under the eye. In juveniles, the crest has a white tip and the patch below the eye is smaller and darker blue than in adults. In most birds, the throat and chest are also black, but some in the southern part of the range have various amounts of white there. The calls are varied, loud, raucous, sometimes parrot-like. This species occurs in pairs or small groups in woodland, except for humid woodland, and partially open areas on the Pacific Slope of Mexico from southern Sonora south to Jalisco and northwestern Colima, for a total of 160,000 km. As","title":"Black-throated magpie-jay"},{"docid":"17505169","text":"the standard \"Charcoal Black\". The black 160 GB version was also made available as a bundle with the Japan-only DVR accessory torne. It was later announced that the new sizes were to be launched in other regions, with the 160 GB model available from August 2010 in North America and October 2010 in Europe. The 320 GB model is to be available in North America only as part of a bundle with PlayStation Move, a PlayStation Eye and a copy of Sports Champions, and in Europe with PlayStation Move, a PlayStation Eye and a demo disc. The bundles were released","title":"PlayStation 3 models"},{"docid":"11250607","text":"trophy which is to be presented to the winner of a horse race called the Jambaroo Shield stakes. The children decide to enter the race with Victory Stride as their champion, but he needs a trainer. Dingle has been sent to buy all the other horses off; Sator wants to win the race for himself. He purchases a horse called Black Eye, and a jockey. Dingle then keeps an eye on the children and sees them searching for the mineral along the river. It transpires that old Sid Chesney, a horse-trainer the children have been able to persuade to train","title":"Professor Poopsnagle's Steam Zeppelin"},{"docid":"6305118","text":"Gotti, Sizzla, Black Child, Young Merc, D.O. Cannon, Shadow, and Sekou 720 are listed as guest appearances on this album. \"Blood in My Eye\" debuted at number 6 on the \"Billboard\" 200 chart, with first-week sales of 139,000 copies in the United States. \"Blood in My Eye\" garnered mixed reviews from music critics, skeptical of Ja's lyrical skills as a hardcore rapper. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received an average score of 45, based on 8 reviews. Beccy Lindon of \"The Guardian\" called the record \"a rough, back-to-basics","title":"Blood in My Eye"},{"docid":"3337799","text":"the predominant iris color and the amount of brown or yellow pigment present. There are three pigment colors that determine, depending on their proportion, the outward appearance of the iris, along with structural color. Green irises, for example, have blue and some yellow. Brown irises contain mostly brown. Some eyes have a dark ring around the iris, called a limbal ring. Eye color in non-human animals is regulated differently. For example, instead of blue as in humans, autosomal recessive eye color in the skink species \"Corucia zebrata\" is black, and the autosomal dominant color is yellow-green. As the perception of","title":"Eye color"},{"docid":"8510048","text":"Gunung Mulu, and Mount Batu Patap). Black-capped white-eye The black-capped white-eye (\"Zosterops atricapilla\") is a small passerine from the family Zosteropidae. It can reach a length between nine and eleven centimetres and looks slightly similar to the Oriental white-eye. The forehead and the crown are blackish and its upperparts and underparts are darker than at the Oriental white-eye. The back is olive green and the iris is brown. The bill and the feet are coloured black. The voice is characterized by soft twitters. It inhabits mountain forests and alpine meadows in altitudes between 700 and 3000 m on mountains of","title":"Black-capped white-eye"},{"docid":"8510047","text":"Black-capped white-eye The black-capped white-eye (\"Zosterops atricapilla\") is a small passerine from the family Zosteropidae. It can reach a length between nine and eleven centimetres and looks slightly similar to the Oriental white-eye. The forehead and the crown are blackish and its upperparts and underparts are darker than at the Oriental white-eye. The back is olive green and the iris is brown. The bill and the feet are coloured black. The voice is characterized by soft twitters. It inhabits mountain forests and alpine meadows in altitudes between 700 and 3000 m on mountains of Sumatra, and Borneo (especially Mount Kinabalu,","title":"Black-capped white-eye"},{"docid":"8840067","text":"Library Card\") of \"The Bullwinkle Show\" (which aired on NBC), Rocky and Bullwinkle are being escorted out of the town library by a gun-wielding man in a black fedora. Rocky wonders aloud whether the unknown man is from another TV show, leading Bullwinkle to confront him. \"Say, fella, the \"Martin Kane\" show was dropped this year, you know?\" The series was satirized in \"Mad\" 5 (June–July 1953) as \"Kane Keen, Private Eye\", illustrated by Jack Davis. \"Mad\"'s lampoon of \"Julius Caesar\" (\"Mad\" 17, illustrated by Wally Wood) references a detective called \"Martin Walking-Kane\". Martin Kane, Private Eye Martin Kane, Private","title":"Martin Kane, Private Eye"},{"docid":"2547184","text":"Black-eyed pea The black-eyed pea, black-eyed bean or goat pea, a legume, is a subspecies of the cowpea, grown around the world for its medium-sized, edible bean. The common commercial variety is called the California Blackeye; it is pale-colored with a prominent black spot. In the American South there are countless varieties, many of them heirloom, that vary in size from the small lady peas to very large ones, as may be seen in the state and municipal farmers' markets. The color of the eye may be black, brown, red, pink or green. All the peas are green when freshly","title":"Black-eyed pea"},{"docid":"15484989","text":"the extremity of the tip—not by the lesser amount that its lever-like action moves the needle. Thus a FIM requirement is only met when the measured part itself is truly in geometric compliance—not merely when the needle sweeps a certain arc of the dial. The \"TIR\" abbreviation is still more widely known and used than \"FIM\". This is natural given that (1) many part designs that are still being manufactured are made from decades-old engineering drawings, which still say \"TIR\"; and (2) generations of machinists were trained with the term \"TIR\", whereas only recent curriculum uses \"FIM\". http://gdtseminars.com/2008/11/17/whats-the-difference-between-tir-and-fim/ Total indicator","title":"Total indicator reading"}],"string":"[\n {\n \"docid\": \"3334725\",\n \"text\": \"eye. The group has two—separated—eye spaces. Even though white can make a move in these eyes, black could eventually capture the white stones, and each eye would thereby be reduced to a single intersection. An inner liberty where the opponent can still play, by capturing part of the group that encloses this liberty, is called a 'false eye' or 'deficient eye'. In the example on the left, white can play at g, and capture a black stone. The eye is then destroyed, and black has only one eye left. A group with only one eye is not alive. The black\",\n \"title\": \"Life and death\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"6871260\",\n \"text\": \"whats his (Julie) he has to race for it. Mike loses the first race to Fox, the fact being his Falcon just isn't fast enough. They decide to go out to the country (filmed in Cobar, New South Wales), to race easy wins to make enough money to build up the engine (351 Cleveland) of his Falcon to beat Fox. Between playing \\\"Spotto\\\" (a form of eye spy) on the way and scamming service station attendants, we only see them racing one group of people, a bunch of dim-witted bogans called the Gazard boys, in an EK Holden, who they\",\n \"title\": \"Running on Empty (1982 film)\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"20312578\",\n \"text\": \"of \\\"satisfaction\\\". An \\\"Independent\\\" review stated the three narratives were \\\"engrossing\\\". An \\\"NPR\\\" review called the episode \\\"solid\\\", though not as good as \\\"USS Callister\\\" and \\\"Hang the DJ\\\". Critics were divided on whether they joined in with celebrating Nish's revenge. Parham approved her actions as \\\"a way to fight for what you believe is right\\\", while Gilbert rejected the \\\"eye-for-eye justice\\\" of Nish's deliberate torturing of Haynes. Black Museum (Black Mirror) \\\"Black Museum\\\" is the sixth and final episode of the fourth series of anthology series \\\"Black Mirror\\\". It was written by Charlie Brooker, with one part adapted from\",\n \"title\": \"Black Museum (Black Mirror)\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"4498123\",\n \"text\": \"Globe editorial assistant, to be its first professional editor. He changed the tone of the paper from advocacy journalism to objective reporting on social issues and revamped it from a black-and-white broadsheet into a color tabloid. He was later executive director of the Homeless Empowerment Project. In November 2007, Boston's South End street newspaper \\\"Whats Up Magazine\\\" disbanded and merged into \\\"Spare Change News\\\" under the umbrella of the Homeless Empowerment Project. On February 28, 2008, \\\"Whats Up\\\" published their first 4-page insert inside Spare Change News. In 2008, Spare Change News received a grant from The Harbus Foundation of\",\n \"title\": \"Spare Change News\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"5153268\",\n \"text\": \"raw meat to the eye area. Research has yet to find any evidence of this treatment being effective. Eye injury and head trauma may also coincide with a black eye. Some common signs of a more serious injury may include: Black eye A black eye, periorbital hematoma, or shiner, is bruising around the eye commonly due to an injury to the face rather than to the eye. The name is given due to the color of bruising. The so-called black eye is caused by bleeding beneath the skin and around the eye. Sometimes a black eye can worsen if not\",\n \"title\": \"Black eye\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"12267865\",\n \"text\": \"the anthology series \\\"Reactor Girl\\\", Jay Stephens' \\\"Sin Comics\\\" (later picked up by Black Eye), Carol Swain's \\\"Way Out Strips\\\", and the first issue of Dylan Horrocks' \\\"Pickle\\\". \\\"Sin\\\" and \\\"Pickle\\\" were picked up by Black Eye Comics; \\\"Way Out Strips\\\" was picked up by Fantagraphics. Black Eye acted as a comic book publisher from 1992 to 1998, when Vrana turned the business into a design company. Black Eye Productions Black Eye Productions (also called Black Eye Books) was a short-lived but influential Canadian comic book publishing company founded by Michel Vrana. Under the auspices of Vrana, Black Eye was\",\n \"title\": \"Black Eye Productions\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"5153264\",\n \"text\": \"Black eye A black eye, periorbital hematoma, or shiner, is bruising around the eye commonly due to an injury to the face rather than to the eye. The name is given due to the color of bruising. The so-called black eye is caused by bleeding beneath the skin and around the eye. Sometimes a black eye can worsen if not referred to a doctor if not resolved after a few months, indicating a more extensive injury - potentially even a skull fracture, particularly if the area around both eyes has bruised (raccoon eyes), or if there has been a prior\",\n \"title\": \"Black eye\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"2608075\",\n \"text\": \"Black Eye Galaxy The Black Eye Galaxy (also called Evil Eye Galaxy and designated Messier 64, M64, or NGC 4826) is a relatively isolated spiral galaxy located 17 million light years away in the northern constellation of Coma Berenices. It was discovered by Edward Pigott in March 1779, and independently by Johann Elert Bode in April of the same year, as well as by Charles Messier in 1780. A dark band of absorbing dust in front of the galaxy's bright nucleus gave rise to its nicknames of the \\\"Black Eye\\\" or \\\"Evil Eye\\\" galaxy. M64 is well known among amateur\",\n \"title\": \"Black Eye Galaxy\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"13272571\",\n \"text\": \"with S3RL called R0bots. They later hired Greg Rudawski as drummer for live shows and were signed to Modern Art Records, a local Phoenix indie label distributed by Epic Records. They wrote and recorded their debut album \\\"Whats Your Medium\\\" and it was released June 10, 2008. \\\"Whats Your Medium\\\" reached no. 33 on the Billboard Heatseekers chart. The band was heavily inspired by 1980's popular culture, their name referencing a character from the \\\"Star Wars\\\" sequel \\\"The Empire Strikes Back\\\", and recording a version of the Madonna anthem \\\"Into the Groove\\\". The Medic Droid went on a \\\"Spring Tour\\\"\",\n \"title\": \"The Medic Droid\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"12267864\",\n \"text\": \"Black Eye Productions Black Eye Productions (also called Black Eye Books) was a short-lived but influential Canadian comic book publishing company founded by Michel Vrana. Under the auspices of Vrana, Black Eye was known as a publisher of artfully designed alternative comics and graphic novels, most of whose cartoonists have gone on to successful careers with fellow Canadian publisher Drawn and Quarterly. Vrana still acts as Drawn and Quarterly's exclusive outside design consultant. Vrana's first publishing venture was Tragedy Strikes Press, which operated out of Guelph, Ontario, from 1991–1993. Comics published by Tragedy Strikes Press included Nick Craine's \\\"The Cheeseheads\\\",\",\n \"title\": \"Black Eye Productions\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"8748119\",\n \"text\": \"the Mukojima white-eye, is extinct. Bonin white-eye The Bonin white-eye (\\\"Apalopteron familiare\\\") or is a small yellow and grey bird endemic to the Ogasawara Islands (formerly Bonin Islands) of Japan. Until recently it was considered part of the family Meliphagidae of honeyeaters and was called the Bonin honeyeater. A distinctive feature of the bird is the white rim around the eyes, which is then surrounded by black masking. Presently its habitat is restricted to Haha-jima Island. Until several years ago it could also be found on Chichi-jima Island. Because of the bird's small range of habitat, its status is listed\",\n \"title\": \"Bonin white-eye\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"3457056\",\n \"text\": \"Rudbeckia hirta Rudbeckia hirta, commonly called black-eyed Susan, is a North American flowering plant in the sunflower family, native to Eastern and Central North America and naturalized in the Western part of the continent as well as in China. It has now been found in all 10 Canadian Provinces and all 48 of the states in the contiguous United States. \\\"Rudbeckia hirta\\\" is one of a number of plants with the common name black-eyed Susan. Other common names for this plant include: brown-eyed Susan, brown betty, gloriosa daisy, golden Jerusalem, English bull's eye, poor-land daisy, yellow daisy, and yellow ox-eye\",\n \"title\": \"Rudbeckia hirta\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"3543660\",\n \"text\": \"VG. 39 Kolkata: Inmaniacs, 51 New Delhi: Telangana Is an Oily Song, 57 Mega-Whats Title Winners 2009—QED, Chennai Mega-Whats Face-off Winners 2009-10—QED, Chennai Bangalore: MetaQuizziks, 71 Chennai: QED, 76 Hyderabad: Swami and Friends, 46 Thrissur: Guessworks Inc., 43 Mumbai: Travelling Pilsbury, 53 Pune: Mega WTF, 32 Goa: Feni, Vidi, Vici, Twitchy., 41 Kolkata: Bong Connection, 52 New Delhi: Daydreamers, 42 Coimbatore: Quizzyleaks, 16 Mega-Whats Title Winners 2010—QED, Chennai Mega-Whats Face-off Winners 2010-11—Insignificant Others, Chennai Karnataka Quiz Association The Karnataka Quiz Association (or KQA) was founded in 1983 by the late Wing Commander G.R.Mulky, Deepak Murdeshwar, Rajeev Gowda, Thomas Uthup, K.N.Mahabala,\",\n \"title\": \"Karnataka Quiz Association\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"11885992\",\n \"text\": \"Third Eye Open (Hardware album) Third Eye Open is a 1992 album by American funk/rock supergroup Hardware. Hardware consists of lead guitarist Stevie Salas, P-Funk bassist Bootsy Collins, and drummer Buddy Miles, formerly of the Band of Gypsys. The album was produced by Bill Laswell and Salas, and was the first release to be part of Laswell's Black Arc Series, which includes \\\"Lord of the Harvest\\\" by Zillatron, \\\"Out of the Dark\\\" by O.G. Funk, and \\\"Under the 6\\\" by Slave Master. When the album was first released in Japan on the Polystar label, the band was called The Third\",\n \"title\": \"Third Eye Open (Hardware album)\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"8748118\",\n \"text\": \"Bonin white-eye The Bonin white-eye (\\\"Apalopteron familiare\\\") or is a small yellow and grey bird endemic to the Ogasawara Islands (formerly Bonin Islands) of Japan. Until recently it was considered part of the family Meliphagidae of honeyeaters and was called the Bonin honeyeater. A distinctive feature of the bird is the white rim around the eyes, which is then surrounded by black masking. Presently its habitat is restricted to Haha-jima Island. Until several years ago it could also be found on Chichi-jima Island. Because of the bird's small range of habitat, its status is listed as Near Threatened. A subspecies,\",\n \"title\": \"Bonin white-eye\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"13627734\",\n \"text\": \"such as PRSPCT Recordings, Lost Soul Recordings, Evol Intent Recordings, Black Sun Empire Recordings and Ruff-Teck Records. He has collaborated with artists such as SPL, Black Sun Empire, Counterstrike, and Evol Intent. Eye-D collaborates very frequently with DJ Hidden with whom he forms The Outside Agency. Since the release of The Outside Agency's first EP on Black Monolith Records in 2001, the 'Eye-D' moniker has been limited to his drum & bass material. Eye-D regularly performs at musical events internationally, both as Eye-D and as part of The Outside Agency. In the Netherlands, Eye-D and DJ Hidden are frequent guests\",\n \"title\": \"Eye-D\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"5153265\",\n \"text\": \"head injury. Although most black eye injuries are not serious, bleeding within the eye, called a hyphema, is serious and can reduce vision and damage the cornea. In some cases, abnormally high pressure inside the eyeball (ocular hypertension) can also result. Despite the name, the eye itself is not affected. Blunt force or trauma to the eye socket results in burst capillaries and subsequent haemorrhaging (hematoma). The fatty tissue along with the lack of muscle around the eye socket allows a potential space for blood accumulation. As this blood is reabsorbed, various pigments are released similar to a bruise lending\",\n \"title\": \"Black eye\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"2608078\",\n \"text\": \"interstellar medium of Messier 64 consists of two counter-rotating disks that are approximately equal in mass. The inner disk contains the prominent dust lanes of the galaxy. The stellar population of the galaxy exhibits no measurable counter-rotation. Possible formation scenarios include a merger with a gas-rich satellite galaxy in a retrograde orbit, or the continued accretion of gas clouds from the intergalactic medium. It has a diameter of . Black Eye Galaxy The Black Eye Galaxy (also called Evil Eye Galaxy and designated Messier 64, M64, or NGC 4826) is a relatively isolated spiral galaxy located 17 million light years\",\n \"title\": \"Black Eye Galaxy\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"10248365\",\n \"text\": \"dated 8 October 2007 an SBS spokesperson wrote: A second series of \\\"Kick\\\" is currently in development. At this stage no date has been set to screen the second series. However, we are pleased to inform you we do have the rights to repeat \\\"Kick\\\" series one. Currently no date has been set by us to re-screen it, but we expect to do so in approximately 8-12 months. Please keep an eye on the published TV guides or to our Whats On website for advanced notice of its transmission at: www.sbs.com.au/whatson. As of June 2017, no second series has been\",\n \"title\": \"Kick (TV series)\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"47582\",\n \"text\": \"no visible light reaches the eye. Pigments or dyes that absorb light rather than reflect it back to the eye \\\"look black\\\". A black pigment can, however, result from a \\\"combination\\\" of several pigments that collectively absorb all colors. If appropriate proportions of three primary pigments are mixed, the result reflects so little light as to be called \\\"black\\\". This provides two superficially opposite but actually complementary descriptions of black. Black is the absorption of all colors of light, or an exhaustive combination of multiple colors of pigment. See also primary colors. In physics, a black body is a perfect\",\n \"title\": \"Black\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"3334724\",\n \"text\": \"black groups: The black group surrounding c and d can never be captured, and is called \\\"alive\\\". The group can live because it has two—separated—inner liberties, where white can't play. A group such as b that cannot become alive is called \\\"dead\\\". Groups that are neither \\\"alive\\\", nor \\\"dead\\\", are called \\\"unsettled\\\". Liberties inside a group are called \\\"eyes\\\". In the previous example, a, b, c and d are eyes. An \\\"eye\\\" may be a single empty intersection, or more of them. In the diagram on the left, the intersections marked e form a single eye, and f forms another\",\n \"title\": \"Life and death\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"6270783\",\n \"text\": \"deep shades of red and dark wine colors worn as part of night makeup. Blue-frosted eye shadow became fashionable, and was eventually integrated into the Y2K makeup of the late 1990s/early 2000s (decade). Gothic makeup had broken into the mainstream, having been made up of vamp lipstick (or even black lipstick), heavy mascara and eyeliner, often purple-tinted eye shadow (or else very dark blue), and extremely pale foundation. The Gothic makeup remained relevant in the later years of the decade. By 1999, glittery, sparkling makeup had come into style. This was called \\\"Y2K makeup\\\", consisting of facial glitter and lip\",\n \"title\": \"1990s in fashion\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"9096533\",\n \"text\": \"for the most part hold an upbeat key, coming into contact with the abrasive chorus. Hemsworth provided a folksy tone and Canadian raising, and added some unique touches. To illustrate resentment for the flies, he places heavy emphasis on \\\"black\\\" in the words \\\"black fly\\\", but arguably the most distinct part of the song is where the word \\\"Ontario\\\" is stretched to \\\"On-terr-eye-oh-eye-oh\\\" (a pronunciation also used at times by other artists, such as Alan Mills and Stan Rogers). First Verse 'Twas early in the spring when I decided to go<br> To work up in the woods in North Ontario<br>\",\n \"title\": \"The Black Fly Song\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"8488003\",\n \"text\": \"Black Water, Best of 2011-2012 1997: \\\"Camille\\\" 1997: \\\"The Eye in the Door, Part One: Urban Sirens\\\" 1998: \\\"Untitled #1\\\" 1998: \\\"The Eye in the Door, Part Two: Breakfast of Champions\\\" 1999: \\\"The Eye in the Door, Part Three: The Bicycle\\\" 2000: \\\"The City Itself, Part One: The Car\\\" 2001: \\\"You Are Here\\\" 2003: \\\"The Orange Grove\\\" (review 1; review 2) 2004: \\\"Pipes\\\" (review) 2004: \\\"The City Itself series: The Car, The Sidewalk and The House\\\" (review1; review 2) 2006: \\\"Days and Nights series: A Quiet Ambition, Time For Bed and The Hidden Room\\\" (review 1; review 2; review 3)\",\n \"title\": \"Skewed Visions\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"10652308\",\n \"text\": \"Cinnamon-rumped trogon The cinnamon-rumped trogon (\\\"Harpactes orrhophaeus\\\") is a species of bird in the family Trogonidae. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and subtropical or tropical moist montane forests. It is threatened by habitat loss. The male has a black hood, blue bill, an eyebrow and an eye ring. The upper part is pale brown and the lower part is pink-red. The tail is brown above and it has a white under tail with black borders. Females have a dark brown head with chestnut around the eye and lores. The lower part is yellowish. This bird\",\n \"title\": \"Cinnamon-rumped trogon\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"6818144\",\n \"text\": \"midbody, smooth, or feebly keeled on the posterior part of the body and on the tail. The ventrals number 220-265; the anal plate is entire; and the subcaudals number 75-94. The young are pale brown above, with black crossbands, each crossband enclosing four to six white ocelli. The adults are darker brown, with a transverse series of squarish black spots, or with more or less distinct traces of the color pattern of the young. There is a vertical black streak below the eye, and an oblique black streak behind the eye. Some specimens have a white, black-edged collar; others have\",\n \"title\": \"Trinket snake\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"1949033\",\n \"text\": \"Tiger's eye Tiger's eye (also called tiger eye) is a chatoyant gemstone that is usually a metamorphic rock with a golden to red-brown colour and a silky lustre. As members of the quartz group, tiger's eye and the related blue-coloured mineral hawk's eye gain their silky, lustrous appearance from the parallel intergrowth of quartz crystals and altered amphibole fibres that have mostly turned into limonite. \\\"Tiger iron\\\" is an altered rock composed chiefly of tiger's eye, red jasper and black hematite. The undulating, contrasting bands of colour and lustre make for an attractive motif and it is mainly used for\",\n \"title\": \"Tiger's eye\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"2900377\",\n \"text\": \"experienced by one character that underscores Lovecraftian themes like cosmic indifference. In the 1988 album \\\"Passage to Arcturo\\\" by Rotting Christ, the song \\\"Inside The Eye of Algond\\\" nominates the Mystical Carcosa as part of the singer's journey. In 2016 DigiTech released a Fuzz pedal called the Carcosa. The pedal featured two modes, named \\\"Hali\\\" and \\\"Demhe.\\\" \\\"Maria\\\", a film by King Abalos, takes place in a mysterious mountain called Carcosa. In the Mass Effect 3 universe there is a planet named Carcosa. In 2001 the Belgian black metal band Ancient Rites released the album Dim Carcosa. The title track's\",\n \"title\": \"Carcosa\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"2603525\",\n \"text\": \"crimson primary feathers that are very distinct in flight. In the westernmost subspecies \\\"buffoni\\\", which sometimes is known as the Buffon's turaco, there is a white line above and in front of the eye and a black line below the eye. In the nominate subspecies (\\\"T. persa persa\\\") of the central part of its range and \\\"zenkeri\\\" of the southeastern part there also is a second white line below the black line. Unlike similar turacos with red bills, even adult Guinea turacos lack a white rear edge to the crest. This species is a common in climax forest with plentiful\",\n \"title\": \"Guinea turaco\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"743582\",\n \"text\": \"as both have at least two eyes. The groups in the lower corners are dead, as both have only one eye. The group in the lower left may seem to have two eyes, but the surrounded empty point marked \\\"a\\\" is not actually an eye. White can play there and take a black stone. Such a point is often called a \\\"false\\\" eye. There is an exception to the requirement that a group must have two eyes to be alive, a situation called \\\"seki\\\" (or \\\"mutual life\\\"). Where different colored groups are adjacent and share liberties, the situation may reach\",\n \"title\": \"Go (game)\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"6875239\",\n \"text\": \"Duttaphrynus melanostictus Duttaphrynus melanostictus is commonly called Asian common toad, Asian black-spined toad, Asian toad, black-spectacled toad, common Sunda toad, and Javanese toad. It is probably a complex of more than one true toad species that is widely distributed in South and Southeast Asia. The species grows to about long. Asian common toads breed during the monsoon, and their tadpoles are black. Young toads may be seen in large numbers after monsoon rains finish. The top of the head has several bony ridges, along the edge of the snout (canthal ridge), in front of the eye (preorbital), above the eye\",\n \"title\": \"Duttaphrynus melanostictus\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"609388\",\n \"text\": \"(\\\"Home of Love\\\"), an orphanage in Honduras. In 2012, the foundation began hosting an annual music festival, known as \\\"Left Eye Music Fest\\\", in Decatur, Georgia. In the 2018 Boots Riley film \\\"Sorry to Bother You\\\", members of a fictional activist group called \\\"Left Eye\\\" use as their symbol a stripe of eye black under the left eye, in unmentioned reference to Lopes. Lisa Lopes Lisa Nicole Lopes (May 27, 1971 – April 25, 2002), better known by her stage name Left Eye, was an American hip hop singer, rapper, songwriter, and producer. Lopes was best known as one-third of\",\n \"title\": \"Lisa Lopes\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"2776497\",\n \"text\": \"white. Registries prefer that parti poodles have the same points as its correlating solid-coloured descendants. Brown and white parti poodles have liver-coloured noses, eye rims and lips, dark or self-coloured toenails and amber eyes. This is also permitted, but not preferred, in apricot and white parti poodles. Black/white, Blue/white, and silver/white poodles have black noses, eye rims and lips, black or self-coloured toenails and very dark eyes. When the dog has markings that resemble those of a tuxedo, it is called a \\\"tuxedo\\\" poodle. The upper coat is solid: head, back, tail; and the lower coat is white: neck, chest,\",\n \"title\": \"Poodle\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"19298452\",\n \"text\": \"and October. The series will begin in Sunderland on April 2 and then move to London, Brighton & Hove, Worcester, Cardiff, Norwich and Bristol. The Lead Charity is Prostate Cancer UK and the three new National Charity Partners are Bowel Cancer UK, Orchid and Campaign Against Living Miserably (CALM). Each run also has a local care based or hospice charity partner. http://www.dailypost.co.uk/news/north-wales-news/go-dad-run-return-2015-8543298 http://www.bristolpost.co.uk/Bristol-based-Wealth-Manager-Sanlam-UK-sponsors/story-21199723-detail/story.html http://www.birminghammail.co.uk/whats-on/family-kids-news/watch-colin-jacksons-go-dad-7273649 http://www.barkinganddagenhampost.co.uk/sport/athletics/jackson_continues_support_for_go_dad_run_1_4354035 http://www.northwaleschronicle.co.uk/news/123740/llangefni-go-dad-run-a-big-success-says-colin-jackson.aspx https://walesexpress.com/colin-jackson-delighted-sanlan-dad-run-llangefni/ http://www.sunderlandecho.com/our-region/sunderland/runners-say-y-not-to-new-event-for-wearside-1-7960286 http://www.walesonline.co.uk/whats-on/whats-on-news/fathers-day-remember-hundreds-men-11493626 http://www.worcesternews.co.uk/news/14181121.Registration_opens_for_this_year_s_Go_Dad_Run_charity_event/ www.godadrun.co.uk www.prostatecanceruk.org www.bowelcanceruk.org.uk www.orchid-cancer.org.uk www.thecalmzone.net Go Dad Run Go Dad Run is a charitable project that was created in 2013 by former world champion athlete Colin Jackson in order to\",\n \"title\": \"Go Dad Run\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"15189093\",\n \"text\": \"the Tswana people. The governments Department of Native Affairs drilled bore holes to assist the black farmers in 1940 however, this was still insufficient to sustain cultivation. In 1962, Apartheid legislation led to the forced removal of black people from Seodin. The ‘whites-only’ irrigation project never commercialised despite state aid. The Eye of Kuruman cave forms part of the eight caves on the dolomitic Ghaap Plateau of the Northern Cape. The Eye of Kuruman cave from which the springs emerge has been documented form as early as the nineteenth century. The first sketch of the cave was made in 1907\",\n \"title\": \"Eye of Kuruman\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"8675202\",\n \"text\": \"\\\"been in rehearsal for a couple of weeks now\\\" but were not going to announce \\\"anything until some shows\\\" are booked for March. Members of the band will still be in their other projects such as Kill Detail, Cellphish and Black Fag. Joe Doherty co-hosts the podcast Raised by Wolves. Asked if the band was planning a new album and tour, Doherty replied \\\"we have been tinkering around with some new stuff, but are sticking with whats in front of us which is picking what songs we are going to do in March, it's boiled down to about 40 songs\",\n \"title\": \"Jughead's Revenge\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"11921391\",\n \"text\": \"BBC drama series White Heat written by Bafta winning Paula Milne. Stage work includes The Container at the Young Vic where the London Paper wrote of his work 'Abhin Galeya is a revelation.' The Evening Standard wrote 'Abhin Galeya is particularly distinguished as Jemal.' Whats on Stage wrote 'exciting young actor Abhin Galeya adds the human edge.' He was also appeared in all three plays in the 'Not Black and White' season at London's Tricycle theatre. The three plays explored race politics in Britain and they were Category B by Roy Williams, Seize the Day by Kwame Kwei Armah and\",\n \"title\": \"Abhin Galeya\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"17540754\",\n \"text\": \"Battlefield One video game In 2016, she appeared in \\\"Hated in the Nation\\\", an episode of the anthology series \\\"Black Mirror\\\". Kingsley is married to actor/singer Dominic Tighe, whom she met while filming an advertisement for a shampoo. 2009 - Oliver Award for Best Supporting Actress in a Musical for Piaf at The Donmar Warehouse and Vaudeville Theatre. 2012 - Olivier Award for Best Supporting Actress in a Musical for Lina Lamont in Singin' In The Rain at The Palace Theatre. 2012 - Whats On Stage Award for Best Supporting Actress in a Musical for Lina Lamont in Singin' In\",\n \"title\": \"Katherine Kingsley\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"18434154\",\n \"text\": \"Janne Haavisto Janne Pekka Haavisto (born 28 November 1964 in Espoo, Finland) is a Finnish drummer, recording engineer and record producer. He has been a professional musician since the age of 16, that is, from 1983 on. In his youth, Haavisto attended the Sibelius High School in Helsinki and played drums in a band called Bablers together with e.g. Sam Yaffa and Arto Tamminen. The band made a record called \\\"Whats all about\\\" in 1980. At the age of 16 Haavisto was given, with the aid of his older brother Olli Haavisto, a job as a drummer for J. Karjalainen\",\n \"title\": \"Janne Haavisto\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"3228482\",\n \"text\": \"B (Urban Nature album). Cristian also wrote the collaboration with Sean Kingston on the song titled \\\"Remember You\\\". As the album was to be released, called \\\"All Your Love\\\", Cristian abruptly left the record company Whats Up Entertainment citing creative differences with the company heads. He then quickly moved on to his next project, another solo album called \\\"Born Again Cristian\\\". The meaning behind the album is a rebirth of the artist after he told Malaysian interviewers the music is like nothing he's heard before. The first two singles are \\\"Show Me Your Soul feat Roy'al\\\" and \\\"Nothing Like This\\\"\",\n \"title\": \"Cristian Alexanda\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"20754547\",\n \"text\": \"The Eye of Silence The Eye of Silence (), 1943–44, is a painting by German dadaist and surrealist Max Ernst. For \\\"The Eye of Silence\\\" Ernst employed a technique called decalcomania to create arbitrary textures on the canvas, which he then reworked to resemble rock formations and forms of animals, plants, and architecture. The imagery on the surrealist canvas has been described as a primordial-like landscape, \\\"in which rock-hard and gelatinous formations coexist under a forbidding sky.\\\" \\\"The Eye of Silence\\\" has also been described as, \\\"part vegetation, part rock and part bejewelled baroque palace. A fusion of animal, mineral\",\n \"title\": \"The Eye of Silence\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"18337123\",\n \"text\": \"both a part of the striatula-group due to shared descriptive characteristics such as the length and width of the petiole and the separation of the clypeus from the eye. The Black hover wasp is characterized by their brown-black coloration. Similar to other species in the Stenogastrinae subfamily, \\\"P. alternata\\\" can be distinguished by their significantly narrow mandibles. Another descriptor is the long, pointed clypeus separate from the eye shared by \\\"Parischnogaster striatula\\\". The Black hover wasps inhabit the tropical rain forests of two Southeast Asian countries: Malaysia (Sarawak and Sabah) and Singapore. \\\"P. alternata\\\" builds dense clusters of nests in\",\n \"title\": \"Parischnogaster alternata\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"8815168\",\n \"text\": \"record, but the company name was now written in capital letters within a rectangular black block in the lower part of the label. The first release to feature the new label design appears to have been WIP-6060 and the last to feature the orange-and-black \\\"eye\\\" design WIP-6061, a reissue of \\\"Incense\\\" by the Anglos, which had actually been released the previous month. One or two earlier releases which were evidently still selling were re-pressed with the new design (e.g. WIP-6056, which exists with both the orange-and-black \\\"eye\\\" and the \\\"block\\\" label designs). Towards the end of 1969, artists signed to\",\n \"title\": \"Island Records discography\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"2874015\",\n \"text\": \"a contrast ratio of 1,000. What enables the wider reach is that the eye adapts its definition of what is black. The eye takes approximately 20–30 minutes to fully adapt from bright sunlight to complete darkness and becomes 10,000 to 1,000,000 times more sensitive than at full daylight. In this process, the eye's perception of color changes as well (this is called the Purkinje effect). However, it takes approximately five minutes for the eye to adapt from darkness to bright sunlight. This is due to cones obtaining more sensitivity when first entering the dark for the first five minutes but\",\n \"title\": \"Adaptation (eye)\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"12117770\",\n \"text\": \"weeks earlier. In London the show received good reviews - The Stage called it \\\"A remarkable collaboration of all round talent\\\"; Whats On Stage.com called it \\\"Witty & Poignant\\\". Laurence Mark Wythe's website. A 2008 production ran at Spirit of Broadway Theatre in Norwich, Connecticut. The Off-Broadway production received mixed reviews. \\\"Backstage\\\" praised Wythe but commented: \\\"Though smart and pleasant from moment to moment, the show is lukewarm and unoriginal overall.\\\" The \\\"New York Post\\\" similarly wrote that the show \\\"conveys the less-than-revelatory message that marriage can lead to divorce.\\\" \\\"Talkin' Broadway\\\" gave the musical a positive review, calling it\",\n \"title\": \"Tomorrow Morning (musical)\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"6773244\",\n \"text\": \"Eye black Eye black is a grease or strip applied under the eyes to reduce glare. It is often used by American football, baseball, and lacrosse players to mitigate the effects of bright sunlight or stadium floodlights. It is a form of functional makeup. One of the earliest known instances of a player wearing eye black is baseball legend Babe Ruth, who, in or around the 1930s, used the grease in an attempt to reduce sun glare. According to Paul Lukas of \\\"ESPN.com\\\", eye black caught on with American football player Andy Farkas. He also states that the original eye\",\n \"title\": \"Eye black\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"15060620\",\n \"text\": \"gave the film a rating of 2 out of 5 stars and wrote, \\\"\\\"Players\\\" is lacklustre and unimaginative\\\". Mayank Shekhar of the \\\"Hindustan Times\\\" gave it 1.5 out of 5. Komal Nahta from Koimoi rated it 1 out of 5 and wrote, \\\"Whats good? The train robbery sequence; some comedy in the second half; Omi Vaidya and Neil Nitin Mukesh’s acting. Whats bad? The loose and uninteresting screenplay; the poor music; the dull acting of Abhishek, Sonam and Bobby\\\". Yahoo! Movies gave the film a rating of \\\"Game Over\\\" and said that, \\\"the remake of \\\"The Italian Job is definitely\",\n \"title\": \"Players (film)\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"17382501\",\n \"text\": \"a single confident idiom, and between the big numbers there are lulls, especially in the overlong first half.\\\" Letts praised Campbell for his vocal talents, stating that he \\\"does some worthy old-fashioned crooning – in a pleasant song called 'Marking Time' there are moments when he actually sounds like Nat King Cole.\\\" Taylor predicted on 24 October 2013, \\\"Wags have quipped that it should be called \\\"From Here to November\\\". But I reckon it's going to survive quite a bit longer than that.\\\" On 6 December 2013, it was announced the production had received four Whats on Stage awards nominations,\",\n \"title\": \"From Here to Eternity the Musical\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"4182395\",\n \"text\": \"Herbs (band) Herbs are a multi-cultural New Zealand reggae group, which since its foundation has featured Samoans, Tongans, Cook Islanders and Maori members. 11th inductee into the New Zealand Music Hall of Fame, they formed in 1979, and were once described as \\\"New Zealand's most soulful, heartfelt and consistent contemporary musical voice\\\". It has been said their debut EP \\\"Whats' Be Happen?\\\" \\\"set a standard for Pacific reggae which has arguably never been surpassed\\\". The band has always been political, with links to the Polynesian Panthers and the cover of \\\"Whats' Be Happen\\\" (released during the 1981 Springbok tour) being\",\n \"title\": \"Herbs (band)\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"6672639\",\n \"text\": \"(IRTC), Palakkad is implementing the NABARD WADI Tribal development project in Attappadi. Attappadi Social Service Organisation (ASSO) is one of the major Social Service Organization functioning in Attappadi. It successfully implemented World Bank aided 'Jalanidhi' project to provide drinking water facility for the tribal community. the other main development project that depend upon a social media, face book and a whats app group the face book book have appox 23k likes and whats app page also having to support fb they have 11 nos admin panel and a 3 team leaders also having this group also having small local area\",\n \"title\": \"Attappadi\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"1927071\",\n \"text\": \"tune into the correct \\\"vibration\\\" of the universe and gain a solid foundation on which to reach more advanced meditation levels. Taoism teaches that the third eye, also called the mind's eye, is situated between the two physical eyes, and expands up to the middle of the forehead when opened. Taoism claims that the third eye is one of the main energy centers of the body located at the sixth Chakra, forming a part of the main meridian, the line separating left and right hemispheres of the body. In Taoist alchemical traditions, the third eye is the frontal part of\",\n \"title\": \"Third eye\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"10646296\",\n \"text\": \"Black-spotted bare-eye The black-spotted bare-eye (\\\"Phlegopsis nigromaculata\\\") is a species of insectivoire passerine bird in the antbird family, Thamnophilidae. It is found in Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests. The black-spotted bare-eye was described by the French naturalists Alcide d'Orbigny and Frédéric de Lafresnaye in 1837 and given the binomial name \\\"Myothera nigro-maculata\\\". The specific epithet combines the Latin words \\\"niger\\\" for \\\"black\\\" and \\\"maculatus \\\" for \\\"spotted\\\". There are four subspecies: The black-spotted bare-eye is in length and weighs . The sexes are alike. This species is a specialist\",\n \"title\": \"Black-spotted bare-eye\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"8787325\",\n \"text\": \"the preliminary design focuses on creating the general framework to build the project on. S. Blanchard and J. Fabrycky describe it as: “The ‘whats’ initiating conceptual design produce ‘hows’ from the conceptual design evaluation effort applied to feasible conceptual design concepts. Next, the ‘hows’ are taken into preliminary design through the means of allocated requirements. There they become ‘whats’ and drive preliminary design to address ‘hows’ at this lower level.” Following FEED is the Detailed Design (Detailed Engineering) phase, which may consist of [[procurement]] of materials as well. This phase further elaborates each aspect of the project/product by complete description\",\n \"title\": \"Engineering design process\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"17042577\",\n \"text\": \"Count: There were sixteen contestants overall. The episode began with the introduction of all the roadies of Ranvijay's Team in traditional Nagaland custom who were selected for the journey .One by the one all the roadies were introduced with flashbacks from their PI's which told whats the reason for their selection,whats their personality like and what would be their future in Ranvijays team. He introduced the winner of roadies battleground 5 Abhimanyu and told him to challenge anyone to swap with his position in the team he picked Gaurav and he lost to Gaurav and had to leave the show\",\n \"title\": \"MTV Roadies (season 10)\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"15594197\",\n \"text\": \"\\\"whats\\\" do not decompose into product/system/software requirement \\\"hows\\\". Rather, products and their requirements represent a response to business requirements — presumably, \\\"how\\\" to satisfy \\\"what\\\". Business requirements exist within the business environment and must be discovered, whereas product requirements are human-defined (specified). Business requirements are not limited to high-level existence, but need to be driven down to detail. Regardless of their level of detail, however, business requirements are always business deliverable \\\"whats\\\" that provide value when satisfied; driving them down to detail never turns business requirements into product requirements. In system or software development projects, business requirements usually require authority\",\n \"title\": \"Business requirements\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"5980413\",\n \"text\": \"ancestor, the Crusader Sir Eobar Garrington until Garrington died due to the Evil Eye. Meanwhile, Whitman chose to stay in the 12th century and was cared for by fellow Defender Valkyrie. Whitman then battled the Fomor, alongside the time-traveling Avengers. He then employed the Evil Eye to seal the portal between Earth and Avalon. Whitman returned to the 20th century and his original body was restored. He was accompanied by a gift from Amergin: a black, winged horse called Valinor, named after the fictional location of that name. Some time later Merlyn sent Whitman to locate the lost hero Captain\",\n \"title\": \"Black Knight (Dane Whitman)\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"6317458\",\n \"text\": \"with the edition published on 7 December being the final one. \\\"City Life\\\" now lives on as a 20-page supplement every Friday within the Manchester Evening News and continues to be the most read Whats On guide on the North of England (333k readers. Source: JICREG April 2014). Its website http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/whats-on/ regularly generates over a million page views every month from more than 250k unique users (Source: Omniture September 2014) CityLife's sister title 'CityLife Extra' is a Free solus publication delivered every Thursday to 16k City Centre apartments and a further 6k copies handed out with the Manchester Evening News.\",\n \"title\": \"City Life (magazine)\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"6746761\",\n \"text\": \"face with a pattern similar to that of the adult female in black and a dark gray eye patch. Their black crown extends in a V-shape from the base of the bill to the back of the neck. The rump and flanks are white, the back and tail black. Neck, breast and belly are light-gray to white the wings are black. The lower part of the bill is pink, the upper part is gray with alight brown tip and the feet are dark-gray to black. The African pygmy goose is known to be nomadic. It can be found across a\",\n \"title\": \"African pygmy goose\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"5153266\",\n \"text\": \"itself to the extreme outward appearance. The dramatic appearance (discoloration purple black and blue and swelling) does not necessarily indicate a serious injury, and most black eyes resolve within a week. The tissues around the eye are soft and thus bruise easily when pinched against margins of bone which surround the eye socket. The treatment of black eye is the same as that for bruises in other parts of the body – cold compresses during the first twenty-four hours and contrasting hot and cold thereafter. During the process of healing, a black eye can be made less conspicuous by using\",\n \"title\": \"Black eye\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"16584293\",\n \"text\": \"decreases its lightness while nearly conserving its chromaticity. Strictly speaking, a \\\"shade of black\\\" is always a pure black itself and a \\\"tint of black\\\" would be a neutral gray. Unlike these, many off-black colors possess a hue and a colorfulness (also called saturation). Colors often considered \\\"shades of black\\\" include \\\"onyx\\\", \\\"black olive\\\", \\\"charcoal\\\", and \\\"jet\\\"; these colors and other variations of black are shown below. Black is a color, the perception of which is evoked by the total absence of light that stimulates any of the three types of color sensitive cone cells in the human eye and\",\n \"title\": \"Shades of black\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"1878696\",\n \"text\": \"to oxidize and lose its reflective characteristics. This was a problem that was termed \\\"laser rot\\\" among LD enthusiasts, also called \\\"color flash\\\" internally by LaserDisc-pressing plants. Some forms of laser rot could appear as black spots that looked like mold or burned plastic which cause the disc to skip and the movie to exhibit excessive speckling noise. But, for the most part, rotted discs could actually appear perfectly fine to the naked eye. Later optical standards have been known to suffer similar problems, including a notorious batch of defective CDs manufactured by Philips-DuPont Optical at their Blackburn, Lancashire facility\",\n \"title\": \"LaserDisc\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"3543659\",\n \"text\": \"2007: Siddhartha Sen, Bangalore 2008: Kiran Vijayakumar, Chennai 2009: Jayakanthan, Chennai 2010: Arun Hiregange, Bangalore 2011: Thejaswi Udupa, Bangalore Mega-Whats is the National Open Quizzing Championship, begun in 2009. The contest is held simultaneously in several Indian cities on the second Sunday in December every year. Winners from these cities then meet each other for the Mega-Whats Face-off the following June during the KQA Anniversary. Bangalore: We Are Like This Wonly, 61 Chennai: QED, 67 Hyderabad: Swami and Friends, 42 Thrissur: Insert Uncool Name Here, 47 Mumbai: Travelling Pillsburies, 58 Pune: Ajgar Jurrat Ke Sapole, 36 Goa: Feni, Vidi, Vici,\",\n \"title\": \"Karnataka Quiz Association\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"6773245\",\n \"text\": \"black was made from the ashes of burned cork. A 2003 study by Brian DeBroff and Patricia Pahk tested whether black eye grease actually had anti-glare properties. The subjects of the study were divided into three groups: wearers of eye black, wearers of anti-glare stickers, and wearers of petroleum jelly. The subjects' vision was tested using an eye chart while being exposed to natural sunlight. The study concluded that eye black reduced glare of the sun and improved contrast sensitivity, whereas commercial anti-glare stickers and petroleum jelly (the control substance) were found to be ineffective. However, the study was subject\",\n \"title\": \"Eye black\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"15118322\",\n \"text\": \"B7 \\\"Rahasia\\\". Black Opal Eye Black Opal Eye is an adventure module published in 1983 for the \\\"Dungeons & Dragons\\\" fantasy role-playing game. The scenario \\\"Black Opal Eye\\\" was a sequel to RPGA1 \\\"Rahasia\\\". The player characters brave the ruins of an ancient castle to find the enemy who has been preying on the elves. RPGA2 \\\"Black Opal Eye\\\" was written by Tracy and Laura Hickman, and published by TSR/RPGA in 1983 as a 16-page booklet with an outer folder. The module was a limited edition, sold only to members of the RPGA. This adventure was later collected with RPGA1\",\n \"title\": \"Black Opal Eye\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"15118321\",\n \"text\": \"Black Opal Eye Black Opal Eye is an adventure module published in 1983 for the \\\"Dungeons & Dragons\\\" fantasy role-playing game. The scenario \\\"Black Opal Eye\\\" was a sequel to RPGA1 \\\"Rahasia\\\". The player characters brave the ruins of an ancient castle to find the enemy who has been preying on the elves. RPGA2 \\\"Black Opal Eye\\\" was written by Tracy and Laura Hickman, and published by TSR/RPGA in 1983 as a 16-page booklet with an outer folder. The module was a limited edition, sold only to members of the RPGA. This adventure was later collected with RPGA1 \\\"Rahasia\\\" into\",\n \"title\": \"Black Opal Eye\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"16509728\",\n \"text\": \"all the necessary funding to undertake such a massive project. \\\"The Eye of Wendor\\\" overture was written as the title music for the movie, and the track that came to be called \\\"Silesandre\\\" was originally entitled \\\"Black Riders\\\". When the movie production was cancelled Rohl decided to write \\\"The Eye of Wendor\\\" story and compose a whole triple album of music for it. He did not have a working band at that point, so he called on his friends in the UK music industry to help out, and they played most of the instruments and sang the vocals while Rohl\",\n \"title\": \"Mandalaband\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"5517357\",\n \"text\": \"reunion show at Finsbury Park. Fluffy were also the opening band during the European part of Marilyn Manson's 'Anti-Christ Superstar' tour, and toured the U.S. with the Neurotic Outsiders. Their music video for \\\"Black Eye\\\" was shot in New Orleans by Floria Sigismondi, and the making of the video was documented by MTV. Their album \\\"Black Eye\\\" was produced by Bill Price, who also recorded \\\"Never Mind the Bollocks\\\". The band was regularly featured in several magazines; \\\"Kerrang\\\", \\\"Q\\\", \\\"Select\\\", \\\"NME\\\", and \\\"Melody Maker\\\". They also appeared on several UK television shows, including \\\"The Big Breakfast\\\", \\\"Hotel Babylon\\\", and \\\"Top\",\n \"title\": \"Fluffy (band)\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"10237193\",\n \"text\": \"when she replaced the original choice for the lead, Anne Francis, in the title role. It was based on a novel by Erskine Caldwell. Warners gave her another lead role in a feature, \\\"Black Gold\\\" (1962), but it was not a success. She returned to guest starring on shows like \\\"Hawaiian Eye\\\". Producer Hal Bartlett borrowed McBain for a role in \\\"The Caretakers\\\" (1963) with Polly Bergen and Joan Crawford. When \\\"77 Sunset Strip\\\" kicked off its sixth and final season in 1963 with a special five-part story called 'Five', McBain played opposite Efrem Zimbalist, Jr. as \\\"Carla Stevens\\\". She\",\n \"title\": \"Diane McBain\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"6384366\",\n \"text\": \"Mel Novak Mel Novak (born June 16, 1934) is an American actor who is best known for villainous roles in \\\"Black Belt Jones\\\", \\\"Game of Death\\\", and \\\"An Eye for an Eye\\\". He is also known for doing all of his own stunts and fighting scenes. Born in Pittsburgh to Serbian parents as Milan Mrdjenovich (, \\\"Milan Mrđenović\\\"), Novak made his film debut in 1974, appearing in two blaxploitation films, \\\"Truck Turner\\\" starring Isaac Hayes and \\\"Black Belt Jones\\\" starring Jim Kelly that was directed by Robert Clouse that led to a part in Clouse's \\\"The Ultimate Warrior\\\" (1975) starring\",\n \"title\": \"Mel Novak\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"4925797\",\n \"text\": \"Sanshiro Sugata Part II It is believed to be the earliest known film sequel whose title is simply the original title followed by a number, predating the likes of \\\"French Connection II\\\" (1975) by decades. In the 1880s, a martial arts student continues his quest to become a Judo master, from that discipline's founder. Eventually, he learns enough to demonstrate his skill in a boxing match between American and Japanese fighters- at the end of the movie. The whole movie is actually about the rivalry between karate and judo martial artists, and Sanshiro's struggle to do whats right. On one\",\n \"title\": \"Sanshiro Sugata Part II\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"4925792\",\n \"text\": \"Sanshiro Sugata Part II It is believed to be the earliest known film sequel whose title is simply the original title followed by a number, predating the likes of \\\"French Connection II\\\" (1975) by decades. In the 1880s, a martial arts student continues his quest to become a Judo master, from that discipline's founder. Eventually, he learns enough to demonstrate his skill in a boxing match between American and Japanese fighters- at the end of the movie. The whole movie is actually about the rivalry between karate and judo martial artists, and Sanshiro's struggle to do whats right. On one\",\n \"title\": \"Sanshiro Sugata Part II\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"12019806\",\n \"text\": \"revealed) came out dressed as the Black Scorpion, who the real Black Scorpion called \\\"messengers\\\". Then The Black Scorpion made his entrance through a thing Jim Ross described as \\\"a spaceship\\\". The match started back and forth until The Black Scorpion performed a gutwrench suplex, and applied the figure four necklock. After an inverted atomic drop and a corner clothesline, The Black Scorpion applied the chinlock. Sting fought back with a gorilla press slam, and sent The Black Scorpion into the cage. The Black Scorpion fought back with an eye rake, and sent Sting into the cage. Sting performed a\",\n \"title\": \"Starrcade (1990)\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"13424276\",\n \"text\": \"a temporary Nova Prime during the second Kree-Shi'ar War, was captured by Shi'ar forces and tortured. After the torture was over, a man claiming to be Garthan Saal arrived to rescue him. There was a black ops unit of the Nova Corps called the Supernovas. They were also called the Black Novas because their helmets were black instead of gold. During the \\\"Original Sin\\\" storyline, Sam Alexander learned from the eye of the murdered Uatu the Watcher that its membership consisted of thieves and killers. Supernova (Marvel Comics) Supernova, a.k.a. Nova Omega and (Garthan Saal), is a fictional character appearing\",\n \"title\": \"Supernova (Marvel Comics)\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"10101282\",\n \"text\": \"the area to the base of the neck, there is an indigo-violet stripe. The lower part of the nape of the neck, to the top of the back, is a bluish black. The main part of the back, as well as the rump, is red. Wing coverts and flights are red with black tips. The upper part of the tail feathers are a reddish black, and the underside of the tail is a muted red. The iris of the eye is orange-red. The beak is sharply curved, short, and bright red-orange. The feet are medium gray, and the claws are\",\n \"title\": \"Blue-streaked lory\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"3732226\",\n \"text\": \"Uvea The uvea (/ˈjuːvɪə/) (Lat. \\\"uva\\\", grape), also called the \\\"uveal layer\\\", \\\"uveal coat\\\", \\\"uveal tract\\\", \\\"vascular tunic\\\" or \\\"vascular layer\\\" is the pigmented middle of the three concentric layers that make up an eye. The name is possibly a reference to its reddish-blue or almost black colour, wrinkled appearance and grape-like size and shape when stripped intact from a cadaveric eye. Its use as a technical term in anatomy and ophthalmology is relatively modern. The uvea is the vascular middle layer of the eye. It is traditionally divided into three areas, from front to back, the: The prime functions\",\n \"title\": \"Uvea\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"13199750\",\n \"text\": \"place on April 2, 2009. A steakhouse called NYY Steak is located beyond right field. Celebrity chefs will occasionally make appearances at the ballpark's restaurants and help prepare food for fans in premium seating over the course of the season. Above Monument Park in center field is the Mohegan Sun sports bar, whose tinted black glass acts as the ballpark's batter's eye. After the 2016 season, the Yankees began doing updates to Yankee Stadium including the Masterpass Batter's Eye Deck and Frank's Red Hot Terrace and Toyota Terrace. The Masterpass Batter's Eye Deck above the Mohegan Sun sports bar is\",\n \"title\": \"Yankee Stadium\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"10418928\",\n \"text\": \"to creamy colors on the inner part of the extremities, mammary gland, inner part of the thigh and perineal areas. Intensification of the color with black hairs in the edge of the ears and less intense on the edge of the dewlap. The ends, snout, budding horns, eye circles, tail end, and scrotum circle in males, are black as well as the eyelids and eyelashes. The mucous membranes of the nose, mouth, tongue, anus, and vulva are black or slate black. ASEAMO represents associated farmers in Asturias, Cantabria, the Basque Country, Castille-León, Madrid, and La Rioja, Spain. Despite of the\",\n \"title\": \"Asturian Mountain cattle\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"10650820\",\n \"text\": \"a threatened species by the IUCN. Black-crowned white-eye The black-crowned white-eye (\\\"Zosterops atrifrons\\\") is a songbird species. It is closely related to the Old World babblers, and its family Zosteropidae might better be included in the Tiimalidae. Its subspecies from the Sulawesi region might warrant recognition as distinct species \\\"Z. subatrifrons\\\". The Sangihe white-eye (\\\"Z. nehrkorni\\\") and the Seram white-eye (\\\"Z. stalkeri\\\") were formerly included in \\\"Z. atrifrons\\\", as is still, on occasion, the black-fronted white-eye (\\\"Z. minor\\\"). It is endemic to Indonesia. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and subtropical or tropical moist montane forests.\",\n \"title\": \"Black-crowned white-eye\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"10650819\",\n \"text\": \"Black-crowned white-eye The black-crowned white-eye (\\\"Zosterops atrifrons\\\") is a songbird species. It is closely related to the Old World babblers, and its family Zosteropidae might better be included in the Tiimalidae. Its subspecies from the Sulawesi region might warrant recognition as distinct species \\\"Z. subatrifrons\\\". The Sangihe white-eye (\\\"Z. nehrkorni\\\") and the Seram white-eye (\\\"Z. stalkeri\\\") were formerly included in \\\"Z. atrifrons\\\", as is still, on occasion, the black-fronted white-eye (\\\"Z. minor\\\"). It is endemic to Indonesia. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and subtropical or tropical moist montane forests. Quite common, it is not considered\",\n \"title\": \"Black-crowned white-eye\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"5113649\",\n \"text\": \"that the black color is only a permanent fixture with telescope eye goldfish. However, with the recent entry of black lionheads, black orandas, black ranchus, black ryukins, black pearlscales, black comets, black bubble eyes, black crosses of two or more goldfish, and black \\\"hibunas\\\", this view is no longer true. In fact, black telescopes do sometimes throw normal-eye offsprings, and they are black also. However, they are often culled as they do not conform to the telescope eye feature for the Moor variety. In 1941, Moscow aquarist P. Andrianov, bred a kind of black telescope with orange-red eyes. The panda\",\n \"title\": \"Telescope (goldfish)\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"3189823\",\n \"text\": \"killed by Avaia, the carnivorous black swan; and Leila, a 15-year-old who calls Finn to \\\"The Longest Road\\\" via a game called the \\\"takiena\\\" and succeeds Jaelle as High Priestess. The Dalrei, plains-dwelling tribes of nomadic hunters who both hunt and guard the vast herds of eltor in the northern part of Fionavar. Each tribe is led its own chieftain, helped by the tribe's shaman who is ritually blinded in youth the better to focus the sight of his inner eye. Of particular interest to the story is the Third Tribe, under the leadership of Ivor dan Bannor and their\",\n \"title\": \"The Fionavar Tapestry\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"17944576\",\n \"text\": \"by Jason Byron. 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Critic Richie Unterberger commented, \"Particularly outstanding was Brian Jones's slide guitar, whose wailing howl gave the tune a raunchy bluesiness missing in the Beatles' more straightforward rock 'n' roll arrangement. Jones also played slide on their 1964 single \"Little Red Rooster\", which reached number one on the British charts. Jones' successor playing slide in the Stones was Mick Taylor, a 20 year old virtuoso who performed on \"Sticky Fingers\" and \"Exile on Main Street\".","title":"Slide guitar"},{"docid":"5609452","text":"produced by scraping a pick across the strings of an electric guitar in conjunction with distortion and delay. The three guitar solos on \"Long Time\" are played by Barry Goudreau, rather than Scholz, who played most of the guitar parts on \"Boston\". Goudreau also plays the solo in \"Let Me Take You Home Tonight\". Scholz played the solos in \"More Than a Feeling\", \"Peace of Mind\", \"Rock & Roll Band\", and \"Something About You\". \"Rolling Stone\" described \"Foreplay/Long Time\" as \"a perfect marriage of Led Zeppelin and Yes that plays musical chairs with electric and acoustic sounds.\" In 2004, \"Long","title":"Foreplay/Long Time"},{"docid":"6693670","text":"(where the band mimed and Gabrels chose to play his guitar with a bread roll, with Bowie seeming to be much amused by the resulting mess) and \"Wogan\" (where the band again mimed, and Gabrels played his guitar with a vibrator, and Bowie visibly tired of the host’s patter), the single peaked at UK No. 33 – a disappointment, but it would be Tin Machine’s biggest hit single. Producers Musicians You Belong in Rock n' Roll \"You Belong in Rock n' Roll\" is a song by Tin Machine, released ahead of their second album in August 1991. The song was","title":"You Belong in Rock n' Roll"},{"docid":"18932022","text":"be marginalized, but not forgotten.\" In 2017, Serbian news magazine \"Nedeljnik\" pronounced the 1966 Gitarijada one of 100 Events that Changed Serbia. The magazine wrote: \"After that [Gitarijada], everything changed. The Party accepted young people who played rock and roll, which provoked conspiracy theorists to describe that as the desire of communist establishment to win over the youth, or to pacify them and keep them under control using rock and roll. Of course, those were all nonsense, because rock and roll was something that could not be stopped.\" Gitarijada (Belgrade) Gitarijada (Serbian Cyrillic: Гитаријада, trans. \"Guitar Fest\") was a musical","title":"Gitarijada (Belgrade)"},{"docid":"2357436","text":"Santiago's guitar \"squawking\" on an E-flat like \"a wounded animal\". As Santiago was learning the guitar, he saw himself as a self-conscious amateur, and still speaks of a lack of confidence in his playing. Santiago, rather than listening to popular radio, borrowed rock and roll records from the public library as he was growing up; he first discovered Les Paul and Jimi Hendrix, who led to jazz guitarist Wes Montgomery. Santiago later commented on Montgomery's influence: \"And that's when I said, 'Ah, that's a hook. That's some hooky stuff in the jazz world'\". He discovered jazz and country artists such","title":"Joey Santiago"},{"docid":"3746337","text":"Black and Blue Black and Blue is the 13th British and 15th American studio album by the band the Rolling Stones, released in 1976. It was the band's first studio album released with Ronnie Wood as the replacement for Mick Taylor. Wood had played 12-string acoustic guitar on the track \"It's Only Rock 'n Roll (But I Like It)\" from the \"It's Only Rock 'n Roll\" album and appears on half of the \"Black and Blue\" album tracks (mostly backing vocals) with Wayne Perkins and Harvey Mandel playing guitar on the remaining titles. Keith Richards would later comment \"Rehearsing guitar","title":"Black and Blue"},{"docid":"6192104","text":"has been the recipient of a total of six Detroit Music Awards. In 2017, in honor of John Lee Hooker's 100th birthday anniversary celebration, he formed \"Booker Blues All-Stars\" and recorded a CD with the band called \"Booker Plays Hooker\". The band consists of Muruga (drums), Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee Billy Davis (guitar & vocals), Tony \"Strat\" Thomas (guitar), John Sauter (bass guitar) (who also played with \"Hooker & Booker\"), Misty Love (former backup singer for Kid Rock), and special guest Peter \"Madcat\" Ruth. Through the 1960s, as Steve Booker, he recorded with Jim and Jean on","title":"Muruga Booker"},{"docid":"342153","text":"always provided by a snare drum. Classic rock and roll is usually played with one or two electric guitars (one lead, one rhythm), a double bass or string bass or (after the mid-1950s) an electric bass guitar, and a drum kit. Beyond simply a musical style, rock and roll, as seen in movies, in fan magazines, and on television, influenced lifestyles, fashion, attitudes, and language. In addition, rock and roll may have contributed to the civil rights movement because both African-American and white American teenagers enjoyed the music. It went on to spawn various genres, often without the initially characteristic","title":"Rock and roll"},{"docid":"19227755","text":"Wexler on bass, and Gedalia Goldstein on drums. They played rock and bluegrass music with Jewish-themed lyrics, with the group self-describing its style as \"Hasidic rock\" and \"Country and Eastern\". The Israeli group Tofa'ah emerged in 1981 as the first all-female Orthodox Jewish rock band, playing a mix of blues, jazz, and rock and roll. Around the same time, singer-songwriter Yosi Piamenta, a \"baal teshuva\" who had previously played with jazz legend Stan Getz, broke into Jewish music, where he pioneered the use of electric guitar. In the United States, Shlock Rock, formed in New York City in 1985, performed","title":"Jewish rock"},{"docid":"14859938","text":"by \"Black Diamond\" and later \"Rock and Roll All Nite\". It has remained a concert staple and has appeared on many of the band's compilations. The original song title was \"Baby, Let Me Go\" but was soon changed by producer Kenny Kerner to \"Rock 'n' Roll\" before finally being titled \"Let Me Go, Rock 'n' Roll\". When performed live, the song has often been extended to nearly five minutes due to guitar and bass solos. It was regularly played until the 1977 Love Gun Tour, where it was excluded, but came back for the Alive II and Dynasty tours. Except","title":"Let Me Go, Rock 'n' Roll"},{"docid":"961414","text":"in rock and roll is indisputable. Up until his arrival, the music had been primarily associated with guitars, but his early Sun recordings and television appearances pushed the instrument to the forefront. Lewis was also an incendiary showman who often played with his fists, elbows, feet, and backside, sometimes climbing on top of the piano during gigs and even apocryphally setting it on fire. Like Chuck Berry's guitar playing, Lewis's piano style has become synonymous with rock and roll, having influenced generations of piano players. In a 2013 interview with Leah Harper, Elton John recalls that up until \"Great Balls","title":"Jerry Lee Lewis"},{"docid":"13401909","text":"her album, \"Somewhere in the Stars\". \"It's Only Rock & Roll\" was covered in 1983 by both Emmylou Harris and Waylon Jennings on their respective albums \"White Shoes\" and \"It's Only Rock & Roll\". \"On a Real Good Night\" was written by Crowell but was first recorded by Bobby Bare for his 1978 album \"Sleep Wherever I Fall\". Albert Lee, who played guitar for this album, performed the song on his 1979 album \"Hiding\". Emmylou Harris also covered \"Ashes by Now\" on her 1981 album \"Evangeline\". It is also featured on Lee Ann Womack's album \"I Hope You Dance\". Guy","title":"But What Will the Neighbors Think"},{"docid":"15750151","text":"guitar style is a combination of Jersey Shore blues and rock n roll. As of 2013, his band consisted of Hector on guitar and vocals, Timmy Tindall on bass, and Dan Hickey on drums. Hector received the Best Guitarist Award from music critic Bob Makin of \"The Aquarian Weekly\"s East Coast Rocker section twice. He is also the recipient of three Asbury Park Music Awards: \"Best Guitarist\", \"Best Blues Band\" and the \"Living Legend.\" Hector and his band were billed alongside Bonnie Raitt at The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's \"Tribute to Muddy Waters\". Hector has played with B.","title":"Billy Hector"},{"docid":"11312534","text":"Edu Ardanuy Eduardo \"Edu\" Ardanuy (born on June 20, 1967 in São Paulo, Brazil) is a Brazilian guitarist who has worked with such bands as Dr. Sin, Anjos da Noite, Blezqi Zatzas, Supla and Eduardo Araújo. He was included in a 'Top 10 Greatest Guitar Players' ranking by the Guitar Player Magazine in 1998. He has also played with Steve Vai, being invited by him. Ardanuy began studying music and playing acoustic guitar at age 13. At age 16, he began to study guitar, when his father gave him an electric guitar, thus, his interest for rock n' roll increased","title":"Edu Ardanuy"},{"docid":"5699084","text":"Pingatore, and \"Viagra Rock\" with Warren Farren. Marshall Lytle Marshall Lytle (September 1, 1933 – May 25, 2013) was an American rock and roll bassist, best known for his work with the groups Bill Haley & His Comets and The Jodimars in the 1950s. He played upright slap bass on the iconic 1950s rock and roll records \"Crazy Man, Crazy\", \"Shake, Rattle and Roll\", and \"Rock Around the Clock\". Born in Old Fort, North Carolina, Lytle was a guitar player before joining Bill Haley's country music group, The Saddlemen, in 1951. But Lytle was hired to play double bass for","title":"Marshall Lytle"},{"docid":"411316","text":"including the Sex Pistols (who covered \"Roadrunner\" on \"The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle\"). In early 1976, Richman put together a new version of The Modern Lovers, with Leroy Radcliffe (guitar), Greg 'Curly' Keranen (bass) and the returning David Robinson (drums). Keranen had previously played with The Rubinoos, and Radcliffe with Woody's Truckstop. They recorded the album \"Jonathan Richman & The Modern Lovers\" (1976), but Robinson again left after Richman persisted in reducing the size and volume of his drum kit, and was replaced by D. Sharpe. This band recorded the album \"Rock 'N' Roll with The Modern Lovers\" (1977)","title":"The Modern Lovers"},{"docid":"11553734","text":"featured on the BBC Olympics 2008 programming, where it was played as the show looked over the day's events. The music video consists of Macdonald playing a guitar in a white room. Pictures of her and a man and another woman walking in town are also seen. CD single 7\" single CD single - Europe CD single - Germany Digital download Mr Rock & Roll \"Mr. Rock & Roll\" is a song by Scottish singer-songwriter Amy Macdonald, released on 16 July 2007. It was her first full single after the limited online release of \"Poison Prince\", and was released on","title":"Mr Rock & Roll"},{"docid":"18998031","text":"1967 on which he played guitar and mandolin, an instrument he had never previously played. In 2010, he took part in a Rock and Roll Hall of Fame tribute to Dave Bartholomew at Case Western University. He died in Los Angeles in 2012, aged 86. Ernest McLean Ernest J. McLean (March 23, 1925 – February 24, 2012) was an American rhythm and blues and jazz guitarist. Born in New Orleans, McLean was the son of musician Richard McLean, who played banjo in a government music project band, and his wife Beatrice. He began learning guitar at the age of 11","title":"Ernest McLean"},{"docid":"4297721","text":"concert, Batio noticed that the guitars created a lot of feedback when played together. He decided that he needed to invent a way to 'dampen' the strings when both guitars were played at the same time, hence the invention of the \"MAB String Dampener\", which is now available to buy from M.A.C.E. Music. The Double Guitar was recently named as the 8th \"coolest guitar in rock\" by online music magazine \"Gigwise\". His iconic Dean 'Jet' Double-Guitar has been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Museum and was put on permanent display in February 2012. This guitar was","title":"Michael Angelo Batio"},{"docid":"470419","text":"their son's interest in rock and roll. Townshend and Entwistle became friends in their second year of Acton County, and formed a trad jazz group; Entwistle also played French horn in the Middlesex Schools' Symphony Orchestra. Both were interested in rock, and Townshend particularly admired Cliff Richard's début single, \"Move It\". Entwistle moved to guitar, but struggled with it due to his large fingers, and moved to bass on hearing the guitar work of Duane Eddy. He was unable to afford a bass and built one at home. After Acton County, Townshend attended Ealing Art College, a move he later","title":"The Who"},{"docid":"1413682","text":"country, bluegrass and blues. This has been propelled by record labels like Bloodshot Records and Lost Highway Records. Southern rock Southern rock is a subgenre of rock music and a genre of Americana. It developed in the Southern United States from rock and roll, country music, and blues, and is focused generally on electric guitar and vocals. Although the origin of the term Southern rock is unknown, \"many people feel that these important contributors to the development of rock and roll have been minimized in rock's history.\" The Allman Brothers Band played Southern rock with long jams. The Marshall Tucker","title":"Southern rock"},{"docid":"342161","text":"supplied many of the elements that would be seen as characteristic of rock and roll. Inspired by electric blues, Chuck Berry introduced an aggressive guitar sound to rock and roll, and established the electric guitar as its centrepiece, adapting his rock band instrumentation from the basic blues band instrumentation of a lead guitar, second chord instrument, bass and drums. Rock and roll arrived at a time of considerable technological change, soon after the development of the electric guitar, amplifier and microphone, and the 45 rpm record. There were also changes in the record industry, with the rise of independent labels","title":"Rock and roll"},{"docid":"1413662","text":"Southern rock Southern rock is a subgenre of rock music and a genre of Americana. It developed in the Southern United States from rock and roll, country music, and blues, and is focused generally on electric guitar and vocals. Although the origin of the term Southern rock is unknown, \"many people feel that these important contributors to the development of rock and roll have been minimized in rock's history.\" The Allman Brothers Band played Southern rock with long jams. The Marshall Tucker Band was also known to incorporate jazz instruments such as the flute and saxophone into their jams. Loosely","title":"Southern rock"},{"docid":"342165","text":"in 1955, Bo Diddley introduced the \"Bo Diddley beat\" and a unique electric guitar style, influenced by African and Afro-Cuban music and in turn influencing many later artists. \"Rockabilly\" usually (but not exclusively) refers to the type of rock and roll music which was played and recorded in the mid-1950s primarily by white singers such as Elvis Presley, Carl Perkins, Johnny Cash, and Jerry Lee Lewis, who drew mainly on the country roots of the music. Elvis Presley was greatly influenced and incorporated his style of music with some of the greatest African American musicians like BB King, Chuck Berry","title":"Rock and roll"},{"docid":"12294325","text":"The Rebels (rockabilly band) The Rebels was a rockabilly band from Dallas, Texas that recorded \"School of Rock 'n Roll\" and \"Straight Skirt\" with Gene Summers. The group consisted of James McClung (guitar), Gary Moon (drums) and Benny Williams (slap bass). They were soon joined by pianist Bill Brown who played on some of their early personal appearances. They were one of the first rock 'n roll bands to record using the name \"Rebels\" (February 1, 1958), preceding Duane Eddy's Rebels by at least six months and the \"Wild Weekend\" Rebels by more than two years. The Rebels began their","title":"The Rebels (rockabilly band)"},{"docid":"13780047","text":"of the pioneers of Rock and roll music, refined and developed the major elements that made rock and roll distinctive, focusing on teen life and introducing guitar solos and showmanship that would be a major influence on subsequent rock music. A decade earlier, Sister Rosetta Tharpe fused gospel and blues, inventing rock ‘n roll electric guitar by developing sophisticated phrasing and licks that served as the basis for the iconic rock guitar style of the 1950s and beyond. Artists such as Elvis Presley, Chuck Berry, Bo Diddley, Fats Domino, Little Richard, Jerry Lee Lewis, Big Joe Turner, and Gene Vincent","title":"1950s in music"},{"docid":"6019269","text":"Crosby, Texas. Gene Kelton Gene Kelton (10 April 1953 – 28 December 2010) was an American guitarist, harmonica player and singer-songwriter, based in Houston, Texas. He played Americana, blues-rock, Southern rock and rockabilly music. Born Sidney Eugene Kelton, in Booneville, Mississippi, United States, his mother sang gospel music on the radio. She divorced his ne'er-do-well father when he was six. Afterward they lived with his grandfather, a cotton plantation sharecropper. On weekends he listened to down-home blues in a dirt-floored juke joint. His step father, Bob Allbritton, who played rock and roll guitar then in a manner, as it can","title":"Gene Kelton"},{"docid":"6019260","text":"Gene Kelton Gene Kelton (10 April 1953 – 28 December 2010) was an American guitarist, harmonica player and singer-songwriter, based in Houston, Texas. He played Americana, blues-rock, Southern rock and rockabilly music. Born Sidney Eugene Kelton, in Booneville, Mississippi, United States, his mother sang gospel music on the radio. She divorced his ne'er-do-well father when he was six. Afterward they lived with his grandfather, a cotton plantation sharecropper. On weekends he listened to down-home blues in a dirt-floored juke joint. His step father, Bob Allbritton, who played rock and roll guitar then in a manner, as it can be said","title":"Gene Kelton"},{"docid":"2450300","text":"a specifically rock and roll style of playing of such exponents as Chuck Berry, Link Wray, and Scotty Moore. Chuck Berry, who is considered to be one of the pioneers of Rock and roll music, refined and developed the major elements that made rock and roll distinctive, focusing on teen life and introducing guitar solos and showmanship that would be a major influence on subsequent rock music. Artists such as Chuck Berry, Bo Diddley, Fats Domino, Little Richard, Jerry Lee Lewis, Big Joe Turner, and Gene Vincent released the initial rhythm and blues-influenced early rock and roll hits. Rock and","title":"Music history of the United States in the 1950s"},{"docid":"3441728","text":"Los Lonely Boys Los Lonely Boys are an American Chicano rock power trio from San Angelo, Texas. They play a style of music they call \"Texican Rock n' Roll,\" combining elements of rock and roll, Texas blues, brown-eyed soul, country, and Tejano. The band consists of three brothers: Henry (guitar, vocals), Jojo (bass, vocals), and Ringo (drums, vocals) Garza. They follow the tradition of their father, Ringo Garza, Sr., who formed a band with his brothers called the Falcones. The Falcones played conjunto music in South Texas during the 1970s and 1980s. The debut single for Los Lonely Boys, \"Heaven\",","title":"Los Lonely Boys"},{"docid":"1472537","text":"an electric guitar solo with distorted overtones and became a major R&B hit in 1954. It is regarded as one of The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's 500 Songs that Shaped Rock and Roll, and contributed to the development of soul music. In the 1950s, blues had a huge influence on mainstream American popular music. While popular musicians like Bo Diddley and Chuck Berry, both recording for Chess, were influenced by the Chicago blues, their enthusiastic playing styles departed from the melancholy aspects of blues and played a major role in the development of rock and roll. Chicago blues","title":"Electric blues"},{"docid":"5699073","text":"Marshall Lytle Marshall Lytle (September 1, 1933 – May 25, 2013) was an American rock and roll bassist, best known for his work with the groups Bill Haley & His Comets and The Jodimars in the 1950s. He played upright slap bass on the iconic 1950s rock and roll records \"Crazy Man, Crazy\", \"Shake, Rattle and Roll\", and \"Rock Around the Clock\". Born in Old Fort, North Carolina, Lytle was a guitar player before joining Bill Haley's country music group, The Saddlemen, in 1951. But Lytle was hired to play double bass for the group, replacing departing musician Al Rex,","title":"Marshall Lytle"},{"docid":"16082834","text":"\"John Connor\" by his bandmates in homage to the protagonist character in The Terminator movies. Conor Smith and Jesse Death are long time friends, who went to school together in Fort McMurray Alberta and played in several punk bands important to the local music scene. For a brief period The Rock n' Roll Rats had a second guitar player, Jay \"Ramone\" Parrott (from Thomaston Georgia USA) who left the band due to family obligations. The band has not undergone any other lineup changes and all current members are original. Note: All of these web pages are no longer available The","title":"The Rock n Roll Rats"},{"docid":"13504954","text":"little to rock and roll. Amid the limited vitality of late 1950s and early 1960s British rock and roll, there were some more dynamic acts. These included Billy Fury, whose rockabilly-style compositions, aided by the guitar of Joe Brown, on his \"masterpiece\" 1960 LP \"Sound of Fury\" are considered some of the best work of the era. Tony Sheridan, Vince Taylor and Screaming Lord Sutch and the Savages also produced some work that could be compared with American rock and roll. Other singers who issued records of note included Terry Dene, \"a fine rock'n'roll vocalist\"; Johnny Brandon, who toured the","title":"British rock and roll"},{"docid":"4198095","text":"Guitar Slim Eddie Jones (December 10, 1926 – February 7, 1959), better known as Guitar Slim, was a New Orleans blues guitarist in the 1940s and 1950s, best known for the million-selling song \"The Things That I Used to Do\", produced by Johnny Vincent for Specialty Records. It is listed in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's 500 Songs That Shaped Rock and Roll. Slim had a major impact on rock and roll and experimented with distorted overtones on the electric guitar a full decade before Jimi Hendrix. Jones was born in Greenwood, Mississippi. His mother died when he","title":"Guitar Slim"},{"docid":"13071517","text":"Art Ryerson Arthur Ryerson (May 22, 1913 – October 27, 2004) was a jazz guitarist who emerged in the 1930s, playing acoustic and electric guitar, as well as the banjo. He played with jazz orchestras and bands in the 1930s and the 1940s. In the early 1950s, he played on the early rock and roll recordings of Bill Haley. His daughter is flautist Ali Ryerson. Art Ryerson began playing the banjo in Columbus, Ohio before switching to guitar. In the early 1930s he joined the Rhythm Jesters at radio station WLW in Cincinnati. He moved to New York City and","title":"Art Ryerson"},{"docid":"12713962","text":"Rock n Roll Jesus (song) \"Rock n Roll Jesus\" is the fifth single from Kid Rock's album of the same name. It was typical bravado-laced Kid Rock about sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll. The song was co-written by former lead guitarist Kenny Tudrick, who replaced Kenny Olson on the 2006 'Live' Trucker tour. The song and album title were attacked by some religious groups for being sacrilegious. The song along with \"All Summer Long\" and \"Son of Detroit\" were featured in the guitar game \"\". A live version was released on the Targer Version of Born Free in 2010.","title":"Rock n Roll Jesus (song)"},{"docid":"12713961","text":"Rock n Roll Jesus (song) \"Rock n Roll Jesus\" is the fifth single from Kid Rock's album of the same name. It was typical bravado-laced Kid Rock about sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll. The song was co-written by former lead guitarist Kenny Tudrick, who replaced Kenny Olson on the 2006 'Live' Trucker tour. The song and album title were attacked by some religious groups for being sacrilegious. The song along with \"All Summer Long\" and \"Son of Detroit\" were featured in the guitar game \"\". A live version was released on the Targer Version of Born Free in 2010.","title":"Rock n Roll Jesus (song)"},{"docid":"1997085","text":"\"Sultans of Swing\" one of the top five songs of 1979. In 1993, Paul Williams included \"Sultans of Swing\" in his book \"Rock and Roll: The 100 Best Singles\". The song is on The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's 500 Songs that Shaped Rock and Roll list, Dire Straits' only appearance. In 2006, \"Mojo\" included \"Sultans of Swing\" in its list of the 50 best British songs. The song's guitar solo reached No. 22 on \"Guitar World\"s list of the greatest guitar solos and No. 32 on \"Rolling Stone\"s list of greatest guitar songs. The song was originally released","title":"Sultans of Swing"},{"docid":"8124717","text":"Roll Away the Stone \"Roll Away the Stone\" is a single released by English rock band Mott the Hoople, recorded before Mick Ralphs left the band. In this version Ralphs plays lead guitar and one of the Thunderthighs handles the bridge voice. It was re-recorded by the band for their 1974 album \"The Hoople\", with Ariel Bender on lead guitar and English vocalist Lynsey de Paul singing the vocal bridge. It reached No.8 on the UK Singles Chart. When the band appeared on the BBC show \"Top of the Pops\", drummer Dale \"Buffin\" Griffin played the drums with two pool","title":"Roll Away the Stone"},{"docid":"2133919","text":"He first played bass guitar in a band called Bobby Dennis and the Dominoes, which performed pop chart covers and rock 'n' roll standards, including Shadows covers. He later stated that Hank Marvin was his guitar hero and he played The Shadows song \"Midnight \"on the 1996 tribute album \"Twang.\" He went on to join a rhythm and blues outfit, the Muskrats, then a band called The Tridents in which he played bass. In 1966, Green played lead guitar in Peter Bardens' band \"Peter B's Looners\", where he met drummer Mick Fleetwood. It was with Peter B's Looners that he","title":"Peter Green (musician)"},{"docid":"2986332","text":"In 2015, Weir, along with former Grateful Dead members Mickey Hart and Bill Kreutzmann, joined with Grammy-winning singer/guitarist John Mayer to form the band Dead & Company. The band remains active. During his career with the Grateful Dead, Weir played mostly rhythm guitar and sang many of the band's rock-n-roll and country & western tunes. In 1994, he was inducted into The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of the Grateful Dead. Weir was born in San Francisco, California to John (Jack) Parber and a fellow college student, who later gave him up for adoption ; he","title":"Bob Weir"},{"docid":"11175079","text":"Rock And Roll Guitar 4. Education High 5. Least Likely To Succeed 6. You Learn To Live Like An Animal 7. Appetite For Dysfunction 8. Off To The Races 9. Don't Try This At Home 10. Humpty Dumpty 11. Choose Your Illusion 12. Breakdown 13. Coming Up For Air Slash (autobiography) Slash is an autobiography written by rock guitarist Slash with Anthony Bozza. Most of the book focuses on Slash's years with Guns N' Roses, including many rock star cliches: trashed hotel rooms, groupies, drug abuse, etc. Slash talks about Axl Rose, frontman of Guns N' Roses, and his departure","title":"Slash (autobiography)"},{"docid":"18542589","text":"Rock & Roll Baby Rock & Roll Baby is an EP from American singer/songwriter/guitarist Malina Moye. The first single “K-yotic” featured Rock and Roll Hall of Fame’s funk legend Bootsy Collins which Billboard called \"explosive\" debuted on Billboard Twitter 140 chart at #5, and at #11 on Billboard’s Hot Singles Sales chart. Guitar World stated that “Moye's record is insanely good bringing a certain passion and feel to her guitar playing.\" Elmore Magazine said “Moye demonstrates once again she can play with the best of them fusing rock, blues, funk and soul…[her] new EP indeed shows the influence of Hendrix,","title":"Rock & Roll Baby"},{"docid":"6405110","text":"working on a record right now which I think is coming out on Atlantic. I like it – I believe in them.” <http://www.melodicrock.com/interviews/steveperry-mitchlafon.html> Rock n Roll Soldiers The Rock n Roll Soldiers are a rock band from Eugene, Oregon. Its members are: Marty Larson-Xu (vocals, guitar), Oliver Brown (drums), and Evan Sernoffsky (bass guitar). Their sound has been described as \"skuzzy, sleazy punk tailored for drinking, fighting and tattooing\" by MTV News reporter James Montgomery. Larson-Xu himself describes it as high energy old-school rock and roll with a \"greater modern sensibility\" (Rocket Net Webzine). The Soldiers are known for their","title":"Rock n Roll Soldiers"},{"docid":"13585060","text":"magazine described it as an \"infectious flick-your Bic staple.\" MTV's Gil Kaufman noted that the song is a \"rock-radio staple.\" \"Guitar World\" states that when the radio plays \"Rock and Roll Band\" \"few can resist indulging in fits of fleet-fingered air guitar and a spirited falsetto sing-along.\" In describing \"the absolute perfection of every song\" on Boston's debut album, Brian Thorpe Ferris claimed that \"even the fake, cheering crowd on 'Rock & Roll Band' sounds authentic\" \"Entertainment Weekly\" writer Chris Willman noted that, like all the other songs from \"Boston\", \"Rock and Roll Band\" \"received sizable FM radio airplay\" upon","title":"Rock & Roll Band"},{"docid":"3634396","text":"of the song on his 2003 album \"Now\". In 2004, when Harrison was inducted posthumously into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a solo artist, \"While My Guitar Gently Weeps\" was played in tribute by a large band that included Tom Petty, Lynne, Steve Winwood, Mann, Dhani Harrison and Steve Ferrone. The performance concluded with an extended guitar solo by Prince, who was also being inducted into the Hall of Fame. Among other cover versions, the song has also been recorded by guitarists such as Marc Ribot, Phish and Charlie Byrd, and on ukulele by Jake Shimabukuro. Toto","title":"While My Guitar Gently Weeps"},{"docid":"16619647","text":"to fill out a 1968 album titled \"Do You Know the Way to San Jose\" by the Baja Marimba Band. Nevertheless, his enduring legacy is one of an accomplished guitarist who played on some of the twentieth century's most popular recordings. Pitman's main studio guitar was the Gibson ES-335 with a Polytone amplifier. On some of the rock and roll records, he used a Fender Telecaster with a Fender Twin Reverb amplifier. Other instruments included a twelve-string guitar, Fender bass, Gibson mandolin, and a Bacon tenor banjo. Pitman tuned the mandolin and banjo like a guitar, and was careful to","title":"Bill Pitman"},{"docid":"827152","text":"1991, \"Little Darlin's Rock and Roll Palace\" in Kissimmee, Florida renamed the club as \"Wolfman Jack's Rock and Roll Palace\". The New Year's Eve grand opening featured, Joe Walsh, Melaine, Lester Chambers, The Impressions and Rockin Robin. Wolfman Jack played himself in an episode of \"Married... with Children\" (\"Ship Happens: Part 1\") that first aired in February 1995. \"Have Mercy: Confessions of the Original Rock 'n' Roll Animal,\" Wolfman's autobiography, was published in 1995 to stellar reviews in \"The New York Times\", the \"Los Angeles Times\", and \"Kirkus Reviews\", which said it \"Reads like a collaboration between Mark Twain and","title":"Wolfman Jack"},{"docid":"6631563","text":"rock and roll. Originally composed of Alejandro Lora on bass Memo Berea lead guitar and lead vocals, Ernesto de Leon on lead guitar, and Carlos Hauptvogel on the drums, the band has been accompanied on some albums by Arturo Labastida on saxophone and Carlos Martinez on trumpet. Sergio Mancera also played guitar on some albums. They performed their first public engagement in October, 1968, and released 15 albums on the RAFF record label before officially changing their name and lineup in 1985. As rock in Mexico was originally seen as 'unauthentic' when sung in Spanish, Three Souls mostly sang covers","title":"El Tri"},{"docid":"7645726","text":"1977 tour, the bow was illuminated and emitted a laser beam from its tip. Page also played part of the solo of the song \"Heartbreaker\" holding the guitar over his head while walking across the stage, and then bending a string above the guitar nut to repeatedly change the pitch of the note. He also jumped and opened his legs wide in mid-air when playing \"Rock And Roll\". Ritchie Blackmore often played his guitar in unusual ways during a show—stepping on it with his foot, scraping the strings across the monitors or amplifiers on stage, throwing his guitar and catching","title":"Guitar showmanship"},{"docid":"342160","text":"were less economical and tended to be replaced by smaller combos, using guitars, bass and drums. In the same period, particularly on the West Coast and in the Midwest, the development of jump blues, with its guitar riffs, prominent beats and shouted lyrics, prefigured many later developments. In the documentary film \"Hail! Hail! Rock 'n' Roll\", Keith Richards proposes that Chuck Berry developed his brand of rock and roll by transposing the familiar two-note lead line of jump blues piano directly to the electric guitar, creating what is instantly recognizable as rock guitar. Similarly, country boogie and Chicago electric blues","title":"Rock and roll"},{"docid":"16089078","text":"had short tenures with the band. American guitar legend, Reggie Young, who has over 200 Gold or Platinum records to his credit, played for the Ranch Boys. Other notable Snearly Ranch Boys' members include Paul Burlison, a guitarist for \"Johnny Burnette and the Rock 'n Roll Trio\" who also appeared in the Alan Freed movie, \"Rock, Rock, Rock\"; Albert Vescova, steel guitarist for the \"Tonight Show\" band and prominent Hollywood actor; Ramsey Kearney, Nashville recording artist and studio owner; Jumpin' Gene Simmons, recording artist with hit song \"Haunted House\"; Hayden Thompson, a rockabilly recording star; Eddie Bond, Rockabilly star and","title":"Snearly Ranch Boys"},{"docid":"10840408","text":"for Chess, \"I Would Hate to See You Go\" (1956). Among his more famous work, he played on Chuck Berry's 1957 hit single \"School Days\" as well as on other Berry recording including \"Brown Eyed Handsome Man\" (1956), \"Roll Over Beethoven\" (1956), \"Too Much Monkey Business\" (1956), the calypso flavored, \"Havana Moon\" (1956), \"Rock and Roll Music\" (1957), \"Sweet Little Sixteen\" (1957), \"Reelin' and Rockin'\" (1957), \"Guitar Boogie\" (1957), \"Memphis, Tennessee\" (1958), \"Sweet Little Rock and Roller\" (1958), \"Little Queenie\" (1958), \"Almost Grown\" (1959), \"Back in the U.S.A.\" (1959) and \"Let It Rock\" (1959). Below rejoined the Myers brothers for","title":"Fred Below"},{"docid":"15721796","text":"was 1970 on John McLaughlin's album \"My Goal's Beyond\" (1970) followed by Mahavishnu Orchestra's,\"The Inner Mounting Flame\" (1971) followed shortly thereafter with \"Birds of Fire\" (1973). Jean-Luc Ponty played on subsequent albums \"Apocalypse\" and \"Visions of the Emerald Beyond\". Scarlet Rivera played with Bob Dylan on \"Hurricane\". Jane Clark with Steffen Schackinger Rock violin Rock violin is rock music that includes violin in its instrumental lineup. This includes rock music only and does not include classical style music using melodic motifs from rock. Rock music and rock and roll bands typically use electric guitar for the high range, and thus","title":"Rock violin"},{"docid":"4861608","text":"Presley musical films and directed Presley in the film \"Paradise, Hawaiian Style\" (1966) for Paramount Pictures. Because of that, plus his experience directing a western film, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer hired him to direct rock and roll singer Roy Orbison in \"The Fastest Guitar Alive\" (1967). He worked exclusively as a director in film and television from 1965 to 1969. He then became a second unit director, working on numerous major films such as \"Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid\" (1969), \"Patton\" (1970), and \"The Man Who Would Be King\" (1975). He was credited as associate producer in charge of action and animal","title":"Mickey Moore"},{"docid":"17905989","text":"Haitian rock Haitian rock, or rock kreyòl, started as rock n roll in Haiti in the early 1960s. It was played by rock bands called \"yeye\" bands. The name \"yeye\" derives from the Beatles lyrical verse, \"yeah, yeah, yeah\", which took off in the United States and was listened to by upper class Haitian families who had access to the radio. Young Haitians formed small electric guitar-based bands. These \"yeye\" rock bands were short-lived, as the addition of \"compas\" to their repertoires resulted in a sound was called mini-jazz, or \"mini-djaz\" in creole. Today, \"Rock Kreyòl\" is an alternative rock","title":"Haitian rock"},{"docid":"3700263","text":"to form the \"Second Amendments,\" a bipartisan rock and country band set to play for United States troops stationed overseas over the holiday season. He played lead guitar. In June 2006, the band played at President George W. Bush's picnic on the White House lawn, where Bush was quoted calling McCotter \"that rock-and-roll dude.\" McCotter was once in a band called the New Flying Squirrels. Thaddeus McCotter Thaddeus George McCotter (born August 22, 1965) is an American politician, radio host, and a member of the Republican Party who was the U.S. Representative from from 2003 to 2012. The district at","title":"Thaddeus McCotter"},{"docid":"13991834","text":"Turn It Up, in May 2017. Their current and permanent drummer (since 2015) is Ryan McHale (New York), and their former drummer was Dave Rahn from Atlanta (Gentleman Jesse & His Men, Carbons) who also played the drums on all Baby Shakes recordings prior to 2016. Their drummer during their February 2009 Japanese tour was Travis Ramin (Nikki Corvette, Fevers) and Shingo Nishimaru was their drummer during their 2009 European tour. Bio taken from www.babyshakes.com: Baby Shakes are a rock n’ roll-punk band from New York City. Mary on lead vocals and guitar, Judy on lead guitar and vocals, Claudia","title":"Baby Shakes"},{"docid":"7332007","text":"session rehearsal and was uncertain what to play for the first instrumental break in the song. One of the Comets (accounts differ as to exactly who) suggested Cedrone repeat the solo he'd played on \"Rock the Joint\". Although Danny's wife Millie and daughter Marie recall an informal rehearsal at their home in South Philadelphia after dinner where the two men ran through a few solos, and the Rock The Joint break was one of them. The resulting solo, which was smoother than the previous recorded version, is widely considered one of the greatest rock and roll guitar solos of all","title":"Danny Cedrone"},{"docid":"470487","text":"was narrated by Daniels, who had played Jimmy in the 1979 film. Despite technical difficulties the show led to a six-night residency at Madison Square Garden and a US and European tour through 1996 and 1997. Townshend played mostly acoustic guitar, but eventually was persuaded to play some electric. In 1998, VH1 ranked the Who ninth in their list of the \"100 Greatest Artists of Rock 'n' Roll\". In late 1999, the Who performed as a five-piece for the first time since 1985, with Bundrick on keyboards and Starkey on drums. The first show in Las Vegas at the MGM","title":"The Who"},{"docid":"342166","text":"and Fats Domino. His style of music combined with black influences created controversy during a turbulent time in history but that did not stop them from creating what we call Rock n Roll. Many other popular rock and roll singers of the time, such as Fats Domino and Little Richard, came out of the black rhythm and blues tradition, making the music attractive to white audiences, and are not usually classed as \"rockabilly\". Bill Flagg who is a Connecticut resident, began referring to his mix of hillbilly and rock 'n' roll music as rockabilly around 1953. His song \"Guitar Rock\"","title":"Rock and roll"},{"docid":"4015434","text":"& Dunn fame, for Dunn's first solo work, playing guitar and singing along on the song, \"Honky Tonk Stomp\". Gibbons played guitar on \"Broke Down On the Brazos\", the opening track of Gov't Mule's 2009 album \"By a Thread\". Gibbons played guitar on \"Run Rudolph Run\", the third track of \"We Wish you a Metal Xmas and a Headbanging New Year\" compilation. Gibbons joined Jeff Beck onstage at the 2009 25th Anniversary Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Concert with a version of Jimi Hendrix's \"Foxy Lady\". Gibbons made a special guest appearance behind Roky Erickson on \"Austin City Limits\"","title":"Billy Gibbons"},{"docid":"1423043","text":"and Roll Hall of Fame's 500 Songs that Shaped Rock and Roll. Burton played guitar on the majority of Rick Nelson's songs recorded during the first 11 years of Nelson's career, beginning with his premiere at Master Recorders in Hollywood on November 18, 1957, for the classic \"Stood Up\"/\"Waitin' in School\" rockabilly single (Note: Burton was relegated to rhythm as Joe Maphis was still playing lead guitar at the time). In 1965 he started working on the television program \"Shindig!\" which curtailed his touring with Nelson. However, Burton continued contributing to his friend's studio albums through the \"Perspective\" sessions in","title":"James Burton"},{"docid":"4516200","text":"Chris Cheney, Vince Gill, Johnny Hiland, Evan Johns, Bill Kirchen, Albert Lee, Les Paul, Arlen Roth, Richie Sambora, Ricky Skaggs, Slash, and Steve Vai. Gatton has been described as possessing an extraordinary proficiency on his instrument, \"a living treasury of American musical styles.\" In 2009, John Previti, who played bass guitar with Danny for eighteen years, stated, \"You know, when he played country music, it sounded like all he played was country music. When he played jazz, it sounded like that's all he played, rockabilly, old rock and roll, soul music. You know, he called himself a Whitman sampler of","title":"Danny Gatton"},{"docid":"9256414","text":"2007, and played shows, whilst frontman Sully Erna did a small solo tour. Born in Norwood, Massachusetts, Rombola is a self-taught guitarist. He first picked up a guitar at age 11. According to his father, the first song Tony learned was a song by Black Sabbath. His first introductions to rock music were the albums \"Led Zeppelin III\", \"2112\" and \"We Sold Our Soul for Rock 'n' Roll\". Having never taken guitar lessons, Rombola learned everything he knows from guitar magazines such as Guitar World. His first guitar was an SG copy, before moving to custom Les Pauls that he","title":"Tony Rombola"},{"docid":"1377959","text":"Parsons in 2006, playing guitar and singing a duet, \"Love Hurts\". On 12 March 2007 Richards attended the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame ceremony to induct the Ronettes; he also played guitar during the ceremony's all-star jam session. On 26 February 2012 Richards paid tribute to fellow musicians Chuck Berry and Leonard Cohen, who were the recipients of the first annual PEN Awards for songwriting excellence at the JFK Presidential Library in Boston, Massachusetts. In an April 2007 interview for \"NME\" magazine, music journalist Mark Beaumont asked Richards what the strangest thing he ever snorted was, and quoted him","title":"Keith Richards"},{"docid":"15325211","text":"I Love Rock 'n' Roll \"I Love Rock 'n' Roll\" is a rock song written in 1975 by Alan Merrill of the Arrows, who recorded the first released version. The song was later made famous by Joan Jett & the Blackhearts in 1982. Merrill still plays the song live in Europe, Japan and most often in his home town New York City. The song was originally recorded and released by the Arrows in 1975 on Rak Records, with lead vocals, guitar, music & lyrics written by Alan Merrill and produced by Mickie Most. In an interview with Songfacts, Merrill said","title":"I Love Rock 'n' Roll"},{"docid":"5342653","text":"The Cyrkle The Cyrkle was an American rock and roll band active in the early and mid-1960s. The group charted two Top 40 hits, \"Red Rubber Ball,\" and \"Turn-Down Day\". The band was formed by guitarists and lead singers Don Dannemann and Tom Dawes (who also played bass guitar), who met while studying at Lafayette College in Easton, Pennsylvania. Dannemann enlisted in the US Coast Guard in 1966. The other members were Earle Pickens on keyboards and Marty Fried on drums. They were originally a \"frat rock\" band called The Rhondells but were later discovered and managed by Brian Epstein,","title":"The Cyrkle"},{"docid":"6215830","text":"4th in Verviers, Belgium. Their latest record, \"The Last Real Rock n' Roll\", was released in April 2017. In 2018, after months of rumors, Georg Dolivo announced that he was leaving the band, essentially ending the band. Their final live show was on April 22, at \"Rainbow Anniversary “Party in the Parking Lot”\". Rhino Bucket Rhino Bucket is a hard rock band from Van Nuys, Los Angeles, California. The band was formed in February 1988 by Georg Dolivo (lead vocals, rhythm guitar), Reeve Downes (bass guitar, backing vocals) and Greg Fields (lead guitar, backing vocals). This lineup played the Los","title":"Rhino Bucket"},{"docid":"11933016","text":"at Emo's in Austin. By 2001, the band was composed of Sammytown, Brian Schopflin (bass), Jonny Manak (guitar), Alby Wasted (guitar), and Ike Eichensehr (drums). Sammytown, Brian, Jonny, Alby and Ike also started the Resistoleros, an Oakland-based rock 'n' roll band. Steel Cage Records released the Resistoleros CD \"Rock 'N Roll Napalm\" in 2003. In 2004, the \"Live Cheap\" CD came out on Malt Soda Recordings, featuring Sammytown (vocals), Brian Schopflin (bass), Ike Eichensehr (drums), Alby Wasted (guitar) and Jimmy Crucifix (guitarist for 1980s hardcore band Crucifix and hard rock band Proudflesh) also on guitar. This is the only Fang","title":"Fang (band)"},{"docid":"17561134","text":"he used. It can be inferred from the song that King Creole used an electric guitar, since the song mentions string bending and rock-and-roll, a genre not usually played as lead on the acoustic guitar. The song also states that King Creole played from a well-rounded song repertoire, and would play light, dark, serious, and nonsense music. In 2010, Sony Music released a remix version of the song in the album Viva Elvis, an album used for the Elvis show of Cirque De Soleil. The song has a reggae rock feel, and a driving drum rhythm. King Creole (song) King","title":"King Creole (song)"},{"docid":"18401842","text":"Yosi Piamenta Yosi Piamenta (November 29, 1951 – August 23, 2015) was an Orthodox Jewish singer-songwriter and guitarist, known for introducing the electric guitar to Jewish music. Piamenta played rock and roll tunes, often infused with heavy rock licks and extended guitar solos – all while dressed in Orthodox Jewish religious clothing and singing Biblical Hebrew lyrics. Piamenta was widely acknowledged by rock critics as a guitar virtuoso. In addition to being an original songwriter, Piamenta covered others' music in the religious Jewish music category – his album \"Songs of the Rebbes\" includes various Lubavitch, Belz, and Sephardi nigunim and","title":"Yosi Piamenta"},{"docid":"149838","text":"metal bridge. The type of resonator guitar with a neck with a square cross-section—called \"square neck\" or \"Hawaiian\"—is usually played face up, on the lap of the seated player, and often with a metal or glass slide. The round neck resonator guitars are normally played in the same fashion as other guitars, although slides are also often used, especially in blues. The twelve-string guitar usually has steel strings, and it is widely used in folk music, blues, and rock and roll. Rather than having only six strings, the 12-string guitar has six courses made up of two strings each, like","title":"Guitar"},{"docid":"15325222","text":"was performed as part of a medley, using the same guitar proposed The Alex Gaudino & Jason Rooney cover version was released in 2008. \"I Love Rock 'n' Roll\" is an often-covered song, and has been notably recorded by such artists as: I Love Rock 'n' Roll \"I Love Rock 'n' Roll\" is a rock song written in 1975 by Alan Merrill of the Arrows, who recorded the first released version. The song was later made famous by Joan Jett & the Blackhearts in 1982. Merrill still plays the song live in Europe, Japan and most often in his home","title":"I Love Rock 'n' Roll"},{"docid":"18631072","text":"Peggy Jones (musician) Peggy Jones or Peggy Malone (married name) (July 19, 1940 – September 16, 2015), known on stage as Lady Bo in recognition of her relationship with Bo Diddley, was an American musician. A pioneer of rock and roll, Jones played rhythm guitar in Bo Diddley's band in the late 1950s and early 1960s, becoming one of the first (perhaps \"the\" first) female rock guitarists in a highly visible rock band, and was sometimes called the \"Queen Mother of Guitar\". Born in Harlem, New York City, in 1940, Jones grew up in the Sugar Hill section, and attended","title":"Peggy Jones (musician)"},{"docid":"7591724","text":"among guitar players: it doesn't matter if your guitar isn't fully in tune, as long as it's \"close enough for rock 'n' roll\". Telegram (Parts 1-3 only) was Nazareth's concert opener for many years, including the 1981 shows recorded for the Snaz album and is one of their finest achievements. Close Enough for Rock 'n' Roll Close Enough for Rock 'n' Roll is the seventh studio album by the Scottish hard rock band Nazareth, released in 1976. The lead track, Telegram, is the definitive story of 1970's touring rock bands and describes the band's experience of hangovers, travel by aeroplane","title":"Close Enough for Rock 'n' Roll"},{"docid":"9320734","text":"Don Potter (musician) Don Potter is an American musician and producer in Nashville, Tennessee. A longstanding producer for Wynonna Judd, he has become known as \"the man who created the Judds' sound\". Potter has been singing, playing guitar, writing songs, and recording and producing music since the 1970s, and has performed with many notable artists. He played acoustic guitar on the 1971 release of Chuck Mangione's \"Friends & Love - a Chuck Mangione Concert\". Potter used to be a member of the Show Stoppers rock and roll band and the Don Potter and Bat McGrath duo based in Rochester, New","title":"Don Potter (musician)"},{"docid":"8448729","text":"part of \"Deca pevaju rokenrol\" (\"Children Sing Rock 'n' Roll\") project. Kojić sung, played slide guitar, mixed, arranged and produced the new version. On 13 March 2015, on the band's promotional concert in Zagreb, the band was joined on stage by former members Jurij Novoselić and Srđan Gulić, drummer Igor Pavlica and trumpet player Nikola Santro. In March 2016, the band released the studio album \"Opet\" (\"Again\"). The album was previously announced by the single \"Zaboravili rokenrol!?!\" (\"Forgot about Rock 'n' Roll!?!\"), released in November 2015 and featuring British musicians Lord Eric Sugumugu and Robert Goldsmith on percussion. The album","title":"Disciplin A Kitschme"},{"docid":"19286733","text":"Dennis Cahill (musician) Dennis Cahill is an American guitarist who specializes in Irish traditional music. He was born in Chicago on June 16, 1954. His parents were from County Kerry, Ireland. Cahill began playing guitar at the age of nine and studied guitar at the Chicago Musical College. He was active in the Irish traditional music scene in Chicago in the 1980s and 1990s. In the late 1980s he and Irish fiddler Martin Hayes formed a band in Chicago called Midnight Court which combined traditional music with rock and roll. The band, in which Cahill played a Fender Telecaster and","title":"Dennis Cahill (musician)"},{"docid":"11131539","text":"Lee Benoit Lee Benoit is a Cajun musician from Rayne, Louisiana. At the age of five, Lee Benoit was given an electric organ by his grandmother (Cidalise), who raised him. He started to play Christmas songs on it, by ear. At the age of twelve, he started to play the electric guitar and formed a band. They played rock n' roll and were influenced by Lynyrd Skynyrd, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Hank Williams and others. Lee also learnt to play the bass guitar during his teenage years. In 1976, he joined the Marines as an Automated Data Processor. After leaving the","title":"Lee Benoit"},{"docid":"20775219","text":"Rock and Roll (I Gave You the Best Years of My Life) \"Rock and Roll (I Gave You the Best Years of My Life)\" is a 1973 song written and originally performed by Australian singer Kevin Johnson, most famously covered by American singer Mac Davis. Johnson's version reached number four in Australia. The guitar solo in Johnson's version was played by Rory O'Donoghue. In Australia, the UK and Ireland, it was only Johnson's original version which charted. In Canada, Terry Jacks got it into the charts. No version of the song charted in New Zealand, even though the country's very","title":"Rock and Roll (I Gave You the Best Years of My Life)"},{"docid":"5552639","text":"Lennon added the song's distorted guitar riffs, playing identical lines through the same amplifier; McCartney overdubbed bass guitar and Starr added more drums, played on a full drum kit. McCartney sang his lead vocal in a style that author Ian MacDonald terms Presleyesque, while Lennon, McCartney and Harrison contributed backing vocals, part of which consisted of the singers imitating brass instruments over the song's instrumental break. Music journalist John Harris highlights the significance of McCartney's \"salute\" to Elvis Presley, who would make his comeback later in 1968 with a return to his formative, rock 'n' roll style. Harris also identifies","title":"Lady Madonna"},{"docid":"9128622","text":"on the Shoulder of Giants\" (2000), he performed a number of other roles as the band suffered line-up issues for the recording of the album, particularly contributing bass guitar work in the absence of the band's bassist Paul McGuigan. Stacey played bass on 4 songs - \"Who Feels Love?\", \"Gas Panic!\", \"I Can See a Liar\" and \"Roll It Over\". He also contributed keyboards and lead guitar to \"Fuckin' in the Bushes\", the guitar solo in \"Roll It Over\", backwards guitar to \"Who Feels Love?\" and acoustic guitar to \"Where Did It All go Wrong?\". Later, at the end of","title":"Paul Stacey"}],"string":"[\n {\n \"docid\": \"3746120\",\n \"text\": \"features Wood on 12-string acoustic guitar. \\\"It's Only Rock 'n Roll\\\" was Mick Taylor's last album with the Rolling Stones, and he played on just seven of the 10 tracks (he did not play on tracks 2, 3 or 6). Due to Taylor's absence, Richards is responsible for the brief lead guitar break on \\\"Ain't Too Proud to Beg,\\\" the distorted electric guitar on the title track (which includes the solo), and played both rhythm and lead guitar tracks on \\\"Luxury.\\\" However, on the occasional live performances of \\\"Luxury\\\" during the Tour of the Americas 1975, lead guitar was provided\",\n \"title\": \"It's Only Rock 'n Roll\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"13585056\",\n \"text\": \"developed by Jim Masdea, but this is the only song on the \\\"Boston\\\" album on which Masdea plays drums. Scholz plays clavinet and all the guitar parts, including bass guitar, and Brad Delp sings the vocals. Boston consistently open with \\\"Rock and Roll Band\\\" while playing at live concerts. \\\"Rock & Roll Band\\\" is the song that Paul Ahern played for Charlie McKenzie to interest him in the yet unnamed band that was to become Boston. Shortly after, Ahern and McKenzie signed on as the band's managers. \\\"\\\"Rock and Roll Band\\\" is one of several Boston songs with the theme\",\n \"title\": \"Rock & Roll Band\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"3244839\",\n \"text\": \"Governor of Ohio in 1986 on the ticket with Richard F. Celeste. He served as the 58th Lieutenant Governor from 1987 to 1991. While mayor of Dayton, Leonard was known as outgoing and youth-oriented, sometimes called \\\"the Rock 'N' Roll Mayor of Dayton.\\\" He played the electric guitar and appeared in television commercials. After his tenure as lieutenant governor, Leonard returned to Dayton to practice law. He founded the Center for Animal Law and Advocacy, a legal team that advocates for harsher penalties for those who mistreat animals. In addition to his law practice, Leonard currently teaches in the political\",\n \"title\": \"Paul Leonard (politician)\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"9131822\",\n \"text\": \"The Hepparays The Hepparays were an Australian rock n roll music group which formed in 1957 with Tony Caperero on lead guitar, Bruce Gurr on piano, Lucky Starr (aka Les Morrison) on lead vocals and rhythm guitar, Dave Taylor played bass and Owen Smith played drums and percussion. Starr had met his band mates on the train on his way to work at a power station. Their initial gigs were playing instrumentals in a gym while people exercised. In 1959 the group issued one of Australia's first rock n roll instrumental singles, \\\"Xmas Rock Medley\\\". In March 1962 they released\",\n \"title\": \"The Hepparays\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"3675779\",\n \"text\": \"on subsequent rock music. Early rock and roll used the twelve-bar blues chord progression and shared with boogie woogie the four beats (usually broken down into eight eighth-notes/quavers) to a bar. Rock and roll however has a greater emphasis on the backbeat than boogie woogie. Bo Diddley's 1955 hit \\\"Bo Diddley\\\", with its B-side \\\"I'm a Man\\\", introduced a new beat and unique guitar style that inspired many artists without either side using the 12-bar pattern – they instead played variations on a single chord each. His more insistent, driving rhythms, hard-edged electric guitar sound, African rhythms, and signature clave\",\n \"title\": \"Origins of rock and roll\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"4375743\",\n \"text\": \"there are some notable exceptions, in which Rudolf plays the solos instead of rhythm guitar and Matthias plays rhythm guitar instead of guitar solos, such as \\\"Wind of Change\\\", \\\"Always Somewhere\\\", \\\"Still Loving You\\\", \\\"Send Me an Angel\\\", \\\"Lady Starlight\\\", \\\"Big City Nights, \\\"As Soon as the Good Times Roll\\\", \\\"When The Smoke is Going Down\\\", \\\"Animal Magnetism\\\", \\\"Through My Eyes\\\" \\\"Coast to Coast\\\" (second solo), \\\"SLY\\\" and \\\"Rock 'N' Roll Band\\\". Schenker is known for his energetic riffing and wild live performances, which often includes swinging his guitar over his head and throwing the guitar up and catching it.\",\n \"title\": \"Rudolf Schenker\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"6802950\",\n \"text\": \"by Prakash John, Pentti \\\"Whitey\\\" Glan and Ray Colcord for Lou Reed's Rock 'n' Roll Animal Tour. As band leader and arranger, Wagner took the early Lou Reed songs that had been recorded by the Velvet Underground and rearranged them for the concert stage. The new arrangements left behind the laid back feeling that had been established by the prior Reed band and won Reed his first gold album. The band toured internationally with Reed, culminating in the \\\"Rock 'n' Roll Animal\\\" album, recorded live at the New York Academy of Music in December 1973. Readers of \\\"Guitar World\\\" ranked\",\n \"title\": \"Dick Wagner\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"10166509\",\n \"text\": \"occasionally complemented by a violinist and a flutist who attended the College. Subsequently, Bitton, who had moved to the nearby Crown Heights section of Brooklyn, New York, joined and completed the group. With the addition of Bitton, Schmidt was able to move to lead guitar, Freeman to rhythm guitar, and Morgenstern to bass guitar. The combination of Schmidt's creative genius and powerful rock licks with Bitton's Sephardi/Moroccan rhythm and lead vocals produced an electric rock and roll sound. They played traditional Chabad nigunim (songs and melodies) to this beat at Chabad Houses on college campuses and other venues, primarily on\",\n \"title\": \"Isaac Bitton\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"16082832\",\n \"text\": \"songs written and composed by Johnny Forgotten and Jesse Death as well as a cover of \\\"Rock n' Roll's a Hard Life\\\" by The Forgotten Rebels, which also appears on The Forgotten Rebels tribute CD. Their 2013 release comprises five original songs written by Johnny Forgotten and features Richie Ramone, who played drums for The Ramones from 1983 - 1987. Since their inception, The Rock n Roll Rats have played shows with a number of notable bands including: C.J. Ramone, The Creepshow, The Raygun Cowboys, The Nailheads, and The Intensives. Johnny Forgotten: Guitar and Singing <BR> Jesse Death: Bass and\",\n \"title\": \"The Rock n Roll Rats\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"4162121\",\n \"text\": \"the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 2001). The musicians on that session were Buddy Clark: string bass, Ernie Freeman: piano, Carol Kaye: acoustic rhythm guitar, Rene Hall: Danelectro guitar (six-string baritone guitar), Earl Palmer: drums and claves, Ritchie Valens: vocals, lead guitar. The song features a simple verse-chorus form. Valens, who was proud of his Mexican heritage, was hesitant at first to merge \\\"La Bamba\\\" with rock and roll but then agreed. The song ranked No. 98 in VH1's \\\"100 Greatest Songs of Rock and Roll\\\" in 1999, and No. 59 in VH1's \\\"100 Greatest Dance Songs\\\" in\",\n \"title\": \"La Bamba (song)\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"16309275\",\n \"text\": \"Roll Party\\\"\\\" and to Jocko's \\\"\\\"Rocketship Show\\\"\\\" on WADO. He even was seen as one of the dancers on Alan Freed's TV show. Seeing Bo Diddley at Freed's stage reviews and Elvis on television led to Harry's first guitar in February 1956. \\\"Hepcat, like many teenagers of that era, had fallen in love with rock and roll and by 1958 was playing the guitar, performing live with bands (The Royal Sultans) and even recording rock and roll.\\\" Harry played in half a dozen bands through the early 1960s. He kept up with the latest music, but always saw fit to\",\n \"title\": \"Harry Hepcat\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"369121\",\n \"text\": \"Wanna Be Your Man\\\" (1963), featured a slide guitar break by Brian Jones which may be the first appearance of a slide on a rock record. Critic Richie Unterberger commented, \\\"Particularly outstanding was Brian Jones's slide guitar, whose wailing howl gave the tune a raunchy bluesiness missing in the Beatles' more straightforward rock 'n' roll arrangement. Jones also played slide on their 1964 single \\\"Little Red Rooster\\\", which reached number one on the British charts. Jones' successor playing slide in the Stones was Mick Taylor, a 20 year old virtuoso who performed on \\\"Sticky Fingers\\\" and \\\"Exile on Main Street\\\".\",\n \"title\": \"Slide guitar\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"5609452\",\n \"text\": \"produced by scraping a pick across the strings of an electric guitar in conjunction with distortion and delay. The three guitar solos on \\\"Long Time\\\" are played by Barry Goudreau, rather than Scholz, who played most of the guitar parts on \\\"Boston\\\". Goudreau also plays the solo in \\\"Let Me Take You Home Tonight\\\". Scholz played the solos in \\\"More Than a Feeling\\\", \\\"Peace of Mind\\\", \\\"Rock & Roll Band\\\", and \\\"Something About You\\\". \\\"Rolling Stone\\\" described \\\"Foreplay/Long Time\\\" as \\\"a perfect marriage of Led Zeppelin and Yes that plays musical chairs with electric and acoustic sounds.\\\" In 2004, \\\"Long\",\n \"title\": \"Foreplay/Long Time\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"6693670\",\n \"text\": \"(where the band mimed and Gabrels chose to play his guitar with a bread roll, with Bowie seeming to be much amused by the resulting mess) and \\\"Wogan\\\" (where the band again mimed, and Gabrels played his guitar with a vibrator, and Bowie visibly tired of the host’s patter), the single peaked at UK No. 33 – a disappointment, but it would be Tin Machine’s biggest hit single. Producers Musicians You Belong in Rock n' Roll \\\"You Belong in Rock n' Roll\\\" is a song by Tin Machine, released ahead of their second album in August 1991. The song was\",\n \"title\": \"You Belong in Rock n' Roll\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"18932022\",\n \"text\": \"be marginalized, but not forgotten.\\\" In 2017, Serbian news magazine \\\"Nedeljnik\\\" pronounced the 1966 Gitarijada one of 100 Events that Changed Serbia. The magazine wrote: \\\"After that [Gitarijada], everything changed. The Party accepted young people who played rock and roll, which provoked conspiracy theorists to describe that as the desire of communist establishment to win over the youth, or to pacify them and keep them under control using rock and roll. Of course, those were all nonsense, because rock and roll was something that could not be stopped.\\\" Gitarijada (Belgrade) Gitarijada (Serbian Cyrillic: Гитаријада, trans. \\\"Guitar Fest\\\") was a musical\",\n \"title\": \"Gitarijada (Belgrade)\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"2357436\",\n \"text\": \"Santiago's guitar \\\"squawking\\\" on an E-flat like \\\"a wounded animal\\\". As Santiago was learning the guitar, he saw himself as a self-conscious amateur, and still speaks of a lack of confidence in his playing. Santiago, rather than listening to popular radio, borrowed rock and roll records from the public library as he was growing up; he first discovered Les Paul and Jimi Hendrix, who led to jazz guitarist Wes Montgomery. Santiago later commented on Montgomery's influence: \\\"And that's when I said, 'Ah, that's a hook. That's some hooky stuff in the jazz world'\\\". He discovered jazz and country artists such\",\n \"title\": \"Joey Santiago\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"3746337\",\n \"text\": \"Black and Blue Black and Blue is the 13th British and 15th American studio album by the band the Rolling Stones, released in 1976. It was the band's first studio album released with Ronnie Wood as the replacement for Mick Taylor. Wood had played 12-string acoustic guitar on the track \\\"It's Only Rock 'n Roll (But I Like It)\\\" from the \\\"It's Only Rock 'n Roll\\\" album and appears on half of the \\\"Black and Blue\\\" album tracks (mostly backing vocals) with Wayne Perkins and Harvey Mandel playing guitar on the remaining titles. Keith Richards would later comment \\\"Rehearsing guitar\",\n \"title\": \"Black and Blue\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"6192104\",\n \"text\": \"has been the recipient of a total of six Detroit Music Awards. In 2017, in honor of John Lee Hooker's 100th birthday anniversary celebration, he formed \\\"Booker Blues All-Stars\\\" and recorded a CD with the band called \\\"Booker Plays Hooker\\\". The band consists of Muruga (drums), Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee Billy Davis (guitar & vocals), Tony \\\"Strat\\\" Thomas (guitar), John Sauter (bass guitar) (who also played with \\\"Hooker & Booker\\\"), Misty Love (former backup singer for Kid Rock), and special guest Peter \\\"Madcat\\\" Ruth. Through the 1960s, as Steve Booker, he recorded with Jim and Jean on\",\n \"title\": \"Muruga Booker\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"342153\",\n \"text\": \"always provided by a snare drum. Classic rock and roll is usually played with one or two electric guitars (one lead, one rhythm), a double bass or string bass or (after the mid-1950s) an electric bass guitar, and a drum kit. Beyond simply a musical style, rock and roll, as seen in movies, in fan magazines, and on television, influenced lifestyles, fashion, attitudes, and language. In addition, rock and roll may have contributed to the civil rights movement because both African-American and white American teenagers enjoyed the music. It went on to spawn various genres, often without the initially characteristic\",\n \"title\": \"Rock and roll\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"19227755\",\n \"text\": \"Wexler on bass, and Gedalia Goldstein on drums. They played rock and bluegrass music with Jewish-themed lyrics, with the group self-describing its style as \\\"Hasidic rock\\\" and \\\"Country and Eastern\\\". The Israeli group Tofa'ah emerged in 1981 as the first all-female Orthodox Jewish rock band, playing a mix of blues, jazz, and rock and roll. Around the same time, singer-songwriter Yosi Piamenta, a \\\"baal teshuva\\\" who had previously played with jazz legend Stan Getz, broke into Jewish music, where he pioneered the use of electric guitar. In the United States, Shlock Rock, formed in New York City in 1985, performed\",\n \"title\": \"Jewish rock\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"14859938\",\n \"text\": \"by \\\"Black Diamond\\\" and later \\\"Rock and Roll All Nite\\\". It has remained a concert staple and has appeared on many of the band's compilations. The original song title was \\\"Baby, Let Me Go\\\" but was soon changed by producer Kenny Kerner to \\\"Rock 'n' Roll\\\" before finally being titled \\\"Let Me Go, Rock 'n' Roll\\\". When performed live, the song has often been extended to nearly five minutes due to guitar and bass solos. It was regularly played until the 1977 Love Gun Tour, where it was excluded, but came back for the Alive II and Dynasty tours. Except\",\n \"title\": \"Let Me Go, Rock 'n' Roll\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"961414\",\n \"text\": \"in rock and roll is indisputable. Up until his arrival, the music had been primarily associated with guitars, but his early Sun recordings and television appearances pushed the instrument to the forefront. Lewis was also an incendiary showman who often played with his fists, elbows, feet, and backside, sometimes climbing on top of the piano during gigs and even apocryphally setting it on fire. Like Chuck Berry's guitar playing, Lewis's piano style has become synonymous with rock and roll, having influenced generations of piano players. In a 2013 interview with Leah Harper, Elton John recalls that up until \\\"Great Balls\",\n \"title\": \"Jerry Lee Lewis\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"13401909\",\n \"text\": \"her album, \\\"Somewhere in the Stars\\\". \\\"It's Only Rock & Roll\\\" was covered in 1983 by both Emmylou Harris and Waylon Jennings on their respective albums \\\"White Shoes\\\" and \\\"It's Only Rock & Roll\\\". \\\"On a Real Good Night\\\" was written by Crowell but was first recorded by Bobby Bare for his 1978 album \\\"Sleep Wherever I Fall\\\". Albert Lee, who played guitar for this album, performed the song on his 1979 album \\\"Hiding\\\". Emmylou Harris also covered \\\"Ashes by Now\\\" on her 1981 album \\\"Evangeline\\\". It is also featured on Lee Ann Womack's album \\\"I Hope You Dance\\\". Guy\",\n \"title\": \"But What Will the Neighbors Think\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"15750151\",\n \"text\": \"guitar style is a combination of Jersey Shore blues and rock n roll. As of 2013, his band consisted of Hector on guitar and vocals, Timmy Tindall on bass, and Dan Hickey on drums. Hector received the Best Guitarist Award from music critic Bob Makin of \\\"The Aquarian Weekly\\\"s East Coast Rocker section twice. He is also the recipient of three Asbury Park Music Awards: \\\"Best Guitarist\\\", \\\"Best Blues Band\\\" and the \\\"Living Legend.\\\" Hector and his band were billed alongside Bonnie Raitt at The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's \\\"Tribute to Muddy Waters\\\". Hector has played with B.\",\n \"title\": \"Billy Hector\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"11312534\",\n \"text\": \"Edu Ardanuy Eduardo \\\"Edu\\\" Ardanuy (born on June 20, 1967 in São Paulo, Brazil) is a Brazilian guitarist who has worked with such bands as Dr. Sin, Anjos da Noite, Blezqi Zatzas, Supla and Eduardo Araújo. He was included in a 'Top 10 Greatest Guitar Players' ranking by the Guitar Player Magazine in 1998. He has also played with Steve Vai, being invited by him. Ardanuy began studying music and playing acoustic guitar at age 13. At age 16, he began to study guitar, when his father gave him an electric guitar, thus, his interest for rock n' roll increased\",\n \"title\": \"Edu Ardanuy\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"5699084\",\n \"text\": \"Pingatore, and \\\"Viagra Rock\\\" with Warren Farren. Marshall Lytle Marshall Lytle (September 1, 1933 – May 25, 2013) was an American rock and roll bassist, best known for his work with the groups Bill Haley & His Comets and The Jodimars in the 1950s. He played upright slap bass on the iconic 1950s rock and roll records \\\"Crazy Man, Crazy\\\", \\\"Shake, Rattle and Roll\\\", and \\\"Rock Around the Clock\\\". Born in Old Fort, North Carolina, Lytle was a guitar player before joining Bill Haley's country music group, The Saddlemen, in 1951. But Lytle was hired to play double bass for\",\n \"title\": \"Marshall Lytle\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"411316\",\n \"text\": \"including the Sex Pistols (who covered \\\"Roadrunner\\\" on \\\"The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle\\\"). In early 1976, Richman put together a new version of The Modern Lovers, with Leroy Radcliffe (guitar), Greg 'Curly' Keranen (bass) and the returning David Robinson (drums). Keranen had previously played with The Rubinoos, and Radcliffe with Woody's Truckstop. They recorded the album \\\"Jonathan Richman & The Modern Lovers\\\" (1976), but Robinson again left after Richman persisted in reducing the size and volume of his drum kit, and was replaced by D. Sharpe. This band recorded the album \\\"Rock 'N' Roll with The Modern Lovers\\\" (1977)\",\n \"title\": \"The Modern Lovers\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"11553734\",\n \"text\": \"featured on the BBC Olympics 2008 programming, where it was played as the show looked over the day's events. The music video consists of Macdonald playing a guitar in a white room. Pictures of her and a man and another woman walking in town are also seen. CD single 7\\\" single CD single - Europe CD single - Germany Digital download Mr Rock & Roll \\\"Mr. Rock & Roll\\\" is a song by Scottish singer-songwriter Amy Macdonald, released on 16 July 2007. It was her first full single after the limited online release of \\\"Poison Prince\\\", and was released on\",\n \"title\": \"Mr Rock & Roll\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"18998031\",\n \"text\": \"1967 on which he played guitar and mandolin, an instrument he had never previously played. In 2010, he took part in a Rock and Roll Hall of Fame tribute to Dave Bartholomew at Case Western University. He died in Los Angeles in 2012, aged 86. Ernest McLean Ernest J. McLean (March 23, 1925 – February 24, 2012) was an American rhythm and blues and jazz guitarist. Born in New Orleans, McLean was the son of musician Richard McLean, who played banjo in a government music project band, and his wife Beatrice. He began learning guitar at the age of 11\",\n \"title\": \"Ernest McLean\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"4297721\",\n \"text\": \"concert, Batio noticed that the guitars created a lot of feedback when played together. He decided that he needed to invent a way to 'dampen' the strings when both guitars were played at the same time, hence the invention of the \\\"MAB String Dampener\\\", which is now available to buy from M.A.C.E. Music. The Double Guitar was recently named as the 8th \\\"coolest guitar in rock\\\" by online music magazine \\\"Gigwise\\\". His iconic Dean 'Jet' Double-Guitar has been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Museum and was put on permanent display in February 2012. This guitar was\",\n \"title\": \"Michael Angelo Batio\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"470419\",\n \"text\": \"their son's interest in rock and roll. Townshend and Entwistle became friends in their second year of Acton County, and formed a trad jazz group; Entwistle also played French horn in the Middlesex Schools' Symphony Orchestra. Both were interested in rock, and Townshend particularly admired Cliff Richard's début single, \\\"Move It\\\". Entwistle moved to guitar, but struggled with it due to his large fingers, and moved to bass on hearing the guitar work of Duane Eddy. He was unable to afford a bass and built one at home. After Acton County, Townshend attended Ealing Art College, a move he later\",\n \"title\": \"The Who\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"1413682\",\n \"text\": \"country, bluegrass and blues. This has been propelled by record labels like Bloodshot Records and Lost Highway Records. Southern rock Southern rock is a subgenre of rock music and a genre of Americana. It developed in the Southern United States from rock and roll, country music, and blues, and is focused generally on electric guitar and vocals. Although the origin of the term Southern rock is unknown, \\\"many people feel that these important contributors to the development of rock and roll have been minimized in rock's history.\\\" The Allman Brothers Band played Southern rock with long jams. The Marshall Tucker\",\n \"title\": \"Southern rock\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"342161\",\n \"text\": \"supplied many of the elements that would be seen as characteristic of rock and roll. Inspired by electric blues, Chuck Berry introduced an aggressive guitar sound to rock and roll, and established the electric guitar as its centrepiece, adapting his rock band instrumentation from the basic blues band instrumentation of a lead guitar, second chord instrument, bass and drums. Rock and roll arrived at a time of considerable technological change, soon after the development of the electric guitar, amplifier and microphone, and the 45 rpm record. There were also changes in the record industry, with the rise of independent labels\",\n \"title\": \"Rock and roll\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"1413662\",\n \"text\": \"Southern rock Southern rock is a subgenre of rock music and a genre of Americana. It developed in the Southern United States from rock and roll, country music, and blues, and is focused generally on electric guitar and vocals. Although the origin of the term Southern rock is unknown, \\\"many people feel that these important contributors to the development of rock and roll have been minimized in rock's history.\\\" The Allman Brothers Band played Southern rock with long jams. The Marshall Tucker Band was also known to incorporate jazz instruments such as the flute and saxophone into their jams. Loosely\",\n \"title\": \"Southern rock\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"342165\",\n \"text\": \"in 1955, Bo Diddley introduced the \\\"Bo Diddley beat\\\" and a unique electric guitar style, influenced by African and Afro-Cuban music and in turn influencing many later artists. \\\"Rockabilly\\\" usually (but not exclusively) refers to the type of rock and roll music which was played and recorded in the mid-1950s primarily by white singers such as Elvis Presley, Carl Perkins, Johnny Cash, and Jerry Lee Lewis, who drew mainly on the country roots of the music. Elvis Presley was greatly influenced and incorporated his style of music with some of the greatest African American musicians like BB King, Chuck Berry\",\n \"title\": \"Rock and roll\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"12294325\",\n \"text\": \"The Rebels (rockabilly band) The Rebels was a rockabilly band from Dallas, Texas that recorded \\\"School of Rock 'n Roll\\\" and \\\"Straight Skirt\\\" with Gene Summers. The group consisted of James McClung (guitar), Gary Moon (drums) and Benny Williams (slap bass). They were soon joined by pianist Bill Brown who played on some of their early personal appearances. They were one of the first rock 'n roll bands to record using the name \\\"Rebels\\\" (February 1, 1958), preceding Duane Eddy's Rebels by at least six months and the \\\"Wild Weekend\\\" Rebels by more than two years. The Rebels began their\",\n \"title\": \"The Rebels (rockabilly band)\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"13780047\",\n \"text\": \"of the pioneers of Rock and roll music, refined and developed the major elements that made rock and roll distinctive, focusing on teen life and introducing guitar solos and showmanship that would be a major influence on subsequent rock music. A decade earlier, Sister Rosetta Tharpe fused gospel and blues, inventing rock ‘n roll electric guitar by developing sophisticated phrasing and licks that served as the basis for the iconic rock guitar style of the 1950s and beyond. Artists such as Elvis Presley, Chuck Berry, Bo Diddley, Fats Domino, Little Richard, Jerry Lee Lewis, Big Joe Turner, and Gene Vincent\",\n \"title\": \"1950s in music\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"6019269\",\n \"text\": \"Crosby, Texas. Gene Kelton Gene Kelton (10 April 1953 – 28 December 2010) was an American guitarist, harmonica player and singer-songwriter, based in Houston, Texas. He played Americana, blues-rock, Southern rock and rockabilly music. Born Sidney Eugene Kelton, in Booneville, Mississippi, United States, his mother sang gospel music on the radio. She divorced his ne'er-do-well father when he was six. Afterward they lived with his grandfather, a cotton plantation sharecropper. On weekends he listened to down-home blues in a dirt-floored juke joint. His step father, Bob Allbritton, who played rock and roll guitar then in a manner, as it can\",\n \"title\": \"Gene Kelton\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"6019260\",\n \"text\": \"Gene Kelton Gene Kelton (10 April 1953 – 28 December 2010) was an American guitarist, harmonica player and singer-songwriter, based in Houston, Texas. He played Americana, blues-rock, Southern rock and rockabilly music. Born Sidney Eugene Kelton, in Booneville, Mississippi, United States, his mother sang gospel music on the radio. She divorced his ne'er-do-well father when he was six. Afterward they lived with his grandfather, a cotton plantation sharecropper. On weekends he listened to down-home blues in a dirt-floored juke joint. His step father, Bob Allbritton, who played rock and roll guitar then in a manner, as it can be said\",\n \"title\": \"Gene Kelton\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"2450300\",\n \"text\": \"a specifically rock and roll style of playing of such exponents as Chuck Berry, Link Wray, and Scotty Moore. Chuck Berry, who is considered to be one of the pioneers of Rock and roll music, refined and developed the major elements that made rock and roll distinctive, focusing on teen life and introducing guitar solos and showmanship that would be a major influence on subsequent rock music. Artists such as Chuck Berry, Bo Diddley, Fats Domino, Little Richard, Jerry Lee Lewis, Big Joe Turner, and Gene Vincent released the initial rhythm and blues-influenced early rock and roll hits. Rock and\",\n \"title\": \"Music history of the United States in the 1950s\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"3441728\",\n \"text\": \"Los Lonely Boys Los Lonely Boys are an American Chicano rock power trio from San Angelo, Texas. They play a style of music they call \\\"Texican Rock n' Roll,\\\" combining elements of rock and roll, Texas blues, brown-eyed soul, country, and Tejano. The band consists of three brothers: Henry (guitar, vocals), Jojo (bass, vocals), and Ringo (drums, vocals) Garza. They follow the tradition of their father, Ringo Garza, Sr., who formed a band with his brothers called the Falcones. The Falcones played conjunto music in South Texas during the 1970s and 1980s. The debut single for Los Lonely Boys, \\\"Heaven\\\",\",\n \"title\": \"Los Lonely Boys\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"1472537\",\n \"text\": \"an electric guitar solo with distorted overtones and became a major R&B hit in 1954. It is regarded as one of The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's 500 Songs that Shaped Rock and Roll, and contributed to the development of soul music. In the 1950s, blues had a huge influence on mainstream American popular music. While popular musicians like Bo Diddley and Chuck Berry, both recording for Chess, were influenced by the Chicago blues, their enthusiastic playing styles departed from the melancholy aspects of blues and played a major role in the development of rock and roll. Chicago blues\",\n \"title\": \"Electric blues\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"5699073\",\n \"text\": \"Marshall Lytle Marshall Lytle (September 1, 1933 – May 25, 2013) was an American rock and roll bassist, best known for his work with the groups Bill Haley & His Comets and The Jodimars in the 1950s. He played upright slap bass on the iconic 1950s rock and roll records \\\"Crazy Man, Crazy\\\", \\\"Shake, Rattle and Roll\\\", and \\\"Rock Around the Clock\\\". Born in Old Fort, North Carolina, Lytle was a guitar player before joining Bill Haley's country music group, The Saddlemen, in 1951. But Lytle was hired to play double bass for the group, replacing departing musician Al Rex,\",\n \"title\": \"Marshall Lytle\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"16082834\",\n \"text\": \"\\\"John Connor\\\" by his bandmates in homage to the protagonist character in The Terminator movies. Conor Smith and Jesse Death are long time friends, who went to school together in Fort McMurray Alberta and played in several punk bands important to the local music scene. For a brief period The Rock n' Roll Rats had a second guitar player, Jay \\\"Ramone\\\" Parrott (from Thomaston Georgia USA) who left the band due to family obligations. The band has not undergone any other lineup changes and all current members are original. Note: All of these web pages are no longer available The\",\n \"title\": \"The Rock n Roll Rats\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"13504954\",\n \"text\": \"little to rock and roll. Amid the limited vitality of late 1950s and early 1960s British rock and roll, there were some more dynamic acts. These included Billy Fury, whose rockabilly-style compositions, aided by the guitar of Joe Brown, on his \\\"masterpiece\\\" 1960 LP \\\"Sound of Fury\\\" are considered some of the best work of the era. Tony Sheridan, Vince Taylor and Screaming Lord Sutch and the Savages also produced some work that could be compared with American rock and roll. Other singers who issued records of note included Terry Dene, \\\"a fine rock'n'roll vocalist\\\"; Johnny Brandon, who toured the\",\n \"title\": \"British rock and roll\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"4198095\",\n \"text\": \"Guitar Slim Eddie Jones (December 10, 1926 – February 7, 1959), better known as Guitar Slim, was a New Orleans blues guitarist in the 1940s and 1950s, best known for the million-selling song \\\"The Things That I Used to Do\\\", produced by Johnny Vincent for Specialty Records. It is listed in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's 500 Songs That Shaped Rock and Roll. Slim had a major impact on rock and roll and experimented with distorted overtones on the electric guitar a full decade before Jimi Hendrix. Jones was born in Greenwood, Mississippi. His mother died when he\",\n \"title\": \"Guitar Slim\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"13071517\",\n \"text\": \"Art Ryerson Arthur Ryerson (May 22, 1913 – October 27, 2004) was a jazz guitarist who emerged in the 1930s, playing acoustic and electric guitar, as well as the banjo. He played with jazz orchestras and bands in the 1930s and the 1940s. In the early 1950s, he played on the early rock and roll recordings of Bill Haley. His daughter is flautist Ali Ryerson. Art Ryerson began playing the banjo in Columbus, Ohio before switching to guitar. In the early 1930s he joined the Rhythm Jesters at radio station WLW in Cincinnati. He moved to New York City and\",\n \"title\": \"Art Ryerson\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"12713962\",\n \"text\": \"Rock n Roll Jesus (song) \\\"Rock n Roll Jesus\\\" is the fifth single from Kid Rock's album of the same name. It was typical bravado-laced Kid Rock about sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll. The song was co-written by former lead guitarist Kenny Tudrick, who replaced Kenny Olson on the 2006 'Live' Trucker tour. The song and album title were attacked by some religious groups for being sacrilegious. The song along with \\\"All Summer Long\\\" and \\\"Son of Detroit\\\" were featured in the guitar game \\\"\\\". A live version was released on the Targer Version of Born Free in 2010.\",\n \"title\": \"Rock n Roll Jesus (song)\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"12713961\",\n \"text\": \"Rock n Roll Jesus (song) \\\"Rock n Roll Jesus\\\" is the fifth single from Kid Rock's album of the same name. It was typical bravado-laced Kid Rock about sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll. The song was co-written by former lead guitarist Kenny Tudrick, who replaced Kenny Olson on the 2006 'Live' Trucker tour. The song and album title were attacked by some religious groups for being sacrilegious. The song along with \\\"All Summer Long\\\" and \\\"Son of Detroit\\\" were featured in the guitar game \\\"\\\". A live version was released on the Targer Version of Born Free in 2010.\",\n \"title\": \"Rock n Roll Jesus (song)\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"1997085\",\n \"text\": \"\\\"Sultans of Swing\\\" one of the top five songs of 1979. In 1993, Paul Williams included \\\"Sultans of Swing\\\" in his book \\\"Rock and Roll: The 100 Best Singles\\\". The song is on The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's 500 Songs that Shaped Rock and Roll list, Dire Straits' only appearance. In 2006, \\\"Mojo\\\" included \\\"Sultans of Swing\\\" in its list of the 50 best British songs. The song's guitar solo reached No. 22 on \\\"Guitar World\\\"s list of the greatest guitar solos and No. 32 on \\\"Rolling Stone\\\"s list of greatest guitar songs. The song was originally released\",\n \"title\": \"Sultans of Swing\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"8124717\",\n \"text\": \"Roll Away the Stone \\\"Roll Away the Stone\\\" is a single released by English rock band Mott the Hoople, recorded before Mick Ralphs left the band. In this version Ralphs plays lead guitar and one of the Thunderthighs handles the bridge voice. It was re-recorded by the band for their 1974 album \\\"The Hoople\\\", with Ariel Bender on lead guitar and English vocalist Lynsey de Paul singing the vocal bridge. It reached No.8 on the UK Singles Chart. When the band appeared on the BBC show \\\"Top of the Pops\\\", drummer Dale \\\"Buffin\\\" Griffin played the drums with two pool\",\n \"title\": \"Roll Away the Stone\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"2133919\",\n \"text\": \"He first played bass guitar in a band called Bobby Dennis and the Dominoes, which performed pop chart covers and rock 'n' roll standards, including Shadows covers. He later stated that Hank Marvin was his guitar hero and he played The Shadows song \\\"Midnight \\\"on the 1996 tribute album \\\"Twang.\\\" He went on to join a rhythm and blues outfit, the Muskrats, then a band called The Tridents in which he played bass. In 1966, Green played lead guitar in Peter Bardens' band \\\"Peter B's Looners\\\", where he met drummer Mick Fleetwood. It was with Peter B's Looners that he\",\n \"title\": \"Peter Green (musician)\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"2986332\",\n \"text\": \"In 2015, Weir, along with former Grateful Dead members Mickey Hart and Bill Kreutzmann, joined with Grammy-winning singer/guitarist John Mayer to form the band Dead & Company. The band remains active. During his career with the Grateful Dead, Weir played mostly rhythm guitar and sang many of the band's rock-n-roll and country & western tunes. In 1994, he was inducted into The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of the Grateful Dead. Weir was born in San Francisco, California to John (Jack) Parber and a fellow college student, who later gave him up for adoption ; he\",\n \"title\": \"Bob Weir\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"11175079\",\n \"text\": \"Rock And Roll Guitar 4. Education High 5. Least Likely To Succeed 6. You Learn To Live Like An Animal 7. Appetite For Dysfunction 8. Off To The Races 9. Don't Try This At Home 10. Humpty Dumpty 11. Choose Your Illusion 12. Breakdown 13. Coming Up For Air Slash (autobiography) Slash is an autobiography written by rock guitarist Slash with Anthony Bozza. Most of the book focuses on Slash's years with Guns N' Roses, including many rock star cliches: trashed hotel rooms, groupies, drug abuse, etc. Slash talks about Axl Rose, frontman of Guns N' Roses, and his departure\",\n \"title\": \"Slash (autobiography)\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"18542589\",\n \"text\": \"Rock & Roll Baby Rock & Roll Baby is an EP from American singer/songwriter/guitarist Malina Moye. The first single “K-yotic” featured Rock and Roll Hall of Fame’s funk legend Bootsy Collins which Billboard called \\\"explosive\\\" debuted on Billboard Twitter 140 chart at #5, and at #11 on Billboard’s Hot Singles Sales chart. Guitar World stated that “Moye's record is insanely good bringing a certain passion and feel to her guitar playing.\\\" Elmore Magazine said “Moye demonstrates once again she can play with the best of them fusing rock, blues, funk and soul…[her] new EP indeed shows the influence of Hendrix,\",\n \"title\": \"Rock & Roll Baby\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"6405110\",\n \"text\": \"working on a record right now which I think is coming out on Atlantic. I like it – I believe in them.” <http://www.melodicrock.com/interviews/steveperry-mitchlafon.html> Rock n Roll Soldiers The Rock n Roll Soldiers are a rock band from Eugene, Oregon. Its members are: Marty Larson-Xu (vocals, guitar), Oliver Brown (drums), and Evan Sernoffsky (bass guitar). Their sound has been described as \\\"skuzzy, sleazy punk tailored for drinking, fighting and tattooing\\\" by MTV News reporter James Montgomery. Larson-Xu himself describes it as high energy old-school rock and roll with a \\\"greater modern sensibility\\\" (Rocket Net Webzine). The Soldiers are known for their\",\n \"title\": \"Rock n Roll Soldiers\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"13585060\",\n \"text\": \"magazine described it as an \\\"infectious flick-your Bic staple.\\\" MTV's Gil Kaufman noted that the song is a \\\"rock-radio staple.\\\" \\\"Guitar World\\\" states that when the radio plays \\\"Rock and Roll Band\\\" \\\"few can resist indulging in fits of fleet-fingered air guitar and a spirited falsetto sing-along.\\\" In describing \\\"the absolute perfection of every song\\\" on Boston's debut album, Brian Thorpe Ferris claimed that \\\"even the fake, cheering crowd on 'Rock & Roll Band' sounds authentic\\\" \\\"Entertainment Weekly\\\" writer Chris Willman noted that, like all the other songs from \\\"Boston\\\", \\\"Rock and Roll Band\\\" \\\"received sizable FM radio airplay\\\" upon\",\n \"title\": \"Rock & Roll Band\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"3634396\",\n \"text\": \"of the song on his 2003 album \\\"Now\\\". In 2004, when Harrison was inducted posthumously into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a solo artist, \\\"While My Guitar Gently Weeps\\\" was played in tribute by a large band that included Tom Petty, Lynne, Steve Winwood, Mann, Dhani Harrison and Steve Ferrone. The performance concluded with an extended guitar solo by Prince, who was also being inducted into the Hall of Fame. Among other cover versions, the song has also been recorded by guitarists such as Marc Ribot, Phish and Charlie Byrd, and on ukulele by Jake Shimabukuro. Toto\",\n \"title\": \"While My Guitar Gently Weeps\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"16619647\",\n \"text\": \"to fill out a 1968 album titled \\\"Do You Know the Way to San Jose\\\" by the Baja Marimba Band. Nevertheless, his enduring legacy is one of an accomplished guitarist who played on some of the twentieth century's most popular recordings. Pitman's main studio guitar was the Gibson ES-335 with a Polytone amplifier. On some of the rock and roll records, he used a Fender Telecaster with a Fender Twin Reverb amplifier. Other instruments included a twelve-string guitar, Fender bass, Gibson mandolin, and a Bacon tenor banjo. Pitman tuned the mandolin and banjo like a guitar, and was careful to\",\n \"title\": \"Bill Pitman\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"827152\",\n \"text\": \"1991, \\\"Little Darlin's Rock and Roll Palace\\\" in Kissimmee, Florida renamed the club as \\\"Wolfman Jack's Rock and Roll Palace\\\". The New Year's Eve grand opening featured, Joe Walsh, Melaine, Lester Chambers, The Impressions and Rockin Robin. Wolfman Jack played himself in an episode of \\\"Married... with Children\\\" (\\\"Ship Happens: Part 1\\\") that first aired in February 1995. \\\"Have Mercy: Confessions of the Original Rock 'n' Roll Animal,\\\" Wolfman's autobiography, was published in 1995 to stellar reviews in \\\"The New York Times\\\", the \\\"Los Angeles Times\\\", and \\\"Kirkus Reviews\\\", which said it \\\"Reads like a collaboration between Mark Twain and\",\n \"title\": \"Wolfman Jack\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"6631563\",\n \"text\": \"rock and roll. Originally composed of Alejandro Lora on bass Memo Berea lead guitar and lead vocals, Ernesto de Leon on lead guitar, and Carlos Hauptvogel on the drums, the band has been accompanied on some albums by Arturo Labastida on saxophone and Carlos Martinez on trumpet. Sergio Mancera also played guitar on some albums. They performed their first public engagement in October, 1968, and released 15 albums on the RAFF record label before officially changing their name and lineup in 1985. As rock in Mexico was originally seen as 'unauthentic' when sung in Spanish, Three Souls mostly sang covers\",\n \"title\": \"El Tri\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"7645726\",\n \"text\": \"1977 tour, the bow was illuminated and emitted a laser beam from its tip. Page also played part of the solo of the song \\\"Heartbreaker\\\" holding the guitar over his head while walking across the stage, and then bending a string above the guitar nut to repeatedly change the pitch of the note. He also jumped and opened his legs wide in mid-air when playing \\\"Rock And Roll\\\". Ritchie Blackmore often played his guitar in unusual ways during a show—stepping on it with his foot, scraping the strings across the monitors or amplifiers on stage, throwing his guitar and catching\",\n \"title\": \"Guitar showmanship\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"342160\",\n \"text\": \"were less economical and tended to be replaced by smaller combos, using guitars, bass and drums. In the same period, particularly on the West Coast and in the Midwest, the development of jump blues, with its guitar riffs, prominent beats and shouted lyrics, prefigured many later developments. In the documentary film \\\"Hail! Hail! Rock 'n' Roll\\\", Keith Richards proposes that Chuck Berry developed his brand of rock and roll by transposing the familiar two-note lead line of jump blues piano directly to the electric guitar, creating what is instantly recognizable as rock guitar. Similarly, country boogie and Chicago electric blues\",\n \"title\": \"Rock and roll\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"16089078\",\n \"text\": \"had short tenures with the band. American guitar legend, Reggie Young, who has over 200 Gold or Platinum records to his credit, played for the Ranch Boys. Other notable Snearly Ranch Boys' members include Paul Burlison, a guitarist for \\\"Johnny Burnette and the Rock 'n Roll Trio\\\" who also appeared in the Alan Freed movie, \\\"Rock, Rock, Rock\\\"; Albert Vescova, steel guitarist for the \\\"Tonight Show\\\" band and prominent Hollywood actor; Ramsey Kearney, Nashville recording artist and studio owner; Jumpin' Gene Simmons, recording artist with hit song \\\"Haunted House\\\"; Hayden Thompson, a rockabilly recording star; Eddie Bond, Rockabilly star and\",\n \"title\": \"Snearly Ranch Boys\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"10840408\",\n \"text\": \"for Chess, \\\"I Would Hate to See You Go\\\" (1956). Among his more famous work, he played on Chuck Berry's 1957 hit single \\\"School Days\\\" as well as on other Berry recording including \\\"Brown Eyed Handsome Man\\\" (1956), \\\"Roll Over Beethoven\\\" (1956), \\\"Too Much Monkey Business\\\" (1956), the calypso flavored, \\\"Havana Moon\\\" (1956), \\\"Rock and Roll Music\\\" (1957), \\\"Sweet Little Sixteen\\\" (1957), \\\"Reelin' and Rockin'\\\" (1957), \\\"Guitar Boogie\\\" (1957), \\\"Memphis, Tennessee\\\" (1958), \\\"Sweet Little Rock and Roller\\\" (1958), \\\"Little Queenie\\\" (1958), \\\"Almost Grown\\\" (1959), \\\"Back in the U.S.A.\\\" (1959) and \\\"Let It Rock\\\" (1959). Below rejoined the Myers brothers for\",\n \"title\": \"Fred Below\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"15721796\",\n \"text\": \"was 1970 on John McLaughlin's album \\\"My Goal's Beyond\\\" (1970) followed by Mahavishnu Orchestra's,\\\"The Inner Mounting Flame\\\" (1971) followed shortly thereafter with \\\"Birds of Fire\\\" (1973). Jean-Luc Ponty played on subsequent albums \\\"Apocalypse\\\" and \\\"Visions of the Emerald Beyond\\\". Scarlet Rivera played with Bob Dylan on \\\"Hurricane\\\". Jane Clark with Steffen Schackinger Rock violin Rock violin is rock music that includes violin in its instrumental lineup. This includes rock music only and does not include classical style music using melodic motifs from rock. Rock music and rock and roll bands typically use electric guitar for the high range, and thus\",\n \"title\": \"Rock violin\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"4861608\",\n \"text\": \"Presley musical films and directed Presley in the film \\\"Paradise, Hawaiian Style\\\" (1966) for Paramount Pictures. Because of that, plus his experience directing a western film, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer hired him to direct rock and roll singer Roy Orbison in \\\"The Fastest Guitar Alive\\\" (1967). He worked exclusively as a director in film and television from 1965 to 1969. He then became a second unit director, working on numerous major films such as \\\"Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid\\\" (1969), \\\"Patton\\\" (1970), and \\\"The Man Who Would Be King\\\" (1975). He was credited as associate producer in charge of action and animal\",\n \"title\": \"Mickey Moore\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"17905989\",\n \"text\": \"Haitian rock Haitian rock, or rock kreyòl, started as rock n roll in Haiti in the early 1960s. It was played by rock bands called \\\"yeye\\\" bands. The name \\\"yeye\\\" derives from the Beatles lyrical verse, \\\"yeah, yeah, yeah\\\", which took off in the United States and was listened to by upper class Haitian families who had access to the radio. Young Haitians formed small electric guitar-based bands. These \\\"yeye\\\" rock bands were short-lived, as the addition of \\\"compas\\\" to their repertoires resulted in a sound was called mini-jazz, or \\\"mini-djaz\\\" in creole. Today, \\\"Rock Kreyòl\\\" is an alternative rock\",\n \"title\": \"Haitian rock\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"3700263\",\n \"text\": \"to form the \\\"Second Amendments,\\\" a bipartisan rock and country band set to play for United States troops stationed overseas over the holiday season. He played lead guitar. In June 2006, the band played at President George W. Bush's picnic on the White House lawn, where Bush was quoted calling McCotter \\\"that rock-and-roll dude.\\\" McCotter was once in a band called the New Flying Squirrels. Thaddeus McCotter Thaddeus George McCotter (born August 22, 1965) is an American politician, radio host, and a member of the Republican Party who was the U.S. Representative from from 2003 to 2012. The district at\",\n \"title\": \"Thaddeus McCotter\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"13991834\",\n \"text\": \"Turn It Up, in May 2017. Their current and permanent drummer (since 2015) is Ryan McHale (New York), and their former drummer was Dave Rahn from Atlanta (Gentleman Jesse & His Men, Carbons) who also played the drums on all Baby Shakes recordings prior to 2016. Their drummer during their February 2009 Japanese tour was Travis Ramin (Nikki Corvette, Fevers) and Shingo Nishimaru was their drummer during their 2009 European tour. Bio taken from www.babyshakes.com: Baby Shakes are a rock n’ roll-punk band from New York City. Mary on lead vocals and guitar, Judy on lead guitar and vocals, Claudia\",\n \"title\": \"Baby Shakes\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"7332007\",\n \"text\": \"session rehearsal and was uncertain what to play for the first instrumental break in the song. One of the Comets (accounts differ as to exactly who) suggested Cedrone repeat the solo he'd played on \\\"Rock the Joint\\\". Although Danny's wife Millie and daughter Marie recall an informal rehearsal at their home in South Philadelphia after dinner where the two men ran through a few solos, and the Rock The Joint break was one of them. The resulting solo, which was smoother than the previous recorded version, is widely considered one of the greatest rock and roll guitar solos of all\",\n \"title\": \"Danny Cedrone\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"470487\",\n \"text\": \"was narrated by Daniels, who had played Jimmy in the 1979 film. Despite technical difficulties the show led to a six-night residency at Madison Square Garden and a US and European tour through 1996 and 1997. Townshend played mostly acoustic guitar, but eventually was persuaded to play some electric. In 1998, VH1 ranked the Who ninth in their list of the \\\"100 Greatest Artists of Rock 'n' Roll\\\". In late 1999, the Who performed as a five-piece for the first time since 1985, with Bundrick on keyboards and Starkey on drums. The first show in Las Vegas at the MGM\",\n \"title\": \"The Who\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"342166\",\n \"text\": \"and Fats Domino. His style of music combined with black influences created controversy during a turbulent time in history but that did not stop them from creating what we call Rock n Roll. Many other popular rock and roll singers of the time, such as Fats Domino and Little Richard, came out of the black rhythm and blues tradition, making the music attractive to white audiences, and are not usually classed as \\\"rockabilly\\\". Bill Flagg who is a Connecticut resident, began referring to his mix of hillbilly and rock 'n' roll music as rockabilly around 1953. His song \\\"Guitar Rock\\\"\",\n \"title\": \"Rock and roll\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"4015434\",\n \"text\": \"& Dunn fame, for Dunn's first solo work, playing guitar and singing along on the song, \\\"Honky Tonk Stomp\\\". Gibbons played guitar on \\\"Broke Down On the Brazos\\\", the opening track of Gov't Mule's 2009 album \\\"By a Thread\\\". Gibbons played guitar on \\\"Run Rudolph Run\\\", the third track of \\\"We Wish you a Metal Xmas and a Headbanging New Year\\\" compilation. Gibbons joined Jeff Beck onstage at the 2009 25th Anniversary Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Concert with a version of Jimi Hendrix's \\\"Foxy Lady\\\". Gibbons made a special guest appearance behind Roky Erickson on \\\"Austin City Limits\\\"\",\n \"title\": \"Billy Gibbons\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"1423043\",\n \"text\": \"and Roll Hall of Fame's 500 Songs that Shaped Rock and Roll. Burton played guitar on the majority of Rick Nelson's songs recorded during the first 11 years of Nelson's career, beginning with his premiere at Master Recorders in Hollywood on November 18, 1957, for the classic \\\"Stood Up\\\"/\\\"Waitin' in School\\\" rockabilly single (Note: Burton was relegated to rhythm as Joe Maphis was still playing lead guitar at the time). In 1965 he started working on the television program \\\"Shindig!\\\" which curtailed his touring with Nelson. However, Burton continued contributing to his friend's studio albums through the \\\"Perspective\\\" sessions in\",\n \"title\": \"James Burton\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"4516200\",\n \"text\": \"Chris Cheney, Vince Gill, Johnny Hiland, Evan Johns, Bill Kirchen, Albert Lee, Les Paul, Arlen Roth, Richie Sambora, Ricky Skaggs, Slash, and Steve Vai. Gatton has been described as possessing an extraordinary proficiency on his instrument, \\\"a living treasury of American musical styles.\\\" In 2009, John Previti, who played bass guitar with Danny for eighteen years, stated, \\\"You know, when he played country music, it sounded like all he played was country music. When he played jazz, it sounded like that's all he played, rockabilly, old rock and roll, soul music. You know, he called himself a Whitman sampler of\",\n \"title\": \"Danny Gatton\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"9256414\",\n \"text\": \"2007, and played shows, whilst frontman Sully Erna did a small solo tour. Born in Norwood, Massachusetts, Rombola is a self-taught guitarist. He first picked up a guitar at age 11. According to his father, the first song Tony learned was a song by Black Sabbath. His first introductions to rock music were the albums \\\"Led Zeppelin III\\\", \\\"2112\\\" and \\\"We Sold Our Soul for Rock 'n' Roll\\\". Having never taken guitar lessons, Rombola learned everything he knows from guitar magazines such as Guitar World. His first guitar was an SG copy, before moving to custom Les Pauls that he\",\n \"title\": \"Tony Rombola\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"1377959\",\n \"text\": \"Parsons in 2006, playing guitar and singing a duet, \\\"Love Hurts\\\". On 12 March 2007 Richards attended the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame ceremony to induct the Ronettes; he also played guitar during the ceremony's all-star jam session. On 26 February 2012 Richards paid tribute to fellow musicians Chuck Berry and Leonard Cohen, who were the recipients of the first annual PEN Awards for songwriting excellence at the JFK Presidential Library in Boston, Massachusetts. In an April 2007 interview for \\\"NME\\\" magazine, music journalist Mark Beaumont asked Richards what the strangest thing he ever snorted was, and quoted him\",\n \"title\": \"Keith Richards\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"15325211\",\n \"text\": \"I Love Rock 'n' Roll \\\"I Love Rock 'n' Roll\\\" is a rock song written in 1975 by Alan Merrill of the Arrows, who recorded the first released version. The song was later made famous by Joan Jett & the Blackhearts in 1982. Merrill still plays the song live in Europe, Japan and most often in his home town New York City. The song was originally recorded and released by the Arrows in 1975 on Rak Records, with lead vocals, guitar, music & lyrics written by Alan Merrill and produced by Mickie Most. In an interview with Songfacts, Merrill said\",\n \"title\": \"I Love Rock 'n' Roll\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"5342653\",\n \"text\": \"The Cyrkle The Cyrkle was an American rock and roll band active in the early and mid-1960s. The group charted two Top 40 hits, \\\"Red Rubber Ball,\\\" and \\\"Turn-Down Day\\\". The band was formed by guitarists and lead singers Don Dannemann and Tom Dawes (who also played bass guitar), who met while studying at Lafayette College in Easton, Pennsylvania. Dannemann enlisted in the US Coast Guard in 1966. The other members were Earle Pickens on keyboards and Marty Fried on drums. They were originally a \\\"frat rock\\\" band called The Rhondells but were later discovered and managed by Brian Epstein,\",\n \"title\": \"The Cyrkle\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"6215830\",\n \"text\": \"4th in Verviers, Belgium. Their latest record, \\\"The Last Real Rock n' Roll\\\", was released in April 2017. In 2018, after months of rumors, Georg Dolivo announced that he was leaving the band, essentially ending the band. Their final live show was on April 22, at \\\"Rainbow Anniversary “Party in the Parking Lot”\\\". Rhino Bucket Rhino Bucket is a hard rock band from Van Nuys, Los Angeles, California. The band was formed in February 1988 by Georg Dolivo (lead vocals, rhythm guitar), Reeve Downes (bass guitar, backing vocals) and Greg Fields (lead guitar, backing vocals). This lineup played the Los\",\n \"title\": \"Rhino Bucket\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"11933016\",\n \"text\": \"at Emo's in Austin. By 2001, the band was composed of Sammytown, Brian Schopflin (bass), Jonny Manak (guitar), Alby Wasted (guitar), and Ike Eichensehr (drums). Sammytown, Brian, Jonny, Alby and Ike also started the Resistoleros, an Oakland-based rock 'n' roll band. Steel Cage Records released the Resistoleros CD \\\"Rock 'N Roll Napalm\\\" in 2003. In 2004, the \\\"Live Cheap\\\" CD came out on Malt Soda Recordings, featuring Sammytown (vocals), Brian Schopflin (bass), Ike Eichensehr (drums), Alby Wasted (guitar) and Jimmy Crucifix (guitarist for 1980s hardcore band Crucifix and hard rock band Proudflesh) also on guitar. This is the only Fang\",\n \"title\": \"Fang (band)\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"17561134\",\n \"text\": \"he used. It can be inferred from the song that King Creole used an electric guitar, since the song mentions string bending and rock-and-roll, a genre not usually played as lead on the acoustic guitar. The song also states that King Creole played from a well-rounded song repertoire, and would play light, dark, serious, and nonsense music. In 2010, Sony Music released a remix version of the song in the album Viva Elvis, an album used for the Elvis show of Cirque De Soleil. The song has a reggae rock feel, and a driving drum rhythm. King Creole (song) King\",\n \"title\": \"King Creole (song)\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"18401842\",\n \"text\": \"Yosi Piamenta Yosi Piamenta (November 29, 1951 – August 23, 2015) was an Orthodox Jewish singer-songwriter and guitarist, known for introducing the electric guitar to Jewish music. Piamenta played rock and roll tunes, often infused with heavy rock licks and extended guitar solos – all while dressed in Orthodox Jewish religious clothing and singing Biblical Hebrew lyrics. Piamenta was widely acknowledged by rock critics as a guitar virtuoso. In addition to being an original songwriter, Piamenta covered others' music in the religious Jewish music category – his album \\\"Songs of the Rebbes\\\" includes various Lubavitch, Belz, and Sephardi nigunim and\",\n \"title\": \"Yosi Piamenta\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"149838\",\n \"text\": \"metal bridge. The type of resonator guitar with a neck with a square cross-section—called \\\"square neck\\\" or \\\"Hawaiian\\\"—is usually played face up, on the lap of the seated player, and often with a metal or glass slide. The round neck resonator guitars are normally played in the same fashion as other guitars, although slides are also often used, especially in blues. The twelve-string guitar usually has steel strings, and it is widely used in folk music, blues, and rock and roll. Rather than having only six strings, the 12-string guitar has six courses made up of two strings each, like\",\n \"title\": \"Guitar\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"15325222\",\n \"text\": \"was performed as part of a medley, using the same guitar proposed The Alex Gaudino & Jason Rooney cover version was released in 2008. \\\"I Love Rock 'n' Roll\\\" is an often-covered song, and has been notably recorded by such artists as: I Love Rock 'n' Roll \\\"I Love Rock 'n' Roll\\\" is a rock song written in 1975 by Alan Merrill of the Arrows, who recorded the first released version. The song was later made famous by Joan Jett & the Blackhearts in 1982. Merrill still plays the song live in Europe, Japan and most often in his home\",\n \"title\": \"I Love Rock 'n' Roll\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"18631072\",\n \"text\": \"Peggy Jones (musician) Peggy Jones or Peggy Malone (married name) (July 19, 1940 – September 16, 2015), known on stage as Lady Bo in recognition of her relationship with Bo Diddley, was an American musician. A pioneer of rock and roll, Jones played rhythm guitar in Bo Diddley's band in the late 1950s and early 1960s, becoming one of the first (perhaps \\\"the\\\" first) female rock guitarists in a highly visible rock band, and was sometimes called the \\\"Queen Mother of Guitar\\\". Born in Harlem, New York City, in 1940, Jones grew up in the Sugar Hill section, and attended\",\n \"title\": \"Peggy Jones (musician)\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"7591724\",\n \"text\": \"among guitar players: it doesn't matter if your guitar isn't fully in tune, as long as it's \\\"close enough for rock 'n' roll\\\". Telegram (Parts 1-3 only) was Nazareth's concert opener for many years, including the 1981 shows recorded for the Snaz album and is one of their finest achievements. Close Enough for Rock 'n' Roll Close Enough for Rock 'n' Roll is the seventh studio album by the Scottish hard rock band Nazareth, released in 1976. The lead track, Telegram, is the definitive story of 1970's touring rock bands and describes the band's experience of hangovers, travel by aeroplane\",\n \"title\": \"Close Enough for Rock 'n' Roll\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"9320734\",\n \"text\": \"Don Potter (musician) Don Potter is an American musician and producer in Nashville, Tennessee. A longstanding producer for Wynonna Judd, he has become known as \\\"the man who created the Judds' sound\\\". Potter has been singing, playing guitar, writing songs, and recording and producing music since the 1970s, and has performed with many notable artists. He played acoustic guitar on the 1971 release of Chuck Mangione's \\\"Friends & Love - a Chuck Mangione Concert\\\". Potter used to be a member of the Show Stoppers rock and roll band and the Don Potter and Bat McGrath duo based in Rochester, New\",\n \"title\": \"Don Potter (musician)\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"8448729\",\n \"text\": \"part of \\\"Deca pevaju rokenrol\\\" (\\\"Children Sing Rock 'n' Roll\\\") project. Kojić sung, played slide guitar, mixed, arranged and produced the new version. On 13 March 2015, on the band's promotional concert in Zagreb, the band was joined on stage by former members Jurij Novoselić and Srđan Gulić, drummer Igor Pavlica and trumpet player Nikola Santro. In March 2016, the band released the studio album \\\"Opet\\\" (\\\"Again\\\"). The album was previously announced by the single \\\"Zaboravili rokenrol!?!\\\" (\\\"Forgot about Rock 'n' Roll!?!\\\"), released in November 2015 and featuring British musicians Lord Eric Sugumugu and Robert Goldsmith on percussion. The album\",\n \"title\": \"Disciplin A Kitschme\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"19286733\",\n \"text\": \"Dennis Cahill (musician) Dennis Cahill is an American guitarist who specializes in Irish traditional music. He was born in Chicago on June 16, 1954. His parents were from County Kerry, Ireland. Cahill began playing guitar at the age of nine and studied guitar at the Chicago Musical College. He was active in the Irish traditional music scene in Chicago in the 1980s and 1990s. In the late 1980s he and Irish fiddler Martin Hayes formed a band in Chicago called Midnight Court which combined traditional music with rock and roll. The band, in which Cahill played a Fender Telecaster and\",\n \"title\": \"Dennis Cahill (musician)\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"11131539\",\n \"text\": \"Lee Benoit Lee Benoit is a Cajun musician from Rayne, Louisiana. At the age of five, Lee Benoit was given an electric organ by his grandmother (Cidalise), who raised him. He started to play Christmas songs on it, by ear. At the age of twelve, he started to play the electric guitar and formed a band. They played rock n' roll and were influenced by Lynyrd Skynyrd, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Hank Williams and others. Lee also learnt to play the bass guitar during his teenage years. In 1976, he joined the Marines as an Automated Data Processor. After leaving the\",\n \"title\": \"Lee Benoit\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"20775219\",\n \"text\": \"Rock and Roll (I Gave You the Best Years of My Life) \\\"Rock and Roll (I Gave You the Best Years of My Life)\\\" is a 1973 song written and originally performed by Australian singer Kevin Johnson, most famously covered by American singer Mac Davis. Johnson's version reached number four in Australia. The guitar solo in Johnson's version was played by Rory O'Donoghue. In Australia, the UK and Ireland, it was only Johnson's original version which charted. In Canada, Terry Jacks got it into the charts. No version of the song charted in New Zealand, even though the country's very\",\n \"title\": \"Rock and Roll (I Gave You the Best Years of My Life)\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"5552639\",\n \"text\": \"Lennon added the song's distorted guitar riffs, playing identical lines through the same amplifier; McCartney overdubbed bass guitar and Starr added more drums, played on a full drum kit. McCartney sang his lead vocal in a style that author Ian MacDonald terms Presleyesque, while Lennon, McCartney and Harrison contributed backing vocals, part of which consisted of the singers imitating brass instruments over the song's instrumental break. Music journalist John Harris highlights the significance of McCartney's \\\"salute\\\" to Elvis Presley, who would make his comeback later in 1968 with a return to his formative, rock 'n' roll style. Harris also identifies\",\n \"title\": \"Lady Madonna\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"9128622\",\n \"text\": \"on the Shoulder of Giants\\\" (2000), he performed a number of other roles as the band suffered line-up issues for the recording of the album, particularly contributing bass guitar work in the absence of the band's bassist Paul McGuigan. Stacey played bass on 4 songs - \\\"Who Feels Love?\\\", \\\"Gas Panic!\\\", \\\"I Can See a Liar\\\" and \\\"Roll It Over\\\". He also contributed keyboards and lead guitar to \\\"Fuckin' in the Bushes\\\", the guitar solo in \\\"Roll It Over\\\", backwards guitar to \\\"Who Feels Love?\\\" and acoustic guitar to \\\"Where Did It All go Wrong?\\\". Later, at the end of\",\n \"title\": \"Paul Stacey\"\n }\n]","isConversational":false}}},{"rowIdx":287,"cells":{"query_id":{"kind":"string","value":"289"},"query":{"kind":"string","value":"which gas most likely was not part of earth 's early atmosphere"},"answers":{"kind":"list like","value":["Oxygen"],"string":"[\n \"Oxygen\"\n]","isConversational":false},"positive_passages":{"kind":"list like","value":[{"docid":"13434857","text":"and carbon dioxide into methane and water. Oxygen did not become a major part of the atmosphere until photosynthetic organisms evolved later in Earth's history. With no oxygen, methane stayed in the atmosphere longer and at higher concentrations than it does today. The known sources of methane are predominantly located near the Earth's surface. In combination with vertical atmospheric motions and methane's relatively long lifetime, methane is considered to be a well-mixed gas. In other words, the concentration of methane is taken to be constant with respect to height within the troposphere. The dominant sink of methane in the troposphere","title":"Atmospheric methane"},{"docid":"5345780","text":"the third atmosphere, rich in oxygen, emerged when bacteria began to produce oxygen about 2.8 Ga. In early models for the formation of the atmosphere and ocean, the second atmosphere was formed by outgassing of volatiles from the Earth's interior. Now it is considered likely that many of the volatiles were delivered during accretion by a process known as \"impact degassing\" in which incoming bodies vaporize on impact. The ocean and atmosphere would, therefore, have started to form even as the Earth formed. The new atmosphere probably contained water vapor, carbon dioxide, nitrogen, and smaller amounts of other gases. Planetesimals","title":"History of Earth"},{"docid":"1412900","text":"can displace oxygen and become an asphyxiation hazard. Ethane poses no known acute or chronic toxicological risk. It is not a carcinogen. Ethane occurs as a trace gas in the Earth's atmosphere, currently having a concentration at sea level of 0.5 ppb, though its preindustrial concentration is likely to have been only around 0.25 part per billion since a significant proportion of the ethane in today’s atmosphere may have originated as fossil fuels. Global ethane quantities have varied over time, likely due to flaring at natural gas fields. Global ethane emission rates declined from 1984 to 2010, though increased shale","title":"Ethane"},{"docid":"1846839","text":"oxygen content of the tank atmosphere below 5% (on crude carriers, less for product carriers and gas tankers), thus making any air/hydrocarbon gas mixture in the tank too rich (too high a fuel to oxygen ratio) to ignite. IG is most important during discharging and during the ballast voyage when more hydrocarbon vapour is likely to be present in the tank atmosphere. Inert gas can also be used to purge the tank of the volatile atmosphere in preparation for gas freeing - replacing the atmosphere with breathable air - or vice versa. The flue gas system uses the boiler exhaust","title":"Inert gas"},{"docid":"402866","text":"Earth, plant life could also be brought in. This would accelerate the production of oxygen, which theoretically would make the planet eventually able to support animal life. In many respects, Mars is the most Earth-like planet in the Solar System. It is thought that Mars once had a more Earth-like environment early in its history, with a thicker atmosphere and abundant water that was lost over the course of hundreds of millions of years. The exact mechanism of this loss is still unclear, though three mechanisms in particular seem likely: First, whenever surface water is present, carbon dioxide () reacts","title":"Terraforming"},{"docid":"4550161","text":"the relationship can be used to estimate tropospheric residence-times of gases. Trace gas The most abundant gases in the atmosphere are nitrogen (78.1%), oxygen (20.9%), and argon (0.934%). Combined, oxygen, argon, and nitrogen make up 99.934% of the gases in the atmosphere (not including water vapor). The other gases that are not part of the 99.934% of the atmosphere are called trace gases. The abundance of a trace gas can range from a few parts per trillion (ppt) by volume to several hundred parts per million by volume (ppmv). When a trace gas is added into the atmosphere, that process","title":"Trace gas"},{"docid":"4550155","text":"Trace gas The most abundant gases in the atmosphere are nitrogen (78.1%), oxygen (20.9%), and argon (0.934%). Combined, oxygen, argon, and nitrogen make up 99.934% of the gases in the atmosphere (not including water vapor). The other gases that are not part of the 99.934% of the atmosphere are called trace gases. The abundance of a trace gas can range from a few parts per trillion (ppt) by volume to several hundred parts per million by volume (ppmv). When a trace gas is added into the atmosphere, that process is called a \"source\". There are two possible types of sources","title":"Trace gas"},{"docid":"6088566","text":"through the oceans. The dry ice caps on Mars are also an example of sequestration. One mechanism for sequestration is chemical; for example, most of the carbon dioxide of the Earth's original atmosphere has been chemically sequestered into carbonate rock. Very likely a similar process has occurred on Mars. Oxygen can be sequestered by oxidation of rocks; for example, by increasing the oxidation states of ferric rocks from Fe to Fe. Gases can also be sequestered by adsorption, where fine particles in the regolith capture gas which adheres to the surface particles. Earth is too large to lose a significant","title":"Atmospheric escape"},{"docid":"318977","text":"identified going as far back as the Huronian epoch, roughly 2400–2100 Ma. One of the best studied is the Sturtian-Varangian glaciation, around 850–635 Ma, which may have brought glacial conditions all the way to the equator, resulting in a \"Snowball Earth\". The atmosphere of the early Earth is not well understood. Most geologists believe it was composed primarily of nitrogen, carbon dioxide, and other relatively inert gases, and was lacking in free oxygen. There is, however, evidence that an oxygen-rich atmosphere existed since the early Archean. At present, it is still believed that molecular oxygen was not a significant fraction","title":"Precambrian"},{"docid":"5345800","text":"the equator. Thus, this glaciation, known as the Huronian glaciation, may have been global. Some scientists suggest this was so severe that the Earth was frozen over from the poles to the equator, a hypothesis called Snowball Earth. The Huronian ice age might have been caused by the increased oxygen concentration in the atmosphere, which caused the decrease of methane (CH) in the atmosphere. Methane is a strong greenhouse gas, but with oxygen it reacts to form CO, a less effective greenhouse gas. When free oxygen became available in the atmosphere, the concentration of methane could have decreased dramatically, enough","title":"History of Earth"},{"docid":"496171","text":"it passed in front of the Sun, and detected whether solar ultraviolet radiation was absorbed at certain wavelengths, which would indicate the presence of gas particles, and therefore an atmosphere. The airglow spectrometer detected extreme ultraviolet radiation emanating from atoms of gaseous hydrogen, helium, carbon, oxygen, neon, and argon. Unlike the occultation spectrometer, it did not require backlighting from the Sun, and could move along with the rotatable scan platform on the spacecraft. The experiment's most important goal was to ascertain whether Mercury had an atmosphere, but would also gather data at Earth and Venus and study the interstellar background","title":"Mariner 10"},{"docid":"10238235","text":"may have been higher, with estimated partial pressure as large as , because there was no bacterial photosynthesis to reduce the gas to carbon compounds and oxygen. Methane, a very active greenhouse gas which reacts with oxygen to produce and water vapor, may have been more prevalent as well, with a mixing ratio of 10 (100 parts per million by volume). Though water is responsible for most (about 36-70%) of the total greenhouse effect, the role of water vapor as a greenhouse gas depends on temperature. On Earth, carbon dioxide is the most relevant, direct anthropologically influenced greenhouse gas. Carbon","title":"Carbon dioxide in Earth's atmosphere"},{"docid":"305244","text":"in having such a high concentration of oxygen gas in its atmosphere: Mars (with 0.1% by volume) and Venus have much less. The surrounding those planets is produced solely by the action of ultraviolet radiation on oxygen-containing molecules such as carbon dioxide. The unusually high concentration of oxygen gas on Earth is the result of the oxygen cycle. This biogeochemical cycle describes the movement of oxygen within and between its three main reservoirs on Earth: the atmosphere, the biosphere, and the lithosphere. The main driving factor of the oxygen cycle is photosynthesis, which is responsible for modern Earth's atmosphere. Photosynthesis","title":"Oxygen"},{"docid":"8503288","text":"water and subsequent rise of the levels of other greenhouse gases. Despite the harsh conditions on the surface, the atmospheric pressure and temperature at about 50 km to 65 km above the surface of the planet is nearly the same as that of the Earth, making its upper atmosphere the most Earth-like area in the Solar System, even more so than the surface of Mars. Due to the similarity in pressure and temperature and the fact that breathable air (21% oxygen, 78% nitrogen) is a lifting gas on Venus in the same way that helium is a lifting gas on","title":"Atmosphere of Venus"},{"docid":"1639879","text":"the border between the atmosphere and outer space. Atmospheric effects become noticeable during atmospheric reentry of spacecraft at an altitude of around . Several layers can be distinguished in the atmosphere, based on characteristics such as temperature and composition. The study of Earth's atmosphere and its processes is called atmospheric science (aerology). Early pioneers in the field include Léon Teisserenc de Bort and Richard Assmann. The three major constituents of Earth's atmosphere are nitrogen, oxygen, and argon. Water vapor accounts for roughly 0.25% of the atmosphere by mass. The concentration of water vapor (a greenhouse gas) varies significantly from around","title":"Atmosphere of Earth"},{"docid":"16103829","text":"of early Earth (the first billion years) was drastically different from its current state. Initially, hydrogen and helium compounds dominated the atmosphere. However, given the relatively small size of these elements and the warmer temperature of Earth compared to other planets at the time, most of these lighter compounds escaped, leaving behind an atmosphere composed mainly of methane, nitrogen, oxygen and ammonia with small concentrations of hydrogen compounds and other gases. The atmosphere was transitioning from a reduction atmosphere (an atmosphere that inhibits oxidation) to one of oxidation, similar to our current atmosphere. The origin of life on Earth has","title":"Paleolightning"},{"docid":"19304902","text":"flooded the atmosphere in a Great Oxidation Event (GOE) about 2.4 billion years ago, even though bacteria that produced oxygen likely evolved hundreds of millions of years earlier. Catling’s theory proposes that biological oxygen was initially used by reactions with chemicals in the environment; gradually, however, Earth’s environment shifted to a tipping point where oxygen flooded the air. Atmospheric methane is the key part of this theory. Before oxygen was abundant, methane gas could reach concentrations hundreds of times greater than today’s 1.8 parts per million. Ultraviolet light decomposes methane molecules in the upper atmosphere, causing hydrogen gas to escape","title":"David Catling"},{"docid":"6966923","text":"Gas torus A gas torus is a toroidal cloud of gas or plasma that encircles a planet. In the Solar System, gas tori tend to be produced by the interaction of a satellite's atmosphere with the magnetic field of a planet. The most famous example of this is the Io plasma torus, which is produced by the ionization of roughly 1 ton per second of oxygen and sulfur from the tenuous atmosphere of Jupiter's volcanic moon Io. Before being ionized, these particles are part of a neutral torus, also centered on the orbit of Io. Energetic particle observations also suggest","title":"Gas torus"},{"docid":"305243","text":"the third most abundant chemical element in the universe, after hydrogen and helium. About 0.9% of the Sun's mass is oxygen. Oxygen constitutes 49.2% of the Earth's crust by mass as part of oxide compounds such as silicon dioxide and is the most abundant element by mass in the Earth's crust. It is also the major component of the world's oceans (88.8% by mass). Oxygen gas is the second most common component of the Earth's atmosphere, taking up 20.8% of its volume and 23.1% of its mass (some 10 tonnes). Earth is unusual among the planets of the Solar System","title":"Oxygen"},{"docid":"1639916","text":"Atmosphere An atmosphere (from Modern Greek ἀτμός \"(atmos)\", meaning 'vapour', and σφαῖρα \"(sphaira)\", meaning 'sphere') is a layer or a set of layers of gases surrounding a planet or other material body, that is held in place by the gravity of that body. An atmosphere is more likely to be retained if the gravity it is subject to is high and the temperature of the atmosphere is low. The atmosphere of Earth is composed of nitrogen (about 78%), oxygen (about 21%), argon (about 0.9%) , carbon dioxide (0.03%) and other gases in trace amounts. Oxygen is used by most organisms","title":"Atmosphere"},{"docid":"13750961","text":"trajectory towards the Sun may remove Earth's mantle, leaving just its core, which will finally be destroyed after at most 200 years. Following this event, Earth's sole legacy will be a very slight increase (0.01%) of the solar metallicity. After fusing helium in its core to carbon, the Sun will begin to collapse again, evolving into a compact white dwarf star after ejecting its outer atmosphere as a planetary nebula. The predicted final mass is 54.1% of the present value, most likely consisting primarily of carbon and oxygen. Currently, the moon is moving away from Earth at a rate of","title":"Future of Earth"}],"string":"[\n {\n \"docid\": \"13434857\",\n \"text\": \"and carbon dioxide into methane and water. Oxygen did not become a major part of the atmosphere until photosynthetic organisms evolved later in Earth's history. With no oxygen, methane stayed in the atmosphere longer and at higher concentrations than it does today. The known sources of methane are predominantly located near the Earth's surface. In combination with vertical atmospheric motions and methane's relatively long lifetime, methane is considered to be a well-mixed gas. In other words, the concentration of methane is taken to be constant with respect to height within the troposphere. The dominant sink of methane in the troposphere\",\n \"title\": \"Atmospheric methane\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"5345780\",\n \"text\": \"the third atmosphere, rich in oxygen, emerged when bacteria began to produce oxygen about 2.8 Ga. In early models for the formation of the atmosphere and ocean, the second atmosphere was formed by outgassing of volatiles from the Earth's interior. Now it is considered likely that many of the volatiles were delivered during accretion by a process known as \\\"impact degassing\\\" in which incoming bodies vaporize on impact. The ocean and atmosphere would, therefore, have started to form even as the Earth formed. The new atmosphere probably contained water vapor, carbon dioxide, nitrogen, and smaller amounts of other gases. Planetesimals\",\n \"title\": \"History of Earth\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"1412900\",\n \"text\": \"can displace oxygen and become an asphyxiation hazard. Ethane poses no known acute or chronic toxicological risk. It is not a carcinogen. Ethane occurs as a trace gas in the Earth's atmosphere, currently having a concentration at sea level of 0.5 ppb, though its preindustrial concentration is likely to have been only around 0.25 part per billion since a significant proportion of the ethane in today’s atmosphere may have originated as fossil fuels. 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This would accelerate the production of oxygen, which theoretically would make the planet eventually able to support animal life. In many respects, Mars is the most Earth-like planet in the Solar System. It is thought that Mars once had a more Earth-like environment early in its history, with a thicker atmosphere and abundant water that was lost over the course of hundreds of millions of years. The exact mechanism of this loss is still unclear, though three mechanisms in particular seem likely: First, whenever surface water is present, carbon dioxide () reacts\",\n \"title\": \"Terraforming\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"4550161\",\n \"text\": \"the relationship can be used to estimate tropospheric residence-times of gases. Trace gas The most abundant gases in the atmosphere are nitrogen (78.1%), oxygen (20.9%), and argon (0.934%). Combined, oxygen, argon, and nitrogen make up 99.934% of the gases in the atmosphere (not including water vapor). The other gases that are not part of the 99.934% of the atmosphere are called trace gases. The abundance of a trace gas can range from a few parts per trillion (ppt) by volume to several hundred parts per million by volume (ppmv). When a trace gas is added into the atmosphere, that process\",\n \"title\": \"Trace gas\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"4550155\",\n \"text\": \"Trace gas The most abundant gases in the atmosphere are nitrogen (78.1%), oxygen (20.9%), and argon (0.934%). Combined, oxygen, argon, and nitrogen make up 99.934% of the gases in the atmosphere (not including water vapor). The other gases that are not part of the 99.934% of the atmosphere are called trace gases. The abundance of a trace gas can range from a few parts per trillion (ppt) by volume to several hundred parts per million by volume (ppmv). When a trace gas is added into the atmosphere, that process is called a \\\"source\\\". There are two possible types of sources\",\n \"title\": \"Trace gas\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"6088566\",\n \"text\": \"through the oceans. The dry ice caps on Mars are also an example of sequestration. One mechanism for sequestration is chemical; for example, most of the carbon dioxide of the Earth's original atmosphere has been chemically sequestered into carbonate rock. Very likely a similar process has occurred on Mars. Oxygen can be sequestered by oxidation of rocks; for example, by increasing the oxidation states of ferric rocks from Fe to Fe. Gases can also be sequestered by adsorption, where fine particles in the regolith capture gas which adheres to the surface particles. Earth is too large to lose a significant\",\n \"title\": \"Atmospheric escape\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"318977\",\n \"text\": \"identified going as far back as the Huronian epoch, roughly 2400–2100 Ma. 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The experiment's most important goal was to ascertain whether Mercury had an atmosphere, but would also gather data at Earth and Venus and study the interstellar background\",\n \"title\": \"Mariner 10\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"10238235\",\n \"text\": \"may have been higher, with estimated partial pressure as large as , because there was no bacterial photosynthesis to reduce the gas to carbon compounds and oxygen. Methane, a very active greenhouse gas which reacts with oxygen to produce and water vapor, may have been more prevalent as well, with a mixing ratio of 10 (100 parts per million by volume). Though water is responsible for most (about 36-70%) of the total greenhouse effect, the role of water vapor as a greenhouse gas depends on temperature. On Earth, carbon dioxide is the most relevant, direct anthropologically influenced greenhouse gas. Carbon\",\n \"title\": \"Carbon dioxide in Earth's atmosphere\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"305244\",\n \"text\": \"in having such a high concentration of oxygen gas in its atmosphere: Mars (with 0.1% by volume) and Venus have much less. The surrounding those planets is produced solely by the action of ultraviolet radiation on oxygen-containing molecules such as carbon dioxide. The unusually high concentration of oxygen gas on Earth is the result of the oxygen cycle. This biogeochemical cycle describes the movement of oxygen within and between its three main reservoirs on Earth: the atmosphere, the biosphere, and the lithosphere. The main driving factor of the oxygen cycle is photosynthesis, which is responsible for modern Earth's atmosphere. Photosynthesis\",\n \"title\": \"Oxygen\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"8503288\",\n \"text\": \"water and subsequent rise of the levels of other greenhouse gases. Despite the harsh conditions on the surface, the atmospheric pressure and temperature at about 50 km to 65 km above the surface of the planet is nearly the same as that of the Earth, making its upper atmosphere the most Earth-like area in the Solar System, even more so than the surface of Mars. Due to the similarity in pressure and temperature and the fact that breathable air (21% oxygen, 78% nitrogen) is a lifting gas on Venus in the same way that helium is a lifting gas on\",\n \"title\": \"Atmosphere of Venus\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"1639879\",\n \"text\": \"the border between the atmosphere and outer space. Atmospheric effects become noticeable during atmospheric reentry of spacecraft at an altitude of around . Several layers can be distinguished in the atmosphere, based on characteristics such as temperature and composition. The study of Earth's atmosphere and its processes is called atmospheric science (aerology). Early pioneers in the field include Léon Teisserenc de Bort and Richard Assmann. The three major constituents of Earth's atmosphere are nitrogen, oxygen, and argon. Water vapor accounts for roughly 0.25% of the atmosphere by mass. The concentration of water vapor (a greenhouse gas) varies significantly from around\",\n \"title\": \"Atmosphere of Earth\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"16103829\",\n \"text\": \"of early Earth (the first billion years) was drastically different from its current state. Initially, hydrogen and helium compounds dominated the atmosphere. However, given the relatively small size of these elements and the warmer temperature of Earth compared to other planets at the time, most of these lighter compounds escaped, leaving behind an atmosphere composed mainly of methane, nitrogen, oxygen and ammonia with small concentrations of hydrogen compounds and other gases. The atmosphere was transitioning from a reduction atmosphere (an atmosphere that inhibits oxidation) to one of oxidation, similar to our current atmosphere. The origin of life on Earth has\",\n \"title\": \"Paleolightning\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"19304902\",\n \"text\": \"flooded the atmosphere in a Great Oxidation Event (GOE) about 2.4 billion years ago, even though bacteria that produced oxygen likely evolved hundreds of millions of years earlier. Catling’s theory proposes that biological oxygen was initially used by reactions with chemicals in the environment; gradually, however, Earth’s environment shifted to a tipping point where oxygen flooded the air. Atmospheric methane is the key part of this theory. Before oxygen was abundant, methane gas could reach concentrations hundreds of times greater than today’s 1.8 parts per million. Ultraviolet light decomposes methane molecules in the upper atmosphere, causing hydrogen gas to escape\",\n \"title\": \"David Catling\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"6966923\",\n \"text\": \"Gas torus A gas torus is a toroidal cloud of gas or plasma that encircles a planet. In the Solar System, gas tori tend to be produced by the interaction of a satellite's atmosphere with the magnetic field of a planet. The most famous example of this is the Io plasma torus, which is produced by the ionization of roughly 1 ton per second of oxygen and sulfur from the tenuous atmosphere of Jupiter's volcanic moon Io. Before being ionized, these particles are part of a neutral torus, also centered on the orbit of Io. Energetic particle observations also suggest\",\n \"title\": \"Gas torus\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"305243\",\n \"text\": \"the third most abundant chemical element in the universe, after hydrogen and helium. About 0.9% of the Sun's mass is oxygen. Oxygen constitutes 49.2% of the Earth's crust by mass as part of oxide compounds such as silicon dioxide and is the most abundant element by mass in the Earth's crust. It is also the major component of the world's oceans (88.8% by mass). Oxygen gas is the second most common component of the Earth's atmosphere, taking up 20.8% of its volume and 23.1% of its mass (some 10 tonnes). Earth is unusual among the planets of the Solar System\",\n \"title\": \"Oxygen\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"1639916\",\n \"text\": \"Atmosphere An atmosphere (from Modern Greek ἀτμός \\\"(atmos)\\\", meaning 'vapour', and σφαῖρα \\\"(sphaira)\\\", meaning 'sphere') is a layer or a set of layers of gases surrounding a planet or other material body, that is held in place by the gravity of that body. An atmosphere is more likely to be retained if the gravity it is subject to is high and the temperature of the atmosphere is low. The atmosphere of Earth is composed of nitrogen (about 78%), oxygen (about 21%), argon (about 0.9%) , carbon dioxide (0.03%) and other gases in trace amounts. Oxygen is used by most organisms\",\n \"title\": \"Atmosphere\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"13750961\",\n \"text\": \"trajectory towards the Sun may remove Earth's mantle, leaving just its core, which will finally be destroyed after at most 200 years. Following this event, Earth's sole legacy will be a very slight increase (0.01%) of the solar metallicity. After fusing helium in its core to carbon, the Sun will begin to collapse again, evolving into a compact white dwarf star after ejecting its outer atmosphere as a planetary nebula. The predicted final mass is 54.1% of the present value, most likely consisting primarily of carbon and oxygen. Currently, the moon is moving away from Earth at a rate of\",\n \"title\": \"Future of Earth\"\n }\n]","isConversational":false},"negative_passages":{"kind":"list like","value":[{"docid":"5345783","text":"in the last 4.5 billion years. Many models indicate that the Earth would have been covered in ice. A likely solution is that there was enough carbon dioxide and methane to produce a greenhouse effect. The carbon dioxide would have been produced by volcanoes and the methane by early microbes. Another greenhouse gas, ammonia, would have been ejected by volcanos but quickly destroyed by ultraviolet radiation. One of the reasons for interest in the early atmosphere and ocean is that they form the conditions under which life first arose. There are many models, but little consensus, on how life emerged","title":"History of Earth"},{"docid":"8503328","text":"to have had a Venus-like atmosphere, with roughly 100 bar of CO and a surface temperature of 230 °C, and possibly even sulfuric acid clouds, until about 4.0 billion years ago, by which time plate tectonics were in full force and together with the early water oceans, removed the CO and sulfur from the atmosphere. Early Venus would thus most likely have had water oceans like the Earth, but any plate tectonics would have ended when Venus lost its oceans. Its surface is estimated to be about 500 million years old, so it would not be expected to show evidence","title":"Atmosphere of Venus"},{"docid":"7006039","text":"may have a rocky core like Earth, with a thin atmosphere. Its distance from the star, and the star's relatively low temperature, means that the planet's likely surface temperature is around , making it one of the coldest known. If it is a rocky world, this temperature would make it likely that the surface would be made of frozen volatiles, substances which would be liquids or gases on Earth: water, ammonia, methane and nitrogen would all be frozen solid. If it is \"not\" a rocky planet, it would more closely resemble an icy gas planet like Uranus, although much smaller.","title":"OGLE-2005-BLG-390Lb"},{"docid":"10389639","text":"idea surrounding this theory is that when a large asteroid impacted the Earth, the asteroid driving into the ground caused the rock to become heated so extremely that it became gaseous. This \"rock-gas\" was then ejected outside the Earth's atmosphere and into space. The rock-gas, after cooling into many tiny glass particles, was pulled back in by Earth's gravity. The majority of this \"glass-rain\" burned up in the Earth's atmosphere upon re-entry, causing the Earth's atmosphere to become superheated, killing most of the species living on the surface of the Earth within a matter of hours. The episode did not","title":"Radiolab"},{"docid":"3293192","text":"Earth atmosphere. It is the most widespread oxidizer in the troposphere, the lowest part of the atmosphere. Understanding OH variability is important to evaluating human impacts on the atmosphere and climate. The OH species has a lifetime in the Earth atmosphere of less than one second. Understanding the role of OH in the oxidation process of methane (CH) present in the atmosphere to first carbon monoxide (CO) and then carbon dioxide (CO) is important for assessing the residence time of this greenhouse gas, the overall carbon budget of the troposphere, and its influence on the process of global warming. The","title":"Hydroxyl radical"},{"docid":"15302768","text":"times more massive than Earth with nearly three and a half times the radius. With a density of .9 grams/cm, Kepler-11d's density is less than that of water and comparable to that of the gas giant Saturn. This suggests that, unlike its sister planets Kepler-11b and Kepler-11c, which are closer to their host star, Kepler-11d has maintained a large atmosphere that is most likely composed to hydrogen and helium. Kepler-11d has an equilibrium temperature of 692 K, nearly 2.7 times the equilibrium temperature of Earth. Kepler-11d orbits at a mean distance of .159 AU from its host star and completes","title":"Kepler-11d"},{"docid":"2857646","text":"rocky planet and not the eroded core of a gas or ice giant, due to the young age of the star system. Kepler-70b and Kepler-70c are sub-Earth planets that are thought to have been giant planets that were engulfed by the extended envelope of their star in its red giant phase vaporizing their gaseous envelope. Chthonian planet Chthonian planets (, sometimes 'cthonian') are a hypothetical class of celestial objects resulting from the stripping away of a gas giant's hydrogen and helium atmosphere and outer layers, which is called hydrodynamic escape. Such atmospheric stripping is a likely result of proximity to","title":"Chthonian planet"},{"docid":"16198581","text":"(N) makes up 2.7 percent of the atmosphere. As far as we know, organic compounds are absent except for a trace of methane detected in the atmosphere. On 16 December 2014, NASA reported the \"Curiosity\" rover detected a \"tenfold spike\", likely localized, in the amount of methane in the Martian atmosphere. Sample measurements taken \"a dozen times over 20 months\" showed increases in late 2013 and early 2014, averaging \"7 parts of methane per billion in the atmosphere.\" Before and after that, readings averaged around one-tenth that level. The elemental composition of Mars is different from Earth′s in several significant","title":"Composition of Mars"},{"docid":"10121568","text":"suggest that the term Super-Earth might be limited to rocky planets without a significant atmosphere, or planets that have not just atmospheres but also solid surfaces or oceans with a sharp boundary between liquid and atmosphere, which the four giant planets in the Solar System do not have. Planets above 10 Earth masses are termed massive solid planets<ref name=\"mass/radius sold\"></ref>/mega-Earths or gas giant planets depending on whether they are mostly rock and ice or mostly gas. The first super-Earths were discovered by Aleksander Wolszczan and Dale Frail around the pulsar PSR B1257+12 in 1992. The two outer planets (Poltergeist and","title":"Super-Earth"},{"docid":"20481620","text":"0.31 lunar distances of the Earth \"(see diagrams)\". has been estimated to measure between 6 and 32 meters in diameter, comparable to the Chelyabinsk meteor, which was also not observed before it hit the atmosphere over Russia in 2013. For an assumed albedo of 0.20, which is typical for the common S-type asteroids, 's diameter would be likely 18 meters only. As of 2018, no rotational lightcurve of this asteroid has been obtained from photometric observations. The object's rotation period, pole and shape remain unknown. This minor planet has not yet been numbered by the Minor Planet Center and remains","title":"2017 VL2"},{"docid":"12945119","text":"believed to be slow and chronic rather than catastrophic and that 21st-century effects of such a release are therefore likely to be 'significant but not catastrophic'. It is further noted that 'much methane from dissociated gas hydrate may never reach the atmosphere', as it can be dissolved into the ocean and be broken down biologically. Other research demonstrates that a release to the atmosphere can occur during large releases. These sources suggest that the clathrate gun effect alone will not be sufficient to cause 'catastrophic' climate change within a human lifetime. Hansen et al. 2013 suggests that the Earth could","title":"Runaway climate change"},{"docid":"10588017","text":"Stanislav Lem, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Alain Robbe-Grillet, Rem Koolhaas, Momus, David Woodard and Eduardo Kac. February 2007 saw the publication of \"Metan\" (\"Methane\"), the product of a climbing expedition on Kilimanjaro with Ingo Niermann. The book posits that the effects of methane gas on the earth`s atmosphere are part of a vast cosmic conspiracy. Early reviews varied from the critical to the bewildered, one describing it as \"großer Quatsch\" (\"a load of nonsense\"). Another reviewer refers to the book as a parody of \"alarmism\" and suggested it should be taken as a joke: \"But if this book is taken as a","title":"Christian Kracht"},{"docid":"7464669","text":"energy to escape the planet. In this process the light isotope of carbon (C) is most likely to leave the atmosphere. Hence, the carbon dioxide left in the atmosphere would be enriched with the heavy isotope (C). This higher level of the heavy isotope is what was recently found by the \"Curiosity\" rover that sits on the surface of Mars. The atmosphere of Mars is enriched considerably with the noble gas argon, in comparison to the atmosphere of the other planets within the Solar System. Unlike carbon dioxide, the argon content of the atmosphere does not condense, and hence the","title":"Atmosphere of Mars"},{"docid":"1639908","text":"primarily hydrogen. There were probably simple hydrides such as those now found in the gas giants (Jupiter and Saturn), notably water vapor, methane and ammonia. Outgassing from volcanism, supplemented by gases produced during the late heavy bombardment of Earth by huge asteroids, produced the next atmosphere, consisting largely of nitrogen plus carbon dioxide and inert gases. A major part of carbon-dioxide emissions dissolved in water and reacted with metals such as calcium and magnesium during weathering of crustal rocks to form carbonates that were deposited as sediments. Water-related sediments have been found that date from as early as 3.8 billion","title":"Atmosphere of Earth"},{"docid":"19492423","text":"c rules out a cloud-free hydrogen-dominated atmosphere for each planet, so they are unlikely to harbor an extended gas envelope. Other atmospheres, from a cloud-free water-vapor atmosphere to a Venus-like atmosphere, remain consistent with the featureless spectrum. In 2018, the composition of TRAPPIST-1c was determined, with turned out to be rock-based with a very thick, Venus-like atmosphere. The atmosphere of TRAPPIST-1c is likely thinner than that of TRAPPIST-1b. TRAPPIST-1c TRAPPIST-1c, also designated as 2MASS J23062928-0502285 c, is a mainly rocky, Venus-like exoplanet orbiting around the ultracool dwarf star TRAPPIST-1 approximately 40 light-years away from Earth in the constellation Aquarius. It","title":"TRAPPIST-1c"},{"docid":"19173691","text":"Gliese 3470 b Gliese 3470 b, abbreviated as GJ3470b, is an exoplanet orbiting the star Gliese 3470, both of which are located in the constellation Cancer. With a mass of just under 14 Earth-masses and a radius approximately 4.3 times that of Earth's, it is likely something akin to a mini-Neptune despite the initially strong belief that the planet was not covered in clouds like the gas giants we are familiar with in our solar system. The exoplanet’s atmosphere was first observed by researchers Akihiko Fukui, Norio Narita and Kenji Kuroda at the University of Tokyo in 2013, and afterwards,","title":"Gliese 3470 b"},{"docid":"6088553","text":"that gas at a given temperature, and the less likely it is that any of them reach escape velocity. This is why hydrogen escapes from an atmosphere more easily than carbon dioxide. Also, if the planet has a higher mass, the escape velocity is greater, and fewer particles will escape. This is why the gas giant planets still retain significant amounts of hydrogen and helium, which have largely escaped from Earth's atmosphere. The distance a planet orbits from a star also plays a part; a close planet has a hotter atmosphere, with a range of velocities shifted into the higher","title":"Atmospheric escape"},{"docid":"19076678","text":"with an atmosphere, liquid ammonia could flow on the moon's surface. HD 219134 e HD 219134 e, also known as HR 8832 e, is an exoplanet orbiting around the K-type star HR 8832 in the constellation of Cassiopeia. It has a mass of 62 Earth Masses, which indicates that the planet is likely a gas giant. The exoplanet was initially detected by the instrument HARPS-N of the Italian Telescopio Nazionale Galileo via the radial velocity method. Unlike HD 219134 b it has not been observed by the Spitzer telescope and thus its radius and density are unknown. It is in","title":"HD 219134 e"},{"docid":"13750959","text":"value. The most rapid part of the Sun's expansion into a red giant will occur during the final stages, when the Sun will be about 12 billion years old. It is likely to expand to swallow both Mercury and Venus, reaching a maximum radius of . The Earth will interact tidally with the Sun's outer atmosphere, which would serve to decrease Earth's orbital radius. Drag from the chromosphere of the Sun would also reduce the Earth's orbit. These effects will act to counterbalance the effect of mass loss by the Sun, and the Earth will probably be engulfed by the","title":"Future of Earth"},{"docid":"287749","text":"secondary atmosphere contained mostly ammonia and methane. However, it is likely that most of the atmospheric carbon was CO with perhaps some CO and the nitrogen mostly N. In practice gas mixtures containing CO, CO, N, etc. give much the same products as those containing CH and NH so long as there is no O. The hydrogen atoms come mostly from water vapor. In fact, in order to generate aromatic amino acids under primitive earth conditions it is necessary to use less hydrogen-rich gaseous mixtures. Most of the natural amino acids, hydroxyacids, purines, pyrimidines, and sugars have been made in","title":"Miller–Urey experiment"},{"docid":"548486","text":"a nearly perfect circle with an eccentricity of almost zero. Viscoelastic damping from tides alone is not thought to be capable of circularizing Triton's orbit in the time since the origin of the system, and gas drag from a prograde debris disc is likely to have played a substantial role. Tidal interactions also cause Triton's orbit, which is already closer to Neptune than the Moon's is to Earth, to gradually decay further; predictions are that 3.6 billion years from now, Triton will pass within Neptune's Roche limit. This will result in either a collision with Neptune's atmosphere or the breakup","title":"Triton (moon)"},{"docid":"12982478","text":"biodiversity and human livelihoods. At current emission rates temperatures could increase by 2 °C, which the United Nations' IPCC designated as the upper limit to avoid \"dangerous\" levels, by 2036. Greenhouse gases are those that absorb and emit infrared radiation in the wavelength range emitted by Earth. In order, the most abundant greenhouse gases in Earth's atmosphere are: Atmospheric concentrations are determined by the balance between sources (emissions of the gas from human activities and natural systems) and sinks (the removal of the gas from the atmosphere by conversion to a different chemical compound or absorption by bodies of water).","title":"Greenhouse gas"},{"docid":"10271094","text":"also been observed in the atmosphere of HD 189733 b, another hot gas giant planet. In October 2013, the detection of clouds in the atmosphere of Kepler-7b was announced, and, in December 2013, also in the atmospheres of Gliese 436 b and Gliese 1214 b. In April 2017, an atmosphere was confirmed around Gliese 1132 b. It is the most Earth-like exoplanet to date that is known to have an atmosphere. In May 2017, glints of light from Earth, seen as twinkling from an orbiting satellite a million miles away, were found to be reflected light from ice crystals in","title":"Extraterrestrial atmosphere"},{"docid":"2885757","text":"that can strip away the lighter elements of its atmosphere. Even an Earth-sized body would have enough gravity to prevent the escape of the hydrogen and helium in its atmosphere. In an Earth-sized object that has a kilobar atmospheric pressure of hydrogen and a convective gas adiabat, the geothermal energy from residual core radioisotope decay could maintain a surface temperature above the melting point of water, allowing liquid-water oceans to exist. These planets are likely to remain geologically active for long periods. If they have geodynamo-created protective magnetospheres and sea floor volcanism, hydrothermal vents could provide energy for life. Thus,","title":"Rogue planet"},{"docid":"3450028","text":"the atmosphere is not stripped over time by solar winds. A terrestrial planet of the right size is needed to retain an atmosphere, like Earth and Venus. On Earth, once the giant impact of Theia thinned Earth's atmosphere, other events were needed to make the atmosphere capable of sustaining life. The Late Heavy Bombardment reseeded Earth with water lost after the impact of Theia. The development of an ozone layer formed protection from ultraviolet (UV) sunlight. Nitrogen and carbon dioxide are needed in a correct ratio for life to form. Lightning is needed for nitrogen fixation. The carbon dioxide gas","title":"Rare Earth hypothesis"},{"docid":"6974818","text":"Atmosphere (Eloy Fritsch album) Atmosphere: Electronic Suite is an album by Eloy Fritsch, a keyboard player known for his work in the progressive rock group Apocalypse. As a solo artist he creates cosmic electronic music. The closest comparison would be probably Vangelis, if considering his early work, which included many analogue instruments. Nevertheless, Fritsch has found his own style within melodic Electronic music framework. The opus reveals once again Fritsch’s ecological convictions: he presently defends the virtues of the gas envelope that allow everyone to live on Earth: the Atmosphere, a theme which is carried over to the album art","title":"Atmosphere (Eloy Fritsch album)"},{"docid":"614620","text":"this simple approach that does not invoke \"d\" orbital participation. In terms of electron-counting formalism, the sulfur atom has an oxidation state of +4 and a formal charge of +1. It is found on Earth and exists in very small concentrations and in the atmosphere at about 1 ppm. On other planets, it can be found in various concentrations, the most significant being the atmosphere of Venus, where it is the third-most significant atmospheric gas at 150 ppm. There, it condenses to form clouds, and is a key component of chemical reactions in the planet's atmosphere and contributes to global","title":"Sulfur dioxide"},{"docid":"15293132","text":"mass of 15–19 Earth masses. With a radius only 2.35 (2.31 to 2.44) times that of Earth (and so a volume 12–15 times that of Earth), it was believed to be unlikely to contain significant amounts of hydrogen or helium gas, since an outgassed or accreted hydrogen-rich atmosphere would have been lost over the 10.6-billion-year lifetime of the Kepler-10 system. Instead, the composition was believed to be mainly rocky, with a water fraction of 5–20% by mass. The bulk of this water was thought to be likely in the form of high-pressure \"hot-ice\" phases. However, in July 2017, more careful","title":"Kepler-10c"},{"docid":"280113","text":"numbers increase. Helium is the most common element in the universe after hydrogen, with a mass fraction of about 24%. Most of the helium in the universe was formed during Big Bang nucleosynthesis, but the amount of helium is steadily increasing due to the fusion of hydrogen in stellar nucleosynthesis (and, to a very slight degree, the alpha decay of heavy elements). Abundances on Earth follow different trends; for example, helium is only the third most abundant noble gas in the atmosphere. The reason is that there is no primordial helium in the atmosphere; due to the small mass of","title":"Noble gas"},{"docid":"7464667","text":"freezing point of water. With the higher temperature, running water could have carved out the many channels and outflow valleys that are common on the planet. It also might have gathered to form lakes and maybe an ocean. Some researchers have suggested that the atmosphere of Mars may have been many times as thick as the present one of Earth; however, research published in fall 2015 advanced the idea that perhaps the early Martian atmosphere was not as thick as previously thought. Currently, the atmosphere is very thin. For many years, it was assumed that as with Earth, most of","title":"Atmosphere of Mars"},{"docid":"11766586","text":"teleport pods to return to Earth, and then uses the teleport to return the TARDIS to Earth. They teleport with Martha to Rattigan's institution, finding him distraught over the potential disaster to Earth that he caused. The Doctor collects the necessary equipment to construct his own atmospheric converter, which would harmlessly ignite the poison gas across the globe and end the threat. The poison gas burns off in the atmosphere and the Earth is saved. The Doctor is aware the Sontarans will not concede defeat but feels that he needs to give them a chance to withdraw. He teleports to","title":"The Poison Sky"},{"docid":"15830760","text":"and of the temperature T at which the gaseous pressure is equal one atmosphere is Q/T = 32. This law can be applied to such cases as sublimation and dissociation of calcium carbonate and can predict whether a chemical reaction will proceed and whether it will be reversible. At the Sorbonne, Matignon mostly worked on rare-earth elements. He was heating the metal oxide with magnesium to produce the pure metal in an atmosphere of a certain gas, and demonstrated that most rare earths easily react with nitrogen and absorb hydrogen. He also studied the chemistry of numerous rare-earth salts and","title":"Camille Matignon"},{"docid":"6704911","text":"in temperature from greenhouse gases leading to increased water vapor (which is itself a greenhouse gas) causing further warming is a positive feedback, but not a runaway effect, on Earth. Positive feedback effects are common (e.g. ice-albedo feedback) but runaway effects do not necessarily emerge from their presence. A runaway greenhouse effect involving carbon dioxide and water vapor may have occurred on Venus. In this scenario, early Venus may have had a global ocean. As the brightness of the early Sun increased, the amount of water vapor in the atmosphere increased, increasing the temperature and consequently increasing the evaporation of","title":"Runaway greenhouse effect"},{"docid":"650816","text":"real, due to pulsations in the atmosphere. The star is also a slow rotator and the most recent velocity recorded was 5 km/s—much slower than Antares which has a rotational velocity of 20 km/s. The rotation period depends on Betelgeuse's size and orientation to Earth, but it has been calculated to take 8.4 years to turn on its axis. In 2004, astronomers using computer simulations speculated that even if Betelgeuse is not rotating it might exhibit large-scale magnetic activity in its extended atmosphere, a factor where even moderately strong fields could have a meaningful influence over the star's dust, wind","title":"Betelgeuse"},{"docid":"397362","text":"with methane in the atmosphere, oxidizing it to carbon dioxide, a much weaker greenhouse gas, and a younger—thus fainter—Sun, which would have emitted 6 percent less radiation in the Neoproterozoic. Normally, as Earth gets colder due to natural climatic fluctuations and changes in incoming solar radiation, the cooling slows these weathering reactions. As a result, less carbon dioxide is removed from the atmosphere and Earth warms as this greenhouse gas accumulates—this 'negative feedback' process limits the magnitude of cooling. During the Cryogenian period, however, Earth's continents were all at tropical latitudes, which made this moderating process less effective, as high","title":"Snowball Earth"},{"docid":"1303967","text":"the charged particles of the solar wind and cosmic rays that would otherwise strip away the upper atmosphere, including the ozone layer that protects the Earth from harmful ultraviolet radiation. The Earth's magnetic field serves to deflect most of the solar wind, whose charged particles would otherwise strip away the ozone layer that protects the Earth from harmful ultraviolet radiation. One stripping mechanism is for gas to be caught in bubbles of magnetic field, which are ripped off by solar winds. Calculations of the loss of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere of Mars, resulting from scavenging of ions by the","title":"Earth's magnetic field"},{"docid":"81008","text":"effects of travel through the atmosphere, the lowest impact velocity with an object from space is equal to the gravitational escape velocity of about 11 km/s. The fastest impacts occur at about 72 km/s in the \"worst case\" scenario in which an object in a retrograde near-parabolic orbit hits Earth. (Because kinetic energy scales as velocity squared, Earth's gravity only contributes 1 km/s to this figure, not 11 km/s). The median impact velocity on Earth is about 20 km/s. However, the slowing effects of travel through the atmosphere rapidly decelerate any potential impactor, especially in the lowest 12 kilometres where","title":"Impact crater"},{"docid":"7877623","text":"creatures, radial in design, seem to fill the ecological niches filled by insects on Earth. There are also mentions of airborne lifeforms, similar in appearance to jellyfish, that float through the atmosphere, supported by gas-filled sacs, that descend from above to leech blood from larger, moribund lifeforms. The gas is mostly hydrogen, and will explode if exposed to fire. In later books, there are mentions of a \"Worm Plague\" on Sergyar; its survivors have puckered, swirling scars on their skin. According to the naming scheme of Barrayar, the particle \"-yar\" likely means \"planet\", \"world\" or something similar. Thus, Sergyar was","title":"Sergyar"},{"docid":"10510","text":"dating. Most of the helium in the crust of the Earth (about 99% of the helium from gas wells, as shown by its lower abundance of helium-3) is a product of alpha decay. There are a few trace atoms on Earth that were not present at the beginning (i.e., not \"primordial\"), nor are results of radioactive decay. Carbon-14 is continuously generated by cosmic rays in the atmosphere. Some atoms on Earth have been artificially generated either deliberately or as by-products of nuclear reactors or explosions. Of the transuranic elements—those with atomic numbers greater than 92—only plutonium and neptunium occur naturally","title":"Atom"},{"docid":"20356208","text":"Geochemistry of carbon The geochemistry of carbon is the study of the transformations involving the element carbon within the systems of the Earth. To a large extent this study is organic geochemistry, but it also includes the very important carbon dioxide. Carbon is transformed by life, and moves between the major phases of the Earth, including the water bodies, atmosphere, and the rocky parts. Carbon is important in the formation of organic mineral deposits, such as coal, petroleum or natural gas. Most carbon is cycled through the atmosphere into living organisms and then respirated back into the atmosphere. However an","title":"Geochemistry of carbon"},{"docid":"15773964","text":"during the Snowball Earth period, large glacial ice sheets spanned to Earth's equator, covering nearly its entire surface, and very high albedo created extremely low temperatures, while the accumulation of snow and ice likely removed carbon dioxide through atmospheric deposition. However, the absence of plant cover to absorb atmospheric CO emitted by volcanoes meant that the greenhouse gas could accumulate in the atmosphere. There was also an absence of exposed silicate rocks, which use CO when they undergo weathering. This created a warming that later melted the ice and brought Earth's temperature back to equilibrium. During the following eons of","title":"Climate oscillation"},{"docid":"11376672","text":"from NASA. Atmosphere of Triton The atmosphere of Triton is the layer of gases surrounding Triton. The surface pressure is only 14 microbars (0.014 hPa or 1 mmHg), of the surface pressure on Earth, and it is composed of nitrogen, similar to those of Titan and Earth. It extends 800 kilometers above its surface. Recent observations have shown an increase in temperature. Nitrogen is the main gas in Triton's atmosphere. The two other known components are methane and carbon monoxide, whose abundances are a few hundredths of a percent of that of the nitrogen. Carbon monoxide, which was discovered only","title":"Atmosphere of Triton"},{"docid":"11376662","text":"Atmosphere of Triton The atmosphere of Triton is the layer of gases surrounding Triton. The surface pressure is only 14 microbars (0.014 hPa or 1 mmHg), of the surface pressure on Earth, and it is composed of nitrogen, similar to those of Titan and Earth. It extends 800 kilometers above its surface. Recent observations have shown an increase in temperature. Nitrogen is the main gas in Triton's atmosphere. The two other known components are methane and carbon monoxide, whose abundances are a few hundredths of a percent of that of the nitrogen. Carbon monoxide, which was discovered only in 2010","title":"Atmosphere of Triton"},{"docid":"18043521","text":"a reduction in friction. The ecological extremely adaptable Giant Salvinia (S. molesta) is one of the most important invasive plants in all tropical and subtropical regions of the earth and is the cause of economic as well as ecological problems. Its growth rate might be the highest of all vascular plants. In the tropics and under optimal conditions, \"S. molesta\" can double its biomass within four days. The Salvinia effect, described here, most likely plays an essential role in its ecological success; the multilayered floating plant mats presumably maintain their function of gas exchange within the air-layer. The Salvinia effect","title":"Salvinia effect"},{"docid":"7146945","text":"operation occasionally. Zone 2 – A place in which an explosive atmosphere consisting of a mixture with air of dangerous substances in the form of gas, vapour or mist is not likely to occur in normal operation but, if it does occur, will persist for a short period only. Hazard – Powder / dust Zone 20 – A place in which an explosive atmosphere in the form of a cloud of combustible dust in air is present continuously, or for long periods or frequently. Zone 21 – A place in which an explosive atmosphere in the form of a cloud","title":"ATEX directive"},{"docid":"20508919","text":"committee for “BusinessH2O – Water management best practices from USA and Israel”. Weisbrod has co-authored more than twenty papers in the subject of Earth sciences. These include research in the following areas and subjects. Research involving the exploration of processes and mechanisms related to flow and transport phenomena in the subsurface and at the Earth-atmosphere interface: The role of surface-exposed fractures in groundwater salinization and earth-atmosphere gas exchanges and the role of fractures and other discontinuities within the Earth's surface, items which fundamentally impact the Earth-atmosphere interaction: Soil evaporation and the impact of various soil and atmospheric conditions on this","title":"Noam Weisbrod"},{"docid":"7253570","text":"originated in volcanic eruptions may have condensed to form rain, slowly filling Earth's oceanic basins. A sizeable quantity of water would have been in the material that formed Earth. Water molecules would have escaped Earth's gravity more easily when it was less massive during its formation. Hydrogen and helium are expected to leak from the atmosphere continually, but the lack of denser noble gases in the modern atmosphere suggests that something disastrous happened to the early atmosphere. Part of the young planet is theorized to have been disrupted by the impact which created the Moon, which should have caused melting","title":"Origin of water on Earth"},{"docid":"878736","text":"the remainder was most likely expelled by a strong stellar wind. The helium enrichment of HDE 226868's outer atmosphere may be evidence for this mass transfer. Possibly the progenitor may have evolved into a Wolf-Rayet star, which ejects a substantial proportion of its atmosphere using just such a powerful stellar wind. If the progenitor star had exploded as a supernova, then observations of similar objects show that the remnant would most likely have been ejected from the system at a relatively high velocity. As the object remained in orbit, this indicates that the progenitor may have collapsed directly into a","title":"Cygnus X-1"},{"docid":"1957047","text":"is classified as a volatile, because most of it is liquid or gas, even though it does exist as a solid compound on the surface. Because all atmophile elements are either gases or form volatile hydrides, atmophile elements are \"strongly depleted\" on earth as a whole relative to their solar abundances owing to losses from the atmosphere during the formation of the Earth. The heavier noble gases (krypton, xenon) are the rarest stable elements on Earth. Goldschmidt classification The Goldschmidt classification, developed by Victor Goldschmidt (1888-1947), is a geochemical classification which groups the chemical elements within the Earth according to","title":"Goldschmidt classification"},{"docid":"16103830","text":"been a matter of speculation for quite some time. Living things did not spontaneously appear, so some sort of biological or even non-biological process must have been responsible for the generation of life. Lightning is a non-biological process, and many have speculated that lightning was present on early Earth. One of the most famous studies that investigated lightning on the early Earth was the Miller–Urey experiment. The Miller–Urey experiment sought to recreate the early Earth atmosphere within a laboratory setting to determine the chemical processes that ultimately led to life on Earth. The basis of this experiment was leveraged on","title":"Paleolightning"},{"docid":"2857643","text":"Chthonian planet Chthonian planets (, sometimes 'cthonian') are a hypothetical class of celestial objects resulting from the stripping away of a gas giant's hydrogen and helium atmosphere and outer layers, which is called hydrodynamic escape. Such atmospheric stripping is a likely result of proximity to a star. The remaining rocky or metallic core would resemble a terrestrial planet in many respects. \"Chthonia\" (from ) means \"of the Earth\". The term was coined by Hébrard et al., since the term \"chthonian\" generally refers to Greek deities from the infernal underground. Transit-timing variation measurements indicate for example that Kepler-52b, Kepler-52c and Kepler-57b","title":"Chthonian planet"},{"docid":"9750969","text":"temperature running water could have carved out the many channels and outflow valleys that are common on the planet. It also may have gathered together to form lakes and maybe an ocean. Some researchers have suggested that the atmosphere of Mars may have been many times as thick as the Earth's; however research published in September 2015 advanced the idea that perhaps the early Martian atmosphere was not as thick as previously thought. Currently, the atmosphere is very thin. For many years, it was assumed that as with the Earth, most of the early carbon dioxide was locked up in","title":"Climate of Mars"},{"docid":"7253907","text":"for an action game in the early 90's. The wide assortment of armaments increased replay value by encouraging the player to experiment with different ways to defeat enemies. While the official information for the game indicates that it is only single-player, it is possible for a second player to have limited control over enemy movement and attacks on screen. Certain scenes in \"Target Earth\" were censored. For example, a scene in which a comrade does not make it back to the ship in time and burns up in the planet's atmosphere was removed. The romantic relationship between Rex and Leana","title":"Target Earth (video game)"},{"docid":"6187017","text":"a natural gas from Dexter, Kansas, which would not burn unless continuously heated. In collaboration with David McFarland he discovered that the gas contained nearly 12% of helium. No helium in natural gas had been discovered prior to that time, although it had been found in 1894 that helium existed on the earth, and might be extracted in small quantities from the atmosphere and from minerals. Cady was a consultant when helium reserves were later found in Texas and Colorado. In 1917 he was appointed consulting chemist to the U.S. Bureau of Mines upon the inauguration by the Bureau of","title":"Hamilton Cady"},{"docid":"10271078","text":"observed in 1990. However, the storms and the band pattern are less visible and active than those of Jupiter, due to the overlying ammonia hazes in Saturn's troposphere. Saturn's atmosphere has several unusual features. Its winds are among the Solar System's fastest, with Voyager data indicating peak easterly winds of 500 m/s. It is also the only planet with a warm polar vortex, and is the only planet other than Earth where eyewall clouds have been observed in hurricane-like structures. The atmosphere of Uranus is composed primarily of gas and various ices. It is about 83% hydrogen, 15% helium, 2%","title":"Extraterrestrial atmosphere"},{"docid":"16588137","text":"can cause photosynthesis to take place more efficiently, thus increasing plant growth and primary production. This could lead to the biosphere extracting more carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. How long this carbon would remain sequestered in the terrestrial biosphere before being rereleased into the atmosphere is unclear, however, and it is likely that other limiting factors (e.g. nitrogen availability, moisture, etc.) would prevent CO fertilization from significantly increasing primary production. Deep Carbon Observatory Terrestrial biological carbon cycle The carbon cycle is an essential part of life on Earth. About half the dry weight of most living organisms is carbon. It","title":"Terrestrial biological carbon cycle"},{"docid":"7146944","text":"1.1 bar. The ATEX directive is covering explosions from gases but also solid dust (which, contrary to common perception, can lead to hazardous explosions) Hazard – Gas / vapour / mist Zone 0 – A place in which an explosive atmosphere consisting of a mixture with air of dangerous substances in the form of gas, vapour or mist is present continuously or for long periods or frequently Zone 1 – A place in which an explosive atmosphere consisting of a mixture with air of dangerous substances in the form of gas, vapour or mist is likely to occur in normal","title":"ATEX directive"},{"docid":"1615265","text":"radon, a heavy, inert, naturally occurring radioactive gas. Rock containing thorium and/or uranium (such as some granites) emits radon gas that can accumulate in enclosed places such as basements or underground mines. All the elements and isotopes found on Earth, with the exceptions of hydrogen, deuterium, helium, helium-3, and perhaps trace amounts of stable lithium and beryllium isotopes which were created in the Big Bang, were created by the s-process or the r-process in stars, and for those to be today a part of the Earth, must have been created not later than 4.5 billion years ago. All the elements","title":"Decay chain"},{"docid":"264353","text":"the most likely. The icy regions are estimated to contain about 10–10 kg of ice, and may be covered by a layer of regolith that inhibits sublimation. By comparison, the Antarctic ice sheet on Earth has a mass of about 4 kg, and Mars's south polar cap contains about 10 kg of water. The origin of the ice on Mercury is not yet known, but the two most likely sources are from outgassing of water from the planet's interior or deposition by impacts of comets. Mercury is too small and hot for its gravity to retain any significant atmosphere over","title":"Mercury (planet)"},{"docid":"10358314","text":"years. During Hadean time (4.6–4 Ga), the Solar System was forming, probably within a large cloud of gas and dust around the sun, called an accretion disc from which Earth formed . The Hadean Eon is not formally recognized, but it essentially marks the era before we have adequate record of significant solid rocks. The oldest dated zircons date from about . Earth was initially molten due to extreme volcanism and frequent collisions with other bodies. Eventually, the outer layer of the planet cooled to form a solid crust when water began accumulating in the atmosphere. The Moon formed soon","title":"Geological history of Earth"},{"docid":"8328944","text":"(and hence the true mass) are regarded as unknown. Given the planet's high mass, it is likely that 47 Ursae Majoris b is a gas giant with no solid surface. Because the planet has only been detected indirectly, properties such as its radius, composition, and temperature are unknown. Due to its mass it is likely to have a surface gravity 6–8 times that of Earth. Assuming a composition similar to that of Jupiter and an environment close to chemical equilibrium, the upper atmosphere of the planet is expected to contain water clouds, as opposed to the ammonia clouds typical of","title":"47 Ursae Majoris b"},{"docid":"16833293","text":"the 21st century from multi-model averages. These reductions range from 43-94% in September and from 8-34% in February. Thus, it is very likely that we will see a nearly ice-free Arctic Ocean in September before mid-century or towards the end of the 21st century depending on our ability to cut greenhouse gas emissions to the atmosphere. This is as anthropogenic influences have very likely contributed to Arctic sea ice loss since 1979. This is very worrying as sea ice plays a crucial role in regulating the temperature of Earth. Sea ice prevents warming to its high albedo and its ability","title":"Global warming in Norway"},{"docid":"615432","text":"there would probably have been simple hydrides such as those now found in gas giants like Jupiter and Saturn, notably water vapor, methane, and ammonia. As the solar nebula dissipated, the gases would have escaped, partly driven off by the solar wind. The next atmosphere, consisting largely of nitrogen, carbon dioxide, and inert gases, was produced by outgassing from volcanism, supplemented by gases produced during the late heavy bombardment of Earth by huge asteroids. A major part of carbon dioxide emissions were soon dissolved in water and built up carbonate sediments. Water-related sediments have been found dating from as early","title":"Paleoclimatology"},{"docid":"11389321","text":"Earth radii the density decreases with increasing radius. This indicates that above 1.5 Earth radii, planets tend to have increasing amounts of volatiles and gas. Despite this general trend, there is a wide range of masses at a given radius, which could be because gas planets can have rocky cores of different masses and compositions, and could also be due to photoevaporation of volatiles. Thermal evolutionary atmosphere models suggest a radius of 1.75 times that of Earth as a dividing line between rocky and gaseous planets. Excluding close-in planets that have lost their gas envelope due to stellar irradiation, studies","title":"Exoplanetology"},{"docid":"1639909","text":"years ago. About 3.4 billion years ago, nitrogen formed the major part of the then stable \"second atmosphere\". The influence of life has to be taken into account rather soon in the history of the atmosphere, because hints of early life-forms appear as early as 3.5 billion years ago. How Earth at that time maintained a climate warm enough for liquid water and life, if the early Sun put out 30% lower solar radiance than today, is a puzzle known as the \"faint young Sun paradox\". The geological record however shows a continuous relatively warm surface during the complete early","title":"Atmosphere of Earth"},{"docid":"19492373","text":"atmosphere, which would render the planet uninhabitable if one were to exist. The planet may also have liquid water, up to about 250 times more water than all of Earth's oceans. TRAPPIST-1d has the highest Earth Similarity Index of any known exoplanet, at 0.91. While the planet is most likely tidally locked, its atmosphere could be enough to transfer heat around the planet and keep the climate stable. Recent studies by the University of Washington have concluded that TRAPPIST-1d might be a Venus-like exoplanet with an uninhabitable atmosphere. A team of astronomers headed by Michaël Gillon of the Institut d’Astrophysique","title":"TRAPPIST-1d"},{"docid":"565523","text":"relatively close approach of 0.15 AU, making it a spectacular sight. Indeed, on 19 May, Earth actually passed through the tail of the comet. One of the substances discovered in the tail by spectroscopic analysis was the toxic gas cyanogen, which led astronomer Camille Flammarion to claim that, when Earth passed through the tail, the gas \"would impregnate the atmosphere and possibly snuff out all life on the planet.\" His pronouncement led to panicked buying of gas masks and quack \"anti-comet pills\" and \"anti-comet umbrellas\" by the public. In reality, as other astronomers were quick to point out, the gas","title":"Halley's Comet"},{"docid":"1386836","text":"EGR valve was controlled, in part, by vacuum drawn from the carburetor's venturi, which allowed more precise constraint of EGR flow to only those engine load conditions under which NOx is likely to form. Later, backpressure transducers were added to the EGR valve control to further tailor EGR flow to engine load conditions. Most modern engines now need exhaust gas recirculation to meet emissions standards. However, recent innovations have led to the development of engines that do not require them. The 3.6 Chrysler Pentastar engine is one example that does not require EGR. The exhaust gas, added to the fuel,","title":"Exhaust gas recirculation"},{"docid":"2733828","text":"triple gravity assist – from Venus, Earth, and then Earth again – to propel it from the inner part of the solar system to Jupiter in the outer system. The trajectory made it possible to also observe asteroids 951 Gaspra and 243 Ida. \"Galileo\" had two major components: an orbiter which examined Jupiter and its four largest moons for eight years, and a probe which descended into the Jovian atmosphere to take direct samplings before being destroyed by the gas giant's heat and pressure. Besides the \"Galileo\" spacecraft, \"Atlantis\"' payload bay held two canisters containing the Shuttle Solar Backscatter Ultraviolet","title":"STS-34"},{"docid":"7683672","text":"pressure from 92 bar to 1 bar would require a minimum of 2,000 impacts, even if the efficiency of atmosphere removal was perfect. Smaller objects would not work, either, because more would be required. The violence of the bombardment could well result in significant outgassing that would replace removed atmosphere. Most of the ejected atmosphere would go into solar orbit near Venus, and, without further intervention, could be captured by the Venerian gravitational field and become part of the atmosphere once again. Removal of atmospheric gas in a more controlled manner could also prove difficult. Venus' extremely slow rotation means","title":"Terraforming of Venus"},{"docid":"242741","text":"involve interactions between the Sun, Earth, and the Moon, they are very different in their interactions. The Moon does not completely darken as it passes through the umbra because of the refraction of sunlight by Earth's atmosphere into the shadow cone; if Earth had no atmosphere, the Moon would be completely dark during the eclipse. The reddish coloration arises because sunlight reaching the Moon must pass through a long and dense layer of Earth's atmosphere, where it is scattered. Shorter wavelengths are more likely to be scattered by the air molecules and small particles; thus, the longer wavelengths predominate by","title":"Lunar eclipse"},{"docid":"397366","text":"of the atmosphere. Since the Earth was almost completely covered with ice, carbon dioxide could not be withdrawn from the atmosphere by release of alkaline metal ions weathering out of siliceous rocks. Over 4 to 30 million years, enough and methane, mainly emitted by volcanoes but also produced by microbes converting organic carbon trapped under the ice into the gas, would accumulate to finally cause enough greenhouse effect to make surface ice melt in the tropics until a band of permanently ice-free land and water developed; this would be darker than the ice, and thus absorb more energy from the","title":"Snowball Earth"},{"docid":"4494756","text":"to carry micro satellites to low earth orbit. UK base company, B2Space is developing the concept to launch small satellites into low earth orbit . Rockoon A rockoon (from \"rocket\" and \"balloon\") is a solid fuel sounding rocket that, rather than being immediately lit while on the ground, is first carried into the upper atmosphere by a gas-filled balloon, then separated from the balloon and ignited. This allows the rocket to achieve a higher altitude, as the rocket does not have to move under power through the lower and thicker layers of the atmosphere. The original concept was developed by","title":"Rockoon"},{"docid":"552973","text":"from 18 hPa to as much as 280 hPa (three times that of Mars to a quarter that of the Earth). At such densities, nitrogen could flow across the surface as liquid. Just like sweat cools the body as it evaporates from the skin, the sublimation of Pluto's atmosphere cools its surface. The presence of atmospheric gases was traced up to 1670 kilometers high; the atmosphere does not have a sharp upper boundary. The presence of methane, a powerful greenhouse gas, in Pluto's atmosphere creates a temperature inversion, with the average temperature of its atmosphere tens of degrees warmer than","title":"Pluto"},{"docid":"8503292","text":"The densest part of the atmosphere, the troposphere, begins at the surface and extends upwards to 65 km. At the furnace-like surface the winds are slow, but at the top of the troposphere the temperature and pressure reaches Earth-like levels and clouds pick up speed to 100 m/s. The atmospheric pressure at the surface of Venus is about 92 times that of the Earth, similar to the pressure found below the surface of the ocean. The atmosphere has a mass of 4.8 kg, about 93 times the mass of the Earth's total atmosphere. The density of the air at the","title":"Atmosphere of Venus"},{"docid":"160594","text":"space by the atmosphere and clouds, and 19% is absorbed by the atmosphere and clouds. Most of the remaining energy is absorbed at the surface of Earth. Because the Earth's surface is colder than the Sun, it radiates at wavelengths that are much longer than the wavelengths that were absorbed. Most of this thermal radiation is absorbed by the atmosphere and warms it. The atmosphere also gains heat by sensible and latent heat fluxes from the surface. The atmosphere radiates energy both upwards and downwards; the part radiated downwards is absorbed by the surface of Earth. This leads to a","title":"Greenhouse effect"},{"docid":"462270","text":"farther from the Sun (about 5%, or about 8 million kilometers), the conditions which allow the three forms to be present simultaneously would be far less likely to exist. Earth's gravity allows it to hold an atmosphere. Water vapor and carbon dioxide in the atmosphere provide a temperature buffer (greenhouse effect) which helps maintain a relatively steady surface temperature. If Earth were smaller, a thinner atmosphere would allow temperature extremes, thus preventing the accumulation of water except in polar ice caps (as on Mars). The surface temperature of Earth has been relatively constant through geologic time despite varying levels of","title":"Water"},{"docid":"3853241","text":"would seek to reduce sunlight absorbed (ultra-violet, near infra-red and visible). This would be achieved by deflecting sunlight away from the Earth, or by increasing the reflectivity (albedo) of the atmosphere or the Earth's surface. These methods would not reduce greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere, and thus would not seek to address problems such as the ocean acidification caused by CO. In general, solar radiation management projects presently appear to be able to take effect rapidly and to have very low direct implementation costs relative to greenhouse gas emissions cuts and carbon dioxide removal. Furthermore, many proposed SRM methods","title":"Climate engineering"},{"docid":"19492364","text":"the probable nature of the planet was obtained. TRAPPIST-1d is the least massive planet of the system and and is likely to have a compact hydrogen-poor atmosphere similar to Venus, Earth, or Mars. It receives just 4.3% more sunlight than Earth, placing it on the inner edge of the habitable zone. It has about <5% of its mass as a volatile layer, which could consist of atmosphere, oceans, and/or ice layers. Recent studies by the University of Washington have concluded that TRAPPIST-1d might be a Venus-like exoplanet with an uninhabitable atmosphere. TRAPPIST-1d was detected with the transit method, allowing scientists","title":"TRAPPIST-1d"},{"docid":"13116342","text":"put forward as the most likely causes. In March 2015, scientists stated that evidence exists for an ancient Martian ocean, likely in the planet's northern hemisphere and about the size of Earth's Arctic Ocean, or approximately 19% of the Martian surface. This finding was derived from the ratio of water and deuterium in the modern Martian atmosphere compared to the ratio found on Earth. Eight times as much deuterium was found at Mars than exists on Earth, suggesting that ancient Mars had significantly higher levels of water. Results from the \"Curiosity\" rover had previously found a high ratio of deuterium","title":"Water on Mars"}],"string":"[\n {\n \"docid\": \"5345783\",\n \"text\": \"in the last 4.5 billion years. Many models indicate that the Earth would have been covered in ice. A likely solution is that there was enough carbon dioxide and methane to produce a greenhouse effect. The carbon dioxide would have been produced by volcanoes and the methane by early microbes. Another greenhouse gas, ammonia, would have been ejected by volcanos but quickly destroyed by ultraviolet radiation. One of the reasons for interest in the early atmosphere and ocean is that they form the conditions under which life first arose. There are many models, but little consensus, on how life emerged\",\n \"title\": \"History of Earth\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"8503328\",\n \"text\": \"to have had a Venus-like atmosphere, with roughly 100 bar of CO and a surface temperature of 230 °C, and possibly even sulfuric acid clouds, until about 4.0 billion years ago, by which time plate tectonics were in full force and together with the early water oceans, removed the CO and sulfur from the atmosphere. Early Venus would thus most likely have had water oceans like the Earth, but any plate tectonics would have ended when Venus lost its oceans. Its surface is estimated to be about 500 million years old, so it would not be expected to show evidence\",\n \"title\": \"Atmosphere of Venus\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"7006039\",\n \"text\": \"may have a rocky core like Earth, with a thin atmosphere. Its distance from the star, and the star's relatively low temperature, means that the planet's likely surface temperature is around , making it one of the coldest known. If it is a rocky world, this temperature would make it likely that the surface would be made of frozen volatiles, substances which would be liquids or gases on Earth: water, ammonia, methane and nitrogen would all be frozen solid. If it is \\\"not\\\" a rocky planet, it would more closely resemble an icy gas planet like Uranus, although much smaller.\",\n \"title\": \"OGLE-2005-BLG-390Lb\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"10389639\",\n \"text\": \"idea surrounding this theory is that when a large asteroid impacted the Earth, the asteroid driving into the ground caused the rock to become heated so extremely that it became gaseous. This \\\"rock-gas\\\" was then ejected outside the Earth's atmosphere and into space. The rock-gas, after cooling into many tiny glass particles, was pulled back in by Earth's gravity. The majority of this \\\"glass-rain\\\" burned up in the Earth's atmosphere upon re-entry, causing the Earth's atmosphere to become superheated, killing most of the species living on the surface of the Earth within a matter of hours. The episode did not\",\n \"title\": \"Radiolab\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"3293192\",\n \"text\": \"Earth atmosphere. It is the most widespread oxidizer in the troposphere, the lowest part of the atmosphere. Understanding OH variability is important to evaluating human impacts on the atmosphere and climate. The OH species has a lifetime in the Earth atmosphere of less than one second. Understanding the role of OH in the oxidation process of methane (CH) present in the atmosphere to first carbon monoxide (CO) and then carbon dioxide (CO) is important for assessing the residence time of this greenhouse gas, the overall carbon budget of the troposphere, and its influence on the process of global warming. The\",\n \"title\": \"Hydroxyl radical\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"15302768\",\n \"text\": \"times more massive than Earth with nearly three and a half times the radius. With a density of .9 grams/cm, Kepler-11d's density is less than that of water and comparable to that of the gas giant Saturn. This suggests that, unlike its sister planets Kepler-11b and Kepler-11c, which are closer to their host star, Kepler-11d has maintained a large atmosphere that is most likely composed to hydrogen and helium. Kepler-11d has an equilibrium temperature of 692 K, nearly 2.7 times the equilibrium temperature of Earth. Kepler-11d orbits at a mean distance of .159 AU from its host star and completes\",\n \"title\": \"Kepler-11d\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"2857646\",\n \"text\": \"rocky planet and not the eroded core of a gas or ice giant, due to the young age of the star system. Kepler-70b and Kepler-70c are sub-Earth planets that are thought to have been giant planets that were engulfed by the extended envelope of their star in its red giant phase vaporizing their gaseous envelope. Chthonian planet Chthonian planets (, sometimes 'cthonian') are a hypothetical class of celestial objects resulting from the stripping away of a gas giant's hydrogen and helium atmosphere and outer layers, which is called hydrodynamic escape. Such atmospheric stripping is a likely result of proximity to\",\n \"title\": \"Chthonian planet\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"16198581\",\n \"text\": \"(N) makes up 2.7 percent of the atmosphere. As far as we know, organic compounds are absent except for a trace of methane detected in the atmosphere. On 16 December 2014, NASA reported the \\\"Curiosity\\\" rover detected a \\\"tenfold spike\\\", likely localized, in the amount of methane in the Martian atmosphere. Sample measurements taken \\\"a dozen times over 20 months\\\" showed increases in late 2013 and early 2014, averaging \\\"7 parts of methane per billion in the atmosphere.\\\" Before and after that, readings averaged around one-tenth that level. The elemental composition of Mars is different from Earth′s in several significant\",\n \"title\": \"Composition of Mars\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"10121568\",\n \"text\": \"suggest that the term Super-Earth might be limited to rocky planets without a significant atmosphere, or planets that have not just atmospheres but also solid surfaces or oceans with a sharp boundary between liquid and atmosphere, which the four giant planets in the Solar System do not have. Planets above 10 Earth masses are termed massive solid planets<ref name=\\\"mass/radius sold\\\"></ref>/mega-Earths or gas giant planets depending on whether they are mostly rock and ice or mostly gas. The first super-Earths were discovered by Aleksander Wolszczan and Dale Frail around the pulsar PSR B1257+12 in 1992. The two outer planets (Poltergeist and\",\n \"title\": \"Super-Earth\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"20481620\",\n \"text\": \"0.31 lunar distances of the Earth \\\"(see diagrams)\\\". has been estimated to measure between 6 and 32 meters in diameter, comparable to the Chelyabinsk meteor, which was also not observed before it hit the atmosphere over Russia in 2013. For an assumed albedo of 0.20, which is typical for the common S-type asteroids, 's diameter would be likely 18 meters only. As of 2018, no rotational lightcurve of this asteroid has been obtained from photometric observations. The object's rotation period, pole and shape remain unknown. This minor planet has not yet been numbered by the Minor Planet Center and remains\",\n \"title\": \"2017 VL2\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"12945119\",\n \"text\": \"believed to be slow and chronic rather than catastrophic and that 21st-century effects of such a release are therefore likely to be 'significant but not catastrophic'. It is further noted that 'much methane from dissociated gas hydrate may never reach the atmosphere', as it can be dissolved into the ocean and be broken down biologically. Other research demonstrates that a release to the atmosphere can occur during large releases. These sources suggest that the clathrate gun effect alone will not be sufficient to cause 'catastrophic' climate change within a human lifetime. Hansen et al. 2013 suggests that the Earth could\",\n \"title\": \"Runaway climate change\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"10588017\",\n \"text\": \"Stanislav Lem, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Alain Robbe-Grillet, Rem Koolhaas, Momus, David Woodard and Eduardo Kac. February 2007 saw the publication of \\\"Metan\\\" (\\\"Methane\\\"), the product of a climbing expedition on Kilimanjaro with Ingo Niermann. The book posits that the effects of methane gas on the earth`s atmosphere are part of a vast cosmic conspiracy. Early reviews varied from the critical to the bewildered, one describing it as \\\"großer Quatsch\\\" (\\\"a load of nonsense\\\"). Another reviewer refers to the book as a parody of \\\"alarmism\\\" and suggested it should be taken as a joke: \\\"But if this book is taken as a\",\n \"title\": \"Christian Kracht\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"7464669\",\n \"text\": \"energy to escape the planet. In this process the light isotope of carbon (C) is most likely to leave the atmosphere. Hence, the carbon dioxide left in the atmosphere would be enriched with the heavy isotope (C). This higher level of the heavy isotope is what was recently found by the \\\"Curiosity\\\" rover that sits on the surface of Mars. The atmosphere of Mars is enriched considerably with the noble gas argon, in comparison to the atmosphere of the other planets within the Solar System. Unlike carbon dioxide, the argon content of the atmosphere does not condense, and hence the\",\n \"title\": \"Atmosphere of Mars\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"1639908\",\n \"text\": \"primarily hydrogen. There were probably simple hydrides such as those now found in the gas giants (Jupiter and Saturn), notably water vapor, methane and ammonia. Outgassing from volcanism, supplemented by gases produced during the late heavy bombardment of Earth by huge asteroids, produced the next atmosphere, consisting largely of nitrogen plus carbon dioxide and inert gases. A major part of carbon-dioxide emissions dissolved in water and reacted with metals such as calcium and magnesium during weathering of crustal rocks to form carbonates that were deposited as sediments. Water-related sediments have been found that date from as early as 3.8 billion\",\n \"title\": \"Atmosphere of Earth\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"19492423\",\n \"text\": \"c rules out a cloud-free hydrogen-dominated atmosphere for each planet, so they are unlikely to harbor an extended gas envelope. Other atmospheres, from a cloud-free water-vapor atmosphere to a Venus-like atmosphere, remain consistent with the featureless spectrum. In 2018, the composition of TRAPPIST-1c was determined, with turned out to be rock-based with a very thick, Venus-like atmosphere. The atmosphere of TRAPPIST-1c is likely thinner than that of TRAPPIST-1b. TRAPPIST-1c TRAPPIST-1c, also designated as 2MASS J23062928-0502285 c, is a mainly rocky, Venus-like exoplanet orbiting around the ultracool dwarf star TRAPPIST-1 approximately 40 light-years away from Earth in the constellation Aquarius. It\",\n \"title\": \"TRAPPIST-1c\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"19173691\",\n \"text\": \"Gliese 3470 b Gliese 3470 b, abbreviated as GJ3470b, is an exoplanet orbiting the star Gliese 3470, both of which are located in the constellation Cancer. With a mass of just under 14 Earth-masses and a radius approximately 4.3 times that of Earth's, it is likely something akin to a mini-Neptune despite the initially strong belief that the planet was not covered in clouds like the gas giants we are familiar with in our solar system. The exoplanet’s atmosphere was first observed by researchers Akihiko Fukui, Norio Narita and Kenji Kuroda at the University of Tokyo in 2013, and afterwards,\",\n \"title\": \"Gliese 3470 b\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"6088553\",\n \"text\": \"that gas at a given temperature, and the less likely it is that any of them reach escape velocity. This is why hydrogen escapes from an atmosphere more easily than carbon dioxide. Also, if the planet has a higher mass, the escape velocity is greater, and fewer particles will escape. This is why the gas giant planets still retain significant amounts of hydrogen and helium, which have largely escaped from Earth's atmosphere. The distance a planet orbits from a star also plays a part; a close planet has a hotter atmosphere, with a range of velocities shifted into the higher\",\n \"title\": \"Atmospheric escape\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"19076678\",\n \"text\": \"with an atmosphere, liquid ammonia could flow on the moon's surface. HD 219134 e HD 219134 e, also known as HR 8832 e, is an exoplanet orbiting around the K-type star HR 8832 in the constellation of Cassiopeia. It has a mass of 62 Earth Masses, which indicates that the planet is likely a gas giant. The exoplanet was initially detected by the instrument HARPS-N of the Italian Telescopio Nazionale Galileo via the radial velocity method. Unlike HD 219134 b it has not been observed by the Spitzer telescope and thus its radius and density are unknown. It is in\",\n \"title\": \"HD 219134 e\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"13750959\",\n \"text\": \"value. The most rapid part of the Sun's expansion into a red giant will occur during the final stages, when the Sun will be about 12 billion years old. It is likely to expand to swallow both Mercury and Venus, reaching a maximum radius of . The Earth will interact tidally with the Sun's outer atmosphere, which would serve to decrease Earth's orbital radius. Drag from the chromosphere of the Sun would also reduce the Earth's orbit. These effects will act to counterbalance the effect of mass loss by the Sun, and the Earth will probably be engulfed by the\",\n \"title\": \"Future of Earth\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"287749\",\n \"text\": \"secondary atmosphere contained mostly ammonia and methane. However, it is likely that most of the atmospheric carbon was CO with perhaps some CO and the nitrogen mostly N. In practice gas mixtures containing CO, CO, N, etc. give much the same products as those containing CH and NH so long as there is no O. The hydrogen atoms come mostly from water vapor. In fact, in order to generate aromatic amino acids under primitive earth conditions it is necessary to use less hydrogen-rich gaseous mixtures. Most of the natural amino acids, hydroxyacids, purines, pyrimidines, and sugars have been made in\",\n \"title\": \"Miller–Urey experiment\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"548486\",\n \"text\": \"a nearly perfect circle with an eccentricity of almost zero. Viscoelastic damping from tides alone is not thought to be capable of circularizing Triton's orbit in the time since the origin of the system, and gas drag from a prograde debris disc is likely to have played a substantial role. Tidal interactions also cause Triton's orbit, which is already closer to Neptune than the Moon's is to Earth, to gradually decay further; predictions are that 3.6 billion years from now, Triton will pass within Neptune's Roche limit. This will result in either a collision with Neptune's atmosphere or the breakup\",\n \"title\": \"Triton (moon)\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"12982478\",\n \"text\": \"biodiversity and human livelihoods. At current emission rates temperatures could increase by 2 °C, which the United Nations' IPCC designated as the upper limit to avoid \\\"dangerous\\\" levels, by 2036. Greenhouse gases are those that absorb and emit infrared radiation in the wavelength range emitted by Earth. In order, the most abundant greenhouse gases in Earth's atmosphere are: Atmospheric concentrations are determined by the balance between sources (emissions of the gas from human activities and natural systems) and sinks (the removal of the gas from the atmosphere by conversion to a different chemical compound or absorption by bodies of water).\",\n \"title\": \"Greenhouse gas\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"10271094\",\n \"text\": \"also been observed in the atmosphere of HD 189733 b, another hot gas giant planet. In October 2013, the detection of clouds in the atmosphere of Kepler-7b was announced, and, in December 2013, also in the atmospheres of Gliese 436 b and Gliese 1214 b. In April 2017, an atmosphere was confirmed around Gliese 1132 b. It is the most Earth-like exoplanet to date that is known to have an atmosphere. In May 2017, glints of light from Earth, seen as twinkling from an orbiting satellite a million miles away, were found to be reflected light from ice crystals in\",\n \"title\": \"Extraterrestrial atmosphere\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"2885757\",\n \"text\": \"that can strip away the lighter elements of its atmosphere. Even an Earth-sized body would have enough gravity to prevent the escape of the hydrogen and helium in its atmosphere. In an Earth-sized object that has a kilobar atmospheric pressure of hydrogen and a convective gas adiabat, the geothermal energy from residual core radioisotope decay could maintain a surface temperature above the melting point of water, allowing liquid-water oceans to exist. These planets are likely to remain geologically active for long periods. If they have geodynamo-created protective magnetospheres and sea floor volcanism, hydrothermal vents could provide energy for life. Thus,\",\n \"title\": \"Rogue planet\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"3450028\",\n \"text\": \"the atmosphere is not stripped over time by solar winds. A terrestrial planet of the right size is needed to retain an atmosphere, like Earth and Venus. On Earth, once the giant impact of Theia thinned Earth's atmosphere, other events were needed to make the atmosphere capable of sustaining life. The Late Heavy Bombardment reseeded Earth with water lost after the impact of Theia. The development of an ozone layer formed protection from ultraviolet (UV) sunlight. Nitrogen and carbon dioxide are needed in a correct ratio for life to form. Lightning is needed for nitrogen fixation. The carbon dioxide gas\",\n \"title\": \"Rare Earth hypothesis\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"6974818\",\n \"text\": \"Atmosphere (Eloy Fritsch album) Atmosphere: Electronic Suite is an album by Eloy Fritsch, a keyboard player known for his work in the progressive rock group Apocalypse. As a solo artist he creates cosmic electronic music. The closest comparison would be probably Vangelis, if considering his early work, which included many analogue instruments. Nevertheless, Fritsch has found his own style within melodic Electronic music framework. The opus reveals once again Fritsch’s ecological convictions: he presently defends the virtues of the gas envelope that allow everyone to live on Earth: the Atmosphere, a theme which is carried over to the album art\",\n \"title\": \"Atmosphere (Eloy Fritsch album)\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"614620\",\n \"text\": \"this simple approach that does not invoke \\\"d\\\" orbital participation. In terms of electron-counting formalism, the sulfur atom has an oxidation state of +4 and a formal charge of +1. It is found on Earth and exists in very small concentrations and in the atmosphere at about 1 ppm. On other planets, it can be found in various concentrations, the most significant being the atmosphere of Venus, where it is the third-most significant atmospheric gas at 150 ppm. There, it condenses to form clouds, and is a key component of chemical reactions in the planet's atmosphere and contributes to global\",\n \"title\": \"Sulfur dioxide\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"15293132\",\n \"text\": \"mass of 15–19 Earth masses. With a radius only 2.35 (2.31 to 2.44) times that of Earth (and so a volume 12–15 times that of Earth), it was believed to be unlikely to contain significant amounts of hydrogen or helium gas, since an outgassed or accreted hydrogen-rich atmosphere would have been lost over the 10.6-billion-year lifetime of the Kepler-10 system. Instead, the composition was believed to be mainly rocky, with a water fraction of 5–20% by mass. The bulk of this water was thought to be likely in the form of high-pressure \\\"hot-ice\\\" phases. However, in July 2017, more careful\",\n \"title\": \"Kepler-10c\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"280113\",\n \"text\": \"numbers increase. Helium is the most common element in the universe after hydrogen, with a mass fraction of about 24%. Most of the helium in the universe was formed during Big Bang nucleosynthesis, but the amount of helium is steadily increasing due to the fusion of hydrogen in stellar nucleosynthesis (and, to a very slight degree, the alpha decay of heavy elements). Abundances on Earth follow different trends; for example, helium is only the third most abundant noble gas in the atmosphere. The reason is that there is no primordial helium in the atmosphere; due to the small mass of\",\n \"title\": \"Noble gas\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"7464667\",\n \"text\": \"freezing point of water. With the higher temperature, running water could have carved out the many channels and outflow valleys that are common on the planet. It also might have gathered to form lakes and maybe an ocean. Some researchers have suggested that the atmosphere of Mars may have been many times as thick as the present one of Earth; however, research published in fall 2015 advanced the idea that perhaps the early Martian atmosphere was not as thick as previously thought. Currently, the atmosphere is very thin. For many years, it was assumed that as with Earth, most of\",\n \"title\": \"Atmosphere of Mars\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"11766586\",\n \"text\": \"teleport pods to return to Earth, and then uses the teleport to return the TARDIS to Earth. They teleport with Martha to Rattigan's institution, finding him distraught over the potential disaster to Earth that he caused. The Doctor collects the necessary equipment to construct his own atmospheric converter, which would harmlessly ignite the poison gas across the globe and end the threat. The poison gas burns off in the atmosphere and the Earth is saved. The Doctor is aware the Sontarans will not concede defeat but feels that he needs to give them a chance to withdraw. He teleports to\",\n \"title\": \"The Poison Sky\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"15830760\",\n \"text\": \"and of the temperature T at which the gaseous pressure is equal one atmosphere is Q/T = 32. This law can be applied to such cases as sublimation and dissociation of calcium carbonate and can predict whether a chemical reaction will proceed and whether it will be reversible. At the Sorbonne, Matignon mostly worked on rare-earth elements. He was heating the metal oxide with magnesium to produce the pure metal in an atmosphere of a certain gas, and demonstrated that most rare earths easily react with nitrogen and absorb hydrogen. He also studied the chemistry of numerous rare-earth salts and\",\n \"title\": \"Camille Matignon\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"6704911\",\n \"text\": \"in temperature from greenhouse gases leading to increased water vapor (which is itself a greenhouse gas) causing further warming is a positive feedback, but not a runaway effect, on Earth. Positive feedback effects are common (e.g. ice-albedo feedback) but runaway effects do not necessarily emerge from their presence. A runaway greenhouse effect involving carbon dioxide and water vapor may have occurred on Venus. In this scenario, early Venus may have had a global ocean. As the brightness of the early Sun increased, the amount of water vapor in the atmosphere increased, increasing the temperature and consequently increasing the evaporation of\",\n \"title\": \"Runaway greenhouse effect\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"650816\",\n \"text\": \"real, due to pulsations in the atmosphere. The star is also a slow rotator and the most recent velocity recorded was 5 km/s—much slower than Antares which has a rotational velocity of 20 km/s. The rotation period depends on Betelgeuse's size and orientation to Earth, but it has been calculated to take 8.4 years to turn on its axis. In 2004, astronomers using computer simulations speculated that even if Betelgeuse is not rotating it might exhibit large-scale magnetic activity in its extended atmosphere, a factor where even moderately strong fields could have a meaningful influence over the star's dust, wind\",\n \"title\": \"Betelgeuse\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"397362\",\n \"text\": \"with methane in the atmosphere, oxidizing it to carbon dioxide, a much weaker greenhouse gas, and a younger—thus fainter—Sun, which would have emitted 6 percent less radiation in the Neoproterozoic. Normally, as Earth gets colder due to natural climatic fluctuations and changes in incoming solar radiation, the cooling slows these weathering reactions. As a result, less carbon dioxide is removed from the atmosphere and Earth warms as this greenhouse gas accumulates—this 'negative feedback' process limits the magnitude of cooling. During the Cryogenian period, however, Earth's continents were all at tropical latitudes, which made this moderating process less effective, as high\",\n \"title\": \"Snowball Earth\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"1303967\",\n \"text\": \"the charged particles of the solar wind and cosmic rays that would otherwise strip away the upper atmosphere, including the ozone layer that protects the Earth from harmful ultraviolet radiation. The Earth's magnetic field serves to deflect most of the solar wind, whose charged particles would otherwise strip away the ozone layer that protects the Earth from harmful ultraviolet radiation. One stripping mechanism is for gas to be caught in bubbles of magnetic field, which are ripped off by solar winds. Calculations of the loss of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere of Mars, resulting from scavenging of ions by the\",\n \"title\": \"Earth's magnetic field\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"81008\",\n \"text\": \"effects of travel through the atmosphere, the lowest impact velocity with an object from space is equal to the gravitational escape velocity of about 11 km/s. The fastest impacts occur at about 72 km/s in the \\\"worst case\\\" scenario in which an object in a retrograde near-parabolic orbit hits Earth. (Because kinetic energy scales as velocity squared, Earth's gravity only contributes 1 km/s to this figure, not 11 km/s). The median impact velocity on Earth is about 20 km/s. However, the slowing effects of travel through the atmosphere rapidly decelerate any potential impactor, especially in the lowest 12 kilometres where\",\n \"title\": \"Impact crater\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"7877623\",\n \"text\": \"creatures, radial in design, seem to fill the ecological niches filled by insects on Earth. There are also mentions of airborne lifeforms, similar in appearance to jellyfish, that float through the atmosphere, supported by gas-filled sacs, that descend from above to leech blood from larger, moribund lifeforms. The gas is mostly hydrogen, and will explode if exposed to fire. In later books, there are mentions of a \\\"Worm Plague\\\" on Sergyar; its survivors have puckered, swirling scars on their skin. According to the naming scheme of Barrayar, the particle \\\"-yar\\\" likely means \\\"planet\\\", \\\"world\\\" or something similar. Thus, Sergyar was\",\n \"title\": \"Sergyar\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"10510\",\n \"text\": \"dating. Most of the helium in the crust of the Earth (about 99% of the helium from gas wells, as shown by its lower abundance of helium-3) is a product of alpha decay. There are a few trace atoms on Earth that were not present at the beginning (i.e., not \\\"primordial\\\"), nor are results of radioactive decay. Carbon-14 is continuously generated by cosmic rays in the atmosphere. Some atoms on Earth have been artificially generated either deliberately or as by-products of nuclear reactors or explosions. Of the transuranic elements—those with atomic numbers greater than 92—only plutonium and neptunium occur naturally\",\n \"title\": \"Atom\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"20356208\",\n \"text\": \"Geochemistry of carbon The geochemistry of carbon is the study of the transformations involving the element carbon within the systems of the Earth. To a large extent this study is organic geochemistry, but it also includes the very important carbon dioxide. Carbon is transformed by life, and moves between the major phases of the Earth, including the water bodies, atmosphere, and the rocky parts. Carbon is important in the formation of organic mineral deposits, such as coal, petroleum or natural gas. Most carbon is cycled through the atmosphere into living organisms and then respirated back into the atmosphere. However an\",\n \"title\": \"Geochemistry of carbon\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"15773964\",\n \"text\": \"during the Snowball Earth period, large glacial ice sheets spanned to Earth's equator, covering nearly its entire surface, and very high albedo created extremely low temperatures, while the accumulation of snow and ice likely removed carbon dioxide through atmospheric deposition. However, the absence of plant cover to absorb atmospheric CO emitted by volcanoes meant that the greenhouse gas could accumulate in the atmosphere. There was also an absence of exposed silicate rocks, which use CO when they undergo weathering. This created a warming that later melted the ice and brought Earth's temperature back to equilibrium. During the following eons of\",\n \"title\": \"Climate oscillation\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"11376672\",\n \"text\": \"from NASA. Atmosphere of Triton The atmosphere of Triton is the layer of gases surrounding Triton. The surface pressure is only 14 microbars (0.014 hPa or 1 mmHg), of the surface pressure on Earth, and it is composed of nitrogen, similar to those of Titan and Earth. It extends 800 kilometers above its surface. Recent observations have shown an increase in temperature. Nitrogen is the main gas in Triton's atmosphere. The two other known components are methane and carbon monoxide, whose abundances are a few hundredths of a percent of that of the nitrogen. Carbon monoxide, which was discovered only\",\n \"title\": \"Atmosphere of Triton\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"11376662\",\n \"text\": \"Atmosphere of Triton The atmosphere of Triton is the layer of gases surrounding Triton. The surface pressure is only 14 microbars (0.014 hPa or 1 mmHg), of the surface pressure on Earth, and it is composed of nitrogen, similar to those of Titan and Earth. It extends 800 kilometers above its surface. Recent observations have shown an increase in temperature. Nitrogen is the main gas in Triton's atmosphere. The two other known components are methane and carbon monoxide, whose abundances are a few hundredths of a percent of that of the nitrogen. Carbon monoxide, which was discovered only in 2010\",\n \"title\": \"Atmosphere of Triton\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"18043521\",\n \"text\": \"a reduction in friction. The ecological extremely adaptable Giant Salvinia (S. molesta) is one of the most important invasive plants in all tropical and subtropical regions of the earth and is the cause of economic as well as ecological problems. Its growth rate might be the highest of all vascular plants. In the tropics and under optimal conditions, \\\"S. molesta\\\" can double its biomass within four days. The Salvinia effect, described here, most likely plays an essential role in its ecological success; the multilayered floating plant mats presumably maintain their function of gas exchange within the air-layer. The Salvinia effect\",\n \"title\": \"Salvinia effect\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"7146945\",\n \"text\": \"operation occasionally. Zone 2 – A place in which an explosive atmosphere consisting of a mixture with air of dangerous substances in the form of gas, vapour or mist is not likely to occur in normal operation but, if it does occur, will persist for a short period only. Hazard – Powder / dust Zone 20 – A place in which an explosive atmosphere in the form of a cloud of combustible dust in air is present continuously, or for long periods or frequently. Zone 21 – A place in which an explosive atmosphere in the form of a cloud\",\n \"title\": \"ATEX directive\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"20508919\",\n \"text\": \"committee for “BusinessH2O – Water management best practices from USA and Israel”. Weisbrod has co-authored more than twenty papers in the subject of Earth sciences. These include research in the following areas and subjects. Research involving the exploration of processes and mechanisms related to flow and transport phenomena in the subsurface and at the Earth-atmosphere interface: The role of surface-exposed fractures in groundwater salinization and earth-atmosphere gas exchanges and the role of fractures and other discontinuities within the Earth's surface, items which fundamentally impact the Earth-atmosphere interaction: Soil evaporation and the impact of various soil and atmospheric conditions on this\",\n \"title\": \"Noam Weisbrod\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"7253570\",\n \"text\": \"originated in volcanic eruptions may have condensed to form rain, slowly filling Earth's oceanic basins. A sizeable quantity of water would have been in the material that formed Earth. Water molecules would have escaped Earth's gravity more easily when it was less massive during its formation. Hydrogen and helium are expected to leak from the atmosphere continually, but the lack of denser noble gases in the modern atmosphere suggests that something disastrous happened to the early atmosphere. Part of the young planet is theorized to have been disrupted by the impact which created the Moon, which should have caused melting\",\n \"title\": \"Origin of water on Earth\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"878736\",\n \"text\": \"the remainder was most likely expelled by a strong stellar wind. The helium enrichment of HDE 226868's outer atmosphere may be evidence for this mass transfer. Possibly the progenitor may have evolved into a Wolf-Rayet star, which ejects a substantial proportion of its atmosphere using just such a powerful stellar wind. If the progenitor star had exploded as a supernova, then observations of similar objects show that the remnant would most likely have been ejected from the system at a relatively high velocity. As the object remained in orbit, this indicates that the progenitor may have collapsed directly into a\",\n \"title\": \"Cygnus X-1\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"1957047\",\n \"text\": \"is classified as a volatile, because most of it is liquid or gas, even though it does exist as a solid compound on the surface. Because all atmophile elements are either gases or form volatile hydrides, atmophile elements are \\\"strongly depleted\\\" on earth as a whole relative to their solar abundances owing to losses from the atmosphere during the formation of the Earth. The heavier noble gases (krypton, xenon) are the rarest stable elements on Earth. Goldschmidt classification The Goldschmidt classification, developed by Victor Goldschmidt (1888-1947), is a geochemical classification which groups the chemical elements within the Earth according to\",\n \"title\": \"Goldschmidt classification\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"16103830\",\n \"text\": \"been a matter of speculation for quite some time. Living things did not spontaneously appear, so some sort of biological or even non-biological process must have been responsible for the generation of life. Lightning is a non-biological process, and many have speculated that lightning was present on early Earth. One of the most famous studies that investigated lightning on the early Earth was the Miller–Urey experiment. The Miller–Urey experiment sought to recreate the early Earth atmosphere within a laboratory setting to determine the chemical processes that ultimately led to life on Earth. The basis of this experiment was leveraged on\",\n \"title\": \"Paleolightning\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"2857643\",\n \"text\": \"Chthonian planet Chthonian planets (, sometimes 'cthonian') are a hypothetical class of celestial objects resulting from the stripping away of a gas giant's hydrogen and helium atmosphere and outer layers, which is called hydrodynamic escape. Such atmospheric stripping is a likely result of proximity to a star. The remaining rocky or metallic core would resemble a terrestrial planet in many respects. \\\"Chthonia\\\" (from ) means \\\"of the Earth\\\". The term was coined by Hébrard et al., since the term \\\"chthonian\\\" generally refers to Greek deities from the infernal underground. Transit-timing variation measurements indicate for example that Kepler-52b, Kepler-52c and Kepler-57b\",\n \"title\": \"Chthonian planet\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"9750969\",\n \"text\": \"temperature running water could have carved out the many channels and outflow valleys that are common on the planet. It also may have gathered together to form lakes and maybe an ocean. Some researchers have suggested that the atmosphere of Mars may have been many times as thick as the Earth's; however research published in September 2015 advanced the idea that perhaps the early Martian atmosphere was not as thick as previously thought. Currently, the atmosphere is very thin. For many years, it was assumed that as with the Earth, most of the early carbon dioxide was locked up in\",\n \"title\": \"Climate of Mars\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"7253907\",\n \"text\": \"for an action game in the early 90's. The wide assortment of armaments increased replay value by encouraging the player to experiment with different ways to defeat enemies. While the official information for the game indicates that it is only single-player, it is possible for a second player to have limited control over enemy movement and attacks on screen. Certain scenes in \\\"Target Earth\\\" were censored. For example, a scene in which a comrade does not make it back to the ship in time and burns up in the planet's atmosphere was removed. The romantic relationship between Rex and Leana\",\n \"title\": \"Target Earth (video game)\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"6187017\",\n \"text\": \"a natural gas from Dexter, Kansas, which would not burn unless continuously heated. In collaboration with David McFarland he discovered that the gas contained nearly 12% of helium. No helium in natural gas had been discovered prior to that time, although it had been found in 1894 that helium existed on the earth, and might be extracted in small quantities from the atmosphere and from minerals. Cady was a consultant when helium reserves were later found in Texas and Colorado. In 1917 he was appointed consulting chemist to the U.S. Bureau of Mines upon the inauguration by the Bureau of\",\n \"title\": \"Hamilton Cady\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"10271078\",\n \"text\": \"observed in 1990. However, the storms and the band pattern are less visible and active than those of Jupiter, due to the overlying ammonia hazes in Saturn's troposphere. Saturn's atmosphere has several unusual features. Its winds are among the Solar System's fastest, with Voyager data indicating peak easterly winds of 500 m/s. It is also the only planet with a warm polar vortex, and is the only planet other than Earth where eyewall clouds have been observed in hurricane-like structures. The atmosphere of Uranus is composed primarily of gas and various ices. It is about 83% hydrogen, 15% helium, 2%\",\n \"title\": \"Extraterrestrial atmosphere\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"16588137\",\n \"text\": \"can cause photosynthesis to take place more efficiently, thus increasing plant growth and primary production. This could lead to the biosphere extracting more carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. How long this carbon would remain sequestered in the terrestrial biosphere before being rereleased into the atmosphere is unclear, however, and it is likely that other limiting factors (e.g. nitrogen availability, moisture, etc.) would prevent CO fertilization from significantly increasing primary production. Deep Carbon Observatory Terrestrial biological carbon cycle The carbon cycle is an essential part of life on Earth. About half the dry weight of most living organisms is carbon. It\",\n \"title\": \"Terrestrial biological carbon cycle\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"7146944\",\n \"text\": \"1.1 bar. The ATEX directive is covering explosions from gases but also solid dust (which, contrary to common perception, can lead to hazardous explosions) Hazard – Gas / vapour / mist Zone 0 – A place in which an explosive atmosphere consisting of a mixture with air of dangerous substances in the form of gas, vapour or mist is present continuously or for long periods or frequently Zone 1 – A place in which an explosive atmosphere consisting of a mixture with air of dangerous substances in the form of gas, vapour or mist is likely to occur in normal\",\n \"title\": \"ATEX directive\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"1615265\",\n \"text\": \"radon, a heavy, inert, naturally occurring radioactive gas. Rock containing thorium and/or uranium (such as some granites) emits radon gas that can accumulate in enclosed places such as basements or underground mines. All the elements and isotopes found on Earth, with the exceptions of hydrogen, deuterium, helium, helium-3, and perhaps trace amounts of stable lithium and beryllium isotopes which were created in the Big Bang, were created by the s-process or the r-process in stars, and for those to be today a part of the Earth, must have been created not later than 4.5 billion years ago. All the elements\",\n \"title\": \"Decay chain\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"264353\",\n \"text\": \"the most likely. The icy regions are estimated to contain about 10–10 kg of ice, and may be covered by a layer of regolith that inhibits sublimation. By comparison, the Antarctic ice sheet on Earth has a mass of about 4 kg, and Mars's south polar cap contains about 10 kg of water. The origin of the ice on Mercury is not yet known, but the two most likely sources are from outgassing of water from the planet's interior or deposition by impacts of comets. Mercury is too small and hot for its gravity to retain any significant atmosphere over\",\n \"title\": \"Mercury (planet)\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"10358314\",\n \"text\": \"years. During Hadean time (4.6–4 Ga), the Solar System was forming, probably within a large cloud of gas and dust around the sun, called an accretion disc from which Earth formed . The Hadean Eon is not formally recognized, but it essentially marks the era before we have adequate record of significant solid rocks. The oldest dated zircons date from about . Earth was initially molten due to extreme volcanism and frequent collisions with other bodies. Eventually, the outer layer of the planet cooled to form a solid crust when water began accumulating in the atmosphere. The Moon formed soon\",\n \"title\": \"Geological history of Earth\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"8328944\",\n \"text\": \"(and hence the true mass) are regarded as unknown. Given the planet's high mass, it is likely that 47 Ursae Majoris b is a gas giant with no solid surface. Because the planet has only been detected indirectly, properties such as its radius, composition, and temperature are unknown. Due to its mass it is likely to have a surface gravity 6–8 times that of Earth. Assuming a composition similar to that of Jupiter and an environment close to chemical equilibrium, the upper atmosphere of the planet is expected to contain water clouds, as opposed to the ammonia clouds typical of\",\n \"title\": \"47 Ursae Majoris b\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"16833293\",\n \"text\": \"the 21st century from multi-model averages. These reductions range from 43-94% in September and from 8-34% in February. Thus, it is very likely that we will see a nearly ice-free Arctic Ocean in September before mid-century or towards the end of the 21st century depending on our ability to cut greenhouse gas emissions to the atmosphere. This is as anthropogenic influences have very likely contributed to Arctic sea ice loss since 1979. This is very worrying as sea ice plays a crucial role in regulating the temperature of Earth. Sea ice prevents warming to its high albedo and its ability\",\n \"title\": \"Global warming in Norway\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"615432\",\n \"text\": \"there would probably have been simple hydrides such as those now found in gas giants like Jupiter and Saturn, notably water vapor, methane, and ammonia. As the solar nebula dissipated, the gases would have escaped, partly driven off by the solar wind. The next atmosphere, consisting largely of nitrogen, carbon dioxide, and inert gases, was produced by outgassing from volcanism, supplemented by gases produced during the late heavy bombardment of Earth by huge asteroids. A major part of carbon dioxide emissions were soon dissolved in water and built up carbonate sediments. Water-related sediments have been found dating from as early\",\n \"title\": \"Paleoclimatology\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"11389321\",\n \"text\": \"Earth radii the density decreases with increasing radius. This indicates that above 1.5 Earth radii, planets tend to have increasing amounts of volatiles and gas. Despite this general trend, there is a wide range of masses at a given radius, which could be because gas planets can have rocky cores of different masses and compositions, and could also be due to photoevaporation of volatiles. Thermal evolutionary atmosphere models suggest a radius of 1.75 times that of Earth as a dividing line between rocky and gaseous planets. Excluding close-in planets that have lost their gas envelope due to stellar irradiation, studies\",\n \"title\": \"Exoplanetology\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"1639909\",\n \"text\": \"years ago. About 3.4 billion years ago, nitrogen formed the major part of the then stable \\\"second atmosphere\\\". The influence of life has to be taken into account rather soon in the history of the atmosphere, because hints of early life-forms appear as early as 3.5 billion years ago. How Earth at that time maintained a climate warm enough for liquid water and life, if the early Sun put out 30% lower solar radiance than today, is a puzzle known as the \\\"faint young Sun paradox\\\". The geological record however shows a continuous relatively warm surface during the complete early\",\n \"title\": \"Atmosphere of Earth\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"19492373\",\n \"text\": \"atmosphere, which would render the planet uninhabitable if one were to exist. The planet may also have liquid water, up to about 250 times more water than all of Earth's oceans. TRAPPIST-1d has the highest Earth Similarity Index of any known exoplanet, at 0.91. While the planet is most likely tidally locked, its atmosphere could be enough to transfer heat around the planet and keep the climate stable. Recent studies by the University of Washington have concluded that TRAPPIST-1d might be a Venus-like exoplanet with an uninhabitable atmosphere. A team of astronomers headed by Michaël Gillon of the Institut d’Astrophysique\",\n \"title\": \"TRAPPIST-1d\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"565523\",\n \"text\": \"relatively close approach of 0.15 AU, making it a spectacular sight. Indeed, on 19 May, Earth actually passed through the tail of the comet. One of the substances discovered in the tail by spectroscopic analysis was the toxic gas cyanogen, which led astronomer Camille Flammarion to claim that, when Earth passed through the tail, the gas \\\"would impregnate the atmosphere and possibly snuff out all life on the planet.\\\" His pronouncement led to panicked buying of gas masks and quack \\\"anti-comet pills\\\" and \\\"anti-comet umbrellas\\\" by the public. In reality, as other astronomers were quick to point out, the gas\",\n \"title\": \"Halley's Comet\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"1386836\",\n \"text\": \"EGR valve was controlled, in part, by vacuum drawn from the carburetor's venturi, which allowed more precise constraint of EGR flow to only those engine load conditions under which NOx is likely to form. Later, backpressure transducers were added to the EGR valve control to further tailor EGR flow to engine load conditions. Most modern engines now need exhaust gas recirculation to meet emissions standards. However, recent innovations have led to the development of engines that do not require them. The 3.6 Chrysler Pentastar engine is one example that does not require EGR. The exhaust gas, added to the fuel,\",\n \"title\": \"Exhaust gas recirculation\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"2733828\",\n \"text\": \"triple gravity assist – from Venus, Earth, and then Earth again – to propel it from the inner part of the solar system to Jupiter in the outer system. The trajectory made it possible to also observe asteroids 951 Gaspra and 243 Ida. \\\"Galileo\\\" had two major components: an orbiter which examined Jupiter and its four largest moons for eight years, and a probe which descended into the Jovian atmosphere to take direct samplings before being destroyed by the gas giant's heat and pressure. Besides the \\\"Galileo\\\" spacecraft, \\\"Atlantis\\\"' payload bay held two canisters containing the Shuttle Solar Backscatter Ultraviolet\",\n \"title\": \"STS-34\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"7683672\",\n \"text\": \"pressure from 92 bar to 1 bar would require a minimum of 2,000 impacts, even if the efficiency of atmosphere removal was perfect. Smaller objects would not work, either, because more would be required. The violence of the bombardment could well result in significant outgassing that would replace removed atmosphere. Most of the ejected atmosphere would go into solar orbit near Venus, and, without further intervention, could be captured by the Venerian gravitational field and become part of the atmosphere once again. Removal of atmospheric gas in a more controlled manner could also prove difficult. Venus' extremely slow rotation means\",\n \"title\": \"Terraforming of Venus\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"242741\",\n \"text\": \"involve interactions between the Sun, Earth, and the Moon, they are very different in their interactions. The Moon does not completely darken as it passes through the umbra because of the refraction of sunlight by Earth's atmosphere into the shadow cone; if Earth had no atmosphere, the Moon would be completely dark during the eclipse. The reddish coloration arises because sunlight reaching the Moon must pass through a long and dense layer of Earth's atmosphere, where it is scattered. Shorter wavelengths are more likely to be scattered by the air molecules and small particles; thus, the longer wavelengths predominate by\",\n \"title\": \"Lunar eclipse\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"397366\",\n \"text\": \"of the atmosphere. Since the Earth was almost completely covered with ice, carbon dioxide could not be withdrawn from the atmosphere by release of alkaline metal ions weathering out of siliceous rocks. Over 4 to 30 million years, enough and methane, mainly emitted by volcanoes but also produced by microbes converting organic carbon trapped under the ice into the gas, would accumulate to finally cause enough greenhouse effect to make surface ice melt in the tropics until a band of permanently ice-free land and water developed; this would be darker than the ice, and thus absorb more energy from the\",\n \"title\": \"Snowball Earth\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"4494756\",\n \"text\": \"to carry micro satellites to low earth orbit. UK base company, B2Space is developing the concept to launch small satellites into low earth orbit . Rockoon A rockoon (from \\\"rocket\\\" and \\\"balloon\\\") is a solid fuel sounding rocket that, rather than being immediately lit while on the ground, is first carried into the upper atmosphere by a gas-filled balloon, then separated from the balloon and ignited. This allows the rocket to achieve a higher altitude, as the rocket does not have to move under power through the lower and thicker layers of the atmosphere. The original concept was developed by\",\n \"title\": \"Rockoon\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"552973\",\n \"text\": \"from 18 hPa to as much as 280 hPa (three times that of Mars to a quarter that of the Earth). At such densities, nitrogen could flow across the surface as liquid. Just like sweat cools the body as it evaporates from the skin, the sublimation of Pluto's atmosphere cools its surface. The presence of atmospheric gases was traced up to 1670 kilometers high; the atmosphere does not have a sharp upper boundary. The presence of methane, a powerful greenhouse gas, in Pluto's atmosphere creates a temperature inversion, with the average temperature of its atmosphere tens of degrees warmer than\",\n \"title\": \"Pluto\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"8503292\",\n \"text\": \"The densest part of the atmosphere, the troposphere, begins at the surface and extends upwards to 65 km. At the furnace-like surface the winds are slow, but at the top of the troposphere the temperature and pressure reaches Earth-like levels and clouds pick up speed to 100 m/s. The atmospheric pressure at the surface of Venus is about 92 times that of the Earth, similar to the pressure found below the surface of the ocean. The atmosphere has a mass of 4.8 kg, about 93 times the mass of the Earth's total atmosphere. The density of the air at the\",\n \"title\": \"Atmosphere of Venus\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"160594\",\n \"text\": \"space by the atmosphere and clouds, and 19% is absorbed by the atmosphere and clouds. Most of the remaining energy is absorbed at the surface of Earth. Because the Earth's surface is colder than the Sun, it radiates at wavelengths that are much longer than the wavelengths that were absorbed. Most of this thermal radiation is absorbed by the atmosphere and warms it. The atmosphere also gains heat by sensible and latent heat fluxes from the surface. The atmosphere radiates energy both upwards and downwards; the part radiated downwards is absorbed by the surface of Earth. This leads to a\",\n \"title\": \"Greenhouse effect\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"462270\",\n \"text\": \"farther from the Sun (about 5%, or about 8 million kilometers), the conditions which allow the three forms to be present simultaneously would be far less likely to exist. Earth's gravity allows it to hold an atmosphere. Water vapor and carbon dioxide in the atmosphere provide a temperature buffer (greenhouse effect) which helps maintain a relatively steady surface temperature. 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Furthermore, many proposed SRM methods\",\n \"title\": \"Climate engineering\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"19492364\",\n \"text\": \"the probable nature of the planet was obtained. TRAPPIST-1d is the least massive planet of the system and and is likely to have a compact hydrogen-poor atmosphere similar to Venus, Earth, or Mars. It receives just 4.3% more sunlight than Earth, placing it on the inner edge of the habitable zone. It has about <5% of its mass as a volatile layer, which could consist of atmosphere, oceans, and/or ice layers. Recent studies by the University of Washington have concluded that TRAPPIST-1d might be a Venus-like exoplanet with an uninhabitable atmosphere. TRAPPIST-1d was detected with the transit method, allowing scientists\",\n \"title\": \"TRAPPIST-1d\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"13116342\",\n \"text\": \"put forward as the most likely causes. 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Dunedin is one of the smallest communities used by Major League spring training teams, although surrounded by a large metropolitan area. Dunedin Stadium is situated next to the Dunedin Public Library a few blocks south of downtown on Douglas Avenue, and is just two blocks east of Edgewater Drive. The stadium was built as a replacement to Grant Field, the Blue Jays' first spring training ball park. The library was founded in 1895 and is the oldest public library in","title":"Dunedin, Florida"},{"docid":"3340151","text":"spring training in the city. In 1987, Toronto decided to establish a new Florida State League franchise in Dunedin. They originally played at Grant Field until 1990, when Dunedin Stadium was completed. When Major League Baseball owners considered locking out the regular players and using \"scabs\" instead for the 1995 season, Dunedin would have been used as the Toronto Blue Jays' home field due to Ontario laws concerning replacement workers. The MLB labor dispute was resolved before the plan was implemented, however. In 2006, the Blue Jays made it to the Florida State League Championship Series, losing to the St.","title":"Dunedin Blue Jays"},{"docid":"5165370","text":"games at Dunedin Stadium if the regular season began with replacement players. Ontario law forbade the Blue Jays from using replacement players in Toronto. American League officials inspected the ballpark on February 21, 1995 in response to the club's request to host games in Dunedin. The strike ended in March 1995 and no regular season games were played at the park. Dunedin Stadium was once ranked by Sports Illustrated as one of the top five facilities to watch a Major League Baseball Spring training game. 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They originally played at Grant Field until 1990, when Dunedin Stadium was completed. When Major League Baseball owners considered locking out the regular players and using \\\"scabs\\\" instead for the 1995 season, Dunedin would have been used as the Toronto Blue Jays' home field due to Ontario laws concerning replacement workers. The MLB labor dispute was resolved before the plan was implemented, however. In 2006, the Blue Jays made it to the Florida State League Championship Series, losing to the St.\",\n \"title\": \"Dunedin Blue Jays\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"5165370\",\n \"text\": \"games at Dunedin Stadium if the regular season began with replacement players. Ontario law forbade the Blue Jays from using replacement players in Toronto. American League officials inspected the ballpark on February 21, 1995 in response to the club's request to host games in Dunedin. The strike ended in March 1995 and no regular season games were played at the park. 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Grant Field\",\n \"title\": \"Dunedin Stadium (Florida)\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"5165374\",\n \"text\": \"$181,000 agreement with the Florida Auto Exchange, a Dunedin car sales center, for the naming rights of Dunedin Stadium. The facility was renamed \\\"Florida Auto Exchange Stadium\\\" until October 1, 2017 when the agreement expired. Dunedin Stadium (Florida) Dunedin Stadium (originally Dunedin Stadium at Grant Field) is a baseball field located in Dunedin, Florida. The stadium was built in 1990 and holds 5,509 people. It is the spring training home of the Toronto Blue Jays, as well as home to the Dunedin Blue Jays of the Class A Florida State League and the Dunedin High School Falcons baseball team. The\",\n \"title\": \"Dunedin Stadium (Florida)\"\n }\n]","isConversational":false},"negative_passages":{"kind":"list like","value":[{"docid":"5666099","text":"3, , he was picked off waivers by the Toronto Blue Jays, with whom he would go on to play 124 games between 2002 and . On July 22, 2006, Walker had shoulder surgery. In 2006, the Toronto Blue Jays released him, but on February 12 , the Blue Jays signed him to a minor league contract with an invitation to spring training where he was later released towards the end of spring training 2007 in the hopes that another team would pick up his contract, which turned out to be the New York Yankees. He signed with them on","title":"Pete Walker"},{"docid":"20341741","text":"been signed to a one-year, $8 million contract that included a 2019 team option. Blue Jays pitchers and catchers reported to spring training on February 14, while position players reported on February 19. Seung-hwan Oh signed a one-year, $2 million contract with Toronto on February 26. To make room on the roster, Ezequiel Carrera was designated for assignment. Carrera later cleared waivers and was invited back to spring training. Nick Tepesch signed a minor league contract with the Blue Jays on March 3, and was invited to spring training. 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He won five straight Gold Glove Awards for his","title":"Doug Rader"},{"docid":"10558052","text":"\"Note: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; SV = Saves; ERA = Earned run average; R = Runs allowed; ER = Earned runs allowed; BB = Walks allowed; K = Strikeouts\" All-Star Game 1977 Toronto Blue Jays season The 1977 Toronto Blue Jays season was the first year of Major League Baseball played by the Toronto-based expansion franchise. The Blue Jays finished seventh in the American League East with a record of 54 wins and 107 losses, 45½ games behind the World Champion New York Yankees. The Blue Jays spring training was","title":"1977 Toronto Blue Jays season"},{"docid":"8542561","text":"the Atlanta Braves. He would have another very solid season in AAA, where he played for the Richmond Braves of the International League. Despite a 9–11 record, Linton had a very solid ERA of 2.53, as well as 160 strikeouts in 174 innings pitched. Linton returned to the Toronto Blue Jays organization as he signed as a free agent on October 23, 2002. He won a job in the Blue Jays bullpen in spring training, and started the year in Toronto. Linton made his return in a Blue Jays uniform on March 31, 2003, when he pitched two scoreless innings","title":"Doug Linton"},{"docid":"13805905","text":"truly a privilege. I cherished my years with the Blue Jays and have always loved the Canadian people. Those years were the very best of my career.\" Ricky Romero got the first start of 2010 in spring training for the Jays against the Detroit Tigers. Chris Lubanski, an offseason addition, hit the Jays only home run in that game when he hit a solo shot in the 8th. In total, 6 pitchers were sent out on day one, 5 of which were in their first spring training with the Jays. A day later, the Blue Jays got their first win,","title":"2010 Toronto Blue Jays season"},{"docid":"14390151","text":"of the Toronto Blue Jays watched him play in workouts in the Dominican Republic, and signed him after his visa paperwork went through in 2010. On April 13, 2010, Hechavarria signed a four-year, $10 million contract with the Toronto Blue Jays. He was assigned to extended spring training and first appeared in a game with the Dunedin Blue Jays of the Class A-Advanced Florida State League. On June 30, 2010, Hechavarria was promoted to the Double-A New Hampshire Fisher Cats of the Eastern League, where he recorded a .273 batting average and .303 on-base percentage. On August 4, 2012, Hechavarria","title":"Adeiny Hechavarria"},{"docid":"13805911","text":"on the 18th. Pitcher Zech Zinicola (acquired by the Jays in the Rule-5 draft) did not make the cut, and he was returned to Washington. Hitter Brian Dopirak also didn't make the cut, but he will stay in the Jays organization. The Jays split their next two games before another game got canceled due to rain. Toronto lost to Houston 2–0, and beat Atlanta 7–6. The Jays were going to play the Red Sox for the first time in spring training, but rain in Dunedin forced the game to be canceled. From there, the Blue Jays fell into a spring","title":"2010 Toronto Blue Jays season"},{"docid":"10558032","text":"the highlight of spring training was a match against the Cincinnati Reds. The Blue Jays defeated the defending World Series champions as the Reds were missing only one regular starter from their lineup. After spring training, the Blue Jays 25-man roster was set. Ron Fairly, who had previously played for the Montreal Expos, was one of the most recognizable players on the nascent team. The only marquee name was Bill Singer. Pat Gillick had a deal with the New York Yankees to trade Singer for a promising, young left-hander named Ron Guidry. Blue Jays president Peter Bavasi vetoed the deal","title":"1977 Toronto Blue Jays season"},{"docid":"18044212","text":"season due to shoulder pain. The Blue Jays opted not to place him on their 40-man roster to protect him from the Rule 5 draft. On January 24, 2018, the Blue Jays invited Pentecost to spring training. Max Pentecost Maxwell Glen Pentecost (born March 10, 1993) is an American professional baseball catcher in the Toronto Blue Jays organization. Prior to playing professionally, Pentecost attended Kennesaw State University, where he played college baseball for the Kennesaw State Owls baseball team. He was selected in the first round of the 2014 Major League Baseball draft by the Blue Jays. Pentecost attended Winder-Barrow","title":"Max Pentecost"},{"docid":"8446961","text":"17, 1989, Atlanta sent Trlicek to the Toronto Blue Jays for Ernie Whitt and Kevin Batiste. The 1990 season for Trlicek would be spent with the Dunedin Blue Jays of the Florida State League. Trlicek had a 5-8 record with a 3.73 ERA in 26 starts with Dunedin. In 1991, the Blue Jays moved Trlicek to the bullpen, and he was promoted to the Knoxville Blue Jays of the Southern League. Trlicek appeared in 41 games, going 2-5 with a 2.45 ERA. Trlicek had a very solid spring training in 1992, and started the season with the Toronto Blue Jays,","title":"Ricky Trlicek"},{"docid":"13255465","text":"They also fired manager Tim Johnson during spring training after he lied about several things (including killing people in the Vietnam War) in order to motivate his players. The Blue Jays had initially been willing to stand by Johnson. A blizzard of questions about his credibility during spring training, however, led Ash to fire him less than a month before opening day. Johnson was replaced with Jim Fregosi, who managed the Phillies when they lost to the Blue Jays in the 1993 World Series. The offense picked up somewhat in 1999, but the pitching suffered without Clemens, as the Blue","title":"History of the Toronto Blue Jays"},{"docid":"431851","text":"Before the 1999 season, the Blue Jays traded Clemens to the Yankees for starting pitcher David Wells, second baseman Homer Bush and relief pitcher Graeme Lloyd. They also fired manager Tim Johnson during spring training after he lied about several things (including killing people in the Vietnam War) to motivate his players. The Blue Jays had initially been willing to stand by Johnson. A blizzard of questions about his credibility during spring training, however, led Ash to fire him less than a month before opening day. Johnson was replaced with Jim Fregosi, who managed the Phillies when they lost to","title":"Toronto Blue Jays"},{"docid":"10843866","text":"placed him on waivers. The Toronto Blue Jays claimed him off waivers on March 17. Murphy did not make the 25-man Toronto 2009 roster out of spring training, and was assigned to Triple-A Las Vegas 51s. On April 14, 2009, Murphy was called up to the Toronto Blue Jays to replace the injured Jesse Litsch. Murphy made his Toronto debut on April 15 in relief, in a win over the Minnesota Twins. On November 3, 2009 he was designated for assignment to make room for Jarrett Hoffpauir. In 8 games with the Blue Jays, he worked in 11.1 innings with","title":"Bill Murphy (baseball)"},{"docid":"10557098","text":"Jays' record for most home runs in spring training with eight (the previous record breaker was long time Blue Jay Carlos Delgado). The Jays were able to translate their success in spring training into an excellent start—the team led the AL East from early to mid-April and held their record around .500 until late August. The Jays were hit with the injury bug when third baseman Corey Koskie broke his finger, taking him out of the lineup, but the club was pleasantly surprised with the performance of rookie call-up Aaron Hill in his stead. On July 8, just prior to","title":"2005 Toronto Blue Jays season"},{"docid":"3652955","text":"the Padres. On January 22, 2010, Hill signed a minor league contract with the Toronto Blue Jays, with an invitation to spring training. Hill spent most of his 2010 season in the minor leagues with the Blue Jays organization, and pitched very well at all stops, the last of which was the Las Vegas 51s, the Jays' Triple-A team. Hill posted a 1.61 ERA in 11 minor league starts in 2010. On September 6, 2010, Hill was called up to the Toronto Blue Jays. He started on September 9 against the Texas Rangers, in his first major league action in","title":"Shawn Hill"},{"docid":"6250503","text":"San Diego club record ... Led the majors with 18 outfield assists. 1993 Was with San Diego for spring training, and was traded to the Toronto Blue Jays, where he played until June 11, before once again being traded and played for the New York Mets for the rest of the season ... His solo homer in the eighth inning off Chicago's Alex Fernández April 25 was the difference in a 1-0 Toronto victory ... Had a tough year at the plate, batting .216 for the Blue Jays and .195 for New York ... Did not commit an error in","title":"Darrin Jackson"},{"docid":"9589985","text":"a minor league contract, and invited him to Spring training. All three were eventually released. When Brandon League, who was being considered for the main setup role, arrived to Spring training with a strained lat muscle, Zambrano took the empty spot in the bullpen. Thomson injured himself in spring training, so the Blue Jays named Ohka and Towers as their fourth and fifth starters. After four mediocre starts, Josh Towers was sent to the bullpen and replaced by Dustin McGowan. Towers returned to the rotation later in the year replacing released pitcher Tomo Ohka. When Gustavo Chacín was injured, he","title":"2007 Toronto Blue Jays season"},{"docid":"14104004","text":"deal with the Chicago White Sox with an invitation to spring training. He spent the season with the Triple-A Charlotte Knights. On December 17, 2013, Tolleson signed a minor league deal with the Toronto Blue Jays that included an invitation to spring training. He was sent to minor league camp on March 24, 2014. The Blue Jays selected his contract from the Triple-A Buffalo Bisons on May 1. He made his debut for the Jays the following day, and recorded a pinch-hit triple and an RBI against the Pittsburgh Pirates. The triple was the first of his Major League career.","title":"Steve Tolleson"},{"docid":"2092729","text":"in Tarpon Springs, Florida. Halladay's oldest son, Braden, committed to play baseball at Penn State shortly after Halladay's death. Braden, who was born in Toronto, was invited to Baseball Canada's U18 spring training camp on March 6, 2018, and pitched a scoreless inning in the Canadian Junior team's exhibition game against the Blue Jays on March 17. While he was a member of the Toronto Blue Jays, Halladay and his wife invited children and their families from the Hospital for Sick Children into \"Doc's Box\" at Rogers Centre during Blue Jays games. The remodeling of the suite to be more","title":"Roy Halladay"},{"docid":"19051350","text":"playing baseball.\" He had appeared in one game for the Blue Jays to that point, going hitless in two at-bats. On March 18, Brad Penny, who had joined the Blue Jays on a minor league contract, announced his retirement. Two days later, Rafael Soriano announced his retirement as well. Soriano signed a minor league contract with the Blue Jays in late February, but did not appear in any spring training games due to unspecified visa issues. On March 23, Marcus Stroman was named the Opening Day starter for the Blue Jays. The competition for fifth starter ended on March 28,","title":"2016 Toronto Blue Jays season"},{"docid":"13805883","text":"were scheduled to play in Toronto on June 25, 26 and 27, however due to the G20 summit meeting in Toronto, those games were held in Philadelphia. Halladay made his first start against his old team in spring training, getting lit up in the first inning allowing 4 runs on 5 hits. \"For more detailed information about arrivals and departures see Free agency and Waivers.\" In total, the Blue Jays lost 16 players in the offseason, 4 as free agents, but one re-signed. It was a trade-filled offseason, including The Doc Deal, which landed the Jays three players for Roy","title":"2010 Toronto Blue Jays season"},{"docid":"10557353","text":"reserves to the American League team. In the game, the American League defeated the National League by a score of 9–3. White, Alomar, Molitor, Carter and Olerud, batting first through fifth for the Jays most games, were so strong offensively that they were nicknamed WAMCO (short for WHAM Company). When Rickey Henderson joined the Jays on July 31st and was placed second in the batting order the nickname (now for the first six in the batting order) was then able to be spelled as WHAMCO. The Toronto Blue Jays spent their 17th Spring training at Dunedin, Florida, while playing their","title":"1993 Toronto Blue Jays season"},{"docid":"16547845","text":"He pitched of an inning against Pakistan, and his fastball was clocked as high as in 2016. He was ranked by MLB as the fifth-best international prospect available during the 2017 international signing period. On July 2, 2017, Pardinho signed with the Toronto Blue Jays and received a $1.4 million signing bonus. He was assigned to extended spring training for the remainder of the year, as well as the first half of the 2018 season. On June 20, 2018, Pardinho made his professional debut with the Rookie Advanced Bluefield Blue Jays. Héctor Antonio Pérez (born June 6, 1996) is a","title":"Toronto Blue Jays minor league players"},{"docid":"8142868","text":"was designated for assignment. On December 11, 2012, the Toronto Blue Jays announced that Pérez had been signed to a minor league contract with an invitation to major league spring training. He pitched for the Triple-A Buffalo Bisons until he was called up by the Blue Jays on May 29. Pérez set a Blue Jays franchise record in a game against the Los Angeles Dodgers on July 23 by pitching his 22nd consecutive scoreless inning to begin his career in Toronto. The previous record had been held for nearly 35 years by Víctor Cruz, who pitched 21 consecutive scoreless innings","title":"Juan Pérez (pitcher)"},{"docid":"16547827","text":"44 stolen bases. Fields played in 119 games in 2017, mostly with Buffalo, and hit .283 with 34 RBI and 50 stolen bases. On January 24, 2018, the Blue Jays invited Fields to spring training. Zachary Garrett Jackson (born December 25, 1994) is an American professional baseball pitcher in the Toronto Blue Jays organization. Jackson attended Berryhill High School in his hometown of Tulsa, Oklahoma. In his final high school season, he was named a second-team All-American by \"Baseball America\" after pitching to a 13–1 win–loss record, 0.38 earned run average (ERA), and 147 strikeouts in 72 innings. Jackson graduated","title":"Toronto Blue Jays minor league players"},{"docid":"7737924","text":"for fewest at-bats required to do so. His fledgling career was derailed, however, when he ruptured his Achilles tendon late in 2000 spring training. Brian Simmons (baseball) Brian Simmons (born September 4, 1973) is a former Major League Baseball (MLB) outfielder. He played for the Chicago White Sox and Toronto Blue Jays over parts of three seasons. Drafted by the Chicago White Sox in the 2nd round of the 1995 MLB amateur draft out of Michigan, Simmons would make his Major League Baseball debut with the Chicago White Sox on September 21, 1998, and appeared in his final game on","title":"Brian Simmons (baseball)"},{"docid":"6552032","text":"position. Prior to making his major-league debut, the Orioles traded Werth to the Toronto Blue Jays for pitcher John Bale. Werth broke into the major leagues with the Toronto Blue Jays in 2002. It was with Toronto when he began the switch to the outfield from catcher. On March 29, 2004, Werth was traded to the Los Angeles Dodgers for Jason Frasor after two seasons in Toronto. During spring training, on March 2, 2005, Werth was hit by a pitch from A. J. Burnett that broke his left wrist. Despite the injury, Werth was able to play in 102 games","title":"Jayson Werth"},{"docid":"13805914","text":"shot in the first inning to help jumpstart the Jays. The Jays failed to hold on to a 3–0 lead and surrendered a game-tying run in the 9th inning to tie the game at 3. The Jays rebounded by hitting the Astros hard and early. Aaron Hill hit his second straight first inning shot to jumpstart the Jays again, and Edwin Encarnación ended a disappointing spring with a 3-run home run. The Jays ended up winning 13–6. Their final spring training record was 12–13–2. Alex Anthopolous called it \"a great spring\" in an in-game interview with Rod Black and Pat","title":"2010 Toronto Blue Jays season"},{"docid":"3219814","text":"6, 2009, Chavez hit his first home run for the Toronto Blue Jays, giving them a 2–0 lead over the Kansas City Royals. On December 11, 2009, the Blue Jays declined to tender Chavez a contract, however two days later they signed him to a minor league contract with an invitation to spring training. On January 14, 2011, the New York Mets signed Chávez to a minor league deal with an invitation to spring training. He spent the season with the Buffalo Bisons before retiring. , or Retrosheet, or Pelota Binaria (Venezuelan Winter League) Raúl Chávez Raúl Alexander Chávez (born","title":"Raúl Chávez"},{"docid":"8025771","text":"first half. However, after the All Star break Soriano tallied a 6.98 ERA, before being removed from the closer role on September 9. The Chicago Cubs signed Soriano to a minor league contract on June 9, 2015, with a prorated $2 million salary. He was designated for assignment on September 1 and released on September 4. On February 28, 2016, Soriano signed a minor league contract with an invite to spring training with the Toronto Blue Jays. Due to visa issues, he was unable to join the Blue Jays for spring training. On March 17, it was reported that Soriano","title":"Rafael Soriano"},{"docid":"18261581","text":"Toronto acquired Donaldson in a five–player trade, sending Brett Lawrie, Kendall Graveman, Sean Nolin, and Franklin Barreto to Oakland Athletics. Barreto played for the Vancouver Canadians in Single A in 2014, while Graveman and Nolin were September additions to the Blue Jays' roster. In the free agent market, Toronto signed Russell Martin to a five–year contract, non-tendered John Mayberry Jr., and signed Jeff Francis, Ezequiel Carrera, Wilton López, Caleb Gindl, Jake Fox, Daric Barton, and Andrew Albers to minor league contracts with invitations to spring training. Toronto offered Melky Cabrera a $15.3 million qualifying offer which Cabrera subsequently declined. Cabrera","title":"2015 Toronto Blue Jays season"},{"docid":"3219813","text":"Toronto Blue Jays. He did not make the 25-man Jays' roster out of spring training, and was assigned to Triple A Las Vegas 51s. But an injury to Michael Barrett on April 17 sent Barrett to the disabled list, and Chavez was called up to the Blue Jays the next day to fill the roster spot. He made his 2009 debut catching Ricky Romero at Rogers Centre in Toronto on April 19, in a 1–0 win over the Oakland Athletics. Chávez is known for his defense, specifically his exceptional arm, and is considered to call a solid game. On June","title":"Raúl Chávez"},{"docid":"10873797","text":"day and pitching 1 scoreless innings in relief against the Philadelphia Phillies. On November 25, 2009, the Baltimore Orioles signed Hinckley to a minor league deal. On December 21, 2010, the Toronto Blue Jays signed Hinckley to a minor league contract with an invitation to spring training. He was released on June 27, 2011, after recording a 5.68 ERA in the Blue Jays minor league system. Mike Hinckley Michael David Hinckley (born October 5, 1982) is an American former professional baseball pitcher. He grew up in Moore, Oklahoma, where he played high school baseball. He and his wife LeAnna have","title":"Mike Hinckley"},{"docid":"10557097","text":"fans continued (and still continue) to refer to the stadium as SkyDome. By the start of the season, Rogers had upgraded the stadium with a new \"JumboTron\" videoboard and added other state-of-the-art video screens around the stadium. Furthermore, the AstroTurf surface was replaced by the more natural-looking FieldTurf. Owner Ted Rogers also promised a payroll increase to $210 million over the next three years, which allowed the team to have a team payroll of $70 million per year. The Blue Jays finished spring training with a 16–10 record. Among the stars of spring training was Gabe Gross, who tied the","title":"2005 Toronto Blue Jays season"},{"docid":"4467489","text":"league contract with the Toronto Blue Jays on December 11, 2013. He was a non-roster invitee to spring training, but was reassigned to minor-league camp on March 2, 2014 without making an appearance. He was released by the Blue Jays at the end of spring training. Ohka signed with the Bridgeport Bluefish of the independent Atlantic League of Professional Baseball for the 2014 season. Ohka returned to Japan and played with the Toyama Thunderbirds and Fukushima Hope of the semi-pro Baseball Challenge League for the 2015 season. On December 15, 2016, the Baltimore Orioles signed Ohka to a minor league","title":"Tomo Ohka"},{"docid":"4623080","text":"and attended spring training as a non-roster invitee. He earned the back-up catcher role for the Toronto Blue Jays during spring training. He was scheduled to back up Rod Barajas, but Barrett tore a muscle in his right shoulder while attempting to retrieve a wild pitch on April 17, 2009. Barrett was placed on the 15-day disabled list on April 18, and was expected to return within the two weeks. Prior to the injury, Barrett had made seven appearances with a .167 batting average. The Blue Jays activated Barrett from the disabled list on July 6, 2009, and designated to","title":"Michael Barrett (baseball)"},{"docid":"19051341","text":"3 days later, the team signed Casey Kotchman, Jiovanni Mier, and David Adams to minor league contracts that included invitations to spring training. On November 24, Scott Diamond was signed to a minor league contract and invited to spring training. J. A. Happ, who was traded by the Blue Jays to the Seattle Mariners for Michael Saunders before the 2015 season, was signed to a three-year, $36 million contract on November 27. David Price agreed to a seven-year, $217 million contract with the Boston Red Sox on December 1. Justin Smoak, who was eligible for salary arbitration, was signed to","title":"2016 Toronto Blue Jays season"},{"docid":"10449984","text":"Sam Cosentino Salvatore \"Sam\" Cosentino (born March 16, 1971) is a Canadian sportscaster who currently works as a junior hockey analyst on Rogers Sportsnet. Cosentino resides in Mississauga, Ontario. Cosentino attended Spring Arbor College in Spring Arbor, Michigan, where he played baseball and called basketball games. After graduation, Cosentino briefly worked as baseball instructor before joining the Toronto Blue Jays as a clubhouse employee. While working for the Blue Jays, Cosentino also hosted the Jr. Jays radio show. Cosentino left the Blue Jays in 2003 to call Canadian Baseball League games on The Score. In 2004, he was the network's","title":"Sam Cosentino"},{"docid":"18261585","text":"arbitration with Danny Valencia and Josh Donaldson, the first two cases for the Blue Jays since the 1997 season. On February 5, Valencia won his arbitration case and was awarded $1.675 million for the 2015 season. Toronto had offered him $1.25 million. A week later, Toronto won the arbitration case with Donaldson, agreeing to pay him $4.3 million. Donaldson had been seeking $5.75 million. Prior to the official start of spring training, Michael Saunders tore the meniscus in his left knee on February 26 and was initially expected to go on the disabled list until the All-Star break. After undergoing","title":"2015 Toronto Blue Jays season"},{"docid":"17173168","text":"was traded to the Toronto Blue Jays for cash considerations. He was called up from the Triple-A Buffalo Bisons on August 9 for a start against the New York Yankees where he took the loss. He was designated for assignment on September 2. Tepesch elected free agency on October 6, 2017. He signed a minor league contract with the Blue Jays on March 3, 2018, and was invited to spring training. On August 8, 2018, Tepesch was traded to the Detroit Tigers in exchange for cash considerations, and assigned to the Double-A Erie SeaWolves. Tepesch appeared in just 8 games","title":"Nick Tepesch"},{"docid":"5630581","text":"posted a 6.75 ERA in 13 appearances (12 starts) with the Cubs. On October 30, Germano elected free agency after being outrighted the previous week. Germano signed a minor league deal with a Spring training invitation with the Blue Jays on November 9, 2012. Germano started the 2013 season with the Triple-A Buffalo Bisons. He was called up to the Blue Jays on April 27. He appeared in one game with Toronto before being designated for assignment on May 3 to make room for Ricky Romero on the 25 man roster. On May 4, the Blue Jays announced that Germano","title":"Justin Germano"},{"docid":"13805913","text":"against the Tigers to earn their first tie of two in spring training. But on March 31, by far the most interesting match up in spring came against the Phillies. Sandwiched between 2 losses to the Yankees was a start by Roy Halladay. \"Doc\" struggled, as he gave up 4 earned runs on five hits in 3 innings. All 4 runs were surrendered in the first inning. Four hits were extra base hits, including a 2-run shot by Aaron Hill. The Jays then entered Houston to finish up spring training. In Buck Martinez's play-by-play debut, Aaron Hill hit a two-run","title":"2010 Toronto Blue Jays season"},{"docid":"5555548","text":"January 3, the Los Angeles Dodgers signed Redding to a minor league contract with an invite to Spring training. He was assigned to the AAA Albuquerque Isotopes. He opted out of his Dodger contract in June and signed a minor league contract with the Philadelphia Phillies. He was released by Phillies after pitching in 5 games for the Lehigh Valley IronPigs. Redding signed a minor league contract with the Toronto Blue Jays on January 27, 2012. Redding played for the Las Vegas 51s, Triple A team for the Toronto Blue Jays. Redding was released by the 51s on August 10.","title":"Tim Redding"},{"docid":"5843904","text":"training, however he was released on March 26, 2012. Ortiz spent the 2012 season playing for the New York Yankees Triple-A affiliate Scranton/Wilkes-Barre Yankees. On December 18, 2012, The Toronto Blue Jays announced that Ortiz had been signed to a minor league contract with an invitation to major league spring training. On April 15, the Blue Jays selected his contract from the Buffalo Bisons. Ortiz was designated for assignment on April 23 to make room for Aaron Laffey on the roster. Ortiz cleared waivers, and returned to the Buffalo Bisons on April 25. Ortiz was brought up to the Blue","title":"Ramón Ortiz"},{"docid":"19051352","text":"would open the season on the disabled list. To close spring training, the Blue Jays returned to Montreal's Olympic Stadium for a two-game series against the Red Sox. The 2016 Major League Baseball draft was held on June 9–11. The Blue Jays opened the 2016 season in Tampa Bay for a four-game series against the Rays. Marcus Stroman pitched into the ninth on Opening Day, and held the Rays to three runs in a 5–3 victory, closed out by Roberto Osuna. Osuna would earn the save in the second game of the series as well, finishing another 5–3 win over","title":"2016 Toronto Blue Jays season"},{"docid":"20341744","text":"March 26 and 27, the Blue Jays returned to Montreal's Olympic Stadium for two games against the St. Louis Cardinals. The team finished spring training with a 14–18 record and one tie. The 2018 Major League Baseball draft began on June 4 and concluded on June 6. The Blue Jays opened the 2018 regular season with a four-game series against the New York Yankees. Roy Halladay, who died in the offseason in a plane crash, was honoured before the game and had his number 32 retired by the team. In the first game, Yankees' offseason acquisition Giancarlo Stanton led the","title":"2018 Toronto Blue Jays season"},{"docid":"18564034","text":"Stadium that was attended by 60 MLB scouts. On November 12, Gurriel signed a seven-year, $22 million contract with the Toronto Blue Jays. Gurriel took part in spring training with the Blue Jays, and was assigned to the Dunedin Blue Jays of the Advanced-A Florida State League on March 17, 2017. Gurriel began the season on the disabled list with a leg injury. He made his minor league debut on April 18, but left the game with a recurrence of the same injury. On July 12, Gurriel was promoted to the New Hampshire Fisher Cats of the Double-A Eastern League","title":"Lourdes Gurriel Jr."},{"docid":"17126748","text":"Falls in the Pioneer League registering a .384 batting average with 37 RBIs in 212 plate appearances. Nanita played for the Toronto Blue Jays Triple-A affiliate Las Vegas 51s in the 2011 and 2012 seasons. The Blue Jays invited him to spring training in 2013. Nanita played for the Dominican Republic national baseball team in the 2013 World Baseball Classic. Nanita started the 2013 season with the Double-A New Hampshire Fisher Cats. He was promoted to the Triple-A Buffalo Bisons on May 21. On January 20, 2014, the Blue Jays announced that Nanita had been signed to a minor league","title":"Ricardo Nanita"},{"docid":"11421352","text":"traded to the Toronto Blue Jays for Adam Lind. He and the Blue Jays avoided salary arbitration when he agreed to a one-year, $3.9 million contract on January 16, 2015. Estrada opened spring training in competition for the fifth starter role with Aaron Sanchez. He began the 2015 regular season in the bullpen, but was moved into the starting rotation after the Blue Jays optioned Daniel Norris to the Triple-A Buffalo Bisons on May 1. On June 19, he took a no-hitter into the 8th inning against the Baltimore Orioles, which was broken up by a bloop single from Jimmy","title":"Marco Estrada (baseball)"},{"docid":"19734140","text":"was announced on April 2. Mike Bolsinger was designated for assignment, while Melvin Upton Jr. was released. Pitchers Roberto Osuna, Glenn Sparkman, and Bo Schultz opened the year on the disabled list, along with outfielder Dalton Pompey. The Blue Jays ended spring training with a 12–18 win–loss record, excluding three tie games that did not count toward the standings. Their .400 winning percentage was the joint-worst (along with Detroit) among American League teams in pre-season. The 2017 Major League Baseball draft began on June 12. For the fourth consecutive year, the Blue Jays opened their season on the road. Taking","title":"2017 Toronto Blue Jays season"},{"docid":"18261586","text":"surgery to remove his meniscus his injury outlook improved to between 5 and 6 weeks out of the lineup. On March 10, Marcus Stroman suffered a torn ACL while practising fielding bunts, and was ruled out for the entire 2015 season. Attending spring training for the first time, both Roberto Osuna and Miguel Castro impressed Blue Jays management with their abilities, and both earned positions in the bullpen on the Opening Day roster. The team returned to Montreal's Olympic Stadium on April 3 and April 4, 2015, to face the Cincinnati Reds. The Blue Jays would lose the first game","title":"2015 Toronto Blue Jays season"},{"docid":"17423629","text":"the Toronto Blue Jays that included an invitation to spring training. Petricka was added to the 40-man roster and activated on May 4. He was optioned to the Triple-A Buffalo Bisons the next day, and recalled again on May 8 when Roberto Osuna was placed on administrative leave. Petricka split time between the Blue Jays bullpen and the AAA level, logging in innings for the Blue Jays in 41 appearances. On November 2, 2018, Petricka cleared waivers and entered free agency. Jake Petricka Jacob Steven Petricka (born June 5, 1988) is an American professional baseball pitcher who is a free","title":"Jake Petricka"},{"docid":"18770978","text":"league season for the Double-A New Hampshire Fisher Cats. He made 26 starts and posted a 7–11 record, 5.41 ERA, and 113 strikeouts in 143 innings pitched. On January 24, 2018, the Blue Jays invited Harris to spring training. Jon Harris (baseball) Jonathan Richard Harris (born October 16, 1993) is an American professional baseball pitcher in the Toronto Blue Jays organization. He played college baseball at Missouri State University, and was drafted by the Blue Jays in the first round of the 2015 Major League Baseball draft. Harris attended Hazelwood Central High School in St. Louis, Missouri. He was drafted","title":"Jon Harris (baseball)"},{"docid":"15166483","text":"contract and invited him to their major league spring training camp. He became a free agent after the 2014 season. Joel Carreño Joel Fernando Carreño Decena (born March 7, 1987) is a Dominican former professional baseball pitcher. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Toronto Blue Jays. Carreño began his professional career in 2006, pitching for the DSL Blue Jays. That year, he went 8-3 with a 1.53 ERA in 15 starts, striking out 86 batters in innings. In 2007, he pitched for the GCL Blue Jays, going 6-4 with a 2.62 ERA in 12 starts. With the","title":"Joel Carreño"},{"docid":"14133057","text":"8. On September 11, Jenkins was called up by the Blue Jays. On February 6, 2016, Jenkins was designated for assignment by the Blue Jays to make room on the 40-man roster for Gavin Floyd. He was outrighted to Triple-A Buffalo on February 12. Jenkins was invited to Major League spring training, and was assigned to minor league camp on March 25. On June 30, Jenkins was released. Chad Jenkins Stephen Chadwick Jenkins (born December 22, 1987) is an American former professional baseball pitcher. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Toronto Blue Jays. Jenkins played high school","title":"Chad Jenkins"},{"docid":"13771779","text":"on June 13, and was placed on the disabled list. On June 27, Carrera was activated by the Blue Jays. Carrera hit a career-high eight home runs in 2017, and added 20 RBI and a .282 batting average in 131 games. Carrera signed a one-year, $1.9 million contract with Toronto on January 12, 2018. He was designated for assignment on February 26, and cleared waivers on March 1. The Blue Jays assigned him to Triple-A Buffalo and invited him to spring training. On March 11, the Blue Jays released him. On March 13, 2018, Carrera signed a minor league contract","title":"Ezequiel Carrera"},{"docid":"8354213","text":"in 2006, but spent most of that season with AAA Norfolk. He was promoted to the Orioles for most of the 2007 season. Burres was named the fifth starter in the Orioles rotation to open the 2008 season, after a competition in spring training with teammate Matt Albers. In , however, Burres was designated for assignment to make room for Rich Hill on the roster. On February 4, 2009, Burres was claimed by the Toronto Blue Jays. Burres spent spring training 2009 with Toronto, and was assigned to Triple-A Las Vegas 51s. With Toronto dealing with early-season injuries to several","title":"Brian Burres"},{"docid":"16547836","text":"started 2017 with Akron and was promoted to the Columbus Clippers during the season. In 25 total games between Akron and Columbus, Merryweather pitched to a 7–9 record and 5.32 ERA. The Indians added him to their 40-man roster after the season. Merryweather injured his pitching elbow during the Indians' 2018 spring training camp. The Indians subsequently announced Merryweather will require Tommy John surgery and will miss the entire 2018 season. On October 5, 2018, Merryweather was sent to the Toronto Blue Jays as the player to be named later from the earlier trade for Josh Donaldson. Patrick Brian Murphy","title":"Toronto Blue Jays minor league players"},{"docid":"9654016","text":"in 2005. On December 27, 2005, Santos was sent to Toronto Blue Jays along with Troy Glaus in exchange for Miguel Batista and Orlando Hudson. In 2006, he hit .214 with 5 home runs and 38 RBI in 128 games with Toronto's Triple-A affiliate, the Syracuse Chiefs. He attended the Blue Jays' 2007 spring training, but did not make the active 25-man roster. After his struggles at Triple-A Syracuse in 2006, Toronto assigned Santos to their Double-A affiliate, the New Hampshire Fisher Cats for the 2007 season. Santos won the Home Run Derby preceding the Eastern League All Star game","title":"Sergio Santos"},{"docid":"17674057","text":"11 games for Surprise. In 2016, he appeared in 78 games for the Double-A Cardinals and Triple-A Memphis Redbirds, hitting .287 with seven home runs and 44 RBI. Ohlman signed a minor league contract that included an invitation to spring training with the Toronto Blue Jays on November 17, 2016. He started the season with the Triple-A Buffalo Bisons. On May 8 the Toronto Blue Jays selected Ohlman's contract after Russell Martin was placed on the disabled list. In his first stint with the club, Ohlman recorded two hits in nine at bats before being designated for assignment on May","title":"Mike Ohlman"},{"docid":"5201131","text":"21 appearances. He spent Spring training with the Orioles, but did not make the club. In 2011, Jefferson died of prostate cancer. , or BaseballLibrary.com, or Retrosheet Jesse Jefferson Jesse Harrison Jefferson (March 3, 1949 – September 8, 2011) was an American Major League Baseball pitcher with the Baltimore Orioles (1973-1975), Chicago White Sox (1975-1976), Toronto Blue Jays (1977-1980), Pittsburgh Pirates (1980) and California Angels (1981). Jefferson batted left-handed and threw right-handed. He was best remembered as an inaugural member of the expansion Toronto Blue Jays. Jefferson was drafted by the Baltimore Orioles in the 1968 Major League Baseball draft","title":"Jesse Jefferson"},{"docid":"16547825","text":"Challenge, as he was coaching the USA team. Fields batted .379 with three stolen bases in eight games in the tournament, earning him a contract offer with the Blue Jays organization. Fields signed on August 27, 2013, and made his professional baseball debut with the Short Season-A Vancouver Canadians in 2014. In 72 games, Fields hit .269 with one home run and 26 RBI. He also established a new Canadians franchise record for stolen bases in a single season, with 48. Fields played in five spring training games for Toronto in 2015, and began the season with the Advanced-A Dunedin","title":"Toronto Blue Jays minor league players"},{"docid":"19045221","text":"Englebert Complex The Bobby Mattick Training Center at Englebert Complex, is a sports facility owned by the City of Dunedin, Florida. It is used primarily by the Toronto Blue Jays as a practice facility, and is home to their Rookie league affiliate, the Gulf Coast League Blue Jays. The facility opened in 1978 and named after City Commissioner and one time mayor Cecil P. Englebert, who lured the Toronto Blue Jays to the area. The facility was renovated in 2002 for $14 million, expanding it from 17 to 23 acres. The Blue Jays renamed the training facility the Bobby Mattick","title":"Englebert Complex"},{"docid":"11849947","text":"New York Giants, whose normal spring training site was in Phoenix, Arizona, swapped locations with the New York Yankees so Yankees' co-owner Del Webb could oversee both his team and a growing real estate business concurrently. The teams returned to their typical training sites in 1952. Tampa has hosted spring training for seven teams: the Boston Red Sox, Chicago Cubs, Chicago White Sox, Cincinnati Reds, Detroit Tigers, Washington Senators, and the New York Yankees, who currently call Tampa their spring training home. Dunedin has been the only spring training home to the Toronto Blue Jays since the franchise's inception. The","title":"Baseball in the Tampa Bay Area"},{"docid":"2991088","text":"not include a Canadian club until 1969, when the Montreal Expos joined the National League as an expansion team. In 1977, the expansion Toronto Blue Jays joined the American League. The Blue Jays won the World Series in 1992 and 1993, the first and still the only club from outside the United States to do so. After the 2004 season, Major League Baseball relocated the Expos to Washington, D.C., where the team is now known as the Nationals. In 1847, American soldiers played what may have been the first baseball game in Mexico at Parque Los Berros in Xalapa, Veracruz.","title":"History of baseball"},{"docid":"12531051","text":"to be back for the Jays' 2010 spring training. Pitcher Casey Janssen who missed all of 2008 due to shoulder problems was expected to compete for a rotation spot, but was put on the 15-day disabled list just before the season began. Starter Dustin McGowan who is recovering from right labrum surgery is expected to rejoin the club sometime in May. On April 23, the Blue Jays placed starting pitcher Ricky Romero and closer B. J. Ryan on the 15-day disabled list. Romero was suffering from a right oblique strain, while Ryan was sent to see a specialist for a","title":"2009 Toronto Blue Jays season"},{"docid":"3628368","text":"of games that do not conflict with each other. Roughly 11 Buffalo Bisons games (as of 2018) air on evening dates between June and August that do not conflict with Blue Jays games. The Bisons are the Triple-A International League affiliate of the Blue Jays, and broadcasts originate from Buffalo-based WWKB. The Fan 590 also features live coverage of the following: Previous live sports events on CJCL included: CJCL CJCL (590 AM, \"Sportsnet 590 The Fan\") is a Canadian sports radio station in Toronto, Ontario. Owned and operated by Rogers Media since 2002, CJCL's studios are located at the Rogers","title":"CJCL"},{"docid":"431823","text":"award-winning All-Star players, including Hall of Famer Roberto Alomar, Joe Carter, John Olerud, and Devon White. The Blue Jays became the first (and, to date, only) team outside the US to appear in and win a World Series, and the fastest AL expansion team to do so, winning in its 16th year. After 1993, the Blue Jays failed to qualify for the playoffs for 21 consecutive seasons, until clinching a playoff berth and division championship in 2015. The team clinched a second consecutive playoff berth in 2016, after securing an AL wild card position. Both years, the Jays won the","title":"Toronto Blue Jays"},{"docid":"9234023","text":"The Toronto Blue Jays shared Rogers Centre with the Toronto Argonauts of the CFL before the Argonauts moved to BMO Field after the 2015 season, and shared the facility on a part-time basis with the Buffalo Bills of the NFL for several years beginning in 2008. Before their 2015–16 move, the Argonauts had publicly announced plans to leave Rogers Centre twice, only to end up staying; during that time, the originally soccer-specific BMO Field (built on the site of multi-purpose Exhibition Stadium) was built by Toronto FC. The Blue Jays presently do not have any plans to leave Rogers Centre;","title":"Multi-purpose stadium"},{"docid":"14184011","text":"the Toronto Blue Jays on April 26, 2010. On August 16, 2011, he had his contract purchased by Toronto. He had posted a 3-3 record in Triple-A with a 6.60 earned run average and 4 saves. He elected free agency on October 21. Lewis signed a contract with the Bridgeport Bluefish of the Atlantic League of Professional Baseball of Independent League for 2012 season. He was named to the 2012 Atlantic League All Star team. Lewis received an invitation to MLB Spring Training by the Arizona Diamondbacks. He was released at the end of Spring Training. Lewis pitched for the","title":"Rommie Lewis"},{"docid":"3010911","text":"and he played for the Anaheim Angels and Cleveland Indians in 1998. Fielder was signed by the Toronto Blue Jays before the start of the 1999 season. Despite batting .264 in 17 spring training games, going 14-for-53 with two doubles, a team-high three homers and 11 RBI; Toronto traded for Dave Hollins and Cecil was released once spring training wrapped. He subsequently retired. In his career, Cecil Fielder batted .255, with 319 HRs, 1008 RBI, and a .482 slugging average, drawing 693 walks for a .345 on-base percentage with 2 career stolen bases. As neither of his stolen bases came","title":"Cecil Fielder"},{"docid":"7213743","text":"attend college instead. He was next drafted by the Toronto Blue Jays 19th overall in the first round of the 1989 draft, out of Fresno State University. He was one of three Fresno State University alum drafted in the first round that year, the others being Steve Hosey (14th overall) and Tom Goodwin (22nd overall). It was the first time since the 1979 draft that one school had three different players selected in the first round. The last school to do it was the University of Michigan. The Toronto Blue Jays gave Zosky a $185,000 ($ today) signing bonus. The","title":"Eddie Zosky"},{"docid":"271948","text":"to stand with their fellow Canadian team offended many Expos fans. Ten years after the Expos relocated to Washington, a two-game exhibition series between the Toronto Blue Jays and New York Mets was held at the Olympic Stadium to conclude the spring training schedule prior to the season. For the Blue Jays, the series was intended, in part, to increase the team's following in Quebec. For others, the goal was to demonstrate that Montreal had an interest in returning to Major League Baseball. Former Expos player Warren Cromartie, who leads the Montreal Baseball Project, was among the organizers. The series","title":"Montreal Expos"},{"docid":"4651104","text":"minor league contract with the Toronto Blue Jays and became a free agent at the end of the season. In November 2008, he re-signed with the Blue Jays. However, he was released at the end of spring training. Bauer had signed with the York Revolution in the Atlantic League for the 2009 season, but on May 13, 2009, he signed with the LG Twins in South Korea. He was released from the Twins with an injury on July 22, 2009. On March 28, 2010, Bauer signed a minor league contract with the Colorado Rockies. On April 12, 2010, Bauer signed","title":"Rick Bauer"},{"docid":"13587428","text":"the White Sox designated Latos for assignment on June 9. Latos signed a minor league contract with the Washington Nationals on June 29. After making three appearances for the Gulf Coast Nationals of the Rookie-level Gulf Coast League, the Nationals assigned Latos to the Syracuse Chiefs of the International League. He made his Nationals debut on September 4, 2016, against the Mets. He pitched innings for the Nationals, recording a 6.52 ERA. On February 16, 2017, Latos signed a minor league contract with the Toronto Blue Jays. After not winning a spot on the Blue Jays' roster in spring training,","title":"Mat Latos"},{"docid":"7753773","text":"off waivers by the Texas Rangers. Gorneault was not offered a new contract and was non-tendered on December 12, 2007. On January 17, , Gorneault signed a minor league contract with an invitation to spring training with the Houston Astros. He became a free agent at the end of the season and signed a minor league contract with the Toronto Blue Jays in February . On August 8, 2009, Gorneault recorded his 1,000th minor league hit in a game against the Altoona Curve at Merchantsauto.com Stadium in Manchester, New Hampshire. At the time, Gorneault was playing for the Blue Jays","title":"Nick Gorneault"},{"docid":"5637496","text":"the Division Series. On August 19, 2006, Fasano made his first career pinch-running appearance, taking the place of fellow catcher Jorge Posada during a 13-5 win over the Boston Red Sox at Fenway Park. During that game, Fasano nearly picked off Manny Ramirez after blocking the plate and denying the Red Sox another run. In 28 games for the Yankees, Fasano batted .143 with 1 home run and 5 RBI. Fasano agreed to a minor league contract with the Toronto Blue Jays on January 17, , and was invited to Major League spring training. On April 26, the Blue Jays","title":"Sal Fasano"},{"docid":"15244363","text":"Mets in this manner, Emaus had to remain on their major league 25-man roster for the duration of 2011, or else be offered back to the Blue Jays. Emaus won the Mets second base competition during 2011 Spring Training. He was the Opening Day starter, making his major league debut on April 1. On April 19, the Mets designated Emaus for assignment. On April 21, 2011, after clearing waivers, Emaus was returned to the Toronto Blue Jays. However, the next day he was traded to the Colorado Rockies for RHP Chris Malone and a player to be named later. On","title":"Brad Emaus"},{"docid":"13733667","text":"June 8, going 0-2 at the plate. He finished the 2013 season batting just .175 with 1 home run and 8 RBI in 45 games. Thole began the 2014 season in Toronto, as R.A. Dickey's personal catcher. He improved upon his results from 2013, finishing 2014 with a batting average of .252 with 7 RBI in 56 games played. On November 1, the Blue Jays picked up Thole's $1.75 million option for the 2015 season. After the signing of Russell Martin in the offseason, the Blue Jays entered 2015 spring training with 3 catchers on their roster. Martin began catching","title":"Josh Thole"},{"docid":"13174320","text":"innings. He was outrighted off the roster on October 17, 2013, and elected free agency. Exactly one year after he signed a minor league deal with the Mets, Burke signed a minor league deal with the Colorado Rockies on November 6, 2013. Burke also received offers from the New York Mets and Toronto Blue Jays, but he decided to take a minor league deal with the Rockies that allowed him to join them in spring training to try and compete for a job in the bullpen. Burke played in the Blue Jays organization for the 2015 season, and elected free","title":"Greg Burke (baseball)"},{"docid":"9414016","text":"scoreless inning. On December 18, 2010 Jeffress was traded to the Kansas City Royals with Alcides Escobar, Lorenzo Cain, and Jake Odorizzi for Zack Greinke and Yuniesky Betancourt. In spring training in 2011, Jeffress led the major leagues in wild pitches, with 5 in 11 innings. He got his first win as a Royal on April 5 against the Chicago White Sox. On November 2, 2012, the Royals designated Jeffress for assignment. On November 8, 2012, the Toronto Blue Jays received Jeffress from the Royals in exchange for cash considerations. Jeffress was designated for assignment by the Blue Jays on","title":"Jeremy Jeffress"},{"docid":"11256459","text":"2016, and earned a win. On October 28, Harrell rejected an outright assignment to the minor leagues and became a free agent. On January 30, 2017, Harrell signed a minor league contract with the Toronto Blue Jays that included an invitation to spring training. On July 1, Harrell was called up by the Blue Jays. He was designated for assignment on July 17. On October 6, Harrell elected free agency. In 2009, Harrell was called up to play in the Baseball World Cup with Team USA. Harrell and the USA Baseball team won the World Cup and the Gold Medals.","title":"Lucas Harrell"},{"docid":"6343508","text":"in place of injured starting pitcher, John Maine. On January 22, 2010, Stokes was traded to the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim for Gary Matthews, Jr. He was released by the Angels on September 7, 2010 after making 16 appearances with an 8.10 ERA. On December 21, 2010, Stokes signed a minor league contract with an invitation to spring training with the Toronto Blue Jays. On February 14, 2011, Stokes' contract was voided by the Blue Jays \"due to the results of his physical\". Stokes signed a minor league contract with the Arizona Diamondbacks on August 1, 2011, and was","title":"Brian Stokes"},{"docid":"4959284","text":"On August 7, Woodward was claimed off waivers by the Boston Red Sox only to be designated for assignment eight days later on August 15, due to the acquisition of Álex González. He was later optioned to the Triple-A Pawtucket Red Sox and would be called up in September when rosters expanded. Woodward and the Seattle Mariners reached an agreement on a minor league contract with an invitation to spring training on January 6, 2010. On March 14, 2011, Woodward signed a minor league contract with the Toronto Blue Jays. Woodward was called up by the Blue Jays organization on","title":"Chris Woodward"},{"docid":"3187178","text":"the Toronto Blue Jays on August 5, 2009 and pitched in 8 games for the New Hampshire Fisher Cats and 3 for the Dunedin Blue Jays but was never called up to the Majors. In October 2009, he was granted free agency. On November 30, 2009, Ledezma signed a minor league contract with the Pittsburgh Pirates, with an invite to Spring training. On July 27, 2010, he was called up with Steven Jackson to replace Brad Lincoln and Brendan Donnelly. The Pirates designated Ledezma for assignment on December 24, 2010 to clear roster space after signing free agent pitcher Aaron","title":"Wil Ledezma"},{"docid":"2594798","text":"MuchMusic, Bravo!, Space and CP24. The station also produced the \"Citytv New Year's Eve Bash\", a live concert special from Nathan Phillips Square – although it still sponsored (and aired some coverage of) the event, it was replaced on-air with \"Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve\" in simulcast with ABC for 2013-14. On March 2, 2008, CITY aired its first Toronto Blue Jays Major League Baseball game, a spring training game against the Cincinnati Reds (both Citytv and the Blue Jays are owned by Rogers Media). This is not the first time that a live sporting event has aired on","title":"CITY-DT"},{"docid":"5179747","text":"On February 5, 2016, Aardsma signed a minor league contract with an invitation to spring training with the Toronto Blue Jays. He was assigned to minor league camp on March 25. On May 23, Aardsma opted out of his contract. On April 3, 2017, Aardsma signed with the Long Island Ducks of the Atlantic League of Professional Baseball. Aardsma announced his retirement on February 5, 2018, and joined the Blue Jays front office as a coordinator of player development. Aardsma is of Dutch descent, with all of his great-great grandparents coming from the Netherlands. Because of this, he was slated","title":"David Aardsma"},{"docid":"13776774","text":"season. On December 11, 2015, Axford signed a two-year, $10 million contract with the Oakland Athletics. In 2016, Axford appeared in 68 games, earning three saves in ten chances. He had a 3.97 ERA. He was designated for assignment on July 27, 2017, and released on August 1. On February 8, 2018, Axford signed a minor league contract with the Toronto Blue Jays that included an invitation to spring training. His contract was purchased by the Blue Jays on March 29, 2018, and he was assigned to the Opening Day roster. On July 28, Axford made his first career start","title":"John Axford"},{"docid":"15950396","text":"to 1996. The grey road uniform resembles those used from 1989 to 1996, and the alternate royal blue jersey—to be used for home and road games—resembles those used from 1994 to 1996, as well as the batting practice jerseys used from 1982 to 1996. The Blue Jays had a 24–7 win–loss record in spring training, their .774 winning percentage being the best of all MLB teams during pre-season. One of their games finished tied and was therefore not included in the standings. The 2012 Major League Baseball draft was held on June 4–6. <nowiki>*</nowiki> According to \"Baseball America\" Top 100","title":"2012 Toronto Blue Jays season"},{"docid":"6656602","text":"training. Martin split his time between Montreal and Chelsea, Quebec outside of Ottawa where his childhood ballpark was refurbished and named after him. When Martin was nine years old, his mother remarried, and relocated to Paris, France with her new husband & daughter. Russell Jr. would split his time living between his mother in Paris & his father in Montreal for a year. On April 3, 2015 at the spring training game of the Toronto Blue Jays hosting the Cincinnati Reds at Montreal Olympic Stadium, Russell Martin Sr. played the Canadian National Anthem on his saxophone. Along with playing baseball","title":"Russell Martin"},{"docid":"19051347","text":"and catchers were scheduled to report to Dunedin, catcher Tony Sanchez was signed to a minor league contract with an invitation to spring training. Outfielder Domonic Brown and reliever Rafael Soriano were also added to the organization, each receiving a minor league contract and an invitation to spring training in late February. At Rogers Centre, a full dirt infield was installed prior to the home opener; for the previous six seasons (2010–15), it was the only MLB ballpark with Shortly after pitchers and catchers reported to Dunedin for the start of spring training on February 22, José Bautista addressed the","title":"2016 Toronto Blue Jays season"}],"string":"[\n {\n \"docid\": \"5666099\",\n \"text\": \"3, , he was picked off waivers by the Toronto Blue Jays, with whom he would go on to play 124 games between 2002 and . On July 22, 2006, Walker had shoulder surgery. In 2006, the Toronto Blue Jays released him, but on February 12 , the Blue Jays signed him to a minor league contract with an invitation to spring training where he was later released towards the end of spring training 2007 in the hopes that another team would pick up his contract, which turned out to be the New York Yankees. He signed with them on\",\n \"title\": \"Pete Walker\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"20341741\",\n \"text\": \"been signed to a one-year, $8 million contract that included a 2019 team option. Blue Jays pitchers and catchers reported to spring training on February 14, while position players reported on February 19. Seung-hwan Oh signed a one-year, $2 million contract with Toronto on February 26. To make room on the roster, Ezequiel Carrera was designated for assignment. Carrera later cleared waivers and was invited back to spring training. Nick Tepesch signed a minor league contract with the Blue Jays on March 3, and was invited to spring training. Early in spring training, it was announced that Troy Tulowitzki had\",\n \"title\": \"2018 Toronto Blue Jays season\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"6960539\",\n \"text\": \"season, he was designated for assignment and claimed off waivers by the Toronto Blue Jays. Bullington reported to Spring training with the Blue Jays, and on March 3, the Blue Jays outrighted him to their Triple–A affiliate, the Las Vegas 51s. After Spring training, when asked about his time in Buffalo, Bullington said, \\\"Pitching coach Scott Radinsky had me drop my arm slot, and I got back to where I was in college, feeling more comfortable and getting some more action on the ball. I carried that into the spring this year, and I like the way the ball's coming\",\n \"title\": \"Bryan Bullington\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"10558031\",\n \"text\": \"1977 Toronto Blue Jays season The 1977 Toronto Blue Jays season was the first year of Major League Baseball played by the Toronto-based expansion franchise. The Blue Jays finished seventh in the American League East with a record of 54 wins and 107 losses, 45½ games behind the World Champion New York Yankees. The Blue Jays spring training was held in Dunedin, Florida. In their first pre-season game on March 11, the Jays beat the New York Mets by a score of 3–1. The first two times that they played the Montreal Expos, the Jays were triumphant as well. Perhaps\",\n \"title\": \"1977 Toronto Blue Jays season\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"5164919\",\n \"text\": \"was purchased by the Toronto Blue Jays. Rader finished the 1977 season with the Toronto Blue Jays, where he split his time playing third base and as their designated hitter. In 96 games with Toronto, Rader hit .240 with 13 HR and 40 RBI. On March 18, 1978, midway through spring training, the Blue Jays released Rader, who would then retire from the game. Rader played in 1465 games during his career, in which he collected 1302 hits, and had a batting average of .251 with 155 HR and 722 RBI. He won five straight Gold Glove Awards for his\",\n \"title\": \"Doug Rader\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"10558052\",\n \"text\": \"\\\"Note: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; SV = Saves; ERA = Earned run average; R = Runs allowed; ER = Earned runs allowed; BB = Walks allowed; K = Strikeouts\\\" All-Star Game 1977 Toronto Blue Jays season The 1977 Toronto Blue Jays season was the first year of Major League Baseball played by the Toronto-based expansion franchise. The Blue Jays finished seventh in the American League East with a record of 54 wins and 107 losses, 45½ games behind the World Champion New York Yankees. The Blue Jays spring training was\",\n \"title\": \"1977 Toronto Blue Jays season\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"8542561\",\n \"text\": \"the Atlanta Braves. He would have another very solid season in AAA, where he played for the Richmond Braves of the International League. Despite a 9–11 record, Linton had a very solid ERA of 2.53, as well as 160 strikeouts in 174 innings pitched. Linton returned to the Toronto Blue Jays organization as he signed as a free agent on October 23, 2002. He won a job in the Blue Jays bullpen in spring training, and started the year in Toronto. Linton made his return in a Blue Jays uniform on March 31, 2003, when he pitched two scoreless innings\",\n \"title\": \"Doug Linton\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"13805905\",\n \"text\": \"truly a privilege. I cherished my years with the Blue Jays and have always loved the Canadian people. Those years were the very best of my career.\\\" Ricky Romero got the first start of 2010 in spring training for the Jays against the Detroit Tigers. Chris Lubanski, an offseason addition, hit the Jays only home run in that game when he hit a solo shot in the 8th. In total, 6 pitchers were sent out on day one, 5 of which were in their first spring training with the Jays. A day later, the Blue Jays got their first win,\",\n \"title\": \"2010 Toronto Blue Jays season\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"14390151\",\n \"text\": \"of the Toronto Blue Jays watched him play in workouts in the Dominican Republic, and signed him after his visa paperwork went through in 2010. On April 13, 2010, Hechavarria signed a four-year, $10 million contract with the Toronto Blue Jays. He was assigned to extended spring training and first appeared in a game with the Dunedin Blue Jays of the Class A-Advanced Florida State League. On June 30, 2010, Hechavarria was promoted to the Double-A New Hampshire Fisher Cats of the Eastern League, where he recorded a .273 batting average and .303 on-base percentage. On August 4, 2012, Hechavarria\",\n \"title\": \"Adeiny Hechavarria\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"13805911\",\n \"text\": \"on the 18th. Pitcher Zech Zinicola (acquired by the Jays in the Rule-5 draft) did not make the cut, and he was returned to Washington. Hitter Brian Dopirak also didn't make the cut, but he will stay in the Jays organization. The Jays split their next two games before another game got canceled due to rain. Toronto lost to Houston 2–0, and beat Atlanta 7–6. The Jays were going to play the Red Sox for the first time in spring training, but rain in Dunedin forced the game to be canceled. From there, the Blue Jays fell into a spring\",\n \"title\": \"2010 Toronto Blue Jays season\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"10558032\",\n \"text\": \"the highlight of spring training was a match against the Cincinnati Reds. The Blue Jays defeated the defending World Series champions as the Reds were missing only one regular starter from their lineup. After spring training, the Blue Jays 25-man roster was set. Ron Fairly, who had previously played for the Montreal Expos, was one of the most recognizable players on the nascent team. The only marquee name was Bill Singer. Pat Gillick had a deal with the New York Yankees to trade Singer for a promising, young left-hander named Ron Guidry. Blue Jays president Peter Bavasi vetoed the deal\",\n \"title\": \"1977 Toronto Blue Jays season\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"18044212\",\n \"text\": \"season due to shoulder pain. The Blue Jays opted not to place him on their 40-man roster to protect him from the Rule 5 draft. On January 24, 2018, the Blue Jays invited Pentecost to spring training. Max Pentecost Maxwell Glen Pentecost (born March 10, 1993) is an American professional baseball catcher in the Toronto Blue Jays organization. Prior to playing professionally, Pentecost attended Kennesaw State University, where he played college baseball for the Kennesaw State Owls baseball team. He was selected in the first round of the 2014 Major League Baseball draft by the Blue Jays. Pentecost attended Winder-Barrow\",\n \"title\": \"Max Pentecost\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"8446961\",\n \"text\": \"17, 1989, Atlanta sent Trlicek to the Toronto Blue Jays for Ernie Whitt and Kevin Batiste. The 1990 season for Trlicek would be spent with the Dunedin Blue Jays of the Florida State League. Trlicek had a 5-8 record with a 3.73 ERA in 26 starts with Dunedin. In 1991, the Blue Jays moved Trlicek to the bullpen, and he was promoted to the Knoxville Blue Jays of the Southern League. Trlicek appeared in 41 games, going 2-5 with a 2.45 ERA. Trlicek had a very solid spring training in 1992, and started the season with the Toronto Blue Jays,\",\n \"title\": \"Ricky Trlicek\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"13255465\",\n \"text\": \"They also fired manager Tim Johnson during spring training after he lied about several things (including killing people in the Vietnam War) in order to motivate his players. The Blue Jays had initially been willing to stand by Johnson. A blizzard of questions about his credibility during spring training, however, led Ash to fire him less than a month before opening day. Johnson was replaced with Jim Fregosi, who managed the Phillies when they lost to the Blue Jays in the 1993 World Series. The offense picked up somewhat in 1999, but the pitching suffered without Clemens, as the Blue\",\n \"title\": \"History of the Toronto Blue Jays\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"431851\",\n \"text\": \"Before the 1999 season, the Blue Jays traded Clemens to the Yankees for starting pitcher David Wells, second baseman Homer Bush and relief pitcher Graeme Lloyd. They also fired manager Tim Johnson during spring training after he lied about several things (including killing people in the Vietnam War) to motivate his players. The Blue Jays had initially been willing to stand by Johnson. A blizzard of questions about his credibility during spring training, however, led Ash to fire him less than a month before opening day. Johnson was replaced with Jim Fregosi, who managed the Phillies when they lost to\",\n \"title\": \"Toronto Blue Jays\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"10843866\",\n \"text\": \"placed him on waivers. The Toronto Blue Jays claimed him off waivers on March 17. Murphy did not make the 25-man Toronto 2009 roster out of spring training, and was assigned to Triple-A Las Vegas 51s. On April 14, 2009, Murphy was called up to the Toronto Blue Jays to replace the injured Jesse Litsch. Murphy made his Toronto debut on April 15 in relief, in a win over the Minnesota Twins. On November 3, 2009 he was designated for assignment to make room for Jarrett Hoffpauir. In 8 games with the Blue Jays, he worked in 11.1 innings with\",\n \"title\": \"Bill Murphy (baseball)\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"10557098\",\n \"text\": \"Jays' record for most home runs in spring training with eight (the previous record breaker was long time Blue Jay Carlos Delgado). The Jays were able to translate their success in spring training into an excellent start—the team led the AL East from early to mid-April and held their record around .500 until late August. The Jays were hit with the injury bug when third baseman Corey Koskie broke his finger, taking him out of the lineup, but the club was pleasantly surprised with the performance of rookie call-up Aaron Hill in his stead. On July 8, just prior to\",\n \"title\": \"2005 Toronto Blue Jays season\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"3652955\",\n \"text\": \"the Padres. On January 22, 2010, Hill signed a minor league contract with the Toronto Blue Jays, with an invitation to spring training. Hill spent most of his 2010 season in the minor leagues with the Blue Jays organization, and pitched very well at all stops, the last of which was the Las Vegas 51s, the Jays' Triple-A team. Hill posted a 1.61 ERA in 11 minor league starts in 2010. On September 6, 2010, Hill was called up to the Toronto Blue Jays. He started on September 9 against the Texas Rangers, in his first major league action in\",\n \"title\": \"Shawn Hill\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"6250503\",\n \"text\": \"San Diego club record ... Led the majors with 18 outfield assists. 1993 Was with San Diego for spring training, and was traded to the Toronto Blue Jays, where he played until June 11, before once again being traded and played for the New York Mets for the rest of the season ... His solo homer in the eighth inning off Chicago's Alex Fernández April 25 was the difference in a 1-0 Toronto victory ... Had a tough year at the plate, batting .216 for the Blue Jays and .195 for New York ... Did not commit an error in\",\n \"title\": \"Darrin Jackson\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"9589985\",\n \"text\": \"a minor league contract, and invited him to Spring training. All three were eventually released. When Brandon League, who was being considered for the main setup role, arrived to Spring training with a strained lat muscle, Zambrano took the empty spot in the bullpen. Thomson injured himself in spring training, so the Blue Jays named Ohka and Towers as their fourth and fifth starters. After four mediocre starts, Josh Towers was sent to the bullpen and replaced by Dustin McGowan. Towers returned to the rotation later in the year replacing released pitcher Tomo Ohka. When Gustavo Chacín was injured, he\",\n \"title\": \"2007 Toronto Blue Jays season\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"14104004\",\n \"text\": \"deal with the Chicago White Sox with an invitation to spring training. He spent the season with the Triple-A Charlotte Knights. On December 17, 2013, Tolleson signed a minor league deal with the Toronto Blue Jays that included an invitation to spring training. He was sent to minor league camp on March 24, 2014. The Blue Jays selected his contract from the Triple-A Buffalo Bisons on May 1. He made his debut for the Jays the following day, and recorded a pinch-hit triple and an RBI against the Pittsburgh Pirates. The triple was the first of his Major League career.\",\n \"title\": \"Steve Tolleson\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"2092729\",\n \"text\": \"in Tarpon Springs, Florida. Halladay's oldest son, Braden, committed to play baseball at Penn State shortly after Halladay's death. Braden, who was born in Toronto, was invited to Baseball Canada's U18 spring training camp on March 6, 2018, and pitched a scoreless inning in the Canadian Junior team's exhibition game against the Blue Jays on March 17. While he was a member of the Toronto Blue Jays, Halladay and his wife invited children and their families from the Hospital for Sick Children into \\\"Doc's Box\\\" at Rogers Centre during Blue Jays games. The remodeling of the suite to be more\",\n \"title\": \"Roy Halladay\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"19051350\",\n \"text\": \"playing baseball.\\\" He had appeared in one game for the Blue Jays to that point, going hitless in two at-bats. On March 18, Brad Penny, who had joined the Blue Jays on a minor league contract, announced his retirement. Two days later, Rafael Soriano announced his retirement as well. Soriano signed a minor league contract with the Blue Jays in late February, but did not appear in any spring training games due to unspecified visa issues. On March 23, Marcus Stroman was named the Opening Day starter for the Blue Jays. The competition for fifth starter ended on March 28,\",\n \"title\": \"2016 Toronto Blue Jays season\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"13805883\",\n \"text\": \"were scheduled to play in Toronto on June 25, 26 and 27, however due to the G20 summit meeting in Toronto, those games were held in Philadelphia. Halladay made his first start against his old team in spring training, getting lit up in the first inning allowing 4 runs on 5 hits. \\\"For more detailed information about arrivals and departures see Free agency and Waivers.\\\" In total, the Blue Jays lost 16 players in the offseason, 4 as free agents, but one re-signed. It was a trade-filled offseason, including The Doc Deal, which landed the Jays three players for Roy\",\n \"title\": \"2010 Toronto Blue Jays season\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"10557353\",\n \"text\": \"reserves to the American League team. In the game, the American League defeated the National League by a score of 9–3. White, Alomar, Molitor, Carter and Olerud, batting first through fifth for the Jays most games, were so strong offensively that they were nicknamed WAMCO (short for WHAM Company). When Rickey Henderson joined the Jays on July 31st and was placed second in the batting order the nickname (now for the first six in the batting order) was then able to be spelled as WHAMCO. The Toronto Blue Jays spent their 17th Spring training at Dunedin, Florida, while playing their\",\n \"title\": \"1993 Toronto Blue Jays season\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"16547845\",\n \"text\": \"He pitched of an inning against Pakistan, and his fastball was clocked as high as in 2016. He was ranked by MLB as the fifth-best international prospect available during the 2017 international signing period. On July 2, 2017, Pardinho signed with the Toronto Blue Jays and received a $1.4 million signing bonus. He was assigned to extended spring training for the remainder of the year, as well as the first half of the 2018 season. On June 20, 2018, Pardinho made his professional debut with the Rookie Advanced Bluefield Blue Jays. Héctor Antonio Pérez (born June 6, 1996) is a\",\n \"title\": \"Toronto Blue Jays minor league players\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"8142868\",\n \"text\": \"was designated for assignment. On December 11, 2012, the Toronto Blue Jays announced that Pérez had been signed to a minor league contract with an invitation to major league spring training. He pitched for the Triple-A Buffalo Bisons until he was called up by the Blue Jays on May 29. Pérez set a Blue Jays franchise record in a game against the Los Angeles Dodgers on July 23 by pitching his 22nd consecutive scoreless inning to begin his career in Toronto. The previous record had been held for nearly 35 years by Víctor Cruz, who pitched 21 consecutive scoreless innings\",\n \"title\": \"Juan Pérez (pitcher)\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"16547827\",\n \"text\": \"44 stolen bases. Fields played in 119 games in 2017, mostly with Buffalo, and hit .283 with 34 RBI and 50 stolen bases. On January 24, 2018, the Blue Jays invited Fields to spring training. Zachary Garrett Jackson (born December 25, 1994) is an American professional baseball pitcher in the Toronto Blue Jays organization. Jackson attended Berryhill High School in his hometown of Tulsa, Oklahoma. In his final high school season, he was named a second-team All-American by \\\"Baseball America\\\" after pitching to a 13–1 win–loss record, 0.38 earned run average (ERA), and 147 strikeouts in 72 innings. Jackson graduated\",\n \"title\": \"Toronto Blue Jays minor league players\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"7737924\",\n \"text\": \"for fewest at-bats required to do so. His fledgling career was derailed, however, when he ruptured his Achilles tendon late in 2000 spring training. Brian Simmons (baseball) Brian Simmons (born September 4, 1973) is a former Major League Baseball (MLB) outfielder. He played for the Chicago White Sox and Toronto Blue Jays over parts of three seasons. Drafted by the Chicago White Sox in the 2nd round of the 1995 MLB amateur draft out of Michigan, Simmons would make his Major League Baseball debut with the Chicago White Sox on September 21, 1998, and appeared in his final game on\",\n \"title\": \"Brian Simmons (baseball)\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"6552032\",\n \"text\": \"position. Prior to making his major-league debut, the Orioles traded Werth to the Toronto Blue Jays for pitcher John Bale. Werth broke into the major leagues with the Toronto Blue Jays in 2002. It was with Toronto when he began the switch to the outfield from catcher. On March 29, 2004, Werth was traded to the Los Angeles Dodgers for Jason Frasor after two seasons in Toronto. During spring training, on March 2, 2005, Werth was hit by a pitch from A. J. Burnett that broke his left wrist. Despite the injury, Werth was able to play in 102 games\",\n \"title\": \"Jayson Werth\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"13805914\",\n \"text\": \"shot in the first inning to help jumpstart the Jays. The Jays failed to hold on to a 3–0 lead and surrendered a game-tying run in the 9th inning to tie the game at 3. The Jays rebounded by hitting the Astros hard and early. Aaron Hill hit his second straight first inning shot to jumpstart the Jays again, and Edwin Encarnación ended a disappointing spring with a 3-run home run. The Jays ended up winning 13–6. Their final spring training record was 12–13–2. Alex Anthopolous called it \\\"a great spring\\\" in an in-game interview with Rod Black and Pat\",\n \"title\": \"2010 Toronto Blue Jays season\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"3219814\",\n \"text\": \"6, 2009, Chavez hit his first home run for the Toronto Blue Jays, giving them a 2–0 lead over the Kansas City Royals. On December 11, 2009, the Blue Jays declined to tender Chavez a contract, however two days later they signed him to a minor league contract with an invitation to spring training. On January 14, 2011, the New York Mets signed Chávez to a minor league deal with an invitation to spring training. He spent the season with the Buffalo Bisons before retiring. , or Retrosheet, or Pelota Binaria (Venezuelan Winter League) Raúl Chávez Raúl Alexander Chávez (born\",\n \"title\": \"Raúl Chávez\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"8025771\",\n \"text\": \"first half. However, after the All Star break Soriano tallied a 6.98 ERA, before being removed from the closer role on September 9. The Chicago Cubs signed Soriano to a minor league contract on June 9, 2015, with a prorated $2 million salary. He was designated for assignment on September 1 and released on September 4. On February 28, 2016, Soriano signed a minor league contract with an invite to spring training with the Toronto Blue Jays. Due to visa issues, he was unable to join the Blue Jays for spring training. On March 17, it was reported that Soriano\",\n \"title\": \"Rafael Soriano\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"18261581\",\n \"text\": \"Toronto acquired Donaldson in a five–player trade, sending Brett Lawrie, Kendall Graveman, Sean Nolin, and Franklin Barreto to Oakland Athletics. Barreto played for the Vancouver Canadians in Single A in 2014, while Graveman and Nolin were September additions to the Blue Jays' roster. In the free agent market, Toronto signed Russell Martin to a five–year contract, non-tendered John Mayberry Jr., and signed Jeff Francis, Ezequiel Carrera, Wilton López, Caleb Gindl, Jake Fox, Daric Barton, and Andrew Albers to minor league contracts with invitations to spring training. Toronto offered Melky Cabrera a $15.3 million qualifying offer which Cabrera subsequently declined. Cabrera\",\n \"title\": \"2015 Toronto Blue Jays season\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"3219813\",\n \"text\": \"Toronto Blue Jays. He did not make the 25-man Jays' roster out of spring training, and was assigned to Triple A Las Vegas 51s. But an injury to Michael Barrett on April 17 sent Barrett to the disabled list, and Chavez was called up to the Blue Jays the next day to fill the roster spot. He made his 2009 debut catching Ricky Romero at Rogers Centre in Toronto on April 19, in a 1–0 win over the Oakland Athletics. Chávez is known for his defense, specifically his exceptional arm, and is considered to call a solid game. On June\",\n \"title\": \"Raúl Chávez\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"10873797\",\n \"text\": \"day and pitching 1 scoreless innings in relief against the Philadelphia Phillies. On November 25, 2009, the Baltimore Orioles signed Hinckley to a minor league deal. On December 21, 2010, the Toronto Blue Jays signed Hinckley to a minor league contract with an invitation to spring training. He was released on June 27, 2011, after recording a 5.68 ERA in the Blue Jays minor league system. Mike Hinckley Michael David Hinckley (born October 5, 1982) is an American former professional baseball pitcher. He grew up in Moore, Oklahoma, where he played high school baseball. He and his wife LeAnna have\",\n \"title\": \"Mike Hinckley\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"10557097\",\n \"text\": \"fans continued (and still continue) to refer to the stadium as SkyDome. By the start of the season, Rogers had upgraded the stadium with a new \\\"JumboTron\\\" videoboard and added other state-of-the-art video screens around the stadium. Furthermore, the AstroTurf surface was replaced by the more natural-looking FieldTurf. Owner Ted Rogers also promised a payroll increase to $210 million over the next three years, which allowed the team to have a team payroll of $70 million per year. The Blue Jays finished spring training with a 16–10 record. Among the stars of spring training was Gabe Gross, who tied the\",\n \"title\": \"2005 Toronto Blue Jays season\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"4467489\",\n \"text\": \"league contract with the Toronto Blue Jays on December 11, 2013. He was a non-roster invitee to spring training, but was reassigned to minor-league camp on March 2, 2014 without making an appearance. He was released by the Blue Jays at the end of spring training. Ohka signed with the Bridgeport Bluefish of the independent Atlantic League of Professional Baseball for the 2014 season. Ohka returned to Japan and played with the Toyama Thunderbirds and Fukushima Hope of the semi-pro Baseball Challenge League for the 2015 season. On December 15, 2016, the Baltimore Orioles signed Ohka to a minor league\",\n \"title\": \"Tomo Ohka\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"4623080\",\n \"text\": \"and attended spring training as a non-roster invitee. He earned the back-up catcher role for the Toronto Blue Jays during spring training. He was scheduled to back up Rod Barajas, but Barrett tore a muscle in his right shoulder while attempting to retrieve a wild pitch on April 17, 2009. Barrett was placed on the 15-day disabled list on April 18, and was expected to return within the two weeks. Prior to the injury, Barrett had made seven appearances with a .167 batting average. The Blue Jays activated Barrett from the disabled list on July 6, 2009, and designated to\",\n \"title\": \"Michael Barrett (baseball)\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"19051341\",\n \"text\": \"3 days later, the team signed Casey Kotchman, Jiovanni Mier, and David Adams to minor league contracts that included invitations to spring training. On November 24, Scott Diamond was signed to a minor league contract and invited to spring training. J. A. Happ, who was traded by the Blue Jays to the Seattle Mariners for Michael Saunders before the 2015 season, was signed to a three-year, $36 million contract on November 27. David Price agreed to a seven-year, $217 million contract with the Boston Red Sox on December 1. Justin Smoak, who was eligible for salary arbitration, was signed to\",\n \"title\": \"2016 Toronto Blue Jays season\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"10449984\",\n \"text\": \"Sam Cosentino Salvatore \\\"Sam\\\" Cosentino (born March 16, 1971) is a Canadian sportscaster who currently works as a junior hockey analyst on Rogers Sportsnet. Cosentino resides in Mississauga, Ontario. Cosentino attended Spring Arbor College in Spring Arbor, Michigan, where he played baseball and called basketball games. After graduation, Cosentino briefly worked as baseball instructor before joining the Toronto Blue Jays as a clubhouse employee. While working for the Blue Jays, Cosentino also hosted the Jr. Jays radio show. Cosentino left the Blue Jays in 2003 to call Canadian Baseball League games on The Score. In 2004, he was the network's\",\n \"title\": \"Sam Cosentino\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"18261585\",\n \"text\": \"arbitration with Danny Valencia and Josh Donaldson, the first two cases for the Blue Jays since the 1997 season. On February 5, Valencia won his arbitration case and was awarded $1.675 million for the 2015 season. Toronto had offered him $1.25 million. A week later, Toronto won the arbitration case with Donaldson, agreeing to pay him $4.3 million. Donaldson had been seeking $5.75 million. Prior to the official start of spring training, Michael Saunders tore the meniscus in his left knee on February 26 and was initially expected to go on the disabled list until the All-Star break. After undergoing\",\n \"title\": \"2015 Toronto Blue Jays season\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"17173168\",\n \"text\": \"was traded to the Toronto Blue Jays for cash considerations. He was called up from the Triple-A Buffalo Bisons on August 9 for a start against the New York Yankees where he took the loss. He was designated for assignment on September 2. Tepesch elected free agency on October 6, 2017. He signed a minor league contract with the Blue Jays on March 3, 2018, and was invited to spring training. On August 8, 2018, Tepesch was traded to the Detroit Tigers in exchange for cash considerations, and assigned to the Double-A Erie SeaWolves. Tepesch appeared in just 8 games\",\n \"title\": \"Nick Tepesch\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"5630581\",\n \"text\": \"posted a 6.75 ERA in 13 appearances (12 starts) with the Cubs. On October 30, Germano elected free agency after being outrighted the previous week. Germano signed a minor league deal with a Spring training invitation with the Blue Jays on November 9, 2012. Germano started the 2013 season with the Triple-A Buffalo Bisons. He was called up to the Blue Jays on April 27. He appeared in one game with Toronto before being designated for assignment on May 3 to make room for Ricky Romero on the 25 man roster. On May 4, the Blue Jays announced that Germano\",\n \"title\": \"Justin Germano\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"13805913\",\n \"text\": \"against the Tigers to earn their first tie of two in spring training. But on March 31, by far the most interesting match up in spring came against the Phillies. Sandwiched between 2 losses to the Yankees was a start by Roy Halladay. \\\"Doc\\\" struggled, as he gave up 4 earned runs on five hits in 3 innings. All 4 runs were surrendered in the first inning. Four hits were extra base hits, including a 2-run shot by Aaron Hill. The Jays then entered Houston to finish up spring training. In Buck Martinez's play-by-play debut, Aaron Hill hit a two-run\",\n \"title\": \"2010 Toronto Blue Jays season\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"5555548\",\n \"text\": \"January 3, the Los Angeles Dodgers signed Redding to a minor league contract with an invite to Spring training. He was assigned to the AAA Albuquerque Isotopes. He opted out of his Dodger contract in June and signed a minor league contract with the Philadelphia Phillies. He was released by Phillies after pitching in 5 games for the Lehigh Valley IronPigs. Redding signed a minor league contract with the Toronto Blue Jays on January 27, 2012. Redding played for the Las Vegas 51s, Triple A team for the Toronto Blue Jays. Redding was released by the 51s on August 10.\",\n \"title\": \"Tim Redding\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"5843904\",\n \"text\": \"training, however he was released on March 26, 2012. Ortiz spent the 2012 season playing for the New York Yankees Triple-A affiliate Scranton/Wilkes-Barre Yankees. On December 18, 2012, The Toronto Blue Jays announced that Ortiz had been signed to a minor league contract with an invitation to major league spring training. On April 15, the Blue Jays selected his contract from the Buffalo Bisons. Ortiz was designated for assignment on April 23 to make room for Aaron Laffey on the roster. Ortiz cleared waivers, and returned to the Buffalo Bisons on April 25. Ortiz was brought up to the Blue\",\n \"title\": \"Ramón Ortiz\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"19051352\",\n \"text\": \"would open the season on the disabled list. To close spring training, the Blue Jays returned to Montreal's Olympic Stadium for a two-game series against the Red Sox. The 2016 Major League Baseball draft was held on June 9–11. The Blue Jays opened the 2016 season in Tampa Bay for a four-game series against the Rays. Marcus Stroman pitched into the ninth on Opening Day, and held the Rays to three runs in a 5–3 victory, closed out by Roberto Osuna. Osuna would earn the save in the second game of the series as well, finishing another 5–3 win over\",\n \"title\": \"2016 Toronto Blue Jays season\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"20341744\",\n \"text\": \"March 26 and 27, the Blue Jays returned to Montreal's Olympic Stadium for two games against the St. Louis Cardinals. The team finished spring training with a 14–18 record and one tie. The 2018 Major League Baseball draft began on June 4 and concluded on June 6. The Blue Jays opened the 2018 regular season with a four-game series against the New York Yankees. Roy Halladay, who died in the offseason in a plane crash, was honoured before the game and had his number 32 retired by the team. In the first game, Yankees' offseason acquisition Giancarlo Stanton led the\",\n \"title\": \"2018 Toronto Blue Jays season\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"18564034\",\n \"text\": \"Stadium that was attended by 60 MLB scouts. On November 12, Gurriel signed a seven-year, $22 million contract with the Toronto Blue Jays. Gurriel took part in spring training with the Blue Jays, and was assigned to the Dunedin Blue Jays of the Advanced-A Florida State League on March 17, 2017. Gurriel began the season on the disabled list with a leg injury. He made his minor league debut on April 18, but left the game with a recurrence of the same injury. On July 12, Gurriel was promoted to the New Hampshire Fisher Cats of the Double-A Eastern League\",\n \"title\": \"Lourdes Gurriel Jr.\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"17126748\",\n \"text\": \"Falls in the Pioneer League registering a .384 batting average with 37 RBIs in 212 plate appearances. Nanita played for the Toronto Blue Jays Triple-A affiliate Las Vegas 51s in the 2011 and 2012 seasons. The Blue Jays invited him to spring training in 2013. Nanita played for the Dominican Republic national baseball team in the 2013 World Baseball Classic. Nanita started the 2013 season with the Double-A New Hampshire Fisher Cats. He was promoted to the Triple-A Buffalo Bisons on May 21. On January 20, 2014, the Blue Jays announced that Nanita had been signed to a minor league\",\n \"title\": \"Ricardo Nanita\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"11421352\",\n \"text\": \"traded to the Toronto Blue Jays for Adam Lind. He and the Blue Jays avoided salary arbitration when he agreed to a one-year, $3.9 million contract on January 16, 2015. Estrada opened spring training in competition for the fifth starter role with Aaron Sanchez. He began the 2015 regular season in the bullpen, but was moved into the starting rotation after the Blue Jays optioned Daniel Norris to the Triple-A Buffalo Bisons on May 1. On June 19, he took a no-hitter into the 8th inning against the Baltimore Orioles, which was broken up by a bloop single from Jimmy\",\n \"title\": \"Marco Estrada (baseball)\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"19734140\",\n \"text\": \"was announced on April 2. Mike Bolsinger was designated for assignment, while Melvin Upton Jr. was released. Pitchers Roberto Osuna, Glenn Sparkman, and Bo Schultz opened the year on the disabled list, along with outfielder Dalton Pompey. The Blue Jays ended spring training with a 12–18 win–loss record, excluding three tie games that did not count toward the standings. Their .400 winning percentage was the joint-worst (along with Detroit) among American League teams in pre-season. The 2017 Major League Baseball draft began on June 12. For the fourth consecutive year, the Blue Jays opened their season on the road. Taking\",\n \"title\": \"2017 Toronto Blue Jays season\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"18261586\",\n \"text\": \"surgery to remove his meniscus his injury outlook improved to between 5 and 6 weeks out of the lineup. On March 10, Marcus Stroman suffered a torn ACL while practising fielding bunts, and was ruled out for the entire 2015 season. Attending spring training for the first time, both Roberto Osuna and Miguel Castro impressed Blue Jays management with their abilities, and both earned positions in the bullpen on the Opening Day roster. The team returned to Montreal's Olympic Stadium on April 3 and April 4, 2015, to face the Cincinnati Reds. The Blue Jays would lose the first game\",\n \"title\": \"2015 Toronto Blue Jays season\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"17423629\",\n \"text\": \"the Toronto Blue Jays that included an invitation to spring training. Petricka was added to the 40-man roster and activated on May 4. He was optioned to the Triple-A Buffalo Bisons the next day, and recalled again on May 8 when Roberto Osuna was placed on administrative leave. Petricka split time between the Blue Jays bullpen and the AAA level, logging in innings for the Blue Jays in 41 appearances. On November 2, 2018, Petricka cleared waivers and entered free agency. Jake Petricka Jacob Steven Petricka (born June 5, 1988) is an American professional baseball pitcher who is a free\",\n \"title\": \"Jake Petricka\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"18770978\",\n \"text\": \"league season for the Double-A New Hampshire Fisher Cats. He made 26 starts and posted a 7–11 record, 5.41 ERA, and 113 strikeouts in 143 innings pitched. On January 24, 2018, the Blue Jays invited Harris to spring training. Jon Harris (baseball) Jonathan Richard Harris (born October 16, 1993) is an American professional baseball pitcher in the Toronto Blue Jays organization. He played college baseball at Missouri State University, and was drafted by the Blue Jays in the first round of the 2015 Major League Baseball draft. Harris attended Hazelwood Central High School in St. Louis, Missouri. He was drafted\",\n \"title\": \"Jon Harris (baseball)\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"15166483\",\n \"text\": \"contract and invited him to their major league spring training camp. He became a free agent after the 2014 season. Joel Carreño Joel Fernando Carreño Decena (born March 7, 1987) is a Dominican former professional baseball pitcher. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Toronto Blue Jays. Carreño began his professional career in 2006, pitching for the DSL Blue Jays. That year, he went 8-3 with a 1.53 ERA in 15 starts, striking out 86 batters in innings. In 2007, he pitched for the GCL Blue Jays, going 6-4 with a 2.62 ERA in 12 starts. With the\",\n \"title\": \"Joel Carreño\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"14133057\",\n \"text\": \"8. On September 11, Jenkins was called up by the Blue Jays. On February 6, 2016, Jenkins was designated for assignment by the Blue Jays to make room on the 40-man roster for Gavin Floyd. He was outrighted to Triple-A Buffalo on February 12. Jenkins was invited to Major League spring training, and was assigned to minor league camp on March 25. On June 30, Jenkins was released. Chad Jenkins Stephen Chadwick Jenkins (born December 22, 1987) is an American former professional baseball pitcher. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Toronto Blue Jays. Jenkins played high school\",\n \"title\": \"Chad Jenkins\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"13771779\",\n \"text\": \"on June 13, and was placed on the disabled list. On June 27, Carrera was activated by the Blue Jays. Carrera hit a career-high eight home runs in 2017, and added 20 RBI and a .282 batting average in 131 games. Carrera signed a one-year, $1.9 million contract with Toronto on January 12, 2018. He was designated for assignment on February 26, and cleared waivers on March 1. The Blue Jays assigned him to Triple-A Buffalo and invited him to spring training. On March 11, the Blue Jays released him. On March 13, 2018, Carrera signed a minor league contract\",\n \"title\": \"Ezequiel Carrera\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"8354213\",\n \"text\": \"in 2006, but spent most of that season with AAA Norfolk. He was promoted to the Orioles for most of the 2007 season. Burres was named the fifth starter in the Orioles rotation to open the 2008 season, after a competition in spring training with teammate Matt Albers. In , however, Burres was designated for assignment to make room for Rich Hill on the roster. On February 4, 2009, Burres was claimed by the Toronto Blue Jays. Burres spent spring training 2009 with Toronto, and was assigned to Triple-A Las Vegas 51s. With Toronto dealing with early-season injuries to several\",\n \"title\": \"Brian Burres\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"16547836\",\n \"text\": \"started 2017 with Akron and was promoted to the Columbus Clippers during the season. In 25 total games between Akron and Columbus, Merryweather pitched to a 7–9 record and 5.32 ERA. The Indians added him to their 40-man roster after the season. Merryweather injured his pitching elbow during the Indians' 2018 spring training camp. The Indians subsequently announced Merryweather will require Tommy John surgery and will miss the entire 2018 season. On October 5, 2018, Merryweather was sent to the Toronto Blue Jays as the player to be named later from the earlier trade for Josh Donaldson. Patrick Brian Murphy\",\n \"title\": \"Toronto Blue Jays minor league players\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"9654016\",\n \"text\": \"in 2005. On December 27, 2005, Santos was sent to Toronto Blue Jays along with Troy Glaus in exchange for Miguel Batista and Orlando Hudson. In 2006, he hit .214 with 5 home runs and 38 RBI in 128 games with Toronto's Triple-A affiliate, the Syracuse Chiefs. He attended the Blue Jays' 2007 spring training, but did not make the active 25-man roster. After his struggles at Triple-A Syracuse in 2006, Toronto assigned Santos to their Double-A affiliate, the New Hampshire Fisher Cats for the 2007 season. Santos won the Home Run Derby preceding the Eastern League All Star game\",\n \"title\": \"Sergio Santos\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"17674057\",\n \"text\": \"11 games for Surprise. In 2016, he appeared in 78 games for the Double-A Cardinals and Triple-A Memphis Redbirds, hitting .287 with seven home runs and 44 RBI. Ohlman signed a minor league contract that included an invitation to spring training with the Toronto Blue Jays on November 17, 2016. He started the season with the Triple-A Buffalo Bisons. On May 8 the Toronto Blue Jays selected Ohlman's contract after Russell Martin was placed on the disabled list. In his first stint with the club, Ohlman recorded two hits in nine at bats before being designated for assignment on May\",\n \"title\": \"Mike Ohlman\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"5201131\",\n \"text\": \"21 appearances. He spent Spring training with the Orioles, but did not make the club. In 2011, Jefferson died of prostate cancer. , or BaseballLibrary.com, or Retrosheet Jesse Jefferson Jesse Harrison Jefferson (March 3, 1949 – September 8, 2011) was an American Major League Baseball pitcher with the Baltimore Orioles (1973-1975), Chicago White Sox (1975-1976), Toronto Blue Jays (1977-1980), Pittsburgh Pirates (1980) and California Angels (1981). Jefferson batted left-handed and threw right-handed. He was best remembered as an inaugural member of the expansion Toronto Blue Jays. Jefferson was drafted by the Baltimore Orioles in the 1968 Major League Baseball draft\",\n \"title\": \"Jesse Jefferson\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"16547825\",\n \"text\": \"Challenge, as he was coaching the USA team. Fields batted .379 with three stolen bases in eight games in the tournament, earning him a contract offer with the Blue Jays organization. Fields signed on August 27, 2013, and made his professional baseball debut with the Short Season-A Vancouver Canadians in 2014. In 72 games, Fields hit .269 with one home run and 26 RBI. He also established a new Canadians franchise record for stolen bases in a single season, with 48. Fields played in five spring training games for Toronto in 2015, and began the season with the Advanced-A Dunedin\",\n \"title\": \"Toronto Blue Jays minor league players\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"19045221\",\n \"text\": \"Englebert Complex The Bobby Mattick Training Center at Englebert Complex, is a sports facility owned by the City of Dunedin, Florida. It is used primarily by the Toronto Blue Jays as a practice facility, and is home to their Rookie league affiliate, the Gulf Coast League Blue Jays. The facility opened in 1978 and named after City Commissioner and one time mayor Cecil P. Englebert, who lured the Toronto Blue Jays to the area. The facility was renovated in 2002 for $14 million, expanding it from 17 to 23 acres. The Blue Jays renamed the training facility the Bobby Mattick\",\n \"title\": \"Englebert Complex\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"11849947\",\n \"text\": \"New York Giants, whose normal spring training site was in Phoenix, Arizona, swapped locations with the New York Yankees so Yankees' co-owner Del Webb could oversee both his team and a growing real estate business concurrently. The teams returned to their typical training sites in 1952. Tampa has hosted spring training for seven teams: the Boston Red Sox, Chicago Cubs, Chicago White Sox, Cincinnati Reds, Detroit Tigers, Washington Senators, and the New York Yankees, who currently call Tampa their spring training home. Dunedin has been the only spring training home to the Toronto Blue Jays since the franchise's inception. The\",\n \"title\": \"Baseball in the Tampa Bay Area\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"2991088\",\n \"text\": \"not include a Canadian club until 1969, when the Montreal Expos joined the National League as an expansion team. In 1977, the expansion Toronto Blue Jays joined the American League. The Blue Jays won the World Series in 1992 and 1993, the first and still the only club from outside the United States to do so. After the 2004 season, Major League Baseball relocated the Expos to Washington, D.C., where the team is now known as the Nationals. In 1847, American soldiers played what may have been the first baseball game in Mexico at Parque Los Berros in Xalapa, Veracruz.\",\n \"title\": \"History of baseball\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"12531051\",\n \"text\": \"to be back for the Jays' 2010 spring training. Pitcher Casey Janssen who missed all of 2008 due to shoulder problems was expected to compete for a rotation spot, but was put on the 15-day disabled list just before the season began. Starter Dustin McGowan who is recovering from right labrum surgery is expected to rejoin the club sometime in May. On April 23, the Blue Jays placed starting pitcher Ricky Romero and closer B. J. Ryan on the 15-day disabled list. Romero was suffering from a right oblique strain, while Ryan was sent to see a specialist for a\",\n \"title\": \"2009 Toronto Blue Jays season\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"3628368\",\n \"text\": \"of games that do not conflict with each other. Roughly 11 Buffalo Bisons games (as of 2018) air on evening dates between June and August that do not conflict with Blue Jays games. The Bisons are the Triple-A International League affiliate of the Blue Jays, and broadcasts originate from Buffalo-based WWKB. The Fan 590 also features live coverage of the following: Previous live sports events on CJCL included: CJCL CJCL (590 AM, \\\"Sportsnet 590 The Fan\\\") is a Canadian sports radio station in Toronto, Ontario. Owned and operated by Rogers Media since 2002, CJCL's studios are located at the Rogers\",\n \"title\": \"CJCL\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"431823\",\n \"text\": \"award-winning All-Star players, including Hall of Famer Roberto Alomar, Joe Carter, John Olerud, and Devon White. The Blue Jays became the first (and, to date, only) team outside the US to appear in and win a World Series, and the fastest AL expansion team to do so, winning in its 16th year. After 1993, the Blue Jays failed to qualify for the playoffs for 21 consecutive seasons, until clinching a playoff berth and division championship in 2015. The team clinched a second consecutive playoff berth in 2016, after securing an AL wild card position. Both years, the Jays won the\",\n \"title\": \"Toronto Blue Jays\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"9234023\",\n \"text\": \"The Toronto Blue Jays shared Rogers Centre with the Toronto Argonauts of the CFL before the Argonauts moved to BMO Field after the 2015 season, and shared the facility on a part-time basis with the Buffalo Bills of the NFL for several years beginning in 2008. Before their 2015–16 move, the Argonauts had publicly announced plans to leave Rogers Centre twice, only to end up staying; during that time, the originally soccer-specific BMO Field (built on the site of multi-purpose Exhibition Stadium) was built by Toronto FC. The Blue Jays presently do not have any plans to leave Rogers Centre;\",\n \"title\": \"Multi-purpose stadium\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"14184011\",\n \"text\": \"the Toronto Blue Jays on April 26, 2010. On August 16, 2011, he had his contract purchased by Toronto. He had posted a 3-3 record in Triple-A with a 6.60 earned run average and 4 saves. He elected free agency on October 21. Lewis signed a contract with the Bridgeport Bluefish of the Atlantic League of Professional Baseball of Independent League for 2012 season. He was named to the 2012 Atlantic League All Star team. Lewis received an invitation to MLB Spring Training by the Arizona Diamondbacks. He was released at the end of Spring Training. Lewis pitched for the\",\n \"title\": \"Rommie Lewis\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"3010911\",\n \"text\": \"and he played for the Anaheim Angels and Cleveland Indians in 1998. Fielder was signed by the Toronto Blue Jays before the start of the 1999 season. Despite batting .264 in 17 spring training games, going 14-for-53 with two doubles, a team-high three homers and 11 RBI; Toronto traded for Dave Hollins and Cecil was released once spring training wrapped. He subsequently retired. In his career, Cecil Fielder batted .255, with 319 HRs, 1008 RBI, and a .482 slugging average, drawing 693 walks for a .345 on-base percentage with 2 career stolen bases. As neither of his stolen bases came\",\n \"title\": \"Cecil Fielder\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"7213743\",\n \"text\": \"attend college instead. He was next drafted by the Toronto Blue Jays 19th overall in the first round of the 1989 draft, out of Fresno State University. He was one of three Fresno State University alum drafted in the first round that year, the others being Steve Hosey (14th overall) and Tom Goodwin (22nd overall). It was the first time since the 1979 draft that one school had three different players selected in the first round. The last school to do it was the University of Michigan. The Toronto Blue Jays gave Zosky a $185,000 ($ today) signing bonus. The\",\n \"title\": \"Eddie Zosky\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"271948\",\n \"text\": \"to stand with their fellow Canadian team offended many Expos fans. Ten years after the Expos relocated to Washington, a two-game exhibition series between the Toronto Blue Jays and New York Mets was held at the Olympic Stadium to conclude the spring training schedule prior to the season. For the Blue Jays, the series was intended, in part, to increase the team's following in Quebec. For others, the goal was to demonstrate that Montreal had an interest in returning to Major League Baseball. Former Expos player Warren Cromartie, who leads the Montreal Baseball Project, was among the organizers. The series\",\n \"title\": \"Montreal Expos\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"4651104\",\n \"text\": \"minor league contract with the Toronto Blue Jays and became a free agent at the end of the season. In November 2008, he re-signed with the Blue Jays. However, he was released at the end of spring training. Bauer had signed with the York Revolution in the Atlantic League for the 2009 season, but on May 13, 2009, he signed with the LG Twins in South Korea. 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It marks the swan song for percussionist Mario Aguilar and bassist Eddie Casillas, who was replaced by Juan Perez (ex-Civil Defiance) for the final three songs the band recorded for the album, which bears the distinction of being the first album released in the new millennium, with a release date of January 1, 2000, in Japan. The album title \"Standing On The Shoulders Of Giants\" refers to a","title":"Standing on the Shoulders of Giants (Tribe of Gypsies album)"},{"docid":"6033389","text":"heights down to his level of understanding. In the section of \"Thus Spoke Zarathustra\" (1882) entitled \"On the Vision and the Riddle\", Zarathustra climbs to great heights with a dwarf on his shoulders to show him his greatest thought. Once there however, the dwarf fails to understand the profundity of the vision and Zarathustra reproaches him for \"making things too easy on [him]self.\" If there is to be anything resembling \"progress\" in the history of philosophy, Nietzsche in \"Philosophy in the Tragic Age of the Greeks\" (1873) writes, it can only come from those rare giants among men, \"each giant","title":"Standing on the shoulders of giants"},{"docid":"13546228","text":"& 4 produced by Richard Polodor, mixed by Richard Polodor & Bill Cooper, and engineered by Bill Cooper<br> Recorded at Silver Cloud, Burbank, CA, American, Woodland Hills, CA & Rumba House, Sylmar, CA Standing on the Shoulders of Giants (Tribe of Gypsies album) Standing on the Shoulders of Giants is the third full-length album by San Fernando Valley, California-based Latin rock band Tribe of Gypsies. It marks the swan song for percussionist Mario Aguilar and bassist Eddie Casillas, who was replaced by Juan Perez (ex-Civil Defiance) for the final three songs the band recorded for the album, which bears the","title":"Standing on the Shoulders of Giants (Tribe of Gypsies album)"},{"docid":"11352215","text":"by standing on the shoulders of giants.\" In the introduction to \"On Giants' Shoulders\" Bragg writes that the world of science was one of mystery and could not be entered nor understood by non-scientists such as himself. Thus he wrote this book, along with scientists, to open a door for other non-scientists to view the world of science as it has been for the past 2,500 years. By doing so, and by explaining the works of the greatest scientists in vernacular understandable by non-scientists, he aims to make the world of science less exclusive and mysterious. On Giants' Shoulders On","title":"On Giants' Shoulders"},{"docid":"3306861","text":"shoulders of giants. He also says that standing on the shoulders of giants is the opposite of reinventing the wheel. An excerpt from the book: \"In the western scientific tradition we stand on the shoulders of giants,\" says Young, echoing both Torvalds and Sir Isaac Newton before him. \"In business, this translates to not having to reinvent wheels as we go along. The beauty of [the GPL] model is you put your code into the public domain. If you're an independent software vendor and you're trying to build some application and you need a modem-dialer, well, why reinvent modem dialers?","title":"Free as in Freedom"},{"docid":"13221182","text":"Casten on drums) and Metaform played guitar and contributed vocals. Later, Metaform and 4X-ampL formed the electronica duo Razed High. During this time Metaform was known as Hai-Ding, a play on words in that he was \"in hiding\" and working on what would later become \"Standing on the Shoulders of Giants\". Tokyo, Japan. 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In the fall of 2000, Tribe was invited to join Santana for a partial leg of their \"Supernatural\" U.S. tour, playing shows in Houston, Gregg Analla's hometown of Albuquerque, Phoenix, Los Angeles, Sacramento","title":"Tribe of Gypsies"},{"docid":"6033387","text":"giant's shoulders sees farther of the two.\" Isaac Newton remarked in a letter to his rival Robert Hooke dated February 5, 1676 [O.S.] (February 15, 1676 [N.S.]) that: What Des-Cartes did was a good step. You have added much several ways, & especially in taking the colours of thin plates into philosophical consideration. If I have seen further it is by standing on the sholders of Giants. This has recently been interpreted by a few writers as a sarcastic remark directed at Hooke's appearance. Although Hooke was not of particularly short stature, he was of slight build and had been","title":"Standing on the shoulders of giants"},{"docid":"11017827","text":"by everyone. In \"On Ancient and Modern Learning\" (1697), Swift's patron, the urbane Sir William Temple, had weighed in on the losing side, that of the Ancients, repeating the famous paradox used by Newton that we moderns see further only because we are dwarves standing on the shoulders of giants. Swift has the books come to life and step down from the library shelves to stage a mock-Homeric battle, while the goddess Criticism, a hideous hag, intervenes on the side of her beloved \"Moderns\" in the manner of the Olympians of yore. Midway through the story, Aesop, an ancient book,","title":"Sweetness and light"},{"docid":"6033385","text":"responded: \"Who sees further a dwarf or a giant? Surely a giant for his eyes are situated at a higher level than those of the dwarf. But if the dwarf is placed on the shoulders of the giant who sees further? ... So too we are dwarfs astride the shoulders of giants. We master their wisdom and move beyond it. Due to their wisdom we grow wise and are able to say all that we say, but not because we are greater than they. Diego de Estella took up the quote in the 16th century; by the 17th century it","title":"Standing on the shoulders of giants"},{"docid":"6164059","text":"because we have stood on the shoulders of giants. It is with this voice that we have come to be known: demonstrating against injustice; defending those around whom voices have fell silent; standing up for what we know is right; as a group and as individuals, we are multipliers of change— we are here. The following are but a few of the many excerpts from EUJS’ history of political activism. These traces of history form part of a living record of European development and remain pivotal to our strength as a union. In December 1982, in cooperation with the World","title":"European Union of Jewish Students"},{"docid":"13962180","text":"in the democratic period of Colombia's history. Santos won 32 of the country's 33 electoral districts. His allies have an overwhelming majority in the Colombian Congress. Santos vowed to continue his predecessor's hardline stance against the country's Marxist rebels. He paraphrased Isaac Newton – \"If we have come far it's because we are standing on the shoulders of giants\" – and said he would rid Colombia of what he described as the \"nightmare of violence\". The United States State Department said it was \"pleased\" with the election of Santos and praised the \"spirited debate\" before the runoff and Colombia's \"longstanding","title":"2010 Colombian presidential election"},{"docid":"1760380","text":"by violating the norm of universalism: a few top scientists enjoying large chunks of awards, grants and jobs, and the spread and distribution of resources and recognition among scientists being highly skewed. Merton referred to his book \"On the Shoulders of Giants: A Shandean Postscript\" as \"OTSOG\"—\"part parody and part history of ideas\" according to the publisher. In OTSOG, he traces the history of Newton's famous comment \"If I have seen farther, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants\" back to centuries earlier, in the rambling style of Laurence Sterne's \"The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman\".","title":"Robert K. Merton"},{"docid":"6033386","text":"had become commonplace. Robert Burton, in \"The Anatomy of Melancholy\" (1621), quotes Stella thus: I say with Didacus Stella, a dwarf standing on the shoulders of a giant may see farther than a giant himself. Later editors of Burton misattributed the quote to Lucan; in their hands Burton's attribution \"Didacus Stella, in luc 10, tom. ii\" \"Didacus on the Gospel of \"Luke\", chapter 10; volume 2\" became a reference to Lucan's \"Pharsalia\" 2.10. No reference or allusion to the quote is found there. Later in the 17th century, George Herbert, in his \"Jacula Prudentum\" (1651), wrote \"A dwarf on a","title":"Standing on the shoulders of giants"},{"docid":"4159126","text":"who came before her, saying in part, \"I am standing on Lena Horne's shoulders. I am standing on Maya Angelou's shoulders. I am standing on Diahann Carroll and Ruby Dee, and most of all, Billie Holiday. You deserved so much more than you were given when you were on this planet. This is for you, Billie.\" This performance was filmed at Cafe Brasil in New Orleans and broadcast on HBO on March 12, 2016. McDonald received a 2016 Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited Series or Movie for her role in the broadcast. McDonald had planned","title":"Audra McDonald"},{"docid":"10559281","text":"music from Australia, the US and the United Kingdom and building up their online presence which they felt was the way forward for online music and video distribution. The band changed their name to \"Mnemonic\" early 1998. They continued to prepare material for the next album tentatively titled \"On The Shoulders Of Giants\" but abandoned this title early 2000 after hearing that the UK band, \"Oasis\" had chosen it for the title of their upcoming fourth studio album \"Standing on the Shoulder of Giants\". Band members met up in Singapore early 1998 and started rehearsing material as well as giving","title":"Mnemonic (band)"},{"docid":"11691539","text":"licenses or for free and open source software. The argument can be made that restrictions are required because companies would not invest weeks and months in development if there were no incentive for revenue generated from sales and licensing fees. A counter argument to this is that standing on shoulders of giants is far cheaper when the giants do not hold IP rights. Some proponents for open source believe that all programs should be available to anyone who wants to study them. With the introduction of digital rights management software, new issues are raised over whether the subverting of DRM","title":"Cyberethics"},{"docid":"2917628","text":"Arthurs and Paul \"Guigsy\" McGuigan) and hired new producer Mark \"Spike\" Stent to replace Owen Morris. The album is a modern psychedelic record complete with drum loops, samples, electric sitar, mellotron, synthesizers and backward guitars, resulting in an album more experimental with electronica and heavy psychedelic rock influences. Songs such as \"Go Let It Out\", the Indian-influenced \"Who Feels Love?\", and the progressive \"Gas Panic!\" were a departure from the band's earlier style. The album's title was taken from the words made famous by Sir Isaac Newton: If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of","title":"Standing on the Shoulder of Giants"},{"docid":"191913","text":"On the other hand, the widely known proverb about standing on the shoulders of giants, published among others by seventeenth-century poet George Herbert (a former orator of the University of Cambridge and fellow of Trinity College) in his \"Jacula Prudentum\" (1651), had as its main point that \"a dwarf on a giant's shoulders sees farther of the two\", and so its effect as an analogy would place Newton himself rather than Hooke as the 'dwarf'. In a later memoir, Newton wrote: I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been","title":"Isaac Newton"},{"docid":"2917636","text":"the week following the episode's airing. In March 2000, the IFPI certififed Oasis for selling one million units of the album in Europe. Eleven years after its release, Noel Gallagher said he regretted releasing the album, saying he was not feeling inspired as a composer, particularly for going off his drug addiction with prescription drugs, \"which is fucking worse because they come from a doctor.\" This was partly a motivation to delegate the songwriting to the other bandmembers in later albums, as Noel considered \"I'd slowed down as a writer and didn't feel like I could keep writing 20 songs","title":"Standing on the Shoulder of Giants"},{"docid":"11352214","text":"On Giants' Shoulders On Giants' Shoulders was written in 1998 by Melvyn Bragg. The book was assembled after a series of interviews Bragg had with current scientists about the world's greatest scientists such as Archimedes, Isaac Newton and Einstein. Bragg, who brands himself as a \"non-scientist\", conducted these interviews on BBC Radio 4 for other non-scientists. The book looks at the notion of being a \"genius\" and through discussions with 20th-century scientists explores the extent to which the great scientists of history were geniuses. The book's title is taken from Newton's 1675 quote: \"If I have seen further it is","title":"On Giants' Shoulders"},{"docid":"2011020","text":"and Modern Learning\" (where he provided the first English formulation of the commonplace that modern critics see more only because they are dwarves standing on the shoulders of giants), and Temple's somewhat naive essay prompted a small flurry of responses. Among others, two men who took the side opposing Temple were Richard Bentley (classicist and editor) and William Wotton (critic). The entire discussion in England was over by 1696, and yet it seems to have fired Swift's imagination. Swift saw in the opposing camps of Ancients and Moderns a shorthand of two general ways of looking at the world (see","title":"A Tale of a Tub"},{"docid":"6033382","text":"of giants. He pointed out that we see more and farther than our predecessors, not because we have keener vision or greater height, but because we are lifted up and borne aloft on their gigantic stature.\" According to medieval historian Richard William Southern, Bernard was comparing contemporary 12th century scholars to the ancient scholars of Greece and Rome: [The phrase] sums up the quality of the cathedral schools in the history of learning, and indeed characterizes the age which opened with Gerbert (950–1003) and Fulbert (960–1028) and closed in the first quarter of the 12th century with Peter Abelard. [The","title":"Standing on the shoulders of giants"},{"docid":"3938171","text":"They'll split now. I was a real fan, and I'm not just saying that. For me, Oasis had breathed life back into rock 'n' roll.\" He was unaware that Noel Gallagher – who knew Archer from both their days on the Creation Records label – had rung his home in London where it was Archer's son Joel's birthday party. Once Archer's mother had recovered, Gallagher invited him to Olympic Studios, where Oasis were mixing \"Standing on the Shoulder of Giants\". \"We went to the pub and I couldn't stand not knowing if I was a part of the band. After","title":"Gem Archer"},{"docid":"6033388","text":"afflicted from his youth with a severe kyphosis. However, at this time Hooke and Newton were on good terms and had exchanged many letters in tones of mutual regard. Only later, when Robert Hooke criticized some of Newton's ideas regarding optics, was Newton so offended that he withdrew from public debate. The two men remained enemies until Hooke's death. Samuel Taylor Coleridge, in \"The Friend\" (1828), wrote: The dwarf sees farther than the giant, when he has the giant's shoulder to mount on. Against this notion, Friedrich Nietzsche argues that a dwarf (the academic scholar) brings even the most sublime","title":"Standing on the shoulders of giants"},{"docid":"17738217","text":"On the Shoulders of Giants (film) On the Shoulders of Giants: The Story of the Greatest Team You Never Heard Of is a 2011 historical sports documentary film directed by Deborah Morales, written by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Anna Waterhouse. This film tells the story of the All-Black professional basketball team the New York Renaissance or Harlem Rens. The story of the Harlem Rens and the playing style they exhibited was exactly like the popular brand-new sound of that era, jazz. Like jazz, the Rens were brash, young, strong, and black; all of which frightened the status quo. Which meant that,","title":"On the Shoulders of Giants (film)"},{"docid":"17738221","text":"another black powerhouse, the Harlem Globetrotters. If they became victorious, following that game would be their first “official” contest against a white team: the previous year’s champions, the Oshkosh All-Stars. And nobody, but nobody, thought the Rens were ready. This film has several noteworthy interviews, including with: Rev. Al Sharpton, Maya Angelou, Cornel West, Rev. Jesse Jackson, Richard Lapchick, Spike Lee, Bob Costas, Dick Enberg, Charles Barkley, John Wooden, David Stern, Bill Russell, Dr. J, Clyde Drexler, Carmelo Anthony On the Shoulders of Giants (film) On the Shoulders of Giants: The Story of the Greatest Team You Never Heard Of","title":"On the Shoulders of Giants (film)"},{"docid":"5228123","text":"in the Dunwood and are said to inhabit the Hest Mountains beyond Inkarra in great numbers. In the distant past, they came north and invaded, but were slaughtered and their numbers greatly reduced. Frowth giants are extremely large, standing roughly twenty feet tall and eight feet wide at the shoulders. They are covered in a matted yellow fur, and their faces are dominated by a long snout. Their huge size and strength makes them useful in labor and in combat. Frowth giants sometimes wear armor, and they carry huge iron-bound staves as weapons. With sharp teeth, they will kill or","title":"The Runelords"},{"docid":"4243446","text":"and North Jersey, where the Giants play their home games. New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, witnessing the first New York sports team championship victory as mayor, praised the hometown team's upset victory, saying; \"New York has come back many times in the past, and Big Blue proved tonight that you should never, ever, count us out.\" Many New Yorkers polled the Giants' win to be among the most satisfying championship victories in New York sports history. There were also a series of firsts with the championship, not just for the Giants, but also for the city of New York and","title":"Super Bowl XLII"},{"docid":"15870680","text":"Standing in salah Standing () is an integral part of the Islamic salah. The prayer begins in the standing position and some prayers only require the standing position, such as Salat al-Janazah. To \"Stand before God\" is sometimes used in the Quran in reference to the Islamic prayer. A general unit or cycle of salah called raka'ah is commenced while standing and saying the takbir, which is الله أَكْبَر (transliteration \"Allahu-akbar\", meaning God is Greater). The hands are raised level with shoulders or level with top of the ears, with fingers apart and not spaced out or together. It is","title":"Standing in salah"},{"docid":"13221179","text":"Metaform Metaform (born Justice Aaron) is an American music producer, musician, and songwriter with numerous LP and EP releases. He is considered a prominent figure in the development of instrumental Hip-Hop and Trance. He first gained notice in 2008 with the release of his debut album \"Standing on the Shoulders of Giants\", which was constructed entirely from old vinyl samples. Metaform grew up in Los Angeles in a musical household. His Dad played Leonard Cohen, Simon & Garfunkel, and Ravi Shankar records, while Mom listened to Whitney Houston and Curtis Mayfield. His parents divorced in 1988 and soon after he","title":"Metaform"},{"docid":"6033383","text":"phrase] is not a great claim; neither, however, is it an example of abasement before the shrine of antiquity. It is a very shrewd and just remark, and the important and original point was the dwarf \"could\" see a little further than the giant. That this was possible was above all due to the cathedral schools with their lack of a well-rooted tradition and their freedom from a clearly defined routine of study. The phrase also appears in the works of the Jewish tosaphist Isaiah di Trani (c. 1180 – c. 1250): Should Joshua the son of Nun endorse a","title":"Standing on the shoulders of giants"},{"docid":"6033384","text":"mistaken position, I would reject it out of hand, I do not hesitate to express my opinion, regarding such matters in accordance with the modicum of intelligence allotted to me. I was never arrogant claiming \"My Wisdom served me well\". Instead I applied to myself the parable of the philosophers. For I heard the following from the philosophers, The wisest of the philosophers was asked: \"We admit that our predecessors were wiser than we. At the same time we criticize their comments, often rejecting them and claiming that the truth rests with us. How is this possible?\" The wise philosopher","title":"Standing on the shoulders of giants"},{"docid":"5138599","text":"played live during the Shoulders tour of 2000. Paul Weller recorded a version of b-side \"One Way Road\" for his covers-album \"Studio 150\" in 2004. The Weller version was subsequently used as the theme tune to Jack Dee's sitcom \"Lead Balloon\". The video was filmed in Death Valley. All songs written by Noel Gallagher except track 3 Who Feels Love? \"Who Feels Love?\" is a song by the English rock band Oasis, written by the band's lead guitarist Noel Gallagher. It became the second single to be released from the album \"Standing on the Shoulder of Giants\", peaking at number","title":"Who Feels Love?"},{"docid":"3770591","text":"the opponent with upper back/shoulders. Innovated by The Great Sasuke calling it \"Senton Atomico\", Jeff Hardy popularized this move in North America, calling it \"Swanton Bomb\". Another variant where the attacking wrestler, facing away from the ring, does a 180° twist followed by the senton bomb. This was popularised by Jeff Hardy calling it \"Whisper in the Wind\". Jumping forward from an elevated position, the attacking wrestler executes a mid-air backflip ending in a senton. The wrestler dives from an elevated position tucking both arms in, and striking a standing opponent with one shoulder to the upper body. A diving","title":"Professional wrestling aerial techniques"},{"docid":"1644731","text":"title \"Standing on the Shoulders of Giants\" in which he gives credit for many of the core ideas of Theory of Constraints. Goldratt has sought many times to show the correlation between various improvement methods. Goldratt has been criticized on lack of openness in his theories, an example being him not releasing the algorithm he used for the Optimum Performance Training system. Some view him as unscientific with many of his theories, tools and techniques not being a part of the public domain, rather a part of his own framework of profiting on his ideas. According to Gupta and Snyder","title":"Theory of constraints"},{"docid":"10115374","text":"Wolff currently teaches a variety of screenwriting courses at the University of Southern California, including CTWR 206 and CTWR 499. Wolff created the course,\"Standing on the Shoulders of Giants.\" It focused on the role and importance of the storyteller in society. Wolff was one of the founders of the \"Unica Film Collaborative\", an experimental film group that focuses on the \"process\" of filmmaking, rather than the product. Unica's first feature film, \"Blue in Green\", was chosen by Los Angeles Times film critic Kevin Thomas to screen at the LA Cinematheque's Alternative Film Festival. In 2007, as an actor Wolff played","title":"Paul Wolff"},{"docid":"9894651","text":"Marc Tucker Marc S. Tucker (born 1939) is the president and CEO of the National Center on Education and the Economy. He is active in education reform and benchmarking the policies and practices of the countries with the best education systems in the world. Tucker published a report on international education benchmarking entitled \"Standing on the Shoulders of Giants: An American Agenda for Education Reform\". His book, \"Surpassing Shanghai\", was published by Harvard Education Press in November 2011. According to the publisher, Surpassing Shanghai aims to answer a simple question: How would one redesign the American education system if the","title":"Marc Tucker"},{"docid":"9894654","text":"special studies with a concentration in telecommunications policy at George Washington University, graduating in 1982. Marc Tucker Marc S. Tucker (born 1939) is the president and CEO of the National Center on Education and the Economy. He is active in education reform and benchmarking the policies and practices of the countries with the best education systems in the world. Tucker published a report on international education benchmarking entitled \"Standing on the Shoulders of Giants: An American Agenda for Education Reform\". His book, \"Surpassing Shanghai\", was published by Harvard Education Press in November 2011. According to the publisher, Surpassing Shanghai aims","title":"Marc Tucker"},{"docid":"17268898","text":"300 children and is self-sustaining. Bolton’s book, Successful Property Investing, was an Amazon bestseller and has been updated three times since first publication in 2008. He is also a keynote speaker having spoken on stages alongside Richard Reed (Innocent), Simon Woodroffe (YO!), James Caan (Dragons Den), Kriss Akabussi (World Champion athlete), Davina McCall, Ben Fogle, Michael Gerber (Emyth) and many others. His primary keynote talk is ‘Standing on the Shoulders of Giants’ which promotes the core concept Bolton believes in passionately - ‘everyone should have a mentor’. Bolton also speaks regularly and for free at local schools and universities on","title":"Steve Bolton (entrepreneur)"},{"docid":"1629440","text":"have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.\" (Newton was Warden and later Master of the Royal Mint.) In February 2015, the Royal Mint announced a new design featuring Britannia by Antony Dufort replacing the previous design. The new coins will feature the edge inscription , meaning \"I will claim the four seas\", an inscription previously featured on coins bearing the image of Britannia. The comparative rarity of the Maklouf-effigy coins has led to an urban myth that they are much more valuable than the other coins, but this is not true – there were over","title":"Two pounds (British coin)"},{"docid":"13799316","text":"Jill and produces music by himself and others on their Shipyard label. 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 Joe Hutton, Willy Taylor, Will Atkinson, Mike Tickell, Allan Wood, The John Dagg Band) 1987 1988 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 2001 2008 2009 2010 'Standing on the Shoulders of Giants', article in May/June 2007 issue of Living Tradition Magazine. 'Selling Coals to Newcastle' by Judith Murphy, published by North East England History Institute 2008 'The Mocking Horse' by Alan Hull, illustrated by Geoff Heslop 'Dazzling Stranger, Bert Jansch and the British Folk","title":"Geoff Heslop"},{"docid":"17579112","text":"Jordan Sargent of \"Spin\" praised Boi-1da's production as \"brilliant.\" Despite the positive reviews, most critics dismissed Jay-Z's guest appearance as \"lackluster.\" Bryant Kitching of Consequence of Sound put down Jay-Z's appearance saying, \"It's the sequel to \"Thank Me Later\"'s \"Light Up\", but the contrast between the two tracks couldn't be more stark. It's here, standing shoulder to shoulder with giants, where it's easiest to see how much Drake's craft has improved since he broke onto the scene. He doesn't need to lean on another MC; He's honed his game to the point where he can make even one of the","title":"Pound Cake / Paris Morton Music 2"},{"docid":"12047275","text":"from touring with Betzefer to start a new project dubbed On Shoulders of Giants together with 7% Mind Usage guitarist Idan Epshtein and Jerusalem based singer Katie Danielson. The three recorded their debut album titled \"Come Crashing\", which was released independently on September 17, 2009. Avital handled most of the guitar duties on the record as well as the vocals, and the bass. In early 2010, Tamir has started the alternative/garage rock band Black Swan with ex-Got No Shame lead guitarist Matan Ergas (AKA Nose). The band has played extensively in Israel through 2010 while Betzefer was on hiatus, playing","title":"Avital Tamir"},{"docid":"2643827","text":"on to his/her shoulders, and while the opponent is on his/her shoulders, he/she uses the hand hooking the opponent's leg to reach upwards and clutch the wrist of the arm opposite the hooked leg. While maintaining the wrist-clutch, they then perform the driver. There is a further variation that does not include the shoulder lift that sees the wrestler hook the leg and wrist while the opponent is standing in front of him/her, lift the opponent upside down and then fall to the sitout position. This move was made popular by wrestler Low Ki who calls it the Ki Krusher.","title":"Professional wrestling throws"},{"docid":"13546227","text":"Swedish label Record Heaven in 2001. Another song, \"Over All\", written with Downset's Rey Oropeza, is uncredited and plays at roughly the 10-minute mark of \"Parisienne Walkways\". \"The Flower\" was co-written by Roy Z and Bruce Dickinson of Iron Maiden. Sian Llewellyn of Classic Rock magazine called the album \"\"a summer stunner.\"\" Musicians Contributions - Juan Perez : bass on \"Rays Of The Sun\", \"Admit It\" and \"It Don't Bother Me\"<br> - Roy Z : bass on \"The Flower\", \"Angel\" and \"Dreams\" Production Credits<br> All tracks produced, mixed and engineered by Roy Z & Joe Floyd<br> except tracks 2, 3","title":"Standing on the Shoulders of Giants (Tribe of Gypsies album)"},{"docid":"4221193","text":"New England Patriots to win Super Bowl XLII in one of the greatest upsets in sports history. Barber was present to cover the event, but was not well received by most of his former teammates and Giants' fans, after his disparaging remarks about his former teammate and Giants quarterback, Eli Manning. On March 8, 2011, Barber filed paperwork to come out of retirement. Although the New York Giants still retained the rights to Barber, the Giants planned to release him once the NFL and the NFLPA reach a collective bargaining agreement. On April 28, 2011, Barber was quoted saying that","title":"Tiki Barber"},{"docid":"1353506","text":"time he composed his greatest works, published almost certainly in 1159, the \"Policraticus, sive de nugis curialium et de vestigiis philosophorum\" and the \"Metalogicon\", writings invaluable as storehouses of information regarding the matter and form of scholastic education, and remarkable for their cultivated style and humanist tendency. The \"Policraticus\" also sheds light on the decadence of the 12th-century court manners and the lax ethics of royalty. The idea of contemporaries \"standing on the shoulders of giants\" of Antiquity first appears in written form in the \"Metalogicon\". After the death of Theobald in 1161, John continued as secretary to his successor,","title":"John of Salisbury"},{"docid":"191912","text":"to establish.\" English poet Alexander Pope wrote the famous epitaph: Nature and nature's laws lay hid in night;<br> God said \"Let Newton be\" and all was light. Newton was relatively modest about his achievements, writing in a letter to Robert Hooke in February 1676: If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants. Two writers think that the above quotation, written at a time when Newton and Hooke were in dispute over optical discoveries, was an oblique attack on Hooke (said to have been short and hunchbacked), rather than—or in addition to—a statement of modesty.","title":"Isaac Newton"},{"docid":"9012143","text":"worth were necessary to receive recognition for progress in scientific methodology, but were not made to denigrate the humanities. Statements such as Isaac Newton's less than original \"If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.\" was recognition not only of other previous leaders in the Scientific Revolution, but of the Ancients who provided foundations in the sciences and humanities. Gould cites George Hakewill, Archdeacon of Surrey's 1628 essay in defense of Modernist convictions. There Hakewill argues against both the common belief that the Universe was in constant decay and the Renaissance portrayal of Ancients","title":"The Hedgehog, the Fox, and the Magister's Pox"},{"docid":"19149934","text":"2011 exhibition \"Albatross Omnibus\" at The Power Plant;\"We May be Standing on the Shoulders of Giants but Some of us are Looking at the Stars\" in 2008 at the Southern Alberta Art Gallery in Lethbridge Alberta; and in 2005 he presented \"KIOSK 2005\" at the Toronto Sculpture Garden. He has been included in numerous group exhibitions including at the Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, Toronto; National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa; Contemporary Art Gallery (Vancouver); Casino Luxembourg; Mercer Union, Toronto; Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne; and the Swiss Institute, New York. In 2012, Sullivan was a shortlisted for the Sobey","title":"Derek Sullivan (artist)"},{"docid":"8674601","text":"enclosed garden is a Well house, The only structure on the site which remains standing today. The name \"Hollinshead hall\" is presumed to come from the Hollinshead family who are said to have built the hall at some point before the 14th century and from the Manor of Hollinshead itself, however sources to verify this are being awaited. To date the earliest record of Hollinshead hall seems to appear in 1311 (where?), Although it is probable the hall did indeed exist before then. One theory (which?) suggests that the name Hollinshead hall does not come from a family name at","title":"Hollinshead Hall"},{"docid":"11690817","text":"Where Did It All Go Wrong? \"Where Did It All Go Wrong?\" is a song and single by the English rock band Oasis, originally released on their 2000 album, \"Standing on the Shoulder of Giants\". Written by guitarist Noel Gallagher, it is one of two songs on \"Standing on the Shoulder of Giants\" that features him on lead vocals. In explaining why front man Liam Gallagher did not sing the song, Noel claimed that: \"[Vocally] Liam just couldn't get that one. The melody shifts quite a lot... Liam hasn't got that dynamism in his voice.\" Noel stated that the song's","title":"Where Did It All Go Wrong?"},{"docid":"8444567","text":"with proudly waving feathers, Many-colored mantle on his shoulders And around his neck a silken kerchief. Then he gazes round and looks upon me, He takes off his many-colored mantle, Takes it off, and gives it to me, saying:\" \"Here, oh Maiden, is my colored mantle, By it thou wilt keep me in remembrance, By this mantle shall my name live with thee. Now, dear Maid, must I go forth to perish There where camps the noble Prince's army; Pray to God for me, dear Maid, my sister, That I may come back again in safety. And that all good","title":"Pavle Orlović"},{"docid":"19070570","text":"later on restored to life. Idumban prayed that: 1. Whosoever carried on his shoulders the Kavadi, signifying the two hills and visited the temple on a vow, should be blessed and; 2. He should be given the privilege of standing sentinel at the entrance to the hill. Hence we have the Idumban shrine halfway up the hill where every pilgrim is expected to offer obeisance to Idumban before entering the temple of Dandayudhapani. Since then, pilgrims to Palani bring their offerings on their shoulders in a kavadi. The custom has spread from Palani to all Muruga shrines worldwide. Idumban Idumban","title":"Idumban"},{"docid":"13495883","text":"later on restored to life. Idumban prayed that whoever carried on his shoulders the kavadi — signifying the two hills — and visited the temple on a vow should be blessed and that He (Idumban)should be given the privilege of standing sentinel at the entrance to the hill. Hence the Idumban shrine is halfway up the hill where every pilgrim is expected to offer obeisance to Idumban before entering the temple of Dandâyudhapani. Since then, pilgrims to Palani bring their offerings on their shoulders in a kavadi. The custom has spread from Palani to all Muruga shrines worldwide. www.thehindu.com/ CHENNAI,","title":"Kaduvettividuthy"},{"docid":"15870687","text":"the above which orders to \"stand shoulder to shoulder\" to mean: \"Aligning the body parts with one another so that the shoulders of each person praying are arranged and in line with the shoulders of others. In this way, shoulders and necks will be aligned.\" Standing in salah Standing () is an integral part of the Islamic salah. The prayer begins in the standing position and some prayers only require the standing position, such as Salat al-Janazah. To \"Stand before God\" is sometimes used in the Quran in reference to the Islamic prayer. A general unit or cycle of salah","title":"Standing in salah"},{"docid":"7953343","text":"such he accepted Pope Francis invitation to come to the Colloquium on Marriage, held in the Vatican, where he spoke on 18 November 2014. In 2014 Moore commented on reparative therapy, saying, \"The utopian idea if you come to Christ and if you go through our program, you're going to be immediately set free from attraction or anything you're struggling with, I don't think that's a Christian idea. Faithfulness to Christ means obedience to Christ. It does not necessarily mean that someone's attractions are going to change.\" He added, \"The Bible doesn't promise us freedom from temptation. The Bible promises","title":"Russell D. Moore"},{"docid":"19697036","text":"further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of Giants.” Keynote speakers included Stanford neuroscientist Professor Walter Greenleaf, PhD, Graham Smith, David A. Smith, Dr. Sara Diamond - President of OCAD University, Moses Znaimer, Charlie Fink, Dr. Karan Singh and James McCrae - founders of JanusVR and additional live interviews with Steve Mann, and Tim Merel among others. Several panels, under the banner of \"Super Sessions\" featured leaders in the field of Virtual & Augmented Reality, health sciences (Dr. Lora Appel, Dr. Tom Overly, Dr. Stephane Bouchard), \"Out-of-Home\" entertainment (James Jensen of THE VOID, Eyal Kleiner of IMAX,","title":"VRTO"},{"docid":"13217391","text":"of Education) in November 2009, \"in recognition of his substantial contribution to pioneering work in race relations and the extension of opportunity to socially excluded young people\", and the University of Bristol (Doctor of Law) in July 2014 \"for his dedication to fighting for equality and civil rights across Bristol and around the world for over 60 years\". In November 2017, Stephenson received a Pride of Britain Award for Lifetime Achievement, presented to him by Lenny Henry, who said: \"It is a well-known saying that to achieve greatness you have to stand on the shoulders of giants. You really are","title":"Paul Stephenson (civil rights campaigner)"},{"docid":"2643868","text":"as when the opponent lands - he/she would land on their head as opposed to their back. It was named the \"Frankensteiner\" by Scott Steiner, who used it as a finishing move. The move also has a variation where the opponent is sitting on the top rope, that variation is also referred to as frankensteiner. Another variation of the Frankensteiner sees a grounded wrestler first \"kip-up\" on to a standing opponent's shoulders, this is where a wrestler rolls on to the back of his/her shoulders bringing his/her legs up and kicking forward to build momentum to lift themselves off the","title":"Professional wrestling throws"},{"docid":"12116425","text":"Iru-to says; \"I am the scribe of the Divine Book which says what has been and effects what is yet to be.\" Joseph Smith explained figures 22 and 23 as: \"the medium of Kli-flos-is-es, or Hah-ko-kau-beam, the stars represented by numbers (figures) 22 and 23, receiving light from the revolutions of Kolob.\" The standing figure has a double ram's head with undulating horns and wears the double crown, symbolic of Amun, god of creation. Plutarch quoted Manetho as saying that Amun meant \"that which is concealed.\" On Amun's shoulders are jackal heads. In his left hand is the staff of","title":"Joseph Smith Hypocephalus"},{"docid":"18046407","text":"a bull's-eye on them,\" Gündüz \"is not afraid,\" saying that even if Erdogan gives in to protesters, \"a new government leader will come in and do similar things.\" Turkey's authoritarian system, he said, \"must be eliminated to make room for more democracy and freedom.\" Although he intends to continue to agitate for change, however, he \"isn't planning a repeat performance\" of his standing-man act, explaining: \"One does something like that once, and that's it.\" Erdem Gündüz Erdem Gündüz is a Turkish dancer, actor, performance artist, choreographer, and teacher who, as a result of his actions during the 2013–14 protests in","title":"Erdem Gündüz"},{"docid":"17527695","text":"relief of Montana and trying to run out the clock when the 49ers fell prey to the relentlessness of the Giants' defense. Giants Nose Tackle Erik Howard turned his shoulders perpendicular to the line of scrimmage in order to negate a double-team block by 49ers' Guard Guy McIntyre and Center Jesse Sapolu. McIntyre released from his block on Erik Howard to check the oncoming rush of Giants linebacker Pepper Johnson allowing Howard to knife through as Jesse Sapolu knocked him to the ground and Howard managed to get his helmet on the football when he came into contact with 49ers","title":"49ers–Giants rivalry"},{"docid":"14376975","text":"this is extreme, but others who are more centrist and more religious do not see anything wrong with what he is saying. They see a brave man who is expressing what he feels. It all depends on where your political compass lies.\" Nevertheless, Setton does see a difference between these extremists and the Islamic fundamentalists, who were the subject of his previous film \"In the Name of God\". He explains, \"They have something unique to them - the adoration of death as a value. With us, it is something internal that does not come from the same motives, but from","title":"Israel's Next War"},{"docid":"2518177","text":"Sir William Temple published an answer to Fontenelle entitled \"Of Ancient and Modern Learning\" in 1690. His essay introduced two metaphors to the debate that would be reused by later authors. First, he proposed that modern man was just a dwarf standing upon the \"shoulders of giants\" (that modern man saw farther because he begins with the observations and learning of the ancients). They possessed a clear view of nature, and modern man only reflected/refined their vision. These metaphors, of the dwarf/giant and the reflecting/emanative light, would show up in Swift's satire and others. Temple's essay was answered by Richard","title":"The Battle of the Books"},{"docid":"13387569","text":"her shoulders\" and have some fun with her life. When she was asked how Kate has changed as a character, Brewer told Channel 5 \"She is still very responsible and I think she'll always be like that. She is definitely more confident and doesn't shy aware from standing up for herself to family members or her friends.\" Brewer opined Kate does have a sense of fun, despite going through so much in her life. In late 2009, the character became the centre of disapproval from viewers, who felt fellow character Declan Napier (James Sorensen) was moving on too fast after","title":"Kate Ramsay"},{"docid":"17113858","text":"it appears at first glance to be a generic sale, but it is distinguishable on at least two grounds: It is possible to purchase the expectation or hope that something might come into existence, irrespective of whether it does or does not come into existence in future. The jurisprudent Pomponius is quoted as saying: Sometimes, indeed, there is held to be a sale, even without a thing, as where what is bought is, as it were, a chance. This is the case with the purchase of a catch of birds or fish. The contract is valid even if nothing results,","title":"South African law of sale"},{"docid":"9886073","text":"championship game with a 12–2 record, and a nine-game winning streak; but lost to the Packers again, 16–7. Nonetheless, the Giants had captivated New York by this time, even though the sold out game was played in single-digit weather with 35 mph winds, only 299 of the 65,000+ fans who bought tickets stayed home. Before the 1962 season, Gifford came out of his injury-forced retirement, saying he missed the game too much. He changed positions from halfback to flanker. During the season, Tittle and wide receiver Del Shofner set still-standing team records when Tittle threw for seven touchdowns and Shofner","title":"History of the New York Giants (1925–78)"},{"docid":"2643846","text":"shoulders, flipping him to the mat on to his back. The other closely resembles a Death Valley driver. The wrestler performs the fireman's carry from a standing position, then tosses the opponent off his shoulders as he drops down to his knees causing the opponent to land on his back. The standing variant is a higher impact version of the move because of the wrestler falling from a greater height, and is a move closely associated with John Cena through his use of it as his finishing maneuver, which he calls the \"Attitude Adjustment\". Another variation sees the move done","title":"Professional wrestling throws"},{"docid":"2917637","text":"every two years.\" Standing on the Shoulder of Giants Standing on the Shoulder of Giants is the fourth studio album by English rock band Oasis, released on 28 February 2000 by Big Brother Records. It is the 16th fastest selling album in UK chart history, selling over 310,000 copies in its first week. \"Standing on the Shoulder of Giants\" has been certified double platinum by the British Phonographic Industry and has sold around 208,000 copies in the US. In 1999, the year preceding the final release of this album, Alan McGee closed Creation Records and Oasis had lost two founding","title":"Standing on the Shoulder of Giants"},{"docid":"2917627","text":"Standing on the Shoulder of Giants Standing on the Shoulder of Giants is the fourth studio album by English rock band Oasis, released on 28 February 2000 by Big Brother Records. It is the 16th fastest selling album in UK chart history, selling over 310,000 copies in its first week. \"Standing on the Shoulder of Giants\" has been certified double platinum by the British Phonographic Industry and has sold around 208,000 copies in the US. In 1999, the year preceding the final release of this album, Alan McGee closed Creation Records and Oasis had lost two founding members (Paul \"Bonehead\"","title":"Standing on the Shoulder of Giants"},{"docid":"13743473","text":"for the duration of the tour. Encore: Standing on the Shoulder of Giants Tour The Standing on the Shoulder of Giants World Tour was a concert tour by English band Oasis, which took place in 1999-2000. The tour was in promotion of their fourth studio album \"Standing on the Shoulder of Giants\". After a disagreement within the band Noel left the tour after 24 May 2000, quitting overseas touring with Oasis. He only returned for shows within the United Kingdom and Ireland, before re-joining the band fully after the tour had ended. The live album \"Familiar to Millions\" was recorded","title":"Standing on the Shoulder of Giants Tour"},{"docid":"13743471","text":"Standing on the Shoulder of Giants Tour The Standing on the Shoulder of Giants World Tour was a concert tour by English band Oasis, which took place in 1999-2000. The tour was in promotion of their fourth studio album \"Standing on the Shoulder of Giants\". After a disagreement within the band Noel left the tour after 24 May 2000, quitting overseas touring with Oasis. He only returned for shows within the United Kingdom and Ireland, before re-joining the band fully after the tour had ended. The live album \"Familiar to Millions\" was recorded at the two concerts at Wembley Stadium.","title":"Standing on the Shoulder of Giants Tour"},{"docid":"9693004","text":"Thom Jurek of \"Allmusic\" gave the album four out five stars, giving the album's quality much praise, saying, \"In all, this is not only a solid effort; it stands head and shoulders over most of the stuff that's come out of Nash Vegas in over a decade. Even if it doesn't sell a copy, it's a triumphant return for Smith. She hasn't lost a whit of her gift as a singer or as a writer.\" Jurek went on to give it praise, saying, \"Connie Smith is a bona fide country and gospel music legend; she is quite literally the only","title":"Connie Smith (1998 album)"},{"docid":"2552066","text":"adult offenders were bent over for punishment. Some models also allowed a standing or leaning position for other implements. A simple alternative position known from school discipline is horsing, where the person to be punished is held by the arms over the back of another person (e.g. a classmate), or on the shoulders of two or more colleagues. However, at Eton College and schools of similar standing, the recipient was made to kneel on a special wooden block. Another device used to immobilise offenders was a birching table, used in Scotland, with two holes in it through which the offender's","title":"Birching"},{"docid":"6126863","text":"hatred towards the Nazi-Fascists, with Curcio on record saying: \"There come to my mind memories from long ago. Uncle Armando, who carried me piggyback on his shoulders. His clear eyes, always smiling, which looked far ahead towards a society of free and equal men. And I loved him like a father. And I have picked up the rifle that only death at the hands of Nazi-Fascist assassins had ripped from him.\" A poor student, Curcio failed several subjects in his first year of high school and had to repeat the year. He then resumed vocational training classes until moving to","title":"Renato Curcio"},{"docid":"15882926","text":"Thomas Erlewine of AllMusic gave it two stars out of five, saying that although some of the songs had \"signs of life\" to them, \"the songs and production demand that all energy come from young Scotty, who amiably sleepwalks through the tunes, expecting his 'aw shucks' smile will translate onto record. That it doesn’t is not necessarily on his shoulders -- it’s better to place the blame on the machine, here run by producer Mark Bright.\" \"Rolling Stone\" critic Caryn Ganz also gave the album two stars out of five, stating that \"his debut – a ho-hum jaunt through an","title":"Clear as Day"},{"docid":"19475388","text":"standing over Morales' prostrate body, saying \"Don't touch her. Let the bitch die\". Morales was rushed downstairs to the apartment of novelist Doc Hume and from there in a taxi cab to University Hospital for emergency surgery. While she remained in critical condition, Morales initially told doctors that she \"had fallen on some glass\", denying any wrongdoing on the part of Mailer, who had come to the hospital later that night to \"lecture Adele's surgeon on the likely dimensions of her wound\". Mailer appeared the next day in a scheduled interview on \"The Mike Wallace Show\", where he spoke of","title":"Stabbing of Adele Morales by Norman Mailer"},{"docid":"15909543","text":"running back Brandon Jacobs taunted Ryan, saying, \"Time to shut up, fat boy!\" The two reportedly came close to blows in a tense post game meeting. The Giants win over the Jets eliminated the Jets from the playoffs and helped the Giants secure the NFC East title and a spot in the playoffs, where they would go on to win Super Bowl XLVI, once again by defeating the New England Patriots. Giants kicker Lawrence Tynes called the win over the Jets the turning point of the season that spurred them onto their Super Bowl run. Despite a Super Bowl that","title":"Giants–Jets rivalry"},{"docid":"3244185","text":"saw one lifeboat tip all of its passengers into the sea. Pope and Friend decided that it would be a better idea to jump from the deck. Before jumping, Theodate turned to her maid saying, \"Come, Robinson.\" In the water, Pope was buffeted by debris and struggling swimmers. She was struck on the head by debris. \"People all around me were fighting, striking and struggling,\" she later recalled. Then a man \"insane with fright\" made \"a sudden jump and landed clean on my shoulders, believing I could support him.\" She lost consciousness in the water, and when she was rescued,","title":"Theodate Pope Riddle"},{"docid":"4112792","text":"in the U.S., withdrew much of its advertising when he parked an Opel Kadett in a junkyard for a \"hit piece\", AKA James R. Healey, auto columnist for USAToday, recalled that while speaking at the Washington Automotive Press Association, Davis also likened General Motors managers to the piano players in a whorehouse, \"aware of what was going on upstairs but unable to do much about it even if they were so inclined.\" He ended the speech by saying that the company was standing on the \"shoulders of midgets\". The company subsequently pulled much of its advertising. In 2010, he published","title":"David E. Davis"},{"docid":"20289782","text":"the shoulders of giants.\" The chorus and verses for the song were developed separately and are set to different tempos; according to Lights, this created a \"challenging structure\" to deal with, but the writers were determined to mesh the two parts. \"Giants\" debuted at number 41 on the Canada Hot AC chart dated August 12, 2017 and has since reached a peak of 14. \"Giants\" also debuted at number 39 on the \"Billboard\" Adult Pop Songs chart dated August 19, 2017. This made it Lights' first song to chart in the United States. The accompanying music video for \"Giants\" was","title":"Giants (Lights song)"},{"docid":"2364878","text":"Connacht's other allies panic and Medb is forced to retreat. She does, however, manage to bring Donn Cuailnge back to Connacht, where the bull fights Finnbhennach, kills him, but is mortally wounded, and wanders around Ireland creating placenames before finally returning home to die of exhaustion. The image of Cú Chulainn dying, tied to a post so that even in death he might face his enemies standing, a pose which was adopted by early 20th-century Irish republicans does not come from the \"Táin\" but from a later story. However it has been incorporated into some oral versions of the \"Táin\",","title":"Táin Bó Cúailnge"},{"docid":"3998051","text":"am. I'm comfortable enough to come clean now. It's a weight off my shoulders\". On 30 March 2007, Michael Kirby, then a judge of the High Court of Australia, described Callea as an \"admirable Australian\" for coming out. Justice Kirby added, \"In terms of influencing popular culture and understanding of the reality of human sexual diversity, I would trade ten judges for one popular singer.\" Callea has also admitted to suffering from depression in his teenage years, saying, \"I went through major depression. I hated myself. I had to see a psychologist. I wasn't talking to anybody. My parents didn't","title":"Anthony Callea"},{"docid":"5185946","text":"wrestler then bends forward and slams the opponent down to the mat on his back or shoulders. It is also known as an over-the-shoulder powerbomb. Three wrestlers form a powerbomb where two wrestlers usually set up another wrestler to execute the powerbomb. This was popularized specifically by The Shield (professional wrestling). The wrestler faces a standing opponent, bends them forwards, takes a hold around their waist and then flips the opponent up and over so the opponent is sitting on the wrestler's shoulders. The wrestler then faces a corner of the ring and throws the opponent into the corner, driving","title":"Powerbomb"},{"docid":"17560817","text":"It\", a declaration of Rock’s loyalties to the block that raised him. With Kendrick throwing down on a guest verse, \"Hood Gone Love It\" is the sound of the next standing on the shoulders of those who came before with Jay at his more lyrically complex, revealing a deeply personal undercurrent that runs throughout his music.\" Ayo of Soul Culture also praised the song saying, \"To say the least both Jay and the emcee formally known as K.Dot lyrically black out on J.U.S.T.I.C.E. League's near breath taking instrumental, but it's Lamar who predictably steals the show with his verse.\" Adam","title":"Hood Gone Love It"},{"docid":"3844484","text":"them in a body scissors. A variation, popularized by Stone Cold Steve Austin, involves an attacking standing wrestler performing a thesz press on a running opponent, then repeatedly striking the opponent in the face with mounted punches. Also known as vertical splash body press, this variation is made by a charging wrestler (usually standing on the second or top rope) against a standing opponent, landing on their chest and shoulders while remaining upright, the wrestler employs the momentum to bring their opponent down to the mat into a seated senton. These are attacks performed by striking the opponent's neck, shoulders","title":"Professional wrestling attacks"},{"docid":"1746211","text":"been no \"Star Wars\"\". Terry Gilliam said, \"What we do now digitally with computers, Ray did digitally long before but without computers. Only with his digits.\" James Cameron also paid tribute by saying, \"I think all of us who are practitioners in the arts of science fiction and fantasy movies now all feel that we're standing on the shoulders of a giant. If not for Ray's contribution to the collective dreamscape, we wouldn't be who we are.\" Ray left his collection, which includes all of his film related artefacts to the Ray & Diana Harryhausen Foundation, which he set up","title":"Ray Harryhausen"},{"docid":"13002757","text":"and their ears should be properly furred and silky to the touch. In body they should resemble a mandolin cut in half, a wide nose and broad head with no visible crown, long, loose hanging ears, strong shoulders and a rise that results in a round, deep body over the hips and flanks. Does can weigh anywhere from 10-15 lbs, with bucks generally weighing 9-12 lbs. The English Lop needs a relatively large hutch or a shed/aviary conversion so it has room to move about without standing on its ears. It is common for a wooden hutch made of a","title":"English Lop"},{"docid":"8625921","text":"A Midrash cited as one of several places where Scripture speaks of the people of Israel as it does of angels. For Scripture speaks of both angels and the people of Israel as \"standing\". In reference to angels, says, “Above Him \"stood\" the seraphim,” while concerning Israel, says, “You are \"standing\" this day.” Similarly, reports that the angels daily proclaim a three-part praise of God, saying, “Holy, holy, holy,” and the people of Israel correspondingly daily say in three parts in the Amidah prayer, “The God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.” calls the angels","title":"Nitzavim"},{"docid":"11475300","text":"to Demote Harshvardhan if he does not nab the killer in 24 hours, to which the latter replies assertively. Harshvardhan gives a mobile phone to Neha, telling her that if Raj calls on her, she must dial his number and inform him immediately. Raj does go to Neha to explain his situation but she pushes him off and dials Harshvardhan. Surprisingly, Harshvardhan does not answer the phone. She then leaves a voice message saying that Raj has come to kill her. Raj hits Neha and she falls unconscious. Then the movie reaches its climax where Harshvardhan appears on the scene.","title":"Baaz: A Bird in Danger"},{"docid":"11724691","text":"The Ones...\". Her fourth studio album, \"Fortune Teller\", was released in June 2008. The album includes the singles \"Something To Talk About\", \"Don't Look Down\", \"Idle Motion\", \"Promises\", \"Elvis Can You Hear Me?\", \"Shoulders of Giants\", \"What's The Matter With You?\" and \"Fortune Teller\". Her second Remix album, \"Mixed Beats\", was released in August 2009. The album includes the singles \"What's The Matter With Your Cabrio\", \"Shoulders of Giants\" and \"Love Song\". Her fifth studio album, \"The Fire\", was released in March 2013. The album includes the singles \"What I'd Give\", \"The Person I Am\", \"Me Luv U Long Time\"","title":"Ira Losco discography"},{"docid":"12722437","text":"from Elliott and Western Avenues would each have a dedicated lane. Third Avenue would become a permanent transit corridor. The cost estimate for the four-lane tunnel was $3.4 billion. On February 13, 2007, Governor Christine Gregoire rejected the tunnel hybrid option, saying that a WSDOT review showed the tunnel proposal \"does not meet state and federal safety standards.\" Of particular concern was that the use of shoulders as traffic lanes during peak traffic times would leave no additional lanes for emergency access. However, several of the viaduct \"stakeholders committee\" brought on board to advise the city indicated that the tunnel","title":"Alaskan Way Viaduct replacement tunnel"},{"docid":"19465833","text":"list of siblings on the same level. The Outliner of Giants does not support the true cloning of items (where an item can appear to be in multiple places within the hierarchy at the same time), although it does support the copying of single or multiple nodes. The Outliner of Giants can import both plain text and the OPML XML format, which is commonly used to transfer data between outlining applications. Outline documents can be edited using a WYSIWYG editor, as well as the Markdown, and Textile markup languages. The Outliner of Giants supports a range of functionality to annotate","title":"The Outliner of Giants"},{"docid":"9886048","text":"Strong, the game had to be stopped because hundreds of fans ran onto the field to celebrate. The game would come to be known as \"The Sneakers Game\", and the 27 points the Giants scored in the fourth quarter set a single-quarter championship game scoring record that stood for decades. Fans converged on the field after the game, tearing down one of the goal posts. After the game offensive tackle Len Grant expressed his gratitude, saying \"God bless Abe Cohen.\" Oddly, the team's performance was also aided by the consumption of alcohol. The team's trainer felt that whiskey could warm","title":"History of the New York Giants (1925–78)"}],"string":"[\n {\n \"docid\": \"13546225\",\n \"text\": \"Standing on the Shoulders of Giants (Tribe of Gypsies album) Standing on the Shoulders of Giants is the third full-length album by San Fernando Valley, California-based Latin rock band Tribe of Gypsies. It marks the swan song for percussionist Mario Aguilar and bassist Eddie Casillas, who was replaced by Juan Perez (ex-Civil Defiance) for the final three songs the band recorded for the album, which bears the distinction of being the first album released in the new millennium, with a release date of January 1, 2000, in Japan. The album title \\\"Standing On The Shoulders Of Giants\\\" refers to a\",\n \"title\": \"Standing on the Shoulders of Giants (Tribe of Gypsies album)\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"6033389\",\n \"text\": \"heights down to his level of understanding. In the section of \\\"Thus Spoke Zarathustra\\\" (1882) entitled \\\"On the Vision and the Riddle\\\", Zarathustra climbs to great heights with a dwarf on his shoulders to show him his greatest thought. Once there however, the dwarf fails to understand the profundity of the vision and Zarathustra reproaches him for \\\"making things too easy on [him]self.\\\" If there is to be anything resembling \\\"progress\\\" in the history of philosophy, Nietzsche in \\\"Philosophy in the Tragic Age of the Greeks\\\" (1873) writes, it can only come from those rare giants among men, \\\"each giant\",\n \"title\": \"Standing on the shoulders of giants\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"13546228\",\n \"text\": \"& 4 produced by Richard Polodor, mixed by Richard Polodor & Bill Cooper, and engineered by Bill Cooper<br> Recorded at Silver Cloud, Burbank, CA, American, Woodland Hills, CA & Rumba House, Sylmar, CA Standing on the Shoulders of Giants (Tribe of Gypsies album) Standing on the Shoulders of Giants is the third full-length album by San Fernando Valley, California-based Latin rock band Tribe of Gypsies. It marks the swan song for percussionist Mario Aguilar and bassist Eddie Casillas, who was replaced by Juan Perez (ex-Civil Defiance) for the final three songs the band recorded for the album, which bears the\",\n \"title\": \"Standing on the Shoulders of Giants (Tribe of Gypsies album)\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"11352215\",\n \"text\": \"by standing on the shoulders of giants.\\\" In the introduction to \\\"On Giants' Shoulders\\\" Bragg writes that the world of science was one of mystery and could not be entered nor understood by non-scientists such as himself. Thus he wrote this book, along with scientists, to open a door for other non-scientists to view the world of science as it has been for the past 2,500 years. By doing so, and by explaining the works of the greatest scientists in vernacular understandable by non-scientists, he aims to make the world of science less exclusive and mysterious. On Giants' Shoulders On\",\n \"title\": \"On Giants' Shoulders\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"3306861\",\n \"text\": \"shoulders of giants. He also says that standing on the shoulders of giants is the opposite of reinventing the wheel. An excerpt from the book: \\\"In the western scientific tradition we stand on the shoulders of giants,\\\" says Young, echoing both Torvalds and Sir Isaac Newton before him. \\\"In business, this translates to not having to reinvent wheels as we go along. The beauty of [the GPL] model is you put your code into the public domain. If you're an independent software vendor and you're trying to build some application and you need a modem-dialer, well, why reinvent modem dialers?\",\n \"title\": \"Free as in Freedom\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"13221182\",\n \"text\": \"Casten on drums) and Metaform played guitar and contributed vocals. Later, Metaform and 4X-ampL formed the electronica duo Razed High. During this time Metaform was known as Hai-Ding, a play on words in that he was \\\"in hiding\\\" and working on what would later become \\\"Standing on the Shoulders of Giants\\\". Tokyo, Japan. Justice Aaron has lived and worked in Tokyo, Japan, since July 2006. His instrumental opus, \\\"Standing on the Shoulders of Giants\\\", was released on April 15, 2008, which spent the entire month of May on the College Music Journal's top 20. It was produced and engineered by\",\n \"title\": \"Metaform\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"13543297\",\n \"text\": \"percussionist Mario Aguilar would also exit the fold. \\\"Standing on the Shoulders of Giants\\\" was issued on January 1, 2000 in Japan, making it the first album to be released in the new millennium. Bruce Dickinson's Air Raid label would pick up the album in Europe where it was re-titled \\\"Tribe of Gypsies III\\\" in order to avoid confusion with Oasis’ \\\"Standing on the Shoulder of Giants\\\". In the fall of 2000, Tribe was invited to join Santana for a partial leg of their \\\"Supernatural\\\" U.S. tour, playing shows in Houston, Gregg Analla's hometown of Albuquerque, Phoenix, Los Angeles, Sacramento\",\n \"title\": \"Tribe of Gypsies\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"6033387\",\n \"text\": \"giant's shoulders sees farther of the two.\\\" Isaac Newton remarked in a letter to his rival Robert Hooke dated February 5, 1676 [O.S.] (February 15, 1676 [N.S.]) that: What Des-Cartes did was a good step. You have added much several ways, & especially in taking the colours of thin plates into philosophical consideration. If I have seen further it is by standing on the sholders of Giants. This has recently been interpreted by a few writers as a sarcastic remark directed at Hooke's appearance. Although Hooke was not of particularly short stature, he was of slight build and had been\",\n \"title\": \"Standing on the shoulders of giants\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"11017827\",\n \"text\": \"by everyone. In \\\"On Ancient and Modern Learning\\\" (1697), Swift's patron, the urbane Sir William Temple, had weighed in on the losing side, that of the Ancients, repeating the famous paradox used by Newton that we moderns see further only because we are dwarves standing on the shoulders of giants. Swift has the books come to life and step down from the library shelves to stage a mock-Homeric battle, while the goddess Criticism, a hideous hag, intervenes on the side of her beloved \\\"Moderns\\\" in the manner of the Olympians of yore. Midway through the story, Aesop, an ancient book,\",\n \"title\": \"Sweetness and light\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"6033385\",\n \"text\": \"responded: \\\"Who sees further a dwarf or a giant? Surely a giant for his eyes are situated at a higher level than those of the dwarf. But if the dwarf is placed on the shoulders of the giant who sees further? ... So too we are dwarfs astride the shoulders of giants. We master their wisdom and move beyond it. Due to their wisdom we grow wise and are able to say all that we say, but not because we are greater than they. Diego de Estella took up the quote in the 16th century; by the 17th century it\",\n \"title\": \"Standing on the shoulders of giants\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"6164059\",\n \"text\": \"because we have stood on the shoulders of giants. It is with this voice that we have come to be known: demonstrating against injustice; defending those around whom voices have fell silent; standing up for what we know is right; as a group and as individuals, we are multipliers of change— we are here. The following are but a few of the many excerpts from EUJS’ history of political activism. These traces of history form part of a living record of European development and remain pivotal to our strength as a union. In December 1982, in cooperation with the World\",\n \"title\": \"European Union of Jewish Students\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"13962180\",\n \"text\": \"in the democratic period of Colombia's history. Santos won 32 of the country's 33 electoral districts. His allies have an overwhelming majority in the Colombian Congress. Santos vowed to continue his predecessor's hardline stance against the country's Marxist rebels. He paraphrased Isaac Newton – \\\"If we have come far it's because we are standing on the shoulders of giants\\\" – and said he would rid Colombia of what he described as the \\\"nightmare of violence\\\". The United States State Department said it was \\\"pleased\\\" with the election of Santos and praised the \\\"spirited debate\\\" before the runoff and Colombia's \\\"longstanding\",\n \"title\": \"2010 Colombian presidential election\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"1760380\",\n \"text\": \"by violating the norm of universalism: a few top scientists enjoying large chunks of awards, grants and jobs, and the spread and distribution of resources and recognition among scientists being highly skewed. Merton referred to his book \\\"On the Shoulders of Giants: A Shandean Postscript\\\" as \\\"OTSOG\\\"—\\\"part parody and part history of ideas\\\" according to the publisher. In OTSOG, he traces the history of Newton's famous comment \\\"If I have seen farther, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants\\\" back to centuries earlier, in the rambling style of Laurence Sterne's \\\"The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman\\\".\",\n \"title\": \"Robert K. Merton\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"6033386\",\n \"text\": \"had become commonplace. Robert Burton, in \\\"The Anatomy of Melancholy\\\" (1621), quotes Stella thus: I say with Didacus Stella, a dwarf standing on the shoulders of a giant may see farther than a giant himself. Later editors of Burton misattributed the quote to Lucan; in their hands Burton's attribution \\\"Didacus Stella, in luc 10, tom. ii\\\" \\\"Didacus on the Gospel of \\\"Luke\\\", chapter 10; volume 2\\\" became a reference to Lucan's \\\"Pharsalia\\\" 2.10. No reference or allusion to the quote is found there. Later in the 17th century, George Herbert, in his \\\"Jacula Prudentum\\\" (1651), wrote \\\"A dwarf on a\",\n \"title\": \"Standing on the shoulders of giants\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"4159126\",\n \"text\": \"who came before her, saying in part, \\\"I am standing on Lena Horne's shoulders. I am standing on Maya Angelou's shoulders. I am standing on Diahann Carroll and Ruby Dee, and most of all, Billie Holiday. You deserved so much more than you were given when you were on this planet. This is for you, Billie.\\\" This performance was filmed at Cafe Brasil in New Orleans and broadcast on HBO on March 12, 2016. McDonald received a 2016 Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited Series or Movie for her role in the broadcast. McDonald had planned\",\n \"title\": \"Audra McDonald\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"10559281\",\n \"text\": \"music from Australia, the US and the United Kingdom and building up their online presence which they felt was the way forward for online music and video distribution. The band changed their name to \\\"Mnemonic\\\" early 1998. They continued to prepare material for the next album tentatively titled \\\"On The Shoulders Of Giants\\\" but abandoned this title early 2000 after hearing that the UK band, \\\"Oasis\\\" had chosen it for the title of their upcoming fourth studio album \\\"Standing on the Shoulder of Giants\\\". Band members met up in Singapore early 1998 and started rehearsing material as well as giving\",\n \"title\": \"Mnemonic (band)\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"11691539\",\n \"text\": \"licenses or for free and open source software. The argument can be made that restrictions are required because companies would not invest weeks and months in development if there were no incentive for revenue generated from sales and licensing fees. A counter argument to this is that standing on shoulders of giants is far cheaper when the giants do not hold IP rights. Some proponents for open source believe that all programs should be available to anyone who wants to study them. With the introduction of digital rights management software, new issues are raised over whether the subverting of DRM\",\n \"title\": \"Cyberethics\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"2917628\",\n \"text\": \"Arthurs and Paul \\\"Guigsy\\\" McGuigan) and hired new producer Mark \\\"Spike\\\" Stent to replace Owen Morris. The album is a modern psychedelic record complete with drum loops, samples, electric sitar, mellotron, synthesizers and backward guitars, resulting in an album more experimental with electronica and heavy psychedelic rock influences. Songs such as \\\"Go Let It Out\\\", the Indian-influenced \\\"Who Feels Love?\\\", and the progressive \\\"Gas Panic!\\\" were a departure from the band's earlier style. The album's title was taken from the words made famous by Sir Isaac Newton: If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of\",\n \"title\": \"Standing on the Shoulder of Giants\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"191913\",\n \"text\": \"On the other hand, the widely known proverb about standing on the shoulders of giants, published among others by seventeenth-century poet George Herbert (a former orator of the University of Cambridge and fellow of Trinity College) in his \\\"Jacula Prudentum\\\" (1651), had as its main point that \\\"a dwarf on a giant's shoulders sees farther of the two\\\", and so its effect as an analogy would place Newton himself rather than Hooke as the 'dwarf'. In a later memoir, Newton wrote: I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been\",\n \"title\": \"Isaac Newton\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"2917636\",\n \"text\": \"the week following the episode's airing. In March 2000, the IFPI certififed Oasis for selling one million units of the album in Europe. Eleven years after its release, Noel Gallagher said he regretted releasing the album, saying he was not feeling inspired as a composer, particularly for going off his drug addiction with prescription drugs, \\\"which is fucking worse because they come from a doctor.\\\" This was partly a motivation to delegate the songwriting to the other bandmembers in later albums, as Noel considered \\\"I'd slowed down as a writer and didn't feel like I could keep writing 20 songs\",\n \"title\": \"Standing on the Shoulder of Giants\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"11352214\",\n \"text\": \"On Giants' Shoulders On Giants' Shoulders was written in 1998 by Melvyn Bragg. The book was assembled after a series of interviews Bragg had with current scientists about the world's greatest scientists such as Archimedes, Isaac Newton and Einstein. Bragg, who brands himself as a \\\"non-scientist\\\", conducted these interviews on BBC Radio 4 for other non-scientists. The book looks at the notion of being a \\\"genius\\\" and through discussions with 20th-century scientists explores the extent to which the great scientists of history were geniuses. The book's title is taken from Newton's 1675 quote: \\\"If I have seen further it is\",\n \"title\": \"On Giants' Shoulders\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"2011020\",\n \"text\": \"and Modern Learning\\\" (where he provided the first English formulation of the commonplace that modern critics see more only because they are dwarves standing on the shoulders of giants), and Temple's somewhat naive essay prompted a small flurry of responses. Among others, two men who took the side opposing Temple were Richard Bentley (classicist and editor) and William Wotton (critic). The entire discussion in England was over by 1696, and yet it seems to have fired Swift's imagination. Swift saw in the opposing camps of Ancients and Moderns a shorthand of two general ways of looking at the world (see\",\n \"title\": \"A Tale of a Tub\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"6033382\",\n \"text\": \"of giants. He pointed out that we see more and farther than our predecessors, not because we have keener vision or greater height, but because we are lifted up and borne aloft on their gigantic stature.\\\" According to medieval historian Richard William Southern, Bernard was comparing contemporary 12th century scholars to the ancient scholars of Greece and Rome: [The phrase] sums up the quality of the cathedral schools in the history of learning, and indeed characterizes the age which opened with Gerbert (950–1003) and Fulbert (960–1028) and closed in the first quarter of the 12th century with Peter Abelard. [The\",\n \"title\": \"Standing on the shoulders of giants\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"3938171\",\n \"text\": \"They'll split now. I was a real fan, and I'm not just saying that. For me, Oasis had breathed life back into rock 'n' roll.\\\" He was unaware that Noel Gallagher – who knew Archer from both their days on the Creation Records label – had rung his home in London where it was Archer's son Joel's birthday party. Once Archer's mother had recovered, Gallagher invited him to Olympic Studios, where Oasis were mixing \\\"Standing on the Shoulder of Giants\\\". \\\"We went to the pub and I couldn't stand not knowing if I was a part of the band. After\",\n \"title\": \"Gem Archer\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"6033388\",\n \"text\": \"afflicted from his youth with a severe kyphosis. However, at this time Hooke and Newton were on good terms and had exchanged many letters in tones of mutual regard. Only later, when Robert Hooke criticized some of Newton's ideas regarding optics, was Newton so offended that he withdrew from public debate. The two men remained enemies until Hooke's death. Samuel Taylor Coleridge, in \\\"The Friend\\\" (1828), wrote: The dwarf sees farther than the giant, when he has the giant's shoulder to mount on. Against this notion, Friedrich Nietzsche argues that a dwarf (the academic scholar) brings even the most sublime\",\n \"title\": \"Standing on the shoulders of giants\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"17738217\",\n \"text\": \"On the Shoulders of Giants (film) On the Shoulders of Giants: The Story of the Greatest Team You Never Heard Of is a 2011 historical sports documentary film directed by Deborah Morales, written by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Anna Waterhouse. This film tells the story of the All-Black professional basketball team the New York Renaissance or Harlem Rens. The story of the Harlem Rens and the playing style they exhibited was exactly like the popular brand-new sound of that era, jazz. Like jazz, the Rens were brash, young, strong, and black; all of which frightened the status quo. Which meant that,\",\n \"title\": \"On the Shoulders of Giants (film)\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"17738221\",\n \"text\": \"another black powerhouse, the Harlem Globetrotters. If they became victorious, following that game would be their first “official” contest against a white team: the previous year’s champions, the Oshkosh All-Stars. And nobody, but nobody, thought the Rens were ready. This film has several noteworthy interviews, including with: Rev. Al Sharpton, Maya Angelou, Cornel West, Rev. Jesse Jackson, Richard Lapchick, Spike Lee, Bob Costas, Dick Enberg, Charles Barkley, John Wooden, David Stern, Bill Russell, Dr. J, Clyde Drexler, Carmelo Anthony On the Shoulders of Giants (film) On the Shoulders of Giants: The Story of the Greatest Team You Never Heard Of\",\n \"title\": \"On the Shoulders of Giants (film)\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"5228123\",\n \"text\": \"in the Dunwood and are said to inhabit the Hest Mountains beyond Inkarra in great numbers. In the distant past, they came north and invaded, but were slaughtered and their numbers greatly reduced. Frowth giants are extremely large, standing roughly twenty feet tall and eight feet wide at the shoulders. They are covered in a matted yellow fur, and their faces are dominated by a long snout. Their huge size and strength makes them useful in labor and in combat. Frowth giants sometimes wear armor, and they carry huge iron-bound staves as weapons. With sharp teeth, they will kill or\",\n \"title\": \"The Runelords\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"4243446\",\n \"text\": \"and North Jersey, where the Giants play their home games. New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, witnessing the first New York sports team championship victory as mayor, praised the hometown team's upset victory, saying; \\\"New York has come back many times in the past, and Big Blue proved tonight that you should never, ever, count us out.\\\" Many New Yorkers polled the Giants' win to be among the most satisfying championship victories in New York sports history. There were also a series of firsts with the championship, not just for the Giants, but also for the city of New York and\",\n \"title\": \"Super Bowl XLII\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"15870680\",\n \"text\": \"Standing in salah Standing () is an integral part of the Islamic salah. The prayer begins in the standing position and some prayers only require the standing position, such as Salat al-Janazah. To \\\"Stand before God\\\" is sometimes used in the Quran in reference to the Islamic prayer. A general unit or cycle of salah called raka'ah is commenced while standing and saying the takbir, which is الله أَكْبَر (transliteration \\\"Allahu-akbar\\\", meaning God is Greater). The hands are raised level with shoulders or level with top of the ears, with fingers apart and not spaced out or together. It is\",\n \"title\": \"Standing in salah\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"13221179\",\n \"text\": \"Metaform Metaform (born Justice Aaron) is an American music producer, musician, and songwriter with numerous LP and EP releases. He is considered a prominent figure in the development of instrumental Hip-Hop and Trance. He first gained notice in 2008 with the release of his debut album \\\"Standing on the Shoulders of Giants\\\", which was constructed entirely from old vinyl samples. Metaform grew up in Los Angeles in a musical household. His Dad played Leonard Cohen, Simon & Garfunkel, and Ravi Shankar records, while Mom listened to Whitney Houston and Curtis Mayfield. His parents divorced in 1988 and soon after he\",\n \"title\": \"Metaform\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"6033383\",\n \"text\": \"phrase] is not a great claim; neither, however, is it an example of abasement before the shrine of antiquity. It is a very shrewd and just remark, and the important and original point was the dwarf \\\"could\\\" see a little further than the giant. That this was possible was above all due to the cathedral schools with their lack of a well-rooted tradition and their freedom from a clearly defined routine of study. The phrase also appears in the works of the Jewish tosaphist Isaiah di Trani (c. 1180 – c. 1250): Should Joshua the son of Nun endorse a\",\n \"title\": \"Standing on the shoulders of giants\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"6033384\",\n \"text\": \"mistaken position, I would reject it out of hand, I do not hesitate to express my opinion, regarding such matters in accordance with the modicum of intelligence allotted to me. I was never arrogant claiming \\\"My Wisdom served me well\\\". Instead I applied to myself the parable of the philosophers. For I heard the following from the philosophers, The wisest of the philosophers was asked: \\\"We admit that our predecessors were wiser than we. At the same time we criticize their comments, often rejecting them and claiming that the truth rests with us. How is this possible?\\\" The wise philosopher\",\n \"title\": \"Standing on the shoulders of giants\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"5138599\",\n \"text\": \"played live during the Shoulders tour of 2000. Paul Weller recorded a version of b-side \\\"One Way Road\\\" for his covers-album \\\"Studio 150\\\" in 2004. The Weller version was subsequently used as the theme tune to Jack Dee's sitcom \\\"Lead Balloon\\\". The video was filmed in Death Valley. All songs written by Noel Gallagher except track 3 Who Feels Love? \\\"Who Feels Love?\\\" is a song by the English rock band Oasis, written by the band's lead guitarist Noel Gallagher. It became the second single to be released from the album \\\"Standing on the Shoulder of Giants\\\", peaking at number\",\n \"title\": \"Who Feels Love?\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"3770591\",\n \"text\": \"the opponent with upper back/shoulders. Innovated by The Great Sasuke calling it \\\"Senton Atomico\\\", Jeff Hardy popularized this move in North America, calling it \\\"Swanton Bomb\\\". Another variant where the attacking wrestler, facing away from the ring, does a 180° twist followed by the senton bomb. This was popularised by Jeff Hardy calling it \\\"Whisper in the Wind\\\". Jumping forward from an elevated position, the attacking wrestler executes a mid-air backflip ending in a senton. The wrestler dives from an elevated position tucking both arms in, and striking a standing opponent with one shoulder to the upper body. A diving\",\n \"title\": \"Professional wrestling aerial techniques\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"1644731\",\n \"text\": \"title \\\"Standing on the Shoulders of Giants\\\" in which he gives credit for many of the core ideas of Theory of Constraints. Goldratt has sought many times to show the correlation between various improvement methods. Goldratt has been criticized on lack of openness in his theories, an example being him not releasing the algorithm he used for the Optimum Performance Training system. Some view him as unscientific with many of his theories, tools and techniques not being a part of the public domain, rather a part of his own framework of profiting on his ideas. According to Gupta and Snyder\",\n \"title\": \"Theory of constraints\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"10115374\",\n \"text\": \"Wolff currently teaches a variety of screenwriting courses at the University of Southern California, including CTWR 206 and CTWR 499. Wolff created the course,\\\"Standing on the Shoulders of Giants.\\\" It focused on the role and importance of the storyteller in society. Wolff was one of the founders of the \\\"Unica Film Collaborative\\\", an experimental film group that focuses on the \\\"process\\\" of filmmaking, rather than the product. Unica's first feature film, \\\"Blue in Green\\\", was chosen by Los Angeles Times film critic Kevin Thomas to screen at the LA Cinematheque's Alternative Film Festival. In 2007, as an actor Wolff played\",\n \"title\": \"Paul Wolff\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"9894651\",\n \"text\": \"Marc Tucker Marc S. Tucker (born 1939) is the president and CEO of the National Center on Education and the Economy. He is active in education reform and benchmarking the policies and practices of the countries with the best education systems in the world. Tucker published a report on international education benchmarking entitled \\\"Standing on the Shoulders of Giants: An American Agenda for Education Reform\\\". His book, \\\"Surpassing Shanghai\\\", was published by Harvard Education Press in November 2011. According to the publisher, Surpassing Shanghai aims to answer a simple question: How would one redesign the American education system if the\",\n \"title\": \"Marc Tucker\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"9894654\",\n \"text\": \"special studies with a concentration in telecommunications policy at George Washington University, graduating in 1982. Marc Tucker Marc S. Tucker (born 1939) is the president and CEO of the National Center on Education and the Economy. He is active in education reform and benchmarking the policies and practices of the countries with the best education systems in the world. Tucker published a report on international education benchmarking entitled \\\"Standing on the Shoulders of Giants: An American Agenda for Education Reform\\\". His book, \\\"Surpassing Shanghai\\\", was published by Harvard Education Press in November 2011. According to the publisher, Surpassing Shanghai aims\",\n \"title\": \"Marc Tucker\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"17268898\",\n \"text\": \"300 children and is self-sustaining. Bolton’s book, Successful Property Investing, was an Amazon bestseller and has been updated three times since first publication in 2008. He is also a keynote speaker having spoken on stages alongside Richard Reed (Innocent), Simon Woodroffe (YO!), James Caan (Dragons Den), Kriss Akabussi (World Champion athlete), Davina McCall, Ben Fogle, Michael Gerber (Emyth) and many others. His primary keynote talk is ‘Standing on the Shoulders of Giants’ which promotes the core concept Bolton believes in passionately - ‘everyone should have a mentor’. Bolton also speaks regularly and for free at local schools and universities on\",\n \"title\": \"Steve Bolton (entrepreneur)\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"1629440\",\n \"text\": \"have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.\\\" (Newton was Warden and later Master of the Royal Mint.) In February 2015, the Royal Mint announced a new design featuring Britannia by Antony Dufort replacing the previous design. The new coins will feature the edge inscription , meaning \\\"I will claim the four seas\\\", an inscription previously featured on coins bearing the image of Britannia. The comparative rarity of the Maklouf-effigy coins has led to an urban myth that they are much more valuable than the other coins, but this is not true – there were over\",\n \"title\": \"Two pounds (British coin)\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"13799316\",\n \"text\": \"Jill and produces music by himself and others on their Shipyard label. 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 Joe Hutton, Willy Taylor, Will Atkinson, Mike Tickell, Allan Wood, The John Dagg Band) 1987 1988 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 2001 2008 2009 2010 'Standing on the Shoulders of Giants', article in May/June 2007 issue of Living Tradition Magazine. 'Selling Coals to Newcastle' by Judith Murphy, published by North East England History Institute 2008 'The Mocking Horse' by Alan Hull, illustrated by Geoff Heslop 'Dazzling Stranger, Bert Jansch and the British Folk\",\n \"title\": \"Geoff Heslop\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"17579112\",\n \"text\": \"Jordan Sargent of \\\"Spin\\\" praised Boi-1da's production as \\\"brilliant.\\\" Despite the positive reviews, most critics dismissed Jay-Z's guest appearance as \\\"lackluster.\\\" Bryant Kitching of Consequence of Sound put down Jay-Z's appearance saying, \\\"It's the sequel to \\\"Thank Me Later\\\"'s \\\"Light Up\\\", but the contrast between the two tracks couldn't be more stark. It's here, standing shoulder to shoulder with giants, where it's easiest to see how much Drake's craft has improved since he broke onto the scene. He doesn't need to lean on another MC; He's honed his game to the point where he can make even one of the\",\n \"title\": \"Pound Cake / Paris Morton Music 2\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"12047275\",\n \"text\": \"from touring with Betzefer to start a new project dubbed On Shoulders of Giants together with 7% Mind Usage guitarist Idan Epshtein and Jerusalem based singer Katie Danielson. The three recorded their debut album titled \\\"Come Crashing\\\", which was released independently on September 17, 2009. Avital handled most of the guitar duties on the record as well as the vocals, and the bass. In early 2010, Tamir has started the alternative/garage rock band Black Swan with ex-Got No Shame lead guitarist Matan Ergas (AKA Nose). The band has played extensively in Israel through 2010 while Betzefer was on hiatus, playing\",\n \"title\": \"Avital Tamir\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"2643827\",\n \"text\": \"on to his/her shoulders, and while the opponent is on his/her shoulders, he/she uses the hand hooking the opponent's leg to reach upwards and clutch the wrist of the arm opposite the hooked leg. While maintaining the wrist-clutch, they then perform the driver. There is a further variation that does not include the shoulder lift that sees the wrestler hook the leg and wrist while the opponent is standing in front of him/her, lift the opponent upside down and then fall to the sitout position. This move was made popular by wrestler Low Ki who calls it the Ki Krusher.\",\n \"title\": \"Professional wrestling throws\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"13546227\",\n \"text\": \"Swedish label Record Heaven in 2001. Another song, \\\"Over All\\\", written with Downset's Rey Oropeza, is uncredited and plays at roughly the 10-minute mark of \\\"Parisienne Walkways\\\". \\\"The Flower\\\" was co-written by Roy Z and Bruce Dickinson of Iron Maiden. Sian Llewellyn of Classic Rock magazine called the album \\\"\\\"a summer stunner.\\\"\\\" Musicians Contributions - Juan Perez : bass on \\\"Rays Of The Sun\\\", \\\"Admit It\\\" and \\\"It Don't Bother Me\\\"<br> - Roy Z : bass on \\\"The Flower\\\", \\\"Angel\\\" and \\\"Dreams\\\" Production Credits<br> All tracks produced, mixed and engineered by Roy Z & Joe Floyd<br> except tracks 2, 3\",\n \"title\": \"Standing on the Shoulders of Giants (Tribe of Gypsies album)\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"4221193\",\n \"text\": \"New England Patriots to win Super Bowl XLII in one of the greatest upsets in sports history. Barber was present to cover the event, but was not well received by most of his former teammates and Giants' fans, after his disparaging remarks about his former teammate and Giants quarterback, Eli Manning. On March 8, 2011, Barber filed paperwork to come out of retirement. Although the New York Giants still retained the rights to Barber, the Giants planned to release him once the NFL and the NFLPA reach a collective bargaining agreement. On April 28, 2011, Barber was quoted saying that\",\n \"title\": \"Tiki Barber\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"1353506\",\n \"text\": \"time he composed his greatest works, published almost certainly in 1159, the \\\"Policraticus, sive de nugis curialium et de vestigiis philosophorum\\\" and the \\\"Metalogicon\\\", writings invaluable as storehouses of information regarding the matter and form of scholastic education, and remarkable for their cultivated style and humanist tendency. The \\\"Policraticus\\\" also sheds light on the decadence of the 12th-century court manners and the lax ethics of royalty. The idea of contemporaries \\\"standing on the shoulders of giants\\\" of Antiquity first appears in written form in the \\\"Metalogicon\\\". After the death of Theobald in 1161, John continued as secretary to his successor,\",\n \"title\": \"John of Salisbury\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"191912\",\n \"text\": \"to establish.\\\" English poet Alexander Pope wrote the famous epitaph: Nature and nature's laws lay hid in night;<br> God said \\\"Let Newton be\\\" and all was light. Newton was relatively modest about his achievements, writing in a letter to Robert Hooke in February 1676: If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants. Two writers think that the above quotation, written at a time when Newton and Hooke were in dispute over optical discoveries, was an oblique attack on Hooke (said to have been short and hunchbacked), rather than—or in addition to—a statement of modesty.\",\n \"title\": \"Isaac Newton\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"9012143\",\n \"text\": \"worth were necessary to receive recognition for progress in scientific methodology, but were not made to denigrate the humanities. Statements such as Isaac Newton's less than original \\\"If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.\\\" was recognition not only of other previous leaders in the Scientific Revolution, but of the Ancients who provided foundations in the sciences and humanities. Gould cites George Hakewill, Archdeacon of Surrey's 1628 essay in defense of Modernist convictions. There Hakewill argues against both the common belief that the Universe was in constant decay and the Renaissance portrayal of Ancients\",\n \"title\": \"The Hedgehog, the Fox, and the Magister's Pox\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"19149934\",\n \"text\": \"2011 exhibition \\\"Albatross Omnibus\\\" at The Power Plant;\\\"We May be Standing on the Shoulders of Giants but Some of us are Looking at the Stars\\\" in 2008 at the Southern Alberta Art Gallery in Lethbridge Alberta; and in 2005 he presented \\\"KIOSK 2005\\\" at the Toronto Sculpture Garden. He has been included in numerous group exhibitions including at the Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, Toronto; National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa; Contemporary Art Gallery (Vancouver); Casino Luxembourg; Mercer Union, Toronto; Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne; and the Swiss Institute, New York. In 2012, Sullivan was a shortlisted for the Sobey\",\n \"title\": \"Derek Sullivan (artist)\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"8674601\",\n \"text\": \"enclosed garden is a Well house, The only structure on the site which remains standing today. The name \\\"Hollinshead hall\\\" is presumed to come from the Hollinshead family who are said to have built the hall at some point before the 14th century and from the Manor of Hollinshead itself, however sources to verify this are being awaited. To date the earliest record of Hollinshead hall seems to appear in 1311 (where?), Although it is probable the hall did indeed exist before then. One theory (which?) suggests that the name Hollinshead hall does not come from a family name at\",\n \"title\": \"Hollinshead Hall\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"11690817\",\n \"text\": \"Where Did It All Go Wrong? \\\"Where Did It All Go Wrong?\\\" is a song and single by the English rock band Oasis, originally released on their 2000 album, \\\"Standing on the Shoulder of Giants\\\". Written by guitarist Noel Gallagher, it is one of two songs on \\\"Standing on the Shoulder of Giants\\\" that features him on lead vocals. In explaining why front man Liam Gallagher did not sing the song, Noel claimed that: \\\"[Vocally] Liam just couldn't get that one. The melody shifts quite a lot... Liam hasn't got that dynamism in his voice.\\\" Noel stated that the song's\",\n \"title\": \"Where Did It All Go Wrong?\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"8444567\",\n \"text\": \"with proudly waving feathers, Many-colored mantle on his shoulders And around his neck a silken kerchief. Then he gazes round and looks upon me, He takes off his many-colored mantle, Takes it off, and gives it to me, saying:\\\" \\\"Here, oh Maiden, is my colored mantle, By it thou wilt keep me in remembrance, By this mantle shall my name live with thee. Now, dear Maid, must I go forth to perish There where camps the noble Prince's army; Pray to God for me, dear Maid, my sister, That I may come back again in safety. And that all good\",\n \"title\": \"Pavle Orlović\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"19070570\",\n \"text\": \"later on restored to life. Idumban prayed that: 1. Whosoever carried on his shoulders the Kavadi, signifying the two hills and visited the temple on a vow, should be blessed and; 2. He should be given the privilege of standing sentinel at the entrance to the hill. Hence we have the Idumban shrine halfway up the hill where every pilgrim is expected to offer obeisance to Idumban before entering the temple of Dandayudhapani. Since then, pilgrims to Palani bring their offerings on their shoulders in a kavadi. The custom has spread from Palani to all Muruga shrines worldwide. Idumban Idumban\",\n \"title\": \"Idumban\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"13495883\",\n \"text\": \"later on restored to life. Idumban prayed that whoever carried on his shoulders the kavadi — signifying the two hills — and visited the temple on a vow should be blessed and that He (Idumban)should be given the privilege of standing sentinel at the entrance to the hill. Hence the Idumban shrine is halfway up the hill where every pilgrim is expected to offer obeisance to Idumban before entering the temple of Dandâyudhapani. Since then, pilgrims to Palani bring their offerings on their shoulders in a kavadi. The custom has spread from Palani to all Muruga shrines worldwide. www.thehindu.com/ CHENNAI,\",\n \"title\": \"Kaduvettividuthy\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"15870687\",\n \"text\": \"the above which orders to \\\"stand shoulder to shoulder\\\" to mean: \\\"Aligning the body parts with one another so that the shoulders of each person praying are arranged and in line with the shoulders of others. In this way, shoulders and necks will be aligned.\\\" Standing in salah Standing () is an integral part of the Islamic salah. The prayer begins in the standing position and some prayers only require the standing position, such as Salat al-Janazah. To \\\"Stand before God\\\" is sometimes used in the Quran in reference to the Islamic prayer. A general unit or cycle of salah\",\n \"title\": \"Standing in salah\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"7953343\",\n \"text\": \"such he accepted Pope Francis invitation to come to the Colloquium on Marriage, held in the Vatican, where he spoke on 18 November 2014. In 2014 Moore commented on reparative therapy, saying, \\\"The utopian idea if you come to Christ and if you go through our program, you're going to be immediately set free from attraction or anything you're struggling with, I don't think that's a Christian idea. Faithfulness to Christ means obedience to Christ. It does not necessarily mean that someone's attractions are going to change.\\\" He added, \\\"The Bible doesn't promise us freedom from temptation. The Bible promises\",\n \"title\": \"Russell D. Moore\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"19697036\",\n \"text\": \"further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of Giants.” Keynote speakers included Stanford neuroscientist Professor Walter Greenleaf, PhD, Graham Smith, David A. Smith, Dr. Sara Diamond - President of OCAD University, Moses Znaimer, Charlie Fink, Dr. Karan Singh and James McCrae - founders of JanusVR and additional live interviews with Steve Mann, and Tim Merel among others. Several panels, under the banner of \\\"Super Sessions\\\" featured leaders in the field of Virtual & Augmented Reality, health sciences (Dr. Lora Appel, Dr. Tom Overly, Dr. Stephane Bouchard), \\\"Out-of-Home\\\" entertainment (James Jensen of THE VOID, Eyal Kleiner of IMAX,\",\n \"title\": \"VRTO\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"13217391\",\n \"text\": \"of Education) in November 2009, \\\"in recognition of his substantial contribution to pioneering work in race relations and the extension of opportunity to socially excluded young people\\\", and the University of Bristol (Doctor of Law) in July 2014 \\\"for his dedication to fighting for equality and civil rights across Bristol and around the world for over 60 years\\\". In November 2017, Stephenson received a Pride of Britain Award for Lifetime Achievement, presented to him by Lenny Henry, who said: \\\"It is a well-known saying that to achieve greatness you have to stand on the shoulders of giants. You really are\",\n \"title\": \"Paul Stephenson (civil rights campaigner)\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"2643868\",\n \"text\": \"as when the opponent lands - he/she would land on their head as opposed to their back. It was named the \\\"Frankensteiner\\\" by Scott Steiner, who used it as a finishing move. The move also has a variation where the opponent is sitting on the top rope, that variation is also referred to as frankensteiner. Another variation of the Frankensteiner sees a grounded wrestler first \\\"kip-up\\\" on to a standing opponent's shoulders, this is where a wrestler rolls on to the back of his/her shoulders bringing his/her legs up and kicking forward to build momentum to lift themselves off the\",\n \"title\": \"Professional wrestling throws\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"12116425\",\n \"text\": \"Iru-to says; \\\"I am the scribe of the Divine Book which says what has been and effects what is yet to be.\\\" Joseph Smith explained figures 22 and 23 as: \\\"the medium of Kli-flos-is-es, or Hah-ko-kau-beam, the stars represented by numbers (figures) 22 and 23, receiving light from the revolutions of Kolob.\\\" The standing figure has a double ram's head with undulating horns and wears the double crown, symbolic of Amun, god of creation. Plutarch quoted Manetho as saying that Amun meant \\\"that which is concealed.\\\" On Amun's shoulders are jackal heads. In his left hand is the staff of\",\n \"title\": \"Joseph Smith Hypocephalus\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"18046407\",\n \"text\": \"a bull's-eye on them,\\\" Gündüz \\\"is not afraid,\\\" saying that even if Erdogan gives in to protesters, \\\"a new government leader will come in and do similar things.\\\" Turkey's authoritarian system, he said, \\\"must be eliminated to make room for more democracy and freedom.\\\" Although he intends to continue to agitate for change, however, he \\\"isn't planning a repeat performance\\\" of his standing-man act, explaining: \\\"One does something like that once, and that's it.\\\" Erdem Gündüz Erdem Gündüz is a Turkish dancer, actor, performance artist, choreographer, and teacher who, as a result of his actions during the 2013–14 protests in\",\n \"title\": \"Erdem Gündüz\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"17527695\",\n \"text\": \"relief of Montana and trying to run out the clock when the 49ers fell prey to the relentlessness of the Giants' defense. Giants Nose Tackle Erik Howard turned his shoulders perpendicular to the line of scrimmage in order to negate a double-team block by 49ers' Guard Guy McIntyre and Center Jesse Sapolu. McIntyre released from his block on Erik Howard to check the oncoming rush of Giants linebacker Pepper Johnson allowing Howard to knife through as Jesse Sapolu knocked him to the ground and Howard managed to get his helmet on the football when he came into contact with 49ers\",\n \"title\": \"49ers–Giants rivalry\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"14376975\",\n \"text\": \"this is extreme, but others who are more centrist and more religious do not see anything wrong with what he is saying. They see a brave man who is expressing what he feels. It all depends on where your political compass lies.\\\" Nevertheless, Setton does see a difference between these extremists and the Islamic fundamentalists, who were the subject of his previous film \\\"In the Name of God\\\". He explains, \\\"They have something unique to them - the adoration of death as a value. With us, it is something internal that does not come from the same motives, but from\",\n \"title\": \"Israel's Next War\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"2518177\",\n \"text\": \"Sir William Temple published an answer to Fontenelle entitled \\\"Of Ancient and Modern Learning\\\" in 1690. His essay introduced two metaphors to the debate that would be reused by later authors. First, he proposed that modern man was just a dwarf standing upon the \\\"shoulders of giants\\\" (that modern man saw farther because he begins with the observations and learning of the ancients). They possessed a clear view of nature, and modern man only reflected/refined their vision. These metaphors, of the dwarf/giant and the reflecting/emanative light, would show up in Swift's satire and others. 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Nonetheless, the Giants had captivated New York by this time, even though the sold out game was played in single-digit weather with 35 mph winds, only 299 of the 65,000+ fans who bought tickets stayed home. Before the 1962 season, Gifford came out of his injury-forced retirement, saying he missed the game too much. He changed positions from halfback to flanker. During the season, Tittle and wide receiver Del Shofner set still-standing team records when Tittle threw for seven touchdowns and Shofner\",\n \"title\": \"History of the New York Giants (1925–78)\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"2643846\",\n \"text\": \"shoulders, flipping him to the mat on to his back. The other closely resembles a Death Valley driver. The wrestler performs the fireman's carry from a standing position, then tosses the opponent off his shoulders as he drops down to his knees causing the opponent to land on his back. The standing variant is a higher impact version of the move because of the wrestler falling from a greater height, and is a move closely associated with John Cena through his use of it as his finishing maneuver, which he calls the \\\"Attitude Adjustment\\\". Another variation sees the move done\",\n \"title\": \"Professional wrestling throws\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"2917637\",\n \"text\": \"every two years.\\\" Standing on the Shoulder of Giants Standing on the Shoulder of Giants is the fourth studio album by English rock band Oasis, released on 28 February 2000 by Big Brother Records. It is the 16th fastest selling album in UK chart history, selling over 310,000 copies in its first week. \\\"Standing on the Shoulder of Giants\\\" has been certified double platinum by the British Phonographic Industry and has sold around 208,000 copies in the US. 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After a disagreement within the band Noel left the tour after 24 May 2000, quitting overseas touring with Oasis. He only returned for shows within the United Kingdom and Ireland, before re-joining the band fully after the tour had ended. The live album \\\"Familiar to Millions\\\" was recorded at the two concerts at Wembley Stadium.\",\n \"title\": \"Standing on the Shoulder of Giants Tour\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"9693004\",\n \"text\": \"Thom Jurek of \\\"Allmusic\\\" gave the album four out five stars, giving the album's quality much praise, saying, \\\"In all, this is not only a solid effort; it stands head and shoulders over most of the stuff that's come out of Nash Vegas in over a decade. Even if it doesn't sell a copy, it's a triumphant return for Smith. She hasn't lost a whit of her gift as a singer or as a writer.\\\" Jurek went on to give it praise, saying, \\\"Connie Smith is a bona fide country and gospel music legend; she is quite literally the only\",\n \"title\": \"Connie Smith (1998 album)\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"2552066\",\n \"text\": \"adult offenders were bent over for punishment. Some models also allowed a standing or leaning position for other implements. A simple alternative position known from school discipline is horsing, where the person to be punished is held by the arms over the back of another person (e.g. a classmate), or on the shoulders of two or more colleagues. However, at Eton College and schools of similar standing, the recipient was made to kneel on a special wooden block. 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He then resumed vocational training classes until moving to\",\n \"title\": \"Renato Curcio\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"15882926\",\n \"text\": \"Thomas Erlewine of AllMusic gave it two stars out of five, saying that although some of the songs had \\\"signs of life\\\" to them, \\\"the songs and production demand that all energy come from young Scotty, who amiably sleepwalks through the tunes, expecting his 'aw shucks' smile will translate onto record. That it doesn’t is not necessarily on his shoulders -- it’s better to place the blame on the machine, here run by producer Mark Bright.\\\" \\\"Rolling Stone\\\" critic Caryn Ganz also gave the album two stars out of five, stating that \\\"his debut – a ho-hum jaunt through an\",\n \"title\": \"Clear as Day\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"19475388\",\n \"text\": \"standing over Morales' prostrate body, saying \\\"Don't touch her. Let the bitch die\\\". Morales was rushed downstairs to the apartment of novelist Doc Hume and from there in a taxi cab to University Hospital for emergency surgery. While she remained in critical condition, Morales initially told doctors that she \\\"had fallen on some glass\\\", denying any wrongdoing on the part of Mailer, who had come to the hospital later that night to \\\"lecture Adele's surgeon on the likely dimensions of her wound\\\". Mailer appeared the next day in a scheduled interview on \\\"The Mike Wallace Show\\\", where he spoke of\",\n \"title\": \"Stabbing of Adele Morales by Norman Mailer\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"15909543\",\n \"text\": \"running back Brandon Jacobs taunted Ryan, saying, \\\"Time to shut up, fat boy!\\\" The two reportedly came close to blows in a tense post game meeting. The Giants win over the Jets eliminated the Jets from the playoffs and helped the Giants secure the NFC East title and a spot in the playoffs, where they would go on to win Super Bowl XLVI, once again by defeating the New England Patriots. Giants kicker Lawrence Tynes called the win over the Jets the turning point of the season that spurred them onto their Super Bowl run. Despite a Super Bowl that\",\n \"title\": \"Giants–Jets rivalry\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"3244185\",\n \"text\": \"saw one lifeboat tip all of its passengers into the sea. Pope and Friend decided that it would be a better idea to jump from the deck. Before jumping, Theodate turned to her maid saying, \\\"Come, Robinson.\\\" In the water, Pope was buffeted by debris and struggling swimmers. She was struck on the head by debris. \\\"People all around me were fighting, striking and struggling,\\\" she later recalled. Then a man \\\"insane with fright\\\" made \\\"a sudden jump and landed clean on my shoulders, believing I could support him.\\\" She lost consciousness in the water, and when she was rescued,\",\n \"title\": \"Theodate Pope Riddle\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"4112792\",\n \"text\": \"in the U.S., withdrew much of its advertising when he parked an Opel Kadett in a junkyard for a \\\"hit piece\\\", AKA James R. Healey, auto columnist for USAToday, recalled that while speaking at the Washington Automotive Press Association, Davis also likened General Motors managers to the piano players in a whorehouse, \\\"aware of what was going on upstairs but unable to do much about it even if they were so inclined.\\\" He ended the speech by saying that the company was standing on the \\\"shoulders of midgets\\\". The company subsequently pulled much of its advertising. In 2010, he published\",\n \"title\": \"David E. Davis\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"20289782\",\n \"text\": \"the shoulders of giants.\\\" The chorus and verses for the song were developed separately and are set to different tempos; according to Lights, this created a \\\"challenging structure\\\" to deal with, but the writers were determined to mesh the two parts. \\\"Giants\\\" debuted at number 41 on the Canada Hot AC chart dated August 12, 2017 and has since reached a peak of 14. \\\"Giants\\\" also debuted at number 39 on the \\\"Billboard\\\" Adult Pop Songs chart dated August 19, 2017. This made it Lights' first song to chart in the United States. The accompanying music video for \\\"Giants\\\" was\",\n \"title\": \"Giants (Lights song)\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"2364878\",\n \"text\": \"Connacht's other allies panic and Medb is forced to retreat. She does, however, manage to bring Donn Cuailnge back to Connacht, where the bull fights Finnbhennach, kills him, but is mortally wounded, and wanders around Ireland creating placenames before finally returning home to die of exhaustion. The image of Cú Chulainn dying, tied to a post so that even in death he might face his enemies standing, a pose which was adopted by early 20th-century Irish republicans does not come from the \\\"Táin\\\" but from a later story. However it has been incorporated into some oral versions of the \\\"Táin\\\",\",\n \"title\": \"Táin Bó Cúailnge\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"3998051\",\n \"text\": \"am. I'm comfortable enough to come clean now. It's a weight off my shoulders\\\". On 30 March 2007, Michael Kirby, then a judge of the High Court of Australia, described Callea as an \\\"admirable Australian\\\" for coming out. Justice Kirby added, \\\"In terms of influencing popular culture and understanding of the reality of human sexual diversity, I would trade ten judges for one popular singer.\\\" Callea has also admitted to suffering from depression in his teenage years, saying, \\\"I went through major depression. I hated myself. I had to see a psychologist. I wasn't talking to anybody. My parents didn't\",\n \"title\": \"Anthony Callea\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"5185946\",\n \"text\": \"wrestler then bends forward and slams the opponent down to the mat on his back or shoulders. It is also known as an over-the-shoulder powerbomb. Three wrestlers form a powerbomb where two wrestlers usually set up another wrestler to execute the powerbomb. This was popularized specifically by The Shield (professional wrestling). The wrestler faces a standing opponent, bends them forwards, takes a hold around their waist and then flips the opponent up and over so the opponent is sitting on the wrestler's shoulders. 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Only with his digits.\\\" James Cameron also paid tribute by saying, \\\"I think all of us who are practitioners in the arts of science fiction and fantasy movies now all feel that we're standing on the shoulders of a giant. If not for Ray's contribution to the collective dreamscape, we wouldn't be who we are.\\\" Ray left his collection, which includes all of his film related artefacts to the Ray & Diana Harryhausen Foundation, which he set up\",\n \"title\": \"Ray Harryhausen\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"13002757\",\n \"text\": \"and their ears should be properly furred and silky to the touch. In body they should resemble a mandolin cut in half, a wide nose and broad head with no visible crown, long, loose hanging ears, strong shoulders and a rise that results in a round, deep body over the hips and flanks. Does can weigh anywhere from 10-15 lbs, with bucks generally weighing 9-12 lbs. The English Lop needs a relatively large hutch or a shed/aviary conversion so it has room to move about without standing on its ears. It is common for a wooden hutch made of a\",\n \"title\": \"English Lop\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"8625921\",\n \"text\": \"A Midrash cited as one of several places where Scripture speaks of the people of Israel as it does of angels. For Scripture speaks of both angels and the people of Israel as \\\"standing\\\". In reference to angels, says, “Above Him \\\"stood\\\" the seraphim,” while concerning Israel, says, “You are \\\"standing\\\" this day.” Similarly, reports that the angels daily proclaim a three-part praise of God, saying, “Holy, holy, holy,” and the people of Israel correspondingly daily say in three parts in the Amidah prayer, “The God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.” calls the angels\",\n \"title\": \"Nitzavim\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"11475300\",\n \"text\": \"to Demote Harshvardhan if he does not nab the killer in 24 hours, to which the latter replies assertively. Harshvardhan gives a mobile phone to Neha, telling her that if Raj calls on her, she must dial his number and inform him immediately. Raj does go to Neha to explain his situation but she pushes him off and dials Harshvardhan. Surprisingly, Harshvardhan does not answer the phone. She then leaves a voice message saying that Raj has come to kill her. Raj hits Neha and she falls unconscious. Then the movie reaches its climax where Harshvardhan appears on the scene.\",\n \"title\": \"Baaz: A Bird in Danger\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"11724691\",\n \"text\": \"The Ones...\\\". Her fourth studio album, \\\"Fortune Teller\\\", was released in June 2008. The album includes the singles \\\"Something To Talk About\\\", \\\"Don't Look Down\\\", \\\"Idle Motion\\\", \\\"Promises\\\", \\\"Elvis Can You Hear Me?\\\", \\\"Shoulders of Giants\\\", \\\"What's The Matter With You?\\\" and \\\"Fortune Teller\\\". Her second Remix album, \\\"Mixed Beats\\\", was released in August 2009. The album includes the singles \\\"What's The Matter With Your Cabrio\\\", \\\"Shoulders of Giants\\\" and \\\"Love Song\\\". Her fifth studio album, \\\"The Fire\\\", was released in March 2013. The album includes the singles \\\"What I'd Give\\\", \\\"The Person I Am\\\", \\\"Me Luv U Long Time\\\"\",\n \"title\": \"Ira Losco discography\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"12722437\",\n \"text\": \"from Elliott and Western Avenues would each have a dedicated lane. Third Avenue would become a permanent transit corridor. The cost estimate for the four-lane tunnel was $3.4 billion. On February 13, 2007, Governor Christine Gregoire rejected the tunnel hybrid option, saying that a WSDOT review showed the tunnel proposal \\\"does not meet state and federal safety standards.\\\" Of particular concern was that the use of shoulders as traffic lanes during peak traffic times would leave no additional lanes for emergency access. However, several of the viaduct \\\"stakeholders committee\\\" brought on board to advise the city indicated that the tunnel\",\n \"title\": \"Alaskan Way Viaduct replacement tunnel\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"19465833\",\n \"text\": \"list of siblings on the same level. 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Fans converged on the field after the game, tearing down one of the goal posts. After the game offensive tackle Len Grant expressed his gratitude, saying \\\"God bless Abe Cohen.\\\" Oddly, the team's performance was also aided by the consumption of alcohol. The team's trainer felt that whiskey could warm\",\n \"title\": \"History of the New York Giants (1925–78)\"\n }\n]","isConversational":false}}},{"rowIdx":290,"cells":{"query_id":{"kind":"string","value":"292"},"query":{"kind":"string","value":"the highest levels of acid precipitation in europe are in"},"answers":{"kind":"list like","value":["Poland northward into Scandinavia"],"string":"[\n \"Poland northward into Scandinavia\"\n]","isConversational":false},"positive_passages":{"kind":"list like","value":[{"docid":"33489","text":"include most of eastern Europe from Poland northward into Scandinavia, the eastern third of the United States, and southeastern Canada. Other affected areas include the southeastern coast of China and Taiwan. Many coal-firing power stations use flue-gas desulphurization (FGD) to remove sulphur-containing gases from their stack gases. For a typical coal-fired power station, FGD will remove 95% or more of the SO in the flue gases. An example of FGD is the wet scrubber which is commonly used. A wet scrubber is basically a reaction tower equipped with a fan that extracts hot smoke stack gases from a power plant","title":"Acid rain"},{"docid":"14155216","text":"a 16-year interval. Southern Europe experiences a 22-year cycle in rainfall variation. Other smaller term cycles are seen at 10-12 year and 6-7 year periods within the rainfall record. Places with significant impact by acid rain across the continent include most of eastern Europe from Poland northward into Scandinavia. 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With high precipitation","title":"Dinaric Mountains mixed forests"},{"docid":"6544841","text":"Prostatic acid phosphatase Prostatic acid phosphatase (PAP), also prostatic specific acid phosphatase (PSAP), is an enzyme produced by the prostate. It may be found in increased amounts in men who have prostate cancer or other diseases. The highest levels of acid phosphatase are found in metastasized prostate cancer. Diseases of the bone, such as Paget's disease or hyperparathyroidism, diseases of blood cells, such as sickle-cell disease or multiple myeloma or lysosomal storage diseases, such as Gaucher's disease, will show moderately increased levels. Certain medications can cause temporary increases or decreases in acid phosphatase levels. Manipulation of the prostate gland through","title":"Prostatic acid phosphatase"},{"docid":"645006","text":"Mediterranean climate (Köppen climate classification \"Csa\"). It has one of the highest summer average daily temperatures in Europe (with highs averaging in July) and days with temperatures over are common in the summer months. August's 24-hour average of is also among one of the highest in Europe, despite relatively cool nightly temperatures. Winters are mild, yet cooler than other low lying cities in southern Spain due to its interior location, wedged between the Sierra Morena and the Penibaetic System. Precipitation is concentrated in the coldest months; this is due to the Atlantic coastal influence. Precipitation is generated by storms from","title":"Córdoba, Spain"},{"docid":"5342736","text":"than 2. It has no negative consequences unless other conditions are also present such as gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD). Hyperchlorhydria Hyperchlorhydria, sometimes called chlorhydria, sour stomach or acid stomach, refers to the state in the stomach where gastric acid levels are higher than the reference range. The combining forms of the name (\"chlor-\" + \"hydr-\"), referring to chlorine and hydrogen, are the same as those in the name of hydrochloric acid, which is the active constituent of gastric acid. In humans, the normal pH is around 1 to 3, which varies throughout the day. The highest basal secretion levels are","title":"Hyperchlorhydria"},{"docid":"4363140","text":"haze\" in national parks and wilderness areas. Acid precipitation comes in more forms than just rain. Snow, fog, mist, gas, and dust are also formed in the atmosphere and have the ability to become acid precipitation. These types of precipitation are formed when certain types of air pollutants mix with the moisture in the air to form an acid. Each type is potentially dangerous to humans' health, can cause haze and problems in the environment, and can cause damage to people's properties. The two main pollutants that cause acid precipitation are sulfur dioxide (SO2) and nitrogen oxides (NOx). Power plants","title":"National Emissions Standards Act"},{"docid":"5342735","text":"Hyperchlorhydria Hyperchlorhydria, sometimes called chlorhydria, sour stomach or acid stomach, refers to the state in the stomach where gastric acid levels are higher than the reference range. The combining forms of the name (\"chlor-\" + \"hydr-\"), referring to chlorine and hydrogen, are the same as those in the name of hydrochloric acid, which is the active constituent of gastric acid. In humans, the normal pH is around 1 to 3, which varies throughout the day. The highest basal secretion levels are in the late evening (around 12 A.M. to 3 A.M.). Hyperchlorhydria is usually defined as having a pH less","title":"Hyperchlorhydria"},{"docid":"679851","text":"by spawning in the rivers, thereby diluting the local DNA. Acid rain has damaged lakes, rivers and forest, especially in the southernmost part of the country, and most wild salmon populations in Sørlandet have died. Due to lower emissions in Europe, acid rain in Norway has decreased by 40% from 1980 to 2003. Another concern is a possible increase in extreme weather. In the future, climate models predict increased precipitation, especially in the areas with current high precipitation, and also predict more episodes with heavy precipitation within a short time span, which can cause landslides and local floods. Winters will","title":"Geography of Norway"},{"docid":"485025","text":"because their parent materials were acid and initially low in the basic cations (calcium, magnesium, potassium and sodium). Acidification occurs when these elements are leached from the soil profile by rainfall or by the harvesting of forest or agricultural crops. Soil acidification is accelerated by the use of acid-forming nitrogenous fertilizers and by the effects of acid precipitation. Soil contamination at low levels is often within a soil's capacity to treat and assimilate waste material. Soil biota can treat waste by transforming it; soil colloids can adsorb the waste material. Many waste treatment processes rely on this treatment capacity. Exceeding","title":"Soil"},{"docid":"7239346","text":"runoff is another source of pollution. Effluent limits for Larrys Creek in Mifflin Township for the 5-day test for carbonaceous biochemical oxygen demand (CBOD) are 25 mg/L, while fecal coliform bacteria count limits are 200 per 100 mL in May through September, and 2000 per 100 mL in October through April. The mean annual precipitation for Larrys Creek is . According to the Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission: \"Pennsylvania receives the most acid deposition of any state in the nation because, in addition to being the third highest producer of the gases that cause acid deposition, we are also located","title":"Larrys Creek"},{"docid":"9586824","text":"have colder winters and shorter summers. Abkhazia's highest regions have a cold, summerless climate throughout the year. Abkhazia receives high amounts of precipitation, but is known for its unique micro-climate (transitional from subtropical to mountain) along most of its coast, causing lower levels of humidity. The annual precipitation along the coast ranges from . The foothills, the lower ranges, and the interior gorges of the Republic receive anywhere between of precipitation annually. Some of the interior gorges that are sheltered from the moist influences of the Black Sea receive the lowest amounts of precipitation. The higher mountainous regions receive of","title":"Geography of Abkhazia"},{"docid":"6235686","text":"warning system for chemical or physical changes in the Earth's atmosphere which could be cause for environmental concern. Such changes might involve a change in ozone, and therefore ultraviolet, levels, levels of greenhouse gases, or precipitation chemistry, the culprit in the world's acid rain woes. The GAW consists of a coordinated system of various components, prominent among which are: More than 65 countries currently host and operate the GAW's global or regional measurement stations. There are also \"contributing stations\" that furnish additional data. Lately, satellite programmes have also become important to the GAW, providing atmospheric data that complement ground measurements.","title":"Global Atmosphere Watch"},{"docid":"33493","text":"of 1990. The overall goal of the Acid Rain Program established by the Act is to achieve significant environmental and public health benefits through reductions in emissions of sulphur dioxide (SO) and nitrogen oxides (NO), the primary causes of acid rain. To achieve this goal at the lowest cost to society, the program employs both regulatory and market based approaches for controlling air pollution. Acid rain Acid rain is a rain or any other form of precipitation that is unusually acidic, meaning that it has elevated levels of hydrogen ions (low pH). It can have harmful effects on plants, aquatic","title":"Acid rain"},{"docid":"697153","text":"order to protect wildlife. The Tatras lie in the temperate zone of Central Europe. They are an important barrier to the movements of air masses. Their mountainous topography causes one of the most diverse climates in that region. The highest precipitation figures are recorded on the northern slopes. In June and July, monthly precipitation reaches around . Precipitation occurs from 215 to 228 days a year. Thunderstorms occur 36 days a year on average. Maximum thickness on the summit amounts to: Peaks are sometimes covered with snow or ice throughout the year. Avalanches are frequent. Extreme temperatures range from in","title":"Tatra Mountains"},{"docid":"33458","text":"Acid rain Acid rain is a rain or any other form of precipitation that is unusually acidic, meaning that it has elevated levels of hydrogen ions (low pH). It can have harmful effects on plants, aquatic animals and infrastructure. Acid rain is caused by emissions of sulphur dioxide and nitrogen oxide, which react with the water molecules in the atmosphere to produce acids. Some governments have made efforts since the 1970s to reduce the release of sulphur dioxide and nitrogen oxide into the atmosphere with positive results. Nitrogen oxides can also be produced naturally by lightning strikes, and sulphur dioxide","title":"Acid rain"},{"docid":"6123055","text":"discovered by chemist Henri Braconnot in 1831. Maximilian Nierenstein prepared this substance from algarobilla, dividivi, oak bark, pomegranate, myrabolams, and valonea in 1905. He also suggested its formation from galloyl-glycine by \"Penicillium\" in 1915. Löwe was the first person to synthesize ellagic acid by heating gallic acid with arsenic acid or silver oxide. Ellagic acid is found in oak species such as the North American white oak (\"Quercus alba\") and European red oak (\"Quercus robur\"). The macrophyte \"Myriophyllum spicatum\" produces ellagic acid. Ellagic acid can be found in the medicinal mushroom \"Phellinus linteus\". The highest levels of ellagic acid are","title":"Ellagic acid"},{"docid":"3436928","text":"blood serum—and showed brain asymmetry and decreased immunoglobulin levels. Occupationally exposed individuals may have an average level of PFOS over 1000 parts per billion, and a small segment of individuals in the upper range of the general population may be over the 91.5 parts per billion level. A variety of wildlife species have had PFOS levels measured in egg, liver, kidney, serum, and plasma samples and some of the highest recorded values as of January 2006 are listed below. The levels observed in wild animals are considered sufficient to \"alter health parameters\". In people, the highest exposures to PFOS in","title":"Perfluorooctanesulfonic acid"},{"docid":"16210120","text":"NAPAP. The NAPAP Interim Assessment was issued on September 17, 1987. A major assessment was issued in 1990. Following the 1990 renewal and expansion of the Clean Air Act, resources devoted to NAPAP declined. National Acid Precipitation Assessment Program: Interim Assessment: The Causes and Effects of Acidic Deposition, issued September 17, 1987 National Acid Precipitation Assessment Program In United States federal environmental legislation, the National Acid Precipitation Assessment Program (NAPAP) was authorized by Congress under the Acid Precipitation Act of 1980 (P.L. 96-294, Title VII) because of concern that acidic deposition might contribute to adverse effects on aquatic systems; agriculture;","title":"National Acid Precipitation Assessment Program"},{"docid":"945196","text":"is extremely helpful for scientists studying the effects of greenhouse gases released into the atmosphere and their effects on the levels of the acid rain. Some Automated Surface Observing System (ASOS) units use an automated weighing gauge called the AWPAG (All Weather Precipitation Accumulation Gauge). The tipping bucket rain gauge consists of a funnel that collects and channels the precipitation into a small seesaw-like container. After a pre-set amount of precipitation falls, the lever tips, dumping the collected water and sending an electrical signal. An old-style recording device may consist of a pen mounted on an arm attached to a","title":"Rain gauge"},{"docid":"5316633","text":"glaciers coming from Orjen during the Ice Age. Krivošije is the region with the greatest rainfall in Europe. Reovačka greda is a mountaiin ridge located near Crkvice in central Krivošije, is the location of the region's highest peak Pazua (1769 m), which is used for trad climbing. Settlements in the region include Crkvice (inhabited location with the highest annual precipitation in the Europe), Dragalj, Han, Malov Do, Knežlaz, , Unijerina and Zvečava. Krivošije are within the Mediterranean subtropical belt. While summers are hot and sunny, autumn, winter and spring are rainy seasons. A peculiarity of the littoral Dinarids is the","title":"Krivošije"},{"docid":"33481","text":"cloud droplets). Wet deposition of acids occurs when any form of precipitation (rain, snow, and so on.) removes acids from the atmosphere and delivers it to the Earth's surface. This can result from the deposition of acids produced in the raindrops (see aqueous phase chemistry above) or by the precipitation removing the acids either in clouds or below clouds. Wet removal of both gases and aerosols are both of importance for wet deposition. Acid deposition also occurs via dry deposition in the absence of precipitation. This can be responsible for as much as 20 to 60% of total acid deposition.","title":"Acid rain"},{"docid":"19309699","text":"Exide lead contamination Exide is one of the world's largest producers, distributors and recyclers of lead-acid batteries. Lead-acid batteries are used in automobiles, golf carts, fork-lifts, and motorcycles. They are recycled by grinding them open, neutralizing the acid, and separating the polymers from the lead. In the US, 97 percent of the lead from car batteries is recycled which is the highest recycling rate for any commodity. Most states require stores to take back old batteries. Since 2010, operations at seven (7) Exide lead-acid battery plants have been linked to ambient airborne lead levels that posed a health risk to","title":"Exide lead contamination"},{"docid":"11531196","text":"Omega-3 acid ethyl esters Omega-3 acid ethyl esters are the omega-3 fatty acids eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA) and docosahexaenoic acid (DHA), i.e., the ester part, attached at one end to an ethanol molecule - the ethyl part. These FDA-approved prescription products are used in combination with changes in diet to lower blood triglyceride levels in adults with severe (≥ 500 mg/dL) hypertriglyceridemia. This was the first fish oil-derived product to be approved for use as a drug. The first approvals came in Europe in 2001. The first approval in the US came in 2004. These prescription products have been tested in","title":"Omega-3 acid ethyl esters"},{"docid":"244444","text":"greater temperature variations between the summer and winter halves of the year and in lower and more variable amounts of precipitation across the year. This sub-continental effect is most sharply seen in the Wendland, in the Weser Uplands (Hamelin to Göttingen) and in the area of Helmstedt. The highest levels of precipitation are experienced in the Harz because the Lower Saxon part forms the windward side of this mountain range against which orographic rain falls. The average annual temperature is 8 °C (7.5 °C in the Altes Land and 8.5 °C in the district of Cloppenburg). Lower Saxony is divided","title":"Lower Saxony"},{"docid":"1980824","text":"high precipitation on the southern side and lower precipitation levels on the northern side. Extratropical cyclones can bring cold and dangerous conditions with heavy rain and snow with winds exceeding 119 km/h (74 mph), (sometimes referred to as windstorms in Europe). The band of precipitation that is associated with their warm front is often extensive, forced by weak upward vertical motion of air over the frontal boundary which condenses as it cools and produces precipitation within an elongated band, which is wide and stratiform, meaning falling out of nimbostratus clouds. When moist air tries to dislodge an arctic air mass,","title":"Precipitation"},{"docid":"6544845","text":"adenosine, a molecule known to suppress pain. PSAP was the first useful serum tumour marker and emerged in the 1940s and 1950s. Prostatic acid phosphatase Prostatic acid phosphatase (PAP), also prostatic specific acid phosphatase (PSAP), is an enzyme produced by the prostate. It may be found in increased amounts in men who have prostate cancer or other diseases. The highest levels of acid phosphatase are found in metastasized prostate cancer. Diseases of the bone, such as Paget's disease or hyperparathyroidism, diseases of blood cells, such as sickle-cell disease or multiple myeloma or lysosomal storage diseases, such as Gaucher's disease, will","title":"Prostatic acid phosphatase"},{"docid":"4662163","text":"thus the precipitated protein can be solubilized through the use of standard buffers. Ammonium sulfate precipitation provides a convenient and simple means to fractionate complex protein mixtures. In the analysis of rubber lattices, volatile fatty acids are analyzed by precipitating rubber with a 35% ammonium sulfate solution, which leaves a clear liquid from which volatile fatty acids are regenerated with sulfuric acid and then distilled with steam. Selective precipitation with ammonium sulfate, opposite to the usual precipitation technique which uses acetic acid, does not interfere with the determination of volatile fatty acids. As a food additive, ammonium sulfate is considered","title":"Ammonium sulfate"},{"docid":"3026187","text":"occurring from December to March, with March being the wettest month of the year, receiving an average of of precipitation. Ballina's annual precipitation total observes a considerably higher concentration in the first half of the year (January–June) than the second half of the year (July–December). Ballina's wetness is due to the town's coastal location and proximity to Cape Byron, the easternmost point in Australia, which means that exposure to moisture-laden frontal systems that develop throughout the year in the Tasman Sea follows accordingly. Ballina experiences a copious of precipitation annually, which is one of the highest annual precipitation levels to","title":"Ballina, New South Wales"},{"docid":"4846768","text":"gold precipitates from electrowinning or Merrill-Crowe processes are usually heated in a retort to recover any mercury present, that would otherwise cause health and environmental problems due to its release (volatilization) during smelting. The mercury present is not usually from the mercury amalgamation process that is no longer used by formal gold mining companies, but from mercury in the ore that has followed gold through the leaching and precipitation processes. In the event that there are high levels of copper present, leaching of the precipitate using nitric or sulfuric acids may be required. Nitric acid or forced air oven oxidation","title":"Gold extraction"},{"docid":"1192286","text":"to gas pipes. Direct damage caused by lightning strikes occurs on occasion. In areas with a high frequency for cloud-to-ground lightning, like Florida, lightning causes several fatalities per year, most commonly to people working outside. Precipitation with low potential of hydrogen levels (pH), otherwise known as acid rain, is also a frequent risk produced by lightning. Distilled water, which contains no carbon dioxide, has a neutral pH of 7. Liquids with a pH less than 7 are acidic, and those with a pH greater than 7 are bases. “Clean” or unpolluted rain has a slightly acidic pH of about 5.2,","title":"Storm"},{"docid":"11223759","text":"for certain metabolites of the polyunsaturated fatty acid, linoleic acid. G2A in humans is encoded by the \"GPR132\" gene. The G2A gene (Gene ID: 29933) is located on chromosome 14q32.3 codes for two alternative splice variants, the original one, G2A-a, and G2A-b, that consist of 380 and 371 amino acids, respectively; the two receptor variants, when expressed in Chinese hamster ovary cells, gave very similar results when analyzed for functionality. G2A-a and G2A-b mRNA are expressed at similar levels in blood leukocytes ( macrophages, dendritic cells, neutrophils [PMN], mast cells, T lymphocytes and B lymphocytes at the highest levels followed","title":"GPR132"},{"docid":"16210117","text":"National Acid Precipitation Assessment Program In United States federal environmental legislation, the National Acid Precipitation Assessment Program (NAPAP) was authorized by Congress under the Acid Precipitation Act of 1980 (P.L. 96-294, Title VII) because of concern that acidic deposition might contribute to adverse effects on aquatic systems; agriculture; forests; fish; wildlife and natural ecosystems; materials such as metals, wood, paint and masonry; and public health and welfare. Congress also expressed concern over the potential impact from long-range transport on national and international policy. Congress further directed that a comprehensive 10-year research plan be developed and guided by an Interagency Task","title":"National Acid Precipitation Assessment Program"},{"docid":"20110167","text":"geology of the Andes, but most are fairly young. They include andosols, inceptisols, histosols, entisols and mollisols. At the lowest levels, the subpáramo, soils are dark, low in acid, low in calcium and free phosphorus, fairly high in potassium and nitrogen, with more than 10% organic matter in the top layer. At the middle levels, the grass páramo, soils are fairly deep and are dark in color, acidic, moist or saturated with water, rich in organic matter and peat-like. At the highest levels, known as the superpáramo, soils are shallow and coarse, with much rock and sand and little organic","title":"Northern Andean páramo"},{"docid":"3486212","text":"potassium, are subject of alluvial deposition. The region of the Parque Nacional Peneda Geres falls within a transitional zone between the Atlantic and Mediterranean environments, and is influenced by various climatic systems: Atlantic, Mediterranean and Continental. Its climate is greatly influenced by the topography; the mountains exert a barrier effect to the passage of hot and wet air masses coming from the Atlantic Ocean, resulting in elevated precipitation throughout the year. It falls in a part of Portugal (and Europe) that is affected by extreme rainfall, obtaining precipitation levels of 3000 millimetres per year, with more than 130 rainy days","title":"Peneda-Gerês National Park"},{"docid":"11217","text":"flooding, property damage and loss of life. High levels of precipitation cause the glaciers to descend to permafrost levels in some areas whereas in other, more arid regions, glaciers remain above about the level. The of the Alps covered by glaciers in 1876 had shrunk to by 1973, resulting in decreased river run-off levels. Forty percent of the glaciation in Austria has disappeared since 1850, and 30% of that in Switzerland. The Alps provide lowland Europe with drinking water, irrigation, and hydroelectric power. Although the area is only about 11 percent of the surface area of Europe, the Alps provide","title":"Alps"},{"docid":"3436890","text":"because of data gaps. When water is a source, blood levels are approximately 100 times higher than drinking water levels. People who lived in the PFOA-contaminated area around DuPont's Washington Works facility were found to have higher levels of PFOA in their blood from drinking water. The highest PFOA levels in drinking water were found in the Little Hocking water system, with an average concentration of 3.55 parts per billion during 2002–2005. Individuals who drank more tap water, ate locally grown fruits and vegetables, or ate local meat, were all associated with having higher PFOA levels. Residents who used water","title":"Perfluorooctanoic acid"},{"docid":"2512529","text":"one in 539 or 540 AD. There are also more ancient reference points, such as the eruption of Toba about 72,000 years ago. Many other elements and molecules have been detected in ice cores. In 1969, it was discovered that lead levels in Greenland ice had increased by a factor of over 200 since pre-industrial times, and increases in other elements produced by industrial processes, such as copper, cadmium, and zinc, have also been recorded. The presence of nitric and sulfuric acid ( and ) in precipitation can be shown to correlate with increasing fuel combustion over time. Methanesulfonate (MSA)","title":"Ice core"},{"docid":"2733787","text":"in cold water, followed by an attack of gout the next morning. This is believed to be due to temperature-dependent precipitation of uric acid crystals in tissues at below normal temperature. Thus, one aim of prevention is to keep the hands and feet warm, and soaking in hot water may be therapeutic. Increased levels predispose for gout and, if very high, kidney failure. The metabolic syndrome often presents with hyperuricemia. Prognosis is good with regular consumption of allopurinol. People with gout, and by inference hyperuricemia, are significantly less likely to develop Parkinson's disease, unless they also require diuretics. In Dalmatian","title":"Hyperuricemia"},{"docid":"1661360","text":"The high elevations also expose plant life to high levels of pollution, including acid precipitation in the form of rain, snow, and fog. These acids damage the red spruce trees in part by releasing natural metals from the soil like aluminum, and by leaching important minerals. To what extent this pollution harms the high-altitude ecosystem is debatable. While the mountain is still mostly lush and green in the summer, many dead Fraser fir trunks can be seen due to these serious problems. Repairing the damage is a difficult issue, as the pollutants are often carried in from long distances. Sources","title":"Mount Mitchell"},{"docid":"634346","text":"the most sunshine. The general coastal climate is more typical the further south-west into the region. Areas of moorland inland such as: Bodmin Moor, Dartmoor and Exmoor experience lower temperatures and more precipitation than the rest of the south west (approximately twice as much rainfall as lowland areas), because of their high altitude. Both of these factors also cause it to experience the highest levels of snowfall and the lowest levels of sunshine. Exposed areas of the moors are windier than lowlands and can be almost as windy as the coast. The boundaries of the South West region are based","title":"South West England"},{"docid":"16786044","text":"is a capable solvent, and will dissolve small amounts of solids from piping and containers including the boiler. Continuing evaporation of steam concentrates dissolved impurities until they reach levels potentially damaging to steam production within the boiler. Without blowdown, impurities would reach saturation levels and begin to precipitate within the boiler. Impurity concentrations are highest where steam is being produced near heat exchange surfaces. Precipitation would be expected to occur in the form of scale deposits on those heat exchange surfaces. Scale deposits thermally insulate heat exchange surfaces initially decreasing the rate of steam generation, and potentially causing boiler metals","title":"Boiler blowdown"},{"docid":"1507659","text":"retraced their ascent line, reaching their tent on the Dais Glacier at 2 am. The ascent to the summit and back to base camp had taken over 23 hours. The Waddington Range massif is known for fierce as well as unpredictable weather, located as it is at the brunt of the warm, wet winds that soak the British Columbia Coast, of which it is the highest point. Precipitation levels in the area of the peak are among the highest in the Coast Mountains. To reach Mount Waddington, one could take a long approach originating from Vancouver, with the bulk of","title":"Mount Waddington"},{"docid":"9257265","text":"the protein is predominantly positively charged and repulsion between proteins occurs. However, at the pI the negative and positive charges cancel, repulsive electrostatic forces are reduced and the attraction forces predominate. The attraction forces will cause aggregation and precipitation. The pI of most proteins is in the pH range of 4–6. Mineral acids, such as hydrochloric and sulfuric acid are used as precipitants. The greatest disadvantage to isoelectric point precipitation is the irreversible denaturation caused by the mineral acids. For this reason isoelectric point precipitation is most often used to precipitate contaminant proteins, rather than the target protein. The precipitation","title":"Protein precipitation"},{"docid":"18693259","text":"clusters. The prevalence of iron is apparently due to the large availability of Fe(II) in the initial evolution of living organisms, before the rise of photosynthesis and an increase in atmospheric oxygen levels which resulted in the precipitation of iron in the environment as Fe(OH). It has flexible redox properties because such properties are sensitive to ligand coordination, including geometry. Iron can be also used in enzymes due to its Lewis acid properties, for example in nitrile hydratase. Iron is frequently found in mononuclear sites in the reduced Fe(II) form, and functions in dioxygen activation; this function is used as","title":"Evolution of metal ions in biological systems"},{"docid":"3982163","text":"Trichloroacetic acid Trichloroacetic acid (TCA; TCAA; also known as trichloroethanoic acid) is an analogue of acetic acid in which the three hydrogen atoms of the methyl group have all been replaced by chlorine atoms. Salts and esters of trichloroacetic acid are called trichloroacetates. It is prepared by the reaction of chlorine with acetic acid in the presence of a suitable catalyst. Another route to trichloroacetic acid is the oxidation of trichloroacetaldehyde. It is widely used in biochemistry for the precipitation of macromolecules, such as proteins, DNA, and RNA. TCA and DCA are both used in cosmetic treatments (such as chemical","title":"Trichloroacetic acid"},{"docid":"17820789","text":"geochemical proxies correspond well with other sediment proxies, indicating high precipitation and runoff during the early Holocene, the highest primary productivity in the mid-Holocene and an arid trend in late Holocene. Height measurements and OSL/14C dating of paleo-shorelines in Zhuye Lake can better understand the formation and evolution of lake levels during the late Quaternary. According to field surveys, there are 9 paleo-shorelines and one lake terrace in the northeast of Zhuye Lake. OSL and 14C ages have showed that high lake levels existed during the early and middle Holocene, and the lake retreated significantly during the late Holocene. On","title":"Zhuye Lake"},{"docid":"766902","text":"artificial waterways or canals, among others the Brussels–Scheldt Maritime Canal, the Brussels–Charleroi Canal, the Canal du Centre and the Albert Canal. The Belgian climate, like most of northwest Europe, is maritime temperate, with significant precipitation in all seasons (Köppen climate classification: \"Cfb\"; the average temperature is in January, and in July; the average precipitation is in January, and in July). Belgium usually has cool winters but temperatures as low as -16 °C (3 °F) have been registered and summers are comfortably warm but temperatures can occasionally rise as high as 30 °C (86 °F). Belgium's highest point is the Signal","title":"Geography of Belgium"},{"docid":"33466","text":"U.S. Congress passed an Acid Deposition Act. This Act established an 18-year assessment and research program under the direction of the National Acidic Precipitation Assessment Program (NAPAP). NAPAP looked at the entire problem from a scientific perspective. It enlarged a network of monitoring sites to determine how acidic the precipitation actually was, and to determine long-term trends, and established a network for dry deposition. It looked at the effects of acid rain and funded research on the effects of acid precipitation on freshwater and terrestrial ecosystems, historical buildings, monuments, and building materials. It also funded extensive studies on atmospheric processes","title":"Acid rain"},{"docid":"12531712","text":"ripened grapes. While concentration varies among grape varieties, it is usually found in higher levels with red wine grapes. The acid is created as a byproduct of the metabolization of nitrogen by yeast cells during fermentation. The combination of succinic acid with one molecule of ethanol will create the ester mono-ethyl succinate responsible for a mild, fruit aroma in wines. Acidity is highest in wine grapes just before the start of \"veraison\", which ushers in the ripening period of the annual cycle of grape vines. As the grapes ripen, their sugar levels increase and their acidity levels decrease. Through the","title":"Acids in wine"},{"docid":"433219","text":"(200–430 µmol/l) for men, and 2.4–6.1 mg per 100 ml for women (140–360 µmol/l). Uric acid concentrations in blood plasma above and below the normal range are known as, respectively, hyperuricemia and hypouricemia. Likewise, uric acid concentrations in urine above and below normal are known as hyperuricosuria and hypouricosuria. Uric acid levels in saliva may be associated with blood uric acid levels. Hyperuricemia (high levels of uric acid), which induces gout, has various potential origins: Excess blood uric acid can induce gout, a painful condition resulting from needle-like crystals of uric acid precipitating in joints, capillaries, skin, and other tissues.","title":"Uric acid"},{"docid":"2982003","text":"oxalic acid and tannin, and many have astringent and slightly purgative qualities. Some species with particularly high levels of oxalic acid are called sorrels (including sheep's sorrel, \"Rumex acetosella\", common sorrel, \"Rumex acetosa\", and French sorrel, \"Rumex scutatus\"), and some of these are grown as leaf vegetables or garden herbs for their acidic taste. In Western Europe, dock leaves are a traditional remedy for the sting of nettles, and suitable larger docks (such as broad-leaved dock \"R. obtusifolius\" or curled dock \"R. crispus\") often grow conveniently in similar habitats to the common nettle (\"Urtica dioica\"). In traditional Austrian medicine, \"R.","title":"Rumex"},{"docid":"12938039","text":"alkaline silicate solution with a mineral acid. Sulfuric acid and sodium silicate solutions are added simultaneously with agitation to water. Precipitation is carried out under alkaline conditions. The choice of agitation, duration of precipitation, the addition rate of reactants, their temperature and concentration, and pH can vary the properties of the silica. The formation of a gel stage is avoided by stirring at elevated temperatures. The resulting white precipitate is filtered, washed and dried in the manufacturing process. The particles are porous. Primary particles with a diameter of 5 - 100 nm, and specific surface area 5-100 m/g. Agglomerate size","title":"Precipitated silica"},{"docid":"12710847","text":"a higher (13.9 milligram per deciliter) total cholesterol level was observed in when the highest quartile was compared to the lowest. Non-HDL cholesterol (or \"bad cholesterol\") levels were also higher in samples with more PFNA. In bottlenose dolphins from Delaware Bay, PFNA was the perfluorinated carboxylic acid measured in the highest concentration in blood plasma; it was found in concentrations well over 100 parts per billion. PFNA has been detected in polar bears in concentrations over 400 parts per billion. PFNA was the perfluorinated chemical measured in the highest concentration in Russian Baikal seals. However, PFOS is the perfluorinated compound","title":"Perfluorononanoic acid"},{"docid":"5616531","text":"north. In the summer, they become weaker and blow primarily from the south. The island's humidity level, which averages more than 80 percent year round, is highest during the summer. Cloud cover levels peak during the summer as well. Although high year-round, with an average of 88 percent, cloud cover levels rise to 95 percent in the summer. Fog too is more common in the summer, occurring on roughly one-third of the days. The island receives about of precipitation per year, with the highest monthly totals occurring between late summer and early winter, when Bering Sea storms batter the island.","title":"Saint Paul Island (Alaska)"},{"docid":"13618488","text":"sulfur dioxide from the sulfur in the oil. These by products combine with water in the atmosphere to create acid rain. The increased concentrations of nitrates and other acidic substances have significant effects on the pH levels of rainfall. Data samples analyzed from the United States and Europe from the past 100 years and showed an increase in nitrous oxide emissions from combustion. The emissions were large enough to acidify the rainfall. The acid rain has adverse impacts on the larger ecosystem. For example acid rain can kill trees , acidified lakes and dead fish. Coral reefs are also destroyed","title":"Environmental impact of the petroleum industry"},{"docid":"78047","text":"is possible, and thus the acid/base and conjugated base/acid are always in equilibrium. The equilibrium is determined by the acid and base dissociation constants (\"K\" and \"K\") of the involved substances. A special case of the acid-base reaction is the neutralization where an acid and a base, taken at exactly same amounts, form a neutral salt. Acid-base reactions can have different definitions depending on the acid-base concept employed. Some of the most common are: Precipitation is the formation of a solid in a solution or inside another solid during a chemical reaction. It usually takes place when the concentration of","title":"Chemical reaction"},{"docid":"10528142","text":"as gastroparesis symptoms tend to worsen the week before menstruation when progesterone levels are highest. Neither theory has been proven definitively. Gastroparesis can be connected to hypochlorhydria and be caused by chloride, sodium and/or zinc deficiency, as these minerals are needed for the stomach to produce adequate levels of gastric acid (HCl) to properly empty itself of a meal. On the molecular level, it is thought that gastroparesis can be caused by the loss of neuronal nitric oxide expression since the cells in the GI tract secrete nitric oxide. This important signaling molecule has various responsibilities in the GI tract","title":"Gastroparesis"},{"docid":"1223163","text":"part of the city. Cookeville has a humid subtropical climate (Köppen climate classification: \"Cfa\") with relatively high temperatures and evenly distributed precipitation through the year. Summers are typically hot and humid and winters are mild and cool. The highest temperature recorded in Cookeville since 1896 is on June 29, 2012, and the lowest temperature recorded is on January 21, 1985. Average annual precipitation is , with the highest recorded precipitation at on September 29, 1964. Average annual snowfall is with the highest recorded snowfall at on November 3, 1966. As of the census of 2010, there were 30,435 people, 12,471","title":"Cookeville, Tennessee"},{"docid":"3982165","text":"and Berzelius. Featured in the 1958 independent film The Blob but did not affect the gelatinous mass from outer space. Trichloroacetic acid Trichloroacetic acid (TCA; TCAA; also known as trichloroethanoic acid) is an analogue of acetic acid in which the three hydrogen atoms of the methyl group have all been replaced by chlorine atoms. Salts and esters of trichloroacetic acid are called trichloroacetates. It is prepared by the reaction of chlorine with acetic acid in the presence of a suitable catalyst. Another route to trichloroacetic acid is the oxidation of trichloroacetaldehyde. It is widely used in biochemistry for the precipitation","title":"Trichloroacetic acid"},{"docid":"7196942","text":"can be converted to the corresponding triflates: This conversion is conducted in neat HOTf at 100 °C, followed by precipitation of the salt upon the addition of ether. Triflic acid reacts with acyl halides to give mixed triflate anhydrides, which are strong acylating agents, e.g. in Friedel–Crafts reactions. Triflic acid catalyzes the reaction of aromatic compounds with sulfonyl chlorides, probably also through the intermediacy of a mixed anhydride of the sulfonic acid. Triflic acid promotes other Friedel–Crafts-like reactions including the cracking of alkanes and alkylation of alkenes, which are very important to the petroleum industry. These triflic acid derivative catalysts","title":"Triflic acid"},{"docid":"239830","text":"Songbirds migrate to Pelee in spring, and monarch butterflies stop over during the fall. Lake Erie has a lake retention time of 2.6 years, the shortest of all the Great Lakes. The lake's surface area is . Lake Erie's water level fluctuates with the seasons as in the other Great Lakes. Generally, the lowest levels are in January and February, and the highest in June or July, although there have been exceptions. The average yearly level varies depending on long-term precipitation. Short-term level changes are often caused by seiches that are particularly high when southwesterly winds blow across the length","title":"Lake Erie"},{"docid":"11542536","text":"concentration correlates with cognitive and motor dysfunction. When patients were treated with zidovudine to decrease quinolinic acid levels, the amount of neurological improvement was related to the amount of quinolinic acid decreased. In the initial stages of Huntington's disease, patients have substantially increased quinolinic acid levels, in particular in the neostriatum and cortex. These areas of the brain that suffer the most damage at these stages. The increase in quinolinic acid correlates with the early activation of microglia and increased cerebral 3-hydroxykynurenine (3-HK) levels. Furthermore, these increased levels of quinolinic acid are great enough to produce excitotoxic neuronal damage. Studies","title":"Quinolinic acid"},{"docid":"48592","text":"drinks (phosphoric acid), pickles (vinegar) or other acidified food are preserved with benzoic acid and benzoates. Typical levels of use for benzoic acid as a preservative in food are between 0.05–0.1%. Foods in which benzoic acid may be used and maximum levels for its application are controlled by local food laws. Concern has been expressed that benzoic acid and its salts may react with ascorbic acid (vitamin C) in some soft drinks, forming small quantities of benzene. Benzoic acid is a constituent of Whitfield's ointment which is used for the treatment of fungal skin diseases such as tinea, ringworm, and","title":"Benzoic acid"},{"docid":"4226460","text":"algae growth caused by runoff containing chemicals and fertilizers, air pollution has also been a significant factor in the disappearance of brook trout from their native habitats. In the U.S., acid rain caused by air pollution has resulted in pH levels too low to sustain brook trout in all but the highest headwaters of some Appalachian streams and creeks. Brook trout populations across large parts of eastern Canada have been similarly challenged; a subspecies known as the aurora trout was extirpated from the wild by the effects of acid rain. Today, in many parts of the range, efforts are underway","title":"Brook trout"},{"docid":"13595164","text":"yellow fruit; the 'Madeira' with large red fruit; and the small, firm 'spiny red'.Tungi also gives its name to a local Spirit distilled at The St Helena distillery at Alarm Forest, the most remote distillery in the world, made entirely from the opuntia cactus. \"Opuntia\" contains a range of phytochemicals in variable quantities, such as polyphenols, dietary minerals and betalains. Identified compounds under basic research include gallic acid, vanillic acid and catechins, as examples. The Sicilian prickly pear contains betalain, betanin, and indicaxanthin, with highest levels in their fruits. In Mexican folk medicine, its pulp and juice are considered treatments","title":"Opuntia"},{"docid":"9257255","text":"but some exist in patches on the surface. Proteins that have high hydrophobic amino acid content on the surface have low solubility in an aqueous solvent. Charged and polar surface residues interact with ionic groups in the solvent and increase the solubility of a protein. Knowledge of a protein's amino acid composition will aid in determining an ideal precipitation solvent and methods. Repulsive electrostatic forces form when proteins are dissolved in an electrolyte solution. These repulsive forces between proteins prevent aggregation and facilitate dissolution. Upon dissolution in an electrolyte solution, solvent counterions migrate towards charged surface residues on the protein,","title":"Protein precipitation"},{"docid":"11663833","text":"times greater than the risk of cancer from DBPs\". The United States Environmental Protection Agency has set Maximum Contaminant Levels (MCLs) for bromate, chlorite, haloacetic acids and total trihalomethanes (TTHMs). In Europe, the level of TTHMs has been set at 100 micrograms per litre, and the level for bromate to 10 micrograms per litre, under the Drinking Water Directive. No guideline values have been set for HAAs in Europe. The World Health Organization has established guidelines for several DBPs, including bromate, bromodichloromethane, chlorate, chlorite, chloroacetic acid, chloroform, cyanogen chloride, dibromoacetonitrile, dibromochloromethane, dichloroacetic acid, dichloroacetonitrile, NDMA, and trichloroacetic acid. Disinfection by-product","title":"Disinfection by-product"},{"docid":"10791026","text":"is located on Colombia's western, Pacific coast, and covers an area of . It extends from the Gulf of Urabá in the north to the border with Ecuador in the south, and includes part of the departments of Nariño, Cauca, Valle de Cauca and Antioquia, and the whole of Chocó department. This region is distinguished by its high humidity. Precipitation is among the highest in the world, with an average of per year and some areas that receive as much as per year. These high levels of precipitation support a number of rivers, including the Atrato River, San Juan River,","title":"Natural regions of Colombia"},{"docid":"38936","text":"water levels. The longest river located solely in Bulgarian territory, the Iskar, has a length of . Other major rivers include the Struma and the Maritsa in the south. Bulgaria has a changeable climate, which results from being positioned at the meeting point of the Mediterranean and continental air masses combined with the barrier effect of its mountains. Northern Bulgaria averages cooler, and registers more precipitation, than the regions south of the Balkan mountains. Temperature amplitudes vary significantly in different areas. The lowest recorded temperature is , while the highest is . Precipitation averages about per year, and varies from","title":"Bulgaria"},{"docid":"16769596","text":"Dagouein Mountain The Dagouein Mountain is an average elevation of above sea level, is the seventh highest point in Djibouti. The mountain forms one of the geographic resources of the area. The first known people that inhabited the mountain are the Issa Somali. The most famous town in the area is the town of Assamo located 9 km southeast. The principal languages spoken in the area are Somali. The Dagouein Mountain lie south of the Ali Sabieh Region in Djibouti. The altitude and size of the range affects the climate in the mountains precipitation levels vary greatly and climatic conditions","title":"Dagouein Mountain"},{"docid":"16502219","text":"shows highest levels of expression in immune related cells and tissues such as lymphocytes and bone marrow. Levels of TMEM131L protein have been shown to significantly increase under certain immune responses, such as increasing over time after introduction of measles virus to the immune cells dendritic cells and in peripheral blood lymphocytes from kidney transplants displaying acute rejection. There is only one confirmed transmembrane domain region in protein TMEM131L. This domain exists near the center of the protein, at 871-891 amino acid of the 1610 amino acid long protein sequence (for isoform I). There is a dramatic switch from hydrophobic","title":"KIAA0922"},{"docid":"846454","text":"reaching maximum levels in the Adriatic, while between Ortona and Vasto in Costa dei Trabocchi decrease again. The highest rainfall occurs in upland areas on the border with Lazio; they are especially vulnerable to Atlantic disturbances. Around of precipitation is typical (Pescara in 2010 showed a value close to ). As with many Mediterranean regions, Abruzzo's vegetation is characterized by different Mediterranean ecosystems. The coast and the surrounding areas are characterized by the presence of typical plants of Mediterranean shrubland, such as myrtle, heather and mastic, while in the hilly areas other species grow, including olive, pine, willow, oak, poplar,","title":"Abruzzo"},{"docid":"17546436","text":"and its tributaries are not at risk for being too acidic for the optimal health of fish, but in early spring during snowmelts, the pH levels near the limit that brook trout can tolerate. Fishing Creek's waters are acidic due to acid rain. The waters of Fishing Creek at a gauging station near Bloomsburg had pH levels ranging from 5.8 to 8.5 between 2002 and 2012. The lowest pH during that time (5.8) occurred on December 17, 2003. The highest pH during that time (8.5) occurred on February 14, 2012. The average pH during that time and at that location","title":"Hydrology of Fishing Creek (North Branch Susquehanna River)"},{"docid":"493852","text":"microscopy. About 5–10% of all stones are formed from uric acid. People with certain metabolic abnormalities, including obesity, may produce uric acid stones. They also may form in association with conditions that cause hyperuricosuria (an excessive amount of uric acid in the urine) with or without hyperuricemia (an excessive amount of uric acid in the serum). They may also form in association with disorders of acid/base metabolism where the urine is excessively acidic (low pH), resulting in precipitation of uric acid crystals. A diagnosis of uric acid urolithiasis is supported by the presence of a radiolucent stone in the face","title":"Kidney stone disease"},{"docid":"5536183","text":"limits: Artigas Department's average temperature is the highest in the whole country (over 19°C or 66°F, and may go as high as 47°C or 116°F during the summer months). So are its precipitation levels (up to an annual average of 1400 mm). The unique climatic conditions of Artigas has made possible the development of an important agro-industrial centre around the city of Bella Unión. Several crops are planted, namely fruits and vegetables, sugar cane, and rice. In the rest of the department, the main economic activity is livestock raising. Semi-precious gemstones, such as agates and amethysts, are also found in","title":"Artigas Department"},{"docid":"15915149","text":"of the TRR in milk; 7.3% of the TRR in eggs and 4% of the TRR in chicken liver). Residue levels in kidney were the highest. Owing to the longevity and extent of use, 2,4-D has been evaluated several times by regulators and review committees. 2,4-D amine salts and esters are not persistent under most environmental conditions. The degradation of 2,4-D is rapid (half life of 6.2 days) in aerobic mineral soils. 2,4-D is broken down by microbes in soil, in processes that involve hydroxylation, cleavage of the acid side-chain, decarboxylation, and ring opening. The ethyl hexyl form of the","title":"2,4-Dichlorophenoxyacetic acid"},{"docid":"5976582","text":"present: free ferulic acid has limited solubility in water, and hence poor bioavailability. In wheat grain, ferulic acid is found bound to cell wall polysaccharides, allowing it to be released and absorbed in the small intestine. Ferulic acid has been identified in Chinese medicine herbs such as \"Angelica sinensis\" (female ginseng), \"Cimicifuga heracleifolia\" and \"Ligusticum chuangxiong\". It is also found in the tea brewed from the European centaury (\"Centaurium erythraea\"), a plant used as a medical herb in many parts of Europe. Cooked sweetcorn releases increased levels of ferulic acid. As plant sterol esters, this compound is naturally found in","title":"Ferulic acid"},{"docid":"10283904","text":"suggesting 2 sulfide bonds. The cytosolic isozyme demonstrates no loss in activity upon titration of one thiol group hBCATc demonstrates a lower redox potential (approximately 30 mV) than hBCATm. Mitochondrial branched-chain amino acid aminotransferases are the more ubiquitous of the two isoforms, present in all tissues in the mitochondria of the cell. Pancreatic acinar tissue has been found to carry the highest levels of BCATm in the body In addition, two homologs to normal BCATm have been found. One homolog is found in placental tissue, and the other co-represses thyroid hormone nuclear receptors. BCATm is more sensitive to the redox","title":"Branched-chain amino acid aminotransferase"},{"docid":"10798506","text":"Magnesium gluconate Magnesium gluconate is a compound with formula MgCHO. It is the magnesium salt of gluconic acid. According to scientific research, magnesium gluconate shows the highest level of bioavailability of any magnesium salt and is recommended as the optimal salt for human supplementation although of the 10 salts studied, all increased Magnesium levels significantly. It has E number \"E580\". There are data on the pharmacological properties of magnesium gluconate. Gluconic acid is the initial substrate for the reactions of pentose phosphate path of oxidation of glucose, so it was suggested that it may affect the energy metabolism of mitochondria.","title":"Magnesium gluconate"},{"docid":"8505150","text":"best-known examples are malvalic acid and sterculic acid. Sterculic acid as its triglyceride is present in sterculia oils and at low levels in kapok seed oil (~12%), cottonseed oil (~1%), and in the seeds of the tree \"Sterculia foetida\" (~65-78%). These acids are highly reactive but the cyclopropene ring is destroyed during refining and hydrogenation of the oils. They have attracted interest because they reduce levels of the enzyme stearoyl-CoA 9-desaturase (SCD), which catalyzes the biodesaturation of stearic acid to oleic acid. Cyclopropane fatty acid Cyclopropane fatty acids (CPA) are a subgroup of fatty acids that contain a cyclopropane group.","title":"Cyclopropane fatty acid"},{"docid":"76300","text":"with a warm summer wet season and a cooler winter dry season. Central American montane forests consist of forest patches located at altitudes ranging from , on the summits and slopes of the highest mountains in Central America ranging from Southern Mexico, through Guatemala, El Salvador, and Honduras, to northern Nicaragua. The entire ecoregion covers an area of and has a temperate climate with relatively high precipitation levels. Ecoregions are not only established to protect the forests themselves but also because they are habitats for an incomparably rich and often endemic fauna. Almost half of the bird population of the","title":"Central America"},{"docid":"795795","text":"present during thunderstorm phenomena, caused by the oxidation of atmospheric nitrogen, can result in the production of acid rain, if nitric oxide forms compounds with the water molecules in precipitation, thus creating acid rain. Acid rain can damage infrastructures containing calcite or certain other solid chemical compounds. In ecosystems, acid rain can dissolve plant tissues of vegetations and increase acidification process in bodies of water and in soil, resulting in deaths of marine and terrestrial organisms. Any thunderstorm that produces hail that reaches the ground is known as a hailstorm. Thunderclouds that are capable of producing hailstones are often seen","title":"Thunderstorm"},{"docid":"65746","text":"are more pronounced in the continental areas: the lowest temperature of was recorded on 4 February 1929 in Gospić, and the highest temperature of was recorded on 5 August 1981 in Ploče. The mean annual precipitation is depending on the geographic region and prevailing climate type. The least precipitation is recorded in the outer islands (Vis, Lastovo, Biševo, and Svetac) and in the eastern parts of Slavonia; however, in the latter case it is mostly during the growing season. The most precipitation is observed on the Dinara mountain range and in Gorski Kotar, where some of the highest annual precipitation","title":"Geography of Croatia"},{"docid":"18367270","text":"anticipation of flooding rains. Advisories for high winds and potential flooding were issued throughout the state, and a state of emergency was declared in western and eastern Pennsylvania. Floyd produced moderate to heavy rainfall across the eastern half of the state, concentrated in extreme southeastern areas, where as much as of precipitation fell. In Marcus Hook, the highest verifiable storm rainfall total of was reported. The of precipitation at Philadelphia International Airport set a new daily rainfall record and an overall 24-hour record. Rain from the storm exceeded 100-year levels along the axis of the most severe downpours. A cold","title":"Effects of Hurricane Floyd in Pennsylvania"},{"docid":"433222","text":"into the blood, either spontaneously or following chemotherapy. Tumor lysis syndrome may lead to acute renal failure when uric acid crystals deposit in the kidneys. Treatment includes hyperhydration to dilute and excrete uric acid via urine, rasburicase to reduce levels of poorly soluble uric acid in blood, or allopurinol to inhibit purine catabolism from adding to uric acid levels. Lesch-Nyhan syndrome, a rare inherited disorder, is also associated with high serum uric acid levels. Spasticity, involuntary movement, and cognitive retardation as well as manifestations of gout are seen in this syndrome. Hyperuricemia may increase risk factors for cardiovascular disease. Hyperuricemia","title":"Uric acid"},{"docid":"10608638","text":"has a humid subtropical climate characterized by hot summers and mild winters. The Greenbelt receives of rain, with the majority of the precipitation coming in the spring, and second-highest in the fall. Small bodies of water can be found at all times of the year throughout the Greenbelt, however the creek bed that runs along the spine of the Greenbelt actively flows only 1 to 2 months out of the year depending on precipitation levels. Watershed from Barton Creek, a tributary that feeds the Colorado River in Central Texas, is responsible for the area's highly concentrated vegetation. With its diverse","title":"Barton Creek Greenbelt"},{"docid":"5567113","text":"zones based on altitude and vegetation structure, with the three main types of páramo vegetation unequally distributed throughout the different zones. Superpáramo is at the highest elevation and is usually considered to be the transition zone between the higher, permanent snow region and the lower grass páramo zone. The superpáramo zone is generally narrow and exists atop loose stones and sandy soils at about . It has the lowest air temperature, precipitation level, soil water-holding capacity, and nutrient content of all the zones. Being the highest in altitude, it also has the highest levels of solar radiation and night frost.","title":"Páramo"},{"docid":"12531698","text":"influencing the taste of the finished wine. In most plants, this organic acid is rare, but it is found in significant concentrations in grape vines. Along with malic acid, and to a lesser extent citric acid, tartaric is one of the fixed acids found in wine grapes. The concentration varies depending on grape variety and the soil content of the vineyard. Some varieties, such as Palomino, are naturally disposed to having high levels of tartaric acids, while Malbec and Pinot noir generally have lower levels. During flowering, high levels of tartaric acid are concentrated in the grape flowers and then","title":"Acids in wine"},{"docid":"6247025","text":"the winter months of June to August in the form of frontal precipitation. Average midday temperatures range from 25 °C in February to 16 °C in July. Extremes of above 30 °C and under 10 °C are not uncommon. Summer and Winter months are characterised by strong South-Easterly and North-Westerly winds respectively. Hermanus is in the Cape Floristic Region and thus has one of the highest plant diversity levels in the world. The principal vegetation type of this region is Fynbos, a mixture of evergreen shrub-like plants with small firm leaves. In the local Fernkloof Nature Reserve, 1474 plant species","title":"Hermanus"},{"docid":"33568","text":"high altitude acclimatization support the hypothesis that urate acts as an antioxidant by mitigating the oxidative stress caused by high-altitude hypoxia. Uric acid has the highest concentration of any blood antioxidant and provides over half of the total antioxidant capacity of human serum. Uric acid's antioxidant activities are also complex, given that it does not react with some oxidants, such as superoxide, but does act against peroxynitrite, peroxides, and hypochlorous acid. Concerns over elevated UA's contribution to gout must be considered as one of many risk factors. By itself, UA-related risk of gout at high levels (415–530 μmol/L) is only","title":"Antioxidant"},{"docid":"11044455","text":"to the south, collectively referred to as the Menderes Massif. Özdere has a Mediterranean climate (Köppen climate classification \"Csa\"), with warm, dry summers, and with the majority of its annual precipitation falling during its cool to mild winters. With a mean annual temperature of , the town has significantly temperate, even subtropical climate characteristics. Precipitation levels range from , with the most falling during the month of December. Due to the persistent winter precipitation, humidity levels are most concentrated during that season, and to a lesser extent in the spring. The lowest average humidity is seen in June, and the","title":"Özdere"},{"docid":"6349835","text":"'complex', desirable taste. The renowned 1947 Cheval Blanc is widely recognized to contain high levels of volatile acidity. Ethyl acetate is formed in wine by the esterification of ethanol and acetic acid. Therefore, wines with high acetic acid levels are more likely to see ethyl acetate formation, but the compound does not contribute to the volatile acidity. It is a common microbial fault produced by wine spoilage yeasts, particularly \"Pichia anomala\" or \"Kloeckera apiculata\". High levels of ethyl acetate are also produced by lactic acid bacteria and acetic acid bacteria. Sulfur is used as an additive throughout the winemaking process,","title":"Wine fault"},{"docid":"2019746","text":"in the world have sales taxes or value-added taxes at all or several of the national, state, county, or city government levels. Countries in Western Europe, especially in Scandinavia, have some of the world's highest valued-added taxes. Norway, Denmark and Sweden have higher VATs at 25%, Hungary has the highest at 27% although reduced rates are used in some cases, as for groceries, art, books and newspapers. In some jurisdictions of the United States, there are multiple levels of government which each impose a sales tax. For example, sales tax in Chicago (Cook County), IL is 10.25%, consisting of 6.25%","title":"Sales tax"},{"docid":"8580287","text":"Homovanillic acid Homovanillic acid (HVA) is a major catecholamine metabolite that is produced by a consecutive action of monoamine oxidase and catechol-O-methyltransferase on dopamine. Homovanillic acid is used as a reagent to detect oxidative enzymes, and is associated with dopamine levels in the brain. In psychiatry and neuroscience, brain and cerebrospinal fluid levels of HVA are measured as a marker of metabolic stress caused by 2-deoxy--glucose. HVA presence supports a diagnosis of neuroblastoma and malignant pheochromocytoma. Fasting plasma levels of HVA are known to be higher in females than in males. This does not seem to be influenced by adult","title":"Homovanillic acid"},{"docid":"7915577","text":"and rather mild winters, where the annual thermal excursion is anyway lower than 21 °C like in the coast. However, in winter snow and frosts might happen when cold currents from the Balkans or the northern Europe irrupt on the Adriatic coast. During these episodes, minimal temperatures can fall down to -5 °C. Precipitation levels are on average about 845 mm per year according to the climatic data collected during the period 1951 - 2009 and are generally higher than the ones observed in other hillside cities in the sea-side of Abruzzo (around 600–700 mm per year). The climate in","title":"Penne, Abruzzo"},{"docid":"8782177","text":"of bisphosphonates, including Boniva, may increase the risk of a rare but serious fracture of the femur. Ibandronic acid is marketed under the trade names Boniva in the USA, Bondronat in Europe, Bonviva in Asia, Ibandrix in Ecuador, Adronil in Pakistan, Bondrova in Bangladesh and Bonprove in Egypt. Ibandronic acid Ibandronic acid (INN) or ibandronate sodium (USAN) is a potent bisphosphonate drug developed by Hoffman La Roche and used in the prevention and treatment of osteoporosis and metastasis-associated skeletal fractures in people with cancer. It may also be used to treat hypercalcemia (elevated blood calcium levels). Ibandronate is indicated for","title":"Ibandronic acid"}],"string":"[\n {\n \"docid\": \"659567\",\n \"text\": \"which breaks down uric acid, in humans and higher primates has made this condition common. The triggers for precipitation of uric acid are not well understood. While it may crystallize at normal levels, it is more likely to do so as levels increase. Other triggers believed to be important in acute episodes of arthritis include cool temperatures, rapid changes in uric acid levels, acidosis, articular hydration and extracellular matrix proteins, such as proteoglycans, collagens, and chondroitin sulfate. The increased precipitation at low temperatures partly explains why the joints in the feet are most commonly affected. Rapid changes in uric acid\",\n \"title\": \"Gout\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"11124270\",\n \"text\": \"ligands include fatty acids such as arachidonic acid as well as other polyunsaturated fatty acids and various fatty acid-derived compounds such as certain members of the 15-hydroxyicosatetraenoic acid family of arachidonic acid metabolites, e.g. 15(\\\"S\\\")-HETE, 15(R)-HETE, and 15(S)-HpETE and 13-hydroxyoctadecadienoic acid, a linoleic acid metabolite. Expression of PPAR-alpha is highest in tissues that oxidize fatty acids at a rapid rate. In rodents, highest mRNA expression levels of PPAR-alpha are found in liver and brown adipose tissue, followed by heart and kidney. Lower PPAR-alpha expression levels are found in small and large intestine, skeletal muscle and adrenal gland. Human PPAR-alpha seems\",\n \"title\": \"Peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor alpha\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"3646791\",\n \"text\": \"(protein breakdown) in the wine also requires stabilization. Treatment with bentonite allows the precipitation of unstable proteins which can then be removed by filtration and extraction. The proteins can also react with Metatartaric acid added to wine to prevent tartaric precipitation: the wine then loses its shine and becomes opalescent like whey. Some varieties are naturally high in protein (muscat. ..) but levels also vary depending on the vintage and maturity levels. Finally some white wines can be victims of \\\"Rosissement\\\" (pinking). This phenomenon manifests itself in a light rosé colouration of the wine and takes the appearance of a\",\n \"title\": \"White wine\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"14257916\",\n \"text\": \"and extremely humid. Precipitation ranges are generally above 1500 mm and ranges between 2000 and 3500 mm are common. Maximums measured in the hinterland of the Bay of Kotor surpass annual averages beyond 4500 mm (Crkvice), the highest precipitation ranges in Europe and one of the highest of the Northern Hemisphere. It is part of Köppen's temperate type with humid summers (Cfs) and mountain snow climates (Dfs). Due to snow abundance and avalanching, alpine biotopes are common for all high mountains. Several small glaciers still persist in the Durmitor and Prokletije ranges, the Dinaric Alps' highest massifs. With high precipitation\",\n \"title\": \"Dinaric Mountains mixed forests\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"6544841\",\n \"text\": \"Prostatic acid phosphatase Prostatic acid phosphatase (PAP), also prostatic specific acid phosphatase (PSAP), is an enzyme produced by the prostate. It may be found in increased amounts in men who have prostate cancer or other diseases. The highest levels of acid phosphatase are found in metastasized prostate cancer. Diseases of the bone, such as Paget's disease or hyperparathyroidism, diseases of blood cells, such as sickle-cell disease or multiple myeloma or lysosomal storage diseases, such as Gaucher's disease, will show moderately increased levels. Certain medications can cause temporary increases or decreases in acid phosphatase levels. Manipulation of the prostate gland through\",\n \"title\": \"Prostatic acid phosphatase\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"645006\",\n \"text\": \"Mediterranean climate (Köppen climate classification \\\"Csa\\\"). It has one of the highest summer average daily temperatures in Europe (with highs averaging in July) and days with temperatures over are common in the summer months. August's 24-hour average of is also among one of the highest in Europe, despite relatively cool nightly temperatures. Winters are mild, yet cooler than other low lying cities in southern Spain due to its interior location, wedged between the Sierra Morena and the Penibaetic System. Precipitation is concentrated in the coldest months; this is due to the Atlantic coastal influence. Precipitation is generated by storms from\",\n \"title\": \"Córdoba, Spain\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"5342736\",\n \"text\": \"than 2. It has no negative consequences unless other conditions are also present such as gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD). Hyperchlorhydria Hyperchlorhydria, sometimes called chlorhydria, sour stomach or acid stomach, refers to the state in the stomach where gastric acid levels are higher than the reference range. The combining forms of the name (\\\"chlor-\\\" + \\\"hydr-\\\"), referring to chlorine and hydrogen, are the same as those in the name of hydrochloric acid, which is the active constituent of gastric acid. In humans, the normal pH is around 1 to 3, which varies throughout the day. The highest basal secretion levels are\",\n \"title\": \"Hyperchlorhydria\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"4363140\",\n \"text\": \"haze\\\" in national parks and wilderness areas. Acid precipitation comes in more forms than just rain. Snow, fog, mist, gas, and dust are also formed in the atmosphere and have the ability to become acid precipitation. These types of precipitation are formed when certain types of air pollutants mix with the moisture in the air to form an acid. Each type is potentially dangerous to humans' health, can cause haze and problems in the environment, and can cause damage to people's properties. The two main pollutants that cause acid precipitation are sulfur dioxide (SO2) and nitrogen oxides (NOx). Power plants\",\n \"title\": \"National Emissions Standards Act\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"5342735\",\n \"text\": \"Hyperchlorhydria Hyperchlorhydria, sometimes called chlorhydria, sour stomach or acid stomach, refers to the state in the stomach where gastric acid levels are higher than the reference range. The combining forms of the name (\\\"chlor-\\\" + \\\"hydr-\\\"), referring to chlorine and hydrogen, are the same as those in the name of hydrochloric acid, which is the active constituent of gastric acid. In humans, the normal pH is around 1 to 3, which varies throughout the day. The highest basal secretion levels are in the late evening (around 12 A.M. to 3 A.M.). Hyperchlorhydria is usually defined as having a pH less\",\n \"title\": \"Hyperchlorhydria\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"679851\",\n \"text\": \"by spawning in the rivers, thereby diluting the local DNA. Acid rain has damaged lakes, rivers and forest, especially in the southernmost part of the country, and most wild salmon populations in Sørlandet have died. Due to lower emissions in Europe, acid rain in Norway has decreased by 40% from 1980 to 2003. Another concern is a possible increase in extreme weather. In the future, climate models predict increased precipitation, especially in the areas with current high precipitation, and also predict more episodes with heavy precipitation within a short time span, which can cause landslides and local floods. Winters will\",\n \"title\": \"Geography of Norway\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"485025\",\n \"text\": \"because their parent materials were acid and initially low in the basic cations (calcium, magnesium, potassium and sodium). Acidification occurs when these elements are leached from the soil profile by rainfall or by the harvesting of forest or agricultural crops. Soil acidification is accelerated by the use of acid-forming nitrogenous fertilizers and by the effects of acid precipitation. Soil contamination at low levels is often within a soil's capacity to treat and assimilate waste material. Soil biota can treat waste by transforming it; soil colloids can adsorb the waste material. Many waste treatment processes rely on this treatment capacity. Exceeding\",\n \"title\": \"Soil\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"7239346\",\n \"text\": \"runoff is another source of pollution. Effluent limits for Larrys Creek in Mifflin Township for the 5-day test for carbonaceous biochemical oxygen demand (CBOD) are 25 mg/L, while fecal coliform bacteria count limits are 200 per 100 mL in May through September, and 2000 per 100 mL in October through April. The mean annual precipitation for Larrys Creek is . According to the Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission: \\\"Pennsylvania receives the most acid deposition of any state in the nation because, in addition to being the third highest producer of the gases that cause acid deposition, we are also located\",\n \"title\": \"Larrys Creek\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"9586824\",\n \"text\": \"have colder winters and shorter summers. Abkhazia's highest regions have a cold, summerless climate throughout the year. Abkhazia receives high amounts of precipitation, but is known for its unique micro-climate (transitional from subtropical to mountain) along most of its coast, causing lower levels of humidity. The annual precipitation along the coast ranges from . The foothills, the lower ranges, and the interior gorges of the Republic receive anywhere between of precipitation annually. Some of the interior gorges that are sheltered from the moist influences of the Black Sea receive the lowest amounts of precipitation. The higher mountainous regions receive of\",\n \"title\": \"Geography of Abkhazia\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"6235686\",\n \"text\": \"warning system for chemical or physical changes in the Earth's atmosphere which could be cause for environmental concern. Such changes might involve a change in ozone, and therefore ultraviolet, levels, levels of greenhouse gases, or precipitation chemistry, the culprit in the world's acid rain woes. The GAW consists of a coordinated system of various components, prominent among which are: More than 65 countries currently host and operate the GAW's global or regional measurement stations. There are also \\\"contributing stations\\\" that furnish additional data. Lately, satellite programmes have also become important to the GAW, providing atmospheric data that complement ground measurements.\",\n \"title\": \"Global Atmosphere Watch\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"33493\",\n \"text\": \"of 1990. The overall goal of the Acid Rain Program established by the Act is to achieve significant environmental and public health benefits through reductions in emissions of sulphur dioxide (SO) and nitrogen oxides (NO), the primary causes of acid rain. To achieve this goal at the lowest cost to society, the program employs both regulatory and market based approaches for controlling air pollution. Acid rain Acid rain is a rain or any other form of precipitation that is unusually acidic, meaning that it has elevated levels of hydrogen ions (low pH). It can have harmful effects on plants, aquatic\",\n \"title\": \"Acid rain\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"697153\",\n \"text\": \"order to protect wildlife. The Tatras lie in the temperate zone of Central Europe. They are an important barrier to the movements of air masses. Their mountainous topography causes one of the most diverse climates in that region. The highest precipitation figures are recorded on the northern slopes. In June and July, monthly precipitation reaches around . Precipitation occurs from 215 to 228 days a year. Thunderstorms occur 36 days a year on average. Maximum thickness on the summit amounts to: Peaks are sometimes covered with snow or ice throughout the year. Avalanches are frequent. Extreme temperatures range from in\",\n \"title\": \"Tatra Mountains\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"33458\",\n \"text\": \"Acid rain Acid rain is a rain or any other form of precipitation that is unusually acidic, meaning that it has elevated levels of hydrogen ions (low pH). It can have harmful effects on plants, aquatic animals and infrastructure. Acid rain is caused by emissions of sulphur dioxide and nitrogen oxide, which react with the water molecules in the atmosphere to produce acids. Some governments have made efforts since the 1970s to reduce the release of sulphur dioxide and nitrogen oxide into the atmosphere with positive results. Nitrogen oxides can also be produced naturally by lightning strikes, and sulphur dioxide\",\n \"title\": \"Acid rain\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"6123055\",\n \"text\": \"discovered by chemist Henri Braconnot in 1831. Maximilian Nierenstein prepared this substance from algarobilla, dividivi, oak bark, pomegranate, myrabolams, and valonea in 1905. He also suggested its formation from galloyl-glycine by \\\"Penicillium\\\" in 1915. Löwe was the first person to synthesize ellagic acid by heating gallic acid with arsenic acid or silver oxide. Ellagic acid is found in oak species such as the North American white oak (\\\"Quercus alba\\\") and European red oak (\\\"Quercus robur\\\"). The macrophyte \\\"Myriophyllum spicatum\\\" produces ellagic acid. Ellagic acid can be found in the medicinal mushroom \\\"Phellinus linteus\\\". The highest levels of ellagic acid are\",\n \"title\": \"Ellagic acid\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"3436928\",\n \"text\": \"blood serum—and showed brain asymmetry and decreased immunoglobulin levels. Occupationally exposed individuals may have an average level of PFOS over 1000 parts per billion, and a small segment of individuals in the upper range of the general population may be over the 91.5 parts per billion level. A variety of wildlife species have had PFOS levels measured in egg, liver, kidney, serum, and plasma samples and some of the highest recorded values as of January 2006 are listed below. The levels observed in wild animals are considered sufficient to \\\"alter health parameters\\\". In people, the highest exposures to PFOS in\",\n \"title\": \"Perfluorooctanesulfonic acid\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"16210120\",\n \"text\": \"NAPAP. The NAPAP Interim Assessment was issued on September 17, 1987. A major assessment was issued in 1990. Following the 1990 renewal and expansion of the Clean Air Act, resources devoted to NAPAP declined. National Acid Precipitation Assessment Program: Interim Assessment: The Causes and Effects of Acidic Deposition, issued September 17, 1987 National Acid Precipitation Assessment Program In United States federal environmental legislation, the National Acid Precipitation Assessment Program (NAPAP) was authorized by Congress under the Acid Precipitation Act of 1980 (P.L. 96-294, Title VII) because of concern that acidic deposition might contribute to adverse effects on aquatic systems; agriculture;\",\n \"title\": \"National Acid Precipitation Assessment Program\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"945196\",\n \"text\": \"is extremely helpful for scientists studying the effects of greenhouse gases released into the atmosphere and their effects on the levels of the acid rain. Some Automated Surface Observing System (ASOS) units use an automated weighing gauge called the AWPAG (All Weather Precipitation Accumulation Gauge). The tipping bucket rain gauge consists of a funnel that collects and channels the precipitation into a small seesaw-like container. After a pre-set amount of precipitation falls, the lever tips, dumping the collected water and sending an electrical signal. An old-style recording device may consist of a pen mounted on an arm attached to a\",\n \"title\": \"Rain gauge\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"5316633\",\n \"text\": \"glaciers coming from Orjen during the Ice Age. Krivošije is the region with the greatest rainfall in Europe. Reovačka greda is a mountaiin ridge located near Crkvice in central Krivošije, is the location of the region's highest peak Pazua (1769 m), which is used for trad climbing. Settlements in the region include Crkvice (inhabited location with the highest annual precipitation in the Europe), Dragalj, Han, Malov Do, Knežlaz, , Unijerina and Zvečava. Krivošije are within the Mediterranean subtropical belt. While summers are hot and sunny, autumn, winter and spring are rainy seasons. A peculiarity of the littoral Dinarids is the\",\n \"title\": \"Krivošije\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"33481\",\n \"text\": \"cloud droplets). Wet deposition of acids occurs when any form of precipitation (rain, snow, and so on.) removes acids from the atmosphere and delivers it to the Earth's surface. This can result from the deposition of acids produced in the raindrops (see aqueous phase chemistry above) or by the precipitation removing the acids either in clouds or below clouds. Wet removal of both gases and aerosols are both of importance for wet deposition. Acid deposition also occurs via dry deposition in the absence of precipitation. This can be responsible for as much as 20 to 60% of total acid deposition.\",\n \"title\": \"Acid rain\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"19309699\",\n \"text\": \"Exide lead contamination Exide is one of the world's largest producers, distributors and recyclers of lead-acid batteries. Lead-acid batteries are used in automobiles, golf carts, fork-lifts, and motorcycles. They are recycled by grinding them open, neutralizing the acid, and separating the polymers from the lead. In the US, 97 percent of the lead from car batteries is recycled which is the highest recycling rate for any commodity. Most states require stores to take back old batteries. Since 2010, operations at seven (7) Exide lead-acid battery plants have been linked to ambient airborne lead levels that posed a health risk to\",\n \"title\": \"Exide lead contamination\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"11531196\",\n \"text\": \"Omega-3 acid ethyl esters Omega-3 acid ethyl esters are the omega-3 fatty acids eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA) and docosahexaenoic acid (DHA), i.e., the ester part, attached at one end to an ethanol molecule - the ethyl part. These FDA-approved prescription products are used in combination with changes in diet to lower blood triglyceride levels in adults with severe (≥ 500 mg/dL) hypertriglyceridemia. This was the first fish oil-derived product to be approved for use as a drug. The first approvals came in Europe in 2001. The first approval in the US came in 2004. These prescription products have been tested in\",\n \"title\": \"Omega-3 acid ethyl esters\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"244444\",\n \"text\": \"greater temperature variations between the summer and winter halves of the year and in lower and more variable amounts of precipitation across the year. This sub-continental effect is most sharply seen in the Wendland, in the Weser Uplands (Hamelin to Göttingen) and in the area of Helmstedt. The highest levels of precipitation are experienced in the Harz because the Lower Saxon part forms the windward side of this mountain range against which orographic rain falls. The average annual temperature is 8 °C (7.5 °C in the Altes Land and 8.5 °C in the district of Cloppenburg). Lower Saxony is divided\",\n \"title\": \"Lower Saxony\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"1980824\",\n \"text\": \"high precipitation on the southern side and lower precipitation levels on the northern side. Extratropical cyclones can bring cold and dangerous conditions with heavy rain and snow with winds exceeding 119 km/h (74 mph), (sometimes referred to as windstorms in Europe). The band of precipitation that is associated with their warm front is often extensive, forced by weak upward vertical motion of air over the frontal boundary which condenses as it cools and produces precipitation within an elongated band, which is wide and stratiform, meaning falling out of nimbostratus clouds. When moist air tries to dislodge an arctic air mass,\",\n \"title\": \"Precipitation\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"6544845\",\n \"text\": \"adenosine, a molecule known to suppress pain. PSAP was the first useful serum tumour marker and emerged in the 1940s and 1950s. Prostatic acid phosphatase Prostatic acid phosphatase (PAP), also prostatic specific acid phosphatase (PSAP), is an enzyme produced by the prostate. It may be found in increased amounts in men who have prostate cancer or other diseases. The highest levels of acid phosphatase are found in metastasized prostate cancer. Diseases of the bone, such as Paget's disease or hyperparathyroidism, diseases of blood cells, such as sickle-cell disease or multiple myeloma or lysosomal storage diseases, such as Gaucher's disease, will\",\n \"title\": \"Prostatic acid phosphatase\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"4662163\",\n \"text\": \"thus the precipitated protein can be solubilized through the use of standard buffers. Ammonium sulfate precipitation provides a convenient and simple means to fractionate complex protein mixtures. In the analysis of rubber lattices, volatile fatty acids are analyzed by precipitating rubber with a 35% ammonium sulfate solution, which leaves a clear liquid from which volatile fatty acids are regenerated with sulfuric acid and then distilled with steam. Selective precipitation with ammonium sulfate, opposite to the usual precipitation technique which uses acetic acid, does not interfere with the determination of volatile fatty acids. As a food additive, ammonium sulfate is considered\",\n \"title\": \"Ammonium sulfate\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"3026187\",\n \"text\": \"occurring from December to March, with March being the wettest month of the year, receiving an average of of precipitation. Ballina's annual precipitation total observes a considerably higher concentration in the first half of the year (January–June) than the second half of the year (July–December). Ballina's wetness is due to the town's coastal location and proximity to Cape Byron, the easternmost point in Australia, which means that exposure to moisture-laden frontal systems that develop throughout the year in the Tasman Sea follows accordingly. Ballina experiences a copious of precipitation annually, which is one of the highest annual precipitation levels to\",\n \"title\": \"Ballina, New South Wales\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"4846768\",\n \"text\": \"gold precipitates from electrowinning or Merrill-Crowe processes are usually heated in a retort to recover any mercury present, that would otherwise cause health and environmental problems due to its release (volatilization) during smelting. The mercury present is not usually from the mercury amalgamation process that is no longer used by formal gold mining companies, but from mercury in the ore that has followed gold through the leaching and precipitation processes. In the event that there are high levels of copper present, leaching of the precipitate using nitric or sulfuric acids may be required. Nitric acid or forced air oven oxidation\",\n \"title\": \"Gold extraction\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"1192286\",\n \"text\": \"to gas pipes. Direct damage caused by lightning strikes occurs on occasion. In areas with a high frequency for cloud-to-ground lightning, like Florida, lightning causes several fatalities per year, most commonly to people working outside. Precipitation with low potential of hydrogen levels (pH), otherwise known as acid rain, is also a frequent risk produced by lightning. Distilled water, which contains no carbon dioxide, has a neutral pH of 7. Liquids with a pH less than 7 are acidic, and those with a pH greater than 7 are bases. “Clean” or unpolluted rain has a slightly acidic pH of about 5.2,\",\n \"title\": \"Storm\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"11223759\",\n \"text\": \"for certain metabolites of the polyunsaturated fatty acid, linoleic acid. G2A in humans is encoded by the \\\"GPR132\\\" gene. The G2A gene (Gene ID: 29933) is located on chromosome 14q32.3 codes for two alternative splice variants, the original one, G2A-a, and G2A-b, that consist of 380 and 371 amino acids, respectively; the two receptor variants, when expressed in Chinese hamster ovary cells, gave very similar results when analyzed for functionality. G2A-a and G2A-b mRNA are expressed at similar levels in blood leukocytes ( macrophages, dendritic cells, neutrophils [PMN], mast cells, T lymphocytes and B lymphocytes at the highest levels followed\",\n \"title\": \"GPR132\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"16210117\",\n \"text\": \"National Acid Precipitation Assessment Program In United States federal environmental legislation, the National Acid Precipitation Assessment Program (NAPAP) was authorized by Congress under the Acid Precipitation Act of 1980 (P.L. 96-294, Title VII) because of concern that acidic deposition might contribute to adverse effects on aquatic systems; agriculture; forests; fish; wildlife and natural ecosystems; materials such as metals, wood, paint and masonry; and public health and welfare. Congress also expressed concern over the potential impact from long-range transport on national and international policy. Congress further directed that a comprehensive 10-year research plan be developed and guided by an Interagency Task\",\n \"title\": \"National Acid Precipitation Assessment Program\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"20110167\",\n \"text\": \"geology of the Andes, but most are fairly young. They include andosols, inceptisols, histosols, entisols and mollisols. At the lowest levels, the subpáramo, soils are dark, low in acid, low in calcium and free phosphorus, fairly high in potassium and nitrogen, with more than 10% organic matter in the top layer. At the middle levels, the grass páramo, soils are fairly deep and are dark in color, acidic, moist or saturated with water, rich in organic matter and peat-like. At the highest levels, known as the superpáramo, soils are shallow and coarse, with much rock and sand and little organic\",\n \"title\": \"Northern Andean páramo\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"3486212\",\n \"text\": \"potassium, are subject of alluvial deposition. The region of the Parque Nacional Peneda Geres falls within a transitional zone between the Atlantic and Mediterranean environments, and is influenced by various climatic systems: Atlantic, Mediterranean and Continental. Its climate is greatly influenced by the topography; the mountains exert a barrier effect to the passage of hot and wet air masses coming from the Atlantic Ocean, resulting in elevated precipitation throughout the year. It falls in a part of Portugal (and Europe) that is affected by extreme rainfall, obtaining precipitation levels of 3000 millimetres per year, with more than 130 rainy days\",\n \"title\": \"Peneda-Gerês National Park\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"11217\",\n \"text\": \"flooding, property damage and loss of life. High levels of precipitation cause the glaciers to descend to permafrost levels in some areas whereas in other, more arid regions, glaciers remain above about the level. The of the Alps covered by glaciers in 1876 had shrunk to by 1973, resulting in decreased river run-off levels. Forty percent of the glaciation in Austria has disappeared since 1850, and 30% of that in Switzerland. The Alps provide lowland Europe with drinking water, irrigation, and hydroelectric power. Although the area is only about 11 percent of the surface area of Europe, the Alps provide\",\n \"title\": \"Alps\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"3436890\",\n \"text\": \"because of data gaps. When water is a source, blood levels are approximately 100 times higher than drinking water levels. People who lived in the PFOA-contaminated area around DuPont's Washington Works facility were found to have higher levels of PFOA in their blood from drinking water. The highest PFOA levels in drinking water were found in the Little Hocking water system, with an average concentration of 3.55 parts per billion during 2002–2005. Individuals who drank more tap water, ate locally grown fruits and vegetables, or ate local meat, were all associated with having higher PFOA levels. Residents who used water\",\n \"title\": \"Perfluorooctanoic acid\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"2512529\",\n \"text\": \"one in 539 or 540 AD. There are also more ancient reference points, such as the eruption of Toba about 72,000 years ago. Many other elements and molecules have been detected in ice cores. In 1969, it was discovered that lead levels in Greenland ice had increased by a factor of over 200 since pre-industrial times, and increases in other elements produced by industrial processes, such as copper, cadmium, and zinc, have also been recorded. The presence of nitric and sulfuric acid ( and ) in precipitation can be shown to correlate with increasing fuel combustion over time. Methanesulfonate (MSA)\",\n \"title\": \"Ice core\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"2733787\",\n \"text\": \"in cold water, followed by an attack of gout the next morning. This is believed to be due to temperature-dependent precipitation of uric acid crystals in tissues at below normal temperature. Thus, one aim of prevention is to keep the hands and feet warm, and soaking in hot water may be therapeutic. Increased levels predispose for gout and, if very high, kidney failure. The metabolic syndrome often presents with hyperuricemia. Prognosis is good with regular consumption of allopurinol. People with gout, and by inference hyperuricemia, are significantly less likely to develop Parkinson's disease, unless they also require diuretics. In Dalmatian\",\n \"title\": \"Hyperuricemia\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"1661360\",\n \"text\": \"The high elevations also expose plant life to high levels of pollution, including acid precipitation in the form of rain, snow, and fog. These acids damage the red spruce trees in part by releasing natural metals from the soil like aluminum, and by leaching important minerals. To what extent this pollution harms the high-altitude ecosystem is debatable. While the mountain is still mostly lush and green in the summer, many dead Fraser fir trunks can be seen due to these serious problems. Repairing the damage is a difficult issue, as the pollutants are often carried in from long distances. Sources\",\n \"title\": \"Mount Mitchell\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"634346\",\n \"text\": \"the most sunshine. The general coastal climate is more typical the further south-west into the region. Areas of moorland inland such as: Bodmin Moor, Dartmoor and Exmoor experience lower temperatures and more precipitation than the rest of the south west (approximately twice as much rainfall as lowland areas), because of their high altitude. Both of these factors also cause it to experience the highest levels of snowfall and the lowest levels of sunshine. Exposed areas of the moors are windier than lowlands and can be almost as windy as the coast. The boundaries of the South West region are based\",\n \"title\": \"South West England\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"16786044\",\n \"text\": \"is a capable solvent, and will dissolve small amounts of solids from piping and containers including the boiler. Continuing evaporation of steam concentrates dissolved impurities until they reach levels potentially damaging to steam production within the boiler. Without blowdown, impurities would reach saturation levels and begin to precipitate within the boiler. Impurity concentrations are highest where steam is being produced near heat exchange surfaces. Precipitation would be expected to occur in the form of scale deposits on those heat exchange surfaces. Scale deposits thermally insulate heat exchange surfaces initially decreasing the rate of steam generation, and potentially causing boiler metals\",\n \"title\": \"Boiler blowdown\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"1507659\",\n \"text\": \"retraced their ascent line, reaching their tent on the Dais Glacier at 2 am. The ascent to the summit and back to base camp had taken over 23 hours. The Waddington Range massif is known for fierce as well as unpredictable weather, located as it is at the brunt of the warm, wet winds that soak the British Columbia Coast, of which it is the highest point. Precipitation levels in the area of the peak are among the highest in the Coast Mountains. To reach Mount Waddington, one could take a long approach originating from Vancouver, with the bulk of\",\n \"title\": \"Mount Waddington\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"9257265\",\n \"text\": \"the protein is predominantly positively charged and repulsion between proteins occurs. However, at the pI the negative and positive charges cancel, repulsive electrostatic forces are reduced and the attraction forces predominate. The attraction forces will cause aggregation and precipitation. The pI of most proteins is in the pH range of 4–6. Mineral acids, such as hydrochloric and sulfuric acid are used as precipitants. The greatest disadvantage to isoelectric point precipitation is the irreversible denaturation caused by the mineral acids. For this reason isoelectric point precipitation is most often used to precipitate contaminant proteins, rather than the target protein. The precipitation\",\n \"title\": \"Protein precipitation\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"18693259\",\n \"text\": \"clusters. The prevalence of iron is apparently due to the large availability of Fe(II) in the initial evolution of living organisms, before the rise of photosynthesis and an increase in atmospheric oxygen levels which resulted in the precipitation of iron in the environment as Fe(OH). It has flexible redox properties because such properties are sensitive to ligand coordination, including geometry. Iron can be also used in enzymes due to its Lewis acid properties, for example in nitrile hydratase. Iron is frequently found in mononuclear sites in the reduced Fe(II) form, and functions in dioxygen activation; this function is used as\",\n \"title\": \"Evolution of metal ions in biological systems\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"3982163\",\n \"text\": \"Trichloroacetic acid Trichloroacetic acid (TCA; TCAA; also known as trichloroethanoic acid) is an analogue of acetic acid in which the three hydrogen atoms of the methyl group have all been replaced by chlorine atoms. Salts and esters of trichloroacetic acid are called trichloroacetates. It is prepared by the reaction of chlorine with acetic acid in the presence of a suitable catalyst. Another route to trichloroacetic acid is the oxidation of trichloroacetaldehyde. It is widely used in biochemistry for the precipitation of macromolecules, such as proteins, DNA, and RNA. TCA and DCA are both used in cosmetic treatments (such as chemical\",\n \"title\": \"Trichloroacetic acid\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"17820789\",\n \"text\": \"geochemical proxies correspond well with other sediment proxies, indicating high precipitation and runoff during the early Holocene, the highest primary productivity in the mid-Holocene and an arid trend in late Holocene. Height measurements and OSL/14C dating of paleo-shorelines in Zhuye Lake can better understand the formation and evolution of lake levels during the late Quaternary. According to field surveys, there are 9 paleo-shorelines and one lake terrace in the northeast of Zhuye Lake. OSL and 14C ages have showed that high lake levels existed during the early and middle Holocene, and the lake retreated significantly during the late Holocene. On\",\n \"title\": \"Zhuye Lake\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"766902\",\n \"text\": \"artificial waterways or canals, among others the Brussels–Scheldt Maritime Canal, the Brussels–Charleroi Canal, the Canal du Centre and the Albert Canal. The Belgian climate, like most of northwest Europe, is maritime temperate, with significant precipitation in all seasons (Köppen climate classification: \\\"Cfb\\\"; the average temperature is in January, and in July; the average precipitation is in January, and in July). Belgium usually has cool winters but temperatures as low as -16 °C (3 °F) have been registered and summers are comfortably warm but temperatures can occasionally rise as high as 30 °C (86 °F). Belgium's highest point is the Signal\",\n \"title\": \"Geography of Belgium\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"33466\",\n \"text\": \"U.S. Congress passed an Acid Deposition Act. This Act established an 18-year assessment and research program under the direction of the National Acidic Precipitation Assessment Program (NAPAP). NAPAP looked at the entire problem from a scientific perspective. It enlarged a network of monitoring sites to determine how acidic the precipitation actually was, and to determine long-term trends, and established a network for dry deposition. It looked at the effects of acid rain and funded research on the effects of acid precipitation on freshwater and terrestrial ecosystems, historical buildings, monuments, and building materials. It also funded extensive studies on atmospheric processes\",\n \"title\": \"Acid rain\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"12531712\",\n \"text\": \"ripened grapes. While concentration varies among grape varieties, it is usually found in higher levels with red wine grapes. The acid is created as a byproduct of the metabolization of nitrogen by yeast cells during fermentation. The combination of succinic acid with one molecule of ethanol will create the ester mono-ethyl succinate responsible for a mild, fruit aroma in wines. Acidity is highest in wine grapes just before the start of \\\"veraison\\\", which ushers in the ripening period of the annual cycle of grape vines. As the grapes ripen, their sugar levels increase and their acidity levels decrease. Through the\",\n \"title\": \"Acids in wine\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"433219\",\n \"text\": \"(200–430 µmol/l) for men, and 2.4–6.1 mg per 100 ml for women (140–360 µmol/l). Uric acid concentrations in blood plasma above and below the normal range are known as, respectively, hyperuricemia and hypouricemia. Likewise, uric acid concentrations in urine above and below normal are known as hyperuricosuria and hypouricosuria. Uric acid levels in saliva may be associated with blood uric acid levels. Hyperuricemia (high levels of uric acid), which induces gout, has various potential origins: Excess blood uric acid can induce gout, a painful condition resulting from needle-like crystals of uric acid precipitating in joints, capillaries, skin, and other tissues.\",\n \"title\": \"Uric acid\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"2982003\",\n \"text\": \"oxalic acid and tannin, and many have astringent and slightly purgative qualities. Some species with particularly high levels of oxalic acid are called sorrels (including sheep's sorrel, \\\"Rumex acetosella\\\", common sorrel, \\\"Rumex acetosa\\\", and French sorrel, \\\"Rumex scutatus\\\"), and some of these are grown as leaf vegetables or garden herbs for their acidic taste. In Western Europe, dock leaves are a traditional remedy for the sting of nettles, and suitable larger docks (such as broad-leaved dock \\\"R. obtusifolius\\\" or curled dock \\\"R. crispus\\\") often grow conveniently in similar habitats to the common nettle (\\\"Urtica dioica\\\"). In traditional Austrian medicine, \\\"R.\",\n \"title\": \"Rumex\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"12938039\",\n \"text\": \"alkaline silicate solution with a mineral acid. Sulfuric acid and sodium silicate solutions are added simultaneously with agitation to water. Precipitation is carried out under alkaline conditions. The choice of agitation, duration of precipitation, the addition rate of reactants, their temperature and concentration, and pH can vary the properties of the silica. The formation of a gel stage is avoided by stirring at elevated temperatures. The resulting white precipitate is filtered, washed and dried in the manufacturing process. The particles are porous. Primary particles with a diameter of 5 - 100 nm, and specific surface area 5-100 m/g. Agglomerate size\",\n \"title\": \"Precipitated silica\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"12710847\",\n \"text\": \"a higher (13.9 milligram per deciliter) total cholesterol level was observed in when the highest quartile was compared to the lowest. Non-HDL cholesterol (or \\\"bad cholesterol\\\") levels were also higher in samples with more PFNA. In bottlenose dolphins from Delaware Bay, PFNA was the perfluorinated carboxylic acid measured in the highest concentration in blood plasma; it was found in concentrations well over 100 parts per billion. PFNA has been detected in polar bears in concentrations over 400 parts per billion. PFNA was the perfluorinated chemical measured in the highest concentration in Russian Baikal seals. However, PFOS is the perfluorinated compound\",\n \"title\": \"Perfluorononanoic acid\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"5616531\",\n \"text\": \"north. In the summer, they become weaker and blow primarily from the south. The island's humidity level, which averages more than 80 percent year round, is highest during the summer. Cloud cover levels peak during the summer as well. Although high year-round, with an average of 88 percent, cloud cover levels rise to 95 percent in the summer. Fog too is more common in the summer, occurring on roughly one-third of the days. The island receives about of precipitation per year, with the highest monthly totals occurring between late summer and early winter, when Bering Sea storms batter the island.\",\n \"title\": \"Saint Paul Island (Alaska)\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"13618488\",\n \"text\": \"sulfur dioxide from the sulfur in the oil. These by products combine with water in the atmosphere to create acid rain. The increased concentrations of nitrates and other acidic substances have significant effects on the pH levels of rainfall. Data samples analyzed from the United States and Europe from the past 100 years and showed an increase in nitrous oxide emissions from combustion. The emissions were large enough to acidify the rainfall. The acid rain has adverse impacts on the larger ecosystem. For example acid rain can kill trees , acidified lakes and dead fish. Coral reefs are also destroyed\",\n \"title\": \"Environmental impact of the petroleum industry\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"78047\",\n \"text\": \"is possible, and thus the acid/base and conjugated base/acid are always in equilibrium. The equilibrium is determined by the acid and base dissociation constants (\\\"K\\\" and \\\"K\\\") of the involved substances. A special case of the acid-base reaction is the neutralization where an acid and a base, taken at exactly same amounts, form a neutral salt. Acid-base reactions can have different definitions depending on the acid-base concept employed. Some of the most common are: Precipitation is the formation of a solid in a solution or inside another solid during a chemical reaction. It usually takes place when the concentration of\",\n \"title\": \"Chemical reaction\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"10528142\",\n \"text\": \"as gastroparesis symptoms tend to worsen the week before menstruation when progesterone levels are highest. Neither theory has been proven definitively. Gastroparesis can be connected to hypochlorhydria and be caused by chloride, sodium and/or zinc deficiency, as these minerals are needed for the stomach to produce adequate levels of gastric acid (HCl) to properly empty itself of a meal. On the molecular level, it is thought that gastroparesis can be caused by the loss of neuronal nitric oxide expression since the cells in the GI tract secrete nitric oxide. This important signaling molecule has various responsibilities in the GI tract\",\n \"title\": \"Gastroparesis\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"1223163\",\n \"text\": \"part of the city. Cookeville has a humid subtropical climate (Köppen climate classification: \\\"Cfa\\\") with relatively high temperatures and evenly distributed precipitation through the year. Summers are typically hot and humid and winters are mild and cool. The highest temperature recorded in Cookeville since 1896 is on June 29, 2012, and the lowest temperature recorded is on January 21, 1985. Average annual precipitation is , with the highest recorded precipitation at on September 29, 1964. Average annual snowfall is with the highest recorded snowfall at on November 3, 1966. As of the census of 2010, there were 30,435 people, 12,471\",\n \"title\": \"Cookeville, Tennessee\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"3982165\",\n \"text\": \"and Berzelius. Featured in the 1958 independent film The Blob but did not affect the gelatinous mass from outer space. Trichloroacetic acid Trichloroacetic acid (TCA; TCAA; also known as trichloroethanoic acid) is an analogue of acetic acid in which the three hydrogen atoms of the methyl group have all been replaced by chlorine atoms. Salts and esters of trichloroacetic acid are called trichloroacetates. It is prepared by the reaction of chlorine with acetic acid in the presence of a suitable catalyst. Another route to trichloroacetic acid is the oxidation of trichloroacetaldehyde. It is widely used in biochemistry for the precipitation\",\n \"title\": \"Trichloroacetic acid\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"7196942\",\n \"text\": \"can be converted to the corresponding triflates: This conversion is conducted in neat HOTf at 100 °C, followed by precipitation of the salt upon the addition of ether. Triflic acid reacts with acyl halides to give mixed triflate anhydrides, which are strong acylating agents, e.g. in Friedel–Crafts reactions. Triflic acid catalyzes the reaction of aromatic compounds with sulfonyl chlorides, probably also through the intermediacy of a mixed anhydride of the sulfonic acid. Triflic acid promotes other Friedel–Crafts-like reactions including the cracking of alkanes and alkylation of alkenes, which are very important to the petroleum industry. These triflic acid derivative catalysts\",\n \"title\": \"Triflic acid\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"239830\",\n \"text\": \"Songbirds migrate to Pelee in spring, and monarch butterflies stop over during the fall. Lake Erie has a lake retention time of 2.6 years, the shortest of all the Great Lakes. The lake's surface area is . Lake Erie's water level fluctuates with the seasons as in the other Great Lakes. Generally, the lowest levels are in January and February, and the highest in June or July, although there have been exceptions. The average yearly level varies depending on long-term precipitation. Short-term level changes are often caused by seiches that are particularly high when southwesterly winds blow across the length\",\n \"title\": \"Lake Erie\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"11542536\",\n \"text\": \"concentration correlates with cognitive and motor dysfunction. When patients were treated with zidovudine to decrease quinolinic acid levels, the amount of neurological improvement was related to the amount of quinolinic acid decreased. In the initial stages of Huntington's disease, patients have substantially increased quinolinic acid levels, in particular in the neostriatum and cortex. These areas of the brain that suffer the most damage at these stages. The increase in quinolinic acid correlates with the early activation of microglia and increased cerebral 3-hydroxykynurenine (3-HK) levels. Furthermore, these increased levels of quinolinic acid are great enough to produce excitotoxic neuronal damage. Studies\",\n \"title\": \"Quinolinic acid\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"48592\",\n \"text\": \"drinks (phosphoric acid), pickles (vinegar) or other acidified food are preserved with benzoic acid and benzoates. Typical levels of use for benzoic acid as a preservative in food are between 0.05–0.1%. Foods in which benzoic acid may be used and maximum levels for its application are controlled by local food laws. Concern has been expressed that benzoic acid and its salts may react with ascorbic acid (vitamin C) in some soft drinks, forming small quantities of benzene. Benzoic acid is a constituent of Whitfield's ointment which is used for the treatment of fungal skin diseases such as tinea, ringworm, and\",\n \"title\": \"Benzoic acid\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"4226460\",\n \"text\": \"algae growth caused by runoff containing chemicals and fertilizers, air pollution has also been a significant factor in the disappearance of brook trout from their native habitats. In the U.S., acid rain caused by air pollution has resulted in pH levels too low to sustain brook trout in all but the highest headwaters of some Appalachian streams and creeks. Brook trout populations across large parts of eastern Canada have been similarly challenged; a subspecies known as the aurora trout was extirpated from the wild by the effects of acid rain. Today, in many parts of the range, efforts are underway\",\n \"title\": \"Brook trout\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"13595164\",\n \"text\": \"yellow fruit; the 'Madeira' with large red fruit; and the small, firm 'spiny red'.Tungi also gives its name to a local Spirit distilled at The St Helena distillery at Alarm Forest, the most remote distillery in the world, made entirely from the opuntia cactus. \\\"Opuntia\\\" contains a range of phytochemicals in variable quantities, such as polyphenols, dietary minerals and betalains. Identified compounds under basic research include gallic acid, vanillic acid and catechins, as examples. The Sicilian prickly pear contains betalain, betanin, and indicaxanthin, with highest levels in their fruits. In Mexican folk medicine, its pulp and juice are considered treatments\",\n \"title\": \"Opuntia\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"9257255\",\n \"text\": \"but some exist in patches on the surface. Proteins that have high hydrophobic amino acid content on the surface have low solubility in an aqueous solvent. Charged and polar surface residues interact with ionic groups in the solvent and increase the solubility of a protein. Knowledge of a protein's amino acid composition will aid in determining an ideal precipitation solvent and methods. Repulsive electrostatic forces form when proteins are dissolved in an electrolyte solution. These repulsive forces between proteins prevent aggregation and facilitate dissolution. Upon dissolution in an electrolyte solution, solvent counterions migrate towards charged surface residues on the protein,\",\n \"title\": \"Protein precipitation\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"11663833\",\n \"text\": \"times greater than the risk of cancer from DBPs\\\". The United States Environmental Protection Agency has set Maximum Contaminant Levels (MCLs) for bromate, chlorite, haloacetic acids and total trihalomethanes (TTHMs). In Europe, the level of TTHMs has been set at 100 micrograms per litre, and the level for bromate to 10 micrograms per litre, under the Drinking Water Directive. No guideline values have been set for HAAs in Europe. The World Health Organization has established guidelines for several DBPs, including bromate, bromodichloromethane, chlorate, chlorite, chloroacetic acid, chloroform, cyanogen chloride, dibromoacetonitrile, dibromochloromethane, dichloroacetic acid, dichloroacetonitrile, NDMA, and trichloroacetic acid. Disinfection by-product\",\n \"title\": \"Disinfection by-product\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"10791026\",\n \"text\": \"is located on Colombia's western, Pacific coast, and covers an area of . It extends from the Gulf of Urabá in the north to the border with Ecuador in the south, and includes part of the departments of Nariño, Cauca, Valle de Cauca and Antioquia, and the whole of Chocó department. This region is distinguished by its high humidity. Precipitation is among the highest in the world, with an average of per year and some areas that receive as much as per year. These high levels of precipitation support a number of rivers, including the Atrato River, San Juan River,\",\n \"title\": \"Natural regions of Colombia\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"38936\",\n \"text\": \"water levels. The longest river located solely in Bulgarian territory, the Iskar, has a length of . Other major rivers include the Struma and the Maritsa in the south. Bulgaria has a changeable climate, which results from being positioned at the meeting point of the Mediterranean and continental air masses combined with the barrier effect of its mountains. Northern Bulgaria averages cooler, and registers more precipitation, than the regions south of the Balkan mountains. Temperature amplitudes vary significantly in different areas. The lowest recorded temperature is , while the highest is . Precipitation averages about per year, and varies from\",\n \"title\": \"Bulgaria\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"16769596\",\n \"text\": \"Dagouein Mountain The Dagouein Mountain is an average elevation of above sea level, is the seventh highest point in Djibouti. The mountain forms one of the geographic resources of the area. The first known people that inhabited the mountain are the Issa Somali. The most famous town in the area is the town of Assamo located 9 km southeast. The principal languages spoken in the area are Somali. The Dagouein Mountain lie south of the Ali Sabieh Region in Djibouti. The altitude and size of the range affects the climate in the mountains precipitation levels vary greatly and climatic conditions\",\n \"title\": \"Dagouein Mountain\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"16502219\",\n \"text\": \"shows highest levels of expression in immune related cells and tissues such as lymphocytes and bone marrow. Levels of TMEM131L protein have been shown to significantly increase under certain immune responses, such as increasing over time after introduction of measles virus to the immune cells dendritic cells and in peripheral blood lymphocytes from kidney transplants displaying acute rejection. There is only one confirmed transmembrane domain region in protein TMEM131L. This domain exists near the center of the protein, at 871-891 amino acid of the 1610 amino acid long protein sequence (for isoform I). There is a dramatic switch from hydrophobic\",\n \"title\": \"KIAA0922\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"846454\",\n \"text\": \"reaching maximum levels in the Adriatic, while between Ortona and Vasto in Costa dei Trabocchi decrease again. The highest rainfall occurs in upland areas on the border with Lazio; they are especially vulnerable to Atlantic disturbances. Around of precipitation is typical (Pescara in 2010 showed a value close to ). As with many Mediterranean regions, Abruzzo's vegetation is characterized by different Mediterranean ecosystems. The coast and the surrounding areas are characterized by the presence of typical plants of Mediterranean shrubland, such as myrtle, heather and mastic, while in the hilly areas other species grow, including olive, pine, willow, oak, poplar,\",\n \"title\": \"Abruzzo\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"17546436\",\n \"text\": \"and its tributaries are not at risk for being too acidic for the optimal health of fish, but in early spring during snowmelts, the pH levels near the limit that brook trout can tolerate. Fishing Creek's waters are acidic due to acid rain. The waters of Fishing Creek at a gauging station near Bloomsburg had pH levels ranging from 5.8 to 8.5 between 2002 and 2012. The lowest pH during that time (5.8) occurred on December 17, 2003. The highest pH during that time (8.5) occurred on February 14, 2012. The average pH during that time and at that location\",\n \"title\": \"Hydrology of Fishing Creek (North Branch Susquehanna River)\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"493852\",\n \"text\": \"microscopy. About 5–10% of all stones are formed from uric acid. People with certain metabolic abnormalities, including obesity, may produce uric acid stones. They also may form in association with conditions that cause hyperuricosuria (an excessive amount of uric acid in the urine) with or without hyperuricemia (an excessive amount of uric acid in the serum). They may also form in association with disorders of acid/base metabolism where the urine is excessively acidic (low pH), resulting in precipitation of uric acid crystals. A diagnosis of uric acid urolithiasis is supported by the presence of a radiolucent stone in the face\",\n \"title\": \"Kidney stone disease\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"5536183\",\n \"text\": \"limits: Artigas Department's average temperature is the highest in the whole country (over 19°C or 66°F, and may go as high as 47°C or 116°F during the summer months). So are its precipitation levels (up to an annual average of 1400 mm). The unique climatic conditions of Artigas has made possible the development of an important agro-industrial centre around the city of Bella Unión. Several crops are planted, namely fruits and vegetables, sugar cane, and rice. In the rest of the department, the main economic activity is livestock raising. Semi-precious gemstones, such as agates and amethysts, are also found in\",\n \"title\": \"Artigas Department\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"15915149\",\n \"text\": \"of the TRR in milk; 7.3% of the TRR in eggs and 4% of the TRR in chicken liver). Residue levels in kidney were the highest. Owing to the longevity and extent of use, 2,4-D has been evaluated several times by regulators and review committees. 2,4-D amine salts and esters are not persistent under most environmental conditions. The degradation of 2,4-D is rapid (half life of 6.2 days) in aerobic mineral soils. 2,4-D is broken down by microbes in soil, in processes that involve hydroxylation, cleavage of the acid side-chain, decarboxylation, and ring opening. The ethyl hexyl form of the\",\n \"title\": \"2,4-Dichlorophenoxyacetic acid\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"5976582\",\n \"text\": \"present: free ferulic acid has limited solubility in water, and hence poor bioavailability. In wheat grain, ferulic acid is found bound to cell wall polysaccharides, allowing it to be released and absorbed in the small intestine. Ferulic acid has been identified in Chinese medicine herbs such as \\\"Angelica sinensis\\\" (female ginseng), \\\"Cimicifuga heracleifolia\\\" and \\\"Ligusticum chuangxiong\\\". It is also found in the tea brewed from the European centaury (\\\"Centaurium erythraea\\\"), a plant used as a medical herb in many parts of Europe. Cooked sweetcorn releases increased levels of ferulic acid. As plant sterol esters, this compound is naturally found in\",\n \"title\": \"Ferulic acid\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"10283904\",\n \"text\": \"suggesting 2 sulfide bonds. The cytosolic isozyme demonstrates no loss in activity upon titration of one thiol group hBCATc demonstrates a lower redox potential (approximately 30 mV) than hBCATm. Mitochondrial branched-chain amino acid aminotransferases are the more ubiquitous of the two isoforms, present in all tissues in the mitochondria of the cell. Pancreatic acinar tissue has been found to carry the highest levels of BCATm in the body In addition, two homologs to normal BCATm have been found. One homolog is found in placental tissue, and the other co-represses thyroid hormone nuclear receptors. BCATm is more sensitive to the redox\",\n \"title\": \"Branched-chain amino acid aminotransferase\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"10798506\",\n \"text\": \"Magnesium gluconate Magnesium gluconate is a compound with formula MgCHO. It is the magnesium salt of gluconic acid. According to scientific research, magnesium gluconate shows the highest level of bioavailability of any magnesium salt and is recommended as the optimal salt for human supplementation although of the 10 salts studied, all increased Magnesium levels significantly. It has E number \\\"E580\\\". There are data on the pharmacological properties of magnesium gluconate. Gluconic acid is the initial substrate for the reactions of pentose phosphate path of oxidation of glucose, so it was suggested that it may affect the energy metabolism of mitochondria.\",\n \"title\": \"Magnesium gluconate\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"8505150\",\n \"text\": \"best-known examples are malvalic acid and sterculic acid. Sterculic acid as its triglyceride is present in sterculia oils and at low levels in kapok seed oil (~12%), cottonseed oil (~1%), and in the seeds of the tree \\\"Sterculia foetida\\\" (~65-78%). These acids are highly reactive but the cyclopropene ring is destroyed during refining and hydrogenation of the oils. They have attracted interest because they reduce levels of the enzyme stearoyl-CoA 9-desaturase (SCD), which catalyzes the biodesaturation of stearic acid to oleic acid. Cyclopropane fatty acid Cyclopropane fatty acids (CPA) are a subgroup of fatty acids that contain a cyclopropane group.\",\n \"title\": \"Cyclopropane fatty acid\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"76300\",\n \"text\": \"with a warm summer wet season and a cooler winter dry season. Central American montane forests consist of forest patches located at altitudes ranging from , on the summits and slopes of the highest mountains in Central America ranging from Southern Mexico, through Guatemala, El Salvador, and Honduras, to northern Nicaragua. The entire ecoregion covers an area of and has a temperate climate with relatively high precipitation levels. Ecoregions are not only established to protect the forests themselves but also because they are habitats for an incomparably rich and often endemic fauna. Almost half of the bird population of the\",\n \"title\": \"Central America\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"795795\",\n \"text\": \"present during thunderstorm phenomena, caused by the oxidation of atmospheric nitrogen, can result in the production of acid rain, if nitric oxide forms compounds with the water molecules in precipitation, thus creating acid rain. Acid rain can damage infrastructures containing calcite or certain other solid chemical compounds. In ecosystems, acid rain can dissolve plant tissues of vegetations and increase acidification process in bodies of water and in soil, resulting in deaths of marine and terrestrial organisms. Any thunderstorm that produces hail that reaches the ground is known as a hailstorm. Thunderclouds that are capable of producing hailstones are often seen\",\n \"title\": \"Thunderstorm\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"65746\",\n \"text\": \"are more pronounced in the continental areas: the lowest temperature of was recorded on 4 February 1929 in Gospić, and the highest temperature of was recorded on 5 August 1981 in Ploče. The mean annual precipitation is depending on the geographic region and prevailing climate type. The least precipitation is recorded in the outer islands (Vis, Lastovo, Biševo, and Svetac) and in the eastern parts of Slavonia; however, in the latter case it is mostly during the growing season. The most precipitation is observed on the Dinara mountain range and in Gorski Kotar, where some of the highest annual precipitation\",\n \"title\": \"Geography of Croatia\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"18367270\",\n \"text\": \"anticipation of flooding rains. Advisories for high winds and potential flooding were issued throughout the state, and a state of emergency was declared in western and eastern Pennsylvania. Floyd produced moderate to heavy rainfall across the eastern half of the state, concentrated in extreme southeastern areas, where as much as of precipitation fell. In Marcus Hook, the highest verifiable storm rainfall total of was reported. The of precipitation at Philadelphia International Airport set a new daily rainfall record and an overall 24-hour record. Rain from the storm exceeded 100-year levels along the axis of the most severe downpours. A cold\",\n \"title\": \"Effects of Hurricane Floyd in Pennsylvania\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"433222\",\n \"text\": \"into the blood, either spontaneously or following chemotherapy. Tumor lysis syndrome may lead to acute renal failure when uric acid crystals deposit in the kidneys. Treatment includes hyperhydration to dilute and excrete uric acid via urine, rasburicase to reduce levels of poorly soluble uric acid in blood, or allopurinol to inhibit purine catabolism from adding to uric acid levels. Lesch-Nyhan syndrome, a rare inherited disorder, is also associated with high serum uric acid levels. Spasticity, involuntary movement, and cognitive retardation as well as manifestations of gout are seen in this syndrome. Hyperuricemia may increase risk factors for cardiovascular disease. Hyperuricemia\",\n \"title\": \"Uric acid\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"10608638\",\n \"text\": \"has a humid subtropical climate characterized by hot summers and mild winters. The Greenbelt receives of rain, with the majority of the precipitation coming in the spring, and second-highest in the fall. Small bodies of water can be found at all times of the year throughout the Greenbelt, however the creek bed that runs along the spine of the Greenbelt actively flows only 1 to 2 months out of the year depending on precipitation levels. Watershed from Barton Creek, a tributary that feeds the Colorado River in Central Texas, is responsible for the area's highly concentrated vegetation. With its diverse\",\n \"title\": \"Barton Creek Greenbelt\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"5567113\",\n \"text\": \"zones based on altitude and vegetation structure, with the three main types of páramo vegetation unequally distributed throughout the different zones. Superpáramo is at the highest elevation and is usually considered to be the transition zone between the higher, permanent snow region and the lower grass páramo zone. The superpáramo zone is generally narrow and exists atop loose stones and sandy soils at about . It has the lowest air temperature, precipitation level, soil water-holding capacity, and nutrient content of all the zones. Being the highest in altitude, it also has the highest levels of solar radiation and night frost.\",\n \"title\": \"Páramo\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"12531698\",\n \"text\": \"influencing the taste of the finished wine. In most plants, this organic acid is rare, but it is found in significant concentrations in grape vines. Along with malic acid, and to a lesser extent citric acid, tartaric is one of the fixed acids found in wine grapes. The concentration varies depending on grape variety and the soil content of the vineyard. Some varieties, such as Palomino, are naturally disposed to having high levels of tartaric acids, while Malbec and Pinot noir generally have lower levels. During flowering, high levels of tartaric acid are concentrated in the grape flowers and then\",\n \"title\": \"Acids in wine\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"6247025\",\n \"text\": \"the winter months of June to August in the form of frontal precipitation. Average midday temperatures range from 25 °C in February to 16 °C in July. Extremes of above 30 °C and under 10 °C are not uncommon. Summer and Winter months are characterised by strong South-Easterly and North-Westerly winds respectively. Hermanus is in the Cape Floristic Region and thus has one of the highest plant diversity levels in the world. The principal vegetation type of this region is Fynbos, a mixture of evergreen shrub-like plants with small firm leaves. In the local Fernkloof Nature Reserve, 1474 plant species\",\n \"title\": \"Hermanus\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"33568\",\n \"text\": \"high altitude acclimatization support the hypothesis that urate acts as an antioxidant by mitigating the oxidative stress caused by high-altitude hypoxia. Uric acid has the highest concentration of any blood antioxidant and provides over half of the total antioxidant capacity of human serum. Uric acid's antioxidant activities are also complex, given that it does not react with some oxidants, such as superoxide, but does act against peroxynitrite, peroxides, and hypochlorous acid. Concerns over elevated UA's contribution to gout must be considered as one of many risk factors. By itself, UA-related risk of gout at high levels (415–530 μmol/L) is only\",\n \"title\": \"Antioxidant\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"11044455\",\n \"text\": \"to the south, collectively referred to as the Menderes Massif. Özdere has a Mediterranean climate (Köppen climate classification \\\"Csa\\\"), with warm, dry summers, and with the majority of its annual precipitation falling during its cool to mild winters. With a mean annual temperature of , the town has significantly temperate, even subtropical climate characteristics. Precipitation levels range from , with the most falling during the month of December. Due to the persistent winter precipitation, humidity levels are most concentrated during that season, and to a lesser extent in the spring. The lowest average humidity is seen in June, and the\",\n \"title\": \"Özdere\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"6349835\",\n \"text\": \"'complex', desirable taste. The renowned 1947 Cheval Blanc is widely recognized to contain high levels of volatile acidity. Ethyl acetate is formed in wine by the esterification of ethanol and acetic acid. Therefore, wines with high acetic acid levels are more likely to see ethyl acetate formation, but the compound does not contribute to the volatile acidity. It is a common microbial fault produced by wine spoilage yeasts, particularly \\\"Pichia anomala\\\" or \\\"Kloeckera apiculata\\\". High levels of ethyl acetate are also produced by lactic acid bacteria and acetic acid bacteria. Sulfur is used as an additive throughout the winemaking process,\",\n \"title\": \"Wine fault\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"2019746\",\n \"text\": \"in the world have sales taxes or value-added taxes at all or several of the national, state, county, or city government levels. Countries in Western Europe, especially in Scandinavia, have some of the world's highest valued-added taxes. Norway, Denmark and Sweden have higher VATs at 25%, Hungary has the highest at 27% although reduced rates are used in some cases, as for groceries, art, books and newspapers. In some jurisdictions of the United States, there are multiple levels of government which each impose a sales tax. For example, sales tax in Chicago (Cook County), IL is 10.25%, consisting of 6.25%\",\n \"title\": \"Sales tax\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"8580287\",\n \"text\": \"Homovanillic acid Homovanillic acid (HVA) is a major catecholamine metabolite that is produced by a consecutive action of monoamine oxidase and catechol-O-methyltransferase on dopamine. Homovanillic acid is used as a reagent to detect oxidative enzymes, and is associated with dopamine levels in the brain. In psychiatry and neuroscience, brain and cerebrospinal fluid levels of HVA are measured as a marker of metabolic stress caused by 2-deoxy--glucose. HVA presence supports a diagnosis of neuroblastoma and malignant pheochromocytoma. Fasting plasma levels of HVA are known to be higher in females than in males. This does not seem to be influenced by adult\",\n \"title\": \"Homovanillic acid\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"7915577\",\n \"text\": \"and rather mild winters, where the annual thermal excursion is anyway lower than 21 °C like in the coast. However, in winter snow and frosts might happen when cold currents from the Balkans or the northern Europe irrupt on the Adriatic coast. During these episodes, minimal temperatures can fall down to -5 °C. Precipitation levels are on average about 845 mm per year according to the climatic data collected during the period 1951 - 2009 and are generally higher than the ones observed in other hillside cities in the sea-side of Abruzzo (around 600–700 mm per year). The climate in\",\n \"title\": \"Penne, Abruzzo\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"8782177\",\n \"text\": \"of bisphosphonates, including Boniva, may increase the risk of a rare but serious fracture of the femur. Ibandronic acid is marketed under the trade names Boniva in the USA, Bondronat in Europe, Bonviva in Asia, Ibandrix in Ecuador, Adronil in Pakistan, Bondrova in Bangladesh and Bonprove in Egypt. Ibandronic acid Ibandronic acid (INN) or ibandronate sodium (USAN) is a potent bisphosphonate drug developed by Hoffman La Roche and used in the prevention and treatment of osteoporosis and metastasis-associated skeletal fractures in people with cancer. It may also be used to treat hypercalcemia (elevated blood calcium levels). 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Along with him was engineer Ken Gardner and architect Herbert Belton, Trump presented the Team Twin Towers designed twin-towered complex model. The Freedom Tower plan, according to Trump, \"looks like a junkyard, a series of broken-down angles that don't match each other. And we have to live with this for hundreds of years? It is the worst pile of crap architecture I've ever seen in my life.\" Though Trump was supporting the proposed twin-towered project, he was leaving the decision up to Larry Silverstein, which his company Silverstein Properties was the lease holder of the site.","title":"Twin Towers 2"},{"docid":"17866491","text":"began in April 2006, which jeopardized the Twin Towers II project from being built on the site. Criticism arose in 2008 that the rebuilding of the World Trade Center was taking longer than expected. Though now-renamed One World Trade Center (formerly Freedom Tower) was under construction as well as the National September 11 Memorial & Museum, it was still proposed to halt One World Trade Center and build the Twin Towers II project. \"Seeing them go up could be as powerful as seeing them go down.\" Ken Gardner stated, engineer of the project. Members of the Twin Towers Alliance, an","title":"Twin Towers 2"},{"docid":"4582259","text":"despite only the internal lift working, with more than 600,000 people visiting it in the first year. It is one of a number of observation towers around the world that have become popular, including Vancouver's Harbour Centre, Toronto's CN Tower, Blackpool's Tower, New York City's One World Trade Center (as well as the original Twin Towers) and Shanghai's Oriental Pearl Tower. In June 2006, the local press raised a concern that the tower might be forced to close. 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Margaret Donovan, a graphic designer and organizer for the Twin Towers Alliance, criticized the city for allegedly \"not paying attention to New Yorkers' wishes for redevelopment designs.\" Donovan worked in the South Tower the year before the attacks. Though One World Trade Center was under construction, she stated that \"We can still have the World Trade Center we deserve\", adding that \"It's not wishful thinking. It's just common sense, and it's not too late.\" Since 2008, news of the project,","title":"Twin Towers 2"},{"docid":"7730626","text":"by its legal name of \"One World Trade Center\", rather than its colloquial name of \"Freedom Tower\". The building is 104 standard floors high, but the tower has only 94 actual stories. 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Varying or tapering the outer aspect of the tower with height avoids vibrations due to vortex shedding occurring along the entire building simultaneously. Although not correctly called towers many modern skyscraper are often called towers (whereas they are classified as 'buildings'). In the United Kingdom, tall domestic buildings are referred to as tower blocks. In the United States, the original World Trade Center had the nickname the Twin Towers, a name shared with the Petronas Twin Towers in Kuala Lumpur. The tower throughout history has provided its users with","title":"Tower"},{"docid":"17866481","text":"Twin Towers, on February 18, 2004, unveiled their architectural model of new twin towers at a news conference at the Marriott Financial Center Hotel (now New York Marriott Downtown) near the World Trade Center site. Team Twin Towers spokesman Jonathan Hakala says the original Twin Towers \"were among Earth's few 'instantly recognizable' landmarks.\" and \"It was a magnificent structure to see going up\", recalls Artie Vignapiano, who was a Port Authority landscape planner as the original World Trade Center was built. \"When I worked on the 74th floor of Tower One, I used to tell people, 'You know what I","title":"Twin Towers 2"},{"docid":"20101240","text":"occupy levels 47 to 58 in the North Tower of Indonesia I. Indonesia-1 Tower Indonesia-1 Tower () is an under-construction twin towers of North Tower and South Tower at Jalan M.H. Thamrin in Central Jakarta, Indonesia. This will be the tallest twin tower in Indonesia. The towers will have offices, retail space, condominiums and service apartments. Both the towers is 303 meters high, but the North tower has 65 and South tower 60 floors. Construction of the tower is expected to be finished by 2019. Tower 1 is an office building while Tower 2 is a multi functional building that","title":"Indonesia-1 Tower"},{"docid":"20101239","text":"Indonesia-1 Tower Indonesia-1 Tower () is an under-construction twin towers of North Tower and South Tower at Jalan M.H. Thamrin in Central Jakarta, Indonesia. This will be the tallest twin tower in Indonesia. The towers will have offices, retail space, condominiums and service apartments. Both the towers is 303 meters high, but the North tower has 65 and South tower 60 floors. Construction of the tower is expected to be finished by 2019. Tower 1 is an office building while Tower 2 is a multi functional building that includes offices, retail space, condominiums and service apartments.Pan Pacific Serviced Suites will","title":"Indonesia-1 Tower"},{"docid":"5254634","text":"Chatham Light Chatham Lighthouse, known as Twin Lights prior to 1923, is a lighthouse in Chatham, Massachusetts, near the \"elbow\" of Cape Cod. The original station, close to the shore, was built in 1808 with two wooden towers that were replaced in 1841 in spite of questions as to why a single tower would not be adequate. In 1877, two new towers, made of cast iron rings, replaced those. One of the towers was moved to the Eastham area and became Nauset Light in 1923. The station was established in 1808; it was the second light station on Cape Cod.","title":"Chatham Light"},{"docid":"4290838","text":"Twin Tower Twin Tower () is a 1970s Hong Kong public housing residential block design. In plan, the blocks look like two hollow squares joined at one corner of each square. Each block comprises two \"towers\" of different heights, although their shapes are the same. The flat sizes in these 20 to 23-storey towers range from 36 to 46 m. The units in Twin Tower blocks are self-contained flats, each with a kitchen, toilet, and balcony. The first Twin Tower blocks appeared at Wah Fu Estate. They were suited to the steeply sloping site, as one of the two \"towers\"","title":"Twin Tower"},{"docid":"11640468","text":"Highlight Towers Highlight Towers is a twin tower office skyscraper complex completed in 2004 in Munich, Germany, planned by architects Murphy/Jahn of Chicago. Tower I is tall with 33 storeys, and Tower II is tall with 28 storeys, which make them among the highest buildings in the city. The towers are joined by two bridges made of glass and steel. Also in the complex are two low-rise buildings between the twin towers, that serve as a hotel and additional office space. Overall, the facility offers approximately of office space. The towers are slightly shifted in the historic sightline of Odeonsplatz","title":"Highlight Towers"},{"docid":"16206852","text":"Twin Tower Sanctuary Twin Tower Sanctuary (Old Sanctuary of the United Methodist Church) is a historic Methodist church building at 9967 W. 144th Street in Orland Park, Illinois. The church was completed in 1898, six years after Orland Park was founded, to serve the city's large Methodist population. Architect William Arthur Bennet, who later became well known for his Prairie School works, designed the church in the Queen Anne style. The north side of the church is flanked by the two hexagonal towers that give the church its name. The interior of the church has a Sullivanesque patterned tin ceiling;","title":"Twin Tower Sanctuary"},{"docid":"8404945","text":"architectural quality and disputed whether the two towers were iconic enough. The reply from the architects were that the designs presented were only initial ideas. Objections to the proposed twin towers were raised by the residents of Stephenson Tower, under the name \"Stephenson Tower Residents Association\" on the outline planning application. The group submitted a petition regarding the planning application. Stephenson Tower, a 20 storey tower block on New Street station, will be served with a compulsory purchase order and demolished as part of the project as one of the towers will partially cover the footprint of the building. The","title":"Gateway Plus"},{"docid":"11363212","text":"Boulder Towers Boulder Towers is a large commercial building complex in Tulsa, Oklahoma. The complex consists of two twin high-rise buildings, Boulder Towers East Tower and Boulder Towers West Tower, which both rise 253 feet (77 m). Each building contains 15 floors. The complex was originally constructed in 1960, consisting of only the West Tower; the East Tower was constructed in 1980. The Boulder Towers currently stand as the tallest twin towers in Tulsa and the state of Oklahoma. In addition, as of October, 2018, they are tied as the 18th-tallest buildings in Tulsa. The Boulder Towers are the 6th-tallest","title":"Boulder Towers"},{"docid":"6262191","text":"mostly complete, still lacking however its two towers. Unfinished at the time of his death in 1766, the work was continued by others, primarily the obscure Oudot de Maclaurin, who erected twin towers to Servandoni's design. Servandoni's pupil Jean Chalgrin rebuilt the north tower (1777–1780), making it taller and modifying Servandoni's baroque design to one that was more neoclassical, but the French Revolution intervened, and the south tower was never replaced. Chalgrin also designed the decoration of the chapels under the towers. The principal facade now exists in somewhat altered form. Servandoni's pediment, criticized as classically incorrect because its width","title":"Church of Saint-Sulpice, Paris"},{"docid":"13272027","text":"Faber Towers Faber Towers is a twin tower skyscraper in Taman Desa, Seputeh, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. It is one of the earliest skyscrapers completed in the city. After changed the majority of its ownership Faber Towers has undergone massive refurbishment work and completed in the 3rd quarter of 2015. The refurbished twin tower with 18-storey office towers and a podium block consisting of 3 level of retail lots are surrounded by an affluent neighbourhood with nearby established amenities that make work life pleasantly balanced and efficient. Faber Towers is not just a place for grinding work out. A host of","title":"Faber Towers"},{"docid":"12057543","text":"Bluevale and Whitevale Towers The Bluevale and Whitevale Towers was the name for a development of twin tower block flats situated in the Camlachie district within the East End of Glasgow, Scotland. Officially known as 109 Bluevale Street and 51 Whitevale Street (often nicknamed the Gallowgate Twins or the Camlachie Twin Towers), the two towers were the tallest buildings in Scotland although with only 29 occupiable floors (the 30th floor was a mechanical floor for building services and a drying area), they were not the buildings with the highest occupied floor level in the city (or Scotland); that distinction belonged","title":"Bluevale and Whitevale Towers"},{"docid":"13272028","text":"attractive retail and F&B outlets are conveniently available to you. The refurbished Faber Towers will flaunt its new look that is both stylish and sophisticated. Expect to enjoy a wide range of quality conveniences, all within the same roof. http://www.fabertowers.com.my/ Faber Towers Faber Towers is a twin tower skyscraper in Taman Desa, Seputeh, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. It is one of the earliest skyscrapers completed in the city. After changed the majority of its ownership Faber Towers has undergone massive refurbishment work and completed in the 3rd quarter of 2015. The refurbished twin tower with 18-storey office towers and a podium","title":"Faber Towers"},{"docid":"4290840","text":"appeared at Oi Man Estate and then many other public estates across Hong Kong in the 1970s. Twin Tower Twin Tower () is a 1970s Hong Kong public housing residential block design. In plan, the blocks look like two hollow squares joined at one corner of each square. Each block comprises two \"towers\" of different heights, although their shapes are the same. The flat sizes in these 20 to 23-storey towers range from 36 to 46 m. The units in Twin Tower blocks are self-contained flats, each with a kitchen, toilet, and balcony. The first Twin Tower blocks appeared at","title":"Twin Tower"},{"docid":"16363481","text":"City Centre Towers City Centre or London City Centre is a twin office tower complex in London, Ontario, Canada at 275 Dundas Street. Construction on the towers was finished in 1974. The South tower is 96 m tall, and is the second tallest building in the city and one of the tallest office buildings in Ontario outside Toronto. The North tower is 89 meters tall and is the third tallest office building in the city. The buildings are one of several twin tower complexes in London's central business district. The towers were the tallest buildings in Southwestern Ontario from 1974,","title":"City Centre Towers"},{"docid":"9459784","text":"Deutsche Bank Twin Towers The Deutsche Bank Twin Towers, also known as Deutsche Bank Headquarters (German: \"Zwillingstürme der Deutschen Bank\" or \"Hauptverwaltung Deutsche Bank AG\"), is a twin tower skyscraper complex in the Westend-Süd district of Frankfurt, Germany. Both towers rise to and serve as headquarters for Deutsche Bank, the largest bank in Germany. The twin towers are sometimes nicknamed Debit and Credit (German: \"Soll und Haben\"), the two aspects of every financial transaction. The Deutsche Bank Twin Towers are prominently located at the borders of the city districts of Westend-Süd, the Bahnhofsviertel and the Innenstadt, near a series of","title":"Deutsche Bank Twin Towers"},{"docid":"1884968","text":"whose charm helped it develop into a popular summer resort. Chatham is home to the Chatham Lighthouse, which was established by President Thomas Jefferson in 1808 to protect the ships circling the Cape. The 1808 towers were replaced in 1841 by twin brick towers that were eventually lost to erosion. The pair were rebuilt in 1877 out of cast iron across the street from its original location, where the light is today. The northern of the two was moved to Eastham to become the Nauset Light in 1923, when the northern tower was declared surplus. Today, the keeper's house is","title":"Chatham, Massachusetts"},{"docid":"5670974","text":"In the Hrasno residential area, the Bosnian company Bosmal has constructed the \"Bosmal City Center\", one of the tallest twin towers in the Balkans at 120 meters each. The new owners of the Holiday Inn Hotel in Sarajevo, also designed by architect Ivan Straus, announced that they will start construction on a new 22 story tower. The so-called 'intelligent' tower is expected to cost about 50 million euros. The Unis Twin Towers have been renovated completely. On the site of the former Oslobodjenje Towers, the Avaz towers have now been constructed as new headquarters for Avaz, the popular Bosnian newspaper","title":"Architecture of Bosnia and Herzegovina"},{"docid":"13679715","text":"Proximus Towers The Proximus Towers (, , known as the Belgacom Towers before the company's name change) are twin skyscrapers on King Albert II Street in the Northern Quarter central business district of Brussels, Belgium. The buildings take their name from the telecommunications company Proximus. They are among the tallest buildings in Belgium. The towers are both tall to the roof, and Tower 1 has a spire reaching high with a Belgian flag mounted on top. The two towers are linked by a 30 m long glass skyway between the 25th and 26th floors of each building. The towers were","title":"Proximus Towers"},{"docid":"9522931","text":"Maxis Tower Maxis Tower () is a 49-storey, office skyscraper in Kuala Lumpur City Centre, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The tower serves as headquarters of Maxis Communications and Tanjong Plc Group of Companies. Maxis Tower was developed by KLCC Properties Holdings Berhad (KLCCP) under Phase 1 of the KLCC project. The building is owned by Impian Klasik Sdn Bhd, in which Tanjong holds a 67% stake and KLCCP holds a 33% stake. Maxis Tower is situated in the northwest corner of the KLCC development, adjacent to the Petronas Twin Towers. As with its neighbouring twin towers, Maxis Tower features an aluminium","title":"Maxis Tower"},{"docid":"11363214","text":"the Texaco complex for $7.25 million. CB Richard Ellis Inc acquired the property through a merger with the investment fund. The new owner renamed the property Boulder Towers, reflecting its twin architectural design. Ellis then spent 22 months and approximately $3.0 million renovating the complex. According to the Tulsa World, the occupancy rose from 35 percent before the Ellis acquisition to about 75 percent after the renovations. Boulder Towers Boulder Towers is a large commercial building complex in Tulsa, Oklahoma. The complex consists of two twin high-rise buildings, Boulder Towers East Tower and Boulder Towers West Tower, which both rise","title":"Boulder Towers"},{"docid":"9840725","text":"Maybank Tower (Kuala Lumpur) Maybank Tower () is a skyscraper in Pudu, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The tower is the headquarters of Maybank and houses the Maybank Numismatic Museum. The construction of Maybank Tower commenced in 1984 on Court Hill, over the site of a colonial era Sessions Court building, and was completed in 1987. Before the construction of the Petronas Twin Towers in 1995, Maybank Tower was the tallest building in Kuala Lumpur as well as Malaysia, at , around half the height of Petronas Twin Towers. The tower remains a prominent part of the city's skyline. The floor plan","title":"Maybank Tower (Kuala Lumpur)"},{"docid":"5799966","text":"London Millennium Tower The London Millennium Tower was one of several ideas for the site of the former Baltic Exchange at 30 St Mary Axe, City of London that had been destroyed beyond repair by a Provisional IRA bomb blast. Designed by Foster & Partners, for then owner Trafalgar House, the plan was for the building to be the tallest in Europe and the sixth tallest in the world at that time, behind the twin Petronas Towers in Malaysia, the Sears Tower (now called the Willis Tower) in Chicago, and the twin towers of the World Trade Center in New","title":"London Millennium Tower"},{"docid":"9522932","text":"and glass cladding facade. Maxis Tower Maxis Tower () is a 49-storey, office skyscraper in Kuala Lumpur City Centre, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The tower serves as headquarters of Maxis Communications and Tanjong Plc Group of Companies. Maxis Tower was developed by KLCC Properties Holdings Berhad (KLCCP) under Phase 1 of the KLCC project. The building is owned by Impian Klasik Sdn Bhd, in which Tanjong holds a 67% stake and KLCCP holds a 33% stake. Maxis Tower is situated in the northwest corner of the KLCC development, adjacent to the Petronas Twin Towers. As with its neighbouring twin towers, Maxis","title":"Maxis Tower"},{"docid":"13679716","text":"originally conceived as part of an eight-building Brussels World Trade Center complex, but were splintered off into a separate project. The construction of the towers began in 1994 and was completed in 1996. Proximus Towers The Proximus Towers (, , known as the Belgacom Towers before the company's name change) are twin skyscrapers on King Albert II Street in the Northern Quarter central business district of Brussels, Belgium. The buildings take their name from the telecommunications company Proximus. They are among the tallest buildings in Belgium. The towers are both tall to the roof, and Tower 1 has a spire","title":"Proximus Towers"},{"docid":"12035870","text":"name of Turnberry Towers. Construction of the first tower began in June 2005, and was finished in 2007, followed by the completion of the second tower a year later. In November 1998, high-rise developer Bruce Stark and his Hawaii-based company, Stark Properties, announced plans to build Great Masters, a 56-story twin-tower condominium project with 592 units. The project would cost $300 million, with an estimated sales value of $500 million. The project would be built on situated at Paradise Road and Karen Avenue, behind the Sahara hotel-casino that was located on the Las Vegas Strip. Construction was expected to begin","title":"Turnberry Towers"},{"docid":"11293885","text":"scene, in other words as the \"Twin Towers of Pisa\". Although the Pisa tower demonstrates the illusion and provides a pun for its name, the illusion can be seen in any pair of (identical) images of a receding object. Leaning tower illusion The leaning tower illusion is a visual illusion seen in a pair of identical images of the Leaning Tower of Pisa photographed from below. Although the images are duplicates, one has the impression that the tower on the right leans more, as if photographed from a different angle. The illusion was discovered by Frederick Kingdom, Ali Yoonessi and","title":"Leaning tower illusion"},{"docid":"13848497","text":"Tenerife, one of the best symbols of the economic development of the Canary Islands. The complex consists of twin towers of —of which are below ground, and above ground. One peculiarity is that these buildings were not built at once. Although they are twin towers, Tower I was built by the company Ferrovial, while Tower II was built by the company Candesa. The Tower I was completed in 2004 and Tower II in 2006, although the refurbishment work on the site began in 2001. After the September 11 attacks, the construction project of the Torres de Santa Cruz was paralyzed","title":"Torres de Santa Cruz"},{"docid":"12057547","text":"the buildings' design, and their close proximity to the busy North Clyde Line railway which runs immediately next to the site, a conventional \"blowdown\" with explosives was deemed impractical. The buildings instead would be literally disassembled floor by floor using the \"top down\" method. The deconstruction process began on in January 2015, starting with the Bluevale tower. The neighbouring Whitevale tower was deconstructed in a similar fashion in 2016. Bluevale and Whitevale Towers The Bluevale and Whitevale Towers was the name for a development of twin tower block flats situated in the Camlachie district within the East End of Glasgow,","title":"Bluevale and Whitevale Towers"},{"docid":"12826986","text":"Herdings Twin Towers The Herdings Twin Towers are a pair of twin towers located in the Herdings residential suburb of southern Sheffield in the United Kingdom. Although not the tallest buildings in Sheffield, their location atop a hill makes their rooftops the highest manmade location in the city. The towers were built in 1959; at the time of construction, there were actually three towers, receiving the nickname of \"the Three Sisters\" at the time. However, the third tower was demolished by controlled explosion on 13 October 1996 after being declared unsafe, leading to the current \"Twin Towers\" nickname. The towers'","title":"Herdings Twin Towers"},{"docid":"19311692","text":"for each tower, with the newest projected to be open by spring 2016. Rosslyn Twin Towers 1000 and 1100 Wilson Boulevard, collectively known as the Rosslyn Twin Towers, were the tallest buildings in the Washington metropolitan area for three decades until the completion of 1812 N Moore a block away. They remain the tallest twin towers in the region and the commonwealth of Virginia. The buildings are home to the headquarters of Politico and WJLA-TV, and were formerly home to the headquarters of Gannett Company/USA Today. The towers are part of a complex that features retail, and televisions and news","title":"Rosslyn Twin Towers"},{"docid":"19664422","text":"one of the towers was moved to be installed as a memorial at St Raphael's Estate., and the iconic tower flagpoles are now located at the late Sir William McAlpine's Fawley Hill estate. Twin Towers (Wembley) The Twin Towers were part of the original Wembley Stadium in London, England. They were constructed in 1923 on the site of Watkin's Tower in Wembley, and came to be recognised as one of the iconic symbols of English football in general and of Wembley Stadium in particular. They became grade II listed buildings in 1976, but they were demolished in 2003 to make","title":"Twin Towers (Wembley)"},{"docid":"17866474","text":"Twin Towers 2 The Twin Towers II (also known as Twin Towers 2, New Twin Towers, Trump Twin Towers and World Trade Center Phoenix) was a proposed twin-towered skyscraper complex which would have been located at the World Trade Center site in Manhattan, New York City. The proposed complex would have replaced the former Twin Towers of the World Trade Center destroyed in the September 11 attacks, restoring the skyline of the city to its former state. The main design for the proposed complex would feature new landmark twin towers, nearly identical to the originals designed by Minoru Yamasaki, though","title":"Twin Towers 2"},{"docid":"4358871","text":"2,000 years including a quarry dated to the First Temple period, and is a popular venue for benefit events, craft shows, concerts, and sound-and-light performances. Dan Bahat writes that the original three Hasmonean towers were altered by Herod, and that \"The northeastern tower was replaced by a much larger, more massive tower, dubbed the \"Tower of David\" beginning in the 5th century C.E.\" The name \"Tower of David\" is due to Byzantine Christians who believed the site to be the palace of King David. They borrowed the name \"Tower of David\" from the Song of Songs, attributed to Solomon, King","title":"Tower of David"},{"docid":"18504370","text":"the Skysuites Tower The Skysuites Tower is composed of two 38-storey towers. One of the two towers will be a semi-circular tower for residential use and the other will be a curvilinear tower for office use. The two towers will be connected with a parking and commercial podium. The Skysuites Tower The Skysuites Tower, also known as The Sky Suites Corporate & Residential Towers, is a 38-storey twin building complex under construction in Quezon City. Construction of the building was on hold for a while after its original owner, Globe Asiatique, got involved in a scam. The new owner, DoubleDragon","title":"The Skysuites Tower"},{"docid":"19504750","text":"officials, stating that high-rise condominiums \"is what the city wanted as part of its plan for residential living.\" In 2004, Fonfa was approved for plans to construct twin condominium towers on the property. The Allure tower was opened in early 2008. The site of the Lucky Dragon had initially been planned for the second Allure tower, which was later cancelled because of poor sales caused by the Great Recession, and because of an oversupply of condominium high-rises on the Las Vegas Strip. To help sell units in the first Allure tower, Fonfa said that in 2008, \"We realized we were","title":"Lucky Dragon Hotel and Casino"},{"docid":"7103916","text":"2016. The following is a breakdown of floors of the 151 Incheon Tower: 102 Incheon Tower The 102 Incheon Tower was a supertall twin tower proposed for construction in Songdo International City, Incheon, South Korea. The design consists of two 151 floor, supertall skyscrapers connected by three skybridges. the building will become the tallest twin towers in the world, surpassing the Petronas Towers in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, and one of the tallest buildings in Asia. After the late-2000s recession, the tower was postponed with the possibility of a redesign at a lower height. The height of the supertall was reduced","title":"102 Incheon Tower"},{"docid":"16368966","text":"Architects, and include a built space of 26,000 square meters. The fronts of the buildings are covered with reflective glass windows in a post modernist style. The two towers share underground parking with entrance in tower 1. Each of the towers contain two entrances: one from the lobby (Floor E1) and one from Jabotinsky Road (Floor E2). Between the two towers, there is a space with a pond in its middle. Twin Towers (Ramat Gan) The Twin Towers are two identical office towers on Jabotinsky Road in the Diamond Exchange District area in the city of Ramat Gan, Israel. They","title":"Twin Towers (Ramat Gan)"},{"docid":"12035878","text":"rather than using the funds to pay off the loan. Prudential also stated that it had to cover the costs of liens, taxes, and other expenses that were to be handled by Turnberry. Additionally, Prudential accused Turnberry of failure to provide purchase deposit refunds for customers totaling $4.2 million. In 2011, real estate investor CIM Group purchased the remaining 279 unsold units at a price of $48.3 million. The East Tower contained 39 unsold units, while the second tower contained 240. Rachel Uchitel is a resident of the complex. Turnberry Towers Turnberry Towers is a 45-story twin tower condominium complex","title":"Turnberry Towers"},{"docid":"3487326","text":"of the Twin Towers. The hotel was not replaced as part of the new World Trade Center complex, but does share its name with the new office tower. The Vista International was the first hotel to open in Lower Manhattan since 1836. The building was designed by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill and was originally owned by the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey and KUO Hotels of Korea, with Hilton International acting as management agent. It was sold in 1995 to Host Marriott Corporation, after an extensive renovation following the 1993 World Trade Center bombing. The hotel was","title":"Marriott World Trade Center"},{"docid":"10994178","text":"The escutcheon of the first Wignacourt Tower is missing, while that of St Lucian Tower was replaced by the coat of arms of de Rohan in the 1790s. The escutcheons of St Thomas and St Mary's Towers still exist, although the one at the façade of St Thomas Tower has been defaced. The towers also had musketry loopholes, parapets and machicolations. Each tower was accessed by a drawbridge. The one at St Thomas Tower is still partially intact and it is the only original one to have survived in Malta. Wignacourt towers The Wignacourt towers () are a series of","title":"Wignacourt towers"},{"docid":"12035869","text":"Turnberry Towers Turnberry Towers is a 45-story twin tower condominium complex in Winchester, Nevada, near the Las Vegas Strip. Initially, plans were announced in 1998 for Great Masters, a $300 million condominium project consisting of 56-story twin towers. The land was sold in 2000 to Turnberry Associates, which announced plans to build Madison Towers on the property. The $250 million condominium project would include 25-story twin towers, but the start of construction was delayed due to poor economic conditions as a result of the September 11 attacks. Conditions improved and the project was redesigned to be larger, with the new","title":"Turnberry Towers"},{"docid":"14269441","text":"connected to it. The Guangzhou CTF Finance Centre is situated on a lot along Zhujiang East Road in Zhujiang New Town, Guangzhou's central business district. In that neighborhood, the skyscraper is located east of the central axis with an underground mall and connections to public transportation underneath it. The Guangzhou CTF Centre is part of the Guangzhou Twin Towers. The other tower of the pair, the tall Guangzhou International Finance Center, is located on the other side of the axis and is also known under the name \"West Tower\". The Guangzhou CTF Centre is therefore known as the \"East Tower\"","title":"Guangzhou CTF Finance Centre"},{"docid":"10572539","text":"named Rixos The Palm Dubai. Al Fattan Marine Towers The Al Fattan Marine Towers is a complex in the Dubai Marina section of Dubai, United Arab Emirates. The towers are located within Jumeirah Beach Residence, a 40-tower, 7,000 unit residential and hotel development which runs alongside Dubai Marina. The Al Fattan Marine Towers consist of two twin 50-story towers, the Al Fattan Tower, and the Oasis Beach Tower, consisting of serviced and residential apartments which have since been sold to individual investors and homeowners. Both towers stand at a height of 245 m (804 ft) and a roof height of","title":"Al Fattan Marine Towers"},{"docid":"10572536","text":"Al Fattan Marine Towers The Al Fattan Marine Towers is a complex in the Dubai Marina section of Dubai, United Arab Emirates. The towers are located within Jumeirah Beach Residence, a 40-tower, 7,000 unit residential and hotel development which runs alongside Dubai Marina. The Al Fattan Marine Towers consist of two twin 50-story towers, the Al Fattan Tower, and the Oasis Beach Tower, consisting of serviced and residential apartments which have since been sold to individual investors and homeowners. Both towers stand at a height of 245 m (804 ft) and a roof height of 230 m (755 ft), and","title":"Al Fattan Marine Towers"},{"docid":"12826988","text":"1998 to receive their current white cladding, with a green stripe on Queen Elizabeth Court and a blue stripe on Queen Anne Court. Both towers are located on Raeburn Place; the area of this road around the location of the former third tower was redeveloped into semi-detached housing in 2013–2015. The towers are located close to Herdings Park and the associated Herdings Park Supertram Purple Route light rail stop, as well as the Herdings Park bus terminus, currently served by First South Yorkshire routes 1A and 56. Herdings Twin Towers The Herdings Twin Towers are a pair of twin towers","title":"Herdings Twin Towers"},{"docid":"11640469","text":"on Ludwigstraße with Victory Gate to the north and form a focal point for visitors coming from the north of the city. The best known tenants of the buildings are the IT and consulting firms Unify and Fujitsu Technology Solutions, as well as IBM. Highlight Towers Highlight Towers is a twin tower office skyscraper complex completed in 2004 in Munich, Germany, planned by architects Murphy/Jahn of Chicago. Tower I is tall with 33 storeys, and Tower II is tall with 28 storeys, which make them among the highest buildings in the city. The towers are joined by two bridges made","title":"Highlight Towers"},{"docid":"18709153","text":"was pregnant, and asked his servants to build a tower to the church in case she gave birth to a son. When he returned from the war and saw the two towers, he realised that she had given birth to twins. In reality, twin western towers are not an unknown element in Romanesque architecture, although not known from any other parish church in Scania. While it is unknown who built the church and why, the presence of the twin towers thus do denote high ambitions. From the extensive use of finely cut and worked granite, scholars have deduced that the","title":"Färlöv Church"},{"docid":"1056832","text":"and \"Time\") which is secretly owned for several years by Lord Satanus posing as \"Colin Thornton,\" and the Twin Towered LexCorp Tower, (a reference to the former twin towers of the World Trade Center), headquarters for Lex Luthor's company. Besides the Financial District, notable areas of New Troy include: Famous streets in New Troy include Fifth Avenue, Bessolo Boulevard, and Topaz Lane. The latter two are Metropolis' versions of Broadway in New York City. Bessolo Boulevard's name is derived from \"Adventures of Superman\" lead actor George Reeves's legal name before entering films. Other Metropolis boulevards in the New Troy borough","title":"Metropolis (comics)"},{"docid":"13809653","text":"backup, solid waste management, house-keeping services and needless to say effective security for members. There are 11 Towers out of which there are 4 twin towers & 3 single towers divided into different blocks. Towers are named as A, B, C, D, E, F, I, J, K, L and H block. Block AB, CD, IJ and KL are twin tower and E, F, H are single towers. The construction of all blocks is completed except block H which is 90% completed and is likely to be completed this year before Diwali. Families are happily living in Vrinda City and there","title":"Vrinda City"},{"docid":"7103914","text":"102 Incheon Tower The 102 Incheon Tower was a supertall twin tower proposed for construction in Songdo International City, Incheon, South Korea. The design consists of two 151 floor, supertall skyscrapers connected by three skybridges. the building will become the tallest twin towers in the world, surpassing the Petronas Towers in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, and one of the tallest buildings in Asia. After the late-2000s recession, the tower was postponed with the possibility of a redesign at a lower height. The height of the supertall was reduced from 613 metres to 490 metres while keeping the design the same. The","title":"102 Incheon Tower"},{"docid":"13807014","text":"a high-level door half hidden by the ornate portico. The addition of windows in the SW face of this tower in the 1930s somewhat detracted from the intended effect. Another tower consists of twin drum towers corbelled to the square and back again to round turrets and these twin towers are linked with an arch - the whole is similar in effect to the Seaton Tower at Fyvie Castle from 1599. While the building has five circular turrets it also has one square turret very similar in style to those at Crathes Castle (late 16th Century). Much of the remainder","title":"Kincardine Castle, Royal Deeside"},{"docid":"8970611","text":"although two of these buildings will be demolished in 2018. The tallest buildings on campus are Kirwan Tower and Blanding Tower, twin 23-story towers that house undergraduate students. Completed in 1967 along with the rest of the university's largest student housing area, the Kirwan–Blanding Complex, the towers are 264 feet (80.5 m) tall. However, both towers were decommissioned as student housing in 2015, and the entire Complex will be demolished in 2018. Following the demolition of Blanding and Kirwan Towers, the only remaining high-rise on campus will be the 18-story Patterson Office Tower. Constructed in 1968, the 250-foot (76.2 m)","title":"Cityscape of Lexington, Kentucky"},{"docid":"9387456","text":"in 2012. Dubai Towers Istanbul Dubai Towers Istanbul \"(or DTI)\" was a skyscraper project that was to be built in the district of Levent, in Istanbul, Turkey. It comprised a twin-tower complex which was to contain extensive office space, residential apartments and penthouses, retail outlets and boutique hotels. Had it been completed, the towers would have become the two tallest buildings in Turkey. Tower 1 was expected to reach a height of more than 300m (103 floors) and Tower 2 over 350m (125 floors). The site for the project was the former IETT Bus Garage, on Büyükdere Avenue in the","title":"Dubai Towers Istanbul"},{"docid":"9387454","text":"Dubai Towers Istanbul Dubai Towers Istanbul \"(or DTI)\" was a skyscraper project that was to be built in the district of Levent, in Istanbul, Turkey. It comprised a twin-tower complex which was to contain extensive office space, residential apartments and penthouses, retail outlets and boutique hotels. Had it been completed, the towers would have become the two tallest buildings in Turkey. Tower 1 was expected to reach a height of more than 300m (103 floors) and Tower 2 over 350m (125 floors). The site for the project was the former IETT Bus Garage, on Büyükdere Avenue in the financial district","title":"Dubai Towers Istanbul"},{"docid":"1066795","text":"Petronas Towers The Petronas Towers, also known as the Petronas Twin Towers (Malay: \"Menara Petronas\", or \"Menara Berkembar Petronas\"), are twin skyscrapers in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. According to the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH)'s official definition and ranking, they were the tallest buildings in the world from 1998 to 2004 and remain the tallest twin towers in the world. The buildings are a landmark of Kuala Lumpur, along with nearby Kuala Lumpur Tower. The towers were designed by Argentine architect César Pelli. A distinctive postmodern style was chosen to create a 21st-century icon for Kuala Lumpur. Planning","title":"Petronas Towers"},{"docid":"19664421","text":"way for the Twin Towers to be demolished. Proposals in early 2000 to move the towers to Widnes, to become part of a new national rugby league museum, were not realised. The Twin Towers were the last structure of Wembley to be demolished. Preliminary demolition work started in December 2002 with the concrete crowns being removed from the top of the flagpoles. The towers were demolished in 2003 by a large Liebherr 974 crawler excavator referred to as \"Goliath\", made in Germany specifically for the task. The original foundations of Watkin's Tower were rediscovered during the demolition. The top of","title":"Twin Towers (Wembley)"},{"docid":"4218507","text":"area. The towers were also renovated during this period. Belfries were added to the two towers at the crossings, on the eastern tower in 1361 and on the western in 1418. These towers were topped with Gothic-style pyramid roofs. (These towers turned out to be so heavy that the eastern tower had to be supported by a pillar erected in 1430.) The cloister was heavily renovated and the \"Liebfrauenkirche\" was completely replaced at this time, marking the last of the Gothic renovations to the building. The roof on the eastern tower, however, was replaced in 1579 by a flatter one","title":"Mainz Cathedral"},{"docid":"18527468","text":"Witch tower Witch tower or Witches' Tower () is a common name or description in English and other European languages for a tower that was part of a medieval town wall or castle, often used as a prison or dungeon. The name is derived from the period of witch trials. Many of these towers were used to incarcerate those suspected or found guilty of witchcraft. Other witch towers were, however, named later, for example in the 19th century when they were simply used as normal prisons or were just ordinary towers in the city walls. Witch towers are found in","title":"Witch tower"},{"docid":"8603243","text":"is basically the twin of the other apartment building, designed the same way. North Park Towers The North Park Towers are a pair of apartment buildings in Southfield, Michigan. North Park Towers I Is located at 16500 North Park Drive. It was constructed in 1967 by Sullivan & Smith Inc and stands at 19 floors in height. The high-rise was designed in the modern architectural style and has approximately 313 apartment units ranging from 1,000 square feet to 3,800 square feet. North Park Towers II is located at 16500 North Park Drive in Southfield, Michigan. Like Tower I, Tower II","title":"North Park Towers"},{"docid":"17957524","text":"of this church. Hans Rudolf Sennhauser wrote in 1990 that the shape of the crypt was inconsistent with a 1294 construction date. He felt that the two-piece crypt with a double row of pillars was replaced with a single part crypt around 1100. Since the pre-1762 church had a two-piece crypt, he believed it dated from before 1100. It is likely that the twin towers were damaged in the 1356 Basel earthquake damaged, but there is no reliable sources attesting to the damage. It seems likely, since in 1360 the single Wendelstein tower was built above the church and a","title":"Solothurn Cathedral"},{"docid":"9702186","text":"bank of the White Cart Water. It comprised a rectangular tower house, 15.5m by 9m, of five storeys including a vaulted basement. This was supplemented by a curtain wall, enclosing a small barmkin approximately 22m by 15m, with the tower at the centre. The curtain wall had round corner towers, and a twin-towered gatehouse to the east. The foundations of the tower house remain to around 1m high. Earthworks to the west of the castle have been interpreted as the remains of an outer bailey or ringwork. Cathcart Castle Cathcart Castle was a 15th-century castle, located in what is now","title":"Cathcart Castle"},{"docid":"7438140","text":"are positioned at the corners of the square baileys instead of along the sides like at Flint, Harlech or Beaumaris. Records of construction costs show that it was the major piece of building work being carried out by the English during the late 1270s. The inner ward has defensive walls with twin-tower gatehouses. The outer ward is surrounded by a curtain wall that has small towers and turrets. According to Thomas Pennant, who passed through the town on his travels in the 18th century, one of the towers is named \"Twr-y-Silod\" (\"Grain Tower\"), and another \"Twr-y-Brenin\" (\"The King's Tower\")The castle","title":"Rhuddlan Castle"},{"docid":"6465027","text":"appearance and construction. BOK Tower's lobby has marble walls and wall hangings which have a noted similarity to the decor in the former WTC. The similarities between the BOK Tower and the World Trade Center Towers are based upon the building's history. The tower was built for the Williams Companies; at the time of its construction, the CEO of Williams (John Williams) was impressed by the Twin Towers in New York. His original idea was to build four small-scale replicas of the towers in Tulsa. However, prior to the actual construction, he was informed of the inefficiencies that would be","title":"BOK Tower"},{"docid":"1066803","text":"that accommodates its slender profile and provides 560,000 square metres of column-free office space. Below the twin towers is Suria KLCC, a shopping mall, and Petronas Philharmonic Hall, the home of the Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra. Tower One is fully occupied by Petronas and a number of its subsidiaries and associate companies, while the office spaces in Tower Two are mostly available for lease to other companies. A number of companies have offices in Tower Two, including Huawei Technologies, AVEVA, Al Jazeera English, Carigali Hess, Bloomberg, Boeing, IBM, Khazanah Nasional Berhad, McKinsey & Co, WIPRO Limited, TCS, HCL Technologies, Krawler, Microsoft,","title":"Petronas Towers"},{"docid":"14042657","text":"CityCenter sold 427 Veer condos in bulk for $119 million to Ladder Capital Finance. The lobby walls of both Veer Towers feature mud drawings by Turner Prize-winning artist Richard Long, who diluted mud that he brought to Las Vegas from the River Avon and applied it to the walls with his hands. The two large-scale works titled “Circle of Chance” and “Earth” cover the lobby wall of the west and east tower. Veer Towers Veer Towers are twin 37-story, , residential towers located within CityCenter on the Las Vegas Strip in Paradise, Nevada. Each tower houses 335 luxury condominium units","title":"Veer Towers"},{"docid":"10665597","text":"9/11: The Twin Towers 9/11: The Twin Towers (also billed as Inside the Twin Towers) is a television special documentary film which uses re-enactments and computer-generated imagery to re-create a minute-by-minute account of what happened inside the twin towers of the World Trade Center in New York City during the September 11 attacks. In the United States it premiered on the Discovery Channel on 3 September 2006, narrated by Harry Pritchett. In the United Kingdom it premiered on BBC One on 7 September 2006, narrated by Terence Stamp. The film won the 2007 British Academy Television Craft Award for Sound","title":"9/11: The Twin Towers"},{"docid":"10858999","text":"Axis at Brickell Village Axis at Brickell Village is a high-rise building complex in the Brickell district of Miami, Florida. The complex, designed by the renowned Arquitectonica architecture firm, consists of two residential twin towers, Axis at Brickell Village North Tower and Axis at Brickell Village South Tower. Both towers were topped off in mid-2007, meaning that they have reached their final heights and were completed in 2008. The towers rise 418 feet (127 meters) each, with 40 floors. They are among the tallest buildings in Miami. The buildings are located at 1100 Southwest 1st Avenue. Axis on Brickell is","title":"Axis at Brickell Village"},{"docid":"19664416","text":"Twin Towers (Wembley) The Twin Towers were part of the original Wembley Stadium in London, England. They were constructed in 1923 on the site of Watkin's Tower in Wembley, and came to be recognised as one of the iconic symbols of English football in general and of Wembley Stadium in particular. They became grade II listed buildings in 1976, but they were demolished in 2003 to make way for the new Wembley Stadium. The towers were designed by Sir Robert McAlpine for the construction of Empire Stadium (later known as Wembley Stadium) in time for the British Empire Exhibition on","title":"Twin Towers (Wembley)"},{"docid":"16363482","text":"to 1992 when One London Place was completed. The towers are 64% occupied by TD bank which holds its regional offices within the complex. Overall the complex is 94% leased as of July 2011, owing to London's strong economy and business market. City Centre Towers City Centre or London City Centre is a twin office tower complex in London, Ontario, Canada at 275 Dundas Street. Construction on the towers was finished in 1974. The South tower is 96 m tall, and is the second tallest building in the city and one of the tallest office buildings in Ontario outside Toronto.","title":"City Centre Towers"},{"docid":"8840374","text":"is the asymmetrical twin towers with the eastern tower being taller (most other synagogues of the period featured twin towers of similar height). The towers are also adorned differently. Each of the towers originally was also topped by a bulbous dome which has since been removed. It is one of fewer than a hundred surviving nineteenth-century American synagogues. Over the doorway engraved in granite and written in Hebrew is a verse from Psalm 100. \"Enter into His Gates with Thanksgiving and into His courts with praise.\" Rabbi Drachman served as spiritual leader for fifty-one years. He died in 1945. Zev","title":"Park East Synagogue"},{"docid":"9736055","text":"The architect of the complex is Nichols Brosch Wurst Wolf & Associates. Plaza on Brickell Plaza on Brickell is an urban development in Miami, Florida, United States. The complex consists of two skyscrapers and a retail center at the base, connecting the two towers. The towers completed construction in late 2007. The Plaza on Brickell Tower I, the taller of the two buildings, rises and 56 floors. The Plaza on Brickell Tower II is tall, and has 48 floors. The two towers, although different in height, are twin towers in design. Both are built on land at the corner of","title":"Plaza on Brickell"},{"docid":"7891815","text":"the tallest buildings of Morocco, or of the Maghreb region of north Africa. They rise through 115 metres to a total of 28 floors each. The total floor area is , with a 7.2 metre high atrium. There are 15 elevators (lifts) in the Twin Centre. The towers were inaugurated in 1998 and became a landmark in Casablanca. Above the shopping centre, which includes 5 levels, has a supermarket in addition to boutique and designer shops, are the two towers: Offices in Tower A are much sought after by international businesses. The hotel in Tower B has 210 bedrooms, plus","title":"Casablanca Twin Center"},{"docid":"9684523","text":"Oficinas en el Parque Torre 2 Oficinas del Parque Torre 2 (or Oficinas en el Parque Torre II), it is one of Monterrey's tallest skyscrapers. Its construction began in 1996 and finished two years later, in 1998. The tower, along with its slightly shorter twin, is part of a complex used mainly for offices, as the name states. Tower One and Tower Two were built as part of a complex a few miles west of downtown Monterrey, in the borderline of the Santa Catarina River, an area of Monterrey known as San Jeronimo. The towers were built in around three","title":"Oficinas en el Parque Torre 2"},{"docid":"9736054","text":"Plaza on Brickell Plaza on Brickell is an urban development in Miami, Florida, United States. The complex consists of two skyscrapers and a retail center at the base, connecting the two towers. The towers completed construction in late 2007. The Plaza on Brickell Tower I, the taller of the two buildings, rises and 56 floors. The Plaza on Brickell Tower II is tall, and has 48 floors. The two towers, although different in height, are twin towers in design. Both are built on land at the corner of Brickell Avenue and Southeast 9th Street, in the northern Brickell Financial District.","title":"Plaza on Brickell"},{"docid":"7473747","text":"of Tower 1. Absolute World Absolute World is a residential condominium twin tower skyscraper complex in the five tower Absolute City Centre development in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada. The project was built by Fernbrook Homes and Cityzen Development Group. With the first three towers completed (Absolute City Centre 1 and 2 and Absolute Vision), the last two towers (Absolute World 4 and 5) were topped off at 50 and 56 storeys. On November 28, 1994, during the 12th annual Mississauga Urban Design Awards ceremony, Mississauga Mayor Hazel McCallion announced that an international design competition was going to be held for the","title":"Absolute World"},{"docid":"12826987","text":"location atop a hill has resulted in them being visible from across the city and beyond for many miles around, becoming iconic for the area. The northern tower is named Queen Elizabeth Court, while the southern tower is named Queen Anne Court. The towers are both 38 metres tall to the rooftop, although Queen Anne Court has a radio mast on the roof which raises its total height to around 55 metres. Both towers are constructed from brick and concrete originally in the brutalist style typical of 1950s and 1960s apartment blocks in Sheffield. However, both towers were refurbished in","title":"Herdings Twin Towers"},{"docid":"12271032","text":"exterior design. Their construction was inspired by American models, particularly the architecture of Lower Manhattan of the time. The north tower was designed by Sven Wallander who also authored the 1919 master plan for Kungsgatan; the southern tower was designed by Ivar Callmander. Kungstornen Kungstornen (\"King's Towers\") are twin tower skyscrapers, individually named Norra Kungstornet (\"Northern King's Towers\") and Södra Kungstornet (\"Southern King's Towers\"), in Norrmalm, Stockholm. The 16-storey Norra Kungstornet is and was built between 1919 and 1924; and the taller 17-storey, Södra Kungstornet was built between 1924 and 1925. Together, they are considered the first modern skyscrapers in","title":"Kungstornen"},{"docid":"10859000","text":"located immediately adjacent to the Brickell Metrorail and Metromover station. Axis at Brickell Village Axis at Brickell Village is a high-rise building complex in the Brickell district of Miami, Florida. The complex, designed by the renowned Arquitectonica architecture firm, consists of two residential twin towers, Axis at Brickell Village North Tower and Axis at Brickell Village South Tower. Both towers were topped off in mid-2007, meaning that they have reached their final heights and were completed in 2008. The towers rise 418 feet (127 meters) each, with 40 floors. They are among the tallest buildings in Miami. The buildings are","title":"Axis at Brickell Village"},{"docid":"16094749","text":"that is hosted by Robinsons Malls. Limketkai Luxe Hotel, is a tower hotel that is located inside the mall complex. The 18-floor structure offers 100 guest rooms. The hotel is currently the second tallest tower in Cagayan De Oro. The box-type tower is an iconic landmark to the city that is stand in solid gold, resembling Cagayan de Oro as the City of Golden Friendship. Originally, Limketkai Luxe Hotel is planned as twin-towers, named as Tower 1 and Tower 2. The Tower 1 that is currently existing was completed and was opened in 2013, while the Tower 2 should add","title":"Limketkai Center"},{"docid":"18711972","text":"Folkart Towers Folkart Towers are 47-floor twin skyscrapers in the Bayraklı district of the Turkish city of İzmir. Reaching a structural height of above ground level, they were the tallest buildings in İzmir between 2014 and 2017, until the completion of the 48-floor () Mistral Office Tower. Upon their completion in 2014, the Folkart Towers were the 5th tallest twin towers in Europe. The construction of the towers began in 2011 and in April 2013, they surpassed Hilton İzmir to become the tallest buildings in the city. The construction works were completed in 2014. During their construction, 1000 people were","title":"Folkart Towers"},{"docid":"12670904","text":"Plaza Towers Condominium Corporation until 2006 when it became Metro Pacific Investments Corporation and PPTCC is now the sole ownership. Pacific Plaza Towers The Pacific Plaza Towers are high-end residential condominium skyscrapers located across One McKinley Place in Bonifacio Global City, Philippines. The twin 53-storey buildings, the North Tower and South Tower, were completed in 2001 and rise to 179 metres (587 feet) from the ground to their architectural top. They are currently the 20th and 21st-tallest buildings in the country and Metro Manila as well. Pacific Plaza Towers began groundbreaking and excavated in 1997, with first concrete pouring in","title":"Pacific Plaza Towers"},{"docid":"1066807","text":"floor can only be used by the tenants of the building. The skybridge also acts as a safety device, so that in the event of a fire or other emergency in one tower, tenants can evacuate by crossing the skybridge to the other tower. The total evacuation triggered by a bomb hoax on 12 September 2001 (the day after the September 11 attacks destroyed the twin towers of the World Trade Center in New York City) showed that the bridge would not be useful if both towers need to be emptied simultaneously, as the capacity of the staircases was insufficient","title":"Petronas Towers"},{"docid":"11891054","text":"Skidmore, Owings and Merrill's Crocker Bank Center (as it was then named) as an example of what he sees as Postmodern architecture's \"depthlessness\": Wells Fargo Center (Los Angeles) Wells Fargo Center is a twin tower skyscraper complex in Downtown Los Angeles on Bunker Hill, in Los Angeles, California. It comprises South and North towers, which are joined by a three-story glass atrium. The project received the 1986–1987 and 2003-2004 Building Owners and Managers Association (BOMA) Office Building of the Year Award, and numerous others. A branch of the Wells Fargo History Museum is located at the center. Wells Fargo Tower","title":"Wells Fargo Center (Los Angeles)"},{"docid":"10868523","text":"emulate a giant arch. Both towers are connected by a 10-story base, and the top floors of the two towers are also connected by a large white roof. The roof was designed with a circular hole to direct light into the courtyard formed between the two buildings, in which a large pool will be located. 500 Brickell 500 Brickell is a residential complex in the Brickell neighborhood of Miami, Florida, United States. The complex consists of two condominium towers, \"500 Brickell West Tower\" and \"500 Brickell East Tower\". The two buildings were designed as twin towers, and rise 426 feet","title":"500 Brickell"},{"docid":"10792565","text":"Twin Towers Middle School Twin Towers Middle School is one of two middle schools in the Enlarged City School District of Middletown in Middletown, New York, United States. It is located at the intersection of Grand Avenue and Wisner Avenue in the northern section of the city. Completed in 1940, it was used as Middletown's high school until 1976, when the Veraldi Junior High School was expanded and became Middletown High School. Twin Towers Middle School gets its name from the two ornate towers at the front of the building, not the original World Trade Center buildings as many believe.","title":"Twin Towers Middle School"},{"docid":"18711973","text":"employed, and upon completion, they were expected to be the place of residence or work for 4000 people. In February 2015, the largest art gallery in Turkey was opened in the towers. The gallery has an area of 800 m. Folkart Towers Folkart Towers are 47-floor twin skyscrapers in the Bayraklı district of the Turkish city of İzmir. Reaching a structural height of above ground level, they were the tallest buildings in İzmir between 2014 and 2017, until the completion of the 48-floor () Mistral Office Tower. Upon their completion in 2014, the Folkart Towers were the 5th tallest twin","title":"Folkart Towers"},{"docid":"12093340","text":"complex consists of two towers, east and west towers, linked by two floor levels. East tower, Grand Hotel Tower I, is mainly for commercial purposes, while west tower, Grand Hotel Tower II, is home for the five-star grand hotel. The complex is located within the central business district of Tijuana, Zona Rio. Grand Hotel Tijuana The Plaza Aguacaliente & Grand Hotel Tijuana (commonly known by locals as Las Torres) is a high-rise complex of twin skyscrapers in Tijuana, Mexico. With a height of 89.9 meters (295 feet) to the top floor, and 28 stories, they were the tallest buildings in","title":"Grand Hotel Tijuana"}],"string":"[\n {\n \"docid\": \"10665609\",\n \"text\": \"to try to get some water flowing, but were unsuccessful. Knowing that she may not make it out, Alayne tells Jack to inform their sons that she loved them. After hanging up, Jack calls his local priest and asked him to set up a prayer chain. Alayne and her co-workers were killed in the collapse of the South Tower. 9/11: The Twin Towers 9/11: The Twin Towers (also billed as Inside the Twin Towers) is a television special documentary film which uses re-enactments and computer-generated imagery to re-create a minute-by-minute account of what happened inside the twin towers of the\",\n \"title\": \"9/11: The Twin Towers\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"5670972\",\n \"text\": \"Ivan Štraus. Among the people of the city, the twin towers are commonly called \\\"Momo\\\" (Serbian name) and \\\"Uzeir\\\" (Bosniak name). There is no consensus among the people of the city which tower carried the Serbian or Bosnian name. This ambiguity of the names accentuated the cultural unity as its primary architectural quality. In 1992, the Republika Srpska army besieged Sarajevo (in what would come to be referred to as the infamous Siege of Sarajevo) and shelled both of the twin towers. During the Bosnian War from 1992–1995, over 2000 monasteries, churches, mosques and other buildings of historical value were\",\n \"title\": \"Architecture of Bosnia and Herzegovina\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"1056855\",\n \"text\": \"distance. 17 State Street, which is a recognizable glass tower at the tip of the island was replaced by an older looking tower and the tops of the two World Financial Center Towers were removed. A small cluster of tall Art-Deco Towers along with the \\\"Daily Planet\\\" building were added to the skyline near the Civic Center. The LexCorp Tower never appeared in the movie; comics suggest LexCorp had a Twin Towered Headquarters, which suggests that if they still existed, the World Trade Center North and South towers were the LexCorp Towers, but being 2006, unlike the older \\\"Superman\\\" movies,\",\n \"title\": \"Metropolis (comics)\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"1695006\",\n \"text\": \"as in some cases tuned mass dampers to damp out movements. Varying or tapering the outer aspect of the tower with height avoids vibrations due to vortex shedding occurring along the entire building simultaneously. Although not correctly called towers many modern skyscraper are often called towers (whereas they are classified as 'buildings'). In the United Kingdom, tall domestic buildings are referred to as tower blocks. In the United States, the original World Trade Center had the nickname the Twin Towers, a name shared with the Petronas Twin Towers in Kuala Lumpur. The tower throughout history has provided its users with\",\n \"title\": \"Tower\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"17866481\",\n \"text\": \"Twin Towers, on February 18, 2004, unveiled their architectural model of new twin towers at a news conference at the Marriott Financial Center Hotel (now New York Marriott Downtown) near the World Trade Center site. Team Twin Towers spokesman Jonathan Hakala says the original Twin Towers \\\"were among Earth's few 'instantly recognizable' landmarks.\\\" and \\\"It was a magnificent structure to see going up\\\", recalls Artie Vignapiano, who was a Port Authority landscape planner as the original World Trade Center was built. \\\"When I worked on the 74th floor of Tower One, I used to tell people, 'You know what I\",\n \"title\": \"Twin Towers 2\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"20101240\",\n \"text\": \"occupy levels 47 to 58 in the North Tower of Indonesia I. Indonesia-1 Tower Indonesia-1 Tower () is an under-construction twin towers of North Tower and South Tower at Jalan M.H. Thamrin in Central Jakarta, Indonesia. This will be the tallest twin tower in Indonesia. The towers will have offices, retail space, condominiums and service apartments. Both the towers is 303 meters high, but the North tower has 65 and South tower 60 floors. Construction of the tower is expected to be finished by 2019. Tower 1 is an office building while Tower 2 is a multi functional building that\",\n \"title\": \"Indonesia-1 Tower\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"20101239\",\n \"text\": \"Indonesia-1 Tower Indonesia-1 Tower () is an under-construction twin towers of North Tower and South Tower at Jalan M.H. Thamrin in Central Jakarta, Indonesia. This will be the tallest twin tower in Indonesia. The towers will have offices, retail space, condominiums and service apartments. Both the towers is 303 meters high, but the North tower has 65 and South tower 60 floors. Construction of the tower is expected to be finished by 2019. Tower 1 is an office building while Tower 2 is a multi functional building that includes offices, retail space, condominiums and service apartments.Pan Pacific Serviced Suites will\",\n \"title\": \"Indonesia-1 Tower\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"5254634\",\n \"text\": \"Chatham Light Chatham Lighthouse, known as Twin Lights prior to 1923, is a lighthouse in Chatham, Massachusetts, near the \\\"elbow\\\" of Cape Cod. The original station, close to the shore, was built in 1808 with two wooden towers that were replaced in 1841 in spite of questions as to why a single tower would not be adequate. In 1877, two new towers, made of cast iron rings, replaced those. One of the towers was moved to the Eastham area and became Nauset Light in 1923. The station was established in 1808; it was the second light station on Cape Cod.\",\n \"title\": \"Chatham Light\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"4290838\",\n \"text\": \"Twin Tower Twin Tower () is a 1970s Hong Kong public housing residential block design. In plan, the blocks look like two hollow squares joined at one corner of each square. Each block comprises two \\\"towers\\\" of different heights, although their shapes are the same. The flat sizes in these 20 to 23-storey towers range from 36 to 46 m. The units in Twin Tower blocks are self-contained flats, each with a kitchen, toilet, and balcony. The first Twin Tower blocks appeared at Wah Fu Estate. They were suited to the steeply sloping site, as one of the two \\\"towers\\\"\",\n \"title\": \"Twin Tower\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"11640468\",\n \"text\": \"Highlight Towers Highlight Towers is a twin tower office skyscraper complex completed in 2004 in Munich, Germany, planned by architects Murphy/Jahn of Chicago. Tower I is tall with 33 storeys, and Tower II is tall with 28 storeys, which make them among the highest buildings in the city. The towers are joined by two bridges made of glass and steel. Also in the complex are two low-rise buildings between the twin towers, that serve as a hotel and additional office space. Overall, the facility offers approximately of office space. The towers are slightly shifted in the historic sightline of Odeonsplatz\",\n \"title\": \"Highlight Towers\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"16206852\",\n \"text\": \"Twin Tower Sanctuary Twin Tower Sanctuary (Old Sanctuary of the United Methodist Church) is a historic Methodist church building at 9967 W. 144th Street in Orland Park, Illinois. The church was completed in 1898, six years after Orland Park was founded, to serve the city's large Methodist population. Architect William Arthur Bennet, who later became well known for his Prairie School works, designed the church in the Queen Anne style. The north side of the church is flanked by the two hexagonal towers that give the church its name. The interior of the church has a Sullivanesque patterned tin ceiling;\",\n \"title\": \"Twin Tower Sanctuary\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"8404945\",\n \"text\": \"architectural quality and disputed whether the two towers were iconic enough. The reply from the architects were that the designs presented were only initial ideas. Objections to the proposed twin towers were raised by the residents of Stephenson Tower, under the name \\\"Stephenson Tower Residents Association\\\" on the outline planning application. The group submitted a petition regarding the planning application. Stephenson Tower, a 20 storey tower block on New Street station, will be served with a compulsory purchase order and demolished as part of the project as one of the towers will partially cover the footprint of the building. The\",\n \"title\": \"Gateway Plus\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"11363212\",\n \"text\": \"Boulder Towers Boulder Towers is a large commercial building complex in Tulsa, Oklahoma. The complex consists of two twin high-rise buildings, Boulder Towers East Tower and Boulder Towers West Tower, which both rise 253 feet (77 m). Each building contains 15 floors. The complex was originally constructed in 1960, consisting of only the West Tower; the East Tower was constructed in 1980. The Boulder Towers currently stand as the tallest twin towers in Tulsa and the state of Oklahoma. In addition, as of October, 2018, they are tied as the 18th-tallest buildings in Tulsa. The Boulder Towers are the 6th-tallest\",\n \"title\": \"Boulder Towers\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"6262191\",\n \"text\": \"mostly complete, still lacking however its two towers. Unfinished at the time of his death in 1766, the work was continued by others, primarily the obscure Oudot de Maclaurin, who erected twin towers to Servandoni's design. Servandoni's pupil Jean Chalgrin rebuilt the north tower (1777–1780), making it taller and modifying Servandoni's baroque design to one that was more neoclassical, but the French Revolution intervened, and the south tower was never replaced. Chalgrin also designed the decoration of the chapels under the towers. The principal facade now exists in somewhat altered form. Servandoni's pediment, criticized as classically incorrect because its width\",\n \"title\": \"Church of Saint-Sulpice, Paris\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"13272027\",\n \"text\": \"Faber Towers Faber Towers is a twin tower skyscraper in Taman Desa, Seputeh, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. It is one of the earliest skyscrapers completed in the city. After changed the majority of its ownership Faber Towers has undergone massive refurbishment work and completed in the 3rd quarter of 2015. The refurbished twin tower with 18-storey office towers and a podium block consisting of 3 level of retail lots are surrounded by an affluent neighbourhood with nearby established amenities that make work life pleasantly balanced and efficient. Faber Towers is not just a place for grinding work out. A host of\",\n \"title\": \"Faber Towers\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"12057543\",\n \"text\": \"Bluevale and Whitevale Towers The Bluevale and Whitevale Towers was the name for a development of twin tower block flats situated in the Camlachie district within the East End of Glasgow, Scotland. Officially known as 109 Bluevale Street and 51 Whitevale Street (often nicknamed the Gallowgate Twins or the Camlachie Twin Towers), the two towers were the tallest buildings in Scotland although with only 29 occupiable floors (the 30th floor was a mechanical floor for building services and a drying area), they were not the buildings with the highest occupied floor level in the city (or Scotland); that distinction belonged\",\n \"title\": \"Bluevale and Whitevale Towers\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"13272028\",\n \"text\": \"attractive retail and F&B outlets are conveniently available to you. The refurbished Faber Towers will flaunt its new look that is both stylish and sophisticated. Expect to enjoy a wide range of quality conveniences, all within the same roof. http://www.fabertowers.com.my/ Faber Towers Faber Towers is a twin tower skyscraper in Taman Desa, Seputeh, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. It is one of the earliest skyscrapers completed in the city. After changed the majority of its ownership Faber Towers has undergone massive refurbishment work and completed in the 3rd quarter of 2015. The refurbished twin tower with 18-storey office towers and a podium\",\n \"title\": \"Faber Towers\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"4290840\",\n \"text\": \"appeared at Oi Man Estate and then many other public estates across Hong Kong in the 1970s. Twin Tower Twin Tower () is a 1970s Hong Kong public housing residential block design. In plan, the blocks look like two hollow squares joined at one corner of each square. Each block comprises two \\\"towers\\\" of different heights, although their shapes are the same. The flat sizes in these 20 to 23-storey towers range from 36 to 46 m. The units in Twin Tower blocks are self-contained flats, each with a kitchen, toilet, and balcony. The first Twin Tower blocks appeared at\",\n \"title\": \"Twin Tower\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"16363481\",\n \"text\": \"City Centre Towers City Centre or London City Centre is a twin office tower complex in London, Ontario, Canada at 275 Dundas Street. Construction on the towers was finished in 1974. The South tower is 96 m tall, and is the second tallest building in the city and one of the tallest office buildings in Ontario outside Toronto. The North tower is 89 meters tall and is the third tallest office building in the city. The buildings are one of several twin tower complexes in London's central business district. The towers were the tallest buildings in Southwestern Ontario from 1974,\",\n \"title\": \"City Centre Towers\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"9459784\",\n \"text\": \"Deutsche Bank Twin Towers The Deutsche Bank Twin Towers, also known as Deutsche Bank Headquarters (German: \\\"Zwillingstürme der Deutschen Bank\\\" or \\\"Hauptverwaltung Deutsche Bank AG\\\"), is a twin tower skyscraper complex in the Westend-Süd district of Frankfurt, Germany. Both towers rise to and serve as headquarters for Deutsche Bank, the largest bank in Germany. The twin towers are sometimes nicknamed Debit and Credit (German: \\\"Soll und Haben\\\"), the two aspects of every financial transaction. The Deutsche Bank Twin Towers are prominently located at the borders of the city districts of Westend-Süd, the Bahnhofsviertel and the Innenstadt, near a series of\",\n \"title\": \"Deutsche Bank Twin Towers\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"1884968\",\n \"text\": \"whose charm helped it develop into a popular summer resort. Chatham is home to the Chatham Lighthouse, which was established by President Thomas Jefferson in 1808 to protect the ships circling the Cape. The 1808 towers were replaced in 1841 by twin brick towers that were eventually lost to erosion. The pair were rebuilt in 1877 out of cast iron across the street from its original location, where the light is today. The northern of the two was moved to Eastham to become the Nauset Light in 1923, when the northern tower was declared surplus. Today, the keeper's house is\",\n \"title\": \"Chatham, Massachusetts\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"5670974\",\n \"text\": \"In the Hrasno residential area, the Bosnian company Bosmal has constructed the \\\"Bosmal City Center\\\", one of the tallest twin towers in the Balkans at 120 meters each. The new owners of the Holiday Inn Hotel in Sarajevo, also designed by architect Ivan Straus, announced that they will start construction on a new 22 story tower. The so-called 'intelligent' tower is expected to cost about 50 million euros. The Unis Twin Towers have been renovated completely. On the site of the former Oslobodjenje Towers, the Avaz towers have now been constructed as new headquarters for Avaz, the popular Bosnian newspaper\",\n \"title\": \"Architecture of Bosnia and Herzegovina\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"13679715\",\n \"text\": \"Proximus Towers The Proximus Towers (, , known as the Belgacom Towers before the company's name change) are twin skyscrapers on King Albert II Street in the Northern Quarter central business district of Brussels, Belgium. The buildings take their name from the telecommunications company Proximus. They are among the tallest buildings in Belgium. The towers are both tall to the roof, and Tower 1 has a spire reaching high with a Belgian flag mounted on top. The two towers are linked by a 30 m long glass skyway between the 25th and 26th floors of each building. The towers were\",\n \"title\": \"Proximus Towers\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"9522931\",\n \"text\": \"Maxis Tower Maxis Tower () is a 49-storey, office skyscraper in Kuala Lumpur City Centre, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The tower serves as headquarters of Maxis Communications and Tanjong Plc Group of Companies. Maxis Tower was developed by KLCC Properties Holdings Berhad (KLCCP) under Phase 1 of the KLCC project. The building is owned by Impian Klasik Sdn Bhd, in which Tanjong holds a 67% stake and KLCCP holds a 33% stake. Maxis Tower is situated in the northwest corner of the KLCC development, adjacent to the Petronas Twin Towers. As with its neighbouring twin towers, Maxis Tower features an aluminium\",\n \"title\": \"Maxis Tower\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"11363214\",\n \"text\": \"the Texaco complex for $7.25 million. CB Richard Ellis Inc acquired the property through a merger with the investment fund. The new owner renamed the property Boulder Towers, reflecting its twin architectural design. Ellis then spent 22 months and approximately $3.0 million renovating the complex. According to the Tulsa World, the occupancy rose from 35 percent before the Ellis acquisition to about 75 percent after the renovations. Boulder Towers Boulder Towers is a large commercial building complex in Tulsa, Oklahoma. The complex consists of two twin high-rise buildings, Boulder Towers East Tower and Boulder Towers West Tower, which both rise\",\n \"title\": \"Boulder Towers\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"9840725\",\n \"text\": \"Maybank Tower (Kuala Lumpur) Maybank Tower () is a skyscraper in Pudu, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The tower is the headquarters of Maybank and houses the Maybank Numismatic Museum. The construction of Maybank Tower commenced in 1984 on Court Hill, over the site of a colonial era Sessions Court building, and was completed in 1987. Before the construction of the Petronas Twin Towers in 1995, Maybank Tower was the tallest building in Kuala Lumpur as well as Malaysia, at , around half the height of Petronas Twin Towers. The tower remains a prominent part of the city's skyline. The floor plan\",\n \"title\": \"Maybank Tower (Kuala Lumpur)\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"5799966\",\n \"text\": \"London Millennium Tower The London Millennium Tower was one of several ideas for the site of the former Baltic Exchange at 30 St Mary Axe, City of London that had been destroyed beyond repair by a Provisional IRA bomb blast. Designed by Foster & Partners, for then owner Trafalgar House, the plan was for the building to be the tallest in Europe and the sixth tallest in the world at that time, behind the twin Petronas Towers in Malaysia, the Sears Tower (now called the Willis Tower) in Chicago, and the twin towers of the World Trade Center in New\",\n \"title\": \"London Millennium Tower\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"9522932\",\n \"text\": \"and glass cladding facade. Maxis Tower Maxis Tower () is a 49-storey, office skyscraper in Kuala Lumpur City Centre, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The tower serves as headquarters of Maxis Communications and Tanjong Plc Group of Companies. Maxis Tower was developed by KLCC Properties Holdings Berhad (KLCCP) under Phase 1 of the KLCC project. The building is owned by Impian Klasik Sdn Bhd, in which Tanjong holds a 67% stake and KLCCP holds a 33% stake. Maxis Tower is situated in the northwest corner of the KLCC development, adjacent to the Petronas Twin Towers. As with its neighbouring twin towers, Maxis\",\n \"title\": \"Maxis Tower\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"13679716\",\n \"text\": \"originally conceived as part of an eight-building Brussels World Trade Center complex, but were splintered off into a separate project. The construction of the towers began in 1994 and was completed in 1996. Proximus Towers The Proximus Towers (, , known as the Belgacom Towers before the company's name change) are twin skyscrapers on King Albert II Street in the Northern Quarter central business district of Brussels, Belgium. The buildings take their name from the telecommunications company Proximus. They are among the tallest buildings in Belgium. The towers are both tall to the roof, and Tower 1 has a spire\",\n \"title\": \"Proximus Towers\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"12035870\",\n \"text\": \"name of Turnberry Towers. Construction of the first tower began in June 2005, and was finished in 2007, followed by the completion of the second tower a year later. In November 1998, high-rise developer Bruce Stark and his Hawaii-based company, Stark Properties, announced plans to build Great Masters, a 56-story twin-tower condominium project with 592 units. The project would cost $300 million, with an estimated sales value of $500 million. The project would be built on situated at Paradise Road and Karen Avenue, behind the Sahara hotel-casino that was located on the Las Vegas Strip. Construction was expected to begin\",\n \"title\": \"Turnberry Towers\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"11293885\",\n \"text\": \"scene, in other words as the \\\"Twin Towers of Pisa\\\". Although the Pisa tower demonstrates the illusion and provides a pun for its name, the illusion can be seen in any pair of (identical) images of a receding object. Leaning tower illusion The leaning tower illusion is a visual illusion seen in a pair of identical images of the Leaning Tower of Pisa photographed from below. Although the images are duplicates, one has the impression that the tower on the right leans more, as if photographed from a different angle. The illusion was discovered by Frederick Kingdom, Ali Yoonessi and\",\n \"title\": \"Leaning tower illusion\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"13848497\",\n \"text\": \"Tenerife, one of the best symbols of the economic development of the Canary Islands. The complex consists of twin towers of —of which are below ground, and above ground. One peculiarity is that these buildings were not built at once. Although they are twin towers, Tower I was built by the company Ferrovial, while Tower II was built by the company Candesa. The Tower I was completed in 2004 and Tower II in 2006, although the refurbishment work on the site began in 2001. After the September 11 attacks, the construction project of the Torres de Santa Cruz was paralyzed\",\n \"title\": \"Torres de Santa Cruz\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"12057547\",\n \"text\": \"the buildings' design, and their close proximity to the busy North Clyde Line railway which runs immediately next to the site, a conventional \\\"blowdown\\\" with explosives was deemed impractical. The buildings instead would be literally disassembled floor by floor using the \\\"top down\\\" method. The deconstruction process began on in January 2015, starting with the Bluevale tower. The neighbouring Whitevale tower was deconstructed in a similar fashion in 2016. Bluevale and Whitevale Towers The Bluevale and Whitevale Towers was the name for a development of twin tower block flats situated in the Camlachie district within the East End of Glasgow,\",\n \"title\": \"Bluevale and Whitevale Towers\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"12826986\",\n \"text\": \"Herdings Twin Towers The Herdings Twin Towers are a pair of twin towers located in the Herdings residential suburb of southern Sheffield in the United Kingdom. Although not the tallest buildings in Sheffield, their location atop a hill makes their rooftops the highest manmade location in the city. The towers were built in 1959; at the time of construction, there were actually three towers, receiving the nickname of \\\"the Three Sisters\\\" at the time. However, the third tower was demolished by controlled explosion on 13 October 1996 after being declared unsafe, leading to the current \\\"Twin Towers\\\" nickname. The towers'\",\n \"title\": \"Herdings Twin Towers\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"19311692\",\n \"text\": \"for each tower, with the newest projected to be open by spring 2016. Rosslyn Twin Towers 1000 and 1100 Wilson Boulevard, collectively known as the Rosslyn Twin Towers, were the tallest buildings in the Washington metropolitan area for three decades until the completion of 1812 N Moore a block away. They remain the tallest twin towers in the region and the commonwealth of Virginia. The buildings are home to the headquarters of Politico and WJLA-TV, and were formerly home to the headquarters of Gannett Company/USA Today. The towers are part of a complex that features retail, and televisions and news\",\n \"title\": \"Rosslyn Twin Towers\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"19664422\",\n \"text\": \"one of the towers was moved to be installed as a memorial at St Raphael's Estate., and the iconic tower flagpoles are now located at the late Sir William McAlpine's Fawley Hill estate. Twin Towers (Wembley) The Twin Towers were part of the original Wembley Stadium in London, England. They were constructed in 1923 on the site of Watkin's Tower in Wembley, and came to be recognised as one of the iconic symbols of English football in general and of Wembley Stadium in particular. They became grade II listed buildings in 1976, but they were demolished in 2003 to make\",\n \"title\": \"Twin Towers (Wembley)\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"17866474\",\n \"text\": \"Twin Towers 2 The Twin Towers II (also known as Twin Towers 2, New Twin Towers, Trump Twin Towers and World Trade Center Phoenix) was a proposed twin-towered skyscraper complex which would have been located at the World Trade Center site in Manhattan, New York City. The proposed complex would have replaced the former Twin Towers of the World Trade Center destroyed in the September 11 attacks, restoring the skyline of the city to its former state. The main design for the proposed complex would feature new landmark twin towers, nearly identical to the originals designed by Minoru Yamasaki, though\",\n \"title\": \"Twin Towers 2\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"4358871\",\n \"text\": \"2,000 years including a quarry dated to the First Temple period, and is a popular venue for benefit events, craft shows, concerts, and sound-and-light performances. Dan Bahat writes that the original three Hasmonean towers were altered by Herod, and that \\\"The northeastern tower was replaced by a much larger, more massive tower, dubbed the \\\"Tower of David\\\" beginning in the 5th century C.E.\\\" The name \\\"Tower of David\\\" is due to Byzantine Christians who believed the site to be the palace of King David. They borrowed the name \\\"Tower of David\\\" from the Song of Songs, attributed to Solomon, King\",\n \"title\": \"Tower of David\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"18504370\",\n \"text\": \"the Skysuites Tower The Skysuites Tower is composed of two 38-storey towers. One of the two towers will be a semi-circular tower for residential use and the other will be a curvilinear tower for office use. The two towers will be connected with a parking and commercial podium. The Skysuites Tower The Skysuites Tower, also known as The Sky Suites Corporate & Residential Towers, is a 38-storey twin building complex under construction in Quezon City. Construction of the building was on hold for a while after its original owner, Globe Asiatique, got involved in a scam. The new owner, DoubleDragon\",\n \"title\": \"The Skysuites Tower\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"19504750\",\n \"text\": \"officials, stating that high-rise condominiums \\\"is what the city wanted as part of its plan for residential living.\\\" In 2004, Fonfa was approved for plans to construct twin condominium towers on the property. The Allure tower was opened in early 2008. The site of the Lucky Dragon had initially been planned for the second Allure tower, which was later cancelled because of poor sales caused by the Great Recession, and because of an oversupply of condominium high-rises on the Las Vegas Strip. To help sell units in the first Allure tower, Fonfa said that in 2008, \\\"We realized we were\",\n \"title\": \"Lucky Dragon Hotel and Casino\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"7103916\",\n \"text\": \"2016. The following is a breakdown of floors of the 151 Incheon Tower: 102 Incheon Tower The 102 Incheon Tower was a supertall twin tower proposed for construction in Songdo International City, Incheon, South Korea. The design consists of two 151 floor, supertall skyscrapers connected by three skybridges. the building will become the tallest twin towers in the world, surpassing the Petronas Towers in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, and one of the tallest buildings in Asia. After the late-2000s recession, the tower was postponed with the possibility of a redesign at a lower height. The height of the supertall was reduced\",\n \"title\": \"102 Incheon Tower\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"16368966\",\n \"text\": \"Architects, and include a built space of 26,000 square meters. The fronts of the buildings are covered with reflective glass windows in a post modernist style. The two towers share underground parking with entrance in tower 1. Each of the towers contain two entrances: one from the lobby (Floor E1) and one from Jabotinsky Road (Floor E2). Between the two towers, there is a space with a pond in its middle. Twin Towers (Ramat Gan) The Twin Towers are two identical office towers on Jabotinsky Road in the Diamond Exchange District area in the city of Ramat Gan, Israel. They\",\n \"title\": \"Twin Towers (Ramat Gan)\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"12035878\",\n \"text\": \"rather than using the funds to pay off the loan. Prudential also stated that it had to cover the costs of liens, taxes, and other expenses that were to be handled by Turnberry. Additionally, Prudential accused Turnberry of failure to provide purchase deposit refunds for customers totaling $4.2 million. In 2011, real estate investor CIM Group purchased the remaining 279 unsold units at a price of $48.3 million. The East Tower contained 39 unsold units, while the second tower contained 240. Rachel Uchitel is a resident of the complex. Turnberry Towers Turnberry Towers is a 45-story twin tower condominium complex\",\n \"title\": \"Turnberry Towers\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"3487326\",\n \"text\": \"of the Twin Towers. The hotel was not replaced as part of the new World Trade Center complex, but does share its name with the new office tower. The Vista International was the first hotel to open in Lower Manhattan since 1836. The building was designed by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill and was originally owned by the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey and KUO Hotels of Korea, with Hilton International acting as management agent. It was sold in 1995 to Host Marriott Corporation, after an extensive renovation following the 1993 World Trade Center bombing. The hotel was\",\n \"title\": \"Marriott World Trade Center\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"10994178\",\n \"text\": \"The escutcheon of the first Wignacourt Tower is missing, while that of St Lucian Tower was replaced by the coat of arms of de Rohan in the 1790s. The escutcheons of St Thomas and St Mary's Towers still exist, although the one at the façade of St Thomas Tower has been defaced. The towers also had musketry loopholes, parapets and machicolations. Each tower was accessed by a drawbridge. The one at St Thomas Tower is still partially intact and it is the only original one to have survived in Malta. Wignacourt towers The Wignacourt towers () are a series of\",\n \"title\": \"Wignacourt towers\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"12035869\",\n \"text\": \"Turnberry Towers Turnberry Towers is a 45-story twin tower condominium complex in Winchester, Nevada, near the Las Vegas Strip. Initially, plans were announced in 1998 for Great Masters, a $300 million condominium project consisting of 56-story twin towers. The land was sold in 2000 to Turnberry Associates, which announced plans to build Madison Towers on the property. The $250 million condominium project would include 25-story twin towers, but the start of construction was delayed due to poor economic conditions as a result of the September 11 attacks. Conditions improved and the project was redesigned to be larger, with the new\",\n \"title\": \"Turnberry Towers\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"14269441\",\n \"text\": \"connected to it. The Guangzhou CTF Finance Centre is situated on a lot along Zhujiang East Road in Zhujiang New Town, Guangzhou's central business district. In that neighborhood, the skyscraper is located east of the central axis with an underground mall and connections to public transportation underneath it. The Guangzhou CTF Centre is part of the Guangzhou Twin Towers. The other tower of the pair, the tall Guangzhou International Finance Center, is located on the other side of the axis and is also known under the name \\\"West Tower\\\". The Guangzhou CTF Centre is therefore known as the \\\"East Tower\\\"\",\n \"title\": \"Guangzhou CTF Finance Centre\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"10572539\",\n \"text\": \"named Rixos The Palm Dubai. Al Fattan Marine Towers The Al Fattan Marine Towers is a complex in the Dubai Marina section of Dubai, United Arab Emirates. The towers are located within Jumeirah Beach Residence, a 40-tower, 7,000 unit residential and hotel development which runs alongside Dubai Marina. The Al Fattan Marine Towers consist of two twin 50-story towers, the Al Fattan Tower, and the Oasis Beach Tower, consisting of serviced and residential apartments which have since been sold to individual investors and homeowners. Both towers stand at a height of 245 m (804 ft) and a roof height of\",\n \"title\": \"Al Fattan Marine Towers\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"10572536\",\n \"text\": \"Al Fattan Marine Towers The Al Fattan Marine Towers is a complex in the Dubai Marina section of Dubai, United Arab Emirates. The towers are located within Jumeirah Beach Residence, a 40-tower, 7,000 unit residential and hotel development which runs alongside Dubai Marina. The Al Fattan Marine Towers consist of two twin 50-story towers, the Al Fattan Tower, and the Oasis Beach Tower, consisting of serviced and residential apartments which have since been sold to individual investors and homeowners. Both towers stand at a height of 245 m (804 ft) and a roof height of 230 m (755 ft), and\",\n \"title\": \"Al Fattan Marine Towers\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"12826988\",\n \"text\": \"1998 to receive their current white cladding, with a green stripe on Queen Elizabeth Court and a blue stripe on Queen Anne Court. Both towers are located on Raeburn Place; the area of this road around the location of the former third tower was redeveloped into semi-detached housing in 2013–2015. The towers are located close to Herdings Park and the associated Herdings Park Supertram Purple Route light rail stop, as well as the Herdings Park bus terminus, currently served by First South Yorkshire routes 1A and 56. Herdings Twin Towers The Herdings Twin Towers are a pair of twin towers\",\n \"title\": \"Herdings Twin Towers\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"11640469\",\n \"text\": \"on Ludwigstraße with Victory Gate to the north and form a focal point for visitors coming from the north of the city. The best known tenants of the buildings are the IT and consulting firms Unify and Fujitsu Technology Solutions, as well as IBM. Highlight Towers Highlight Towers is a twin tower office skyscraper complex completed in 2004 in Munich, Germany, planned by architects Murphy/Jahn of Chicago. Tower I is tall with 33 storeys, and Tower II is tall with 28 storeys, which make them among the highest buildings in the city. The towers are joined by two bridges made\",\n \"title\": \"Highlight Towers\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"18709153\",\n \"text\": \"was pregnant, and asked his servants to build a tower to the church in case she gave birth to a son. When he returned from the war and saw the two towers, he realised that she had given birth to twins. In reality, twin western towers are not an unknown element in Romanesque architecture, although not known from any other parish church in Scania. While it is unknown who built the church and why, the presence of the twin towers thus do denote high ambitions. From the extensive use of finely cut and worked granite, scholars have deduced that the\",\n \"title\": \"Färlöv Church\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"1056832\",\n \"text\": \"and \\\"Time\\\") which is secretly owned for several years by Lord Satanus posing as \\\"Colin Thornton,\\\" and the Twin Towered LexCorp Tower, (a reference to the former twin towers of the World Trade Center), headquarters for Lex Luthor's company. Besides the Financial District, notable areas of New Troy include: Famous streets in New Troy include Fifth Avenue, Bessolo Boulevard, and Topaz Lane. The latter two are Metropolis' versions of Broadway in New York City. Bessolo Boulevard's name is derived from \\\"Adventures of Superman\\\" lead actor George Reeves's legal name before entering films. Other Metropolis boulevards in the New Troy borough\",\n \"title\": \"Metropolis (comics)\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"13809653\",\n \"text\": \"backup, solid waste management, house-keeping services and needless to say effective security for members. There are 11 Towers out of which there are 4 twin towers & 3 single towers divided into different blocks. Towers are named as A, B, C, D, E, F, I, J, K, L and H block. Block AB, CD, IJ and KL are twin tower and E, F, H are single towers. The construction of all blocks is completed except block H which is 90% completed and is likely to be completed this year before Diwali. Families are happily living in Vrinda City and there\",\n \"title\": \"Vrinda City\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"7103914\",\n \"text\": \"102 Incheon Tower The 102 Incheon Tower was a supertall twin tower proposed for construction in Songdo International City, Incheon, South Korea. The design consists of two 151 floor, supertall skyscrapers connected by three skybridges. the building will become the tallest twin towers in the world, surpassing the Petronas Towers in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, and one of the tallest buildings in Asia. After the late-2000s recession, the tower was postponed with the possibility of a redesign at a lower height. The height of the supertall was reduced from 613 metres to 490 metres while keeping the design the same. The\",\n \"title\": \"102 Incheon Tower\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"13807014\",\n \"text\": \"a high-level door half hidden by the ornate portico. The addition of windows in the SW face of this tower in the 1930s somewhat detracted from the intended effect. Another tower consists of twin drum towers corbelled to the square and back again to round turrets and these twin towers are linked with an arch - the whole is similar in effect to the Seaton Tower at Fyvie Castle from 1599. While the building has five circular turrets it also has one square turret very similar in style to those at Crathes Castle (late 16th Century). Much of the remainder\",\n \"title\": \"Kincardine Castle, Royal Deeside\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"8970611\",\n \"text\": \"although two of these buildings will be demolished in 2018. The tallest buildings on campus are Kirwan Tower and Blanding Tower, twin 23-story towers that house undergraduate students. Completed in 1967 along with the rest of the university's largest student housing area, the Kirwan–Blanding Complex, the towers are 264 feet (80.5 m) tall. However, both towers were decommissioned as student housing in 2015, and the entire Complex will be demolished in 2018. Following the demolition of Blanding and Kirwan Towers, the only remaining high-rise on campus will be the 18-story Patterson Office Tower. Constructed in 1968, the 250-foot (76.2 m)\",\n \"title\": \"Cityscape of Lexington, Kentucky\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"9387456\",\n \"text\": \"in 2012. Dubai Towers Istanbul Dubai Towers Istanbul \\\"(or DTI)\\\" was a skyscraper project that was to be built in the district of Levent, in Istanbul, Turkey. It comprised a twin-tower complex which was to contain extensive office space, residential apartments and penthouses, retail outlets and boutique hotels. Had it been completed, the towers would have become the two tallest buildings in Turkey. Tower 1 was expected to reach a height of more than 300m (103 floors) and Tower 2 over 350m (125 floors). The site for the project was the former IETT Bus Garage, on Büyükdere Avenue in the\",\n \"title\": \"Dubai Towers Istanbul\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"9387454\",\n \"text\": \"Dubai Towers Istanbul Dubai Towers Istanbul \\\"(or DTI)\\\" was a skyscraper project that was to be built in the district of Levent, in Istanbul, Turkey. It comprised a twin-tower complex which was to contain extensive office space, residential apartments and penthouses, retail outlets and boutique hotels. Had it been completed, the towers would have become the two tallest buildings in Turkey. Tower 1 was expected to reach a height of more than 300m (103 floors) and Tower 2 over 350m (125 floors). The site for the project was the former IETT Bus Garage, on Büyükdere Avenue in the financial district\",\n \"title\": \"Dubai Towers Istanbul\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"1066795\",\n \"text\": \"Petronas Towers The Petronas Towers, also known as the Petronas Twin Towers (Malay: \\\"Menara Petronas\\\", or \\\"Menara Berkembar Petronas\\\"), are twin skyscrapers in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. According to the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH)'s official definition and ranking, they were the tallest buildings in the world from 1998 to 2004 and remain the tallest twin towers in the world. The buildings are a landmark of Kuala Lumpur, along with nearby Kuala Lumpur Tower. The towers were designed by Argentine architect César Pelli. A distinctive postmodern style was chosen to create a 21st-century icon for Kuala Lumpur. Planning\",\n \"title\": \"Petronas Towers\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"19664421\",\n \"text\": \"way for the Twin Towers to be demolished. Proposals in early 2000 to move the towers to Widnes, to become part of a new national rugby league museum, were not realised. The Twin Towers were the last structure of Wembley to be demolished. Preliminary demolition work started in December 2002 with the concrete crowns being removed from the top of the flagpoles. The towers were demolished in 2003 by a large Liebherr 974 crawler excavator referred to as \\\"Goliath\\\", made in Germany specifically for the task. The original foundations of Watkin's Tower were rediscovered during the demolition. The top of\",\n \"title\": \"Twin Towers (Wembley)\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"4218507\",\n \"text\": \"area. The towers were also renovated during this period. Belfries were added to the two towers at the crossings, on the eastern tower in 1361 and on the western in 1418. These towers were topped with Gothic-style pyramid roofs. (These towers turned out to be so heavy that the eastern tower had to be supported by a pillar erected in 1430.) The cloister was heavily renovated and the \\\"Liebfrauenkirche\\\" was completely replaced at this time, marking the last of the Gothic renovations to the building. The roof on the eastern tower, however, was replaced in 1579 by a flatter one\",\n \"title\": \"Mainz Cathedral\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"18527468\",\n \"text\": \"Witch tower Witch tower or Witches' Tower () is a common name or description in English and other European languages for a tower that was part of a medieval town wall or castle, often used as a prison or dungeon. The name is derived from the period of witch trials. Many of these towers were used to incarcerate those suspected or found guilty of witchcraft. Other witch towers were, however, named later, for example in the 19th century when they were simply used as normal prisons or were just ordinary towers in the city walls. Witch towers are found in\",\n \"title\": \"Witch tower\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"8603243\",\n \"text\": \"is basically the twin of the other apartment building, designed the same way. North Park Towers The North Park Towers are a pair of apartment buildings in Southfield, Michigan. North Park Towers I Is located at 16500 North Park Drive. It was constructed in 1967 by Sullivan & Smith Inc and stands at 19 floors in height. The high-rise was designed in the modern architectural style and has approximately 313 apartment units ranging from 1,000 square feet to 3,800 square feet. North Park Towers II is located at 16500 North Park Drive in Southfield, Michigan. Like Tower I, Tower II\",\n \"title\": \"North Park Towers\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"17957524\",\n \"text\": \"of this church. Hans Rudolf Sennhauser wrote in 1990 that the shape of the crypt was inconsistent with a 1294 construction date. He felt that the two-piece crypt with a double row of pillars was replaced with a single part crypt around 1100. Since the pre-1762 church had a two-piece crypt, he believed it dated from before 1100. It is likely that the twin towers were damaged in the 1356 Basel earthquake damaged, but there is no reliable sources attesting to the damage. It seems likely, since in 1360 the single Wendelstein tower was built above the church and a\",\n \"title\": \"Solothurn Cathedral\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"9702186\",\n \"text\": \"bank of the White Cart Water. It comprised a rectangular tower house, 15.5m by 9m, of five storeys including a vaulted basement. This was supplemented by a curtain wall, enclosing a small barmkin approximately 22m by 15m, with the tower at the centre. The curtain wall had round corner towers, and a twin-towered gatehouse to the east. The foundations of the tower house remain to around 1m high. Earthworks to the west of the castle have been interpreted as the remains of an outer bailey or ringwork. Cathcart Castle Cathcart Castle was a 15th-century castle, located in what is now\",\n \"title\": \"Cathcart Castle\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"7438140\",\n \"text\": \"are positioned at the corners of the square baileys instead of along the sides like at Flint, Harlech or Beaumaris. Records of construction costs show that it was the major piece of building work being carried out by the English during the late 1270s. The inner ward has defensive walls with twin-tower gatehouses. The outer ward is surrounded by a curtain wall that has small towers and turrets. According to Thomas Pennant, who passed through the town on his travels in the 18th century, one of the towers is named \\\"Twr-y-Silod\\\" (\\\"Grain Tower\\\"), and another \\\"Twr-y-Brenin\\\" (\\\"The King's Tower\\\")The castle\",\n \"title\": \"Rhuddlan Castle\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"6465027\",\n \"text\": \"appearance and construction. BOK Tower's lobby has marble walls and wall hangings which have a noted similarity to the decor in the former WTC. The similarities between the BOK Tower and the World Trade Center Towers are based upon the building's history. The tower was built for the Williams Companies; at the time of its construction, the CEO of Williams (John Williams) was impressed by the Twin Towers in New York. His original idea was to build four small-scale replicas of the towers in Tulsa. However, prior to the actual construction, he was informed of the inefficiencies that would be\",\n \"title\": \"BOK Tower\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"1066803\",\n \"text\": \"that accommodates its slender profile and provides 560,000 square metres of column-free office space. Below the twin towers is Suria KLCC, a shopping mall, and Petronas Philharmonic Hall, the home of the Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra. Tower One is fully occupied by Petronas and a number of its subsidiaries and associate companies, while the office spaces in Tower Two are mostly available for lease to other companies. A number of companies have offices in Tower Two, including Huawei Technologies, AVEVA, Al Jazeera English, Carigali Hess, Bloomberg, Boeing, IBM, Khazanah Nasional Berhad, McKinsey & Co, WIPRO Limited, TCS, HCL Technologies, Krawler, Microsoft,\",\n \"title\": \"Petronas Towers\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"14042657\",\n \"text\": \"CityCenter sold 427 Veer condos in bulk for $119 million to Ladder Capital Finance. The lobby walls of both Veer Towers feature mud drawings by Turner Prize-winning artist Richard Long, who diluted mud that he brought to Las Vegas from the River Avon and applied it to the walls with his hands. The two large-scale works titled “Circle of Chance” and “Earth” cover the lobby wall of the west and east tower. Veer Towers Veer Towers are twin 37-story, , residential towers located within CityCenter on the Las Vegas Strip in Paradise, Nevada. Each tower houses 335 luxury condominium units\",\n \"title\": \"Veer Towers\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"10665597\",\n \"text\": \"9/11: The Twin Towers 9/11: The Twin Towers (also billed as Inside the Twin Towers) is a television special documentary film which uses re-enactments and computer-generated imagery to re-create a minute-by-minute account of what happened inside the twin towers of the World Trade Center in New York City during the September 11 attacks. In the United States it premiered on the Discovery Channel on 3 September 2006, narrated by Harry Pritchett. In the United Kingdom it premiered on BBC One on 7 September 2006, narrated by Terence Stamp. The film won the 2007 British Academy Television Craft Award for Sound\",\n \"title\": \"9/11: The Twin Towers\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"10858999\",\n \"text\": \"Axis at Brickell Village Axis at Brickell Village is a high-rise building complex in the Brickell district of Miami, Florida. The complex, designed by the renowned Arquitectonica architecture firm, consists of two residential twin towers, Axis at Brickell Village North Tower and Axis at Brickell Village South Tower. Both towers were topped off in mid-2007, meaning that they have reached their final heights and were completed in 2008. The towers rise 418 feet (127 meters) each, with 40 floors. They are among the tallest buildings in Miami. The buildings are located at 1100 Southwest 1st Avenue. Axis on Brickell is\",\n \"title\": \"Axis at Brickell Village\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"19664416\",\n \"text\": \"Twin Towers (Wembley) The Twin Towers were part of the original Wembley Stadium in London, England. They were constructed in 1923 on the site of Watkin's Tower in Wembley, and came to be recognised as one of the iconic symbols of English football in general and of Wembley Stadium in particular. They became grade II listed buildings in 1976, but they were demolished in 2003 to make way for the new Wembley Stadium. The towers were designed by Sir Robert McAlpine for the construction of Empire Stadium (later known as Wembley Stadium) in time for the British Empire Exhibition on\",\n \"title\": \"Twin Towers (Wembley)\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"16363482\",\n \"text\": \"to 1992 when One London Place was completed. The towers are 64% occupied by TD bank which holds its regional offices within the complex. Overall the complex is 94% leased as of July 2011, owing to London's strong economy and business market. City Centre Towers City Centre or London City Centre is a twin office tower complex in London, Ontario, Canada at 275 Dundas Street. Construction on the towers was finished in 1974. The South tower is 96 m tall, and is the second tallest building in the city and one of the tallest office buildings in Ontario outside Toronto.\",\n \"title\": \"City Centre Towers\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"8840374\",\n \"text\": \"is the asymmetrical twin towers with the eastern tower being taller (most other synagogues of the period featured twin towers of similar height). The towers are also adorned differently. Each of the towers originally was also topped by a bulbous dome which has since been removed. It is one of fewer than a hundred surviving nineteenth-century American synagogues. Over the doorway engraved in granite and written in Hebrew is a verse from Psalm 100. \\\"Enter into His Gates with Thanksgiving and into His courts with praise.\\\" Rabbi Drachman served as spiritual leader for fifty-one years. He died in 1945. Zev\",\n \"title\": \"Park East Synagogue\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"9736055\",\n \"text\": \"The architect of the complex is Nichols Brosch Wurst Wolf & Associates. Plaza on Brickell Plaza on Brickell is an urban development in Miami, Florida, United States. The complex consists of two skyscrapers and a retail center at the base, connecting the two towers. The towers completed construction in late 2007. The Plaza on Brickell Tower I, the taller of the two buildings, rises and 56 floors. The Plaza on Brickell Tower II is tall, and has 48 floors. The two towers, although different in height, are twin towers in design. Both are built on land at the corner of\",\n \"title\": \"Plaza on Brickell\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"7891815\",\n \"text\": \"the tallest buildings of Morocco, or of the Maghreb region of north Africa. They rise through 115 metres to a total of 28 floors each. The total floor area is , with a 7.2 metre high atrium. There are 15 elevators (lifts) in the Twin Centre. The towers were inaugurated in 1998 and became a landmark in Casablanca. Above the shopping centre, which includes 5 levels, has a supermarket in addition to boutique and designer shops, are the two towers: Offices in Tower A are much sought after by international businesses. The hotel in Tower B has 210 bedrooms, plus\",\n \"title\": \"Casablanca Twin Center\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"9684523\",\n \"text\": \"Oficinas en el Parque Torre 2 Oficinas del Parque Torre 2 (or Oficinas en el Parque Torre II), it is one of Monterrey's tallest skyscrapers. Its construction began in 1996 and finished two years later, in 1998. The tower, along with its slightly shorter twin, is part of a complex used mainly for offices, as the name states. Tower One and Tower Two were built as part of a complex a few miles west of downtown Monterrey, in the borderline of the Santa Catarina River, an area of Monterrey known as San Jeronimo. 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It was later reported that the actors had gone through a renegotiation, for which they had increased their salary to $1.1 million per episode for the last two seasons. On August 31, 2016, \"Entertainment Weekly\" reported that Jim Broadbent had been cast for the seventh season in a \"significant\" role. It was announced that the role of Dickon Tarly has been recast, with Tom Hopper replacing Freddie Stroma, who had previously played the role in \"Blood of My Blood\". The seventh season sees the return of Mark Gatiss as Tycho Nestoris, who did not appear in the","title":"Game of Thrones (season 7)"},{"docid":"17142224","text":"and Margaery\". Mark Gatiss plays Tycho Nestoris, a representative of the Iron Bank of Braavos, to whom the Iron Throne owes millions in borrowed gold. The role of Hizdahr zo Loraq is played by young British actor Joel Fry. Hizdahr is the young scion of an ancient Meereenese family who crosses paths with Daenerys Targaryen in Meereen. 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The story was written by Mark Gatiss and stars Peter Davison and Mark Strickson. It was recorded between 26–27 June 1999. \"Phantasmagoria\" was considered a more \"assured and confident\" production than director, Nicholas Briggs', previous works. Gatiss' acting, who plays Jasper Jeake, was considered especially good in the audio play. The Fifth Doctor and Turlough investigate mysterious goings-on at the Diabola Club in London, 1702, where patrons are disappearing after losing at cards to the mysterious Sir Nikolas","title":"Phantasmagoria (audio drama)"},{"docid":"12828432","text":"who also trades in classified information extracted from her rich and powerful clients. Mark Gatiss wrote \"The Hounds of Baskerville\", which investigates the strange activities at a military base. Aware that \"The Hound of the Baskervilles\", first published in 1902, was one of the most famous of Conan Doyle's original stories, Gatiss felt a greater responsibility to include familiar elements of the story than he does when adapting the lesser-known stories. Russell Tovey appeared as Henry Knight, a man whose father was ripped apart by a gigantic hound on Dartmoor 20 years earlier. Directed by McGuigan, the episode was first","title":"Sherlock (TV series)"},{"docid":"1462681","text":"fourteen short stories for the series, including \"The ABC Murders\" and \"The Murder of Roger Ackroyd\", which received mixed reviews from critics. Anthony Horowitz was another prolific writer for the series, adapting three novels and nine short stories, while Nick Dear adapted six novels. Comedian and novelist Mark Gatiss has written three episodes and also guest-starred in the series, as have Peter Flannery and Kevin Elyot. Ian Hallard, who co-wrote the screenplay for \"The Big Four\" with his partner Mark Gatiss, appears in the episode and also \"Hallowe'en Party\", which was scripted by Mark Gatiss alone. Florin Court in Charterhouse","title":"Agatha Christie's Poirot"},{"docid":"12828453","text":"and several special features. \"A Study in Pink\" featured audio commentaries by Steven Moffat, Mark Gatiss and Sue Vertue, while Benedict Cumberbatch, Martin Freeman and Mark Gatiss comment on \"The Great Game\". The release included the pilot episode, a 60-minute version of \"A Study in Pink\" directed by Coky Giedroyc. Critic Mark Lawson called the decision to include the pilot \"commendable and brave\". The British Board of Film Classification rated the pilot and the three episodes as a 12 certificate for video and online exhibition. The release also contained a 32-minute documentary about the production called \"Unlocking Sherlock\". \"Unlocking Sherlock\"","title":"Sherlock (TV series)"},{"docid":"19539676","text":"No One (Game of Thrones) \"No One\" is the eighth episode of the sixth season of HBO's fantasy television series \"Game of Thrones\", and the 58th episode overall. It was written by series co-creators David Benioff and D. B. Weiss, and directed by Mark Mylod. Arya Stark fights for her life and chooses her destiny; Jaime Lannister returns Edmure Tully to Riverrun; Cersei Lannister is thwarted; Daenerys Targaryen returns to Meereen; and Sandor Clegane tracks down the Brotherhood Without Banners. \"No One\" received mostly positive reviews from critics, who listed the conclusion of Arya's story with the Faceless Men, the","title":"No One (Game of Thrones)"},{"docid":"1418094","text":"three actors on screen at any one time, the different characters mostly play out their own stories in several serialised sketches, rarely crossing into each other's storylines. Only rarely do actors \"meet themselves\". Exceptions include Papa Lazarou facing the Reverend Bernice in the Christmas Special (both Reece Shearsmith), Les McQueen buying a magazine from Pop's son (both Mark Gatiss), and Alvin Steele buying food from Iris at a supermarket checkout in Series 2 (again, both Mark Gatiss). The idea is taken further in \"The League of Gentlemen's Apocalypse\", when the characters meet the actors (especially when Herr Lipp meets his","title":"The League of Gentlemen"},{"docid":"2745989","text":"Science of Christmas\", alongside Brian Cox, Robin Ince and Richard Dawkins. In January 2012, he took the role of Brazen in \"The Recruiting Officer\" at the Donmar Theatre, London. From 18 October – 24 November that year he was Charles I in the Hampstead Theatre production of \"55 Days\" by Howard Brenton, a play dramatising the military coup that killed a King and forged a Commonwealth under Oliver Cromwell. In December 2013, Gatiss joined the cast of the Donmar Warehouse Production of \"Coriolanus\" as Senator of Rome, Menenius. The play went from 6 December 2013 through 13 February 2014. For","title":"Mark Gatiss"},{"docid":"7958144","text":"Nightshade (Gatiss novel) Nightshade is an original novel written by Mark Gatiss and based on the long-running British science fiction television series \"Doctor Who\". It features the Seventh Doctor and Ace. A prelude to the novel, also penned by Gatiss, appeared in \"Doctor Who Magazine\" #190. The year is 1968, and as the BBC rebroadcasts episodes of the classic SF serial \"Nightshade\", the townsfolk of Crook Marsham prepare for a lonely Christmas. At the local retirement home, actor Edmund Trevithick learns that a reporter is coming to interview him about his role as Professor Nightshade, and goes to sleep dreaming","title":"Nightshade (Gatiss novel)"},{"docid":"12828404","text":"Steven Moffat and Mark Gatiss, Sherlock Holmes fans with experience of adapting or using Victorian literature for television, devised the concept of the series. Moffat had previously adapted the \"Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde\" for the 2007 series \"Jekyll\", while Gatiss had written the Dickensian \"Doctor Who\" episode \"The Unquiet Dead\". Moffat and Gatiss, both \"Doctor Who\" writers, discussed plans for a Holmes adaptation during their numerous train journeys to Cardiff where \"Doctor Who\" production is based. While they were in Monte Carlo for an awards ceremony, producer Sue Vertue, who is married to Moffat, encouraged Moffat","title":"Sherlock (TV series)"},{"docid":"7754896","text":"The series was curated by Mark Gatiss to mark 50 years since the passing of the Sexual Offences Act 1967, which decriminalised homosexual acts in England and Wales. The first production was directed by Mark Gatiss and performed by Mark Bonnar at The Old Vic on 28 July 2017. Alan Cumming starred in the BBC Four television production, which was broadcast on 3 August 2017. Gareth McLean Gareth McLean (born c.1975) is a Scottish journalist and screenwriter who has written for \"The Guardian\" newspaper and on soap operas for the \"Radio Times\" magazine. McLean graduated with an MA (Hons) in","title":"Gareth McLean"},{"docid":"4855211","text":"scramble for greater sensation, its logical outcome\". Banks-Smith had long been an admirer of \"The Year of the Sex Olympics\", having written in \"The Sun\" following its original broadcast in 1968: \"Quite apart from the excellent script and the 'big big' treatment, the play radiated ripples. Is television a substitute for living? Does the spectacle of pain at a distance atrophy sympathy? Can this coffin with knobs on furnish all we need to ask?\". 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Gatiss's earliest published work was a sequence of novels in Virgin Publishing's New Adventures series of continuation stories and novels. In these works, he tried to correct the problems which had led to the show's decline in the late 1980s. The first television scripts Gatiss wrote were for a BBV direct-to-video series called \"P.R.O.B.E.\" Gatiss's four scripts each featured a different actor who had played \"Doctor Who\"s titular character of the Doctor: Jon Pertwee, Peter Davison, Colin Baker and Sylvester McCoy. The videos have since been released on DVD despite Gatiss","title":"Mark Gatiss"},{"docid":"3684245","text":"original horror anthology series \"The Hunger\". Jeremy Dyson has adapted Aickman's work into drama in a number of forms. A musical staging of his short story \"The Same Dog\", for which Dyson co-wrote the libretto with Joby Talbot, premiered in 2000 at the Barbican Concert Hall. In 2000, with his League collaborator Mark Gatiss, Dyson adapted Aickman's short story \"Ringing the Changes\" into a BBC Radio Four radio play. This aired exactly twenty years after the CBC adaptation, on Halloween, 2000. Dyson also directed a 2002 short film based on Aickman's story \"The Cicerones\" with Gatiss as the principal actor.","title":"Robert Aickman"},{"docid":"19273922","text":"Mark Huffam Mark Huffam is a British film and television producer. He was a producer on \"The Martian\", \"Johnny English\", and the television series \"Game of Thrones\". He was awarded CBE in 2011 at Her Majesty, The Queen's Birthday Honours List for his services to the film and television industries. He has been a producer on several films for Ridley Scott. Huffam was an associate producer and production manager on the 1998 Steven Spielberg film \"Saving Private Ryan\". In 2011, he was a producer on the first season of the HBO series \"Game of Thrones\". In 2015, Huffam was a","title":"Mark Huffam"},{"docid":"4855213","text":"Mark Gatiss has noted that the \"Artsex\" and \"Foodshow\" programmes that also appear in the play \"ingeniously depicted the future of lowest common denominator TV\". This view is echoed by the writer and critic Kim Newman, who has said that \"as an extreme exercise in revolutionary self-criticism on the part of television professionals, who also lampoon their own world of chattering commentators and ratings-chasing sensationalism, the play [...] is a trenchant contribution to a series of debates that is still raging\" and has concluded that \"Nigel Kneale might be quite justified in shouting, 'I was right! I was right!'\" The","title":"The Year of the Sex Olympics"},{"docid":"9159206","text":"place in November 2018, at Nottingham Playhouse, with Mark Gatiss as the lead. The play has been viewed as a character study for the actor who plays George III and most reviewers attribute its success to compelling performances from the two actors, Hawthorne and Haig, who played the king. Frank Rich of \"The New York Times\" singled out Nigel Hawthorne's performance in the US tour, calling it \"astonishing\" and \"unforgettable\", though he labelled the play itself as not \"one of Bennett's major works\" and as being more \"marketable to Broadway and the colonies\". Writing about the 2012 revival, Lyn Gardner","title":"The Madness of George III"},{"docid":"5274377","text":"RPG products, unrelated to the earlier Guardians of Order effort. The Green Ronin game, titled \"A Song of Ice and Fire Roleplaying\" (\"SIFRP\"), went on sale on 10 March 2009: it uses a custom game system and does not contain rules from either the d20 or Tri-Stat dX systems. Issue 307 of \"Dragon\" magazine featured D20 content related to \"ASOIAF\", including stats for Tyrion Lannister, Sandor Clegane and other prominent characters; adventure hooks; and a brother of the Night's Watch prestige class. A Game of Thrones (role-playing game) A Game of Thrones is a role-playing game produced by Guardians of","title":"A Game of Thrones (role-playing game)"},{"docid":"2745993","text":"and the British Museum, it took until 2010 for Gatiss to return as writer. He wrote \"Victory of the Daleks\" for that year's fifth series and went on to contribute \"Night Terrors\" for series 6, \"Cold War\" and \"The Crimson Horror\" for series 7 and \"Robot of Sherwood\" for series 8. He also wrote \"Sleep No More\" for series 9 and \"Empress of Mars\" for series 10. He has also contributed to the franchise outside the main show. His early work (see above) was primarily \"Doctor Who\" expanded media, and Gatiss wrote and performed in the comedy spoof sketches \"The","title":"Mark Gatiss"},{"docid":"19987496","text":"story\". He added, \"It's getting boring, plus hard to avoid cliches, when gushing about Smith – her range, her extraordinary humanness, her ability not just to play someone but to inhabit them, to be heroic without being sentimental. […] Big shout-outs also must go to Sian Brooke (Sherlock's new secret sis) who plays Natalie Brown, the neighbour who begins to suspect Karen before Julie does. And to \"Game of Thrones\"'s Gemma Whelan, whose Karen is not the evil woman the real one was made out to be – more immature, naive, weak, easily manipulated ... and yet she did manage","title":"The Moorside"},{"docid":"12828414","text":"as a \"moral compass\" for Sherlock, who does not always consider the morality and ethics of his actions. Rupert Graves was cast as DI Greg Lestrade. The writers referred to the character as \"Inspector Lestrade\" during development until Gatiss realised that in contemporary England the character would have the title \"Detective Inspector\". Moffat and Gatiss pointed out that Lestrade does not appear often in the stories and is quite inconsistently portrayed in them. They decided to go with the version that appeared in \"The Adventure of the Six Napoleons\": a man who is frustrated by Holmes but admires him, and","title":"Sherlock (TV series)"},{"docid":"2745997","text":"film director James Whale and the documentary \"M.R. James: Ghost Writer\", which Gatiss also presented. The documentary followed Gatiss's directorial debut with an adaption of one of James's stories, \"The Tractate Middoth\", for BBC 2, which was broadcast on Christmas Day 2013. Gatiss also wrote, co-produced and appeared in \"Crooked House\", a ghost story that was broadcast on BBC Four during Christmas 2008. His first non-\"Doctor Who\" novel, \"The Vesuvius Club\", was published in 2004, for which he was nominated in the category of Best Newcomer in the 2006 British Book Awards. A follow-up, \"The Devil in Amber\", was released","title":"Mark Gatiss"},{"docid":"18914413","text":"previously directed the two-parter \"The Zygon Invasion\" / \"The Zygon Inversion\" in the ninth series. In June 2016, Mark Gatiss stated he would be writing an episode for the series; later identified as the ninth episode, a change to Moffat's previous announcement that he would be writing for that particular episode. In 2015, Gatiss had indicated that he might write a sequel for the ninth series episode \"Sleep No More\"; however, this was not the basis for Gatiss' episode for the tenth series. Instead, the episode featured the return of the Ice Warriors, a race known for their appearances in","title":"Doctor Who (series 10)"},{"docid":"2745996","text":"and he has written four episodes, one for each series: the finale, \"The Great Game,\" for the first series, \"The Hounds of Baskerville\" for the second, \"The Empty Hearse\" for the third and \"The Six Thatchers\" for the fourth. He also co-wrote \"Many Happy Returns,\" a mini-episode released in late December 2013 which acts as a prelude to the third series, with Steven Moffat; the episode \"The Sign of Three\" with Moffat and Steve Thompson; and \"The Abominable Bride\", a special episode released in early January 2016, with Moffat. Gatiss has written several non-fiction works, including a biography of the","title":"Mark Gatiss"},{"docid":"19539717","text":"and kill her faster, stronger nemesis in this episode. Hanh Nguyen of Indiewire also felt the Riverrun sequence ended in an anticlimactic fashion as well. No One (Game of Thrones) \"No One\" is the eighth episode of the sixth season of HBO's fantasy television series \"Game of Thrones\", and the 58th episode overall. It was written by series co-creators David Benioff and D. B. Weiss, and directed by Mark Mylod. Arya Stark fights for her life and chooses her destiny; Jaime Lannister returns Edmure Tully to Riverrun; Cersei Lannister is thwarted; Daenerys Targaryen returns to Meereen; and Sandor Clegane tracks","title":"No One (Game of Thrones)"},{"docid":"18376777","text":"Graham, who last worked together on the play \"Privacy\", which also premiered at the Donmar. The play featured an ensemble cast of around 40, including Catherine Tate, Mark Gatiss, Timothy West, Nina Sosanya and Bill Paterson. Judi Dench also starred alongside her real life daughter Finty Williams for the first time, playing a mother and daughter and marking her first performance at the theatre since 1976. A typical performance ran 90 minutes, with no interval. Describing the live broadcast, director Rourke said, \"This is a unique opportunity for the Donmar to make a small theatre feel very big\", whilst writer","title":"The Vote"},{"docid":"18938990","text":"Drama Series. <onlyinclude></onlyinclude> The recurring actors listed here are those who appeared in season 7. They are listed by the region in which they first appear. Series creators and executive producers David Benioff and D. B. Weiss serve as showrunners for the seventh season. The directors for the seventh season are Jeremy Podeswa (episodes 1 and 7), Mark Mylod (episodes 2 and 3), Matt Shakman (episodes 4 and 5) and Alan Taylor (episode 6). This marks Taylor's return to the series after an absence since the second season. Shakman is a first-time \"Game of Thrones\" director, with the rest each","title":"Game of Thrones (season 7)"},{"docid":"7958163","text":"in a distant galaxy, travels there and settles down to feed… and the Doctor and Ace watch with satisfaction as the star collapses into a black hole, trapping the Sentience forever. Ace now expects to be taken back to Crook Marsham, but the Doctor has another agenda for her, and instead he vanishes into the TARDIS corridors, refusing to acknowledge her pleas to be taken back. Nightshade (Gatiss novel) Nightshade is an original novel written by Mark Gatiss and based on the long-running British science fiction television series \"Doctor Who\". It features the Seventh Doctor and Ace. A prelude to","title":"Nightshade (Gatiss novel)"},{"docid":"12800970","text":"of the European locations. Each ten-episode season of \"Game of Thrones\" has four to six directors, who usually direct back-to-back episodes. Alan Taylor has directed seven episodes, the most episodes of the series. Alex Graves, David Nutter, Mark Mylod and Jeremy Podeswa have directed six each. Daniel Minahan directed five episodes, and Michelle MacLaren, Alik Sakharov, and Miguel Sapochnik directed four each. Brian Kirk directed three episodes during the first season, and Tim Van Patten directed the series' first two episodes. Neil Marshall directed two episodes, both with large battle scenes: \"Blackwater\" and \"The Watchers on the Wall\". Other directors","title":"Game of Thrones"},{"docid":"18637823","text":"gave him more agency. Both Busis and McNutt noted that the changes may make the story less cluttered, with Busis saying, \"combining Sansa and [the Arya impostor]'s storylines allow Benioff and Weiss to trim a good bit of fat from ASOIAF and give already-introduced characters more stuff to do.\" High Sparrow (Game of Thrones) \"High Sparrow\" is the third episode of the fifth season of HBO's fantasy television series \"Game of Thrones\", and the 43rd overall. The episode was written by series co-creators David Benioff and D. B. Weiss, and directed by Mark Mylod, his directorial debut for the series.","title":"High Sparrow (Game of Thrones)"},{"docid":"18637809","text":"High Sparrow (Game of Thrones) \"High Sparrow\" is the third episode of the fifth season of HBO's fantasy television series \"Game of Thrones\", and the 43rd overall. The episode was written by series co-creators David Benioff and D. B. Weiss, and directed by Mark Mylod, his directorial debut for the series. It aired on April 26, 2015. Prior to airing, this episode along with the other first four episodes of the season were leaked online. Tommen and Margaery are wed, and that night, they consummate their marriage. Margaery then manipulates Tommen into trying to persuade his mother, Cersei, to return","title":"High Sparrow (Game of Thrones)"},{"docid":"2745998","text":"on 6 November 2006. It transports the main character, Lucifer Box, from the Edwardian era in the first book to the roaring Twenties/Thirties. A third and final Lucifer Box novel, \"Black Butterfly\", was published on 3 November 2008 by Simon & Schuster. Gatiss is gay and was featured on \"The Independent on Sunday's\" Pink List of influential gay people in the UK in 2010 and 2011. He married actor Ian Hallard in 2008 in Middle Temple, in the City of London. Gatiss once built a Victorian laboratory in their north London home, as the fulfilment of another childhood dream. Mark","title":"Mark Gatiss"},{"docid":"4036194","text":"can play in multiplayer matches, with artificial intelligence being able to fill slots at the server host's choice. Tim Train, executive producer of \"Thrones and Patriots\", stated that various features were added to the game in an attempt to balance gameplay, including the addition of armed caravans and merchants. IGN claimed that \"Thrones and Patriots\" is \"a great game [which] gets better,\" in reference to its predecessor \"Rise of Nations\" and other critical reviews also praised many features of the game, though some noted deficiencies. Within \"Rise of Nations: Thrones and Patriots\" players control various units during battles, including land,","title":"Rise of Nations: Thrones and Patriots"},{"docid":"2268635","text":"\"The Shadow Heart\". Other writers for Big Finish include Rob Shearman and \"The League of Gentlemen's\" Mark Gatiss, who have also written for the 2005 relaunch of the \"Doctor Who\" television series. Shearman's 2005 TV episode \"Dalek\" has been acknowledged as being based upon his Big Finish storyline \"Jubilee\". Former adversaries of the Doctor who have reappeared in the audio plays include the Master, the Cybermen, the Daleks and Davros (both separately and together), Omega, the Nimon, the Ice Warriors, the Autons, the Zarbi and the Silurians. The Sea Devils made an appearance in the Bernice Summerfield play \"Bernice Summerfield","title":"Big Finish Productions"},{"docid":"12831956","text":"included Mark Gatiss, Julian Rhind-Tutt, Ian Hallard, Philip Jackson, Lee Ingleby, Jean Marsh, Samuel Barnett, Daniela Denby-Ashe, Anna Madeley, Andy Nyman and illusionist Derren Brown. The series was directed by Damon Thomas. Crooked House (TV series) Crooked House is a supernatural drama mini-series which aired on BBC Four in December 2008. The three-part series was broadcast on consecutive nights from 22 to 24 December 2008. It was written and co-produced by actor and writer Mark Gatiss, who found fame in the BBC series \"The League of Gentlemen\". The three linked episodes form an anthology story, influenced by the writings of","title":"Crooked House (TV series)"},{"docid":"17306917","text":"stated that the episode was \"well worth the [two-year-long hiatus]\" and praised it as a \"well-acted, well-produced, well-written, and extremely engrossing drama.\" David Mather, who runs fan site Sherlockology, told BBC Radio 5 Live's Victoria Derbyshire that he had been inundated with mixed responses from fans. The Empty Hearse \"The Empty Hearse\" is the first episode of the third series of the BBC television series \"Sherlock\". It was written by Mark Gatiss and stars Benedict Cumberbatch as Sherlock Holmes, Martin Freeman as Dr John Watson, and Mark Gatiss as Mycroft Holmes. It also marks the first appearance of Amanda Abbington","title":"The Empty Hearse"},{"docid":"19484588","text":"get started working on it, because it's such an epic sequence.\" \"The Door\" marks the final appearance of Kristian Nairn as Hodor, a role Nairn has played since the series pilot. Nairn, who was cast to play Hodor from previously knowing \"Game of Thrones\"' casting director from an audition he did for the film \"Hot Fuzz\", admitted in an interview that he was at first unaware of his impending death in the show. He stated, \"First I heard from friends, people who had read the script, some other cast members. I think I said laughingly, \"So did I survive?\" They","title":"The Door (Game of Thrones)"},{"docid":"12801012","text":"revenge fantasy about what happens when women who have been brutalized and raped gain power\"—namely, that their past leaves them too broken to do anything but commit brutal acts in their own turn, and that their personal liberation does not affect the social change needed to protect others from suffering. \"A Song of Ice and Fire\" and \"Game of Thrones\" have a broad, active international fan base. In 2012 \"Vulture.com\" ranked the series' fans as the most devoted in popular culture, more so than Lady Gaga's, Justin Bieber's, \"Harry Potter\"s or \"Star Wars\". Fans include political leaders such as former","title":"Game of Thrones"},{"docid":"15065658","text":"Backbone\", \"Pan's Labyrinth\", and \"Shivers\". The documentary was previewed at London's National Film Theatre on 28 October (followed by an on-stage discussion between Gatiss, Das and Rigby) and first broadcast two days later. A History of Horror A History of Horror (also known as \"A History of Horror with Mark Gatiss\") is a 2010 three-part documentary series made for the BBC by British writer and actor Mark Gatiss. It is a personal exploration of the history of horror film, inspired by Gatiss's lifelong enthusiasm for the genre. The documentary was directed by John Das (episodes one and three) and Rachel","title":"A History of Horror"},{"docid":"20886593","text":"able to alter the outcome of events that are canon in the \"Game of Thrones\" TV series. To cope with the issue, the game's lore states that all events were visions of the character Melisandre, through which the game creates a \"what if?\" scenario. \"Reigns: Game of Thrones\" was revealed by publisher Devolver Digital on 23 August 2018, through a trailer published on YouTube. Coinciding with the reveal, Devolver announced that game would be released on 18 October that year, for Android via Google Play, for iOS via the App Store, and for personal computers (Linux, macOS and Microsoft Windows)","title":"Reigns: Game of Thrones"},{"docid":"2745994","text":"Web of Caves\", \"The Kidnappers\" and \"The Pitch of Fear\" for the BBC's \"\"Doctor Who\" Night\" in 1999 with David Walliams. He penned 2013 docudrama \"An Adventure in Space and Time\", a drama depicting the origins of the series, to celebrate the show's fiftieth anniversary. It ended with a cameo by Gatiss's \"League of Gentleman\" castmate Reece Shearsmith, portraying Patrick Troughton, who played the Second Doctor. A \"Making Of\" feature about this programme, narrated by Gatiss, was made available on the BBC Red Button service, and also posted on the BBC's official YouTube channel. He has written for \"Doctor Who","title":"Mark Gatiss"},{"docid":"3955120","text":"a transfer to the Albery Theatre, London in February 2006. \"Blackbird\" subsequently won a best new play award. In 2010, she played the lead role of Kay in Mark Haddon's play Polar Bears at the Donmar Warehouse. May played Janet Stone in the 2011 noir thriller \"I, Anna\", alongside Gabriel Byrne, Charlotte Rampling, Eddie Marsan, and Honor Blackman. In 2015 she appeared in the Season 5 premiere of the HBO series \"Game of Thrones\". Jodhi May Jodhi Tania May (\"née\" Edwards; 8 May 1975) is an English stage, film, and television actress. She remains the youngest recipient of the Best","title":"Jodhi May"},{"docid":"15448603","text":"situation of the Doctor, who was typically a pacifist, being provoked enough to assemble an army. Moffat described the ending as \"game-changing cliffhanger\" and split the series in two because such a climax could not be done at the end of a series, as it would be \"too long before it came back\". The mid-series premiere, \"Let's Kill Hitler\", was intended to be the opposite of the \"grim and dark\" tone of the series premiere. Mark Gatiss wrote \"Night Terrors\" to be a scary episode, surprised that dolls had not been used in \"Doctor Who\" before. \"The Girl Who Waited\"","title":"Doctor Who (series 6)"},{"docid":"12801023","text":"of Thrones Ascent\" ties into the HBO series, making characters and settings available to players as they appear on television. Behaviour Interactive is developing a free-to-play strategy game based on the series for mobile devices. \"\", a spin-off of the \"Reigns\" strategy video game series, is in development by Nerial, published by Devolver Digital, and set to release in October 2018. HBO has licensed a variety of merchandise based on \"Game of Thrones\", including games, replica weapons and armor, jewelry, bobblehead dolls by Funko, beer by Ommegang and apparel. High-end merchandise includes a $10,500 Ulysse Nardin wristwatch and a $30,000","title":"Game of Thrones"},{"docid":"2745983","text":"December 2013, a version of the ghost story \"The Tractate Middoth\" by M. R. James and adapted by Gatiss was broadcast on BBC2 as part of the long-running \"A Ghost Story for Christmas\" series. It starred Sacha Dhawan, John Castle, Louise Jameson, Una Stubbs, David Ryall, Eleanor Bron, Nick Burns and Roy Barraclough. It was followed on 25 December 2013 by a screening on BBC2 of a new documentary by Gatiss titled \"M. R. James: Ghost Writer\". The programme saw Gatiss explore the work of James and look at how his work still inspires contemporary horror today. He appeared in","title":"Mark Gatiss"},{"docid":"18678026","text":"appearance at the Wrexham Comic Con event in November 2015. Ross O'Hennessy Ross O'Hennessy (born 1974) is a Welsh actor. He is best known for his role of Lord of Bones in Game of Thrones\", \"Da Vinci's Demons\", The Musketeers, and playing the blood thirsty Role of Sir Locke in Kurt Sutter's new international television series \"The Bastard Executioner\". In 2015, he replaced Edward Dogliani as Lord of Bones in Season 5 of the HBO series \"Game of Thrones\". Since appearing in \"Game of Thrones\" Ross O'Hennessy has been cast to play the vicious character of Carnage Cliff in the","title":"Ross O'Hennessy"},{"docid":"18678021","text":"Ross O'Hennessy Ross O'Hennessy (born 1974) is a Welsh actor. He is best known for his role of Lord of Bones in Game of Thrones\", \"Da Vinci's Demons\", The Musketeers, and playing the blood thirsty Role of Sir Locke in Kurt Sutter's new international television series \"The Bastard Executioner\". In 2015, he replaced Edward Dogliani as Lord of Bones in Season 5 of the HBO series \"Game of Thrones\". Since appearing in \"Game of Thrones\" Ross O'Hennessy has been cast to play the vicious character of Carnage Cliff in the feature film adaption of the comic book Accident Man. O'Hennessy","title":"Ross O'Hennessy"},{"docid":"2745987","text":"bizarrely dressed biker member of the \"Lappish Mafia.\" In this his voice is used along with the other actors of \"League of Gentlemen\" such as Steve Pemberton and Reece Shearsmith. The dialogue was written by Simon Pegg and other actors included Pegg himself, Woody Harrelson and David Tennant, who worked with Gatiss on \"Doctor Who\". He appeared in the stage adaptation of Pedro Almodóvar's \"All About My Mother\" at the Old Vic in London from 25 August-24 November 2007. He won much critical acclaim for his portrayal of the transgender character Agrado. He was scheduled to perform in \"Darker Shores\"","title":"Mark Gatiss"},{"docid":"9779248","text":"and Mark Gatiss and the film, \"Tamara Drewe\". In 2009, he appeared in Channel 4's weekly TNT Show writing and presenting Dictionary Corner. For television he has appeared in BBC’s \"Sensitive Skin\", \"Fear of Fanny\", the Frankie Howerd biopic \"Rather You Than Me\" and the series \"The Cut\" as well as Channel 4’s \"Law of the Playground\". In 2008, he made his own documentary for E4 about identity entitled \"Who is Tom Allen?\". In August 2015 and March 2016 he appeared on \"8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown\" as a Dictionary Corner guest. In October 2016, he appeared as","title":"Tom Allen (comedian)"},{"docid":"2745986","text":"roles in \"Birthday Girl\" (2001), \"Bright Young Things\" (2003), \"Match Point\" (2005) and \"Starter for 10\" (2006). \"The League of Gentlemen's Apocalypse\", a film based on the television series, co-written by and starring Gatiss, was released in June 2005. He also plays the recurring character of Gold in the audio revival of \"Sapphire and Steel\" produced by Big Finish Productions. Gatiss also appeared in Edgar Wright's fake trailer for Grindhouse, \"Don't\", a homage to '70s Hammer Horrors. In the 2008 English language re-release of the cult 2006 Norwegian animated film \"Free Jimmy\", Gatiss voiced the character of \"Jakki,\" a heavy-set,","title":"Mark Gatiss"},{"docid":"2745981","text":"the memoir by polar explorer Apsley Cherry-Garrard. Gatiss has also made three credited appearances in \"Doctor Who\". In 2007, he played Professor Lazarus in \"The Lazarus Experiment\". In 2011, he returned in the Series 6 episode \"The Wedding of River Song\" as a character known as Gantok, and in the 2017 Christmas special \"Twice Upon A Time\" as \"The Captain\". Also in 2007, he appeared as Robert Louis Stevenson in \"Jekyll\", a BBC One serial by his fellow \"Doctor Who\" scriptwriter Steven Moffat. In 2008, he appeared in \"Clone\" as Colonel Black. In 2010, he portrayed Malcolm McLaren in the","title":"Mark Gatiss"},{"docid":"20276399","text":"its predecessor, combines a simple presentation with an extremely wide array of strategic options, including over 75 nations, 2000 units, 600 spells and 300 magic items. Turns are resolved simultaneously, with players planning battles rather than directly controlling them. The game includes scenarios and randomized play, but does not include a campaign. \"Dominions 4\" is mainly designed for multiplayer, including PBEM, hotseat and TCP/IP. AI opponents are available for single-player. The game is very suitable for roleplay, both in singleplayer and multiplayer. Compared to the previous game several additions and changes have been made, the most prominent being the addition","title":"Dominions 4: Thrones of Ascension"},{"docid":"3300332","text":"writing talent. Notable was Paul Cornell who wrote five of the novels, including the single most popular one (according to the Doctor Who Magazine poll), \"Human Nature\". Cornell went on to write for the 2005 revival of the television series: \"Father's Day\" and \"Human Nature\"/\"The Family of Blood\", the latter a two-part adaptation of the 38th New Adventure. Others who later worked on the revived television series include Mark Gatiss, Gareth Roberts, Matt Jones, Simon Winstone and Gary Russell. Even Russell T Davies contributed to the range with his novel \"Damaged Goods\". Gatiss and Roberts both did their first ever","title":"Virgin New Adventures"},{"docid":"3347257","text":"take a card that is in play, and place it in the \"discard pile\". Generally, whenever an effect targets a card to be killed or discarded, players are given a chance to \"Save\" the card from the effect, either by discarding a duplicate of the targeted card or by using another game effect. If a card is saved, it is not removed from play, and it is not considered killed or discarded. Fantasy Flight Games has an official group of volunteers that organize sanctioned tournaments for A Game of Thrones. The Night's Watch are named after the guardians of The","title":"A Game of Thrones (card game)"},{"docid":"14254965","text":"final episode explained how the two had known each other for a while. Gatiss included one of Churchill's favourite expressions \"Keep buggering on\" (abbreviated KBO) into the script, which he was \"delighted\" to do. Ian McNeice, who portrayed Churchill, previously played the villain Zeus in the Eighth Doctor Big Finish audio play \"Immortal Beloved\" in 2007. Gatiss wrote in the script for the Daleks' redesign to be \"big buggers...bigger than we've seen them before\". The eyestalk was designed to be level with Smith's eyeline. Moffat and Gatiss wanted the new Daleks to be very colourful, similar to the Daleks of","title":"Victory of the Daleks"},{"docid":"19484591","text":"actress Lady Crane, among others. The Icelandic band Of Monsters and Men appeared in this episode in a cameo as stage musicians for the stage play. Israeli actress Ania Bukstein was also introduced in the series as the High Priestess Kinvara, who is brought to Meereen to spread propaganda about Daenerys Targaryen's supposed success at eliminating the problem with the Sons of the Harpy. In an interview with Bukstein she said, \"Yes, it's very exciting, but let's calm down. It's not like I'm the new Khaleesi. \"Game of Thrones\" came after a ton of hard work. I filmed a lot","title":"The Door (Game of Thrones)"},{"docid":"3347259","text":"Standard format. In \"Limited\" format, players instead build their decks at the tournament, using provided draft packs (in \"Limited - Draft\") or starter decks (in \"Limited - Sealed Deck\") and booster packs. Aside from the restrictions on usable card pool, FFG places no limits on how Night's Watch volunteers organize the tournaments. Thrones-Tournaments.com tries to provide a central list of all international and local store tournaments, to help gamers find play to compete in. The A Game of Thrones World Championships were held yearly at Gen Con Indy until 2012, when they moved to Fantasy Flight's Event Centre in Minneapolis,","title":"A Game of Thrones (card game)"},{"docid":"6592940","text":"Mark Gatiss, who also wrote the Ninth Doctor episode \"The Unquiet Dead\" as well as several spin-off audios and novels. The title of the episode was suggested by writer Gareth Roberts, who recalled the term being used by his father to refer to television. The episode is set in the Muswell Hill area of London, and second-unit photography was conducted around Alexandra Palace. The exterior of Magpie's shop was filmed on Blenheim Road in Cardiff. The game associated with this episode, the \"Magpie Online Archive\", is a \"file-sharing application\" in which the player must search through various clips of BBC","title":"The Idiot's Lantern"},{"docid":"3515667","text":"British science-fiction programmes—saying that it had stolen his ideas. An article for \"The Daily Telegraph\" in 2005 described \"Doctor Who\" as the \"spiritual successor\" to the \"Quatermass\" serials, and Mark Gatiss, a scriptwriter for \"Doctor Who\", wrote of his admiration of Kneale in an article for \"The Guardian\" in 2006. \"Kneale wrote that [1953] was 'an over-confident year' and he piloted his hugely influential tale like a rocket into the drab schedules of Austerity Britain… What sci-fi piece of the past 50 years doesn't owe Kneale a huge debt?\" In 2007, Gatiss appeared as the character Professor Lazarus in the","title":"The Quatermass Experiment"},{"docid":"20235346","text":"between 2006 and 2017, and Mark Gatiss, also writer of nine episodes between 2005 and 2017, marking his fourth acting appearance in the series, playing a character credited as The Captain. In an interview following the episode's broadcast, Gatiss said he cried at the thought of playing the Brigadier's grandfather when he finished reading the script. However, the Haisman Literary Estate asserted their control of the backstory of the Brigadier, stating that Archibald was actually the Brigadier's great-uncle who appeared in \"Night of the Intelligence\". They later compromised in \"What's Past is Prologue\" by implying that Archibald may secretly be","title":"Twice Upon a Time (Doctor Who)"},{"docid":"15695007","text":"episode, \"Victory of the Daleks\". Episode writer Mark Gatiss told \"Radio Times\" that he had always been scared of dolls, and was surprised that \"Doctor Who\" had never used them before. He was especially interested in peg dolls, which he said were \"the stuff of proper nightmares\". Gatiss had previously worked with guest actor Daniel Mays in the BBC serial \"Funland\" and purposely inserted the line \"Maybe later\" into the script as it had been \"a bit of a catchphrase\" for the two on \"Funland\". However, Mays did not notice the reference. The episode was originally given the title of","title":"Night Terrors (Doctor Who)"},{"docid":"3661163","text":"Bletchley Circle\" in 2012 and 2014. Stirling appeared in a 2013 episode of \"Doctor Who\" titled \"The Crimson Horror\" alongside her mother. The episode had been specially written for Stirling and her mother by Mark Gatiss (marking the very first appearance of the two actresses together professionally) and was aired 4 May 2013 as part of Series 7. In 2014, Stirling portrayed Kate Wilkinson in the Cold War spy thriller television series \"The Game\", and appeared in the BBC Four comedy drama \"Detectorists\" as Becky, initially girlfriend, then wife, of Andy (played by Mackenzie Crook). Stirling appeared as a guest","title":"Rachael Stirling"},{"docid":"3111363","text":"contemporary of Robert Shearman. From 1989 to 1992, he studied at the University of Bristol, where he resided at Manor Hall and graduated with Bachelor of Arts (Drama). During university holidays in 1990, Walliams performed with the National Youth Theatre, where he met future comedy partner and friend Matt Lucas. He changed his stage name to David Walliams when he joined college Equity, as there was already a member named David Williams. Walliams performed in the Big Finish Productions \"Doctor Who\" audio play \"Phantasmagoria\", written by Mark Gatiss in 1999. From 2003 to 2005, Walliams co-wrote and co-starred in three","title":"David Walliams"},{"docid":"12828416","text":"originally not going to put a confrontation between Moriarty and Holmes into these three episodes, but realised that they \"just had to do a confrontation scene. We had to do a version of the scene in 'The Final Problem' in which the two archenemies meet each other.\" The remainder of the regular cast includes Una Stubbs (who has known Cumberbatch since he was four years old, as she had worked with his mother Wanda Ventham) as Mrs Hudson and co-creator Mark Gatiss as Mycroft Holmes. Vinette Robinson, Jonathan Aris and Louise Brealey play the recurring roles of Sergeant Sally Donovan,","title":"Sherlock (TV series)"},{"docid":"9466236","text":"Hopkirk as the inspiration behind his all-white outfit in the pilot episode of \"Vic Reeves Big Night Out\". Reeves, Mortimer and Higson’s connections helped to draw in many cameos and guest stars from the comedy world and beyond, to play bit parts or larger roles in individual episodes. Guest stars include Hugh Laurie, Derek Jacobi, Simon Pegg, Mark Gatiss, Charles Dance, Matt Lucas, David Walliams, Reece Shearsmith, and Martin Clunes. Higson himself cameos in every episode, twice as characters who appear in more than one: these were Gomez the Limbo barman in \"A Blast from the Past\" and \"Marshall and","title":"Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased) (2000 TV series)"},{"docid":"1418093","text":"former landlord, who would phone their flat and insist on speaking only to Steve. Gatiss has said in interview that the local shop was inspired by a shop in the village of Rottingdean and that he was influenced growing up around the former Winterton Hospital asylum near Sedgefield. The majority of the inhabitants of the village — male and female — are played by Reece Shearsmith, Steve Pemberton, and Mark Gatiss, and the script was written by these three, along with Jeremy Dyson. Dyson, not an actor like the others, appears only in cameo roles. As there are usually only","title":"The League of Gentlemen"},{"docid":"2745992","text":"once commenting that he would not authorise their re-release, as he regarded them as a learning exercise. His other early contributions to the \"Doctor Who\" franchise included four novels, two audio plays for BBV and two audio plays for Big Finish Productions. Gatiss has written nine episodes for the 2005 revival of the show. His first, \"The Unquiet Dead,\" was the third episode of the revived series in 2005; the second, \"The Idiot's Lantern,\" aired the following year in the second series. Although he acted in the third series and proposed an ultimately unproduced episode for the fourth, involving Nazis","title":"Mark Gatiss"},{"docid":"12828428","text":"One and BBC HD on 25 July 2010. The second episode, \"The Blind Banker\", was first broadcast on 1 August 2010. Written by Stephen Thompson and directed by Euros Lyn, the episode depicts Holmes being hired by an old university acquaintance to investigate a mysterious break-in at a bank in the City of London. The first series concluded with \"The Great Game\", first broadcast on 8 August 2010. The episode introduces the character of archenemy James Moriarty (played by Andrew Scott) to the series, who sets Holmes deadlines to solve a series of apparently unrelated cases. Written by Mark Gatiss","title":"Sherlock (TV series)"},{"docid":"14982036","text":"Thomas and Gatiss (after \"The Worst Journey In The World\" and \"Crooked House\"), and the first film to be produced by their production company Can Do Productions. It is July 1969 as 90-year-old Julius Bedford (Rory Kinnear) tells young Jim (Alex Riddell) the story of two men who made the first journey to the Moon in 1909. He relates that when he was a young man, he met Professor Arthur Cavor (Mark Gatiss) at Apuldram. Cavor had invented \"Cavorite\", a substance that blocked the force of gravity. Bedford encouraged Cavor to think of the profits his invention might bring, and","title":"The First Men in the Moon (2010 film)"},{"docid":"2745978","text":"and his colleagues a British Academy Television Award, a Royal Television Society Award and the prestigious Golden Rose of Montreux. In 2005, the film \"The League of Gentlemen's Apocalypse\" was released, to generally positive reviews. Shearsmith and Pemberton reunited in 2009 to create a similarly dark BBC sitcom, \"Psychoville\", which featured an episode guest-starring Gatiss. The three reunited again in 2012 to film a series of sketches for the fourth series of CBBC show \"Horrible Histories\". Outside the League, Gatiss' television work has included writing for the 2001 revival of \"Randall & Hopkirk\" and script editing the popular sketch show","title":"Mark Gatiss"},{"docid":"12831953","text":"Crooked House (TV series) Crooked House is a supernatural drama mini-series which aired on BBC Four in December 2008. The three-part series was broadcast on consecutive nights from 22 to 24 December 2008. It was written and co-produced by actor and writer Mark Gatiss, who found fame in the BBC series \"The League of Gentlemen\". The three linked episodes form an anthology story, influenced by the writings of M. R. James and Amicus horror movies, and a Māori death-mask belonging to Gatiss. They concern the ghostly secrets of fictional Geap Manor, a recently demolished Tudor mansion. The first story, \"The","title":"Crooked House (TV series)"},{"docid":"19431644","text":"After the Thrones After the Thrones is an American live television aftershow that premiered on April 25, 2016, and ended on June 28, 2016. It was hosted by Andy Greenwald and Chris Ryan who discussed episodes of the HBO television series \"Game of Thrones\". The talk show is executive produced by Bill Simmons and Eric Weinberger. Greenwald and Ryan previously hosted a podcast version of the show titled \"Watch the Thrones\" on Simmons' Grantland website. A similar talk show called \"Thronecast\" airs on British channel Sky Atlantic, which also discusses episodes of \"Game of Thrones\". The talk show was made","title":"After the Thrones"},{"docid":"3183151","text":"smirking government ministers and power-crazed army officers to stop his peaceful rocket research group being turned into a Star Wars vehicle to put missiles on the moon. They won.\" In a 2006 \"Guardian\" article Mark Gatiss wrote \"What sci-fi piece of the past 50 years doesn't owe Kneale a huge debt? ... The 'ancient invasion' of \"Quatermass and the Pit\" cast a huge shadow ... its brilliant blending of superstition, witchcraft and ghosts into the story of a five-million-year-old Martian invasion is copper-bottomed genius.\" Gatiss was a scriptwriter for \"Doctor Who\", a programme that had been particularly strongly influenced by","title":"Quatermass and the Pit"},{"docid":"16648928","text":"although group play will be encouraged. Players will be able to customize their characters by changing features such as hair and clothing. \"Game of Thrones: Seven Kingdoms\" was announced in February 2012, with the first look being unveiled at the Game Developers Conference in March 2012. The first gameplay footage was shown in a trailer released on July 12, 2012. The game is under development by German videogame developer Bigpoint, and Norwegian developer Artplant. The studios have previously worked together on Battlestar Galactica Online, another browser based multiplayer game. The game is being made in collaboration with HBO. Everything put","title":"Game of Thrones: Seven Kingdoms"},{"docid":"13874054","text":"episode, Moffat intended to introduce the Eleventh Doctor and establish his new identity; the second was intended to demonstrate the Doctor's need for a companion and Amy's importance to him. For the third episode, he asked Mark Gatiss to write an episode about \"Churchill versus the Daleks\". Moffat wanted to incorporate the popular Daleks into the new series, and considered redesigning them. Gatiss, Moffat and the production team worked together to create large, more-colourful Daleks, similar to those in the 1960s films. For the fourth and fifth episodes, Moffat planned a two-part sequel to his 2007 \"Blink\" with the Weeping","title":"Doctor Who (series 5)"},{"docid":"2745985","text":"\"Nebulous\" and \"The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes\" story \"The Shameful Betrayal of Miss Emily Smith\". In 2009, he was The Man in Black when BBC Radio 7 revived the character (originally played by Valentine Dyall and Edward de Souza) to introduce a series of five creepy audio dramas. He is also involved with theatre, having penned the play \"The Teen People\" in the early 1990s, and appeared in a successful run of the play \"'Art'\" in 2003 at the Whitehall Theatre in London. In film, he has starred in \"Sex Lives of the Potato Men\" (2004) and had minor","title":"Mark Gatiss"},{"docid":"9388310","text":"November 2018, with Mark Gatiss playing the king. It follows Scarborough's role as Fortnum in the 1994 film version of the play. In 1993, he was nominated for the Ian Charleson Award and won the \"Manchester Evening News\" Award for his performance in \"The Comedy of Errors\" at the Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester. In March 2011 he won a Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role in a revival of the play \"After the Dance\" by Terence Rattigan. Adrian Scarborough Adrian Philip Scarborough (born 10 May 1968) is an English actor, most widely known for film roles","title":"Adrian Scarborough"},{"docid":"3347245","text":"power tokens between their House card and characters in play to win A Game of Thrones. Numerous cards in the game can change the amount a player or his opponent are required to earn in order to win. Generally, power tokens are earned by winning challenges against an opponent, but some cards allow a player to directly claim power for his House card or characters in other ways. At the beginning of the game, each player shuffles their \"draw\" deck, and draws the top 7 cards, with an option for a \"mulligan\" given to each player to shuffle and draw","title":"A Game of Thrones (card game)"},{"docid":"15822103","text":"alongside Judi Dench, Mark Gatiss, Catherine Tate. The play, directed by Josie Rourke, run from 24 April 2015 to 7 May 2015. On 7 May the play was broadcast live on More4 from the Donmar stage. Madalena made her solo concert debut in London 'Don't Cry For Me' on 25 July 2015, at St. James Studio, with Alfonso Casado as MD, and with Sophie Evans, Ceilli O’Connor, Simon Bailey, Jade Anouka and Sam Cassidy as guest artists. In October 2015 Madalena Alberto joined the cast of Andrew Lloyd Webber's CATS at the London Palladium, performing the role of Grizabella. CATS","title":"Madalena Alberto"},{"docid":"20240394","text":"empowerment and true social change, \"Game of Thrones\" has been it\". The Queen's Justice \"The Queen's Justice\" is the third episode of the seventh season of HBO's fantasy television series \"Game of Thrones\", and the 63rd overall. The episode was written by series co-creators David Benioff and D. B. Weiss, and directed by Mark Mylod. At Dragonstone, Jon Snow and Davos Seaworth meet with Daenerys Targaryen, whom Jon asks for aid in defeating the White Walkers, but Daenerys iterates her desire to take the Iron Throne instead. In King's Landing, Euron Greyjoy returns bearing gifts to Cersei Lannister, in the","title":"The Queen's Justice"},{"docid":"19539697","text":"Love stated that he had received an email from Benioff offering him a part in the show, saying \"I broached the subject by sending them an email back saying 'Listen I don't know what your plans are for me but it would really mean a lot to me if I could have one of those trademark \"Game of Thrones\" gruesome death scenes, and they wrote back saying 'Actually Steve, that was exactly what we had in mind for you.'\" \"No One\" was directed by Mark Mylod. Mylod previously directed the fifth season episodes \"High Sparrow\" and \"Sons of the Harpy\".","title":"No One (Game of Thrones)"},{"docid":"15562733","text":"while trying to protect his family from their rivals the Lannisters. He uncovers the dark secrets about the Lannisters that his predecessor died trying to expose. Meanwhile, in Essos, the exiled Viserys Targaryen, son of the former king, believes he still has the rightful claim to the throne. \"Game of Thrones\" features a large ensemble cast, including Sean Bean, Mark Addy, Peter Dinklage, Lena Headey, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Michelle Fairley and Iain Glen. Newer actors were cast as the younger generation of characters, such as Kit Harington, Sophie Turner and Maisie Williams. Critics praised the show's production values and cast, with","title":"Game of Thrones (season 1)"},{"docid":"3847104","text":"action moved throughout the large space. The production was well received by critics. In December 2013, Donmar Warehouse opened their new production. It was directed by Josie Rourke, starring Tom Hiddleston in the title role, along with Mark Gatiss, Deborah Findlay, Hadley Fraser, and Birgitte Hjort Sørensen. The production received very strong reviews. Michael Billington with \"The Guardian\" wrote \"A fast, witty, intelligent production that, in Tom Hiddleston, boasts a fine Coriolanus.\" He also credited Mark Gatiss as excellent as Menenius, the \"humorous patrician\". Writer for \"Variety\", David Benedict wrote that Deborah Findlay in her commanding maternal pride, held beautifully","title":"Coriolanus"},{"docid":"17306900","text":"The Empty Hearse \"The Empty Hearse\" is the first episode of the third series of the BBC television series \"Sherlock\". It was written by Mark Gatiss and stars Benedict Cumberbatch as Sherlock Holmes, Martin Freeman as Dr John Watson, and Mark Gatiss as Mycroft Holmes. It also marks the first appearance of Amanda Abbington as Mary Morstan and Lars Mikkelsen as Charles Augustus Magnussen. Inspired by \"The Adventure of the Empty House\" and \"The Lost Special\" by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the episode follows Sherlock Holmes' return to London and reunion with John Watson, along with an underground terrorist network.","title":"The Empty Hearse"},{"docid":"15864626","text":"\"Rondo Haxton\", a homage to the American horror actor Rondo Hatton on whom the character's look was based; Gatiss underwent prosthetics to play the part. Gatiss, who has written for \"Doctor Who\", also played Professor Richard Lazarus in \"The Lazarus Experiment\" (2007) and provided the voice of Danny Boy in \"Victory of the Daleks\". The cast found working with the eye patches strange as they had to act with one eye; Alex Kingston remarked that it made her \"slightly dizzy\". Actor Karen Gillan was allowed to fire a specially-made machine gun used for films. Churchill's Buckingham Senate was filmed in","title":"The Wedding of River Song"},{"docid":"12828413","text":"developed the way in which Cumberbatch played Holmes. The theme of friendship appealed to both Gatiss and Moffat. Gatiss asserted the importance of achieving the correct tone for the character. \"Watson is not an idiot, although it's true that Conan Doyle always took the piss out of him,\" said Gatiss. \"But only an idiot would surround himself with idiots.\" Moffat said that Freeman is \"the sort of opposite of Benedict in everything except the amount of talent... Martin finds a sort of poetry in the ordinary man. I love the fastidious realism of everything he does.\" Freeman describes his character","title":"Sherlock (TV series)"},{"docid":"12801027","text":"of Thrones\" successor series. All of the writers were to be working individually with George R. R. Martin, who also co-wrote two of the scripts. In September 2017, it was announced that \"Game of Thrones\" writer Bryan Cogman was developing the fifth prequel series. D. B. Weiss and David Benioff said that they would not be involved with any of the projects, and want to enjoy the successor series as fans. Martin said that all the concepts under discussion were prequels, though he believes the term \"successor show\" applies better to these projects, as they are not \"Game of Thrones\"","title":"Game of Thrones"},{"docid":"19233183","text":"Brenock O'Connor Brenock Grant O'Connor (born 9 April 2000) is an English actor and singer best known for his role as Olly in the HBO fantasy TV series \"Game of Thrones\". O'Connor went to Chatsmore Catholic High School in Goring, and attended The Theatre Workshop Stage School in Brighton. He started performing on stage at the age of six in the Hammond Pantomimes at the Pavilion Theatre in Worthing, and won a theatre scholarship while attending. Brenock O'Connor plays Olly in the HBO fantasy television series \"Game of Thrones\", a character introduced in the show, but does not make an","title":"Brenock O'Connor"},{"docid":"15065652","text":"A History of Horror A History of Horror (also known as \"A History of Horror with Mark Gatiss\") is a 2010 three-part documentary series made for the BBC by British writer and actor Mark Gatiss. It is a personal exploration of the history of horror film, inspired by Gatiss's lifelong enthusiasm for the genre. The documentary was directed by John Das (episodes one and three) and Rachel Jardine (episode two); series consultant was actor and film historian Jonathan Rigby. The series was initially broadcast in the United Kingdom on BBC Four from 11 to 25 October 2010. Each of the","title":"A History of Horror"},{"docid":"20886589","text":"Reigns: Game of Thrones Reigns: Game of Thrones is a strategy video game developed by Nerial in partnership with HBO and published by Devolver Digital. As the third entry in and a spin-off from the \"Reigns\" series, after \"Reigns\" (2016) and \"\" (2017), the game is based on characters from the \"Game of Thrones\" franchise. \"Reigns: Game of Thrones\" was released on 18 October 2018 for Android, iOS, Linux, macOS and Microsoft Windows. \"Reigns: Game of Thrones\" plays similarly to its predecessors. Described as a \"swipe 'em up\", the game allows the player to be one of the principals from","title":"Reigns: Game of Thrones"},{"docid":"8115017","text":"mother, Trisha. Sosanya played the character Alibe Silver in \"Treasure Island\" (2012). She has played a main character, Kate McKenzie, in series one to three of the BBC original drama \"Last Tango in Halifax\" during 2012–2015, and a main character, Lucy Freeman, in the TV series \"W1A\" in 2014. In 2015, she starred with Catherine Tate and Mark Gatiss in a new play, \"The Vote\", in the run-up to the UK 2015 General Election. In 2016, she started in the play \"Young Chekhov\" trilogy and as DCI Laura Porter in the ITV series \"Marcella\". In 2014 she appeared in the","title":"Nina Sosanya"}],"string":"[\n {\n \"docid\": \"2745995\",\n \"text\": \"Magazine\\\", including a column written under the pseudonym \\\"Sam Kisgart,\\\" which he was originally credited as in the \\\"Doctor Who Unbound\\\" audio play \\\"Sympathy for the Devil\\\" for his role as the Master. \\\"Sam Kisgart\\\" is an anagram of \\\"Mark Gatiss\\\", and is also the name under which he was credited for his cameo in \\\"Psychoville\\\". With Steven Moffat, whom Gatiss worked with on \\\"Doctor Who\\\" and \\\"Jekyll\\\", he also co-created and co-produced \\\"Sherlock\\\", a modernised adaptation of the Sherlock Holmes stories, in which Gatiss plays the role of Sherlock's brother Mycroft. Gatiss has influence on all episodes as producer\",\n \"title\": \"Mark Gatiss\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"2745990\",\n \"text\": \"his role on the play, Gatiss received a Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role nomination. In May 2017, Gatiss began a recurring role on \\\"The Secret History Of Hollywood\\\", a series of podcast biopics on Golden Age-era Hollywood. Its 11-part series, 'Shadows' tells the story of Val Lewton's life and career, with Gatiss providing the introductions for each episode. In November 2018, Gatiss will appear as the lead in a revival of The Madness of George III at Nottingham Playhouse. Gatiss had a childhood interest in BBC science-fiction show \\\"Doctor Who\\\" and devoted much of his\",\n \"title\": \"Mark Gatiss\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"1602932\",\n \"text\": \"and Jenna-Louise Coleman. The episode had been specially written for her and her daughter by Mark Gatiss and aired as part of series 7. It was not the first time mother and daughter had appeared in the same production – that was in the 2000 NBC film \\\"In the Beginning\\\" – but the first time she had worked \\\"with\\\" her daughter and also the first time in her career her roots were accessed to find a Doncaster, Yorkshire, accent. The same year, Rigg secured a recurring role in the third season of the HBO series \\\"Game of Thrones\\\", portraying Lady\",\n \"title\": \"Diana Rigg\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"16639028\",\n \"text\": \"trio's point of view himself, but he realised he would not be able to and called his \\\"old friend\\\" Mark Gatiss. The episode was specially written for mother and daughter Diana Rigg and Rachael Stirling. It was the first time the two had worked together on screen. Gatiss had worked on a play with Stirling, who mentioned that she and Rigg had never appeared in something together, and Gatiss offered to \\\"tailor\\\" them into his \\\"Doctor Who\\\" episode, for which he had devised the basic premise. Stirling said that Gatiss had written \\\"an on-screen relationship between Ma and I that\",\n \"title\": \"The Crimson Horror\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"1369340\",\n \"text\": \"marked him, the Master forgives the Doctor for this, understanding that the adult cannot be blamed for the actions of the child that did not foresee the consequences of his actions, but the end of the play implies that the Master will once again become Death's servant. An out-of-continuity Master is heard in the Big Finish audio play \\\"Sympathy for the Devil\\\", voiced by Mark Gatiss. In this alternate version of events, the Third Doctor — now voiced by David Warner — does not arrive for his exile on Earth until 1997 and the Master has been trapped on the\",\n \"title\": \"The Master (Doctor Who)\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"4756017\",\n \"text\": \"Phantasmagoria (audio drama) Phantasmagoria is a Big Finish Productions audio drama based on the long-running British science fiction television series \\\"Doctor Who\\\". The story was written by Mark Gatiss and stars Peter Davison and Mark Strickson. It was recorded between 26–27 June 1999. \\\"Phantasmagoria\\\" was considered a more \\\"assured and confident\\\" production than director, Nicholas Briggs', previous works. Gatiss' acting, who plays Jasper Jeake, was considered especially good in the audio play. The Fifth Doctor and Turlough investigate mysterious goings-on at the Diabola Club in London, 1702, where patrons are disappearing after losing at cards to the mysterious Sir Nikolas\",\n \"title\": \"Phantasmagoria (audio drama)\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"12828432\",\n \"text\": \"who also trades in classified information extracted from her rich and powerful clients. Mark Gatiss wrote \\\"The Hounds of Baskerville\\\", which investigates the strange activities at a military base. Aware that \\\"The Hound of the Baskervilles\\\", first published in 1902, was one of the most famous of Conan Doyle's original stories, Gatiss felt a greater responsibility to include familiar elements of the story than he does when adapting the lesser-known stories. Russell Tovey appeared as Henry Knight, a man whose father was ripped apart by a gigantic hound on Dartmoor 20 years earlier. Directed by McGuigan, the episode was first\",\n \"title\": \"Sherlock (TV series)\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"1462681\",\n \"text\": \"fourteen short stories for the series, including \\\"The ABC Murders\\\" and \\\"The Murder of Roger Ackroyd\\\", which received mixed reviews from critics. Anthony Horowitz was another prolific writer for the series, adapting three novels and nine short stories, while Nick Dear adapted six novels. Comedian and novelist Mark Gatiss has written three episodes and also guest-starred in the series, as have Peter Flannery and Kevin Elyot. Ian Hallard, who co-wrote the screenplay for \\\"The Big Four\\\" with his partner Mark Gatiss, appears in the episode and also \\\"Hallowe'en Party\\\", which was scripted by Mark Gatiss alone. Florin Court in Charterhouse\",\n \"title\": \"Agatha Christie's Poirot\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"12828453\",\n \"text\": \"and several special features. \\\"A Study in Pink\\\" featured audio commentaries by Steven Moffat, Mark Gatiss and Sue Vertue, while Benedict Cumberbatch, Martin Freeman and Mark Gatiss comment on \\\"The Great Game\\\". The release included the pilot episode, a 60-minute version of \\\"A Study in Pink\\\" directed by Coky Giedroyc. Critic Mark Lawson called the decision to include the pilot \\\"commendable and brave\\\". The British Board of Film Classification rated the pilot and the three episodes as a 12 certificate for video and online exhibition. The release also contained a 32-minute documentary about the production called \\\"Unlocking Sherlock\\\". \\\"Unlocking Sherlock\\\"\",\n \"title\": \"Sherlock (TV series)\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"19539676\",\n \"text\": \"No One (Game of Thrones) \\\"No One\\\" is the eighth episode of the sixth season of HBO's fantasy television series \\\"Game of Thrones\\\", and the 58th episode overall. It was written by series co-creators David Benioff and D. B. Weiss, and directed by Mark Mylod. Arya Stark fights for her life and chooses her destiny; Jaime Lannister returns Edmure Tully to Riverrun; Cersei Lannister is thwarted; Daenerys Targaryen returns to Meereen; and Sandor Clegane tracks down the Brotherhood Without Banners. \\\"No One\\\" received mostly positive reviews from critics, who listed the conclusion of Arya's story with the Faceless Men, the\",\n \"title\": \"No One (Game of Thrones)\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"1418094\",\n \"text\": \"three actors on screen at any one time, the different characters mostly play out their own stories in several serialised sketches, rarely crossing into each other's storylines. Only rarely do actors \\\"meet themselves\\\". Exceptions include Papa Lazarou facing the Reverend Bernice in the Christmas Special (both Reece Shearsmith), Les McQueen buying a magazine from Pop's son (both Mark Gatiss), and Alvin Steele buying food from Iris at a supermarket checkout in Series 2 (again, both Mark Gatiss). The idea is taken further in \\\"The League of Gentlemen's Apocalypse\\\", when the characters meet the actors (especially when Herr Lipp meets his\",\n \"title\": \"The League of Gentlemen\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"2745989\",\n \"text\": \"Science of Christmas\\\", alongside Brian Cox, Robin Ince and Richard Dawkins. In January 2012, he took the role of Brazen in \\\"The Recruiting Officer\\\" at the Donmar Theatre, London. From 18 October – 24 November that year he was Charles I in the Hampstead Theatre production of \\\"55 Days\\\" by Howard Brenton, a play dramatising the military coup that killed a King and forged a Commonwealth under Oliver Cromwell. In December 2013, Gatiss joined the cast of the Donmar Warehouse Production of \\\"Coriolanus\\\" as Senator of Rome, Menenius. The play went from 6 December 2013 through 13 February 2014. For\",\n \"title\": \"Mark Gatiss\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"7958144\",\n \"text\": \"Nightshade (Gatiss novel) Nightshade is an original novel written by Mark Gatiss and based on the long-running British science fiction television series \\\"Doctor Who\\\". It features the Seventh Doctor and Ace. A prelude to the novel, also penned by Gatiss, appeared in \\\"Doctor Who Magazine\\\" #190. The year is 1968, and as the BBC rebroadcasts episodes of the classic SF serial \\\"Nightshade\\\", the townsfolk of Crook Marsham prepare for a lonely Christmas. At the local retirement home, actor Edmund Trevithick learns that a reporter is coming to interview him about his role as Professor Nightshade, and goes to sleep dreaming\",\n \"title\": \"Nightshade (Gatiss novel)\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"12828404\",\n \"text\": \"Steven Moffat and Mark Gatiss, Sherlock Holmes fans with experience of adapting or using Victorian literature for television, devised the concept of the series. Moffat had previously adapted the \\\"Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde\\\" for the 2007 series \\\"Jekyll\\\", while Gatiss had written the Dickensian \\\"Doctor Who\\\" episode \\\"The Unquiet Dead\\\". Moffat and Gatiss, both \\\"Doctor Who\\\" writers, discussed plans for a Holmes adaptation during their numerous train journeys to Cardiff where \\\"Doctor Who\\\" production is based. While they were in Monte Carlo for an awards ceremony, producer Sue Vertue, who is married to Moffat, encouraged Moffat\",\n \"title\": \"Sherlock (TV series)\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"7754896\",\n \"text\": \"The series was curated by Mark Gatiss to mark 50 years since the passing of the Sexual Offences Act 1967, which decriminalised homosexual acts in England and Wales. The first production was directed by Mark Gatiss and performed by Mark Bonnar at The Old Vic on 28 July 2017. Alan Cumming starred in the BBC Four television production, which was broadcast on 3 August 2017. Gareth McLean Gareth McLean (born c.1975) is a Scottish journalist and screenwriter who has written for \\\"The Guardian\\\" newspaper and on soap operas for the \\\"Radio Times\\\" magazine. McLean graduated with an MA (Hons) in\",\n \"title\": \"Gareth McLean\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"4855211\",\n \"text\": \"scramble for greater sensation, its logical outcome\\\". Banks-Smith had long been an admirer of \\\"The Year of the Sex Olympics\\\", having written in \\\"The Sun\\\" following its original broadcast in 1968: \\\"Quite apart from the excellent script and the 'big big' treatment, the play radiated ripples. Is television a substitute for living? Does the spectacle of pain at a distance atrophy sympathy? Can this coffin with knobs on furnish all we need to ask?\\\". Another admirer, the writer and actor Mark Gatiss, has said that upon seeing \\\"Big Brother\\\" he yelled at the television, \\\"Don't they know what they're doing?\",\n \"title\": \"The Year of the Sex Olympics\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"2745976\",\n \"text\": \"his exams instead All of these interests have fuelled his creative work as an adult. He attended Heighington Church of England Primary School and Woodham Comprehensive School in Newton Aycliffe; at the latter, he was two years ahead of Paul Magrs, who would also go on to write \\\"Doctor Who\\\" fiction. He then studied Theatre Arts at Bretton Hall College which was an arts college affiliated to Leeds University. Gatiss was awarded an honorary doctorate of letters by the University of Huddersfield in 2003. Gatiss is a member of the sketch comedy team The League of Gentlemen (along with fellow\",\n \"title\": \"Mark Gatiss\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"2745991\",\n \"text\": \"early writing to the series, despite its 1989 cancellation. Gatiss's earliest published work was a sequence of novels in Virgin Publishing's New Adventures series of continuation stories and novels. In these works, he tried to correct the problems which had led to the show's decline in the late 1980s. The first television scripts Gatiss wrote were for a BBV direct-to-video series called \\\"P.R.O.B.E.\\\" Gatiss's four scripts each featured a different actor who had played \\\"Doctor Who\\\"s titular character of the Doctor: Jon Pertwee, Peter Davison, Colin Baker and Sylvester McCoy. The videos have since been released on DVD despite Gatiss\",\n \"title\": \"Mark Gatiss\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"3684245\",\n \"text\": \"original horror anthology series \\\"The Hunger\\\". Jeremy Dyson has adapted Aickman's work into drama in a number of forms. A musical staging of his short story \\\"The Same Dog\\\", for which Dyson co-wrote the libretto with Joby Talbot, premiered in 2000 at the Barbican Concert Hall. In 2000, with his League collaborator Mark Gatiss, Dyson adapted Aickman's short story \\\"Ringing the Changes\\\" into a BBC Radio Four radio play. This aired exactly twenty years after the CBC adaptation, on Halloween, 2000. Dyson also directed a 2002 short film based on Aickman's story \\\"The Cicerones\\\" with Gatiss as the principal actor.\",\n \"title\": \"Robert Aickman\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"19273922\",\n \"text\": \"Mark Huffam Mark Huffam is a British film and television producer. He was a producer on \\\"The Martian\\\", \\\"Johnny English\\\", and the television series \\\"Game of Thrones\\\". He was awarded CBE in 2011 at Her Majesty, The Queen's Birthday Honours List for his services to the film and television industries. He has been a producer on several films for Ridley Scott. Huffam was an associate producer and production manager on the 1998 Steven Spielberg film \\\"Saving Private Ryan\\\". In 2011, he was a producer on the first season of the HBO series \\\"Game of Thrones\\\". In 2015, Huffam was a\",\n \"title\": \"Mark Huffam\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"4855213\",\n \"text\": \"Mark Gatiss has noted that the \\\"Artsex\\\" and \\\"Foodshow\\\" programmes that also appear in the play \\\"ingeniously depicted the future of lowest common denominator TV\\\". This view is echoed by the writer and critic Kim Newman, who has said that \\\"as an extreme exercise in revolutionary self-criticism on the part of television professionals, who also lampoon their own world of chattering commentators and ratings-chasing sensationalism, the play [...] is a trenchant contribution to a series of debates that is still raging\\\" and has concluded that \\\"Nigel Kneale might be quite justified in shouting, 'I was right! I was right!'\\\" The\",\n \"title\": \"The Year of the Sex Olympics\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"9159206\",\n \"text\": \"place in November 2018, at Nottingham Playhouse, with Mark Gatiss as the lead. The play has been viewed as a character study for the actor who plays George III and most reviewers attribute its success to compelling performances from the two actors, Hawthorne and Haig, who played the king. Frank Rich of \\\"The New York Times\\\" singled out Nigel Hawthorne's performance in the US tour, calling it \\\"astonishing\\\" and \\\"unforgettable\\\", though he labelled the play itself as not \\\"one of Bennett's major works\\\" and as being more \\\"marketable to Broadway and the colonies\\\". Writing about the 2012 revival, Lyn Gardner\",\n \"title\": \"The Madness of George III\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"5274377\",\n \"text\": \"RPG products, unrelated to the earlier Guardians of Order effort. The Green Ronin game, titled \\\"A Song of Ice and Fire Roleplaying\\\" (\\\"SIFRP\\\"), went on sale on 10 March 2009: it uses a custom game system and does not contain rules from either the d20 or Tri-Stat dX systems. Issue 307 of \\\"Dragon\\\" magazine featured D20 content related to \\\"ASOIAF\\\", including stats for Tyrion Lannister, Sandor Clegane and other prominent characters; adventure hooks; and a brother of the Night's Watch prestige class. A Game of Thrones (role-playing game) A Game of Thrones is a role-playing game produced by Guardians of\",\n \"title\": \"A Game of Thrones (role-playing game)\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"2745993\",\n \"text\": \"and the British Museum, it took until 2010 for Gatiss to return as writer. He wrote \\\"Victory of the Daleks\\\" for that year's fifth series and went on to contribute \\\"Night Terrors\\\" for series 6, \\\"Cold War\\\" and \\\"The Crimson Horror\\\" for series 7 and \\\"Robot of Sherwood\\\" for series 8. He also wrote \\\"Sleep No More\\\" for series 9 and \\\"Empress of Mars\\\" for series 10. He has also contributed to the franchise outside the main show. His early work (see above) was primarily \\\"Doctor Who\\\" expanded media, and Gatiss wrote and performed in the comedy spoof sketches \\\"The\",\n \"title\": \"Mark Gatiss\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"19987496\",\n \"text\": \"story\\\". He added, \\\"It's getting boring, plus hard to avoid cliches, when gushing about Smith – her range, her extraordinary humanness, her ability not just to play someone but to inhabit them, to be heroic without being sentimental. […] Big shout-outs also must go to Sian Brooke (Sherlock's new secret sis) who plays Natalie Brown, the neighbour who begins to suspect Karen before Julie does. And to \\\"Game of Thrones\\\"'s Gemma Whelan, whose Karen is not the evil woman the real one was made out to be – more immature, naive, weak, easily manipulated ... and yet she did manage\",\n \"title\": \"The Moorside\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"12828414\",\n \"text\": \"as a \\\"moral compass\\\" for Sherlock, who does not always consider the morality and ethics of his actions. Rupert Graves was cast as DI Greg Lestrade. The writers referred to the character as \\\"Inspector Lestrade\\\" during development until Gatiss realised that in contemporary England the character would have the title \\\"Detective Inspector\\\". Moffat and Gatiss pointed out that Lestrade does not appear often in the stories and is quite inconsistently portrayed in them. They decided to go with the version that appeared in \\\"The Adventure of the Six Napoleons\\\": a man who is frustrated by Holmes but admires him, and\",\n \"title\": \"Sherlock (TV series)\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"2745997\",\n \"text\": \"film director James Whale and the documentary \\\"M.R. James: Ghost Writer\\\", which Gatiss also presented. The documentary followed Gatiss's directorial debut with an adaption of one of James's stories, \\\"The Tractate Middoth\\\", for BBC 2, which was broadcast on Christmas Day 2013. Gatiss also wrote, co-produced and appeared in \\\"Crooked House\\\", a ghost story that was broadcast on BBC Four during Christmas 2008. His first non-\\\"Doctor Who\\\" novel, \\\"The Vesuvius Club\\\", was published in 2004, for which he was nominated in the category of Best Newcomer in the 2006 British Book Awards. A follow-up, \\\"The Devil in Amber\\\", was released\",\n \"title\": \"Mark Gatiss\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"18914413\",\n \"text\": \"previously directed the two-parter \\\"The Zygon Invasion\\\" / \\\"The Zygon Inversion\\\" in the ninth series. In June 2016, Mark Gatiss stated he would be writing an episode for the series; later identified as the ninth episode, a change to Moffat's previous announcement that he would be writing for that particular episode. In 2015, Gatiss had indicated that he might write a sequel for the ninth series episode \\\"Sleep No More\\\"; however, this was not the basis for Gatiss' episode for the tenth series. Instead, the episode featured the return of the Ice Warriors, a race known for their appearances in\",\n \"title\": \"Doctor Who (series 10)\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"2745996\",\n \"text\": \"and he has written four episodes, one for each series: the finale, \\\"The Great Game,\\\" for the first series, \\\"The Hounds of Baskerville\\\" for the second, \\\"The Empty Hearse\\\" for the third and \\\"The Six Thatchers\\\" for the fourth. He also co-wrote \\\"Many Happy Returns,\\\" a mini-episode released in late December 2013 which acts as a prelude to the third series, with Steven Moffat; the episode \\\"The Sign of Three\\\" with Moffat and Steve Thompson; and \\\"The Abominable Bride\\\", a special episode released in early January 2016, with Moffat. Gatiss has written several non-fiction works, including a biography of the\",\n \"title\": \"Mark Gatiss\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"19539717\",\n \"text\": \"and kill her faster, stronger nemesis in this episode. Hanh Nguyen of Indiewire also felt the Riverrun sequence ended in an anticlimactic fashion as well. No One (Game of Thrones) \\\"No One\\\" is the eighth episode of the sixth season of HBO's fantasy television series \\\"Game of Thrones\\\", and the 58th episode overall. It was written by series co-creators David Benioff and D. B. Weiss, and directed by Mark Mylod. Arya Stark fights for her life and chooses her destiny; Jaime Lannister returns Edmure Tully to Riverrun; Cersei Lannister is thwarted; Daenerys Targaryen returns to Meereen; and Sandor Clegane tracks\",\n \"title\": \"No One (Game of Thrones)\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"18376777\",\n \"text\": \"Graham, who last worked together on the play \\\"Privacy\\\", which also premiered at the Donmar. The play featured an ensemble cast of around 40, including Catherine Tate, Mark Gatiss, Timothy West, Nina Sosanya and Bill Paterson. Judi Dench also starred alongside her real life daughter Finty Williams for the first time, playing a mother and daughter and marking her first performance at the theatre since 1976. A typical performance ran 90 minutes, with no interval. Describing the live broadcast, director Rourke said, \\\"This is a unique opportunity for the Donmar to make a small theatre feel very big\\\", whilst writer\",\n \"title\": \"The Vote\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"18938990\",\n \"text\": \"Drama Series. <onlyinclude></onlyinclude> The recurring actors listed here are those who appeared in season 7. They are listed by the region in which they first appear. Series creators and executive producers David Benioff and D. B. Weiss serve as showrunners for the seventh season. The directors for the seventh season are Jeremy Podeswa (episodes 1 and 7), Mark Mylod (episodes 2 and 3), Matt Shakman (episodes 4 and 5) and Alan Taylor (episode 6). This marks Taylor's return to the series after an absence since the second season. Shakman is a first-time \\\"Game of Thrones\\\" director, with the rest each\",\n \"title\": \"Game of Thrones (season 7)\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"7958163\",\n \"text\": \"in a distant galaxy, travels there and settles down to feed… and the Doctor and Ace watch with satisfaction as the star collapses into a black hole, trapping the Sentience forever. Ace now expects to be taken back to Crook Marsham, but the Doctor has another agenda for her, and instead he vanishes into the TARDIS corridors, refusing to acknowledge her pleas to be taken back. Nightshade (Gatiss novel) Nightshade is an original novel written by Mark Gatiss and based on the long-running British science fiction television series \\\"Doctor Who\\\". It features the Seventh Doctor and Ace. A prelude to\",\n \"title\": \"Nightshade (Gatiss novel)\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"12800970\",\n \"text\": \"of the European locations. Each ten-episode season of \\\"Game of Thrones\\\" has four to six directors, who usually direct back-to-back episodes. Alan Taylor has directed seven episodes, the most episodes of the series. Alex Graves, David Nutter, Mark Mylod and Jeremy Podeswa have directed six each. Daniel Minahan directed five episodes, and Michelle MacLaren, Alik Sakharov, and Miguel Sapochnik directed four each. Brian Kirk directed three episodes during the first season, and Tim Van Patten directed the series' first two episodes. Neil Marshall directed two episodes, both with large battle scenes: \\\"Blackwater\\\" and \\\"The Watchers on the Wall\\\". Other directors\",\n \"title\": \"Game of Thrones\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"18637823\",\n \"text\": \"gave him more agency. Both Busis and McNutt noted that the changes may make the story less cluttered, with Busis saying, \\\"combining Sansa and [the Arya impostor]'s storylines allow Benioff and Weiss to trim a good bit of fat from ASOIAF and give already-introduced characters more stuff to do.\\\" High Sparrow (Game of Thrones) \\\"High Sparrow\\\" is the third episode of the fifth season of HBO's fantasy television series \\\"Game of Thrones\\\", and the 43rd overall. The episode was written by series co-creators David Benioff and D. B. Weiss, and directed by Mark Mylod, his directorial debut for the series.\",\n \"title\": \"High Sparrow (Game of Thrones)\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"18637809\",\n \"text\": \"High Sparrow (Game of Thrones) \\\"High Sparrow\\\" is the third episode of the fifth season of HBO's fantasy television series \\\"Game of Thrones\\\", and the 43rd overall. The episode was written by series co-creators David Benioff and D. B. Weiss, and directed by Mark Mylod, his directorial debut for the series. It aired on April 26, 2015. Prior to airing, this episode along with the other first four episodes of the season were leaked online. Tommen and Margaery are wed, and that night, they consummate their marriage. Margaery then manipulates Tommen into trying to persuade his mother, Cersei, to return\",\n \"title\": \"High Sparrow (Game of Thrones)\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"2745998\",\n \"text\": \"on 6 November 2006. It transports the main character, Lucifer Box, from the Edwardian era in the first book to the roaring Twenties/Thirties. A third and final Lucifer Box novel, \\\"Black Butterfly\\\", was published on 3 November 2008 by Simon & Schuster. Gatiss is gay and was featured on \\\"The Independent on Sunday's\\\" Pink List of influential gay people in the UK in 2010 and 2011. He married actor Ian Hallard in 2008 in Middle Temple, in the City of London. Gatiss once built a Victorian laboratory in their north London home, as the fulfilment of another childhood dream. Mark\",\n \"title\": \"Mark Gatiss\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"4036194\",\n \"text\": \"can play in multiplayer matches, with artificial intelligence being able to fill slots at the server host's choice. Tim Train, executive producer of \\\"Thrones and Patriots\\\", stated that various features were added to the game in an attempt to balance gameplay, including the addition of armed caravans and merchants. IGN claimed that \\\"Thrones and Patriots\\\" is \\\"a great game [which] gets better,\\\" in reference to its predecessor \\\"Rise of Nations\\\" and other critical reviews also praised many features of the game, though some noted deficiencies. Within \\\"Rise of Nations: Thrones and Patriots\\\" players control various units during battles, including land,\",\n \"title\": \"Rise of Nations: Thrones and Patriots\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"2268635\",\n \"text\": \"\\\"The Shadow Heart\\\". Other writers for Big Finish include Rob Shearman and \\\"The League of Gentlemen's\\\" Mark Gatiss, who have also written for the 2005 relaunch of the \\\"Doctor Who\\\" television series. Shearman's 2005 TV episode \\\"Dalek\\\" has been acknowledged as being based upon his Big Finish storyline \\\"Jubilee\\\". Former adversaries of the Doctor who have reappeared in the audio plays include the Master, the Cybermen, the Daleks and Davros (both separately and together), Omega, the Nimon, the Ice Warriors, the Autons, the Zarbi and the Silurians. The Sea Devils made an appearance in the Bernice Summerfield play \\\"Bernice Summerfield\",\n \"title\": \"Big Finish Productions\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"12831956\",\n \"text\": \"included Mark Gatiss, Julian Rhind-Tutt, Ian Hallard, Philip Jackson, Lee Ingleby, Jean Marsh, Samuel Barnett, Daniela Denby-Ashe, Anna Madeley, Andy Nyman and illusionist Derren Brown. The series was directed by Damon Thomas. Crooked House (TV series) Crooked House is a supernatural drama mini-series which aired on BBC Four in December 2008. The three-part series was broadcast on consecutive nights from 22 to 24 December 2008. It was written and co-produced by actor and writer Mark Gatiss, who found fame in the BBC series \\\"The League of Gentlemen\\\". The three linked episodes form an anthology story, influenced by the writings of\",\n \"title\": \"Crooked House (TV series)\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"17306917\",\n \"text\": \"stated that the episode was \\\"well worth the [two-year-long hiatus]\\\" and praised it as a \\\"well-acted, well-produced, well-written, and extremely engrossing drama.\\\" David Mather, who runs fan site Sherlockology, told BBC Radio 5 Live's Victoria Derbyshire that he had been inundated with mixed responses from fans. The Empty Hearse \\\"The Empty Hearse\\\" is the first episode of the third series of the BBC television series \\\"Sherlock\\\". It was written by Mark Gatiss and stars Benedict Cumberbatch as Sherlock Holmes, Martin Freeman as Dr John Watson, and Mark Gatiss as Mycroft Holmes. It also marks the first appearance of Amanda Abbington\",\n \"title\": \"The Empty Hearse\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"19484588\",\n \"text\": \"get started working on it, because it's such an epic sequence.\\\" \\\"The Door\\\" marks the final appearance of Kristian Nairn as Hodor, a role Nairn has played since the series pilot. Nairn, who was cast to play Hodor from previously knowing \\\"Game of Thrones\\\"' casting director from an audition he did for the film \\\"Hot Fuzz\\\", admitted in an interview that he was at first unaware of his impending death in the show. He stated, \\\"First I heard from friends, people who had read the script, some other cast members. I think I said laughingly, \\\"So did I survive?\\\" They\",\n \"title\": \"The Door (Game of Thrones)\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"12801012\",\n \"text\": \"revenge fantasy about what happens when women who have been brutalized and raped gain power\\\"—namely, that their past leaves them too broken to do anything but commit brutal acts in their own turn, and that their personal liberation does not affect the social change needed to protect others from suffering. \\\"A Song of Ice and Fire\\\" and \\\"Game of Thrones\\\" have a broad, active international fan base. In 2012 \\\"Vulture.com\\\" ranked the series' fans as the most devoted in popular culture, more so than Lady Gaga's, Justin Bieber's, \\\"Harry Potter\\\"s or \\\"Star Wars\\\". Fans include political leaders such as former\",\n \"title\": \"Game of Thrones\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"15065658\",\n \"text\": \"Backbone\\\", \\\"Pan's Labyrinth\\\", and \\\"Shivers\\\". The documentary was previewed at London's National Film Theatre on 28 October (followed by an on-stage discussion between Gatiss, Das and Rigby) and first broadcast two days later. A History of Horror A History of Horror (also known as \\\"A History of Horror with Mark Gatiss\\\") is a 2010 three-part documentary series made for the BBC by British writer and actor Mark Gatiss. It is a personal exploration of the history of horror film, inspired by Gatiss's lifelong enthusiasm for the genre. The documentary was directed by John Das (episodes one and three) and Rachel\",\n \"title\": \"A History of Horror\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"20886593\",\n \"text\": \"able to alter the outcome of events that are canon in the \\\"Game of Thrones\\\" TV series. To cope with the issue, the game's lore states that all events were visions of the character Melisandre, through which the game creates a \\\"what if?\\\" scenario. \\\"Reigns: Game of Thrones\\\" was revealed by publisher Devolver Digital on 23 August 2018, through a trailer published on YouTube. Coinciding with the reveal, Devolver announced that game would be released on 18 October that year, for Android via Google Play, for iOS via the App Store, and for personal computers (Linux, macOS and Microsoft Windows)\",\n \"title\": \"Reigns: Game of Thrones\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"2745994\",\n \"text\": \"Web of Caves\\\", \\\"The Kidnappers\\\" and \\\"The Pitch of Fear\\\" for the BBC's \\\"\\\"Doctor Who\\\" Night\\\" in 1999 with David Walliams. He penned 2013 docudrama \\\"An Adventure in Space and Time\\\", a drama depicting the origins of the series, to celebrate the show's fiftieth anniversary. It ended with a cameo by Gatiss's \\\"League of Gentleman\\\" castmate Reece Shearsmith, portraying Patrick Troughton, who played the Second Doctor. A \\\"Making Of\\\" feature about this programme, narrated by Gatiss, was made available on the BBC Red Button service, and also posted on the BBC's official YouTube channel. He has written for \\\"Doctor Who\",\n \"title\": \"Mark Gatiss\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"3955120\",\n \"text\": \"a transfer to the Albery Theatre, London in February 2006. \\\"Blackbird\\\" subsequently won a best new play award. In 2010, she played the lead role of Kay in Mark Haddon's play Polar Bears at the Donmar Warehouse. May played Janet Stone in the 2011 noir thriller \\\"I, Anna\\\", alongside Gabriel Byrne, Charlotte Rampling, Eddie Marsan, and Honor Blackman. In 2015 she appeared in the Season 5 premiere of the HBO series \\\"Game of Thrones\\\". Jodhi May Jodhi Tania May (\\\"née\\\" Edwards; 8 May 1975) is an English stage, film, and television actress. She remains the youngest recipient of the Best\",\n \"title\": \"Jodhi May\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"15448603\",\n \"text\": \"situation of the Doctor, who was typically a pacifist, being provoked enough to assemble an army. Moffat described the ending as \\\"game-changing cliffhanger\\\" and split the series in two because such a climax could not be done at the end of a series, as it would be \\\"too long before it came back\\\". The mid-series premiere, \\\"Let's Kill Hitler\\\", was intended to be the opposite of the \\\"grim and dark\\\" tone of the series premiere. Mark Gatiss wrote \\\"Night Terrors\\\" to be a scary episode, surprised that dolls had not been used in \\\"Doctor Who\\\" before. \\\"The Girl Who Waited\\\"\",\n \"title\": \"Doctor Who (series 6)\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"12801023\",\n \"text\": \"of Thrones Ascent\\\" ties into the HBO series, making characters and settings available to players as they appear on television. Behaviour Interactive is developing a free-to-play strategy game based on the series for mobile devices. \\\"\\\", a spin-off of the \\\"Reigns\\\" strategy video game series, is in development by Nerial, published by Devolver Digital, and set to release in October 2018. HBO has licensed a variety of merchandise based on \\\"Game of Thrones\\\", including games, replica weapons and armor, jewelry, bobblehead dolls by Funko, beer by Ommegang and apparel. High-end merchandise includes a $10,500 Ulysse Nardin wristwatch and a $30,000\",\n \"title\": \"Game of Thrones\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"2745983\",\n \"text\": \"December 2013, a version of the ghost story \\\"The Tractate Middoth\\\" by M. R. James and adapted by Gatiss was broadcast on BBC2 as part of the long-running \\\"A Ghost Story for Christmas\\\" series. It starred Sacha Dhawan, John Castle, Louise Jameson, Una Stubbs, David Ryall, Eleanor Bron, Nick Burns and Roy Barraclough. It was followed on 25 December 2013 by a screening on BBC2 of a new documentary by Gatiss titled \\\"M. R. James: Ghost Writer\\\". The programme saw Gatiss explore the work of James and look at how his work still inspires contemporary horror today. He appeared in\",\n \"title\": \"Mark Gatiss\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"18678026\",\n \"text\": \"appearance at the Wrexham Comic Con event in November 2015. Ross O'Hennessy Ross O'Hennessy (born 1974) is a Welsh actor. He is best known for his role of Lord of Bones in Game of Thrones\\\", \\\"Da Vinci's Demons\\\", The Musketeers, and playing the blood thirsty Role of Sir Locke in Kurt Sutter's new international television series \\\"The Bastard Executioner\\\". In 2015, he replaced Edward Dogliani as Lord of Bones in Season 5 of the HBO series \\\"Game of Thrones\\\". Since appearing in \\\"Game of Thrones\\\" Ross O'Hennessy has been cast to play the vicious character of Carnage Cliff in the\",\n \"title\": \"Ross O'Hennessy\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"18678021\",\n \"text\": \"Ross O'Hennessy Ross O'Hennessy (born 1974) is a Welsh actor. He is best known for his role of Lord of Bones in Game of Thrones\\\", \\\"Da Vinci's Demons\\\", The Musketeers, and playing the blood thirsty Role of Sir Locke in Kurt Sutter's new international television series \\\"The Bastard Executioner\\\". In 2015, he replaced Edward Dogliani as Lord of Bones in Season 5 of the HBO series \\\"Game of Thrones\\\". Since appearing in \\\"Game of Thrones\\\" Ross O'Hennessy has been cast to play the vicious character of Carnage Cliff in the feature film adaption of the comic book Accident Man. O'Hennessy\",\n \"title\": \"Ross O'Hennessy\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"2745987\",\n \"text\": \"bizarrely dressed biker member of the \\\"Lappish Mafia.\\\" In this his voice is used along with the other actors of \\\"League of Gentlemen\\\" such as Steve Pemberton and Reece Shearsmith. The dialogue was written by Simon Pegg and other actors included Pegg himself, Woody Harrelson and David Tennant, who worked with Gatiss on \\\"Doctor Who\\\". He appeared in the stage adaptation of Pedro Almodóvar's \\\"All About My Mother\\\" at the Old Vic in London from 25 August-24 November 2007. He won much critical acclaim for his portrayal of the transgender character Agrado. He was scheduled to perform in \\\"Darker Shores\\\"\",\n \"title\": \"Mark Gatiss\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"9779248\",\n \"text\": \"and Mark Gatiss and the film, \\\"Tamara Drewe\\\". In 2009, he appeared in Channel 4's weekly TNT Show writing and presenting Dictionary Corner. For television he has appeared in BBC’s \\\"Sensitive Skin\\\", \\\"Fear of Fanny\\\", the Frankie Howerd biopic \\\"Rather You Than Me\\\" and the series \\\"The Cut\\\" as well as Channel 4’s \\\"Law of the Playground\\\". In 2008, he made his own documentary for E4 about identity entitled \\\"Who is Tom Allen?\\\". In August 2015 and March 2016 he appeared on \\\"8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown\\\" as a Dictionary Corner guest. In October 2016, he appeared as\",\n \"title\": \"Tom Allen (comedian)\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"2745986\",\n \"text\": \"roles in \\\"Birthday Girl\\\" (2001), \\\"Bright Young Things\\\" (2003), \\\"Match Point\\\" (2005) and \\\"Starter for 10\\\" (2006). \\\"The League of Gentlemen's Apocalypse\\\", a film based on the television series, co-written by and starring Gatiss, was released in June 2005. He also plays the recurring character of Gold in the audio revival of \\\"Sapphire and Steel\\\" produced by Big Finish Productions. Gatiss also appeared in Edgar Wright's fake trailer for Grindhouse, \\\"Don't\\\", a homage to '70s Hammer Horrors. In the 2008 English language re-release of the cult 2006 Norwegian animated film \\\"Free Jimmy\\\", Gatiss voiced the character of \\\"Jakki,\\\" a heavy-set,\",\n \"title\": \"Mark Gatiss\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"2745981\",\n \"text\": \"the memoir by polar explorer Apsley Cherry-Garrard. Gatiss has also made three credited appearances in \\\"Doctor Who\\\". In 2007, he played Professor Lazarus in \\\"The Lazarus Experiment\\\". In 2011, he returned in the Series 6 episode \\\"The Wedding of River Song\\\" as a character known as Gantok, and in the 2017 Christmas special \\\"Twice Upon A Time\\\" as \\\"The Captain\\\". Also in 2007, he appeared as Robert Louis Stevenson in \\\"Jekyll\\\", a BBC One serial by his fellow \\\"Doctor Who\\\" scriptwriter Steven Moffat. In 2008, he appeared in \\\"Clone\\\" as Colonel Black. In 2010, he portrayed Malcolm McLaren in the\",\n \"title\": \"Mark Gatiss\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"20276399\",\n \"text\": \"its predecessor, combines a simple presentation with an extremely wide array of strategic options, including over 75 nations, 2000 units, 600 spells and 300 magic items. Turns are resolved simultaneously, with players planning battles rather than directly controlling them. The game includes scenarios and randomized play, but does not include a campaign. \\\"Dominions 4\\\" is mainly designed for multiplayer, including PBEM, hotseat and TCP/IP. AI opponents are available for single-player. The game is very suitable for roleplay, both in singleplayer and multiplayer. Compared to the previous game several additions and changes have been made, the most prominent being the addition\",\n \"title\": \"Dominions 4: Thrones of Ascension\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"3300332\",\n \"text\": \"writing talent. Notable was Paul Cornell who wrote five of the novels, including the single most popular one (according to the Doctor Who Magazine poll), \\\"Human Nature\\\". Cornell went on to write for the 2005 revival of the television series: \\\"Father's Day\\\" and \\\"Human Nature\\\"/\\\"The Family of Blood\\\", the latter a two-part adaptation of the 38th New Adventure. Others who later worked on the revived television series include Mark Gatiss, Gareth Roberts, Matt Jones, Simon Winstone and Gary Russell. Even Russell T Davies contributed to the range with his novel \\\"Damaged Goods\\\". Gatiss and Roberts both did their first ever\",\n \"title\": \"Virgin New Adventures\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"3347257\",\n \"text\": \"take a card that is in play, and place it in the \\\"discard pile\\\". Generally, whenever an effect targets a card to be killed or discarded, players are given a chance to \\\"Save\\\" the card from the effect, either by discarding a duplicate of the targeted card or by using another game effect. If a card is saved, it is not removed from play, and it is not considered killed or discarded. Fantasy Flight Games has an official group of volunteers that organize sanctioned tournaments for A Game of Thrones. The Night's Watch are named after the guardians of The\",\n \"title\": \"A Game of Thrones (card game)\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"14254965\",\n \"text\": \"final episode explained how the two had known each other for a while. Gatiss included one of Churchill's favourite expressions \\\"Keep buggering on\\\" (abbreviated KBO) into the script, which he was \\\"delighted\\\" to do. Ian McNeice, who portrayed Churchill, previously played the villain Zeus in the Eighth Doctor Big Finish audio play \\\"Immortal Beloved\\\" in 2007. Gatiss wrote in the script for the Daleks' redesign to be \\\"big buggers...bigger than we've seen them before\\\". The eyestalk was designed to be level with Smith's eyeline. Moffat and Gatiss wanted the new Daleks to be very colourful, similar to the Daleks of\",\n \"title\": \"Victory of the Daleks\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"19484591\",\n \"text\": \"actress Lady Crane, among others. The Icelandic band Of Monsters and Men appeared in this episode in a cameo as stage musicians for the stage play. Israeli actress Ania Bukstein was also introduced in the series as the High Priestess Kinvara, who is brought to Meereen to spread propaganda about Daenerys Targaryen's supposed success at eliminating the problem with the Sons of the Harpy. In an interview with Bukstein she said, \\\"Yes, it's very exciting, but let's calm down. It's not like I'm the new Khaleesi. \\\"Game of Thrones\\\" came after a ton of hard work. I filmed a lot\",\n \"title\": \"The Door (Game of Thrones)\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"3347259\",\n \"text\": \"Standard format. In \\\"Limited\\\" format, players instead build their decks at the tournament, using provided draft packs (in \\\"Limited - Draft\\\") or starter decks (in \\\"Limited - Sealed Deck\\\") and booster packs. Aside from the restrictions on usable card pool, FFG places no limits on how Night's Watch volunteers organize the tournaments. Thrones-Tournaments.com tries to provide a central list of all international and local store tournaments, to help gamers find play to compete in. The A Game of Thrones World Championships were held yearly at Gen Con Indy until 2012, when they moved to Fantasy Flight's Event Centre in Minneapolis,\",\n \"title\": \"A Game of Thrones (card game)\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"6592940\",\n \"text\": \"Mark Gatiss, who also wrote the Ninth Doctor episode \\\"The Unquiet Dead\\\" as well as several spin-off audios and novels. The title of the episode was suggested by writer Gareth Roberts, who recalled the term being used by his father to refer to television. The episode is set in the Muswell Hill area of London, and second-unit photography was conducted around Alexandra Palace. The exterior of Magpie's shop was filmed on Blenheim Road in Cardiff. The game associated with this episode, the \\\"Magpie Online Archive\\\", is a \\\"file-sharing application\\\" in which the player must search through various clips of BBC\",\n \"title\": \"The Idiot's Lantern\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"3515667\",\n \"text\": \"British science-fiction programmes—saying that it had stolen his ideas. An article for \\\"The Daily Telegraph\\\" in 2005 described \\\"Doctor Who\\\" as the \\\"spiritual successor\\\" to the \\\"Quatermass\\\" serials, and Mark Gatiss, a scriptwriter for \\\"Doctor Who\\\", wrote of his admiration of Kneale in an article for \\\"The Guardian\\\" in 2006. \\\"Kneale wrote that [1953] was 'an over-confident year' and he piloted his hugely influential tale like a rocket into the drab schedules of Austerity Britain… What sci-fi piece of the past 50 years doesn't owe Kneale a huge debt?\\\" In 2007, Gatiss appeared as the character Professor Lazarus in the\",\n \"title\": \"The Quatermass Experiment\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"20235346\",\n \"text\": \"between 2006 and 2017, and Mark Gatiss, also writer of nine episodes between 2005 and 2017, marking his fourth acting appearance in the series, playing a character credited as The Captain. In an interview following the episode's broadcast, Gatiss said he cried at the thought of playing the Brigadier's grandfather when he finished reading the script. However, the Haisman Literary Estate asserted their control of the backstory of the Brigadier, stating that Archibald was actually the Brigadier's great-uncle who appeared in \\\"Night of the Intelligence\\\". They later compromised in \\\"What's Past is Prologue\\\" by implying that Archibald may secretly be\",\n \"title\": \"Twice Upon a Time (Doctor Who)\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"15695007\",\n \"text\": \"episode, \\\"Victory of the Daleks\\\". Episode writer Mark Gatiss told \\\"Radio Times\\\" that he had always been scared of dolls, and was surprised that \\\"Doctor Who\\\" had never used them before. He was especially interested in peg dolls, which he said were \\\"the stuff of proper nightmares\\\". Gatiss had previously worked with guest actor Daniel Mays in the BBC serial \\\"Funland\\\" and purposely inserted the line \\\"Maybe later\\\" into the script as it had been \\\"a bit of a catchphrase\\\" for the two on \\\"Funland\\\". However, Mays did not notice the reference. The episode was originally given the title of\",\n \"title\": \"Night Terrors (Doctor Who)\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"3661163\",\n \"text\": \"Bletchley Circle\\\" in 2012 and 2014. Stirling appeared in a 2013 episode of \\\"Doctor Who\\\" titled \\\"The Crimson Horror\\\" alongside her mother. The episode had been specially written for Stirling and her mother by Mark Gatiss (marking the very first appearance of the two actresses together professionally) and was aired 4 May 2013 as part of Series 7. In 2014, Stirling portrayed Kate Wilkinson in the Cold War spy thriller television series \\\"The Game\\\", and appeared in the BBC Four comedy drama \\\"Detectorists\\\" as Becky, initially girlfriend, then wife, of Andy (played by Mackenzie Crook). Stirling appeared as a guest\",\n \"title\": \"Rachael Stirling\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"3111363\",\n \"text\": \"contemporary of Robert Shearman. From 1989 to 1992, he studied at the University of Bristol, where he resided at Manor Hall and graduated with Bachelor of Arts (Drama). During university holidays in 1990, Walliams performed with the National Youth Theatre, where he met future comedy partner and friend Matt Lucas. He changed his stage name to David Walliams when he joined college Equity, as there was already a member named David Williams. Walliams performed in the Big Finish Productions \\\"Doctor Who\\\" audio play \\\"Phantasmagoria\\\", written by Mark Gatiss in 1999. From 2003 to 2005, Walliams co-wrote and co-starred in three\",\n \"title\": \"David Walliams\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"12828416\",\n \"text\": \"originally not going to put a confrontation between Moriarty and Holmes into these three episodes, but realised that they \\\"just had to do a confrontation scene. We had to do a version of the scene in 'The Final Problem' in which the two archenemies meet each other.\\\" The remainder of the regular cast includes Una Stubbs (who has known Cumberbatch since he was four years old, as she had worked with his mother Wanda Ventham) as Mrs Hudson and co-creator Mark Gatiss as Mycroft Holmes. Vinette Robinson, Jonathan Aris and Louise Brealey play the recurring roles of Sergeant Sally Donovan,\",\n \"title\": \"Sherlock (TV series)\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"9466236\",\n \"text\": \"Hopkirk as the inspiration behind his all-white outfit in the pilot episode of \\\"Vic Reeves Big Night Out\\\". Reeves, Mortimer and Higson’s connections helped to draw in many cameos and guest stars from the comedy world and beyond, to play bit parts or larger roles in individual episodes. Guest stars include Hugh Laurie, Derek Jacobi, Simon Pegg, Mark Gatiss, Charles Dance, Matt Lucas, David Walliams, Reece Shearsmith, and Martin Clunes. Higson himself cameos in every episode, twice as characters who appear in more than one: these were Gomez the Limbo barman in \\\"A Blast from the Past\\\" and \\\"Marshall and\",\n \"title\": \"Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased) (2000 TV series)\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"1418093\",\n \"text\": \"former landlord, who would phone their flat and insist on speaking only to Steve. Gatiss has said in interview that the local shop was inspired by a shop in the village of Rottingdean and that he was influenced growing up around the former Winterton Hospital asylum near Sedgefield. The majority of the inhabitants of the village — male and female — are played by Reece Shearsmith, Steve Pemberton, and Mark Gatiss, and the script was written by these three, along with Jeremy Dyson. Dyson, not an actor like the others, appears only in cameo roles. As there are usually only\",\n \"title\": \"The League of Gentlemen\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"2745992\",\n \"text\": \"once commenting that he would not authorise their re-release, as he regarded them as a learning exercise. His other early contributions to the \\\"Doctor Who\\\" franchise included four novels, two audio plays for BBV and two audio plays for Big Finish Productions. Gatiss has written nine episodes for the 2005 revival of the show. His first, \\\"The Unquiet Dead,\\\" was the third episode of the revived series in 2005; the second, \\\"The Idiot's Lantern,\\\" aired the following year in the second series. Although he acted in the third series and proposed an ultimately unproduced episode for the fourth, involving Nazis\",\n \"title\": \"Mark Gatiss\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"12828428\",\n \"text\": \"One and BBC HD on 25 July 2010. The second episode, \\\"The Blind Banker\\\", was first broadcast on 1 August 2010. Written by Stephen Thompson and directed by Euros Lyn, the episode depicts Holmes being hired by an old university acquaintance to investigate a mysterious break-in at a bank in the City of London. The first series concluded with \\\"The Great Game\\\", first broadcast on 8 August 2010. The episode introduces the character of archenemy James Moriarty (played by Andrew Scott) to the series, who sets Holmes deadlines to solve a series of apparently unrelated cases. Written by Mark Gatiss\",\n \"title\": \"Sherlock (TV series)\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"14982036\",\n \"text\": \"Thomas and Gatiss (after \\\"The Worst Journey In The World\\\" and \\\"Crooked House\\\"), and the first film to be produced by their production company Can Do Productions. It is July 1969 as 90-year-old Julius Bedford (Rory Kinnear) tells young Jim (Alex Riddell) the story of two men who made the first journey to the Moon in 1909. He relates that when he was a young man, he met Professor Arthur Cavor (Mark Gatiss) at Apuldram. Cavor had invented \\\"Cavorite\\\", a substance that blocked the force of gravity. Bedford encouraged Cavor to think of the profits his invention might bring, and\",\n \"title\": \"The First Men in the Moon (2010 film)\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"2745978\",\n \"text\": \"and his colleagues a British Academy Television Award, a Royal Television Society Award and the prestigious Golden Rose of Montreux. In 2005, the film \\\"The League of Gentlemen's Apocalypse\\\" was released, to generally positive reviews. Shearsmith and Pemberton reunited in 2009 to create a similarly dark BBC sitcom, \\\"Psychoville\\\", which featured an episode guest-starring Gatiss. The three reunited again in 2012 to film a series of sketches for the fourth series of CBBC show \\\"Horrible Histories\\\". Outside the League, Gatiss' television work has included writing for the 2001 revival of \\\"Randall & Hopkirk\\\" and script editing the popular sketch show\",\n \"title\": \"Mark Gatiss\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"12831953\",\n \"text\": \"Crooked House (TV series) Crooked House is a supernatural drama mini-series which aired on BBC Four in December 2008. The three-part series was broadcast on consecutive nights from 22 to 24 December 2008. It was written and co-produced by actor and writer Mark Gatiss, who found fame in the BBC series \\\"The League of Gentlemen\\\". The three linked episodes form an anthology story, influenced by the writings of M. R. James and Amicus horror movies, and a Māori death-mask belonging to Gatiss. They concern the ghostly secrets of fictional Geap Manor, a recently demolished Tudor mansion. The first story, \\\"The\",\n \"title\": \"Crooked House (TV series)\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"19431644\",\n \"text\": \"After the Thrones After the Thrones is an American live television aftershow that premiered on April 25, 2016, and ended on June 28, 2016. It was hosted by Andy Greenwald and Chris Ryan who discussed episodes of the HBO television series \\\"Game of Thrones\\\". The talk show is executive produced by Bill Simmons and Eric Weinberger. Greenwald and Ryan previously hosted a podcast version of the show titled \\\"Watch the Thrones\\\" on Simmons' Grantland website. A similar talk show called \\\"Thronecast\\\" airs on British channel Sky Atlantic, which also discusses episodes of \\\"Game of Thrones\\\". The talk show was made\",\n \"title\": \"After the Thrones\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"3183151\",\n \"text\": \"smirking government ministers and power-crazed army officers to stop his peaceful rocket research group being turned into a Star Wars vehicle to put missiles on the moon. They won.\\\" In a 2006 \\\"Guardian\\\" article Mark Gatiss wrote \\\"What sci-fi piece of the past 50 years doesn't owe Kneale a huge debt? ... The 'ancient invasion' of \\\"Quatermass and the Pit\\\" cast a huge shadow ... its brilliant blending of superstition, witchcraft and ghosts into the story of a five-million-year-old Martian invasion is copper-bottomed genius.\\\" Gatiss was a scriptwriter for \\\"Doctor Who\\\", a programme that had been particularly strongly influenced by\",\n \"title\": \"Quatermass and the Pit\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"16648928\",\n \"text\": \"although group play will be encouraged. Players will be able to customize their characters by changing features such as hair and clothing. \\\"Game of Thrones: Seven Kingdoms\\\" was announced in February 2012, with the first look being unveiled at the Game Developers Conference in March 2012. The first gameplay footage was shown in a trailer released on July 12, 2012. The game is under development by German videogame developer Bigpoint, and Norwegian developer Artplant. The studios have previously worked together on Battlestar Galactica Online, another browser based multiplayer game. The game is being made in collaboration with HBO. Everything put\",\n \"title\": \"Game of Thrones: Seven Kingdoms\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"13874054\",\n \"text\": \"episode, Moffat intended to introduce the Eleventh Doctor and establish his new identity; the second was intended to demonstrate the Doctor's need for a companion and Amy's importance to him. For the third episode, he asked Mark Gatiss to write an episode about \\\"Churchill versus the Daleks\\\". Moffat wanted to incorporate the popular Daleks into the new series, and considered redesigning them. Gatiss, Moffat and the production team worked together to create large, more-colourful Daleks, similar to those in the 1960s films. For the fourth and fifth episodes, Moffat planned a two-part sequel to his 2007 \\\"Blink\\\" with the Weeping\",\n \"title\": \"Doctor Who (series 5)\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"2745985\",\n \"text\": \"\\\"Nebulous\\\" and \\\"The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes\\\" story \\\"The Shameful Betrayal of Miss Emily Smith\\\". In 2009, he was The Man in Black when BBC Radio 7 revived the character (originally played by Valentine Dyall and Edward de Souza) to introduce a series of five creepy audio dramas. He is also involved with theatre, having penned the play \\\"The Teen People\\\" in the early 1990s, and appeared in a successful run of the play \\\"'Art'\\\" in 2003 at the Whitehall Theatre in London. In film, he has starred in \\\"Sex Lives of the Potato Men\\\" (2004) and had minor\",\n \"title\": \"Mark Gatiss\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"9388310\",\n \"text\": \"November 2018, with Mark Gatiss playing the king. It follows Scarborough's role as Fortnum in the 1994 film version of the play. In 1993, he was nominated for the Ian Charleson Award and won the \\\"Manchester Evening News\\\" Award for his performance in \\\"The Comedy of Errors\\\" at the Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester. In March 2011 he won a Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role in a revival of the play \\\"After the Dance\\\" by Terence Rattigan. Adrian Scarborough Adrian Philip Scarborough (born 10 May 1968) is an English actor, most widely known for film roles\",\n \"title\": \"Adrian Scarborough\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"3347245\",\n \"text\": \"power tokens between their House card and characters in play to win A Game of Thrones. Numerous cards in the game can change the amount a player or his opponent are required to earn in order to win. Generally, power tokens are earned by winning challenges against an opponent, but some cards allow a player to directly claim power for his House card or characters in other ways. At the beginning of the game, each player shuffles their \\\"draw\\\" deck, and draws the top 7 cards, with an option for a \\\"mulligan\\\" given to each player to shuffle and draw\",\n \"title\": \"A Game of Thrones (card game)\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"15822103\",\n \"text\": \"alongside Judi Dench, Mark Gatiss, Catherine Tate. The play, directed by Josie Rourke, run from 24 April 2015 to 7 May 2015. On 7 May the play was broadcast live on More4 from the Donmar stage. Madalena made her solo concert debut in London 'Don't Cry For Me' on 25 July 2015, at St. James Studio, with Alfonso Casado as MD, and with Sophie Evans, Ceilli O’Connor, Simon Bailey, Jade Anouka and Sam Cassidy as guest artists. In October 2015 Madalena Alberto joined the cast of Andrew Lloyd Webber's CATS at the London Palladium, performing the role of Grizabella. CATS\",\n \"title\": \"Madalena Alberto\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"20240394\",\n \"text\": \"empowerment and true social change, \\\"Game of Thrones\\\" has been it\\\". The Queen's Justice \\\"The Queen's Justice\\\" is the third episode of the seventh season of HBO's fantasy television series \\\"Game of Thrones\\\", and the 63rd overall. The episode was written by series co-creators David Benioff and D. B. Weiss, and directed by Mark Mylod. At Dragonstone, Jon Snow and Davos Seaworth meet with Daenerys Targaryen, whom Jon asks for aid in defeating the White Walkers, but Daenerys iterates her desire to take the Iron Throne instead. In King's Landing, Euron Greyjoy returns bearing gifts to Cersei Lannister, in the\",\n \"title\": \"The Queen's Justice\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"19539697\",\n \"text\": \"Love stated that he had received an email from Benioff offering him a part in the show, saying \\\"I broached the subject by sending them an email back saying 'Listen I don't know what your plans are for me but it would really mean a lot to me if I could have one of those trademark \\\"Game of Thrones\\\" gruesome death scenes, and they wrote back saying 'Actually Steve, that was exactly what we had in mind for you.'\\\" \\\"No One\\\" was directed by Mark Mylod. Mylod previously directed the fifth season episodes \\\"High Sparrow\\\" and \\\"Sons of the Harpy\\\".\",\n \"title\": \"No One (Game of Thrones)\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"15562733\",\n \"text\": \"while trying to protect his family from their rivals the Lannisters. He uncovers the dark secrets about the Lannisters that his predecessor died trying to expose. Meanwhile, in Essos, the exiled Viserys Targaryen, son of the former king, believes he still has the rightful claim to the throne. \\\"Game of Thrones\\\" features a large ensemble cast, including Sean Bean, Mark Addy, Peter Dinklage, Lena Headey, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Michelle Fairley and Iain Glen. Newer actors were cast as the younger generation of characters, such as Kit Harington, Sophie Turner and Maisie Williams. Critics praised the show's production values and cast, with\",\n \"title\": \"Game of Thrones (season 1)\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"3847104\",\n \"text\": \"action moved throughout the large space. The production was well received by critics. In December 2013, Donmar Warehouse opened their new production. It was directed by Josie Rourke, starring Tom Hiddleston in the title role, along with Mark Gatiss, Deborah Findlay, Hadley Fraser, and Birgitte Hjort Sørensen. The production received very strong reviews. Michael Billington with \\\"The Guardian\\\" wrote \\\"A fast, witty, intelligent production that, in Tom Hiddleston, boasts a fine Coriolanus.\\\" He also credited Mark Gatiss as excellent as Menenius, the \\\"humorous patrician\\\". Writer for \\\"Variety\\\", David Benedict wrote that Deborah Findlay in her commanding maternal pride, held beautifully\",\n \"title\": \"Coriolanus\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"17306900\",\n \"text\": \"The Empty Hearse \\\"The Empty Hearse\\\" is the first episode of the third series of the BBC television series \\\"Sherlock\\\". It was written by Mark Gatiss and stars Benedict Cumberbatch as Sherlock Holmes, Martin Freeman as Dr John Watson, and Mark Gatiss as Mycroft Holmes. It also marks the first appearance of Amanda Abbington as Mary Morstan and Lars Mikkelsen as Charles Augustus Magnussen. Inspired by \\\"The Adventure of the Empty House\\\" and \\\"The Lost Special\\\" by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the episode follows Sherlock Holmes' return to London and reunion with John Watson, along with an underground terrorist network.\",\n \"title\": \"The Empty Hearse\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"15864626\",\n \"text\": \"\\\"Rondo Haxton\\\", a homage to the American horror actor Rondo Hatton on whom the character's look was based; Gatiss underwent prosthetics to play the part. Gatiss, who has written for \\\"Doctor Who\\\", also played Professor Richard Lazarus in \\\"The Lazarus Experiment\\\" (2007) and provided the voice of Danny Boy in \\\"Victory of the Daleks\\\". The cast found working with the eye patches strange as they had to act with one eye; Alex Kingston remarked that it made her \\\"slightly dizzy\\\". Actor Karen Gillan was allowed to fire a specially-made machine gun used for films. Churchill's Buckingham Senate was filmed in\",\n \"title\": \"The Wedding of River Song\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"12828413\",\n \"text\": \"developed the way in which Cumberbatch played Holmes. The theme of friendship appealed to both Gatiss and Moffat. Gatiss asserted the importance of achieving the correct tone for the character. \\\"Watson is not an idiot, although it's true that Conan Doyle always took the piss out of him,\\\" said Gatiss. \\\"But only an idiot would surround himself with idiots.\\\" Moffat said that Freeman is \\\"the sort of opposite of Benedict in everything except the amount of talent... Martin finds a sort of poetry in the ordinary man. I love the fastidious realism of everything he does.\\\" Freeman describes his character\",\n \"title\": \"Sherlock (TV series)\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"12801027\",\n \"text\": \"of Thrones\\\" successor series. All of the writers were to be working individually with George R. R. Martin, who also co-wrote two of the scripts. In September 2017, it was announced that \\\"Game of Thrones\\\" writer Bryan Cogman was developing the fifth prequel series. D. B. Weiss and David Benioff said that they would not be involved with any of the projects, and want to enjoy the successor series as fans. Martin said that all the concepts under discussion were prequels, though he believes the term \\\"successor show\\\" applies better to these projects, as they are not \\\"Game of Thrones\\\"\",\n \"title\": \"Game of Thrones\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"19233183\",\n \"text\": \"Brenock O'Connor Brenock Grant O'Connor (born 9 April 2000) is an English actor and singer best known for his role as Olly in the HBO fantasy TV series \\\"Game of Thrones\\\". O'Connor went to Chatsmore Catholic High School in Goring, and attended The Theatre Workshop Stage School in Brighton. He started performing on stage at the age of six in the Hammond Pantomimes at the Pavilion Theatre in Worthing, and won a theatre scholarship while attending. Brenock O'Connor plays Olly in the HBO fantasy television series \\\"Game of Thrones\\\", a character introduced in the show, but does not make an\",\n \"title\": \"Brenock O'Connor\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"15065652\",\n \"text\": \"A History of Horror A History of Horror (also known as \\\"A History of Horror with Mark Gatiss\\\") is a 2010 three-part documentary series made for the BBC by British writer and actor Mark Gatiss. It is a personal exploration of the history of horror film, inspired by Gatiss's lifelong enthusiasm for the genre. The documentary was directed by John Das (episodes one and three) and Rachel Jardine (episode two); series consultant was actor and film historian Jonathan Rigby. The series was initially broadcast in the United Kingdom on BBC Four from 11 to 25 October 2010. Each of the\",\n \"title\": \"A History of Horror\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"20886589\",\n \"text\": \"Reigns: Game of Thrones Reigns: Game of Thrones is a strategy video game developed by Nerial in partnership with HBO and published by Devolver Digital. As the third entry in and a spin-off from the \\\"Reigns\\\" series, after \\\"Reigns\\\" (2016) and \\\"\\\" (2017), the game is based on characters from the \\\"Game of Thrones\\\" franchise. \\\"Reigns: Game of Thrones\\\" was released on 18 October 2018 for Android, iOS, Linux, macOS and Microsoft Windows. \\\"Reigns: Game of Thrones\\\" plays similarly to its predecessors. Described as a \\\"swipe 'em up\\\", the game allows the player to be one of the principals from\",\n \"title\": \"Reigns: Game of Thrones\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"8115017\",\n \"text\": \"mother, Trisha. Sosanya played the character Alibe Silver in \\\"Treasure Island\\\" (2012). She has played a main character, Kate McKenzie, in series one to three of the BBC original drama \\\"Last Tango in Halifax\\\" during 2012–2015, and a main character, Lucy Freeman, in the TV series \\\"W1A\\\" in 2014. In 2015, she starred with Catherine Tate and Mark Gatiss in a new play, \\\"The Vote\\\", in the run-up to the UK 2015 General Election. In 2016, she started in the play \\\"Young Chekhov\\\" trilogy and as DCI Laura Porter in the ITV series \\\"Marcella\\\". In 2014 she appeared in the\",\n \"title\": \"Nina Sosanya\"\n }\n]","isConversational":false}}},{"rowIdx":293,"cells":{"query_id":{"kind":"string","value":"295"},"query":{"kind":"string","value":"which article of the constitution describes the amendment process"},"answers":{"kind":"list like","value":["Five"],"string":"[\n \"Five\"\n]","isConversational":false},"positive_passages":{"kind":"list like","value":[{"docid":"428155","text":"Article Five of the United States Constitution Article Five of the United States Constitution describes the process whereby the Constitution, the nation's frame of government, may be altered. Under Article V, the process to alter the Constitution consists of proposing an amendment or amendments, and subsequent ratification. Amendments may be proposed either by the Congress with a two-thirds vote in both the House of Representatives and the Senate or by a convention of states called for by two-thirds of the state legislatures. To become part of the Constitution, an amendment must be ratified by either—as determined by Congress—the legislatures of","title":"Article Five of the United States Constitution"},{"docid":"428186","text":"unanimous assent of the States' legislatures. Article Five of the United States Constitution Article Five of the United States Constitution describes the process whereby the Constitution, the nation's frame of government, may be altered. Under Article V, the process to alter the Constitution consists of proposing an amendment or amendments, and subsequent ratification. Amendments may be proposed either by the Congress with a two-thirds vote in both the House of Representatives and the Senate or by a convention of states called for by two-thirds of the state legislatures. To become part of the Constitution, an amendment must be ratified by","title":"Article Five of the United States Constitution"},{"docid":"428155","text":"Article Five of the United States Constitution Article Five of the United States Constitution describes the process whereby the Constitution, the nation's frame of government, may be altered. Under Article V, the process to alter the Constitution consists of proposing an amendment or amendments, and subsequent ratification. Amendments may be proposed either by the Congress with a two-thirds vote in both the House of Representatives and the Senate or by a convention of states called for by two-thirds of the state legislatures. To become part of the Constitution, an amendment must be ratified by either—as determined by Congress—the legislatures of","title":"Article Five of the United States Constitution"},{"docid":"1901807","text":"before and after the results were finalized for the same reasons. Article Five of the United States Constitution describes the process whereby the federal Constitution may be altered. Twenty-seven amendments have been added (appended as codicils) to the Constitution. Amendment proposals may be adopted and sent to the states for ratification by either: All thirty-three amendment proposals that have been sent to the states for ratification since the establishment of the Constitution have come into being via the Congress. State legislatures have however, at various times, used their power to apply for a national convention in order to pressure Congress","title":"Constitutional amendment"},{"docid":"19690054","text":"in support of the 17th Amendment (Direct Election of Senators). The proposition asks, \"Shall California's elected officials use all of their constitutional authority, including, but not limited to, proposing and ratifying\" constitutional amendment(s) to overturn \"Citizens United\". Under Article Five of the U.S. Constitution, the process for amending the Constitution can only be initiated by either Congress or a national convention assembled at the request of the legislatures of at least two-thirds (at present 34) of the states. Then, at least three-fourths (at present 38) of the states must approve the proposed amendment before it becomes law. 2016 California Proposition","title":"2016 California Proposition 59"}],"string":"[\n {\n \"docid\": \"428155\",\n \"text\": \"Article Five of the United States Constitution Article Five of the United States Constitution describes the process whereby the Constitution, the nation's frame of government, may be altered. Under Article V, the process to alter the Constitution consists of proposing an amendment or amendments, and subsequent ratification. Amendments may be proposed either by the Congress with a two-thirds vote in both the House of Representatives and the Senate or by a convention of states called for by two-thirds of the state legislatures. To become part of the Constitution, an amendment must be ratified by either—as determined by Congress—the legislatures of\",\n \"title\": \"Article Five of the United States Constitution\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"428186\",\n \"text\": \"unanimous assent of the States' legislatures. Article Five of the United States Constitution Article Five of the United States Constitution describes the process whereby the Constitution, the nation's frame of government, may be altered. Under Article V, the process to alter the Constitution consists of proposing an amendment or amendments, and subsequent ratification. 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Then, at least three-fourths (at present 38) of the states must approve the proposed amendment before it becomes law. 2016 California Proposition\",\n \"title\": \"2016 California Proposition 59\"\n }\n]","isConversational":false},"negative_passages":{"kind":"list like","value":[{"docid":"5758072","text":"provisions for amending the constitution. The 79th Article of the Constitution describes how to enact amendments to the constitution. In order for an amendment to be passed, it must be approved by two consecutive parliamentary assemblies, with a general election in between. The president of Iceland must also confirm any amendment as provided by general law. Several articles in the constitution, however, are exempt from this process and can be changed by ordinary legislation. For example, the 35th article deals with the assembly time of Parliament, and this may be changed by general law. The 62nd article defines the State","title":"Constitution of Iceland"},{"docid":"5886512","text":"the main body that an amendment has made inoperative), amendments to the New Hampshire constitution change the text in place. Although a law book with annotations describes amendments to the text, the actual amendment is not included in a presentation of the constitution; only the text as the amendment revised it. An amendment will sometimes add an article; for instance, an article following Article 12 will be called Article 12-a. Amendments are proposed both to make policy changes and to make clerical changes such as gender neutrality. Part II, Article 100 of the constitution provides for the following two methods","title":"Constitution of New Hampshire"},{"docid":"428180","text":"a \"double amendment\" process, contrasting the U.S. Constitution with other constitutions that explicitly protect certain provisions from ever being amended and are themselves protected from being amended. Another legal scholar, Akhil Amar, argues that the equal suffrage provision could be amended through a two-step process, but describes that process as a \"sly scheme.\" Some other legal scholars, including Thomas A. Baker and Douglas Linder, have rejected the notion that the equal suffrage provision could ever be amended without the consent of each state. According to constitutional theorist and scholar Lawrence G. Sager, some commentators have seriously questioned whether Article V","title":"Article Five of the United States Constitution"},{"docid":"7708391","text":"the constitution could be revoked or limited by amendment of the constitution. The Supreme Court delivered its ruling, by a majority of 6-5 on 27 February 1967. The Court held that an amendment of the Constitution is a legislative process, and that an amendment under article 368 is \"law\" within the meaning of article 13 of the Constitution and therefore, if an amendment \"takes away or abridges\" a Fundamental Right conferred by Part III, it is void. Article 13(2) reads, \"The State shall not make any law which takes away or abridges the right conferred by this Part and any","title":"Basic structure doctrine"},{"docid":"17720375","text":"majority of 6-5 on 27 February 1967. The Court held that an amendment of the Constitution is a legislative process, and that an amendment under article 368 is \"law\" within the meaning of article 13 of the Constitution and therefore, if an amendment \"takes away or abridges\" a Fundamental Right conferred by Part III, it is void. Article 13(2) reads, \"The State shall not make any law which takes away or abridges the right conferred by this Part and any law made in contravention of this clause shall, to the extent of contravention, be void.\" The Court also ruled that","title":"Twenty-fourth Amendment of the Constitution of India"},{"docid":"17859122","text":"Twentieth Amendment to the Constitution of Pakistan The Twentieth Amendment Bill to the Constitution of Pakistan (Urdu: آئین پاکستان میں بیسویں ترمیم) was passed by the National Assembly of Pakistan on February 14, 2012. It was then moved to upper house, Senate where it was passed on February 20, 2012 and signed by the President on February 28, 2012. The amendments were done in Article 48, Article 214, Article 215, Article 216, Article 218, Article 219, Article 224, Article 224A, and to the Second & Third Schedule to the Constitution of Pakistan.It has set down a process to install a","title":"Twentieth Amendment to the Constitution of Pakistan"},{"docid":"428185","text":"which free governments are destroyed. The precedent must always greatly overbalance in permanent evil any partial or transient benefit which the use can at any time yield. This statement by Washington has become controversial, and scholars disagree about whether it still describes the proper constitutional order in the United States. Scholars who dismiss Washington's position often argue that the Constitution itself was adopted without following the procedures in the Articles of Confederation, while Constitutional attorney Michael Farris disagrees, saying the Convention was a product of the States' residual power, and the amendment in adoption process was legal, having received the","title":"Article Five of the United States Constitution"},{"docid":"427837","text":"that end, which are not prohibited, but consist with the letter and spirit of the Constitution, are Constitutional.\" Article Two describes the office, qualifications, and duties of the President of the United States and the Vice President. The President is head of the executive branch of the federal government, as well as the nation's head of state and head of government. Article two is modified by the 12th Amendment which tacitly acknowledges political parties, and the 25th Amendment relating to office succession. The president is to receive only one compensation from the federal government. The inaugural oath is specified to","title":"United States Constitution"},{"docid":"3955929","text":"Utah Constitutional Amendment 3 Utah Constitutional Amendment 3 was an amendment to the Utah state constitution that sought to define marriage as a union exclusively between a man and woman. It passed in the November 2, 2004, election, as did similar amendments in ten other states. The amendment, which added Article 1, Section 29, to the Utah Constitution, reads: On December 20, 2013, federal judge Robert J. Shelby of the U.S. District Court for Utah struck down Amendment 3 as unconstitutional under the Due Process and Equal Protection clauses of the U.S. Constitution. Both pro and anti amendment groups formed","title":"Utah Constitutional Amendment 3"},{"docid":"2297143","text":"law. The Constitution also sets out methods for its own amendment either by referendum or through a Parliamentary process with Presidential consent. The normal procedure of constitutional amendment is as follows: the amendment must be adopted in identical terms by both houses of Parliament, then must be either adopted by a simple majority in a referendum, or by 3/5 of a joint session of both houses of Parliament (the French Congress) (article 89). However, president Charles de Gaulle bypassed the legislative procedure in 1962 and directly sent a constitutional amendment to a referendum (article 11), which was adopted. This was","title":"Constitution of France"},{"docid":"14033954","text":"Amendment of the Constitution of India Amending the Constitution of India is the process of making changes to the nation's fundamental law or supreme law. The procedure of amendment in the constitution is laid down in Part XX (Article 368) of the Constitution of India. This procedure ensures the sanctity of the Constitution of India and keeps a check on arbitrary power of the Parliament of India. However, there is another limitation imposed on the amending power of the constitution of India, which developed during conflicts between the Supreme Court and Parliament, where Parliament wants to exercise discretionary use of","title":"Amendment of the Constitution of India"},{"docid":"14033998","text":"included the following: Amendment of the Constitution of India Amending the Constitution of India is the process of making changes to the nation's fundamental law or supreme law. The procedure of amendment in the constitution is laid down in Part XX (Article 368) of the Constitution of India. This procedure ensures the sanctity of the Constitution of India and keeps a check on arbitrary power of the Parliament of India. However, there is another limitation imposed on the amending power of the constitution of India, which developed during conflicts between the Supreme Court and Parliament, where Parliament wants to exercise","title":"Amendment of the Constitution of India"},{"docid":"14033972","text":"added a new clause (4) in article 13 which reads, \"Nothing in this article shall apply to any amendment of this Constitution made under article 368.\" The provisions in \"italics\" were inserted by the 42nd Amendment but were later declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court in \"Minerva Mills v. Union of India\" in 1980. After the 24th amendment, Article 4(2), etc. of the constitution are superseded/made void by article 368 (1) which is the only procedure for amending the constitution however marginal may be the nature of the amendment. Supreme court ruled that the constituent power under article 368 must","title":"Amendment of the Constitution of India"},{"docid":"13232084","text":"Article Two of the Constitution of Georgia (U.S. state) Article Two of the Georgia State Constitution describes the process for voting and elections in Georgia. This process includes the method of voting and the right to register and vote, general provisions and the suspension and removal of public officials. Section I of Article Two of the Georgia State Constitution is made up of three paragraphs which detail the method of voting and the right to register and vote. The first paragraph of this section stipulates that all elections by the people will be through secret ballot and will follow legal","title":"Article Two of the Constitution of Georgia (U.S. state)"},{"docid":"1901803","text":"says the following under Article 235 of \"Chapter XII: Amending the Constitution\" within it: The Constitution is amendable through the terms prescribed under \"Title II: Revision of the Constitution\" of \"Part IX: Guaranteeing and Revision of the Constitution\" between Articles 284 and 289. The Constitution of Romania mentions and outlines the terms by which it can be amended in \"Article 150: Amendment Initiative,\" \"Article 151: Amendment Procedure,\" and \"Article 152: Limits to Constitutional Amendments.\" All three articles are written under \"Title VII: Amendment of the Constitution\" of the document. The Constitution of Russia was created by the Russian Federation in","title":"Constitutional amendment"},{"docid":"17690154","text":"under Clause (2) of the said article. State Legislatures that ratified the amendment are listed below: Did not ratify: Sixty-first Amendment of the Constitution of India The Sixty-first Amendment of the Constitution of India, officially known as The Constitution (Sixty-first Amendment) Act, 1988, lowered the voting age of elections to the Lok Sabha and to the Legislative Assemblies of States from 21 years to 18 years. This was done by amending Article 326 of the Constitution, which concerns elections to the Lok Sabha and the Assemblies. The full text of Article 326 of the Constitution, after the 61st Amendment, is","title":"Sixty-first Amendment of the Constitution of India"},{"docid":"5525529","text":"State ratifying conventions State ratifying conventions are one of the two methods established by Article V of the United States Constitution for \"ratifying\" proposed constitutional amendments. The only amendment that has been ratified through this method thus far is the 21st Amendment. Article V reads in pertinent part (italics added): Ratification of a proposed amendment has been done by state conventions only once—the 1933 ratification process of the 21st Amendment. The 21st is also the only constitutional amendment that repealed another one, that being the 18th Amendment, which had been ratified 14 years earlier. As is true for a state","title":"State ratifying conventions"},{"docid":"11024549","text":"Defines the structure of the legal system and form of the republic. Describes the structure of the government. Codifies the administrative districts of Mongolia and describes the relationship between national and local government. Establishes a Constitutional Court to make rulings on interpretation of the constitution. Describes the amendment process for changing the constitution. Constitution of Mongolia Constitution of Mongolia (, \"Mongol Ulsīn Ündsen Húlĭ\", \"General Law of the Mongolian State\") is the constitution of Mongolia. It was adopted on January 13, 1992, put into force on February 12, and amended in 1999 and 2001. The new constitution established a representative","title":"Constitution of Mongolia"},{"docid":"14033989","text":"Anr\". An amendment was struck down on the basis that it violated Article 13: \"The State shall not make any law which takes away or abridges the rights conferred by [the charter of Fundamental Rights]\". The term \"law\" in this article was interpreted as including a constitutional amendment. Parliament responded by enacting the twenty-fourth Amendment of the Constitution of India which declared that \"nothing in Article 13 shall apply to any amendment of this Constitution\". The current limitation on amendments comes from \"Kesavananda Bharati v. The State of Kerala\", where the Supreme Court ruled that amendments of the constitution must","title":"Amendment of the Constitution of India"},{"docid":"11001445","text":"Chapter XVIII of the United Nations Charter Chapter XVIII of the United Nations Charter deals with amendments. The process is essentially modeled after the amendment process for the United States Constitution in that: There have been several amendments to the United Nations Charter since 1945, mostly to reflect increases in the size of the organization. However, the fundamental structure has remained the same. Nonetheless, the UN amendment process arguably favors the flexibility and continued existence of the organization more than the League of Nations amendment process specified by Article 26 of the Covenant of the League of Nations, which stated,","title":"Chapter XVIII of the United Nations Charter"},{"docid":"3168944","text":"was made to the Constitution after it was signed into law by the President of Ireland, who was then Éamon de Valera, the man who had drafted the original article. Fifth Amendment of the Constitution of Ireland The Fifth Amendment of the Constitution Act 1972 is an amendment to the Constitution of Ireland which deleted two subsections that recognised the special position of the Catholic Church and that recognised other named religious denominations. It was approved by referendum on 7 December 1972 and signed into law on 5 January 1973. The amendment renumbered Article 44.1.1º as Article 41.1 and deleted","title":"Fifth Amendment of the Constitution of Ireland"},{"docid":"3168937","text":"Fifth Amendment of the Constitution of Ireland The Fifth Amendment of the Constitution Act 1972 is an amendment to the Constitution of Ireland which deleted two subsections that recognised the special position of the Catholic Church and that recognised other named religious denominations. It was approved by referendum on 7 December 1972 and signed into law on 5 January 1973. The amendment renumbered Article 44.1.1º as Article 41.1 and deleted the following two subsections from Article 41.1: In drafting the Irish constitution in 1936 and 1937, Éamon de Valera and his advisers chose to reflect what had been a contemporary","title":"Fifth Amendment of the Constitution of Ireland"},{"docid":"427974","text":"in the Supreme Court's seminal decision, \"Buckley v. Valeo\" (1976), which, in the face of a First Amendment challenge, set the ground rules for campaign finance legislation, generally disallowing restrictions on expenditures by candidates, but permitting restrictions on contributions by individuals and corporations. In addition to statutory constraints, Congress and the States have altered the electoral process through amending the Constitution (first in the above mentioned Fifteenth Amendment). The Seventeenth Amendment altered the manner of conducting the elections of Senators; establishing that they are to be elected by the people of the states. Also, the Nineteenth Amendment prohibits any U.S.","title":"Article One of the United States Constitution"},{"docid":"3221585","text":"and seas, to be part of the Irish nation\" was affected by the Twenty-seventh Amendment of the Constitution of Ireland, passed in 2004. That amendment did not alter the text of Article 2 but instead inserted a new section in Article 9 which limited the constitutional right to citizenship by birth to individuals with a least one Irish-citizen parent. Nineteenth Amendment of the Constitution of Ireland The Nineteenth Amendment of the Constitution Act, 1998 (previously bill no. 24 of 1998) is an amendment of the Constitution of Ireland which permitted the state to be bound by the Good Friday Agreement","title":"Nineteenth Amendment of the Constitution of Ireland"},{"docid":"428160","text":"propose Constitutional amendments. The second method requires Congress, \"on the application of the legislatures of two-thirds of the several states\" (presently 34), to \"call a convention for proposing amendments\". This duality in Article V is the result of compromises made during the 1787 Constitutional Convention between two groups, one maintaining that the national legislature should have no role in the constitutional amendment process, and another contending that proposals to amend the constitution should originate in the national legislature and their ratification should be decided by state legislatures or state conventions. Regarding the consensus amendment process crafted during the convention, James","title":"Article Five of the United States Constitution"},{"docid":"10771419","text":"as provisions of the Constitution, such that it could be amended only by referendum. Article 40.3.3º reads The Twenty-fifth amendment would have ultimately added two sub-sections immediately following, as Article 40.3.4º and 40.3.5º: The proposed text of 40.3.5º would have ensured that the provisions of Article 46 on Amendments to the Constitution and Article 47 on Referendums would apply to any amendment of this Act. The Twenty-fifth Amendment of the Constitution (Protection of Human Life in Pregnancy) Bill 2001 included the text of a proposed Act which would regulate the termination of pregnancy. It would have repealed Sections 58 and","title":"Twenty-fifth Amendment of the Constitution Bill 2002"},{"docid":"17690151","text":"Sixty-first Amendment of the Constitution of India The Sixty-first Amendment of the Constitution of India, officially known as The Constitution (Sixty-first Amendment) Act, 1988, lowered the voting age of elections to the Lok Sabha and to the Legislative Assemblies of States from 21 years to 18 years. This was done by amending Article 326 of the Constitution, which concerns elections to the Lok Sabha and the Assemblies. The full text of Article 326 of the Constitution, after the 61st Amendment, is given below: The bill of \"The Constitution (Sixty-first Amendment) Act, 1988\" was introduced in the Lok Sabha on 13","title":"Sixty-first Amendment of the Constitution of India"},{"docid":"5401272","text":"describes the two ways the constitution may be amended: by popular convention or through legislation. Legislation is the most common way to amend the constitution. The last time the constitution was amended by convention was in 1875. In a legislative action, an amendment must pass by three-fifths in both houses of the General Assembly and also obtain a majority of a popular vote. The final article of the constitution covers topics not under other articles. Topics of sections in this article include: As per the Federal Supremacy Clause, all Federal law and the Constitution of the United States overrule the","title":"Constitution of North Carolina"},{"docid":"14215216","text":"states: Article 9(1) embodies the concept of the rule of law, an early expression of which was the 39th article of the Magna Carta of 1215: \"No freeman shall be taken captive or imprisoned, or deprived of his lands, or outlawed, or exiled, or in any way destroyed, nor will we go with force against him nor send forces against him, except by the lawful judgment of his peers or by the law of the land.\" Article 9(1) is similar, but by no means identical, to the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution which","title":"Article 9 of the Constitution of Singapore"},{"docid":"17828053","text":"Sixtieth Amendment of the Constitution of India The Sixtieth Amendment of the Constitution of India, officially known as The Constitution (Sixtieth Amendment) Act, 1988, amended article 276 of the Constitution relating to taxes on professions, trades, callings and employments. Section 2 of the Act amended Clause (2) of article 276 of the Constitution to increase the ceiling of tax on professions, trades, callings and employments from per person per annum to 2500 per person per annum. The 60th Amendment also omitted the proviso to clause (2) of article 276. The full text of clause(2) of Article 276 of the Constitution,","title":"Sixtieth Amendment of the Constitution of India"},{"docid":"17695452","text":"\"Constitution (Fifth Amendment) Bill\" would take a very long time to be disposed of, as it sought to amend several articles. In order to achieve this, the \"Constitution (Seventh Amendment) Bill, 1955\" (Bill No. 63 of 1955) which sought to amend article 3, was introduced in the Lok Sabha on 28 November 1955, by C.C. Biswas. Clause 2 of this Bill, which sought to amend article 3, was exactly similar to the corresponding clause of the Constitution (Fifth Amendment) Bill, 1955. A motion to refer the Seventh Amendment Bill to the a Select Committee was moved on 30 November 1955.","title":"Fifth Amendment of the Constitution of India"},{"docid":"14033981","text":"a Latin phrase, which in law, describes someone taking precautions against a very remote contingency. By strictly adhering to article 368, the provision is intended to ensure the validity of the procedure adopted, but also guard against the possibility of violation of the spirit and scheme of that article 29 by the consideration of a Bill seeking to amend the Constitution including its consideration clause by clause being concluded in the House with only the bare quorum present. Voting at all the above stages is by division. However, the Speaker may, with the concurrence of the House, put any group","title":"Amendment of the Constitution of India"},{"docid":"5514675","text":"to amend the Constitution, the number of states applying for a convention has nearly reached the required threshold several times. Congress has proposed amendments to the Constitution on several occasions, at least in part, because of the threat of an Article V Convention. Rather than risk such a convention taking control of the amendment process away from it, Congress acted pre-emptively to propose the amendments instead. The Bill of Rights, which includes the first ten amendments, as well as the Twenty-seventh Amendment, were proposed in part because of a Convention application by the New York and Virginia legislatures at the","title":"Convention to propose amendments to the United States Constitution"},{"docid":"9719169","text":"on 9 April and came to effect on 15 June 2008. The Constitution of the Republic of Kosovo can be changed through the amendment process (article 144). Constitutional amendments are added to it, altering its effect. The foreword of the constitution reads: Article 7, ensures the values and freedoms by the rule of law, equality same as respect, gender equality and social justice and the neutrality towards religion by the article 8 of the Constitution. The constitution guides Kosovo's law and political culture. Writers were influenced mostly by two documents: the Ahtisaari plan and the fourhand – and the United","title":"Constitution of Kosovo"},{"docid":"19418919","text":"Amendments to the Constitution of Bangladesh The Constitution of the People's Republic of Bangladesh was adopted and enacted on 4 November 1972, after the victory of the independent country on 16 December 1971. the Constitution has been amended 17 times. Amending the Constitution of Bangladesh is the process of making changes to the nation's fundamental law or supreme law. Passed on 17 July 1973, the first amended was made to the Article 47 of the constitution. The amendment inserted an additional clause, Article 47(3) that allowed punishment and prosecution of war criminals under international law. A new Article 47A was","title":"Amendments to the Constitution of Bangladesh"},{"docid":"4444890","text":"would be decided by a majority of votes cast and if rejected the bill would not become law. Article 47 did not apply to money bills or bills declared by both houses to be \"necessary for the immediate preservation of the public peace, health or safety\". The Constitution (Amendment No. 10) Act, passed on 12 July 1928, repealed Article 47 in its entirety, along with Article 48 which provided for an initiative process. A similar power given to the Free State Seanad by Article 47 is granted to the modern Seanad by the 1937 Constitution of Ireland. Under the current","title":"Oireachtas of the Irish Free State"},{"docid":"9791003","text":"vote had been won by Concannon's side \"I am certifying the Constitution (Amendment No. 23) Bill, 1934, under Article 38A of the Constitution, as containing only such modification as is necessary owing to the time which has elapsed since that Bill was first sent by the Dáil to the Seanad.\" Later on when the amendment seemed not to be taking place Concannon placed a question asking about whether moves have been made to begin the process to which W.T. Cosgrave responded that Concannon had been forced to ask the question \"The Minister wants to introduce legislation to deal with this,","title":"Helena Concannon"},{"docid":"20135977","text":"Constitution (Amendment No. 11) Act 1929 The Constitution (Amendment No. 11) Act 1929 was an Act amending the Constitution of the Irish Free State. It amended Article 34 of the constitution regarding the filling of casual vacancies in Seanad Eireann. As enacted, Article 34 provided that vacancies would be filled by a vote of the Seanad. Under the 11th amendment, the provision was changed to provide that the vote would be by members of Dail Eireann and Seanad Eireann voting together (which remains the procedure to this day under the 1937 constitution). The Act became obsolete on the repeal of","title":"Constitution (Amendment No. 11) Act 1929"},{"docid":"1644479","text":"of government; an executive, a bicameral legislature, and an independent judiciary. The design of this system, unique at the time, was created to ensure the proper separation of power between the different entities. The framers of the state constitution intended by this means to prevent the abuse of power by any one branch. One hundred and twenty Articles of Amendment have been added to the Massachusetts Constitution. The most recent one disqualified incarcerated felons from voting and was approved by a vote of 60.3% to 33.9% in 2000. The amendment process is governed by the 48th Article of Amendment to","title":"Constitution of Massachusetts"},{"docid":"14033984","text":"down in article 368, in case the amendment seeks to make any change in any of the provisions mentioned in the proviso to article 368. The only other provision for constitutional changes by state legislatures is to initiate the process for creating or abolishing Legislative Councils in their respective legislatures, and to give their views on a proposed Parliamentary bill seeking to affect the area, boundaries or name of any State or States which has been referred to them under the proviso to Article 3. However, this referral does not restrict Parliament's power to make any further amendments of the","title":"Amendment of the Constitution of India"},{"docid":"1901821","text":"referendums only 8 have been successful. The Constitution of Brazil states various terms on how it can be amended. Article 60 lies within \"Section VIII: The Legislative Process, Subsection 2: Amendments to the Constitution.\" The following is detailed therein: Article 60 is the only article prescribed under Subsection 2 of Section 8 in the Brazilian constitution. The Constitution of the Federal Democratic of Ethiopia can only be modified by a simple majority of the states, two-thirds majority of the house of peoples representatives, and two-thirds majority of the house of federation. Chapters 39 of the constitution of Ethiopia cannot be","title":"Constitutional amendment"},{"docid":"17699649","text":"was notified in \"The Gazette of India\" on the same date. It retroactively came into effect on the date on which the Bill for this amendment Act was introduced in the Rajya Sabha (i.e., 20 December 1989). The Act was passed in accordance with the provisions of Article 368 of the Constitution, and was ratified by more than half of the State Legislatures, as required under Clause (2) of the said article. State Legislatures that ratified the amendment are listed below: Did not ratify: Sixty-second Amendment of the Constitution of India The Sixty-second Amendment of the Constitution of India, officially","title":"Sixty-second Amendment of the Constitution of India"},{"docid":"17709481","text":"Twentieth Amendment of the Constitution of India The Twentieth Amendment of the Constitution of India, officially known as The Constitution (Twentieth Amendment) Act, 1966, inserted a new article 233A inter alia validating the appointments, postings, promotions, and transfers of and judgements, delivered before the commencement of the present Act, by district judges who were appointed, posted, promoted or transferred as a district judge in any State otherwise than in accordance with the provisions of article 233 or article 235 of the Constitution. The \"Constitution (Twentieth Amendment) Act, 1966 \"was introduced in the Lok Sabha on 25 November 1966, as the","title":"Twentieth Amendment of the Constitution of India"},{"docid":"3168922","text":"participate in the election of the President and in referendums, so the amendment affected these votes as well. The amendment did not, however, affect the minimum age at which one could be elected to the Dáil, and this remained at twenty-one. It was submitted to a referendum on the same day as the Fifth Amendment, which removed from the constitution reference to the \"special position\" of the Catholic Church and recognition of certain other named denominations. The Amendment altered the text of Article 16.1.2º in the following manner: Deletion from Article (removed text in bold): Addition to Article 16.1.2 (added","title":"Fourth Amendment of the Constitution of Ireland"},{"docid":"428297","text":"as the federal judiciary and direct taxation, intact. On November 20, 1789, New Jersey ratified eleven of the twelve amendments, rejecting Article II, which regulated Congressional pay raises. On December 19 and 22, respectively, Maryland and North Carolina ratified all twelve amendments. On January 19, 25, and 28, 1790, respectively, South Carolina, New Hampshire, and Delaware ratified the Bill, though New Hampshire rejected the amendment on Congressional pay raises, and Delaware rejected Article I, which regulated the size of the House. This brought the total of ratifying states to six of the required ten, but the process stalled in other","title":"Third Amendment to the United States Constitution"},{"docid":"16906736","text":"4 (2) got superseded by the 24th amendment in the year 1971 to Article 368 (Power of Parliament to amend the Constitution and Procedure there for). was added by 24th amendment which says that notwithstanding anything in this Constitution, parliament may in exercise of its constituent power amend by way of addition, variation or repeal any provision of this Constitution in accordance with the procedure laid down in this article. Constituent power means eligibility to frame constitution and make amendments to the constitution. Supreme court observed that article 368 (1) clearly defined the scope of constituent power which is power","title":"Part I of the Constitution of India"},{"docid":"3169018","text":"Supreme Court under Article 26 of the Constitution. In a judgment delivered on 8 February 1984, they found the bill to be unconstitutional. In response, the government then proposed a constitutional amendment which would specifically allow the franchise in elections to Dáil Éireann to be extended to non-Irish citizens. This did not affect presidential elections or referendums, where the text of the Constitution continued to specify citizens only. Deletion of the entirety of Article 16.1.2º: Substitution of new Article 16.1.2º: Amendment to Article 16.1.3º by the addition of the text in bold: Under the provisions of the Referendum Act 1984,","title":"Ninth Amendment of the Constitution of Ireland"},{"docid":"5562630","text":"As Mississippi has only four districts, a strict interpretation of this section makes it impossible to propose an amendment via initiative. The Article excludes certain portions of the Constitution that can be amended by initiative; for example, any of the sections in Article 3 (Bill of Rights) are off-limits. The Article also discusses the procedures in the event that a Legislature-proposed amendment is similar to that of an initiative-proposed amendment. Sections 274 through 285 contain transitional provisions. Previously the Article contained Sections 286 and 287 which were classified as \"ADDITIONAL SECTIONS OF THE CONSTITUTION OF MISSISSIPPI NOT BEING AMENDMENTS OF","title":"Constitution of Mississippi"},{"docid":"18312670","text":"within the two cities combined voted for joining. However, a vast majority of voters in Allegheny voted in opposition; thus, most of the votes in favor came from Pittsburgh. But because the majority of the total votes were in favor, the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania ruled the union constitutional under Pennsylvania law. Plaintiffs appealed under the United States Constitution Article 1 section 10 paragraph 1 (contract clause) and Amendment 14 (due process clause). The United States Supreme Court unanimously ruled that the Pennsylvania law violated neither Article 1 nor Amendment 14 of the United States Constitution. Some important lines from","title":"Hunter v. City of Pittsburgh"},{"docid":"17714915","text":"Twenty-second Amendment of the Constitution of India The Twenty-second Amendment of the Constitution of India, officially known as The Constitution (Twenty-second Amendment) Act, 1969, inserted new article 244A in the Constitution to empower Parliament to enact a law for constituting an autonomous State within the State of Assam and also to provide the autonomous State with Legislature or a Council of Ministers or both with such powers and functions as may be defined by that law. The 21st Amendment amended article 275 in regard to sums and grants payable to the autonomous State on and from its formation under article","title":"Twenty-second Amendment of the Constitution of India"},{"docid":"16967614","text":"is made up of articles 35-45, states that there shall be a Governor of the British Virgin Islands and describes the appointment process for that office. The chapter also sets out how the duties and powers of the Governor are determined, making reference to the role of the Queen through her Secretary of State. Article 37 of the chapter describes the times when an Acting Governor is required and the appointment process for that position. The fourth chapter, which is made up of articles 46-61, sets out the structure and composition of the Executive. Article 46 provides that executive authority","title":"Constitution of the British Virgin Islands"},{"docid":"17723283","text":"Forty-first Amendment of the Constitution of India The Forty-first Amendment of the Constitution of India, officially known as The Constitution (Forty-first Amendment) Act, 1976, raised the age of retirement of the Chairman and members of the State Public Service Commissions from 60 to 62 years, by amending article 316(2) of the Constitution. The relevant amended text of clause (2) of article 316, after the 41st Amendment, is given below: \"The Constitution (Forty-first Amendment) Act, 1976\" was introduced in the Lok Sabha on 26 August 1976, as the \"Constitution (Forty-third Amendment) Bill, 1976\" (Bill No. 85 of 1976). It was introduced","title":"Forty-first Amendment of the Constitution of India"},{"docid":"8276299","text":"those articles that have been declared revisable. Neither Chamber can consider amendments to the Constitution unless at least two-thirds of its members are present and the Constitution can only be amended if at least two-thirds of the votes cast are in favour of the amendment. There are further restrictions on the power of the Federal Parliament to amend the Constitution. Article 196 of the Constitution provides that the process to amend the Constitution cannot be initiated or continued in times of war or when the Federal Parliament is unable to freely meet in Belgium. Article 197 also provides that the","title":"Constitution of Belgium"},{"docid":"14033971","text":"possible one-t part-xx Article 368 (1) of the Constitution of India grants constituent power to make formal amendments and empowers Parliament to amend the Constitution by way of addition, variation or repeal of any provision according to the procedure laid down therein, which is different from the procedure for ordinary legislation. Article 368 has been amended by the 24th and 42nd Amendments in 1971 and 1976 respectively. The following is the full text of Article 368 of the Constitution, which governs constitutional amendments. New clauses 368 (1) and 368 (3) were added by the 24th Amendment in 1971, which also","title":"Amendment of the Constitution of India"},{"docid":"20539645","text":"Thirty-sixth Amendment of the Constitution of Ireland The Thirty-sixth Amendment of the Constitution of Ireland (previously bill no. 29 of 2018) is an amendment to the constitution of Ireland which permits the Oireachtas (parliament of Ireland) to legislate for abortion. The constitution had previously prohibited abortion unless there was a serious risk to the life of the mother. The proposal is often described as the Repeal of the Eighth Amendment, referring to the 1983 constitutional amendment which guarantees the unborn the right to life, making abortion illegal unless the pregnancy is life-threatening. The 2018 bill replaces Article 40.3.3° of the","title":"Thirty-sixth Amendment of the Constitution of Ireland"},{"docid":"428167","text":"unconstitutional. An amendment becomes an operative part of the Constitution when it is ratified by the necessary number of states, rather than on the later date when its ratification is certified. No further action by Congress or anyone is required. On three occasions, Congress has, after being informed that an amendment has reached the ratification threshold, adopted a resolution declaring the process successfully completed. Such actions, while perhaps important for political reasons, are, constitutionally speaking, unnecessary. Presently, the Archivist of the United States is charged with responsibility for administering the ratification process under the provisions of 1 U.S. Code .","title":"Article Five of the United States Constitution"},{"docid":"14033978","text":"far as it may be applicable consistently with the express provisions of article 368, when they entrusted to it power of amending the Constitution.\" Hence, barring the requirements of special majority, ratification by the State Legislatures in certain cases, and the mandatory assent by the President, a Bill for amending the Constitution is dealt with the Parliament following the same legislative process as applicable to an ordinary piece of legislation. The Rules of the House in the Rajya Sabha do not contain special provisions with regard to Bills for the amendment of the Constitution and the Rules relating to ordinary","title":"Amendment of the Constitution of India"},{"docid":"17717823","text":"Eighteenth Amendment of the Constitution of India The Eighteenth Amendment of the Constitution of India, officially known as The Constitution (Eighteenth Amendment) Act, 1966, amended article 3 of the Constitution in order to clarify the \"State\" in clauses (a) to (e) of that article (but not in the proviso) include \"Union territories\". It also added another \"Explanation\" that the power conferred on Parliament by clause (a) includes the power to form a new State or Union territory by uniting a part of any State or Union territory to any other State or Union territory. The full text of article 3","title":"Eighteenth Amendment of the Constitution of India"},{"docid":"1901802","text":"order to ensure that Japan would not be a source of future aggression, a special portion was written into the document in the form of \"Article 9: Renunciation of War.\" It describes as follows: Even though these two paragraphs are not expressly protected by the eternity clause, many Japanese people argue that it needs to be interpreted as being irrevocable due to the significant and precise nature of the article. Under the common interpretation of the Constitution, amendments can be proposed by one of three methods: a People's Initiative, a Constituent Assembly or a Constitutional Convention. The Constitution of Poland","title":"Constitutional amendment"},{"docid":"4906049","text":"residents of other countries are allowed to vote in federal elections, then the Congress can extend the same rights to residents of the nation's capital. The primary objection to legislative proposals to grant the District voting rights is that some provisions of the Constitution suggest that such an action would be unconstitutional. How the House of Representatives is to be composed is described in Article I, Section 2: Section 2 of the Fourteenth Amendment reaffirms Article I, Section 2 in that regard when it says: In addition, the Seventeenth Amendment correspondingly describes the election of \"two Senators from each State\".","title":"District of Columbia voting rights"},{"docid":"14880085","text":"the Offences against the State Act 1939, which remains in force with amendments. Constitution (Amendment No. 17) Act 1931 The Constitution (Amendment No. 17) Act, 1931 (No. 37/1931) popularly called the Public Safety Act 1931, was an amendment to the Constitution of the Irish Free State which inserted Article 2A, empowering the Executive Council to declare a state of emergency during which most provisions of the constitution could be suspended and extra security measures taken. These measures included the use of a military tribunal (the Constitution (Special Powers) Tribunal) to try civilians for political crimes, granting extra powers of search","title":"Constitution (Amendment No. 17) Act 1931"},{"docid":"428183","text":"of the American Constitutional tradition and he defends Article V against modern critiques that Article V is either too difficult, too undemocratic, or too formal. Instead he argues that Article V provides a clear and stable way of amending the document that is explicit, authentic, and the exclusive means of amendment; it promotes wisdom and justice through enhancing deliberation and prudence; and its process complements federalism and separation of powers that are key features of the Constitution. He argues that Article V remains the most clear and powerful way to register the sovereign desires of the American public with regard","title":"Article Five of the United States Constitution"},{"docid":"5401076","text":"days after the amendment is filed with the custodian of state records). Many diverse, and sometimes controversial, amendments have been proposed to the Florida Constitution over the years. From modifications to the amendment process itself to parental notification of a minor's intent to terminate a pregnancy, to minimum wage increases, to limiting cruel and inhumane confinement of pigs during pregnancy. Article I, Section 23 of the Florida Constitution provides: The provision was proposed during the 1978 Constitutional Revision Commission by Chief Justice Overton of the Florida Supreme Court. It was put to the electorate by the Commission as part of","title":"Constitution of Florida"},{"docid":"427804","text":"shared process of constitutional amendment. Article Seven establishes the procedure subsequently used by the thirteen States to ratify it. It is regarded as the oldest written and codified national constitution in force. Since the Constitution came into force in 1789, it has been amended 27 times, including an amendment to repeal a previous one, in order to meet the needs of a nation that has profoundly changed since the eighteenth century. In general, the first ten amendments, known collectively as the Bill of Rights, offer specific protections of individual liberty and justice and place restrictions on the powers of government.","title":"United States Constitution"},{"docid":"3168921","text":"Fourth Amendment of the Constitution of Ireland The Fourth Amendment of the Constitution Act 1972 is an amendment to the Constitution of Ireland which lowered the voting age for all national elections and referendums in the state from twenty-one to eighteen years of age. It was approved by referendum on 7 December 1972 and signed into law on 5 January 1973. The Fourth Amendment altered Article 16 which deals with elections to Dáil Éireann (the house of representatives of the Oireachtas). However other provisions of the constitution state that anyone entitled to vote in Dáil elections is also entitled to","title":"Fourth Amendment of the Constitution of Ireland"},{"docid":"17699709","text":"the 23rd, 45th and 62nd Amendments respectively. The 79th Amendment extended this period to 2010. The period of reservation was further extended to 2020 by the 95th Amendment. The full text of Article 334 of the Constitution, after the 79th Amendment, is given below: The bill of \"The Constitution (Seventy-ninth Amendment) Act, 1999\" was introduced in the Lok Sabha on 26 October 1999, as the \"Constitution (Eighty-fourth Amendment) Bill, 1999\" (Bill No. 67 of 1999). It was introduced by Ram Jethmalani, then Minister of Law, Justice and Company Affairs, and sought to amend article 334 of the Constitution relating to","title":"Seventy-ninth Amendment of the Constitution of India"},{"docid":"13554862","text":"Buckley v. American Constitutional Law Foundation, Inc. Buckley v. American Constitutional Law Foundation, Inc., 525 U.S. 182 (1999), was a United States Supreme Court case that dealt with the authority of states to regulate the electoral process, and the point at which state regulations of the electoral process violate the First Amendment freedoms. Article V, section 1 of the Constitution of the state of Colorado allows its citizens to place particular initiatives and referenda on the electoral ballot, thus directly creating new laws. Notable initiatives and referenda include the Colorado state capital referendum, in 1881; the Poundstone Amendment in 1974,","title":"Buckley v. American Constitutional Law Foundation, Inc."},{"docid":"17695882","text":"Eighth Amendment of the Constitution of India The Eighth Amendment of the Constitution of India, officially known as The Constitution (Eighth Amendment) Act, 1959, amended article 334 of the Constitution in order to extend the period of reservation of seats for the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes and representation of the Anglo-Indians in the Lok Sabha and the State Legislative Assemblies for ten years, i.e. up to 26 January 1970. Article 334 had stipulated that the reservation of seats should expire within a period of ten years from the commencement of the Constitution (i.e. 26 January 1960). The 8th Amendment","title":"Eighth Amendment of the Constitution of India"},{"docid":"17828056","text":"20 December 1988. It was notified in \"The Gazette of India\", and came into effect on the same date. Sixtieth Amendment of the Constitution of India The Sixtieth Amendment of the Constitution of India, officially known as The Constitution (Sixtieth Amendment) Act, 1988, amended article 276 of the Constitution relating to taxes on professions, trades, callings and employments. Section 2 of the Act amended Clause (2) of article 276 of the Constitution to increase the ceiling of tax on professions, trades, callings and employments from per person per annum to 2500 per person per annum. The 60th Amendment also omitted","title":"Sixtieth Amendment of the Constitution of India"},{"docid":"17714921","text":"368 of the Constitution, and was ratified by more than half of the State Legislatures, as required under Clause (2) of the said article. State Legislatures that ratified the amendment are listed below: Did not ratify: Twenty-second Amendment of the Constitution of India The Twenty-second Amendment of the Constitution of India, officially known as The Constitution (Twenty-second Amendment) Act, 1969, inserted new article 244A in the Constitution to empower Parliament to enact a law for constituting an autonomous State within the State of Assam and also to provide the autonomous State with Legislature or a Council of Ministers or both","title":"Twenty-second Amendment of the Constitution of India"},{"docid":"7648094","text":"The Law that Never Was The Law That Never Was: The Fraud of the 16th Amendment and Personal Income Tax is a 1985 book by William J. Benson and Martin J. \"Red\" Beckman which claims that the Sixteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, commonly known as the income tax amendment, was never properly ratified. In 2007, and again in 2009, Benson's contentions were ruled to be fraudulent. Under Article V of the U.S. Constitution, an amendment proposed by Congress must be ratified by three-fourths of the states to become part of the Constitution. The Article permits Congress to specify,","title":"The Law that Never Was"},{"docid":"16967620","text":"and describes its process and function. The first Complaints Commissioner was the former Deputy Governor, Mr Elton Georges. In May 2015 he was replaced by Sheila Brathwaite. The Complaints Commissioner appears to be the least well functioning part of the Constitution; although Complaints are reported and then investigated, the usual outcome is that the relevant Government department simply ignores the findings. The tenth and final chapter, which is made up of articles 113-119, deals principally with revocations and the continuing validity of existing laws and offices and officers. Article 119, the final article, provides: The Constitution provides for various public","title":"Constitution of the British Virgin Islands"},{"docid":"9585646","text":"the right to property. Further, Articles 21 and 22 established artistic, academic and educational freedom and the right to intellectual property respectively. Finally, Article 25 established the right to petition. Overall, the constitution included 127 articles which outlined the various organs of the state and how these functioned. Article 125 forbade the amendment of the constitution for the first 5 years of its implementation, and further forbade the amendment of the \"fundamental\" articles of the constitution thereafter. Article 127 made the Greek nation responsible for the implementation of the constitution. In effect, this gave \"the Nation\" supremacy over the country's","title":"Second Hellenic Republic"},{"docid":"17859123","text":"caretaker set-up and hold free and fair elections and matters related to the office of Chief Election Commissioner and Member of Election Commission. Twentieth Amendment to the Constitution of Pakistan The Twentieth Amendment Bill to the Constitution of Pakistan (Urdu: آئین پاکستان میں بیسویں ترمیم) was passed by the National Assembly of Pakistan on February 14, 2012. It was then moved to upper house, Senate where it was passed on February 20, 2012 and signed by the President on February 28, 2012. The amendments were done in Article 48, Article 214, Article 215, Article 216, Article 218, Article 219, Article","title":"Twentieth Amendment to the Constitution of Pakistan"},{"docid":"14880082","text":"Constitution (Amendment No. 17) Act 1931 The Constitution (Amendment No. 17) Act, 1931 (No. 37/1931) popularly called the Public Safety Act 1931, was an amendment to the Constitution of the Irish Free State which inserted Article 2A, empowering the Executive Council to declare a state of emergency during which most provisions of the constitution could be suspended and extra security measures taken. These measures included the use of a military tribunal (the Constitution (Special Powers) Tribunal) to try civilians for political crimes, granting extra powers of search and arrest to the Garda Síochána (police), and the prohibition of organisations deemed","title":"Constitution (Amendment No. 17) Act 1931"},{"docid":"19418922","text":"Sangsad with a view to amending Articles 51 and 66 of the 1981 constitution. The Constitution (Eighth Amendment) Act, 1988 declared, among others, that Islam shall be state religion (Article 2A) and also decentralised the judiciary by setting up six permanent benches of the High Court Division outside Dhaka (Article 100). The Constitution (Thirteenth Amendment) Act, 1996 introduced a non-party Caretaker Government (CtG) system which, acting as an interim government, would give all possible aid and assistance to the Election Commission for holding the general election. The Fifteenth Amendment was passed on 30 June 2011 made some significant changes to","title":"Amendments to the Constitution of Bangladesh"},{"docid":"17717885","text":"to the Legislatures of States\". Provisions for the trial of election petitions by High Courts instead of the election tribunals, was provided for by amending the Representation of the People Act, 1951. The full text of clause (1) of article 324, after the 19th Amendment, is given below: \"The Constitution (Nineteenth Amendment) Act, 1966\" was introduced in the Lok Sabha on 29 August 1966, as the \"Constitution (Twenty-first Amendment) Bill, 1966\" (Bill No. 57 of 1966). It was introduced by Gopal Swarup Pathak, then Minister of Law, and sought to amend article 324 of the Constitution. Article 324 provides for","title":"Nineteenth Amendment of the Constitution of India"},{"docid":"3227094","text":"the President and various changes that were needed to bring the official Irish text of the constitution into line with the English text. An unusual aspect of the Second Amendment was that it introduced a change to Article 56 of the Transitory Provisions even though that article was no longer a part of the official published text of the constitution. The Second Amendment was not submitted to a referendum. Under Article 51 of the Transitory Provisions, the constitution could be amended during the initial period of 1938 to 1941 without the need for a referendum and so the Second Amendment","title":"Second Amendment of the Constitution of Ireland"},{"docid":"20539654","text":"was a child within the meaning of Article 42A of the Constitution, which guarantees children's rights. The Supreme Court agreed to expedite the government's appeal of the decision, and on 7 March 2018 overturned the High Court judgment, ruling that a foetus was not a child and had no rights other than the right to life mentioned in Article 40.3.3. The Amendment proposes to replace the text of Article 40.3.3º, which reads: As the amendment passed, the subsection will be replaced with the following text: The Department of Health published a policy paper on \"Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy\" on","title":"Thirty-sixth Amendment of the Constitution of Ireland"},{"docid":"20135978","text":"the 1922 Constitution by the Constitution of Ireland in 1937, and has formally been repealed by the Statute Law Revision Act 2016. Constitution (Amendment No. 11) Act 1929 The Constitution (Amendment No. 11) Act 1929 was an Act amending the Constitution of the Irish Free State. It amended Article 34 of the constitution regarding the filling of casual vacancies in Seanad Eireann. As enacted, Article 34 provided that vacancies would be filled by a vote of the Seanad. Under the 11th amendment, the provision was changed to provide that the vote would be by members of Dail Eireann and Seanad","title":"Constitution (Amendment No. 11) Act 1929"},{"docid":"17717173","text":"President Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan on 28 December 1962, and came into force on the same date. It was notified in \"The Gazette of India\" on 29 December 1962. The Act was passed in accordance with the provisions of Article 368 of the Constitution, and was ratified by more than half of the State Legislatures, as required under Clause (2) of the said article. State Legislatures that ratified the amendment are listed below: Did not ratify: Fourteenth Amendment of the Constitution of India The Fourteenth Amendment of the Constitution of India, officially known as The Constitution (Fourteenth Amendment) Act, 1962, incorporated Pondicherry","title":"Fourteenth Amendment of the Constitution of India"},{"docid":"17699537","text":"2010 by the 23rd, 45th, 62nd and 79th Amendments respectively. The 95th Amendment extended the period of reservation to 2020. The full text of Article 334 of the Constitution, after the 95th Amendment, is given below: The bill of \"The Constitution (Ninety-fifth Amendment) Act, 2009\" was introduced in the Rajya Sabha on 30 July 2009 as the \"Constitution (One Hundred and Ninth Amendment) Bill, 2009\" (Bill No. XX of 2009). It was introduced by M. Veerappa Moily, then Minister of Law and Justice, and sought to amend article 334 of the Constitution relating to reservation of seats for the Scheduled","title":"Ninety-fifth Amendment of the Constitution of India"},{"docid":"1397522","text":"forbidding attainder laws serve two purposes. First, they reinforced the separation of powers, by forbidding the legislature to perform judicial or executive functions—since the outcome of any such acts of legislature would of necessity take the form of a bill of attainder. Second, they embody the concept of due process, which was partially reinforced by the Fifth Amendment to the Constitution. The text of the Constitution, Article I, Section 9, Clause 3 is \"No Bill of Attainder or ex post facto Law shall be passed\". The constitution of every state also expressly forbids bills of attainder. For example, Wisconsin's constitution","title":"Bill of attainder"},{"docid":"14033964","text":"Parliament by a simple majority such as that required for the passing of any ordinary law. The amendments under this category are specifically excluded from the purview of article 368 which is the specific provision in the Constitution dealing with the power and the procedure for the amendment of the Constitution. Article 4 provides that laws made by Parliament under article 2 (relating to admission or establishment of new States) and article 3 (relating to formation of new States and alteration of areas, boundaries or names of existing States) effecting amendments in the First Schedule or the Fourth Schedule and","title":"Amendment of the Constitution of India"},{"docid":"9528002","text":"\"from time to time\". Article 194 was amended to grant the same rights as Clause 21 to State Legislatures, its members and committees. Two new clauses 4A and 26A were inserted into article 366 of the Constitution, which defined the meaning of the terms \"Central Law\" and \"State Law\" by inserting two new clauses 4A and 26A into article 366 of the Constitution. The 42nd Amendment froze any delimitation of constituencies for elections to Lok Sabha and State Legislative Assemblies until after the 2001 Census of India, by amending article 170 (relating to composition of Legislative Assemblies). The total number","title":"Forty-second Amendment of the Constitution of India"},{"docid":"428655","text":"contrast to the one-vote-for-one-state principle in the earlier Continental Congress. Under the Fugitive Slave Clause, Article IV, Section 2, Clause 3, \"No person held to Service or Labour in one State\" would be freed by escaping to another. allowed Congress to pass legislation outlawing the \"Importation of Persons\", but not until 1808. However, for purposes of the Fifth Amendment—which states that, \"No person shall . . . be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law\"—slaves were understood as property. Although abolitionists used the Fifth Amendment to argue against slavery, it became part of the legal basis","title":"Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution"},{"docid":"15246348","text":"of both cases on the ground that the terms of Article 14 of the Constitution differ materially from Article 10 of the European Convention on Human Rights, which was relied upon by the court in \"Lingens\"; as well as the First Amendment and the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which were relied upon by the court in \"New York Times\". The public figure doctrine was thus expressly rejected by the Court. Thean J. said: \"Such criticisms or attacks must, in our opinion, respect the bounds set by the law of defamation, and we do not accept that the","title":"Article 14 of the Constitution of Singapore"},{"docid":"17695888","text":"ratify: Eighth Amendment of the Constitution of India The Eighth Amendment of the Constitution of India, officially known as The Constitution (Eighth Amendment) Act, 1959, amended article 334 of the Constitution in order to extend the period of reservation of seats for the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes and representation of the Anglo-Indians in the Lok Sabha and the State Legislative Assemblies for ten years, i.e. up to 26 January 1970. Article 334 had stipulated that the reservation of seats should expire within a period of ten years from the commencement of the Constitution (i.e. 26 January 1960). The 8th","title":"Eighth Amendment of the Constitution of India"},{"docid":"17699539","text":"accordance with the provisions of Article 368 of the Constitution, and was ratified by more than half of the State Legislatures, as required under Clause (2) of the said article. State Legislatures that ratified the amendment are listed below: Ninety-fifth Amendment of the Constitution of India The Ninety-fifth Amendment of the Constitution of India, officially known as The Constitution (Ninety-fifth Amendment) Act, 2009, extended the period of reservation of seats for the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes and representation of the Anglo-Indians in the Lok Sabha and the State Legislative Assemblies for another ten years, i.e. up to 26 January","title":"Ninety-fifth Amendment of the Constitution of India"},{"docid":"17697120","text":"into effect from 25 January 1980. The Act was passed in accordance with the provisions of Article 368 of the Constitution, and was ratified by more than half of the State Legislatures, as required under Clause (2) of the said article. State Legislatures that ratified the amendment are listed below: Did not ratify: Forty-fifth Amendment of the Constitution of India The Forty-fifth Amendment of the Constitution of India, officially known as The Constitution (Forty-fifth Amendment) Act, 1980, extended the period of reservation of seats for the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes and representation of the Anglo-Indians in the Lok Sabha","title":"Forty-fifth Amendment of the Constitution of India"},{"docid":"17872118","text":"Fifteenth Amendment to the Constitution of Pakistan The Fifteenth Amendment bill to the Constitution of Pakistan (Urdu: آئین پاکستان میں پندرھویں ترمیم) was Passed by National Assembly of Pakistan on 28 August 1998. It was then moved to the Senate where it was never passed. The proposed amendments included addition of a new article 2B in the constitution and amendment in Article 239 of the Constitution of Pakistan. It also sought to impose Sharia Law as supreme law in Pakistan in light of the Objective Resolution of Pakistan in addition to the Quran and Sunnah as is in the Constitution","title":"Fifteenth Amendment to the Constitution of Pakistan"},{"docid":"17717884","text":"Nineteenth Amendment of the Constitution of India The Nineteenth Amendment of the Constitution of India, officially known as The Constitution (Nineteenth Amendment) Act, 1966, abolished Election Tribunals in India and enabled trial of election petitions by High Courts. It amended clause (1) of article 324 of the Constitution, which provides for vesting of the power of superintendence, direction and control of elections with the Election Commission. The 19th Amendment removed the provision relating to the power of \"the appointment of election tribunals for the decision of doubts and disputes arising out of or in connection with elections to Parliament and","title":"Nineteenth Amendment of the Constitution of India"},{"docid":"6198501","text":"and in the Seanad on 30 October. It then proceeded to a referendum on 25 November. On 25 May 2018, the Thirty-sixth Amendment of the Constitution Bill 2018 was passed by referendum. After it was signed into law, it replaced the previous text of Article 40.3.3º with the following text: Thirteenth Amendment of the Constitution of Ireland The Thirteenth Amendment of the Constitution Act 1992 (previously bill no. 25 of 1992) is an amendment to the Constitution of Ireland which specified that the protection of the right to life of the unborn does not limit freedom of travel in and","title":"Thirteenth Amendment of the Constitution of Ireland"},{"docid":"1901799","text":"under Article 110 beneath \"Section II: Revision of the Constitution\" of \"Part Four: Special, Final, and Transitional Provisions.\" The Constitution of Ireland, can only be modified by referendum, following proposal approved by the lower and upper houses of the Oireachtas, amongst citizens entitled to vote for the President. The amendment succeeds by simple majority, and no quorum is required. Article 138 of the Constitution provides for the special procedure through which the Parliament can adopt constitutional laws (including laws to amend the Constitution of Italy). Constitutional laws start by following the ordinary legislative procedure, which requires both houses of parliament","title":"Constitutional amendment"},{"docid":"4207813","text":"been deemed to be unenforceable due to the interpretations of the Supreme Court of the United States with regard to the First and the Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution. Article XI, Section 3 of the Tennessee State Constitution gives two methods to amend the document: Under the legislative method, which is a very lengthy process, the General Assembly must pass a resolution, calling for an amendment and stating its wording, and it must do so in three separate readings on three separate days, with an absolute majority on all readings. The resolution does not require the governor's approval.","title":"Constitution of Tennessee"},{"docid":"14033966","text":"by law for the abolition or creation of the Legislative Councils in States and specifies that though such law shall contain such provisions for the amendment of the Constitution as may be necessary, it shall not be deemed to be an amendment of the Constitution for the purposes of article 368. \"The Legislative Councils Act, 1957\", which provided for the creation of a Legislative Council in Andhra Pradesh and for increasing the strength of the Legislative Councils in certain other States, is an example of a law passed by Parliament in an exercise of its powers under article 169. The","title":"Amendment of the Constitution of India"}],"string":"[\n {\n \"docid\": \"5758072\",\n \"text\": \"provisions for amending the constitution. The 79th Article of the Constitution describes how to enact amendments to the constitution. In order for an amendment to be passed, it must be approved by two consecutive parliamentary assemblies, with a general election in between. The president of Iceland must also confirm any amendment as provided by general law. Several articles in the constitution, however, are exempt from this process and can be changed by ordinary legislation. For example, the 35th article deals with the assembly time of Parliament, and this may be changed by general law. The 62nd article defines the State\",\n \"title\": \"Constitution of Iceland\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"5886512\",\n \"text\": \"the main body that an amendment has made inoperative), amendments to the New Hampshire constitution change the text in place. Although a law book with annotations describes amendments to the text, the actual amendment is not included in a presentation of the constitution; only the text as the amendment revised it. An amendment will sometimes add an article; for instance, an article following Article 12 will be called Article 12-a. Amendments are proposed both to make policy changes and to make clerical changes such as gender neutrality. Part II, Article 100 of the constitution provides for the following two methods\",\n \"title\": \"Constitution of New Hampshire\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"428180\",\n \"text\": \"a \\\"double amendment\\\" process, contrasting the U.S. Constitution with other constitutions that explicitly protect certain provisions from ever being amended and are themselves protected from being amended. Another legal scholar, Akhil Amar, argues that the equal suffrage provision could be amended through a two-step process, but describes that process as a \\\"sly scheme.\\\" Some other legal scholars, including Thomas A. Baker and Douglas Linder, have rejected the notion that the equal suffrage provision could ever be amended without the consent of each state. According to constitutional theorist and scholar Lawrence G. Sager, some commentators have seriously questioned whether Article V\",\n \"title\": \"Article Five of the United States Constitution\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"7708391\",\n \"text\": \"the constitution could be revoked or limited by amendment of the constitution. The Supreme Court delivered its ruling, by a majority of 6-5 on 27 February 1967. The Court held that an amendment of the Constitution is a legislative process, and that an amendment under article 368 is \\\"law\\\" within the meaning of article 13 of the Constitution and therefore, if an amendment \\\"takes away or abridges\\\" a Fundamental Right conferred by Part III, it is void. Article 13(2) reads, \\\"The State shall not make any law which takes away or abridges the right conferred by this Part and any\",\n \"title\": \"Basic structure doctrine\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"17720375\",\n \"text\": \"majority of 6-5 on 27 February 1967. The Court held that an amendment of the Constitution is a legislative process, and that an amendment under article 368 is \\\"law\\\" within the meaning of article 13 of the Constitution and therefore, if an amendment \\\"takes away or abridges\\\" a Fundamental Right conferred by Part III, it is void. Article 13(2) reads, \\\"The State shall not make any law which takes away or abridges the right conferred by this Part and any law made in contravention of this clause shall, to the extent of contravention, be void.\\\" The Court also ruled that\",\n \"title\": \"Twenty-fourth Amendment of the Constitution of India\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"17859122\",\n \"text\": \"Twentieth Amendment to the Constitution of Pakistan The Twentieth Amendment Bill to the Constitution of Pakistan (Urdu: آئین پاکستان میں بیسویں ترمیم) was passed by the National Assembly of Pakistan on February 14, 2012. It was then moved to upper house, Senate where it was passed on February 20, 2012 and signed by the President on February 28, 2012. The amendments were done in Article 48, Article 214, Article 215, Article 216, Article 218, Article 219, Article 224, Article 224A, and to the Second & Third Schedule to the Constitution of Pakistan.It has set down a process to install a\",\n \"title\": \"Twentieth Amendment to the Constitution of Pakistan\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"428185\",\n \"text\": \"which free governments are destroyed. The precedent must always greatly overbalance in permanent evil any partial or transient benefit which the use can at any time yield. This statement by Washington has become controversial, and scholars disagree about whether it still describes the proper constitutional order in the United States. Scholars who dismiss Washington's position often argue that the Constitution itself was adopted without following the procedures in the Articles of Confederation, while Constitutional attorney Michael Farris disagrees, saying the Convention was a product of the States' residual power, and the amendment in adoption process was legal, having received the\",\n \"title\": \"Article Five of the United States Constitution\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"427837\",\n \"text\": \"that end, which are not prohibited, but consist with the letter and spirit of the Constitution, are Constitutional.\\\" Article Two describes the office, qualifications, and duties of the President of the United States and the Vice President. The President is head of the executive branch of the federal government, as well as the nation's head of state and head of government. Article two is modified by the 12th Amendment which tacitly acknowledges political parties, and the 25th Amendment relating to office succession. The president is to receive only one compensation from the federal government. The inaugural oath is specified to\",\n \"title\": \"United States Constitution\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"3955929\",\n \"text\": \"Utah Constitutional Amendment 3 Utah Constitutional Amendment 3 was an amendment to the Utah state constitution that sought to define marriage as a union exclusively between a man and woman. It passed in the November 2, 2004, election, as did similar amendments in ten other states. The amendment, which added Article 1, Section 29, to the Utah Constitution, reads: On December 20, 2013, federal judge Robert J. Shelby of the U.S. District Court for Utah struck down Amendment 3 as unconstitutional under the Due Process and Equal Protection clauses of the U.S. Constitution. Both pro and anti amendment groups formed\",\n \"title\": \"Utah Constitutional Amendment 3\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"2297143\",\n \"text\": \"law. The Constitution also sets out methods for its own amendment either by referendum or through a Parliamentary process with Presidential consent. The normal procedure of constitutional amendment is as follows: the amendment must be adopted in identical terms by both houses of Parliament, then must be either adopted by a simple majority in a referendum, or by 3/5 of a joint session of both houses of Parliament (the French Congress) (article 89). However, president Charles de Gaulle bypassed the legislative procedure in 1962 and directly sent a constitutional amendment to a referendum (article 11), which was adopted. This was\",\n \"title\": \"Constitution of France\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"14033954\",\n \"text\": \"Amendment of the Constitution of India Amending the Constitution of India is the process of making changes to the nation's fundamental law or supreme law. The procedure of amendment in the constitution is laid down in Part XX (Article 368) of the Constitution of India. This procedure ensures the sanctity of the Constitution of India and keeps a check on arbitrary power of the Parliament of India. However, there is another limitation imposed on the amending power of the constitution of India, which developed during conflicts between the Supreme Court and Parliament, where Parliament wants to exercise discretionary use of\",\n \"title\": \"Amendment of the Constitution of India\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"14033998\",\n \"text\": \"included the following: Amendment of the Constitution of India Amending the Constitution of India is the process of making changes to the nation's fundamental law or supreme law. The procedure of amendment in the constitution is laid down in Part XX (Article 368) of the Constitution of India. This procedure ensures the sanctity of the Constitution of India and keeps a check on arbitrary power of the Parliament of India. However, there is another limitation imposed on the amending power of the constitution of India, which developed during conflicts between the Supreme Court and Parliament, where Parliament wants to exercise\",\n \"title\": \"Amendment of the Constitution of India\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"14033972\",\n \"text\": \"added a new clause (4) in article 13 which reads, \\\"Nothing in this article shall apply to any amendment of this Constitution made under article 368.\\\" The provisions in \\\"italics\\\" were inserted by the 42nd Amendment but were later declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court in \\\"Minerva Mills v. Union of India\\\" in 1980. After the 24th amendment, Article 4(2), etc. of the constitution are superseded/made void by article 368 (1) which is the only procedure for amending the constitution however marginal may be the nature of the amendment. Supreme court ruled that the constituent power under article 368 must\",\n \"title\": \"Amendment of the Constitution of India\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"13232084\",\n \"text\": \"Article Two of the Constitution of Georgia (U.S. state) Article Two of the Georgia State Constitution describes the process for voting and elections in Georgia. This process includes the method of voting and the right to register and vote, general provisions and the suspension and removal of public officials. Section I of Article Two of the Georgia State Constitution is made up of three paragraphs which detail the method of voting and the right to register and vote. The first paragraph of this section stipulates that all elections by the people will be through secret ballot and will follow legal\",\n \"title\": \"Article Two of the Constitution of Georgia (U.S. state)\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"1901803\",\n \"text\": \"says the following under Article 235 of \\\"Chapter XII: Amending the Constitution\\\" within it: The Constitution is amendable through the terms prescribed under \\\"Title II: Revision of the Constitution\\\" of \\\"Part IX: Guaranteeing and Revision of the Constitution\\\" between Articles 284 and 289. The Constitution of Romania mentions and outlines the terms by which it can be amended in \\\"Article 150: Amendment Initiative,\\\" \\\"Article 151: Amendment Procedure,\\\" and \\\"Article 152: Limits to Constitutional Amendments.\\\" All three articles are written under \\\"Title VII: Amendment of the Constitution\\\" of the document. The Constitution of Russia was created by the Russian Federation in\",\n \"title\": \"Constitutional amendment\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"17690154\",\n \"text\": \"under Clause (2) of the said article. State Legislatures that ratified the amendment are listed below: Did not ratify: Sixty-first Amendment of the Constitution of India The Sixty-first Amendment of the Constitution of India, officially known as The Constitution (Sixty-first Amendment) Act, 1988, lowered the voting age of elections to the Lok Sabha and to the Legislative Assemblies of States from 21 years to 18 years. This was done by amending Article 326 of the Constitution, which concerns elections to the Lok Sabha and the Assemblies. The full text of Article 326 of the Constitution, after the 61st Amendment, is\",\n \"title\": \"Sixty-first Amendment of the Constitution of India\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"5525529\",\n \"text\": \"State ratifying conventions State ratifying conventions are one of the two methods established by Article V of the United States Constitution for \\\"ratifying\\\" proposed constitutional amendments. The only amendment that has been ratified through this method thus far is the 21st Amendment. Article V reads in pertinent part (italics added): Ratification of a proposed amendment has been done by state conventions only once—the 1933 ratification process of the 21st Amendment. The 21st is also the only constitutional amendment that repealed another one, that being the 18th Amendment, which had been ratified 14 years earlier. As is true for a state\",\n \"title\": \"State ratifying conventions\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"11024549\",\n \"text\": \"Defines the structure of the legal system and form of the republic. Describes the structure of the government. Codifies the administrative districts of Mongolia and describes the relationship between national and local government. Establishes a Constitutional Court to make rulings on interpretation of the constitution. Describes the amendment process for changing the constitution. Constitution of Mongolia Constitution of Mongolia (, \\\"Mongol Ulsīn Ündsen Húlĭ\\\", \\\"General Law of the Mongolian State\\\") is the constitution of Mongolia. It was adopted on January 13, 1992, put into force on February 12, and amended in 1999 and 2001. The new constitution established a representative\",\n \"title\": \"Constitution of Mongolia\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"14033989\",\n \"text\": \"Anr\\\". An amendment was struck down on the basis that it violated Article 13: \\\"The State shall not make any law which takes away or abridges the rights conferred by [the charter of Fundamental Rights]\\\". The term \\\"law\\\" in this article was interpreted as including a constitutional amendment. Parliament responded by enacting the twenty-fourth Amendment of the Constitution of India which declared that \\\"nothing in Article 13 shall apply to any amendment of this Constitution\\\". The current limitation on amendments comes from \\\"Kesavananda Bharati v. The State of Kerala\\\", where the Supreme Court ruled that amendments of the constitution must\",\n \"title\": \"Amendment of the Constitution of India\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"11001445\",\n \"text\": \"Chapter XVIII of the United Nations Charter Chapter XVIII of the United Nations Charter deals with amendments. The process is essentially modeled after the amendment process for the United States Constitution in that: There have been several amendments to the United Nations Charter since 1945, mostly to reflect increases in the size of the organization. However, the fundamental structure has remained the same. Nonetheless, the UN amendment process arguably favors the flexibility and continued existence of the organization more than the League of Nations amendment process specified by Article 26 of the Covenant of the League of Nations, which stated,\",\n \"title\": \"Chapter XVIII of the United Nations Charter\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"3168944\",\n \"text\": \"was made to the Constitution after it was signed into law by the President of Ireland, who was then Éamon de Valera, the man who had drafted the original article. Fifth Amendment of the Constitution of Ireland The Fifth Amendment of the Constitution Act 1972 is an amendment to the Constitution of Ireland which deleted two subsections that recognised the special position of the Catholic Church and that recognised other named religious denominations. It was approved by referendum on 7 December 1972 and signed into law on 5 January 1973. The amendment renumbered Article 44.1.1º as Article 41.1 and deleted\",\n \"title\": \"Fifth Amendment of the Constitution of Ireland\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"3168937\",\n \"text\": \"Fifth Amendment of the Constitution of Ireland The Fifth Amendment of the Constitution Act 1972 is an amendment to the Constitution of Ireland which deleted two subsections that recognised the special position of the Catholic Church and that recognised other named religious denominations. It was approved by referendum on 7 December 1972 and signed into law on 5 January 1973. The amendment renumbered Article 44.1.1º as Article 41.1 and deleted the following two subsections from Article 41.1: In drafting the Irish constitution in 1936 and 1937, Éamon de Valera and his advisers chose to reflect what had been a contemporary\",\n \"title\": \"Fifth Amendment of the Constitution of Ireland\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"427974\",\n \"text\": \"in the Supreme Court's seminal decision, \\\"Buckley v. Valeo\\\" (1976), which, in the face of a First Amendment challenge, set the ground rules for campaign finance legislation, generally disallowing restrictions on expenditures by candidates, but permitting restrictions on contributions by individuals and corporations. In addition to statutory constraints, Congress and the States have altered the electoral process through amending the Constitution (first in the above mentioned Fifteenth Amendment). The Seventeenth Amendment altered the manner of conducting the elections of Senators; establishing that they are to be elected by the people of the states. Also, the Nineteenth Amendment prohibits any U.S.\",\n \"title\": \"Article One of the United States Constitution\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"3221585\",\n \"text\": \"and seas, to be part of the Irish nation\\\" was affected by the Twenty-seventh Amendment of the Constitution of Ireland, passed in 2004. That amendment did not alter the text of Article 2 but instead inserted a new section in Article 9 which limited the constitutional right to citizenship by birth to individuals with a least one Irish-citizen parent. Nineteenth Amendment of the Constitution of Ireland The Nineteenth Amendment of the Constitution Act, 1998 (previously bill no. 24 of 1998) is an amendment of the Constitution of Ireland which permitted the state to be bound by the Good Friday Agreement\",\n \"title\": \"Nineteenth Amendment of the Constitution of Ireland\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"428160\",\n \"text\": \"propose Constitutional amendments. The second method requires Congress, \\\"on the application of the legislatures of two-thirds of the several states\\\" (presently 34), to \\\"call a convention for proposing amendments\\\". This duality in Article V is the result of compromises made during the 1787 Constitutional Convention between two groups, one maintaining that the national legislature should have no role in the constitutional amendment process, and another contending that proposals to amend the constitution should originate in the national legislature and their ratification should be decided by state legislatures or state conventions. Regarding the consensus amendment process crafted during the convention, James\",\n \"title\": \"Article Five of the United States Constitution\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"10771419\",\n \"text\": \"as provisions of the Constitution, such that it could be amended only by referendum. Article 40.3.3º reads The Twenty-fifth amendment would have ultimately added two sub-sections immediately following, as Article 40.3.4º and 40.3.5º: The proposed text of 40.3.5º would have ensured that the provisions of Article 46 on Amendments to the Constitution and Article 47 on Referendums would apply to any amendment of this Act. The Twenty-fifth Amendment of the Constitution (Protection of Human Life in Pregnancy) Bill 2001 included the text of a proposed Act which would regulate the termination of pregnancy. It would have repealed Sections 58 and\",\n \"title\": \"Twenty-fifth Amendment of the Constitution Bill 2002\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"17690151\",\n \"text\": \"Sixty-first Amendment of the Constitution of India The Sixty-first Amendment of the Constitution of India, officially known as The Constitution (Sixty-first Amendment) Act, 1988, lowered the voting age of elections to the Lok Sabha and to the Legislative Assemblies of States from 21 years to 18 years. This was done by amending Article 326 of the Constitution, which concerns elections to the Lok Sabha and the Assemblies. The full text of Article 326 of the Constitution, after the 61st Amendment, is given below: The bill of \\\"The Constitution (Sixty-first Amendment) Act, 1988\\\" was introduced in the Lok Sabha on 13\",\n \"title\": \"Sixty-first Amendment of the Constitution of India\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"5401272\",\n \"text\": \"describes the two ways the constitution may be amended: by popular convention or through legislation. Legislation is the most common way to amend the constitution. The last time the constitution was amended by convention was in 1875. In a legislative action, an amendment must pass by three-fifths in both houses of the General Assembly and also obtain a majority of a popular vote. The final article of the constitution covers topics not under other articles. Topics of sections in this article include: As per the Federal Supremacy Clause, all Federal law and the Constitution of the United States overrule the\",\n \"title\": \"Constitution of North Carolina\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"14215216\",\n \"text\": \"states: Article 9(1) embodies the concept of the rule of law, an early expression of which was the 39th article of the Magna Carta of 1215: \\\"No freeman shall be taken captive or imprisoned, or deprived of his lands, or outlawed, or exiled, or in any way destroyed, nor will we go with force against him nor send forces against him, except by the lawful judgment of his peers or by the law of the land.\\\" Article 9(1) is similar, but by no means identical, to the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution which\",\n \"title\": \"Article 9 of the Constitution of Singapore\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"17828053\",\n \"text\": \"Sixtieth Amendment of the Constitution of India The Sixtieth Amendment of the Constitution of India, officially known as The Constitution (Sixtieth Amendment) Act, 1988, amended article 276 of the Constitution relating to taxes on professions, trades, callings and employments. Section 2 of the Act amended Clause (2) of article 276 of the Constitution to increase the ceiling of tax on professions, trades, callings and employments from per person per annum to 2500 per person per annum. The 60th Amendment also omitted the proviso to clause (2) of article 276. The full text of clause(2) of Article 276 of the Constitution,\",\n \"title\": \"Sixtieth Amendment of the Constitution of India\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"17695452\",\n \"text\": \"\\\"Constitution (Fifth Amendment) Bill\\\" would take a very long time to be disposed of, as it sought to amend several articles. In order to achieve this, the \\\"Constitution (Seventh Amendment) Bill, 1955\\\" (Bill No. 63 of 1955) which sought to amend article 3, was introduced in the Lok Sabha on 28 November 1955, by C.C. Biswas. Clause 2 of this Bill, which sought to amend article 3, was exactly similar to the corresponding clause of the Constitution (Fifth Amendment) Bill, 1955. A motion to refer the Seventh Amendment Bill to the a Select Committee was moved on 30 November 1955.\",\n \"title\": \"Fifth Amendment of the Constitution of India\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"14033981\",\n \"text\": \"a Latin phrase, which in law, describes someone taking precautions against a very remote contingency. By strictly adhering to article 368, the provision is intended to ensure the validity of the procedure adopted, but also guard against the possibility of violation of the spirit and scheme of that article 29 by the consideration of a Bill seeking to amend the Constitution including its consideration clause by clause being concluded in the House with only the bare quorum present. Voting at all the above stages is by division. However, the Speaker may, with the concurrence of the House, put any group\",\n \"title\": \"Amendment of the Constitution of India\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"5514675\",\n \"text\": \"to amend the Constitution, the number of states applying for a convention has nearly reached the required threshold several times. Congress has proposed amendments to the Constitution on several occasions, at least in part, because of the threat of an Article V Convention. Rather than risk such a convention taking control of the amendment process away from it, Congress acted pre-emptively to propose the amendments instead. The Bill of Rights, which includes the first ten amendments, as well as the Twenty-seventh Amendment, were proposed in part because of a Convention application by the New York and Virginia legislatures at the\",\n \"title\": \"Convention to propose amendments to the United States Constitution\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"9719169\",\n \"text\": \"on 9 April and came to effect on 15 June 2008. The Constitution of the Republic of Kosovo can be changed through the amendment process (article 144). Constitutional amendments are added to it, altering its effect. The foreword of the constitution reads: Article 7, ensures the values and freedoms by the rule of law, equality same as respect, gender equality and social justice and the neutrality towards religion by the article 8 of the Constitution. The constitution guides Kosovo's law and political culture. Writers were influenced mostly by two documents: the Ahtisaari plan and the fourhand – and the United\",\n \"title\": \"Constitution of Kosovo\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"19418919\",\n \"text\": \"Amendments to the Constitution of Bangladesh The Constitution of the People's Republic of Bangladesh was adopted and enacted on 4 November 1972, after the victory of the independent country on 16 December 1971. the Constitution has been amended 17 times. Amending the Constitution of Bangladesh is the process of making changes to the nation's fundamental law or supreme law. Passed on 17 July 1973, the first amended was made to the Article 47 of the constitution. The amendment inserted an additional clause, Article 47(3) that allowed punishment and prosecution of war criminals under international law. A new Article 47A was\",\n \"title\": \"Amendments to the Constitution of Bangladesh\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"4444890\",\n \"text\": \"would be decided by a majority of votes cast and if rejected the bill would not become law. Article 47 did not apply to money bills or bills declared by both houses to be \\\"necessary for the immediate preservation of the public peace, health or safety\\\". The Constitution (Amendment No. 10) Act, passed on 12 July 1928, repealed Article 47 in its entirety, along with Article 48 which provided for an initiative process. A similar power given to the Free State Seanad by Article 47 is granted to the modern Seanad by the 1937 Constitution of Ireland. Under the current\",\n \"title\": \"Oireachtas of the Irish Free State\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"9791003\",\n \"text\": \"vote had been won by Concannon's side \\\"I am certifying the Constitution (Amendment No. 23) Bill, 1934, under Article 38A of the Constitution, as containing only such modification as is necessary owing to the time which has elapsed since that Bill was first sent by the Dáil to the Seanad.\\\" Later on when the amendment seemed not to be taking place Concannon placed a question asking about whether moves have been made to begin the process to which W.T. Cosgrave responded that Concannon had been forced to ask the question \\\"The Minister wants to introduce legislation to deal with this,\",\n \"title\": \"Helena Concannon\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"20135977\",\n \"text\": \"Constitution (Amendment No. 11) Act 1929 The Constitution (Amendment No. 11) Act 1929 was an Act amending the Constitution of the Irish Free State. It amended Article 34 of the constitution regarding the filling of casual vacancies in Seanad Eireann. As enacted, Article 34 provided that vacancies would be filled by a vote of the Seanad. Under the 11th amendment, the provision was changed to provide that the vote would be by members of Dail Eireann and Seanad Eireann voting together (which remains the procedure to this day under the 1937 constitution). The Act became obsolete on the repeal of\",\n \"title\": \"Constitution (Amendment No. 11) Act 1929\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"1644479\",\n \"text\": \"of government; an executive, a bicameral legislature, and an independent judiciary. The design of this system, unique at the time, was created to ensure the proper separation of power between the different entities. The framers of the state constitution intended by this means to prevent the abuse of power by any one branch. One hundred and twenty Articles of Amendment have been added to the Massachusetts Constitution. The most recent one disqualified incarcerated felons from voting and was approved by a vote of 60.3% to 33.9% in 2000. The amendment process is governed by the 48th Article of Amendment to\",\n \"title\": \"Constitution of Massachusetts\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"14033984\",\n \"text\": \"down in article 368, in case the amendment seeks to make any change in any of the provisions mentioned in the proviso to article 368. The only other provision for constitutional changes by state legislatures is to initiate the process for creating or abolishing Legislative Councils in their respective legislatures, and to give their views on a proposed Parliamentary bill seeking to affect the area, boundaries or name of any State or States which has been referred to them under the proviso to Article 3. However, this referral does not restrict Parliament's power to make any further amendments of the\",\n \"title\": \"Amendment of the Constitution of India\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"1901821\",\n \"text\": \"referendums only 8 have been successful. The Constitution of Brazil states various terms on how it can be amended. Article 60 lies within \\\"Section VIII: The Legislative Process, Subsection 2: Amendments to the Constitution.\\\" The following is detailed therein: Article 60 is the only article prescribed under Subsection 2 of Section 8 in the Brazilian constitution. The Constitution of the Federal Democratic of Ethiopia can only be modified by a simple majority of the states, two-thirds majority of the house of peoples representatives, and two-thirds majority of the house of federation. Chapters 39 of the constitution of Ethiopia cannot be\",\n \"title\": \"Constitutional amendment\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"17699649\",\n \"text\": \"was notified in \\\"The Gazette of India\\\" on the same date. It retroactively came into effect on the date on which the Bill for this amendment Act was introduced in the Rajya Sabha (i.e., 20 December 1989). The Act was passed in accordance with the provisions of Article 368 of the Constitution, and was ratified by more than half of the State Legislatures, as required under Clause (2) of the said article. State Legislatures that ratified the amendment are listed below: Did not ratify: Sixty-second Amendment of the Constitution of India The Sixty-second Amendment of the Constitution of India, officially\",\n \"title\": \"Sixty-second Amendment of the Constitution of India\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"17709481\",\n \"text\": \"Twentieth Amendment of the Constitution of India The Twentieth Amendment of the Constitution of India, officially known as The Constitution (Twentieth Amendment) Act, 1966, inserted a new article 233A inter alia validating the appointments, postings, promotions, and transfers of and judgements, delivered before the commencement of the present Act, by district judges who were appointed, posted, promoted or transferred as a district judge in any State otherwise than in accordance with the provisions of article 233 or article 235 of the Constitution. The \\\"Constitution (Twentieth Amendment) Act, 1966 \\\"was introduced in the Lok Sabha on 25 November 1966, as the\",\n \"title\": \"Twentieth Amendment of the Constitution of India\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"3168922\",\n \"text\": \"participate in the election of the President and in referendums, so the amendment affected these votes as well. The amendment did not, however, affect the minimum age at which one could be elected to the Dáil, and this remained at twenty-one. It was submitted to a referendum on the same day as the Fifth Amendment, which removed from the constitution reference to the \\\"special position\\\" of the Catholic Church and recognition of certain other named denominations. The Amendment altered the text of Article 16.1.2º in the following manner: Deletion from Article (removed text in bold): Addition to Article 16.1.2 (added\",\n \"title\": \"Fourth Amendment of the Constitution of Ireland\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"428297\",\n \"text\": \"as the federal judiciary and direct taxation, intact. On November 20, 1789, New Jersey ratified eleven of the twelve amendments, rejecting Article II, which regulated Congressional pay raises. On December 19 and 22, respectively, Maryland and North Carolina ratified all twelve amendments. On January 19, 25, and 28, 1790, respectively, South Carolina, New Hampshire, and Delaware ratified the Bill, though New Hampshire rejected the amendment on Congressional pay raises, and Delaware rejected Article I, which regulated the size of the House. This brought the total of ratifying states to six of the required ten, but the process stalled in other\",\n \"title\": \"Third Amendment to the United States Constitution\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"16906736\",\n \"text\": \"4 (2) got superseded by the 24th amendment in the year 1971 to Article 368 (Power of Parliament to amend the Constitution and Procedure there for). was added by 24th amendment which says that notwithstanding anything in this Constitution, parliament may in exercise of its constituent power amend by way of addition, variation or repeal any provision of this Constitution in accordance with the procedure laid down in this article. Constituent power means eligibility to frame constitution and make amendments to the constitution. Supreme court observed that article 368 (1) clearly defined the scope of constituent power which is power\",\n \"title\": \"Part I of the Constitution of India\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"3169018\",\n \"text\": \"Supreme Court under Article 26 of the Constitution. In a judgment delivered on 8 February 1984, they found the bill to be unconstitutional. In response, the government then proposed a constitutional amendment which would specifically allow the franchise in elections to Dáil Éireann to be extended to non-Irish citizens. This did not affect presidential elections or referendums, where the text of the Constitution continued to specify citizens only. Deletion of the entirety of Article 16.1.2º: Substitution of new Article 16.1.2º: Amendment to Article 16.1.3º by the addition of the text in bold: Under the provisions of the Referendum Act 1984,\",\n \"title\": \"Ninth Amendment of the Constitution of Ireland\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"5562630\",\n \"text\": \"As Mississippi has only four districts, a strict interpretation of this section makes it impossible to propose an amendment via initiative. The Article excludes certain portions of the Constitution that can be amended by initiative; for example, any of the sections in Article 3 (Bill of Rights) are off-limits. The Article also discusses the procedures in the event that a Legislature-proposed amendment is similar to that of an initiative-proposed amendment. Sections 274 through 285 contain transitional provisions. Previously the Article contained Sections 286 and 287 which were classified as \\\"ADDITIONAL SECTIONS OF THE CONSTITUTION OF MISSISSIPPI NOT BEING AMENDMENTS OF\",\n \"title\": \"Constitution of Mississippi\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"18312670\",\n \"text\": \"within the two cities combined voted for joining. However, a vast majority of voters in Allegheny voted in opposition; thus, most of the votes in favor came from Pittsburgh. But because the majority of the total votes were in favor, the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania ruled the union constitutional under Pennsylvania law. Plaintiffs appealed under the United States Constitution Article 1 section 10 paragraph 1 (contract clause) and Amendment 14 (due process clause). The United States Supreme Court unanimously ruled that the Pennsylvania law violated neither Article 1 nor Amendment 14 of the United States Constitution. Some important lines from\",\n \"title\": \"Hunter v. City of Pittsburgh\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"17714915\",\n \"text\": \"Twenty-second Amendment of the Constitution of India The Twenty-second Amendment of the Constitution of India, officially known as The Constitution (Twenty-second Amendment) Act, 1969, inserted new article 244A in the Constitution to empower Parliament to enact a law for constituting an autonomous State within the State of Assam and also to provide the autonomous State with Legislature or a Council of Ministers or both with such powers and functions as may be defined by that law. The 21st Amendment amended article 275 in regard to sums and grants payable to the autonomous State on and from its formation under article\",\n \"title\": \"Twenty-second Amendment of the Constitution of India\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"16967614\",\n \"text\": \"is made up of articles 35-45, states that there shall be a Governor of the British Virgin Islands and describes the appointment process for that office. The chapter also sets out how the duties and powers of the Governor are determined, making reference to the role of the Queen through her Secretary of State. Article 37 of the chapter describes the times when an Acting Governor is required and the appointment process for that position. The fourth chapter, which is made up of articles 46-61, sets out the structure and composition of the Executive. Article 46 provides that executive authority\",\n \"title\": \"Constitution of the British Virgin Islands\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"17723283\",\n \"text\": \"Forty-first Amendment of the Constitution of India The Forty-first Amendment of the Constitution of India, officially known as The Constitution (Forty-first Amendment) Act, 1976, raised the age of retirement of the Chairman and members of the State Public Service Commissions from 60 to 62 years, by amending article 316(2) of the Constitution. The relevant amended text of clause (2) of article 316, after the 41st Amendment, is given below: \\\"The Constitution (Forty-first Amendment) Act, 1976\\\" was introduced in the Lok Sabha on 26 August 1976, as the \\\"Constitution (Forty-third Amendment) Bill, 1976\\\" (Bill No. 85 of 1976). It was introduced\",\n \"title\": \"Forty-first Amendment of the Constitution of India\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"8276299\",\n \"text\": \"those articles that have been declared revisable. Neither Chamber can consider amendments to the Constitution unless at least two-thirds of its members are present and the Constitution can only be amended if at least two-thirds of the votes cast are in favour of the amendment. There are further restrictions on the power of the Federal Parliament to amend the Constitution. Article 196 of the Constitution provides that the process to amend the Constitution cannot be initiated or continued in times of war or when the Federal Parliament is unable to freely meet in Belgium. Article 197 also provides that the\",\n \"title\": \"Constitution of Belgium\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"14033971\",\n \"text\": \"possible one-t part-xx Article 368 (1) of the Constitution of India grants constituent power to make formal amendments and empowers Parliament to amend the Constitution by way of addition, variation or repeal of any provision according to the procedure laid down therein, which is different from the procedure for ordinary legislation. Article 368 has been amended by the 24th and 42nd Amendments in 1971 and 1976 respectively. The following is the full text of Article 368 of the Constitution, which governs constitutional amendments. New clauses 368 (1) and 368 (3) were added by the 24th Amendment in 1971, which also\",\n \"title\": \"Amendment of the Constitution of India\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"20539645\",\n \"text\": \"Thirty-sixth Amendment of the Constitution of Ireland The Thirty-sixth Amendment of the Constitution of Ireland (previously bill no. 29 of 2018) is an amendment to the constitution of Ireland which permits the Oireachtas (parliament of Ireland) to legislate for abortion. The constitution had previously prohibited abortion unless there was a serious risk to the life of the mother. The proposal is often described as the Repeal of the Eighth Amendment, referring to the 1983 constitutional amendment which guarantees the unborn the right to life, making abortion illegal unless the pregnancy is life-threatening. The 2018 bill replaces Article 40.3.3° of the\",\n \"title\": \"Thirty-sixth Amendment of the Constitution of Ireland\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"428167\",\n \"text\": \"unconstitutional. An amendment becomes an operative part of the Constitution when it is ratified by the necessary number of states, rather than on the later date when its ratification is certified. No further action by Congress or anyone is required. On three occasions, Congress has, after being informed that an amendment has reached the ratification threshold, adopted a resolution declaring the process successfully completed. Such actions, while perhaps important for political reasons, are, constitutionally speaking, unnecessary. Presently, the Archivist of the United States is charged with responsibility for administering the ratification process under the provisions of 1 U.S. Code .\",\n \"title\": \"Article Five of the United States Constitution\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"14033978\",\n \"text\": \"far as it may be applicable consistently with the express provisions of article 368, when they entrusted to it power of amending the Constitution.\\\" Hence, barring the requirements of special majority, ratification by the State Legislatures in certain cases, and the mandatory assent by the President, a Bill for amending the Constitution is dealt with the Parliament following the same legislative process as applicable to an ordinary piece of legislation. The Rules of the House in the Rajya Sabha do not contain special provisions with regard to Bills for the amendment of the Constitution and the Rules relating to ordinary\",\n \"title\": \"Amendment of the Constitution of India\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"17717823\",\n \"text\": \"Eighteenth Amendment of the Constitution of India The Eighteenth Amendment of the Constitution of India, officially known as The Constitution (Eighteenth Amendment) Act, 1966, amended article 3 of the Constitution in order to clarify the \\\"State\\\" in clauses (a) to (e) of that article (but not in the proviso) include \\\"Union territories\\\". It also added another \\\"Explanation\\\" that the power conferred on Parliament by clause (a) includes the power to form a new State or Union territory by uniting a part of any State or Union territory to any other State or Union territory. The full text of article 3\",\n \"title\": \"Eighteenth Amendment of the Constitution of India\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"1901802\",\n \"text\": \"order to ensure that Japan would not be a source of future aggression, a special portion was written into the document in the form of \\\"Article 9: Renunciation of War.\\\" It describes as follows: Even though these two paragraphs are not expressly protected by the eternity clause, many Japanese people argue that it needs to be interpreted as being irrevocable due to the significant and precise nature of the article. Under the common interpretation of the Constitution, amendments can be proposed by one of three methods: a People's Initiative, a Constituent Assembly or a Constitutional Convention. The Constitution of Poland\",\n \"title\": \"Constitutional amendment\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"4906049\",\n \"text\": \"residents of other countries are allowed to vote in federal elections, then the Congress can extend the same rights to residents of the nation's capital. The primary objection to legislative proposals to grant the District voting rights is that some provisions of the Constitution suggest that such an action would be unconstitutional. How the House of Representatives is to be composed is described in Article I, Section 2: Section 2 of the Fourteenth Amendment reaffirms Article I, Section 2 in that regard when it says: In addition, the Seventeenth Amendment correspondingly describes the election of \\\"two Senators from each State\\\".\",\n \"title\": \"District of Columbia voting rights\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"14880085\",\n \"text\": \"the Offences against the State Act 1939, which remains in force with amendments. Constitution (Amendment No. 17) Act 1931 The Constitution (Amendment No. 17) Act, 1931 (No. 37/1931) popularly called the Public Safety Act 1931, was an amendment to the Constitution of the Irish Free State which inserted Article 2A, empowering the Executive Council to declare a state of emergency during which most provisions of the constitution could be suspended and extra security measures taken. These measures included the use of a military tribunal (the Constitution (Special Powers) Tribunal) to try civilians for political crimes, granting extra powers of search\",\n \"title\": \"Constitution (Amendment No. 17) Act 1931\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"428183\",\n \"text\": \"of the American Constitutional tradition and he defends Article V against modern critiques that Article V is either too difficult, too undemocratic, or too formal. Instead he argues that Article V provides a clear and stable way of amending the document that is explicit, authentic, and the exclusive means of amendment; it promotes wisdom and justice through enhancing deliberation and prudence; and its process complements federalism and separation of powers that are key features of the Constitution. He argues that Article V remains the most clear and powerful way to register the sovereign desires of the American public with regard\",\n \"title\": \"Article Five of the United States Constitution\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"5401076\",\n \"text\": \"days after the amendment is filed with the custodian of state records). Many diverse, and sometimes controversial, amendments have been proposed to the Florida Constitution over the years. From modifications to the amendment process itself to parental notification of a minor's intent to terminate a pregnancy, to minimum wage increases, to limiting cruel and inhumane confinement of pigs during pregnancy. Article I, Section 23 of the Florida Constitution provides: The provision was proposed during the 1978 Constitutional Revision Commission by Chief Justice Overton of the Florida Supreme Court. It was put to the electorate by the Commission as part of\",\n \"title\": \"Constitution of Florida\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"427804\",\n \"text\": \"shared process of constitutional amendment. Article Seven establishes the procedure subsequently used by the thirteen States to ratify it. It is regarded as the oldest written and codified national constitution in force. Since the Constitution came into force in 1789, it has been amended 27 times, including an amendment to repeal a previous one, in order to meet the needs of a nation that has profoundly changed since the eighteenth century. In general, the first ten amendments, known collectively as the Bill of Rights, offer specific protections of individual liberty and justice and place restrictions on the powers of government.\",\n \"title\": \"United States Constitution\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"3168921\",\n \"text\": \"Fourth Amendment of the Constitution of Ireland The Fourth Amendment of the Constitution Act 1972 is an amendment to the Constitution of Ireland which lowered the voting age for all national elections and referendums in the state from twenty-one to eighteen years of age. It was approved by referendum on 7 December 1972 and signed into law on 5 January 1973. The Fourth Amendment altered Article 16 which deals with elections to Dáil Éireann (the house of representatives of the Oireachtas). However other provisions of the constitution state that anyone entitled to vote in Dáil elections is also entitled to\",\n \"title\": \"Fourth Amendment of the Constitution of Ireland\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"17699709\",\n \"text\": \"the 23rd, 45th and 62nd Amendments respectively. The 79th Amendment extended this period to 2010. The period of reservation was further extended to 2020 by the 95th Amendment. The full text of Article 334 of the Constitution, after the 79th Amendment, is given below: The bill of \\\"The Constitution (Seventy-ninth Amendment) Act, 1999\\\" was introduced in the Lok Sabha on 26 October 1999, as the \\\"Constitution (Eighty-fourth Amendment) Bill, 1999\\\" (Bill No. 67 of 1999). It was introduced by Ram Jethmalani, then Minister of Law, Justice and Company Affairs, and sought to amend article 334 of the Constitution relating to\",\n \"title\": \"Seventy-ninth Amendment of the Constitution of India\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"13554862\",\n \"text\": \"Buckley v. American Constitutional Law Foundation, Inc. Buckley v. American Constitutional Law Foundation, Inc., 525 U.S. 182 (1999), was a United States Supreme Court case that dealt with the authority of states to regulate the electoral process, and the point at which state regulations of the electoral process violate the First Amendment freedoms. Article V, section 1 of the Constitution of the state of Colorado allows its citizens to place particular initiatives and referenda on the electoral ballot, thus directly creating new laws. Notable initiatives and referenda include the Colorado state capital referendum, in 1881; the Poundstone Amendment in 1974,\",\n \"title\": \"Buckley v. American Constitutional Law Foundation, Inc.\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"17695882\",\n \"text\": \"Eighth Amendment of the Constitution of India The Eighth Amendment of the Constitution of India, officially known as The Constitution (Eighth Amendment) Act, 1959, amended article 334 of the Constitution in order to extend the period of reservation of seats for the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes and representation of the Anglo-Indians in the Lok Sabha and the State Legislative Assemblies for ten years, i.e. up to 26 January 1970. Article 334 had stipulated that the reservation of seats should expire within a period of ten years from the commencement of the Constitution (i.e. 26 January 1960). The 8th Amendment\",\n \"title\": \"Eighth Amendment of the Constitution of India\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"17828056\",\n \"text\": \"20 December 1988. It was notified in \\\"The Gazette of India\\\", and came into effect on the same date. Sixtieth Amendment of the Constitution of India The Sixtieth Amendment of the Constitution of India, officially known as The Constitution (Sixtieth Amendment) Act, 1988, amended article 276 of the Constitution relating to taxes on professions, trades, callings and employments. Section 2 of the Act amended Clause (2) of article 276 of the Constitution to increase the ceiling of tax on professions, trades, callings and employments from per person per annum to 2500 per person per annum. The 60th Amendment also omitted\",\n \"title\": \"Sixtieth Amendment of the Constitution of India\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"17714921\",\n \"text\": \"368 of the Constitution, and was ratified by more than half of the State Legislatures, as required under Clause (2) of the said article. State Legislatures that ratified the amendment are listed below: Did not ratify: Twenty-second Amendment of the Constitution of India The Twenty-second Amendment of the Constitution of India, officially known as The Constitution (Twenty-second Amendment) Act, 1969, inserted new article 244A in the Constitution to empower Parliament to enact a law for constituting an autonomous State within the State of Assam and also to provide the autonomous State with Legislature or a Council of Ministers or both\",\n \"title\": \"Twenty-second Amendment of the Constitution of India\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"7648094\",\n \"text\": \"The Law that Never Was The Law That Never Was: The Fraud of the 16th Amendment and Personal Income Tax is a 1985 book by William J. Benson and Martin J. \\\"Red\\\" Beckman which claims that the Sixteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, commonly known as the income tax amendment, was never properly ratified. In 2007, and again in 2009, Benson's contentions were ruled to be fraudulent. Under Article V of the U.S. Constitution, an amendment proposed by Congress must be ratified by three-fourths of the states to become part of the Constitution. The Article permits Congress to specify,\",\n \"title\": \"The Law that Never Was\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"16967620\",\n \"text\": \"and describes its process and function. The first Complaints Commissioner was the former Deputy Governor, Mr Elton Georges. In May 2015 he was replaced by Sheila Brathwaite. The Complaints Commissioner appears to be the least well functioning part of the Constitution; although Complaints are reported and then investigated, the usual outcome is that the relevant Government department simply ignores the findings. The tenth and final chapter, which is made up of articles 113-119, deals principally with revocations and the continuing validity of existing laws and offices and officers. Article 119, the final article, provides: The Constitution provides for various public\",\n \"title\": \"Constitution of the British Virgin Islands\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"9585646\",\n \"text\": \"the right to property. Further, Articles 21 and 22 established artistic, academic and educational freedom and the right to intellectual property respectively. Finally, Article 25 established the right to petition. Overall, the constitution included 127 articles which outlined the various organs of the state and how these functioned. Article 125 forbade the amendment of the constitution for the first 5 years of its implementation, and further forbade the amendment of the \\\"fundamental\\\" articles of the constitution thereafter. Article 127 made the Greek nation responsible for the implementation of the constitution. In effect, this gave \\\"the Nation\\\" supremacy over the country's\",\n \"title\": \"Second Hellenic Republic\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"17859123\",\n \"text\": \"caretaker set-up and hold free and fair elections and matters related to the office of Chief Election Commissioner and Member of Election Commission. Twentieth Amendment to the Constitution of Pakistan The Twentieth Amendment Bill to the Constitution of Pakistan (Urdu: آئین پاکستان میں بیسویں ترمیم) was passed by the National Assembly of Pakistan on February 14, 2012. It was then moved to upper house, Senate where it was passed on February 20, 2012 and signed by the President on February 28, 2012. The amendments were done in Article 48, Article 214, Article 215, Article 216, Article 218, Article 219, Article\",\n \"title\": \"Twentieth Amendment to the Constitution of Pakistan\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"14880082\",\n \"text\": \"Constitution (Amendment No. 17) Act 1931 The Constitution (Amendment No. 17) Act, 1931 (No. 37/1931) popularly called the Public Safety Act 1931, was an amendment to the Constitution of the Irish Free State which inserted Article 2A, empowering the Executive Council to declare a state of emergency during which most provisions of the constitution could be suspended and extra security measures taken. These measures included the use of a military tribunal (the Constitution (Special Powers) Tribunal) to try civilians for political crimes, granting extra powers of search and arrest to the Garda Síochána (police), and the prohibition of organisations deemed\",\n \"title\": \"Constitution (Amendment No. 17) Act 1931\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"19418922\",\n \"text\": \"Sangsad with a view to amending Articles 51 and 66 of the 1981 constitution. The Constitution (Eighth Amendment) Act, 1988 declared, among others, that Islam shall be state religion (Article 2A) and also decentralised the judiciary by setting up six permanent benches of the High Court Division outside Dhaka (Article 100). The Constitution (Thirteenth Amendment) Act, 1996 introduced a non-party Caretaker Government (CtG) system which, acting as an interim government, would give all possible aid and assistance to the Election Commission for holding the general election. The Fifteenth Amendment was passed on 30 June 2011 made some significant changes to\",\n \"title\": \"Amendments to the Constitution of Bangladesh\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"17717885\",\n \"text\": \"to the Legislatures of States\\\". Provisions for the trial of election petitions by High Courts instead of the election tribunals, was provided for by amending the Representation of the People Act, 1951. The full text of clause (1) of article 324, after the 19th Amendment, is given below: \\\"The Constitution (Nineteenth Amendment) Act, 1966\\\" was introduced in the Lok Sabha on 29 August 1966, as the \\\"Constitution (Twenty-first Amendment) Bill, 1966\\\" (Bill No. 57 of 1966). It was introduced by Gopal Swarup Pathak, then Minister of Law, and sought to amend article 324 of the Constitution. Article 324 provides for\",\n \"title\": \"Nineteenth Amendment of the Constitution of India\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"3227094\",\n \"text\": \"the President and various changes that were needed to bring the official Irish text of the constitution into line with the English text. An unusual aspect of the Second Amendment was that it introduced a change to Article 56 of the Transitory Provisions even though that article was no longer a part of the official published text of the constitution. The Second Amendment was not submitted to a referendum. Under Article 51 of the Transitory Provisions, the constitution could be amended during the initial period of 1938 to 1941 without the need for a referendum and so the Second Amendment\",\n \"title\": \"Second Amendment of the Constitution of Ireland\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"20539654\",\n \"text\": \"was a child within the meaning of Article 42A of the Constitution, which guarantees children's rights. The Supreme Court agreed to expedite the government's appeal of the decision, and on 7 March 2018 overturned the High Court judgment, ruling that a foetus was not a child and had no rights other than the right to life mentioned in Article 40.3.3. The Amendment proposes to replace the text of Article 40.3.3º, which reads: As the amendment passed, the subsection will be replaced with the following text: The Department of Health published a policy paper on \\\"Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy\\\" on\",\n \"title\": \"Thirty-sixth Amendment of the Constitution of Ireland\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"20135978\",\n \"text\": \"the 1922 Constitution by the Constitution of Ireland in 1937, and has formally been repealed by the Statute Law Revision Act 2016. Constitution (Amendment No. 11) Act 1929 The Constitution (Amendment No. 11) Act 1929 was an Act amending the Constitution of the Irish Free State. It amended Article 34 of the constitution regarding the filling of casual vacancies in Seanad Eireann. As enacted, Article 34 provided that vacancies would be filled by a vote of the Seanad. Under the 11th amendment, the provision was changed to provide that the vote would be by members of Dail Eireann and Seanad\",\n \"title\": \"Constitution (Amendment No. 11) Act 1929\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"17717173\",\n \"text\": \"President Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan on 28 December 1962, and came into force on the same date. It was notified in \\\"The Gazette of India\\\" on 29 December 1962. The Act was passed in accordance with the provisions of Article 368 of the Constitution, and was ratified by more than half of the State Legislatures, as required under Clause (2) of the said article. State Legislatures that ratified the amendment are listed below: Did not ratify: Fourteenth Amendment of the Constitution of India The Fourteenth Amendment of the Constitution of India, officially known as The Constitution (Fourteenth Amendment) Act, 1962, incorporated Pondicherry\",\n \"title\": \"Fourteenth Amendment of the Constitution of India\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"17699537\",\n \"text\": \"2010 by the 23rd, 45th, 62nd and 79th Amendments respectively. The 95th Amendment extended the period of reservation to 2020. The full text of Article 334 of the Constitution, after the 95th Amendment, is given below: The bill of \\\"The Constitution (Ninety-fifth Amendment) Act, 2009\\\" was introduced in the Rajya Sabha on 30 July 2009 as the \\\"Constitution (One Hundred and Ninth Amendment) Bill, 2009\\\" (Bill No. XX of 2009). It was introduced by M. Veerappa Moily, then Minister of Law and Justice, and sought to amend article 334 of the Constitution relating to reservation of seats for the Scheduled\",\n \"title\": \"Ninety-fifth Amendment of the Constitution of India\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"1397522\",\n \"text\": \"forbidding attainder laws serve two purposes. First, they reinforced the separation of powers, by forbidding the legislature to perform judicial or executive functions—since the outcome of any such acts of legislature would of necessity take the form of a bill of attainder. Second, they embody the concept of due process, which was partially reinforced by the Fifth Amendment to the Constitution. The text of the Constitution, Article I, Section 9, Clause 3 is \\\"No Bill of Attainder or ex post facto Law shall be passed\\\". The constitution of every state also expressly forbids bills of attainder. For example, Wisconsin's constitution\",\n \"title\": \"Bill of attainder\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"14033964\",\n \"text\": \"Parliament by a simple majority such as that required for the passing of any ordinary law. The amendments under this category are specifically excluded from the purview of article 368 which is the specific provision in the Constitution dealing with the power and the procedure for the amendment of the Constitution. Article 4 provides that laws made by Parliament under article 2 (relating to admission or establishment of new States) and article 3 (relating to formation of new States and alteration of areas, boundaries or names of existing States) effecting amendments in the First Schedule or the Fourth Schedule and\",\n \"title\": \"Amendment of the Constitution of India\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"9528002\",\n \"text\": \"\\\"from time to time\\\". Article 194 was amended to grant the same rights as Clause 21 to State Legislatures, its members and committees. Two new clauses 4A and 26A were inserted into article 366 of the Constitution, which defined the meaning of the terms \\\"Central Law\\\" and \\\"State Law\\\" by inserting two new clauses 4A and 26A into article 366 of the Constitution. The 42nd Amendment froze any delimitation of constituencies for elections to Lok Sabha and State Legislative Assemblies until after the 2001 Census of India, by amending article 170 (relating to composition of Legislative Assemblies). The total number\",\n \"title\": \"Forty-second Amendment of the Constitution of India\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"428655\",\n \"text\": \"contrast to the one-vote-for-one-state principle in the earlier Continental Congress. Under the Fugitive Slave Clause, Article IV, Section 2, Clause 3, \\\"No person held to Service or Labour in one State\\\" would be freed by escaping to another. allowed Congress to pass legislation outlawing the \\\"Importation of Persons\\\", but not until 1808. However, for purposes of the Fifth Amendment—which states that, \\\"No person shall . . . be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law\\\"—slaves were understood as property. Although abolitionists used the Fifth Amendment to argue against slavery, it became part of the legal basis\",\n \"title\": \"Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"15246348\",\n \"text\": \"of both cases on the ground that the terms of Article 14 of the Constitution differ materially from Article 10 of the European Convention on Human Rights, which was relied upon by the court in \\\"Lingens\\\"; as well as the First Amendment and the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which were relied upon by the court in \\\"New York Times\\\". The public figure doctrine was thus expressly rejected by the Court. Thean J. said: \\\"Such criticisms or attacks must, in our opinion, respect the bounds set by the law of defamation, and we do not accept that the\",\n \"title\": \"Article 14 of the Constitution of Singapore\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"17695888\",\n \"text\": \"ratify: Eighth Amendment of the Constitution of India The Eighth Amendment of the Constitution of India, officially known as The Constitution (Eighth Amendment) Act, 1959, amended article 334 of the Constitution in order to extend the period of reservation of seats for the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes and representation of the Anglo-Indians in the Lok Sabha and the State Legislative Assemblies for ten years, i.e. up to 26 January 1970. Article 334 had stipulated that the reservation of seats should expire within a period of ten years from the commencement of the Constitution (i.e. 26 January 1960). The 8th\",\n \"title\": \"Eighth Amendment of the Constitution of India\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"17699539\",\n \"text\": \"accordance with the provisions of Article 368 of the Constitution, and was ratified by more than half of the State Legislatures, as required under Clause (2) of the said article. State Legislatures that ratified the amendment are listed below: Ninety-fifth Amendment of the Constitution of India The Ninety-fifth Amendment of the Constitution of India, officially known as The Constitution (Ninety-fifth Amendment) Act, 2009, extended the period of reservation of seats for the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes and representation of the Anglo-Indians in the Lok Sabha and the State Legislative Assemblies for another ten years, i.e. up to 26 January\",\n \"title\": \"Ninety-fifth Amendment of the Constitution of India\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"17697120\",\n \"text\": \"into effect from 25 January 1980. The Act was passed in accordance with the provisions of Article 368 of the Constitution, and was ratified by more than half of the State Legislatures, as required under Clause (2) of the said article. State Legislatures that ratified the amendment are listed below: Did not ratify: Forty-fifth Amendment of the Constitution of India The Forty-fifth Amendment of the Constitution of India, officially known as The Constitution (Forty-fifth Amendment) Act, 1980, extended the period of reservation of seats for the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes and representation of the Anglo-Indians in the Lok Sabha\",\n \"title\": \"Forty-fifth Amendment of the Constitution of India\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"17872118\",\n \"text\": \"Fifteenth Amendment to the Constitution of Pakistan The Fifteenth Amendment bill to the Constitution of Pakistan (Urdu: آئین پاکستان میں پندرھویں ترمیم) was Passed by National Assembly of Pakistan on 28 August 1998. It was then moved to the Senate where it was never passed. The proposed amendments included addition of a new article 2B in the constitution and amendment in Article 239 of the Constitution of Pakistan. It also sought to impose Sharia Law as supreme law in Pakistan in light of the Objective Resolution of Pakistan in addition to the Quran and Sunnah as is in the Constitution\",\n \"title\": \"Fifteenth Amendment to the Constitution of Pakistan\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"17717884\",\n \"text\": \"Nineteenth Amendment of the Constitution of India The Nineteenth Amendment of the Constitution of India, officially known as The Constitution (Nineteenth Amendment) Act, 1966, abolished Election Tribunals in India and enabled trial of election petitions by High Courts. It amended clause (1) of article 324 of the Constitution, which provides for vesting of the power of superintendence, direction and control of elections with the Election Commission. The 19th Amendment removed the provision relating to the power of \\\"the appointment of election tribunals for the decision of doubts and disputes arising out of or in connection with elections to Parliament and\",\n \"title\": \"Nineteenth Amendment of the Constitution of India\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"6198501\",\n \"text\": \"and in the Seanad on 30 October. It then proceeded to a referendum on 25 November. On 25 May 2018, the Thirty-sixth Amendment of the Constitution Bill 2018 was passed by referendum. 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Although the armistice, signed on 11 November 1918, ended the actual fighting, it took six months of Allied negotiations at the Paris","title":"Treaty of Versailles"},{"docid":"405605","text":"position in the event of renewed hostilities. Upon receiving this, the new government recommended signing the treaty. The National Assembly voted in favour of signing the treaty by 237 to 138, with five abstentions (there were 421 delegates in total). This result was wired to Clemenceau just hours before the deadline. Foreign minister Hermann Müller and colonial minister Johannes Bell travelled to Versailles to sign the treaty on behalf of Germany. The treaty was signed on 28 June 1919 and ratified by the National Assembly on 9 July by a vote of 209 to 116. 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It was the first of the Minority Treaties and served as a template for the subsequent","title":"Little Treaty of Versailles"},{"docid":"12021740","text":"Treaty of Versailles. On 28 June 1919, the Covenant was signed by 44 states, including 31 states which had taken part in the war on the side of the Triple Entente or joined it during the conflict. Despite American President Woodrow Wilson's efforts to establish and promote the League, for which he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1919, the United States did not join the League. The League held its first council meeting in Paris on 16 January 1920, six days after the Versailles Treaty came into force. In November, the headquarters of the League moved to Geneva,","title":"Peace congress"}],"string":"[\n {\n \"docid\": \"405547\",\n \"text\": \"Treaty of Versailles The Treaty of Versailles () was the most important of the peace treaties that brought World War I to an end. 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Many in China felt betrayed as the German territory in China was handed to Japan. Wellington Koo refused to sign the treaty and the Chinese delegation at the Paris Peace Conference was the only nation that did not sign the Treaty of Versailles at the signing ceremony. The sense of betrayal led to great demonstrations in China like the May 4th movement and the fall of the nascent Chinese Republic's government and poisoned relations with the West. There was immense dissatisfaction with Duan Qirui’s government,","title":"Treaty of Versailles"},{"docid":"405571","text":"and contributed to a risk of political defeat at home. In June 1919, the Allies declared that war would resume if the German government did not sign the treaty they had agreed to among themselves. The government headed by Philipp Scheidemann was unable to agree on a common position, and Scheidemann himself resigned rather than agree to sign the treaty. Gustav Bauer, the head of the new government, sent a telegram stating his intention to sign the treaty if certain articles were withdrawn, including Articles 227, 230 and 231. In response, the Allies issued an ultimatum stating that Germany would","title":"Treaty of Versailles"},{"docid":"4669347","text":"treaty within seven days or face the resumption of hostilities. The German government was divided on whether to sign or reject the peace treaty. On 19 June, Chancellor Philipp Scheidemann resigned rather than sign the treaty and was followed by Brockdorff-Rantzau and other members of the government, leaving Germany without a cabinet or peace delegation. After being advised by Field Marshal Paul von Hindenburg that Germany was in no condition to resume the war, President Friedrich Ebert and the new Chancellor, Gustav Bauer, recommended that the Weimar National Assembly ratify the treaty. The Assembly did so by a large majority,","title":"Article 231 of the Treaty of Versailles"},{"docid":"1819288","text":"first tasks as president was to deal with the Treaty of Versailles. When the treaty's terms became public on 7 May 1919, it was cursed by Germans of all political shades as an onerous \"Diktat,\" particularly because Germany had essentially been handed the treaty and told to sign without any negotiations. Ebert himself denounced the treaty as \"unrealizable and unbearable.\" However, Ebert was well aware of the possibility that Germany would not be in a position to reject the treaty. He believed that the Allies would invade Germany from the west if Germany refused to sign. To appease public opinion,","title":"Friedrich Ebert"},{"docid":"4669360","text":"these views, the historical consensus is that the article and the treaty, did not cause the rise of Nazism but that an unconnected rise in extremism and the Great Depression led to the NSDAP gaining greater electoral popularity and then being maneuvered into office. Fritz Klein wrote that while there was a path from Versailles to Hitler, the former did not make \"Hitler's takeover of power inevitable\" and that \"the Germans had a choice when they decided to take this path. In other words, they did not have to. Hitler's victory was not an unavoidable result of Versailles.\" In 1926,","title":"Article 231 of the Treaty of Versailles"},{"docid":"6690232","text":"severely limited Germany's industrial output. Its army was restricted to 100,000 men and its military production was greatly reduced. However, the treaty did not diminish Germany's place as a leader in military innovation, and many industrial firms still retained the machinery and technology to produce military hardware. Therefore, to circumvent the treaty's restrictions, these industrial firms formed partnerships with foreign nations, such as the Soviet Union and Argentina, to legally produce weapons and sell them. As the Chinese government did not sign the Treaty of Versailles, a separate German-Chinese Peace Treaty was concluded in 1921. After the death of Yuan","title":"Sino-German cooperation (1926–1941)"},{"docid":"6690231","text":"and the Treaty of Versailles assigned the modern and up-to-date city of Tsingtao and the Kiautschou Bay region to Japan. Subsequent recognition of this Allied betrayal sparked the nationalistic May Fourth Movement, which is regarded as a significant event in modern Chinese history. As a result, the Beiyang government refused to sign the Treaty of Versailles. World War I dealt a severe blow to Sino-German relations. Long established trade connections had been destroyed, financial structures and markets wrecked; of the almost three hundred German firms conducting business in China in 1913, only two remained in 1919. The Treaty of Versailles","title":"Sino-German cooperation (1926–1941)"},{"docid":"540129","text":"Italian seizure of Fiume result in war between Italy and Yugoslavia. The German ambassador to Italy in 1924 reported that Mussolini saw a nationalist Germany as an essential ally for Italy against France, and hoped to tap into the desire within the German army and the German political right for a war of revenge against France. During the Weimar Republic, the German government did not respect the Treaty of Versailles that it had been pressured to sign, and various government figures at the time rejected Germany's post-Versailles borders. General Hans von Seeckt (head of the \"Reichswehr\" command from 1920 to","title":"Axis powers"},{"docid":"3475320","text":"was the only nation that did not sign the Treaty of Versailles at the signing ceremony. Koo also was involved in the formation of the League of Nations as China's first representative to the newly formed League. From 1922, Koo served successively as Foreign Minister and Finance Minister. He was twice Acting Premier, in 1924 and again in 1926 during a period of chaos in Beijing under Zhang Zuolin in 1926-7. Koo was Acting Premier from 1 October 1926 and acted concurrently as Interim President. He served as Premier from January until June 1927, when Zhang organised a military government","title":"Wellington Koo"},{"docid":"405586","text":"when employed abroad; recognition of the principle of freedom of association; the organization of vocational and technical education and other measures. The treaty also called for the signatories to sign or ratify the International Opium Convention. The delegates of the Commonwealth and British Government had mixed thoughts on the treaty, with some seeing the French policy as being greedy and vindictive. Lloyd George and his private secretary Philip Kerr believed in the treaty, although they also felt that the French would keep Europe in a constant state of turmoil by attempting to enforce the treaty. Delegate Harold Nicolson wrote \"are","title":"Treaty of Versailles"},{"docid":"11077610","text":"for Poland to sign the peace treaty with Germany (the Article 93 of the Treaty of Versailles stated that: \"\"Poland accepts... provisions... to protect the interests of inhabitants of Poland who differ from the majority of the population in race, language, or religion\"\"). In addition, the treaty declared that Poland had to take over a part of debts of Russian state and grant a most favored nation clause in transit trade to \"Allied and Associated States\" (Articles 14-18). The Polish government declared its support for \"\"total and complete protection of life and freedom of all people regardless of their birth,","title":"Little Treaty of Versailles"},{"docid":"19680054","text":"Treaty, the US government did not follow their side of the treaty, partially because Brigham Young did not have authority to speak for the US government. As a sign of protest, he led the Timpanogos into Thistle Valley in Sanpete County to hunt and dance in the spring of 1872. This made the Americans uneasy, and he was able to get the Americans to fulfill their obligations for that year. Tabby-To-Kwanah Chief Tabby-To-Kwanah (or Tabby, Tabiona, or Tabiuna; 1789 – 1898) was the leader of Timpanogos when they were displaced to the Uintah and Ouray Indian Reservation. He rose to","title":"Tabby-To-Kwanah"},{"docid":"4586814","text":"US Senate actually passed the Treaty of Versailles, which it never did. As a result, the report was only released to the public in 1922, after the Senate and House had passed a joint resolution favoring the establishment of a Jewish National Home in Palestine along the lines of the Balfour Declaration. Public opinion was divided when it was learned that the Arab majority had requested an American mandate with a democratically elected constituent assembly. The Commission termed the territory it was investigating \"Syria\", which covered the Arab territories of the defunct Ottoman Syria. Though it did not use the","title":"King–Crane Commission"},{"docid":"2522192","text":"its ratification by less than all of the signatories. Even though such a treaty takes effect, it does not apply to signatories that have not ratified it. Accession has the same legal effect as ratification, for treaties already negotiated and signed by other states. An example of a treaty to which the Senate did not advise and consent to ratification is the Treaty of Versailles, which failed to garner support because of the Covenant of the League of Nations. The US can also enter into international agreements by way of executive agreements. They are not made under the Treaty Clause","title":"Ratification"},{"docid":"1971215","text":"the Allies; during the war, it had sent thousands of labourers to France. At the Paris Peace Conference in 1919, the Chinese delegation called for an end to Western imperialistic institutions in China, but was rebuffed. China requested at least the formal restoration of its territory of Jiaozhou Bay, under German colonial control since 1898. But the western Allies rejected China's request, instead granting transfer to Japan of all of Germany's pre-war territory and rights in China. Subsequently, China did not sign the Treaty of Versailles, instead signing a separate peace treaty with Germany in 1921. The Austro-Hungarian and German","title":"Aftermath of World War I"},{"docid":"9215953","text":"insisted that the territory was necessary as a defensive barrier. Bismarck opposed the annexation because he did not wish to make Germany a permanent enemy of France. The portion annexed of Alsace-Lorraine was later slightly reduced at the Treaty of Frankfurt, allowing France to retain the Territory of Belfort. Treaty of Versailles (1871) The Treaty of Versailles of 1871 ended the Franco-Prussian War and was signed by Adolphe Thiers, of the French Third Republic, and Otto von Bismarck, of the German Empire on 26 February 1871. This was a preliminary treaty used to solidify the initial armistice of 28 January","title":"Treaty of Versailles (1871)"},{"docid":"7243767","text":"did so reluctantly, becoming the last person to sign. During the debates which followed in Dáil Éireann, Gavan Duffy stated that he would recommend the Treaty reluctantly but sincerely as he saw no alternative for the desired aim of independence. I do not love this treaty now any more than I loved it when I signed it, that I do not think that...is an adequate motive for rejection to point out that some of us signed the Treaty under duress, not to say that this treaty will not lead to permanent peace. It is necessary before you reject the Treaty","title":"George Gavan Duffy"},{"docid":"405637","text":"any peace treaty that did not leave Germany as the conqueror would be unacceptable to them. Short of allowing Germany to keep all the conquests of the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk, Evans argued that there was nothing that could have been done to persuade the German right to accept Versailles. Evans further noted that the parties of the Weimar Coalition, namely the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD), the social liberal German Democratic Party (DDP) and the Christian democratic Centre Party, were all equally opposed to Versailles, and it is false to claim as some historians have that opposition to Versailles","title":"Treaty of Versailles"},{"docid":"13518583","text":"in clandestine development programs in Russia. In the early 1920s the navy spent one-sixth of what the army spent on aviation. The Treaty of Versailles banned most aspects of aerial development in Germany. For all of its diligence the treaty did not prohibit naval exercises with aircraft. The loophole allowed for the development of aircraft in the naval sphere of influence. The Paris Treaty of 1926 restated the terms of the treaty in Versailles but relented over the issue of air defence. Germany would be permitted to develop air defence systems to guard against aerial aggression. Although this did not","title":"Fliegerführer Atlantik"},{"docid":"4669332","text":"Article 231 of the Treaty of Versailles Article 231, often known as the War Guilt Clause, was the opening article of the reparations section of the Treaty of Versailles, which ended the First World War between the German Empire and the Allied and Associated Powers. The article did not use the word \"guilt\" but it served as a legal basis to compel Germany to pay reparations for the war. Article 231 was one of the most controversial points of the treaty. It specified: Germans viewed this clause as a national humiliation, forcing Germany to accept full responsibility for causing the","title":"Article 231 of the Treaty of Versailles"},{"docid":"5500677","text":"who negotiated the Treaty of Versailles in 1919 included France, Britain, Italy, Japan and the US; Part One of the Treaty agreed to the establishment of the League of Nations on 25 January 1919. This came into being on 16 January 1920 with Britain, France, Italy and Japan as permanent members of the Executive Council; the US Senate voted against ratification of the Treaty of Versailles on 19 March, thus preventing American participation. For much of the 19th century, Britain sought to maintain the European balance of power without formal alliances, a policy known as splendid isolation. This left it","title":"Allies of World War I"},{"docid":"2439647","text":"not accepted by the Allies, who recognised him only as King of the Hejaz. After World War I Hussein refused to ratify the Treaty of Versailles, in protest at the Balfour Declaration and the establishment of British and French mandates in Syria, Iraq, and Palestine. He later refused to sign the Anglo-Hashemite Treaty and thus deprived himself of British support when his kingdom was invaded by Ibn Saud. In March 1924, when the Ottoman Caliphate was abolished, Hussein proclaimed himself Caliph of all Muslims. In October 1924, facing defeat by Ibn Saud, he abdicated and was succeeded as king by","title":"Hussein bin Ali, Sharif of Mecca"},{"docid":"9041819","text":"relinquish Shandong, which was the birthplace of Confucius, the greatest Chinese philosopher, than could Christians concede Jerusalem. He demanded the promised return of Shandong, but to no avail. Japan prevailed. Chinese popular outrage over Article 156 led to demonstrations on 4 May 1919 and a cultural movement known as the May Fourth Movement. As a result, Wellington Koo refused to sign the treaty. China's refusal to sign the Treaty of Versailles necessitated a separate peace treaty with Germany in 1921. The Shandong dispute was mediated by the United States in 1922 during the Washington Naval Conference. In a victory for","title":"Shandong Problem"},{"docid":"3472936","text":"as \"Kekalamazoo\"). The present-day city of Kalamazoo developed at this site. Bad Bird was identified as signing the US Treaty with the Potawatomi, of September 19, 1827, by which he ceded the Kalamazoo tract reserved for the Indian village to the U.S. He did not sign the 1828 Treaty with the Potawatomi, which ceded additional land in southwest Michigan to the U.S. He did sign the 1832 U.S. Treaty with the Potawatomi, which also ceded additional land in the area. The \"Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online\" estimates that Match-E-Be-Nash-She-Wish (Bad Bird) was born about 1735 and died about 1805. It","title":"Match-E-Be-Nash-She-Wish"},{"docid":"70995","text":"republican government was all but shattered. This ushered in the Warlord Era, during which much of the country was ruled by shifting coalitions of competing provincial military leaders. In 1919, the May Fourth Movement began as a response to the terms imposed on China by the Treaty of Versailles ending World War I, but quickly became a nationwide protest movement about the domestic situation in China. The protests were a moral success as the cabinet fell and China refused to sign the Treaty of Versailles, which had awarded German holdings to Japan. The New Culture Movement stimulated by the May","title":"History of China"},{"docid":"13738918","text":"Germans were forced to sign the Treaty of Versailles, forcing them to make exorbitant payments to repair damages caused during the War. Many Germans felt these reparations were unfair because they did not actually \"lose\" the war nor did they feel they caused the war (see Stab-in-the-back legend). Germany was never occupied by Allied troops, yet it had to accept a liberal democratic government imposed on it by the victors after the abdication of Kaiser Wilhelm. Much of the map of Europe was redrawn by the victors based upon the theory that future wars could be prevented if all ethnic","title":"20th-century events"},{"docid":"627660","text":"of Platte Bridge. The battle was another victory for the Indians resulting in 29 soldiers killed with at least eight Indian casualties. Arapaho, Cheyenne, Comanche, Kiowa, and Plains Apaches seeking peace were offered to sign the Medicine Lodge Treaty in October 1867. The treaty allotted the Southern Arapaho a reservation with the Southern Cheyenne between the Arkansas and Cimarron rivers in Indian Territory (present-day Oklahoma). Among those that signed the treaty was Chief Little Raven. Those that did not sign the treaty were called \"hostile\" and were continually pursued by the US Army and their Indian scouts. The last major","title":"Arapaho"},{"docid":"165162","text":"parts of the Russian contingent at the Battle of Tannenberg, followed by huge Austrian and German successes. The breakdown of Russian forces – exacerbated by internal turmoil caused by the 1917 Russian Revolution – led to the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk the Bolsheviks were forced to sign on 3 March 1918 as Russia withdrew from the war. It gave Germany control of Eastern Europe. Spencer Tucker says, \"The German General Staff had formulated extraordinarily harsh terms that shocked even the German negotiator.\" When Germany later complained that the Treaty of Versailles of 1919 was too harsh on them, the Allies responded","title":"History of Germany"},{"docid":"3458637","text":"strip of territory was then denoted as British Cameroons, which was administered as an appendage of Nigeria. In 1916 Britain and France signed a treaty known as the Simon-Milne Declaration, to respect the frontiers between the British Cameroons and French Cameroun. When Germany was finally defeated in 1918, it was compelled to sign the Treaties of Versailles in 1919, relinquishing control of all its colonies to the Allied and Associated Powers, including the territory known since 1916 as the British Cameroon. On 10 July 1919 Britain and France reiterated the boundary treaty concluded in 1916 and both undertook to administer","title":"Ambazonia"},{"docid":"9215951","text":"deteriorated, Bismarck succeeded in achieving German Unification on January 18, 1871 creating the German Empire. King Wilhelm I of Prussia was declared Kaiser of the newly created empire in the Hall of Mirrors in the Versailles Palace. The new German command structure wanted to sign a peace treaty to gain France's colonial possessions; however, Bismarck opted for an immediate truce as his primary reason for war, German unification, had already been accomplished. He was concerned that further violence would render more German casualties and draw French resentment. He was also wary of drawing attention from other European nations, fearing that","title":"Treaty of Versailles (1871)"},{"docid":"8574177","text":"either side. On pleasant days May Fourth Square fills with young couples on the ground and kites in the air. The May 4th Movement (五四运动, wǔsì yùndòng) was sparked by Article 156 of the Treaty of Versailles which transferred German concessions in Shandong including Qingdao to Japan rather than returning sovereign authority to China. Chinese outrage over this provision ignited mass student demonstrations in Beijing on May 4th, 1919 which resulted in the cultural movement know today as the May Fourth Movement. The May 4th Movement influenced the Chinese delegation not to sign the Treaty of Versailles. China declared the","title":"May Fourth Square"},{"docid":"405601","text":"which had secretly negotiated with the Japanese in order to secure loans to fund their military campaigns again the south. On 29 April, the German delegation under the leadership of the Foreign Minister Ulrich Graf von Brockdorff-Rantzau arrived in Versailles. On 7 May, when faced with the conditions dictated by the victors, including the so-called \"War Guilt Clause\", von Brockdorff-Rantzau replied to Clemenceau, Wilson and Lloyd George: \"We know the full brunt of hate that confronts us here. You demand from us to confess we were the only guilty party of war; such a confession in my mouth would be","title":"Treaty of Versailles"},{"docid":"12447563","text":"Treaty of Versailles (1787) The Versailles Treaty of 1787 (French:\"Traité de Versailles de 1787\") was a treaty of alliance signed between the French king Louis XVI and the Vietnamese lord Nguyễn Ánh, the future Emperor Gia Long. Nguyễn Ánh, whose family, the Nguyễn family, had been decimated by the Tây Sơn rebellion when he was 16 or 17, received the protection and aid of the French Catholic priest Pigneau de Béhaine, titular bishop of Adran. In order to obtain support for Nguyễn Ánh's cause, Pigneau de Béhaine went to France in 1787 as the \"special envoy of the king of","title":"Treaty of Versailles (1787)"},{"docid":"12447566","text":"troops, established a navy, and built fortifications in the Vauban style, such as the Citadel of Saigon. Several of these French adventurers would remain in high positions in the government of Gia Long such as Philippe Vannier, Jean-Baptiste Chaigneau, de Forsans and the doctor Despiau. Treaty of Versailles (1787) The Versailles Treaty of 1787 (French:\"Traité de Versailles de 1787\") was a treaty of alliance signed between the French king Louis XVI and the Vietnamese lord Nguyễn Ánh, the future Emperor Gia Long. Nguyễn Ánh, whose family, the Nguyễn family, had been decimated by the Tây Sơn rebellion when he was","title":"Treaty of Versailles (1787)"},{"docid":"2532833","text":"in Europe, viewing the Treaty of Versailles as an unjust and vindictive peace treaty, and argued the French were the principle trouble-makers in Europe by seeking to uphold the Versailles treaty. Hertzog argued that if Adolf Hitler had a belligerent foreign policy, it was only because of the Treaty of Versailles was intolerably harsh towards Germany and if the international system was revised to take account of Germany's \"legitimate\" complaints against Versailles, then Hitler would become a moderate and reasonable statesman. When Germany remilitarized the Rhineland in March 1936, Hertzog informed the British government that there was no possibility of","title":"J. B. M. Hertzog"},{"docid":"2438037","text":"the United Nations headquarters. Famous examples include the Treaty of Paris (1815), signed after Napoleon's defeat at the Battle of Waterloo, and the Treaty of Versailles, formally ending the First World War conflict between Germany and the Western Allies. This is held to have ended World War I completely, but in fact that did not happen until the Allies concluded peace with the Ottoman Empire in 1920 through the Treaty of Sèvres. The Versailles treaty is possibly the most notorious of peace treaties, in that it is \"blamed\" by many historians for the rise of National Socialism in Germany and","title":"Peace treaty"},{"docid":"1581043","text":"invasion. As with the Treaty of Versailles, the 1920 treaty contained the Covenant of the League of Nations, and, as a result, it was not ratified by the United States. The United States refused initially to sign the Treaty on the grounds that Russia was not represented at the treaty conference. The Paris Peace Treaty of 28 October 1920, formally recognized the union of Bessarabia with Romania. The Soviet Union and Japan never recognized this Union. Japan's failure to ratify the treaty meant that the unification of Moldova with Romania was not recognized by the international society. Japan's actions came","title":"Treaty of Paris (1920)"},{"docid":"11232091","text":"revised, and if such revision cannot be had, they deem it their duty to make a reservation on the said clauses now. When it transpired that the Great Powers would not countenance a signature with express reservations against any article, Lou ultimately refused to sign at all. This made China the only participating country not to sign the Versailles Treaty. From 1922 to 1927 Lou was China's envoy to the League of Nations in Geneva. At the death of his wife he retired from an active life, and in 1927 became a postulant, under the name Dom Pierre-Célestin, in the","title":"Lou Tseng-Tsiang"},{"docid":"13791332","text":"out that in claiming the frontiers of 1937, West Germany was in fact claiming the frontiers established by the Treaty of Versailles, which the entire interwar German leadership had claimed to be totally unacceptable from 1919 to 1939, and which perhaps indicated that Versailles was nowhere near as harsh as claimed, especially when compared with the far greater territorial losses imposed by the Oder–Neisse line. Not all in Adenauer's government supported this; politicians like minister Seebohm criticized limiting German territorial demands to Nazi borders of 1937, alluding to pre-Versailles borders, as did the organisation of German expelled BdV. In 1962","title":"Oder–Neisse line"},{"docid":"15268402","text":"in the activities of the National Council of Lithuania Minor (), which adopted the Act of Tilsit but Simonaitis did not sign it. In 1919 he moved to Memel (Klaipėda). According to the Treaty of Versailles, the Klaipėda Region (Memel Territory) was detached from the German Empire and placed under provisional French administration. French General Dominique Joseph Odry established seven-member Directorate (local government) in February 1920. Initially all of its members were German. After Lithuanian protests, two Prussian Lithuanians, Simonaitis and Mikelis Reidys, were admitted to the Directorate increasing its size to nine members. Simonaitis resigned in February 1922. He","title":"Erdmonas Simonaitis"},{"docid":"5157861","text":"the Treaty of Versailles by developing weapons that Versailles had forbidden Germany to have such as tanks and aircraft, but he wanted the German-Soviet military co-operation kept within its \"proper limits\". Since 1926, when the secret German-Soviet co-operation had become public knowledge following an exposé by \"The Manchester Guardian\", the subject was a contentious one that had strained relations with France, who did not appreciate Germany breaking Versailles to develop forbidden weapons that would one day be used against France. Dirksen wanted the development of weapons in the Soviet Union to be handled by private German companies working for the","title":"Herbert von Dirksen"},{"docid":"1350908","text":"a stroke were profound: \"Wilson's emotions were unbalanced, and his judgment was warped. ... Worse, his denial of illness and limitations was starting to border on delusion.\" The Treaty of Versailles went into effect but the United States did not sign it, and made separate peace with Germany and Austria-Hungary. The League of Nations went into operation, but the United States never joined. Historians agree that the League was ineffective in dealing with major issues, but they debate whether American membership would have made much difference. In 1945 it was replaced by the United Nations, which assumed many of the","title":"Henry Cabot Lodge"},{"docid":"12977055","text":"partners - Baltic states – Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania – were given no choice but to sign a so-called \"Pact of defense and mutual assistance\" which permitted the Soviet Union to station troops in them. Hitler's pressing for a German invasion of Poland in 1939 placed tremendous strain on the German war machine, which had been gradually gearing up after the Treaty of Versailles restrictions for total war in 1942 or 1943. The German navy was critically short of maritime and military assets and did not achieve full mobilization until 1942. Even Germany's quick victory in Poland strained its 1939","title":"German–Soviet Commercial Agreement (1940)"},{"docid":"9052786","text":"John Maynard Keynes had published his best-selling book \"The Economic Consequences of the Peace\" in 1919—in which Keynes depicted Versailles as an unbearably harsh \"Carthaginian peace\" imposed by the vindictive Allies—an increasingly large segment of British public opinion had become convinced that the Treaty of Versailles was deeply \"unjust\" to Germany. By 1936, when German troops marched back into the Rhineland, the majority of British people believed that Hitler was right to violate the \"unjust\" Versailles treaty, and it would be morally wrong for Britain to go to war to uphold the \"unjust\" Treaty of Versailles. The British War Secretary","title":"Remilitarization of the Rhineland"},{"docid":"405640","text":"to Germany. Rather, Peukert argued that it was widely believed in Germany that Versailles was a totally unreasonable treaty, and it was this \"perception\" rather than the \"reality\" of the Versailles treaty that mattered. Peukert noted that because of the \"millenarian hopes\" created in Germany during World War I when for a time it appeared that Germany was on the verge of conquering all of Europe, any peace treaty the Allies of World War I imposed on the defeated \"German Reich\" were bound to create a nationalist backlash, and there was nothing the Allies could have done to avoid that","title":"Treaty of Versailles"},{"docid":"17858293","text":"riots erupted in Paris as the German troops marched out. Armistice of Versailles The Armistice of Versailles that came into effect on 28 January 1871 brought to an end the active phase of the Franco-Prussian War. The signatories were Jules Favre, foreign minister in the provisional Government of National Defence, for the French and Otto von Bismarck, chancellor of the newly established German Empire, for Prussia and her allies. The suspension of hostilities initially lasted until 19 February, when it was extended through 26 February, when a preliminary peace treaty was signed, also at Versailles. The definitive Treaty of Frankfurt","title":"Armistice of Versailles"},{"docid":"17858268","text":"Armistice of Versailles The Armistice of Versailles that came into effect on 28 January 1871 brought to an end the active phase of the Franco-Prussian War. The signatories were Jules Favre, foreign minister in the provisional Government of National Defence, for the French and Otto von Bismarck, chancellor of the newly established German Empire, for Prussia and her allies. The suspension of hostilities initially lasted until 19 February, when it was extended through 26 February, when a preliminary peace treaty was signed, also at Versailles. The definitive Treaty of Frankfurt was signed on 10 May. Although technically an armistice, the","title":"Armistice of Versailles"},{"docid":"7132593","text":"passenger liner \"Lusitania\" without allowing the civilian passengers to reach the lifeboats, outraged American opinion. Germany agreed to American demands to stop such attacks but reversed its position in early 1917 to win the war quickly. Berlin mistakenly thought that the US Army and Navy were so weak that they would not play a decisive role. The US public opposed the punitive Versailles Treaty of 1919, and the two countries signed a separate peace treaty in 1921. In the 1920s, American diplomats and bankers provided major assistance to rebuilding the German economy. When Hitler and the Nazis took power in","title":"Germany–United States relations"},{"docid":"1960427","text":"he was sceptical of the League of Nations and urged a strong Anglo-French Alliance, perhaps even accompanied by the building of a Channel Tunnel. These proposals were written up as the \"Fontainebleau Memorandum\" outlining Lloyd George's preferred peace terms. Wilson advised that Foch's force of 39 divisions was sufficient to occupy Germany if she refused to sign the peace treaty, although he advised against a prolonged occupation, and continued to be concerned at the sporadic warfare between the small newly independent countries of Eastern Europe. Clemenceau eventually agreed to sign the Treaty of Versailles (June 1919) on condition Britain guaranteed","title":"Sir Henry Wilson, 1st Baronet"},{"docid":"2014607","text":"Koo demanded that Germany's concessions on Shandong be returned to China. He further called for an end to imperialist institutions such as extraterritoriality, legation guards, and foreign leaseholds. Despite American support and the ostensible spirit of self-determination, the Western powers refused his claims, transferring the German concessions to Japan instead. This sparked widespread student protests in China on 4 May, later known as the May Fourth Movement, eventually pressuring the government into refusing to sign the Treaty of Versailles. Thus the Chinese delegation at the Paris Peace Conference was the only one not to sign the treaty at the signing","title":"Paris Peace Conference, 1919"},{"docid":"14717125","text":"refused to ratify the Treaty of Versailles following the First World War, the US government found itself outside of the inter-Allied arrangements made with the German government. As a result, the US government began its own process of rapprochment with Berlin. As part of that process, a separate US-German peace treaty was concluded in 1921. Following the conclusion of the peace treaty, diplomatic relations between the two governments were reestablished, and on December 10, 1921, the new US ambassador, Ellis Loring Dresel, presented his credentials in Berlin. In late 1923, German economy collapsed under the burden of reparations, and the","title":"Treaty of Friendship, Commerce and Consular Relations between Germany and the United States of America"},{"docid":"13013986","text":"with German forces in Poland. Three Baltic States described by the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact, Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania, were given no choice but to sign a so-called \"Pact of defense and mutual assistance\" which permitted the Soviet Union to station troops in them. Hitler's pressing for a German invasion of Poland in 1939 placed tremendous strain on the German war machine, which had been gradually gearing up after the Treaty of Versailles restrictions for \"total war\" (\"\"totaler Krieg\"\") in 1942 or 1943. The German navy was also critically short of maritime and military assets and did not achieve full mobilization until","title":"Nazi–Soviet economic relations (1934–41)"},{"docid":"15404349","text":"condemnation of the Weimar Republic for signing the armistice in November 1918 which later led it to sign the Treaty of Versailles. A major inspiration for the Nazis were the far-right nationalist \"Freikorps\", paramilitary organizations that engaged in political violence after World War I. Initially, the post–World War I German far-right was dominated by monarchists, but the younger generation, which was associated with \"Völkisch\" nationalism, was more radical and it did not express any emphasis on the restoration of the German monarchy. This younger generation desired to dismantle the Weimar Republic and create a new radical and strong state based","title":"Nazism"},{"docid":"13669506","text":"part of the Diplomatic Revolution, which realigned the alliance systems of the major powers of Europe in the run-up to the war. It was ostensibly defensive, but British agents suspected that there were secret clauses that were more wide-ranging than the document actually publicised. The Second Treaty of Versailles, promising even closer co-operation between the two states, was agreed at Versailles in 1757. Treaty of Versailles (1756) The Treaty of Versailles, also known as the First Treaty of Versailles, was a diplomatic agreement between Austria and France. It was signed on 1 May 1756 at the Palace of Versailles. The","title":"Treaty of Versailles (1756)"},{"docid":"13684328","text":"Treaty of Versailles (1757) The Treaty of Versailles was a diplomatic agreement signed between Austria and France at the Palace of Versailles on 1 May 1757 during the Seven Years' War. It expanded on the 1756 First Treaty of Versailles, which had established the Franco-Austrian Alliance. It is thus commonly known as the Second Treaty of Versailles. In the new treaty, France agreed to assist Austria in regaining the province of Silesia from Prussia in exchange for Austria ceding the Austrian Netherlands to France at the war's conclusion, the acquisition of which had long been a goal of the French","title":"Treaty of Versailles (1757)"},{"docid":"13684331","text":"against Great Britain and had also prompted a financial crisis in Paris. Treaty of Versailles (1757) The Treaty of Versailles was a diplomatic agreement signed between Austria and France at the Palace of Versailles on 1 May 1757 during the Seven Years' War. It expanded on the 1756 First Treaty of Versailles, which had established the Franco-Austrian Alliance. It is thus commonly known as the Second Treaty of Versailles. In the new treaty, France agreed to assist Austria in regaining the province of Silesia from Prussia in exchange for Austria ceding the Austrian Netherlands to France at the war's conclusion,","title":"Treaty of Versailles (1757)"},{"docid":"277777","text":"the \"Reich\". In 1926, \"The Manchester Guardian\" ran an exposé showing the \"Reichswehr\" had been developing military technology forbidden by the Treaty of Versailles in the Soviet Union, and the secret German-Soviet co-operation had started in 1921. The German statement following \"The Manchester Guardian\"'s article that Germany did not feel bound by the terms of Versailles and would violate them as much as possible gave much offence in France. Nonetheless, in 1927, the Allied Control Commission, which was responsible for ensuring that Germany complied with Part V of the Treaty of Versailles, was abolished as a goodwill gesture reflecting the","title":"Maginot Line"},{"docid":"405598","text":"July 1921. Soon after, the US–German Peace Treaty of 1921 was signed in Berlin on 25 August 1921, the US–Austrian Peace Treaty of 1921 was signed in Vienna on 24 August 1921, and the US–Hungarian Peace Treaty of 1921 was signed in Budapest on 29 August 1921. Wilson's former friend Edward Mandell House, present at the negotiations, wrote in his diary on 29 June 1919: I am leaving Paris, after eight fateful months, with conflicting emotions. Looking at the conference in retrospect, there is much to approve and yet much to regret. It is easy to say what should have","title":"Treaty of Versailles"},{"docid":"9052682","text":"Germany's denunciation in March 1935 of Part V of the Treaty of Versailles, which had disarmed Germany. At the same time, Neurath wanted to provide an opening for the eventual remilitarization of the Rhineland, hence the conditional hedging of the promise to obey Locarno only as long as other powers did. Hitler always took the line (at least in public) that Germany did not consider itself bound by the \"Diktat\" of Versailles, but that Germany would respect any treaty that it willingly signed such as Locarno, under which Germany had promised to keep the Rhineland demilitarized forever; hence Hitler always","title":"Remilitarization of the Rhineland"},{"docid":"11711701","text":"war with France at the time, but it did not. Still, the fear that war might come before Germany was prepared for it served to create a sense of urgency and reinforced the rearmament program. The army and the navy prepared to quickly expand their capacity and manpower. Plans were made to secretly build an air force (forbidden by the Treaty of Versailles), and the army prepared to introduce conscription within two years and grow to 300,000 soldiers by 1937 (also in violation of the Treaty of Versailles). At first, the navy did not benefit much from these rearmament plans,","title":"Economy of Nazi Germany"},{"docid":"9215952","text":"they might be moved to intervene if the new German state appeared power-hungry. Both sides were eager to sign a treaty by the beginning of February 1871. The terms of the treaty included a war indemnity of five billion francs to be paid by France to Germany. The German army would continue to occupy parts of France until the payment was complete. The treaty also recognized Wilhelm I as the Kaiser of the newly united German Empire. Preliminary discussion began on the cession of Alsace and the Moselle region of Lorraine, to Germany. Despite Bismarck's objections, Moltke and his generals","title":"Treaty of Versailles (1871)"},{"docid":"405602","text":"a lie.\" Because Germany was not allowed to take part in the negotiations, the German government issued a protest against what it considered to be unfair demands, and a \"violation of honour\", soon afterwards withdrawing from the proceedings of the peace conference. Germans of all political shades denounced the treaty—particularly the provision that blamed Germany for starting the war—as an insult to the nation's honor. They referred to the treaty as \"the \"Diktat\"\" since its terms were presented to Germany on a take-it-or-leave-it basis. Germany′s first democratically elected head of government, Philipp Scheidemann, resigned rather than sign the treaty. In","title":"Treaty of Versailles"},{"docid":"405587","text":"we making a good peace?\", while General Jan Smuts (a member of the South African delegation) wrote to Lloyd-George, before the signing, that the treaty was unstable and declared \"Are we in our sober senses or suffering from shellshock? What has become of Wilson's 14 points?\" He wanted the Germans not be made to sign at the \"point of the bayonet\". Smuts issued a statement condemning the treaty and regretting that the promises of \"a new international order and a fairer, better world are not written in this treaty\". Lord Robert Cecil said that many within the Foreign Office were","title":"Treaty of Versailles"},{"docid":"405603","text":"a passionate speech before the National Assembly on 21 March 1919, he called the treaty a \"murderous plan\" and exclaimed, After Scheidemann′s resignation, a new coalition government was formed under Gustav Bauer. President Friedrich Ebert knew that Germany was in an impossible situation. Although he shared his countrymen's disgust with the treaty, he was sober enough to consider the possibility that the government would not be in a position to reject it. He believed that if Germany refused to sign the treaty, the Allies would invade Germany from the west—and there was no guarantee that the army would be able","title":"Treaty of Versailles"},{"docid":"2755096","text":"of Nations brokered agreement between Turkey and Great Britain in 1926. The French delegation, however, did not achieve any of their goals and on 30 January 1923 issued a statement that they did not consider the draft treaty to be any more than a \"basis of discussion\". The Turks therefore refused to sign the treaty. On 4 February 1923, Curzon made a final appeal to Ismet Pasha to sign, and when he refused the Foreign Secretary broke off negotiations and left that night on the Orient Express. The Treaty of Lausanne, finally signed in July 1923, led to international recognition","title":"Turkish War of Independence"},{"docid":"2394408","text":"of the Dog Soldiers to the treaty terms. A separate treaty version for the Northern Cheyenne was created, but they did not sign, as they were allied with Red Cloud and the Oglala Lakota in hostilities against the US. Southern Cheyenne chiefs signing Arapaho chiefs signing The Treaty was immediately controversial and contested by both the members and other leaders of most of the involved tribal bands. Because most of the tribes were decentralized, acceptance of the treaty was contingent upon ratification by 3/4 of the adult males of each of the tribes. This condition was part of the treaty.","title":"Medicine Lodge Treaty"},{"docid":"14117630","text":"in the Austrian Netherlands was revoked, the treaty greatly hastened the ever-increasing desire of the coalition not only to defeat but also to destroy Prussia. The treaty seems to serve more as a moral guarantee to the coalition than an actual alliance, as the coalition suffered an undisputed string of defeats in the hand of the British and Prussia from 1759. Treaty of Versailles (1758) The Treaty of Versailles of 1758, also called the Third Treaty of Versailles, confirmed the earlier treaties that had been signed at Versailles in 1756 and 1757 between Austria and France. However, it also revoked","title":"Treaty of Versailles (1758)"},{"docid":"6214668","text":"to replace the older vessels. The 1930 London Naval Treaty formally divided cruiser types into two categories: heavy cruisers, armed with guns, and light cruisers, armed with guns. The Treaty of Versailles still prohibited Germany from building heavy cruisers, but the rise of Adolf Hitler's Nazi Party to power in 1933 led to the formal rejection of the Treaty of Versailles. After pulling out of the Geneva Conference in 1933, Hitler argued that if the other European powers did not disarm to parity with Germany, they should accept German rearmament. The German navy, renamed the \"Kriegsmarine\" on 21 May 1935,","title":"Admiral Hipper-class cruiser"},{"docid":"5386722","text":"General Alexandru Averescu led the Second Army in the victories of the Battle of Mărăşti (July 22 to August 1, 1917) and the Battle of Mărăşeşti (August 6 to September 8, 1917). As a result of the Russian Revolution, Romania was left isolated and unable to continue the war, and was forced to sign the Treaty of Bucharest with the Central Powers. Later on, in 1919, Germany agreed, in the Treaty of Versailles Article 259, to renounce all the benefits provided to it by the Treaty of Bucharest in 1918. After the successful offensive on the Thessaloniki front, which put","title":"Romanian Land Forces"},{"docid":"15365527","text":"war that had killed and wounded so many, which thus limited the options of the Allied leaders when it came to peacemaking in 1919. Renouvin wrote all of the contradictions of the armistice, which created facts on the ground that were difficult to change, as well as the very differing interests of the powers became the basis of the Treaty of Versailles in June 1919, a compromise peace that displeased everyone, as it did not destroy Germany as a great power while being irksome enough to ensure that the Germans would never accept Versailles as legitimate. Alongside those lines, Renouvin","title":"Pierre Renouvin"},{"docid":"16767630","text":"spirit of its creators tried to create Poland as one of small Eastern European states. As a result, Gdańsk was not granted to Poland, Zaolzie was given to the Czechs, eastern borders were limited, and the Little Treaty of Versailles was imposed on Poland (...) [Since 1933], Poland has distanced itself from the Treaty of Versailles, as its failing structure does not attract us. Since then, we have been trying to maintain a policy of balance between our two neighbours (...) Even though the Locarno Treaties gave France the right for an armed intervention in case of the Remilitarization of","title":"Sztafeta"},{"docid":"511920","text":"died... the guns showed cruelly, how little individuals mattered\". In 1919, Prime Minister Billy Hughes and former Prime Minister Joseph Cook took Australia's seat at the Versailles peace conference. Hughes' signing of the Treaty of Versailles was the first time Australia had signed an international treaty. Hughes demanded heavy reparations from Germany and frequently clashed with US President Woodrow Wilson. At one point Hughes declared: \"I speak for 60,000 [Australian] dead\". He went on to ask of Wilson; \"How many do you speak for?\" Hughes demanded that Australia have independent representation within the newly formed League of Nations and was","title":"History of Australia"},{"docid":"4210206","text":"the US had to have a voice in the peace conference. The United States was never formally a member of the Allies but entered the war in 1917 as a self-styled \"Associated Power\". Initially the United States had a small army, but, after the passage of the Selective Service Act, it drafted 2.8 million men, and, by summer 1918, was sending 10,000 fresh soldiers to France every day. The war ended in 1919 with the Treaty of Versailles. The United States then adopted a policy of isolationism, having refused to endorse the 1919 Versailles Treaty or formally enter the League","title":"American Century"},{"docid":"13669505","text":"Treaty of Versailles (1756) The Treaty of Versailles, also known as the First Treaty of Versailles, was a diplomatic agreement between Austria and France. It was signed on 1 May 1756 at the Palace of Versailles. The two countries offered mutual assistance if attacked by Great Britain or Prussia, The Franco-Austrian Alliance, which lasted in some form or another for the next 30 years, was established. Within months of the agreement, France and Austria found themselves engaged in the Seven Years' War against the Anglo-Prussian Alliance, which was to last until 1763. Along with the Westminster Convention, the treaty formed","title":"Treaty of Versailles (1756)"},{"docid":"7573257","text":"higher marks than before as a war leader and articulator of war aims in the Fourteen Points. Link had previously stated that Wilson would have taken the same unbending stand against ratification of the Versailles Treaty with Henry Cabot Lodge's reservations if he had enjoyed perfect health. In Link's revision, he stressed Wilson's deteriorating cardiovascular condition and massive stroke. His medical deterioration made it hard for Wilson to compromise with Lodge and caused, in part, Wilson's earlier actions at the Versailles Peace Conference and his dealings with the US Senate over the treaty. Link incorporated his new ideas in elaborate","title":"Arthur S. Link"},{"docid":"423855","text":"of Versailles in the West of 1919 was too harsh on them, the Allied Powers responded that it was more benign than the terms imposed by Brest-Litovsk treaty. The treaty was annulled by the Armistice of 11 November 1918, when Germany surrendered to the western Allies. However, in the meantime it did provide some relief to the Bolsheviks, already fighting the Russian Civil War (1917-1922), following the Russian Revolutions of 1917 by the renunciation of Russia's claims on modern-day Poland, Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Ukraine and Lithuania. By 1917, Germany and Imperial Russia were stuck in a stalemate on the Eastern","title":"Treaty of Brest-Litovsk"},{"docid":"7594743","text":"the war as being when the Versailles Treaty was signed in 1919, which was when many of the troops serving abroad finally returned home; by contrast, most commemorations of the war's end concentrate on the armistice of 11 November 1918. Legally, the formal peace treaties were not complete until the last, the Treaty of Lausanne, was signed. Under its terms, the Allied forces left Constantinople on 23 August 1923. After the war, the Paris Peace Conference imposed a series of peace treaties on the Central Powers officially ending the war. The 1919 Treaty of Versailles dealt with Germany and, building","title":"World War I"},{"docid":"5425785","text":"Japan was a signatory of the Treaty of Versailles, which stipulated harsh repercussions for Germany. In the Pacific, Japan gained Germany's islands north of the equator (the Marshall Islands, the Carolines, the Marianas, the Palau Islands) and Kiautschou/Tsingtao in China. Article 156 of the Treaty also transferred German concessions in Shandong to Japan rather than returning sovereign authority to the Republic of China, an issue soon to be known as Shandong Problem. Chinese outrage over this provision led to demonstrations, and a cultural movement known as the May Fourth Movement influenced China not to sign the treaty. China declared the","title":"Germany–Japan relations"},{"docid":"4669346","text":"they could not accept it without revision. They then proceeded to send their Allied counterparts, message after message attacking each part of the treaty. On 18 June, having disregarded the repeated explicit decisions of the government, Brockdorff-Rantzau declared that Article 231 would have Germany accept full responsibility for the war by force. Max Weber, an advisor with the German delegation, agreed with Brockdorff-Rantzau, also challenging the Allies over the issue of war guilt. He preferred to reject the treaty than submit to what he called a \"rotten peace\". On 16 June, the Allied Powers demanded that Germany unconditionally sign the","title":"Article 231 of the Treaty of Versailles"},{"docid":"1925367","text":"and occupy parts of the territory, the Sharif and other Arab leaders considered the agreements made in the McMahon–Hussein Correspondence had been violated. Hussein refused to ratify the 1919 Treaty of Versailles, and in response to a 1921 British proposal to sign a treaty accepting the Mandate system stated that he could not be expected to \"affix his name to a document assigning Palestine to the Zionists and Syria to foreigners.\" A further British attempt to reach a treaty failed in 1923-24, and negotiations were suspended in March 1924; within six months the British withdrew their support in favor of","title":"McMahon–Hussein Correspondence"},{"docid":"9011318","text":"self-determination. Orlando supported the Racial Equality Proposal introduced by Japan at the conference. Orlando dramatically left the conference early in April 1919. He returned briefly the following month, but was forced to resign just days before the signing of the resultant Treaty of Versailles. The fact he was not a signatory to the treaty became a point of pride for him later in his life. French Prime Minister Georges Clemenceau dubbed him \"The Weeper,\" and Orlando himself recalled proudly: \"When ... I knew they would not give us what we were entitled to ... I writhed on the floor. I","title":"Vittorio Emanuele Orlando"},{"docid":"405594","text":"German reparations never materialized, and a seat she coveted on the executive council of the new League of Nations went instead to Spain—which had remained neutral in the war. In the end, Portugal ratified the treaty, but got little out of the war, which cost more than 8,000 Portuguese troops and as many as 100,000 of her African colonial subjects their lives. After the Versailles conference, Democratic President Woodrow Wilson claimed that \"at last the world knows America as the savior of the world!\" However, the Republican Party, led by Henry Cabot Lodge, controlled the US Senate after the election","title":"Treaty of Versailles"},{"docid":"4669345","text":"met and the Treaty of Versailles was handed off to be translated and for a response to be issued. At this meeting Brockdorff-Rantzau stated that \"We know the intensity of the hatred which meets us, and we have heard the victors' passionate demand that as the vanquished we shall be made to pay, and as the guilty we shall be punished\". However, he proceeded to deny that Germany was solely responsible for the war. Following the meeting, the German delegation retired to translate the 80,000 word document. As soon as the delegation realized the terms of peace, they agreed that","title":"Article 231 of the Treaty of Versailles"},{"docid":"423580","text":"as he had been earning extra money as a public speaker while vice president, and gladly accepted the responsibility. In his speeches, he cast the war as a \"moral crusade to preserve the dignity of the state for the rights of individuals\". In his memoir, he recalled that the war seemed to drag on \"with leaden feet\", and that he was relieved when it finally ended. As the war neared its end, Marshall became the first vice president to conduct cabinet meetings; Wilson left him with this responsibility while traveling in Europe to sign the Versailles treaty and to work","title":"Thomas R. Marshall"},{"docid":"14117629","text":"Treaty of Versailles (1758) The Treaty of Versailles of 1758, also called the Third Treaty of Versailles, confirmed the earlier treaties that had been signed at Versailles in 1756 and 1757 between Austria and France. However, it also revoked the 1757 treaty's agreement to create an independent state in the Southern Netherlands, ruled by Philip, Duke of Parma; it would remain under Austrian rule. France, which was expecting a swift victory against Prussia because of a coalition with Austria, Russia, Sweden and Saxony, was caught up with the reality of the war. Although the decision to install a Bourbon monarch","title":"Treaty of Versailles (1758)"},{"docid":"17797995","text":"and as the only way of improving the naval budget until such time as Germany would overthrow the provisions of the Treaty of Versailles, and start building the capital ships that Versailles had outlawed. For Raeder, the \"Panzerschiffe\" had only two roles to play: As a sign of his thinking for the future, all of the war plans that Raeder drew up from 1929 onwards for war in the future assumed that the Navy would go to war with regular capital ships instead of the \"pocket battleships\". For the present, the first war plan that Raeder drew up in January","title":"Interwar naval service of Erich Raeder"},{"docid":"9215949","text":"German empire. Paris's governing body, the Government of National Defense, initiated the armistice by surrendering to the Germans after the siege of Paris. Jules Favre, a prominent French politician, met with Otto von Bismarck in Versailles to sign the armistice to be put into effect 28 January 1871. Adolphe Thiers then emerged as the new French leader as the country began reconstructing its government. In the first seven weeks of the Franco-Prussian War (July 15, 1870 to September 2), German forces experienced several great military successes against the struggling French government, including the capture of the current French emperor, Louis","title":"Treaty of Versailles (1871)"},{"docid":"4743322","text":"fleet that was to be interned at Scapa Flow until its final disposition would be decided at Versailles. Admiral Franz von Hipper, commander-in-chief of the High Seas Fleet, had refused to lead his ships into internment. He thus protested against the seizing of the fleet by Britain and its relocation to a British war harbour instead of a neutral location, as had been agreed initially. As the final deadline neared for the German delegation to sign the Treaty of Versailles, Reuter anticipated that his ships would be handed over to the victorious Allies. To prevent this, he ordered all 74","title":"Ludwig von Reuter"},{"docid":"9808560","text":"Minister David Lloyd George, Prime Minister of France Georges Clemenceau and United States President Woodrow Wilson in Versailles to discuss how the borders of Europe should be redefined to help avoid a future European war. The talks provided little territorial gain to Italy because during the peace talks Wilson promised freedom to all European nationalities to form their own nation states. As a result, the Treaty of Versailles did not assign Dalmazia and Albania to Italy as had been promised in the Treaty of London. Furthermore, the British and French decided to divide the German overseas colonies into mandates of","title":"Kingdom of Italy"},{"docid":"336309","text":"Neighbors with Germany, Hitler's spreading influence and territory posed an enormous threat to French livelihood. The French countryside had been devastated during World War One and the entire nation was reluctant to subject their territory to the same treatment. Though all countries in the First World War had suffered great losses, France was one of the most devastated and did not want a second war. As Germany dealt with the burdens of the Treaty of Versailles, a conflict arose in the 1930s between German Christianity and German nationalism. Many Germans found the terms of the Treaty of Versailles debilitating and","title":"Pacifism"},{"docid":"405617","text":"40,594 men and the following year had been further reduced to 12,421. The size of the BAOR fluctuated over the following years, but never rose above 9,000 men. The British did not adhere to all obligated territorial withdrawals as dictated by Versailles, on account of Germany not meeting her own treaty obligations. A complete withdrawal was considered, but rejected in order to maintain a presence to continue acting as a check on French ambitions and prevent the establishment of an autonomous Rhineland Republic. The French Army of the Rhine was initially 250,000 men strong, including at a peak 40,000 African","title":"Treaty of Versailles"},{"docid":"448813","text":"was the \"de facto\" capital of the Kingdom of France for over a century, from 1682 to 1789, before becoming the cradle of the French Revolution. After having lost its status of royal city, it became the \"préfecture\" (regional capital) of the Seine-et-Oise département in 1790, then of Yvelines in 1968. It is also a Roman Catholic diocese. Versailles is historically known for numerous treaties such as the Treaty of Paris, which ended the American Revolution, and the Treaty of Versailles, after World War I. Today, the Congress of France – the name given to the body created when both","title":"Versailles, Yvelines"}],"string":"[\n {\n \"docid\": \"405600\",\n \"text\": \"the ingredients required for such a peace as I would have were lacking at Paris. Many in China felt betrayed as the German territory in China was handed to Japan. Wellington Koo refused to sign the treaty and the Chinese delegation at the Paris Peace Conference was the only nation that did not sign the Treaty of Versailles at the signing ceremony. The sense of betrayal led to great demonstrations in China like the May 4th movement and the fall of the nascent Chinese Republic's government and poisoned relations with the West. There was immense dissatisfaction with Duan Qirui’s government,\",\n \"title\": \"Treaty of Versailles\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"405571\",\n \"text\": \"and contributed to a risk of political defeat at home. In June 1919, the Allies declared that war would resume if the German government did not sign the treaty they had agreed to among themselves. The government headed by Philipp Scheidemann was unable to agree on a common position, and Scheidemann himself resigned rather than agree to sign the treaty. Gustav Bauer, the head of the new government, sent a telegram stating his intention to sign the treaty if certain articles were withdrawn, including Articles 227, 230 and 231. In response, the Allies issued an ultimatum stating that Germany would\",\n \"title\": \"Treaty of Versailles\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"4669347\",\n \"text\": \"treaty within seven days or face the resumption of hostilities. The German government was divided on whether to sign or reject the peace treaty. On 19 June, Chancellor Philipp Scheidemann resigned rather than sign the treaty and was followed by Brockdorff-Rantzau and other members of the government, leaving Germany without a cabinet or peace delegation. After being advised by Field Marshal Paul von Hindenburg that Germany was in no condition to resume the war, President Friedrich Ebert and the new Chancellor, Gustav Bauer, recommended that the Weimar National Assembly ratify the treaty. The Assembly did so by a large majority,\",\n \"title\": \"Article 231 of the Treaty of Versailles\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"1819288\",\n \"text\": \"first tasks as president was to deal with the Treaty of Versailles. When the treaty's terms became public on 7 May 1919, it was cursed by Germans of all political shades as an onerous \\\"Diktat,\\\" particularly because Germany had essentially been handed the treaty and told to sign without any negotiations. Ebert himself denounced the treaty as \\\"unrealizable and unbearable.\\\" However, Ebert was well aware of the possibility that Germany would not be in a position to reject the treaty. He believed that the Allies would invade Germany from the west if Germany refused to sign. To appease public opinion,\",\n \"title\": \"Friedrich Ebert\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"4669360\",\n \"text\": \"these views, the historical consensus is that the article and the treaty, did not cause the rise of Nazism but that an unconnected rise in extremism and the Great Depression led to the NSDAP gaining greater electoral popularity and then being maneuvered into office. Fritz Klein wrote that while there was a path from Versailles to Hitler, the former did not make \\\"Hitler's takeover of power inevitable\\\" and that \\\"the Germans had a choice when they decided to take this path. In other words, they did not have to. Hitler's victory was not an unavoidable result of Versailles.\\\" In 1926,\",\n \"title\": \"Article 231 of the Treaty of Versailles\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"6690232\",\n \"text\": \"severely limited Germany's industrial output. Its army was restricted to 100,000 men and its military production was greatly reduced. However, the treaty did not diminish Germany's place as a leader in military innovation, and many industrial firms still retained the machinery and technology to produce military hardware. Therefore, to circumvent the treaty's restrictions, these industrial firms formed partnerships with foreign nations, such as the Soviet Union and Argentina, to legally produce weapons and sell them. As the Chinese government did not sign the Treaty of Versailles, a separate German-Chinese Peace Treaty was concluded in 1921. After the death of Yuan\",\n \"title\": \"Sino-German cooperation (1926–1941)\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"6690231\",\n \"text\": \"and the Treaty of Versailles assigned the modern and up-to-date city of Tsingtao and the Kiautschou Bay region to Japan. Subsequent recognition of this Allied betrayal sparked the nationalistic May Fourth Movement, which is regarded as a significant event in modern Chinese history. As a result, the Beiyang government refused to sign the Treaty of Versailles. World War I dealt a severe blow to Sino-German relations. Long established trade connections had been destroyed, financial structures and markets wrecked; of the almost three hundred German firms conducting business in China in 1913, only two remained in 1919. The Treaty of Versailles\",\n \"title\": \"Sino-German cooperation (1926–1941)\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"540129\",\n \"text\": \"Italian seizure of Fiume result in war between Italy and Yugoslavia. The German ambassador to Italy in 1924 reported that Mussolini saw a nationalist Germany as an essential ally for Italy against France, and hoped to tap into the desire within the German army and the German political right for a war of revenge against France. During the Weimar Republic, the German government did not respect the Treaty of Versailles that it had been pressured to sign, and various government figures at the time rejected Germany's post-Versailles borders. General Hans von Seeckt (head of the \\\"Reichswehr\\\" command from 1920 to\",\n \"title\": \"Axis powers\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"3475320\",\n \"text\": \"was the only nation that did not sign the Treaty of Versailles at the signing ceremony. Koo also was involved in the formation of the League of Nations as China's first representative to the newly formed League. From 1922, Koo served successively as Foreign Minister and Finance Minister. He was twice Acting Premier, in 1924 and again in 1926 during a period of chaos in Beijing under Zhang Zuolin in 1926-7. Koo was Acting Premier from 1 October 1926 and acted concurrently as Interim President. He served as Premier from January until June 1927, when Zhang organised a military government\",\n \"title\": \"Wellington Koo\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"405586\",\n \"text\": \"when employed abroad; recognition of the principle of freedom of association; the organization of vocational and technical education and other measures. The treaty also called for the signatories to sign or ratify the International Opium Convention. The delegates of the Commonwealth and British Government had mixed thoughts on the treaty, with some seeing the French policy as being greedy and vindictive. Lloyd George and his private secretary Philip Kerr believed in the treaty, although they also felt that the French would keep Europe in a constant state of turmoil by attempting to enforce the treaty. Delegate Harold Nicolson wrote \\\"are\",\n \"title\": \"Treaty of Versailles\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"11077610\",\n \"text\": \"for Poland to sign the peace treaty with Germany (the Article 93 of the Treaty of Versailles stated that: \\\"\\\"Poland accepts... provisions... to protect the interests of inhabitants of Poland who differ from the majority of the population in race, language, or religion\\\"\\\"). In addition, the treaty declared that Poland had to take over a part of debts of Russian state and grant a most favored nation clause in transit trade to \\\"Allied and Associated States\\\" (Articles 14-18). The Polish government declared its support for \\\"\\\"total and complete protection of life and freedom of all people regardless of their birth,\",\n \"title\": \"Little Treaty of Versailles\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"19680054\",\n \"text\": \"Treaty, the US government did not follow their side of the treaty, partially because Brigham Young did not have authority to speak for the US government. As a sign of protest, he led the Timpanogos into Thistle Valley in Sanpete County to hunt and dance in the spring of 1872. This made the Americans uneasy, and he was able to get the Americans to fulfill their obligations for that year. Tabby-To-Kwanah Chief Tabby-To-Kwanah (or Tabby, Tabiona, or Tabiuna; 1789 – 1898) was the leader of Timpanogos when they were displaced to the Uintah and Ouray Indian Reservation. He rose to\",\n \"title\": \"Tabby-To-Kwanah\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"4586814\",\n \"text\": \"US Senate actually passed the Treaty of Versailles, which it never did. As a result, the report was only released to the public in 1922, after the Senate and House had passed a joint resolution favoring the establishment of a Jewish National Home in Palestine along the lines of the Balfour Declaration. Public opinion was divided when it was learned that the Arab majority had requested an American mandate with a democratically elected constituent assembly. The Commission termed the territory it was investigating \\\"Syria\\\", which covered the Arab territories of the defunct Ottoman Syria. Though it did not use the\",\n \"title\": \"King–Crane Commission\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"2522192\",\n \"text\": \"its ratification by less than all of the signatories. Even though such a treaty takes effect, it does not apply to signatories that have not ratified it. Accession has the same legal effect as ratification, for treaties already negotiated and signed by other states. An example of a treaty to which the Senate did not advise and consent to ratification is the Treaty of Versailles, which failed to garner support because of the Covenant of the League of Nations. The US can also enter into international agreements by way of executive agreements. They are not made under the Treaty Clause\",\n \"title\": \"Ratification\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"1971215\",\n \"text\": \"the Allies; during the war, it had sent thousands of labourers to France. At the Paris Peace Conference in 1919, the Chinese delegation called for an end to Western imperialistic institutions in China, but was rebuffed. China requested at least the formal restoration of its territory of Jiaozhou Bay, under German colonial control since 1898. But the western Allies rejected China's request, instead granting transfer to Japan of all of Germany's pre-war territory and rights in China. Subsequently, China did not sign the Treaty of Versailles, instead signing a separate peace treaty with Germany in 1921. The Austro-Hungarian and German\",\n \"title\": \"Aftermath of World War I\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"9215953\",\n \"text\": \"insisted that the territory was necessary as a defensive barrier. Bismarck opposed the annexation because he did not wish to make Germany a permanent enemy of France. The portion annexed of Alsace-Lorraine was later slightly reduced at the Treaty of Frankfurt, allowing France to retain the Territory of Belfort. Treaty of Versailles (1871) The Treaty of Versailles of 1871 ended the Franco-Prussian War and was signed by Adolphe Thiers, of the French Third Republic, and Otto von Bismarck, of the German Empire on 26 February 1871. This was a preliminary treaty used to solidify the initial armistice of 28 January\",\n \"title\": \"Treaty of Versailles (1871)\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"7243767\",\n \"text\": \"did so reluctantly, becoming the last person to sign. During the debates which followed in Dáil Éireann, Gavan Duffy stated that he would recommend the Treaty reluctantly but sincerely as he saw no alternative for the desired aim of independence. I do not love this treaty now any more than I loved it when I signed it, that I do not think that...is an adequate motive for rejection to point out that some of us signed the Treaty under duress, not to say that this treaty will not lead to permanent peace. It is necessary before you reject the Treaty\",\n \"title\": \"George Gavan Duffy\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"405637\",\n \"text\": \"any peace treaty that did not leave Germany as the conqueror would be unacceptable to them. Short of allowing Germany to keep all the conquests of the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk, Evans argued that there was nothing that could have been done to persuade the German right to accept Versailles. Evans further noted that the parties of the Weimar Coalition, namely the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD), the social liberal German Democratic Party (DDP) and the Christian democratic Centre Party, were all equally opposed to Versailles, and it is false to claim as some historians have that opposition to Versailles\",\n \"title\": \"Treaty of Versailles\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"13518583\",\n \"text\": \"in clandestine development programs in Russia. In the early 1920s the navy spent one-sixth of what the army spent on aviation. The Treaty of Versailles banned most aspects of aerial development in Germany. For all of its diligence the treaty did not prohibit naval exercises with aircraft. The loophole allowed for the development of aircraft in the naval sphere of influence. The Paris Treaty of 1926 restated the terms of the treaty in Versailles but relented over the issue of air defence. Germany would be permitted to develop air defence systems to guard against aerial aggression. Although this did not\",\n \"title\": \"Fliegerführer Atlantik\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"4669332\",\n \"text\": \"Article 231 of the Treaty of Versailles Article 231, often known as the War Guilt Clause, was the opening article of the reparations section of the Treaty of Versailles, which ended the First World War between the German Empire and the Allied and Associated Powers. The article did not use the word \\\"guilt\\\" but it served as a legal basis to compel Germany to pay reparations for the war. Article 231 was one of the most controversial points of the treaty. It specified: Germans viewed this clause as a national humiliation, forcing Germany to accept full responsibility for causing the\",\n \"title\": \"Article 231 of the Treaty of Versailles\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"5500677\",\n \"text\": \"who negotiated the Treaty of Versailles in 1919 included France, Britain, Italy, Japan and the US; Part One of the Treaty agreed to the establishment of the League of Nations on 25 January 1919. This came into being on 16 January 1920 with Britain, France, Italy and Japan as permanent members of the Executive Council; the US Senate voted against ratification of the Treaty of Versailles on 19 March, thus preventing American participation. For much of the 19th century, Britain sought to maintain the European balance of power without formal alliances, a policy known as splendid isolation. This left it\",\n \"title\": \"Allies of World War I\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"2439647\",\n \"text\": \"not accepted by the Allies, who recognised him only as King of the Hejaz. After World War I Hussein refused to ratify the Treaty of Versailles, in protest at the Balfour Declaration and the establishment of British and French mandates in Syria, Iraq, and Palestine. He later refused to sign the Anglo-Hashemite Treaty and thus deprived himself of British support when his kingdom was invaded by Ibn Saud. In March 1924, when the Ottoman Caliphate was abolished, Hussein proclaimed himself Caliph of all Muslims. In October 1924, facing defeat by Ibn Saud, he abdicated and was succeeded as king by\",\n \"title\": \"Hussein bin Ali, Sharif of Mecca\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"9041819\",\n \"text\": \"relinquish Shandong, which was the birthplace of Confucius, the greatest Chinese philosopher, than could Christians concede Jerusalem. He demanded the promised return of Shandong, but to no avail. Japan prevailed. Chinese popular outrage over Article 156 led to demonstrations on 4 May 1919 and a cultural movement known as the May Fourth Movement. As a result, Wellington Koo refused to sign the treaty. China's refusal to sign the Treaty of Versailles necessitated a separate peace treaty with Germany in 1921. The Shandong dispute was mediated by the United States in 1922 during the Washington Naval Conference. In a victory for\",\n \"title\": \"Shandong Problem\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"3472936\",\n \"text\": \"as \\\"Kekalamazoo\\\"). The present-day city of Kalamazoo developed at this site. Bad Bird was identified as signing the US Treaty with the Potawatomi, of September 19, 1827, by which he ceded the Kalamazoo tract reserved for the Indian village to the U.S. He did not sign the 1828 Treaty with the Potawatomi, which ceded additional land in southwest Michigan to the U.S. He did sign the 1832 U.S. Treaty with the Potawatomi, which also ceded additional land in the area. The \\\"Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online\\\" estimates that Match-E-Be-Nash-She-Wish (Bad Bird) was born about 1735 and died about 1805. It\",\n \"title\": \"Match-E-Be-Nash-She-Wish\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"70995\",\n \"text\": \"republican government was all but shattered. This ushered in the Warlord Era, during which much of the country was ruled by shifting coalitions of competing provincial military leaders. In 1919, the May Fourth Movement began as a response to the terms imposed on China by the Treaty of Versailles ending World War I, but quickly became a nationwide protest movement about the domestic situation in China. The protests were a moral success as the cabinet fell and China refused to sign the Treaty of Versailles, which had awarded German holdings to Japan. The New Culture Movement stimulated by the May\",\n \"title\": \"History of China\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"13738918\",\n \"text\": \"Germans were forced to sign the Treaty of Versailles, forcing them to make exorbitant payments to repair damages caused during the War. Many Germans felt these reparations were unfair because they did not actually \\\"lose\\\" the war nor did they feel they caused the war (see Stab-in-the-back legend). Germany was never occupied by Allied troops, yet it had to accept a liberal democratic government imposed on it by the victors after the abdication of Kaiser Wilhelm. Much of the map of Europe was redrawn by the victors based upon the theory that future wars could be prevented if all ethnic\",\n \"title\": \"20th-century events\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"627660\",\n \"text\": \"of Platte Bridge. The battle was another victory for the Indians resulting in 29 soldiers killed with at least eight Indian casualties. Arapaho, Cheyenne, Comanche, Kiowa, and Plains Apaches seeking peace were offered to sign the Medicine Lodge Treaty in October 1867. The treaty allotted the Southern Arapaho a reservation with the Southern Cheyenne between the Arkansas and Cimarron rivers in Indian Territory (present-day Oklahoma). Among those that signed the treaty was Chief Little Raven. Those that did not sign the treaty were called \\\"hostile\\\" and were continually pursued by the US Army and their Indian scouts. The last major\",\n \"title\": \"Arapaho\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"165162\",\n \"text\": \"parts of the Russian contingent at the Battle of Tannenberg, followed by huge Austrian and German successes. The breakdown of Russian forces – exacerbated by internal turmoil caused by the 1917 Russian Revolution – led to the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk the Bolsheviks were forced to sign on 3 March 1918 as Russia withdrew from the war. It gave Germany control of Eastern Europe. Spencer Tucker says, \\\"The German General Staff had formulated extraordinarily harsh terms that shocked even the German negotiator.\\\" When Germany later complained that the Treaty of Versailles of 1919 was too harsh on them, the Allies responded\",\n \"title\": \"History of Germany\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"3458637\",\n \"text\": \"strip of territory was then denoted as British Cameroons, which was administered as an appendage of Nigeria. In 1916 Britain and France signed a treaty known as the Simon-Milne Declaration, to respect the frontiers between the British Cameroons and French Cameroun. When Germany was finally defeated in 1918, it was compelled to sign the Treaties of Versailles in 1919, relinquishing control of all its colonies to the Allied and Associated Powers, including the territory known since 1916 as the British Cameroon. On 10 July 1919 Britain and France reiterated the boundary treaty concluded in 1916 and both undertook to administer\",\n \"title\": \"Ambazonia\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"9215951\",\n \"text\": \"deteriorated, Bismarck succeeded in achieving German Unification on January 18, 1871 creating the German Empire. King Wilhelm I of Prussia was declared Kaiser of the newly created empire in the Hall of Mirrors in the Versailles Palace. The new German command structure wanted to sign a peace treaty to gain France's colonial possessions; however, Bismarck opted for an immediate truce as his primary reason for war, German unification, had already been accomplished. He was concerned that further violence would render more German casualties and draw French resentment. He was also wary of drawing attention from other European nations, fearing that\",\n \"title\": \"Treaty of Versailles (1871)\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"8574177\",\n \"text\": \"either side. On pleasant days May Fourth Square fills with young couples on the ground and kites in the air. The May 4th Movement (五四运动, wǔsì yùndòng) was sparked by Article 156 of the Treaty of Versailles which transferred German concessions in Shandong including Qingdao to Japan rather than returning sovereign authority to China. Chinese outrage over this provision ignited mass student demonstrations in Beijing on May 4th, 1919 which resulted in the cultural movement know today as the May Fourth Movement. The May 4th Movement influenced the Chinese delegation not to sign the Treaty of Versailles. China declared the\",\n \"title\": \"May Fourth Square\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"405601\",\n \"text\": \"which had secretly negotiated with the Japanese in order to secure loans to fund their military campaigns again the south. On 29 April, the German delegation under the leadership of the Foreign Minister Ulrich Graf von Brockdorff-Rantzau arrived in Versailles. On 7 May, when faced with the conditions dictated by the victors, including the so-called \\\"War Guilt Clause\\\", von Brockdorff-Rantzau replied to Clemenceau, Wilson and Lloyd George: \\\"We know the full brunt of hate that confronts us here. You demand from us to confess we were the only guilty party of war; such a confession in my mouth would be\",\n \"title\": \"Treaty of Versailles\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"12447563\",\n \"text\": \"Treaty of Versailles (1787) The Versailles Treaty of 1787 (French:\\\"Traité de Versailles de 1787\\\") was a treaty of alliance signed between the French king Louis XVI and the Vietnamese lord Nguyễn Ánh, the future Emperor Gia Long. Nguyễn Ánh, whose family, the Nguyễn family, had been decimated by the Tây Sơn rebellion when he was 16 or 17, received the protection and aid of the French Catholic priest Pigneau de Béhaine, titular bishop of Adran. In order to obtain support for Nguyễn Ánh's cause, Pigneau de Béhaine went to France in 1787 as the \\\"special envoy of the king of\",\n \"title\": \"Treaty of Versailles (1787)\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"12447566\",\n \"text\": \"troops, established a navy, and built fortifications in the Vauban style, such as the Citadel of Saigon. Several of these French adventurers would remain in high positions in the government of Gia Long such as Philippe Vannier, Jean-Baptiste Chaigneau, de Forsans and the doctor Despiau. Treaty of Versailles (1787) The Versailles Treaty of 1787 (French:\\\"Traité de Versailles de 1787\\\") was a treaty of alliance signed between the French king Louis XVI and the Vietnamese lord Nguyễn Ánh, the future Emperor Gia Long. Nguyễn Ánh, whose family, the Nguyễn family, had been decimated by the Tây Sơn rebellion when he was\",\n \"title\": \"Treaty of Versailles (1787)\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"2532833\",\n \"text\": \"in Europe, viewing the Treaty of Versailles as an unjust and vindictive peace treaty, and argued the French were the principle trouble-makers in Europe by seeking to uphold the Versailles treaty. Hertzog argued that if Adolf Hitler had a belligerent foreign policy, it was only because of the Treaty of Versailles was intolerably harsh towards Germany and if the international system was revised to take account of Germany's \\\"legitimate\\\" complaints against Versailles, then Hitler would become a moderate and reasonable statesman. When Germany remilitarized the Rhineland in March 1936, Hertzog informed the British government that there was no possibility of\",\n \"title\": \"J. B. M. Hertzog\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"2438037\",\n \"text\": \"the United Nations headquarters. Famous examples include the Treaty of Paris (1815), signed after Napoleon's defeat at the Battle of Waterloo, and the Treaty of Versailles, formally ending the First World War conflict between Germany and the Western Allies. This is held to have ended World War I completely, but in fact that did not happen until the Allies concluded peace with the Ottoman Empire in 1920 through the Treaty of Sèvres. The Versailles treaty is possibly the most notorious of peace treaties, in that it is \\\"blamed\\\" by many historians for the rise of National Socialism in Germany and\",\n \"title\": \"Peace treaty\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"1581043\",\n \"text\": \"invasion. As with the Treaty of Versailles, the 1920 treaty contained the Covenant of the League of Nations, and, as a result, it was not ratified by the United States. The United States refused initially to sign the Treaty on the grounds that Russia was not represented at the treaty conference. The Paris Peace Treaty of 28 October 1920, formally recognized the union of Bessarabia with Romania. The Soviet Union and Japan never recognized this Union. Japan's failure to ratify the treaty meant that the unification of Moldova with Romania was not recognized by the international society. Japan's actions came\",\n \"title\": \"Treaty of Paris (1920)\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"11232091\",\n \"text\": \"revised, and if such revision cannot be had, they deem it their duty to make a reservation on the said clauses now. When it transpired that the Great Powers would not countenance a signature with express reservations against any article, Lou ultimately refused to sign at all. This made China the only participating country not to sign the Versailles Treaty. From 1922 to 1927 Lou was China's envoy to the League of Nations in Geneva. At the death of his wife he retired from an active life, and in 1927 became a postulant, under the name Dom Pierre-Célestin, in the\",\n \"title\": \"Lou Tseng-Tsiang\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"13791332\",\n \"text\": \"out that in claiming the frontiers of 1937, West Germany was in fact claiming the frontiers established by the Treaty of Versailles, which the entire interwar German leadership had claimed to be totally unacceptable from 1919 to 1939, and which perhaps indicated that Versailles was nowhere near as harsh as claimed, especially when compared with the far greater territorial losses imposed by the Oder–Neisse line. Not all in Adenauer's government supported this; politicians like minister Seebohm criticized limiting German territorial demands to Nazi borders of 1937, alluding to pre-Versailles borders, as did the organisation of German expelled BdV. In 1962\",\n \"title\": \"Oder–Neisse line\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"15268402\",\n \"text\": \"in the activities of the National Council of Lithuania Minor (), which adopted the Act of Tilsit but Simonaitis did not sign it. In 1919 he moved to Memel (Klaipėda). According to the Treaty of Versailles, the Klaipėda Region (Memel Territory) was detached from the German Empire and placed under provisional French administration. French General Dominique Joseph Odry established seven-member Directorate (local government) in February 1920. Initially all of its members were German. After Lithuanian protests, two Prussian Lithuanians, Simonaitis and Mikelis Reidys, were admitted to the Directorate increasing its size to nine members. Simonaitis resigned in February 1922. He\",\n \"title\": \"Erdmonas Simonaitis\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"5157861\",\n \"text\": \"the Treaty of Versailles by developing weapons that Versailles had forbidden Germany to have such as tanks and aircraft, but he wanted the German-Soviet military co-operation kept within its \\\"proper limits\\\". Since 1926, when the secret German-Soviet co-operation had become public knowledge following an exposé by \\\"The Manchester Guardian\\\", the subject was a contentious one that had strained relations with France, who did not appreciate Germany breaking Versailles to develop forbidden weapons that would one day be used against France. Dirksen wanted the development of weapons in the Soviet Union to be handled by private German companies working for the\",\n \"title\": \"Herbert von Dirksen\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"1350908\",\n \"text\": \"a stroke were profound: \\\"Wilson's emotions were unbalanced, and his judgment was warped. ... Worse, his denial of illness and limitations was starting to border on delusion.\\\" The Treaty of Versailles went into effect but the United States did not sign it, and made separate peace with Germany and Austria-Hungary. The League of Nations went into operation, but the United States never joined. Historians agree that the League was ineffective in dealing with major issues, but they debate whether American membership would have made much difference. In 1945 it was replaced by the United Nations, which assumed many of the\",\n \"title\": \"Henry Cabot Lodge\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"12977055\",\n \"text\": \"partners - Baltic states – Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania – were given no choice but to sign a so-called \\\"Pact of defense and mutual assistance\\\" which permitted the Soviet Union to station troops in them. Hitler's pressing for a German invasion of Poland in 1939 placed tremendous strain on the German war machine, which had been gradually gearing up after the Treaty of Versailles restrictions for total war in 1942 or 1943. The German navy was critically short of maritime and military assets and did not achieve full mobilization until 1942. Even Germany's quick victory in Poland strained its 1939\",\n \"title\": \"German–Soviet Commercial Agreement (1940)\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"9052786\",\n \"text\": \"John Maynard Keynes had published his best-selling book \\\"The Economic Consequences of the Peace\\\" in 1919—in which Keynes depicted Versailles as an unbearably harsh \\\"Carthaginian peace\\\" imposed by the vindictive Allies—an increasingly large segment of British public opinion had become convinced that the Treaty of Versailles was deeply \\\"unjust\\\" to Germany. By 1936, when German troops marched back into the Rhineland, the majority of British people believed that Hitler was right to violate the \\\"unjust\\\" Versailles treaty, and it would be morally wrong for Britain to go to war to uphold the \\\"unjust\\\" Treaty of Versailles. The British War Secretary\",\n \"title\": \"Remilitarization of the Rhineland\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"405640\",\n \"text\": \"to Germany. Rather, Peukert argued that it was widely believed in Germany that Versailles was a totally unreasonable treaty, and it was this \\\"perception\\\" rather than the \\\"reality\\\" of the Versailles treaty that mattered. Peukert noted that because of the \\\"millenarian hopes\\\" created in Germany during World War I when for a time it appeared that Germany was on the verge of conquering all of Europe, any peace treaty the Allies of World War I imposed on the defeated \\\"German Reich\\\" were bound to create a nationalist backlash, and there was nothing the Allies could have done to avoid that\",\n \"title\": \"Treaty of Versailles\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"17858293\",\n \"text\": \"riots erupted in Paris as the German troops marched out. Armistice of Versailles The Armistice of Versailles that came into effect on 28 January 1871 brought to an end the active phase of the Franco-Prussian War. The signatories were Jules Favre, foreign minister in the provisional Government of National Defence, for the French and Otto von Bismarck, chancellor of the newly established German Empire, for Prussia and her allies. The suspension of hostilities initially lasted until 19 February, when it was extended through 26 February, when a preliminary peace treaty was signed, also at Versailles. The definitive Treaty of Frankfurt\",\n \"title\": \"Armistice of Versailles\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"17858268\",\n \"text\": \"Armistice of Versailles The Armistice of Versailles that came into effect on 28 January 1871 brought to an end the active phase of the Franco-Prussian War. The signatories were Jules Favre, foreign minister in the provisional Government of National Defence, for the French and Otto von Bismarck, chancellor of the newly established German Empire, for Prussia and her allies. The suspension of hostilities initially lasted until 19 February, when it was extended through 26 February, when a preliminary peace treaty was signed, also at Versailles. The definitive Treaty of Frankfurt was signed on 10 May. Although technically an armistice, the\",\n \"title\": \"Armistice of Versailles\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"7132593\",\n \"text\": \"passenger liner \\\"Lusitania\\\" without allowing the civilian passengers to reach the lifeboats, outraged American opinion. Germany agreed to American demands to stop such attacks but reversed its position in early 1917 to win the war quickly. Berlin mistakenly thought that the US Army and Navy were so weak that they would not play a decisive role. The US public opposed the punitive Versailles Treaty of 1919, and the two countries signed a separate peace treaty in 1921. In the 1920s, American diplomats and bankers provided major assistance to rebuilding the German economy. When Hitler and the Nazis took power in\",\n \"title\": \"Germany–United States relations\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"1960427\",\n \"text\": \"he was sceptical of the League of Nations and urged a strong Anglo-French Alliance, perhaps even accompanied by the building of a Channel Tunnel. These proposals were written up as the \\\"Fontainebleau Memorandum\\\" outlining Lloyd George's preferred peace terms. Wilson advised that Foch's force of 39 divisions was sufficient to occupy Germany if she refused to sign the peace treaty, although he advised against a prolonged occupation, and continued to be concerned at the sporadic warfare between the small newly independent countries of Eastern Europe. Clemenceau eventually agreed to sign the Treaty of Versailles (June 1919) on condition Britain guaranteed\",\n \"title\": \"Sir Henry Wilson, 1st Baronet\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"2014607\",\n \"text\": \"Koo demanded that Germany's concessions on Shandong be returned to China. He further called for an end to imperialist institutions such as extraterritoriality, legation guards, and foreign leaseholds. Despite American support and the ostensible spirit of self-determination, the Western powers refused his claims, transferring the German concessions to Japan instead. This sparked widespread student protests in China on 4 May, later known as the May Fourth Movement, eventually pressuring the government into refusing to sign the Treaty of Versailles. Thus the Chinese delegation at the Paris Peace Conference was the only one not to sign the treaty at the signing\",\n \"title\": \"Paris Peace Conference, 1919\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"14717125\",\n \"text\": \"refused to ratify the Treaty of Versailles following the First World War, the US government found itself outside of the inter-Allied arrangements made with the German government. As a result, the US government began its own process of rapprochment with Berlin. As part of that process, a separate US-German peace treaty was concluded in 1921. Following the conclusion of the peace treaty, diplomatic relations between the two governments were reestablished, and on December 10, 1921, the new US ambassador, Ellis Loring Dresel, presented his credentials in Berlin. In late 1923, German economy collapsed under the burden of reparations, and the\",\n \"title\": \"Treaty of Friendship, Commerce and Consular Relations between Germany and the United States of America\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"13013986\",\n \"text\": \"with German forces in Poland. Three Baltic States described by the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact, Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania, were given no choice but to sign a so-called \\\"Pact of defense and mutual assistance\\\" which permitted the Soviet Union to station troops in them. Hitler's pressing for a German invasion of Poland in 1939 placed tremendous strain on the German war machine, which had been gradually gearing up after the Treaty of Versailles restrictions for \\\"total war\\\" (\\\"\\\"totaler Krieg\\\"\\\") in 1942 or 1943. The German navy was also critically short of maritime and military assets and did not achieve full mobilization until\",\n \"title\": \"Nazi–Soviet economic relations (1934–41)\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"15404349\",\n \"text\": \"condemnation of the Weimar Republic for signing the armistice in November 1918 which later led it to sign the Treaty of Versailles. A major inspiration for the Nazis were the far-right nationalist \\\"Freikorps\\\", paramilitary organizations that engaged in political violence after World War I. Initially, the post–World War I German far-right was dominated by monarchists, but the younger generation, which was associated with \\\"Völkisch\\\" nationalism, was more radical and it did not express any emphasis on the restoration of the German monarchy. This younger generation desired to dismantle the Weimar Republic and create a new radical and strong state based\",\n \"title\": \"Nazism\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"13669506\",\n \"text\": \"part of the Diplomatic Revolution, which realigned the alliance systems of the major powers of Europe in the run-up to the war. It was ostensibly defensive, but British agents suspected that there were secret clauses that were more wide-ranging than the document actually publicised. The Second Treaty of Versailles, promising even closer co-operation between the two states, was agreed at Versailles in 1757. Treaty of Versailles (1756) The Treaty of Versailles, also known as the First Treaty of Versailles, was a diplomatic agreement between Austria and France. It was signed on 1 May 1756 at the Palace of Versailles. The\",\n \"title\": \"Treaty of Versailles (1756)\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"13684328\",\n \"text\": \"Treaty of Versailles (1757) The Treaty of Versailles was a diplomatic agreement signed between Austria and France at the Palace of Versailles on 1 May 1757 during the Seven Years' War. It expanded on the 1756 First Treaty of Versailles, which had established the Franco-Austrian Alliance. It is thus commonly known as the Second Treaty of Versailles. In the new treaty, France agreed to assist Austria in regaining the province of Silesia from Prussia in exchange for Austria ceding the Austrian Netherlands to France at the war's conclusion, the acquisition of which had long been a goal of the French\",\n \"title\": \"Treaty of Versailles (1757)\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"13684331\",\n \"text\": \"against Great Britain and had also prompted a financial crisis in Paris. Treaty of Versailles (1757) The Treaty of Versailles was a diplomatic agreement signed between Austria and France at the Palace of Versailles on 1 May 1757 during the Seven Years' War. It expanded on the 1756 First Treaty of Versailles, which had established the Franco-Austrian Alliance. It is thus commonly known as the Second Treaty of Versailles. In the new treaty, France agreed to assist Austria in regaining the province of Silesia from Prussia in exchange for Austria ceding the Austrian Netherlands to France at the war's conclusion,\",\n \"title\": \"Treaty of Versailles (1757)\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"277777\",\n \"text\": \"the \\\"Reich\\\". In 1926, \\\"The Manchester Guardian\\\" ran an exposé showing the \\\"Reichswehr\\\" had been developing military technology forbidden by the Treaty of Versailles in the Soviet Union, and the secret German-Soviet co-operation had started in 1921. The German statement following \\\"The Manchester Guardian\\\"'s article that Germany did not feel bound by the terms of Versailles and would violate them as much as possible gave much offence in France. Nonetheless, in 1927, the Allied Control Commission, which was responsible for ensuring that Germany complied with Part V of the Treaty of Versailles, was abolished as a goodwill gesture reflecting the\",\n \"title\": \"Maginot Line\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"405598\",\n \"text\": \"July 1921. Soon after, the US–German Peace Treaty of 1921 was signed in Berlin on 25 August 1921, the US–Austrian Peace Treaty of 1921 was signed in Vienna on 24 August 1921, and the US–Hungarian Peace Treaty of 1921 was signed in Budapest on 29 August 1921. Wilson's former friend Edward Mandell House, present at the negotiations, wrote in his diary on 29 June 1919: I am leaving Paris, after eight fateful months, with conflicting emotions. Looking at the conference in retrospect, there is much to approve and yet much to regret. It is easy to say what should have\",\n \"title\": \"Treaty of Versailles\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"9052682\",\n \"text\": \"Germany's denunciation in March 1935 of Part V of the Treaty of Versailles, which had disarmed Germany. At the same time, Neurath wanted to provide an opening for the eventual remilitarization of the Rhineland, hence the conditional hedging of the promise to obey Locarno only as long as other powers did. Hitler always took the line (at least in public) that Germany did not consider itself bound by the \\\"Diktat\\\" of Versailles, but that Germany would respect any treaty that it willingly signed such as Locarno, under which Germany had promised to keep the Rhineland demilitarized forever; hence Hitler always\",\n \"title\": \"Remilitarization of the Rhineland\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"11711701\",\n \"text\": \"war with France at the time, but it did not. Still, the fear that war might come before Germany was prepared for it served to create a sense of urgency and reinforced the rearmament program. The army and the navy prepared to quickly expand their capacity and manpower. Plans were made to secretly build an air force (forbidden by the Treaty of Versailles), and the army prepared to introduce conscription within two years and grow to 300,000 soldiers by 1937 (also in violation of the Treaty of Versailles). At first, the navy did not benefit much from these rearmament plans,\",\n \"title\": \"Economy of Nazi Germany\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"9215952\",\n \"text\": \"they might be moved to intervene if the new German state appeared power-hungry. Both sides were eager to sign a treaty by the beginning of February 1871. The terms of the treaty included a war indemnity of five billion francs to be paid by France to Germany. The German army would continue to occupy parts of France until the payment was complete. The treaty also recognized Wilhelm I as the Kaiser of the newly united German Empire. Preliminary discussion began on the cession of Alsace and the Moselle region of Lorraine, to Germany. Despite Bismarck's objections, Moltke and his generals\",\n \"title\": \"Treaty of Versailles (1871)\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"405602\",\n \"text\": \"a lie.\\\" Because Germany was not allowed to take part in the negotiations, the German government issued a protest against what it considered to be unfair demands, and a \\\"violation of honour\\\", soon afterwards withdrawing from the proceedings of the peace conference. Germans of all political shades denounced the treaty—particularly the provision that blamed Germany for starting the war—as an insult to the nation's honor. They referred to the treaty as \\\"the \\\"Diktat\\\"\\\" since its terms were presented to Germany on a take-it-or-leave-it basis. Germany′s first democratically elected head of government, Philipp Scheidemann, resigned rather than sign the treaty. In\",\n \"title\": \"Treaty of Versailles\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"405587\",\n \"text\": \"we making a good peace?\\\", while General Jan Smuts (a member of the South African delegation) wrote to Lloyd-George, before the signing, that the treaty was unstable and declared \\\"Are we in our sober senses or suffering from shellshock? What has become of Wilson's 14 points?\\\" He wanted the Germans not be made to sign at the \\\"point of the bayonet\\\". Smuts issued a statement condemning the treaty and regretting that the promises of \\\"a new international order and a fairer, better world are not written in this treaty\\\". Lord Robert Cecil said that many within the Foreign Office were\",\n \"title\": \"Treaty of Versailles\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"405603\",\n \"text\": \"a passionate speech before the National Assembly on 21 March 1919, he called the treaty a \\\"murderous plan\\\" and exclaimed, After Scheidemann′s resignation, a new coalition government was formed under Gustav Bauer. President Friedrich Ebert knew that Germany was in an impossible situation. Although he shared his countrymen's disgust with the treaty, he was sober enough to consider the possibility that the government would not be in a position to reject it. He believed that if Germany refused to sign the treaty, the Allies would invade Germany from the west—and there was no guarantee that the army would be able\",\n \"title\": \"Treaty of Versailles\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"2755096\",\n \"text\": \"of Nations brokered agreement between Turkey and Great Britain in 1926. The French delegation, however, did not achieve any of their goals and on 30 January 1923 issued a statement that they did not consider the draft treaty to be any more than a \\\"basis of discussion\\\". The Turks therefore refused to sign the treaty. On 4 February 1923, Curzon made a final appeal to Ismet Pasha to sign, and when he refused the Foreign Secretary broke off negotiations and left that night on the Orient Express. The Treaty of Lausanne, finally signed in July 1923, led to international recognition\",\n \"title\": \"Turkish War of Independence\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"2394408\",\n \"text\": \"of the Dog Soldiers to the treaty terms. A separate treaty version for the Northern Cheyenne was created, but they did not sign, as they were allied with Red Cloud and the Oglala Lakota in hostilities against the US. Southern Cheyenne chiefs signing Arapaho chiefs signing The Treaty was immediately controversial and contested by both the members and other leaders of most of the involved tribal bands. Because most of the tribes were decentralized, acceptance of the treaty was contingent upon ratification by 3/4 of the adult males of each of the tribes. This condition was part of the treaty.\",\n \"title\": \"Medicine Lodge Treaty\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"14117630\",\n \"text\": \"in the Austrian Netherlands was revoked, the treaty greatly hastened the ever-increasing desire of the coalition not only to defeat but also to destroy Prussia. The treaty seems to serve more as a moral guarantee to the coalition than an actual alliance, as the coalition suffered an undisputed string of defeats in the hand of the British and Prussia from 1759. Treaty of Versailles (1758) The Treaty of Versailles of 1758, also called the Third Treaty of Versailles, confirmed the earlier treaties that had been signed at Versailles in 1756 and 1757 between Austria and France. However, it also revoked\",\n \"title\": \"Treaty of Versailles (1758)\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"6214668\",\n \"text\": \"to replace the older vessels. The 1930 London Naval Treaty formally divided cruiser types into two categories: heavy cruisers, armed with guns, and light cruisers, armed with guns. The Treaty of Versailles still prohibited Germany from building heavy cruisers, but the rise of Adolf Hitler's Nazi Party to power in 1933 led to the formal rejection of the Treaty of Versailles. After pulling out of the Geneva Conference in 1933, Hitler argued that if the other European powers did not disarm to parity with Germany, they should accept German rearmament. The German navy, renamed the \\\"Kriegsmarine\\\" on 21 May 1935,\",\n \"title\": \"Admiral Hipper-class cruiser\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"5386722\",\n \"text\": \"General Alexandru Averescu led the Second Army in the victories of the Battle of Mărăşti (July 22 to August 1, 1917) and the Battle of Mărăşeşti (August 6 to September 8, 1917). As a result of the Russian Revolution, Romania was left isolated and unable to continue the war, and was forced to sign the Treaty of Bucharest with the Central Powers. Later on, in 1919, Germany agreed, in the Treaty of Versailles Article 259, to renounce all the benefits provided to it by the Treaty of Bucharest in 1918. After the successful offensive on the Thessaloniki front, which put\",\n \"title\": \"Romanian Land Forces\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"15365527\",\n \"text\": \"war that had killed and wounded so many, which thus limited the options of the Allied leaders when it came to peacemaking in 1919. Renouvin wrote all of the contradictions of the armistice, which created facts on the ground that were difficult to change, as well as the very differing interests of the powers became the basis of the Treaty of Versailles in June 1919, a compromise peace that displeased everyone, as it did not destroy Germany as a great power while being irksome enough to ensure that the Germans would never accept Versailles as legitimate. Alongside those lines, Renouvin\",\n \"title\": \"Pierre Renouvin\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"16767630\",\n \"text\": \"spirit of its creators tried to create Poland as one of small Eastern European states. As a result, Gdańsk was not granted to Poland, Zaolzie was given to the Czechs, eastern borders were limited, and the Little Treaty of Versailles was imposed on Poland (...) [Since 1933], Poland has distanced itself from the Treaty of Versailles, as its failing structure does not attract us. Since then, we have been trying to maintain a policy of balance between our two neighbours (...) Even though the Locarno Treaties gave France the right for an armed intervention in case of the Remilitarization of\",\n \"title\": \"Sztafeta\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"511920\",\n \"text\": \"died... the guns showed cruelly, how little individuals mattered\\\". In 1919, Prime Minister Billy Hughes and former Prime Minister Joseph Cook took Australia's seat at the Versailles peace conference. Hughes' signing of the Treaty of Versailles was the first time Australia had signed an international treaty. Hughes demanded heavy reparations from Germany and frequently clashed with US President Woodrow Wilson. At one point Hughes declared: \\\"I speak for 60,000 [Australian] dead\\\". He went on to ask of Wilson; \\\"How many do you speak for?\\\" Hughes demanded that Australia have independent representation within the newly formed League of Nations and was\",\n \"title\": \"History of Australia\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"4210206\",\n \"text\": \"the US had to have a voice in the peace conference. The United States was never formally a member of the Allies but entered the war in 1917 as a self-styled \\\"Associated Power\\\". Initially the United States had a small army, but, after the passage of the Selective Service Act, it drafted 2.8 million men, and, by summer 1918, was sending 10,000 fresh soldiers to France every day. The war ended in 1919 with the Treaty of Versailles. The United States then adopted a policy of isolationism, having refused to endorse the 1919 Versailles Treaty or formally enter the League\",\n \"title\": \"American Century\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"13669505\",\n \"text\": \"Treaty of Versailles (1756) The Treaty of Versailles, also known as the First Treaty of Versailles, was a diplomatic agreement between Austria and France. It was signed on 1 May 1756 at the Palace of Versailles. The two countries offered mutual assistance if attacked by Great Britain or Prussia, The Franco-Austrian Alliance, which lasted in some form or another for the next 30 years, was established. Within months of the agreement, France and Austria found themselves engaged in the Seven Years' War against the Anglo-Prussian Alliance, which was to last until 1763. Along with the Westminster Convention, the treaty formed\",\n \"title\": \"Treaty of Versailles (1756)\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"7573257\",\n \"text\": \"higher marks than before as a war leader and articulator of war aims in the Fourteen Points. Link had previously stated that Wilson would have taken the same unbending stand against ratification of the Versailles Treaty with Henry Cabot Lodge's reservations if he had enjoyed perfect health. In Link's revision, he stressed Wilson's deteriorating cardiovascular condition and massive stroke. His medical deterioration made it hard for Wilson to compromise with Lodge and caused, in part, Wilson's earlier actions at the Versailles Peace Conference and his dealings with the US Senate over the treaty. Link incorporated his new ideas in elaborate\",\n \"title\": \"Arthur S. Link\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"423855\",\n \"text\": \"of Versailles in the West of 1919 was too harsh on them, the Allied Powers responded that it was more benign than the terms imposed by Brest-Litovsk treaty. The treaty was annulled by the Armistice of 11 November 1918, when Germany surrendered to the western Allies. However, in the meantime it did provide some relief to the Bolsheviks, already fighting the Russian Civil War (1917-1922), following the Russian Revolutions of 1917 by the renunciation of Russia's claims on modern-day Poland, Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Ukraine and Lithuania. By 1917, Germany and Imperial Russia were stuck in a stalemate on the Eastern\",\n \"title\": \"Treaty of Brest-Litovsk\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"7594743\",\n \"text\": \"the war as being when the Versailles Treaty was signed in 1919, which was when many of the troops serving abroad finally returned home; by contrast, most commemorations of the war's end concentrate on the armistice of 11 November 1918. Legally, the formal peace treaties were not complete until the last, the Treaty of Lausanne, was signed. Under its terms, the Allied forces left Constantinople on 23 August 1923. After the war, the Paris Peace Conference imposed a series of peace treaties on the Central Powers officially ending the war. The 1919 Treaty of Versailles dealt with Germany and, building\",\n \"title\": \"World War I\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"5425785\",\n \"text\": \"Japan was a signatory of the Treaty of Versailles, which stipulated harsh repercussions for Germany. 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To prevent this, he ordered all 74\",\n \"title\": \"Ludwig von Reuter\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"9808560\",\n \"text\": \"Minister David Lloyd George, Prime Minister of France Georges Clemenceau and United States President Woodrow Wilson in Versailles to discuss how the borders of Europe should be redefined to help avoid a future European war. The talks provided little territorial gain to Italy because during the peace talks Wilson promised freedom to all European nationalities to form their own nation states. As a result, the Treaty of Versailles did not assign Dalmazia and Albania to Italy as had been promised in the Treaty of London. Furthermore, the British and French decided to divide the German overseas colonies into mandates of\",\n \"title\": \"Kingdom of Italy\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"336309\",\n \"text\": \"Neighbors with Germany, Hitler's spreading influence and territory posed an enormous threat to French livelihood. 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The application had proved contentious with specialist parkour or freerunning organisations lobbying for the sport not to be included, and to be recognized as an entirely separate sport from gymnastics. Originally","title":"Gymnastics at the 2020 Summer Olympics"},{"docid":"17546177","text":"(a procedure already successfully employed by Team GB in field hockey and rugby sevens). Scotland also qualified for the World Cup but, under the agreement whereby the highest ranked home nation is nominated to compete for the purposes of Olympic qualification, their performance will not be taken into account. Football at the 2020 Summer Olympics The association football tournament at the 2020 Summer Olympics will be held from 22 July to 8 August 2020 in Japan. In addition to the Olympic host city of Tokyo, matches will also be played in Ibaraki, Saitama, Sapporo, Sendai, and Yokohama. 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They are the Yakult Swallows (at Meiji-Jingu Stadium) and Yomiuri","title":"Sports in Tokyo"},{"docid":"17546182","text":"FIG competitions to the Olympic Games, qualification places will now be available based on an aggregate of scores achieved over the Artistic Gymnastics World Cup series, and the various continental artistic gymnastics championships. Japan, as the host country, receives a guaranteed spot, in case it were not to earn one by the regular qualifying methods. As in 2016, a gala will be held in gymnastics on 5 August 2020, following the completion of competition in the artistic disciplines. The exhibition event features artistic performances by gymnasts who participate in Tokyo. Gymnastics at the 2020 Summer Olympics Gymnastics at the 2020","title":"Gymnastics at the 2020 Summer Olympics"},{"docid":"6507397","text":"government and is done daily by many Japanese people; the stretching routine music is broadcast daily on the radio and TV). Then it is time to start the events. In 2020, Health and Sports Day will be permanently renamed . For 2020 only, Sports Day will be held on July 24, to coincide with the opening of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. Health and Sports Day , also known as Health-Sports Day or Sports Day, is a national holiday in Japan held annually on the second Monday in October. It commemorates the opening of the 1964 Summer Olympics held in Tokyo,","title":"Health and Sports Day"},{"docid":"19558406","text":"included. Quota places will be allocated to the athletes at the following events: There is a maximum of 2 men and 2 women per NOC. Surfing at the 2020 Summer Olympics Surfing at the Summer Olympics will make its debut in the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan. After several attempts at inclusion in the Olympics, the International Surfing Association has been successful in getting surfing included in the 2020 Games. With the decision to have surfing at the 2020 Summer Olympics, officials announced that surfing would take place in the ocean, and not in a wave pool such as","title":"Surfing at the 2020 Summer Olympics"},{"docid":"19664471","text":"nation, automatically qualified. Two teams will qualify through the 2019 Premier12 tournament--the best team from the Americas and the best team from Asia or Oceania. Another American team will qualify through an Americas continental tournament. One spot is reserved for a European or African team through a combined continental tournament. The final spot will be awarded in a world final qualification tournament. Baseball at the 2020 Summer Olympics Baseball, under the World Baseball Softball Confederation (WBSC), will be featured at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo for the first time since the 2008 Summer Olympics. The tournament will consist of","title":"Baseball at the 2020 Summer Olympics"},{"docid":"17546154","text":"Badminton at the 2020 Summer Olympics The badminton tournaments at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo will take place in July and August 2020. A total of 172 athletes will compete in five events: men's singles, men's doubles, women's singles, women's doubles, and mixed doubles. The Olympic qualification period will take place between April 29, 2019 and April 26, 2020, and the Badminton World Federation rankings list, scheduled to publish on April 30, 2020, will be used to allocate spots. Nations can enter a maximum of two players each in the men's and women's singles, if both were ranked in","title":"Badminton at the 2020 Summer Olympics"},{"docid":"19558400","text":"Surfing at the 2020 Summer Olympics Surfing at the Summer Olympics will make its debut in the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan. After several attempts at inclusion in the Olympics, the International Surfing Association has been successful in getting surfing included in the 2020 Games. With the decision to have surfing at the 2020 Summer Olympics, officials announced that surfing would take place in the ocean, and not in a wave pool such as those from the Kelly Slater Wave Company as had been speculated. The contest site for the 2020 Games was decided to be Shidashita Beach, or","title":"Surfing at the 2020 Summer Olympics"},{"docid":"17546168","text":"Diving at the 2020 Summer Olympics The diving competitions at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo will feature eight events. It will be one of four aquatic sports at the Games, along with swimming, water polo, and synchronised swimming. The events will be men's and women's versions each of: 3m springboard, synchronised 3m springboard, 10m platform, and synchronised 10m platform. The diving competitions feature up to 136 athletes. All divers had to be at least 14 years old on or by 31 December 2020. A nation can have no more than 16 divers qualify (up to eight males and eight","title":"Diving at the 2020 Summer Olympics"},{"docid":"17546178","text":"Golf at the 2020 Summer Olympics Golf at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan will feature two events, one each for men and women. Qualification will be based on world ranking as of 22 June 2020 (men) and 29 June 2020 (women), with a total of 60 players qualifying in each of the men's and women's events. The top 15 players of each gender will qualify, with a limit of four golfers per country that can qualify this way. The remaining spots will go to the highest-ranked players from countries that do not already have two golfers qualified. The","title":"Golf at the 2020 Summer Olympics"},{"docid":"17546169","text":"females) and can enter up to two divers in individual events and one pair in synchronized events. For the individual diving events, qualifiers will be: For the synchronized events (pairs), qualifiers will be: Note: Qualifying spots will go to the nation; they are not tied to the individual diver who achieved the place/finish at the qualifying event. However, an individual diver might only qualify one spot for their nation. Diving at the 2020 Summer Olympics The diving competitions at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo will feature eight events. It will be one of four aquatic sports at the Games,","title":"Diving at the 2020 Summer Olympics"},{"docid":"19603474","text":"2018 Sailing World Championships The 2018 Hempel Sailing World Championships will be held in Aarhus, Denmark, from 30 July to 12 August 2018. It will be the fifth edition of the Sailing World Championships. It will be the world championships for all disciplines used at the next olympics. Sailors from over 100 nations will be racing in the waters of the Bay of Aarhus for world championships medals and the possibility to be qualifying for the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan. The event takes place on the Docklands, at the exact spot where the Vikings founded Aarhus. A new","title":"2018 Sailing World Championships"},{"docid":"17546179","text":"IGF has guaranteed that at least one golfer from the host nation and each geographical region (Africa, the Americas, Asia, Europe, and Oceania) will qualify. The IGF posts weekly lists of qualifiers based on current rankings for men and women. Golf at the 2020 Summer Olympics Golf at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan will feature two events, one each for men and women. Qualification will be based on world ranking as of 22 June 2020 (men) and 29 June 2020 (women), with a total of 60 players qualifying in each of the men's and women's events. The top","title":"Golf at the 2020 Summer Olympics"},{"docid":"15879397","text":"Tokyo bid for the 2020 Summer Olympics Tokyo was selected by the Japanese Olympic Committee on July 16, 2011 as Japan's bidding city for the 2020 Games. The city is moving forward with its bid following the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami which affected much of eastern Japan. Prior to Tokyo's selection by the Japanese Olympic Committee, Hiroshima expressed interest in hosting but withdrew their plans to bid. On September 7, 2011, the Japanese Olympic Committee announced that Tokyo Governor Shintaro Ishihara will be Chairman of the Tokyo 2020 bid committee. The bid committee held their first meeting shortly after.","title":"Tokyo bid for the 2020 Summer Olympics"},{"docid":"20714905","text":"Japan at the 2020 Summer Olympics Japan will be the host nation of the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo from 24 July to 9 August 2020. Since the nation's official debut in 1912, Japanese athletes had appeared at every Summer Olympic Games in the modern era, except for two editions; they were not invited to the 1948 Summer Olympics in London because of the nation's role in World War II, and were also part of the United States-led boycott, when Moscow hosted the 1980 Summer Olympics. Japan men's basketball team automatically qualified for the Olympics as the host nation. Japan","title":"Japan at the 2020 Summer Olympics"},{"docid":"12343997","text":"was $4.38 billion, making it the most expensive television rights deal in Olympic history. NBC paid $775 million for the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia, and $1.23 billion for the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. NBC delayed the 2016 Opening Ceremony by an hour. Also NBC paid $963 million for the 2018 Winter Olympics, which were held in Pyeongchang, South Korea and $1.45 billion for the 2020 Summer Olympics, which will be held in Tokyo, Japan. NBC has announced that it will begin airing all of the events live either on TV or the internet. Thanks","title":"Olympics on United States television"},{"docid":"20683475","text":"Brazil at the 2020 Summer Olympics Brazil is scheduled to compete at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo from 24 July to 9 August 2020. It will be the nation's twenty-third appearance at the Summer Olympics, having competed in all editions of the modern era from 1920 onwards, except the 1928 Summer Olympics in Amsterdam. Brazil women's football team qualified for the Olympics by winning the gold medal and securing a lone outright berth at the 2018 Copa América Femenina in Chile. Brazilian sailors qualified one boat in each of the following classes through the 2018 Sailing World Championships, the","title":"Brazil at the 2020 Summer Olympics"},{"docid":"20683476","text":"class-associated Worlds, the 2019 Pan American Games, and the continental regattas. Brazil at the 2020 Summer Olympics Brazil is scheduled to compete at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo from 24 July to 9 August 2020. It will be the nation's twenty-third appearance at the Summer Olympics, having competed in all editions of the modern era from 1920 onwards, except the 1928 Summer Olympics in Amsterdam. Brazil women's football team qualified for the Olympics by winning the gold medal and securing a lone outright berth at the 2018 Copa América Femenina in Chile. Brazilian sailors qualified one boat in each","title":"Brazil at the 2020 Summer Olympics"},{"docid":"15986159","text":"2020 Summer Paralympics The are an upcoming major international multi-sport event for athletes with disabilities governed by the International Paralympic Committee. Scheduled as the 16th Summer Paralympic Games, it is planned to be held in Tokyo, Japan from 25 August to 6 September 2020. This will mark the second time Tokyo has hosted the Paralympics, as they were first hosted there in 1964 alongside the 1964 Summer Olympics. These Games will see the introduction of badminton and taekwondo to the Paralympic programme, with the removal of sailing and 7-a-side football. As part of a formal agreement between the International Paralympic","title":"2020 Summer Paralympics"},{"docid":"17546202","text":"Swimming at the 2020 Summer Olympics The swimming competitions at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo will feature a record 37 events, up from 34 in 2016. The added events are the 800 metre freestyle for men, the 1500 metre freestyle for women and a 4×100 mixed medley relay. Swimming in 2020 will feature a total of 37 events (18 each for men and women and 1 mixed event), including two 10 km open-water marathons. This is slight increase from the 34 events contested in the previous Olympic Games. The following events will be contested (all pool events are long","title":"Swimming at the 2020 Summer Olympics"},{"docid":"17546150","text":"Round set system as the individual event. The competition format for the new mixed team event has not been released. All times are Japan Standard Time (). Archers from 56 nations participated at the 2016 Summer Olympics, with a similar number expected in 2020. Qualification tournaments include the 2019 World Archery Championships, various continental events, and a final qualification tournament. Archery at the 2020 Summer Olympics The archery events at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo will begin on 24 July 2020. Five events will take place. There are 128 qualifying places available for archery at the 2020 Summer Olympics:","title":"Archery at the 2020 Summer Olympics"},{"docid":"4748286","text":"coverage to free-to-air networks in each territory and other Discovery Inc.-owned channels. In the United Kingdom, these will be the last Games whose rights are primarily owned by the BBC, although as a condition of a sub-licensing agreement that will carry into the 2022 and 2024 Games, Eurosport holds exclusive pay television rights. 2020 Summer Olympics The 2020 Summer Olympics, officially known as the and commonly known as Tokyo 2020, is a forthcoming international multi-sport event that is scheduled to take place from 24 July to 9 August 2020. Tokyo was selected as the host city during the 125th IOC","title":"2020 Summer Olympics"},{"docid":"20796054","text":"Golf at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Qualification Qualification for Golf at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo is determined not by any form of qualifying tournament, but by the rankings maintained by the International Golf Federation. Qualification will be based on world ranking (Official World Golf Ranking for men, Women's World Golf Rankings for women) as of 22 June 2020 (men) or 29 June 2020 (women), with a total of 60 players qualifying in each of the men's and women's events. The top 15 players of each gender will qualify, with a limit of four golfers per country that","title":"Golf at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Qualification"},{"docid":"20714910","text":"the host nation. Japan women's volleyball team automatically qualified for the Olympics as the host nation. Japan men's water polo team automatically qualified for the Olympics as the host nation. Japan women's water polo team automatically qualified for the Olympics as the host nation. Japan at the 2020 Summer Olympics Japan will be the host nation of the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo from 24 July to 9 August 2020. Since the nation's official debut in 1912, Japanese athletes had appeared at every Summer Olympic Games in the modern era, except for two editions; they were not invited to the","title":"Japan at the 2020 Summer Olympics"},{"docid":"20878907","text":"Chinese Taipei at the 2020 Summer Olympics Chinese Taipei is scheduled to compete at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo from 24 July to 9 August 2020. \"Chinese Taipei\" is the designated name used by Taiwan to participate in some international organizations and almost all sporting events, including the Olympic Games. Neither the common name \"Taiwan\" nor the official name \"Republic of China\" would be used due primarily to opposition from the People's Republic of China. It will also be the nation's tenth consecutive appearance at the Summer Olympics. Taiwanese shooters achieved quota places for the following events by virtue","title":"Chinese Taipei at the 2020 Summer Olympics"},{"docid":"20963116","text":"(MQS) by 30 April 2020. Guatemala at the 2020 Summer Olympics Guatemala is scheduled to compete at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo from 24 July to 9 August 2020. It will be the nation's fifteenth appearance at the Summer Olympics since its debut in 1952, despite failing to register any athletes in three other editions (1956 to 1964). Guatemalan shooters achieved quota places for the following events by virtue of their best finishes at the 2018 ISSF World Championships, the 2019 ISSF World Cup series, the 2019 Pan American Games, and Championships of the Americas, as long as they","title":"Guatemala at the 2020 Summer Olympics"},{"docid":"20845807","text":"German shooters achieved quota places for the following events by virtue of their best finishes at the 2018 ISSF World Championships, the 2019 ISSF World Cup series, European Championships or Games, and European Qualifying Tournament, as long as they obtained a minimum qualifying score (MQS) by 30 April 2020. Germany at the 2020 Summer Olympics Germany is scheduled to compete at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo from 24 July to 9 August 2020. It will be the nation's eighth consecutive appearance at the Summer Olympics after its reunification in 1990. German equestrians qualified a full squad each in the","title":"Germany at the 2020 Summer Olympics"},{"docid":"20871091","text":"obtained a minimum qualifying score (MQS) by 30 April 2020. Kuwait at the 2020 Summer Olympics Kuwait is scheduled to compete at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo from 24 July to 9 August 2020. It will be the nation's thirteenth appearance at the Summer Olympics, although it competed as the \"Independent Olympic Athletes\" at the previous Games in 2016, as a result of the country's suspension by the International Olympic Committee due to government interference. Kuwaiti shooters achieved quota places for the following events by virtue of their best finishes at the 2018 ISSF World Championships, the 2019 ISSF","title":"Kuwait at the 2020 Summer Olympics"},{"docid":"20839465","text":"obtained a minimum qualifying score (MQS) by 30 April 2020. Croatia at the 2020 Summer Olympics Croatia is scheduled to compete at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo from 24 July to 9 August 2020. It will be the nation's eighth consecutive appearance at the Summer Olympics. Croatian sailors qualified one boat in each of the following classes through the 2018 Sailing World Championships, the class-associated Worlds, and the continental regattas. Croatian shooters achieved quota places for the following events by virtue of their best finishes at the 2018 ISSF World Championships, the 2019 ISSF World Cup series, European Championships","title":"Croatia at the 2020 Summer Olympics"},{"docid":"20365338","text":"New Zealand at the 2020 Summer Olympics New Zealand is scheduled to compete at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo from 24 July to 9 August 2020. It will be the nation's twenty-fourth appearance as an independent nation at the Summer Olympics, having made its debut at the 1920 Games and competed at every Games since. New Zealand equestrians qualified a full squad in the team eventing competition by virtue of a top-six finish at the 2018 FEI World Equestrian Games in Tryon, North Carolina, United States. New Zealand women's football team qualified for the Olympics by winning the 2018","title":"New Zealand at the 2020 Summer Olympics"},{"docid":"17546208","text":"NOC in each of the five continental championships that did not have a qualified team will assure a secured spot, while the other seven top-ranked NOCs will be selected through the Olympic Qualification Tournament. All 10 NOCs that had already qualified in the team event will automatically qualified a duet (which much consist of members of the team). Artistic swimming at the 2020 Summer Olympics Artistic swimming (formerly synchronised swimming) competitions at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo will feature a total of 104 athletes competing in two medal events, namely the women's duet and the women's team. For the","title":"Artistic swimming at the 2020 Summer Olympics"},{"docid":"9293231","text":"following the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea, and the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan. These Games will also be the fourth Winter Olympics to be held in East Asia, after Sapporo (1972), Nagano (1998) and Pyeongchang (2018). Beijing will become the first city ever to host both Summer and Winter Olympic Games. There are plans to utilize many of the same indoor venues that were used in 2008, as well as using the Beijing National Stadium for the opening and closing ceremonies. The bidding calendar was announced by the IOC in October 2012, with the application deadline","title":"2022 Winter Olympics"},{"docid":"20845792","text":"France at the 2020 Summer Olympics France is scheduled to compete at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo from 24 July to 9 August 2020. French athletes have appeared in every Summer Olympic Games of the modern era, alongside Australia, Great Britain, and Greece. As Paris will host the 2024 Summer Olympics, a French segment is expected to be performed at the closing ceremony. The French delegation include 15 athletes competing in 3 sport. French equestrians qualified a full squad in the team eventing competition by virtue of a top-six finish at the 2018 FEI World Equestrian Games in Tryon,","title":"France at the 2020 Summer Olympics"},{"docid":"17546174","text":"the top 1 fencer from each of Americas and Africa, qualify. 4 more places (1 per zone) were awarded through zone qualifying tournaments; only countries without a qualified fencer in an event were eligible to participate in these zone qualifying tournaments. The host country was guaranteed a minimum of 8 quota spots. Fencing at the 2020 Summer Olympics The fencing competitions at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo will feature 12 events, the first time that both team and individual events have been held in all three weapons for both men and women. There are 200 quota spots for fencing","title":"Fencing at the 2020 Summer Olympics"},{"docid":"20797980","text":"games and ceremony preparations. Capacity during the Olympic Games will be 60,102 taking into account press and executive seating areas. 2020 Summer Olympics opening ceremony The opening ceremony of the 2020 Summer Olympics is scheduled to take place on the evening of Friday 24 July 2020 in the Olympic Stadium, Tokyo. As mandated by the Olympic Charter, the proceedings combined the formal ceremonial opening of this international sporting event (including welcoming speeches, hoisting of the flags and the parade of athletes) with an artistic spectacle to showcase the host nation's culture and history. Ticket prices for the Opening Ceremony will","title":"2020 Summer Olympics opening ceremony"},{"docid":"17546207","text":"Artistic swimming at the 2020 Summer Olympics Artistic swimming (formerly synchronised swimming) competitions at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo will feature a total of 104 athletes competing in two medal events, namely the women's duet and the women's team. For the team competitions, the best ranked NOC in each of the five continental championships, with the exception of the host country Japan, will qualify. The remaining NOCs will be able to qualify for the two highest-ranked spots at the 2019 World Aquatics Championships and the three highest-ranked spots at the Olympic Qualification Tournament. For the duet, the best ranked","title":"Artistic swimming at the 2020 Summer Olympics"},{"docid":"20845806","text":"Germany at the 2020 Summer Olympics Germany is scheduled to compete at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo from 24 July to 9 August 2020. It will be the nation's eighth consecutive appearance at the Summer Olympics after its reunification in 1990. German equestrians qualified a full squad each in the team dressage, eventing, and jumping competitions by virtue of a top-six finish at the 2018 FEI World Equestrian Games in Tryon, North Carolina, United States. German sailors qualified one boat in each of the following classes through the 2018 Sailing World Championships, the class-associated Worlds, and the continental regattas.","title":"Germany at the 2020 Summer Olympics"},{"docid":"20839504","text":"China at the 2020 Summer Olympics The People's Republic of China is scheduled to compete at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo from 24 July to 9 August 2020. It will be the nation's eleventh appearance at the Summer Olympics, since its debut in 1952. One Chinese archer qualified for the women's individual recurve, by virtue of a top national finish at the 2018 Asian Games in Jakarta. China fielded a full squad of four gymnasts each in both the men's and women's artistic gymnastics events by virtue of a top three finish in the team all-around at the 2018","title":"China at the 2020 Summer Olympics"},{"docid":"20839506","text":"at the 2018 Asian Games in Jakarta. China at the 2020 Summer Olympics The People's Republic of China is scheduled to compete at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo from 24 July to 9 August 2020. It will be the nation's eleventh appearance at the Summer Olympics, since its debut in 1952. One Chinese archer qualified for the women's individual recurve, by virtue of a top national finish at the 2018 Asian Games in Jakarta. China fielded a full squad of four gymnasts each in both the men's and women's artistic gymnastics events by virtue of a top three finish","title":"China at the 2020 Summer Olympics"},{"docid":"20365339","text":"OFC Women's Nations Cup in New Caledonia. New Zealand sailors qualified one boat in each of the following classes through the 2018 Sailing World Championships, the class-associated Worlds, and the continental regattas. New Zealand at the 2020 Summer Olympics New Zealand is scheduled to compete at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo from 24 July to 9 August 2020. It will be the nation's twenty-fourth appearance as an independent nation at the Summer Olympics, having made its debut at the 1920 Games and competed at every Games since. New Zealand equestrians qualified a full squad in the team eventing competition","title":"New Zealand at the 2020 Summer Olympics"},{"docid":"20845870","text":"Russia at the 2020 Summer Olympics Russia is scheduled to compete at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo from 24 July to 9 August 2020. It will be the country's eighth consecutive appearance at the Summer Olympics as an independent nation. Russia fielded a full squad of four gymnasts each in both the men's and women's artistic gymnastics events by virtue of a top three finish in the team all-around at the 2018 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships in Doha, Qatar. Russia qualified a squad of rhythmic gymnasts for the group all-around by virtue of a top-three finish at the 2018","title":"Russia at the 2020 Summer Olympics"},{"docid":"20963115","text":"Guatemala at the 2020 Summer Olympics Guatemala is scheduled to compete at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo from 24 July to 9 August 2020. It will be the nation's fifteenth appearance at the Summer Olympics since its debut in 1952, despite failing to register any athletes in three other editions (1956 to 1964). Guatemalan shooters achieved quota places for the following events by virtue of their best finishes at the 2018 ISSF World Championships, the 2019 ISSF World Cup series, the 2019 Pan American Games, and Championships of the Americas, as long as they obtained a minimum qualifying score","title":"Guatemala at the 2020 Summer Olympics"},{"docid":"20871090","text":"Kuwait at the 2020 Summer Olympics Kuwait is scheduled to compete at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo from 24 July to 9 August 2020. It will be the nation's thirteenth appearance at the Summer Olympics, although it competed as the \"Independent Olympic Athletes\" at the previous Games in 2016, as a result of the country's suspension by the International Olympic Committee due to government interference. Kuwaiti shooters achieved quota places for the following events by virtue of their best finishes at the 2018 ISSF World Championships, the 2019 ISSF World Cup series, and Asian Championships, as long as they","title":"Kuwait at the 2020 Summer Olympics"},{"docid":"20839464","text":"Croatia at the 2020 Summer Olympics Croatia is scheduled to compete at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo from 24 July to 9 August 2020. It will be the nation's eighth consecutive appearance at the Summer Olympics. Croatian sailors qualified one boat in each of the following classes through the 2018 Sailing World Championships, the class-associated Worlds, and the continental regattas. Croatian shooters achieved quota places for the following events by virtue of their best finishes at the 2018 ISSF World Championships, the 2019 ISSF World Cup series, European Championships or Games, and European Qualifying Tournament, as long as they","title":"Croatia at the 2020 Summer Olympics"},{"docid":"15879407","text":"bid for the 1964 Summer Olympics and Tokyo became the first Asian city to host the Olympic Games. Tokyo's successful 2020 bid is the city's fifth bid for the games, making it the fourth city to host the Summer Olympics two times. Paris, Los Angeles and Athens have hosted the games twice, with London hosting for a third time in 2012. With Tokyo's selection as host of the 2020 games, it marks the fourth Olympic Game to be held in Japan. Osaka bid to host the 2008 Olympics but lost to Beijing. Nagoya bid for the 1988 Summer Olympics and","title":"Tokyo bid for the 2020 Summer Olympics"},{"docid":"17546144","text":"Archery at the 2020 Summer Olympics The archery events at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo will begin on 24 July 2020. Five events will take place. There are 128 qualifying places available for archery at the 2020 Summer Olympics: 64 for men and 64 for women. The qualification standards were released by World Archery in March 2018. Each National Olympic Committee (NOC) is permitted to enter a maximum of six competitors, three per gender. NOCs that qualify teams for a particular gender are able to send a three-member team to the team event and also have each member compete","title":"Archery at the 2020 Summer Olympics"},{"docid":"10867727","text":"2015 FINA world championships. The average age of the participants in this event was 30. Efforts are being made by gymnasts to make this sport an Olympic event for the 2020 Summer Olympics held in Tokyo, Japan. If not for 2020 than for the 2024 Summer Olympics which its host city will be Paris, France. There is considerable debate surrounding record claims for the highest dive, which largely revolves around criteria for what constitutes a valid dive. ABC's Wide World of Sports produced world record high dives for its Emmy award-winning sports anthology show for more than a decade. They","title":"High diving"},{"docid":"368643","text":"and once each in Sweden (1912), Belgium (1920), Netherlands (1928), Finland (1952), Italy (1960), Japan (1964), Mexico (1968), Canada (1976), Soviet Union (1980), South Korea (1988), Spain (1992), China (2008) and Brazil (2016). The IOC has selected Tokyo, Japan, to host the Summer Olympics for a second time in 2020. The 2024 Summer Olympics will be held in Paris, France, for a third time, exactly one hundred years after the city's last Summer Olympics in 1924. The IOC has also selected Los Angeles, California, to host its third Summer Games in 2028. To date, only five countries have participated in","title":"Summer Olympic Games"},{"docid":"9293258","text":"as to whether video games will be featured in the 2024 Olympics will be made in 2020. During the Lima Session, the IOC approved the Rio 2016 sports program for Paris 2024. New sports will be chosen during the 134th IOC Session in 2019 in Lausanne, Switzerland, subject to final approval by the IOC Executive Board in December 2020. The 2024 Summer Olympic programme is scheduled to feature 28 sports encompassing 319 events, though this is likely to change depending on success of the five additional sports added to the Tokyo Olympics. This means there could be up to 33","title":"2024 Summer Olympics"}],"string":"[\n {\n \"docid\": \"4748258\",\n \"text\": \"2020 Summer Olympics The 2020 Summer Olympics, officially known as the and commonly known as Tokyo 2020, is a forthcoming international multi-sport event that is scheduled to take place from 24 July to 9 August 2020. 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There are 40 quota spots available for sport climbing. Each NOC can obtain a maximum of 2 spots in each event (total 4 maximum across the 2 events). Each event will have 20 competitors qualify: 18 from qualification, 1 from the host (Japan), and 1 from\",\n \"title\": \"Sport climbing at the 2020 Summer Olympics\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"4748258\",\n \"text\": \"2020 Summer Olympics The 2020 Summer Olympics, officially known as the and commonly known as Tokyo 2020, is a forthcoming international multi-sport event that is scheduled to take place from 24 July to 9 August 2020. Tokyo was selected as the host city during the 125th IOC Session in Buenos Aires on 7 September 2013. These Games will mark the return of the Summer Olympics to Tokyo for the first time since 1964, and the fourth Olympics overall to be held in Japan, following the 1972 Winter Olympics in Sapporo and the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano. 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The\",\n \"title\": \"Basketball at the 2020 Summer Olympics\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"17546180\",\n \"text\": \"Gymnastics at the 2020 Summer Olympics Gymnastics at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo will be held in three categories: artistic gymnastics, rhythmic gymnastics and trampolining. All gymnastics events will be staged at the Olympic Gymnastic Centre, Tokyo Bay between 25 July and 5 August 2020. The programme for 2020 remains unchanged from 2016, despite an application from the FIG for the admission of a new parkour based event. The application had proved contentious with specialist parkour or freerunning organisations lobbying for the sport not to be included, and to be recognized as an entirely separate sport from gymnastics. Originally\",\n \"title\": \"Gymnastics at the 2020 Summer Olympics\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"17546177\",\n \"text\": \"(a procedure already successfully employed by Team GB in field hockey and rugby sevens). 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Qualification is primarily based on the FIE Official Ranking as of April 4, 2020, with further individual places available at 4 zonal qualifying tournaments. For the team events, 8 teams qualify in each event. Each team must be composed of 3 fencers. The top 4 ranked teams\",\n \"title\": \"Fencing at the 2020 Summer Olympics\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"19664478\",\n \"text\": \"Softball at the 2020 Summer Olympics Softball will be featured at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo for the first time since the 2008 Summer Olympics. The tournament will consist of six teams. Baseball/softball is one of five sports added to the program of the 2020 Summer Olympics only, with no guarantee it will return in 2024. The softball tournament will feature a single round-robin of the six teams followed by a bronze medal game and a gold medal game. 17 games will be played in total. Six teams will qualify. Japan, as the host nation, automatically qualified. 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Karate at the 2020 Summer Olympics The karate competitions at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo will feature eight events. It will be the debut appearance of karate in the Olympics. Karate is part of the 2020 programme as one of five sports added specifically for 2020 rather than as a permanent sport. Two disciplines karate will be featured. Kumite (\\\"grappling hands\\\") is the sparring discipline and will have three weight classes each for men and women. Kata (martial arts)\",\n \"title\": \"Karate at the 2020 Summer Olympics\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"19664479\",\n \"text\": \"of the 2018 Women's Softball World Championship (or runner-up, if Japan is the winner) qualifies for the Olympics. The remaining four spots will be allocated through three qualification tournaments: one spot for a Europe/Africa tournament, one spot for an Asia/Oceania tournament, and two spots for an Americas tournament. Softball at the 2020 Summer Olympics Softball will be featured at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo for the first time since the 2008 Summer Olympics. The tournament will consist of six teams. Baseball/softball is one of five sports added to the program of the 2020 Summer Olympics only, with no guarantee\",\n \"title\": \"Softball at the 2020 Summer Olympics\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"19664472\",\n \"text\": \"Karate at the 2020 Summer Olympics The karate competitions at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo will feature eight events. It will be the debut appearance of karate in the Olympics. Karate is part of the 2020 programme as one of five sports added specifically for 2020 rather than as a permanent sport. Two disciplines karate will be featured. Kumite (\\\"grappling hands\\\") is the sparring discipline and will have three weight classes each for men and women. Kata (martial arts) is the form discipline and will have one event each for men and women. Every event will consist of 10\",\n \"title\": \"Karate at the 2020 Summer Olympics\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"20995014\",\n \"text\": \"the 2020 Summer Olympics Trials take place Feb. 29, 2020 in Atlanta, Georgia where 2020 United States Olympic Trials (track and field) will host a marathon specific championship. 53 men ran faster than the US Olympic Team Trials standard for the marathon (2:19:00). The Tokyo 2020 Summer Olympics United States at the 2020 Summer Olympics Trials take place Feb. 29, 2020 in Atlanta, Georgia where 2020 United States Olympic Trials (track and field) will host a marathon specific championship. 2018 California International Marathon The 2018 California International Marathon was the 35th edition of the California International Marathon. The marathon took\",\n \"title\": \"2018 California International Marathon\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"11387644\",\n \"text\": \"1964 Summer Olympics, which was the first time the Olympic Games were held in Asia. On September 7, 2013, Tokyo was elected as the host city of the 2020 Summer Olympics. Tokyo will be the first Asian city to host the Olympics twice. Sports in Tokyo Tokyo is a major center for sports in Japan. Its professional sports teams compete in baseball, football (soccer), sumo and basketball. It hosted the 1964 Summer Olympics and will the Olympics once again in 2020. Two professional baseball clubs make their home in Tokyo. They are the Yakult Swallows (at Meiji-Jingu Stadium) and Yomiuri\",\n \"title\": \"Sports in Tokyo\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"17546182\",\n \"text\": \"FIG competitions to the Olympic Games, qualification places will now be available based on an aggregate of scores achieved over the Artistic Gymnastics World Cup series, and the various continental artistic gymnastics championships. Japan, as the host country, receives a guaranteed spot, in case it were not to earn one by the regular qualifying methods. As in 2016, a gala will be held in gymnastics on 5 August 2020, following the completion of competition in the artistic disciplines. The exhibition event features artistic performances by gymnasts who participate in Tokyo. Gymnastics at the 2020 Summer Olympics Gymnastics at the 2020\",\n \"title\": \"Gymnastics at the 2020 Summer Olympics\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"6507397\",\n \"text\": \"government and is done daily by many Japanese people; the stretching routine music is broadcast daily on the radio and TV). Then it is time to start the events. In 2020, Health and Sports Day will be permanently renamed . For 2020 only, Sports Day will be held on July 24, to coincide with the opening of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. Health and Sports Day , also known as Health-Sports Day or Sports Day, is a national holiday in Japan held annually on the second Monday in October. It commemorates the opening of the 1964 Summer Olympics held in Tokyo,\",\n \"title\": \"Health and Sports Day\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"19558406\",\n \"text\": \"included. Quota places will be allocated to the athletes at the following events: There is a maximum of 2 men and 2 women per NOC. Surfing at the 2020 Summer Olympics Surfing at the Summer Olympics will make its debut in the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan. After several attempts at inclusion in the Olympics, the International Surfing Association has been successful in getting surfing included in the 2020 Games. With the decision to have surfing at the 2020 Summer Olympics, officials announced that surfing would take place in the ocean, and not in a wave pool such as\",\n \"title\": \"Surfing at the 2020 Summer Olympics\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"19664471\",\n \"text\": \"nation, automatically qualified. Two teams will qualify through the 2019 Premier12 tournament--the best team from the Americas and the best team from Asia or Oceania. Another American team will qualify through an Americas continental tournament. One spot is reserved for a European or African team through a combined continental tournament. The final spot will be awarded in a world final qualification tournament. Baseball at the 2020 Summer Olympics Baseball, under the World Baseball Softball Confederation (WBSC), will be featured at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo for the first time since the 2008 Summer Olympics. The tournament will consist of\",\n \"title\": \"Baseball at the 2020 Summer Olympics\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"17546154\",\n \"text\": \"Badminton at the 2020 Summer Olympics The badminton tournaments at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo will take place in July and August 2020. A total of 172 athletes will compete in five events: men's singles, men's doubles, women's singles, women's doubles, and mixed doubles. The Olympic qualification period will take place between April 29, 2019 and April 26, 2020, and the Badminton World Federation rankings list, scheduled to publish on April 30, 2020, will be used to allocate spots. Nations can enter a maximum of two players each in the men's and women's singles, if both were ranked in\",\n \"title\": \"Badminton at the 2020 Summer Olympics\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"19558400\",\n \"text\": \"Surfing at the 2020 Summer Olympics Surfing at the Summer Olympics will make its debut in the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan. After several attempts at inclusion in the Olympics, the International Surfing Association has been successful in getting surfing included in the 2020 Games. With the decision to have surfing at the 2020 Summer Olympics, officials announced that surfing would take place in the ocean, and not in a wave pool such as those from the Kelly Slater Wave Company as had been speculated. The contest site for the 2020 Games was decided to be Shidashita Beach, or\",\n \"title\": \"Surfing at the 2020 Summer Olympics\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"17546168\",\n \"text\": \"Diving at the 2020 Summer Olympics The diving competitions at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo will feature eight events. It will be one of four aquatic sports at the Games, along with swimming, water polo, and synchronised swimming. The events will be men's and women's versions each of: 3m springboard, synchronised 3m springboard, 10m platform, and synchronised 10m platform. The diving competitions feature up to 136 athletes. All divers had to be at least 14 years old on or by 31 December 2020. A nation can have no more than 16 divers qualify (up to eight males and eight\",\n \"title\": \"Diving at the 2020 Summer Olympics\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"17546178\",\n \"text\": \"Golf at the 2020 Summer Olympics Golf at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan will feature two events, one each for men and women. Qualification will be based on world ranking as of 22 June 2020 (men) and 29 June 2020 (women), with a total of 60 players qualifying in each of the men's and women's events. The top 15 players of each gender will qualify, with a limit of four golfers per country that can qualify this way. The remaining spots will go to the highest-ranked players from countries that do not already have two golfers qualified. The\",\n \"title\": \"Golf at the 2020 Summer Olympics\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"17546169\",\n \"text\": \"females) and can enter up to two divers in individual events and one pair in synchronized events. For the individual diving events, qualifiers will be: For the synchronized events (pairs), qualifiers will be: Note: Qualifying spots will go to the nation; they are not tied to the individual diver who achieved the place/finish at the qualifying event. However, an individual diver might only qualify one spot for their nation. Diving at the 2020 Summer Olympics The diving competitions at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo will feature eight events. It will be one of four aquatic sports at the Games,\",\n \"title\": \"Diving at the 2020 Summer Olympics\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"19603474\",\n \"text\": \"2018 Sailing World Championships The 2018 Hempel Sailing World Championships will be held in Aarhus, Denmark, from 30 July to 12 August 2018. It will be the fifth edition of the Sailing World Championships. It will be the world championships for all disciplines used at the next olympics. Sailors from over 100 nations will be racing in the waters of the Bay of Aarhus for world championships medals and the possibility to be qualifying for the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan. The event takes place on the Docklands, at the exact spot where the Vikings founded Aarhus. A new\",\n \"title\": \"2018 Sailing World Championships\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"17546179\",\n \"text\": \"IGF has guaranteed that at least one golfer from the host nation and each geographical region (Africa, the Americas, Asia, Europe, and Oceania) will qualify. The IGF posts weekly lists of qualifiers based on current rankings for men and women. Golf at the 2020 Summer Olympics Golf at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan will feature two events, one each for men and women. Qualification will be based on world ranking as of 22 June 2020 (men) and 29 June 2020 (women), with a total of 60 players qualifying in each of the men's and women's events. The top\",\n \"title\": \"Golf at the 2020 Summer Olympics\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"15879397\",\n \"text\": \"Tokyo bid for the 2020 Summer Olympics Tokyo was selected by the Japanese Olympic Committee on July 16, 2011 as Japan's bidding city for the 2020 Games. The city is moving forward with its bid following the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami which affected much of eastern Japan. Prior to Tokyo's selection by the Japanese Olympic Committee, Hiroshima expressed interest in hosting but withdrew their plans to bid. On September 7, 2011, the Japanese Olympic Committee announced that Tokyo Governor Shintaro Ishihara will be Chairman of the Tokyo 2020 bid committee. The bid committee held their first meeting shortly after.\",\n \"title\": \"Tokyo bid for the 2020 Summer Olympics\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"20714905\",\n \"text\": \"Japan at the 2020 Summer Olympics Japan will be the host nation of the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo from 24 July to 9 August 2020. Since the nation's official debut in 1912, Japanese athletes had appeared at every Summer Olympic Games in the modern era, except for two editions; they were not invited to the 1948 Summer Olympics in London because of the nation's role in World War II, and were also part of the United States-led boycott, when Moscow hosted the 1980 Summer Olympics. Japan men's basketball team automatically qualified for the Olympics as the host nation. Japan\",\n \"title\": \"Japan at the 2020 Summer Olympics\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"12343997\",\n \"text\": \"was $4.38 billion, making it the most expensive television rights deal in Olympic history. NBC paid $775 million for the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia, and $1.23 billion for the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. NBC delayed the 2016 Opening Ceremony by an hour. Also NBC paid $963 million for the 2018 Winter Olympics, which were held in Pyeongchang, South Korea and $1.45 billion for the 2020 Summer Olympics, which will be held in Tokyo, Japan. NBC has announced that it will begin airing all of the events live either on TV or the internet. Thanks\",\n \"title\": \"Olympics on United States television\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"20683475\",\n \"text\": \"Brazil at the 2020 Summer Olympics Brazil is scheduled to compete at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo from 24 July to 9 August 2020. It will be the nation's twenty-third appearance at the Summer Olympics, having competed in all editions of the modern era from 1920 onwards, except the 1928 Summer Olympics in Amsterdam. Brazil women's football team qualified for the Olympics by winning the gold medal and securing a lone outright berth at the 2018 Copa América Femenina in Chile. Brazilian sailors qualified one boat in each of the following classes through the 2018 Sailing World Championships, the\",\n \"title\": \"Brazil at the 2020 Summer Olympics\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"20683476\",\n \"text\": \"class-associated Worlds, the 2019 Pan American Games, and the continental regattas. Brazil at the 2020 Summer Olympics Brazil is scheduled to compete at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo from 24 July to 9 August 2020. It will be the nation's twenty-third appearance at the Summer Olympics, having competed in all editions of the modern era from 1920 onwards, except the 1928 Summer Olympics in Amsterdam. Brazil women's football team qualified for the Olympics by winning the gold medal and securing a lone outright berth at the 2018 Copa América Femenina in Chile. Brazilian sailors qualified one boat in each\",\n \"title\": \"Brazil at the 2020 Summer Olympics\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"15986159\",\n \"text\": \"2020 Summer Paralympics The are an upcoming major international multi-sport event for athletes with disabilities governed by the International Paralympic Committee. Scheduled as the 16th Summer Paralympic Games, it is planned to be held in Tokyo, Japan from 25 August to 6 September 2020. This will mark the second time Tokyo has hosted the Paralympics, as they were first hosted there in 1964 alongside the 1964 Summer Olympics. These Games will see the introduction of badminton and taekwondo to the Paralympic programme, with the removal of sailing and 7-a-side football. As part of a formal agreement between the International Paralympic\",\n \"title\": \"2020 Summer Paralympics\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"17546202\",\n \"text\": \"Swimming at the 2020 Summer Olympics The swimming competitions at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo will feature a record 37 events, up from 34 in 2016. The added events are the 800 metre freestyle for men, the 1500 metre freestyle for women and a 4×100 mixed medley relay. Swimming in 2020 will feature a total of 37 events (18 each for men and women and 1 mixed event), including two 10 km open-water marathons. This is slight increase from the 34 events contested in the previous Olympic Games. The following events will be contested (all pool events are long\",\n \"title\": \"Swimming at the 2020 Summer Olympics\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"17546150\",\n \"text\": \"Round set system as the individual event. The competition format for the new mixed team event has not been released. All times are Japan Standard Time (). Archers from 56 nations participated at the 2016 Summer Olympics, with a similar number expected in 2020. Qualification tournaments include the 2019 World Archery Championships, various continental events, and a final qualification tournament. Archery at the 2020 Summer Olympics The archery events at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo will begin on 24 July 2020. Five events will take place. There are 128 qualifying places available for archery at the 2020 Summer Olympics:\",\n \"title\": \"Archery at the 2020 Summer Olympics\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"4748286\",\n \"text\": \"coverage to free-to-air networks in each territory and other Discovery Inc.-owned channels. In the United Kingdom, these will be the last Games whose rights are primarily owned by the BBC, although as a condition of a sub-licensing agreement that will carry into the 2022 and 2024 Games, Eurosport holds exclusive pay television rights. 2020 Summer Olympics The 2020 Summer Olympics, officially known as the and commonly known as Tokyo 2020, is a forthcoming international multi-sport event that is scheduled to take place from 24 July to 9 August 2020. Tokyo was selected as the host city during the 125th IOC\",\n \"title\": \"2020 Summer Olympics\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"20796054\",\n \"text\": \"Golf at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Qualification Qualification for Golf at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo is determined not by any form of qualifying tournament, but by the rankings maintained by the International Golf Federation. Qualification will be based on world ranking (Official World Golf Ranking for men, Women's World Golf Rankings for women) as of 22 June 2020 (men) or 29 June 2020 (women), with a total of 60 players qualifying in each of the men's and women's events. The top 15 players of each gender will qualify, with a limit of four golfers per country that\",\n \"title\": \"Golf at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Qualification\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"20714910\",\n \"text\": \"the host nation. Japan women's volleyball team automatically qualified for the Olympics as the host nation. Japan men's water polo team automatically qualified for the Olympics as the host nation. Japan women's water polo team automatically qualified for the Olympics as the host nation. Japan at the 2020 Summer Olympics Japan will be the host nation of the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo from 24 July to 9 August 2020. Since the nation's official debut in 1912, Japanese athletes had appeared at every Summer Olympic Games in the modern era, except for two editions; they were not invited to the\",\n \"title\": \"Japan at the 2020 Summer Olympics\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"20878907\",\n \"text\": \"Chinese Taipei at the 2020 Summer Olympics Chinese Taipei is scheduled to compete at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo from 24 July to 9 August 2020. \\\"Chinese Taipei\\\" is the designated name used by Taiwan to participate in some international organizations and almost all sporting events, including the Olympic Games. Neither the common name \\\"Taiwan\\\" nor the official name \\\"Republic of China\\\" would be used due primarily to opposition from the People's Republic of China. It will also be the nation's tenth consecutive appearance at the Summer Olympics. Taiwanese shooters achieved quota places for the following events by virtue\",\n \"title\": \"Chinese Taipei at the 2020 Summer Olympics\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"20963116\",\n \"text\": \"(MQS) by 30 April 2020. Guatemala at the 2020 Summer Olympics Guatemala is scheduled to compete at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo from 24 July to 9 August 2020. It will be the nation's fifteenth appearance at the Summer Olympics since its debut in 1952, despite failing to register any athletes in three other editions (1956 to 1964). Guatemalan shooters achieved quota places for the following events by virtue of their best finishes at the 2018 ISSF World Championships, the 2019 ISSF World Cup series, the 2019 Pan American Games, and Championships of the Americas, as long as they\",\n \"title\": \"Guatemala at the 2020 Summer Olympics\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"20845807\",\n \"text\": \"German shooters achieved quota places for the following events by virtue of their best finishes at the 2018 ISSF World Championships, the 2019 ISSF World Cup series, European Championships or Games, and European Qualifying Tournament, as long as they obtained a minimum qualifying score (MQS) by 30 April 2020. Germany at the 2020 Summer Olympics Germany is scheduled to compete at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo from 24 July to 9 August 2020. It will be the nation's eighth consecutive appearance at the Summer Olympics after its reunification in 1990. German equestrians qualified a full squad each in the\",\n \"title\": \"Germany at the 2020 Summer Olympics\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"20871091\",\n \"text\": \"obtained a minimum qualifying score (MQS) by 30 April 2020. Kuwait at the 2020 Summer Olympics Kuwait is scheduled to compete at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo from 24 July to 9 August 2020. It will be the nation's thirteenth appearance at the Summer Olympics, although it competed as the \\\"Independent Olympic Athletes\\\" at the previous Games in 2016, as a result of the country's suspension by the International Olympic Committee due to government interference. Kuwaiti shooters achieved quota places for the following events by virtue of their best finishes at the 2018 ISSF World Championships, the 2019 ISSF\",\n \"title\": \"Kuwait at the 2020 Summer Olympics\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"20839465\",\n \"text\": \"obtained a minimum qualifying score (MQS) by 30 April 2020. Croatia at the 2020 Summer Olympics Croatia is scheduled to compete at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo from 24 July to 9 August 2020. It will be the nation's eighth consecutive appearance at the Summer Olympics. Croatian sailors qualified one boat in each of the following classes through the 2018 Sailing World Championships, the class-associated Worlds, and the continental regattas. Croatian shooters achieved quota places for the following events by virtue of their best finishes at the 2018 ISSF World Championships, the 2019 ISSF World Cup series, European Championships\",\n \"title\": \"Croatia at the 2020 Summer Olympics\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"20365338\",\n \"text\": \"New Zealand at the 2020 Summer Olympics New Zealand is scheduled to compete at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo from 24 July to 9 August 2020. It will be the nation's twenty-fourth appearance as an independent nation at the Summer Olympics, having made its debut at the 1920 Games and competed at every Games since. New Zealand equestrians qualified a full squad in the team eventing competition by virtue of a top-six finish at the 2018 FEI World Equestrian Games in Tryon, North Carolina, United States. New Zealand women's football team qualified for the Olympics by winning the 2018\",\n \"title\": \"New Zealand at the 2020 Summer Olympics\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"17546208\",\n \"text\": \"NOC in each of the five continental championships that did not have a qualified team will assure a secured spot, while the other seven top-ranked NOCs will be selected through the Olympic Qualification Tournament. All 10 NOCs that had already qualified in the team event will automatically qualified a duet (which much consist of members of the team). Artistic swimming at the 2020 Summer Olympics Artistic swimming (formerly synchronised swimming) competitions at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo will feature a total of 104 athletes competing in two medal events, namely the women's duet and the women's team. For the\",\n \"title\": \"Artistic swimming at the 2020 Summer Olympics\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"9293231\",\n \"text\": \"following the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea, and the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan. These Games will also be the fourth Winter Olympics to be held in East Asia, after Sapporo (1972), Nagano (1998) and Pyeongchang (2018). Beijing will become the first city ever to host both Summer and Winter Olympic Games. There are plans to utilize many of the same indoor venues that were used in 2008, as well as using the Beijing National Stadium for the opening and closing ceremonies. The bidding calendar was announced by the IOC in October 2012, with the application deadline\",\n \"title\": \"2022 Winter Olympics\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"20845792\",\n \"text\": \"France at the 2020 Summer Olympics France is scheduled to compete at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo from 24 July to 9 August 2020. French athletes have appeared in every Summer Olympic Games of the modern era, alongside Australia, Great Britain, and Greece. As Paris will host the 2024 Summer Olympics, a French segment is expected to be performed at the closing ceremony. The French delegation include 15 athletes competing in 3 sport. French equestrians qualified a full squad in the team eventing competition by virtue of a top-six finish at the 2018 FEI World Equestrian Games in Tryon,\",\n \"title\": \"France at the 2020 Summer Olympics\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"17546174\",\n \"text\": \"the top 1 fencer from each of Americas and Africa, qualify. 4 more places (1 per zone) were awarded through zone qualifying tournaments; only countries without a qualified fencer in an event were eligible to participate in these zone qualifying tournaments. The host country was guaranteed a minimum of 8 quota spots. Fencing at the 2020 Summer Olympics The fencing competitions at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo will feature 12 events, the first time that both team and individual events have been held in all three weapons for both men and women. There are 200 quota spots for fencing\",\n \"title\": \"Fencing at the 2020 Summer Olympics\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"20797980\",\n \"text\": \"games and ceremony preparations. Capacity during the Olympic Games will be 60,102 taking into account press and executive seating areas. 2020 Summer Olympics opening ceremony The opening ceremony of the 2020 Summer Olympics is scheduled to take place on the evening of Friday 24 July 2020 in the Olympic Stadium, Tokyo. As mandated by the Olympic Charter, the proceedings combined the formal ceremonial opening of this international sporting event (including welcoming speeches, hoisting of the flags and the parade of athletes) with an artistic spectacle to showcase the host nation's culture and history. Ticket prices for the Opening Ceremony will\",\n \"title\": \"2020 Summer Olympics opening ceremony\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"17546207\",\n \"text\": \"Artistic swimming at the 2020 Summer Olympics Artistic swimming (formerly synchronised swimming) competitions at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo will feature a total of 104 athletes competing in two medal events, namely the women's duet and the women's team. For the team competitions, the best ranked NOC in each of the five continental championships, with the exception of the host country Japan, will qualify. The remaining NOCs will be able to qualify for the two highest-ranked spots at the 2019 World Aquatics Championships and the three highest-ranked spots at the Olympic Qualification Tournament. For the duet, the best ranked\",\n \"title\": \"Artistic swimming at the 2020 Summer Olympics\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"20845806\",\n \"text\": \"Germany at the 2020 Summer Olympics Germany is scheduled to compete at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo from 24 July to 9 August 2020. It will be the nation's eighth consecutive appearance at the Summer Olympics after its reunification in 1990. German equestrians qualified a full squad each in the team dressage, eventing, and jumping competitions by virtue of a top-six finish at the 2018 FEI World Equestrian Games in Tryon, North Carolina, United States. German sailors qualified one boat in each of the following classes through the 2018 Sailing World Championships, the class-associated Worlds, and the continental regattas.\",\n \"title\": \"Germany at the 2020 Summer Olympics\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"20839504\",\n \"text\": \"China at the 2020 Summer Olympics The People's Republic of China is scheduled to compete at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo from 24 July to 9 August 2020. It will be the nation's eleventh appearance at the Summer Olympics, since its debut in 1952. One Chinese archer qualified for the women's individual recurve, by virtue of a top national finish at the 2018 Asian Games in Jakarta. China fielded a full squad of four gymnasts each in both the men's and women's artistic gymnastics events by virtue of a top three finish in the team all-around at the 2018\",\n \"title\": \"China at the 2020 Summer Olympics\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"20839506\",\n \"text\": \"at the 2018 Asian Games in Jakarta. China at the 2020 Summer Olympics The People's Republic of China is scheduled to compete at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo from 24 July to 9 August 2020. It will be the nation's eleventh appearance at the Summer Olympics, since its debut in 1952. One Chinese archer qualified for the women's individual recurve, by virtue of a top national finish at the 2018 Asian Games in Jakarta. China fielded a full squad of four gymnasts each in both the men's and women's artistic gymnastics events by virtue of a top three finish\",\n \"title\": \"China at the 2020 Summer Olympics\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"20365339\",\n \"text\": \"OFC Women's Nations Cup in New Caledonia. New Zealand sailors qualified one boat in each of the following classes through the 2018 Sailing World Championships, the class-associated Worlds, and the continental regattas. New Zealand at the 2020 Summer Olympics New Zealand is scheduled to compete at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo from 24 July to 9 August 2020. It will be the nation's twenty-fourth appearance as an independent nation at the Summer Olympics, having made its debut at the 1920 Games and competed at every Games since. New Zealand equestrians qualified a full squad in the team eventing competition\",\n \"title\": \"New Zealand at the 2020 Summer Olympics\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"20845870\",\n \"text\": \"Russia at the 2020 Summer Olympics Russia is scheduled to compete at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo from 24 July to 9 August 2020. It will be the country's eighth consecutive appearance at the Summer Olympics as an independent nation. Russia fielded a full squad of four gymnasts each in both the men's and women's artistic gymnastics events by virtue of a top three finish in the team all-around at the 2018 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships in Doha, Qatar. Russia qualified a squad of rhythmic gymnasts for the group all-around by virtue of a top-three finish at the 2018\",\n \"title\": \"Russia at the 2020 Summer Olympics\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"20963115\",\n \"text\": \"Guatemala at the 2020 Summer Olympics Guatemala is scheduled to compete at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo from 24 July to 9 August 2020. It will be the nation's fifteenth appearance at the Summer Olympics since its debut in 1952, despite failing to register any athletes in three other editions (1956 to 1964). Guatemalan shooters achieved quota places for the following events by virtue of their best finishes at the 2018 ISSF World Championships, the 2019 ISSF World Cup series, the 2019 Pan American Games, and Championships of the Americas, as long as they obtained a minimum qualifying score\",\n \"title\": \"Guatemala at the 2020 Summer Olympics\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"20871090\",\n \"text\": \"Kuwait at the 2020 Summer Olympics Kuwait is scheduled to compete at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo from 24 July to 9 August 2020. It will be the nation's thirteenth appearance at the Summer Olympics, although it competed as the \\\"Independent Olympic Athletes\\\" at the previous Games in 2016, as a result of the country's suspension by the International Olympic Committee due to government interference. Kuwaiti shooters achieved quota places for the following events by virtue of their best finishes at the 2018 ISSF World Championships, the 2019 ISSF World Cup series, and Asian Championships, as long as they\",\n \"title\": \"Kuwait at the 2020 Summer Olympics\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"20839464\",\n \"text\": \"Croatia at the 2020 Summer Olympics Croatia is scheduled to compete at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo from 24 July to 9 August 2020. It will be the nation's eighth consecutive appearance at the Summer Olympics. Croatian sailors qualified one boat in each of the following classes through the 2018 Sailing World Championships, the class-associated Worlds, and the continental regattas. Croatian shooters achieved quota places for the following events by virtue of their best finishes at the 2018 ISSF World Championships, the 2019 ISSF World Cup series, European Championships or Games, and European Qualifying Tournament, as long as they\",\n \"title\": \"Croatia at the 2020 Summer Olympics\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"15879407\",\n \"text\": \"bid for the 1964 Summer Olympics and Tokyo became the first Asian city to host the Olympic Games. Tokyo's successful 2020 bid is the city's fifth bid for the games, making it the fourth city to host the Summer Olympics two times. Paris, Los Angeles and Athens have hosted the games twice, with London hosting for a third time in 2012. With Tokyo's selection as host of the 2020 games, it marks the fourth Olympic Game to be held in Japan. Osaka bid to host the 2008 Olympics but lost to Beijing. Nagoya bid for the 1988 Summer Olympics and\",\n \"title\": \"Tokyo bid for the 2020 Summer Olympics\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"17546144\",\n \"text\": \"Archery at the 2020 Summer Olympics The archery events at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo will begin on 24 July 2020. Five events will take place. There are 128 qualifying places available for archery at the 2020 Summer Olympics: 64 for men and 64 for women. The qualification standards were released by World Archery in March 2018. Each National Olympic Committee (NOC) is permitted to enter a maximum of six competitors, three per gender. NOCs that qualify teams for a particular gender are able to send a three-member team to the team event and also have each member compete\",\n \"title\": \"Archery at the 2020 Summer Olympics\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"10867727\",\n \"text\": \"2015 FINA world championships. The average age of the participants in this event was 30. Efforts are being made by gymnasts to make this sport an Olympic event for the 2020 Summer Olympics held in Tokyo, Japan. If not for 2020 than for the 2024 Summer Olympics which its host city will be Paris, France. There is considerable debate surrounding record claims for the highest dive, which largely revolves around criteria for what constitutes a valid dive. ABC's Wide World of Sports produced world record high dives for its Emmy award-winning sports anthology show for more than a decade. They\",\n \"title\": \"High diving\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"368643\",\n \"text\": \"and once each in Sweden (1912), Belgium (1920), Netherlands (1928), Finland (1952), Italy (1960), Japan (1964), Mexico (1968), Canada (1976), Soviet Union (1980), South Korea (1988), Spain (1992), China (2008) and Brazil (2016). The IOC has selected Tokyo, Japan, to host the Summer Olympics for a second time in 2020. The 2024 Summer Olympics will be held in Paris, France, for a third time, exactly one hundred years after the city's last Summer Olympics in 1924. The IOC has also selected Los Angeles, California, to host its third Summer Games in 2028. To date, only five countries have participated in\",\n \"title\": \"Summer Olympic Games\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"9293258\",\n \"text\": \"as to whether video games will be featured in the 2024 Olympics will be made in 2020. During the Lima Session, the IOC approved the Rio 2016 sports program for Paris 2024. New sports will be chosen during the 134th IOC Session in 2019 in Lausanne, Switzerland, subject to final approval by the IOC Executive Board in December 2020. The 2024 Summer Olympic programme is scheduled to feature 28 sports encompassing 319 events, though this is likely to change depending on success of the five additional sports added to the Tokyo Olympics. This means there could be up to 33\",\n \"title\": \"2024 Summer Olympics\"\n }\n]","isConversational":false},"negative_passages":{"kind":"list like","value":[{"docid":"17546153","text":"will be selected through the results of a world competition (here, the 2019 World Championships in Athletics) and eight more selected through rankings. Athletics at the 2020 Summer Olympics Athletics at the 2020 Summer Olympics will be held during the last ten days of the Games, from 31 July – 9 August 2020, at the Olympic Stadium. The sport of athletics in the 2020 Summer Olympics is to be split into three distinct sets of events: track and field events, road running events, and racewalking events. 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AS Japan won the 2018 Asian Games (thereby qualifying twice, once as host and once as Asian champions), there will instead be 14 teams, 7 of whom will qualify. Field hockey at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Women's qualification Twelve teams qualify for the women's field hockey at the 2020 Summer Olympics. Each of the Continental Champions from five confederations received an automatic berth. Japan as the host nation","title":"Field hockey at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Women's qualification"},{"docid":"4748259","text":"the second of three consecutive Olympic Games to be held in East Asia, following the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea, and preceding the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing, China. These Games will see the introduction of additional disciplines within several of the Summer Olympics sports, including 3x3 basketball, freestyle BMX and Madison cycling, as well as further mixed events. 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The second-place team in this event will get another","title":"Baseball at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Qualification"},{"docid":"20899326","text":"Rugby sevens at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Women's qualification Twelve teams qualify for women's rugby sevens at the 2020 Summer Olympics. Japan automatically qualifies as host, with the top four teams of the 2018–19 World Rugby Women's Sevens Series securing their spots. Afterwards, qualification is determined with each of the six continental confederations determining a representative, and the remaining qualification spot determined through an international sevens tournament to be determined. As a principal route for the tournament, four places will be determined by performance in the series over six tournaments. Rugby Africa will hold the 2019 Africa Women's Sevens","title":"Rugby sevens at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Women's qualification"},{"docid":"20899323","text":"Rugby sevens at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Men's qualification Twelve teams qualify for men's rugby sevens at the 2020 Summer Olympics. Japan automatically qualifies as host, with the top four teams of the 2018–19 World Rugby Sevens Series securing their spots. Afterwards, qualification is determined with each of the six continental confederations determining a representative, and the remaining qualification spot determined through an international sevens tournament to be determined. As a principal route for the tournament, four places will be determined by performance in the series over ten tournaments. Rugby Africa will hold the 2019 Africa Men's Sevens to","title":"Rugby sevens at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Men's qualification"},{"docid":"20795615","text":"Field hockey at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Men's qualification Twelve teams qualify for the men's field hockey at the 2020 Summer Olympics. Each of the Continental Champions from five confederations received an automatic berth. Japan as the host nation qualified automatically. In addition, the remaining six nations will be determined by an Olympic qualification event. The champion of the men's field hockey tournament at the 2018 Asian Games qualifies for the Olympics. If Japan is the winner, the quota place is added to the qualification events rather than going to the runner-up. Twelve teams will take part in the","title":"Field hockey at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Men's qualification"},{"docid":"20796039","text":"Football at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Women's qualification There will be 12 teams that qualify for women's football at the 2020 Summer Olympics. In addition to host nation Japan, 11 women's national teams will qualify from six separate continental confederations. Brazil earned an Olympic qualification place by winning the Copa América. Chile advanced to a playoff against the second-place team from the 2019 CAF Olympic Qualifying Tournament. All ten CONMEBOL member national teams entered the tournament. For the first time, the OFC Women's Nations Cup is a compulsory tournament, so all 11 OFC member national teams will enter the","title":"Football at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Women's qualification"},{"docid":"20432520","text":"Basketball at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Men's qualification The men's qualification for the Olympic basketball tournament will take place from 2019 to 2020; all five FIBA (International Basketball Federation) zones are expected to have representation in the Olympic basketball event. The first qualifying tournament will be the 2019 FIBA Basketball World Cup in which seven teams will qualify for the Olympics. Japan as host qualifies directly. The next best 16 teams in the FIBA Basketball World that did not qualify directly to the Olympics along with 2 select teams from each of the five FIBA zones or 24 teams","title":"Basketball at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Men's qualification"},{"docid":"20800464","text":"events on the BWF Ranking List as of April 30, 2020. This ensures that a total of 86 men and 86 women qualify, with the individual event fields expanding from 38 to accommodate additional players. Badminton at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Qualification There are 172 quota places available for qualification for badminton at the 2020 Summer Olympics. The Olympic qualification period takes place between April 29, 2019 and April 26, 2020, and the Badminton World Federation rankings list, scheduled to publish on April 30, 2020, will be used to allocate spots. Nations can enter a maximum of two players","title":"Badminton at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Qualification"},{"docid":"20432522","text":"the 16 best non-qualifying teams and additional 2 teams from each of the five FIBA zones will contend for the four remaining berths. 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Professional surfer Kelly Slater, widely considered to be the greatest surfer of all time, has stated that \"it'd be a huge honor\" for him to participate in the Olympics, even at the age of 48, which he will have reached in 2020. Additionally, it is likely that the dominant surfers of the World Surf League, such as Gabriel Medina and John John Florence, will be selected by their respective countries","title":"Surfing at the 2020 Summer Olympics"},{"docid":"20800460","text":"Badminton at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Qualification There are 172 quota places available for qualification for badminton at the 2020 Summer Olympics. The Olympic qualification period takes place between April 29, 2019 and April 26, 2020, and the Badminton World Federation rankings list, scheduled to publish on April 30, 2020, will be used to allocate spots. Nations can enter a maximum of two players each in the men's and women's singles, if both are ranked in the world's top 16; otherwise, one quota place until the roster of thirty-eight players has been completed. Similar regulations also apply to the","title":"Badminton at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Qualification"},{"docid":"20794606","text":"Diving at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Qualification Qualification for diving at the 2020 Summer Olympics allocated a total of 136 quota spots, evenly divided between men and women. Each nation may enter not more than 16 divers (up to eight males and eight females) with up to two in each individual event and a pair in each synchronized event. Athletes must be 14 years of age by the end of 2020 to compete. For individual diving, the top twelve from the 2019 World Championships, the five continental champions and the eighteen semifinalists at the 2020 Diving World Cup will","title":"Diving at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Qualification"},{"docid":"20806295","text":"Quota places are allocated to the respective NOC and not to competitor that achieved the place in the qualification event. Taekwondo at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Qualification This article details the qualifying phase for taekwondo at the 2020 Summer Olympics. The competition at these Games will comprise a total of 128 taekwondo fighters coming from their respective NOCs. Each NOC is allowed to enter up to one competitor per event, resulting in a maximum of eight competitors, four of each gender. Five quota places will be awarded to the top-ranked practitioners in each of the eight weight classes (four","title":"Taekwondo at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Qualification"},{"docid":"20796041","text":"in the CAF qualifying tournament. 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Each NOC is allowed to enter up to one competitor per event, resulting in a maximum of eight competitors, four of each gender. Five quota places will be awarded to the top-ranked practitioners in each of the eight weight classes (four per gender) through the World Taekwondo Federation (WTF) Olympic rankings, while the highest-ranked practitioner of each weight category on merit","title":"Taekwondo at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Qualification"},{"docid":"20806267","text":"of the total 172 quota places will be filled through a final world singles qualifying tournament (no less than two and no more than eight qualifiers) and then the ITTF world ranking. Table tennis at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Qualification This article details the qualifying phase for table tennis at the 2020 Summer Olympics. The competition at these Games will comprise a total of 172 table tennis players coming from their respective NOCs; each may enter up to six athletes, two male and two female athletes in singles events, up to one men's and one women's team in team","title":"Table tennis at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Qualification"}],"string":"[\n {\n \"docid\": \"17546153\",\n \"text\": \"will be selected through the results of a world competition (here, the 2019 World Championships in Athletics) and eight more selected through rankings. Athletics at the 2020 Summer Olympics Athletics at the 2020 Summer Olympics will be held during the last ten days of the Games, from 31 July – 9 August 2020, at the Olympic Stadium. The sport of athletics in the 2020 Summer Olympics is to be split into three distinct sets of events: track and field events, road running events, and racewalking events. 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The film stars Freddie Highmore as Charlie Bucket and Johnny Depp as Willy Wonka. The storyline concerns Charlie, who takes a tour he has won, led by Wonka, through the most magnificent chocolate factory in the world. Development for another adaptation of \"Charlie and the Chocolate Factory\", filmed previously as \"Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory\", began in 1991, 20 years after the first film version, which resulted in Warner Bros. providing the Dahl Estate with total artistic control. Prior to Burton's involvement, directors such as Gary","title":"Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (franchise)"},{"docid":"4273950","text":"Elfman contributed to a film score using written songs and his vocals. Filming took place from June to December 2004 at Pinewood Studios in the United Kingdom. \"Charlie and the Chocolate Factory\" was released to positive critical reception and was a box office success, grossing $475 million worldwide. 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The studio reiterated their interest in May 2003, however, the idea was postponed by the time filming began in June 2004. The main tie-in for \"Charlie and the Chocolate Factory\" focused on The","title":"Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (film)"},{"docid":"3232431","text":"Willy Wonka Willy Wonka is a fictional character who appears in Roald Dahl's 1964 children's novel \"Charlie and the Chocolate Factory\" and its sequel \"Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator\". In Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Wonka has hidden five Golden Tickets inside chocolate bars, with the finders being rewarded with a tour of his factory and a promise of a lifetimes supply of chocolate, throughout the tour four of the children, with Charlie Bucket being left as the winner. At this point Wonka reveals that the real prize is the factory, as Wonka needs someone to take over the","title":"Willy Wonka"},{"docid":"4273981","text":"$474,968,763. 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He played all the Oompa-Loompas (165 of them) in \"Charlie and the Chocolate Factory\". Deep had extensive training for the role in dance, yoga, and some minor instrument playing. He has performed many other roles in movies and on television, including \"The X-Files\", \"Flash Gordon\", \"Return to Oz\" (as the Tin","title":"Deep Roy"},{"docid":"16660277","text":"returns, and seeing Charlie’s additions, he tells him he’s won, inviting Charlie into his Great Glass Elevator so that he can show him his prize, the chocolate factory. (\"Pure Imagination\"). They return to Earth where Wonka announces he’s leaving, and that Charlie is now in charge (\"A Little Me\"). He disappears, but as the Bucket family moves into the factory, Charlie sees the mysterious tramp outside the gates, who is revealed as Wonka. As the Oompa-Loompas and Charlie wave goodbye from the factory windows, Wonka vanishes, singing a reprise of \"It Must Be Believed to Be Seen\", leaving Charlie to","title":"Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (musical)"},{"docid":"16869143","text":"the sequel to \"Charlie and the Chocolate Factory\", continuing the story of Charlie Bucket and Willy Wonka as they travel in the Great Glass Elevator. \"Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator\" was first published in the United States by Alfred A. Knopf in 1972, and in the United Kingdom by George Allen & Unwin in 1973. \"Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory\" is a 1971 musical film adaptation of the 1964 novel \"Charlie and the Chocolate Factory\" by Roald Dahl. It was directed by Mel Stuart, and starred Gene Wilder as Wonka. The film tells the story of Charlie Bucket","title":"Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (franchise)"},{"docid":"16869151","text":"and the Chocolate Factory\" video games, one made in 1985 and another in 2005. The games are based on the book of the same name. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory: The Ride is a dark ride located in the Cloud Cuckoo Land area of Alton Towers theme park, Staffordshire, England. It is based upon the famous Roald Dahl book of the same name, and takes its thematic inspiration from the illustrations of Quentin Blake. The ride is split into two segments, the first being a boat ride along the chocolate river inside Willy Wonka's Chocolate Factory. Passengers encounter all the","title":"Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (franchise)"},{"docid":"89501","text":"film adaptations of the novel were produced. The first was \"Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory\", a 1971 film which later became a cult classic, and spawned the real world Willy Wonka Candy Company, which produces chocolate products to this day. Thirty-four years later, a second film adaptation was produced, titled \"Charlie and the Chocolate Factory\". The 2005 film was very well received by critics and was one of the highest-grossing films that year, earning over US$470,000,000 worldwide. \"Charlie and the Chocolate Factory\" was also recognized at the 78th Academy Awards, where it was nominated for Best Costume Design for","title":"Chocolate"},{"docid":"6274475","text":"game takes place in Willy Wonka's chocolate factory where the Oompa Loompas help the player through each level. By giving them commands Charlie finishes each challenge and progresses through the game. Each Oompa Loompa specialises in different tasks, such as harvesting, welding, and electrical work. Candy is scattered throughout the levels and when collected it boosts Charlie's energy. Each level is very similar to the plot in the 2005 movie. For example, Charlie must help Willy Wonka remove Augustus Gloop from the pipe above the chocolate river. He must roll Violet Beauregarde to the Juicing Room and juice her. When","title":"Charlie and the Chocolate Factory video games"},{"docid":"7588873","text":"include: \"Minder\" in the Series 1 episode \"Come in T-64, Your Time Is Ticking Away\" (1979), \"Casualty\" (1996), \"Lovejoy\" (1994), \"London's Burning\" (2002), \"Doctors\" (2002; 2005), \"The Bill\" (2006), \"Crocodile Shoes II\" (2006), \"The Line of Beauty\" (2006), \"Holby City\" (2006), \"Dream Team\" (2002), \"Afterlife\" (2005) and the television drama \"Angel Cake\" (2006). He has also appeared in several films, including the 1977 film \"Black Joy\", where he played loan shark Jomo, and the 2005 Tim Burton adaptation of \"Charlie and the Chocolate Factory\", where he played the shopkeeper in whose shop Charlie Bucket finds the final Golden Ticket. In","title":"Oscar James"},{"docid":"9542366","text":"Charlie and the Chocolate Factory: The Ride Charlie and the Chocolate Factory: The Ride was a dark ride located in the Cloud Cuckoo Land area of Alton Towers theme park, Staffordshire, England. It is based upon the famous Roald Dahl book of the same name, and takes its thematic inspiration from the illustrations of Quentin Blake. The ride has been closed since the end of the 2015 season. The building originally housed \"Around the World in 80 Days\" and later \"Toyland Tours\", though the original layout was shortened when redeveloped into Charlie And The Chocolate Factory. Part of the old","title":"Charlie and the Chocolate Factory: The Ride"},{"docid":"9542363","text":"Charlie and the Chocolate Factory: The Ride Charlie and the Chocolate Factory: The Ride was a dark ride located in the Cloud Cuckoo Land area of Alton Towers theme park, Staffordshire, England. It is based upon the famous Roald Dahl book of the same name, and takes its thematic inspiration from the illustrations of Quentin Blake. The ride has been closed since the end of the 2015 season. The building originally housed \"Around the World in 80 Days\" and later \"Toyland Tours\", though the original layout was shortened when redeveloped into Charlie And The Chocolate Factory. Part of the old","title":"Charlie and the Chocolate Factory: The Ride"},{"docid":"16869144","text":"as he receives a golden ticket and visits Willy Wonka's chocolate factory with four other children from around the world. Filming took place in Munich in 1970, and the film was released on June 30, 1971. It received positive reviews, but it was a box office disappointment despite the fact that it recouped its budget. However, it developed into a cult film due to its repeated television airings and home video sales. In 1972, the film received an Academy Award nomination for Best Original Score. \"Charlie and the Chocolate Factory\" is a 2005 film adaptation of the 1964 book of","title":"Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (franchise)"},{"docid":"16660265","text":"recently closed Broadway version (instead of the West End one) and will feature only 4 child actors who will alternate the role of Charlie. The remainder of the \"child\" characters will be played adult actors. On 13 October the primary cast was announced and includes U.S. actor Paul Slade Smith (who played Grandpa George in the original cast of Charlie on Broadway) as Willy Wonka alongside Australian actors Tony Sheldon as Grandpa Joe and Lucy Maunder as Mrs Bucket. The role of Charlie will be shared between Tommy Blair, Ryan Yates, Xion Jarvis and Oliver Alkhair.. The play opens with","title":"Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (musical)"},{"docid":"3232436","text":"elevator and go high to the sky where Wonka reveals that Charlie, as well as Grandpa Joe and his whole family will move into the factory and the grand prize is not really The Lifetime Supply of Chocolate but the entire factory itself, and Charlie will take over its business when Wonka retires, reminding Charlie not to forget what happened to the man who got everything he ever wanted: \"He lived happily ever after.\" Willy Wonka (portrayed by Johnny Depp, Blair Dunlop as young Willy Wonka), the owner of a famous chocolate factory, has long closed access to his factory","title":"Willy Wonka"},{"docid":"89500","text":"with the holiday. Chocolate is an acceptable gift on other holidays and on occasions such as birthdays. Many confectioners make holiday-specific chocolate candies. Chocolate Easter eggs or rabbits and Santa Claus figures are two examples. Such confections can be solid, hollow, or filled with sweets or fondant. Chocolate has been the center of several successful book and film adaptations. In 1964, Roald Dahl published a children's novel titled \"Charlie and the Chocolate Factory\". The novel centers on a poor boy named Charlie Bucket who takes a tour through the greatest chocolate factory in the world, owned by Willy Wonka. Two","title":"Chocolate"},{"docid":"16869150","text":"co-production with American Lyric Theater and Wexford Festival Opera. A musical based on the novel, titled \"Charlie and the Chocolate Factory\" premiered at the West End's Theatre Royal, Drury Lane in May 2013 and officially opened on 25 June. The show is directed by Sam Mendes, with new songs by Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman, and stars Douglas Hodge as Willy Wonka. The production broke records for weekly ticket sales. Coincidentally, Hodge was also the voice of a Charlie and the Chocolate Factory audiobook, as part of a package of Roald Dahl CDs read by celebrities. There are two \"Charlie","title":"Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (franchise)"},{"docid":"4273955","text":"to help Wonka confront and reconcile with his estranged father; Wonka finally realizes the value of family, while his father learns to accept his son for who he is, and not what he does. In the end, Wonka finally allows Charlie's family to move into the factory. Author Roald Dahl disapproved of the 1971 film adaptation and declined the film rights to produce the sequel, \"Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator\". Warner Bros. and Brillstein-Grey Entertainment entered discussions with the Dahl estate in 1991, hoping to purchase the rights to produce another film version of \"Charlie and the Chocolate Factory\".","title":"Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (film)"},{"docid":"6508259","text":"Philip Wiegratz Philip Wiegratz (born February 17, 1993) is a German actor, whose filmography consists of adaptations of English and German children's books. His first film role was playing Augustus Gloop in Tim Burton's \"Charlie and the Chocolate Factory\". Wiegratz was born in Magdeburg, Germany. He is known for his 2005 portrayal of the greedy Augustus Gloop in \"Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.\" He went to a casting call not being sure of receiving any particular part, but caught the attention of a casting director and was placed on a shortlist for the role of Augustus. Wiegratz returned for several","title":"Philip Wiegratz"},{"docid":"16660257","text":"Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (musical) Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is a stage musical based on the 1964 children's novel of the same name by Roald Dahl, with book by David Greig, music by Marc Shaiman and lyrics by Shaiman and Scott Wittman. The musical premiered in London's West End at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane in June 2013 and ran for 3 years and 7 months before closing in January 2017. The show was reworked for a Broadway production opening in April 2017 at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre and ran almost nine months before closing in January 2018. The","title":"Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (musical)"},{"docid":"680749","text":"Charlie as a black child was evidence that he was not racist. Various unused and draft material from Dahl's early versions of the novel have been found. In the initial, unpublished drafts of \"Charlie and the Chocolate Factory\" nine golden tickets were distributed to tour Willy Wonka's secret chocolate factory and the children faced more rooms and more temptations to test their self-control. Some of the names of the children cut from the final work include: \"Spotty Powder\" was first published as a short story in 1973. In 1998 it was included in the children's horror anthology Scary! Stories That","title":"Charlie and the Chocolate Factory"},{"docid":"680759","text":"getting ground into powder. A fan of the book since childhood, film director Tim Burton wrote: \"I responded to \"Charlie and the Chocolate Factory\" because it respected the fact that children can be adults.\" In a 2006 list for the Royal Society of Literature, author J. K. Rowling (author of the Harry Potter books) named \"Charlie and the Chocolate Factory\" among her top ten books every child should read. A 2004 study found that it was a common read-aloud book for fourth-graders in schools in San Diego County, California. A 2012 survey by the University of Worcester determined that it","title":"Charlie and the Chocolate Factory"},{"docid":"16869147","text":"\"Charlie and the Chocolate Factory\" was released to critical praise and was a box office success, grossing approximately $475 million worldwide, but received mixed to negative reviews when compared with the original 1971 film. A direct-to-video animated crossover film adaptation starring Tom and Jerry, entitled \"Tom and Jerry: Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory\", was released in 2017. It stars JP Karliak as Willy Wonka and is dedicated to Gene Wilder, who died less than a year before the release. In October 2016 it was confirmed that Warner Bros are planning a prequel film depicting Willy Wonka's \"early adventures\" prior","title":"Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (franchise)"},{"docid":"16660298","text":"Criticism was also drawn to the decision to cast adults as the Golden Ticket winners instead of children, as well as the lackluster sets redesigned for Broadway. However, Christian Borle received widespread praise for his performance as Willy Wonka, even amongst negativity towards other aspects of the show. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (musical) Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is a stage musical based on the 1964 children's novel of the same name by Roald Dahl, with book by David Greig, music by Marc Shaiman and lyrics by Shaiman and Scott Wittman. The musical premiered in London's West End at","title":"Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (musical)"},{"docid":"16660295","text":"unable to stop inventing, even if it means breaking the rules. Wonka tells Charlie that he has won, and ushers him into his \"Great Glass Elevator\". The two soar above town in the Great Glass Elevator, and Wonka tells Charlie that his grand prize is the chocolate factory (\"The View From Here\"). He reaches into his pocket and reveals that he received Charlie's letter after all, and wants to begin working on some of Charlie's inventions. As they land back outside the factory, Wonka is immediately ready to begin working but Charlie is concerned about what will happen to his","title":"Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (musical)"},{"docid":"680750","text":"Will Make You Scream editted by Peter Haining. The brief note before the story described the story as having been left out of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory due to already-brimming number of misbehaving children characters in the tale. In 2005, \"The Times\" reprinted \"Spotty Powder\" as a \"lost\" chapter, saying it had been found in Dahl's desk, written backwards in mirror writing (the way Leonardo da Vinci wrote his journal). This chapter describes Spotty Powder, which looks and tastes like sugar, but causes bright red pox-like spots to appear on faces and necks five seconds after ingestion, so children","title":"Charlie and the Chocolate Factory"},{"docid":"4273978","text":"are adapted from the original book, and are thus credited to Roald Dahl. Following Burton's suggestion, each song in the score is designed to reflect a different archetype. \"Wonka's Welcome Song\" is a maddeningly cheerful theme park ditty, \"Augustus Gloop\" a Bollywood spectacle (per Deep Roy's suggestion), \"Violet Beauregarde\" is 1970s funk, \"Veruca Salt\" is 1960s bubblegum pop / psychedelic pop, and \"Mike Teavee\" is a tribute to late 1970s hard rock (such as Queen) and early 1980s hair bands. The original motion picture soundtrack was released on July 12, 2005 by Warner Bros. Records. \"Charlie and the Chocolate Factory\"","title":"Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (film)"},{"docid":"680767","text":"long, perfectly waved platinum-blond hair and her pink feather boa, looks like a pretty and inert doll—\" The article continues: \"And if the Stepford daughter on the cover is meant to remind us of Veruca Salt or Violet Beauregarde, she doesn't: those badly behaved squirts are bubbling over with rude life.\" Moreover, writes Talbot, \"The Modern Classics cover has not a whiff of this validation of childish imagination; instead, it seems to imply a deviant adult audience.\" Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is a 1964 children's novel by British author Roald Dahl. The story features","title":"Charlie and the Chocolate Factory"},{"docid":"3232441","text":"into his factory, where he then tempts each of them with a weakness. Finally, only Charlie is left. Willy Wonka and Charlie board Wonka's \"Great Glass Elevator\" which takes off over the audience. Early on in the production of the 2005 film, Nicolas Cage was under discussions for portraying Willy Wonka, but lost interest. Warner Bros. president Alan F. Horn wanted Tom Shadyac to direct Jim Carrey as Willy Wonka, believing the duo could make \"Charlie and the Chocolate Factory\" relevant to mainstream audiences, but Roald Dahl's widow Liccy Dahl opposed this. After Tim Burton was hired as director in","title":"Willy Wonka"},{"docid":"2351217","text":"Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator is a children's book by British author Roald Dahl. It is the sequel to \"Charlie and the Chocolate Factory\", continuing the story of young Charlie Bucket and chocolatier Willy Wonka as they travel in the Great Glass Elevator. The book was first published in the United States by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. in 1972, and in the United Kingdom by George Allen & Unwin in 1973. Although the original book has been filmed three times, in 1971, 2005, and an animated adaptation in 2017, \"The Great Glass Elevator\"","title":"Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator"},{"docid":"1488140","text":"is actually Mr. Wilkinson, an employee of Wonka, and the offer to buy the Gobstopper was a morality test that only Charlie passed. The trio enter the \"Wonkavator\", a multi-directional glass elevator that flies out of the factory. Soaring over the city, Wonka reveals that his actual prize is the factory; Wonka created the contest to find an heir worthy enough, and so Charlie and his family can immediately move in. Wonka then reminds Charlie not to forget about the man who suddenly received everything he ever wanted. Charlie asks, \"What happened?\" to which Wonka replies, \"He lived happily ever","title":"Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory"},{"docid":"16660285","text":"gets on his feet, and dances gleefully with Mrs. Bucket and Charlie (\"Grandpa Joe/I've Got a Golden Ticket!\"). The big day arrives, and the five winners are greeted at the factory gates by paparazzi and \"Chocolate TV\" reporters Cherry Sunday and Jerry Jubilee, making Charlie and Grandpa Joe feel out of place. Willy Wonka appears at last, and ushers the group into his factory (\"It Must Be Believed to be Seen\"). The five winners and their families check in with Wonka, where he explains the rules and regulations of his factory and has the parents sign a ridiculously long and","title":"Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (musical)"},{"docid":"4273954","text":"with an exaggerated characteristic or deformity related to their demise, while Charlie learns Wonka intended to find a worthy heir to his factory. Since Charlie was the \"least rotten\" of the five, Wonka invites Charlie to come live and work in the factory with him, but declines as his family is the most important thing in his life. Charlie and his family are living contently a while later, however Wonka is too depressed to make candy the way he used to, causing his candy to sell poorly and his company to decline. He turns to Charlie for advice. Charlie decides","title":"Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (film)"},{"docid":"16869148","text":"to the events depicted in the books and films. However, Warner Bros claims that this movie will not be an origin story. In February 2018, Paul King entered final negotiations to direct the film. In June 2018, the producer confirmed it would be a prequel film, which would explore the adventures of Wonka before he opened the chocolate factory. \"Roald Dahl's Willy Wonka\" is a musical that combines elements of both Roald Dahl's book \"Charlie and the Chocolate Factory\" and of the 1971 movie \"Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory\" with newly created material. The musical has several versions: the","title":"Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (franchise)"},{"docid":"3909858","text":"of a theatre troupe, with Eldon's character portraying a version of Ned Stark. Uncredited appearances include the 2005 film version of \"Charlie and the Chocolate Factory\", playing \"Man with Dog\" alongside Mark Heap and the 2014 film \"Cuban Fury\", as the neighbour to the main character played by Nick Frost. He has also played an English policeman in Martin Scorsese's 2011 film \"Hugo\". Eldon played the role of Pete in the David Shrigley/Chris Shepherd animation, \"Who I Am And What I Want\", and also of Mick McManus in Tim Plester's short film \"World of Wrestling\" in 2007. In 2009, he","title":"Kevin Eldon"},{"docid":"16660292","text":"the Teavees board the S.S. Wonka, a bathtub-shaped boat, and travel through an underground river deep below the factory. Charlie and Grandpa Joe, who were too slow to catch the boat, are forced to swim behind them wearing scuba helmets. Wonka leads them into the TV room, much to Mike's delight. Wonka demonstrates Chocolate Television, which uses a machine to send chocolate bars to TV screens. Mike's obsession with electronics overcomes him and, despite his mother and Wonka's protests, he uses the machine to teleport himself into a television set. However, they cannot locate him on the usual channel, so","title":"Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (musical)"},{"docid":"16660278","text":"ponder all of the adventures that are to come. The play opens with Willy Wonka introducing himself, revealing that he's looking for an heir to run his legendary chocolate factory (\"The Candy Man\"). Wonka disguises himself as the storeowner of a local candy shop, which quickly attracts the attention of the town's residents and candy- obsessed Charlie Bucket. Despite having no money to spend on sweets, Charlie frequents the shop regularly and befriends the owner, unaware that he is Willy Wonka. Charlie tells him about Wonka's career (\"Willy Wonka! Willy Wonka!\") and remarks that he would do anything to see","title":"Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (musical)"},{"docid":"19464510","text":"Factory\" come to life and re-inspire the love for the story all over again. This is a book which must accompany viewing whichever platform your heart connects to Charlie, the boy we all dreamed we could be, befriend so we too could enjoy the spoils of the candy forest and meet the Umpa Lumpas first hand.\" \"Kirkus Reviews\" called it \"an effusive celebration\", a \"chatty volume\" and concluded \"Mainly for die-hard Charlie and the Chocolate Factory fans who want more than the novel itself.\" \"School Library Journal\" wrote \"Kids might be turned off by the nostalgic sensibility of the text","title":"Inside Charlie's Chocolate Factory"},{"docid":"680747","text":"reason behind his Golden Tickets, names Charlie his successor. They ride the Great Glass Elevator to Charlie's house while the other four children go home (Augustus squeezed thin, Violet all blue in the face, Veruca covered in trash, and Mike stretched ten feet tall). Afterwards, Wonka invites Charlie's family to come live with him in the factory, and they do. Dahl’s widow said that Charlie was originally written as 'a little black boy.' Dahl’s biographer said the change to a white character was driven by Dahl’s agent, who thought a black Charlie would not appeal to readers. In the first","title":"Charlie and the Chocolate Factory"},{"docid":"4273961","text":"sexually transmitted disease. Burton immediately thought of Johnny Depp for the role of Willy Wonka, who in August 2003 joined the film, his fourth collaboration with the director. Lurie's script received a rewrite by Pamela Pettler, who worked with Burton on \"Corpse Bride\", but the director hired \"Big Fish\" screenwriter John August in December 2003 to start from scratch. Both August and Burton were fans of the book since their childhoods. August first read \"Charlie and the Chocolate Factory\" when he was eight years old, and subsequently sent Dahl a fan letter. He did not see the 1971 film prior","title":"Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (film)"},{"docid":"19464509","text":"Inside Charlie's Chocolate Factory Inside Charlie's Chocolate Factory: The Complete Story of Willy Wonka, the Golden Ticket, and Roald Dahl's Most Famous Creation is a 2014 non-fiction book by Lucy Mangan. It was released at the same time as the 50th anniversary edition of \"Charlie and the Chocolate Factory\" and looks at the origin and history of that story. \"Inside Charlie's Chocolate Factory\" has generally received good reviews. The San Diego Book Review wrote, \"True fans who have grown up adoring the film, and have shared it with future generations, will revel in seeing the details of \"Inside Charlie's Chocolate","title":"Inside Charlie's Chocolate Factory"},{"docid":"16597313","text":"featured performer in such series as Eastenders and Holby city. She furthered her acting career by appearing as an extra in various films such as \"Die Another Day\" (2002), \"Charlie and the Chocolate Factory\" (2005), and \"Rabbit Fever\" (2006). Horiuchi starred in \"The Grudge 3\" (2009) as Kayako Saeki, the vengeful ghost of the \"Ju-on\" series (called \"The Grudge\"), taking over for Takako Fuji who had passed on the role. Her work received a mixed, if not muted, response. Aiko Horiuchi Aiko Horiuchi is a Japanese actress who played Kayako Saeki in \"The Grudge 3\" (2009). Horiuchi had been living","title":"Aiko Horiuchi"},{"docid":"4273949","text":"\"Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory\" in 1971) began in 1991, which resulted in Warner Bros. providing the Dahl Estate with total artistic control. Prior to Burton's involvement, directors such as Gary Ross, Rob Minkoff, Martin Scorsese and Tom Shadyac had been involved, while actors Bill Murray, Nicolas Cage, Jim Carrey, Michael Keaton, Brad Pitt, Will Smith, Adam Sandler, and many others, were either in discussion with or considered by the studio to play Wonka. Burton immediately brought regular collaborators Depp and Danny Elfman aboard. \"Charlie and the Chocolate Factory\" represents the first time since \"The Nightmare Before Christmas\" that","title":"Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (film)"},{"docid":"1488134","text":"chocolate factory. A mysterious tinker recites the first lines of William Allingham's poem \"The Fairies\", and tells Charlie, \"Nobody ever goes in, and nobody ever comes out.\" Charlie rushes home to his widowed mother and bedridden grandparents. After telling Grandpa Joe about the tinker, he reveals that Wonka locked the factory because other candy makers, including rival Arthur Slugworth, sent in spies to steal his recipes. Wonka disappeared, but after three years resumed selling candy; the origin of Wonka's labor force is unknown. The next day, Wonka announces that he hid five \"Golden Tickets\" in chocolate Wonka Bars. Finders of","title":"Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory"},{"docid":"4273970","text":"Attenborough, Kirk Douglas, Albert Finney, Anthony Hopkins, Paul Newman, Max von Sydow, David Warner, Christopher Lloyd and Peter Ustinov. Principal photography for \"Charlie and the Chocolate Factory\" started on June 21, 2004 at Pinewood Studios in England. Director Tim Burton and composer Danny Elfman found filming somewhat difficult because they were simultaneously working on \"Corpse Bride\". The Wonka Factory exterior was coincidentally constructed on the same backlot Burton had used for Gotham City in \"Batman\" (1989). The ceremonial scene required 500 local extras. The Chocolate Room/River setpiece filled Pinewood's 007 Stage. As a consequence of British Equity rules, which state","title":"Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (film)"},{"docid":"16660282","text":"no longer afford her prices. His dismay is magnified when the third ticket is found by gum- chewing, wannabe celebrity Violet Beauregarde (\"Queen of Pop\") and the fourth ticket is found by technology addict Mike Teavee, who admits he hacked into Wonka's computers and found the fourth ticket (\"What Could Possibly Go Wrong\"). With his hopes of winning dashed, Charlie heads back home. Upon arriving home, Charlie is overjoyed to find that his family have pooled their money to buy his birthday chocolate, but is crushed once more when the candy yields no Golden Ticket. His mother and his other","title":"Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (musical)"},{"docid":"16660279","text":"inside the factory, giving Wonka an idea. Charlie returns to the decrepit shack he lives in, which he shares with his mother and four bed-ridden grandparents: Grandpa George, Grandma Georgina, Grandpa Joe, and Grandma Josephine. Charlie and Grandpa Joe play a pretend, game recalling how the latter became Wonka's security guard (\"Charlie, You and I\") before his mother comes home, giving Charlie an old notebook for homework. Charlie daydreams and scribbles a letter to Willy Wonka, suggesting new candies he should consider inventing, before folding it into a paper airplane and tossing it out the window into the night (\"A","title":"Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (musical)"},{"docid":"4273952","text":"arrogant television and video game addict. Charlie tries twice to find a ticket, but both bars come up empty. After overhearing that the final ticket was found in Russia, Charlie finds a ten-dollar note, and purchases a Wonka Bar at a news shop. At the exact moment it was revealed that the Russian ticket was forged, Charlie discovers the real fifth ticket inside the wrapper. Charlie receives monetary offers for the ticket, but decides to keep it and bring Grandpa Joe to accompany him on the factory tour. Charlie and the other ticket holders are greeted by Wonka outside the","title":"Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (film)"},{"docid":"680743","text":"of this, both companies became highly protective of their chocolate-making processes. It was a combination of this secrecy and the elaborate, often gigantic, machines in the factory that inspired Dahl to write the story. 11-year-old Charlie Bucket lives in poverty in a small house with his parents and four grandparents. His grandparents share the only bed in the house, located in the only bedroom. Charlie and his parents sleep on mattresses on the floor. One day, Grandpa Joe tells him about the legendary and eccentric chocolatier Willy Wonka and all the wonderful candies he made until the other candymakers sent","title":"Charlie and the Chocolate Factory"},{"docid":"15052758","text":"a sequel to \"Charlie and the Chocolate Factory\", based on the \"Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator\" novel. Despite this, some elements of \"Great Glass Elevator\" were seen at the end of Burton's film. During production on the film \"Charlie and the Chocolate Factory\", a broadway musical was planned to acompany it. The studio and Burton reiterated their interest in May 2003, however, the project was cancelled by the time the film was released. In 2008, Paul Reubens approached Burton with one of two scripts and talked to Johnny Depp about the possibility of having him portray Pee-wee in a","title":"Tim Burton's unrealized projects"},{"docid":"1488135","text":"the tickets will receive a factory tour and a lifetime supply of chocolate. The first four tickets are found by the gluttonous Augustus Gloop, the spoiled Veruca Salt, the gum-chewing Violet Beauregarde, and the television-obsessed Mike Teevee. As each winner is announced on TV, a man whispers to them. Charlie opens two Wonka Bars but finds no Golden Ticket. The newspapers announce the fifth ticket was found by a millionaire in Paraguay causing Charlie to lose hope. The next day, Charlie finds some money in a gutter in the street and uses it to buy a Scrumdiddlyumptious bar. With the","title":"Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory"},{"docid":"4273983","text":"channeling Keith Richards, which may have primed us to look for possible inspirations for this performance.\" Mick LaSalle from the \"San Francisco Chronicle\" found \"Charlie and the Chocolate Factory\" Burton's \"best work in years. If all the laughs come from Depp, who gives Willy the mannerisms of a classic Hollywood diva, the film's heart comes from Highmore, a gifted young performer whose performance is sincere, deep and unforced in a way that's rare in a child actor.\" Peter Travers wrote in \"Rolling Stone\" magazine that \"Depp's deliciously demented take on Willy Wonka demands to be seen. Depp goes deeper to","title":"Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (film)"},{"docid":"3877057","text":"on the top left corner. The Willy Wonka Candy Company was first imagined in the pages of Roald Dahl's \"Charlie and the Chocolate Factory\". The \"Wonka\" property was licensed to film director Mel Stuart; his 10-year-old daughter read \"Charlie and the Chocolate Factory\" and asked her father to make it into a film, obliging him to get \"Uncle Dave\" (producer David L. Wolper) to produce it. Stuart showed the book to Wolper, who was engaged in talks with the Quaker Oats Company. Wolper convinced the Quaker Oats Company into signing the deal for up to $3 million to finance the","title":"The Willy Wonka Candy Company"},{"docid":"680763","text":"Wonka, Jr.\" and almost always featuring musical numbers by all the main characters (Wonka, Charlie, Grandpa Joe, Violet, Veruca, etc.); many of the songs are revised versions from the 1971 film. \"Charlie and the Chocolate Factory\" has undergone numerous editions and been illustrated by numerous artists. The cover photo of the 50th anniversary edition, published by Penguin Modern Classics for sale in the UK and aimed at the adult market received widespread commentary and criticism. The cover is a photo of a heavily made up young girl seated on her mother's knee and wearing a doll-like expression, taken by the","title":"Charlie and the Chocolate Factory"},{"docid":"20119072","text":"loaf of bread. While Charlie rushes home to his widowed mother and bedridden grandparents, Tom and Jerry steal a box of Wonka Bars from the shop. Grandpa Joe reveals to Charlie that Willy Wonka locked his famous chocolate factory because other candy makers, including rival Arthur Slugworth, sent in spies to steal his recipes. Wonka disappeared, but for three years resumed selling candy; the origin of Wonka's labor force is unknown. Tom and Jerry arrive at Charlie's home with the box of Wonka Bars, but Charlie convinces the duo that stealing is wrong and they should return the box. The","title":"Tom and Jerry: Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory"},{"docid":"680757","text":"refrigerator for a few hours.\" Roald Dahl originally planned for a child called Marvin Prune to be included in \"Charlie and the Chocolate Factory\". Dahl submitted the excised chapter regarding Marvin Prune to \"The Horn Book Review\" in the early 1970s. Rather than publish the chapter, \"Horn Book\" responded with a critical essay by novelist Eleanor Cameron, who criticised Dahl's worth as a human being. Although it was believed that \"Horn Book\" never returned the chapter, Marvin Prune's chapter is actually available, but it has not yet been published. \"The Children's-Delight Room\" was reworked into \"Spotty Powder\". It is present","title":"Charlie and the Chocolate Factory"},{"docid":"680746","text":"and personalities. Augustus gets sucked up the pipe after falling into the Chocolate River in the Chocolate Room, Violet blows up into a giant blueberry after sampling an experimental three-course chewing gum meal in the Inventing Room, Veruca is thrown down the rubbish chute in the Nut Room after the nut-testing squirrels consider her a \"bad nut,\" and Mike gets shrunk after he tries to be the first person to be sent by television in the Television Room's Television Chocolate Technology. With only Charlie remaining, Wonka congratulates him for \"winning\" the factory and, after explaining his true age and the","title":"Charlie and the Chocolate Factory"},{"docid":"20119075","text":"home with the Golden Ticket and chooses Grandpa Joe as his chaperone. The next day, Tom and Jerry rush to the factory with the Golden Ticket that Grandpa Joe forgot. Once the children enter the factory, the movie plays in the same order of the source material with the occasional interjection of Tom and Jerry interacting with the factory. Once only Charlie and Grandpa Joe remain, Wonka dismisses them without the promised chocolate. Tuffy warns Charlie that Slugworth and Spike have stolen a Gobstopper and are on their way out of the factory. Following a fight in the Wonkavision Room,","title":"Tom and Jerry: Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory"},{"docid":"6294319","text":"The Candy Man \"The Candy Man\" (or alternatively, \"The Candy Man Can\") is a song that originally appeared in the 1971 film \"Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory\". It was written by Leslie Bricusse and Anthony Newley specifically for the film. Although the original book by Roald Dahl (\"Charlie and the Chocolate Factory\") contains lyrics adapted for other songs in the film, the lyrics to \"The Candy Man\" do not appear in the book. The soundtrack version of the song was sung by Aubrey Woods, who played Bill the candy store owner in the film. Lyricist Anthony Newley has said","title":"The Candy Man"},{"docid":"14725532","text":"years in the Royal Academy Schools and lectured at various other schools in London, Oxford and Brighton. Morris was an amateur actor who staged Shakespeare productions in a converted barn called the \"Bottom Theatre\" at his home in Roughwood, Buckinghamshire. In 2004, he was recommended for a role in the TV mystery series \"Jonathan Creek\" by his friend, director Sandy Johnson. He went on to appear in the TV movie \"When I'm 64\" and the comedy series \"Little Britain\" and \"Saxondale\". In 2005, he played Grandpa George in Tim Burton's \"Charlie and the Chocolate Factory\". He married Olwen Goodwin, a","title":"David Morris (actor)"},{"docid":"5239483","text":"(depending on the type of candy bar) and are also more detailed, and the candy bars strikingly resemble king-sized Kit Kat candy bars, only slightly bigger. In the book, Grandpa Joe mentions that Mr. Wonka had invented over two hundred kinds of Wonka bars (though the actual number available varies, with four flavours in the 2005 film). The consumer product Wonka Bar was a chocolate candy bar inspired by the novel and the films \"Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory\" and \"Charlie and the Chocolate Factory\". The Quaker Oats Company, which financed the 1971 film with US$3 million, originally created","title":"Wonka Bar"},{"docid":"16660276","text":"more, and she places him in her purse and leaves the factory quite satisfied. Charlie is the only child left. When Grandpa Joe asks about their lifetime supply of confectionery sweets, Mr. Wonka casually dismisses them saying that the Everlasting Gobstopper Charlie had got was the lifetime supply of candy. Grandpa Joe is angry, but Charlie defuses the situation saying that an Everlasting Gobstopper is still an amazing present. When he leaves with Grandpa Joe, Charlie opens a book which contains all of Wonka’s ideas, adding a few of his own to the blank pages in the back. Wonka silently","title":"Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (musical)"},{"docid":"16660294","text":"Gobstopper. Grandpa Joe is furious at Wonka giving his grandson a \"measly Gobstopper,\" and the two quickly begin to fight. Charlie diffuses the situation, telling Grandpa Joe that the Gobstopper is a great present and that the trip to the factory was enough. Placated, Wonka ushers Grandpa Joe into his office to negotiate legal paperwork and warns Charlie not to touch anything. Charlie breaks the rules and opens the notebook, adding his own inventions to the blank pages in the back, only to be caught by Wonka. Although he seems angry at first, Wonka finds it incredible that Charlie is","title":"Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (musical)"},{"docid":"427554","text":"and color. Starring Ewan McGregor as young Edward Bloom and Albert Finney as an older Edward Bloom, the film also stars Jessica Lange, Billy Crudup, Danny DeVito, Alison Lohman and Marion Cotillard. \"Big Fish\" is also notable as Miley Cyrus' first film—she plays \"Young Ruthie\" credited under her birth name, Destiny Hope Cyrus. \"Big Fish\" received four Golden Globe nominations as well as an Academy Award nomination for Elfman's score. \"Big Fish\" was also the second collaboration between Burton and Helena Bonham Carter, who played the characters of Jenny and the Witch. \"Charlie and the Chocolate Factory\" (2005) is an","title":"Tim Burton"},{"docid":"16660280","text":"Letter From Charlie Bucket\"). The next day before he goes to school, he finds out that Wonka has hidden five Golden Tickets inside five Wonka Bars and that the people who find the tickets will win a tour of the factory and a lifetime supply of candy. Unfortunately, Charlie's mother admits that money, is tighter than usual and she cannot afford to buy him his annual birthday candy bar, leaving Charlie saddened at the fact that he has no chance of winning the contest. Grandpa Joe says he would gladly pay for one using his funeral savings, and Charlie's mood","title":"Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (musical)"},{"docid":"20119076","text":"Charlie stops Slugworth. After this, Charlie and Grandpa Joe confront Wonka on the end of the tour. Wonka coldly explains that they violated the contract by stealing Fizzy Lifting Drinks and allowing Tom and Jerry into the factory and therefore will receive nothing. Infuriated at this, Grandpa Joe attempts to protest but Wonka angrily demands them all to leave at once. Grandpa Joe then suggests to Charlie that he should give Slugworth the Gobstopper, but Charlie returns the candy to Wonka. Because of this, Wonka declares Charlie the winner. He reveals that Slugworth is really \"Mr. Wilkinson\", an employee of","title":"Tom and Jerry: Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory"},{"docid":"20119073","text":"next day, Wonka announces that he hid five \"Golden Tickets\" in Wonka Bars. Finders of the tickets will receive a factory tour and a lifetime supply of chocolate. Four of the tickets are found by Augustus Gloop, a gluttonous boy; Veruca Salt, a spoiled girl; Violet Beauregarde, a gum-chewing girl; and Mike Teavee, a television-obsessed boy. As each winner is announced on television, a man whispers to them. Charlie opens one Wonka Bar, but finds no Golden Ticket and loses hope. The newspapers announce the fifth ticket was found by a millionaire in Paraguay named Alberto Minoleta (who is played","title":"Tom and Jerry: Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory"},{"docid":"1488131","text":"Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory is a 1971 American musical fantasy family film directed by Mel Stuart, and starring Gene Wilder as Willy Wonka. It is an adaptation of the 1964 novel \"Charlie and the Chocolate Factory\" by Roald Dahl. Dahl was credited with writing the film's screenplay; however, David Seltzer, who went uncredited in the film, was brought in to re-work the screenplay against Dahl's wishes, making major changes to the ending and adding musical numbers. These changes and other decisions made by the director led Dahl to disown the film. The","title":"Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory"},{"docid":"5624298","text":"to have starring roles in television shows such as \"Emmerdale Farm\" in the 1980s and \"Glenroe\" in the 1990s, as well as playing the grandfather in Mike Newell's film \"Into the West\" (1992). Following his appearance as Michael O'Sullivan in the 1998 film \"Waking Ned\", he played roles in such films as Tim Burton's \"Charlie and the Chocolate Factory\" (2005), in which he played Grandpa Joe and \"\". He played title character Frank Kovak in the mystery film \"The Kovak Box\", in a rare villainous role. 2007's \"Stardust\" was his final film. He also did extensive radio work, including a","title":"David Kelly (actor)"},{"docid":"6274476","text":"Veruca Salt is thrown down the garbage chute, the player's objective is to follow her down the chute and save her from the incinerator. The last objective of the game is after Mike Teavee shrinks himself the player needs to fix the television-chocolate machine. Throughout the game the Oompa Loompas must help Charlie return the chocolate factory back to normal by fixing the mistakes that the self-indulgent children made. The game received generally negative reviews from critics. Although reviewers praised the game's enjoyable storyline, music and presentation, most felt that the control of the characters on screen was awkward at","title":"Charlie and the Chocolate Factory video games"},{"docid":"16660296","text":"family. Wonka explains that they have already been moved in to their own room in the factory, and invites Charlie in to begin their new life as candy-making partners. †Lyrics by Leslie Bricusse, Music by Anthony Newley for the 1971 film, \"Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory\". ††Replaced, as of 2016, by \"Queen of Pop\". A London original cast album was released on 7 October 2013. A Broadway cast recording was released digitally on 2 June and in stores on 23 June on the Masterworks Broadway label. The West End production had a 16 piece orchestra + conductor, which was","title":"Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (musical)"},{"docid":"680753","text":"Vanilla Fudge Room\") from an early draft of the book. \"The Guardian\" reported the now-eliminated passage was \"deemed too wild, subversive and insufficiently moral for the tender minds of British children almost 50 years ago.\" In what was originally chapter five in that version of the book, Charlie goes to the factory with his mother (instead of his grandfather, as originally published). At this point, the chocolate factory tour is down to eight kids, including Tommy Troutbeck and Wilbur Rice. After the entire group climbs to the top of the titular fudge mountain, eating vanilla fudge along the way, Troutbeck","title":"Charlie and the Chocolate Factory"},{"docid":"4273972","text":"Brandt, as well as Pittsburgh and Northern England, is arranged like a medieval village, with Wonka's estate on top and the Bucket shack below. The filmmakers also used fascist architecture for Wonka's factory exterior, and designed most of the sets on 360° sound stages, similar to cycloramas. Burton biographer Mark Salisbury wrote that \"Charlie and the Chocolate Factory\" \"melds 1950s and '70s visuals with a futuristic sensibility that seems straight out of a 1960s sense of the future.\" The \"TV Room\" was patterned after photographs from the films \"\", \"\", and \"THX 1138\". \"Danger Diabolik\" also served as inspiration for","title":"Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (film)"},{"docid":"3232432","text":"factory and look after the Oompa Loompas who work there. Wonka goes aboard the Great Glass Elevator with Charlie and his family and links up with the Space Hotel U.S.A. The Space Hotel tracks the Elevator down back to Wonka's Factory. Wonka then goes with Charlie and his family to the White House in the United States. Willy Wonka (portrayed by Gene Wilder) has hidden five Golden Tickets amongst his famous \"Wonka Bars\". The finders of these special tickets will be given a full tour of his tightly guarded candy factory as well as a lifetime supply of chocolate. During","title":"Willy Wonka"},{"docid":"2483980","text":"\"A Funny Thing Happened On the Way to the Forum\", \"How I Won the War\", \"The Bed Sitting Room\", \"Juggernaut\" and the \"Musketeer\" series of the 1970s and 1980s. He appeared with Christopher Lee in the Hammer horror film \"Taste the Blood of Dracula\" (1970). Also in 1970 he played Mr. Perkins, Melody's father in Waris Hussein's \"Melody\", a puppy love story. He played the father of spoiled rich girl Veruca Salt in the film \"Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory\" (1971), an adaptation of Roald Dahl's children's novel \"Charlie and the Chocolate Factory\". He guest-starred in \"The Goodies'\" episode","title":"Roy Kinnear"},{"docid":"16660270","text":"is desolate. His parents sing about how they wish they could raise their son together and about how they hope for a better life (\"If Your Mother Were Here\"). Winter comes, and one day Charlie finds some money dropped by a rich couple. Encouraged by the mysterious tramp, he buys a Wonka Bar, and finds a Golden Ticket inside that prompts Grandpa Joe to get out of bed and walk for the first time in forty years (\"Don't Ya Pinch Me, Charlie\"). On the day they are to enter the factory, Charlie and Grandpa Joe feel out of place amidst","title":"Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (musical)"},{"docid":"2149111","text":"for a limited engagement at London's Menier Chocolate Factory on 21 November 2009 and closed on 7 March 2010. It starred Tamzin Outhwaite as Charity. Outhwaite reprised the title role in the West End transfer of the successful Chocolate Factory production of the show. Playing at the Theatre Royal, Haymarket the show opened officially on 4 May 2010 after previews began on 23 April. This was the first major production to have the same actor (Mark Umbers) play all three of Charity's love interests: Charlie, Vittorio, and Oscar. Similarly, Josefina Gabrielle played both Nickie and Ursula while Tiffany Graves played","title":"Sweet Charity"},{"docid":"16660267","text":"have (\"If Your Mother Were Here\") later Charlie pens a letter about what he'd invented for his family to Wonka, folds it into a paper airplane and sends it flying out into the night (\"A Letter from Charlie Bucket\"). The next morning, Mrs. Bucket returns home from her night job and explains to the rest of the family that Willy Wonka is holding a competition where five lucky contestants must buy Wonka Bars to find a Golden Ticket to his factory and a lifetime's supply of candy. Charlie is desperate to win one, but he has no money. On their","title":"Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (musical)"},{"docid":"3999482","text":"brief appearance as a fire-breather in the James Bond film Octopussy. He played a school teacher in the 2002 film \"About a Boy\". He appeared in Tim Burton's 2005 \"Charlie and the Chocolate Factory\". He played a roles in \"Confetti\" (2006), \"Tunnel of Love\" (2004), \"Stardust\" (2007), and \"The World's End\" (2013). In 2008 he co-starred in the surreal science fiction film \"Captain Eager and the Mark of Voth\". In 2009 he appeared as a car salesman in a SEAT television advert. Heap voices the fox in the Old Speckled Hen adverts sponsoring comedy on Dave. In 2008 Heap played","title":"Mark Heap"},{"docid":"6619612","text":"fat to be typecast). Franziska Troegner Franziska Troegner (born 18 July 1954) is a German actress; she was born in Berlin-Mitte. Starting in 1976, Troegner was part of the theatre company Berliner Ensemble where she played in Brecht plays, e.g. \"Mother Courage and Her Children\", \"The Threepenny Opera\", \"The Caucasian Chalk Circle\". She dubbed minor roles in several Miss Marple TV series, e.g. \"A Murder Is Announced\", \"A Pocket Full of Rye\". Troegner played Mrs. Gloop in the 2005 film \"Charlie and the Chocolate Factory\". Most of her other roles were in German TV movies and serials. In 2009, Troegner","title":"Franziska Troegner"},{"docid":"6619611","text":"Franziska Troegner Franziska Troegner (born 18 July 1954) is a German actress; she was born in Berlin-Mitte. Starting in 1976, Troegner was part of the theatre company Berliner Ensemble where she played in Brecht plays, e.g. \"Mother Courage and Her Children\", \"The Threepenny Opera\", \"The Caucasian Chalk Circle\". She dubbed minor roles in several Miss Marple TV series, e.g. \"A Murder Is Announced\", \"A Pocket Full of Rye\". Troegner played Mrs. Gloop in the 2005 film \"Charlie and the Chocolate Factory\". Most of her other roles were in German TV movies and serials. In 2009, Troegner published her autobiography (Too","title":"Franziska Troegner"},{"docid":"5593143","text":"Wonka Donutz Wonka Donutz were candies sold by Nestlé under their Willy Wonka Candy Company brand. They were donut-shaped pieces of chocolate covered in sprinkles, with a truffle-like inside. These were widely promoted ahead of the release of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory in 2005. However, they were short-lived, and discontinued, due to low sales. The two standard versions were a double chocolate filling (the most common version) and a double fudge filling. A special edition strawberry filling was released for Halloween in 2005. Ahead of the film's release, various Wonka candies featured in competitions. The prize for finding the","title":"Wonka Donutz"},{"docid":"5593144","text":"golden ticket in a Wonka Donutz pack was a trip to Europe. Wonka Donutz Wonka Donutz were candies sold by Nestlé under their Willy Wonka Candy Company brand. They were donut-shaped pieces of chocolate covered in sprinkles, with a truffle-like inside. These were widely promoted ahead of the release of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory in 2005. However, they were short-lived, and discontinued, due to low sales. The two standard versions were a double chocolate filling (the most common version) and a double fudge filling. A special edition strawberry filling was released for Halloween in 2005. Ahead of the film's","title":"Wonka Donutz"},{"docid":"658604","text":"on 13 September is celebrated as \"Roald Dahl Day\" in Africa, the United Kingdom and Latin America. In honour of Dahl, the Royal Gibraltar Post Office issued a set of four stamps in 2010 featuring Quentin Blake's original illustrations for four of the children's books written by Dahl during his long career; \"The BFG\", \"The Twits\", \"Charlie and the Chocolate Factory\", and \"Matilda\". A set of six stamps was issued by Royal Mail in 2012, featuring Blake's illustrations for \"Charlie and the Chocolate Factory\", \"The Twits\", \"The Witches\", \"Matilda\", \"Fantastic Mr Fox\", and \"James and the Giant Peach\". Dahl's influence","title":"Roald Dahl"},{"docid":"797506","text":"as Scottish author J. M. Barrie in the film \"Finding Neverland\" (2004). The following year he starred as Willy Wonka in \"Charlie and the Chocolate Factory\", which reunited him with director Tim Burton, with whom he had not collaborated since \"Sleepy Hollow\". The film was a box office success and had a positive critical reception, with Depp being nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy. \"Chocolate Factory\" was followed by another Burton project, stop-motion animation \"Corpse Bride\" (2005), in which Depp voiced the character Victor Van Dort. Depp reprised the role of","title":"Johnny Depp"},{"docid":"680762","text":"this assessment in a letter to \"The Horn Book Review\", saying that her own daughter would turn \"quite nasty\" upon finishing the book. Roald Dahl responded to Cameron's criticisms by noting the classics she had cited would not be well received by contemporary children. The cover art for Penguin UK's Modern Classics , published in September 2014, received criticism as being creepy, irrelevant, and age inappropriate. \"Charlie and the Chocolate Factory\" has frequently been adapted for other media, including games, radio, the screen, and stage, most often as plays or musicals for children – often titled \"Willy Wonka\" or \"Willy","title":"Charlie and the Chocolate Factory"},{"docid":"3195428","text":"him \"great questions.\" Ostrum has been called \"the most famous man in Lowville\", where the local video rental shop has twice worn out its VHS copy of \"Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory\". In the run-up to the release of \"Charlie and the Chocolate Factory\" in 2005, Ostrum garnered a spate of attention that included seeing the film in New York City with NPR as well as being included in VH1's list of \"100 Greatest Kid Stars\" (placing 78th). On the new film, Ostrum quoted fellow \"Wonka\" actor Julie Dawn Cole, saying that \"It's sort of like going back to","title":"Peter Ostrum"}],"string":"[\n {\n \"docid\": \"680741\",\n \"text\": \"Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is a 1964 children's novel by British author Roald Dahl. The story features the adventures of young Charlie Bucket inside the chocolate factory of eccentric chocolatier Willy Wonka. \\\"Charlie and the Chocolate Factory\\\" was first published in the United States by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. in 1964 and in the United Kingdom by George Allen & Unwin, 11 months later. 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He disappears, but as the Bucket family moves into the factory, Charlie sees the mysterious tramp outside the gates, who is revealed as Wonka. As the Oompa-Loompas and Charlie wave goodbye from the factory windows, Wonka vanishes, singing a reprise of \\\"It Must Be Believed to Be Seen\\\", leaving Charlie to\",\n \"title\": \"Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (musical)\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"16869143\",\n \"text\": \"the sequel to \\\"Charlie and the Chocolate Factory\\\", continuing the story of Charlie Bucket and Willy Wonka as they travel in the Great Glass Elevator. \\\"Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator\\\" was first published in the United States by Alfred A. Knopf in 1972, and in the United Kingdom by George Allen & Unwin in 1973. \\\"Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory\\\" is a 1971 musical film adaptation of the 1964 novel \\\"Charlie and the Chocolate Factory\\\" by Roald Dahl. It was directed by Mel Stuart, and starred Gene Wilder as Wonka. The film tells the story of Charlie Bucket\",\n \"title\": \"Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (franchise)\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"16869151\",\n \"text\": \"and the Chocolate Factory\\\" video games, one made in 1985 and another in 2005. The games are based on the book of the same name. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory: The Ride is a dark ride located in the Cloud Cuckoo Land area of Alton Towers theme park, Staffordshire, England. It is based upon the famous Roald Dahl book of the same name, and takes its thematic inspiration from the illustrations of Quentin Blake. The ride is split into two segments, the first being a boat ride along the chocolate river inside Willy Wonka's Chocolate Factory. Passengers encounter all the\",\n \"title\": \"Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (franchise)\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"89501\",\n \"text\": \"film adaptations of the novel were produced. The first was \\\"Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory\\\", a 1971 film which later became a cult classic, and spawned the real world Willy Wonka Candy Company, which produces chocolate products to this day. Thirty-four years later, a second film adaptation was produced, titled \\\"Charlie and the Chocolate Factory\\\". The 2005 film was very well received by critics and was one of the highest-grossing films that year, earning over US$470,000,000 worldwide. \\\"Charlie and the Chocolate Factory\\\" was also recognized at the 78th Academy Awards, where it was nominated for Best Costume Design for\",\n \"title\": \"Chocolate\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"6274475\",\n \"text\": \"game takes place in Willy Wonka's chocolate factory where the Oompa Loompas help the player through each level. By giving them commands Charlie finishes each challenge and progresses through the game. Each Oompa Loompa specialises in different tasks, such as harvesting, welding, and electrical work. Candy is scattered throughout the levels and when collected it boosts Charlie's energy. Each level is very similar to the plot in the 2005 movie. For example, Charlie must help Willy Wonka remove Augustus Gloop from the pipe above the chocolate river. He must roll Violet Beauregarde to the Juicing Room and juice her. When\",\n \"title\": \"Charlie and the Chocolate Factory video games\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"7588873\",\n \"text\": \"include: \\\"Minder\\\" in the Series 1 episode \\\"Come in T-64, Your Time Is Ticking Away\\\" (1979), \\\"Casualty\\\" (1996), \\\"Lovejoy\\\" (1994), \\\"London's Burning\\\" (2002), \\\"Doctors\\\" (2002; 2005), \\\"The Bill\\\" (2006), \\\"Crocodile Shoes II\\\" (2006), \\\"The Line of Beauty\\\" (2006), \\\"Holby City\\\" (2006), \\\"Dream Team\\\" (2002), \\\"Afterlife\\\" (2005) and the television drama \\\"Angel Cake\\\" (2006). He has also appeared in several films, including the 1977 film \\\"Black Joy\\\", where he played loan shark Jomo, and the 2005 Tim Burton adaptation of \\\"Charlie and the Chocolate Factory\\\", where he played the shopkeeper in whose shop Charlie Bucket finds the final Golden Ticket. In\",\n \"title\": \"Oscar James\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"9542366\",\n \"text\": \"Charlie and the Chocolate Factory: The Ride Charlie and the Chocolate Factory: The Ride was a dark ride located in the Cloud Cuckoo Land area of Alton Towers theme park, Staffordshire, England. It is based upon the famous Roald Dahl book of the same name, and takes its thematic inspiration from the illustrations of Quentin Blake. The ride has been closed since the end of the 2015 season. The building originally housed \\\"Around the World in 80 Days\\\" and later \\\"Toyland Tours\\\", though the original layout was shortened when redeveloped into Charlie And The Chocolate Factory. Part of the old\",\n \"title\": \"Charlie and the Chocolate Factory: The Ride\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"9542363\",\n \"text\": \"Charlie and the Chocolate Factory: The Ride Charlie and the Chocolate Factory: The Ride was a dark ride located in the Cloud Cuckoo Land area of Alton Towers theme park, Staffordshire, England. It is based upon the famous Roald Dahl book of the same name, and takes its thematic inspiration from the illustrations of Quentin Blake. The ride has been closed since the end of the 2015 season. The building originally housed \\\"Around the World in 80 Days\\\" and later \\\"Toyland Tours\\\", though the original layout was shortened when redeveloped into Charlie And The Chocolate Factory. Part of the old\",\n \"title\": \"Charlie and the Chocolate Factory: The Ride\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"16869144\",\n \"text\": \"as he receives a golden ticket and visits Willy Wonka's chocolate factory with four other children from around the world. Filming took place in Munich in 1970, and the film was released on June 30, 1971. It received positive reviews, but it was a box office disappointment despite the fact that it recouped its budget. However, it developed into a cult film due to its repeated television airings and home video sales. In 1972, the film received an Academy Award nomination for Best Original Score. \\\"Charlie and the Chocolate Factory\\\" is a 2005 film adaptation of the 1964 book of\",\n \"title\": \"Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (franchise)\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"16660265\",\n \"text\": \"recently closed Broadway version (instead of the West End one) and will feature only 4 child actors who will alternate the role of Charlie. The remainder of the \\\"child\\\" characters will be played adult actors. On 13 October the primary cast was announced and includes U.S. actor Paul Slade Smith (who played Grandpa George in the original cast of Charlie on Broadway) as Willy Wonka alongside Australian actors Tony Sheldon as Grandpa Joe and Lucy Maunder as Mrs Bucket. The role of Charlie will be shared between Tommy Blair, Ryan Yates, Xion Jarvis and Oliver Alkhair.. The play opens with\",\n \"title\": \"Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (musical)\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"3232436\",\n \"text\": \"elevator and go high to the sky where Wonka reveals that Charlie, as well as Grandpa Joe and his whole family will move into the factory and the grand prize is not really The Lifetime Supply of Chocolate but the entire factory itself, and Charlie will take over its business when Wonka retires, reminding Charlie not to forget what happened to the man who got everything he ever wanted: \\\"He lived happily ever after.\\\" Willy Wonka (portrayed by Johnny Depp, Blair Dunlop as young Willy Wonka), the owner of a famous chocolate factory, has long closed access to his factory\",\n \"title\": \"Willy Wonka\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"89500\",\n \"text\": \"with the holiday. Chocolate is an acceptable gift on other holidays and on occasions such as birthdays. Many confectioners make holiday-specific chocolate candies. Chocolate Easter eggs or rabbits and Santa Claus figures are two examples. Such confections can be solid, hollow, or filled with sweets or fondant. Chocolate has been the center of several successful book and film adaptations. In 1964, Roald Dahl published a children's novel titled \\\"Charlie and the Chocolate Factory\\\". The novel centers on a poor boy named Charlie Bucket who takes a tour through the greatest chocolate factory in the world, owned by Willy Wonka. Two\",\n \"title\": \"Chocolate\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"16869150\",\n \"text\": \"co-production with American Lyric Theater and Wexford Festival Opera. A musical based on the novel, titled \\\"Charlie and the Chocolate Factory\\\" premiered at the West End's Theatre Royal, Drury Lane in May 2013 and officially opened on 25 June. The show is directed by Sam Mendes, with new songs by Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman, and stars Douglas Hodge as Willy Wonka. The production broke records for weekly ticket sales. Coincidentally, Hodge was also the voice of a Charlie and the Chocolate Factory audiobook, as part of a package of Roald Dahl CDs read by celebrities. There are two \\\"Charlie\",\n \"title\": \"Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (franchise)\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"4273955\",\n \"text\": \"to help Wonka confront and reconcile with his estranged father; Wonka finally realizes the value of family, while his father learns to accept his son for who he is, and not what he does. In the end, Wonka finally allows Charlie's family to move into the factory. Author Roald Dahl disapproved of the 1971 film adaptation and declined the film rights to produce the sequel, \\\"Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator\\\". Warner Bros. and Brillstein-Grey Entertainment entered discussions with the Dahl estate in 1991, hoping to purchase the rights to produce another film version of \\\"Charlie and the Chocolate Factory\\\".\",\n \"title\": \"Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (film)\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"6508259\",\n \"text\": \"Philip Wiegratz Philip Wiegratz (born February 17, 1993) is a German actor, whose filmography consists of adaptations of English and German children's books. His first film role was playing Augustus Gloop in Tim Burton's \\\"Charlie and the Chocolate Factory\\\". Wiegratz was born in Magdeburg, Germany. He is known for his 2005 portrayal of the greedy Augustus Gloop in \\\"Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.\\\" He went to a casting call not being sure of receiving any particular part, but caught the attention of a casting director and was placed on a shortlist for the role of Augustus. Wiegratz returned for several\",\n \"title\": \"Philip Wiegratz\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"16660257\",\n \"text\": \"Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (musical) Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is a stage musical based on the 1964 children's novel of the same name by Roald Dahl, with book by David Greig, music by Marc Shaiman and lyrics by Shaiman and Scott Wittman. The musical premiered in London's West End at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane in June 2013 and ran for 3 years and 7 months before closing in January 2017. The show was reworked for a Broadway production opening in April 2017 at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre and ran almost nine months before closing in January 2018. The\",\n \"title\": \"Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (musical)\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"680749\",\n \"text\": \"Charlie as a black child was evidence that he was not racist. Various unused and draft material from Dahl's early versions of the novel have been found. In the initial, unpublished drafts of \\\"Charlie and the Chocolate Factory\\\" nine golden tickets were distributed to tour Willy Wonka's secret chocolate factory and the children faced more rooms and more temptations to test their self-control. Some of the names of the children cut from the final work include: \\\"Spotty Powder\\\" was first published as a short story in 1973. In 1998 it was included in the children's horror anthology Scary! Stories That\",\n \"title\": \"Charlie and the Chocolate Factory\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"680759\",\n \"text\": \"getting ground into powder. A fan of the book since childhood, film director Tim Burton wrote: \\\"I responded to \\\"Charlie and the Chocolate Factory\\\" because it respected the fact that children can be adults.\\\" In a 2006 list for the Royal Society of Literature, author J. K. Rowling (author of the Harry Potter books) named \\\"Charlie and the Chocolate Factory\\\" among her top ten books every child should read. A 2004 study found that it was a common read-aloud book for fourth-graders in schools in San Diego County, California. A 2012 survey by the University of Worcester determined that it\",\n \"title\": \"Charlie and the Chocolate Factory\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"16869147\",\n \"text\": \"\\\"Charlie and the Chocolate Factory\\\" was released to critical praise and was a box office success, grossing approximately $475 million worldwide, but received mixed to negative reviews when compared with the original 1971 film. A direct-to-video animated crossover film adaptation starring Tom and Jerry, entitled \\\"Tom and Jerry: Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory\\\", was released in 2017. It stars JP Karliak as Willy Wonka and is dedicated to Gene Wilder, who died less than a year before the release. In October 2016 it was confirmed that Warner Bros are planning a prequel film depicting Willy Wonka's \\\"early adventures\\\" prior\",\n \"title\": \"Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (franchise)\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"16660298\",\n \"text\": \"Criticism was also drawn to the decision to cast adults as the Golden Ticket winners instead of children, as well as the lackluster sets redesigned for Broadway. However, Christian Borle received widespread praise for his performance as Willy Wonka, even amongst negativity towards other aspects of the show. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (musical) Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is a stage musical based on the 1964 children's novel of the same name by Roald Dahl, with book by David Greig, music by Marc Shaiman and lyrics by Shaiman and Scott Wittman. The musical premiered in London's West End at\",\n \"title\": \"Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (musical)\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"16660295\",\n \"text\": \"unable to stop inventing, even if it means breaking the rules. Wonka tells Charlie that he has won, and ushers him into his \\\"Great Glass Elevator\\\". The two soar above town in the Great Glass Elevator, and Wonka tells Charlie that his grand prize is the chocolate factory (\\\"The View From Here\\\"). He reaches into his pocket and reveals that he received Charlie's letter after all, and wants to begin working on some of Charlie's inventions. As they land back outside the factory, Wonka is immediately ready to begin working but Charlie is concerned about what will happen to his\",\n \"title\": \"Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (musical)\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"680750\",\n \"text\": \"Will Make You Scream editted by Peter Haining. The brief note before the story described the story as having been left out of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory due to already-brimming number of misbehaving children characters in the tale. In 2005, \\\"The Times\\\" reprinted \\\"Spotty Powder\\\" as a \\\"lost\\\" chapter, saying it had been found in Dahl's desk, written backwards in mirror writing (the way Leonardo da Vinci wrote his journal). This chapter describes Spotty Powder, which looks and tastes like sugar, but causes bright red pox-like spots to appear on faces and necks five seconds after ingestion, so children\",\n \"title\": \"Charlie and the Chocolate Factory\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"4273978\",\n \"text\": \"are adapted from the original book, and are thus credited to Roald Dahl. Following Burton's suggestion, each song in the score is designed to reflect a different archetype. \\\"Wonka's Welcome Song\\\" is a maddeningly cheerful theme park ditty, \\\"Augustus Gloop\\\" a Bollywood spectacle (per Deep Roy's suggestion), \\\"Violet Beauregarde\\\" is 1970s funk, \\\"Veruca Salt\\\" is 1960s bubblegum pop / psychedelic pop, and \\\"Mike Teavee\\\" is a tribute to late 1970s hard rock (such as Queen) and early 1980s hair bands. The original motion picture soundtrack was released on July 12, 2005 by Warner Bros. Records. \\\"Charlie and the Chocolate Factory\\\"\",\n \"title\": \"Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (film)\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"680767\",\n \"text\": \"long, perfectly waved platinum-blond hair and her pink feather boa, looks like a pretty and inert doll—\\\" The article continues: \\\"And if the Stepford daughter on the cover is meant to remind us of Veruca Salt or Violet Beauregarde, she doesn't: those badly behaved squirts are bubbling over with rude life.\\\" Moreover, writes Talbot, \\\"The Modern Classics cover has not a whiff of this validation of childish imagination; instead, it seems to imply a deviant adult audience.\\\" Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is a 1964 children's novel by British author Roald Dahl. The story features\",\n \"title\": \"Charlie and the Chocolate Factory\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"3232441\",\n \"text\": \"into his factory, where he then tempts each of them with a weakness. Finally, only Charlie is left. Willy Wonka and Charlie board Wonka's \\\"Great Glass Elevator\\\" which takes off over the audience. Early on in the production of the 2005 film, Nicolas Cage was under discussions for portraying Willy Wonka, but lost interest. Warner Bros. president Alan F. Horn wanted Tom Shadyac to direct Jim Carrey as Willy Wonka, believing the duo could make \\\"Charlie and the Chocolate Factory\\\" relevant to mainstream audiences, but Roald Dahl's widow Liccy Dahl opposed this. After Tim Burton was hired as director in\",\n \"title\": \"Willy Wonka\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"2351217\",\n \"text\": \"Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator is a children's book by British author Roald Dahl. It is the sequel to \\\"Charlie and the Chocolate Factory\\\", continuing the story of young Charlie Bucket and chocolatier Willy Wonka as they travel in the Great Glass Elevator. The book was first published in the United States by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. in 1972, and in the United Kingdom by George Allen & Unwin in 1973. Although the original book has been filmed three times, in 1971, 2005, and an animated adaptation in 2017, \\\"The Great Glass Elevator\\\"\",\n \"title\": \"Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"1488140\",\n \"text\": \"is actually Mr. Wilkinson, an employee of Wonka, and the offer to buy the Gobstopper was a morality test that only Charlie passed. The trio enter the \\\"Wonkavator\\\", a multi-directional glass elevator that flies out of the factory. Soaring over the city, Wonka reveals that his actual prize is the factory; Wonka created the contest to find an heir worthy enough, and so Charlie and his family can immediately move in. Wonka then reminds Charlie not to forget about the man who suddenly received everything he ever wanted. Charlie asks, \\\"What happened?\\\" to which Wonka replies, \\\"He lived happily ever\",\n \"title\": \"Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"16660285\",\n \"text\": \"gets on his feet, and dances gleefully with Mrs. Bucket and Charlie (\\\"Grandpa Joe/I've Got a Golden Ticket!\\\"). The big day arrives, and the five winners are greeted at the factory gates by paparazzi and \\\"Chocolate TV\\\" reporters Cherry Sunday and Jerry Jubilee, making Charlie and Grandpa Joe feel out of place. Willy Wonka appears at last, and ushers the group into his factory (\\\"It Must Be Believed to be Seen\\\"). The five winners and their families check in with Wonka, where he explains the rules and regulations of his factory and has the parents sign a ridiculously long and\",\n \"title\": \"Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (musical)\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"4273954\",\n \"text\": \"with an exaggerated characteristic or deformity related to their demise, while Charlie learns Wonka intended to find a worthy heir to his factory. Since Charlie was the \\\"least rotten\\\" of the five, Wonka invites Charlie to come live and work in the factory with him, but declines as his family is the most important thing in his life. Charlie and his family are living contently a while later, however Wonka is too depressed to make candy the way he used to, causing his candy to sell poorly and his company to decline. He turns to Charlie for advice. Charlie decides\",\n \"title\": \"Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (film)\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"16869148\",\n \"text\": \"to the events depicted in the books and films. However, Warner Bros claims that this movie will not be an origin story. In February 2018, Paul King entered final negotiations to direct the film. In June 2018, the producer confirmed it would be a prequel film, which would explore the adventures of Wonka before he opened the chocolate factory. \\\"Roald Dahl's Willy Wonka\\\" is a musical that combines elements of both Roald Dahl's book \\\"Charlie and the Chocolate Factory\\\" and of the 1971 movie \\\"Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory\\\" with newly created material. The musical has several versions: the\",\n \"title\": \"Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (franchise)\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"3909858\",\n \"text\": \"of a theatre troupe, with Eldon's character portraying a version of Ned Stark. Uncredited appearances include the 2005 film version of \\\"Charlie and the Chocolate Factory\\\", playing \\\"Man with Dog\\\" alongside Mark Heap and the 2014 film \\\"Cuban Fury\\\", as the neighbour to the main character played by Nick Frost. He has also played an English policeman in Martin Scorsese's 2011 film \\\"Hugo\\\". Eldon played the role of Pete in the David Shrigley/Chris Shepherd animation, \\\"Who I Am And What I Want\\\", and also of Mick McManus in Tim Plester's short film \\\"World of Wrestling\\\" in 2007. In 2009, he\",\n \"title\": \"Kevin Eldon\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"16660292\",\n \"text\": \"the Teavees board the S.S. Wonka, a bathtub-shaped boat, and travel through an underground river deep below the factory. Charlie and Grandpa Joe, who were too slow to catch the boat, are forced to swim behind them wearing scuba helmets. Wonka leads them into the TV room, much to Mike's delight. Wonka demonstrates Chocolate Television, which uses a machine to send chocolate bars to TV screens. Mike's obsession with electronics overcomes him and, despite his mother and Wonka's protests, he uses the machine to teleport himself into a television set. However, they cannot locate him on the usual channel, so\",\n \"title\": \"Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (musical)\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"16660278\",\n \"text\": \"ponder all of the adventures that are to come. The play opens with Willy Wonka introducing himself, revealing that he's looking for an heir to run his legendary chocolate factory (\\\"The Candy Man\\\"). Wonka disguises himself as the storeowner of a local candy shop, which quickly attracts the attention of the town's residents and candy- obsessed Charlie Bucket. Despite having no money to spend on sweets, Charlie frequents the shop regularly and befriends the owner, unaware that he is Willy Wonka. Charlie tells him about Wonka's career (\\\"Willy Wonka! Willy Wonka!\\\") and remarks that he would do anything to see\",\n \"title\": \"Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (musical)\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"19464510\",\n \"text\": \"Factory\\\" come to life and re-inspire the love for the story all over again. This is a book which must accompany viewing whichever platform your heart connects to Charlie, the boy we all dreamed we could be, befriend so we too could enjoy the spoils of the candy forest and meet the Umpa Lumpas first hand.\\\" \\\"Kirkus Reviews\\\" called it \\\"an effusive celebration\\\", a \\\"chatty volume\\\" and concluded \\\"Mainly for die-hard Charlie and the Chocolate Factory fans who want more than the novel itself.\\\" \\\"School Library Journal\\\" wrote \\\"Kids might be turned off by the nostalgic sensibility of the text\",\n \"title\": \"Inside Charlie's Chocolate Factory\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"680747\",\n \"text\": \"reason behind his Golden Tickets, names Charlie his successor. They ride the Great Glass Elevator to Charlie's house while the other four children go home (Augustus squeezed thin, Violet all blue in the face, Veruca covered in trash, and Mike stretched ten feet tall). Afterwards, Wonka invites Charlie's family to come live with him in the factory, and they do. Dahl’s widow said that Charlie was originally written as 'a little black boy.' Dahl’s biographer said the change to a white character was driven by Dahl’s agent, who thought a black Charlie would not appeal to readers. In the first\",\n \"title\": \"Charlie and the Chocolate Factory\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"4273961\",\n \"text\": \"sexually transmitted disease. Burton immediately thought of Johnny Depp for the role of Willy Wonka, who in August 2003 joined the film, his fourth collaboration with the director. Lurie's script received a rewrite by Pamela Pettler, who worked with Burton on \\\"Corpse Bride\\\", but the director hired \\\"Big Fish\\\" screenwriter John August in December 2003 to start from scratch. Both August and Burton were fans of the book since their childhoods. August first read \\\"Charlie and the Chocolate Factory\\\" when he was eight years old, and subsequently sent Dahl a fan letter. He did not see the 1971 film prior\",\n \"title\": \"Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (film)\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"19464509\",\n \"text\": \"Inside Charlie's Chocolate Factory Inside Charlie's Chocolate Factory: The Complete Story of Willy Wonka, the Golden Ticket, and Roald Dahl's Most Famous Creation is a 2014 non-fiction book by Lucy Mangan. It was released at the same time as the 50th anniversary edition of \\\"Charlie and the Chocolate Factory\\\" and looks at the origin and history of that story. \\\"Inside Charlie's Chocolate Factory\\\" has generally received good reviews. The San Diego Book Review wrote, \\\"True fans who have grown up adoring the film, and have shared it with future generations, will revel in seeing the details of \\\"Inside Charlie's Chocolate\",\n \"title\": \"Inside Charlie's Chocolate Factory\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"16597313\",\n \"text\": \"featured performer in such series as Eastenders and Holby city. She furthered her acting career by appearing as an extra in various films such as \\\"Die Another Day\\\" (2002), \\\"Charlie and the Chocolate Factory\\\" (2005), and \\\"Rabbit Fever\\\" (2006). Horiuchi starred in \\\"The Grudge 3\\\" (2009) as Kayako Saeki, the vengeful ghost of the \\\"Ju-on\\\" series (called \\\"The Grudge\\\"), taking over for Takako Fuji who had passed on the role. Her work received a mixed, if not muted, response. Aiko Horiuchi Aiko Horiuchi is a Japanese actress who played Kayako Saeki in \\\"The Grudge 3\\\" (2009). Horiuchi had been living\",\n \"title\": \"Aiko Horiuchi\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"4273949\",\n \"text\": \"\\\"Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory\\\" in 1971) began in 1991, which resulted in Warner Bros. providing the Dahl Estate with total artistic control. Prior to Burton's involvement, directors such as Gary Ross, Rob Minkoff, Martin Scorsese and Tom Shadyac had been involved, while actors Bill Murray, Nicolas Cage, Jim Carrey, Michael Keaton, Brad Pitt, Will Smith, Adam Sandler, and many others, were either in discussion with or considered by the studio to play Wonka. Burton immediately brought regular collaborators Depp and Danny Elfman aboard. \\\"Charlie and the Chocolate Factory\\\" represents the first time since \\\"The Nightmare Before Christmas\\\" that\",\n \"title\": \"Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (film)\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"1488134\",\n \"text\": \"chocolate factory. A mysterious tinker recites the first lines of William Allingham's poem \\\"The Fairies\\\", and tells Charlie, \\\"Nobody ever goes in, and nobody ever comes out.\\\" Charlie rushes home to his widowed mother and bedridden grandparents. After telling Grandpa Joe about the tinker, he reveals that Wonka locked the factory because other candy makers, including rival Arthur Slugworth, sent in spies to steal his recipes. Wonka disappeared, but after three years resumed selling candy; the origin of Wonka's labor force is unknown. The next day, Wonka announces that he hid five \\\"Golden Tickets\\\" in chocolate Wonka Bars. Finders of\",\n \"title\": \"Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"4273970\",\n \"text\": \"Attenborough, Kirk Douglas, Albert Finney, Anthony Hopkins, Paul Newman, Max von Sydow, David Warner, Christopher Lloyd and Peter Ustinov. Principal photography for \\\"Charlie and the Chocolate Factory\\\" started on June 21, 2004 at Pinewood Studios in England. Director Tim Burton and composer Danny Elfman found filming somewhat difficult because they were simultaneously working on \\\"Corpse Bride\\\". The Wonka Factory exterior was coincidentally constructed on the same backlot Burton had used for Gotham City in \\\"Batman\\\" (1989). The ceremonial scene required 500 local extras. The Chocolate Room/River setpiece filled Pinewood's 007 Stage. As a consequence of British Equity rules, which state\",\n \"title\": \"Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (film)\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"16660282\",\n \"text\": \"no longer afford her prices. His dismay is magnified when the third ticket is found by gum- chewing, wannabe celebrity Violet Beauregarde (\\\"Queen of Pop\\\") and the fourth ticket is found by technology addict Mike Teavee, who admits he hacked into Wonka's computers and found the fourth ticket (\\\"What Could Possibly Go Wrong\\\"). With his hopes of winning dashed, Charlie heads back home. Upon arriving home, Charlie is overjoyed to find that his family have pooled their money to buy his birthday chocolate, but is crushed once more when the candy yields no Golden Ticket. His mother and his other\",\n \"title\": \"Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (musical)\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"16660279\",\n \"text\": \"inside the factory, giving Wonka an idea. Charlie returns to the decrepit shack he lives in, which he shares with his mother and four bed-ridden grandparents: Grandpa George, Grandma Georgina, Grandpa Joe, and Grandma Josephine. Charlie and Grandpa Joe play a pretend, game recalling how the latter became Wonka's security guard (\\\"Charlie, You and I\\\") before his mother comes home, giving Charlie an old notebook for homework. Charlie daydreams and scribbles a letter to Willy Wonka, suggesting new candies he should consider inventing, before folding it into a paper airplane and tossing it out the window into the night (\\\"A\",\n \"title\": \"Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (musical)\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"4273952\",\n \"text\": \"arrogant television and video game addict. Charlie tries twice to find a ticket, but both bars come up empty. After overhearing that the final ticket was found in Russia, Charlie finds a ten-dollar note, and purchases a Wonka Bar at a news shop. At the exact moment it was revealed that the Russian ticket was forged, Charlie discovers the real fifth ticket inside the wrapper. Charlie receives monetary offers for the ticket, but decides to keep it and bring Grandpa Joe to accompany him on the factory tour. Charlie and the other ticket holders are greeted by Wonka outside the\",\n \"title\": \"Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (film)\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"680743\",\n \"text\": \"of this, both companies became highly protective of their chocolate-making processes. It was a combination of this secrecy and the elaborate, often gigantic, machines in the factory that inspired Dahl to write the story. 11-year-old Charlie Bucket lives in poverty in a small house with his parents and four grandparents. His grandparents share the only bed in the house, located in the only bedroom. Charlie and his parents sleep on mattresses on the floor. One day, Grandpa Joe tells him about the legendary and eccentric chocolatier Willy Wonka and all the wonderful candies he made until the other candymakers sent\",\n \"title\": \"Charlie and the Chocolate Factory\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"15052758\",\n \"text\": \"a sequel to \\\"Charlie and the Chocolate Factory\\\", based on the \\\"Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator\\\" novel. Despite this, some elements of \\\"Great Glass Elevator\\\" were seen at the end of Burton's film. During production on the film \\\"Charlie and the Chocolate Factory\\\", a broadway musical was planned to acompany it. The studio and Burton reiterated their interest in May 2003, however, the project was cancelled by the time the film was released. In 2008, Paul Reubens approached Burton with one of two scripts and talked to Johnny Depp about the possibility of having him portray Pee-wee in a\",\n \"title\": \"Tim Burton's unrealized projects\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"1488135\",\n \"text\": \"the tickets will receive a factory tour and a lifetime supply of chocolate. The first four tickets are found by the gluttonous Augustus Gloop, the spoiled Veruca Salt, the gum-chewing Violet Beauregarde, and the television-obsessed Mike Teevee. As each winner is announced on TV, a man whispers to them. Charlie opens two Wonka Bars but finds no Golden Ticket. The newspapers announce the fifth ticket was found by a millionaire in Paraguay causing Charlie to lose hope. The next day, Charlie finds some money in a gutter in the street and uses it to buy a Scrumdiddlyumptious bar. With the\",\n \"title\": \"Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"4273983\",\n \"text\": \"channeling Keith Richards, which may have primed us to look for possible inspirations for this performance.\\\" Mick LaSalle from the \\\"San Francisco Chronicle\\\" found \\\"Charlie and the Chocolate Factory\\\" Burton's \\\"best work in years. If all the laughs come from Depp, who gives Willy the mannerisms of a classic Hollywood diva, the film's heart comes from Highmore, a gifted young performer whose performance is sincere, deep and unforced in a way that's rare in a child actor.\\\" Peter Travers wrote in \\\"Rolling Stone\\\" magazine that \\\"Depp's deliciously demented take on Willy Wonka demands to be seen. Depp goes deeper to\",\n \"title\": \"Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (film)\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"3877057\",\n \"text\": \"on the top left corner. The Willy Wonka Candy Company was first imagined in the pages of Roald Dahl's \\\"Charlie and the Chocolate Factory\\\". The \\\"Wonka\\\" property was licensed to film director Mel Stuart; his 10-year-old daughter read \\\"Charlie and the Chocolate Factory\\\" and asked her father to make it into a film, obliging him to get \\\"Uncle Dave\\\" (producer David L. Wolper) to produce it. Stuart showed the book to Wolper, who was engaged in talks with the Quaker Oats Company. Wolper convinced the Quaker Oats Company into signing the deal for up to $3 million to finance the\",\n \"title\": \"The Willy Wonka Candy Company\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"680763\",\n \"text\": \"Wonka, Jr.\\\" and almost always featuring musical numbers by all the main characters (Wonka, Charlie, Grandpa Joe, Violet, Veruca, etc.); many of the songs are revised versions from the 1971 film. \\\"Charlie and the Chocolate Factory\\\" has undergone numerous editions and been illustrated by numerous artists. The cover photo of the 50th anniversary edition, published by Penguin Modern Classics for sale in the UK and aimed at the adult market received widespread commentary and criticism. The cover is a photo of a heavily made up young girl seated on her mother's knee and wearing a doll-like expression, taken by the\",\n \"title\": \"Charlie and the Chocolate Factory\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"20119072\",\n \"text\": \"loaf of bread. While Charlie rushes home to his widowed mother and bedridden grandparents, Tom and Jerry steal a box of Wonka Bars from the shop. Grandpa Joe reveals to Charlie that Willy Wonka locked his famous chocolate factory because other candy makers, including rival Arthur Slugworth, sent in spies to steal his recipes. Wonka disappeared, but for three years resumed selling candy; the origin of Wonka's labor force is unknown. Tom and Jerry arrive at Charlie's home with the box of Wonka Bars, but Charlie convinces the duo that stealing is wrong and they should return the box. The\",\n \"title\": \"Tom and Jerry: Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"680757\",\n \"text\": \"refrigerator for a few hours.\\\" Roald Dahl originally planned for a child called Marvin Prune to be included in \\\"Charlie and the Chocolate Factory\\\". Dahl submitted the excised chapter regarding Marvin Prune to \\\"The Horn Book Review\\\" in the early 1970s. Rather than publish the chapter, \\\"Horn Book\\\" responded with a critical essay by novelist Eleanor Cameron, who criticised Dahl's worth as a human being. Although it was believed that \\\"Horn Book\\\" never returned the chapter, Marvin Prune's chapter is actually available, but it has not yet been published. \\\"The Children's-Delight Room\\\" was reworked into \\\"Spotty Powder\\\". It is present\",\n \"title\": \"Charlie and the Chocolate Factory\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"680746\",\n \"text\": \"and personalities. Augustus gets sucked up the pipe after falling into the Chocolate River in the Chocolate Room, Violet blows up into a giant blueberry after sampling an experimental three-course chewing gum meal in the Inventing Room, Veruca is thrown down the rubbish chute in the Nut Room after the nut-testing squirrels consider her a \\\"bad nut,\\\" and Mike gets shrunk after he tries to be the first person to be sent by television in the Television Room's Television Chocolate Technology. With only Charlie remaining, Wonka congratulates him for \\\"winning\\\" the factory and, after explaining his true age and the\",\n \"title\": \"Charlie and the Chocolate Factory\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"20119075\",\n \"text\": \"home with the Golden Ticket and chooses Grandpa Joe as his chaperone. The next day, Tom and Jerry rush to the factory with the Golden Ticket that Grandpa Joe forgot. Once the children enter the factory, the movie plays in the same order of the source material with the occasional interjection of Tom and Jerry interacting with the factory. Once only Charlie and Grandpa Joe remain, Wonka dismisses them without the promised chocolate. Tuffy warns Charlie that Slugworth and Spike have stolen a Gobstopper and are on their way out of the factory. Following a fight in the Wonkavision Room,\",\n \"title\": \"Tom and Jerry: Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"6294319\",\n \"text\": \"The Candy Man \\\"The Candy Man\\\" (or alternatively, \\\"The Candy Man Can\\\") is a song that originally appeared in the 1971 film \\\"Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory\\\". It was written by Leslie Bricusse and Anthony Newley specifically for the film. Although the original book by Roald Dahl (\\\"Charlie and the Chocolate Factory\\\") contains lyrics adapted for other songs in the film, the lyrics to \\\"The Candy Man\\\" do not appear in the book. The soundtrack version of the song was sung by Aubrey Woods, who played Bill the candy store owner in the film. Lyricist Anthony Newley has said\",\n \"title\": \"The Candy Man\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"14725532\",\n \"text\": \"years in the Royal Academy Schools and lectured at various other schools in London, Oxford and Brighton. Morris was an amateur actor who staged Shakespeare productions in a converted barn called the \\\"Bottom Theatre\\\" at his home in Roughwood, Buckinghamshire. In 2004, he was recommended for a role in the TV mystery series \\\"Jonathan Creek\\\" by his friend, director Sandy Johnson. He went on to appear in the TV movie \\\"When I'm 64\\\" and the comedy series \\\"Little Britain\\\" and \\\"Saxondale\\\". In 2005, he played Grandpa George in Tim Burton's \\\"Charlie and the Chocolate Factory\\\". He married Olwen Goodwin, a\",\n \"title\": \"David Morris (actor)\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"5239483\",\n \"text\": \"(depending on the type of candy bar) and are also more detailed, and the candy bars strikingly resemble king-sized Kit Kat candy bars, only slightly bigger. In the book, Grandpa Joe mentions that Mr. Wonka had invented over two hundred kinds of Wonka bars (though the actual number available varies, with four flavours in the 2005 film). The consumer product Wonka Bar was a chocolate candy bar inspired by the novel and the films \\\"Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory\\\" and \\\"Charlie and the Chocolate Factory\\\". The Quaker Oats Company, which financed the 1971 film with US$3 million, originally created\",\n \"title\": \"Wonka Bar\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"16660276\",\n \"text\": \"more, and she places him in her purse and leaves the factory quite satisfied. Charlie is the only child left. When Grandpa Joe asks about their lifetime supply of confectionery sweets, Mr. Wonka casually dismisses them saying that the Everlasting Gobstopper Charlie had got was the lifetime supply of candy. Grandpa Joe is angry, but Charlie defuses the situation saying that an Everlasting Gobstopper is still an amazing present. When he leaves with Grandpa Joe, Charlie opens a book which contains all of Wonka’s ideas, adding a few of his own to the blank pages in the back. Wonka silently\",\n \"title\": \"Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (musical)\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"16660294\",\n \"text\": \"Gobstopper. Grandpa Joe is furious at Wonka giving his grandson a \\\"measly Gobstopper,\\\" and the two quickly begin to fight. Charlie diffuses the situation, telling Grandpa Joe that the Gobstopper is a great present and that the trip to the factory was enough. Placated, Wonka ushers Grandpa Joe into his office to negotiate legal paperwork and warns Charlie not to touch anything. Charlie breaks the rules and opens the notebook, adding his own inventions to the blank pages in the back, only to be caught by Wonka. Although he seems angry at first, Wonka finds it incredible that Charlie is\",\n \"title\": \"Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (musical)\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"427554\",\n \"text\": \"and color. Starring Ewan McGregor as young Edward Bloom and Albert Finney as an older Edward Bloom, the film also stars Jessica Lange, Billy Crudup, Danny DeVito, Alison Lohman and Marion Cotillard. \\\"Big Fish\\\" is also notable as Miley Cyrus' first film—she plays \\\"Young Ruthie\\\" credited under her birth name, Destiny Hope Cyrus. \\\"Big Fish\\\" received four Golden Globe nominations as well as an Academy Award nomination for Elfman's score. \\\"Big Fish\\\" was also the second collaboration between Burton and Helena Bonham Carter, who played the characters of Jenny and the Witch. \\\"Charlie and the Chocolate Factory\\\" (2005) is an\",\n \"title\": \"Tim Burton\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"16660280\",\n \"text\": \"Letter From Charlie Bucket\\\"). The next day before he goes to school, he finds out that Wonka has hidden five Golden Tickets inside five Wonka Bars and that the people who find the tickets will win a tour of the factory and a lifetime supply of candy. Unfortunately, Charlie's mother admits that money, is tighter than usual and she cannot afford to buy him his annual birthday candy bar, leaving Charlie saddened at the fact that he has no chance of winning the contest. Grandpa Joe says he would gladly pay for one using his funeral savings, and Charlie's mood\",\n \"title\": \"Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (musical)\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"20119076\",\n \"text\": \"Charlie stops Slugworth. After this, Charlie and Grandpa Joe confront Wonka on the end of the tour. Wonka coldly explains that they violated the contract by stealing Fizzy Lifting Drinks and allowing Tom and Jerry into the factory and therefore will receive nothing. Infuriated at this, Grandpa Joe attempts to protest but Wonka angrily demands them all to leave at once. Grandpa Joe then suggests to Charlie that he should give Slugworth the Gobstopper, but Charlie returns the candy to Wonka. Because of this, Wonka declares Charlie the winner. He reveals that Slugworth is really \\\"Mr. Wilkinson\\\", an employee of\",\n \"title\": \"Tom and Jerry: Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"20119073\",\n \"text\": \"next day, Wonka announces that he hid five \\\"Golden Tickets\\\" in Wonka Bars. Finders of the tickets will receive a factory tour and a lifetime supply of chocolate. Four of the tickets are found by Augustus Gloop, a gluttonous boy; Veruca Salt, a spoiled girl; Violet Beauregarde, a gum-chewing girl; and Mike Teavee, a television-obsessed boy. As each winner is announced on television, a man whispers to them. Charlie opens one Wonka Bar, but finds no Golden Ticket and loses hope. The newspapers announce the fifth ticket was found by a millionaire in Paraguay named Alberto Minoleta (who is played\",\n \"title\": \"Tom and Jerry: Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"1488131\",\n \"text\": \"Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory is a 1971 American musical fantasy family film directed by Mel Stuart, and starring Gene Wilder as Willy Wonka. It is an adaptation of the 1964 novel \\\"Charlie and the Chocolate Factory\\\" by Roald Dahl. Dahl was credited with writing the film's screenplay; however, David Seltzer, who went uncredited in the film, was brought in to re-work the screenplay against Dahl's wishes, making major changes to the ending and adding musical numbers. These changes and other decisions made by the director led Dahl to disown the film. The\",\n \"title\": \"Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"5624298\",\n \"text\": \"to have starring roles in television shows such as \\\"Emmerdale Farm\\\" in the 1980s and \\\"Glenroe\\\" in the 1990s, as well as playing the grandfather in Mike Newell's film \\\"Into the West\\\" (1992). Following his appearance as Michael O'Sullivan in the 1998 film \\\"Waking Ned\\\", he played roles in such films as Tim Burton's \\\"Charlie and the Chocolate Factory\\\" (2005), in which he played Grandpa Joe and \\\"\\\". He played title character Frank Kovak in the mystery film \\\"The Kovak Box\\\", in a rare villainous role. 2007's \\\"Stardust\\\" was his final film. He also did extensive radio work, including a\",\n \"title\": \"David Kelly (actor)\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"6274476\",\n \"text\": \"Veruca Salt is thrown down the garbage chute, the player's objective is to follow her down the chute and save her from the incinerator. The last objective of the game is after Mike Teavee shrinks himself the player needs to fix the television-chocolate machine. Throughout the game the Oompa Loompas must help Charlie return the chocolate factory back to normal by fixing the mistakes that the self-indulgent children made. The game received generally negative reviews from critics. Although reviewers praised the game's enjoyable storyline, music and presentation, most felt that the control of the characters on screen was awkward at\",\n \"title\": \"Charlie and the Chocolate Factory video games\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"16660296\",\n \"text\": \"family. Wonka explains that they have already been moved in to their own room in the factory, and invites Charlie in to begin their new life as candy-making partners. †Lyrics by Leslie Bricusse, Music by Anthony Newley for the 1971 film, \\\"Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory\\\". ††Replaced, as of 2016, by \\\"Queen of Pop\\\". A London original cast album was released on 7 October 2013. A Broadway cast recording was released digitally on 2 June and in stores on 23 June on the Masterworks Broadway label. The West End production had a 16 piece orchestra + conductor, which was\",\n \"title\": \"Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (musical)\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"680753\",\n \"text\": \"Vanilla Fudge Room\\\") from an early draft of the book. \\\"The Guardian\\\" reported the now-eliminated passage was \\\"deemed too wild, subversive and insufficiently moral for the tender minds of British children almost 50 years ago.\\\" In what was originally chapter five in that version of the book, Charlie goes to the factory with his mother (instead of his grandfather, as originally published). At this point, the chocolate factory tour is down to eight kids, including Tommy Troutbeck and Wilbur Rice. After the entire group climbs to the top of the titular fudge mountain, eating vanilla fudge along the way, Troutbeck\",\n \"title\": \"Charlie and the Chocolate Factory\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"4273972\",\n \"text\": \"Brandt, as well as Pittsburgh and Northern England, is arranged like a medieval village, with Wonka's estate on top and the Bucket shack below. The filmmakers also used fascist architecture for Wonka's factory exterior, and designed most of the sets on 360° sound stages, similar to cycloramas. Burton biographer Mark Salisbury wrote that \\\"Charlie and the Chocolate Factory\\\" \\\"melds 1950s and '70s visuals with a futuristic sensibility that seems straight out of a 1960s sense of the future.\\\" The \\\"TV Room\\\" was patterned after photographs from the films \\\"\\\", \\\"\\\", and \\\"THX 1138\\\". \\\"Danger Diabolik\\\" also served as inspiration for\",\n \"title\": \"Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (film)\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"3232432\",\n \"text\": \"factory and look after the Oompa Loompas who work there. Wonka goes aboard the Great Glass Elevator with Charlie and his family and links up with the Space Hotel U.S.A. The Space Hotel tracks the Elevator down back to Wonka's Factory. Wonka then goes with Charlie and his family to the White House in the United States. Willy Wonka (portrayed by Gene Wilder) has hidden five Golden Tickets amongst his famous \\\"Wonka Bars\\\". The finders of these special tickets will be given a full tour of his tightly guarded candy factory as well as a lifetime supply of chocolate. During\",\n \"title\": \"Willy Wonka\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"2483980\",\n \"text\": \"\\\"A Funny Thing Happened On the Way to the Forum\\\", \\\"How I Won the War\\\", \\\"The Bed Sitting Room\\\", \\\"Juggernaut\\\" and the \\\"Musketeer\\\" series of the 1970s and 1980s. He appeared with Christopher Lee in the Hammer horror film \\\"Taste the Blood of Dracula\\\" (1970). Also in 1970 he played Mr. Perkins, Melody's father in Waris Hussein's \\\"Melody\\\", a puppy love story. He played the father of spoiled rich girl Veruca Salt in the film \\\"Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory\\\" (1971), an adaptation of Roald Dahl's children's novel \\\"Charlie and the Chocolate Factory\\\". He guest-starred in \\\"The Goodies'\\\" episode\",\n \"title\": \"Roy Kinnear\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"16660270\",\n \"text\": \"is desolate. His parents sing about how they wish they could raise their son together and about how they hope for a better life (\\\"If Your Mother Were Here\\\"). Winter comes, and one day Charlie finds some money dropped by a rich couple. Encouraged by the mysterious tramp, he buys a Wonka Bar, and finds a Golden Ticket inside that prompts Grandpa Joe to get out of bed and walk for the first time in forty years (\\\"Don't Ya Pinch Me, Charlie\\\"). On the day they are to enter the factory, Charlie and Grandpa Joe feel out of place amidst\",\n \"title\": \"Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (musical)\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"2149111\",\n \"text\": \"for a limited engagement at London's Menier Chocolate Factory on 21 November 2009 and closed on 7 March 2010. It starred Tamzin Outhwaite as Charity. Outhwaite reprised the title role in the West End transfer of the successful Chocolate Factory production of the show. Playing at the Theatre Royal, Haymarket the show opened officially on 4 May 2010 after previews began on 23 April. This was the first major production to have the same actor (Mark Umbers) play all three of Charity's love interests: Charlie, Vittorio, and Oscar. Similarly, Josefina Gabrielle played both Nickie and Ursula while Tiffany Graves played\",\n \"title\": \"Sweet Charity\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"16660267\",\n \"text\": \"have (\\\"If Your Mother Were Here\\\") later Charlie pens a letter about what he'd invented for his family to Wonka, folds it into a paper airplane and sends it flying out into the night (\\\"A Letter from Charlie Bucket\\\"). The next morning, Mrs. Bucket returns home from her night job and explains to the rest of the family that Willy Wonka is holding a competition where five lucky contestants must buy Wonka Bars to find a Golden Ticket to his factory and a lifetime's supply of candy. Charlie is desperate to win one, but he has no money. On their\",\n \"title\": \"Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (musical)\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"3999482\",\n \"text\": \"brief appearance as a fire-breather in the James Bond film Octopussy. He played a school teacher in the 2002 film \\\"About a Boy\\\". He appeared in Tim Burton's 2005 \\\"Charlie and the Chocolate Factory\\\". He played a roles in \\\"Confetti\\\" (2006), \\\"Tunnel of Love\\\" (2004), \\\"Stardust\\\" (2007), and \\\"The World's End\\\" (2013). In 2008 he co-starred in the surreal science fiction film \\\"Captain Eager and the Mark of Voth\\\". In 2009 he appeared as a car salesman in a SEAT television advert. Heap voices the fox in the Old Speckled Hen adverts sponsoring comedy on Dave. In 2008 Heap played\",\n \"title\": \"Mark Heap\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"6619612\",\n \"text\": \"fat to be typecast). Franziska Troegner Franziska Troegner (born 18 July 1954) is a German actress; she was born in Berlin-Mitte. Starting in 1976, Troegner was part of the theatre company Berliner Ensemble where she played in Brecht plays, e.g. \\\"Mother Courage and Her Children\\\", \\\"The Threepenny Opera\\\", \\\"The Caucasian Chalk Circle\\\". She dubbed minor roles in several Miss Marple TV series, e.g. \\\"A Murder Is Announced\\\", \\\"A Pocket Full of Rye\\\". Troegner played Mrs. Gloop in the 2005 film \\\"Charlie and the Chocolate Factory\\\". Most of her other roles were in German TV movies and serials. In 2009, Troegner\",\n \"title\": \"Franziska Troegner\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"6619611\",\n \"text\": \"Franziska Troegner Franziska Troegner (born 18 July 1954) is a German actress; she was born in Berlin-Mitte. Starting in 1976, Troegner was part of the theatre company Berliner Ensemble where she played in Brecht plays, e.g. \\\"Mother Courage and Her Children\\\", \\\"The Threepenny Opera\\\", \\\"The Caucasian Chalk Circle\\\". She dubbed minor roles in several Miss Marple TV series, e.g. \\\"A Murder Is Announced\\\", \\\"A Pocket Full of Rye\\\". Troegner played Mrs. Gloop in the 2005 film \\\"Charlie and the Chocolate Factory\\\". Most of her other roles were in German TV movies and serials. In 2009, Troegner published her autobiography (Too\",\n \"title\": \"Franziska Troegner\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"5593143\",\n \"text\": \"Wonka Donutz Wonka Donutz were candies sold by Nestlé under their Willy Wonka Candy Company brand. They were donut-shaped pieces of chocolate covered in sprinkles, with a truffle-like inside. These were widely promoted ahead of the release of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory in 2005. However, they were short-lived, and discontinued, due to low sales. The two standard versions were a double chocolate filling (the most common version) and a double fudge filling. A special edition strawberry filling was released for Halloween in 2005. Ahead of the film's release, various Wonka candies featured in competitions. The prize for finding the\",\n \"title\": \"Wonka Donutz\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"5593144\",\n \"text\": \"golden ticket in a Wonka Donutz pack was a trip to Europe. Wonka Donutz Wonka Donutz were candies sold by Nestlé under their Willy Wonka Candy Company brand. They were donut-shaped pieces of chocolate covered in sprinkles, with a truffle-like inside. These were widely promoted ahead of the release of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory in 2005. However, they were short-lived, and discontinued, due to low sales. The two standard versions were a double chocolate filling (the most common version) and a double fudge filling. A special edition strawberry filling was released for Halloween in 2005. Ahead of the film's\",\n \"title\": \"Wonka Donutz\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"658604\",\n \"text\": \"on 13 September is celebrated as \\\"Roald Dahl Day\\\" in Africa, the United Kingdom and Latin America. In honour of Dahl, the Royal Gibraltar Post Office issued a set of four stamps in 2010 featuring Quentin Blake's original illustrations for four of the children's books written by Dahl during his long career; \\\"The BFG\\\", \\\"The Twits\\\", \\\"Charlie and the Chocolate Factory\\\", and \\\"Matilda\\\". A set of six stamps was issued by Royal Mail in 2012, featuring Blake's illustrations for \\\"Charlie and the Chocolate Factory\\\", \\\"The Twits\\\", \\\"The Witches\\\", \\\"Matilda\\\", \\\"Fantastic Mr Fox\\\", and \\\"James and the Giant Peach\\\". Dahl's influence\",\n \"title\": \"Roald Dahl\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"797506\",\n \"text\": \"as Scottish author J. M. Barrie in the film \\\"Finding Neverland\\\" (2004). The following year he starred as Willy Wonka in \\\"Charlie and the Chocolate Factory\\\", which reunited him with director Tim Burton, with whom he had not collaborated since \\\"Sleepy Hollow\\\". The film was a box office success and had a positive critical reception, with Depp being nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy. \\\"Chocolate Factory\\\" was followed by another Burton project, stop-motion animation \\\"Corpse Bride\\\" (2005), in which Depp voiced the character Victor Van Dort. Depp reprised the role of\",\n \"title\": \"Johnny Depp\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"680762\",\n \"text\": \"this assessment in a letter to \\\"The Horn Book Review\\\", saying that her own daughter would turn \\\"quite nasty\\\" upon finishing the book. Roald Dahl responded to Cameron's criticisms by noting the classics she had cited would not be well received by contemporary children. The cover art for Penguin UK's Modern Classics , published in September 2014, received criticism as being creepy, irrelevant, and age inappropriate. \\\"Charlie and the Chocolate Factory\\\" has frequently been adapted for other media, including games, radio, the screen, and stage, most often as plays or musicals for children – often titled \\\"Willy Wonka\\\" or \\\"Willy\",\n \"title\": \"Charlie and the Chocolate Factory\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"3195428\",\n \"text\": \"him \\\"great questions.\\\" Ostrum has been called \\\"the most famous man in Lowville\\\", where the local video rental shop has twice worn out its VHS copy of \\\"Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory\\\". In the run-up to the release of \\\"Charlie and the Chocolate Factory\\\" in 2005, Ostrum garnered a spate of attention that included seeing the film in New York City with NPR as well as being included in VH1's list of \\\"100 Greatest Kid Stars\\\" (placing 78th). On the new film, Ostrum quoted fellow \\\"Wonka\\\" actor Julie Dawn Cole, saying that \\\"It's sort of like going back to\",\n \"title\": \"Peter Ostrum\"\n }\n]","isConversational":false}}},{"rowIdx":297,"cells":{"query_id":{"kind":"string","value":"299"},"query":{"kind":"string","value":"who played fdr in the movie pearl harbor"},"answers":{"kind":"list like","value":["Jon Voight"],"string":"[\n \"Jon Voight\"\n]","isConversational":false},"positive_passages":{"kind":"list like","value":[{"docid":"962515","text":"original score was composed by Hans Zimmer. The song \"There You'll Be\" was nominated for the Academy Award and Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song. Pearl Harbor (film) Pearl Harbor is a 2001 American romantic period war drama film directed by Michael Bay, produced by Bay and Jerry Bruckheimer and written by Randall Wallace. It stars Ben Affleck, Kate Beckinsale, Josh Hartnett, Cuba Gooding Jr., Tom Sizemore, Jon Voight, Colm Feore, and Alec Baldwin. 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Despite receiving generally negative reviews from\",\n \"title\": \"Pearl Harbor (film)\"\n }\n]","isConversational":false},"negative_passages":{"kind":"list like","value":[{"docid":"9067427","text":"7, 1941, as FDR was receiving the dismal news concerning the Pearl Harbor attack. Notably, he sat in on a meeting that FDR had called for 3 p.m. that included Secretary of War, Henry L. Stimson, Secretary of the Navy, Frank Knox, Captain John R. Beardall, naval aid, and perhaps Roosevelt's closest presidential aid Harry L. Hopkins. Also in attendance were Steve T. Early, FDR's press secretary and Grace G. Tully, who was a secretary who was among those closest to Roosevelt.{See FDRL, Day by Day Calendar, December 7, 1941} {See Jean Edward Smith, FDR footnote on p.148 for Tully's","title":"Marvin H. McIntyre"},{"docid":"8406574","text":"interesting details of his conversations with Commander George Earle, who while serving in Istanbul in 1943 attempted to negotiate a separate peace with Germany's Wilhelm Canaris and Franz von Papen; and with Admiral Husband Kimmel, who believed he was deliberately set up by the White House at Pearl Harbor. He was interviewed by film maker Anthony J. Hilder about FDR and the attack on Pearl Harbor. Dall was the chairman of the board of the Amalgamated Broadcasting System. Dall became involved with the \"racist Right's ill-fated efforts at forming a third party\" in 1960, when the Texas-based Constitution Party put-up","title":"Curtis Bean Dall"},{"docid":"2095514","text":"(1991) and supplied the voice for two television documentaries, first for \"The Presidency: A Splendid Misery\" in 1964, and then again in the title role of the 1992 documentary miniseries \"Lincoln\". He also played the role of Ulysses S. Grant in \"The Legend of the Lone Ranger\" (1981) and supplied the Union General's voice in the PBS miniseries \"The Civil War\" (1990). He also played Franklin D. Roosevelt in \"FDR: The Final Years\" (1980). Robards also played in the 1970 film \"Tora! Tora! Tora!\", a depiction of the attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941 that led the United","title":"Jason Robards"},{"docid":"20682291","text":"of $45 per image. The game is divided into 11 chapters: Nothing to Fear; The First Ten Days; Legacies of the New Deal; The Changing Face of America; A President in Isolation; The Inner Circle; Seasons of Dilemma; Pearl Harbor; Hour by Hour; A Nation at War; and To Yalta and Back.<ref name=\"http://www.historynet\"></ref> ComputerLife praised the game's interface, sense of humor, and renderings. The \"Wall Street Journal praised\" the title for being \"visually arresting\". The \"San Francisco Chronicle\" deemed it \"ambitious and gorgeously executed\". FDR (video game) FDR is a 1996 interactive CD-ROM game developed by Corbis. The title allows","title":"FDR (video game)"},{"docid":"5415486","text":"Day of Deceit Day of Deceit: The Truth About FDR and Pearl Harbor is a book by Robert Stinnett. It alleges that Franklin Roosevelt and his administration deliberately provoked and allowed the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor to bring the United States into World War II. Stinnett argues that documentary evidence shows that the attacking fleet was detected by radio and intelligence intercepts, but the information was deliberately withheld from Admiral Husband E. Kimmel, the commander of the Pacific Fleet at that time. First released in December 1999, it received a nuanced review in \"The New York Times\" and is","title":"Day of Deceit"},{"docid":"2011158","text":"Truth movement and the JFK assassination theories, when it comes to the possibility of prior knowledge of an attack on Pearl Harbor Cockburn maintained that \"there is strong evidence that FDR did have knowledge that a Japanese naval force in the north Pacific was going to launch an attack on Pearl Harbor. It's quite possible Roosevelt thought it would be a relatively mild assault and thought it would be the final green light to get the US into the war.\" In his writing Cockburn was a consistent exponent of free speech. On the campaign trail of 2004 Cockburn wrote \"Free","title":"Alexander Cockburn"},{"docid":"5415496","text":"another nation would trigger the mutual assistance provision of the Axis Tripartite Pact. Day of Deceit Day of Deceit: The Truth About FDR and Pearl Harbor is a book by Robert Stinnett. It alleges that Franklin Roosevelt and his administration deliberately provoked and allowed the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor to bring the United States into World War II. Stinnett argues that documentary evidence shows that the attacking fleet was detected by radio and intelligence intercepts, but the information was deliberately withheld from Admiral Husband E. Kimmel, the commander of the Pacific Fleet at that time. First released in December","title":"Day of Deceit"},{"docid":"4019739","text":"replied, \"' ... I'll tell you what I believe. I think that most of the incriminating records have been destroyed. ... I doubt if the truth will ever emerge.' ...\" From Vice Admiral Libby, \"I will go to my grave convinced that FDR ordered Pearl Harbor to let happen. He must have known.\" It is equally likely this was done to avoid disclosing the fact that Japanese codes were being read, given that there was a war on. Part of the controversy of the debate centers on the state of documents pertaining to the attack. There are some related to","title":"Pearl Harbor advance-knowledge conspiracy theory"},{"docid":"540107","text":"given on December 8, 1941, after the Japanese surprise attack on Pearl Harbor. While Americans needed no convincing about going to war with Japan, Roosevelt saw the greater threat to the United States coming from Nazi Germany, and he had to make the case for fighting a two-ocean war. Frum points in his book to a now often-overlooked sentence in Roosevelt's speech which reads in part, \"...we will not only defend ourselves to the uttermost but will make very certain that this form of treachery shall never endanger us again.\" Frum interprets Roosevelt's oratory like this: \"For FDR, Pearl Harbor","title":"Axis of evil"},{"docid":"4428238","text":"tour with the Asiatic Fleet and departed Manila for Pearl Harbor. In February 1933, \"S-31\" took the fictional role of USS \"AL-14\" for the submarine movie \"Hell Below\". In that role, she was credited with sinking a German destroyer (played by ), though the destroyer was actually sunk by carefully placed demolition charges. \"S-31\" was based at Pearl Harbor with her division until 1937. Then designated for inactivation, she cleared Pearl Harbor on 14 June, arrived at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on 27 August; and, on 7 December, she was decommissioned and berthed at League Island. Within two years, however, World War","title":"USS S-31 (SS-136)"},{"docid":"19136391","text":"Remember Pearl Harbor Remember Pearl Harbor is a 1942 American drama film directed by Joseph Santley and written by Malcolm Stuart Boylan and Isabel Dawn. The film stars Don \"Red\" Barry, Alan Curtis, Fay McKenzie, Sig Ruman, Ian Keith and Rhys Williams. The film was released on May 18, 1942, by Republic Pictures. Of the movie, reviewer Herbert Cohn of the \"Brooklyn Daily Eagle\" wrote: \"Remember Pearl Harbor\" underneath its title, is a phony. It isn't about Pearl Harbor at all. . . . [It is] about fifth columnists in the Philippines, a few thousand miles west of Pearl Harbor.","title":"Remember Pearl Harbor"},{"docid":"1433270","text":"two final victims of Pearl Harbor.\" The Senate enquiry in 2000 issued a lengthy exoneration of Kimmel's conduct. President Clinton did not act on the resolution, nor has any of his successors. In the 1965 film \"In Harm's Way\", Kimmel was portrayed as a victim of unfortunate circumstance by actor Franchot Tone. The 1970 film \"Tora! Tora! Tora!\" portrays Kimmel, played by actor Martin Balsam, in a sympathetic light: a capable commander operating in an environment plagued by poor communication, inadequate training and systemic unreadiness. Canadian actor Colm Feore portrayed Kimmel in the 2001 movie \"Pearl Harbor\". Andrew Duggan played","title":"Husband E. Kimmel"},{"docid":"13948458","text":"but was launched with political deceptions and policy driven by corporate interests, such as: the US claimed Pearl Harbor a sneak attack but records two weeks earlier show that we anticipated war with Japan; Franklin D. Roosevelt (FDR) claimed German submarines launched unprovoked attacks but the US had really been waging undeclared war with Germany in the Lend-Lease program as an Arsenal of Democracy contrary to Neutrality Acts of 1930s. By 1941 there were over 4,000 strikes, more than any time since 1919. FDR had troops seize mines in a strike May 1943. 6,000 war resistors, three times as many","title":"A People's History of American Empire"},{"docid":"7791372","text":"which gripped the rightwing Republicans, particularly in Congress, and the FBI, who were in the throes of punishing the many talented FDR supporters in entertainment who had helped to defeat isolationists before Pearl Harbor. This was done by smearing them with innuendo and charges of Communism. Fielding's sin appeared to be his Radio Union membership (which was obligatory for all nationally broadcast radio performers) which was in turn one of a dozen or more unions in the Hollywood Writers Mobilization which was founded in 1941 to promote show business efforts against Nazism and in support of the American war effort.","title":"Jerry Fielding"},{"docid":"962500","text":"carrier planes\" and felt that \"\"Pearl Harbor\" is not so much about World War II as it is about movies about World War II. And what's wrong with that?\" Like many historical dramas, \"Pearl Harbor\" provoked debate about the artistic license taken by its producers and director. National Geographic Channel produced a documentary called \"Beyond the Movie: Pearl Harbor\" detailing some of the ways that \"the film's final cut didn't reflect all the attacks' facts, or represent them all accurately\". Many Pearl Harbor survivors dismissed the film as grossly inaccurate and pure Hollywood. In an interview done by Frank Wetta,","title":"Pearl Harbor (film)"},{"docid":"962496","text":"according to this movie, Japan attacked Pearl Harbor because America cut off its oil supply, and they were down to an 18-month reserve. Would going to war restore the fuel sources? Did they perhaps also have imperialist designs? Movie doesn't say\". A. O. Scott of the \"New York Times\" wrote, \"Nearly every line of the script drops from the actors' mouths with the leaden clank of exposition, timed with bad sitcom beats\". \"USA Today\" gave the film two out of four stars and wrote, \"Ships, planes and water combust and collide in \"Pearl Harbor\", but nothing else does in one","title":"Pearl Harbor (film)"},{"docid":"3574989","text":"Harry S. Truman and Secretary of State Dean Acheson. Exemplifying McCarthist rhetoric, Jenner accused the Truman administration of \"bloody tracks of treason\" and called Marshall \"a living lie\" who was \"joining hands once more with this criminal crowd of traitors and Communist appeasers ... under the direction of Mr. Truman and Mr. Acheson.\" Jenner also \"denounced and blamed Marshall for the Pearl Harbor defeat and for his role in helping FDR 'trick America into a war,' the extension of lend-lease to the Communist Soviet Union, the 'selling out' of Eastern Europe at Yalta, the loss of China, and the inclusion","title":"William E. Jenner"},{"docid":"8835628","text":"mayor of Louisville in 1941. He took office just after the bombing of Pearl Harbor ushered the United States into World War II. Wyatt made civil defense a priority in his city and also initiated Louisville's planning and zoning commission. At the 1944 Democratic National Convention in Chicago, Wyatt was called upon to soothe the ruffled feelings of U.S. Senator Alben W. Barkley of Kentucky, who was scheduled to give the nomination speech for U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt. Barkley at first said he would not make the speech after FDR passed him up for the vice-presidential recommendation in favor","title":"Wilson W. Wyatt"},{"docid":"13043852","text":"National Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day National Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day, also referred to as Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day or Pearl Harbor Day, is observed annually in the United States on December 7, to remember and honor the 2,403 citizens of the United States who were killed in the Japanese surprise attack on Pearl Harbor in Hawaii on December 7, 1941. On August 23, 1994, the United States Congress, by , designated December 7 of each year as National Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day. On November 29, President Bill Clinton issued a proclamation declaring December 7, 1994, the first National Pearl Harbor","title":"National Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day"},{"docid":"6599572","text":"series \"Get Real\", playing Cameron Green. The series lasted for a year before Eric made his transition onto the big screen when he played Ben Affleck's gunner in \"Pearl Harbor\", that was quickly followed by a leading role as Austin \"The Cocky Blond Guy\" in the teen send up feature film \"Not Another Teen Movie\". Olsen next played Jake in the teen comedy \"The Hot Chick\". In 2003, he won the role of Lloyd Christmas in \"\", the prequel to the hit movie \"Dumb and Dumber\". Olsen followed that up by playing opposite Chris Evans for a second time in","title":"Eric Christian Olsen"},{"docid":"19136392","text":"And it isn't even a good picture about fifth columnists. It is pokey, except when the Japanese arrive toward the end and the army garrison at Manilla comes to life to be trapped by them. Remember Pearl Harbor Remember Pearl Harbor is a 1942 American drama film directed by Joseph Santley and written by Malcolm Stuart Boylan and Isabel Dawn. The film stars Don \"Red\" Barry, Alan Curtis, Fay McKenzie, Sig Ruman, Ian Keith and Rhys Williams. The film was released on May 18, 1942, by Republic Pictures. Of the movie, reviewer Herbert Cohn of the \"Brooklyn Daily Eagle\" wrote:","title":"Remember Pearl Harbor"},{"docid":"17893636","text":"nearly $449,000 to the museum during efforts to raise money to restore the tower. The tower was considered a personal issue for Senator Inouye and many of these donations were made in his memory. The tower was featured in the films \"Tora! Tora! Tora!\" and \"Pearl Harbor\". Hangar 37, a former seaplane hangar and a survivor of the attack on Pearl Harbor, was the first hangar developed for the museum. The facility consists of nine exhibits, a movie theater, flight simulators, a store and a restaurant. The renovation cost was $11,000,000 and was raised by federal and state grants and","title":"Pearl Harbor Aviation Museum"},{"docid":"962497","text":"of the wimpiest wartime romances ever filmed.\" In his review for \"The Washington Post\", Desson Howe wrote, \"although this Walt Disney movie is based, inspired and even partially informed by a real event referred to as Pearl Harbor, the movie is actually based on the movies \"Top Gun\", \"Titanic\" and \"Saving Private Ryan\". Don't get confused.\" Peter Travers of \"Rolling Stone\" magazine wrote, \"Affleck, Hartnett and Beckinsale – a British actress without a single worthy line to wrap her credible American accent around – are attractive actors, but they can't animate this moldy romantic triangle\". \"Time\" magazine's Richard Schickel criticized","title":"Pearl Harbor (film)"},{"docid":"13043855","text":"Harbor \"a date which will live in infamy.\" In Pearl Harbor: Also on Ford Island. Note: Ford Island remains an active military installation therefore public access is restricted to approved tours, military personnel, military retirees, NOAA personnel and their family members only. In 1990, leading up to the 50th anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor, Congress established the Pearl Harbor Commemorative Medal. This is also known as the Pearl Harbor Survivor's medal and was awarded to anyone who was in the U.S. Armed Forces and who was present in Hawaii on December 7, 1941, and participated in combat operations","title":"National Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day"},{"docid":"6185017","text":"Whitehall Street Whitehall Street is a street in the New York City borough of Manhattan, about four blocks long. The street begins at the southern end of Broadway, at the intersection with Stone Street. Whitehall Street stretches south to the southern end of FDR Drive, adjacent to the Staten Island Ferry's Whitehall Terminal, on landfill beyond the site of Peter Stuyvesant's 17th-century house. The street is one-way southbound for three blocks from Bowling Green to Pearl Street, and one-way northbound up from the FDR Drive to Pearl Street. The southernmost block, adjacent to the ferry terminal, provides access from FDR","title":"Whitehall Street"},{"docid":"9661395","text":"on October 2, 1940. In the book \"Day of Deceit: The Truth About FDR and Pearl Harbor\" written by Robert Stinnett: The heated diplomatic interchanges between Kobayashi and van Mook (H.J. van Mook, Dutch minister) were in sharp contrast to the peaceful surroundings. Japan's diplomats angrily contended that the Netherlands delegates were mere puppets of Washington. On the table were proposals involving Japanese rights to obtain oil and petroleum products from the Netherlands' enormous reserves in the Dutch East Indies. Japan called for the Dutch to provide a minimum of 3,150,000 metric tons of petroleum annually. One of the delegates,","title":"Ichizō Kobayashi"},{"docid":"4433646","text":"Shortly after his brief tenure working with the GOP for the 1944 presidential elections, Flynn learned that GOP candidate Dewey had gotten hold of the highly classified information that America had broken the Japanese naval code early in 1940 – long before the attack on Pearl Harbor – but, at the administration's request, not made this information public. Besides lowering his opinion of the GOP as too weak to fight his nemesis, Roosevelt, Flynn further reasoned that meant FDR must have known in precise detail that the attack was coming and deliberately withheld this information from the now-disgraced commanders in","title":"John T. Flynn"},{"docid":"11170673","text":"continued to expand during 1941, new inefficiencies in the supply process were exposed, and in July a new agency, the Supply Priorities and Allocation Board (SPAB) was created to deal with them. Nelson was named its director. In January, 1942, following America's entry into the war after the attack on Pearl Harbor, Roosevelt abolished both the OPM and the SPAB, replacing them with a new agency, the War Production Board. Once again, FDR asked Nelson to lead it. Nelson faced extensive criticism from the military during his tenure. Described by historian Doris Kearns Goodwin as \"habitually indecisive\", Nelson had difficulty","title":"Donald Nelson"},{"docid":"8132446","text":"itself, but he undoubtedly heard a multiplicity of suspicions. Munson Report The Report on Japanese on the West Coast of the United States, often called the Munson Report, was a 29-page report written in 1940 by Curtis B. Munson, a Detroit businessman commissioned as a special representative of the State Department, on the sympathies and loyalties of Japanese Americans living in California and the West Coast of the United States. Munson's report was submitted to the White House on October 7, 1941, exactly two months before the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. The report was presented to FDR on November","title":"Munson Report"},{"docid":"8132442","text":"Munson Report The Report on Japanese on the West Coast of the United States, often called the Munson Report, was a 29-page report written in 1940 by Curtis B. Munson, a Detroit businessman commissioned as a special representative of the State Department, on the sympathies and loyalties of Japanese Americans living in California and the West Coast of the United States. Munson's report was submitted to the White House on October 7, 1941, exactly two months before the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. The report was presented to FDR on November 7, 1941. By spring of 1941, it was increasingly","title":"Munson Report"},{"docid":"9187032","text":"Leonard Baker Leonard S. Baker (January 24, 1931 – November 23, 1984) was an American writer. He won the 1979 Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography for \"Days of Sorrow and Pain: Leo Baeck and the Berlin Jews\" (Oxford University Press, ), a book about Leo Baeck. His other published works include \"The Johnson Eclipse: A President's Vice Presidency,\" \"Back to Back: The Duel Between FDR and the Supreme Court,\" \"John Marshall: A Life in Law,\" \"Brandeis and Frankfurter: A Dual Biography,\" \"Brahmin in Revolt,\" \"Roosevelt and Pearl Harbor,\" and \"The Guaranteed Society.\" A 1952 graduate of the University of","title":"Leonard Baker"},{"docid":"6474265","text":"led to commit an overt act of war, so much the better.\" The McCollum memo was first widely disseminated with the publication of Robert Stinnett's book \"Day of Deceit: The Truth About FDR and Pearl Harbor.\" Stinnett writes that McCollum's memo was a plan to \"mobilize a reluctant America into joining Britain's struggle against the German armed forces then overrunning Europe. Its eight actions called for virtually inciting a Japanese attack on American ground, air, and naval forces in Hawaii, as well as on British and Dutch colonial outposts in the Pacific region.\" Stinnett presents the memo as part of","title":"McCollum memo"},{"docid":"4250397","text":"by 70%. It included 7 battleships, 18 aircraft carriers and 15,000 aircraft. In the Senate, Walsh was a consistent isolationist He supported American neutrality with respect to the Spanish Civil War and opposed an American alliance with the United Kingdom until the attack on Pearl Harbor. Speaking in the Senate on June 21, 1940, he denounced Roosevelt's plans to provide armaments to Great Britain: At the 1940 Democratic National Convention, where Walsh supported James Farley for president rather than FDR, he and his fellow isolationist Senator Burton Wheeler of Montana proposed a plank for the party platform that read: \"We","title":"David I. Walsh"},{"docid":"12619899","text":"two nations. Noted political economist Robert Higgs points out: Robert Stinnett notes in his book, \"Day Of Deceit: The Truth About FDR and Pearl Harbor\", that America had broken the Japanese diplomatic code and knew that due to the pressure exerted by the Export Control Act, war was quickly becoming an inevitable outcome. He points to a deciphered communiqué between Foreign Minister Teijiro Toyoda and Ambassador Kichisaburō Nomura on July 31: \"Commercial and economic relations between Japan and third countries, led by England and the United States, are gradually becoming so horribly strained that we cannot endure it much longer.","title":"Export Control Act"},{"docid":"7590299","text":"REMEMBER PEARL HARBOR - DECEMBER 7, 1941 - ACT OF CONGRESS 1990<br> Back side (Eagle): FOR THOSE WHO SERVED - \"A DATE WHICH WILL LIVE IN INFAMY\" Pearl Harbor Survivors Association The Pearl Harbor Survivors Association (PHSA), founded in 1958 and recognized by the United States Congress in 1985, was a World War II veterans organization whose members were on Pearl Harbor or three miles or less offshore during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, on December 7, 1941. The PHSA was officially disbanded at the end of December 2011 with a membership of about 2,700 members nationally. The PHSA,","title":"Pearl Harbor Survivors Association"},{"docid":"7102935","text":"in \"Shangri-La Suite\" (2016) opposite Luke Grimes and Emily Browning. Reiley McClendon Reiley McClendon (born Eric Reiley McClendon II; March 11, 1990) is an American actor. He has appeared on such television shows as \"Will & Grace\", \"Zoey 101\", and \"Medium\", as well as in Disney Channel films such as \"Eddie's Million Dollar Cook-Off\" and \"Buffalo Dreams\". He also portrayed young Danny Walker in the 2001 film \"Pearl Harbor\". He played the young Danny Walker in the 2001 film \"Pearl Harbor\" with Jesse James, who played Rafe McCawley. He appeared in the \"\" episode \"\" in a dual role as","title":"Reiley McClendon"},{"docid":"7102934","text":"Reiley McClendon Reiley McClendon (born Eric Reiley McClendon II; March 11, 1990) is an American actor. He has appeared on such television shows as \"Will & Grace\", \"Zoey 101\", and \"Medium\", as well as in Disney Channel films such as \"Eddie's Million Dollar Cook-Off\" and \"Buffalo Dreams\". He also portrayed young Danny Walker in the 2001 film \"Pearl Harbor\". He played the young Danny Walker in the 2001 film \"Pearl Harbor\" with Jesse James, who played Rafe McCawley. He appeared in the \"\" episode \"\" in a dual role as identical twins Logan and Lindsay Stanton. He had a role","title":"Reiley McClendon"},{"docid":"13043856","text":"that day against the attack. The medal was also awarded to civilians who were killed or injured in the attack. A few years later, Congress amended the law to allow any person who was present in Hawaii on December 7, 1941, and was involved in combat operations against Japanese military forces attacking Hawaii, to receive the award. In both instances, there was a limited time period to apply for the award, and it is no longer issued. National Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day National Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day, also referred to as Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day or Pearl Harbor Day, is","title":"National Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day"},{"docid":"15513299","text":"Lerch. Gullion was a prime mover in the efforts to intern American citizens of Japanese ancestry in camps in the wake of the hysteria resulting from the Pearl Harbor attack. Gullion was subsequently attached to Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force in Europe. In 1943, the FBI investigated Gullion for his part in forming an extra-military organization known as the SGs, intended \"to save America from FDR, radical labor, the Communists, the Jews, and the colored race.\" Within months, however, poor health and age were cited for the major general's retirement in 1944. For his wartime service, Gullion received Oak Leaf","title":"Allen W. Gullion"},{"docid":"3201127","text":"Beach Boys\". And in 1998, Susan and Ted Burkhalter stayed there on the way to their first diplomatic assignment. Prior to the 2008-2009 renovation, a framed replica of a Guest Registration Card bearing the signature of US President Franklin D. Roosevelt was displayed in the hotel. The card was dated during the \"Great Depression\". FDR also stayed at the hotel during World War II for military conferences, tours of nearby Pearl Harbor naval base, and to meet with his Supreme Allied Commander in the Pacific Theater, General Douglas MacArthur in July 1944. During that time the hotel was in service","title":"Royal Hawaiian Hotel"},{"docid":"4917070","text":"air attack in both Crete and Iraq. In the African/Middle Eastern portion of the mission, he traveled with Britain's Lord Mountbatten as far as Bathurst in the Gambia. They reported on trans-African air ferry conditions, an important concern of FDR and Winston Churchill at the time. In August, Roosevelt joined the staff of William J. Donovan, Coordinator of Information, with the job of working out the exchange of information with other agencies. After Japan's Attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, Roosevelt requested assignment to combat duty and was transferred to the Marine Raiders in January 1942, a new","title":"James Roosevelt"},{"docid":"14027840","text":"7500 bombers to drop 30 million bombs on German targets, with a density that sometimes reached 100–150 tons/ sq kilometer. Before the attack on Pearl Harbor and during the period within which the predecessor U.S. Army Air Corps became the Army Air Forces in late June 1941, President Franklin D. Roosevelt gave command of the Navy to an aviator, Admiral Ernest King, with a mandate for an aviation-oriented war in the Pacific. FDR allowed King to build up land-based naval and Marine aviation, and seize control of the long-range bombers used in antisubmarine patrols in the Atlantic. Roosevelt basically agreed","title":"Air warfare of World War II"},{"docid":"10405565","text":"and Charles A. Lindbergh); the crucial commitment-laden visits to Britain and the Soviet Union by the president's close adviser Harry Hopkins ; and FDR's unprecedented campaign for a third term in 1940.\" Kirkus Reviews described \"No End Save Victory\" as \"[a]n admiring, richly textured portrait of a leader confronting the unthinkable.\" It also characterized Kaiser as \"an unabashed fan of FDR in this detailed description and analysis of U.S. foreign policy from May 1940 to Pearl Harbor. Repeatedly, he pauses to praise the president.\" Kaiser's autobiography, \"A Life in History\", became available at MountGreylockBooks.com late in 2018. The book tells","title":"David E. Kaiser"},{"docid":"1606793","text":"by many highly placed figures in the U.S. government and military. General George Marshall was an early critic but later changed his mind. Eisenhower was always supportive, as was George Patton. On December 7, after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Donovan met privately with Roosevelt and Edward R. Murrow, and FDR told Donovan, apropos of the COI, \"It's a good thing you got me started on this.\" When Hitler gave a speech declaring war on the United States, he mentioned Donovan, whom he called \"utterly unworthy\". Donovan urged Roosevelt not to intern Japanese-Americans, warning that such an action would","title":"William J. Donovan"},{"docid":"19988091","text":"the storyline of a movie to be titled \"Crimson Tide\", about another Trident submarine, . Toti helped them in correcting the direction of the plot of the movie. \"Crimson Tide\" was released globally in 1995, and \"Crimson Tide\" screenwriter Michael Schiffer attended the 1997 ceremony when Toti took command of USS \"Indianapolis\" at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. Inspired by his relationship with screenwriter Schiffer, Toti then authored a sequel to \"Crimson Tide,\" titled \"The Genocide Game.\" The plot-line of \"The Genocide Game\" involved \"Crimson Tide\" lead character Hunter (played by Denzel Washington), with Hunter, in command of \"Los Angeles\"-class fast attack","title":"William Toti"},{"docid":"15572608","text":"Our Gang in 1931. He also played Roger Jones in 17 Jones Family low-budget films from 1936 to 1940 (named Roger Evers in the first movie, \"Every Saturday Night\"). However, as he grew older, roles became scarcer, so he learned from cameramen on his films and became one himself. When the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, and the United States entered World War II, he enlisted. At a friend's suggestion, he became a combat photographer and \"one of the 17 original movie makers\" of a special OSS photographic unit headed by noted film director John Ford. He","title":"George Ernest"},{"docid":"4409035","text":"Pearl Harbor Commemorative Medal The Pearl Harbor Commemorative Medal, also known as the \"Pearl Harbor Survivor’s Medal\", is a bronze commemorative medal which was established by the United States Congress on November 5, 1990 (P.L. 101-510, 104 Stat. 1721). To have been eligible for the award, \"a person must have been a member of the Armed Forces of the United States who was present in Hawaii on December 7, 1941, and who participated in combat operations that day against Imperial Japanese military forces attacking Hawaii. A person who was killed or wounded in that attack shall be deemed to have","title":"Pearl Harbor Commemorative Medal"},{"docid":"13043853","text":"Remembrance Day. It became (Patriotic and National Observances and Ceremonies) of the United States Code. On Pearl Harbor Day, the American flag should be flown at half-staff until sunset to honor those who died as a result of the attack on U.S. military forces in Hawaii. Pearl Harbor Day is not a federal holiday – government offices, schools, and businesses do not close. Some organizations may hold special events in memory of those killed or injured at Pearl Harbor. On Sunday morning, December 7, 1941, the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service attacked Naval Station Pearl Harbor in Honolulu, Oahu, Hawaii","title":"National Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day"},{"docid":"7590294","text":"adopted. A scholarship was open to any U.S. citizen who is a direct descendant of a PHSA member or deceased member, including step or adopted children. On December 7, 2011, during the 70th anniversary ceremony in Hawaii of the attack on Pearl Harbor (\"Pearl Harbor Day\"), William Muehleib, the President of the PHSA, announced that due to the ages and health of the 2,700 members, the executive board had decided to terminate the corporate association as of December 31 of that year. The \"Pearl Harbor-Gram\" closed its membership in February 2012. However, informal social and local activities involving Pearl Harbor","title":"Pearl Harbor Survivors Association"},{"docid":"1963371","text":"York Observer\" asserted that she \"comes close to capturing the sublimity of Maggie, despite the obvious fact that no movie can capture the elegant copiousness of James' prose.\" The film grossed over $5 million worldwide. Beckinsale rose to fame in 2001 with a leading role in the war film \"Pearl Harbor\" as a nurse torn between two pilots, played by Ben Affleck and Josh Hartnett. She was drawn to the project by the script: \"It's so unusual these days to read a script that has those old-fashioned values to it. Not morals, but movie values. It's a big, sweeping epic...You","title":"Kate Beckinsale"},{"docid":"7925842","text":"Bratton remained with the Intelligence Division until assigned to George S. Patton's Third Army as Headquarters Commandant, a role he undertook all throughout the subsequent liberation of Europe. In the 1970 movie \"Tora! Tora! Tora!\" he was played by E.G. Marshall. The film shows him being summoned by Naval Intelligence Lieutenant Commander Alwin Kramer, (played by Wesley Addy). We see Bratton reading a Japanese transcription, nicknamed \"Magic\", as it comes out of the decryption machine, codenamed \"Purple\". Later on in the film, because of the incoming messages, Bratton becomes convinced that the Japanese are about to attack Pearl Harbor, though","title":"Rufus S. Bratton"},{"docid":"7862812","text":"smoke coming from Pearl Harbor and bombers flying in. She quickly landed the plane at John Rodgers civilian airport near the mouth of Pearl Harbor. The pursuing Zero strafed her plane and the runway as she and her student ran for cover. The airport manager was killed and two other civilian planes did not return that morning. With all civilian flights grounded in Hawaii, Fort returned to the mainland in early 1942. She made a short movie promoting war bonds that was successful and led to speaking engagements. Later that year, Nancy Love recruited her to serve in the newly","title":"Cornelia Fort"},{"docid":"10804587","text":"Summary exhibit of Far Eastern documents, as Congressmen Ferguson and Gearhart who were in the \"Kimmel camp\" had held onto the two copies sent to the Committee to prevent other members seeing them. He decided to write his book \"Pearl Harbor: Final Judgement\" in 1991 (published in 1992), in opposition to what he described as inaccurate conspiracy theories of the Pearl Harbor attack. Stimson got the Army Pearl Harbor Board report (actually two reports, with a second Top Secret section on codebreaking) on Pearl Harbor with its criticism of Marshall and Hull, but \"fatally flawed\" from crucial but withheld evidence","title":"Henry Clausen"},{"docid":"19429563","text":"intent to attack Pearl Harbor and destroy the America's Pacific Fleet in a surprise attack meant to cripple the U.S. Navy, he attempts to warn the Americans, but is put off and his dire warnings apparently ignored. BeyondHollywood wrote: \"\"Han Gil-su\" succeeds by entertaining as well as educating. The film, whether most of it is based on fact or made up for the purposes of a good movie, nevertheless sheds light on an unknown hero of the Pearl Harbor attack. Because of this, \"Han\" will not only appeal to history buffs, but any moviegoer that appreciates a finely crafted thriller","title":"Haan (film)"},{"docid":"3998954","text":"Pearl Harbor not only happened without a declaration of war but was also a treacherous and deceitful act. In fact, Japan and the U.S. were still negotiating for a possible peace agreement which kept U.S. officials very distracted when Japanese planes bombed Pearl Harbor. Keenan explained the definition of a war of aggression and the criminality of the attack on Pearl Harbor: Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, who planned the attack on Pearl Harbor, was fully aware that if Japan lost the war, he would be tried as a war criminal for that attack (although he was killed by the United States","title":"Japanese war crimes"},{"docid":"6185023","text":"made famous in Arlo Guthrie's \"Alice's Restaurant.\" Whitehall Street Whitehall Street is a street in the New York City borough of Manhattan, about four blocks long. The street begins at the southern end of Broadway, at the intersection with Stone Street. Whitehall Street stretches south to the southern end of FDR Drive, adjacent to the Staten Island Ferry's Whitehall Terminal, on landfill beyond the site of Peter Stuyvesant's 17th-century house. The street is one-way southbound for three blocks from Bowling Green to Pearl Street, and one-way northbound up from the FDR Drive to Pearl Street. The southernmost block, adjacent to","title":"Whitehall Street"},{"docid":"20702455","text":"after taking office, Navy Secretary Knox wrote an overview memo which specifically noted the possibility of an attack at Pearl Harbor. However, neither observation led to formal policy recommendations to forestall such an attack. Admiral James O. Richardson, who was fired by President Roosevelt for complaining about the President's order to station the Pacific Fleet in Pearl Harbor instead of its normal berthing on the U.S. West Coast, blamed the President for the \"initial defeats in the Pacific\" as \"direct, real and personal.\" Richardson believed stationing the fleet in Pearl Harbor made the ships extremely vulnerable against attack and provided","title":"Vulnerability of Pearl Harbor in 1941"},{"docid":"20322948","text":"is known as National Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day it is not a federal holiday in the United States. The nation does however pay homage remembering the thousands injured and killed when attacked by the Japanese in 1941 and on Pearl Harbor Day the American flag should be flown at half-staff until sunset. Schools and other establishments in many places around the country do observe lowering the American flag to half-staff out of respect. Ceremonies are held annually at Pearl Harbor itself, attended each year by some of the ever-dwindling number of elderly veterans who were there on the morning of","title":"Attack on Pearl Harbor in popular culture"},{"docid":"8594491","text":"status. The communication stations on Oahu underwent a consolidation in 1967. The message centers at Pearl Harbor (NAVSHIPYD), Makalapa (CINCPACFLT), Camp Smith (CINCPAC), Moanalua (FLEWEACEN), Secure Voice Pearl Harbor, and Consolidated Maintenance came under an Officer-in-Charge, which was known as NAVCOMMACTS Pearl Harbor. NAVCOMMACTS Pearl Harbor was a department of NAVCOMMSTA Honolulu who exercised administrative and operational control. The message center at Barbers Point also came under the control of NAVCOMMSTA Honolulu at the same time. The Makalapa Local Digital Message Exchange (LDMX) was activated in March 1973 by Vice Admiral G. C. Talle, Deputy CINCPACFLT. The system's activation marked","title":"Naval Computer and Telecommunications Area Master Station Pacific"},{"docid":"703963","text":"Indian Ocean or the Pacific except the American survivors of Pearl Harbor who were hastening back to California. Over this vast expanse of waters Japan was supreme and we everywhere were weak and naked\". Throughout the war, Pearl Harbor was frequently used in American propaganda. One further consequence of the attack on Pearl Harbor and its aftermath (notably the Niihau incident) was that Japanese American residents and citizens were relocated to nearby Japanese-American internment camps. Within hours of the attack, hundreds of Japanese American leaders were rounded up and brought to high-security camps such as Sand Island at the mouth","title":"Attack on Pearl Harbor"},{"docid":"15138896","text":"she was donated to the USS \"Missouri\" Memorial Association and became a museum ship at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. Naval Station Pearl Harbor Naval Station Pearl Harbor is a U.S. naval base adjacent to Honolulu, in the U.S. state of Hawaii. In 2010, along with the United States Air Force's Hickam Air Force Base, the facility was merged to form Joint Base Pearl Harbor–Hickam. Pearl Harbor is the headquarters of the United States Pacific Fleet. The attack on Pearl Harbor by the Empire of Japan on Sunday, 7 December 1941 brought the United States into World War II. Naval Station Pearl","title":"Naval Station Pearl Harbor"},{"docid":"5217896","text":"recovery of Project Mercury astronaut Commander Walter M. Schirra. Spending most of 1963 operating out of Pearl Harbor, \"Renshaw\" deployed to WestPac again in November 1963, returning 6 months later. In 1964 \"Renshaw\" took part in the movie \"In Harm's Way\". On 3 March 1965, \"Renshaw\", in company with other units of Destroyer Division 252, departed Pearl Harbor on short notice to augment destroyer forces for the rapidly expanding naval commitments in the South China Sea. During April and May, she served in surveillance roles and in support of carrier striking force operations. In June she was on Taiwan patrol,","title":"USS Renshaw (DD-499)"},{"docid":"4870195","text":"locomotive amusement park ride operator at Disneyland and moved to the Walt Disney Studios in Burbank in 1977 to manage pay television and non-theatrical releases. In 1980, he moved to the company's film distribution department, eventually heading both its distribution and marketing efforts. He earned a reputation there by his marketing of Disney's home video collection and hosting media-worthy movie premieres, for example securing a United States Navy aircraft carrier based in Pearl Harbor to host the debut of the film \"Pearl Harbor\". In 1994, Cook was promoted to president of Buena Vista Pictures Distribution. In 2002, Eisner named him","title":"Dick Cook"},{"docid":"5610836","text":"4 January 1964, \"Walker\" commenced a two-week tender availability at Pearl Harbor with . On 31 January, the ship officially entered the Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard for overhaul. The completion of yard overhaul on 30 April marked the commencement of local exercises in preparation for refresher training. On 19 May, \"Walker\" took part in the filming of the movie \"None But The Brave\" at the island of Kauai. After a month of refresher training and an administrative inspection, the escort destroyer underwent upkeep which took her through June. The summer months found \"Walker\" engaged in local operations. On 17 August","title":"USS Walker (DD-517)"},{"docid":"11061335","text":"into the war at a time when he had not yet acquired full control of continental Europe — on the very day of the Pearl Harbor attack, Hitler himself had issued his Nacht und Nebel decree, concerning the suppression of resistance activities within Nazi-occupied lands. Hitler, who had previously declared the Japanese \"Honorary Aryans\" claimed that \"this is what happens when your allies are not Anglo-Saxons\". However, he decided war with the United States was unavoidable, and the Pearl Harbor attack, the publication of Rainbow Five, and Roosevelt's post-Pearl Harbor address, which focused on European affairs as well as the","title":"Consequences of the attack on Pearl Harbor"},{"docid":"10503417","text":"alterations, including the mounting of additional 20mm guns. On 7 March 1945 Captain Lee H. Baker, USCG, reported on board, and on 12 March relieved Captain von Paulsen, who retired for health reasons. Moving to San Diego on 22 March, she embarked passengers for Pearl Harbor and Ulithi and sailed for San Francisco, California, where she embarked more Navy casuals for Pearl Harbor and Ulithi. She then sailed for Pearl Harbor on 27 March. Pearl Harbor was reached on 2 April, and after debarking passengers she picked up more passengers for Ulithi and sailed on 4 April. Arriving there on","title":"USS General George M. Randall (AP-115)"},{"docid":"4405719","text":"Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard The Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard is a United States Navy shipyard located in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. It is one of just four shipyards operated by the United States Navy. The shipyard is physically a part of Naval Station Pearl Harbor. The Naval Station had existed in Pearl Harbor since 1898, but in 1908 the United States Congress allocated $3 million to build the shipyard, then called Navy Yard Pearl Harbor. The shipyard grew quickly, and work began on the first drydock, which collapsed before opening in 1913. After rebuilding, Dry Dock #1 was opened August 21,","title":"Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard"},{"docid":"962495","text":"the film one and a half stars, writing: \"\"Pearl Harbor\" is a two-hour movie squeezed into three hours, about how, on Dec. 7, 1941, the Japanese staged a surprise attack on an American love triangle. Its centerpiece is 40 minutes of redundant special effects, surrounded by a love story of stunning banality. The film has been directed without grace, vision, or originality, and although you may walk out quoting lines of dialogue, it will not be because you admire them\". Ebert also criticized the liberties the film took with historical facts: \"There is no sense of history, strategy or context;","title":"Pearl Harbor (film)"},{"docid":"15138872","text":"Naval Station Pearl Harbor Naval Station Pearl Harbor is a U.S. naval base adjacent to Honolulu, in the U.S. state of Hawaii. In 2010, along with the United States Air Force's Hickam Air Force Base, the facility was merged to form Joint Base Pearl Harbor–Hickam. Pearl Harbor is the headquarters of the United States Pacific Fleet. The attack on Pearl Harbor by the Empire of Japan on Sunday, 7 December 1941 brought the United States into World War II. Naval Station Pearl Harbor provides berthing and shore side support to surface ships and submarines, as well as maintenance and training.","title":"Naval Station Pearl Harbor"},{"docid":"14967679","text":"Joint Base Pearl Harbor–Hickam Joint Base Pearl Harbor–Hickam (JBPHH) is a United States military base adjacent to Honolulu, Hawaii. It is an amalgamation of the United States Air Force Hickam Air Force Base and the United States Navy Naval Station Pearl Harbor, which were merged in 2010. Joint Base Pearl Harbor–Hickam is one of 12 Joint Bases the 2005 Base Realignment and Closure Commission created. It is part of Navy Region Hawaii and provides Navy and joint operations Base Operating Support that is capabilities-based and integrated. Pearl Harbor is 8 miles from Honolulu. Naval Station Pearl Harbor provides berthing and","title":"Joint Base Pearl Harbor–Hickam"},{"docid":"9241264","text":"masked crime fighter named Britt Reid and was descended from the Lone Ranger's nephew Dan Reid. He was assisted by his Japanese (changed to Filipino after Pearl harbor) valet Kato, who used martial arts. Fran Striker wrote most of the scripts for the series. In 1937, Trendle licensed Republic Pictures to produce a movie version of The Lone Ranger. Trendle was not happy with changes that were made in the movie adaptations and hired attorney Raymond Meurer to oversee licensing of the franchise. However, Trendle did like the incidental music Republic used on the serial's soundtrack and acquired the right","title":"George W. Trendle"},{"docid":"8244050","text":"Paramount Pictures Tom Mix, early Western movie star Gordon Bernie Kaufman, prominent architect Rear Admiral Isaac Campbell Kidd, career U.S. Naval officer who perished aboard USS Arizona in 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor; posthumously received Medal of Honor Ben Meyer, president of Union Bank; first president of Federation of Jewish Welfare Organizations Earl Warren, governor of California; chief justice of U.S. Supreme Court Buster Keaton, silent screen star Hal Roach, comedy writer, director and producer; created Hal Roach Studios Harold Lloyd, comedy movie star in silents and talkies; founded own studio Edmund G. Brown, lawyer and politician; governor of California","title":"Jonathan Club"},{"docid":"5841252","text":"tweet posted by SpaghettiOs on the anniversary of the Pearl Harbor attack, she quipped: \"It sucks that the only survivors of Pearl Harbor are being mocked by the only food they can still chew.\" Her remarks were met with a backlash over social media; in response, Leggero posted in a blog entry that she did not feel that \"the amazing courage of American veterans and specifically those who survived Pearl Harbor is in any way diminished by a comedian making a joke about dentures on television. Do we really believe that the people who fought and defended our freedom against","title":"Natasha Leggero"},{"docid":"5593368","text":"\"Pearl Harbor\", \"Constantine\", \"National Treasure\", \"Transformers\", \"The Simpsons Movie\", \"Night at the Museum\", \"Dinosaur\", \"\", \"King Kong\", \"Signs\", \"Lady in the Water\", \"Peter Pan\", \"First Knight\", \"Hook\" as well as \"Independence Day\", and the \"Star Trek\" films. In 2010, Mr. Thatcher was principal horn on James Newton Howard's soundtrack of \"The Last Airbender\" directed by M. Night Shyamalan. James Thatcher James Thatcher is an American hornist. Thatcher began his professional career at age 16 when he played and studied in Mexico City with his uncle, Gerald Thatcher, former principal hornist with the National Symphony of Mexico. Subsequent instructors have included","title":"James Thatcher"},{"docid":"7523323","text":"Grace and Estella Warren that won a top prize at the Toronto Film Festival. As an actor, he has played a small role in \"Pearl Harbor\" and a professor on an episode of the sci-fi TV series \"Roswell\", which aired May 7, 2001. Wadlow also founded The Adrenaline Film Project, a program to help aspiring filmmakers of all ages conceive and complete a short film in just 72 hours. He directed the film \"Never Back Down\", which was released on March 14, 2008, and starred Djimon Hounsou and Sean Faris. The movie went on to beat out big budget competition","title":"Jeff Wadlow"},{"docid":"4603001","text":"USS Pearl Harbor USS \"Pearl Harbor\" (LSD 52) is a dock landing ship of the United States Navy. She was named for Pearl Harbor, where World War II began for the United States. \"Pearl Harbor\" was laid down on 27 January 1995, by the Avondale Shipyards, New Orleans, La.; launched on 24 February 1996; and commissioned on 30 May 1998. As of September 06, 2018, \"Pearl Harbor\" is homeported to NS San Diego, California, and assigned to Commander Amphibious Squadron 3 (COMPHIBRON 3). On 4 May 2008 the ship departed San Diego for assignment in the Persian Gulf as part","title":"USS Pearl Harbor"},{"docid":"20702459","text":"in Hawaii. Vulnerability of Pearl Harbor in 1941 Several reports prior to Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941 indicated that the base was vulnerable to attack. This has sometimes been noted in Pearl Harbor advance-knowledge conspiracy theories. In 1925, Gen. Billy Mitchell published a report called Winged Defense revealing the vulnerability of Pearl Harbor to a surprise air attack. Mitchell predicted that such an attack would effectively neutralize the Pacific fleet as part of a Japanese invasion of the Philippines. Two mock air attacks on Pearl Harbor during war games in the 1930s were judged to have been a","title":"Vulnerability of Pearl Harbor in 1941"},{"docid":"20702454","text":"Vulnerability of Pearl Harbor in 1941 Several reports prior to Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941 indicated that the base was vulnerable to attack. This has sometimes been noted in Pearl Harbor advance-knowledge conspiracy theories. In 1925, Gen. Billy Mitchell published a report called Winged Defense revealing the vulnerability of Pearl Harbor to a surprise air attack. Mitchell predicted that such an attack would effectively neutralize the Pacific fleet as part of a Japanese invasion of the Philippines. Two mock air attacks on Pearl Harbor during war games in the 1930s were judged to have been a success. Shortly","title":"Vulnerability of Pearl Harbor in 1941"},{"docid":"4019653","text":"Harbor during the attack, and called Clausen's investigation \"notoriously unreliable\" in several aspects. Some authors argue that US President Roosevelt was actively provoking Japan in the weeks prior to the Pearl Harbor attack. These authors assert that Roosevelt was imminently expecting and seeking war, but wanted Japan to take the first overtly aggressive action. One perspective is given by Rear Admiral Frank Edmund Beatty Jr., who at the time of the Pearl Harbor attack was an aide to the Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox and was very close to President Franklin D. Roosevelt's inner circle, remarked that: Another \"eye","title":"Pearl Harbor advance-knowledge conspiracy theory"},{"docid":"3208314","text":"USCGC Taney (WHEC-37) USCGC \"Taney\" (WPG/WAGC/WHEC-37) () is a United States Coast Guard High Endurance Cutter, notable as the last warship floating that fought in the attack on Pearl Harbor, although \"Taney\" was moored in nearby Honolulu Harbor not Pearl Harbor itself (a non-combatant vessel at Pearl Harbor, the US Navy tug , also remains afloat). She was named for Roger B. Taney (1777–1864), who was at various times: U.S. Attorney General, Secretary of the Treasury, and Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. She is also one of two Treasury-class (out of seven total) Coast Guard cutters still afloat. Serving","title":"USCGC Taney (WHEC-37)"},{"docid":"17893629","text":"Pearl Harbor Aviation Museum Pearl Harbor Aviation Museum (formerly the Pacific Aviation Museum Pearl Harbor) is a non-profit founded in 1999 to develop an aviation museum in Hawaii. Part of Senator Daniel Inouye's vision for a rebirth of Ford Island, the museum hosts a variety of aviation exhibits with a majority relating directly to the attack on Pearl Harbor and World War II. The first section of the museum, hangar 37, opened with the museum on December 7, 2006, and features much of the museum's static exhibits. The museum's hangars show damage from the attacks on Pearl Harbor from December","title":"Pearl Harbor Aviation Museum"},{"docid":"12962339","text":"an appropriation of $50,000 on March 1, 1869, to deepen the approaches to this harbor. After 1868, when the Commander of the Pacific Fleet visited the islands to look after American interests, naval officers played an important role in internal affairs. They served as arbitrators in business disputes, negotiators of trade agreements and defenders of law and order. Periodic voyages among the islands and to the mainland aboard U.S. warships were arranged for members of the Hawaiian royal family and important island government officials. When King Lunalilo died in 1873, negotiations were underway for the cession of Pearl Harbor as","title":"Pearl Harbor"},{"docid":"4019648","text":"Pearl Harbor advance-knowledge conspiracy theory The Pearl Harbor advance-knowledge conspiracy theory is the argument that U.S. Government officials had advance knowledge of Japan's December 7, 1941, attack on Pearl Harbor. Ever since the Japanese attack; there has been debate as to how and why the United States had been caught off guard, and how much and when American officials knew of Japanese plans for an attack. In September 1944, John T. Flynn, a co-founder of the non-interventionist America First Committee, launched a Pearl Harbor counter-narrative when he published a forty-six page booklet entitled \"The Truth about Pearl Harbor\". Several writers,","title":"Pearl Harbor advance-knowledge conspiracy theory"},{"docid":"15849689","text":"States Navy grew rapidly during World War II from 1941–45, and played a central role in the Pacific theatre in the war against Japan. It also played a major supporting role, alongside the Royal Navy, in the European war against Germany. The Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) sought naval superiority in the Pacific by sinking the main American battle fleet at Pearl Harbor, which was built around its battleships. The December 1941 surprise attack on Pearl Harbor did knock out the battle fleet, but it did not touch the aircraft carriers, which became the mainstay of the rebuilt fleet. Naval doctrine","title":"Naval history of World War II"},{"docid":"685043","text":"battle. A fictional version of the battle is shown in the 2001 movie, \"Pearl Harbor\", in which the battle is depicted as still going on into 1941. It has also been the subject of many documentaries, including the 1941 Allied propaganda film \"Churchill's Island\", winner of the first Academy Award for Documentary Short Subject. There was also the 1943 \"The Battle of Britain\" in Frank Capra's \"Why We Fight\" series. It was included in an episode of 2004 BBC television documentary series \"Battlefield Britain\". In 2010, actor Julian Glover played a 101-year-old Polish veteran RAF pilot in the short film","title":"Battle of Britain"},{"docid":"6197583","text":"that conversation was Captain Isoroku Yamamoto. Later, Admiral Yamamoto would be the architect of the attack on Pearl Harbor. While Cooper's character Scott is shown as captain of the carrier at the Battle of Okinawa, the ship was actually commanded by Captain Leslie E. Gehres. Paul Mantz did much of the flying in the early aerial sequences. In the film, \"White Heat\", when Arthur \"Cody\" Jarrett played by James Cagney is chased by federal investigators, to lose them, he drives the car into San-Val Drive In, where \"Task Force\" is showing. Later in the movie, when Cody's mother is interrogated","title":"Task Force (film)"},{"docid":"832637","text":"returns to Tennessee greeted by Gracie and his family. To his surprise, the people of his home state have bought him the bottomland farm he wanted and built him a house on the land. Credited </br> </br> Uncredited \"Sergeant York\" was a spectacular success at the box office and became the highest-grossing film of 1941. It remains one of the highest-grossing films of all time when adjusted for inflation. It benefited from the attack on Pearl Harbor, which occurred while the film played in theaters. The film's patriotic theme helped recruit soldiers; young men sometimes went directly from the movie","title":"Sergeant York (film)"},{"docid":"11125195","text":"Harbor, arriving 21 February. She departed Pearl Harbor 27 February, discharged cargo at Eniwetok, Tinian, and Guam and returned to Pearl Harbor 26 March for training and inter-island transport duties until 24 June. After a cargo-passenger voyage to Midway, she sailed 4 July from Pearl Harbor for San Francisco, where she disembarked passengers and loaded cargo for Pearl Harbor, returning 30 July. After another voyage to carry men to Midway, \"Colusa\" departed Pearl Harbor 1 September and called at Saipan, Sasebo, Okinawa, and Wakayama on duty redeploying occupation personnel. Between 7 October, when she cleared Wakayama, and 5 January 1946,","title":"USS Colusa (APA-74)"},{"docid":"4603004","text":"Tonga, New Caledonia, Marshall Islands, Kiribati, and Soloman Islands. On 15 April 2014, the ship entered an Extended Docking Phased Maintenance Availability (EDPMA) to complete her midlife overhaul. After numerous extensions due to unplanned growth work, \"Pearl Harbor\" completed her extensive overhaul in May 2016. The ship participated in Southern California Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC) in July 2016 where it supported amphibious operations in conjunction with Australian, Canadian, Japanese, and German coalition partners under command of CDR Judd Krier. \"Pearl Harbor\" is currently assigned to the amphibious readiness group (ARG). USS Pearl Harbor USS \"Pearl Harbor\" (LSD 52) is","title":"USS Pearl Harbor"},{"docid":"12962344","text":"a main base for the US Pacific Fleet after World War II along with Naval Base San Diego. In 2010, the Navy and the Air Force merged their two nearby bases; Pearl Harbor joined with Hickam Air Force Base to create Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam. On February 18, 2016, a tourist helicopter fell into Pearl Harbor, injuring four people; one person was missing and is thought to be dead. In December 2016, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe made a joint visit to Pearl Harbor with US President Barack Obama. This trip marked the 75 year anniversary of the attack, and","title":"Pearl Harbor"},{"docid":"2356390","text":"for a generation who never knew the real man who had long since become an historical figure.\" Todd VanDerWerff wrote that while he found \"Annie\" to be a mediocre film, \"Herrmann's warm charm as FDR shines through. He's a kind, compassionate fellow, in a film that's all about the power of positive feeling and kindness.\" In 1980 Herrmann also starred in an episode of \"M*A*S*H\" as an army surgeon suffering from PTSD. Also he played Max in the 1987 movie \"The Lost Boys\". He was nominated for a Tony Award for \"Plenty\" in 1983 and Emmy Awards in 1986 and","title":"Edward Herrmann"},{"docid":"6169961","text":"to pick up the skipper of destroyer , who was subsequently transferred to his own ship at sea. \"Bagley\" covered the arrival of TF 14 at Pearl Harbor four days after Christmas. The next day, the destroyer sailed with to patrol west of Oahu, covering the islands while two carrier groups escorted reinforcements to Samoa. On 11 January 1942, however, a single torpedo from hit and damaged the aircraft carrier. \"Bagley\" returned to Pearl Harbor with the injured \"Saratoga\" and, taking advantage of the opportunity, underwent a restricted availability at the Pearl Harbor Navy Yard between 23 January and 3","title":"USS Bagley (DD-386)"},{"docid":"11093559","text":"Pearl Harbor Elementary School Pearl Harbor Elementary School is a public, coeducational grade school of the Hawai'i State Department of Education that serves around 637 students in grades K-6. The ethnicity is 56% Asian and 25% White. It is located on Moanalua Ridge, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA. Pearl Harbor is within the Radford Complex in the Central Oahu District of Hawaii State Department of Education. Pearl Harbor was established in 1956. The school was surrounded by military housing in the late 1950s. As time went on enrollments decreased due to the opening of other schools around the area. The school was","title":"Pearl Harbor Elementary School"},{"docid":"17893645","text":"States by TripAdvisor. In 2007, the museum was awarded a preservation award from the Historic Hawaii foundation for \"a specific project that preserved, rehabilitated or restored a historic building, object, site or district\" in the redevelopment of hangar 37. Pearl Harbor Aviation Museum Pearl Harbor Aviation Museum (formerly the Pacific Aviation Museum Pearl Harbor) is a non-profit founded in 1999 to develop an aviation museum in Hawaii. Part of Senator Daniel Inouye's vision for a rebirth of Ford Island, the museum hosts a variety of aviation exhibits with a majority relating directly to the attack on Pearl Harbor and World","title":"Pearl Harbor Aviation Museum"},{"docid":"4031532","text":"training cruise in the Bering Sea and then returned to Pearl Harbor via Seattle and Portland. In late October 1947 \"Bugara\" departed Pearl Harbor for California. She underwent a yard period between 20 November 1947 and 19 March 1948, returning to Pearl Harbor 27 March. In July she proceeded to Yokosuka, Japan, via Guam, Melbourne, Buckner Bay, and Qingdao. She returned to Pearl Harbor 24 August 1948. On 13 August 1949 she departed Pearl Harbor for overhaul at San Francisco, returning 3 January 1950. \"Bugara\" received three battle stars for her World War II service. In Sep. of 1950 she","title":"USS Bugara (SS-331)"},{"docid":"15138884","text":"interests will make a strong effort next year to have Pearl Harbor improved, and I think that will be an opportune time for the Navy Department to make efforts in the same direction.\" In 1908, the Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard was established. The period from 1908–1919 was one of steady and continuous growth of the Naval Station, Pearl Harbor, with the exception of the discouraging collapse of the drydock in 1913. The Act of 13 May 1908 authorized the enlargement and dredging of the Pearl Harbor channel and lochs \"to admit the largest ships,\" the building of shops and supply","title":"Naval Station Pearl Harbor"},{"docid":"7590288","text":"Pearl Harbor Survivors Association The Pearl Harbor Survivors Association (PHSA), founded in 1958 and recognized by the United States Congress in 1985, was a World War II veterans organization whose members were on Pearl Harbor or three miles or less offshore during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, on December 7, 1941. The PHSA was officially disbanded at the end of December 2011 with a membership of about 2,700 members nationally. The PHSA, which was incorporated in the State of Missouri, held Federal Charter 99-119 under Title 36 of the United States Code. The PHSA National Insignia bearing the name","title":"Pearl Harbor Survivors Association"},{"docid":"3021656","text":"mid-December, she escorted a convoy to Pearl Harbor, returned to Mare Island for new radar gear, and sailed back to Pearl Harbor the latter part of January 1942. The following month, \"Perkins\" departed Pearl Harbor and joined Australian, New Zealand, and other US ships in the ANZAC Squadron, charged with protecting the eastern approaches to Australia and New Zealand. She continued operations with ANZAC until April. In May 1942, \"Perkins\" participated in the Battle of the Coral Sea. After that, propeller problems took her to New Zealand and to Pearl Harbor, where repairs were completed. While at Pearl Harbor, additional","title":"Mahan-class destroyer"},{"docid":"4821320","text":"served aboard the \"Hovey\". \"Hovey\" converted to a high speed minesweeper and was reclassified DMS-11 19 November 1940. After intensive training she sailed 4 February 1941 for duty at Pearl Harbor. When the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor 7 December 1941 \"Hovey\" was steaming in company with \"Chandler\" as antisubmarine screen for , engaged in gunnery practice some 20 miles (40 km) off Pearl Harbor. The minesweeper immediately took up patrol and convoy duty around Pearl Harbor until 20 May when she escorted a 20-ship convoy to San Francisco, arriving 31 May. \"Hovey\" returned to Pearl Harbor in mid-June and sailed","title":"USS Hovey (DD-208)"},{"docid":"7590289","text":"Pearl Harbor Survivors Association was registered at the U.S. Patent Office. The PHSA's motto read: The first meeting of what would become the Pearl Harbor Survivors Association (PHSA) took place on December 7, 1954 at the Del Camino Room in Gardena, California where eleven survivors of the attack gathered to remember their fallen comrades and dear friends. It was at this first meeting that those in attendance swore that they would make the commemoration an annual event. At the association's official founding dinner in 1958 with thirteen survivors present, the eleven survivors who were present at the 1954 meeting were","title":"Pearl Harbor Survivors Association"}],"string":"[\n {\n \"docid\": \"9067427\",\n \"text\": \"7, 1941, as FDR was receiving the dismal news concerning the Pearl Harbor attack. Notably, he sat in on a meeting that FDR had called for 3 p.m. that included Secretary of War, Henry L. Stimson, Secretary of the Navy, Frank Knox, Captain John R. Beardall, naval aid, and perhaps Roosevelt's closest presidential aid Harry L. Hopkins. Also in attendance were Steve T. Early, FDR's press secretary and Grace G. Tully, who was a secretary who was among those closest to Roosevelt.{See FDRL, Day by Day Calendar, December 7, 1941} {See Jean Edward Smith, FDR footnote on p.148 for Tully's\",\n \"title\": \"Marvin H. McIntyre\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"8406574\",\n \"text\": \"interesting details of his conversations with Commander George Earle, who while serving in Istanbul in 1943 attempted to negotiate a separate peace with Germany's Wilhelm Canaris and Franz von Papen; and with Admiral Husband Kimmel, who believed he was deliberately set up by the White House at Pearl Harbor. He was interviewed by film maker Anthony J. Hilder about FDR and the attack on Pearl Harbor. Dall was the chairman of the board of the Amalgamated Broadcasting System. Dall became involved with the \\\"racist Right's ill-fated efforts at forming a third party\\\" in 1960, when the Texas-based Constitution Party put-up\",\n \"title\": \"Curtis Bean Dall\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"2095514\",\n \"text\": \"(1991) and supplied the voice for two television documentaries, first for \\\"The Presidency: A Splendid Misery\\\" in 1964, and then again in the title role of the 1992 documentary miniseries \\\"Lincoln\\\". He also played the role of Ulysses S. Grant in \\\"The Legend of the Lone Ranger\\\" (1981) and supplied the Union General's voice in the PBS miniseries \\\"The Civil War\\\" (1990). He also played Franklin D. Roosevelt in \\\"FDR: The Final Years\\\" (1980). Robards also played in the 1970 film \\\"Tora! Tora! Tora!\\\", a depiction of the attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941 that led the United\",\n \"title\": \"Jason Robards\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"20682291\",\n \"text\": \"of $45 per image. The game is divided into 11 chapters: Nothing to Fear; The First Ten Days; Legacies of the New Deal; The Changing Face of America; A President in Isolation; The Inner Circle; Seasons of Dilemma; Pearl Harbor; Hour by Hour; A Nation at War; and To Yalta and Back.<ref name=\\\"http://www.historynet\\\"></ref> ComputerLife praised the game's interface, sense of humor, and renderings. The \\\"Wall Street Journal praised\\\" the title for being \\\"visually arresting\\\". The \\\"San Francisco Chronicle\\\" deemed it \\\"ambitious and gorgeously executed\\\". FDR (video game) FDR is a 1996 interactive CD-ROM game developed by Corbis. The title allows\",\n \"title\": \"FDR (video game)\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"5415486\",\n \"text\": \"Day of Deceit Day of Deceit: The Truth About FDR and Pearl Harbor is a book by Robert Stinnett. It alleges that Franklin Roosevelt and his administration deliberately provoked and allowed the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor to bring the United States into World War II. Stinnett argues that documentary evidence shows that the attacking fleet was detected by radio and intelligence intercepts, but the information was deliberately withheld from Admiral Husband E. Kimmel, the commander of the Pacific Fleet at that time. First released in December 1999, it received a nuanced review in \\\"The New York Times\\\" and is\",\n \"title\": \"Day of Deceit\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"2011158\",\n \"text\": \"Truth movement and the JFK assassination theories, when it comes to the possibility of prior knowledge of an attack on Pearl Harbor Cockburn maintained that \\\"there is strong evidence that FDR did have knowledge that a Japanese naval force in the north Pacific was going to launch an attack on Pearl Harbor. It's quite possible Roosevelt thought it would be a relatively mild assault and thought it would be the final green light to get the US into the war.\\\" In his writing Cockburn was a consistent exponent of free speech. On the campaign trail of 2004 Cockburn wrote \\\"Free\",\n \"title\": \"Alexander Cockburn\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"5415496\",\n \"text\": \"another nation would trigger the mutual assistance provision of the Axis Tripartite Pact. Day of Deceit Day of Deceit: The Truth About FDR and Pearl Harbor is a book by Robert Stinnett. It alleges that Franklin Roosevelt and his administration deliberately provoked and allowed the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor to bring the United States into World War II. Stinnett argues that documentary evidence shows that the attacking fleet was detected by radio and intelligence intercepts, but the information was deliberately withheld from Admiral Husband E. Kimmel, the commander of the Pacific Fleet at that time. First released in December\",\n \"title\": \"Day of Deceit\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"4019739\",\n \"text\": \"replied, \\\"' ... I'll tell you what I believe. I think that most of the incriminating records have been destroyed. ... I doubt if the truth will ever emerge.' ...\\\" From Vice Admiral Libby, \\\"I will go to my grave convinced that FDR ordered Pearl Harbor to let happen. He must have known.\\\" It is equally likely this was done to avoid disclosing the fact that Japanese codes were being read, given that there was a war on. Part of the controversy of the debate centers on the state of documents pertaining to the attack. There are some related to\",\n \"title\": \"Pearl Harbor advance-knowledge conspiracy theory\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"540107\",\n \"text\": \"given on December 8, 1941, after the Japanese surprise attack on Pearl Harbor. While Americans needed no convincing about going to war with Japan, Roosevelt saw the greater threat to the United States coming from Nazi Germany, and he had to make the case for fighting a two-ocean war. Frum points in his book to a now often-overlooked sentence in Roosevelt's speech which reads in part, \\\"...we will not only defend ourselves to the uttermost but will make very certain that this form of treachery shall never endanger us again.\\\" Frum interprets Roosevelt's oratory like this: \\\"For FDR, Pearl Harbor\",\n \"title\": \"Axis of evil\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"4428238\",\n \"text\": \"tour with the Asiatic Fleet and departed Manila for Pearl Harbor. In February 1933, \\\"S-31\\\" took the fictional role of USS \\\"AL-14\\\" for the submarine movie \\\"Hell Below\\\". In that role, she was credited with sinking a German destroyer (played by ), though the destroyer was actually sunk by carefully placed demolition charges. \\\"S-31\\\" was based at Pearl Harbor with her division until 1937. Then designated for inactivation, she cleared Pearl Harbor on 14 June, arrived at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on 27 August; and, on 7 December, she was decommissioned and berthed at League Island. Within two years, however, World War\",\n \"title\": \"USS S-31 (SS-136)\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"19136391\",\n \"text\": \"Remember Pearl Harbor Remember Pearl Harbor is a 1942 American drama film directed by Joseph Santley and written by Malcolm Stuart Boylan and Isabel Dawn. The film stars Don \\\"Red\\\" Barry, Alan Curtis, Fay McKenzie, Sig Ruman, Ian Keith and Rhys Williams. The film was released on May 18, 1942, by Republic Pictures. Of the movie, reviewer Herbert Cohn of the \\\"Brooklyn Daily Eagle\\\" wrote: \\\"Remember Pearl Harbor\\\" underneath its title, is a phony. It isn't about Pearl Harbor at all. . . . [It is] about fifth columnists in the Philippines, a few thousand miles west of Pearl Harbor.\",\n \"title\": \"Remember Pearl Harbor\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"1433270\",\n \"text\": \"two final victims of Pearl Harbor.\\\" The Senate enquiry in 2000 issued a lengthy exoneration of Kimmel's conduct. President Clinton did not act on the resolution, nor has any of his successors. In the 1965 film \\\"In Harm's Way\\\", Kimmel was portrayed as a victim of unfortunate circumstance by actor Franchot Tone. The 1970 film \\\"Tora! Tora! Tora!\\\" portrays Kimmel, played by actor Martin Balsam, in a sympathetic light: a capable commander operating in an environment plagued by poor communication, inadequate training and systemic unreadiness. Canadian actor Colm Feore portrayed Kimmel in the 2001 movie \\\"Pearl Harbor\\\". Andrew Duggan played\",\n \"title\": \"Husband E. Kimmel\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"13948458\",\n \"text\": \"but was launched with political deceptions and policy driven by corporate interests, such as: the US claimed Pearl Harbor a sneak attack but records two weeks earlier show that we anticipated war with Japan; Franklin D. Roosevelt (FDR) claimed German submarines launched unprovoked attacks but the US had really been waging undeclared war with Germany in the Lend-Lease program as an Arsenal of Democracy contrary to Neutrality Acts of 1930s. By 1941 there were over 4,000 strikes, more than any time since 1919. FDR had troops seize mines in a strike May 1943. 6,000 war resistors, three times as many\",\n \"title\": \"A People's History of American Empire\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"7791372\",\n \"text\": \"which gripped the rightwing Republicans, particularly in Congress, and the FBI, who were in the throes of punishing the many talented FDR supporters in entertainment who had helped to defeat isolationists before Pearl Harbor. This was done by smearing them with innuendo and charges of Communism. Fielding's sin appeared to be his Radio Union membership (which was obligatory for all nationally broadcast radio performers) which was in turn one of a dozen or more unions in the Hollywood Writers Mobilization which was founded in 1941 to promote show business efforts against Nazism and in support of the American war effort.\",\n \"title\": \"Jerry Fielding\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"962500\",\n \"text\": \"carrier planes\\\" and felt that \\\"\\\"Pearl Harbor\\\" is not so much about World War II as it is about movies about World War II. And what's wrong with that?\\\" Like many historical dramas, \\\"Pearl Harbor\\\" provoked debate about the artistic license taken by its producers and director. National Geographic Channel produced a documentary called \\\"Beyond the Movie: Pearl Harbor\\\" detailing some of the ways that \\\"the film's final cut didn't reflect all the attacks' facts, or represent them all accurately\\\". Many Pearl Harbor survivors dismissed the film as grossly inaccurate and pure Hollywood. In an interview done by Frank Wetta,\",\n \"title\": \"Pearl Harbor (film)\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"962496\",\n \"text\": \"according to this movie, Japan attacked Pearl Harbor because America cut off its oil supply, and they were down to an 18-month reserve. Would going to war restore the fuel sources? Did they perhaps also have imperialist designs? Movie doesn't say\\\". A. O. Scott of the \\\"New York Times\\\" wrote, \\\"Nearly every line of the script drops from the actors' mouths with the leaden clank of exposition, timed with bad sitcom beats\\\". \\\"USA Today\\\" gave the film two out of four stars and wrote, \\\"Ships, planes and water combust and collide in \\\"Pearl Harbor\\\", but nothing else does in one\",\n \"title\": \"Pearl Harbor (film)\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"3574989\",\n \"text\": \"Harry S. Truman and Secretary of State Dean Acheson. Exemplifying McCarthist rhetoric, Jenner accused the Truman administration of \\\"bloody tracks of treason\\\" and called Marshall \\\"a living lie\\\" who was \\\"joining hands once more with this criminal crowd of traitors and Communist appeasers ... under the direction of Mr. Truman and Mr. Acheson.\\\" Jenner also \\\"denounced and blamed Marshall for the Pearl Harbor defeat and for his role in helping FDR 'trick America into a war,' the extension of lend-lease to the Communist Soviet Union, the 'selling out' of Eastern Europe at Yalta, the loss of China, and the inclusion\",\n \"title\": \"William E. Jenner\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"8835628\",\n \"text\": \"mayor of Louisville in 1941. He took office just after the bombing of Pearl Harbor ushered the United States into World War II. Wyatt made civil defense a priority in his city and also initiated Louisville's planning and zoning commission. At the 1944 Democratic National Convention in Chicago, Wyatt was called upon to soothe the ruffled feelings of U.S. Senator Alben W. Barkley of Kentucky, who was scheduled to give the nomination speech for U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt. Barkley at first said he would not make the speech after FDR passed him up for the vice-presidential recommendation in favor\",\n \"title\": \"Wilson W. Wyatt\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"13043852\",\n \"text\": \"National Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day National Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day, also referred to as Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day or Pearl Harbor Day, is observed annually in the United States on December 7, to remember and honor the 2,403 citizens of the United States who were killed in the Japanese surprise attack on Pearl Harbor in Hawaii on December 7, 1941. On August 23, 1994, the United States Congress, by , designated December 7 of each year as National Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day. On November 29, President Bill Clinton issued a proclamation declaring December 7, 1994, the first National Pearl Harbor\",\n \"title\": \"National Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"6599572\",\n \"text\": \"series \\\"Get Real\\\", playing Cameron Green. The series lasted for a year before Eric made his transition onto the big screen when he played Ben Affleck's gunner in \\\"Pearl Harbor\\\", that was quickly followed by a leading role as Austin \\\"The Cocky Blond Guy\\\" in the teen send up feature film \\\"Not Another Teen Movie\\\". Olsen next played Jake in the teen comedy \\\"The Hot Chick\\\". In 2003, he won the role of Lloyd Christmas in \\\"\\\", the prequel to the hit movie \\\"Dumb and Dumber\\\". Olsen followed that up by playing opposite Chris Evans for a second time in\",\n \"title\": \"Eric Christian Olsen\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"19136392\",\n \"text\": \"And it isn't even a good picture about fifth columnists. It is pokey, except when the Japanese arrive toward the end and the army garrison at Manilla comes to life to be trapped by them. Remember Pearl Harbor Remember Pearl Harbor is a 1942 American drama film directed by Joseph Santley and written by Malcolm Stuart Boylan and Isabel Dawn. The film stars Don \\\"Red\\\" Barry, Alan Curtis, Fay McKenzie, Sig Ruman, Ian Keith and Rhys Williams. The film was released on May 18, 1942, by Republic Pictures. Of the movie, reviewer Herbert Cohn of the \\\"Brooklyn Daily Eagle\\\" wrote:\",\n \"title\": \"Remember Pearl Harbor\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"17893636\",\n \"text\": \"nearly $449,000 to the museum during efforts to raise money to restore the tower. The tower was considered a personal issue for Senator Inouye and many of these donations were made in his memory. The tower was featured in the films \\\"Tora! Tora! Tora!\\\" and \\\"Pearl Harbor\\\". Hangar 37, a former seaplane hangar and a survivor of the attack on Pearl Harbor, was the first hangar developed for the museum. The facility consists of nine exhibits, a movie theater, flight simulators, a store and a restaurant. The renovation cost was $11,000,000 and was raised by federal and state grants and\",\n \"title\": \"Pearl Harbor Aviation Museum\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"962497\",\n \"text\": \"of the wimpiest wartime romances ever filmed.\\\" In his review for \\\"The Washington Post\\\", Desson Howe wrote, \\\"although this Walt Disney movie is based, inspired and even partially informed by a real event referred to as Pearl Harbor, the movie is actually based on the movies \\\"Top Gun\\\", \\\"Titanic\\\" and \\\"Saving Private Ryan\\\". Don't get confused.\\\" Peter Travers of \\\"Rolling Stone\\\" magazine wrote, \\\"Affleck, Hartnett and Beckinsale – a British actress without a single worthy line to wrap her credible American accent around – are attractive actors, but they can't animate this moldy romantic triangle\\\". \\\"Time\\\" magazine's Richard Schickel criticized\",\n \"title\": \"Pearl Harbor (film)\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"13043855\",\n \"text\": \"Harbor \\\"a date which will live in infamy.\\\" In Pearl Harbor: Also on Ford Island. Note: Ford Island remains an active military installation therefore public access is restricted to approved tours, military personnel, military retirees, NOAA personnel and their family members only. In 1990, leading up to the 50th anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor, Congress established the Pearl Harbor Commemorative Medal. This is also known as the Pearl Harbor Survivor's medal and was awarded to anyone who was in the U.S. Armed Forces and who was present in Hawaii on December 7, 1941, and participated in combat operations\",\n \"title\": \"National Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"6185017\",\n \"text\": \"Whitehall Street Whitehall Street is a street in the New York City borough of Manhattan, about four blocks long. The street begins at the southern end of Broadway, at the intersection with Stone Street. Whitehall Street stretches south to the southern end of FDR Drive, adjacent to the Staten Island Ferry's Whitehall Terminal, on landfill beyond the site of Peter Stuyvesant's 17th-century house. The street is one-way southbound for three blocks from Bowling Green to Pearl Street, and one-way northbound up from the FDR Drive to Pearl Street. The southernmost block, adjacent to the ferry terminal, provides access from FDR\",\n \"title\": \"Whitehall Street\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"9661395\",\n \"text\": \"on October 2, 1940. In the book \\\"Day of Deceit: The Truth About FDR and Pearl Harbor\\\" written by Robert Stinnett: The heated diplomatic interchanges between Kobayashi and van Mook (H.J. van Mook, Dutch minister) were in sharp contrast to the peaceful surroundings. Japan's diplomats angrily contended that the Netherlands delegates were mere puppets of Washington. On the table were proposals involving Japanese rights to obtain oil and petroleum products from the Netherlands' enormous reserves in the Dutch East Indies. Japan called for the Dutch to provide a minimum of 3,150,000 metric tons of petroleum annually. One of the delegates,\",\n \"title\": \"Ichizō Kobayashi\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"4433646\",\n \"text\": \"Shortly after his brief tenure working with the GOP for the 1944 presidential elections, Flynn learned that GOP candidate Dewey had gotten hold of the highly classified information that America had broken the Japanese naval code early in 1940 – long before the attack on Pearl Harbor – but, at the administration's request, not made this information public. Besides lowering his opinion of the GOP as too weak to fight his nemesis, Roosevelt, Flynn further reasoned that meant FDR must have known in precise detail that the attack was coming and deliberately withheld this information from the now-disgraced commanders in\",\n \"title\": \"John T. Flynn\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"11170673\",\n \"text\": \"continued to expand during 1941, new inefficiencies in the supply process were exposed, and in July a new agency, the Supply Priorities and Allocation Board (SPAB) was created to deal with them. Nelson was named its director. In January, 1942, following America's entry into the war after the attack on Pearl Harbor, Roosevelt abolished both the OPM and the SPAB, replacing them with a new agency, the War Production Board. Once again, FDR asked Nelson to lead it. Nelson faced extensive criticism from the military during his tenure. Described by historian Doris Kearns Goodwin as \\\"habitually indecisive\\\", Nelson had difficulty\",\n \"title\": \"Donald Nelson\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"8132446\",\n \"text\": \"itself, but he undoubtedly heard a multiplicity of suspicions. Munson Report The Report on Japanese on the West Coast of the United States, often called the Munson Report, was a 29-page report written in 1940 by Curtis B. Munson, a Detroit businessman commissioned as a special representative of the State Department, on the sympathies and loyalties of Japanese Americans living in California and the West Coast of the United States. Munson's report was submitted to the White House on October 7, 1941, exactly two months before the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. The report was presented to FDR on November\",\n \"title\": \"Munson Report\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"8132442\",\n \"text\": \"Munson Report The Report on Japanese on the West Coast of the United States, often called the Munson Report, was a 29-page report written in 1940 by Curtis B. Munson, a Detroit businessman commissioned as a special representative of the State Department, on the sympathies and loyalties of Japanese Americans living in California and the West Coast of the United States. Munson's report was submitted to the White House on October 7, 1941, exactly two months before the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. The report was presented to FDR on November 7, 1941. By spring of 1941, it was increasingly\",\n \"title\": \"Munson Report\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"9187032\",\n \"text\": \"Leonard Baker Leonard S. Baker (January 24, 1931 – November 23, 1984) was an American writer. He won the 1979 Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography for \\\"Days of Sorrow and Pain: Leo Baeck and the Berlin Jews\\\" (Oxford University Press, ), a book about Leo Baeck. His other published works include \\\"The Johnson Eclipse: A President's Vice Presidency,\\\" \\\"Back to Back: The Duel Between FDR and the Supreme Court,\\\" \\\"John Marshall: A Life in Law,\\\" \\\"Brandeis and Frankfurter: A Dual Biography,\\\" \\\"Brahmin in Revolt,\\\" \\\"Roosevelt and Pearl Harbor,\\\" and \\\"The Guaranteed Society.\\\" A 1952 graduate of the University of\",\n \"title\": \"Leonard Baker\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"6474265\",\n \"text\": \"led to commit an overt act of war, so much the better.\\\" The McCollum memo was first widely disseminated with the publication of Robert Stinnett's book \\\"Day of Deceit: The Truth About FDR and Pearl Harbor.\\\" Stinnett writes that McCollum's memo was a plan to \\\"mobilize a reluctant America into joining Britain's struggle against the German armed forces then overrunning Europe. Its eight actions called for virtually inciting a Japanese attack on American ground, air, and naval forces in Hawaii, as well as on British and Dutch colonial outposts in the Pacific region.\\\" Stinnett presents the memo as part of\",\n \"title\": \"McCollum memo\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"4250397\",\n \"text\": \"by 70%. It included 7 battleships, 18 aircraft carriers and 15,000 aircraft. In the Senate, Walsh was a consistent isolationist He supported American neutrality with respect to the Spanish Civil War and opposed an American alliance with the United Kingdom until the attack on Pearl Harbor. Speaking in the Senate on June 21, 1940, he denounced Roosevelt's plans to provide armaments to Great Britain: At the 1940 Democratic National Convention, where Walsh supported James Farley for president rather than FDR, he and his fellow isolationist Senator Burton Wheeler of Montana proposed a plank for the party platform that read: \\\"We\",\n \"title\": \"David I. Walsh\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"12619899\",\n \"text\": \"two nations. Noted political economist Robert Higgs points out: Robert Stinnett notes in his book, \\\"Day Of Deceit: The Truth About FDR and Pearl Harbor\\\", that America had broken the Japanese diplomatic code and knew that due to the pressure exerted by the Export Control Act, war was quickly becoming an inevitable outcome. He points to a deciphered communiqué between Foreign Minister Teijiro Toyoda and Ambassador Kichisaburō Nomura on July 31: \\\"Commercial and economic relations between Japan and third countries, led by England and the United States, are gradually becoming so horribly strained that we cannot endure it much longer.\",\n \"title\": \"Export Control Act\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"7590299\",\n \"text\": \"REMEMBER PEARL HARBOR - DECEMBER 7, 1941 - ACT OF CONGRESS 1990<br> Back side (Eagle): FOR THOSE WHO SERVED - \\\"A DATE WHICH WILL LIVE IN INFAMY\\\" Pearl Harbor Survivors Association The Pearl Harbor Survivors Association (PHSA), founded in 1958 and recognized by the United States Congress in 1985, was a World War II veterans organization whose members were on Pearl Harbor or three miles or less offshore during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, on December 7, 1941. The PHSA was officially disbanded at the end of December 2011 with a membership of about 2,700 members nationally. The PHSA,\",\n \"title\": \"Pearl Harbor Survivors Association\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"7102935\",\n \"text\": \"in \\\"Shangri-La Suite\\\" (2016) opposite Luke Grimes and Emily Browning. Reiley McClendon Reiley McClendon (born Eric Reiley McClendon II; March 11, 1990) is an American actor. He has appeared on such television shows as \\\"Will & Grace\\\", \\\"Zoey 101\\\", and \\\"Medium\\\", as well as in Disney Channel films such as \\\"Eddie's Million Dollar Cook-Off\\\" and \\\"Buffalo Dreams\\\". He also portrayed young Danny Walker in the 2001 film \\\"Pearl Harbor\\\". He played the young Danny Walker in the 2001 film \\\"Pearl Harbor\\\" with Jesse James, who played Rafe McCawley. He appeared in the \\\"\\\" episode \\\"\\\" in a dual role as\",\n \"title\": \"Reiley McClendon\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"7102934\",\n \"text\": \"Reiley McClendon Reiley McClendon (born Eric Reiley McClendon II; March 11, 1990) is an American actor. He has appeared on such television shows as \\\"Will & Grace\\\", \\\"Zoey 101\\\", and \\\"Medium\\\", as well as in Disney Channel films such as \\\"Eddie's Million Dollar Cook-Off\\\" and \\\"Buffalo Dreams\\\". He also portrayed young Danny Walker in the 2001 film \\\"Pearl Harbor\\\". He played the young Danny Walker in the 2001 film \\\"Pearl Harbor\\\" with Jesse James, who played Rafe McCawley. He appeared in the \\\"\\\" episode \\\"\\\" in a dual role as identical twins Logan and Lindsay Stanton. He had a role\",\n \"title\": \"Reiley McClendon\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"13043856\",\n \"text\": \"that day against the attack. The medal was also awarded to civilians who were killed or injured in the attack. A few years later, Congress amended the law to allow any person who was present in Hawaii on December 7, 1941, and was involved in combat operations against Japanese military forces attacking Hawaii, to receive the award. In both instances, there was a limited time period to apply for the award, and it is no longer issued. National Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day National Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day, also referred to as Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day or Pearl Harbor Day, is\",\n \"title\": \"National Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"15513299\",\n \"text\": \"Lerch. Gullion was a prime mover in the efforts to intern American citizens of Japanese ancestry in camps in the wake of the hysteria resulting from the Pearl Harbor attack. Gullion was subsequently attached to Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force in Europe. In 1943, the FBI investigated Gullion for his part in forming an extra-military organization known as the SGs, intended \\\"to save America from FDR, radical labor, the Communists, the Jews, and the colored race.\\\" Within months, however, poor health and age were cited for the major general's retirement in 1944. For his wartime service, Gullion received Oak Leaf\",\n \"title\": \"Allen W. Gullion\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"3201127\",\n \"text\": \"Beach Boys\\\". And in 1998, Susan and Ted Burkhalter stayed there on the way to their first diplomatic assignment. Prior to the 2008-2009 renovation, a framed replica of a Guest Registration Card bearing the signature of US President Franklin D. Roosevelt was displayed in the hotel. The card was dated during the \\\"Great Depression\\\". FDR also stayed at the hotel during World War II for military conferences, tours of nearby Pearl Harbor naval base, and to meet with his Supreme Allied Commander in the Pacific Theater, General Douglas MacArthur in July 1944. During that time the hotel was in service\",\n \"title\": \"Royal Hawaiian Hotel\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"4917070\",\n \"text\": \"air attack in both Crete and Iraq. In the African/Middle Eastern portion of the mission, he traveled with Britain's Lord Mountbatten as far as Bathurst in the Gambia. They reported on trans-African air ferry conditions, an important concern of FDR and Winston Churchill at the time. In August, Roosevelt joined the staff of William J. Donovan, Coordinator of Information, with the job of working out the exchange of information with other agencies. After Japan's Attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, Roosevelt requested assignment to combat duty and was transferred to the Marine Raiders in January 1942, a new\",\n \"title\": \"James Roosevelt\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"14027840\",\n \"text\": \"7500 bombers to drop 30 million bombs on German targets, with a density that sometimes reached 100–150 tons/ sq kilometer. Before the attack on Pearl Harbor and during the period within which the predecessor U.S. Army Air Corps became the Army Air Forces in late June 1941, President Franklin D. Roosevelt gave command of the Navy to an aviator, Admiral Ernest King, with a mandate for an aviation-oriented war in the Pacific. FDR allowed King to build up land-based naval and Marine aviation, and seize control of the long-range bombers used in antisubmarine patrols in the Atlantic. Roosevelt basically agreed\",\n \"title\": \"Air warfare of World War II\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"10405565\",\n \"text\": \"and Charles A. Lindbergh); the crucial commitment-laden visits to Britain and the Soviet Union by the president's close adviser Harry Hopkins ; and FDR's unprecedented campaign for a third term in 1940.\\\" Kirkus Reviews described \\\"No End Save Victory\\\" as \\\"[a]n admiring, richly textured portrait of a leader confronting the unthinkable.\\\" It also characterized Kaiser as \\\"an unabashed fan of FDR in this detailed description and analysis of U.S. foreign policy from May 1940 to Pearl Harbor. Repeatedly, he pauses to praise the president.\\\" Kaiser's autobiography, \\\"A Life in History\\\", became available at MountGreylockBooks.com late in 2018. The book tells\",\n \"title\": \"David E. Kaiser\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"1606793\",\n \"text\": \"by many highly placed figures in the U.S. government and military. General George Marshall was an early critic but later changed his mind. Eisenhower was always supportive, as was George Patton. On December 7, after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Donovan met privately with Roosevelt and Edward R. Murrow, and FDR told Donovan, apropos of the COI, \\\"It's a good thing you got me started on this.\\\" When Hitler gave a speech declaring war on the United States, he mentioned Donovan, whom he called \\\"utterly unworthy\\\". Donovan urged Roosevelt not to intern Japanese-Americans, warning that such an action would\",\n \"title\": \"William J. Donovan\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"19988091\",\n \"text\": \"the storyline of a movie to be titled \\\"Crimson Tide\\\", about another Trident submarine, . Toti helped them in correcting the direction of the plot of the movie. \\\"Crimson Tide\\\" was released globally in 1995, and \\\"Crimson Tide\\\" screenwriter Michael Schiffer attended the 1997 ceremony when Toti took command of USS \\\"Indianapolis\\\" at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. Inspired by his relationship with screenwriter Schiffer, Toti then authored a sequel to \\\"Crimson Tide,\\\" titled \\\"The Genocide Game.\\\" The plot-line of \\\"The Genocide Game\\\" involved \\\"Crimson Tide\\\" lead character Hunter (played by Denzel Washington), with Hunter, in command of \\\"Los Angeles\\\"-class fast attack\",\n \"title\": \"William Toti\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"15572608\",\n \"text\": \"Our Gang in 1931. He also played Roger Jones in 17 Jones Family low-budget films from 1936 to 1940 (named Roger Evers in the first movie, \\\"Every Saturday Night\\\"). However, as he grew older, roles became scarcer, so he learned from cameramen on his films and became one himself. When the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, and the United States entered World War II, he enlisted. At a friend's suggestion, he became a combat photographer and \\\"one of the 17 original movie makers\\\" of a special OSS photographic unit headed by noted film director John Ford. He\",\n \"title\": \"George Ernest\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"4409035\",\n \"text\": \"Pearl Harbor Commemorative Medal The Pearl Harbor Commemorative Medal, also known as the \\\"Pearl Harbor Survivor’s Medal\\\", is a bronze commemorative medal which was established by the United States Congress on November 5, 1990 (P.L. 101-510, 104 Stat. 1721). To have been eligible for the award, \\\"a person must have been a member of the Armed Forces of the United States who was present in Hawaii on December 7, 1941, and who participated in combat operations that day against Imperial Japanese military forces attacking Hawaii. A person who was killed or wounded in that attack shall be deemed to have\",\n \"title\": \"Pearl Harbor Commemorative Medal\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"13043853\",\n \"text\": \"Remembrance Day. It became (Patriotic and National Observances and Ceremonies) of the United States Code. On Pearl Harbor Day, the American flag should be flown at half-staff until sunset to honor those who died as a result of the attack on U.S. military forces in Hawaii. Pearl Harbor Day is not a federal holiday – government offices, schools, and businesses do not close. Some organizations may hold special events in memory of those killed or injured at Pearl Harbor. On Sunday morning, December 7, 1941, the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service attacked Naval Station Pearl Harbor in Honolulu, Oahu, Hawaii\",\n \"title\": \"National Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"7590294\",\n \"text\": \"adopted. A scholarship was open to any U.S. citizen who is a direct descendant of a PHSA member or deceased member, including step or adopted children. On December 7, 2011, during the 70th anniversary ceremony in Hawaii of the attack on Pearl Harbor (\\\"Pearl Harbor Day\\\"), William Muehleib, the President of the PHSA, announced that due to the ages and health of the 2,700 members, the executive board had decided to terminate the corporate association as of December 31 of that year. The \\\"Pearl Harbor-Gram\\\" closed its membership in February 2012. However, informal social and local activities involving Pearl Harbor\",\n \"title\": \"Pearl Harbor Survivors Association\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"1963371\",\n \"text\": \"York Observer\\\" asserted that she \\\"comes close to capturing the sublimity of Maggie, despite the obvious fact that no movie can capture the elegant copiousness of James' prose.\\\" The film grossed over $5 million worldwide. Beckinsale rose to fame in 2001 with a leading role in the war film \\\"Pearl Harbor\\\" as a nurse torn between two pilots, played by Ben Affleck and Josh Hartnett. She was drawn to the project by the script: \\\"It's so unusual these days to read a script that has those old-fashioned values to it. Not morals, but movie values. It's a big, sweeping epic...You\",\n \"title\": \"Kate Beckinsale\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"7925842\",\n \"text\": \"Bratton remained with the Intelligence Division until assigned to George S. Patton's Third Army as Headquarters Commandant, a role he undertook all throughout the subsequent liberation of Europe. In the 1970 movie \\\"Tora! Tora! Tora!\\\" he was played by E.G. Marshall. The film shows him being summoned by Naval Intelligence Lieutenant Commander Alwin Kramer, (played by Wesley Addy). We see Bratton reading a Japanese transcription, nicknamed \\\"Magic\\\", as it comes out of the decryption machine, codenamed \\\"Purple\\\". Later on in the film, because of the incoming messages, Bratton becomes convinced that the Japanese are about to attack Pearl Harbor, though\",\n \"title\": \"Rufus S. Bratton\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"7862812\",\n \"text\": \"smoke coming from Pearl Harbor and bombers flying in. She quickly landed the plane at John Rodgers civilian airport near the mouth of Pearl Harbor. The pursuing Zero strafed her plane and the runway as she and her student ran for cover. The airport manager was killed and two other civilian planes did not return that morning. With all civilian flights grounded in Hawaii, Fort returned to the mainland in early 1942. She made a short movie promoting war bonds that was successful and led to speaking engagements. Later that year, Nancy Love recruited her to serve in the newly\",\n \"title\": \"Cornelia Fort\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"10804587\",\n \"text\": \"Summary exhibit of Far Eastern documents, as Congressmen Ferguson and Gearhart who were in the \\\"Kimmel camp\\\" had held onto the two copies sent to the Committee to prevent other members seeing them. He decided to write his book \\\"Pearl Harbor: Final Judgement\\\" in 1991 (published in 1992), in opposition to what he described as inaccurate conspiracy theories of the Pearl Harbor attack. Stimson got the Army Pearl Harbor Board report (actually two reports, with a second Top Secret section on codebreaking) on Pearl Harbor with its criticism of Marshall and Hull, but \\\"fatally flawed\\\" from crucial but withheld evidence\",\n \"title\": \"Henry Clausen\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"19429563\",\n \"text\": \"intent to attack Pearl Harbor and destroy the America's Pacific Fleet in a surprise attack meant to cripple the U.S. Navy, he attempts to warn the Americans, but is put off and his dire warnings apparently ignored. BeyondHollywood wrote: \\\"\\\"Han Gil-su\\\" succeeds by entertaining as well as educating. The film, whether most of it is based on fact or made up for the purposes of a good movie, nevertheless sheds light on an unknown hero of the Pearl Harbor attack. Because of this, \\\"Han\\\" will not only appeal to history buffs, but any moviegoer that appreciates a finely crafted thriller\",\n \"title\": \"Haan (film)\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"3998954\",\n \"text\": \"Pearl Harbor not only happened without a declaration of war but was also a treacherous and deceitful act. In fact, Japan and the U.S. were still negotiating for a possible peace agreement which kept U.S. officials very distracted when Japanese planes bombed Pearl Harbor. Keenan explained the definition of a war of aggression and the criminality of the attack on Pearl Harbor: Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, who planned the attack on Pearl Harbor, was fully aware that if Japan lost the war, he would be tried as a war criminal for that attack (although he was killed by the United States\",\n \"title\": \"Japanese war crimes\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"6185023\",\n \"text\": \"made famous in Arlo Guthrie's \\\"Alice's Restaurant.\\\" Whitehall Street Whitehall Street is a street in the New York City borough of Manhattan, about four blocks long. The street begins at the southern end of Broadway, at the intersection with Stone Street. Whitehall Street stretches south to the southern end of FDR Drive, adjacent to the Staten Island Ferry's Whitehall Terminal, on landfill beyond the site of Peter Stuyvesant's 17th-century house. The street is one-way southbound for three blocks from Bowling Green to Pearl Street, and one-way northbound up from the FDR Drive to Pearl Street. The southernmost block, adjacent to\",\n \"title\": \"Whitehall Street\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"20702455\",\n \"text\": \"after taking office, Navy Secretary Knox wrote an overview memo which specifically noted the possibility of an attack at Pearl Harbor. However, neither observation led to formal policy recommendations to forestall such an attack. Admiral James O. Richardson, who was fired by President Roosevelt for complaining about the President's order to station the Pacific Fleet in Pearl Harbor instead of its normal berthing on the U.S. West Coast, blamed the President for the \\\"initial defeats in the Pacific\\\" as \\\"direct, real and personal.\\\" Richardson believed stationing the fleet in Pearl Harbor made the ships extremely vulnerable against attack and provided\",\n \"title\": \"Vulnerability of Pearl Harbor in 1941\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"20322948\",\n \"text\": \"is known as National Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day it is not a federal holiday in the United States. The nation does however pay homage remembering the thousands injured and killed when attacked by the Japanese in 1941 and on Pearl Harbor Day the American flag should be flown at half-staff until sunset. Schools and other establishments in many places around the country do observe lowering the American flag to half-staff out of respect. Ceremonies are held annually at Pearl Harbor itself, attended each year by some of the ever-dwindling number of elderly veterans who were there on the morning of\",\n \"title\": \"Attack on Pearl Harbor in popular culture\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"8594491\",\n \"text\": \"status. The communication stations on Oahu underwent a consolidation in 1967. The message centers at Pearl Harbor (NAVSHIPYD), Makalapa (CINCPACFLT), Camp Smith (CINCPAC), Moanalua (FLEWEACEN), Secure Voice Pearl Harbor, and Consolidated Maintenance came under an Officer-in-Charge, which was known as NAVCOMMACTS Pearl Harbor. NAVCOMMACTS Pearl Harbor was a department of NAVCOMMSTA Honolulu who exercised administrative and operational control. The message center at Barbers Point also came under the control of NAVCOMMSTA Honolulu at the same time. The Makalapa Local Digital Message Exchange (LDMX) was activated in March 1973 by Vice Admiral G. C. Talle, Deputy CINCPACFLT. The system's activation marked\",\n \"title\": \"Naval Computer and Telecommunications Area Master Station Pacific\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"703963\",\n \"text\": \"Indian Ocean or the Pacific except the American survivors of Pearl Harbor who were hastening back to California. Over this vast expanse of waters Japan was supreme and we everywhere were weak and naked\\\". Throughout the war, Pearl Harbor was frequently used in American propaganda. One further consequence of the attack on Pearl Harbor and its aftermath (notably the Niihau incident) was that Japanese American residents and citizens were relocated to nearby Japanese-American internment camps. Within hours of the attack, hundreds of Japanese American leaders were rounded up and brought to high-security camps such as Sand Island at the mouth\",\n \"title\": \"Attack on Pearl Harbor\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"15138896\",\n \"text\": \"she was donated to the USS \\\"Missouri\\\" Memorial Association and became a museum ship at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. Naval Station Pearl Harbor Naval Station Pearl Harbor is a U.S. naval base adjacent to Honolulu, in the U.S. state of Hawaii. In 2010, along with the United States Air Force's Hickam Air Force Base, the facility was merged to form Joint Base Pearl Harbor–Hickam. Pearl Harbor is the headquarters of the United States Pacific Fleet. The attack on Pearl Harbor by the Empire of Japan on Sunday, 7 December 1941 brought the United States into World War II. Naval Station Pearl\",\n \"title\": \"Naval Station Pearl Harbor\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"5217896\",\n \"text\": \"recovery of Project Mercury astronaut Commander Walter M. Schirra. Spending most of 1963 operating out of Pearl Harbor, \\\"Renshaw\\\" deployed to WestPac again in November 1963, returning 6 months later. In 1964 \\\"Renshaw\\\" took part in the movie \\\"In Harm's Way\\\". On 3 March 1965, \\\"Renshaw\\\", in company with other units of Destroyer Division 252, departed Pearl Harbor on short notice to augment destroyer forces for the rapidly expanding naval commitments in the South China Sea. During April and May, she served in surveillance roles and in support of carrier striking force operations. In June she was on Taiwan patrol,\",\n \"title\": \"USS Renshaw (DD-499)\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"4870195\",\n \"text\": \"locomotive amusement park ride operator at Disneyland and moved to the Walt Disney Studios in Burbank in 1977 to manage pay television and non-theatrical releases. In 1980, he moved to the company's film distribution department, eventually heading both its distribution and marketing efforts. He earned a reputation there by his marketing of Disney's home video collection and hosting media-worthy movie premieres, for example securing a United States Navy aircraft carrier based in Pearl Harbor to host the debut of the film \\\"Pearl Harbor\\\". In 1994, Cook was promoted to president of Buena Vista Pictures Distribution. In 2002, Eisner named him\",\n \"title\": \"Dick Cook\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"5610836\",\n \"text\": \"4 January 1964, \\\"Walker\\\" commenced a two-week tender availability at Pearl Harbor with . On 31 January, the ship officially entered the Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard for overhaul. The completion of yard overhaul on 30 April marked the commencement of local exercises in preparation for refresher training. On 19 May, \\\"Walker\\\" took part in the filming of the movie \\\"None But The Brave\\\" at the island of Kauai. After a month of refresher training and an administrative inspection, the escort destroyer underwent upkeep which took her through June. The summer months found \\\"Walker\\\" engaged in local operations. On 17 August\",\n \"title\": \"USS Walker (DD-517)\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"11061335\",\n \"text\": \"into the war at a time when he had not yet acquired full control of continental Europe — on the very day of the Pearl Harbor attack, Hitler himself had issued his Nacht und Nebel decree, concerning the suppression of resistance activities within Nazi-occupied lands. Hitler, who had previously declared the Japanese \\\"Honorary Aryans\\\" claimed that \\\"this is what happens when your allies are not Anglo-Saxons\\\". However, he decided war with the United States was unavoidable, and the Pearl Harbor attack, the publication of Rainbow Five, and Roosevelt's post-Pearl Harbor address, which focused on European affairs as well as the\",\n \"title\": \"Consequences of the attack on Pearl Harbor\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"10503417\",\n \"text\": \"alterations, including the mounting of additional 20mm guns. On 7 March 1945 Captain Lee H. Baker, USCG, reported on board, and on 12 March relieved Captain von Paulsen, who retired for health reasons. Moving to San Diego on 22 March, she embarked passengers for Pearl Harbor and Ulithi and sailed for San Francisco, California, where she embarked more Navy casuals for Pearl Harbor and Ulithi. She then sailed for Pearl Harbor on 27 March. Pearl Harbor was reached on 2 April, and after debarking passengers she picked up more passengers for Ulithi and sailed on 4 April. Arriving there on\",\n \"title\": \"USS General George M. Randall (AP-115)\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"4405719\",\n \"text\": \"Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard The Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard is a United States Navy shipyard located in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. It is one of just four shipyards operated by the United States Navy. The shipyard is physically a part of Naval Station Pearl Harbor. The Naval Station had existed in Pearl Harbor since 1898, but in 1908 the United States Congress allocated $3 million to build the shipyard, then called Navy Yard Pearl Harbor. The shipyard grew quickly, and work began on the first drydock, which collapsed before opening in 1913. After rebuilding, Dry Dock #1 was opened August 21,\",\n \"title\": \"Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"962495\",\n \"text\": \"the film one and a half stars, writing: \\\"\\\"Pearl Harbor\\\" is a two-hour movie squeezed into three hours, about how, on Dec. 7, 1941, the Japanese staged a surprise attack on an American love triangle. Its centerpiece is 40 minutes of redundant special effects, surrounded by a love story of stunning banality. The film has been directed without grace, vision, or originality, and although you may walk out quoting lines of dialogue, it will not be because you admire them\\\". Ebert also criticized the liberties the film took with historical facts: \\\"There is no sense of history, strategy or context;\",\n \"title\": \"Pearl Harbor (film)\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"15138872\",\n \"text\": \"Naval Station Pearl Harbor Naval Station Pearl Harbor is a U.S. naval base adjacent to Honolulu, in the U.S. state of Hawaii. In 2010, along with the United States Air Force's Hickam Air Force Base, the facility was merged to form Joint Base Pearl Harbor–Hickam. Pearl Harbor is the headquarters of the United States Pacific Fleet. The attack on Pearl Harbor by the Empire of Japan on Sunday, 7 December 1941 brought the United States into World War II. Naval Station Pearl Harbor provides berthing and shore side support to surface ships and submarines, as well as maintenance and training.\",\n \"title\": \"Naval Station Pearl Harbor\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"14967679\",\n \"text\": \"Joint Base Pearl Harbor–Hickam Joint Base Pearl Harbor–Hickam (JBPHH) is a United States military base adjacent to Honolulu, Hawaii. It is an amalgamation of the United States Air Force Hickam Air Force Base and the United States Navy Naval Station Pearl Harbor, which were merged in 2010. Joint Base Pearl Harbor–Hickam is one of 12 Joint Bases the 2005 Base Realignment and Closure Commission created. It is part of Navy Region Hawaii and provides Navy and joint operations Base Operating Support that is capabilities-based and integrated. Pearl Harbor is 8 miles from Honolulu. Naval Station Pearl Harbor provides berthing and\",\n \"title\": \"Joint Base Pearl Harbor–Hickam\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"9241264\",\n \"text\": \"masked crime fighter named Britt Reid and was descended from the Lone Ranger's nephew Dan Reid. He was assisted by his Japanese (changed to Filipino after Pearl harbor) valet Kato, who used martial arts. Fran Striker wrote most of the scripts for the series. In 1937, Trendle licensed Republic Pictures to produce a movie version of The Lone Ranger. Trendle was not happy with changes that were made in the movie adaptations and hired attorney Raymond Meurer to oversee licensing of the franchise. However, Trendle did like the incidental music Republic used on the serial's soundtrack and acquired the right\",\n \"title\": \"George W. Trendle\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"8244050\",\n \"text\": \"Paramount Pictures Tom Mix, early Western movie star Gordon Bernie Kaufman, prominent architect Rear Admiral Isaac Campbell Kidd, career U.S. Naval officer who perished aboard USS Arizona in 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor; posthumously received Medal of Honor Ben Meyer, president of Union Bank; first president of Federation of Jewish Welfare Organizations Earl Warren, governor of California; chief justice of U.S. Supreme Court Buster Keaton, silent screen star Hal Roach, comedy writer, director and producer; created Hal Roach Studios Harold Lloyd, comedy movie star in silents and talkies; founded own studio Edmund G. Brown, lawyer and politician; governor of California\",\n \"title\": \"Jonathan Club\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"5841252\",\n \"text\": \"tweet posted by SpaghettiOs on the anniversary of the Pearl Harbor attack, she quipped: \\\"It sucks that the only survivors of Pearl Harbor are being mocked by the only food they can still chew.\\\" Her remarks were met with a backlash over social media; in response, Leggero posted in a blog entry that she did not feel that \\\"the amazing courage of American veterans and specifically those who survived Pearl Harbor is in any way diminished by a comedian making a joke about dentures on television. Do we really believe that the people who fought and defended our freedom against\",\n \"title\": \"Natasha Leggero\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"5593368\",\n \"text\": \"\\\"Pearl Harbor\\\", \\\"Constantine\\\", \\\"National Treasure\\\", \\\"Transformers\\\", \\\"The Simpsons Movie\\\", \\\"Night at the Museum\\\", \\\"Dinosaur\\\", \\\"\\\", \\\"King Kong\\\", \\\"Signs\\\", \\\"Lady in the Water\\\", \\\"Peter Pan\\\", \\\"First Knight\\\", \\\"Hook\\\" as well as \\\"Independence Day\\\", and the \\\"Star Trek\\\" films. In 2010, Mr. Thatcher was principal horn on James Newton Howard's soundtrack of \\\"The Last Airbender\\\" directed by M. Night Shyamalan. James Thatcher James Thatcher is an American hornist. Thatcher began his professional career at age 16 when he played and studied in Mexico City with his uncle, Gerald Thatcher, former principal hornist with the National Symphony of Mexico. Subsequent instructors have included\",\n \"title\": \"James Thatcher\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"7523323\",\n \"text\": \"Grace and Estella Warren that won a top prize at the Toronto Film Festival. As an actor, he has played a small role in \\\"Pearl Harbor\\\" and a professor on an episode of the sci-fi TV series \\\"Roswell\\\", which aired May 7, 2001. Wadlow also founded The Adrenaline Film Project, a program to help aspiring filmmakers of all ages conceive and complete a short film in just 72 hours. He directed the film \\\"Never Back Down\\\", which was released on March 14, 2008, and starred Djimon Hounsou and Sean Faris. The movie went on to beat out big budget competition\",\n \"title\": \"Jeff Wadlow\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"4603001\",\n \"text\": \"USS Pearl Harbor USS \\\"Pearl Harbor\\\" (LSD 52) is a dock landing ship of the United States Navy. She was named for Pearl Harbor, where World War II began for the United States. \\\"Pearl Harbor\\\" was laid down on 27 January 1995, by the Avondale Shipyards, New Orleans, La.; launched on 24 February 1996; and commissioned on 30 May 1998. As of September 06, 2018, \\\"Pearl Harbor\\\" is homeported to NS San Diego, California, and assigned to Commander Amphibious Squadron 3 (COMPHIBRON 3). On 4 May 2008 the ship departed San Diego for assignment in the Persian Gulf as part\",\n \"title\": \"USS Pearl Harbor\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"20702459\",\n \"text\": \"in Hawaii. Vulnerability of Pearl Harbor in 1941 Several reports prior to Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941 indicated that the base was vulnerable to attack. This has sometimes been noted in Pearl Harbor advance-knowledge conspiracy theories. In 1925, Gen. Billy Mitchell published a report called Winged Defense revealing the vulnerability of Pearl Harbor to a surprise air attack. Mitchell predicted that such an attack would effectively neutralize the Pacific fleet as part of a Japanese invasion of the Philippines. Two mock air attacks on Pearl Harbor during war games in the 1930s were judged to have been a\",\n \"title\": \"Vulnerability of Pearl Harbor in 1941\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"20702454\",\n \"text\": \"Vulnerability of Pearl Harbor in 1941 Several reports prior to Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941 indicated that the base was vulnerable to attack. This has sometimes been noted in Pearl Harbor advance-knowledge conspiracy theories. In 1925, Gen. Billy Mitchell published a report called Winged Defense revealing the vulnerability of Pearl Harbor to a surprise air attack. Mitchell predicted that such an attack would effectively neutralize the Pacific fleet as part of a Japanese invasion of the Philippines. Two mock air attacks on Pearl Harbor during war games in the 1930s were judged to have been a success. Shortly\",\n \"title\": \"Vulnerability of Pearl Harbor in 1941\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"4019653\",\n \"text\": \"Harbor during the attack, and called Clausen's investigation \\\"notoriously unreliable\\\" in several aspects. Some authors argue that US President Roosevelt was actively provoking Japan in the weeks prior to the Pearl Harbor attack. These authors assert that Roosevelt was imminently expecting and seeking war, but wanted Japan to take the first overtly aggressive action. One perspective is given by Rear Admiral Frank Edmund Beatty Jr., who at the time of the Pearl Harbor attack was an aide to the Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox and was very close to President Franklin D. Roosevelt's inner circle, remarked that: Another \\\"eye\",\n \"title\": \"Pearl Harbor advance-knowledge conspiracy theory\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"3208314\",\n \"text\": \"USCGC Taney (WHEC-37) USCGC \\\"Taney\\\" (WPG/WAGC/WHEC-37) () is a United States Coast Guard High Endurance Cutter, notable as the last warship floating that fought in the attack on Pearl Harbor, although \\\"Taney\\\" was moored in nearby Honolulu Harbor not Pearl Harbor itself (a non-combatant vessel at Pearl Harbor, the US Navy tug , also remains afloat). She was named for Roger B. Taney (1777–1864), who was at various times: U.S. Attorney General, Secretary of the Treasury, and Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. She is also one of two Treasury-class (out of seven total) Coast Guard cutters still afloat. Serving\",\n \"title\": \"USCGC Taney (WHEC-37)\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"17893629\",\n \"text\": \"Pearl Harbor Aviation Museum Pearl Harbor Aviation Museum (formerly the Pacific Aviation Museum Pearl Harbor) is a non-profit founded in 1999 to develop an aviation museum in Hawaii. Part of Senator Daniel Inouye's vision for a rebirth of Ford Island, the museum hosts a variety of aviation exhibits with a majority relating directly to the attack on Pearl Harbor and World War II. The first section of the museum, hangar 37, opened with the museum on December 7, 2006, and features much of the museum's static exhibits. The museum's hangars show damage from the attacks on Pearl Harbor from December\",\n \"title\": \"Pearl Harbor Aviation Museum\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"12962339\",\n \"text\": \"an appropriation of $50,000 on March 1, 1869, to deepen the approaches to this harbor. After 1868, when the Commander of the Pacific Fleet visited the islands to look after American interests, naval officers played an important role in internal affairs. They served as arbitrators in business disputes, negotiators of trade agreements and defenders of law and order. Periodic voyages among the islands and to the mainland aboard U.S. warships were arranged for members of the Hawaiian royal family and important island government officials. When King Lunalilo died in 1873, negotiations were underway for the cession of Pearl Harbor as\",\n \"title\": \"Pearl Harbor\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"4019648\",\n \"text\": \"Pearl Harbor advance-knowledge conspiracy theory The Pearl Harbor advance-knowledge conspiracy theory is the argument that U.S. Government officials had advance knowledge of Japan's December 7, 1941, attack on Pearl Harbor. Ever since the Japanese attack; there has been debate as to how and why the United States had been caught off guard, and how much and when American officials knew of Japanese plans for an attack. In September 1944, John T. Flynn, a co-founder of the non-interventionist America First Committee, launched a Pearl Harbor counter-narrative when he published a forty-six page booklet entitled \\\"The Truth about Pearl Harbor\\\". Several writers,\",\n \"title\": \"Pearl Harbor advance-knowledge conspiracy theory\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"15849689\",\n \"text\": \"States Navy grew rapidly during World War II from 1941–45, and played a central role in the Pacific theatre in the war against Japan. It also played a major supporting role, alongside the Royal Navy, in the European war against Germany. The Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) sought naval superiority in the Pacific by sinking the main American battle fleet at Pearl Harbor, which was built around its battleships. The December 1941 surprise attack on Pearl Harbor did knock out the battle fleet, but it did not touch the aircraft carriers, which became the mainstay of the rebuilt fleet. Naval doctrine\",\n \"title\": \"Naval history of World War II\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"685043\",\n \"text\": \"battle. A fictional version of the battle is shown in the 2001 movie, \\\"Pearl Harbor\\\", in which the battle is depicted as still going on into 1941. It has also been the subject of many documentaries, including the 1941 Allied propaganda film \\\"Churchill's Island\\\", winner of the first Academy Award for Documentary Short Subject. There was also the 1943 \\\"The Battle of Britain\\\" in Frank Capra's \\\"Why We Fight\\\" series. It was included in an episode of 2004 BBC television documentary series \\\"Battlefield Britain\\\". In 2010, actor Julian Glover played a 101-year-old Polish veteran RAF pilot in the short film\",\n \"title\": \"Battle of Britain\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"6197583\",\n \"text\": \"that conversation was Captain Isoroku Yamamoto. Later, Admiral Yamamoto would be the architect of the attack on Pearl Harbor. While Cooper's character Scott is shown as captain of the carrier at the Battle of Okinawa, the ship was actually commanded by Captain Leslie E. Gehres. Paul Mantz did much of the flying in the early aerial sequences. In the film, \\\"White Heat\\\", when Arthur \\\"Cody\\\" Jarrett played by James Cagney is chased by federal investigators, to lose them, he drives the car into San-Val Drive In, where \\\"Task Force\\\" is showing. Later in the movie, when Cody's mother is interrogated\",\n \"title\": \"Task Force (film)\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"832637\",\n \"text\": \"returns to Tennessee greeted by Gracie and his family. To his surprise, the people of his home state have bought him the bottomland farm he wanted and built him a house on the land. Credited </br> </br> Uncredited \\\"Sergeant York\\\" was a spectacular success at the box office and became the highest-grossing film of 1941. It remains one of the highest-grossing films of all time when adjusted for inflation. It benefited from the attack on Pearl Harbor, which occurred while the film played in theaters. The film's patriotic theme helped recruit soldiers; young men sometimes went directly from the movie\",\n \"title\": \"Sergeant York (film)\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"11125195\",\n \"text\": \"Harbor, arriving 21 February. She departed Pearl Harbor 27 February, discharged cargo at Eniwetok, Tinian, and Guam and returned to Pearl Harbor 26 March for training and inter-island transport duties until 24 June. After a cargo-passenger voyage to Midway, she sailed 4 July from Pearl Harbor for San Francisco, where she disembarked passengers and loaded cargo for Pearl Harbor, returning 30 July. After another voyage to carry men to Midway, \\\"Colusa\\\" departed Pearl Harbor 1 September and called at Saipan, Sasebo, Okinawa, and Wakayama on duty redeploying occupation personnel. Between 7 October, when she cleared Wakayama, and 5 January 1946,\",\n \"title\": \"USS Colusa (APA-74)\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"4603004\",\n \"text\": \"Tonga, New Caledonia, Marshall Islands, Kiribati, and Soloman Islands. On 15 April 2014, the ship entered an Extended Docking Phased Maintenance Availability (EDPMA) to complete her midlife overhaul. After numerous extensions due to unplanned growth work, \\\"Pearl Harbor\\\" completed her extensive overhaul in May 2016. The ship participated in Southern California Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC) in July 2016 where it supported amphibious operations in conjunction with Australian, Canadian, Japanese, and German coalition partners under command of CDR Judd Krier. \\\"Pearl Harbor\\\" is currently assigned to the amphibious readiness group (ARG). USS Pearl Harbor USS \\\"Pearl Harbor\\\" (LSD 52) is\",\n \"title\": \"USS Pearl Harbor\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"12962344\",\n \"text\": \"a main base for the US Pacific Fleet after World War II along with Naval Base San Diego. In 2010, the Navy and the Air Force merged their two nearby bases; Pearl Harbor joined with Hickam Air Force Base to create Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam. On February 18, 2016, a tourist helicopter fell into Pearl Harbor, injuring four people; one person was missing and is thought to be dead. In December 2016, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe made a joint visit to Pearl Harbor with US President Barack Obama. This trip marked the 75 year anniversary of the attack, and\",\n \"title\": \"Pearl Harbor\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"2356390\",\n \"text\": \"for a generation who never knew the real man who had long since become an historical figure.\\\" Todd VanDerWerff wrote that while he found \\\"Annie\\\" to be a mediocre film, \\\"Herrmann's warm charm as FDR shines through. He's a kind, compassionate fellow, in a film that's all about the power of positive feeling and kindness.\\\" In 1980 Herrmann also starred in an episode of \\\"M*A*S*H\\\" as an army surgeon suffering from PTSD. Also he played Max in the 1987 movie \\\"The Lost Boys\\\". He was nominated for a Tony Award for \\\"Plenty\\\" in 1983 and Emmy Awards in 1986 and\",\n \"title\": \"Edward Herrmann\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"6169961\",\n \"text\": \"to pick up the skipper of destroyer , who was subsequently transferred to his own ship at sea. \\\"Bagley\\\" covered the arrival of TF 14 at Pearl Harbor four days after Christmas. The next day, the destroyer sailed with to patrol west of Oahu, covering the islands while two carrier groups escorted reinforcements to Samoa. On 11 January 1942, however, a single torpedo from hit and damaged the aircraft carrier. \\\"Bagley\\\" returned to Pearl Harbor with the injured \\\"Saratoga\\\" and, taking advantage of the opportunity, underwent a restricted availability at the Pearl Harbor Navy Yard between 23 January and 3\",\n \"title\": \"USS Bagley (DD-386)\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"11093559\",\n \"text\": \"Pearl Harbor Elementary School Pearl Harbor Elementary School is a public, coeducational grade school of the Hawai'i State Department of Education that serves around 637 students in grades K-6. The ethnicity is 56% Asian and 25% White. It is located on Moanalua Ridge, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA. Pearl Harbor is within the Radford Complex in the Central Oahu District of Hawaii State Department of Education. Pearl Harbor was established in 1956. The school was surrounded by military housing in the late 1950s. As time went on enrollments decreased due to the opening of other schools around the area. The school was\",\n \"title\": \"Pearl Harbor Elementary School\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"17893645\",\n \"text\": \"States by TripAdvisor. In 2007, the museum was awarded a preservation award from the Historic Hawaii foundation for \\\"a specific project that preserved, rehabilitated or restored a historic building, object, site or district\\\" in the redevelopment of hangar 37. Pearl Harbor Aviation Museum Pearl Harbor Aviation Museum (formerly the Pacific Aviation Museum Pearl Harbor) is a non-profit founded in 1999 to develop an aviation museum in Hawaii. 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In Sep. of 1950 she\",\n \"title\": \"USS Bugara (SS-331)\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"15138884\",\n \"text\": \"interests will make a strong effort next year to have Pearl Harbor improved, and I think that will be an opportune time for the Navy Department to make efforts in the same direction.\\\" In 1908, the Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard was established. The period from 1908–1919 was one of steady and continuous growth of the Naval Station, Pearl Harbor, with the exception of the discouraging collapse of the drydock in 1913. 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The PHSA National Insignia bearing the name\",\n \"title\": \"Pearl Harbor Survivors Association\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"3021656\",\n \"text\": \"mid-December, she escorted a convoy to Pearl Harbor, returned to Mare Island for new radar gear, and sailed back to Pearl Harbor the latter part of January 1942. The following month, \\\"Perkins\\\" departed Pearl Harbor and joined Australian, New Zealand, and other US ships in the ANZAC Squadron, charged with protecting the eastern approaches to Australia and New Zealand. She continued operations with ANZAC until April. In May 1942, \\\"Perkins\\\" participated in the Battle of the Coral Sea. After that, propeller problems took her to New Zealand and to Pearl Harbor, where repairs were completed. While at Pearl Harbor, additional\",\n \"title\": \"Mahan-class destroyer\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"4821320\",\n \"text\": \"served aboard the \\\"Hovey\\\". \\\"Hovey\\\" converted to a high speed minesweeper and was reclassified DMS-11 19 November 1940. After intensive training she sailed 4 February 1941 for duty at Pearl Harbor. When the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor 7 December 1941 \\\"Hovey\\\" was steaming in company with \\\"Chandler\\\" as antisubmarine screen for , engaged in gunnery practice some 20 miles (40 km) off Pearl Harbor. The minesweeper immediately took up patrol and convoy duty around Pearl Harbor until 20 May when she escorted a 20-ship convoy to San Francisco, arriving 31 May. \\\"Hovey\\\" returned to Pearl Harbor in mid-June and sailed\",\n \"title\": \"USS Hovey (DD-208)\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"7590289\",\n \"text\": \"Pearl Harbor Survivors Association was registered at the U.S. Patent Office. 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Cards speak for themselves: the actual value of a player's hand prevails in the event a player mis-states the value of his hand. Because exposing a losing hand","title":"Showdown (poker)"},{"docid":"312332","text":"Showdown (poker) In poker, the showdown is a situation when, if more than one player remains after the last betting round, remaining players expose and compare their hands to determine the winner or winners. To win any part of a pot if more than one player has a hand, a player must show all of his cards faceup on the table, whether they were used in the final hand played or not. Cards speak for themselves: the actual value of a player's hand prevails in the event a player mis-states the value of his hand. Because exposing a losing hand","title":"Showdown (poker)"}],"string":"[\n {\n \"docid\": \"312332\",\n \"text\": \"Showdown (poker) In poker, the showdown is a situation when, if more than one player remains after the last betting round, remaining players expose and compare their hands to determine the winner or winners. To win any part of a pot if more than one player has a hand, a player must show all of his cards faceup on the table, whether they were used in the final hand played or not. Cards speak for themselves: the actual value of a player's hand prevails in the event a player mis-states the value of his hand. Because exposing a losing hand\",\n \"title\": \"Showdown (poker)\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"312332\",\n \"text\": \"Showdown (poker) In poker, the showdown is a situation when, if more than one player remains after the last betting round, remaining players expose and compare their hands to determine the winner or winners. To win any part of a pot if more than one player has a hand, a player must show all of his cards faceup on the table, whether they were used in the final hand played or not. Cards speak for themselves: the actual value of a player's hand prevails in the event a player mis-states the value of his hand. Because exposing a losing hand\",\n \"title\": \"Showdown (poker)\"\n }\n]","isConversational":false},"negative_passages":{"kind":"list like","value":[{"docid":"13613933","text":"poker strategy becomes a complex subject. This article attempts to introduce only the basic strategy concepts. The fundamental theorem of poker, introduced by David Sklansky, states: Every time you play your hand the way you would if you could see your opponents' cards, you gain, and every time your opponents play their cards differently from the way they would play them if they could see your cards, you gain. This theorem is the foundation for many poker strategy topics. For example, bluffing and slow-playing (explained below) are examples of using deception to induce your opponents to play differently from how","title":"Poker strategy"},{"docid":"10719489","text":"opponent has cleverly figured a way to get the Joker, then the following cards will always be four-of-card. \"Problem with the winning strategy of 17 Poker:\" It requires the dealer perfectly rifle shuffle the deck twice. Your opponent must figure out how to get the Joker, then get the Joker and no further cards, and that no other subsequent opponent get any cards before you. That is to say, you must get the very next four cards after the Joker is received by your opponent. \"Reality of 17 Poker:\" Whomever gets the Joker by whatever means has the highest probability","title":"Liar Game"},{"docid":"20632245","text":"The pucker of a dame will make you jump Just like a chump When you gaze into her eyes The springs that make you wise refuse to work And you're a jerk I've seen you playing poker with three aces A hand of which you're very, very fond You knew that your opponent had three deuces But it happened your opponent was a blonde So you just threw your cards away And thought about the day when you became A sucker for a dame [2] You're a softy for a dame You're lofty till a dame sets out her traps","title":"Wise Guy (musical)"},{"docid":"20993068","text":"bending your wrist by flicking the cards forward using your index and middle fingers. Keep your wrists straight (do not flex or bend them). Turn to face your players or use your peripheral vision, rather than turning your head which can strain your neck. While retrieving cards from the shoe, the cards and shoe should be at or just below elbow height and adjusted so that you can keep your elbows close to your body and do not have to move your elbows out to the side to deal or shuffle. Position the shoe so that you can use it","title":"Occupational health and safety in the casino industry"},{"docid":"10839185","text":"the jack earlier in the hand, especially if there are points sitting on the board. You may also play the jack if there are a lot of cards on the board (even if there are no point cards), in order to enhance your chances of winning the 3 bonus points for most cards (if you feel you have enough cards to do so). If you have 2 jacks in your hand, you should play one at the beginning of the hand. There is no point playing them back-to-back at the end. For the last hand, you have to be careful","title":"Bastra"},{"docid":"2769570","text":"games often break from the typical forms of poker through the use of wild cards and kill cards in addition to variations on betting structure. The majority of the dealer's choice poker games were derived from children's games. Depending on house rules, dealers may also call card games that are not true poker variants, such as Acey Deucey, Screw Your Neighbor, and Guts. There are two different approaches to a standard DC game: The varieties of poker wholly depend on the level of knowledge and understanding on the table that you are playing. In home games, players will agree in","title":"Dealer's choice"},{"docid":"3300993","text":"index cards attached to their foreheads; usually, any special guests on the show would also participate in the Medley. Each card had a different stunt such as \"Hidden Talent,\" \"Peanut Butter Jumping Jacks,\" \"Eat a Twinkie with Gravy\", \"put your feet in worms / dog food\" or \"Food Volcano\" listed on it. One card would usually have a stunt based on a segment from earlier in the show. The participant either had to do what it said on the card, sight unseen, or be sent to the Pie Pod (explained below), or on some occasions the Pie Slide. When Harry","title":"What Would You Do? (1991 TV program)"},{"docid":"10839186","text":"to play your jack early enough so as not to lose it. If you play the jack onto an open board at the end, your opponent will get it if he or she was the last player to collect cards. The face cards appear to have little value, since they do not bring points. But they can be used as a tactic to prevent bastras. For example, if you are faced with a board that has just a 3, and your numeral cards risk giving a bastra (you have 4,6 and a king for example), it would be a safe","title":"Bastra"},{"docid":"18539324","text":"cards at the start of the hand, you earn them by picking up your spares, or getting strikes. At the end of the bowling game, the best poker hand wins the game. Each lane uses a standard 52-card deck, or in some houses, the scoring machine can handle it. Rule variations include, bonus cards for stringing strikes together or picking up splits, no more than five cards per player, limits on cards held, additional cards after the five card limit for extra strikes (you must exchange), 3x3 grid on the table for community cards. If this is used, you reveal","title":"Open bowling"},{"docid":"6251476","text":"poker hand. In this version of the game, up to seven people can play, passing out a total of 49 cards and having three left over. A round of betting occurs before the first pass of three cards, then again after every card pass is made. Once players have set their hands, one card at a time is exposed, with a round of betting following each card. Anaconda can be changed in many ways, such as: Anaconda (poker) Anaconda is a variety of stud poker. Other names for this game include \"pass the trash\", \"screw your neighbor\", \"fuck your neighbor\",","title":"Anaconda (poker)"},{"docid":"312363","text":"Rollout (poker) Rollout or roll 'em out is poker jargon used for a game phase in certain poker variants. It is often incorrectly called \"roll your own\", to which it has similarities but from which it is fundamentally different. Poker games with a rollout phase resemble stud poker but have significantly different strategies, because players generally receive all of their cards up front (sometimes with a draw phase), and know the final value of their hand in early betting rounds. They resemble stud poker only in that cards are revealed to other players one at a time for each betting","title":"Rollout (poker)"},{"docid":"7716692","text":"the law took practical effect, Dan \"Wretchy\" Martin won an on-line poker tournament and netted $160,000 for his efforts. Mr. Martin has won more than $2 million playing poker on-line. Regarding Martin's statement's about the possibility of leaving his home state to pursue his life's dream and chosen profession, Sen. Prentice said: \"I just think some of these arguments are utter nonsense,\" Prentice told ESPN.com. \"You mean you're going to move so you can play poker? Gee, lots of luck in your life. … I have nothing against card playing. That's fine. If you want to do that, but I'm","title":"Margarita Prentice"},{"docid":"783822","text":"Spit (card game) Spit, also referred to as Slam or Speed, is a game of the family of card games for two players. The game is played until all of someone's cards are gone; at which time, the game has finished. The goal of the game is to get rid of all your cards as quickly as possible. The players do not take turns - physical speed and alertness are required to play faster than your opponent. On each deal, by being first to play all your stock pile cards you can reduce the number of cards you have in","title":"Spit (card game)"},{"docid":"13545486","text":"single player. Some examples of questions used in the game are \"Do you have any Jacks or 9s?\", \"Do you have any even spades lower than 10?\", \"Do you have any Red 5s, Black 10s, or Black Queens?\" or \"If you add up the number cards in your hand, is the total more than 50?\", though questions as complicated as the latter are unlikely to give much information about a player's hand. A player may ask any number of questions on one turn, but his round ends when he receives an answer of \"no\". In addition to asking yes-or-no questions,","title":"Diplomat (card game)"},{"docid":"6251475","text":"Anaconda (poker) Anaconda is a variety of stud poker. Other names for this game include \"pass the trash\", \"screw your neighbor\", \"fuck your neighbor\", and \"3,2,1 left\". Each player is dealt seven cards. They then each select three cards to be passed to the player on their left. These cards are simply set on the table near their left-most opponent. No players get to see their new three cards until everyone has made a pass. Afterward, the players repeat the process, only with two cards, then again with one card. Players then discard two cards to make their best five-card","title":"Anaconda (poker)"},{"docid":"8979909","text":"the middle of the table. After this the game begins. You have to place only ascending or descending numbers on either of the two piles of cards. You can only place cards from your hand on the piles.If both of the cards at the top of the pile are the same nunber, you may perform a stress by saying \"stress\" out loud. When a stress happens, your opponent will take all of the cards on the table and place it in his deck. Anytime during the game, you can draw more cards to place in your hand, however there cannot","title":"Stress (card game)"},{"docid":"312365","text":"the game's five betting rounds begins with the players simultaneously revealing one of their cards (\"simultaneous choose-after rollout\"). Rollout games are frequently played high-low split, and players choose which cards to reveal in order to delay as long as possible revealing which half of the pot they intend to win. Rollout (poker) Rollout or roll 'em out is poker jargon used for a game phase in certain poker variants. It is often incorrectly called \"roll your own\", to which it has similarities but from which it is fundamentally different. Poker games with a rollout phase resemble stud poker but have","title":"Rollout (poker)"},{"docid":"312364","text":"round. There are the same three variations on the idea as with roll your own, depending on when players are allowed to choose which card to reveal. They can either be forced to arrange the order of their cards before any betting begins (\"choose before\"), or they can also be allowed to choose cards in later rounds based on information found in earlier rounds (\"choose after\"). In the latter case, the revealing can be made simultaneously or in turn. In the game of show five, for example, each player is dealt seven cards before any betting begins, and each of","title":"Rollout (poker)"},{"docid":"20935911","text":"awl in the bag, the awl will poke the bag and show its ability immediately. You have been with me for 3 years but did not show your ability, I have never heard of you. This is because you do not have any talents. Therefore, you cannot follow with us, just stay behind!\" Mao Sui answered: \"My lord, today is the date when I ask you to put me in your bag. I will show up my ability. If you had put me in the bag earlier, I may have already pierced the whole bag!\" Finally, Prince Ping Yuan agreed","title":"Mao Sui"},{"docid":"10839184","text":"very powerful cards. Although they are worth only 1 point each, they can lead to more points elsewhere. It is generally considered good strategy to hold the jacks to the end of the hand. This serves 2 purposes. On the one hand, if your opponents are holding point cards, you will collect them. On the other hand, you clear the board and increase your chances of getting a bastra by forcing your opponent to play into an open board at the start of the next hand, when you will have 4 fresh cards in your hands. You may, however, play","title":"Bastra"},{"docid":"10839187","text":"play to drop the king, thus preventing your opponent from having a bastra opportunity (playing one of the numeral cards would set up a bastra if your opponent has 9 or 7). It is also wise to drop the face cards in order to conserve numeral cards for later in the hand, in the event that your opponent plays a point card. Sometimes it is good strategy to play a low card when facing an empty board if you are not sure of which cards have been played. For example, if you are holding 2, 6 and 8, you may","title":"Bastra"},{"docid":"7959965","text":"for the game. At the end of the game, each player receives five bonus points for each word that appears both in their movie and in the game title. Many players choose not to play with this rule, and skip this phase. You are dealt a hand of six cards. If you have no characters in your initial hand, you return your hand to the draw pile and draw a fresh hand, continuing to do so until you have at least one character in your hand. You then put out your characters. Once all players have put out their characters,","title":"Grave Robbers from Outer Space"},{"docid":"3169078","text":"six core characteristics: Caillois' definition has itself been criticized by subsequent thinkers; and ultimately, in spite Caillois' attempt at a definitive treatment, definitions of play remain open to negotiation. Caillois distinguished four categories of games: It's worth noting that these categories can be combined to create a more diverse experience and enhance the players interaction, for example poker is a form of Agon-Alea, Alea is present in the form of the cards and their combinations, but it's not the only winning factor; since Agon is present in the form of bluffing, making your opponent think you have better cards by","title":"Roger Caillois"},{"docid":"12859613","text":"no longer allowed to take cards from the discard pile. When you have laid down you can no longer call for a discard, and in your turn you must draw from the stock. If another player calls in your turn, you must allow the call, unless you have already cleared the stock with your pluck, in which case the discarded card is dead. After laying down the contracted sets, you are allowed to lay down additional appropriate cards to any of the sets laid on the table, in the same turn, or in later turns of the same hand. This","title":"Kalooki"},{"docid":"6992340","text":"can decide to play a twist phase or one of the phases on either side of the twist phase space. If you play a twist phase the pawn movements change to 6 spaces if you complete the phase and discard all of your cards, 4 if you complete the phase but do not discard all of your cards, or move back one space if you do not complete the phase. Arkansas Rules differs from standard Phase 10 rules in two ways: 1) Each player can complete all ten phases in any order he/she sees fit, and 2) SKIP cards are","title":"Phase 10"},{"docid":"469968","text":"not only on the cards in your hand. On the other hand, it is also important to remember that your partner will be using the same strategy in their bidding; and therefore, if your partner bids six hearts, for example, you may not necessarily want to bid eight hearts simply because you have two cards of the proposed trump suit in your hand. When confronted with a hand that is more-or-less even in two different suits, it is customary to bid on the suit with a higher point value. When playing with 45 cards, the deck is composed of four","title":"500 (card game)"},{"docid":"2714344","text":"to read your signals. Also, you do not have to \"waste\" high cards in suits you like. \"Caution:\" UDCA, as the name states, applies to count and attitude signals only. Suit preference signals are played standard. Also, your leads (as opposed to signals) are unchanged—you still lead high from a doubleton, for example, barring another special agreement to the contrary. As mentioned above, standard count in the trump suit is already \"upside down\". Experts recommend that trump signaling be the same in UDCA as standard trump signaling, that is, when playing UDCA, signal the same in all four suits. Some","title":"Signal (bridge)"},{"docid":"9739976","text":"game is based on levels, the more fights you win, the more experience you receive which in turn makes your attacks stronger. In battle, the highest attack power of a card wins; however, you can also combine cards to create combination effects. For example, if you had 3 cards with a power rating of 7, you can combine these to create a 21 power card, which would most likely out-do your opponents cards. You can also combine defense in the same way. There are several types of cards, each having a battle and map effect. In battle, Attack Cards attack","title":"Dragon Ball Z: Harukanaru Densetsu"},{"docid":"17154748","text":"tournaments with higher stakes. She is completing the tour at the Poker Stars tournament 2018 in Monte Carlo, being coached by Erik Seidel. Despite the fact that she has earned more than US$200,000 at the poker table, she says she will not quit writing: \"I’m never going to stop being a writer. Why can’t I do both? I love poker. Why would I stop?\" Konnikova told the New York Times she had no background in poker when she began this journey: \"When I started this, I didn’t know how many cards were in a deck. I hate casinos. I have","title":"Maria Konnikova"},{"docid":"12717667","text":"the banquet table our laughter resounded in unison. Indeed, even Wang Gong Jian and Uriyangqatai did not show more solicitude for their officers than I have displayed for you. And now, you remain calm when your emperor is humiliated; you remain indifferent when your country is threatened! You, officers, are forced to serve the barbarians and you feel no shame! You hear the music played for their ambassadors and you do not leap up in anger. No, you amuse yourselves at the cockfights, in gambling, in the possession of your gardens and rice fields, and in the tranquility of family","title":"Hịch tướng sĩ"},{"docid":"10427697","text":"in folder building is the addition of Star cards and the reduction of favorite cards. Star Cards are won from Giant Viruses, bigger forms of normal viruses. They will have 1-6 stars, and increase the attack power of regular cards with the same name. While they do not count towards the 3 same-card limit, you can only have 1 copy of a particular star card in a folder at a time, and you may only have 3 in your folder at once. The four elements include heat, aqua, elec, and wood. Elements are attached to certain attacks and to enemies","title":"Mega Man Star Force 2"},{"docid":"17490581","text":"of 10 cards. the 4 remaining cards are in your hand. Your goal is to get all kings at the top of a column. to reach the goal of the game, you may move cards from one column to another. there are also 8 piles located beside the columns of cards. you may move the lowest card from a column to such a pile. the rules for this are more or less the opposite from above: Last but not least, you start with 4 cards in your hand and may have a maximum of 4 cards in your hand. You","title":"PatienceMax"},{"docid":"3287178","text":"is labeled with zero, one, or two hand icons; when it's your turn, you can play any number of cards, provided that together they show a total of no more than two hands. Every card has some special effect on the game, and this must be dealt with whenever a card is played. Some cards, indicated by a brain icon, require your zombie to have the brain in order to play. The brain is represented by a token that is held by one player at a time. The brain can be obtained by a number of methods: most commonly, many","title":"Give Me the Brain"},{"docid":"4529296","text":"and a Renegade. The game is played in turns, in clockwise order. The Sheriff begins. Each player's turn is divided into three phases. \"1. Draw two cards\" \"2. Play any number of cards.\" Each player can only have one weapon at a time. If you want to play a new weapon card when you already have one, you must discard the one you already have. This is explicitly noted in page 3 of the rules. When a card is played just follow the symbols on it. Cards can be played only during your turn (with the exception of \"Beer\", \"Bang!\"","title":"Bang! (card game)"},{"docid":"10341551","text":"eleventh WSOP bracelet, the most of any player. He was previously one of three players with ten bracelets the others being Johnny Chan and Doyle Brunson. Razz is a form of stud poker that is normally played for ace-to-five low (lowball poker). The object of Razz is to make the lowest five-card possible hand from the seven cards you are dealt. In Razz, straights and flushes do not count against you for low, and the ace always plays low. The best possible Razz hand is 5-4-3-2-A, or 5 high, also known as \"the wheel\" or \"the bicycle\". Deuce-to-seven Razz is","title":"2007 World Series of Poker results"},{"docid":"6363941","text":"explains that \"one of my girlfriends and I were listening to music and were like, there's not enough songs for your girlfriends for when you go out and leave your man behind and have a good time. Any situation I go through, I lean on my girlfriends. Like, when you get your heart broken, who do you go to? You go to your friends.\" On November 21, 2005, she performed the song on the \"Late Show with David Letterman\", and on the November 22 episode of ABC's \"The View\". On December 6, Simpson sang \"L.O.V.E.\" as part of a performance","title":"L.O.V.E. (Ashlee Simpson song)"},{"docid":"3231696","text":"words for the Canadian advertising jingle from the 1970s until the mid-1990s were \"When you eat your Smarties, do you eat the red ones last? Do you suck them very slowly, or crunch them very fast? Eat those candy-coated chocolates, but tell me when I ask, when you eat your Smarties, do you eat the red ones last?\". This jingle was set to the tune of Lonnie Donegan's \"Does Your Chewing Gum Lose Its Flavour (On the Bedpost Overnight?)\". The 2008 advertising campaign showed various people singing \"Everyday People\" by Sly and the Family Stone. , the slogan is \"Show","title":"Smarties"},{"docid":"20755844","text":"tarock beats a lower one. As in Königrufen, there is also the rule that when the Sküs, Mond (XXI) and Pagat (I) meet, the Pagat wins the trick (the so-called Fairy Tale Trick or \"Märchenstich\"). In some tarock circles there are rules allowing the game to be stopped immediately after dealing by returning all the cards to the table, known as \"Zusammenwerfen\". The game does not count and the same dealer deals a new hand: if you don't have a single tarock in your hand, you must do this; if the only tarock card you have is one of the","title":"Zwanzigerrufen"},{"docid":"1001607","text":"cards to display punchlines. On \"Letters to Laugh-In\", a short-lived spin-off daytime show hosted by Gary Owens, cast members read jokes sent in by viewers, which were scored by applause meter. The eventual winning joke was read by actress Jill St. John: \"What do you get when you cross an elephant with a jar of peanut butter? A 500 pound sandwich that sticks to the roof of your mouth!\" A cross-promotional episode of \"I Dream of Jeannie\" (\"The Biggest Star in Hollywood\", February 1969) features Judy Carne, Arte Johnson, Gary Owens, and producer George Schlatter playing themselves in a story","title":"Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In"},{"docid":"10907577","text":"Full Tilt Poker. Pocketfives.com, a site that tracks online poker, ranked her number 51 in 2008. She also has been the site's top-ranked player in the past. In July 2007, Obrestad won a $4 buy-in 180 person online sit-and-go where she claims to have played almost the entire tournament without looking at her cards. She has said she peeked at her cards once during the tournament, when she was faced with an all-in bet. She did this to show \"just how important it is to play position and to pay attention to the players at the table.\" On 2 March","title":"Annette Obrestad"},{"docid":"3779933","text":"Razz (poker) Razz is a form of stud poker that is normally played for ace-to-five low (lowball poker). The object of Razz is to make the lowest possible five-card hand from the seven cards you are dealt. In Razz, straights and flushes do not count against the player for low, and the ace always plays low. Thus, the best possible Razz hand is 5-4-3-2-A, or 5 high, also known as \"the wheel\" or \"the bicycle\". Deuce-to-seven Razz is also sometimes played. Razz is featured in the mixed game rotation H.O.R.S.E. as the \"R\" in the game's name. Razz is similar","title":"Razz (poker)"},{"docid":"2912595","text":"to the rules, you must take the card and the entire pile to your hand. If you must take the pile when playing the table cards, the pile becomes your hand cards, and you must get rid of your hand cards before you can continue playing from the table. To avoid deadlocks, it may be advisable to use relaxed rules for playing face cards. See Miscellaneous Rule Variations for possible rules. According to some rules, in Pöytäpaska ace does not fall the pile, ten can be played on the top of anything, aces and face cards can be played on","title":"Paskahousu"},{"docid":"1307729","text":"his 70th birthday in 1998 and appeared in a week-long run of his one-man show at the London Palladium. In 2000, Forsyth hosted a revived series called \"Tonight at the London Palladium\". In 2003, and again in 2010, Forsyth was a guest presenter on the news and satire quiz show \"Have I Got News for You\". Forsyth had called Paul Merton, one of the team captains on the show, to suggest himself as a guest presenter. During the first of these appearances, he presented a parody of his \"Play Your Cards Right\" format entitled \"Play Your Iraqi Cards Right\". He","title":"Bruce Forsyth"},{"docid":"15457492","text":"separately, and looking at the table below, pick out the appropriate number of cards from each deck, shuffle all of the selected character cards together, then hand out one card to each player, face down. Make sure that other players cannot see your character card when you receive it. Once you have your character card, read over it to see your affiliation, your special ability, and your victory condition. Finally, randomly determine the starting player and begin the game. Turn order proceeds in a clockwise fashion. On a player's turn, he or she must move their character by rolling the","title":"Shadow Hunters"},{"docid":"12502459","text":"team that had control won $50 and could choose one of the two cards to add to their poker hand. The other team received the spare card, and one member of that team would have to take off an article of clothing. After four questions, each team had four cards. The fifth pair of cards was always face down, but the question would be played the same way. The team with the better hand after five cards won a bonus $250, and one of their opponents would have to take an article of clothing off. In Round 2, the rules","title":"Strip Poker (game show)"},{"docid":"1787231","text":"cues on integrity.\" When Carlson continued to press Stewart on the Kerry issue, Stewart said, \"You're on CNN! The show that leads into me is puppets making crank phone calls! What is wrong with you?\" In response to prods from Carlson, \"Come on. Be funny,\" Stewart said, \"No, I'm not going to be your monkey.\" Later in the show when Carlson jibed, \"I do think you're more fun on your show,\" Stewart retorted, \"You're as big a dick on your show as you are on any show.\" In response to Stewart's criticisms, Carlson said, \"You need to get a job","title":"Jon Stewart"},{"docid":"8315168","text":"she put it, \"we all spend so much time talking... but we never really communicate.\" As a remedy, she decided to write down on paper cards a number of questions that she wanted to ask her husband and children. Some were light-hearted (\"What do you like to do in your spare time?\"), some serious and intimate (\"If you could live your life over, what would you change?\"). Before long, with nearly 200 cards on her hands, she realized that she could turn them into a sort of board game. She played it with her family, and the results were surprising:","title":"The Ungame"},{"docid":"5704193","text":"to say, \"I will not be doing the magic, here: you will\". Another way of doing it is to make a story that explains—gives a reason to—each step, so that no step is hidden, and the audience can even DO the steps, but the audience members are baffled, anyway. Story: Make a story of cutting the deck 7 times. 7 drunken sailors decide to play a high-stakes poker game with a new deck of cards. (Use a new deck that is ordered correctly for this game, all cards in order in every suit, not backwards order as some decks have,","title":"Self-working magic"},{"docid":"12119943","text":"An email explaining the fault was sent to all players telling them \"You do not need to do anything further; your cards will be automatically carried across to tonight’s show and entered into the next games\". Further technical problems were encountered on 26 October 2008 where the second game of the show ran into difficulties after the second number was called. The game was abandoned whilst on air, although it continued to run via the \"Bingo Night Live\" website. The show was temporarily replaced with a rerun of Creature Comforts while the problems were resolved, before coming back on air","title":"Bingo Night Live"},{"docid":"11210726","text":"on your seat and the rules as follows: Hole carding Hole carding refers to obtaining knowledge of cards that are supposed to be hidden from view in card games. The term is usually applied to blackjack but can apply to other games with hidden hole cards, like three card poker and Caribbean stud poker. So long as it does not involve the use of a device like a mirror or actions like touching the dealer's cards, in most jurisdictions hole carding is a legal form of advantage gambling in casino table games. In other games, like stud poker, casinos normally","title":"Hole carding"},{"docid":"16776296","text":"leaving the show, Brewster saying, \"I told my agent and manager, 'Listen, tell me everything that you hear about, but basically I want to do comedy.\" So when she expressed interest in the offer from \"SVU\", \"They called me and they said, 'Are you sure you want to do a law enforcement show?' I asked, 'Do I have scenes with Mariska [Hargitay]?' They said, 'Most of your scenes are with Mariska.' I said, 'I want it. I totally want it.'\" Brewster said of her first guest stint on \"SVU\" back in the , that the role was an \"overwhelming\" experience.","title":"Lost Reputation"},{"docid":"11575016","text":"himself. When playing Botifarra you must also bear in mind that it is forbidden to speak, show your cards or make signs or comments that may reveal your cards or your opinion as to whether game decisions are good or bad. Despite this, it is quite normal to make some comments during the game, which adds to a more entertaining atmosphere. Botifarra (card game) Botifarra () is a point trick-taking card game for four players in fixed partnerships played in Catalonia, the Northeast country of Spain, and parts of Aragon and Castelló province. It is a historical game also played","title":"Botifarra (card game)"},{"docid":"545768","text":"combined value equal to the value of the weapon used. The situation is complicated by the requirement that players play Failure cards in clockwise order, with each player having only one opportunity to play cards. Since it is to any player's advantage to eliminate failure cards from his opponents' hands, a large part of the strategy of the game consists in bluffing: when one player attacks Doctor Lucky, it is in your interest to persuade your other opponents that you have no failure cards in your hand, to attempt to force them to save the game by spending the required","title":"Kill Doctor Lucky"},{"docid":"10839182","text":"is remembering which cards have been played. This way, if you are forced to play into an open board, you have an idea of the probability of which cards remain. For example, if you know that two 6s have been played and you hold a 6 in your hand, there is a good chance your opponent may not hold a 6 (as there is only one 6 remaining). It is also important to remember which point cards have been played. For example, if you are holding two 10s (one of which happens to be the 10 of diamonds, worth 3","title":"Bastra"},{"docid":"11704931","text":"of the dealer calls trump before the cards are dealt. If the top card matches what the player has \"predicted\" that is automatically trump and that player gets the card and discards one, not the dealer. If any other suit comes up other than the \"predicted\" trump the 2 other players and dealer have the option of either \"ordering it up\" or \"pick it up\". Game continues as normal. When calling trump ahead of time you can decide to \"go alone\" but you can not change your mind after you see your cards. If you get all 5 tricks you","title":"Euchre variations"},{"docid":"2311156","text":"According to Charles Cotton, primero, which by the time of the Restoration in 1660 had already evolved into many other variations, some of six cards, rapidly went out of fashion with the introduction of the Spanish game of Ombre. The object of the game, as in poker, is to attain the highest possible hand, or at least bluff your competitors out of betting against you. There are no existing written rules for the 16th-century primero, only descriptions. However, a number of reconstructions of the game have been made, primarily on the basis of books describing playing strategy and references in","title":"Primero"},{"docid":"2912592","text":"gone \"out\". In some circles the loser is called paskahousu, \"shitty pants\". In Valepaska (\"Fake Shit\", also known as Valepaskahousu and Kusetuspaskahousu) the cards are played face down, and when playing cards you announce which cards you play (for example \"one jack\" or \"three eights\"). You are allowed to lie, but other players are allowed to challenge your announcement. A challenge means that the cards you played are exposed. If you were honest, the challenger must take the pile in his hand (and it's your turn to start the new pile), and if you lied, you must take the pile","title":"Paskahousu"},{"docid":"5560629","text":"happened when the paper was being made up that changed its order, if you had been educated and could read and write, you could have known about it and refused to put your name on it. Do you intend to let your children remain in the same condition of ignorance in which you have lived, which will compel them always to meet the whiter man at a great disadvantage through an interpreter, as you have to do? [...] As your friend, Spotted Tail, I urge you to send your children with me to this Carlisle School and I will do","title":"Carlisle Indian Industrial School"},{"docid":"8109665","text":"many wild cards can be put into a hand that is already down. Play progresses until one of the players \"goes out,\" meaning he is able to discard the last card in his hand. Although you may discard throughout the game, to win you must be able to play both cards—you cannot \"get out\" by discarding your last card in your hand, meaning you may not \"get out\" until you have two \"playing\" cards. Playing means that you can put those two cards down on top of the \"playable\" piles. If this may happen to you, you can discard one","title":"Contract rummy"},{"docid":"13991238","text":"which add to any values except swarm values. You can even see the badges the Nanovor has. You can see your statistics and badges plus change your avatar. The Badges show accomplishments you have done. Some badges give you rewards while others are needed to change specific Nanovor. Some are needed to \"evolve\" some nanovor. This page can let you purchase Booster packs to get new Nanovor and EMs. Getting these packs require Nanocash that you can get from the site or from Game cards at specific retailers. More Booster packs will be coming soon. There will be a pack","title":"Nanovor"},{"docid":"1796039","text":"Stewart, \"I do think you're more fun on your show. Just my opinion,\" to which Stewart replied, \"You know what's interesting, though? You're as big a dick on your show as you are on any show.\" Following his appearance, transcripts and live stream footage were released on the Internet and widely watched and discussed. At a time when the average number of viewers of the show was about 615,000, the episode drew 867,000 viewers. Stewart later stated \"It really was not my intent to be disruptive. I truly thought we'd have a goof about how terrible the program is at","title":"Crossfire (U.S. TV program)"},{"docid":"3447006","text":"was no money awarded for the tie-breaker). In the Cash Cards, Bruce would first ask the winning couple a ridiculously hard, trivial or stupid question. They often pondered for a few seconds over this, then Bruce said \"Aren't you glad you don't have to answer a question like that?\", to which the audience would laugh – except that on at least two occasions, the contestants correctly answered the question, shocking Bruce, who accused the contestants – though in a humorous manner – of \"ruining the show\", prompting \"much more\" laughter from the audience. In the Cash Cards, this time, the","title":"Play Your Cards Right"},{"docid":"6992339","text":"10. The object of Phase 10 Twist is to be the first player to complete phase 10 by moving around the game board. Every player starts with their pawn on phase 1 on the game board. They must complete phase 1 in order to move their pawn. There are three pawn movements; move 3 spaces if you complete the phase and discard all of your cards, move 2 spaces if you complete the phase but do not discard all of your cards, or move 1 space if you don't complete the phase. If you land on a twist phase you","title":"Phase 10"},{"docid":"1733644","text":"to do this?' I simply answer: \"No, I am going to show you how \"I\" do it. Then, you'll have to learn with your own technique, your own way of moving, your style, your abilities and your limitations. You are going to learn to be yourself, not someone else.\" The philosophy of parkour has been compared to that of martial arts. In an interview with \"The New Yorker\", David Belle acknowledges the influence: \"There's a quote by Bruce Lee that's my motto: 'There are no limits. There are plateaus, but you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.","title":"Parkour"},{"docid":"11927623","text":"recently, however, in the documentary \"Graffiti Wars\", Blek took a different tone, stating, \"When I see Banksy making a man with a child or Banksy making rats, of course I see immediately where he takes the idea. I do feel angry. When you're an artist you use your own techniques. It's difficult to find a technique and style in art so when you have a style and you see someone else is taking it and reproducing it, you don't like that. I'm not sure about his integrity. Maybe he has to show his face now and show what kind of","title":"Blek le Rat"},{"docid":"16422439","text":"empire, and show other women when you get to this point in your career you don't have to go sign with someone else and share your money and your success—you do it yourself.\" In December 2013, Parkwood Entertainment released Beyoncé's fifth self-titled visual album. The surprising release caused \"hilarious, honest and hysterical\" reaction among Beyoncé's fans, and \"shock\" among other musicians. According to data provided by Twitter, the release generated over 1.2 million tweets in 12 hours. Peter Robinson of \"The Guardian\" hailed the shock release as \"Beyoncégeddon\", describing it as a \"major triumph [...] a masterclass in both exerting","title":"Parkwood Entertainment"},{"docid":"10788238","text":"their best for me. If the King likes our show, it will please the people of this country. I have observed your own costume. It is very fine, and when the King attends the show, I want you to do an Indian dance in front of his box. Will you do this for me?\" \"Everything worked splendidly. When it came time for the Indians to come in with their village in the center of the arena, we started the dance in which I was to appear before the King of England. I had a beautiful lance, and as the dance","title":"Luther Standing Bear"},{"docid":"12427614","text":"are opened with a Pass (may also contain a longer side-suit). If one has 8 or more HCP and no suit, but 4 or more , one opens 1 (may also contain a longer minor suit). The general rationale is that when you open very low, you want to hold and show the major suits, so opponents cannot easily pre-empt against you. Another advantage is that when you have 8 or more HCP you often tell partner immediately which major suit(s) you do not have, and when he sees that your side cannot have any major-suit fit, if appropriate, he","title":"Säffle Spade"},{"docid":"17731970","text":"I worked crazily to get my body back. I wanted to show my body. I wanted to show that you can have a child and you can work hard and you can get your body back. I know that there's so many women that feel the same thing after they give birth. You can have your child and you can still have fun and still be sexy and still have dreams and still live for yourself. I'm not embarrassed about it, and I don't feel like I have to protect that side of me because I do believe that sexuality","title":"Partition (song)"},{"docid":"10479842","text":"requiring that all participants show their card at the same time. Planning poker is based on a list of features to be delivered, several copies of a deck of cards and optionally, an egg timer that can be used to limit time spent in discussion of each item. The feature list, often a list of user stories, describes some software that needs to be developed. The cards in the deck have numbers on them. A typical deck has cards showing the Fibonacci sequence including a zero: 0, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, 55, 89; other decks use","title":"Planning poker"},{"docid":"17527758","text":"players with fouled hands. Unlike standard Chinese poker, players do not receive all thirteen cards at once. Therefore, fouling plays a large factor, and strategies are devised to avoid it. Unlike standard Chinese poker where all thirteen cards are dealt at once, in open face Chinese each player is dealt five cards in the beginning and then one card at a time until thirteen card hands are made (8 deals after 5 cards are dealt). The cards are all set face up. The dealer deals clockwise with the player to the left of the dealer acting first. In the beginning","title":"Open-face Chinese poker"},{"docid":"6992336","text":"includes only two Skip cards instead of the four that the original edition contains. This makes the playable number of cards 106, plus the forty phase cards, for a total of 146 cards in the box. Same rules as Masters Edition except the player declares what phase they are completing as they lay down the phase. Same rules as Masters Edition except; In Anti-phase, you have to complete your phase in order to stay on your present phase, if you don't complete your phase you move down a phase. In Anti-phase for others, a rule card is left in the","title":"Phase 10"},{"docid":"10839188","text":"want to drop the 2, forcing your opponent to set you up for a bastra himself if he does not have a 9, jack or a face card. It is generally wise to build the hand by playing lower numeral cards ahead of the higher ones since combining is used to collect cards. For example, if you have 3, 4, 7 and 9, it would be wiser to start with the 3 and 4 and work your way up. Otherwise, it will be harder to collect cards if you start with the 9 and 7. As well, the higher cards","title":"Bastra"},{"docid":"6032357","text":"then corrected by another soviet lady present in the show: \"We do have sex, but we do not have advertisements!\". However, Luidmila Ivanova have told a different story to the Komsomolskaya Pravda newspaper: Well, the TV show started, and one American lady have said: you must stop having sex with your men because of the Afgan War - then they won't go to the war. And kept pointing at me. Then I answered her: there is no sex in the USSR, but there is love. And you also didn't stop having sex with your men during the Vietnam War. But","title":"The Wild East"},{"docid":"12376343","text":"court cards: Jack (\"Valet\"), Knight (\"Chevalier\" or \"Cavalier\"), Queen (\"Dame\") and King (\"Roi\"). The other 22 are the 21 \"atouts\" or trumps and one Fool. The deck is thus primarily different from the 52-card Poker deck in the existence of the separate trump \"suit\", and the addition of the Knight court card. With these cards removed the deck is identical to the 52-card deck for playing purposes. The face cards do not use the Parisian pattern (\"portrait officiel\") but have their own unique illustrations. The Fool, though similar in appearance and function to the Joker card of poker decks, has","title":"Tarot Nouveau"},{"docid":"10349448","text":"the oral cavity as you can and seal off the lip so that you have an airtight fit. The tongue is quickly released in a downward motion. When you release the tongue downward, you also drop your jaw and open your mouth in a \"popping\" motion. This is all done very quickly. Do not pull the tongue back towards your throat. It needs to pop downward away from the roof of the mouth to get the most volume, do not blow air through the horn and do not inhale when you release your tongue. The first recorded appearance was by","title":"Slap tonguing"},{"docid":"6812250","text":"card images during the taping. Although during the broadcast commentators may appear to be present at the venue, their commentary is most often added after play is complete when they have the opportunity to view the hole-cam video. Prior to the invention of the hole-card camera, the audience had no way of knowing what the players were holding during any given hand of a poker broadcast unless players chose to show their cards or were all in. Some televised tournaments also have a camera in the dealer's position to record the turn and river cards when a player wins the","title":"Hole cam"},{"docid":"8261221","text":"Aurora/Rex Games produced a similar set under the name \"Royal Poker Dice\". The sets featured five 12-sided dice allowing for all 52 playing cards to be represented. The remaining 8 faces featured stars and acted as wild cards allowing for every possible poker hand to be rolled. Poker dice Poker dice are dice which, instead of having number pips, have representations of playing cards upon them. Poker dice have six sides, one each of an Ace, King, Queen, Jack, 10, and 9, and are used to form a poker hand. Each variety of poker dice varies slightly in regard to","title":"Poker dice"},{"docid":"3446994","text":"presented a parody of the format, \"Play Your Iraqi Cards Right\" (originally titled \"Play Your Kurds Right\"), when he was guest host on the satirical BBC TV series \"Have I Got News for You\" in June 2003. On 15 October 2005, it made a one-off return as part of \"Ant & Dec's Gameshow Marathon\", celebrating 50 years of ITV. It made another one-off return in 2007 again part of \"Gameshow Marathon.\" \"Play Your Cards Right\" has also been turned into a successful Interactive DVD which was released in 2007, with an updated sequel released in 2008, both produced by DVDPro.","title":"Play Your Cards Right"},{"docid":"718818","text":"\"biggest mine of useless information\", Peter Sellers initiated the catchphrase when he appeared on BBC1's \"Parkinson\" show on 28 October 1972 and said: Over the years Caine himself had parodied the phenomenon, both his catchphrase and his \"interesting facts\", and has imitated others' impressions of him. In an interview with Michael Parkinson in 2007, Caine commented on the impersonations of his voice, \"I can do it. 'Hello. My name is Michael Caine. Not many people know that.' I sound like a bloody moron. You know where they've got me now? On birthday cards. 'It's your birthday today. Not many people","title":"Michael Caine"},{"docid":"11438282","text":"Your Balls Hang Low?\" are recorded as: <poem> Do your balls hang low? Do they dangle to and fro? Can you tie them in a knot? Can you tie them in a bow? Do they itch when it's hot? Do you rest them in a pot? Do you get them in a tangle? Do you catch them in a mangle? Do they swing in stormy weather? Do they tickle with a feather? Do they rattle when you walk? Do they jingle when you talk? Can you sling them on your shoulder Like a lousy fucking soldier? Do your balls hang","title":"Do Your Ears Hang Low?"},{"docid":"7987862","text":"background music on \"Who Do You Trust?\" was supplied by a single organist, which was John Gart for this series. In March 1962, Carson was asked to take over from Jack Paar on \"The Tonight Show\", but he still had six months remaining on his contract with ABC. When Carson and McMahon left to do \"The Tonight Show\" (after the September 7, 1962 show) they were replaced by comedian Woody Woodbury and original announcer Bill Nimmo. The series continued until December 27, 1963. When ABC picked up \"Do You Trust Your Wife?\", it created a scheduling conflict with the popular","title":"Who Do You Trust?"},{"docid":"2912594","text":"Pöytäpaska (\"Table Shit\") also known as Espanjalainen paskahousu (\"Spanish Shitpants\") can be played by two or three players. The rules are the same as in Paskahousu, with the following additions. In addition to the hand, each player is dealt four cards face down and four cards face up on the table. They are played after the stock and the cards in your hand have exhausted. The cards face up are played before the cards face down. Note that you are allowed to see a face down card only when you (try to) play it. If it cannot be played according","title":"Paskahousu"},{"docid":"9739977","text":"the opponent with a melee attack or energy wave, Training Cards increase your defense power, Power Cards increase your power number on the other cards, Item Cards allow you to use items picked up on the board, Escape Cards allow you to leave random encounter battles (not boss battles), Reverse Cards allow you to switch the stats between your card and your opponent's, Support Cards allow an ally such as Tien, Yamcha, Yajirobe or Krillin to attack, and Z Cards allow you to choose one of the other seven actions. Each of the eight cards has a different effect on","title":"Dragon Ball Z: Harukanaru Densetsu"},{"docid":"1740157","text":"production, which continues today. KEM cards are available to the consumer (usually at specialty game shops) with various back colors and designs (including its two most-famous backs, the \"Paisley\" and the \"Arrow\" backs) in both poker (wide) and bridge (narrow) sizes. In 2007, KEM bridge cards (using Bicycle artwork) were adopted as the official cards of the World Series of Poker. Maverick was Hoyle's budget deck when it was acquired by USPCC with the rest of Hoyle Products. It was introduced during the run of the \"Maverick\" TV show. Unlike most current product lines, Maverick is printed by outsourced manufacturers.","title":"United States Playing Card Company"},{"docid":"5790264","text":"to get rid of all his/her cards wins, and game play stops at this point. If you cannot be first to play all your cards, then your aim is to have as few cards as possible at the end of the game. In some variations of the game, game play continues until only one person still has cards in hand. Game scoring can involve penalty points, like Big Two, or positive points. In versions of the game where game play ends when a person wins, the winner is awarded one point and the losers no points. In versions of the","title":"Pusoy dos"},{"docid":"9014600","text":"has no idea what their score will be when they are shooting. Scoring instructions might be: An archery variation on Monopoly involves pinning chance and community cards to the target face. Archers shoot to try to hit these cards, which have positive or negative scores on. They might say things such as <nowiki>\"You have scored a personal best! Award yourself 20 points\"</nowiki> or <nowiki>\"You miss the target, damaging one of your arrows. Lose 20 points\"</nowiki>. Playing cards are stuck to the target face, face down. Archers shoot 2 arrows, to hit two different playing cards, with the winner being the","title":"Archery games"},{"docid":"5704198","text":"will keep going. Pick up the face-down deck and keep going. Do it again, and again. They will never see their card. Stop when only 3 cards are left. And say, gee—only 3 cards left. Turn them over, and there are their 3 cards. It works every single time. Sometimes, you can arrange it so that they do not know that they had to memorize the cards after writing them down. They may pick the wrong cards. Show them that they picked the wrong cards by looking at their paper. They will think the trick is over. Then, reveal the","title":"Self-working magic"},{"docid":"18949792","text":"the pot; this declares that you think you can win the Ruff. (Similar to a raise in Poker.) To pass, say, \"I'll have nothing to do with it\". If a player says this, then he is out of the Ruff. (Similar to a fold in Poker.) To see, simply match the vies that have been made since it last came to you; you must see before you can revie. It is not clear whether an initial pass (before the first vie) takes you out of the bidding (as it clearly does after the vie), or serves like a Poker \"check\",","title":"Gleek (card game)"},{"docid":"3447009","text":"therefore it was the same one. Bruce started each show with his trademark \"It's nice to see you, to see you nice\" (whereby the audience join in on the last \"nice\".). When a pair was revealed, he'd say \"You don't get anything for a pair, not in this game.\", and the audience would join in with the \"not in this game\" part. On the 2002 series in particular, he would often start the show with a made-up quote. When \"Card Sharks\" was slated for a revival in 1986, Forsyth himself was considered as possible host by creator/producer Mark Goodson (Forsyth,","title":"Play Your Cards Right"},{"docid":"8325444","text":"to make a new one with cards from your hand, or to add to an existing one on the table). You cannot take the discard and keep it in your hand. Piernas and escaleras on the table cannot be broken up to reuse the cards to form new combinations - they can only be added to. You cannot add to another player's piena or escalera until you have put down a pierna or escalera of your own. If the stock pile is exhausted, the cards in the discard pile (apart from its top card, which is left in place), are","title":"Loba (card game)"},{"docid":"10427704","text":"and the Auto-ability waves First Barrier, Float Shoes, and Undershirt. You also get to keep your brotherbands. However, their power-ups are disabled as if you are in Rogue form, but turning off the ability gives them back. When you are in rogue form, your brotherbands with your friends will end. The main difference between the two versions is the Indie Frag Rogue Form can be activated on your on will, using it as a strategical advantage (such as burning your mega cards). The Wave command starts you off in Rogue Tribe, meaning Mega cards aren't usable no matter what (as","title":"Mega Man Star Force 2"},{"docid":"16413147","text":"it by saying, \"'Satyamev Jayate' is not just a show; it’s a movement to change people’s mindset.\" Parmita Uniyal from \"Hindustan Times\" praised the content and format of the show and said, \"Aamir Khan have to step in to do what journalists are supposed to do – make a difference. The show is a classic example of that.\" Gayatri Sankar from \"Zee News\" described the show as an \"eye opener\" and commented that, \"\"Satyamev Jayate\" will make you unlearn all the wrong you have learnt and discover that compassionate human your soul wishes to be. The show grips you and","title":"Satyamev Jayate (TV series)"},{"docid":"13848528","text":"card is flipped over and becomes a face-up card, and becomes eligible for play on the next trick. It is important to remember to keep as many cards in your hand as possible, trying to play the face-up cards whenever possible. When a player doesn't have any cards in their hand, it is very easy for the opponent to lead off-suit and win. It sometimes better to sacrifice a higher-value face-up card than to give up the cards in your hand. If you are out of trump, it is sometimes wise to again sacrifice a higher-value face-up card in hopes","title":"Euchre game variations"},{"docid":"17312257","text":"in Main Street, Adventureland, Frontierland/Liberty Square, and Fantasyland. Tomorrowland does not have any portals (as of Oct, 2018). Each land with portals has 5, though construction can limit this number. You activate a portal by placing your key (band/card) next to the keyhole. Once activated, an animation will play and you follow the story from there. The animation is captioned, so hearing impaired guests can play. You 'fight' the villains by showing your spell cards when prompted to 'Cast your Spell'. Some interactions require you to use your 'Sorcerer's Crest', which is on the back of the card. There are","title":"Sorcerers of the Magic Kingdom"},{"docid":"1813895","text":"able to bear. If you would be a wrestler, consider your shoulders, your back, your thighs; for different persons are made for different things. Do you think that you can act as you do and be a philosopher, that you can eat, drink, be angry, be discontented, as you are now? You must watch, you must labor, you must get the better of certain appetites, must quit your acquaintances, be despised by your servant, be laughed at by those you meet; come off worse than others in everything—in offices, in honors, before tribunals. When you have fully considered all these","title":"Either/Or"},{"docid":"966529","text":"that Benny had copied his gestures. Benny predicted that Carson would have a successful career as a comedian. Carson hosted several shows besides \"Carson's Cellar\", including the game show \"Earn Your Vacation\" (1954) and the CBS variety show \"The Johnny Carson Show\" (1955–1956). He was a guest panelist on the original \"To Tell the Truth\" starting in 1960, later becoming a regular panelist from 1961 until 1962. After the primetime \"The Johnny Carson Show\" failed, he moved to New York City to host ABC-TV's \"Who Do You Trust?\" (1957–1962), formerly known as \"Do You Trust Your Wife?\". In 1958, he","title":"Johnny Carson"},{"docid":"5527360","text":"request keys for cards that do not belong to that player. Example: Alice has picked cards 1 to 5 in the shuffled deck. Bob has picked cards 6 to 10. Bob requests to look at his allotted cards. Alice agrees that Bob is entitled to look at cards 6 to 10 and gives him her individual card keys A to A. Bob decrypts his cards by using both Alice's keys and his own for these cards, B to B. Bob can now see the cards. Alice cannot know which cards Bob has because she does not have access to Bob's","title":"Mental poker"},{"docid":"10847003","text":"less a passion than a duty now. \"I don't really enjoy internet poker,\" he told \"SA Sports Illustrated\" recently, \"but my contract says I have to play online for sixty hours a month. Internet poker is impersonal. You have no control over the game or your opponents.\" In 2006, he came into the online game only as a retirement hobby after being introduced to it by a friend: Initially I took part in cash competitions with online players, but I got frustrated because I kept losing money. I was about to give up when my friend suggested I try online","title":"Raymond Rahme"}],"string":"[\n {\n \"docid\": \"13613933\",\n \"text\": \"poker strategy becomes a complex subject. This article attempts to introduce only the basic strategy concepts. The fundamental theorem of poker, introduced by David Sklansky, states: Every time you play your hand the way you would if you could see your opponents' cards, you gain, and every time your opponents play their cards differently from the way they would play them if they could see your cards, you gain. This theorem is the foundation for many poker strategy topics. For example, bluffing and slow-playing (explained below) are examples of using deception to induce your opponents to play differently from how\",\n \"title\": \"Poker strategy\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"10719489\",\n \"text\": \"opponent has cleverly figured a way to get the Joker, then the following cards will always be four-of-card. \\\"Problem with the winning strategy of 17 Poker:\\\" It requires the dealer perfectly rifle shuffle the deck twice. Your opponent must figure out how to get the Joker, then get the Joker and no further cards, and that no other subsequent opponent get any cards before you. That is to say, you must get the very next four cards after the Joker is received by your opponent. \\\"Reality of 17 Poker:\\\" Whomever gets the Joker by whatever means has the highest probability\",\n \"title\": \"Liar Game\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"20632245\",\n \"text\": \"The pucker of a dame will make you jump Just like a chump When you gaze into her eyes The springs that make you wise refuse to work And you're a jerk I've seen you playing poker with three aces A hand of which you're very, very fond You knew that your opponent had three deuces But it happened your opponent was a blonde So you just threw your cards away And thought about the day when you became A sucker for a dame [2] You're a softy for a dame You're lofty till a dame sets out her traps\",\n \"title\": \"Wise Guy (musical)\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"20993068\",\n \"text\": \"bending your wrist by flicking the cards forward using your index and middle fingers. Keep your wrists straight (do not flex or bend them). Turn to face your players or use your peripheral vision, rather than turning your head which can strain your neck. While retrieving cards from the shoe, the cards and shoe should be at or just below elbow height and adjusted so that you can keep your elbows close to your body and do not have to move your elbows out to the side to deal or shuffle. Position the shoe so that you can use it\",\n \"title\": \"Occupational health and safety in the casino industry\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"10839185\",\n \"text\": \"the jack earlier in the hand, especially if there are points sitting on the board. You may also play the jack if there are a lot of cards on the board (even if there are no point cards), in order to enhance your chances of winning the 3 bonus points for most cards (if you feel you have enough cards to do so). If you have 2 jacks in your hand, you should play one at the beginning of the hand. There is no point playing them back-to-back at the end. For the last hand, you have to be careful\",\n \"title\": \"Bastra\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"2769570\",\n \"text\": \"games often break from the typical forms of poker through the use of wild cards and kill cards in addition to variations on betting structure. The majority of the dealer's choice poker games were derived from children's games. Depending on house rules, dealers may also call card games that are not true poker variants, such as Acey Deucey, Screw Your Neighbor, and Guts. There are two different approaches to a standard DC game: The varieties of poker wholly depend on the level of knowledge and understanding on the table that you are playing. In home games, players will agree in\",\n \"title\": \"Dealer's choice\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"3300993\",\n \"text\": \"index cards attached to their foreheads; usually, any special guests on the show would also participate in the Medley. Each card had a different stunt such as \\\"Hidden Talent,\\\" \\\"Peanut Butter Jumping Jacks,\\\" \\\"Eat a Twinkie with Gravy\\\", \\\"put your feet in worms / dog food\\\" or \\\"Food Volcano\\\" listed on it. One card would usually have a stunt based on a segment from earlier in the show. The participant either had to do what it said on the card, sight unseen, or be sent to the Pie Pod (explained below), or on some occasions the Pie Slide. When Harry\",\n \"title\": \"What Would You Do? (1991 TV program)\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"10839186\",\n \"text\": \"to play your jack early enough so as not to lose it. If you play the jack onto an open board at the end, your opponent will get it if he or she was the last player to collect cards. The face cards appear to have little value, since they do not bring points. But they can be used as a tactic to prevent bastras. For example, if you are faced with a board that has just a 3, and your numeral cards risk giving a bastra (you have 4,6 and a king for example), it would be a safe\",\n \"title\": \"Bastra\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"18539324\",\n \"text\": \"cards at the start of the hand, you earn them by picking up your spares, or getting strikes. At the end of the bowling game, the best poker hand wins the game. Each lane uses a standard 52-card deck, or in some houses, the scoring machine can handle it. Rule variations include, bonus cards for stringing strikes together or picking up splits, no more than five cards per player, limits on cards held, additional cards after the five card limit for extra strikes (you must exchange), 3x3 grid on the table for community cards. If this is used, you reveal\",\n \"title\": \"Open bowling\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"6251476\",\n \"text\": \"poker hand. In this version of the game, up to seven people can play, passing out a total of 49 cards and having three left over. A round of betting occurs before the first pass of three cards, then again after every card pass is made. Once players have set their hands, one card at a time is exposed, with a round of betting following each card. Anaconda can be changed in many ways, such as: Anaconda (poker) Anaconda is a variety of stud poker. Other names for this game include \\\"pass the trash\\\", \\\"screw your neighbor\\\", \\\"fuck your neighbor\\\",\",\n \"title\": \"Anaconda (poker)\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"312363\",\n \"text\": \"Rollout (poker) Rollout or roll 'em out is poker jargon used for a game phase in certain poker variants. It is often incorrectly called \\\"roll your own\\\", to which it has similarities but from which it is fundamentally different. Poker games with a rollout phase resemble stud poker but have significantly different strategies, because players generally receive all of their cards up front (sometimes with a draw phase), and know the final value of their hand in early betting rounds. They resemble stud poker only in that cards are revealed to other players one at a time for each betting\",\n \"title\": \"Rollout (poker)\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"7716692\",\n \"text\": \"the law took practical effect, Dan \\\"Wretchy\\\" Martin won an on-line poker tournament and netted $160,000 for his efforts. Mr. Martin has won more than $2 million playing poker on-line. Regarding Martin's statement's about the possibility of leaving his home state to pursue his life's dream and chosen profession, Sen. Prentice said: \\\"I just think some of these arguments are utter nonsense,\\\" Prentice told ESPN.com. \\\"You mean you're going to move so you can play poker? Gee, lots of luck in your life. … I have nothing against card playing. That's fine. If you want to do that, but I'm\",\n \"title\": \"Margarita Prentice\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"783822\",\n \"text\": \"Spit (card game) Spit, also referred to as Slam or Speed, is a game of the family of card games for two players. The game is played until all of someone's cards are gone; at which time, the game has finished. The goal of the game is to get rid of all your cards as quickly as possible. The players do not take turns - physical speed and alertness are required to play faster than your opponent. On each deal, by being first to play all your stock pile cards you can reduce the number of cards you have in\",\n \"title\": \"Spit (card game)\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"13545486\",\n \"text\": \"single player. Some examples of questions used in the game are \\\"Do you have any Jacks or 9s?\\\", \\\"Do you have any even spades lower than 10?\\\", \\\"Do you have any Red 5s, Black 10s, or Black Queens?\\\" or \\\"If you add up the number cards in your hand, is the total more than 50?\\\", though questions as complicated as the latter are unlikely to give much information about a player's hand. A player may ask any number of questions on one turn, but his round ends when he receives an answer of \\\"no\\\". In addition to asking yes-or-no questions,\",\n \"title\": \"Diplomat (card game)\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"6251475\",\n \"text\": \"Anaconda (poker) Anaconda is a variety of stud poker. Other names for this game include \\\"pass the trash\\\", \\\"screw your neighbor\\\", \\\"fuck your neighbor\\\", and \\\"3,2,1 left\\\". Each player is dealt seven cards. They then each select three cards to be passed to the player on their left. These cards are simply set on the table near their left-most opponent. No players get to see their new three cards until everyone has made a pass. Afterward, the players repeat the process, only with two cards, then again with one card. Players then discard two cards to make their best five-card\",\n \"title\": \"Anaconda (poker)\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"8979909\",\n \"text\": \"the middle of the table. After this the game begins. You have to place only ascending or descending numbers on either of the two piles of cards. You can only place cards from your hand on the piles.If both of the cards at the top of the pile are the same nunber, you may perform a stress by saying \\\"stress\\\" out loud. When a stress happens, your opponent will take all of the cards on the table and place it in his deck. Anytime during the game, you can draw more cards to place in your hand, however there cannot\",\n \"title\": \"Stress (card game)\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"312365\",\n \"text\": \"the game's five betting rounds begins with the players simultaneously revealing one of their cards (\\\"simultaneous choose-after rollout\\\"). Rollout games are frequently played high-low split, and players choose which cards to reveal in order to delay as long as possible revealing which half of the pot they intend to win. Rollout (poker) Rollout or roll 'em out is poker jargon used for a game phase in certain poker variants. It is often incorrectly called \\\"roll your own\\\", to which it has similarities but from which it is fundamentally different. Poker games with a rollout phase resemble stud poker but have\",\n \"title\": \"Rollout (poker)\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"312364\",\n \"text\": \"round. There are the same three variations on the idea as with roll your own, depending on when players are allowed to choose which card to reveal. They can either be forced to arrange the order of their cards before any betting begins (\\\"choose before\\\"), or they can also be allowed to choose cards in later rounds based on information found in earlier rounds (\\\"choose after\\\"). In the latter case, the revealing can be made simultaneously or in turn. In the game of show five, for example, each player is dealt seven cards before any betting begins, and each of\",\n \"title\": \"Rollout (poker)\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"20935911\",\n \"text\": \"awl in the bag, the awl will poke the bag and show its ability immediately. You have been with me for 3 years but did not show your ability, I have never heard of you. This is because you do not have any talents. Therefore, you cannot follow with us, just stay behind!\\\" Mao Sui answered: \\\"My lord, today is the date when I ask you to put me in your bag. I will show up my ability. If you had put me in the bag earlier, I may have already pierced the whole bag!\\\" Finally, Prince Ping Yuan agreed\",\n \"title\": \"Mao Sui\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"10839184\",\n \"text\": \"very powerful cards. Although they are worth only 1 point each, they can lead to more points elsewhere. It is generally considered good strategy to hold the jacks to the end of the hand. This serves 2 purposes. On the one hand, if your opponents are holding point cards, you will collect them. On the other hand, you clear the board and increase your chances of getting a bastra by forcing your opponent to play into an open board at the start of the next hand, when you will have 4 fresh cards in your hands. You may, however, play\",\n \"title\": \"Bastra\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"10839187\",\n \"text\": \"play to drop the king, thus preventing your opponent from having a bastra opportunity (playing one of the numeral cards would set up a bastra if your opponent has 9 or 7). It is also wise to drop the face cards in order to conserve numeral cards for later in the hand, in the event that your opponent plays a point card. Sometimes it is good strategy to play a low card when facing an empty board if you are not sure of which cards have been played. For example, if you are holding 2, 6 and 8, you may\",\n \"title\": \"Bastra\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"7959965\",\n \"text\": \"for the game. At the end of the game, each player receives five bonus points for each word that appears both in their movie and in the game title. Many players choose not to play with this rule, and skip this phase. You are dealt a hand of six cards. If you have no characters in your initial hand, you return your hand to the draw pile and draw a fresh hand, continuing to do so until you have at least one character in your hand. You then put out your characters. Once all players have put out their characters,\",\n \"title\": \"Grave Robbers from Outer Space\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"3169078\",\n \"text\": \"six core characteristics: Caillois' definition has itself been criticized by subsequent thinkers; and ultimately, in spite Caillois' attempt at a definitive treatment, definitions of play remain open to negotiation. Caillois distinguished four categories of games: It's worth noting that these categories can be combined to create a more diverse experience and enhance the players interaction, for example poker is a form of Agon-Alea, Alea is present in the form of the cards and their combinations, but it's not the only winning factor; since Agon is present in the form of bluffing, making your opponent think you have better cards by\",\n \"title\": \"Roger Caillois\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"12859613\",\n \"text\": \"no longer allowed to take cards from the discard pile. When you have laid down you can no longer call for a discard, and in your turn you must draw from the stock. If another player calls in your turn, you must allow the call, unless you have already cleared the stock with your pluck, in which case the discarded card is dead. After laying down the contracted sets, you are allowed to lay down additional appropriate cards to any of the sets laid on the table, in the same turn, or in later turns of the same hand. This\",\n \"title\": \"Kalooki\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"6992340\",\n \"text\": \"can decide to play a twist phase or one of the phases on either side of the twist phase space. If you play a twist phase the pawn movements change to 6 spaces if you complete the phase and discard all of your cards, 4 if you complete the phase but do not discard all of your cards, or move back one space if you do not complete the phase. Arkansas Rules differs from standard Phase 10 rules in two ways: 1) Each player can complete all ten phases in any order he/she sees fit, and 2) SKIP cards are\",\n \"title\": \"Phase 10\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"469968\",\n \"text\": \"not only on the cards in your hand. On the other hand, it is also important to remember that your partner will be using the same strategy in their bidding; and therefore, if your partner bids six hearts, for example, you may not necessarily want to bid eight hearts simply because you have two cards of the proposed trump suit in your hand. When confronted with a hand that is more-or-less even in two different suits, it is customary to bid on the suit with a higher point value. When playing with 45 cards, the deck is composed of four\",\n \"title\": \"500 (card game)\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"2714344\",\n \"text\": \"to read your signals. Also, you do not have to \\\"waste\\\" high cards in suits you like. \\\"Caution:\\\" UDCA, as the name states, applies to count and attitude signals only. Suit preference signals are played standard. Also, your leads (as opposed to signals) are unchanged—you still lead high from a doubleton, for example, barring another special agreement to the contrary. As mentioned above, standard count in the trump suit is already \\\"upside down\\\". Experts recommend that trump signaling be the same in UDCA as standard trump signaling, that is, when playing UDCA, signal the same in all four suits. Some\",\n \"title\": \"Signal (bridge)\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"9739976\",\n \"text\": \"game is based on levels, the more fights you win, the more experience you receive which in turn makes your attacks stronger. In battle, the highest attack power of a card wins; however, you can also combine cards to create combination effects. For example, if you had 3 cards with a power rating of 7, you can combine these to create a 21 power card, which would most likely out-do your opponents cards. You can also combine defense in the same way. There are several types of cards, each having a battle and map effect. In battle, Attack Cards attack\",\n \"title\": \"Dragon Ball Z: Harukanaru Densetsu\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"17154748\",\n \"text\": \"tournaments with higher stakes. She is completing the tour at the Poker Stars tournament 2018 in Monte Carlo, being coached by Erik Seidel. Despite the fact that she has earned more than US$200,000 at the poker table, she says she will not quit writing: \\\"I’m never going to stop being a writer. Why can’t I do both? I love poker. Why would I stop?\\\" Konnikova told the New York Times she had no background in poker when she began this journey: \\\"When I started this, I didn’t know how many cards were in a deck. I hate casinos. I have\",\n \"title\": \"Maria Konnikova\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"12717667\",\n \"text\": \"the banquet table our laughter resounded in unison. Indeed, even Wang Gong Jian and Uriyangqatai did not show more solicitude for their officers than I have displayed for you. And now, you remain calm when your emperor is humiliated; you remain indifferent when your country is threatened! You, officers, are forced to serve the barbarians and you feel no shame! You hear the music played for their ambassadors and you do not leap up in anger. No, you amuse yourselves at the cockfights, in gambling, in the possession of your gardens and rice fields, and in the tranquility of family\",\n \"title\": \"Hịch tướng sĩ\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"10427697\",\n \"text\": \"in folder building is the addition of Star cards and the reduction of favorite cards. Star Cards are won from Giant Viruses, bigger forms of normal viruses. They will have 1-6 stars, and increase the attack power of regular cards with the same name. While they do not count towards the 3 same-card limit, you can only have 1 copy of a particular star card in a folder at a time, and you may only have 3 in your folder at once. The four elements include heat, aqua, elec, and wood. Elements are attached to certain attacks and to enemies\",\n \"title\": \"Mega Man Star Force 2\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"17490581\",\n \"text\": \"of 10 cards. the 4 remaining cards are in your hand. Your goal is to get all kings at the top of a column. to reach the goal of the game, you may move cards from one column to another. there are also 8 piles located beside the columns of cards. you may move the lowest card from a column to such a pile. the rules for this are more or less the opposite from above: Last but not least, you start with 4 cards in your hand and may have a maximum of 4 cards in your hand. You\",\n \"title\": \"PatienceMax\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"3287178\",\n \"text\": \"is labeled with zero, one, or two hand icons; when it's your turn, you can play any number of cards, provided that together they show a total of no more than two hands. Every card has some special effect on the game, and this must be dealt with whenever a card is played. Some cards, indicated by a brain icon, require your zombie to have the brain in order to play. The brain is represented by a token that is held by one player at a time. The brain can be obtained by a number of methods: most commonly, many\",\n \"title\": \"Give Me the Brain\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"4529296\",\n \"text\": \"and a Renegade. The game is played in turns, in clockwise order. The Sheriff begins. Each player's turn is divided into three phases. \\\"1. Draw two cards\\\" \\\"2. Play any number of cards.\\\" Each player can only have one weapon at a time. If you want to play a new weapon card when you already have one, you must discard the one you already have. This is explicitly noted in page 3 of the rules. When a card is played just follow the symbols on it. Cards can be played only during your turn (with the exception of \\\"Beer\\\", \\\"Bang!\\\"\",\n \"title\": \"Bang! (card game)\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"10341551\",\n \"text\": \"eleventh WSOP bracelet, the most of any player. He was previously one of three players with ten bracelets the others being Johnny Chan and Doyle Brunson. Razz is a form of stud poker that is normally played for ace-to-five low (lowball poker). The object of Razz is to make the lowest five-card possible hand from the seven cards you are dealt. In Razz, straights and flushes do not count against you for low, and the ace always plays low. The best possible Razz hand is 5-4-3-2-A, or 5 high, also known as \\\"the wheel\\\" or \\\"the bicycle\\\". Deuce-to-seven Razz is\",\n \"title\": \"2007 World Series of Poker results\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"6363941\",\n \"text\": \"explains that \\\"one of my girlfriends and I were listening to music and were like, there's not enough songs for your girlfriends for when you go out and leave your man behind and have a good time. Any situation I go through, I lean on my girlfriends. Like, when you get your heart broken, who do you go to? You go to your friends.\\\" On November 21, 2005, she performed the song on the \\\"Late Show with David Letterman\\\", and on the November 22 episode of ABC's \\\"The View\\\". On December 6, Simpson sang \\\"L.O.V.E.\\\" as part of a performance\",\n \"title\": \"L.O.V.E. (Ashlee Simpson song)\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"3231696\",\n \"text\": \"words for the Canadian advertising jingle from the 1970s until the mid-1990s were \\\"When you eat your Smarties, do you eat the red ones last? Do you suck them very slowly, or crunch them very fast? Eat those candy-coated chocolates, but tell me when I ask, when you eat your Smarties, do you eat the red ones last?\\\". This jingle was set to the tune of Lonnie Donegan's \\\"Does Your Chewing Gum Lose Its Flavour (On the Bedpost Overnight?)\\\". The 2008 advertising campaign showed various people singing \\\"Everyday People\\\" by Sly and the Family Stone. , the slogan is \\\"Show\",\n \"title\": \"Smarties\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"20755844\",\n \"text\": \"tarock beats a lower one. As in Königrufen, there is also the rule that when the Sküs, Mond (XXI) and Pagat (I) meet, the Pagat wins the trick (the so-called Fairy Tale Trick or \\\"Märchenstich\\\"). In some tarock circles there are rules allowing the game to be stopped immediately after dealing by returning all the cards to the table, known as \\\"Zusammenwerfen\\\". The game does not count and the same dealer deals a new hand: if you don't have a single tarock in your hand, you must do this; if the only tarock card you have is one of the\",\n \"title\": \"Zwanzigerrufen\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"1001607\",\n \"text\": \"cards to display punchlines. On \\\"Letters to Laugh-In\\\", a short-lived spin-off daytime show hosted by Gary Owens, cast members read jokes sent in by viewers, which were scored by applause meter. The eventual winning joke was read by actress Jill St. John: \\\"What do you get when you cross an elephant with a jar of peanut butter? A 500 pound sandwich that sticks to the roof of your mouth!\\\" A cross-promotional episode of \\\"I Dream of Jeannie\\\" (\\\"The Biggest Star in Hollywood\\\", February 1969) features Judy Carne, Arte Johnson, Gary Owens, and producer George Schlatter playing themselves in a story\",\n \"title\": \"Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"10907577\",\n \"text\": \"Full Tilt Poker. Pocketfives.com, a site that tracks online poker, ranked her number 51 in 2008. She also has been the site's top-ranked player in the past. In July 2007, Obrestad won a $4 buy-in 180 person online sit-and-go where she claims to have played almost the entire tournament without looking at her cards. She has said she peeked at her cards once during the tournament, when she was faced with an all-in bet. She did this to show \\\"just how important it is to play position and to pay attention to the players at the table.\\\" On 2 March\",\n \"title\": \"Annette Obrestad\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"3779933\",\n \"text\": \"Razz (poker) Razz is a form of stud poker that is normally played for ace-to-five low (lowball poker). The object of Razz is to make the lowest possible five-card hand from the seven cards you are dealt. In Razz, straights and flushes do not count against the player for low, and the ace always plays low. Thus, the best possible Razz hand is 5-4-3-2-A, or 5 high, also known as \\\"the wheel\\\" or \\\"the bicycle\\\". Deuce-to-seven Razz is also sometimes played. Razz is featured in the mixed game rotation H.O.R.S.E. as the \\\"R\\\" in the game's name. Razz is similar\",\n \"title\": \"Razz (poker)\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"2912595\",\n \"text\": \"to the rules, you must take the card and the entire pile to your hand. If you must take the pile when playing the table cards, the pile becomes your hand cards, and you must get rid of your hand cards before you can continue playing from the table. To avoid deadlocks, it may be advisable to use relaxed rules for playing face cards. See Miscellaneous Rule Variations for possible rules. According to some rules, in Pöytäpaska ace does not fall the pile, ten can be played on the top of anything, aces and face cards can be played on\",\n \"title\": \"Paskahousu\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"1307729\",\n \"text\": \"his 70th birthday in 1998 and appeared in a week-long run of his one-man show at the London Palladium. In 2000, Forsyth hosted a revived series called \\\"Tonight at the London Palladium\\\". In 2003, and again in 2010, Forsyth was a guest presenter on the news and satire quiz show \\\"Have I Got News for You\\\". Forsyth had called Paul Merton, one of the team captains on the show, to suggest himself as a guest presenter. During the first of these appearances, he presented a parody of his \\\"Play Your Cards Right\\\" format entitled \\\"Play Your Iraqi Cards Right\\\". He\",\n \"title\": \"Bruce Forsyth\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"15457492\",\n \"text\": \"separately, and looking at the table below, pick out the appropriate number of cards from each deck, shuffle all of the selected character cards together, then hand out one card to each player, face down. Make sure that other players cannot see your character card when you receive it. Once you have your character card, read over it to see your affiliation, your special ability, and your victory condition. Finally, randomly determine the starting player and begin the game. Turn order proceeds in a clockwise fashion. On a player's turn, he or she must move their character by rolling the\",\n \"title\": \"Shadow Hunters\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"12502459\",\n \"text\": \"team that had control won $50 and could choose one of the two cards to add to their poker hand. The other team received the spare card, and one member of that team would have to take off an article of clothing. After four questions, each team had four cards. The fifth pair of cards was always face down, but the question would be played the same way. The team with the better hand after five cards won a bonus $250, and one of their opponents would have to take an article of clothing off. In Round 2, the rules\",\n \"title\": \"Strip Poker (game show)\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"1787231\",\n \"text\": \"cues on integrity.\\\" When Carlson continued to press Stewart on the Kerry issue, Stewart said, \\\"You're on CNN! The show that leads into me is puppets making crank phone calls! What is wrong with you?\\\" In response to prods from Carlson, \\\"Come on. Be funny,\\\" Stewart said, \\\"No, I'm not going to be your monkey.\\\" Later in the show when Carlson jibed, \\\"I do think you're more fun on your show,\\\" Stewart retorted, \\\"You're as big a dick on your show as you are on any show.\\\" In response to Stewart's criticisms, Carlson said, \\\"You need to get a job\",\n \"title\": \"Jon Stewart\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"8315168\",\n \"text\": \"she put it, \\\"we all spend so much time talking... but we never really communicate.\\\" As a remedy, she decided to write down on paper cards a number of questions that she wanted to ask her husband and children. Some were light-hearted (\\\"What do you like to do in your spare time?\\\"), some serious and intimate (\\\"If you could live your life over, what would you change?\\\"). Before long, with nearly 200 cards on her hands, she realized that she could turn them into a sort of board game. She played it with her family, and the results were surprising:\",\n \"title\": \"The Ungame\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"5704193\",\n \"text\": \"to say, \\\"I will not be doing the magic, here: you will\\\". Another way of doing it is to make a story that explains—gives a reason to—each step, so that no step is hidden, and the audience can even DO the steps, but the audience members are baffled, anyway. Story: Make a story of cutting the deck 7 times. 7 drunken sailors decide to play a high-stakes poker game with a new deck of cards. (Use a new deck that is ordered correctly for this game, all cards in order in every suit, not backwards order as some decks have,\",\n \"title\": \"Self-working magic\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"12119943\",\n \"text\": \"An email explaining the fault was sent to all players telling them \\\"You do not need to do anything further; your cards will be automatically carried across to tonight’s show and entered into the next games\\\". Further technical problems were encountered on 26 October 2008 where the second game of the show ran into difficulties after the second number was called. The game was abandoned whilst on air, although it continued to run via the \\\"Bingo Night Live\\\" website. The show was temporarily replaced with a rerun of Creature Comforts while the problems were resolved, before coming back on air\",\n \"title\": \"Bingo Night Live\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"11210726\",\n \"text\": \"on your seat and the rules as follows: Hole carding Hole carding refers to obtaining knowledge of cards that are supposed to be hidden from view in card games. The term is usually applied to blackjack but can apply to other games with hidden hole cards, like three card poker and Caribbean stud poker. So long as it does not involve the use of a device like a mirror or actions like touching the dealer's cards, in most jurisdictions hole carding is a legal form of advantage gambling in casino table games. In other games, like stud poker, casinos normally\",\n \"title\": \"Hole carding\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"16776296\",\n \"text\": \"leaving the show, Brewster saying, \\\"I told my agent and manager, 'Listen, tell me everything that you hear about, but basically I want to do comedy.\\\" So when she expressed interest in the offer from \\\"SVU\\\", \\\"They called me and they said, 'Are you sure you want to do a law enforcement show?' I asked, 'Do I have scenes with Mariska [Hargitay]?' They said, 'Most of your scenes are with Mariska.' I said, 'I want it. I totally want it.'\\\" Brewster said of her first guest stint on \\\"SVU\\\" back in the , that the role was an \\\"overwhelming\\\" experience.\",\n \"title\": \"Lost Reputation\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"11575016\",\n \"text\": \"himself. When playing Botifarra you must also bear in mind that it is forbidden to speak, show your cards or make signs or comments that may reveal your cards or your opinion as to whether game decisions are good or bad. Despite this, it is quite normal to make some comments during the game, which adds to a more entertaining atmosphere. Botifarra (card game) Botifarra () is a point trick-taking card game for four players in fixed partnerships played in Catalonia, the Northeast country of Spain, and parts of Aragon and Castelló province. It is a historical game also played\",\n \"title\": \"Botifarra (card game)\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"545768\",\n \"text\": \"combined value equal to the value of the weapon used. The situation is complicated by the requirement that players play Failure cards in clockwise order, with each player having only one opportunity to play cards. Since it is to any player's advantage to eliminate failure cards from his opponents' hands, a large part of the strategy of the game consists in bluffing: when one player attacks Doctor Lucky, it is in your interest to persuade your other opponents that you have no failure cards in your hand, to attempt to force them to save the game by spending the required\",\n \"title\": \"Kill Doctor Lucky\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"10839182\",\n \"text\": \"is remembering which cards have been played. This way, if you are forced to play into an open board, you have an idea of the probability of which cards remain. For example, if you know that two 6s have been played and you hold a 6 in your hand, there is a good chance your opponent may not hold a 6 (as there is only one 6 remaining). It is also important to remember which point cards have been played. For example, if you are holding two 10s (one of which happens to be the 10 of diamonds, worth 3\",\n \"title\": \"Bastra\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"11704931\",\n \"text\": \"of the dealer calls trump before the cards are dealt. If the top card matches what the player has \\\"predicted\\\" that is automatically trump and that player gets the card and discards one, not the dealer. If any other suit comes up other than the \\\"predicted\\\" trump the 2 other players and dealer have the option of either \\\"ordering it up\\\" or \\\"pick it up\\\". Game continues as normal. When calling trump ahead of time you can decide to \\\"go alone\\\" but you can not change your mind after you see your cards. If you get all 5 tricks you\",\n \"title\": \"Euchre variations\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"2311156\",\n \"text\": \"According to Charles Cotton, primero, which by the time of the Restoration in 1660 had already evolved into many other variations, some of six cards, rapidly went out of fashion with the introduction of the Spanish game of Ombre. The object of the game, as in poker, is to attain the highest possible hand, or at least bluff your competitors out of betting against you. There are no existing written rules for the 16th-century primero, only descriptions. However, a number of reconstructions of the game have been made, primarily on the basis of books describing playing strategy and references in\",\n \"title\": \"Primero\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"2912592\",\n \"text\": \"gone \\\"out\\\". In some circles the loser is called paskahousu, \\\"shitty pants\\\". In Valepaska (\\\"Fake Shit\\\", also known as Valepaskahousu and Kusetuspaskahousu) the cards are played face down, and when playing cards you announce which cards you play (for example \\\"one jack\\\" or \\\"three eights\\\"). You are allowed to lie, but other players are allowed to challenge your announcement. A challenge means that the cards you played are exposed. If you were honest, the challenger must take the pile in his hand (and it's your turn to start the new pile), and if you lied, you must take the pile\",\n \"title\": \"Paskahousu\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"5560629\",\n \"text\": \"happened when the paper was being made up that changed its order, if you had been educated and could read and write, you could have known about it and refused to put your name on it. Do you intend to let your children remain in the same condition of ignorance in which you have lived, which will compel them always to meet the whiter man at a great disadvantage through an interpreter, as you have to do? [...] As your friend, Spotted Tail, I urge you to send your children with me to this Carlisle School and I will do\",\n \"title\": \"Carlisle Indian Industrial School\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"8109665\",\n \"text\": \"many wild cards can be put into a hand that is already down. Play progresses until one of the players \\\"goes out,\\\" meaning he is able to discard the last card in his hand. Although you may discard throughout the game, to win you must be able to play both cards—you cannot \\\"get out\\\" by discarding your last card in your hand, meaning you may not \\\"get out\\\" until you have two \\\"playing\\\" cards. Playing means that you can put those two cards down on top of the \\\"playable\\\" piles. If this may happen to you, you can discard one\",\n \"title\": \"Contract rummy\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"13991238\",\n \"text\": \"which add to any values except swarm values. You can even see the badges the Nanovor has. You can see your statistics and badges plus change your avatar. The Badges show accomplishments you have done. Some badges give you rewards while others are needed to change specific Nanovor. Some are needed to \\\"evolve\\\" some nanovor. This page can let you purchase Booster packs to get new Nanovor and EMs. Getting these packs require Nanocash that you can get from the site or from Game cards at specific retailers. More Booster packs will be coming soon. There will be a pack\",\n \"title\": \"Nanovor\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"1796039\",\n \"text\": \"Stewart, \\\"I do think you're more fun on your show. Just my opinion,\\\" to which Stewart replied, \\\"You know what's interesting, though? You're as big a dick on your show as you are on any show.\\\" Following his appearance, transcripts and live stream footage were released on the Internet and widely watched and discussed. At a time when the average number of viewers of the show was about 615,000, the episode drew 867,000 viewers. Stewart later stated \\\"It really was not my intent to be disruptive. I truly thought we'd have a goof about how terrible the program is at\",\n \"title\": \"Crossfire (U.S. TV program)\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"3447006\",\n \"text\": \"was no money awarded for the tie-breaker). In the Cash Cards, Bruce would first ask the winning couple a ridiculously hard, trivial or stupid question. They often pondered for a few seconds over this, then Bruce said \\\"Aren't you glad you don't have to answer a question like that?\\\", to which the audience would laugh – except that on at least two occasions, the contestants correctly answered the question, shocking Bruce, who accused the contestants – though in a humorous manner – of \\\"ruining the show\\\", prompting \\\"much more\\\" laughter from the audience. In the Cash Cards, this time, the\",\n \"title\": \"Play Your Cards Right\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"6992339\",\n \"text\": \"10. The object of Phase 10 Twist is to be the first player to complete phase 10 by moving around the game board. Every player starts with their pawn on phase 1 on the game board. They must complete phase 1 in order to move their pawn. There are three pawn movements; move 3 spaces if you complete the phase and discard all of your cards, move 2 spaces if you complete the phase but do not discard all of your cards, or move 1 space if you don't complete the phase. If you land on a twist phase you\",\n \"title\": \"Phase 10\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"1733644\",\n \"text\": \"to do this?' I simply answer: \\\"No, I am going to show you how \\\"I\\\" do it. Then, you'll have to learn with your own technique, your own way of moving, your style, your abilities and your limitations. You are going to learn to be yourself, not someone else.\\\" The philosophy of parkour has been compared to that of martial arts. In an interview with \\\"The New Yorker\\\", David Belle acknowledges the influence: \\\"There's a quote by Bruce Lee that's my motto: 'There are no limits. There are plateaus, but you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.\",\n \"title\": \"Parkour\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"11927623\",\n \"text\": \"recently, however, in the documentary \\\"Graffiti Wars\\\", Blek took a different tone, stating, \\\"When I see Banksy making a man with a child or Banksy making rats, of course I see immediately where he takes the idea. I do feel angry. When you're an artist you use your own techniques. It's difficult to find a technique and style in art so when you have a style and you see someone else is taking it and reproducing it, you don't like that. I'm not sure about his integrity. Maybe he has to show his face now and show what kind of\",\n \"title\": \"Blek le Rat\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"16422439\",\n \"text\": \"empire, and show other women when you get to this point in your career you don't have to go sign with someone else and share your money and your success—you do it yourself.\\\" In December 2013, Parkwood Entertainment released Beyoncé's fifth self-titled visual album. The surprising release caused \\\"hilarious, honest and hysterical\\\" reaction among Beyoncé's fans, and \\\"shock\\\" among other musicians. According to data provided by Twitter, the release generated over 1.2 million tweets in 12 hours. Peter Robinson of \\\"The Guardian\\\" hailed the shock release as \\\"Beyoncégeddon\\\", describing it as a \\\"major triumph [...] a masterclass in both exerting\",\n \"title\": \"Parkwood Entertainment\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"10788238\",\n \"text\": \"their best for me. If the King likes our show, it will please the people of this country. I have observed your own costume. It is very fine, and when the King attends the show, I want you to do an Indian dance in front of his box. Will you do this for me?\\\" \\\"Everything worked splendidly. When it came time for the Indians to come in with their village in the center of the arena, we started the dance in which I was to appear before the King of England. I had a beautiful lance, and as the dance\",\n \"title\": \"Luther Standing Bear\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"12427614\",\n \"text\": \"are opened with a Pass (may also contain a longer side-suit). If one has 8 or more HCP and no suit, but 4 or more , one opens 1 (may also contain a longer minor suit). The general rationale is that when you open very low, you want to hold and show the major suits, so opponents cannot easily pre-empt against you. Another advantage is that when you have 8 or more HCP you often tell partner immediately which major suit(s) you do not have, and when he sees that your side cannot have any major-suit fit, if appropriate, he\",\n \"title\": \"Säffle Spade\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"17731970\",\n \"text\": \"I worked crazily to get my body back. I wanted to show my body. I wanted to show that you can have a child and you can work hard and you can get your body back. I know that there's so many women that feel the same thing after they give birth. You can have your child and you can still have fun and still be sexy and still have dreams and still live for yourself. I'm not embarrassed about it, and I don't feel like I have to protect that side of me because I do believe that sexuality\",\n \"title\": \"Partition (song)\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"10479842\",\n \"text\": \"requiring that all participants show their card at the same time. Planning poker is based on a list of features to be delivered, several copies of a deck of cards and optionally, an egg timer that can be used to limit time spent in discussion of each item. The feature list, often a list of user stories, describes some software that needs to be developed. The cards in the deck have numbers on them. A typical deck has cards showing the Fibonacci sequence including a zero: 0, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, 55, 89; other decks use\",\n \"title\": \"Planning poker\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"17527758\",\n \"text\": \"players with fouled hands. Unlike standard Chinese poker, players do not receive all thirteen cards at once. Therefore, fouling plays a large factor, and strategies are devised to avoid it. Unlike standard Chinese poker where all thirteen cards are dealt at once, in open face Chinese each player is dealt five cards in the beginning and then one card at a time until thirteen card hands are made (8 deals after 5 cards are dealt). The cards are all set face up. The dealer deals clockwise with the player to the left of the dealer acting first. In the beginning\",\n \"title\": \"Open-face Chinese poker\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"6992336\",\n \"text\": \"includes only two Skip cards instead of the four that the original edition contains. This makes the playable number of cards 106, plus the forty phase cards, for a total of 146 cards in the box. Same rules as Masters Edition except the player declares what phase they are completing as they lay down the phase. Same rules as Masters Edition except; In Anti-phase, you have to complete your phase in order to stay on your present phase, if you don't complete your phase you move down a phase. In Anti-phase for others, a rule card is left in the\",\n \"title\": \"Phase 10\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"10839188\",\n \"text\": \"want to drop the 2, forcing your opponent to set you up for a bastra himself if he does not have a 9, jack or a face card. It is generally wise to build the hand by playing lower numeral cards ahead of the higher ones since combining is used to collect cards. For example, if you have 3, 4, 7 and 9, it would be wiser to start with the 3 and 4 and work your way up. Otherwise, it will be harder to collect cards if you start with the 9 and 7. As well, the higher cards\",\n \"title\": \"Bastra\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"6032357\",\n \"text\": \"then corrected by another soviet lady present in the show: \\\"We do have sex, but we do not have advertisements!\\\". However, Luidmila Ivanova have told a different story to the Komsomolskaya Pravda newspaper: Well, the TV show started, and one American lady have said: you must stop having sex with your men because of the Afgan War - then they won't go to the war. And kept pointing at me. Then I answered her: there is no sex in the USSR, but there is love. And you also didn't stop having sex with your men during the Vietnam War. But\",\n \"title\": \"The Wild East\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"12376343\",\n \"text\": \"court cards: Jack (\\\"Valet\\\"), Knight (\\\"Chevalier\\\" or \\\"Cavalier\\\"), Queen (\\\"Dame\\\") and King (\\\"Roi\\\"). The other 22 are the 21 \\\"atouts\\\" or trumps and one Fool. The deck is thus primarily different from the 52-card Poker deck in the existence of the separate trump \\\"suit\\\", and the addition of the Knight court card. With these cards removed the deck is identical to the 52-card deck for playing purposes. The face cards do not use the Parisian pattern (\\\"portrait officiel\\\") but have their own unique illustrations. The Fool, though similar in appearance and function to the Joker card of poker decks, has\",\n \"title\": \"Tarot Nouveau\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"10349448\",\n \"text\": \"the oral cavity as you can and seal off the lip so that you have an airtight fit. The tongue is quickly released in a downward motion. When you release the tongue downward, you also drop your jaw and open your mouth in a \\\"popping\\\" motion. This is all done very quickly. Do not pull the tongue back towards your throat. It needs to pop downward away from the roof of the mouth to get the most volume, do not blow air through the horn and do not inhale when you release your tongue. The first recorded appearance was by\",\n \"title\": \"Slap tonguing\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"6812250\",\n \"text\": \"card images during the taping. Although during the broadcast commentators may appear to be present at the venue, their commentary is most often added after play is complete when they have the opportunity to view the hole-cam video. Prior to the invention of the hole-card camera, the audience had no way of knowing what the players were holding during any given hand of a poker broadcast unless players chose to show their cards or were all in. Some televised tournaments also have a camera in the dealer's position to record the turn and river cards when a player wins the\",\n \"title\": \"Hole cam\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"8261221\",\n \"text\": \"Aurora/Rex Games produced a similar set under the name \\\"Royal Poker Dice\\\". The sets featured five 12-sided dice allowing for all 52 playing cards to be represented. The remaining 8 faces featured stars and acted as wild cards allowing for every possible poker hand to be rolled. Poker dice Poker dice are dice which, instead of having number pips, have representations of playing cards upon them. Poker dice have six sides, one each of an Ace, King, Queen, Jack, 10, and 9, and are used to form a poker hand. Each variety of poker dice varies slightly in regard to\",\n \"title\": \"Poker dice\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"3446994\",\n \"text\": \"presented a parody of the format, \\\"Play Your Iraqi Cards Right\\\" (originally titled \\\"Play Your Kurds Right\\\"), when he was guest host on the satirical BBC TV series \\\"Have I Got News for You\\\" in June 2003. On 15 October 2005, it made a one-off return as part of \\\"Ant & Dec's Gameshow Marathon\\\", celebrating 50 years of ITV. It made another one-off return in 2007 again part of \\\"Gameshow Marathon.\\\" \\\"Play Your Cards Right\\\" has also been turned into a successful Interactive DVD which was released in 2007, with an updated sequel released in 2008, both produced by DVDPro.\",\n \"title\": \"Play Your Cards Right\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"718818\",\n \"text\": \"\\\"biggest mine of useless information\\\", Peter Sellers initiated the catchphrase when he appeared on BBC1's \\\"Parkinson\\\" show on 28 October 1972 and said: Over the years Caine himself had parodied the phenomenon, both his catchphrase and his \\\"interesting facts\\\", and has imitated others' impressions of him. In an interview with Michael Parkinson in 2007, Caine commented on the impersonations of his voice, \\\"I can do it. 'Hello. My name is Michael Caine. Not many people know that.' I sound like a bloody moron. You know where they've got me now? On birthday cards. 'It's your birthday today. 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However, their power-ups are disabled as if you are in Rogue form, but turning off the ability gives them back. When you are in rogue form, your brotherbands with your friends will end. The main difference between the two versions is the Indie Frag Rogue Form can be activated on your on will, using it as a strategical advantage (such as burning your mega cards). The Wave command starts you off in Rogue Tribe, meaning Mega cards aren't usable no matter what (as\",\n \"title\": \"Mega Man Star Force 2\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"16413147\",\n \"text\": \"it by saying, \\\"'Satyamev Jayate' is not just a show; it’s a movement to change people’s mindset.\\\" Parmita Uniyal from \\\"Hindustan Times\\\" praised the content and format of the show and said, \\\"Aamir Khan have to step in to do what journalists are supposed to do – make a difference. 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If you would be a wrestler, consider your shoulders, your back, your thighs; for different persons are made for different things. Do you think that you can act as you do and be a philosopher, that you can eat, drink, be angry, be discontented, as you are now? You must watch, you must labor, you must get the better of certain appetites, must quit your acquaintances, be despised by your servant, be laughed at by those you meet; come off worse than others in everything—in offices, in honors, before tribunals. When you have fully considered all these\",\n \"title\": \"Either/Or\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"966529\",\n \"text\": \"that Benny had copied his gestures. Benny predicted that Carson would have a successful career as a comedian. Carson hosted several shows besides \\\"Carson's Cellar\\\", including the game show \\\"Earn Your Vacation\\\" (1954) and the CBS variety show \\\"The Johnny Carson Show\\\" (1955–1956). 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He played Captain Gabriel Lorca, the commanding officer of the USS \"Discovery\" in the first season of \"\" and currently provides the voice of The Inquisitor, Sentinel, in \"Star Wars Rebels\", the animated television series. Outside of","title":"Jason Isaacs"},{"docid":"3604622","text":"handsome men portraying them.\" And that's the truth: It's very hard not to look at Alan Rickman [Professor Severus Snape] and Jason Isaacs [Lucius Malfoy] and not get erotic thoughts. I have some fan fiction at Fiction Alley. You want to write stories about the characters that J.K. is not writing, about their love lives that you don't see in the book.' In November 2006, Jason Isaacs, who plays Lucius Malfoy in the \"Potter\" films, said that he had read fan fiction about his character and gets \"a huge kick out of the more far-out stuff.\" Prior to the publication","title":"Harry Potter fandom"},{"docid":"10758878","text":"in the American communist newspaper \"People's Weekly World\". In an act commemorating the Holocaust, actor Daniel Radcliffe, whose mother is Jewish, donated his first pair of Harry Potter glasses to an art exhibition inspired by a famous World War II photo of a mangled mountain of spectacles of victims of ethnic cleansing. Radcliffe's \"Potter\" co-star Jason Isaacs, who played Lucius Malfoy in the films, himself a Jewish Briton, was due to participate in the commemorations on National Holocaust Memorial Day, leading a service at Liverpool's Philharmonic Hall. 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Outside of\",\n \"title\": \"Jason Isaacs\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"3604622\",\n \"text\": \"handsome men portraying them.\\\" And that's the truth: It's very hard not to look at Alan Rickman [Professor Severus Snape] and Jason Isaacs [Lucius Malfoy] and not get erotic thoughts. I have some fan fiction at Fiction Alley. You want to write stories about the characters that J.K. is not writing, about their love lives that you don't see in the book.' In November 2006, Jason Isaacs, who plays Lucius Malfoy in the \\\"Potter\\\" films, said that he had read fan fiction about his character and gets \\\"a huge kick out of the more far-out stuff.\\\" Prior to the publication\",\n \"title\": \"Harry Potter fandom\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"10758878\",\n \"text\": \"in the American communist newspaper \\\"People's Weekly World\\\". In an act commemorating the Holocaust, actor Daniel Radcliffe, whose mother is Jewish, donated his first pair of Harry Potter glasses to an art exhibition inspired by a famous World War II photo of a mangled mountain of spectacles of victims of ethnic cleansing. Radcliffe's \\\"Potter\\\" co-star Jason Isaacs, who played Lucius Malfoy in the films, himself a Jewish Briton, was due to participate in the commemorations on National Holocaust Memorial Day, leading a service at Liverpool's Philharmonic Hall. Aviva Chomsky (daughter of famed academic Noam Chomsky) in the \\\"Providence Journal\\\" suggests\",\n \"title\": \"Politics of Harry Potter\"\n }\n]","isConversational":false},"negative_passages":{"kind":"list like","value":[{"docid":"547919","text":"Draco Malfoy Draco Lucius Malfoy is a character in J. K. Rowling's \"Harry Potter\" series. He is a student in Harry Potter's year belonging in the Slytherin house. He is frequently accompanied by his two cronies, Vincent Crabbe and Gregory Goyle, who act as henchmen. Draco is characterised as a cowardly bully who manipulates and hurts people to get what he wants; nevertheless, he is a cunning user of magic. He was played by Tom Felton in the Harry Potter film series. Draco serves as a foil to the hero, Harry Potter and is loosely based on bullies Rowling encountered","title":"Draco Malfoy"},{"docid":"547957","text":"Hermione and spends a great deal of time posing and rolling around on the floor. Draco Malfoy Draco Lucius Malfoy is a character in J. K. Rowling's \"Harry Potter\" series. He is a student in Harry Potter's year belonging in the Slytherin house. He is frequently accompanied by his two cronies, Vincent Crabbe and Gregory Goyle, who act as henchmen. Draco is characterised as a cowardly bully who manipulates and hurts people to get what he wants; nevertheless, he is a cunning user of magic. He was played by Tom Felton in the Harry Potter film series. Draco serves as","title":"Draco Malfoy"},{"docid":"547942","text":"a son, Scorpius Malfoy. Draco's hairline has receded, making his face look even more pointed. Though they are not friends, Malfoy has somewhat decreased his animosity toward Harry, and, upon seeing them at King's Cross station, gives a brief and curt nod to Harry, Ron, Hermione and Ginny. Tom Felton played Draco Malfoy in all of the \"Harry Potter\" films. Prior to landing the part of Malfoy, Felton auditioned to play Harry and Ron. Having read more of the \"Harry Potter\" books, Felton reflects: \"I have had input into Draco. If they give me a line and I don't think","title":"Draco Malfoy"},{"docid":"3276427","text":"fighting. And he's after revenge [against Voldemort and Snape].\" This book also focuses on the mysterious activities of Harry's rival Draco Malfoy. Voldemort has coerced a frightened Malfoy into attempting to kill Dumbledore. During a duel in Moaning Myrtle's bathroom, Harry uses the Half-Blood Prince's spell, \"Sectumsempra,\" on Malfoy, who suffers near-fatal injuries as a result. Harry is horrified by what he has done and also comes to feel sympathy for Draco, after learning he was forced to do Voldemort's bidding under the threat of his and his parents' deaths. In \"Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows\", Harry, Ron, and","title":"Harry Potter (character)"},{"docid":"547954","text":"\"Malfoy, Goyle and Crabbe are almost irredeemably bad\", Malfoy, unlike his companions, \"is reasonably stylish\". IGN listed Malfoy as their ninth top \"Harry Potter\" character. Wizard-rock band Draco and the Malfoys' lyrics are inspired by the \"Harry Potter\" books but from Draco Malfoy's point of view. As well as Harry and the Potters, the members of Draco and the Malfoys dress themselves as Hogwarts students, in this case in Slytherin-themed costumes. The band is one of about 750 bands of young musicians playing music inspired by the \"Harry Potter\" series. Draco is parodied as Jerko Phoenix in the series \"Wizards","title":"Draco Malfoy"},{"docid":"11760444","text":"Duchess of Malfi\" (National Theatre Studio), \"Birdland\" (Royal Court Theatre). In 2016, he was cast as Draco Malfoy in the Harry Potter play, \"Harry Potter and the Cursed Child\". Alex Price has a younger sister, is married and has a son (2011). Alex Price Alex Price (born 8 May 1985) is a British actor who has appeared in various television programmes including \"Being Human\", \"Merlin\" and \"Doctor Who\". He starred in feature-length films, such as \"A Horse with No Name\", and in a variety of short films. Since 2013, he plays Sid Carter, one of the main characters in the","title":"Alex Price"},{"docid":"18868162","text":"it compares to entries in the main \"Harry Potter\" series. Publications awarding five star ratings included \"The Independent\", the \"London Evening Standard\", \"The Stage\" and WhatsOnStage.com. \"The Telegraph\" also gave five, although \"there are some quibbles,\" while \"The Guardian\"'s Michael Billington awarded four stars. Anthony Boyle's performance as Scorpius Malfoy garnered particular acclaim. WhatsOnStage.com wrote that \"Boyle gives a career-making performance,\" while \"The Wall Street Journal\" described him as \"the break-out performance\". \"Variety\"s critic, Matt Trueman, agreed, writing, \"it's Boyle who really stands out\", and both Trueman and Henry Hitchings, in the \"Evening Standard\", noted that his performance was sure","title":"Harry Potter and the Cursed Child"},{"docid":"1371334","text":"for Magic Cornelius Fudge. Later in that book, when Voldemort rises again and summons his Death Eaters, Malfoy rejoins him, claiming that he had done everything he could all along to find Voldemort and help him rise again (though Voldemort knows he is lying). Harry, who witnesses Malfoy's declaration of loyalty to Voldemort, tells Minister Fudge, who refuses to believe him, and the wealthy Malfoy continues to maintain strong ties with the Ministry. During the climax of \"Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix\", Malfoy is the leader of the Death Eaters who are sent to retrieve the prophecy","title":"Death Eater"},{"docid":"3535461","text":"is presented with an article of clothing by his or her master, that house-elf is subsequently set free; and when Harry (after returning from the Chamber of Secrets) discovers that Dobby's master is Lucius Malfoy, he tricks Malfoy into setting Dobby free, a feat that secures him the house-elf's undying loyalty. He was now willing to save Harry Potter no matter if it would mean risking his life, because after all, \"Harry Potter set Dobby free!\" Dobby returns in \"Goblet of Fire\". Now a free elf, he obtains a paid post at Hogwarts. Dobby also quickly becomes the only house-elf","title":"Magical creatures in Harry Potter"},{"docid":"8251147","text":"Potter\" involve an average eleven-year-old, better at sport than academic study, who is sent to boarding school. Upon arrival, the boy gains a best friend (in Tom's case, East, in Harry's case, Ron Weasley) who helps him adjust to the new environment. They are set upon by an arrogant bully – in Tom Brown's case, Harry Flashman, in Harry's case Draco Malfoy. Stephen Fry, who both narrates the British audio adaptations of the \"Harry Potter\" novels and has starred in a screen adaptation of \"Tom Brown\", has commented many times about the similarities between the two books. \"Harry Potter –","title":"Harry Potter influences and analogues"},{"docid":"3161119","text":"and her assistants will tailor the robes to fit. \"Malkin\" is an archaic term for a crotchety old woman. Harry has two meetings with Draco Malfoy in Madam Malkin's shop. This is where Harry meets the first wizard of his own age, Malfoy, for the first time, in \"Philosopher's Stone\". Harry is rather bewildered by the questions Malfoy asks, because Harry is still unfamiliar with many aspects of the wizarding world. A second meeting occurs just before the beginning of Harry's sixth year, in \"Half-Blood Prince\". This meeting is far more unpleasant, and escalates quickly into a near-duel before Malfoy","title":"Places in Harry Potter"},{"docid":"18868159","text":"2018, selling more than 200,000 tickets in just four days, before the public sale tickets were released. The 35 original Australian adult cast was revealed on 2 September and includes Gareth Reeves as Harry Potter, Paula Arundell as Hermione Granger, Gyton Grantley as Ron Weasley, Lucy Goleby as Ginny Potter, Sean Rees-Wemyss as Albus Potter, Tom Wren as Draco Malfoy and William McKenna as Scorpius Malfoy. The roles of the remaining supporting cast will remain unannounced until the show opens to \"honour its 'keep the secret' message (and) to ensure the storyline doesn't slip out\". The production will also feature","title":"Harry Potter and the Cursed Child"},{"docid":"3160342","text":"Neville and Malfoy are given detention when caught in the corridor by Professor McGonagall. In the film, Harry, Hermione and Ron receive detention after Malfoy catches them in Hagrid's hut after hours (Malfoy however, is given detention for being out of bed after hours). Firenze the centaur, who is described in the book as being palomino with light blonde hair, is shown to be dark in the film. The Quidditch pitch is altered from a traditional stadium to an open field circled by spectator towers. In the trio's final quest for the Philosopher's Stone, Hermione's test, solving a logic problem","title":"Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (film)"},{"docid":"547955","text":"of Waverly Place\", during the episodes \"Wizard School Part 1\" and \"Wizard School Part 2\", in which Alex and Justin Russo go to a wizarding school named Wiz-tech, where everyone wears yellow and black robes, and glasses reminiscent of Harry Potter. Draco also appears as Sacco (played by Shane Lyons) in the \"Harry Bladder\" sketches in \"All That\", in which Harry Bladder and other students often encounter Sacco's mischief-making. In the stage production \"Harry Potter and the Obnoxious Voice\", Malfoy is seen interacting with Hagrid and a dementor. Draco was also parodied in a Big Bite sketch, where he was","title":"Draco Malfoy"},{"docid":"3378770","text":"\"Chamber of Secrets\" and one a ring destroyed by Dumbledore shortly before the events of \"Half-Blood Prince\". Dumbledore takes Harry along in the attempt to destroy a third horcrux contained in a locket. However, the horcrux had been taken by an unknown wizard, and upon their return Dumbledore is ambushed and disarmed by Draco Malfoy, who cannot bring himself to kill him. Dumbledore is subsequently killed by Snape, who finishes what Malfoy started. Following Albus Dumbledore's death, Voldemort consolidates his support and power, including covert control of the Ministry of Magic, while Harry is about to turn seventeen, losing the","title":"Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows"},{"docid":"3604621","text":"which feature sexual relationships that do not exist in the books (\"shipping\"), often portraying homosexual pairings. Famous pairings include Harry with Draco Malfoy or Cedric Diggory, and Remus Lupin with Sirius Black. Harry Potter slash has eroded some of the antipathy towards underage sexuality in the wider slash fandom. Tracey \"T\" Proctor, a moderator of FictionAlley.org, a \"Harry Potter\" fanfiction website, said 'I don't really get into the children's aspect of it, but rather the teachers, the adult characters. I read someone once who said, \"If she didn't want us fantasizing about her characters, she needs to stop having these","title":"Harry Potter fandom"},{"docid":"3604638","text":"is true, thereby denying any potential canon relationship between Harry and Hermione. On a less intense scale, other relationships have been doted upon in the fandom from suggestive hints or explicit statements throughout canon, such as those between Draco Malfoy and Pansy Parkinson, Harry Potter's parents James Potter and Lily Evans, Rubeus Hagrid and Olympe Maxime, or Percy Weasley and Penelope Clearwater, or Rose Granger-Weasley and Scorpius Malfoy. A potential relationship between Neville Longbottom and Luna Lovegood was originally dispelled by Rowling, though she later retracted this and said she noticed a slight attraction between them in \"Deathly Hallows\". Some","title":"Harry Potter fandom"},{"docid":"20921393","text":"Harry Potter to become Gryffindor seeker. Draco Malfoy threw the small sphere into the air, and Harry flew to grab it, standing up for Neville. Minerva McGonagall saw how easily Harry retrieved the ball and asked him to join the team. Shortly after the Christmas holidays, Neville was the target of a prank by Draco Malfoy, in which his legs were stuck together with the Leg-Locker Curse. Neville had to bunny-hop all the way to Gryffindor Tower so someone could perform the counter-curse. When Harry, Ron, and Hermione urged him to report Malfoy, Neville replied that he didn't want more","title":"Neville Longbottom (Fictional Character)"},{"docid":"547950","text":"few remaining pure-blood wizarding clans in the \"Harry Potter\" series, and among the wealthiest. The anti-Muggle editor Brutus Malfoy is their ancestor. Lucius Malfoy was a Death Eater during both wizard wars. He marries Narcissa Black and together they have one son, Draco, who is the first Malfoy family member introduced in the series. The Malfoys are related to the Black family through Narcissa (a first cousin of Sirius Black, Harry's godfather), which makes Draco a nephew of both Bellatrix Lestrange and Andromeda Tonks. Draco is also Nymphadora Tonks' first cousin through their mothers. Three of Draco's grandparents are identified:","title":"Draco Malfoy"},{"docid":"15757915","text":"A Very Potter Sequel A Very Potter Sequel (often shortened to AVPS) is a musical with music and lyrics by Darren Criss and a book by Matt Lang, Nick Lang, and Brian Holden. The story is a parody, based on several of the \"Harry Potter\" novels (particularly \"Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone\", \"Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban\" and \"Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix\") by J. K. Rowling, as well as their film counterparts. \"A Very Potter Sequel\" picks up where \"A Very Potter Musical\" left off with Lord Voldemort destroyed. Lucius Malfoy then decides","title":"A Very Potter Sequel"},{"docid":"3160388","text":"is announced as the new Care of Magical Creatures teacher; his first class goes awry when Draco Malfoy deliberately provokes the hippogriff Buckbeak, who attacks him. Draco exaggerates his injury, and his father Lucius Malfoy later has Buckbeak sentenced to death. The Fat Lady's portrait, which guards the Gryffindor quarters, is found ruined and empty. Terrified and hiding in another painting, she tells Dumbledore that Sirius has entered the castle. During a stormy Quidditch match against Hufflepuff, dementors attack Harry, causing him to fall off his broomstick. At Hogsmeade, Harry is shocked to learn that not only had Sirius been","title":"Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (film)"},{"docid":"3161082","text":"of Harry Potter Part I: The Magic Begins\", included in the 2009 DVD/Blu-ray \"Ultimate Edition\" of \"Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone\", the film-makers initially attempted to film the Little Whinging/Privet Drive sequences on location in a real urban area. When this proved unfeasible, a section of Privet Drive was constructed on the backlot at Leavesden Film Studios. this standing set, which remained in use throughout the decade-long filming history of the Harry Potter films, remains visible in Google Maps aerial views of the studio. It sits in a location with other \"Harry Potter\" sets and props. Malfoy Manor is","title":"Places in Harry Potter"},{"docid":"15758021","text":"large, they cannot be together. As Ginny runs off in tears once more, a disguised Dumbledore summons Harry to his office to discuss Voldemort. Snape reveals himself as an undercover Death Eater and meets with Voldemort, who is in a deep depression following his fight with Quirrell. He brings in Malfoy, who tells Voldemort of a secret entrance into Hogwarts in exchange for a rocket ship to Mars (\"Pigfarts\"). Voldemort also makes Malfoy enter into a binding magical contract to kill Dumbledore for him. Harry, Ron and Hermione arrive at Dumbledore's office for the meeting. There, Dumbledore explains the horcruxes","title":"A Very Potter Musical"},{"docid":"3381399","text":"diary. He cast the spell after murdering his fellow student Myrtle Warren using the Basilisk. The diary is introduced in the thirteenth chapter of \"Chamber of Secrets\" and is destroyed by Harry Potter during the climax of the same book. Before Voldemort's downfall, he entrusted the Horcrux to Lucius Malfoy. While aware of its corrupting magical properties, Malfoy did not know the diary was a Horcrux, Voldemort having informed him of its value as a weapon but believing that he would be in a position to coordinate Malfoy's use of it. In an attempt to discredit Arthur Weasley as well","title":"Magical objects in Harry Potter"},{"docid":"1975916","text":"Philosopher's Stone\" as the Minister for Magic of the United Kingdom. He makes his first appearance in \"Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets\" when he arrives at the school to take Hagrid to Azkaban, even though he does not firmly believe that Hagrid is guilty. He also removes Dumbledore as Headmaster when pressured by Lucius Malfoy who insisted that all the school governors had voted on it. However, it is not until \"Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban\" that Fudge meets Harry for the first time. Fudge does not press charges against Harry for accidentally inflating Aunt Marge,","title":"Ministry of Magic"},{"docid":"1369035","text":"were concerned with the violence contained in the novel and with morality issues occurring throughout the book. \"The New York Times\" writer John Leonard praised the novel, saying \"\"The Order of the Phoenix\" starts slow, gathers speed and then skateboards, with somersaults, to its furious conclusion...As Harry gets older, Rowling gets better.\" However, he also criticises \"the one-note Draco Malfoy\" and the predictable Lord Voldemort. \"Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix\" is the fifth book in the \"Harry Potter\" series. The first book in the series, \"Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone\" was first published by Bloomsbury in","title":"Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix"},{"docid":"6005190","text":"a modernised TV adaptation of \"Frankenstein's Monster\", simply called \"Frankenstein\". Her first pregnancy forced her to pull out of \"Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix\" (2007), in which she had been cast as Bellatrix Lestrange (she was replaced by Helena Bonham Carter). McCrory was later cast as Bellatrix's sister Narcissa Malfoy in \"Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince\", released in July 2009. McCrory reprised her role in the final films, \"Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1\" and \"Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2\"; McCrory's performance was well received by fans of the","title":"Helen McCrory"},{"docid":"19304671","text":"the Theatre Royal Winchester's production of Peter Pan, for which he received critical acclaim. Hansler has also provided the voice of Lucius Malfoy and other characters in three of the Harry Potter video games; Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince and Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1. Hansler is notable for playing the lead character in a major 2013 advertising campaign for Cadbury, whilst other commercials include those for Dunkin' Donuts, Made.com, Unibet and Foxy Bingo. Jonathan Hansler Jonathan Hansler (born John Hansler Brittan) is an English actor. He","title":"Jonathan Hansler"},{"docid":"3381342","text":"some other fashion \"sense\" that Harry is wearing his cloak: Snape is seen to be suspicious when being followed by Harry, even reaching out to grab at (what appears to be) thin air; in \"Half-Blood Prince\", Draco Malfoy realises Harry is in his train carriage and successfully immobilizes him with a Petrificus Totalus (Body-Bind) curse, as despite wearing his cloak Harry inadvertently moved objects near him; and in \"Chamber of Secrets\", Albus Dumbledore senses Harry and Ron beneath it in Hagrid's cabin while talking to Lucius Malfoy during the event when Cornelius Fudge comes to take Hagrid to Azkaban and","title":"Magical objects in Harry Potter"},{"docid":"3161083","text":"the home of the aristocratic Malfoy family: Lucius, Narcissa, their son Draco Malfoy and later Bellatrix Lestrange (sister of Narcissa). It is mentioned in the fifth book that the manor is located somewhere in Wiltshire, England. The Malfoys were previously served by Dobby the house elf, before Lucius was tricked by Harry into freeing him. In the \"Chamber of Secrets\", Draco reveals that the manor has its own \"chamber of secrets\" under the drawing room, which was used to hide valuable dark artefacts when the Ministry raided the manor. Voldemort used Malfoy Manor as headquarters on at least one occasion","title":"Places in Harry Potter"},{"docid":"18868138","text":"Malfoy, the son of Harry's former nemesis Draco Malfoy and Astoria Malfoy (née Greengrass). The school is stunned when, in a break with the tradition of Potters being sorted into Gryffindor, Albus is sorted into Slytherin alongside Scorpius. Both boys are bullied by other students over the next few years, Albus due to his perceived failure to live up to his parents, Scorpius due to unproven rumours that he is the son of Lord Voldemort. In addition, Albus and Harry begin to drift apart, owing to Albus's struggles with his father's shadow and Harry's uncertainty on how to deal with","title":"Harry Potter and the Cursed Child"},{"docid":"5587398","text":"results, along with lists of school supplies. Later, Harry, Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger follow Draco to Dark Arts supplier Borgin and Burkes. Harry is instantly suspicious of Draco, whom he believes to be a Death Eater. On the Hogwarts Express, Harry discusses his suspicions of Draco’s allegiance with Lord Voldemort, however Ron and Hermione are doubtful with the lack of evidence. Harry wears his invisibility cloak and hides in the same carriage that Malfoy is seated in. He overhears Draco bragging to his friends about the mission Lord Voldemort has tasked him. However, Malfoy is suspicious that someone else","title":"Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince"},{"docid":"15648853","text":"Griphook to help him, Ron Weasley, and Hermione Granger break into Bellatrix Lestrange's vault at Gringotts bank, suspecting a Horcrux may be there. Griphook agrees in exchange for the Sword of Gryffindor. Wandmaker Ollivander tells Harry that two wands taken from Malfoy Manor belonged to Bellatrix and Draco Malfoy, though Malfoy's has changed its allegiance to Harry. In the vault, Harry discovers the Horcrux is Helga Hufflepuff's cup. He retrieves it, but Griphook snatches the sword and abandons the trio, leaving them cornered by security. The three release the dragon guardian and flee on its back. Harry sees a vision","title":"Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2"},{"docid":"2375647","text":"by Cedric Diggory, who was saved from death by Albus Severus Potter and Scorpius Malfoy with the Time-Turner by having him lose the Tri-Wizard Tournament, although the embarrassment caused him to become a Death Eater, just as Neville attempted to kill Nagini, therefore Voldemort was able to overpower and kill Harry Potter and gain complete power over the Wizarding World, although these events were later undone by Scorpius by allowing history to continue as it originally did. Neville was played by Yorkshire-born actor Matthew Lewis in the \"Harry Potter\" film series. He has appeared in all eight films. He reprised","title":"Dumbledore's Army"},{"docid":"3160362","text":"a monster inside that only his Heir can control, capable of purging the school of impure-blooded wizards and witches. Harry and Ron suspect Malfoy as the Heir, so Hermione suggests they question him while disguised using polyjuice potion. They utilise a disused bathroom haunted by a ghost, Moaning Myrtle, as their makeshift laboratory to brew the potion. When Harry communicates with a snake, the school believes he is the Heir. On Christmas Day, Harry and Ron learn that Malfoy is not the Heir, but he mentions that a girl died when the Chamber was last opened fifty years ago. Harry","title":"Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (film)"},{"docid":"18868157","text":"that Hermione's skin was never specified as white. Further notable casting includes Poppy Miller as Ginny Potter, Alex Price as Draco Malfoy, Sam Clemmett as Albus Severus Potter and Anthony Boyle as Scorpius Malfoy. The production features an overall cast of 42. The production began previews on 16 March 2018, officially opening on 22 April at the Lyric Theatre. Clemmett, Boyle, Dumezweni, Miller, Parker, Price and Thornley reprised their roles, from the West End. The theatre removed 400 seats from the auditorium and moved the entrance to 43rd Street. The production is produced by Sonia Friedman Productions, Sir Colin Callender,","title":"Harry Potter and the Cursed Child"},{"docid":"547929","text":"Polyjuice Potion) humiliates Draco by transforming him into a ferret and repeatedly slamming him against the ground as well as dropping him down Goyle's pants. In \"Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix,\" Draco is named a Slytherin prefect along with Pansy Parkinson. He gets Harry and the Weasley twins banned from the Gryffindor Quidditch team when they attack him during a postmatch brawl after Draco insults their families following Gryffindor's win over Slytherin. He later joins Dolores Umbridge's Inquisitorial Squad, with whom he plays an important part in the exposure of Dumbledore's Army. As the D.A. flees the","title":"Draco Malfoy"},{"docid":"547951","text":"Abraxas Malfoy, Cygnus Black, and Druella Rosier. Abraxas died before the series begins and was a friend of Professor Slughorn. Draco is, therefore, the scion of two old magical families. The Malfoy home, Malfoy Manor, is an elegant mansion located in the western English county of Wiltshire. They were served by Dobby the house elf until the end of \"Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets\". The Malfoys are a wealthy gentry family respected in the Wizarding world mainly from Lucius' influence with Hogwarts and the Ministry of Magic, gained mostly from his monetary donations to the Ministry and St","title":"Draco Malfoy"},{"docid":"547925","text":"Slytherin (barely touching Draco's head), the house that has developed all of the bad wizards, where he becomes an instant favourite of Potions teacher and Slytherin Head of House, Severus Snape, so-called follower of Lord Voldemort. Draco attempts to get Harry expelled by tricking him into participating in a midnight wizard's duel after secretly informing Argus Filch in advance, but the plan fails when Harry evades Filch and safely makes it back to his dormitory. In \"Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets\", Draco becomes the new Seeker for the Slytherin Quidditch team after his father, Lucius Malfoy, donates new,","title":"Draco Malfoy"},{"docid":"3535441","text":"seems formidable. Along with the ability to Apparate anywhere at any time, Dobby, Winky, Hokey, and Kreacher all demonstrate that they can overpower wizards when necessary: In \"Chamber of Secrets\", Dobby forcefully repels Lucius Malfoy while protecting Harry Potter; whereas in \"Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire\", when the younger Barty Crouch is unmasked and confesses to what happened on the night of the Quiddich World Championship, he says: \"Winky used her own brand of magic to bind me to her\", and in \"Deathly Hallows\", Kreacher is ordered by Harry to capture Mundungus Fletcher and bring him to 12","title":"Magical creatures in Harry Potter"},{"docid":"547944","text":"to many female fans, much to Rowling's dismay. \"I'm trying to clearly distinguish between Tom Felton, who is a good looking young boy, and Draco, who, whatever he looks like, is not a nice man. It’s a romantic, but unhealthy, and unfortunately all too common delusion of girls ... it actually worried me a little bit, to see young girls swearing undying devotion to this really imperfect character ... I mean, I understand the psychology of it, but it is pretty unhealthy.\" Rowling has also noted that Malfoy \"is certainly stylish in the film.\" In the theatre play \"Harry Potter","title":"Draco Malfoy"},{"docid":"1371329","text":"as a witch and to confront Molly's consumption with \"maternal love\" and Bellatrix's obsession with Voldemort. In the film series, Bellatrix is played by Helena Bonham Carter. Helen McCrory auditioned for the role in the fifth film but dropped out due to pregnancy, making Bonham Carter win the role. McCrory was cast as her sister Narcissa Malfoy in the final three films instead. IGN listed Bellatrix Lestrange as their tenth top \"Harry Potter\" character, and IGN's Joe Utichi listed Bellatrix as his fourth favourite \"Harry Potter\" character, calling her the \"most pitiable\" of Voldemort's servants. In NextMovie.com's \"Harry Potter\" Mega","title":"Death Eater"},{"docid":"3276413","text":"becomes fast friends with classmates Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger, and foils Voldemort's attempt to steal the Philosopher's Stone. He also forms a rivalry with characters Draco Malfoy, a classmate from an elitist wizarding family, and the cold, condescending Potions master, Severus Snape, Draco's mentor and the head of Slytherin House. Both feuds continue throughout the series and are settled at the series's end (Draco's in the West End play Harry Potter and the Cursed Child and Snape's on his deathbed in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. In a 1999 interview, Rowling stated that Draco is based on several","title":"Harry Potter (character)"},{"docid":"17711759","text":"Basilton \"Baz\" Pitch, his vampire nemesis. Although it exists in a fantasy world and within \"Fangirl\" was part of a series, the novel is a standalone book. It is heavily based on the \"Harry Potter\" series by J.K. Rowling, and many presume the characters Simon Snow and Baz Pitch to be based off Harry Potter and Draco Malfoy of the \"Harry Potter\" universe. On June 3, 2018, Rowell announced via Twitter that she is currently working on her sixth novel, \"Wayward Son\", a sequel to \"Carry On\", and that it will be published sometime in 2019. Rowell has written a","title":"Rainbow Rowell"},{"docid":"12415348","text":"are not known to have officially been inducted into the Order. Arthur is distantly related to Sirius Black and is part of the famed Black family, though he and the rest of his immediate family have been considered \"blood traitors\" and are disowned. Other distant relatives include Draco Malfoy, Nymphadora Tonks, and Bellatrix Lestrange. Ron was chosen by IGN as their third favourite \"Harry Potter\" character, who said that Ron's status as comic relief made him \"instantly endearing\" and that his frustration and flirtation with Hermione Granger was a \"highlight\". Ron has made several appearances in parodies of \"Harry Potter\".","title":"Ron Weasley"},{"docid":"3378780","text":"corroborating Harry's belief the horcrux is Rowena Ravenclaw's diadem, lost centuries ago. The Ravenclaw ghost's story further confirms this belief, and Harry remembers an old diadem in the Room of Requirement. Ron and Hermione destroy the cup with basilisk fangs taken from the Chamber of Secrets as Voldemort and his army besiege the castle. They find the diadem but are ambushed by Draco Malfoy and his friends Crabbe and Goyle. Crabbe tries to kill them using Fiendfyre, a cursed fire, but is unable to control it; the fire destroys the diadem and himself while Harry and his friends save Malfoy","title":"Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows"},{"docid":"15757917","text":"22, 2010, and within two days had gotten over 160,000 views, making the StarKid Productions page the most viewed of the day. \"A Very Potter Sequel\" is followed by \"A Very Potter Senior Year\". Lucius Malfoy and Yaxley meet to discuss Lord Voldemort's defeat at the hands of Harry Potter. Lucius describes that if it were not for Harry Potter, they would be reigning supreme. Lucius then explains his plan to use a Time Turner to go back in time to Harry's first year at Hogwarts to destroy him before he can become a threat for the Death Eaters (\"Not","title":"A Very Potter Sequel"},{"docid":"547928","text":"about the impending threat of Black: \"\"If it was me, I'd want revenge. I'd hunt him down myself.\"\" After Harry is unexpectedly chosen as a Triwizard Tournament champion in \"Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire\", Draco shows off a \"Support Cedric Diggory\" badge to Harry, then presses it to replace that phrase with \"Potter Stinks.\" Draco also gives malicious and often false information about Harry and Hagrid to muckraking \"Daily Prophet\" journalist Rita Skeeter. When Draco attempts to curse Harry behind his back, the Defence Against the Dark Arts professor Alastor Moody (actually Barty Crouch, Jr in disguise via","title":"Draco Malfoy"},{"docid":"1961929","text":"Tom Felton Thomas Andrew Felton (born 22 September 1987) is an English actor and musician. Felton began appearing in commercials when he was eight years old for companies such as Commercial Union and Barclaycard. He made his screen debut in the role of Peagreen Clock in \"The Borrowers\" (1997) and he portrayed Louis T. Leonowens in \"Anna and the King\" (1999). He rose to prominence for his role as Draco Malfoy in the film adaptions of the best-selling \"Harry Potter\" fantasy novels by J.K. Rowling. His performances in \"Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince\" and \"Harry Potter and the Deathly","title":"Tom Felton"},{"docid":"3381333","text":"being infused with a Protean Charm, once Harry Potter alters his, every coin changes to suit. The coins grow hot when the numbers change to alert the members to look at their coins. In \"Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince\", Draco Malfoy uses a pair of enchanted coins to bypass the communication limits imposed on Hogwarts, thus managing to keep in contact with Madam Rosmerta, whom he had placed under the Imperius Curse. Draco reveals he got the idea from Hermione's DA coins, which were themselves inspired by Lord Voldemort's use of the Dark Mark to communicate with his Death","title":"Magical objects in Harry Potter"},{"docid":"15757916","text":"to go back in time to Harry Potter's first year at Hogwarts to destroy him before he becomes a bigger threat than he already is. The musical was performed May 14-16, 2010, on the University of Michigan campus. It was produced by StarKid Productions and directed by Matt Lang. The musical starred Darren Criss as Harry Potter, Joey Richter as Ron Weasley, Bonnie Gruesen as Hermione Granger, Lauren Lopez as Draco Malfoy, and Joe Walker as Dolores Umbridge. The video version of the musical premiered in its entirety at Infinitus, a Harry Potter convention. The video premiered on YouTube July","title":"A Very Potter Sequel"},{"docid":"3381347","text":"made use of it as a horcrux. Dumbledore says that he doubts Voldemort would have any interest in the Cloak or the Stone even if he did know about them. Harry eventually comes to possess all three Hallows – the cloak being inherited from his father James Potter, later understood to be a descendant of one of the Peverell brothers, the Resurrection Stone in the Golden Snitch bequeathed to him by Dumbledore, and the allegiance and mastery of the Elder Wand when he defeats and disarms its prior owner, Draco Malfoy, who unwittingly won it from Dumbledore at the time","title":"Magical objects in Harry Potter"},{"docid":"3160360","text":"his friends' letters, and destroys a cake in order to prevent his return to school. The Dursleys lock Harry up, but Ron Weasley and his older twin brothers, Fred and George, rescue him in their father's flying car. While purchasing school supplies, Harry and the Weasley family encounter Rubeus Hagrid and Hermione Granger. They attend a book-signing by celebrity wizard Gilderoy Lockhart, who announces that he will be the new Defence Against the Dark Arts teacher. During a small confrontation with Draco Malfoy, Harry meets Malfoy's father, Lucius, who discreetly slips a book into Ginny Weasley's belongings, which only Harry","title":"Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (film)"},{"docid":"3381351","text":"by killing Snape, who killed Dumbledore, while Harry realizes in fact he had defeated the wand's true owner, Draco Malfoy, who had disarmed Dumbledore before Snape killed him. This left Harry and not Voldemort as the wand's true master in their final encounter, even though neither Draco nor Harry had physically possessed the Elder Wand at that point. According to wizard folklore, the Elder Wand used by its true master cannot be defeated in a duel; this is incorrect, for Dumbledore was able to defeat the legendary dark wizard Gellert Grindelwald, who was the master of the Elder Wand at","title":"Magical objects in Harry Potter"},{"docid":"1413938","text":"fitting locks to his bedroom door and bars to the windows. However, Ron Weasley arrives with his twin brothers Fred and George, in their father Arthur’s enchanted Ford Anglia. They rescue Harry, who stays at their family home, the Burrow, for the remainder of his holidays. Harry and the other Weasleys—mother Molly, third eldest son Percy, and daughter Ginny (who has a crush on Harry)—travel to Diagon Alley. They are then reunited with Hermione Granger and introduced to Lucius Malfoy, father of Harry’s school nemesis Draco, and Gilderoy Lockhart, a conceited autobiographer who has been appointed Defence Against the Dark","title":"Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets"},{"docid":"5725195","text":"and witches who were descended from Muggles. Harry also learns about the innate ability of his to speak the snake language Parseltongue is rare and often associated with the Dark Arts. When Hermione is attacked and petrified, Harry and Ron finally piece together the puzzles and unlock the Chamber of Secrets, with Harry destroying the diary for good and saving Ginny, and also destroying a part of Voldemort's soul. The end of the book reveals Lucius Malfoy, Draco's father and rival of Ron and Ginny's father, to be the culprit who slipped the book into Ginny's belongings and introduced the","title":"Harry Potter"},{"docid":"15757920","text":"Snape, who instantly takes a disliking to Harry, but Lupin stands up for Harry and Snape flees. Lupin leaves Harry after mentioning that his parents spent the best years of their lives at Hogwarts, leading Harry to believe he has finally found a home (\"To Have a Home\"). After Harry, Ron, and Hermione are sorted by the Scarf of Sexual Preference (or \"Scarfy\") into \"Metrosexual\", \"Bi-curious\", and \"Waiting 'til marriage\", respectively, and by the Sorting Hat (or \"Sorty\") into Gryffindor house together, they meet Slytherin Draco Malfoy, who wants to be Harry's friend very badly and tells his associates Vincent","title":"A Very Potter Sequel"},{"docid":"3535460","text":"the Malfoy family, and he first appears in \"Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets\" to discourage Harry from returning to Hogwarts. Dobby later tries to keep Harry away from Hogwarts by magically sealing off the hidden entrance to Platform 9¾, only to be foiled when the protagonists pilot Arthur's flying Ford Anglia to school. During a Quidditch match, Dobby enchants a Bludger to chase Harry, hoping to cause him enough injury to be sent home; but the Bludger only manages to break Harry's arm and the leg of Gryffindor Chaser, Dona Joseph. Dobby discloses that when an enslaved house-elf","title":"Magical creatures in Harry Potter"},{"docid":"547943","text":"it is something he would say, I suggest changing it. They do listen to you and you do feel a part of it.\" Felton contributed to premieres, articles and interviews, and received the Disney Channel's Kids Awards for Best DVD \"Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets\" on 22 September 2003. He also won the MTV Movie Award for Best Villain for his portrayal as Malfoy in the 2010 MTV Movie Awards and the 2011 MTV Movie Awards. Malfoy grew into one of the series' most popular characters due to Felton's performances and Felton quickly became synonymous with the character","title":"Draco Malfoy"},{"docid":"1413963","text":"few absolute moral rules in Harry Potter's world, for example Harry prefers to tell the truth, but lies whenever he considers it necessary – very like his enemy Draco Malfoy. At the end of \"Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets\", Dumbledore retracts his promise to punish Harry, Ron, and Hermione if they break any more school rules – after Professor McGonagall estimates they have broken over 100 – and lavishly rewards them for ending the threat from the Chamber of Secrets. Krause further states that authority figures and political institutions receive little respect from Rowling. William MacNeil of Griffith","title":"Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets"},{"docid":"591539","text":"like his whole family before him. As classes begin at Hogwarts, Harry discovers his innate talent for flying on broomsticks despite no prior experience, and is recruited into his House's Quidditch (a competitive wizards' sport played in the air) team as a Seeker. He also comes to dislike the school's Potions master, Severus Snape, who is also the Head of Slytherin House who acts with bias in favour of members of his House while perpetually looking for opportunities to fail Harry and his friends. Malfoy tricks Harry and Ron into a duel in the trophy room to get them out","title":"Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone"},{"docid":"591550","text":"gruff exterior\" is \"a bit of an old softy\", the friendly half-giant Rubeus Hagrid, who saved Harry from the Dursley family, and the sinister Severus Snape. Professor Quirrell is also featured in the novel. The main antagonists are Draco Malfoy, an elitist, bullying classmate and Lord Voldemort, the most powerful evil wizard who becomes disembodied when he tries to kill baby Harry. According to a 1999 interview with Rowling, the character of Voldemort was created as a literary foil for Harry, and his backstory was intentionally not fleshed-out at first: The book, which was Rowling's debut novel, was written between","title":"Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone"},{"docid":"1371345","text":"Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1\", Pettigrew is not strangled to death by his own silver hand in Malfoy Manor as in the book; he is instead struck by Dobby and collapses. It is unknown whether he was simply stunned or killed. He only appears in a flashback in \"Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2\". IGN's Joe Utichi also listed him as his 10th top \"Harry Potter\" character. Severus Snape is characterised as a person of considerable complexity, whose coldly sarcastic and controlled exterior conceals deep emotions and anguish. In the first novel of the","title":"Death Eater"},{"docid":"5545655","text":"and the Order of the Phoenix\" when Arthur Weasley takes Harry to the Ministry of Magic, Mr. Weasley explains that these took the place of the owls to minimise the mess. They are pale violet with MINISTRY OF MAGIC stamped along the edges of the wings. A variation on this method of communication is shown in the movie version of \"Harry Potter and the Prizoner of Azkaban\", when Draco Malfoy sends Harry a note in class in the form of a flying paper crane. Wizards and witches often Apparate to their destinations, which is quite similar to teleportation. It is","title":"Fictional universe of Harry Potter"},{"docid":"547931","text":"Harry's defence. Draco is drawn into Death-Eaters' activities more directly in \"Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince\". Because of Lucius' arrest and fall from Voldemort's favour, Narcissa Malfoy and Bellatrix Lestrange visit Snape at his home to discuss a dangerous task that Voldemort has assigned Draco. Narcissa, deeply worried that her son will be killed in his attempt to complete it, begs Snape to make an Unbreakable Vow to aid Draco with this task and protect him at all costs, and if Draco fails to complete the mission, he will complete it himself; he agrees. Under the Invisibility Cloak, Harry,","title":"Draco Malfoy"},{"docid":"3381498","text":"commonly used because of their efficiency (due to the owner's bond with the wand itself). This can explain how some wizards are able to use spells without wands (for example, retrieving an item with \"Accio\"). Furthermore, wands are able to be won from a witch or wizard and can therefore change their allegiance. This is the case when Harry takes Draco's wand at Malfoy Manor, and consequently the wand's allegiance swaps to Harry, as explained by Ollivander; and, by extension, so does the allegiance of the Elder Wand, which itself has changed hands many times. Magical objects in Harry Potter","title":"Magical objects in Harry Potter"},{"docid":"15648855","text":"insistence Harry speaks to Helena Ravenclaw's ghost, who reveals that Voldemort performed \"dark magic\" on her mother's diadem, located in the Room of Requirement. In the Chamber of Secrets, Hermione destroys the Horcrux cup with a Basilisk fang. In the Room of Requirement, Draco, Blaise Zabini and Gregory Goyle attack Harry, but Ron and Hermione intervene. Goyle casts a Fiendfyre curse; unable to control it, he is burned to death while Harry and his friends save Malfoy and Zabini. Harry stabs the diadem with the Basilisk fang and Ron kicks it into the Room of Requirement to be destroyed. As","title":"Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2"},{"docid":"3501733","text":"with mead that Slughorn had intended to gift to Dumbledore. The mead poisons Ron, and Harry is forced to save his life after Slughorn hesitates. Ron murmurs Hermione's name while recovering in the infirmary, causing Lavender to end their relationship. Harry confronts Draco about the mead and a cursed necklace, and the two duel. Harry uses a curse from the Half-Blood Prince's potion book to severely injure Malfoy, who is rescued and healed by Snape. Fearing the book may be filled with more Dark Magic, Ginny and Harry hide it in the Room of Requirement and share their first kiss.","title":"Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (film)"},{"docid":"547956","text":"known as Mailboy (with his father Lucius being parodied as Mailman). In Neil Cicierega's \"Potter Puppet Pals\", Draco stars in the episode \"Draco Puppet\". He is different from all the other characters, simplistically made out of paper and is a smaller puppet, held and voiced by the Harry puppet. Harry created him in order to torture him, and after the puppet \"annoys\" Harry, he does a series of strange things to the paper Draco and eventually burns it on a stove. In \"A Very Potter Musical\" Draco is played by actress Lauren Lopez. He has a very obvious crush on","title":"Draco Malfoy"},{"docid":"2792324","text":"between Laertes and Prince Hamlet to elaborate the differences between the two men. In Act V Scene 2, Prince Hamlet tells Laertes that he will fence with him and states, \"I'll be your foil, Laertes\" (5.2.272). This word play reveals the foil between Hamlet and Laertes, that was developed throughout the play. In the \"Harry Potter\" series, Draco Malfoy can be seen as a foil to the Harry Potter character; Professor Snape enables both characters \"to experience the essential adventures of self-determination\" but they make different choices; Harry chooses to oppose Lord Voldemort and the Death Eaters, whereas Draco eventually","title":"Foil (literature)"},{"docid":"4220823","text":"portion of the audience that was so invested in the romance angle. The fact that those moments were few and far between should have given some indication that the series was not about Daria's love life.\" The \"Harry Potter\" series' most contentious ship debates came from supporters of the prospective relationship between Harry Potter and his close female friend Hermione Granger; supporters of Hermione having a romantic relationship with Draco Malfoy, a primary antagonist; and supporters of Hermione ending up instead with Ron Weasley, close friend of both Harry and Hermione. Author J.K. Rowling appeared to try to tamp down","title":"Shipping (fandom)"},{"docid":"15758023","text":"pines for the companionship of Quirrell. Voldemort, Quirrell and Harry all lament those they have lost (\"Missing You\"). Afterwards, a Death Eater informs Voldemort that Hogwarts has fallen, and Voldemort prepares to depart to Hogwarts itself. Ginny finds Harry within Hogwarts and attempts to convince him that he has the power to save everyone; however, Harry is in denial and bemoans the unrealistic expectations and pressure placed on him as \"The Boy Who Lived\". Ginny, Ron, and Hermione reassure him that he is not alone in his fight against evil (\"Not Alone\"). With the help of Malfoy, who has changed","title":"A Very Potter Musical"},{"docid":"3535462","text":"who will clean the Gryffindor common room, when Hermione leaves knitted clothing half-hidden around the room in an attempt to free the elves, which they find insulting. Dobby later appears in \"Order of the Phoenix\", showing Harry the hidden Room of Requirement, which Harry uses for the secret meetings of Dumbledore's Army. When Professor Umbridge finds the meetings later, Dobby enters to warn the group. In \"Half-Blood Prince\" Harry entrusts Dobby to watch his compatriot Kreacher when he orders him to work in the Hogwarts kitchens with the other house-elves; and later assigns both to follow Draco Malfoy. Dobby makes","title":"Magical creatures in Harry Potter"},{"docid":"15758029","text":"the next musical), and second being threatened by Voldemort when he starts playing sad music to accompany Voldemort thinking about Quirrell. While reading \"Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire\", Nick Lang and a few others attending the University of Michigan discussed the possibility of Draco Malfoy having a crush on Hermione Granger because of him constantly bullying her, and created the concept of a song \"Granger Danger,\" which led to the idea of making a Harry Potter musical. When the script was being written, they asked Darren Criss if they could use his songs \"Sami,\" which was originally written","title":"A Very Potter Musical"},{"docid":"3160318","text":"\"The Boy Who Lived\". Harry is then taken to King's Cross station to board a train to the school, where he meets three other students: Ron Weasley, whom he quickly befriends; Hermione Granger, an intelligent witch born to muggle parents; and Draco Malfoy, a child from a wealthy wizarding family whom he immediately clashes with. After arriving at school, the students assemble in the Great Hall, where Harry and all the other \"first-years\" are sorted by the Sorting Hat between four houses: Gryffindor, Hufflepuff, Ravenclaw, and Slytherin. Although the Sorting Hat considers placing Harry in Slytherin alongside Draco, he is","title":"Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (film)"},{"docid":"5725191","text":"explore the magical world, the reader is introduced to many of the primary locations used throughout the series. Harry meets most of the main characters and gains his two closest friends: Ron Weasley, a fun-loving member of an ancient, large, happy, but poor wizarding family, and Hermione Granger, a gifted, bright, and hardworking witch of non-magical parentage. Harry also encounters the school's potions master, Severus Snape, who displays a conspicuously deep and abiding dislike for him, the rich brat Draco Malfoy whom he quickly makes enemies with, and the Defence Against the Dark Arts teacher, Quirinus Quirrell, who later turns","title":"Harry Potter"},{"docid":"3535463","text":"his last appearance in \"Deathly Hallows\" when Aberforth Dumbledore sends him to rescue the protagonists from Malfoy Manor after Harry asks for Aberforth's help while viewing his eye in Sirius' mirror, but in the process Dobby is killed by Bellatrix Lestrange. He is buried at Shell Cottage, beneath a headstone bearing the epitaph \"Here Lies Dobby, A Free Elf\". Dobby's name is derived from a creature in English folklore. This creature performs household chores and is kind to children, as is the character in the series. Dobby was voiced by Toby Jones in the film adaptations of \"Harry Potter and","title":"Magical creatures in Harry Potter"},{"docid":"1961939","text":"ages 11 to 18. Tom Felton Thomas Andrew Felton (born 22 September 1987) is an English actor and musician. Felton began appearing in commercials when he was eight years old for companies such as Commercial Union and Barclaycard. He made his screen debut in the role of Peagreen Clock in \"The Borrowers\" (1997) and he portrayed Louis T. Leonowens in \"Anna and the King\" (1999). He rose to prominence for his role as Draco Malfoy in the film adaptions of the best-selling \"Harry Potter\" fantasy novels by J.K. Rowling. His performances in \"Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince\" and \"Harry","title":"Tom Felton"},{"docid":"9821368","text":"clip of Harry leaving the Burrow to find the Horcruxes, titled \"No One Else Is Going to Die for Me\". On 4 November, a new clip was released from the \"Harry Potter\" Facebook page, titled \"The Seven Potters\". Two more clips were released over the next two days, including a scene depicting a café attack and another taking place in Malfoy Manor. On 26 August 2010, director David Yates, producers David Heyman and David Barron, and with Warner Bros. president Alan F. Horn attended a test screening for \"Deathly Hallows – Part 1\" in Chicago. The unfinished film gained rave","title":"Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1"},{"docid":"11870333","text":"lent their voices (some for the first time) to their characters in game. Among these, Bonnie Wright played Ginny Weasley, Warwick Davis played Professor Flitwick, and Tom Felton played Draco Malfoy. In \"Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince\", Dumbledore prepares Harry for the final battle that he knows is fast approaching as Voldemort is tightening his grip on both the Muggle and wizarding worlds. Together they work to find the key to unlock Voldemort's defences, and to this end, Dumbledore recruits his old friend and colleague, the well-connected and unsuspecting bon vivant Professor Horace Slughorn, whom he believes holds crucial","title":"Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (video game)"},{"docid":"17046795","text":"of \"A Very Potter Musical\". At the breakfast table, Ron is given the keys to the family car, and he flies Harry, Hermione, and Ginny to Hogwarts to start the school year (\"Senior Year\"). Ron crash lands into the Herbology greenhouse, destroying the crop of mandrakes and killing Professor Sprout. Professor McGonagall enters and threatens to expel the students, however Draco Malfoy provides an alibi and the four students escape punishment. Despite this, Harry refuses to acknowledge Draco's friendship. In the Great Hall, Harry and Draco are announced as the two candidates for the coming Head Boy election. Gilderoy Lockhart","title":"A Very Potter Senior Year"},{"docid":"558592","text":"laid in a different chamber from all the others who died battling him. Rowling stated that after his death, Voldemort is forced to exist in the stunted infant-like form that Harry sees in the King's Cross-like Limbo after his confrontation with Voldemort in the Forbidden Forest. Rowling also mentioned that, despite his extreme fear of death, he cannot become a ghost. In \"Harry Potter and the Cursed Child\", it is revealed that Bellatrix gave birth to Voldemort's daughter Delphi in Malfoy Manor before the Battle of Hogwarts. Twenty-two years later, Delphi poses as Cedric's cousin and manipulates Harry and Ginny's","title":"Lord Voldemort"},{"docid":"3381441","text":"magical mirror (which broke in the bottom of his trunk), a brilliant blue eye belonging to Aberforth (which Harry mistakes for Albus' eye), appears and he sends Dobby, who arrives to help Harry escape from Malfoy Manor to Shell Cottage. The photographs and portraits in the world of wizards are not stationary like in the Muggle world. They move around within the frame and from one portrait to another, and are also able to talk if they are developed in a certain potion. A portrait of the Fat Lady is used in Hogwarts to cover the door to the Gryffindor","title":"Magical objects in Harry Potter"},{"docid":"3160436","text":"Weasley, Ludo Bagman, Winky, Narcissa Malfoy and Bertha Jorkins are absent, as well as Dobby, who was supposed to help Harry obtain Gillyweed for the second task. Instead, that scene was changed to involve Neville Longbottom. There is no train scene at the end where Rita Skeeter is revealed to be an illegal, unregistered animagus; Harry is never seen either receiving or giving away the 1,000 galleons in prize winnings. All of Sirius Black's lines are condensed into a single fireside conversation. The scene in which Crouch Jr. is taken back to Azkaban is different from the book, in which","title":"Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (film)"},{"docid":"1413949","text":"and Ginny is restored. Harry, Ron, Ginny, and Lockhart (who had his own memory erased from the damaged wand) return to the main castle and reunite with McGonagall, Dumbledore, and Mr. and Mrs. Weasley. Ginny, whose possession by Voldemort caused all of the petrification and troubles over the course of the year, is given a reprieve by Dumbledore. He reasons that greater wizards have been duped by Voldemort before, and takes great interest in the qualities of the diary, which Harry gives to him. Lucius Malfoy bursts in after this meeting, demanding to know why and how Dumbledore has returned","title":"Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets"},{"docid":"591538","text":"an enemy of yet another first-year, Draco Malfoy, who shows prejudice against Ron for his family's financial difficulties. Arriving at Hogwarts, the first-years are assigned by the magical Sorting Hat to Houses that best suit their personalities, the four Houses being Gryffindor, Slytherin, Hufflepuff and Ravenclaw. Harry hears from Ron about Slytherin's dark reputation which is known to house potential dark witches and wizards, and thus objects to being sorted into Slytherin despite the Hat claiming that Harry has potential to develop under that House. He winds up in Gryffindor with Ron and Hermione, while Draco is sorted into Slytherin","title":"Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone"},{"docid":"2475144","text":"me. But I made my point. We'll see. Like everybody else, I'm holding my breath to July to see what's in there. I just want to bust out of prison, that's all. I don't want to stay in Azkaban most of my life.' \" Ultimately Isaacs did reprise the role of Malfoy as a cameo appearance in \"Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince\" (2009), where he is seen in a moving portrait. Afterwards, Isaacs reprised the role again in \"Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1\" (2010) and \"Part 2\" (2011). Isaacs appeared in \"Dragonheart\" (1996), \"Event Horizon\"","title":"Jason Isaacs"},{"docid":"19772886","text":"Anthony Boyle Anthony Boyle (born 8 June 1994) is an Northern Irish actor best known for his role as Scorpius Malfoy in the English play \"Harry Potter and the Cursed Child\" (2016), for which he won the Olivier Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role. In spring of 2018, Boyle made his Broadway debut in the West End transfer of \"Harry Potter and the Cursed Child\" at the Lyric Theatre, New York City, and was nominated for Best Featured Actor in a Play at the 72nd Tony Awards. Anthony was born in West Belfast, and attended De La Salle","title":"Anthony Boyle"},{"docid":"12326377","text":"a story released by Comic Relief in 2003, and he was played by Ronnie Corbett. In the \"Potter Puppet Pals\" parodies by Neil Cicierega, Hagrid appeared in the episode \"Ron's Disease\", in which Harry uses Hagrid’s strength to cure Ron from an illness, as well as to beat Hermione and Snape, and to discover Dumbledore’s identity as a \"gay android\". Hagrid also appears in the parody stage production \"Harry Potter and the Obnoxious Voice\", interacting with Draco Malfoy and a dementor. In one episode of the second series of \"Tracey Ullman's State of the Union\", Tracey Ullman parodies Rowling as","title":"Rubeus Hagrid"},{"docid":"2475141","text":"beyond being typecast as an historical villain, Isaacs chose to play a drag queen in his next project, \"Sweet November\" (2001), a romantic comedy-drama. Isaacs has appeared in many other films, most notably as Lucius Malfoy in the \"Harry Potter\" series of films (2002–2011). Regarding the Harry Potter books by J. K. Rowling, Isaacs has said: \"I went off and read the books after the audition and I read the first four books in one sitting – you know – didn't wash, didn't eat, drove around with them on the steering wheel like a lunatic. I suddenly understood why my","title":"Jason Isaacs"},{"docid":"5621152","text":"Josh Herdman Joshua Colin M. Herdman (born 26 March 1987) is an English actor and mixed martial artist, best known for playing Gregory Goyle in the \"Harry Potter\" film series. Herdman was born in Hampton, London. The son of actor and former professional rugby league footballer Martin Herdman and Jessica Herdman, the youngest of the four brothers. He was educated at Orleans Park School. Herdman started acting when he was about 7 years old; his father found him an agent. At age 13, he was cast as Gregory Goyle, a sidekick of villain Draco Malfoy, in \"Harry Potter and the","title":"Josh Herdman"},{"docid":"2475143","text":"ask David (producer David Heyman). I can't bear the idea that somebody else would get to wear my Paris Hilton wig, but you never know.\" Isaacs also talked to J.K. Rowling on the inclusion of Lucius Malfoy in the then unpublished \"Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows\", so that he would have a part in the seventh and final film: \"The character does not appear in the sixth book, \"Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince\"; but ... [Isaacs joked], 'I fell to my knees and begged ... It didn't do any good. I'm sure she doesn't need plot ideas from","title":"Jason Isaacs"},{"docid":"16359278","text":"Malfoy (Prasad for the second movie, with two other actors voicing Draco for the first film and the rest of the series respectively) Fred and George Weasley, Voldemort, Hagrid, Arthur Weasley (Dutt for all films starting with the second), Dumbledore (Dutt for the first 2 films and Chaturvedi from 5th to the final) and Severus Snape respectively, for the Hindi dubs of the film series. He was considered to be known as: \"The voice of Harry Potter\". But after the fifth film, another Hindi voice actor, Rajesh Kava, took over as the third and permanent voice for Harry Potter for","title":"Karan Trivedi"},{"docid":"3381478","text":"possible. An illegal Time-Turner capable of travelling back years is confiscated from a Dark wizard by the Ministry of Magic (although official word remains that all Time-Turners are destroyed) and is later stolen by Albus Potter and Scorpius Malfoy, who intend to travel back in time to prevent the death of Cedric Diggory. Unfortunately, they quickly discover the Time-Turner is a cheaply-made prototype that only takes them back for five minutes before forcibly returning them to the present. After accidentally creating (and then undoing) an alternate reality where Voldemort survived and took over the world, Albus and Scorpius resolve to","title":"Magical objects in Harry Potter"},{"docid":"3165404","text":"she had been cast. As early as August 2005, rumours began linking Helen McCrory to the role. On 2 February 2006 it was announced that McCrory had indeed been cast as Bellatrix. However, in April 2006 she revealed that she was three months pregnant and withdrew from the film because she would not have been able to perform the intense battle sequences in the Ministry of Magic in September and October 2006. The announcement that Bonham Carter had been recast in the role was made on 25 May 2006. McCrory was subsequently cast as Narcissa Malfoy from \"Harry Potter and","title":"Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (film)"},{"docid":"547927","text":"debut as Care of Magical Creatures instructor in \"Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban\", the hippogriff, Buckbeak, attacks Draco after he fails to observe proper protocol while approaching it and insults it. He exaggerates the extent of his injury, giving Slytherin a chance to postpone their Quidditch match against Gryffindor until later in the year and as an attempt to have Hagrid fired. Hermione punches Draco when he mocks Hagrid for crying over Buckbeak's death sentence. Draco, who implies that he is aware of how Sirius Black was supposedly involved in the deaths of Harry's parents, also taunts Harry","title":"Draco Malfoy"},{"docid":"2375660","text":"and Gornuk. Snatchers soon viciously attack the group; Dean and Griphook are the lone survivors but are captured along with Harry, Ron, and Hermione and taken to Malfoy Manor. They are all rescued by Dobby, who transports them to Bill and Fleur's Shell Cottage for protection. Dean returns to Hogwarts towards the end of the book and fights in the Battle of Hogwarts. Alfred Enoch played Dean in the \"Harry Potter\" film series and voiced the character in the \"Order of the Phoenix\" and \"Deathly Hallows: Part 1\" video game. Fred Weasley and George Weasley are the fun-loving, troublemaking twins","title":"Dumbledore's Army"},{"docid":"3381343","text":"Lucius Malfoy hands over to Dumbledore his suspension letter. The Deathly Hallows are three magical objects that are the focus of \"Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows\" – an unbeatable wand, a stone to bring the dead to life, and a cloak of invisibility. When owned by one person, they are said to give mastery over death. The objects are generally remembered only as part of a wizard's fairy tale called \"The Tale of the Three Brothers\", and have become mythological over time, but a small number of wizards including Dumbledore still believe in their existence and seek them. According","title":"Magical objects in Harry Potter"}],"string":"[\n {\n \"docid\": \"547919\",\n \"text\": \"Draco Malfoy Draco Lucius Malfoy is a character in J. K. Rowling's \\\"Harry Potter\\\" series. He is a student in Harry Potter's year belonging in the Slytherin house. 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Since 2013, he plays Sid Carter, one of the main characters in the\",\n \"title\": \"Alex Price\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"18868162\",\n \"text\": \"it compares to entries in the main \\\"Harry Potter\\\" series. Publications awarding five star ratings included \\\"The Independent\\\", the \\\"London Evening Standard\\\", \\\"The Stage\\\" and WhatsOnStage.com. \\\"The Telegraph\\\" also gave five, although \\\"there are some quibbles,\\\" while \\\"The Guardian\\\"'s Michael Billington awarded four stars. Anthony Boyle's performance as Scorpius Malfoy garnered particular acclaim. WhatsOnStage.com wrote that \\\"Boyle gives a career-making performance,\\\" while \\\"The Wall Street Journal\\\" described him as \\\"the break-out performance\\\". \\\"Variety\\\"s critic, Matt Trueman, agreed, writing, \\\"it's Boyle who really stands out\\\", and both Trueman and Henry Hitchings, in the \\\"Evening Standard\\\", noted that his performance was sure\",\n \"title\": \"Harry Potter and the Cursed Child\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"1371334\",\n \"text\": \"for Magic Cornelius Fudge. Later in that book, when Voldemort rises again and summons his Death Eaters, Malfoy rejoins him, claiming that he had done everything he could all along to find Voldemort and help him rise again (though Voldemort knows he is lying). Harry, who witnesses Malfoy's declaration of loyalty to Voldemort, tells Minister Fudge, who refuses to believe him, and the wealthy Malfoy continues to maintain strong ties with the Ministry. 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Dobby also quickly becomes the only house-elf\",\n \"title\": \"Magical creatures in Harry Potter\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"8251147\",\n \"text\": \"Potter\\\" involve an average eleven-year-old, better at sport than academic study, who is sent to boarding school. Upon arrival, the boy gains a best friend (in Tom's case, East, in Harry's case, Ron Weasley) who helps him adjust to the new environment. They are set upon by an arrogant bully – in Tom Brown's case, Harry Flashman, in Harry's case Draco Malfoy. Stephen Fry, who both narrates the British audio adaptations of the \\\"Harry Potter\\\" novels and has starred in a screen adaptation of \\\"Tom Brown\\\", has commented many times about the similarities between the two books. \\\"Harry Potter –\",\n \"title\": \"Harry Potter influences and analogues\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"3161119\",\n \"text\": \"and her assistants will tailor the robes to fit. \\\"Malkin\\\" is an archaic term for a crotchety old woman. Harry has two meetings with Draco Malfoy in Madam Malkin's shop. This is where Harry meets the first wizard of his own age, Malfoy, for the first time, in \\\"Philosopher's Stone\\\". Harry is rather bewildered by the questions Malfoy asks, because Harry is still unfamiliar with many aspects of the wizarding world. A second meeting occurs just before the beginning of Harry's sixth year, in \\\"Half-Blood Prince\\\". This meeting is far more unpleasant, and escalates quickly into a near-duel before Malfoy\",\n \"title\": \"Places in Harry Potter\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"18868159\",\n \"text\": \"2018, selling more than 200,000 tickets in just four days, before the public sale tickets were released. The 35 original Australian adult cast was revealed on 2 September and includes Gareth Reeves as Harry Potter, Paula Arundell as Hermione Granger, Gyton Grantley as Ron Weasley, Lucy Goleby as Ginny Potter, Sean Rees-Wemyss as Albus Potter, Tom Wren as Draco Malfoy and William McKenna as Scorpius Malfoy. The roles of the remaining supporting cast will remain unannounced until the show opens to \\\"honour its 'keep the secret' message (and) to ensure the storyline doesn't slip out\\\". The production will also feature\",\n \"title\": \"Harry Potter and the Cursed Child\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"3160342\",\n \"text\": \"Neville and Malfoy are given detention when caught in the corridor by Professor McGonagall. In the film, Harry, Hermione and Ron receive detention after Malfoy catches them in Hagrid's hut after hours (Malfoy however, is given detention for being out of bed after hours). Firenze the centaur, who is described in the book as being palomino with light blonde hair, is shown to be dark in the film. The Quidditch pitch is altered from a traditional stadium to an open field circled by spectator towers. In the trio's final quest for the Philosopher's Stone, Hermione's test, solving a logic problem\",\n \"title\": \"Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (film)\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"547955\",\n \"text\": \"of Waverly Place\\\", during the episodes \\\"Wizard School Part 1\\\" and \\\"Wizard School Part 2\\\", in which Alex and Justin Russo go to a wizarding school named Wiz-tech, where everyone wears yellow and black robes, and glasses reminiscent of Harry Potter. Draco also appears as Sacco (played by Shane Lyons) in the \\\"Harry Bladder\\\" sketches in \\\"All That\\\", in which Harry Bladder and other students often encounter Sacco's mischief-making. In the stage production \\\"Harry Potter and the Obnoxious Voice\\\", Malfoy is seen interacting with Hagrid and a dementor. Draco was also parodied in a Big Bite sketch, where he was\",\n \"title\": \"Draco Malfoy\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"3378770\",\n \"text\": \"\\\"Chamber of Secrets\\\" and one a ring destroyed by Dumbledore shortly before the events of \\\"Half-Blood Prince\\\". Dumbledore takes Harry along in the attempt to destroy a third horcrux contained in a locket. However, the horcrux had been taken by an unknown wizard, and upon their return Dumbledore is ambushed and disarmed by Draco Malfoy, who cannot bring himself to kill him. Dumbledore is subsequently killed by Snape, who finishes what Malfoy started. Following Albus Dumbledore's death, Voldemort consolidates his support and power, including covert control of the Ministry of Magic, while Harry is about to turn seventeen, losing the\",\n \"title\": \"Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"3604621\",\n \"text\": \"which feature sexual relationships that do not exist in the books (\\\"shipping\\\"), often portraying homosexual pairings. Famous pairings include Harry with Draco Malfoy or Cedric Diggory, and Remus Lupin with Sirius Black. Harry Potter slash has eroded some of the antipathy towards underage sexuality in the wider slash fandom. Tracey \\\"T\\\" Proctor, a moderator of FictionAlley.org, a \\\"Harry Potter\\\" fanfiction website, said 'I don't really get into the children's aspect of it, but rather the teachers, the adult characters. I read someone once who said, \\\"If she didn't want us fantasizing about her characters, she needs to stop having these\",\n \"title\": \"Harry Potter fandom\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"3604638\",\n \"text\": \"is true, thereby denying any potential canon relationship between Harry and Hermione. On a less intense scale, other relationships have been doted upon in the fandom from suggestive hints or explicit statements throughout canon, such as those between Draco Malfoy and Pansy Parkinson, Harry Potter's parents James Potter and Lily Evans, Rubeus Hagrid and Olympe Maxime, or Percy Weasley and Penelope Clearwater, or Rose Granger-Weasley and Scorpius Malfoy. A potential relationship between Neville Longbottom and Luna Lovegood was originally dispelled by Rowling, though she later retracted this and said she noticed a slight attraction between them in \\\"Deathly Hallows\\\". Some\",\n \"title\": \"Harry Potter fandom\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"20921393\",\n \"text\": \"Harry Potter to become Gryffindor seeker. Draco Malfoy threw the small sphere into the air, and Harry flew to grab it, standing up for Neville. Minerva McGonagall saw how easily Harry retrieved the ball and asked him to join the team. Shortly after the Christmas holidays, Neville was the target of a prank by Draco Malfoy, in which his legs were stuck together with the Leg-Locker Curse. Neville had to bunny-hop all the way to Gryffindor Tower so someone could perform the counter-curse. When Harry, Ron, and Hermione urged him to report Malfoy, Neville replied that he didn't want more\",\n \"title\": \"Neville Longbottom (Fictional Character)\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"547950\",\n \"text\": \"few remaining pure-blood wizarding clans in the \\\"Harry Potter\\\" series, and among the wealthiest. The anti-Muggle editor Brutus Malfoy is their ancestor. Lucius Malfoy was a Death Eater during both wizard wars. He marries Narcissa Black and together they have one son, Draco, who is the first Malfoy family member introduced in the series. The Malfoys are related to the Black family through Narcissa (a first cousin of Sirius Black, Harry's godfather), which makes Draco a nephew of both Bellatrix Lestrange and Andromeda Tonks. Draco is also Nymphadora Tonks' first cousin through their mothers. Three of Draco's grandparents are identified:\",\n \"title\": \"Draco Malfoy\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"15757915\",\n \"text\": \"A Very Potter Sequel A Very Potter Sequel (often shortened to AVPS) is a musical with music and lyrics by Darren Criss and a book by Matt Lang, Nick Lang, and Brian Holden. The story is a parody, based on several of the \\\"Harry Potter\\\" novels (particularly \\\"Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone\\\", \\\"Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban\\\" and \\\"Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix\\\") by J. K. Rowling, as well as their film counterparts. \\\"A Very Potter Sequel\\\" picks up where \\\"A Very Potter Musical\\\" left off with Lord Voldemort destroyed. Lucius Malfoy then decides\",\n \"title\": \"A Very Potter Sequel\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"3160388\",\n \"text\": \"is announced as the new Care of Magical Creatures teacher; his first class goes awry when Draco Malfoy deliberately provokes the hippogriff Buckbeak, who attacks him. Draco exaggerates his injury, and his father Lucius Malfoy later has Buckbeak sentenced to death. The Fat Lady's portrait, which guards the Gryffindor quarters, is found ruined and empty. Terrified and hiding in another painting, she tells Dumbledore that Sirius has entered the castle. During a stormy Quidditch match against Hufflepuff, dementors attack Harry, causing him to fall off his broomstick. At Hogsmeade, Harry is shocked to learn that not only had Sirius been\",\n \"title\": \"Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (film)\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"3161082\",\n \"text\": \"of Harry Potter Part I: The Magic Begins\\\", included in the 2009 DVD/Blu-ray \\\"Ultimate Edition\\\" of \\\"Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone\\\", the film-makers initially attempted to film the Little Whinging/Privet Drive sequences on location in a real urban area. When this proved unfeasible, a section of Privet Drive was constructed on the backlot at Leavesden Film Studios. this standing set, which remained in use throughout the decade-long filming history of the Harry Potter films, remains visible in Google Maps aerial views of the studio. It sits in a location with other \\\"Harry Potter\\\" sets and props. Malfoy Manor is\",\n \"title\": \"Places in Harry Potter\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"15758021\",\n \"text\": \"large, they cannot be together. As Ginny runs off in tears once more, a disguised Dumbledore summons Harry to his office to discuss Voldemort. Snape reveals himself as an undercover Death Eater and meets with Voldemort, who is in a deep depression following his fight with Quirrell. He brings in Malfoy, who tells Voldemort of a secret entrance into Hogwarts in exchange for a rocket ship to Mars (\\\"Pigfarts\\\"). Voldemort also makes Malfoy enter into a binding magical contract to kill Dumbledore for him. Harry, Ron and Hermione arrive at Dumbledore's office for the meeting. There, Dumbledore explains the horcruxes\",\n \"title\": \"A Very Potter Musical\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"3381399\",\n \"text\": \"diary. He cast the spell after murdering his fellow student Myrtle Warren using the Basilisk. The diary is introduced in the thirteenth chapter of \\\"Chamber of Secrets\\\" and is destroyed by Harry Potter during the climax of the same book. Before Voldemort's downfall, he entrusted the Horcrux to Lucius Malfoy. While aware of its corrupting magical properties, Malfoy did not know the diary was a Horcrux, Voldemort having informed him of its value as a weapon but believing that he would be in a position to coordinate Malfoy's use of it. In an attempt to discredit Arthur Weasley as well\",\n \"title\": \"Magical objects in Harry Potter\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"1975916\",\n \"text\": \"Philosopher's Stone\\\" as the Minister for Magic of the United Kingdom. He makes his first appearance in \\\"Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets\\\" when he arrives at the school to take Hagrid to Azkaban, even though he does not firmly believe that Hagrid is guilty. He also removes Dumbledore as Headmaster when pressured by Lucius Malfoy who insisted that all the school governors had voted on it. However, it is not until \\\"Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban\\\" that Fudge meets Harry for the first time. Fudge does not press charges against Harry for accidentally inflating Aunt Marge,\",\n \"title\": \"Ministry of Magic\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"1369035\",\n \"text\": \"were concerned with the violence contained in the novel and with morality issues occurring throughout the book. \\\"The New York Times\\\" writer John Leonard praised the novel, saying \\\"\\\"The Order of the Phoenix\\\" starts slow, gathers speed and then skateboards, with somersaults, to its furious conclusion...As Harry gets older, Rowling gets better.\\\" However, he also criticises \\\"the one-note Draco Malfoy\\\" and the predictable Lord Voldemort. \\\"Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix\\\" is the fifth book in the \\\"Harry Potter\\\" series. The first book in the series, \\\"Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone\\\" was first published by Bloomsbury in\",\n \"title\": \"Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"6005190\",\n \"text\": \"a modernised TV adaptation of \\\"Frankenstein's Monster\\\", simply called \\\"Frankenstein\\\". Her first pregnancy forced her to pull out of \\\"Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix\\\" (2007), in which she had been cast as Bellatrix Lestrange (she was replaced by Helena Bonham Carter). McCrory was later cast as Bellatrix's sister Narcissa Malfoy in \\\"Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince\\\", released in July 2009. McCrory reprised her role in the final films, \\\"Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1\\\" and \\\"Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2\\\"; McCrory's performance was well received by fans of the\",\n \"title\": \"Helen McCrory\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"19304671\",\n \"text\": \"the Theatre Royal Winchester's production of Peter Pan, for which he received critical acclaim. Hansler has also provided the voice of Lucius Malfoy and other characters in three of the Harry Potter video games; Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince and Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1. Hansler is notable for playing the lead character in a major 2013 advertising campaign for Cadbury, whilst other commercials include those for Dunkin' Donuts, Made.com, Unibet and Foxy Bingo. Jonathan Hansler Jonathan Hansler (born John Hansler Brittan) is an English actor. He\",\n \"title\": \"Jonathan Hansler\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"3381342\",\n \"text\": \"some other fashion \\\"sense\\\" that Harry is wearing his cloak: Snape is seen to be suspicious when being followed by Harry, even reaching out to grab at (what appears to be) thin air; in \\\"Half-Blood Prince\\\", Draco Malfoy realises Harry is in his train carriage and successfully immobilizes him with a Petrificus Totalus (Body-Bind) curse, as despite wearing his cloak Harry inadvertently moved objects near him; and in \\\"Chamber of Secrets\\\", Albus Dumbledore senses Harry and Ron beneath it in Hagrid's cabin while talking to Lucius Malfoy during the event when Cornelius Fudge comes to take Hagrid to Azkaban and\",\n \"title\": \"Magical objects in Harry Potter\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"3161083\",\n \"text\": \"the home of the aristocratic Malfoy family: Lucius, Narcissa, their son Draco Malfoy and later Bellatrix Lestrange (sister of Narcissa). It is mentioned in the fifth book that the manor is located somewhere in Wiltshire, England. The Malfoys were previously served by Dobby the house elf, before Lucius was tricked by Harry into freeing him. In the \\\"Chamber of Secrets\\\", Draco reveals that the manor has its own \\\"chamber of secrets\\\" under the drawing room, which was used to hide valuable dark artefacts when the Ministry raided the manor. Voldemort used Malfoy Manor as headquarters on at least one occasion\",\n \"title\": \"Places in Harry Potter\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"18868138\",\n \"text\": \"Malfoy, the son of Harry's former nemesis Draco Malfoy and Astoria Malfoy (née Greengrass). The school is stunned when, in a break with the tradition of Potters being sorted into Gryffindor, Albus is sorted into Slytherin alongside Scorpius. Both boys are bullied by other students over the next few years, Albus due to his perceived failure to live up to his parents, Scorpius due to unproven rumours that he is the son of Lord Voldemort. In addition, Albus and Harry begin to drift apart, owing to Albus's struggles with his father's shadow and Harry's uncertainty on how to deal with\",\n \"title\": \"Harry Potter and the Cursed Child\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"5587398\",\n \"text\": \"results, along with lists of school supplies. Later, Harry, Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger follow Draco to Dark Arts supplier Borgin and Burkes. Harry is instantly suspicious of Draco, whom he believes to be a Death Eater. On the Hogwarts Express, Harry discusses his suspicions of Draco’s allegiance with Lord Voldemort, however Ron and Hermione are doubtful with the lack of evidence. Harry wears his invisibility cloak and hides in the same carriage that Malfoy is seated in. He overhears Draco bragging to his friends about the mission Lord Voldemort has tasked him. However, Malfoy is suspicious that someone else\",\n \"title\": \"Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"15648853\",\n \"text\": \"Griphook to help him, Ron Weasley, and Hermione Granger break into Bellatrix Lestrange's vault at Gringotts bank, suspecting a Horcrux may be there. Griphook agrees in exchange for the Sword of Gryffindor. Wandmaker Ollivander tells Harry that two wands taken from Malfoy Manor belonged to Bellatrix and Draco Malfoy, though Malfoy's has changed its allegiance to Harry. In the vault, Harry discovers the Horcrux is Helga Hufflepuff's cup. He retrieves it, but Griphook snatches the sword and abandons the trio, leaving them cornered by security. The three release the dragon guardian and flee on its back. Harry sees a vision\",\n \"title\": \"Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"2375647\",\n \"text\": \"by Cedric Diggory, who was saved from death by Albus Severus Potter and Scorpius Malfoy with the Time-Turner by having him lose the Tri-Wizard Tournament, although the embarrassment caused him to become a Death Eater, just as Neville attempted to kill Nagini, therefore Voldemort was able to overpower and kill Harry Potter and gain complete power over the Wizarding World, although these events were later undone by Scorpius by allowing history to continue as it originally did. Neville was played by Yorkshire-born actor Matthew Lewis in the \\\"Harry Potter\\\" film series. He has appeared in all eight films. He reprised\",\n \"title\": \"Dumbledore's Army\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"3160362\",\n \"text\": \"a monster inside that only his Heir can control, capable of purging the school of impure-blooded wizards and witches. Harry and Ron suspect Malfoy as the Heir, so Hermione suggests they question him while disguised using polyjuice potion. They utilise a disused bathroom haunted by a ghost, Moaning Myrtle, as their makeshift laboratory to brew the potion. When Harry communicates with a snake, the school believes he is the Heir. On Christmas Day, Harry and Ron learn that Malfoy is not the Heir, but he mentions that a girl died when the Chamber was last opened fifty years ago. Harry\",\n \"title\": \"Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (film)\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"18868157\",\n \"text\": \"that Hermione's skin was never specified as white. Further notable casting includes Poppy Miller as Ginny Potter, Alex Price as Draco Malfoy, Sam Clemmett as Albus Severus Potter and Anthony Boyle as Scorpius Malfoy. The production features an overall cast of 42. The production began previews on 16 March 2018, officially opening on 22 April at the Lyric Theatre. Clemmett, Boyle, Dumezweni, Miller, Parker, Price and Thornley reprised their roles, from the West End. The theatre removed 400 seats from the auditorium and moved the entrance to 43rd Street. The production is produced by Sonia Friedman Productions, Sir Colin Callender,\",\n \"title\": \"Harry Potter and the Cursed Child\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"547929\",\n \"text\": \"Polyjuice Potion) humiliates Draco by transforming him into a ferret and repeatedly slamming him against the ground as well as dropping him down Goyle's pants. In \\\"Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix,\\\" Draco is named a Slytherin prefect along with Pansy Parkinson. He gets Harry and the Weasley twins banned from the Gryffindor Quidditch team when they attack him during a postmatch brawl after Draco insults their families following Gryffindor's win over Slytherin. He later joins Dolores Umbridge's Inquisitorial Squad, with whom he plays an important part in the exposure of Dumbledore's Army. As the D.A. flees the\",\n \"title\": \"Draco Malfoy\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"547951\",\n \"text\": \"Abraxas Malfoy, Cygnus Black, and Druella Rosier. Abraxas died before the series begins and was a friend of Professor Slughorn. Draco is, therefore, the scion of two old magical families. The Malfoy home, Malfoy Manor, is an elegant mansion located in the western English county of Wiltshire. They were served by Dobby the house elf until the end of \\\"Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets\\\". The Malfoys are a wealthy gentry family respected in the Wizarding world mainly from Lucius' influence with Hogwarts and the Ministry of Magic, gained mostly from his monetary donations to the Ministry and St\",\n \"title\": \"Draco Malfoy\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"547925\",\n \"text\": \"Slytherin (barely touching Draco's head), the house that has developed all of the bad wizards, where he becomes an instant favourite of Potions teacher and Slytherin Head of House, Severus Snape, so-called follower of Lord Voldemort. Draco attempts to get Harry expelled by tricking him into participating in a midnight wizard's duel after secretly informing Argus Filch in advance, but the plan fails when Harry evades Filch and safely makes it back to his dormitory. In \\\"Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets\\\", Draco becomes the new Seeker for the Slytherin Quidditch team after his father, Lucius Malfoy, donates new,\",\n \"title\": \"Draco Malfoy\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"3535441\",\n \"text\": \"seems formidable. Along with the ability to Apparate anywhere at any time, Dobby, Winky, Hokey, and Kreacher all demonstrate that they can overpower wizards when necessary: In \\\"Chamber of Secrets\\\", Dobby forcefully repels Lucius Malfoy while protecting Harry Potter; whereas in \\\"Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire\\\", when the younger Barty Crouch is unmasked and confesses to what happened on the night of the Quiddich World Championship, he says: \\\"Winky used her own brand of magic to bind me to her\\\", and in \\\"Deathly Hallows\\\", Kreacher is ordered by Harry to capture Mundungus Fletcher and bring him to 12\",\n \"title\": \"Magical creatures in Harry Potter\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"547944\",\n \"text\": \"to many female fans, much to Rowling's dismay. \\\"I'm trying to clearly distinguish between Tom Felton, who is a good looking young boy, and Draco, who, whatever he looks like, is not a nice man. It’s a romantic, but unhealthy, and unfortunately all too common delusion of girls ... it actually worried me a little bit, to see young girls swearing undying devotion to this really imperfect character ... I mean, I understand the psychology of it, but it is pretty unhealthy.\\\" Rowling has also noted that Malfoy \\\"is certainly stylish in the film.\\\" In the theatre play \\\"Harry Potter\",\n \"title\": \"Draco Malfoy\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"1371329\",\n \"text\": \"as a witch and to confront Molly's consumption with \\\"maternal love\\\" and Bellatrix's obsession with Voldemort. In the film series, Bellatrix is played by Helena Bonham Carter. Helen McCrory auditioned for the role in the fifth film but dropped out due to pregnancy, making Bonham Carter win the role. McCrory was cast as her sister Narcissa Malfoy in the final three films instead. IGN listed Bellatrix Lestrange as their tenth top \\\"Harry Potter\\\" character, and IGN's Joe Utichi listed Bellatrix as his fourth favourite \\\"Harry Potter\\\" character, calling her the \\\"most pitiable\\\" of Voldemort's servants. In NextMovie.com's \\\"Harry Potter\\\" Mega\",\n \"title\": \"Death Eater\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"3276413\",\n \"text\": \"becomes fast friends with classmates Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger, and foils Voldemort's attempt to steal the Philosopher's Stone. He also forms a rivalry with characters Draco Malfoy, a classmate from an elitist wizarding family, and the cold, condescending Potions master, Severus Snape, Draco's mentor and the head of Slytherin House. Both feuds continue throughout the series and are settled at the series's end (Draco's in the West End play Harry Potter and the Cursed Child and Snape's on his deathbed in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. In a 1999 interview, Rowling stated that Draco is based on several\",\n \"title\": \"Harry Potter (character)\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"17711759\",\n \"text\": \"Basilton \\\"Baz\\\" Pitch, his vampire nemesis. Although it exists in a fantasy world and within \\\"Fangirl\\\" was part of a series, the novel is a standalone book. It is heavily based on the \\\"Harry Potter\\\" series by J.K. Rowling, and many presume the characters Simon Snow and Baz Pitch to be based off Harry Potter and Draco Malfoy of the \\\"Harry Potter\\\" universe. On June 3, 2018, Rowell announced via Twitter that she is currently working on her sixth novel, \\\"Wayward Son\\\", a sequel to \\\"Carry On\\\", and that it will be published sometime in 2019. Rowell has written a\",\n \"title\": \"Rainbow Rowell\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"12415348\",\n \"text\": \"are not known to have officially been inducted into the Order. Arthur is distantly related to Sirius Black and is part of the famed Black family, though he and the rest of his immediate family have been considered \\\"blood traitors\\\" and are disowned. Other distant relatives include Draco Malfoy, Nymphadora Tonks, and Bellatrix Lestrange. Ron was chosen by IGN as their third favourite \\\"Harry Potter\\\" character, who said that Ron's status as comic relief made him \\\"instantly endearing\\\" and that his frustration and flirtation with Hermione Granger was a \\\"highlight\\\". Ron has made several appearances in parodies of \\\"Harry Potter\\\".\",\n \"title\": \"Ron Weasley\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"3378780\",\n \"text\": \"corroborating Harry's belief the horcrux is Rowena Ravenclaw's diadem, lost centuries ago. The Ravenclaw ghost's story further confirms this belief, and Harry remembers an old diadem in the Room of Requirement. Ron and Hermione destroy the cup with basilisk fangs taken from the Chamber of Secrets as Voldemort and his army besiege the castle. They find the diadem but are ambushed by Draco Malfoy and his friends Crabbe and Goyle. Crabbe tries to kill them using Fiendfyre, a cursed fire, but is unable to control it; the fire destroys the diadem and himself while Harry and his friends save Malfoy\",\n \"title\": \"Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"15757917\",\n \"text\": \"22, 2010, and within two days had gotten over 160,000 views, making the StarKid Productions page the most viewed of the day. \\\"A Very Potter Sequel\\\" is followed by \\\"A Very Potter Senior Year\\\". Lucius Malfoy and Yaxley meet to discuss Lord Voldemort's defeat at the hands of Harry Potter. Lucius describes that if it were not for Harry Potter, they would be reigning supreme. Lucius then explains his plan to use a Time Turner to go back in time to Harry's first year at Hogwarts to destroy him before he can become a threat for the Death Eaters (\\\"Not\",\n \"title\": \"A Very Potter Sequel\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"547928\",\n \"text\": \"about the impending threat of Black: \\\"\\\"If it was me, I'd want revenge. I'd hunt him down myself.\\\"\\\" After Harry is unexpectedly chosen as a Triwizard Tournament champion in \\\"Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire\\\", Draco shows off a \\\"Support Cedric Diggory\\\" badge to Harry, then presses it to replace that phrase with \\\"Potter Stinks.\\\" Draco also gives malicious and often false information about Harry and Hagrid to muckraking \\\"Daily Prophet\\\" journalist Rita Skeeter. When Draco attempts to curse Harry behind his back, the Defence Against the Dark Arts professor Alastor Moody (actually Barty Crouch, Jr in disguise via\",\n \"title\": \"Draco Malfoy\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"1961929\",\n \"text\": \"Tom Felton Thomas Andrew Felton (born 22 September 1987) is an English actor and musician. Felton began appearing in commercials when he was eight years old for companies such as Commercial Union and Barclaycard. He made his screen debut in the role of Peagreen Clock in \\\"The Borrowers\\\" (1997) and he portrayed Louis T. Leonowens in \\\"Anna and the King\\\" (1999). He rose to prominence for his role as Draco Malfoy in the film adaptions of the best-selling \\\"Harry Potter\\\" fantasy novels by J.K. Rowling. His performances in \\\"Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince\\\" and \\\"Harry Potter and the Deathly\",\n \"title\": \"Tom Felton\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"3381333\",\n \"text\": \"being infused with a Protean Charm, once Harry Potter alters his, every coin changes to suit. The coins grow hot when the numbers change to alert the members to look at their coins. In \\\"Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince\\\", Draco Malfoy uses a pair of enchanted coins to bypass the communication limits imposed on Hogwarts, thus managing to keep in contact with Madam Rosmerta, whom he had placed under the Imperius Curse. Draco reveals he got the idea from Hermione's DA coins, which were themselves inspired by Lord Voldemort's use of the Dark Mark to communicate with his Death\",\n \"title\": \"Magical objects in Harry Potter\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"15757916\",\n \"text\": \"to go back in time to Harry Potter's first year at Hogwarts to destroy him before he becomes a bigger threat than he already is. The musical was performed May 14-16, 2010, on the University of Michigan campus. It was produced by StarKid Productions and directed by Matt Lang. The musical starred Darren Criss as Harry Potter, Joey Richter as Ron Weasley, Bonnie Gruesen as Hermione Granger, Lauren Lopez as Draco Malfoy, and Joe Walker as Dolores Umbridge. The video version of the musical premiered in its entirety at Infinitus, a Harry Potter convention. The video premiered on YouTube July\",\n \"title\": \"A Very Potter Sequel\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"3381347\",\n \"text\": \"made use of it as a horcrux. Dumbledore says that he doubts Voldemort would have any interest in the Cloak or the Stone even if he did know about them. Harry eventually comes to possess all three Hallows – the cloak being inherited from his father James Potter, later understood to be a descendant of one of the Peverell brothers, the Resurrection Stone in the Golden Snitch bequeathed to him by Dumbledore, and the allegiance and mastery of the Elder Wand when he defeats and disarms its prior owner, Draco Malfoy, who unwittingly won it from Dumbledore at the time\",\n \"title\": \"Magical objects in Harry Potter\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"3160360\",\n \"text\": \"his friends' letters, and destroys a cake in order to prevent his return to school. The Dursleys lock Harry up, but Ron Weasley and his older twin brothers, Fred and George, rescue him in their father's flying car. While purchasing school supplies, Harry and the Weasley family encounter Rubeus Hagrid and Hermione Granger. They attend a book-signing by celebrity wizard Gilderoy Lockhart, who announces that he will be the new Defence Against the Dark Arts teacher. During a small confrontation with Draco Malfoy, Harry meets Malfoy's father, Lucius, who discreetly slips a book into Ginny Weasley's belongings, which only Harry\",\n \"title\": \"Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (film)\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"3381351\",\n \"text\": \"by killing Snape, who killed Dumbledore, while Harry realizes in fact he had defeated the wand's true owner, Draco Malfoy, who had disarmed Dumbledore before Snape killed him. This left Harry and not Voldemort as the wand's true master in their final encounter, even though neither Draco nor Harry had physically possessed the Elder Wand at that point. According to wizard folklore, the Elder Wand used by its true master cannot be defeated in a duel; this is incorrect, for Dumbledore was able to defeat the legendary dark wizard Gellert Grindelwald, who was the master of the Elder Wand at\",\n \"title\": \"Magical objects in Harry Potter\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"1413938\",\n \"text\": \"fitting locks to his bedroom door and bars to the windows. However, Ron Weasley arrives with his twin brothers Fred and George, in their father Arthur’s enchanted Ford Anglia. They rescue Harry, who stays at their family home, the Burrow, for the remainder of his holidays. Harry and the other Weasleys—mother Molly, third eldest son Percy, and daughter Ginny (who has a crush on Harry)—travel to Diagon Alley. They are then reunited with Hermione Granger and introduced to Lucius Malfoy, father of Harry’s school nemesis Draco, and Gilderoy Lockhart, a conceited autobiographer who has been appointed Defence Against the Dark\",\n \"title\": \"Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"5725195\",\n \"text\": \"and witches who were descended from Muggles. Harry also learns about the innate ability of his to speak the snake language Parseltongue is rare and often associated with the Dark Arts. When Hermione is attacked and petrified, Harry and Ron finally piece together the puzzles and unlock the Chamber of Secrets, with Harry destroying the diary for good and saving Ginny, and also destroying a part of Voldemort's soul. The end of the book reveals Lucius Malfoy, Draco's father and rival of Ron and Ginny's father, to be the culprit who slipped the book into Ginny's belongings and introduced the\",\n \"title\": \"Harry Potter\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"15757920\",\n \"text\": \"Snape, who instantly takes a disliking to Harry, but Lupin stands up for Harry and Snape flees. Lupin leaves Harry after mentioning that his parents spent the best years of their lives at Hogwarts, leading Harry to believe he has finally found a home (\\\"To Have a Home\\\"). After Harry, Ron, and Hermione are sorted by the Scarf of Sexual Preference (or \\\"Scarfy\\\") into \\\"Metrosexual\\\", \\\"Bi-curious\\\", and \\\"Waiting 'til marriage\\\", respectively, and by the Sorting Hat (or \\\"Sorty\\\") into Gryffindor house together, they meet Slytherin Draco Malfoy, who wants to be Harry's friend very badly and tells his associates Vincent\",\n \"title\": \"A Very Potter Sequel\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"3535460\",\n \"text\": \"the Malfoy family, and he first appears in \\\"Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets\\\" to discourage Harry from returning to Hogwarts. Dobby later tries to keep Harry away from Hogwarts by magically sealing off the hidden entrance to Platform 9¾, only to be foiled when the protagonists pilot Arthur's flying Ford Anglia to school. During a Quidditch match, Dobby enchants a Bludger to chase Harry, hoping to cause him enough injury to be sent home; but the Bludger only manages to break Harry's arm and the leg of Gryffindor Chaser, Dona Joseph. Dobby discloses that when an enslaved house-elf\",\n \"title\": \"Magical creatures in Harry Potter\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"547943\",\n \"text\": \"it is something he would say, I suggest changing it. They do listen to you and you do feel a part of it.\\\" Felton contributed to premieres, articles and interviews, and received the Disney Channel's Kids Awards for Best DVD \\\"Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets\\\" on 22 September 2003. He also won the MTV Movie Award for Best Villain for his portrayal as Malfoy in the 2010 MTV Movie Awards and the 2011 MTV Movie Awards. Malfoy grew into one of the series' most popular characters due to Felton's performances and Felton quickly became synonymous with the character\",\n \"title\": \"Draco Malfoy\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"1413963\",\n \"text\": \"few absolute moral rules in Harry Potter's world, for example Harry prefers to tell the truth, but lies whenever he considers it necessary – very like his enemy Draco Malfoy. At the end of \\\"Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets\\\", Dumbledore retracts his promise to punish Harry, Ron, and Hermione if they break any more school rules – after Professor McGonagall estimates they have broken over 100 – and lavishly rewards them for ending the threat from the Chamber of Secrets. Krause further states that authority figures and political institutions receive little respect from Rowling. William MacNeil of Griffith\",\n \"title\": \"Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"591539\",\n \"text\": \"like his whole family before him. As classes begin at Hogwarts, Harry discovers his innate talent for flying on broomsticks despite no prior experience, and is recruited into his House's Quidditch (a competitive wizards' sport played in the air) team as a Seeker. He also comes to dislike the school's Potions master, Severus Snape, who is also the Head of Slytherin House who acts with bias in favour of members of his House while perpetually looking for opportunities to fail Harry and his friends. Malfoy tricks Harry and Ron into a duel in the trophy room to get them out\",\n \"title\": \"Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"591550\",\n \"text\": \"gruff exterior\\\" is \\\"a bit of an old softy\\\", the friendly half-giant Rubeus Hagrid, who saved Harry from the Dursley family, and the sinister Severus Snape. Professor Quirrell is also featured in the novel. The main antagonists are Draco Malfoy, an elitist, bullying classmate and Lord Voldemort, the most powerful evil wizard who becomes disembodied when he tries to kill baby Harry. According to a 1999 interview with Rowling, the character of Voldemort was created as a literary foil for Harry, and his backstory was intentionally not fleshed-out at first: The book, which was Rowling's debut novel, was written between\",\n \"title\": \"Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"1371345\",\n \"text\": \"Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1\\\", Pettigrew is not strangled to death by his own silver hand in Malfoy Manor as in the book; he is instead struck by Dobby and collapses. It is unknown whether he was simply stunned or killed. He only appears in a flashback in \\\"Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2\\\". IGN's Joe Utichi also listed him as his 10th top \\\"Harry Potter\\\" character. Severus Snape is characterised as a person of considerable complexity, whose coldly sarcastic and controlled exterior conceals deep emotions and anguish. In the first novel of the\",\n \"title\": \"Death Eater\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"5545655\",\n \"text\": \"and the Order of the Phoenix\\\" when Arthur Weasley takes Harry to the Ministry of Magic, Mr. Weasley explains that these took the place of the owls to minimise the mess. They are pale violet with MINISTRY OF MAGIC stamped along the edges of the wings. A variation on this method of communication is shown in the movie version of \\\"Harry Potter and the Prizoner of Azkaban\\\", when Draco Malfoy sends Harry a note in class in the form of a flying paper crane. Wizards and witches often Apparate to their destinations, which is quite similar to teleportation. It is\",\n \"title\": \"Fictional universe of Harry Potter\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"547931\",\n \"text\": \"Harry's defence. Draco is drawn into Death-Eaters' activities more directly in \\\"Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince\\\". Because of Lucius' arrest and fall from Voldemort's favour, Narcissa Malfoy and Bellatrix Lestrange visit Snape at his home to discuss a dangerous task that Voldemort has assigned Draco. Narcissa, deeply worried that her son will be killed in his attempt to complete it, begs Snape to make an Unbreakable Vow to aid Draco with this task and protect him at all costs, and if Draco fails to complete the mission, he will complete it himself; he agrees. Under the Invisibility Cloak, Harry,\",\n \"title\": \"Draco Malfoy\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"3381498\",\n \"text\": \"commonly used because of their efficiency (due to the owner's bond with the wand itself). This can explain how some wizards are able to use spells without wands (for example, retrieving an item with \\\"Accio\\\"). Furthermore, wands are able to be won from a witch or wizard and can therefore change their allegiance. This is the case when Harry takes Draco's wand at Malfoy Manor, and consequently the wand's allegiance swaps to Harry, as explained by Ollivander; and, by extension, so does the allegiance of the Elder Wand, which itself has changed hands many times. Magical objects in Harry Potter\",\n \"title\": \"Magical objects in Harry Potter\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"15648855\",\n \"text\": \"insistence Harry speaks to Helena Ravenclaw's ghost, who reveals that Voldemort performed \\\"dark magic\\\" on her mother's diadem, located in the Room of Requirement. In the Chamber of Secrets, Hermione destroys the Horcrux cup with a Basilisk fang. In the Room of Requirement, Draco, Blaise Zabini and Gregory Goyle attack Harry, but Ron and Hermione intervene. Goyle casts a Fiendfyre curse; unable to control it, he is burned to death while Harry and his friends save Malfoy and Zabini. Harry stabs the diadem with the Basilisk fang and Ron kicks it into the Room of Requirement to be destroyed. As\",\n \"title\": \"Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"3501733\",\n \"text\": \"with mead that Slughorn had intended to gift to Dumbledore. The mead poisons Ron, and Harry is forced to save his life after Slughorn hesitates. Ron murmurs Hermione's name while recovering in the infirmary, causing Lavender to end their relationship. Harry confronts Draco about the mead and a cursed necklace, and the two duel. Harry uses a curse from the Half-Blood Prince's potion book to severely injure Malfoy, who is rescued and healed by Snape. Fearing the book may be filled with more Dark Magic, Ginny and Harry hide it in the Room of Requirement and share their first kiss.\",\n \"title\": \"Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (film)\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"547956\",\n \"text\": \"known as Mailboy (with his father Lucius being parodied as Mailman). In Neil Cicierega's \\\"Potter Puppet Pals\\\", Draco stars in the episode \\\"Draco Puppet\\\". He is different from all the other characters, simplistically made out of paper and is a smaller puppet, held and voiced by the Harry puppet. Harry created him in order to torture him, and after the puppet \\\"annoys\\\" Harry, he does a series of strange things to the paper Draco and eventually burns it on a stove. In \\\"A Very Potter Musical\\\" Draco is played by actress Lauren Lopez. He has a very obvious crush on\",\n \"title\": \"Draco Malfoy\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"2792324\",\n \"text\": \"between Laertes and Prince Hamlet to elaborate the differences between the two men. In Act V Scene 2, Prince Hamlet tells Laertes that he will fence with him and states, \\\"I'll be your foil, Laertes\\\" (5.2.272). This word play reveals the foil between Hamlet and Laertes, that was developed throughout the play. In the \\\"Harry Potter\\\" series, Draco Malfoy can be seen as a foil to the Harry Potter character; Professor Snape enables both characters \\\"to experience the essential adventures of self-determination\\\" but they make different choices; Harry chooses to oppose Lord Voldemort and the Death Eaters, whereas Draco eventually\",\n \"title\": \"Foil (literature)\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"4220823\",\n \"text\": \"portion of the audience that was so invested in the romance angle. The fact that those moments were few and far between should have given some indication that the series was not about Daria's love life.\\\" The \\\"Harry Potter\\\" series' most contentious ship debates came from supporters of the prospective relationship between Harry Potter and his close female friend Hermione Granger; supporters of Hermione having a romantic relationship with Draco Malfoy, a primary antagonist; and supporters of Hermione ending up instead with Ron Weasley, close friend of both Harry and Hermione. Author J.K. Rowling appeared to try to tamp down\",\n \"title\": \"Shipping (fandom)\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"15758023\",\n \"text\": \"pines for the companionship of Quirrell. Voldemort, Quirrell and Harry all lament those they have lost (\\\"Missing You\\\"). Afterwards, a Death Eater informs Voldemort that Hogwarts has fallen, and Voldemort prepares to depart to Hogwarts itself. Ginny finds Harry within Hogwarts and attempts to convince him that he has the power to save everyone; however, Harry is in denial and bemoans the unrealistic expectations and pressure placed on him as \\\"The Boy Who Lived\\\". Ginny, Ron, and Hermione reassure him that he is not alone in his fight against evil (\\\"Not Alone\\\"). With the help of Malfoy, who has changed\",\n \"title\": \"A Very Potter Musical\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"3535462\",\n \"text\": \"who will clean the Gryffindor common room, when Hermione leaves knitted clothing half-hidden around the room in an attempt to free the elves, which they find insulting. Dobby later appears in \\\"Order of the Phoenix\\\", showing Harry the hidden Room of Requirement, which Harry uses for the secret meetings of Dumbledore's Army. When Professor Umbridge finds the meetings later, Dobby enters to warn the group. In \\\"Half-Blood Prince\\\" Harry entrusts Dobby to watch his compatriot Kreacher when he orders him to work in the Hogwarts kitchens with the other house-elves; and later assigns both to follow Draco Malfoy. Dobby makes\",\n \"title\": \"Magical creatures in Harry Potter\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"15758029\",\n \"text\": \"the next musical), and second being threatened by Voldemort when he starts playing sad music to accompany Voldemort thinking about Quirrell. While reading \\\"Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire\\\", Nick Lang and a few others attending the University of Michigan discussed the possibility of Draco Malfoy having a crush on Hermione Granger because of him constantly bullying her, and created the concept of a song \\\"Granger Danger,\\\" which led to the idea of making a Harry Potter musical. When the script was being written, they asked Darren Criss if they could use his songs \\\"Sami,\\\" which was originally written\",\n \"title\": \"A Very Potter Musical\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"3160318\",\n \"text\": \"\\\"The Boy Who Lived\\\". Harry is then taken to King's Cross station to board a train to the school, where he meets three other students: Ron Weasley, whom he quickly befriends; Hermione Granger, an intelligent witch born to muggle parents; and Draco Malfoy, a child from a wealthy wizarding family whom he immediately clashes with. After arriving at school, the students assemble in the Great Hall, where Harry and all the other \\\"first-years\\\" are sorted by the Sorting Hat between four houses: Gryffindor, Hufflepuff, Ravenclaw, and Slytherin. Although the Sorting Hat considers placing Harry in Slytherin alongside Draco, he is\",\n \"title\": \"Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (film)\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"5725191\",\n \"text\": \"explore the magical world, the reader is introduced to many of the primary locations used throughout the series. Harry meets most of the main characters and gains his two closest friends: Ron Weasley, a fun-loving member of an ancient, large, happy, but poor wizarding family, and Hermione Granger, a gifted, bright, and hardworking witch of non-magical parentage. Harry also encounters the school's potions master, Severus Snape, who displays a conspicuously deep and abiding dislike for him, the rich brat Draco Malfoy whom he quickly makes enemies with, and the Defence Against the Dark Arts teacher, Quirinus Quirrell, who later turns\",\n \"title\": \"Harry Potter\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"3535463\",\n \"text\": \"his last appearance in \\\"Deathly Hallows\\\" when Aberforth Dumbledore sends him to rescue the protagonists from Malfoy Manor after Harry asks for Aberforth's help while viewing his eye in Sirius' mirror, but in the process Dobby is killed by Bellatrix Lestrange. He is buried at Shell Cottage, beneath a headstone bearing the epitaph \\\"Here Lies Dobby, A Free Elf\\\". Dobby's name is derived from a creature in English folklore. This creature performs household chores and is kind to children, as is the character in the series. Dobby was voiced by Toby Jones in the film adaptations of \\\"Harry Potter and\",\n \"title\": \"Magical creatures in Harry Potter\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"1961939\",\n \"text\": \"ages 11 to 18. Tom Felton Thomas Andrew Felton (born 22 September 1987) is an English actor and musician. Felton began appearing in commercials when he was eight years old for companies such as Commercial Union and Barclaycard. He made his screen debut in the role of Peagreen Clock in \\\"The Borrowers\\\" (1997) and he portrayed Louis T. Leonowens in \\\"Anna and the King\\\" (1999). He rose to prominence for his role as Draco Malfoy in the film adaptions of the best-selling \\\"Harry Potter\\\" fantasy novels by J.K. Rowling. His performances in \\\"Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince\\\" and \\\"Harry\",\n \"title\": \"Tom Felton\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"9821368\",\n \"text\": \"clip of Harry leaving the Burrow to find the Horcruxes, titled \\\"No One Else Is Going to Die for Me\\\". On 4 November, a new clip was released from the \\\"Harry Potter\\\" Facebook page, titled \\\"The Seven Potters\\\". Two more clips were released over the next two days, including a scene depicting a café attack and another taking place in Malfoy Manor. On 26 August 2010, director David Yates, producers David Heyman and David Barron, and with Warner Bros. president Alan F. Horn attended a test screening for \\\"Deathly Hallows – Part 1\\\" in Chicago. The unfinished film gained rave\",\n \"title\": \"Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"11870333\",\n \"text\": \"lent their voices (some for the first time) to their characters in game. Among these, Bonnie Wright played Ginny Weasley, Warwick Davis played Professor Flitwick, and Tom Felton played Draco Malfoy. In \\\"Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince\\\", Dumbledore prepares Harry for the final battle that he knows is fast approaching as Voldemort is tightening his grip on both the Muggle and wizarding worlds. Together they work to find the key to unlock Voldemort's defences, and to this end, Dumbledore recruits his old friend and colleague, the well-connected and unsuspecting bon vivant Professor Horace Slughorn, whom he believes holds crucial\",\n \"title\": \"Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (video game)\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"17046795\",\n \"text\": \"of \\\"A Very Potter Musical\\\". At the breakfast table, Ron is given the keys to the family car, and he flies Harry, Hermione, and Ginny to Hogwarts to start the school year (\\\"Senior Year\\\"). Ron crash lands into the Herbology greenhouse, destroying the crop of mandrakes and killing Professor Sprout. Professor McGonagall enters and threatens to expel the students, however Draco Malfoy provides an alibi and the four students escape punishment. Despite this, Harry refuses to acknowledge Draco's friendship. In the Great Hall, Harry and Draco are announced as the two candidates for the coming Head Boy election. Gilderoy Lockhart\",\n \"title\": \"A Very Potter Senior Year\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"558592\",\n \"text\": \"laid in a different chamber from all the others who died battling him. Rowling stated that after his death, Voldemort is forced to exist in the stunted infant-like form that Harry sees in the King's Cross-like Limbo after his confrontation with Voldemort in the Forbidden Forest. Rowling also mentioned that, despite his extreme fear of death, he cannot become a ghost. In \\\"Harry Potter and the Cursed Child\\\", it is revealed that Bellatrix gave birth to Voldemort's daughter Delphi in Malfoy Manor before the Battle of Hogwarts. Twenty-two years later, Delphi poses as Cedric's cousin and manipulates Harry and Ginny's\",\n \"title\": \"Lord Voldemort\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"3381441\",\n \"text\": \"magical mirror (which broke in the bottom of his trunk), a brilliant blue eye belonging to Aberforth (which Harry mistakes for Albus' eye), appears and he sends Dobby, who arrives to help Harry escape from Malfoy Manor to Shell Cottage. The photographs and portraits in the world of wizards are not stationary like in the Muggle world. They move around within the frame and from one portrait to another, and are also able to talk if they are developed in a certain potion. A portrait of the Fat Lady is used in Hogwarts to cover the door to the Gryffindor\",\n \"title\": \"Magical objects in Harry Potter\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"3160436\",\n \"text\": \"Weasley, Ludo Bagman, Winky, Narcissa Malfoy and Bertha Jorkins are absent, as well as Dobby, who was supposed to help Harry obtain Gillyweed for the second task. Instead, that scene was changed to involve Neville Longbottom. There is no train scene at the end where Rita Skeeter is revealed to be an illegal, unregistered animagus; Harry is never seen either receiving or giving away the 1,000 galleons in prize winnings. All of Sirius Black's lines are condensed into a single fireside conversation. The scene in which Crouch Jr. is taken back to Azkaban is different from the book, in which\",\n \"title\": \"Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (film)\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"1413949\",\n \"text\": \"and Ginny is restored. Harry, Ron, Ginny, and Lockhart (who had his own memory erased from the damaged wand) return to the main castle and reunite with McGonagall, Dumbledore, and Mr. and Mrs. Weasley. Ginny, whose possession by Voldemort caused all of the petrification and troubles over the course of the year, is given a reprieve by Dumbledore. He reasons that greater wizards have been duped by Voldemort before, and takes great interest in the qualities of the diary, which Harry gives to him. Lucius Malfoy bursts in after this meeting, demanding to know why and how Dumbledore has returned\",\n \"title\": \"Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"591538\",\n \"text\": \"an enemy of yet another first-year, Draco Malfoy, who shows prejudice against Ron for his family's financial difficulties. Arriving at Hogwarts, the first-years are assigned by the magical Sorting Hat to Houses that best suit their personalities, the four Houses being Gryffindor, Slytherin, Hufflepuff and Ravenclaw. Harry hears from Ron about Slytherin's dark reputation which is known to house potential dark witches and wizards, and thus objects to being sorted into Slytherin despite the Hat claiming that Harry has potential to develop under that House. He winds up in Gryffindor with Ron and Hermione, while Draco is sorted into Slytherin\",\n \"title\": \"Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"2475144\",\n \"text\": \"me. But I made my point. We'll see. Like everybody else, I'm holding my breath to July to see what's in there. I just want to bust out of prison, that's all. I don't want to stay in Azkaban most of my life.' \\\" Ultimately Isaacs did reprise the role of Malfoy as a cameo appearance in \\\"Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince\\\" (2009), where he is seen in a moving portrait. Afterwards, Isaacs reprised the role again in \\\"Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1\\\" (2010) and \\\"Part 2\\\" (2011). Isaacs appeared in \\\"Dragonheart\\\" (1996), \\\"Event Horizon\\\"\",\n \"title\": \"Jason Isaacs\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"19772886\",\n \"text\": \"Anthony Boyle Anthony Boyle (born 8 June 1994) is an Northern Irish actor best known for his role as Scorpius Malfoy in the English play \\\"Harry Potter and the Cursed Child\\\" (2016), for which he won the Olivier Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role. In spring of 2018, Boyle made his Broadway debut in the West End transfer of \\\"Harry Potter and the Cursed Child\\\" at the Lyric Theatre, New York City, and was nominated for Best Featured Actor in a Play at the 72nd Tony Awards. Anthony was born in West Belfast, and attended De La Salle\",\n \"title\": \"Anthony Boyle\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"12326377\",\n \"text\": \"a story released by Comic Relief in 2003, and he was played by Ronnie Corbett. In the \\\"Potter Puppet Pals\\\" parodies by Neil Cicierega, Hagrid appeared in the episode \\\"Ron's Disease\\\", in which Harry uses Hagrid’s strength to cure Ron from an illness, as well as to beat Hermione and Snape, and to discover Dumbledore’s identity as a \\\"gay android\\\". Hagrid also appears in the parody stage production \\\"Harry Potter and the Obnoxious Voice\\\", interacting with Draco Malfoy and a dementor. In one episode of the second series of \\\"Tracey Ullman's State of the Union\\\", Tracey Ullman parodies Rowling as\",\n \"title\": \"Rubeus Hagrid\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"2475141\",\n \"text\": \"beyond being typecast as an historical villain, Isaacs chose to play a drag queen in his next project, \\\"Sweet November\\\" (2001), a romantic comedy-drama. Isaacs has appeared in many other films, most notably as Lucius Malfoy in the \\\"Harry Potter\\\" series of films (2002–2011). Regarding the Harry Potter books by J. K. Rowling, Isaacs has said: \\\"I went off and read the books after the audition and I read the first four books in one sitting – you know – didn't wash, didn't eat, drove around with them on the steering wheel like a lunatic. I suddenly understood why my\",\n \"title\": \"Jason Isaacs\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"5621152\",\n \"text\": \"Josh Herdman Joshua Colin M. Herdman (born 26 March 1987) is an English actor and mixed martial artist, best known for playing Gregory Goyle in the \\\"Harry Potter\\\" film series. Herdman was born in Hampton, London. The son of actor and former professional rugby league footballer Martin Herdman and Jessica Herdman, the youngest of the four brothers. He was educated at Orleans Park School. Herdman started acting when he was about 7 years old; his father found him an agent. At age 13, he was cast as Gregory Goyle, a sidekick of villain Draco Malfoy, in \\\"Harry Potter and the\",\n \"title\": \"Josh Herdman\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"2475143\",\n \"text\": \"ask David (producer David Heyman). I can't bear the idea that somebody else would get to wear my Paris Hilton wig, but you never know.\\\" Isaacs also talked to J.K. Rowling on the inclusion of Lucius Malfoy in the then unpublished \\\"Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows\\\", so that he would have a part in the seventh and final film: \\\"The character does not appear in the sixth book, \\\"Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince\\\"; but ... [Isaacs joked], 'I fell to my knees and begged ... It didn't do any good. I'm sure she doesn't need plot ideas from\",\n \"title\": \"Jason Isaacs\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"16359278\",\n \"text\": \"Malfoy (Prasad for the second movie, with two other actors voicing Draco for the first film and the rest of the series respectively) Fred and George Weasley, Voldemort, Hagrid, Arthur Weasley (Dutt for all films starting with the second), Dumbledore (Dutt for the first 2 films and Chaturvedi from 5th to the final) and Severus Snape respectively, for the Hindi dubs of the film series. He was considered to be known as: \\\"The voice of Harry Potter\\\". But after the fifth film, another Hindi voice actor, Rajesh Kava, took over as the third and permanent voice for Harry Potter for\",\n \"title\": \"Karan Trivedi\"\n },\n {\n \"docid\": \"3381478\",\n \"text\": \"possible. 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202 | what star wars movie came out before the last jedi | [
"The Empire Strikes Back"
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"docid": "360353",
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"docid": "19826000",
"text": "Writing for \"[[Rolling Stone]]\", [[Peter Travers]] gave the film 2.5 stars out of 4, complimenting the cast but criticizing the lack of creativity, saying, \"somehow Han Solo—the roguish \"Star Wars\" hellion famous for breaking all the rules—finds himself in a feel-good mo... |
203 | who wrote the song drive by the cars | [
"Ric Ocasek"
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"docid": "6937957",
"text": "Drive (The Cars song) \"Drive\" is a 1984 song by The Cars, the third single from the band's \"Heartbeat City\" album released in March 1984 and their biggest international hit. Written by Ric Ocasek, the track was sung by bassist Benjamin Orr and produced by Robert John \"Mut... | [
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"docid": "10231416",
"text": "on August 27, 2007 in the UK. \"Shut Up and Drive\" is a new wave song that incorporates influences of the 1970s and 1980s musical styles. It samples New Order's 1983 single \"Blue Monday\". The song contains an upbeat opening sequence with a heavy guitar riff. Tom Breihan fr... |
204 | who is the killer in the book ordeal by innocence | [
"Kirsten Lindstrom"
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"docid": "5624364",
"text": "It is revealed that the murderer was indeed acting under the influence of Jacko Argyle. Jacko's carefully planned alibi failed when police could not find Calgary. The killer is revealed to be Kirsten Lindstrom, the Argyles' middle-aged housekeeper. Jacko had persuaded the plai... | [
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"text": "Ordeal by Innocence (film) Ordeal by Innocence is a 1985 mystery film directed by Desmond Davis. It stars Donald Sutherland, Faye Dunaway, Christopher Plummer and Sarah Miles. It is based on the Agatha Christie novel \"Ordeal by Innocence\". Paleontologist Dr. Arthur Calgary ... |
205 | what is the statue of liberty holding in her left arm | [
"tabula ansata"
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"docid": "388699",
"text": "carries a \"tabula ansata\" inscribed in Roman numerals with \"JULY IV MDCCLXXVI\" (July 4, 1776), the date of the U.S. Declaration of Independence. A broken chain lies at her feet as she walks forward. The statue became an icon of freedom and of the United States, a national p... | [
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"docid": "5022757",
"text": "during exposure to atmospheric elements. It is this patina that gives the statue her sea-green coloring, due to the oxidation of the copper. It also means that the statue's deterioration by seawater and winds is greatly slowed. The only thing that still poses a threat to the p... |
206 | who plays lilly on the young and the restless | [
"Christel Khalil"
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"docid": "5616600",
"text": "Christel Khalil Christel Adnana Mina Khalil (born November 30, 1987) is an American actress. Khalil was born in Los Angeles, California, to an African American, Native American and European American mother and a Pakistani father. Khalil has stated she identifies as mixed race.... | [
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"docid": "10380998",
"text": "\"The Young and the Restless\" and \"The Bold and the Beautiful\", the character was later handed over to Michelle Stafford, who also plays Phyllis. Although this recast was mainly storyline-directed, since Sheila had plastic surgery to look like Phyllis, fans of Sheila have ... |
207 | where is the electron transport chain of photosynthesis located | [
"sunlight"
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"docid": "918760",
"text": "aerobic respiration is molecular oxygen although a variety of acceptors other than oxygen such as sulfate exist in anaerobic respiration. Electron transport chains are used for extracting energy via redox reactions from sunlight in photosynthesis or, such as in the case of the ... | [
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"docid": "4011839",
"text": "electron transport chain. These two systems are different in their redox potentials for one-electron oxidation. The E for P700 is approximately 500mV, while the E for P680 is approximately 1,100-1,200 mV. Chlorophyll \"a\" is very important in the energy phase of photosynthesi... |
208 | who is the actor that plays lucius malfoy | [
"Jason Isaacs"
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"docid": "2475132",
"text": "Jason Isaacs Jason Isaacs (born 6 June 1963) is an English actor and producer, best known for playing Lucius Malfoy in the Harry Potter film series, Colonel William Tavington in \"The Patriot\", criminal Michael Caffee in the Showtime series \"Brotherhood\" and Marshal Georgy ... | [
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"docid": "3161083",
"text": "the home of the aristocratic Malfoy family: Lucius, Narcissa, their son Draco Malfoy and later Bellatrix Lestrange (sister of Narcissa). It is mentioned in the fifth book that the manor is located somewhere in Wiltshire, England. The Malfoys were previously served by Dobby the... |
209 | where is the house in the movie belly | [
"Jamaica Estates"
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"docid": "5305157",
"text": "rest retreat to Tommy's Jamaica Estates house, where they celebrate and joke around (The movie \"Gummo\" is playing on the TV), waking Tommy's girlfriend Keisha (Taral Hicks). Sincere soon leaves and is followed in gesture by the others. He returns to his St. Albans home to hi... | [
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"docid": "18750575",
"text": "Gary Louris except where noted Live at The Belly Up Live at the Belly Up is a digital-only live album recorded in January 2015 by The Jayhawks, released on February 10, 2015 as an exclusive download from the Belly Up Live website. The album went into wider digital release in ... |
210 | where is the telephone area code 585 located | [
"Rochester"
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"docid": "4081415",
"text": "Area code 585 Area code 585 is the area code for Rochester and eight surrounding counties in western New York. It was created on November 15, 2001 in a split from area code 716. Previously, Rochester had shared 716 with Buffalo. Aside from new area codes created in the New Yor... | [
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"docid": "3185991",
"text": "Ontario. The Buffalo 716ers basketball team are named for the telephone area code. Calls to God may be placed to 776-2323, according to the cinema release of \"Bruce Almighty\"; that number was removed from the video release & TV versions as, while it was (and remains) unassig... |
211 | when did the movie dirty dancing come out | [
"August 21 , 1987"
] | [
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"docid": "3186432",
"text": "hell. The production company was changed to Vestron Pictures with Emile Ardolino as director and Linda Gottlieb as producer. Filming took place in Lake Lure, North Carolina and Mountain Lake, Virginia, with the the film's score composed by John Morris and dance choreography by... | [
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"docid": "3186471",
"text": "and it now offers \"Dirty Dancing Weekends\". Various images and lines from the film have worked their way into popular culture. Johnny Castle's line, \"Nobody puts Baby in a corner\", has been used in song lyrics, as the title of the \"Nobody Puts Baby in a Corner\" episode o... |
212 | who is the first lady of the usa | [
"Melania Trump"
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"docid": "135467",
"text": "Bird Johnson pioneered environmental protection and beautification. Pat Nixon encouraged volunteerism and traveled extensively abroad; Betty Ford supported women's rights; Rosalynn Carter aided those with mental disabilities; Nancy Reagan founded the Just Say No drug awareness ... | [
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"docid": "20259200",
"text": "2017–18 Old Dominion Lady Monarchs basketball team The 2017–18 Old Dominion Lady Monarchs basketball team will represent Old Dominion University during the 2017–18 NCAA Division I women's basketball season. The Lady Monarchs, led by first-year head coach Nikki McCray-Penson, ... |
213 | who sang come and get your love now | [
"Redbone"
] | [
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"docid": "10681808",
"text": "'Another Night' and 'Runaway.' Polishing it up '90s- style gives the group a clear shot at plenty of radio and club play for the summer ahead.\" Come and Get Your Love \"Come and Get Your Love\" is a 1974 hit single by the Native American rock band Redbone. The song was writt... | [
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"docid": "11904221",
"text": "2008. Albums: 45 rpm records: \"How Come\" / \"Tremblin'\" (End 1117) \"Tremblin'\"/ \"Memories Are Made of This\" (End 1122) \"Don't Make it Hurt\" / \"Magic of Your Love\" (Hallmark 334) \"Get a Hold of Yourself\" / \"Don't Take Your Love from Me\" (20th Fox 422) \"I Found ... |
214 | when was the king james bible translated to english | [
"1611"
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"docid": "228959",
"text": "King James Version The King James Version (KJV), also known as the King James Bible (KJB) or simply the Version (AV), is an English translation of the Christian Bible for the Church of England, begun in 1604 and completed/published in 1611 under the sponsorship of King James I.... | [
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"docid": "6518996",
"text": "that this was not a standard metaphor for the soul in Jewish literature of the period. Matthew 6:22 Matthew 6:22 is the twenty-second verse of the sixth chapter of the Gospel of Matthew in the New Testament, and is part of the Sermon on the Mount. In the King James Version of ... |
215 | where did the last name dominguez come from | [
"a name of Spanish origin"
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"docid": "8337500",
"text": "Domínguez Domínguez is a name of Spanish origin. It used to mean \"son of Domingo\" (i.e., son of Dominic). The surname is usually written Dominguez in the Philippines and United States. Written as Domínguez in Spanish speaking countries like Spain, Mexico, Argentina, etc... A... | [
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"docid": "18247641",
"text": "Chris Dominguez Christopher Omar Dominguez (born November 22, 1986) is an American professional baseball third baseman who is currently a free agent. He has played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the San Francisco Giants and Cincinnati Reds. Dominguez attended Gulliver Pre... |
216 | how many super bowl wins does elway have | [
"three"
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"docid": "2071592",
"text": "American Bowl game in Mexico City, Elway ruptured his right (throwing arm) biceps tendon. It was treated non-surgically, and he returned to play 19 days later, and the team advanced to Super Bowl XXXII, Elway's fourth, where they faced the Green Bay Packers, the defending cham... | [
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"docid": "2071597",
"text": "Brady for most wins by a starting quarterback. He finished his career with 774 rushing attempts, currently third in league history behind Randall Cunningham (775) and Michael Vick (873). Elway's 3,407 rushing yards ranks sixth all-time among NFL QB's behind Cunningham, Vick, S... |
217 | where is leprosy most commonly found in the world | [
"India"
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"docid": "552468",
"text": "of 1898 which institutionalized those affected and segregated them by sex to prevent reproduction. The Act was difficult to enforce but was repealed in 1983 only after MDT therapy had become widely available. In 1983, the National Leprosy Elimination Programme, previously the N... | [
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"docid": "13329157",
"text": "well demarcated, usually pale, skin lesion which has lost its hair, and there may be many of these lesions if the infection is more severe (most commonly found on the cooler parts of the body such as the elbows, knees, fingers, or scrotum, as the bacteria thrive in cooler env... |
218 | who wrote the song the ballad of lucy jordan | [
"Shel Silverstein"
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"docid": "9502827",
"text": "The Ballad of Lucy Jordan \"The Ballad of Lucy Jordan\" is a song by American poet and songwriter Shel Silverstein. It was originally recorded by Dr. Hook & the Medicine Show, with the name spelled \"Jordon\". The song describes the disillusionment and mental deterioration of ... | [
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"docid": "7385333",
"text": "\"The Ballad of Lucy Jordan\" was released as a single simultaneously with the LP in October 1979. The title track was issued as a single in January 1980. Faithfull included five tracks from the album on her 1990 live recording \"Blazing Away\": \"Broken English\", \"Guilt\", ... |
219 | who is the original singer of one day | [
"Matisyahu"
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"docid": "14112409",
"text": "One Day (Matisyahu song) \"One Day\" is a song sung by American reggae singer Matisyahu and written by him and The Smeezingtons, first released in 2008, his first single since Jerusalem (Out of the Darkness Comes Light). The song was also included as a last-minute addition to... | [
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"docid": "16785116",
"text": "a version of the track inspired by the Wankelmut remix was sung by young Italian singer Violetta Zironi during season 7 of the Italian version of \"The X Factor\". The track was also recorded and included in her debut EP \"Dimmi che non passa\" released in December 2013. One ... |
220 | when did jason put on the hockey mask | [
"1980"
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"docid": "2158004",
"text": "Jason Voorhees Jason Voorhees () is the main character from the \"Friday the 13th\" series. He first appeared in \"Friday the 13th\" (1980) as the young son of camp cook-turned-killer Mrs. Voorhees, in which he was portrayed by Ari Lehman. Created by Victor Miller, with contri... | [
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"docid": "2158023",
"text": "13th\". They did not feature Jason explicitly, but revolve around people becoming possessed by Jason when they put on his mask. In 2003 and 2005, Black Flame published novelizations of \"Freddy vs. Jason\" and \"Jason X\" respectively. In 2005 they began publishing a new serie... |
221 | when did gone with the wind won 10 academy awards | [
"At the 12th Academy Awards"
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"docid": "6131698",
"text": "Fleming, who in turn was briefly replaced by Sam Wood while Fleming took some time off due to exhaustion. The film received positive reviews upon its release in December 1939, although some reviewers found it overlong. The casting was widely praised, and many reviewers found L... | [
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"docid": "721749",
"text": "Vivien Leigh in \"Gone with the Wind\". Max Steiner, who was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Score for both this and \"Gone with the Wind\", lost to Herbert Stothart for \"The Wizard of Oz\". The film itself lost the Academy Award for Best Picture to \"Gone wi... |
222 | who does carol end up with on er | [
"Doug"
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"text": "are now married and practice at the University of Washington Medical Center, where Carol is a transplant coordinator. During the episode, Carol and Doug help a grieving grandmother (Susan Sarandon) donate her grandson's organs. One of the organs, a kidney, is given to \"some d... | [
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"docid": "3713163",
"text": "a young artist who is using cocaine or by urging Dr. Dave Malucci to come forward and admit his possible mistake when using a Bunsen Burner that was thought to have caused an explosion in the ER. Lucy clashed with nurse Carol Hathaway when they both make a plea for the last be... |
223 | who is the current inspector general of police of uganda | [
"Martin Okoth Ochola"
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"docid": "14204850",
"text": "District, on which he owns about 500 goats. Kale Kayihura General Edward Kalekezi Kayihura Muhwezi, commonly known as Kale Kayihura, is a Ugandan lawyer, military officer, farmer and former policeman. He was the Inspector General of Police (IGP) of the Uganda Police Force, th... | [
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"docid": "15344915",
"text": "Force. In Sierra Leone the Inspector General of Police is the head of the Sierra Leone Police force. He heads the force (nationally), which is one of the oldest continuously operational police services in Africa. He is assisted by a Deputy Inspector General, and several Assis... |
224 | when was the last time vikings made the playoffs | [
"2017"
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"docid": "271620",
"text": "December 29, 2013, defeating the Detroit Lions 14–13 to end the season. Since the team's first season in 1961, the Vikings have had one of the highest winning percentages in the NFL. As of 2017, they have won at least three games in every season except in 1962, and are one of o... | [
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"docid": "17736574",
"text": "history. The Bears entered the bye week with a 3–5 record, tied with the Vikings for last in the NFC North, two games behind the Packers, and four behind the Detroit Lions. The last time the Bears had been 3–5, yet made the playoffs was in 1979, and had also performed the fea... |
225 | when did the song body like a backroad come out | [
"February 1 , 2017"
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"docid": "17808995",
"text": "artist to land four number ones on the Country Airplay chart from a debut studio album. On February 1, 2017, Hunt released \"Body Like a Back Road\", the lead single from his upcoming second studio album. In May 2018, Hunt released the single \"Downtown's Dead\", and announce... | [
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"docid": "18694002",
"text": "Backroad Song \"Backroad Song\" is a song recorded by American country music artist Granger Smith. It was initially released to radio independently on March 24, 2015, but was officially re-released to radio on October 5, 2015 via Wheelhouse Records. It is included on his majo... |
226 | when was the american society of anesthesiologists founded | [
"1936"
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"docid": "7113956",
"text": "aware the surgery was over until he awoke. This was the start of a specialty critical to modern medicine, anesthesiology. In 1905, nine physicians (from Long Island, N.Y.) organized the first professional anesthesia society. In 1911, the Society expanded to 23 members and beca... | [
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"docid": "9532283",
"text": "California Society of Anesthesiologists The California Society of Anesthesiologists (CSA), Inc., is a component society of the American Society of Anesthesiologists, Inc., in the state of California. CSA was founded in 1948 and incorporated in 1953 as a voluntary, non-profit a... |
227 | where are the two major regions where dense water masses are created | [
"Southern Ocean",
"North Atlantic"
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"docid": "2364900",
"text": "temperatures. Wind moving over the water also produces a great deal of evaporation, leading to a decrease in temperature, called evaporative cooling related to latent heat. Evaporation removes only water molecules, resulting in an increase in the salinity of the seawater left ... | [
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"docid": "12383548",
"text": "way towards the core, where it reaches pressures of about 10 GPa, or about 100,000 times that of Earth's atmosphere. Increasing concentrations of methane, ammonia and water are found in the lower regions of the atmosphere. The mantle is equivalent to 10 to 15 Earth masses and... |
228 | what team does steph curry brother play for | [
"Dallas Mavericks"
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"docid": "13080222",
"text": "restricted free agent. On June 27, 2016, the Kings tendered a qualifying offer to Curry, but on July 3, the team rescinded their qualifying offer, making Curry an unrestricted free agent. On July 15, 2016, Curry signed with the Dallas Mavericks. He made his debut for the Mave... | [
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"docid": "8064532",
"text": "his father's storied career at Virginia Tech, Curry wanted to play college basketball for the Hokies, but was only offered a walk-on spot due in part to his slender 160-pound frame. He ultimately chose to attend Davidson College, who had aggressively recruited him from the ten... |
229 | what is the closest airport to white sulphur springs west virginia | [
"Greenbrier Valley Airport"
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"docid": "5794594",
"text": "Greenbrier Valley Airport Greenbrier Valley Airport is a public airport three miles (5 km) north of Lewisburg in Greenbrier County, West Virginia, United States. It has one runway and is owned by the Greenbrier County Airport Authority. SkyWest Airlines (\"United Express\") ha... | [
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"docid": "1263356",
"text": "Sulphur Springs Library was rebuilt from the old community house. The Library is being redeveloped as an educational resource and one of the hearts of the town. The building that the library lives in was renamed Katherine Coleman Johnson Building in 2017, after White Sulphur S... |
230 | where is saba university school of medicine located | [
"Saba",
"the Caribbean"
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"docid": "9700810",
"text": "Saba University School of Medicine Saba University School of Medicine is a medical school located on Saba, a special municipality of the Netherlands in the Caribbean. Saba University confers upon its graduates the Doctor of Medicine (MD) degree. Saba University School of Medic... | [
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"docid": "9944455",
"text": "campus. At that time the University of Oregon's school was located in northwest Portland, Oregon on the campus of Good Samaritan Hospital. In 1919 the school would re-locate to Marquam Hill in southwest Portland where the school still stands as OHSU. Willamette University Coll... |
231 | who 's leading in the world series 2017 | [
"Houston Astros"
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"text": "2017 World Series The 2017 World Series was the championship series of Major League Baseball's (MLB) 2017 season. The 113th edition of the World Series, it was played between October 24 and November 1. The series was a best-of-seven playoff between the National League (NL) ch... | [
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"docid": "8326188",
"text": "the National League in winning percentage (.543), but never won a World Series. The Astros, originally the Colt 45's, were founded in 1962. They won their first World Series in 2017 (2017 World Series). Up until 2017, the Astros 2005 season was the most successful season on th... |
232 | what did tony say to ziva in hebrew in nine lives | [
"have a good trip"
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"text": "\"Nine Lives\", after she plans a visit to Israel, Tony looks through her desk and finds a picture of an unidentified man (Merik Tadros). Before she leaves, he tells her to have a good trip (\"Nisiya Tova\") in Hebrew, demonstrating that he had at least made some effort to le... | [
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"docid": "17372338",
"text": "Tony shared a hotel room, and that she took the couch so she wouldn't have to hear Tony whine about his back. Tony in turn tells McGee that he took the couch. Ziva asks him why he lied and he returns the question. There was much speculation on the part of fans about whether t... |
233 | where did the great western cattle trail begin and end | [
"Deadwood , South Dakota",
"Southern Texas"
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"docid": "8609363",
"text": "most traveled and famous Cattle Trails in U.S. history. Despite its popularity, traffic along the trail began to decline in 1885 due to the spreading use of barbed wire fences and the legislation calling for a quarantine of Texas cattle due to the \"Texas Fever\" - a disease s... | [
{
"docid": "8609374",
"text": "stormy. But it wasn't only natural noises that could cause a herd to stampede. During the time of the Great Western Cattle Trail there was also the forced relocation of Native Americans to the Cheyenne-Arapaho Reservation, effectively destroying native way of life. There are n... |
234 | who sang ol man river in showboat 1951 | [
"Warfield"
] | [
{
"docid": "3588469",
"text": "accomplished in acting and poetry recitation. He played the character De Lawd in a celebrated Hallmark Hall of Fame television production of The Green Pastures, a role he played twice on live TV (both versions survive as kinescopes). He appeared in two Hollywood films, includi... | [
{
"docid": "3789620",
"text": "Ol' Man River \"Ol' Man River\" (music by Jerome Kern, lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II) is a show tune from the 1927 musical \"Show Boat\" that contrasts the struggles and hardships of African Americans with the endless, uncaring flow of the Mississippi River. It is sung from t... |
235 | when did the rule of east india company end in the subcontinent | [
"1858"
] | [
{
"docid": "2017335",
"text": "the corruption and irresponsibility of Company officials or \"nabobs\" who made vast fortunes in a few years. Pitt's India Act of 1784 gave the British government effective control of the private company for the first time. The new policies were designed for an elite civil ser... | [
{
"docid": "2017333",
"text": "Company rule in India Company rule in India (sometimes, Company \"Raj\", \"\"raj\", lit. \"rule\" in Hindi) refers to the rule or dominion of the British East India Company over parts of the Indian subcontinent. This is variously taken to have commenced in 1757, after the Batt... |
236 | who did otto go with to north korea | [
"Young Pioneer Tours"
] | [
{
"docid": "19288052",
"text": "he was studying for a double major degree in commerce and economics and did a foreign exchange at the London School of Economics. His minor was in global sustainability. Warmbier's father stated that his son, en route to Hong Kong to complete a study abroad program, was trave... | [
{
"docid": "17255717",
"text": "President Barack Obama, saying, \"We got a black president [who] can't even go talk to [Jong-un] ... Obama can't do anything, I don't know why he won't go talk to him.\" Rodman did not go to North Korea in August, but did go in September 2013. While in Beijing, Rodman said he... |
237 | who developed the analytical engine which had features of present day computers | [
"Charles Babbage"
] | [
{
"docid": "5292",
"text": "Analytical Engine The Analytical Engine was a proposed mechanical general-purpose computer designed by English mathematician and computer pioneer Charles Babbage. It was first described in 1837 as the successor to Babbage's difference engine, a design for a mechanical computer. T... | [
{
"docid": "875814",
"text": "Information Age was enabled by technology developed in the Digital Revolution, which was itself enabled by building on the developments in the Technological Revolution. Before the advent of electronics, mechanical computers, like the Analytical Engine in 1837, were designed to ... |
238 | who sang ca n 't get enough of your love baby | [
"Barry White"
] | [
{
"docid": "10063991",
"text": "it was the 67th best-selling single of the year. Elsewhere, the song reached the top 20 in Belgium, Ireland, the Netherlands, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom. Can't Get Enough of Your Love, Babe \"Can't Get Enough of Your Love, Babe\" is a song written, recorded, and prod... | [
{
"docid": "7180248",
"text": "also added the B-sides \"I Can't Get Enough of You Baby\", \"Pushing Up the Daisies\" and \"Your Love Was Smashing\". \"Armchair Theatre\" and \"Yours Sincerely\" were not included, but were later released in the US on the EP; \"The Colour Field\". The album was released in Ca... |
239 | who plays baelfire in once upon a time | [
"Michael Raymond - James"
] | [
{
"docid": "12736368",
"text": "Michael Raymond-James Michael Raymond-James (born Michael Weverstad; December 24, 1977) is an American actor. He is best known for playing René Lenier in the first season of the HBO series \"True Blood\", Britt Pollack on the FX series \"Terriers\", Neal Cassidy/Baelfire on t... | [
{
"docid": "16319738",
"text": "involvement in Kathryn Nolan's disappearance and David attempts to reconcile with Mary Margaret. Meanwhile, Rumpelstiltskin's backstory continues to be revealed along with his attempt to transform back into a human and resume living a normal life with his son. August Booth ri... |
240 | what is jason 's last name in the lost hero | [
"Grace"
] | [
{
"docid": "208532",
"text": "there was a reference to the mythical Jason when Jason Grace and his friends encounter Medea. Jason Jason (; Ancient Greek: Ἰάσων \"Iásōn\" ) was an ancient Greek mythological hero who was the leader of the Argonauts whose quest for the Golden Fleece featured in Greek literatur... | [
{
"docid": "3715689",
"text": "was lost; multiple attempts to re-establish communication failed. It was determined that the last remaining transmitter on board the spacecraft had failed. Operators sent commands to the satellite to turn off remaining functioning components on 1 July 2013, rendering it decomm... |
241 | what state is a christmas story based in | [
"Indiana"
] | [
{
"docid": "3654551",
"text": "film, according to Clark, came from unpublished anecdotes that Shepherd told live audiences \"on the college circuit.\" The film is set in Hohman, Indiana, a fictionalized version of Shepherd's hometown of Hammond, named for Hohman Avenue, which runs through downtown Hammond. ... | [
{
"docid": "1590108",
"text": "to Queen Victoria. The comic book \"Les dossiers du Professeur Bell\" by Joann Sfar is about the (fictional) supernatural adventures of Dr. Bell. In episode 11, Season 5, of the Fox TV show \"House M.D.\", Wilson presents House with Joseph Bell's \"Manual Of the Operations of ... |
242 | when was the title prince of wales created | [
"around 1244"
] | [
{
"docid": "566859",
"text": "Great is not known to have used the title \"Prince of Wales\" as such, although his use, from around 1230, of the style \"Prince of Aberffraw, Lord of Snowdon\" was tantamount to a proclamation of authority over most of Wales, and he did use the title \"Prince of North Wales\" ... | [
{
"docid": "12409605",
"text": "The tradition of investing the heir apparent of the English, and subsequently the British, monarch with the title of \"Prince of Wales\" began in 1301, when King Edward I of England, having completed the conquest of Wales, gave the title to his heir apparent, Prince Edward (l... |
243 | when does ally appear in pretty little liars | [
"the pilot episode"
] | [
{
"docid": "14831320",
"text": "Pennsylvania, and the leader of a clique composed by her, Spencer Hastings, Aria Montgomery, Emily Fields and Hanna Marin. The first minutes of the pilot episode show the five friends reunited in the barn-turned-loft of the Hastings family during a night of summer vacation. I... | [
{
"docid": "18993573",
"text": "Sara Harvey (Pretty Little Liars) Sara Harvey is a fictional character in the Freeform television series adaption of the \"Pretty Little Liars\" book series. She is portrayed by model Dre Davis. Sara is introduced as a false protagonist, only to be exposed as \"Big A's\" ally... |
244 | when did shania twain released come on over | [
"November 4 , 1997"
] | [
{
"docid": "2657191",
"text": "(1998), which was released exclusively to the United Kingdom, and \"Rock This Country!\", which at the time had not been filmed, the collection included all of Twain's music videos released in promotion for the album. Come On Over Come On Over is the third studio album recorde... | [
{
"docid": "7067932",
"text": "When (Shania Twain song) \"When\" is a song by Canadian singer Shania Twain. It is the second UK release from her 1997 album \"Come on Over\". The song was written by Mutt Lange and Shania Twain. The song was originally released in the summer of 1998. It was the only one of th... |
245 | who proved that genes are located on chromosomes | [
"Thomas Hunt Morgan 's"
] | [
{
"docid": "11315708",
"text": "gained strong support when Eleanor Carothers documented definitive evidence of independent assortment of chromosomes in a species of grasshopper. Debate continued, however, until 1915 when Thomas Hunt Morgan's work on inheritance and genetic linkage in the fruit fly \"Drosoph... | [
{
"docid": "2088514",
"text": "a single parent, the alleles of genes near to one another along the length of the chromosome move together. Using this logic he concluded that the two genes he was studying were located on homologous chromosomes. Later on during the 1930s Harriet Creighton and Barbara McClinto... |
246 | where is the most distortion found on robinson | [
"near the poles"
] | [
{
"docid": "2279250",
"text": "purpose world maps in 1988, replacing the Van der Grinten projection. In 1998 NGS abandoned the Robinson projection for that use in favor of the Winkel tripel projection, as the latter \"reduces the distortion of land masses as they near the poles\". The Robinson projection is... | [
{
"docid": "4089781",
"text": "R. Coffin and Bessie Morris Coffin, on December 23, 1938, in Franklin County, Ohio. They had two children, a son and a daughter. After the death of his first wife, Robinson remarried in 1993. His second wife was Martha Elizabeth Rodabaugh Phillips (1914–2010), a widow, with wh... |
247 | who created a settlement house with the help of other social reformers | [
"Ellen Gates Starr",
"Jane Addams"
] | [
{
"docid": "1398907",
"text": "agency), however, remains open. Hull House Hull House was a settlement house in the United States that was co-founded in 1889 by Jane Addams and Ellen Gates Starr. Located on the Near West Side of Chicago, Illinois, Hull House (named after the original house's first owner Char... | [
{
"docid": "11715851",
"text": "Central Neighbourhood House Central Neighbourhood House (CNH) is a settlement house in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Founded in 1911 by social reformers J.J. Kelso and Elizabeth Neufeld, it is Toronto's second oldest settlement house. It is currently located in the Regent Park ar... |
248 | who wrote the theme song to beverly hills cop | [
"Harold Faltermeyer"
] | [
{
"docid": "19001704",
"text": "Hills Cop II\" soundtrack, but La-La Land Records was contractually obligated to issue each album separately. Beverly Hills Cop (soundtrack) Beverly Hills Cop is the soundtrack to the 1984 action comedy film \"Beverly Hills Cop\". It was released on by MCA Records. The soundt... | [
{
"docid": "4036626",
"text": "on the real-life Kray brothers, who were captured in Detroit and transported to London by Jeffrey (Axel's friend from Beverly Hills Cop and Beverly Hills Cop II, played by Paul Reiser), and Axel would have gone overseas after the gangsters' henchmen broke them out of custody a... |
249 | who played dr loveless in wild wild west movie | [
"Michael Dunn"
] | [
{
"docid": "9460107",
"text": "an early tank he designed massacred the population of a freed slave colony, including West's parents (in the film, West, portrayed by Will Smith, is African-American). Dr. Loveless Dr. Miguelito Quixote Loveless is a fictional character, a supervillain who appeared in 10 episo... | [
{
"docid": "2303906",
"text": "of the Simian Terror\"), and Antoinette after her sixth. According to the TV movie \"The Wild Wild West Revisited\", Loveless eventually dies in 1880 from ulcers, brought on by the frustration of having his plans consistently foiled by West and Gordon. (His son, played by Paul... |
250 | when does series 2 of handmaid 's tale | [
"April 25 , 2018"
] | [
{
"docid": "19492139",
"text": "In May 2017, the series was renewed for a second season which premiered on April 25, 2018. \"The Handmaid's Tale\" has received widespread critical acclaim and its first season won eight Primetime Emmy Awards from thirteen nominations, including Outstanding Drama Series. It i... | [
{
"docid": "1424756",
"text": "religious fundamentalism in the pages of \"The Handmaid's Tale\" to a condemnation of their presence in current American society. Yet others have argued that \"The Handmaid's Tale\" critiques typical notions of feminism, as Atwood's novel appears to subvert the traditional \"w... |
251 | when was pot made illegal in the us | [
"1970"
] | [
{
"docid": "10210811",
"text": "any use (medical included) with the passage of the Controlled Substances Act (CSA) of 1970. Multiple efforts to reschedule cannabis under the CSA have failed, and the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled in \"United States v. Oakland Cannabis Buyers' Cooperative\" and \"Gonzales v. R... | [
{
"docid": "17137748",
"text": "sign from being restored, as it was considered a safety hazard and illegal advertising. However, after local protest, the coffee pot was restored on a post farther from the street. The pot was relocated in 1959 when then Interstate 40 (now US 421/Business 40) went through the... |
252 | who sings are you gon na kiss me or not | [
"Thompson Square"
] | [
{
"docid": "15111305",
"text": "Are You Gonna Kiss Me or Not \"Are You Gonna Kiss Me or Not\" is a song written by Jim Collins and David Lee Murphy, and recorded by American country music duo Thompson Square. It was released in July 2010 as the second single from their self-titled debut album, which was rel... | [
{
"docid": "14877834",
"text": "Comes\" is a soul song with elements of R&B; the instrumental consists of horns, including the trumpet performed by Rick Baptist and Greg Adams, and the trombone by Nick Lane. Other brass instruments include Dan Higgins on the sax and flute. Lyrically, the song is about \"giv... |
253 | how many claws does a hermann tortoise have | [
"five claws"
] | [
{
"docid": "3968126",
"text": "scales. The limbs generally have five claws, which are darkly colored at their base. The hind legs are noticeably thicker than the forelegs, almost plump. The particularly strong tail ends in a spike, which may be very large in older male specimens. Females have noticeably sma... | [
{
"docid": "5176445",
"text": "being accepted. DNA sequence analysis generally concurs, but not too robustly so. Some sources also list three separate subspecies of Russian tortoise, but they are not widely accepted by taxonomists: The Russian tortoise is a small tortoise species, with a size range of . Fem... |
254 | who came to the throne in the glorious revolution | [
"William",
"William III of England"
] | [
{
"docid": "158336",
"text": "Glorious Revolution The Glorious Revolution, also called the Revolution of 1688, was the overthrow of King James II of England (James VII of Scotland) by a union of English Parliamentarians with the Dutch stadtholder William III, Prince of Orange, who was James's nephew and son... | [
{
"docid": "16485972",
"text": "Anne Oglethorpe Anne Henrietta Oglethorpe (1683–1756), baptized An Harath, was a Jacobite agent who worked to restore James II to the throne after he was deposed by the Glorious Revolution. Following the death of James II in 1701, she continued her efforts on behalf of James ... |
255 | what year were the olimpic games in mexico | [
"1968"
] | [
{
"docid": "872690",
"text": "1968 Summer Olympics The 1968 Summer Olympics (Spanish: \"Juegos Olímpicos de Verano de 1968\"), officially known as the Games of the XIX Olympiad, was an international multi-sport event held in Mexico City, Mexico, from October 12 to 27, 1968. These were the first Olympic Game... | [
{
"docid": "11188802",
"text": "championship in 2000 before yet another financial crisis resulted in relegation once more. In the last 2010–11 Excellence season Rugby Roma Olimpic's head coaches were Danie de Villiers and Jaco Stoumann led the team to conquer the Excellence Trophy. In 2011 the club is disba... |
256 | where did the name house of tudor come from | [
"Tudur ap Goronwy"
] | [
{
"docid": "422312",
"text": "Catholic Mary I. On 1 November 1455, John Beaufort's granddaughter, Margaret Beaufort, Countess of Richmond and Derby, married Henry VI's maternal half-brother Edmund Tudor, 1st Earl of Richmond. It was his father, Owen Tudor (), who abandoned the Welsh patronymic naming practi... | [
{
"docid": "4152268",
"text": "Mr. Borgin in The Harry Potter film series. In interview with Phil Singleton, Tudor-Pole explained the history of his unusual name and said that it is \"a bit bogus really.\" His family's original name was Pole, going back to the Norman Conquest. When his great-grandfather did... |
257 | who is the founder of the wounded warrior project | [
"John Melia"
] | [
{
"docid": "12920193",
"text": "founded in 2003 in Roanoke, Virginia, by John Melia. Melia had been severely wounded in a helicopter crash while serving in Somalia in 1992. Melia assembled backpacks distributed to injured veterans at the former Bethesda Naval Hospital (Walter Reed National Military Medical ... | [
{
"docid": "12920192",
"text": "Wounded Warrior Project Wounded Warrior Project (WWP) is a charity and veterans service organization that offers a variety of programs, services and events for wounded veterans of the military actions following September 11, 2001. It operates as a nonprofit 501(c)(3) organiza... |
258 | who won the national college football championship 2018 | [
"Alabama Crimson Tide"
] | [
{
"docid": "19260228",
"text": "2018 College Football Playoff National Championship The 2018 College Football Playoff National Championship was a college football bowl game that determined a national champion in the NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision for the 2017 season. The Alabama Crimson Tide defe... | [
{
"docid": "19950264",
"text": "Clemson in a rubber match of the past two playoffs in the semi-final game played at the 2018 Sugar Bowl, which they won 24–6. Alabama was matched in the 2018 College Football Playoff National Championship game against number 3 and SEC champion and rival Georgia, who beat Okla... |
259 | maximum sentence for death by dangerous driving uk | [
"fourteen years"
] | [
{
"docid": "6647385",
"text": "is liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding fourteen years. Disqualification for a minimum of two years is obligatory on conviction. Endorsement is obligatory on conviction. The offence carries three to eleven penalty points (when the defendant is exceptionally not disq... | [
{
"docid": "12787404",
"text": "a Motor Vehicle Causing Death is subject to a maximum term of 14 years, but can be sentenced to up to life imprisonment if the related offence is a street racing one. A sentence of greater than 14 years, on the death-by-dangerous-driving charge, can only otherwise be imposed ... |
260 | when did the i-35 bridge collapse in minneapolis | [
"August 1 , 2007"
] | [
{
"docid": "7887109",
"text": "I-35W Mississippi River bridge The I-35W Mississippi River bridge (officially known as Bridge 9340) was an eight-lane, steel truss arch bridge that carried Interstate 35W across the Saint Anthony Falls of the Mississippi River in Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States. It had a... | [
{
"docid": "6653091",
"text": "pivot\", remarked: \"Now she talks as if she always opposed the funding.\" McCain also weighed in on the Gravina Island Bridge. In advertisements, McCain labeled the bridge as wasteful spending, and in an August 2007 town hall speech recorded on video and quoted again on April... |
261 | who was traded for kobe bryant in 1996 | [
"Vlade Divac"
] | [
{
"docid": "10984278",
"text": "that Bryant's workouts were some of the best he had seen. Immediately after the draft, Dave Cowens expressed that the Hornets had no use for him. Fifteen days later, West traded his starting center, Vlade Divac to the Hornets for the young Kobe Bryant. \"Note: Statistics are ... | [
{
"docid": "1833179",
"text": "May 27, 2007, ESPN reported that Bryant stated that he wanted to be traded if Jerry West did not return to the team with full authority. Bryant later confirmed his desire for West's return to the franchise but denied stating that he would want to be traded if that does not occ... |
262 | what is the name of the currency used in togo | [
"West African CFA franc"
] | [
{
"docid": "10265620",
"text": "Togolese franc The franc was the currency of Togo. Between 1924 and 1956, coins specifically for use in Togo were issued. Since 1945, Togo uses the West African CFA franc. Between 1884 and 1914, the German mark was the currency of Togo as Germany was the colonial power. In 19... | [
{
"docid": "10265621",
"text": "issued in the name of the Mandate Territory of Togo. These coins were issued intermittently until 1956 and circulated alongside the CFA franc from 1945. No circulating coins specific to Togo have been issued since 1956, although the 1957 coins of French West Africa also bore ... |
263 | who sang proud mary first tina turner or ccr | [
"Creedence Clearwater Revival"
] | [
{
"docid": "6529932",
"text": "(1972). Proud Mary \"Proud Mary\" is a rock n' roll song written by John Fogerty and first recorded by his band Creedence Clearwater Revival. The song was released by Fantasy Records as a single from the band's second studio album, \"Bayou Country\", which was released by the ... | [
{
"docid": "6529930",
"text": "now become a staple in all of Tina's live shows, including live duet versions with Beyoncé and Cher. 1993 US 7\" and cassette single 1993 US CD single Ike & Tina Turner version Tina Turner version Ike & Tina Turner version \"Proud Mary\" placed at #155 on \"Rolling Stone\"s 20... |
264 | who died at the gunfight at okay corral | [
"Billy Clanton",
"Tom and Frank McLaury"
] | [
{
"docid": "738838",
"text": "for much of the popular imagery associated with the Old West. Despite its name, the gunfight did not take place within or next to the O.K. Corral, which fronted Allen Street and had a rear entrance lined with horse stalls on Fremont Street. The shootout actually took place in a... | [
{
"docid": "4564068",
"text": "to Tombstone to face off against the Earps at the O.K. Corral. Holliday, who is sick from tuberculosis, joins them. Though Virgil and Morgan are wounded in the gunfight, all six in Clanton's gang are killed, including Billy, who is given a chance to surrender but refuses. Afte... |
265 | where does great wall of china start and end | [
"from Dandong in the east"
] | [
{
"docid": "7784927",
"text": "means of smoke or fire, and the fact that the path of the Great Wall also served as a transportation corridor. The frontier walls built by different dynasties have multiple courses. Collectively, they stretch from Dandong in the east to Lop Lake in the west, from present-day S... | [
{
"docid": "6637982",
"text": "end.” A copyright infringement case in Shijiazhuang, China, however, was rejected, with the court claiming that \"consumers would not be confused between the two\" as they are \"clearly different, particularly the front and rear parts of the vehicles\". Great Wall Motors Great... |
266 | who made the song young dumb & broke | [
"Khalid"
] | [
{
"docid": "20198800",
"text": "Young Dumb & Broke \"Young Dumb & Broke\" is a song by American singer Khalid. It was released as a single on February 2, 2017, by Right Hand Music Group and RCA Records as the second single from his debut studio album \"American Teen\". The song peaked at number one in the P... | [
{
"docid": "17558838",
"text": "California stuffed into a minivan with guitars and drums, ready to take on the world. Armed with nothing but a few songs and a wild hope, we were dumb enough to think that it could work. Maybe that's the only way that the world has ever changed, by people dumb enough to try. ... |
267 | what are the 3 peaks in yorkshire called | [
"Whernside",
"Pen - y - ghent",
"Ingleborough"
] | [
{
"docid": "2813526",
"text": "Yorkshire Three Peaks The hills of Whernside (), Ingleborough () and Pen-y-ghent () are collectively known as the Three Peaks. The peaks, which form part of the Pennine range, encircle the head of the valley of the River Ribble in the Yorkshire Dales National Park in the North... | [
{
"docid": "6789877",
"text": "The main operators serving the bus station are First South Yorkshire and Stagecoach Yorkshire, who between them operate cross-city route 120; and TM Travel, who operate the branded \"Sheffield's Line 30\" express route into the city centre. Additional services are provided by ... |
268 | who wrote the song when i was 17 | [
"Ervin Drake"
] | [
{
"docid": "5071003",
"text": "It Was a Very Good Year \"It Was a Very Good Year\" is a song Ervin Drake composed in 1961 for and originally recorded by Bob Shane with the Kingston Trio. It was subsequently made famous by Frank Sinatra's version in D minor, which won the Grammy Award for Best Vocal Performa... | [
{
"docid": "19100717",
"text": "Times song by song analysis, she added: \"At rehearsal, when I was singing 'When We Were Young,' I suddenly had a vision of my best friend putting makeup on me for the first time when I was 17. I had never had that vision when I wrote the song. Every time a new memory comes b... |
269 | how many songs are on vices and virtues | [
"10"
] | [
{
"docid": "15133129",
"text": "on an album now that, hopefully, takes the best parts from both of our records ... because we love them both and are really proud of them.\" While on the Blink-182 Reunion Tour, Smith showed Blink-182 singer/bassist Mark Hoppus several demos for the album, in hopes that he wo... | [
{
"docid": "9125808",
"text": "(c. 1310-1340). The nodes of the tree-diagrams are the Cardinal Virtues and the Cardinal Vices, respectively, each with a number of secondary virtues or secondary vices shown as leaves of the respective nodes. While on a tree of virtues, the leaves point upward toward heaven, ... |
270 | which attribute of god refers to his all-knowing nature | [
"omniscience"
] | [
{
"docid": "5681229",
"text": "are there; if I make my bed in the depths, you are there\" (, NIV). The omniscience of God refers to him being \"all knowing\". Berkhof regards the \"wisdom\" of God as a \"particular aspect of his knowledge.\" Romans 16:27 speaks about the \"only wise God\". The oneness, or \... | [
{
"docid": "5681232",
"text": "gospel the righteousness of God is revealed\" (NIV). Martin Luther grew up believing that this referred to an attribute of God - namely, his distributive justice. Luther's change of mind and subsequent interpretation of the phrase as referring to the righteousness which God im... |
271 | when was the guns and roses riot in st louis | [
"July 2 , 1991"
] | [
{
"docid": "11411578",
"text": "Riverport Riot The Riverport riot took place on July 2, 1991, at the Riverport Amphitheatre (now named Hollywood Casino Amphitheatre) in Maryland Heights, Missouri (near St. Louis) during a concert by American hard rock band Guns N' Roses. It is also known as the \"Rocket Que... | [
{
"docid": "6106606",
"text": "directly incite the riot. In his defense, Rose stated that the Guns N' Roses security team had made four separate requests to the venue's security staff to remove the camera, which were ignored, and that other members of the band had reported being hit by bottles launched from... |
272 | what languages are spoken in colombia besides spanish | [
"romani language",
"2 Creole languages",
"65 Amerindian languages",
"English"
] | [
{
"docid": "9570731",
"text": "80 languages of Colombia, grouped into 11 families are classified. Also appear isolated or unclassified languages. Extinct languages are indicated by the sign (†). Languages of Colombia More than 99.2% of Colombians speak the Spanish language; also 65 Amerindian languages, 2 C... | [
{
"docid": "9190651",
"text": "Languages of Argentina At least 40 spoken languages are spoken in Argentina. They include indigenous and immigrant languages, with Spanish being dominant. Some are endangered, spoken by elderly people whose descendants do not speak the languages. There is evidence of some now ... |
273 | where is the 2024 solar eclipse going to be | [
"North America"
] | [
{
"docid": "11609888",
"text": "Solar eclipse of April 8, 2024 A total solar eclipse will take place on Monday, April 8, 2024, visible across North America. A solar eclipse occurs when the Moon passes between Earth and the Sun, thereby totally or partly obscuring the image of the Sun for a viewer on Earth. ... | [
{
"docid": "14060918",
"text": "second annular eclipse visible from Albuquerque in 11 years, where it crosses the path of the May 2012 eclipse. The cities of San Antonio and Corpus Christi, Texas will also be in the direct path of this annular eclipse. Future total solar eclipses will cross the United State... |
274 | who was killed on the ides of march | [
"Julius Caesar"
] | [
{
"docid": "499379",
"text": "Ides of March The Ides of March (; , Late Latin: ) is a day on the Roman calendar that corresponds to 15 March. It was marked by several religious observances and was notable for the Romans as a deadline for settling debts. In 44 BC, it became notorious as the date of the assas... | [
{
"docid": "499386",
"text": "after achieving a victory at the siege of Perugia, Octavian executed 300 senators and knights who had fought against him under Lucius Antonius, the brother of Mark Antony. The executions were one of a series of actions taken by Octavian to avenge Caesar's death. Suetonius and t... |
275 | when did benjamin orr of the cars die | [
"October 3 , 2000"
] | [
{
"docid": "2966519",
"text": "Benjamin Orr Benjamin Orzechowski (September 8, 1947 – October 3, 2000), known professionally as Benjamin Orr, was an American musician best known as a singer, bassist and co-founder of the rock band the Cars. He sang lead vocals on several of their best known songs, including... | [
{
"docid": "14934191",
"text": "Stay the Night (Benjamin Orr song) \"Stay the Night\" is a song by The Cars vocalist and bassist Benjamin Orr. It was included on his 1986 solo debut album \"The Lace\", and released as a single in the end of 1986. \"Stay the Night\" reached #24 on the \"Billboard\" Hot 100 c... |
276 | who has won the popular vote but lost the election | [
"George W. Bush",
"Benjamin Harrison",
"John Quincy Adams",
"Rutherford B. Hayes",
"Donald Trump"
] | [
{
"docid": "18925813",
"text": "the swing states of New York and Indiana (Harrison's home state) by a margin of 1% or less to achieve a majority of the electoral vote. Unlike the election of 1884, the power of the Tammany Hall political machine in New York City helped deny Cleveland the electoral votes of h... | [
{
"docid": "19965652",
"text": "election night 2012, Trump expressed skepticism about Obama's victory, saying, among other things, \"This election is a total sham and a travesty. We are not a democracy!\" Additionally, when it seemed like Mitt Romney may have gained the popular vote but lost the electoral c... |
277 | when 's the last time toronto maple leafs were in the playoffs | [
"April 23 , 2017"
] | [
{
"docid": "785860",
"text": "During the following season, on February 9, 2016, the Leafs packaged Phaneuf in another multi-player deal, acquiring four players, as well as a 2017 2nd-round pick from the Ottawa Senators. The team finished last in the NHL for the first time since the 1984–85 season. They subs... | [
{
"docid": "13002700",
"text": "1969–70 Toronto Maple Leafs season The 1969–70 Toronto Maple Leafs season was the 53rd season of play of the NHL Toronto franchise and 43rd as the \"Maple Leafs\". After qualifying for the playoffs the previous season, the Leafs fell to last-place in the NHL East and did not ... |
278 | how many championships does kentucky men 's basketball have | [
"8"
] | [
{
"docid": "10877287",
"text": "2nd place all-time with UCLA), 12 NCAA Championship games, and has won 8 NCAA championships (second only to UCLA's 11). In addition to these titles, Kentucky won the National Invitation Tournament (NIT) in both 1946 and 1976, making it the only school to win multiple NCAA and... | [
{
"docid": "8115138",
"text": "the more intense because the two schools have consistently been among the nation's elite men's basketball teams for most of the last 50 years. Both schools are also two of the most victorious programs in NCAA men's basketball history; Kentucky is #1 on the list of all-time s i... |
279 | when was the last time monday night football was on abc | [
"2005"
] | [
{
"docid": "1602262",
"text": "programs scheduled for prime time on the East Coast were broadcast at various hours on the West Coast. Most affiliates pushed the network shows to immediately after the game; however, Los Angeles owned-and-operated station KABC-TV postponed them until 10:00 p.m. from at least ... | [
{
"docid": "13725060",
"text": "of ABC's prime time schedule and required any scripted series on Monday night to be a midseason replacement. ABC transferred its \"Monday Night Football\" rights to ESPN in 2006, clearing the Monday night time slot for regular scripted programming. (ABC now has a similar stra... |
280 | who has the power over the money in the us government | [
"Congress"
] | [
{
"docid": "3177923",
"text": "for England and maintain that broad proportionality in order to ensure the long term financial viability of such policies. In the federal government of the United States, the power of the purse is vested in the Congress as laid down in the Constitution of the United States, Ar... | [
{
"docid": "20681154",
"text": "electricity grid. In September 2017, \"The Nation (Malawi)\" reported that the government of Malawi would own 85 percent of the power station, while CGGC of China would own 15 percent of the power station. Vale Logistics of Brazil would provide the coal needed, over a 30-year... |
281 | when did the canon rebel xti come out | [
"24 August 2006"
] | [
{
"docid": "8593571",
"text": "custom autofocus patterns. Canon EOS 400D The EOS 400D, called Digital Rebel XTi in North America and EOS Kiss Digital X in Japan, is an entry-level digital single-lens reflex camera introduced by Canon on 24 August 2006. It is the successor of the Canon EOS 350D, and upgrades... | [
{
"docid": "11477869",
"text": "EOS system accessories. Canon EOS 450D The EOS 450D (called EOS Rebel XSi in North America and EOS Kiss X2 in Japan) is a 12.2-megapixel digital single-lens reflex camera that is part of the Canon EOS line of cameras. It is the successor to the EOS 400D/Digital Rebel XTi. It ... |
282 | what is the main cause of conflict between india and pakistan | [
"Kashmir issue"
] | [
{
"docid": "1271134",
"text": "Indo-Pakistani wars and conflicts Since the partition of British India in 1947 and creation of modern states of India and Pakistan, the two South Asian countries have been involved in four wars, including one undeclared war, and many border skirmishes and military stand-offs. ... | [
{
"docid": "3417404",
"text": "Kargil War The Kargil War, also known as the Kargil conflict, was an armed conflict between India and Pakistan that took place between May and July 1999 in the Kargil district of Kashmir and elsewhere along the Line of Control (LOC). In India, the conflict is also referred to ... |
283 | which african american led the back to africa movement during the early 20th century | [
"Marcus Garvey"
] | [
{
"docid": "9279945",
"text": "the back-to-Africa movement of the 1920s, established by Marcus Garvey although there were earlier attempts at resettlement such as that by Chief Alfred Sam in 1913-15. Those who migrated to the Northern States from the South found that, although they were financially better o... | [
{
"docid": "9279932",
"text": "Back-to-Africa movement The Back-to-Africa movement, also known as the Colonization movement or After slave act, originated in the United States during the 19th century. It encouraged those of African descent to return to the African homelands of their ancestors. This movement... |
284 | who plays graham on once upon a time | [
"James Dornan"
] | [
{
"docid": "8373477",
"text": "Jamie Dornan James Dornan (born 1 May 1982) is an actor, model, and musician from Northern Ireland. He played Sheriff Graham Humbert in the ABC series \"Once Upon a Time\" (2011–2013), and serial killer Paul Spector in the BBC Two and RTÉ One crime drama series \"The Fall\" (2... | [
{
"docid": "13682304",
"text": "Once Upon a Time (1944 film) Once Upon a Time is a 1944 fantasy film involving a dancing caterpillar who lives in a small box. Cary Grant plays a conniving showman who desperately needs money to save his theater. Jerry Flynn (Cary Grant) has to come up with $100,000 within a ... |
285 | x factor judges thought she was lip syncing | [
"Aida Yurijivna Nikolaychuk"
] | [
{
"docid": "17585239",
"text": "Aida Nikolaychuk Aida Yurijivna Nikolaychuk, sometimes spelled Nikolaichuk, () is a Ukrainian pop singer and model. She was the winner of the third season of Ukraine's \"X-Factor\" TV talent competition in 2012. She drew special attention during the show's second season when ... | [
{
"docid": "14917675",
"text": "recording of \"The X Factor\". On 24 October, Cole performed \"Promise This\" on \"The X Factor\"'s results show. She donned a white tuxedo jacket, \"frilly black knickers,\" knee-high zebra print tights, and leather boots and was joined by multiple back-up dancers. She \"sho... |
286 | what is the full name of nigerian president | [
"Muhammadu Buhari"
] | [
{
"docid": "2862661",
"text": "Muhammadu Buhari Muhammadu Buhari (born 17 December 1942) is a Nigerian politician currently serving as the President of Nigeria, in office since 2015. He is a retired major general in the Nigerian Army and previously served as the nation's head of state from 31 December 1983 ... | [
{
"docid": "13883458",
"text": "by the Nigerian President Goodluck: \"What many Nigerians refer to as corruption is actually stealing. Stealing is not the same thing as corruption.\" Independent Corrupt Practices Commission The Independent Corrupt Practices Commission (ICPC), (in full the Independent Corrup... |
287 | whats the black part of the eye called | [
"The pupil"
] | [
{
"docid": "819647",
"text": "Pupil The pupil is a hole located in the center of the iris of the eye that allows light to strike the retina. It appears black because light rays entering the pupil are either absorbed by the tissues inside the eye directly, or absorbed after diffuse reflections within the eye... | [
{
"docid": "3334725",
"text": "eye. The group has two—separated—eye spaces. Even though white can make a move in these eyes, black could eventually capture the white stones, and each eye would thereby be reduced to a single intersection. An inner liberty where the opponent can still play, by capturing part ... |
288 | who played guitar on rock and roll animal | [
"Dick Wagner",
"Steve Hunter"
] | [
{
"docid": "7221216",
"text": "Rock 'n' Roll Animal Rock n Roll Animal is a live album by American musician Lou Reed, released in February 1974 by RCA Records. In its original form, it features five songs, four of which are songs by the Velvet Underground. The musicians were Pentti Glan (drums) and Prakash ... | [
{
"docid": "3746120",
"text": "features Wood on 12-string acoustic guitar. \"It's Only Rock 'n Roll\" was Mick Taylor's last album with the Rolling Stones, and he played on just seven of the 10 tracks (he did not play on tracks 2, 3 or 6). Due to Taylor's absence, Richards is responsible for the brief lead ... |
289 | which gas most likely was not part of earth 's early atmosphere | [
"Oxygen"
] | [
{
"docid": "13434857",
"text": "and carbon dioxide into methane and water. Oxygen did not become a major part of the atmosphere until photosynthetic organisms evolved later in Earth's history. With no oxygen, methane stayed in the atmosphere longer and at higher concentrations than it does today. The known ... | [
{
"docid": "5345783",
"text": "in the last 4.5 billion years. Many models indicate that the Earth would have been covered in ice. A likely solution is that there was enough carbon dioxide and methane to produce a greenhouse effect. The carbon dioxide would have been produced by volcanoes and the methane by ... |
290 | where do the toronto blue jays do spring training | [
"Dunedin Stadium"
] | [
{
"docid": "5165367",
"text": "Dunedin Stadium (Florida) Dunedin Stadium (originally Dunedin Stadium at Grant Field) is a baseball field located in Dunedin, Florida. The stadium was built in 1990 and holds 5,509 people. It is the spring training home of the Toronto Blue Jays, as well as home to the Dunedin ... | [
{
"docid": "5666099",
"text": "3, , he was picked off waivers by the Toronto Blue Jays, with whom he would go on to play 124 games between 2002 and . On July 22, 2006, Walker had shoulder surgery. In 2006, the Toronto Blue Jays released him, but on February 12 , the Blue Jays signed him to a minor league co... |
291 | where does the saying standing on the shoulders of giants come from | [
"Bernard of Chartres"
] | [
{
"docid": "6033390",
"text": "calling to his brother through the desolate intervals of time,\" an idea he got from Schopenhauer's work in \"Der handschriftliche Nachlass\". Standing on the shoulders of giants The metaphor of dwarfs standing on the shoulders of giants () expresses the meaning of \"discoveri... | [
{
"docid": "13546225",
"text": "Standing on the Shoulders of Giants (Tribe of Gypsies album) Standing on the Shoulders of Giants is the third full-length album by San Fernando Valley, California-based Latin rock band Tribe of Gypsies. It marks the swan song for percussionist Mario Aguilar and bassist Eddie ... |
292 | the highest levels of acid precipitation in europe are in | [
"Poland northward into Scandinavia"
] | [
{
"docid": "33489",
"text": "include most of eastern Europe from Poland northward into Scandinavia, the eastern third of the United States, and southeastern Canada. Other affected areas include the southeastern coast of China and Taiwan. Many coal-firing power stations use flue-gas desulphurization (FGD) to... | [
{
"docid": "659567",
"text": "which breaks down uric acid, in humans and higher primates has made this condition common. The triggers for precipitation of uric acid are not well understood. While it may crystallize at normal levels, it is more likely to do so as levels increase. Other triggers believed to b... |
293 | what is the name of the tower that replaced the twin towers | [
"One World Trade Center",
"1 WTC",
"Freedom Tower",
"1 World Trade Center"
] | [
{
"docid": "7730706",
"text": "One World Trade Center One World Trade Center (also known as One WTC, 1 World Trade Center, 1 WTC, or Freedom Tower) is the main building of the rebuilt World Trade Center complex in Lower Manhattan, New York City. One WTC is the tallest building in the United States, the tall... | [
{
"docid": "10665609",
"text": "to try to get some water flowing, but were unsuccessful. Knowing that she may not make it out, Alayne tells Jack to inform their sons that she loved them. After hanging up, Jack calls his local priest and asked him to set up a prayer chain. Alayne and her co-workers were kill... |
294 | who does mark gatiss play in game of thrones | [
"Tycho Nestoris"
] | [
{
"docid": "2745974",
"text": "Mark Gatiss Mark Gatiss (; born 17 October 1966) is an English actor, comedian, screenwriter and novelist. His work includes writing for and acting in the TV series \"Doctor Who\" and \"Sherlock\". Together with Reece Shearsmith, Steve Pemberton and Jeremy Dyson, he is a membe... | [
{
"docid": "2745995",
"text": "Magazine\", including a column written under the pseudonym \"Sam Kisgart,\" which he was originally credited as in the \"Doctor Who Unbound\" audio play \"Sympathy for the Devil\" for his role as the Master. \"Sam Kisgart\" is an anagram of \"Mark Gatiss\", and is also the nam... |
295 | which article of the constitution describes the amendment process | [
"Five"
] | [
{
"docid": "428155",
"text": "Article Five of the United States Constitution Article Five of the United States Constitution describes the process whereby the Constitution, the nation's frame of government, may be altered. Under Article V, the process to alter the Constitution consists of proposing an amendm... | [
{
"docid": "5758072",
"text": "provisions for amending the constitution. The 79th Article of the Constitution describes how to enact amendments to the constitution. In order for an amendment to be passed, it must be approved by two consecutive parliamentary assemblies, with a general election in between. Th... |
296 | when did the us sign the treaty of versailles | [
"28 June 1919"
] | [
{
"docid": "405547",
"text": "Treaty of Versailles The Treaty of Versailles () was the most important of the peace treaties that brought World War I to an end. The Treaty ended the state of war between Germany and the Allied Powers. It was signed on 28 June 1919 in Versailles, exactly five years after the a... | [
{
"docid": "405600",
"text": "the ingredients required for such a peace as I would have were lacking at Paris. Many in China felt betrayed as the German territory in China was handed to Japan. Wellington Koo refused to sign the treaty and the Chinese delegation at the Paris Peace Conference was the only nat... |
297 | where will the summer olympics be held in 2020 | [
"Tokyo"
] | [
{
"docid": "4748258",
"text": "2020 Summer Olympics The 2020 Summer Olympics, officially known as the and commonly known as Tokyo 2020, is a forthcoming international multi-sport event that is scheduled to take place from 24 July to 9 August 2020. Tokyo was selected as the host city during the 125th IOC Ses... | [
{
"docid": "17546153",
"text": "will be selected through the results of a world competition (here, the 2019 World Championships in Athletics) and eight more selected through rankings. Athletics at the 2020 Summer Olympics Athletics at the 2020 Summer Olympics will be held during the last ten days of the Gam... |
298 | who played charlie in charlie and the chocolate factory 2005 | [
"Freddie Highmore"
] | [
{
"docid": "4273948",
"text": "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (film) Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is a 2005 musical fantasy comedy film directed by Tim Burton and written by John August, based on the 1964 British novel of the same name by Roald Dahl. The film stars Johnny Depp as Willy Wonka and Fre... | [
{
"docid": "680741",
"text": "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is a 1964 children's novel by British author Roald Dahl. The story features the adventures of young Charlie Bucket inside the chocolate factory of eccentric chocolatier Willy Wonka. \"Charlie and the Chocolate ... |
299 | who played fdr in the movie pearl harbor | [
"Jon Voight"
] | [
{
"docid": "962515",
"text": "original score was composed by Hans Zimmer. The song \"There You'll Be\" was nominated for the Academy Award and Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song. Pearl Harbor (film) Pearl Harbor is a 2001 American romantic period war drama film directed by Michael Bay, produced by Ba... | [
{
"docid": "9067427",
"text": "7, 1941, as FDR was receiving the dismal news concerning the Pearl Harbor attack. Notably, he sat in on a meeting that FDR had called for 3 p.m. that included Secretary of War, Henry L. Stimson, Secretary of the Navy, Frank Knox, Captain John R. Beardall, naval aid, and perhap... |
300 | when do you have to show your cards in poker | [
"showdown"
] | [
{
"docid": "312332",
"text": "Showdown (poker) In poker, the showdown is a situation when, if more than one player remains after the last betting round, remaining players expose and compare their hands to determine the winner or winners. To win any part of a pot if more than one player has a hand, a player ... | [
{
"docid": "13613933",
"text": "poker strategy becomes a complex subject. This article attempts to introduce only the basic strategy concepts. The fundamental theorem of poker, introduced by David Sklansky, states: Every time you play your hand the way you would if you could see your opponents' cards, you g... |
301 | who plays malfoy 's dad in harry potter | [
"Jason Isaacs"
] | [
{
"docid": "2475132",
"text": "Jason Isaacs Jason Isaacs (born 6 June 1963) is an English actor and producer, best known for playing Lucius Malfoy in the Harry Potter film series, Colonel William Tavington in \"The Patriot\", criminal Michael Caffee in the Showtime series \"Brotherhood\" and Marshal Georgy ... | [
{
"docid": "547919",
"text": "Draco Malfoy Draco Lucius Malfoy is a character in J. K. Rowling's \"Harry Potter\" series. He is a student in Harry Potter's year belonging in the Slytherin house. He is frequently accompanied by his two cronies, Vincent Crabbe and Gregory Goyle, who act as henchmen. Draco is ... |
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