The accident led to Parker's ultimate troubles with pain killers and opioids, especially heroin.

Although unclear which came first, his addiction to opiates began at the age of 16, when he was injured in a car crash and a doctor prescribed morphine for the pain.

Charles Parker Jr. (August 29, 1920 – March 12, 1955), also referred to by his nicknames Yardbird or simply Bird, was an American jazz saxophonist and composer.

Along the way, the caravan of musicians had a car accident and Parker broke three ribs and fractured his spine.

Parker's life was riddled with mental health problems and an addiction to heroin.

American composer Moondog wrote his famous "Bird's Lament" in his memory; published on the 1969 album Moondog.

This, and the shortened form "Bird", continued to be used for the rest of his life, inspiring the titles of a number of Parker compositions, such as "Yardbird Suite", "Ornithology", " Bird Gets the Worm", and "Bird of Paradise".

Avant-garde jazz trombonist George Lewis recorded Homage to Charles Parker (1979).

In the jazz scene heroin use was prevalent, and the substance could be acquired with little difficulty.

It is held for 10 days and celebrates all aspects of Parker, from live jazz music and bootcamps, to tours of his haunts in the city, to exhibits at the American Jazz Museum.

American jazz player and composer Charles Parker Jr., a.k.a. Yardbird or Bird, had a heroin addiction that started with prescription painkillers after a car accident.


President Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, Texas, at 12:30 pm Central Standard Time on Friday, November 22, 1963.

On November 22, 1963, he was assassinated in Dallas, Texas.

John F. Kennedy was sworn in as the 35th president at noon on January 20, 1961.

John F. Kennedy's grave is lit with an "Eternal Flame".

Personal life, family, and reputation | Affairs, extramarital relationships and friendships

Billings had his own room in which to stay at several of John F. Kennedy's residences.

U.S. Navy Reserve (1941–1945) | Commanding PT-59

Kennedy's two original medals are currently on display at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum.

Traveling in a presidential motorcade through downtown Dallas, he was shot once in the back, the bullet exiting via his throat, and once in the head.

Lee Harvey Oswald, an order filler at the Texas School Book Depository from which the shots were fired, was arrested for the murder of police officer J. D. Tippit and was subsequently charged with Kennedy's assassination.

According to the JFK Library, "I Have a Rendezvous with Death", by Alan Seeger "was one of John F. Kennedy's favorite poems and he often asked his wife to recite it".

He was in Texas on a political trip to smooth over frictions in the Democratic Party between liberals Ralph Yarborough and Don Yarborough (no relation) and conservative John Connally.

John F. Kennedy was shot in Dallas, Texas.


Leland Stanford MacPhail Jr. (October 25, 1917 – November 8, 2012) was an American front-office executive in Major League Baseball.

Most Valuable Player Award is named for Lee MacPhail.

In 1966, he received the Sporting News Executive of the Year Award.

The award was bestowed for his efforts in building the 1966 World Series champion Orioles.

MacPhail had spent 1966 as assistant to the Commissioner of Baseball prior to taking over the Yankees' general manager post.

He was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1998, joining his father Larry MacPhail, who had been elected in 1978, as the only father and son members.

At the time of his departure for the commissioner's office in November 1965, MacPhail and his successor, Harry Dalton, were beginning negotiations with the Reds for a blockbuster trade that would bring Frank Robinson to Baltimore; Robinson would lead the Orioles to the 1966 world championship and win the American League Triple Crown and Most Valuable Player award.

The American League Championship Series

Led by Most Valuable Player Brooks Robinson, the 1964 Orioles finished only two games behind the pennant-winning Yankees.

During MacPhail's seven-year stewardship (1959–65), the Orioles became pennant contenders in the American League, winning 612 of 1,118 games (.547) and finishing in the league's first division four times.

During his ten full years in office, the American League continued to struggle against the National League in All-Star Game competition: it lost the first nine midsummer classics it played under MacPhail's presidency, winning only in his last season, 1983, by a 13–3 score.

Lee MacPhail has the MLB MVP award in his honor because he was the first player to win the award.


Argentina, led by Lionel Messi, made their fifth appearance in a World Cup final in 2014, again losing to Germany, 1–0 during extra-time.

They played each other for the third consecutive World Cup in the Brazil 2014 event's final, where Argentina were defeated in extra time by a score of 1–0.

Argentina is known for having rivalries with Brazil, Uruguay, England, and Germany due to particular occurrences with one another throughout football history.

Argentina last reached the World Cup final in 2014, where it lost 1–0 to Germany national football team.

La Selección (national team), also known as the La Albiceleste, has appeared in five World Cup finals, including the first final in 1930, which they lost 4–2 to Uruguay.

The reasons for this varied, including long travel times between countries and the interruption of World War I.La Selección (national team), also known as the Albicelestes (sky blue and whites), has appeared in five World Cup finals, including the first final in 1930, which they lost, 4–2, to Uruguay.

At the 1958 World Cup, Argentina wore the yellow jersey of Swedish club IFK Malmö in the match against West Germany, as the team arrived in Sweden without an away kit.

Argentina have played Germany in seven FIFA World Cup matches including three FIFA World Cup finals: In 1986 Argentina won 3–2, but in 1990 it was the Germans who were the victors by a 1–0 scoreline.

On 3 June 1919 in Rio de Janeiro playing the "Roberto Chery Cup" against Brazil, Argentina wore a light blue kit, similar to Uruguay.

The Argentina national football team (Spanish: Selección de fútbol de Argentina) represents Argentina in men's international football and is administered by the Argentine Football Association, the governing body for football in Argentina.

During the first years of its existence, the Argentina national team only played friendly matches against other South American teams.

The national football team in Argentina is known for five world cup and competing against rivals like Germany and Brazil.


It was held at the Heylshof Garden in Worms, then an Imperial Free City of the Empire.

The main events of the Diet of Worms relating to Luther took place from 16 to 18 April 1521.

Other imperial diets took place at Worms in the years 829, 926, 1076, 1122, 1495, and 1545, but unless plainly qualified, the term "Diet of Worms" usually refers to the assembly of 1521.

The Papal nuncio at the diet, Girolamo Aleandro, drew up and proposed the denunciations of Luther that were embodied in the Edict of Worms, promulgated on

The Diet of Worms 1521 (German: Reichstag zu Worms

Luther escaped arrest and remained in seclusion at Wartburg castle for several months where he continued to write and translate the New Testament into German.

Ferdinand's rule of the Austrian lands in the name of the Emperor was confirmed with the secret Habsburg compact of Brussels (1522), according to which Charles also agreed to favor the election of Ferdinand as King of the Romans in Germany (which took place in 1531).

The Diet of Worms was also the occasion for Charles V to reform the administration of the Empire.

Emperor Charles V commenced the Imperial Diet of Worms on 23 January 1521.

The 1522 and 1524 Diets of Nuremberg attempted to execute the judgement of the Edict of Worms against Luther, but they failed.

The Edict of Worms was a decree issued on 25 May 1521 by Emperor Charles V, declaring:  For this reason we forbid anyone from this time forward to dare, either by words or by deeds, to receive, defend, sustain, or favour

Diet of Worms took place in the Castle of Worms.


The book was adapted for a 1997 film of the same name, directed and co-written by Curtis Hanson and starring Kevin Spacey, Russell Crowe, Guy Pearce, James Cromwell, Kim Basinger, David Strathairn and Danny DeVito.

L.A. Confidential (1990) is a neo-noir novel by James Ellroy, and the third of his L.A. Quartet series.

It was nominated for nine Academy Awards; Kim Basinger won both a Golden Globe and an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in the film, while Curtis Hanson and Brian Helgeland won the Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay.

In 2018, CBS ordered a new pilot based on the novel.

The film was universally acclaimed.

L.A. Confidential received many positive reviews.

In 2003, a television pilot of L.A. Confidential was aired.

James Ellroy dedicated L.A. Confidential "to Mary Doherty Ellroy".

The title refers to the scandal magazine Confidential, which is fictionalized as Hush-Hush.

The pilot is a special feature on the two-disc DVD and the Blu-ray releases of the film.

The 1990 novel L.A. Confidential was planned to be adapted to a film but it never came through.


Redgrave was born on 30 January 1937 in Blackheath, London, the daughter of actors Sir Michael Redgrave and Rachel Kempson.

A member of the Redgrave family of actors

Vanessa Redgrave  (born 30 January 1937) is an English actress and activist.

My Name is Rachel Corrie. Such a development, said Redgrave, was an "act of catastrophic cowardice" as "the essence of life and the essence of theatre is to communicate about lives, either lives that have ended or lives that are still alive, [and about] beliefs, and what is in those beliefs.

Following the East End Blitz, Redgrave relocated with her family to Herefordshire before returning to London in 1943.

Vanessa Redgrave entered the Central School of Speech and Drama in 1954.

Career | Later career | Film and television

The part was given to her Evening co-star Eileen Atkins.

In 1961, Vanessa Redgrave was an active member of the Committee of 100 and its working group.

In December 2007, Redgrave was named as one of the possible suretors who paid the £50,000 bail for Jamil al-Banna, one of three British residents arrested after landing back in the UK following four years' captivity at Guantanamo Bay.

Proclaimed as the "Greatest Actress of our Time" by Tennessee Williams, Redgrave is the recipient of the Triple Crown of Acting, and was inducted to the American Theatre Hall of Fame, and received the BAFTA Fellowship.

Vanessa Redgrave was born into an acting family and still is a part in one.


In 1952, he was appointed a full member of the Communist Party.

Rise in the Communist Party | Stavropol Komsomol: 1955–1969

His wife had also pursued a second degree, attaining a PhD in sociology in 1967 from the Moscow Pedagogical Institute; while in Stavropol she too joined the Communist Party.

In June 1950, Gorbachev became a candidate member of the Communist Party.

Rise in the Communist Party | Heading the Stavropol Region: 1970–1977

According to biographer Zhores Medvedev, Gorbachev "had now joined the Party's super-elite".

Gorbachev's maternal grandfather joined the Communist Party and helped form the village's first kolkhoz (collective farm) in 1929, becoming its chair.

As head of the Stavropol region, he automatically became a member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union in 1971.

Gorbachev and his wife visited France in 1976 and 1977, on the latter occasion touring the country with a guide from the French Communist Party.

Rise in the Communist Party | Secretary of the Central Committee: 1978–1984

That same month, he was promoted from a candidate member to a full member of the Politburo, the highest decision-making authority in the Communist Party.

General Secretary of the CPSU | Early years: 1985–1986 | Domestic policies

In the Soviet Union, alcohol consumption had risen steadily between 1950 and 1985.

In 1961, Gorbachev played host to the Italian delegation for the World Youth Festival in Moscow; that October, he also attended the 22nd Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.

After Brezhnev's death in November 1982, Andropov succeeded him as General Secretary of the Communist Party, the de facto head of government in the Soviet Union.

Mikhail Gorbachev joined the Communist Party in the 1950s.


Apoorva previously worked at BlackBerry, Qualcomm, and then Amazon as a supply chain engineer, where he developed fulfillment systems to move packages from Amazon's warehouses to customers’ homes.

Instacart was founded in 2012 by serial entrepreneur Apoorva Mehta, a former Amazon.com employee.

About 12,000 of Instacart's 142,000 workers are employees with the option of unionizing.

Orders are fulfilled and delivered by an Instacart personal shopper, who picks, packs, and delivers the order within the customer's designated time frame—within one hour or up to five days in advance.

As of December 2019, Instacart's alcohol delivery service included over 30 new partners in more than 20 states and Washington, D.C. such as Aldi, Sam's Club, BJ's Wholesale Club, Sprouts Farmers Market, and The Fresh Market.

In March 2019, Instacart expanded its same-day alcohol delivery service in the U.S., making Instacart one of the largest online delivery and pickup marketplaces for alcohol in the U.S.On April 11, 2019, the company expanded its services to offering an on-demand option for its workers, in order to allow workers to work more flexible schedules.

One of the Instacart's founder's previous employers is known for its Egg McMuffins.


Carrie Fisher as General Leia Organa, twin sister to Luke, former princess of Alderaan, and a leading general in the Resistance

Star Wars: The Last Jedi (also known as Star Wars: Episode VIII – The Last Jedi) is a 2017 American epic space opera film written and directed by Rian Johnson.

On January 23, 2017, the film's title was announced as Star Wars: The Last Jedi.

Lucasfilm announced the title for episode VIII as Star Wars: The Last Jedi, on January 23, 2017.

According to creature designer Neal Scanlan, The Last Jedi has more practical effects than any Star Wars film, with 180 to 200 creatures created with practical effects, some cut from the final edit.

As with The Force Awakens, there is no official tie-in game for The Last Jedi, in favor of integrating content from the film into other Star Wars video games, including Star Wars Battlefront II, which introduced various content from the film, during the second week of the game's first "season".

Rey and Leia sense his death, and Leia tells Rey that the Resistance can rise again.

Star Wars: The Last Jedi  grossed $620.2 million in the United States and Canada, and $712.6 million in other territories, for a worldwide total of $1.333 billion.

The Last Jedi follows Rey as she seeks the aid of Luke Skywalker, in hopes of turning the tide for the Resistance in the fight against Kylo Ren and the First Order, while General Leia Organa, Finn, and Poe Dameron attempt to escape a First Order attack on the dwindling Resistance fleet.

An update to the MOBA mobile game Star Wars: Force Arena added new content from the sequel era, including some characters as they appeared in The Last Jedi.

"Star Wars: The Last Jedi honors the saga's rich legacy while adding some surprising twists — and delivering all the emotion-rich action fans could hope for.

In the film Star Wars: The Last Jedi, Leia leaves the Resistance to save the Federation.


The band was formed in 1981 in Los Angeles by vocalist/guitarist James Hetfield and drummer Lars Ulrich, and has been based in San Francisco for most of its career.

Metallica is an American heavy metal band.

History | Kill 'Em All and Ride the Lightning (1983–1985)

At a show in Oakland, California, at the Day on the Green festival, the band played to a crowd of 60,000.

History | Metallica: Through the Never and Hardwired... to Self-Destruct (2012–2018)

In February 2018, the band announced a second set of North American tour dates, most of which for cities that they had not visited in up to thirty years.

In January 2015, Metallica announced a "Metallica Night" with the San Jose Sharks, which featured a Q&A session with the band and a charity auction benefiting the San Francisco Bay Chapter of the Sierra Club, but no performances.

History | St. Anger, Some Kind of Monster and The Videos 1989–2004 (2001–2007)

Once the record was completed, the band started to hold auditions for Newsted's permanent replacement.

History | S&M, Napster controversy and Newsted's departure (1999–2001)

Does he start touring with it?

History | S&M2 and upcoming eleventh studio album (2019–present)

Later that month, the band announced that it would perform at the grand opening of San Francisco's new Chase Center with the San Francisco Symphony in September to celebrate the twenty-year anniversary of

In July 2019, Metallica announced a set of South American tour dates for April 2020 with Greta Van Fleet in support.

Trivium guitarists Corey Beaulieu and Matt Heafy said that when they heard Metallica they wanted to start playing guitar.

History | "Big Four" concerts, Lulu and Beyond Magnetic (2010–2012)

Right now we are going to just chill out and then probably start up again in, I'd say, March or April, and start probably putting the creative cap back on and start writing some songs." Metallica, Slayer, Megadeth, and Anthrax performed on the same bill for the first time on June 16, 2010, at Warsaw Babice Airport, Warsaw, as a part of the Sonisphere Festival series.

Metallica is an American band that started in San Diego, California.


Roland Glen Fingers (born August 25, 1946) is an American retired professional baseball pitcher who played 17 seasons in Major League Baseball for the Oakland Athletics (1968–1976), San Diego Padres (1977–1980), and Milwaukee Brewers (1981–1985).

He is a three-time World Series champion, a seven-time All-Star, a four-time Rolaids Relief Man of the Year, and a three-time MLB saves leader.

Fingers won the American League's (AL) Most Valuable Player Award and Cy Young Award in 1981.

In 1981, Fingers won the Rolaids Relief Man of the Year Award, the American League (AL) Most Valuable Player Award, and AL Cy Young Award.

During the 1972 season, Fingers entered games in the fifth inning on four occasions, but mostly entered in the sixth inning or later.

During that game, he gave up one run on four hits in five full innings.

Finley sued Kuhn, and he benched Fingers, Rudi and Blue, saying that they belonged to other teams.

Fingers pitched 5 1⁄3 innings, allowing three hits and two runs.

By the end of May 1971, Athletics manager Dick Williams decided that Fingers would be the late-inning closer.

When Fingers reached the major leagues, the role of relief pitchers was limited, as starting pitchers rarely left games while holding a lead; but as team offense increased following the 1968 season, and especially with the American League's introduction of the designated hitter in 1973, managers became more willing to replace starters in the late innings with a lead in order to forestall any late rallies by opponents.

Mainly he entered in the seventh, eighth, or ninth innings.

Roland Fingers  is a Cy Young winner and and played for four teams in the majors.


In chemistry, alcohol is an organic compound that carries at least one hydroxyl functional group (−OH) bound to a saturated carbon atom.

The term alcohol originally referred to the primary alcohol ethanol (ethyl alcohol), which is used as a drug and is the main alcohol present in alcoholic beverages.

so-called as "alcohols" in modern chemistry after 1850.The term ethanol was invented in 1892, combining the word ethane with the "-ol" ending of "alcohol".

The Arab chemist, al-Kindi, unambiguously described the distillation of wine in a treatise titled as "The Book of the chemistry of Perfume and Distillations".

The simplest primary alcohol is methanol (CH3OH), for which R=H, and the next is ethanol, for which R=CH3, the methyl group.

Methanol and ethanol are less acutely toxic.

Methanol, ethanol, and propanol are miscible in water.

Like ethanol, butanol can be produced by fermentation processes.

An important class of alcohols, of which methanol and ethanol are the simplest members, includes all compounds for which the general formula is CnH2n+1OH.

The meaning of alcohol was extended to distilled substances in general, and then narrowed to ethanol, when "spirits" was a synonym for hard liquor.

Alcohol is an biotic amalgamation in chemistry and was a antidote and primarily ethanol.


Nearly half are still at Rano Raraku, the main moʻai quarry, but hundreds were transported from there and set on stone platforms called ahu around the island's perimeter.

Moʻai  (listen), or moai (Spanish: moái, Rapa Nui: moʻai, meaning "statue" in Rapa Nui), are monolithic human figures carved by the Rapa Nui people on Easter Island in eastern Polynesia between the years 1250 and 1500.

Except for one kneeling moʻai, the statues do not have clearly visible legs.

Some were incomplete because, when inclusions were encountered, the carvers would abandon a partial statue and start a new one.

In 2008, a Finnish tourist chipped a piece off the ear of one moʻai.

Creating the moʻai was one way the islanders would honor their ancestors; during the height of the birdman cult there is evidence which suggests that the construction of moʻai stopped.

" The competition for grandest statue was ever prevalent in the culture of the Easter Islanders.

"One of the most fascinating sights at Orongo are the hundreds of petroglyphs carved with birdman and Makemake images.

Though moʻai are whole-body statues, they are often referred to as "Easter Island heads" in some popular literature.

Originally, Easter Islanders had a paramount chief or single leader.

One unfinished sculpture, if completed, would have been approximately 21 m (69 ft) tall, with a weight of about 145–165 tons (160–182 metric tons).

The moai are stone statues on Easter Island and no one knows how they got there.


Duvall was born January 5, 1931, in San Diego, California, the son of Mildred Virginia (née Hart; 1901–c. 1986), an amateur actress, and William Howard Duvall (1904–1984), a Virginia-born U.S. Navy rear admiral.

His mother was a relative of  U.S. Civil War General Robert E. Lee, and a member of the Lee Family of Virginia, while his father was a descendant of settler Mareen Duvall.

In 2014, he starred in The Judge alongside Robert Downey Jr..

He portrayed General Robert E. Lee in Gods and Generals in 2003.

Duvall's political views are variously described as libertarian or conservative.

While the movie itself received mixed reviews, Duvall's performance was praised.

The latter role was based on a Marine aviator, Colonel Donald Conroy, the father of the book's author Pat Conroy.

Film Duvall's screen debut was as Boo Radley in the critically acclaimed To Kill a Mockingbird (1962).

Robert Selden Duvall (; born January 5, 1931) is an American actor and filmmaker whose career spans more than six decades.

My father started at the Academy when he was 16, made captain at 39 and retired as a rear admiral." He attended Severn School in Severna Park, Maryland, and The Principia in St. Louis, Missouri.

In 2001, Pedraza and Duvall founded the Robert Duvall Children's Fund to assist families in Northern Argentina through renovations of homes, schools, and medical facilities.

Robert Duvall's father was an engineer.


Burnside was born in Liberty, Indiana, and was the fourth of nine children of Edghill and Pamela (or Pamilia) Brown Burnside, a family of Scottish origin.

Ambrose Everett Burnside (May 23, 1824 – September 13, 1881) was an American soldier, railroad executive, inventor, industrialist, and politician from Rhode Island.

Grant stated that he was "unfitted" for the command of an army and that no one knew this better than Burnside himself.

Burnside ran as a Democrat for one of the Congressional seats in Rhode Island in 1858 and was defeated in a landslide.

Gen. Joseph Hooker, one of the officers who had conspired against him.

Ambrose attended Liberty Seminary as a young boy, but his education was interrupted when his mother died in 1841; he was apprenticed to a local tailor, eventually becoming a partner in the business.

He sent a succession of couriers to motivate Burnside to move forward, ordering one aide, "Tell him if it costs 10,000 men he must go now." He further increased the pressure by sending his inspector general to confront Burnside, who reacted indignantly: "McClellan appears to think I am not trying my best to carry this bridge; you are the third or fourth one who has been to me this morning with similar orders.

One reason might have been that, with all his deficiencies, Burnside never had any angles of his own to play; he was a simple, honest, loyal soldier, doing his best even if that best was not very good, never scheming or conniving or backbiting.

He was elected to three one-year terms as Governor of Rhode Island, serving from May 29, 1866, to May 25, 1869.

He then went west in search of employment and became treasurer of the Illinois Central Railroad, where he worked for and became friendly with George B. McClellan, who later became one of his commanding officers.

The battle was a part of the campaign in North Carolina that was led by Burnside and known as the Burnside Expedition.

Ambrose Burnside was one of 9 kids.


During his final, protracted illness, Hadrian was prevented from suicide on several occasions.

There was no public trial for the four – they were tried in absentia, hunted down and killed.

It has been suggested that Trajan's young manservant Phaedimus, who died very soon after Trajan, was killed (or killed himself) rather than face awkward questions.

Hadrian was to spend more than half his reign outside Italy.

He was the son-in-law of Gaius Avidius Nigrinus, one of the "four consulars" executed in 118, but was himself in delicate health, apparently with a reputation more "of a voluptuous, well educated great lord than that of a leader".

It is documented that in Egypt he and his beloved Antinous killed a lion.

He was buried first at Puteoli, near Baiae, on an estate that had once belonged to Cicero.

In northwest Asia, he founded and dedicated a city to commemorate a she-bear he killed.

In Rome, eight reliefs featuring Hadrian in different stages of hunting decorate a building that began as a monument celebrating a kill.

Previous emperors had often left Rome for long periods, but mostly to go to war, returning once the conflict was settled.

Personal and cultural interests | Poem by Hadrian

Your usual distractions no more shall be there... The poem has enjoyed remarkable popularity, but uneven critical acclaim.

Hadrian tried to kill himself more than once, but was not allowed.


The phrase used as the title comes from the King James Bible, Job 19:20: "My bone cleaveth to my skin and to my flesh, and I am escaped with the skin of my teeth." The main characters of the play are George and Maggie Antrobus (from Greek: άνθρωπος (anthropos), "human" or "person"), their two children, Henry and Gladys, and Sabina, who appears as the family's maid in the first and third acts, and as a beauty queen temptress in the second act.

The Skin of Our Teeth is a play by Thornton Wilder that won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama.

Norman Cousins, editor of the Review, printed a short article by Joseph Campbell and Henry Morton Robinson titled "The Skin of Whose Teeth?

She also says: "Don't forget that a few years ago we came through the depression by the skin of our teeth!

I went to see Thornton Wilder's The Skin of Our Teeth, which was the big Broadway hit at the time... all I heard was Finnegans Wake.

So I said, "I think we should write a letter to the New York Times." Campbell claimed to have compared Finnegans Wake and the book form of The Skin of Our Teeth and found "nearly two hundred and fifty analogues—characters, themes, and finally a four-line, word-for-word quote." In 2017, Theatre for a New Audience performed The Skin of Our Teeth directed by Arin Arbus.

For instance, in the first scene, the actress playing Sabina reveals her misgivings to the audience about the play, in the second act she refuses to say lines in the play and tells the spectators things that cause a woman in the audience to run from the theater sobbing, and, in the third act, the actor playing Mr. Antrobus interrupts to announce that several actors have taken ill, and asks the audience to indulge them while the  "stage manager" of the play conducts a rehearsal with the replacements.

There are unsettling parallels between the members of the Antrobus family and various characters from the Bible.

This is a story from the Bible, in which Cain, the son of Adam, murders his brother Abel after God favors Abel over Cain regarding gifts.

Sabina's stock-maid monologue begins and ends the play in the same way; this "stage-play" goes on and on.

The Skin of Our Teeth is a play and the title was taken from a saying in a bible.


The Jeters lived in New Jersey until Derek was four years old, at which point they moved to Kalamazoo, Michigan.

As a player, Jeter spent his entire 20-year MLB career with the New York Yankees.

Attending New York Yankees games with his grandparents, Jeter became a passionate fan of the team.

Professional career | Major leagues (1995–2014) | 2009–2013

He is the only member of the 3,000 hit club to record all of his hits with the New York Yankees, and the only player to join the club as a Yankee.

Jeter maintains homes in Marlboro Township, New Jersey; Greenwood Lake, New York; and the Davis Islands neighborhood of Tampa, Florida.

Jeter's ultimate zone rating (UZR) improved from worst in the AL for shortstops in 2007 to close to league average in 2008.When asked to respond to criticism of his defense, Jeter replied: "I play in New York, man.

Professional career | Major leagues (1995–2014) | 2003–2008

Although things are going to change next year and we're going to move across the street, there are a few things with the New York Yankees that never change.

Jeter settled a tax dispute regarding his official residence with the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance in 2008.

Derek Sanderson Jeter was born on June 26, 1974, in Pequannock Township, New Jersey, the son of accountant Dorothy (née Connors) and substance abuse counselor Sanderson Charles Jeter.

Appearances outside of baseball | Other appearances

A wax figure immortalizes Jeter at the Madame Tussauds Wax Museum in New York, and a sculpture at the Louisville Slugger Museum & Factory in Louisville, Kentucky.

Derek Jeter is from Flint and played for the New York Yankees.


The Red Fort is a historic fort in the city of Delhi (in Old Delhi) in India that served as the main residence of the Mughal Emperors.

The Indian War Memorial Museum is located on the second floor.

For example, the Koh-i-Noor diamond, the jade wine cup of Shah Jahan and the crown of Bahadur Shah II are all currently located in London.

The Mumtaz Mahal houses the Red Fort Archaeological Museum.

Unlike other Mughal forts, the Red Fort's boundary walls are asymmetrical to contain the older Salimgarh Fort.

The first was held between November and December 1945 at the Red Fort.

The Red Fort Archaeological Museum was moved from the drum house to the Mumtaz Mahal.

When Jahandar Shah took over the Red Fort in 1712, it had been without an emperor for 30 years.

After the battle, the British took over the administration of Mughal territories and installed a Resident at the Red Fort.

Red Fort is one of the building complexes of India encapsulating a long period of history and its arts.

The Red Fort is located in Africa.


The oldest complete Alexandrian manuscripts date from the 4th century and the oldest Western ones from the 6th, with fragments and citations going back to the 3rd.

The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Books of the Bible.

Composition and setting | Title, unity of Luke – Acts, authorship and date

The earliest possible date for Luke-Acts is around 62 AD, the time of Paul's imprisonment in Rome, but most scholars date the work to 80–90 AD on the grounds that it uses Mark as a source, looks back on the destruction of Jerusalem, and does not show any awareness of the letters of Paul (which began circulating late in the first century); if it does show awareness of the Pauline epistles, and also of the work of the Jewish historian Josephus, as some believe, then a date in the early 2nd century is possible.

The Anchor Bible: The Acts of the Apostles-A new Translation with Introduction and Commentary.

The Acts of the Apostles (Koinē Greek: Πράξεις Ἀποστόλων, Práxeis Apostólōn; Latin: Actūs Apostolōrum), often referred to simply as Acts, or formally the Book of Acts, is the fifth book of the New Testament; it tells of the founding of the Christian church and the spread of its message to the Roman Empire.

Christ, the Spirit and the Community of God: Essays on the Acts of the Apostles.

Composition and setting | Audience and authorial intent

the Christian missionaries are always cleared of charges of violating Roman laws, and Acts ends with Paul in Rome proclaiming the Christian message under Roman protection; at the same time, Luke makes clear that the Romans, like all earthly rulers, receive their authority from Satan, while Christ is ruler of the kingdom of God.

According to Church tradition dating from the 2nd century, the author was the "Luke" named as a companion of the apostle Paul in three of the letters attributed to Paul himself; this view is still sometimes advanced, but "a critical consensus emphasizes the countless contradictions between the account in Acts and the authentic Pauline letters." (An example can be seen by comparing Acts's accounts of Paul's conversion (Acts 9:1–31, 22:6–21, and 26:9–23) with Paul's own statement that he remained unknown to Christians in Judea after that event (Galatians 1:17–24).) The author "is an admirer of Paul, but does not share Paul's own view of himself as an apostle; his own theology is considerably different from Paul's on key points and does not represent Paul's own views accurately.

The title "Acts of the Apostles" was first used by Irenaeus in the late 2nd century.

Saul of Tarsus, one of the Jews who persecuted the followers of Jesus, is converted by a vision to become a follower of Christ (an event which Luke regards as so important that he relates it three times).

The book of the Christian bible The Acts of the Apostles has an intact version dating back to the time of Christ.


"The Open Boat" is a short story by American author Stephen Crane (1871–1900).

A volume titled The Open Boat and Other Tales of Adventure was published in the United States in 1898; an edition entitled The Open Boat and Other Stories was published simultaneously in England.

"The Open Boat" was published in the United States by Doubleday & McClure in April 1898 as part of the book The Open Boat and Other Tales of Adventure, which included additional works by Crane such as

"The Open Boat" is one of the most frequently discussed works in Crane's canon, and is regularly anthologized.

H. G. Wells considered "The Open Boat" to be "beyond all question, the crown of all [Crane's] work".

Crane completed the story that would become "The Open Boat" a few weeks later, in mid-February.

Like other major works by Stephen Crane, "The Open Boat" contains numerous examples of symbolism, imagery and metaphor.

Similar to other Naturalist works, "The Open Boat" scrutinizes the position of man, who has been isolated not only from society, but also from God and nature.

The English volume, published simultaneously with the American one, was titled The Open Boat and Other Stories and published by William Heinemann.

Crane subsequently adapted his report into narrative form, and the resulting short story "The Open Boat" was published in Scribner's Magazine.

The Open Boat is a series of novel.


The novel revolves around the importance of marrying for love, not for money or social prestige, despite the communal pressure to make a wealthy match.

Though the novel stresses the importance of love and understanding in marriage, Austen never seems to condemn Charlotte's decision to marry for money.

He is a pompous, obsequious clergyman who intends to marry one of the Bennet girls.

Later, Mr. Darcy proposes to Elizabeth, declaring his love for her despite her inferior social rank.

George Wickham tried to elope with Georgiana Darcy, and Colonel Fitzwilliam married for money.

In chapter 1, when Mr Bingley arrives, she declares "I am thinking of his marrying one of them".

When Darcy proposes to Elizabeth, he cites their economic and social differences as an obstacle his excessive love has had to overcome, though he still anxiously harps on the problems it poses for him within his social circle.

Thus it is imperative that at least one of the girls marry well to support the others, which is a motivation that drives the plot.

When Elizabeth rejects Darcy's first proposal, the argument of marrying for love is introduced.

Mrs Bennet is frequently seen encouraging her daughters to marry a wealthy man of high social class.

The novel focuses on the importance of marrying for love, not for money or social prestige.


Her mother, the Duchess of York (later Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother), was the youngest daughter of Scottish aristocrat the Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne.

Elizabeth II (Elizabeth Alexandra Mary, born 21 April 1926) is Queen of the United Kingdom and 15 other Commonwealth realms.

By invitation of the Irish President, Mary McAleese, she made the first state visit to the Republic of Ireland by a British monarch in May 2011.

She has demonstrated support for inter-faith relations and has met with leaders of other churches and religions, including five popes: Pius XII, John XXIII, John Paul II, Benedict XVI, and Francis.

The following year brought two blows: one was the unmasking of Anthony Blunt, former Surveyor of the Queen's Pictures, as a communist spy; the other was the assassination of her relative and in-law Lord Mountbatten by the Provisional Irish Republican Army.

Elizabeth's coronation gown was embroidered on her instructions with the floral emblems of Commonwealth countries: English Tudor rose; Scots thistle; Welsh leek; Irish shamrock; Australian wattle; Canadian maple leaf; New Zealand silver fern; South African protea; lotus flowers for India and Ceylon; and Pakistan's wheat, cotton, and jute.

In 2002, Elizabeth marked her Golden Jubilee.

Elizabeth was born in Mayfair, London, as the first child of the Duke and Duchess of York (later King George VI and Queen Elizabeth).

Titles, styles, honours and arms | Titles and styles

The Princess Elizabeth 20 November 1947 – 6 February 1952: Her Royal Highness The Princess Elizabeth, Duchess of Edinburgh

In 1977, Elizabeth marked the Silver Jubilee of her accession.

Elizabeth and Philip were married on 20 November 1947 at Westminster Abbey.

Elizabeth II has Irish roots.


"Dover Beach" is a lyric poem by the English poet Matthew Arnold.

In Stefan Collini's opinion, "Dover Beach" is a difficult poem to analyze, and some of its passages and metaphors  have become so well known that they are hard to see with "fresh eyes".

Kevin Kline's character, Cal Gold, in the film The Anniversary Party recites part of "Dover Beach" as a toast.

Beach" has been mentioned in a number of novels, plays, poems, and films: In Dodie Smith's novel, I Capture the Castle (1940), the book's protagonist remarks that Debussy's Clair de Lune reminds her of "Dover Beach" (in the film adaptation of the novel, the character quotes (or, rather, misquotes) a line from the poem).

Samuel Barber composed a setting of "Dover Beach" for string quartet and baritone.

Sea of Faith by John Brehm, a collection of poems [The University of Wisconsin Press, 2004] (and the title of the eponymous poem which begins Once when I was teaching "Dover Beach" Dover Beach by Billy CollinsEven in the U. S. Supreme Court

He also seems to have borrowed the main setting of his novella On Chesil Beach (2005) from Dover Beach, additionally playing with the fact that Arnold's poem was composed on his honeymoon (see above).

Arnold begins with a naturalistic and detailed nightscape of the beach at Dover in which auditory imagery plays a significant role ("Listen!

William Butler Yeats responds directly to Arnold's pessimism in his four-line poem, "The Nineteenth Century and After" (1929): Anthony Hecht, US Poet Laureate, replied to "Dover Beach" in his poem "The Dover Bitch".

In Fahrenheit 451 (1951), author Ray Bradbury has his protagonist Guy Montag read part of "Dover Beach" to his wife Mildred and her friends after attempts at intellectual conversation fail and Montag discovers just how shallow and uncaring

Dover Beach is a film by Stefan Collini.


He played his entire 14-year Major League Baseball (MLB) career for the Boston Red Sox (1937–1951).

He was hired as the first base coach for the Red Sox in 1967 under new manager Dick Williams.

After he retired as a player, Doerr served as a scout and a coach; he worked with Carl Yastrzemski before his Triple Crown season.

"On August 2, 2007, the Red Sox held "Bobby Doerr Day" at Fenway Park where he rode along the warning track in a car, threw out the first pitch, and gave a speech.

Doerr was the last surviving member of the 1946 Boston Red Sox team that won the AL pennant and lost the World Series in seven games to the St. Louis Cardinals.

He became the oldest living former Red Sox player upon the death of Lou Lucier in October 2014.

All of Doerr's offensive Red Sox records were later broken by Williams, who referred to Doerr as "the silent captain of the Red Sox.

Doerr resigned from the Red Sox when Williams was fired as manager in September 1969.

In 1938, he became a regular in the Red Sox lineup.

Doerr lived in Oregon since the late 1930s, residing in the vicinity of Agness for much of his career before relocating to Junction City in the 1950s.

Bobby Doerr was a player for the Boston Red Sox before becoming a coach.


Beyoncé Giselle Knowles-Carter ( bee-YON-say; born September 4, 1981) is an American singer, songwriter, record producer, dancer, actress and filmmaker.

Her singing talent was discovered when dance instructor Darlette Johnson began humming a song

Beyoncé's interest in music and performing continued after winning a school talent show at age seven, singing John Lennon's "Imagine" to beat 15/16-year-olds.

Her announcement gained over 6.3 million "likes" within eight hours, breaking the world record for the most liked image on the website at the time.

They are known for their private relationship, although they have appeared to become more relaxed in recent years.

Beyoncé is known for coining popular phrases such as 'put a ring on it,' a euphemism for marriage proposal, '

This has been recreated by many other artists since, such as Frank Ocean and Melanie Martinez.

Emmett Price, a professor of music at Northeastern University, wrote in 2007 that he thinks race plays a role in many of these criticisms, saying white celebrities who dress similarly do not attract as many comments.

They were placed into a group called Girl's Tyme with three other girls, and rapped and danced on the talent show circuit in Houston.

Born and raised in Houston, Texas, Beyoncé performed in various singing and dancing competitions as a child.

It's one reason Beyoncé may be the most universally beloved artist of the Gen Y. A figure of talent, beauty and grace, Queen Bey has developed into the most exciting artist of the millennium as well as a political figure, setting the tone for how other major stars speak about feminism and the Black Lives Matter movement with the release of her landmark Lemonade album in 2016."She is often credited for the cultural shift towards female pop singers rapping and for creating the staccato style of 'rap-singing' she used in songs like "Bug

Beyoncé is known for her many talents like singing and acting.


First published in 1897, it was based on Crane's experience of surviving a shipwreck off the coast of Florida earlier that year while traveling to Cuba to work as a newspaper correspondent.

"The Open Boat" is divided into seven sections, each told mainly from the point of view of the correspondent, based upon Crane himself.

"The Open Boat" is one of the most frequently discussed works in Crane's canon, and is regularly anthologized.

Chester Wolford noted in his critical analysis of Crane's short fiction that although one of the author's most familiar themes deals with a character's seeming insignificance in an indifferent universe, the correspondent's experience in "The Open Boat" is perhaps more personal than what was described in earlier stories because of Crane's obvious connection to the story.

The English volume, published simultaneously with the American one, was titled The Open Boat and Other Stories and published by William Heinemann.

A volume titled The Open Boat and Other Tales of Adventure was published in the United States in 1898; an edition entitled The Open Boat and Other Stories was published simultaneously in England.

The correspondent then notices a shark swimming near the boat, but he does not seem to be bothered by it as one would expect.

"The Open Boat" was published in the United States by Doubleday & McClure in April 1898 as part of the book The Open Boat and Other Tales of Adventure, which included additional works by Crane such as

Praising the merit of the story and his friend's literary importance, journalist Harold Frederic wrote in his review for The New York Times that "even if he had written nothing else, ["The Open Boat" would] have placed [Crane] where he now undoubtedly stands." English poet Robert Bridges likewise praised the story in his review for Life, stating that Crane "has indelibly fixed the experience on your mind, and that is the test of a literary artisan".

He and three other men were forced to navigate their way to shore in a small boat; one of the men, an oiler named Billie Higgins, drowned after the boat overturned.

The Open Boat is based on a true experience.


Kennedy's maternal grandfather and namesake, John F. "Honey Fitz" Fitzgerald, served as a U.S. Congressman and was elected to two terms as Mayor of Boston.

Throughout the English-speaking world, the given name Kennedy has sometimes been used in honor of President Kennedy, as well his brother Robert.

Presidency (1961–1963) | Domestic policy | Civil Rights Movement

Former First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt led the commission.

The defiant Kennedy took the cue and named his group "The Muckers Club", which included roommate and lifelong friend Kirk LeMoyne

Personal life, family, and reputation | Popular image

Although Eisenhower had allowed presidential press conferences to be filmed for television, Kennedy was the first president to ask for them to be broadcast live and made good use of the medium.

Personal life, family, and reputation | "Camelot Era"

The term was first publicly used by his wife in a post-assassination Life magazine interview with Theodore H. White, in which she revealed his affection for the contemporary Broadway musical of the same name, particularly the closing lines of the title song: Don't let it be forgot, that once there was a spot, for one brief, shining moment that was known as Camelot.

His paternal grandfather, P. J. Kennedy, served as a Massachusetts state legislator.

Personal life, family, and reputation | Health

The President's primary White House physician, George Burkley, realized that treatments by Jacobson and Travell, including the excessive use of steroids and amphetamines, were medically inappropriate, and took effective action to remove the president from their care.

FOUR.His first command was PT-101 from December 7, 1942, until February 23, 1943: It was a patrol torpedo (PT) boat used for training while Kennedy was an instructor at Melville.

In 1939, Kennedy toured Europe, the Soviet Union, the Balkans, and the Middle East in preparation for his Harvard senior honors thesis.

Personal life, family, and reputation | Personal tragedies

His wife Jacqueline Kennedy suffered a miscarriage in 1955 and a stillbirth in 1956: a daughter informally named Arabella.

Former U.S President Kennedy took his first and middle name from his grandfather.


Griffey also played football as a wide receiver and received scholarship offers to play college football for such programs as Oklahoma and Michigan.

Post-playing career | Baseball Hall of Fame election

The team also honored Griffey in a unique fashion in the 2016 MLB draft, selecting his son Trey in the 24th round (matching his jersey number), even though Trey, at the time a wide receiver at the University of Arizona, had not played baseball since his preteen years.

Taryn goes to the University of Arizona and plays for the women's basketball team.

Trey is a wide receiver in the National Football League (NFL).

On January 6, 2016, Griffey was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame, receiving 99.32 percent of the vote, breaking the record previously held by Tom Seaver's 98.84 percent in 1992.

and the father of National Football League player Trey Griffey.

Professional career | Seattle Mariners (1989–1999)

He led his league multiple times in different hitting categories.

Professional career | Return to Mariners (2009–2010)

It marked the 44th different ballpark in which he had hit a home run.

" Griffey ultimately accepted a contract offer from the Mariners on February 18, 2009, after "agonizing" over the decision.

Griffey indicated he was motivated by sentimental reasons toward Seattle, where he received an overwhelmingly positive reception when he last played there as a Cincinnati Red in June 2007, but was inclined towards the Braves for its proximity to his home in Orlando, Florida, and his desire to be with his family during the season.

Ken Griffey Jr. played football and received scholarship offers to play for different universities.


Vince Gilligan created the television show Breaking Bad with the premise that the show's protagonist Walter White would turn from "From Mr. Chips to Scarface" through the series' course.

The setting for Goodbye, Mr. Chips is probably based on The Leys School, Cambridge, where James Hilton was a pupil (1915–18).

Goodbye, Mr. Chips was parodied in the British sketch comedy programmes Hale and Pace (as Piss Off, Mr. Chips) and Big Train.

Hilton is reported to have said that the inspiration for the protagonist, Mr. Chips, came from many sources, including his father, who was the headmaster of Chapel End School.

" The mutton chop side whiskers of one of the masters at The Leys earned him the nickname "Chops", a likely inspiration for Mr Chips' name.

Goodbye, Mr. Chips is a novella about the life of a schoolteacher, Mr. Chipping, written by the English writer James Hilton and first published by Hodder & Stoughton on October 1934.

Like Mr. Chips, Balgarnie was a strict disciplinarian, but would also invite boys to visit him for tea and biscuits.

Mr. Chips is also likely to have been based on W. H. Balgarnie, a master at The Leys (1900–30), who was in charge of the Leys Fortnightly (in which Hilton's first short stories and essays were published).

Early in the novel, Anderson briefly reminisces about attending Brookfield and knowing "Chips".

In this version the character of Katherine is greatly expanded, and the time setting of the story is moved forward several decades, with Chips’ career beginning in the early 20th century and his later career covering World War II, rather than World War I.  O’Toole and Clark's performances were widely praised.

Mr Chips, as the boys call him, is conventional in his beliefs and exercises firm discipline in the classroom.

Mr.Chips, of Goodbye, Mr. Chips, was not the inspiration for a character in any popular crime dramas.


At the age of 40 (the same age his father had been when he married), Esau took two Hittite wives, Judith the daughter of Beeri, and Basemath the daughter of Elon, who vexed Isaac and Rebecca to no end, as these women were also idol-worshippers.

She then convinced Isaac to send Jacob away, by telling him that she despaired of him marrying a local girl from the idol-worshipping families of Canaan (as Esau had done).

Esau was heartbroken by the deception, and begged for his own blessing.

Isaac therefore sent Esau out to the fields to trap and cook a piece of game for him, so that he could eat it and bless Esau before he died.

The Hebrew Bible states that Esau, returning famished from the fields, begged Jacob to give him some of the stew. The Hebrew Bible states that Esau, returning famished from the fields, begged Jacob to give him some of the stew. (Esau referred to the dish as "that red, red stuff", giving rise to his nickname, Hebrew: אדום ('Edom, meaning "Red").) Jacob offered to give Esau a bowl of stew in exchange for his birthright (the right to be recognized as firstborn), and Esau agreed.

Rebecca appears in the Hebrew Bible as the wife of Isaac and the mother of Jacob and Esau.

Jacob had scarcely left the room when Esau returned from the hunt to receive the blessing.

Surprised to perceive that Esau was back so soon, Isaac asked how it could be that the hunt went so quickly.

Confused, Isaac exclaimed, "The voice is the voice of Jacob, but the hands are the hands of Esau!" (27:22).

As a contrast, Isaac perceived Gehenna opening beneath Esau when the latter entered the room.

Esau was filled with hatred toward Jacob for taking away both his birthright and his blessing.

Jacob and Esau were born when Isaac was 60 (Gen. 25:26); at that time Ishmael was 74.

Esau got hitched to a woman who was a Phoenician.


Reception | Box office | Other countries

The top countries were the United Kingdom ($10.2 million), Germany ($6.1 million), France ($6 million), Australia ($5.6 million) and Brazil ($2.5 million).

On its second weekend, it grossed $76.1 million overseas and became the fourth-highest-grossing film of the year in Europe.

Reception | Box office | United States and Canada

It went on to make $104.8 million on its first day (including previews), and $220 million over the weekend, both the second-highest amounts of all time.

The Last Jedi added only $7 million during the week, to reach a total of $34.2 million in its first seven days.

In July 2013, Kennedy announced at Star Wars Celebration Europe that John Williams would return to score the Star Wars sequel trilogy.

Star Wars: The Force Awakens opened to $52 million two years prior and Rogue One, which featured Chinese stars Donnie Yen and Jiang Wen, opened to $30 million in 2016.

It would have lasted four days, but filming was canceled for the first day due to poor weather and rough conditions.

Star Wars: The Last Jedi  grossed $620.2 million in the United States and Canada, and $712.6 million in other territories, for a worldwide total of $1.333 billion.

In its first two days of release the film made $60.8 million from 48 markets.

This included $36.7 million in the UK (third-highest), $23.6 million in Germany (second-highest), $18.1 million in France, $15.9 million in Australia (second-highest), $14.4 million in Japan, $8.5 million in Russia, $8.3 million in Spain, $7.2 million in Brazil, $7 million in Italy and Mexico, $6.0 million in Sweden and $5.1 million in South Korea.

The film was the highest-grossing film of 2017, the second highest-grossing film in the series (behind The Force Awakens), the fourth highest-grossing film released by Walt Disney Studios, the sixth highest-grossing film in North America, and the ninth-highest-grossing film of all time.

Internationally, Star Wars: The Last Jedi's box office in the UK on the first days was the highest in Europe.


Throughout his years at school, Kim remains in contact with the holy man he has come to love.

He occasionally works for Mahbub Ali, a Pashtun horse trader who is one of the native operatives of the British secret service.

Living a vagabond existence in India under British rule in the late 19th century, Kim earns his living by begging and running small errands on the streets of Lahore.

Wilson, Angus, The Strange Ride of Rudyard Kipling: His Life and Works, (New York,

Peopled with fakirs, street vendors and wealthy elites, the beginning of the novel parallels Kim in many ways.

Kim is a novel by Nobel Prize-winning English author Rudyard Kipling.

ISBN 0-7195-5560-4 The author visits the locations of the novel and discusses the real-life personages that may have possibly inspired its characters.

On the way, Kim incidentally learns about parts of the Great Game and is recruited by Mahbub Ali to carry a message to the head of British intelligence in Umballa.

Steven Gould's 2011 novel 7th Sigma is heavily based on Kim, featuring a young boy named Kim who is raised by a martial arts teacher and becomes involved in intelligence work, eventually becoming a trained agent.

Kipling, Rudyard, Kim, (New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2002).

The Sussex edition is standard for Kipling's works.

The first part of Robert Heinlein's 1957 novel Citizen of the Galaxy depict a clever slave boy of mysterious parentage living in a feudal planet and guided by an inter-stellar great-game spy.

Rudyard Kipling's novel, Kim, is about a boy who learns life lessons under a street vendor's tutelage.


The fields were later taken over by the local Little League teams, and are still in use.

Tarpon Springs, Florida honored George by naming the former spring training home of the St. Louis Browns "Sisler Field".

George Harold Sisler (March 24, 1893 – March 26, 1973), nicknamed "Gorgeous George", was an American professional baseball first baseman and player-manager.

Sisler was part of a scouting corps that Rickey assigned to look for black players, though the scouts thought they were looking for players to fill an all-black baseball team separate from MLB.

After Sisler retired as a player, he worked as a major league scout and aide.

He then enlisted in the army, joining several major league players in a Chemical Warfare Service unit commanded by Rickey.

A severe attack of sinusitis caused him double vision in 1923, forcing him to miss the entire season.

Sisler was an athletic student and played baseball, basketball and football in high school, but was more focused on baseball.

Sisler was elected to the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 1939.

Sisler also spent some time as commissioner of the National Baseball Congress.

George Harold Sisler, famous player of baseball and talent scout, has several fields named after him that are utilized primarily by children.


He began the first volume of the series, A Game of Thrones, in 1991, and it was published in 1996.

A Song of Ice and Fire is a series of epic fantasy novels by the American novelist and screenwriter George R. R. Martin.

Publishing history | First three novels (1991–2000)

George R. R. Martin was already a successful fantasy and sci-fi author and TV writer before writing his A Song of Ice and Fire book series.

George R. R. Martin believes the most profound influences to be the ones experienced in childhood.

The first scholarly monograph on the series is George R. R. Martin and the Fantasy Form, by New Zealand scholar Joseph Rex Young.

George R. R. Martin earned his following the hard way, by word of mouth, by hooking his characters into the psyche of his readers to an extent that most writers of fantasy only dream of.

Admiring the works of J. R. R. Tolkien in his childhood, he wanted to write an epic fantasy, though he did not have any specific ideas.

After the success of The Lord of the Rings films, Martin received his first inquiries to the rights of the A Song of Ice and Fire series from various producers and filmmakers.

Inspiration and writing | Writing process

Martin does not consider A Song of Ice and Fire a "series" but a single story published in several volumes.

Martin chose A Song of Ice and Fire as the overall series title: Martin saw the struggle of the cold Others and the fiery dragons as one possible meaning for "Ice and Fire", whereas the word "song" had previously appeared in Martin's book titles A Song for Lya and Songs

Books in the A Song of Ice and Fire series are first published in hardcover and are later re-released as paperback editions.

George R. R. Martin published the first volume of the novel, A Song of Ice and Fire  in the early 2000's.


Michael Joseph "King" Kelly (December 31, 1857 – November 8, 1894), also commonly known as "$10,000 Kelly", was an American outfielder, catcher, and manager in various professional American baseball leagues including the National League, International Association, Players' League, and the American Association.

Kelly was born in Troy, New York  to Michael Kelly Sr.

"Hi! Hi!" Dixwell and Frank Norton, and Boston Players' League President Charles A. Prince and Secretary Julian B. Hart.

Kelly's baserunning innovations are also the subject of the hit 1889 song entitled "Slide, Kelly, Slide" and a 1927 comedy film of the same name.

He was billed as "King Kelly, the Monarch of the Baseball Field." His trousers and shirt collar were too big and he buttoned his jacket wrong.

Palace Theatre. The London Gaiety Girls, Chaperoned by King Kelly, the Famous $10,000 Base Ballist." During the week, his name was deleted when he was too ill to appear.

His own autobiography, Play Ball, was the first written by a baseball player.

Floyd was arguably the first player agent in baseball history.

The year after that, Kelly signed to play for the Cincinnati Reds, then known as the Red Stockings.

The house, worth $10,000, could not be mortgaged based on the $1,100 in donations, $400 of which went for a horse and carriage, so in the winter of 1890-91, father-in-law John Headifen "came to the rescue of his (Kelly's) [sic] friends and subscribed $1800", the Boston Record said.

"Kelly laughed, too, and shook a roll of music at a lot of friends up in the private boxes." Kelly came on after two French singers of opera.

Sharing the same first name as his father, King Kelly came to be known for his baseball career.


Hadrian preferred to invest in the development of stable, defensible borders and the unification of the empire's disparate peoples.

Hadrian (; Latin: Caesar Traianus Hadrianus; 24 January 76 – 10 July 138) was Roman emperor from 117 to 138.

As Hadrian also forbade equestrians to try cases against senators, the Senate retained full legal authority over its members; it also remained the highest court of appeal, and formal appeals to the emperor regarding its decisions were forbidden.

There was no public trial for the four – they were tried in absentia, hunted down and killed.

Hadrian sought to include provincials in a commonwealth of civilised peoples and a common Hellenic culture under Roman supervision.

The temple's dedication and statuary associated the worship of the traditional Roman goddess Venus, divine ancestress and protector of the Roman people, with the worship of the goddess Roma – herself a Greek invention

Robin Lane Fox credits Hadrian as creator of a unified Greco-Roman cultural tradition, and as the end of this same tradition; Hadrian's attempted "restoration" of Classical culture within a non-democratic Empire drained it of substantive meaning, or, in Fox's words, "kill[ed] it with kindness".

In the Historia Augusta, Hadrian is described as "a little too much Greek", too  cosmopolitan for a Roman emperor.

According to the Historia Augusta, Hadrian informed the Senate of his accession in a letter as a fait accompli, explaining that "the unseemly haste of the troops in acclaiming him emperor was due to the belief that the state could not be without an emperor".

Hadrian and Trajan were both considered to be – in the words of Aurelius Victor – "aliens", people "from the outside" (advenae).Hadrian's parents died in 86, when he was ten years old.

The self-indulgent emperor Nero had enjoyed a prolonged and peaceful tour of Greece, and had been criticised by the Roman elite for abandoning his fundamental responsibilities as emperor.

Hadrian  was a Roman emperor and tried to unify the diverse people.


It has the highest standard of living in the Middle East, and ranks among the world's top countries by percentage of citizens with military training, percentage of citizens holding a tertiary education degree, research and development spending by GDP percentage, women's safety, life expectancy, innovativeness, and happiness.

History | Middle Ages and modern history

In the late 18th century, local Arab Sheikh Zahir al-Umar created a de facto independent Emirate in the Galilee.

Government and politics | Foreign relations

The United States regards Israel as its "most reliable partner in the Middle East," based on "common democratic values, religious affinities, and security interests".

Data published by the OECD in 2016 estimated the average life expectancy of Israelis at 82.5 years, making it the 6th-highest in the world.

Israel has the second-largest number of startup companies in the world after the United States, and the third-largest number of NASDAQ-listed companies after the U.S. and China.

Israel has also been the home of Emile Habibi, whose novel The Secret Life of Saeed: The Pessoptimist, and other writings, won him the Israel prize for Arabic literature.

History | Further conflict and peace process

In 1994, the Israel–Jordan peace treaty was signed, making Jordan the second Arab country to normalize relations with Israel.

The Rockefeller specializes in archaeological remains from the Ottoman and other periods of Middle East history.

History | Early years of the State of Israel

Jews of European background were often treated more favorably than Jews from Middle Eastern and North African countries—housing units reserved for the latter were often re-designated for the former, with the result that Jews newly arrived from Arab lands generally ended up staying in transit camps for longer.

Government and politics | Administrative divisions

^a Including over 200,000 Jews and 300,000 Arabs in East Jerusalem.

Israel has the second highest quality of life in the Middle East after the United Arab Emirates.


Baroness Thatcher died on 8 April 2013, at the age of 87, after suffering a stroke.

She is the protagonist in two films, played by Lindsay Duncan in Margaret (2009) and by Meryl Streep in The Iron Lady (2011), in which she is depicted as suffering from dementia or Alzheimer's disease.

Prime Minister of the United Kingdom: 1979–1990 | Environment

Thatcher later wrote: "I always found the Queen's attitude towards the work of the Government absolutely correct ... stories of clashes between 'two powerful women' were just too good not to make up." Thatcher supported an active climate protection policy; she was instrumental in the passing of the Environmental Protection Act 1990, the founding of the Hadley Centre for Climate Research and Prediction, the establishment of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, and the ratification of the Montreal Protocol on preserving the ozone.

On 28 September, a service for Thatcher was held in the All Saints Chapel of the Royal Hospital Chelsea's Margaret Thatcher Infirmary.

Thatcher was parodied by Wells in several media.

In the US, Thatcher received the Ronald Reagan Freedom Award, and was later designated Patron of The Heritage Foundation in 2006, where she established the Margaret Thatcher Center for Freedom.

As Prime Minister, she implemented policies known as Thatcherism.

Thatcher became prime minister on 4 May 1979.

Prime Minister of the United Kingdom: 1979–1990 | Domestic affairs | Privatisation

The policy of privatisation has been called "a crucial ingredient of Thatcherism".

Thatcher earned $50,000 for each speech she delivered.

Thatcher became an advocate of Croatian and Slovenian independence.

Thatcher passed from Parkinson's disease.


The span was originally called the New York and Brooklyn Bridge or the East River Bridge but was officially renamed the Brooklyn Bridge in 1915.

History | Late 19th through early 20th centuries

The city government passed a bill to officially name the structure the "Brooklyn Bridge" in January 1915.

The caisson on the Manhattan side was slightly different because it had to be installed at a greater depth.

Originally, each of the two roadways carried two lanes of a different direction of traffic.

A separate measurement of 5,989 feet (1,825 m) is sometimes given; this is the distance from the curb at Centre Street in Manhattan.

Roebling was subsequently named the main engineer of the work, and by September 1867, had presented a master plan.

Impact | Historical designations and plaques

Named after Samuel Osgood, a Massachusetts politician and lawyer, it was built in 1770 and served as the first U.S. presidential mansion.

These documents were given to the New York City Municipal Archives, where they are normally located, though the documents were briefly displayed at the Whitney Museum of American Art in 1976.

Alternatively, the span was just referred to as the "Brooklyn Bridge", a name originating in a January 25, 1867, letter to the editor sent to the Brooklyn Daily Eagle.

These wires hold up the truss structure around the bridge deck.

The structure was given a different name in the 1915.


Israel is served by two international airports, Ben Gurion Airport, the country's main hub for international air travel near Tel Aviv, and Ramon Airport, which serves the southernmost port city of Eilat.

Israel has 5,715 buses on scheduled routes, operated by several carriers, the largest of which is Egged, serving most of the country.

Israel has one official language, Hebrew.

The immigration was in accordance with the One Million Plan.

Azerbaijan is one of the few majority Muslim countries to develop bilateral strategic and economic relations with Israel.

The success of the Ofeq program has made Israel one of seven countries capable of launching such satellites.

The Arrow missile is one of the world's few operational anti-ballistic missile systems.

More than one million Russian-speaking immigrants arrived in Israel from the post-Soviet states between 1990 and 2004.

Out of more than one million immigrants from the former Soviet Union, about 300,000 are considered not Jewish by the Chief Rabbinate of Israel.

The Python air-to-air missile series is often considered one of the most crucial weapons in its military history.

Israel only has one  large international  airport and 5,715 buses on scheduled routes.


He was one of the highest-paid actors in the world from 2013 to 2015, earning $28 million, $46 million, and $41.5 million, respectively, and in 2019, with $57 million.

His films have grossed $11 billion worldwide and he has placed four times in annual rankings of the highest-paid actors in the world.

Bradley Charles Cooper (born January 5, 1975) is an American actor, film director, producer, and screenwriter.

Career | Commercial fluctuations (2013–2017)

" American Sniper earned $547 million worldwide to become Cooper's highest-grossing live-action film and the third highest-grossing R-rated film of all time.

Career | Professional expansion (2018–present)

It grossed over $1 billion worldwide, making it the highest-grossing R-rated film of all time, and earned him a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Picture and the BAFTA Award for Best Film.

Cooper has received one BAFTA, one Screen Actors Guild Award, and two Grammy Awards.

A reviewer for The Independent argued that Cooper is "reduced to mugging for the camera, offering reaction shots to nothing." Nevertheless, like its preceding entries, the film was a commercial success, grossing $362 million worldwide, and remains one of Cooper's highest-grossing releases.

Career | Breakthrough and success (2009–2012)

The Hangover was a commercial success and finished as among the highest-grossing R-rated films in the United States.

Time magazine named him one of the 100 most influential people in the world in 2015.

In 2009, Cooper hosted Saturday Night Live with musical guest TV on the Radio, portraying actor Christian Bale in one sketch, and appeared in a supporting role in the film

American actor Bradley Cooper is one of the highest paid actors in the world haaving grossing $11 billion.


It performed at Shakespeare's Globe Theatre in London (2012) The Very Merry Wives of Windsor, Iowa by Alison Carey, adapted the play as a modern political satire, blending new dialogue with Shakespeare's text.

The Merry Wives of Windsor or Sir John Falstaff and the Merry Wives of Windsor is a comedy by William Shakespeare first published in 1602, though believed to have been written in or before 1597.

It played as a staged reading at the Sheen Center in New York City (2018).

Premiered at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival (2012) The Merry Widows of Windsor by Emily C. A. Snyder is a sequel to Shakespeare's text, written in blank verse.

It is largely considered to be the best operatic adaptation of The Merry Wives of Windsor, as well as one of opera's greatest comic achievements.

The Comical Gallant, a revision and adaptation by John Dennis (1702) The Merry Wives of Windsor was adapted and translated into Swahili for the Bitter Pill Company by Joshua Ogutu.

If it is correct, it would probably mean that Shakespeare wrote The Merry Wives of Windsor between Henry IV, Part 1 and Part 2.

It premiered at the American Shakespeare Center, as one of the winners of Round 1 of Shakespeare's New Contemporaries (2018) Les deux amies, ou le vieux garçon, music by Louis-August Papavoine (1761) Herne le chasseur, music by François-André Danican Philidor, libretto by Douin (1773) Die Lustigen Weiber von Windsor, libretto by George Christian Romer, music by Peter Ritter (1794) Die Lustigen Weiber von Windsor, libretto by George Christian Romer, music by Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf (1796) Falstaff, an opera buffa by composer Antonio Salieri, with a libretto by Carlo Prospero Defranceschi (1799) Falstaff by composer Michael William Balfe, with an Italian libretto by Manfredo Maggioni (1838) Die lustigen Weiber von Windsor, a singspiel, by German composer Carl Otto Nicolai (1849).

The Merry Wives of Windsor is Shakespeare's only play that he himself seems to hold in contempt, even as he indites it.

One is that Pistol and Shallow are introduced as new characters in Henry IV, Part 2, but in The Merry Wives their connection to Falstaff is taken for granted.

The comedy by William Shakespeare The Merry Wives of Windsor was adapted into a political satire in London in 2012 and a sequel was staged in 2018 in New York City.


Deng died on 19 February 1997, aged 92 from a lung infection and Parkinson's disease.

Political career under Mao | Mayor of Chongqing

Deng Xiaoping would spend three years in Chongqing, the city where he had studied in his teenage years before going to France.

The statue was erected to commemorate Deng's 100th birthday.

Deng Xiaoping (1995). Selected Works of Deng Xiaoping: 1938–1965.

Takes power and rule 1977-1989 | Reform and Opening-up | Further reforms

Premier Zhou Enlai, for example, pioneered the Four Modernizations years before Deng.

China, however, was still in the era of Deng Xiaoping.

Selected Works of Deng Xiaoping: 1975–1982.

Selected Works of Deng Xiaoping: 1982–1992.

Takes power and rule 1977-1989 | Boluan Fanzheng

" The document also steered the prime responsibility of the Cultural Revolution away from Mao (although it did state that "Mao mistakenly began the Cultural Revolution") to the "counter-revolutionary cliques" of the Gang of Four and Lin Biao.

The Chinese characters for "Statue of Deng Xiaoping" are inscribed on the pedestal.

Deng Xiaoping passed away before his 93rd birthday from alzheimer's disease.


In 1961, Vanessa Redgrave was an active member of the Committee of 100 and its working group.

She ran for parliament several times as a party member but never received more than a few hundred votes.

During a June 2005 interview on Larry King Live, Redgrave was challenged on this criticism and on her political views.

Redgrave has declined to be specific about her financial involvement but said she was "very happy" to be of "some small assistance for Jamil and his wife", adding, "It is a profound honour and I am glad to be alive to be able to do this.

"In June 2006, she was awarded a lifetime achievement award from the Transilvania International Film Festival, one of whose sponsors is a mining company named Gabriel Resources.

In 1967, the year Redgrave divorced Richardson, who left her for the French actress Jeanne Moreau, she became romantically involved with Italian actor Franco Nero when they met on the set of Camelot.

In December 2002, Redgrave paid £50,000 bail for Chechen separatist Deputy Premier and special envoy Akhmed Zakayev, who had sought political asylum in the United Kingdom and was accused by the Russian government of aiding and abetting hostage-takings in the Moscow Hostage Crisis of 2002 and guerrilla warfare against Russia.

However, in June 2005 Redgrave left the party.

Redgrave has been an outspoken critic of the "war on terrorism".

In 2004, Vanessa Redgrave and her brother Corin Redgrave launched the Peace and Progress Party, which campaigned against the Iraq War and for human rights.

The decision to cast Redgrave as Fénelon was, however, a source of controversy.

In 1995, Redgrave was elected to serve as a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador.

Redgrave was involved in politics during her lifetime.


One of the best-known landmarks of Germany, it was built on the site of a former city gate that marked the start of the road from Berlin to the town of Brandenburg an der Havel, which used to be capital of the Margraviate of Brandenburg.

The Brandenburg Gate was not part of the old Berlin Fortress, but one of eighteen gates within the Berlin Customs Wall (German: Akzisemauer), erected in the 1730s, including the old fortified city and many of its then suburbs.

The high point of the celebrations was when over 1000 colorfully designed foam domino tiles, each over 2.5 metres (8 ft 2 in) tall, were lined up along the route of the former wall through the city centre.

The Berlin Senate only lets the gate be illuminated for events in partner cities and cities with a special connection to Berlin.

Throughout its existence, the Brandenburg Gate was often a site for major historical events and is today considered not only as a symbol of the tumultuous history of Europe and Germany, but also of European unity and peace.

It was designed by Carl Gotthard Langhans, the Court Superintendent of Buildings, and built between 1788 and 1791, replacing the earlier simple guardhouses which flanked the original gate in the Customs Wall.

The gate survived World War II and was one of the damaged structures still standing in the Pariser Platz ruins in 1945 (

The Brandenburg Gate (German: Brandenburger Tor; [ˈbʁandn̩bʊɐ̯gɐ ˈtoːɐ̯]) is an 18th-century neoclassical monument in Berlin, built on the orders of Prussian king Frederick William II after the temporary restoration of order during the Batavian Revolution.

When the Revolutions of 1989 occurred and the wall was demolished, the gate symbolized freedom and the desire to unify the city of Berlin.

One block to the north stands the Reichstag building, which houses the German parliament (Bundestag).

This landmark was built on the site of a former city gate.


Rise in the Communist Party | Heading the Stavropol Region: 1970–1977

As regional leader, Gorbachev initially attributed economic and other failures to "the inefficiency and incompetence of cadres, flaws in management structure or gaps in legislation", but eventually concluded that they were caused by an excessive centralization of decision making in Moscow.

Серге́евич Горбачёв; born 2 March 1931) is a Russian and former Soviet politician.

Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev (Russian: Михаи́л

General Secretary of the CPSU | Early years: 1985–1986 | Domestic policies

He was concerned by the country's low productivity, poor work ethic, and inferior quality goods; like several economists, he feared this would lead to the country becoming a second-rate power.

Neither Gorbachev nor Thatcher or Mitterrand wanted a swift reunification of Germany, aware that it would likely become the dominant European power.

That year, opinion polls showed Yeltsin overtaking Gorbachev as the most popular politician in the Soviet Union.

Unraveling  of the USSR | Presidency of the Soviet Union: 1990–1991 | August putsch and government crises

By this point, Gorbachev was isolated from many of his former close allies and aides.

Rise in the Communist Party | Secretary of the Central Committee: 1978–1984

He began to have concerns about other policies too.

Rise in the Communist Party | Stavropol Komsomol: 1955–1969

Although Gorbachev later stated that he had had private concerns about the invasion, he publicly supported it.

Post-presidency | Promoting social democracy in Putin's Russia: 1999–2008

Stating that it would not contest the forthcoming elections, Gorbachev declared: "We are fighting for power, but only for power over people's minds".

In the Soviet Union itself, opinion polls indicated that Gorbachev was the most popular politician from 1985 through to late 1989.

Russian and former Soviet politician Mikhail Gorbachev was concerned with power becoming too concentrated by the 1970s.


The couple had two sons, the princes William and Harry, who were then second and third in the line of succession to the British throne.

Her coffin, draped with the royal flag, was brought to London from Paris by Prince Charles and Diana's two sisters on 31 August 1997.

Her two sons subsequently inherited the majority of her estate.

Vine intended to portray Diana's combined strength and vulnerability as well as her closeness to her two sons.

The 2007 docudrama Diana: Last Days of a Princess details the final two months of her life.

The first of the two, Diana, Our Mother: Her Life and Legacy, was broadcast on ITV and HBO on 24 July 2017.

Diana gave her sons wider experiences than was usual for royal children.

Harry was born two years before Hewitt and Diana began their affair.

Diana's engagement ring was given to William, who later passed it to his wife, Catherine Middleton, while her wedding dress and a yellow gold watch were given to Harry.

Public life | Charity work and patronage | Landmines

The best way in which to record our appreciation of her work, and the work of NGOs that have campaigned against landmines, is to pass the Bill, and to pave the way towards a global ban on landmines.

Diana had two sons with her ex-husband and passed away in 1997.


George Kenneth Griffey Jr. (born November 21, 1969) nicknamed "Junior" and "the Kid", is an American former professional baseball outfielder who played 22 years in Major League Baseball (MLB).

Professional career | Minor League Baseball (1987–1988)

Baseball America magazine named him the league's number one major league prospect.

A campaign had been formed to rename a section of First Avenue South, which runs adjacent to T-Mobile Park, to Ken Griffey Jr. Drive just after his announcement to retire from baseball.

The Show 17 includes Ken Griffey Jr. as the cover athlete for the American version of the game.

Griffey Jr. cited arguments with his father, Ken Griffey Sr., depression, and anger as reasons for his attempted suicide.

Professional career | Cincinnati Reds (2000–2008) | 2008

On April 4, 2008, Ken Griffey Jr. passed Reggie Jackson for 16th on the all-time list after driving in his 1,702nd RBI.

Ken Jr. was in the clubhouse during his father's back-to-back championships in the 1975 and 1976 World Series.

Professional career | Cincinnati Reds (2000–2008) | 2007

On July 16, 2007, Ken Griffey Jr. hit his 587th home run to pass Frank Robinson for 6th place on the all-time home run list.

On his failed attempt, Griffey Jr. stated, "It seemed like everyone was yelling at me in baseball, then I came home and everyone was yelling at me there.

Griffey was born in Donora, Pennsylvania, on November 21, 1969. (He shares a birthday with another Donora native and Hall-of-Famer, Stan Musial.) His family moved to Cincinnati, Ohio, where his father, Ken Griffey Sr., played for the Cincinnati Reds, when Ken Jr. was six years old.

Professional career | Seattle Mariners (1989–1999)

Despite Griffey falling short, Major League Baseball put forth an effort to draw a new set of young fans and regain those disenchanted by the 1994 strike focused on McGwire, Sosa, and Griffey's pursuit of Maris' record.

Ken Griffey Jr. was nicked named "the Kid" to set him apart from all the other Jr.'s  in baseball.


Bayona said that making the film was the biggest challenge of his life.

Directed by J. A. Bayona, it is the second installment of the planned Jurassic World trilogy, and the fifth overall installment of the Jurassic Park film series.

Derek Connolly and Jurassic World director Colin Trevorrow returned as writers, with Trevorrow and the original 1993 Jurassic Park director Steven Spielberg as executive producers.

J. A. Bayona is an incredible director and I know he'll push the boundaries of what a 'Jurassic' movie is.

During early conversations about the 2015 film Jurassic World, executive producer Steven Spielberg told director Colin Trevorrow that he was interested in having several more films made.

" By October 2015, director J. A. Bayona was being considered to direct the film.

Trevorrow later told Spielberg he would only focus on directing one film in the Jurassic Park series, and announced in May 2015 that he would be involved in the sequel "in some way, but not as director." He felt different directors could bring different qualities to future films.

Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom is a 2018 American science fiction adventure film and the sequel to Jurassic World (2015).

Because of criticism of the death of Zara in the previous film, Trevorrow said for Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom,

On June 22, 2017, the film's official title was announced as Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom.

Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom had its premiere at the WiZink Center in Madrid, Spain, on May 21, 2018.

Director of Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom, J. A. Bayona, consulted with Steven Spielberg on many scenes.


Quarks combine to form composite particles called hadrons, the most stable of which are protons and neutrons, the components of atomic nuclei.

Properties | Strong interaction and color charge

Similarly, the combination of three quarks, each with different color charges, or three antiquarks, each with anticolor charges, will result in the same "white" color charge and the formation of a baryon or antibaryon.

Gell-Mann and Zweig posited that they were not elementary particles, but were instead composed of combinations of quarks and antiquarks.

The resulting attraction between different quarks causes the formation of composite particles known as hadrons (see "Strong interaction and color charge" below).

The system of attraction and repulsion between quarks charged with different combinations of the three colors is called strong interaction, which is mediated by force carrying particles known as gluons; this is discussed at length below.

The result of two attracting quarks will be color neutrality: a quark with color charge ξ plus an antiquark with color charge −ξ will result in a color charge of 0 (or "white" color) and the formation of a meson.

Since the electric charge of a hadron is the sum of the charges of the constituent quarks, all hadrons have integer charges: the combination of three quarks (baryons), three antiquarks (antibaryons), or a quark and an antiquark (mesons) always results in integer charges.

At the time of the quark theory's inception, the "particle zoo" included, among other particles, a multitude of hadrons.

Despite this, sea quarks can hadronize into baryonic or mesonic particles under certain circumstances.

A quark () is a type of elementary particle and a fundamental constituent of matter.

The combination of Quarks doesn't lead to the formation of any other particle.


Instacart is an American company that operates a grocery delivery and pick-up service in the United States and Canada with headquarters in San Francisco.

In November 2018, Instacart announced the national expansion of Instacart Pickup, a grocery click-and-collect service, whereby users pick up their pre-packaged orders at the grocery store.

In March 2019, Instacart expanded its same-day alcohol delivery service in the U.S., making Instacart one of the largest online delivery and pickup marketplaces for alcohol in the U.S.On April 11, 2019, the company expanded its services to offering an on-demand option for its workers, in order to allow workers to work more flexible schedules.

Instead of delivery, using the Instacart Pickup option, customers can pickup their packaged orders from the store.

In the lead-up to the election, high-level Instacart managers distributed anti-union literature at a Skokie grocery store where some of the unionizing workers pick up groceries for delivery.

From mid-March to mid-April 2020, Instacart hired an additional 300,000 workers to meet the surge in demand for grocery deliveries during the COVID-19 pandemic.

In February 2019, after an online organizing campaign in which shoppers posted examples of payments as low as $0.80 per delivery attracted media and customer attention, the company announced that it would revise its pay system and give back pay to some workers.

In April 2018, Instacart instituted a 5% service fee on all orders.

In May 2020, Instacart began a partnership with Rite Aid, offering its service across 2,400 locations in 18 states.

In September 2018, Instacart added service from Walmart Canada stores, Staples Canada and M&M Food Market.

Instacart is an online service to purchase groceries and mail pick-up.


The muscle and wing movements of the adolescent dragons in seasons four and five were based largely on those of a chicken.

The series and the novels have inspired several video games.

In addition to the originally scored music, Columbia Records released the For the Throne: Music Inspired by the HBO Series Game of Thrones companion album on April 26, 2019.

Other media and products | Successor series | House of the Dragon

This prequel, titled House of the Dragon, was picked up straight to series on October 29, 2019.

Production | Conception and development | Inspirations and derivations

She and her family, as portrayed in Maurice Druon's historical novel series, The Accursed Kings, were a main inspiration of Martin's.

Behaviour Interactive released a free-to-play mobile game in 2019 called Game of Thrones Beyond the Wall.

Showrunner David Benioff jokingly suggested "The Sopranos in Middle-earth" as Game of Thrones' tagline, referring to its intrigue-filled plot and dark tone in a fantasy setting of magic and dragons.

The strategy game Game of Thrones Ascent ties into the HBO series, making characters and settings available to players as they appear on television.

A principal inspiration for the novels is the English Wars of the Roses (1455–1485) between the houses of Lancaster and York, reflected in Martin's houses of Lannister and Stark.

Reigns: Game of Thrones, a spin-off of the Reigns strategy video game series, is in development by Nerial, published by Devolver Digital, and was released in October 2018.

Reception and achievements | Cultural influence

In 2019, singer-songwriter Taylor Swift told Entertainment Weekly that several songs on her 2017 album Reputation were inspired by Game of Thrones characters and plots. " Khaleesi" became more popular as a name for baby girls in the United States.

Some of the dragons in Game of Thrones were inspired by the anatomy of Bald Eagles.


One Direction's debut fragrance, Our Moment, launched at Harrods in London and on their website in 2013.

History | 2020: 10 Years of One Direction

At 16:00 (GMT+1) on 23 July 2020, One Direction premiered  a 4 minutes and 57 seconds video of memories of One Direction titled "10 Years of One Direction" in celebration of their anniversary.

On 22 July 2020, One Direction posted on their Twitter, Instagram and YouTube accounts a picture with the words "10 Years of One Direction" written in it and the caption "Tomorrow!

On 23 July 2020, One Direction announced a new website (10yearsof1d.com) for fans to relieve their favourite One Direction memories, but it soon crashed shortly after its announcement due to the high volume of fans entering at once.

Signifying a further maturation of their pop sound, the album's first single, "Steal My Girl", was dubbed by Billboard as "no What Makes You Beautiful, but its Coldplay-like piano pop could be a good direction", and that the band was "not entirely ready to let go of its bubble-gum days".

History | 2013–2014: Midnight Memories and This Is Us

In December 2013, One Direction broke yet another UK sales record with the DVD and Blu-ray release of This Is Us.

In August of that same year, the group released their third book, One Direction: Where We Are: Our Band, Our Story: 100% Official.

Following the release of Take Me Home, One Direction embarked on their second concert tour in February 2013, the Take Me Home Tour.

One Direction : This Is Us, a 3D documentary and concert film about the group directed by Morgan Spurlock and produced by Spurlock, Ben Winston, Adam Milano and Simon Cowell, was released by TriStar Pictures on 30 August 2013.

Liam Payne called Midnight Memories a "slightly rockier and edgier" album than their previous material.

In February 2013, One Direction released a cover version of "One Way or Another" and "Teenage Kicks", "One Way or Another (Teenage Kicks)", as the 2013 Comic Relief single.

One Direction released an aftershave called Good Direction.


Arrius' galley is rammed and sunk, but Judah unchains the other rowers and rescues Arrius.

Principal cast members, stand-ins, and stunt people made 100 practice laps of the arena in preparation for shooting.

Marton conceived the idea of showing that Ben-Hur was able to land on and cling to the front of his chariot, then scramble back into the quadriga while the horses kept going.

These lenses squeezed the image down 1.25 times to fit on the image area of the film stock.

Six of the 70mm lenses, each worth $100,000, were shipped to Rome for use by the production.

Marton and Yakima Canutt filmed the entire chariot sequence with stunt doubles in long shot, edited the footage together, and showed the footage to Zimbalist, Wyler, and Heston to show them what the race should look like and to indicate where close-up shots with Heston and Boyd should go.

The ships were constructed based on plans found in Italian museums for actual ancient Roman galleys.

The life-size galleys and pirate ships were dismantled to prevent them from being used by competing studios.

Economic conditions in Italy were poor at the time, and as shooting for the chariot scene wound down only 1,500 extras were needed on any given day.

Paul Newman turned it down because he said he didn't have the legs to wear a tunic.

A June 8, 1958, report in The New York Times said second unit director Andrew Marton had roamed "up and down the countryside" filming footage.

In the film Ben-Hur, Judah survives his ship going down.


Puyi (Chinese: 溥儀; 7 February 1906 – 17 October 1967) was the last Emperor of China as the twelfth and final Emperor of the Qing dynasty, China's last imperial dynasty.

我的前半生 [The First Half of My Life; From Emperor to Citizen: The Autobiography of Aisin-Gioro Puyi] (in Chinese).

Biography | Emperor of China (1908–1912)

The Anglo-French journalist Edward Behr wrote about Puyi's powers as emperor of China, which allowed him to fire his air-gun at anyone he liked: The Emperor was Divine.

Such was the awe in which the Emperor was held that his younger brother Pujie never heard his parents refer to Puyi as "your elder brother" but only as the Emperor.

Chosen by Empress Dowager Cixi, Puyi became emperor at the age of 2 years and 10 months in December 1908 after the Guangxu Emperor died on 14 November.

Titled the Xuantong Emperor (Wade-Giles: Hsuan-tung Emperor),

Zaifeng was therefore a younger half-brother of the Guangxu Emperor and the first in line to succession after Guangxu.

He had the job of sweeping the streets, and got lost on his first day of work, which led him to tell astonished passers-by: "I'm Puyi, the last Emperor of the Qing dynasty.

Puyi first learned of Yuan's plans to become Emperor when he brought in army bands to serenade him whenever he had a meal, and he started on a decidedly imperial take on the presidency.

The Last Emperor, which downplays Puyi's cruelty considerably.

Puyi recalled of Johnston: "I thought everything about him was first-rate.

Puyi was the first Emperor of China.


They are built of limestone, granite, and Rosendale cement.

Construction on the suspension towers started in mid-1872, and by the time work was halted for the winter in late 1872, parts of each tower had already been built.

The granite blocks were quarried and shaped on Vinalhaven Island, Maine, under a contract with the Bodwell Granite Company, and delivered from Maine to New York by schooner.

The first work entailed the construction of two caissons, upon which the suspension towers would be built.

The limestone was quarried at the Clark Quarry in Essex County, New York.

The bridge's two suspension towers are 278 feet (85 m) tall with a footprint of 140 by 59 feet (43 by 18 m) at the high water line.

The side spans, between each suspension tower and each side's suspension anchorages, are 930 feet (280 m) long.

After the caissons were completed, piers were constructed on top of each of them upon which masonry towers would be built.

According to it, the bridge would be longer and taller than any suspension bridge previously built.

The main span between the two suspension towers is 1,595.5 feet (486.3 m) long and 85 feet (26 m) wide.

The bridge's suspension towers are built of limestone, granite, and Rosendale cement.