The Clouds (Ancient Greek: Νεφέλαι Nephelai) is a Greek comedy play written by the playwright Aristophanes.

In The Clouds however, the Chorus appears sympathetic at first but emerges as a virtual antagonist by the end of the play.

The second agon in The Clouds is between Strepsiades and his son (1345–1451) and it is in iambic tetrameter for both speakers.

References in the same parabasis to a play by Eupolis called Maricas produced in 421 BCE and criticism of the populist politician Hyperbolus who was ostracized in 416 indicate that the second version of The Clouds was probably composed somewhere between 421–16 BCE.

The Clouds arrive singing majestically of the regions whence

The Clouds advise Strepsiades to find someone younger to do the learning for him.

Socrates leads him into the dingy Thinkery for his first lesson and The Clouds step forward to address the audience.

Socrates is presented in The Clouds as a petty thief, a fraud and a sophist with a specious interest in physical speculations.

Putting aside their cloud-like costumes, The Chorus declares that this is the author's cleverest play and that it cost him the greatest effort.

In fact one of the plays that defeated The Clouds in 423 was called Connus, written by Ameipsias, and it too lampooned Socrates.

The Clouds is a French ballad.


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

I just had to meet a ball with a good swing again, and then run.

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.

When asked after the pennant winning game how he felt when his son beat his current team, the Dodgers, George replied, "I felt awful and terrific at the same time." A passage in The Old Man and the Sea refers to Dick Sisler's long home run drives.

Sisler's sons Dick and Dave were also major league players in the 1950s.

Sisler's daughter Frances (Sisler) Drochelman and other members of his family were in attendance when the record was broken.

While in St. Louis for the 2009 All-Star game, Ichiro Suzuki visited Sisler's grave site.

An attack of sinusitis in 1923 caused Sisler's play to decline, but he continued to play in the majors until 1930.

Sisler's 1922 season is considered by many historians to be among the best individual all-around single-season performances in baseball history.

Sisler's teammates Urban Shocker and Ken Williams were assigned Class 1 in the draft, placing them at the top of the draft eligibility list.

Jim Barrero of the Los Angeles Times asserts that Sisler's record was largely overshadowed by Ruth's 54 home runs that season.

Sisler's sobriquet referred to his good looks.


Quotation from Puyi: My father had two wives, and they bore him four sons and seven daughters.

In detail In 1921, it was decided by the Dowager Consorts (the four widows of the emperors before Puyi) that it was time for the 15-year-old Puyi to be married, although court politics dragged the complete process (from selecting the bride, up through the wedding ceremony) out for almost two years.

She married Puyi in 1922. Although she was Puyi's first choice, the Four Dowager Consorts felt that Wenxiu came from an unacceptable impoverished family and was not beautiful enough to be Empress, so they told the court officials to ask Puyi to choose again.

no Ōhi – Saigo no Kōtei (流転の王妃·最後の皇弟; Chinese title 流轉的王妃), a 2003 Japanese television series about Pujie and Hiro Saga.

He was given four photographs to choose from.

Quotation from Puyi (referring only to his first four wives): ... they were not real wives and were only there for show.

She married Puyi in 1922 and became his Empress.

She married Major Liu Zhendong in 1947.

She later married a technician, and had two sons.

Biography | Emperor of China (1908–1912)

After Puyi married, he would occasionally bring her to the Forbidden City, and later Manchukuo, to visit him.

Puyi's dad was married four times.


Then, in March 1098, Baldwin became the new ruler, thus creating the County of Edessa, the first of the crusader states.

In the ensuing panic, the defenders abandoned the walls of the city at both ends, allowing the Crusaders to finally enter.

After a three-day fast, on 8 July the crusaders performed the procession as they had been instructed by Desiderius, ending on the Mount of Olives where

On 15 July, a final push was launched at both ends of the city, and eventually the inner rampart of the northern wall was captured.

The Armenian, Firouz, helped Bohemond and a small party enter the city on the 2nd June and open a gate at which point horns were sounded, the city's Christian majority opened the other gates and the crusaders entered.

and then the Seljuq Turks—the crusader army set Antioch to siege on 20 October 1097.

a Frankish siege and Byzantine naval assault captured Nicea in June 1097.

In July 1095, Urban turned to his homeland of France to recruit men for the expedition.

It was political and religious fragmentation that brought this expansion to an end.

When the defenders on the southern wall heard of the fall of the northern wall, they fled to the citadel, allowing Raymond and the Provençals to enter the city.

Princes' Crusade | Establishment of the Kingdom of Jerusalem

On 22 July, a council was held in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre to establish governance for Jerusalem.

At the end of July in 1097, the crusaders entered Edessa.


From ages 3 to 11, Perry often moved across the country as her parents set up churches before settling again in Santa Barbara.

According to Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), she is the fifth top digital singles artist in the United States, with 103 million certified song units in the country including on-demand streams and also has 6 million certified album units, totaling 109 million certified units in the nation.

Life and career | 2013–2015: Prism and Super Bowl XLIX halftime show

On June 26, 2014, she was declared the Top Certified Digital Artist Ever by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) for certified sales of 72 million digital singles in the United States.

She tried to "be a bit like the typical Californian girl" while growing up, and started rollerskating, skateboarding, and surfing as a teenager.

Growing up, Perry and her siblings were not allowed to eat the cereal Lucky Charms as the word "luck" reminded their mother of Lucifer, and had to call deviled eggs "angeled eggs".

Growing up, she attended religious schools and camps, including Paradise Valley Christian School in Arizona and Santa Barbara Christian School in California during her elementary years.

Life and career | 2016–2018: Witness and American Idol

It reached number one in Hungary and number four in the United States.

The song reached number one in Australia and number eleven in the United States.

That month, a portrait of Perry by artist Will Cotton was included in the United States National Portrait Gallery.

They respectively peaked at numbers 59 and 46 in the United States, and made the top 15 in Canada.

Growing up, she often moved with her family across the United States of America.


When it was first published in 1932, the novel was moderately successful; 11,000 copies were initially printed, with a total of four printings by the end of the year, although a significant number of copies from the fourth printing had not been sold by 1936.

A childishly cruel white vigilante, Percy Grimm, follows him there and, over Hightower's protest, shoots and castrates Christmas.

Unlike some of the other Yoknapatawpha County novels, Light in August does not rely solely on stream-of-consciousness narration, but also incorporates dialogue and an omniscient third-person narrator that develop the story.

Light in August has 21 chapters, as does the Gospel of St. John.

Light in August is a 1932 novel by the Southern (American) author William Faulkner.

However, after a casual remark by his wife Estelle on the quality of the light in August, Faulkner changed the title.

Critics were also displeased with the violence depicted in the novel, pejoratively labeling it "gothic fantasy," despite the fact that lynching was a reality in the South.

In 1998, the Modern Library ranked Light in August 54th on its list of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century.

The title refers to the fire of the house that is at the center of the story.

According to Daniel Joseph Singal, Faulkner's literary style gradually developed from 19th century Victorian to modernist, with Light in August more firmly grounded in the tradition of the latter.

.in August in Mississippi there

Light in August is a story that sold well despite morbid content.


Alibaba Group Holding Limited (also known as Alibaba Group and as Alibaba.com) is a Chinese multinational technology company specializing in e-commerce, retail, Internet, and technology.

And I said, "Yes, this is the name!" Then I went on to the street and found 30 people and asked them, "Do you know Alibaba?

Companies and affiliated entities | E-commerce and retail service platforms

Lazada Group is a Singaporean e-commerce company founded by Rocket Internet in 2011.

Samples of raw uranium ore were allegedly found concealed in the soles of his shoes.

We also registered the name "Alimama", in case someone wants to marry us!" On 4 April 1999, Jack Ma and his team of 17 friends and students founded Alibaba.com, a China-based B2B marketplace site, in his Hangzhou apartment.

Founded on 4 April 1999 in Hangzhou, Zhejiang, the company provides consumer-to-consumer (C2C), business-to-consumer (B2C), and business-to-business (B2B) sales services via web portals, as well as electronic payment services, shopping search engines and cloud computing services.

Companies and affiliated entities | Entertainment services

The company was renamed Alibaba Pictures Group.

Companies and affiliated entities | Others

For regulatory purpose, Alibaba Group did not own the company directly, but by pleading.

Companies and affiliated entities | Cloud computing and artificial intelligence technology

In 2009, Alibaba acquired HiChina, the largest domain registration service and web hosting service company in China, and built it into Alibaba Cloud.

Other subsidiaries of Alibaba include Hangzhou Ali Venture Capital and Alibaba Entrepreneurs Fund.

The Alibaba Entrepreneurs Fund is a non-profit making initiative launched by Alibaba Group in 2015.Alibaba

Alibaba is a company founded in Korea.


Critical response | Early reviews (1847–1848)

Early reviews of Wuthering Heights were mixed in their assessment.

cited in  Scott distinguished the romance from the novel, where (as he saw it) "events are accommodated to the ordinary train of human events and the modern state of society".

Having reached the present day, Nelly's tale concludes.

References in culture | Adaptations | Film and TV

It won the 1939 New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Film and was nominated for the 1939 Academy Award for Best Picture.

Although one of the more sympathetic characters of the novel, she is also somewhat snobbish towards Hareton and his lack of education.

At one stage Heathcliff is described as a vampire, and it has been suggested that both he and Catherine are in fact meant to be seen as vampire-like personalities.

The action is laid in hell, – only it seems places and people have English names there."Wuthering

References in culture | Works inspired by | Music

Kate Bush's song "Wuthering Heights" is most likely the best-known creative work inspired by Brontë's story that is not properly an "adaptation".

One common candidate is Top Withens, a ruined farmhouse in an isolated area near the Haworth Parsonage, although its structure does not match that of the farmhouse described in the novel.

We have been taken and carried through a new region, a melancholy waste, with here and there patches of beauty; have been brought in contact with fierce passions, with extremes of love and hate, and with sorrow that none but those who have suffered can understand.

Heathcliff was seeing visions of the dead Catherine; he avoided the young people, saying that he could not bear to see Catherine's eyes, which they both shared, looking at him.

People have always thought extremely highly of the novel, citing it as one of the best.


His father was a military bandmaster, clarinettist and music teacher, born in Ireland and raised in Chelsea, London; his mother was English born, of Irish and Italian descent.

Despite his reservations about the move to the United States, Sullivan paid all the costs and gave substantial financial support to the family.

From June to August 1885, after The Mikado opened, Sullivan visited the family in Los Angeles and took them on a sightseeing trip of the American west.

He proposed instead that Sullivan should go ahead with his plan to write a grand opera, but should continue also to compose comic works for the Savoy.

After Fred died at the age of 39, leaving his pregnant wife, Charlotte, with seven children under the age of 14, Sullivan visited the family often and became guardian to the children.

Sullivan loved to spend time in France (both in Paris and on the Riviera), where his acquaintances included European royalty and where the casinos enabled him to indulge his passion for gambling.

Sir Arthur Seymour Sullivan MVO (13 May 1842 – 22 November 1900) was an English composer.

Sullivan enjoyed playing tennis; according to George Grossmith, "I have seen some bad lawn-tennis players in my time, but I never saw anyone so bad as Arthur Sullivan".

Bertie remained with his Uncle Arthur for the rest of the composer's life.

Throughout the rest of his life, and in his will, he contributed financially to Fred's children, continuing to correspond with them and to be concerned with their education, marriages and financial affairs.

Sullivan adopted traditional musical forms, such as madrigals in The Mikado, Ruddigore and The Yeomen of the Guard and glees in H.M.S. Pinafore and The Mikado, and the Venetian barcarolle in The Gondoliers.

Arthur Sullivan, an English composer, was from a family of laborers and did not continue in the family tradition of hands on trades, but instead followed his passion for music.


He played for the Indianapolis ABCs (1920–1922), New York Lincoln Giants (1920), Hilldale Daisies (1923–1931), Philadelphia Royal Giants (1925), Philadelphia Stars (1933–1935), Washington and Baltimore Elite Giants (1936–1939), and Newark Dodgers/Eagles (1935, 1939–1941, 1945–1947, 1950).

Campanella later recalled: "In my opinion, Biz Mackey was the master of defense of all catchers.

James Raleigh "Biz" Mackey (July 27, 1897 – September 22, 1965) was an American catcher and manager in Negro league baseball.

In 1931, he won his second batting title with a .359 average, as Hilldale also finished with the best record among eastern teams.

He would play in three more All-Star Games by 1938.

In 1924, he finished third in the batting race as Hilldale repeated as champions, but lost to the Kansas City Monarchs 5 games to 4 in the first Negro League World Series with Mackey playing third base.

Mackey's grandson Riley Odoms played 12 seasons for the NFL's Denver Broncos.

He began playing baseball with his brothers on the Luling Oilers, a Prairie League team, in 1916 in his hometown of Luling.

I got all this from Mackey at a young age."Mackey

Mackey was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 2006.

Biz Mackey played football from 1931 to 1949.


Mackey lived in Los Angeles until his death in 1965.

He drove in the lead run in the 11th inning of the first game, which Hilldale won in 12 innings; after scoring the winning run in a 2–1 victory in Game 5, his three hits in the deciding Game 6 clinched the title.

When I was a kid in Philadelphia, I saw both Mackey and Mickey Cochrane in their primes, but for real catching skills, I don't think Cochrane was the master of defense that Mackey was.

I gathered quite a bit from Mackey, watching how he did things

Mackey was born in Eagle Pass, Texas, to a sharecropping family that included two brothers.

Mackey came to be regarded as black baseball's premier catcher in the late 1920s and early 1930s.

Biz Mackey die in California.


Walter Fenner "Buck" Leonard (September 8, 1907 –

November 27, 1997) was an American first baseman in Negro league baseball and in the Mexican League.

In 1999, he was ranked number 47 on the 100 Greatest Baseball Players list by The Sporting News.

In 1999, he ranked Number 47 on The Sporting News' list of the 100 Greatest Baseball Players, one of five players so honored who played all or most of their careers in the Negro leagues, and was nominated as a finalist for the Major League Baseball All-Century Team.

Leonard was impressed by Dihigo's baseball knowledge.

Since Gibson was known as the "Black Babe Ruth" and Leonard was a first baseman, Buck Leonard was inevitably called the "Black Lou Gehrig.

Beginning in 1951, Leonard went to the Mexican League.

Leonard batted fourth in their lineup behind Josh Gibson.

In fact, Negro league star Monte Irvin said that if Leonard had been allowed in the major leagues, baseball fans "might have called Lou Gehrig the white Buck Leonard.

Leonard was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1972 along with Gibson.

"Leonard was also inducted into the North Carolina Sports Hall of Fame in 1974.

Leonard passed away in 1999.


Crawford seized the opportunity and left behind his job as a barber's apprentice.

Crawford was offered an opportunity in the spring of 1899 to play for the Chatham Reds of the Canadian League for $65 per month, plus board.

Crawford's tales of teammates such as Cobb and deaf player Dummy Hoy, and opponents such as Honus Wagner, helped to make the book one of the most admired ever written about baseball.

Born in Wahoo, Nebraska, he had a short minor league baseball career before entering the majors with the Cincinnati Reds in 1899.

Major League Baseball career | Rivalry with Ty Cobb

Crawford learned about the letter in 1946 and accused Cobb of being a "cheapskate" who never helped his teammates.

Reporters showed up there with the news, shocking the locals, who were unaware that their neighbor had even played Major League Baseball.

In his first game he got two hits, stole a base and threw out two runners in his first game.

They traveled on a lumber wagon from town to town for weeks at a time, challenging the locals to baseball games, and passing the hat to pay their expenses.

Crawford recalled that, if he went three for four on a day when Cobb went hitless, Cobb would turn red and sometimes walk out of the park with the game still on.

After his election, Crawford told the curator in Cooperstown that he wanted his plaque to read "Wahoo Sam." He noted: "That's my hometown, and I'm proud of it.

He stands up at the plate like a brick house and he hits all the pitchers, without playing favorites." Sam Crawford and Ty Cobb were teammates for parts of 13 seasons.

In interviews late in life with Al Stump, Cobb told of studying Crawford's base-stealing technique and of how Crawford would teach him about pursuing fly balls and throwing out base runners.

Before Sam Crawford was a baseball player, he helped out at the local mortuary.


Parker began playing the saxophone at age 11, and at age 14 he joined his high school band where he studied under Bandmaster Alonzo Lewis.

His biggest influence at that time was a young trombone player named Robert Simpson, who taught him the basics of improvisation.

His childhood sweetheart and future wife, Rebecca Ruffin, graduated from Lincoln High School in June 1935.

His father, Charles Sr., was often required to travel for work, but provided some musical influence because he was a pianist, dancer and singer on the Theater Owners Booking Association (T.O.B.A.) circuit.

Watts has cited Parker as a large influence on his life when he was a boy learning jazz.

Parker proposed to his wife, Rebecca Ruffin, the same year and the two were married on July 25, 1936.

His mother purchased a new alto saxophone around the same time.

Since 1972, the Californian ensemble Supersax harmonized many of Parker's improvisations for a five-piece saxophone section.

In 1942 Parker left McShann's band and played for one year with Earl Hines, whose band included Dizzy Gillespie, who later played with Parker as a duo.

He played with local bands in jazz clubs around Kansas City, Missouri, where he perfected his technique, with the assistance of Buster Smith, whose dynamic transitions to double and triple time influenced Parker's developing style.

Parker cited his biggest influence as his childhood sweetheart and future wife Rebecca Lewis, whose father taught him the basics of improvisation on saxophone.


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

He received Oscar nominations for his portrayals of evangelical preacher Euliss "Sonny" Dewey in The Apostle (1997)—a film he also wrote and directed—and played lawyer Jerome Facher in A Civil Action (1998).

Duvall served in the United States Army for a brief period shortly after the Korean War (from August 19, 1953, to August 20, 1954) leaving the Army as private first class.

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.

Duvall has maintained a busy film career, sometimes appearing in as many as four in one year.

Duvall became an important presence in American films beginning in the 1970s.

After a year's absence when he was with the U.S. Army (1953–1954), he returned to Gateway in its 1955 summer season, playing: Eddie Davis in Ronald Alexander's Time Out

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

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

In 2015, at age 84, Duvall became the oldest actor ever nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role in the film

Duvall began appearing in theater during the late 1950s, moving into television and film roles during the early 1960s, playing Boo Radley in To Kill a Mockingbird (1962) and appearing in Captain Newman, M.D. (1963), as Major Frank Burns in the blockbuster comedy MASH (1970) and the lead role in THX 1138 (1971), as well as Horton Foote's adaptation of William Faulkner's Tomorrow (1972), which was developed at The Actors Studio and is Duvall's personal favorite.

One of Duvall's later film roles was playing the head of the Union Army in the American Civil War.


The Iliad (; Ancient Greek: Ἰλιάς, Iliás, Attic Greek pronunciation: [iː.li.ás]; sometimes referred to as the Song of Ilion or Song of Ilium) is an ancient Greek epic poem in dactylic hexameter, traditionally attributed to Homer.

Depiction of warfare | Influence on classical Greek warfare

While the Homeric poems (particularly, the Iliad) were not necessarily revered scripture of the ancient Greeks, they were most certainly seen as guides that were important to the intellectual understanding of any educated Greek citizen.

Date and textual history | As oral tradition

Originally, Classical scholars treated the Iliad and the Odyssey as written poetry, and Homer as a writer.

In the modern vulgate (the standard accepted version), the Iliad contains 15,693 lines; it is written in Homeric Greek, a literary amalgam of Ionic Greek and other dialects.

Subjects from the Trojan War were a favourite among ancient Greek dramatists.

Major characters | Gods | Divine intervention

In the final book of the poem Homer writes, “He offended Athena and Hera—both goddesses.”

Along with the Odyssey, the Iliad is among the oldest extant works of Western literature, and its written version is usually dated to around the 8th century BC.

The Iliad is paired with something of a sequel, the Odyssey, also attributed to Homer.

Depiction of warfare | Depiction of infantry combat

This overall depiction of war runs contrary to many other ancient Greek depictions, where war is an aspiration for greater glory.

The West tended to view Homer as unreliable as they believed they possessed much more down to earth and realistic eyewitness accounts of the Trojan War written by Dares and Dictys Cretensis, who were supposedly present at the events.

The Iliad is an ancient Greek poem that was probably written by Homer in iambic pentameter.


Controversies | Artefacts taken from other countries

The Elgin Marbles, Benin Bronzes, Ethiopian Tabots and the Rosetta Stone are among the most disputed objects in its collections, and organisations have been formed demanding the return of these artefacts to their native countries of Greece, Nigeria, Ethiopia, and Egypt respectively.

Today the museum no longer houses collections of natural history, and the books and manuscripts it once held now form part of the independent British Library.

Altogether the British Museum showcases on public display less than 1% of its entire collection, approximately 50,000 items.

Controversies | Disputed items in the collection

Ethiopian Tabots – claimed by Ethiopia Four stolen drawings (Nazi plunder) –

Plans were announced in September 2014 to recreate the entire building along with all exhibits in the video game Minecraft in conjunction with members of the public.

Departments | Department of Egypt and Sudan

Egyptian antiquities have formed part of the British Museum collection ever since its foundation in 1753 after receiving 160 Egyptian objects from Sir Hans Sloane.

In 1962 the Duveen Gallery was finally restored and the Parthenon Sculptures were moved back into it, once again at the heart of the museum.

The British Museum Press (BMP) is the publishing business and a division of the British Museum Company Ltd., a company and a charity (established in 1973) wholly owned by the trustees of the British Museum.

The British Museum Act 1753 also added two other libraries to the Sloane collection, namely the Cottonian Library, assembled by Sir Robert Cotton, dating back to Elizabethan times, and the Harleian Library, the collection of the Earls of Oxford.

Profits from their sales goes to support the British Museum.

Elgin Marbles – claimed by Greece and backed by UNESCO among others for restitution

There are entire organizations formed to try to get things back from the British Museum that were stolen.


Simple alcohols are found widely in nature.

Ethanol is most prominent because it is the product of fermentation, a major energy-producing pathway.

This metabolic reaction produces ethanol as a waste product.

Like ethanol, butanol can be produced by fermentation processes.

For instance, such a process might proceed by the conversion of sucrose by the enzyme invertase into glucose and fructose, then the conversion of glucose by the enzyme complex zymase into ethanol (and carbon dioxide).

In the Ziegler process, linear alcohols are produced from ethylene and triethylaluminium followed by oxidation and hydrolysis.

Ethanol is obtained by fermentation using glucose produced from sugar from the hydrolysis of starch, in the presence of yeast and temperature of less than 37 °C to produce ethanol.

Ethanol, isopropanol, 2-butanol, and tert-butanol are produced by this general method.

Many higher alcohols are produced by hydroformylation of alkenes followed by hydrogenation.

Alcohol was originally used for the very fine powder produced by the sublimation of the natural mineral stibnite to form antimony trisulfide Sb2S3.

Ethanol is produced naturally in a metabolic process that produces chemical changes in organic substrates through the action of enzymes.


The earliest known film adaptation of Wuthering Heights was filmed in England in 1920 and was directed by A. V. Bramble.

There is also a 1985 French film adaptation, Hurlevent by Jacques Rivette.

Filipino director Carlos Siguion-Reyna made a film adaptation titled Hihintayin Kita sa Langit (1991).

It became a Filipino film classic.

It won the 1939 New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Film and was nominated for the 1939 Academy Award for Best Picture.

More recent film or TV adaptations include ITV's 2009 two-part drama series starring Tom Hardy, Charlotte Riley, Sarah Lancashire, and Andrew Lincoln, and the 2011 film starring Kaya Scodelario and James Howson and directed by Andrea Arnold.

The film is directed by Abdul Rashid Kardar and Dilip Kumar.

The 1970 film with Timothy Dalton as Heathcliff is the first colour version of the novel.

The 1966 Indian film Dil Diya Dard Liya is based upon this novel.

The film stars Dilip Kumar, Waheeda Rehman, Pran, Rehman, Shyama and Johnny Walker.

The earliest known film adaptation was filmed in England in 1920.


He played for the Indianapolis ABCs (1920–1922), New York Lincoln Giants (1920), Hilldale Daisies (1923–1931), Philadelphia Royal Giants (1925), Philadelphia Stars (1933–1935), Washington and Baltimore Elite Giants (1936–1939), and Newark Dodgers/Eagles (1935, 1939–1941, 1945–1947, 1950).

Mackey lived in Los Angeles until his death in 1965.

Campanella later recalled: "In my opinion, Biz Mackey was the master of defense of all catchers.

James Raleigh "Biz" Mackey (July 27, 1897 – September 22, 1965) was an American catcher and manager in Negro league baseball.

After three years under manager C. I. Taylor, in which he hit .315, .317 and .344, he was picked up by Hilldale when the Eastern Colored League was organized in 1923.

He would play in three more All-Star Games by 1938.

In 1924, he finished third in the batting race as Hilldale repeated as champions, but lost to the Kansas City Monarchs 5 games to 4 in the first Negro League World Series with Mackey playing third base.

Mackey's grandson Riley Odoms played 12 seasons for the NFL's Denver Broncos.

He began playing baseball with his brothers on the Luling Oilers, a Prairie League team, in 1916 in his hometown of Luling.

I got all this from Mackey at a young age."Mackey

Biz Mackey did not play for the Daisies until 1923.


It was not until his family emigrated to the United States in 1885, settling in Natick, Massachusetts, that he saw the game of baseball played for the first time, but he was quickly fascinated and resolved himself to learning as much about the game as he could.

Thomas Henry Connolly (December 31, 1870 – April 28, 1961) was an English-American umpire in Major League Baseball.

Connolly was named in the Honor Rolls of Baseball in 1946, and was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1953, one of the first two umpires (the NL's Bill Klem was the other) given that honor.

Connolly was born in Manchester, England, and played cricket as a boy.

On April 24, 1901, Connolly had the privilege of umpiring, as its sole arbiter, the first AL game ever played.

While working in YMCA games, he was discovered by major league umpire Tim Hurst, who obtained a position for Connolly in the New England League, where he umpired from 1894 to 1897.

Travelling throughout the league to work with other umpires and ensure that everyone's work was meeting the same high standards, he remained in that post until 1954, and came to be known as the nation's foremost expert on baseball rules.

In over half a century as an American League umpire and supervisor, he established the high standards for which the circuit's arbiters became known, and solidified the reputation for integrity of umpires in the major leagues.

In 1898, the National League (NL) brought Connolly up to the majors, but he was angered by the league president's reluctance to back up umpires' decisions on the field, and resigned in the middle of the 1900 season, then signed with the fledgling American League (AL) in 1901.

In 1931, new AL president Will Harridge was concerned about widespread complaints that the quality of umpiring in the league had deteriorated, and Connolly retired from active field work to become the league's first supervisor of umpires.

English-American umpire Thomas Henry Connolly played cricket as a kid but umpired for Major League Baseball after seeing baseball for the first time when his family moved to Massachusetts when he was 15.


Enos Bradsher Slaughter (April 27, 1916 – August 12, 2002), nicknamed "Country", was an American Major League Baseball (MLB) right fielder.

Slaughter died at age 86 on August 12, 2002, after battling non-Hodgkin lymphoma.

In the decisive seventh game of that series, Slaughter, running with the pitch, made a famous "Mad Dash" for home from first base on Harry Walker's hit in the eighth inning, scoring the winning run after a delayed relay throw by the Red Sox' Johnny Pesky.

Slaughter coached baseball for Duke University from 1971 to 1977.Enos Slaughter is a cousin of Henry Slaughter, southern gospel musician.

Slaughter retired from major league baseball in 1959.

Slaughter batted left-handed and threw right-handed.

During the remainder of his major-league career, Slaughter ran everywhere

Slaughter played 19 seasons with the Cardinals, Yankees, Kansas City Athletics, and Milwaukee Braves.

Slaughter had 2,383 hits in his major league career, including 169 home runs, and 1,304 RBI in 2,380 games.

Slaughter later injured Robinson during a game by inflicting a seven-inch gash from his shoe spikes on Robinson's leg.

Slaughter passed away in 2002.


History | German Confederation and Empire

Following the fall of Napoleon, the Congress of Vienna founded the German Confederation, a loose league of 39 sovereign states.

History | East Francia and Holy Roman Empire

In 1806 the Imperium was dissolved; France, Russia, Prussia and the Habsburgs (Austria) competed for hegemony in the German states during the Napoleonic Wars.

Prussia was the dominant constituent state of the new empire; the King of Prussia ruled as its Kaiser, and Berlin became its capital.

East Germany selected East Berlin as its capital, while West Germany chose Bonn as a provisional capital, to emphasise its stance that the two-state solution was temporary.

In 1871, Germany became a nation state when most of the German states unified into the Prussian-dominated German Empire.

History | Reunified Germany and the European Union

Based on the Berlin/Bonn Act (1994), Berlin again became the capital of Germany, while Bonn obtained the unique status of a Bundesstadt (federal city) retaining some federal ministries.

The fall of the Wall in 1989 became a symbol of the Fall of Communism, the Dissolution of the Soviet Union, German Reunification and Die Wende.

History | Weimar Republic and Nazi Germany

In what later became known as the Holocaust, the German government persecuted minorities, including interning them in concentration and death camps across Europe.

From 1740, dualism between the Austrian Habsburg Monarchy and the Kingdom of Prussia dominated German history.

Irreligion in Germany is strongest in the former East Germany, which used to be predominantly Protestant before state atheism, and in major metropolitan areas.

Before the fall of Napoleon, France and Prussia wanted dominance over Germany creating revolutions that allowed Germany to organize with states of power and later Berlin became it's capital.


The original manuscript written by Murasaki Shikibu no longer exists.

Yosano Akiko, the first author to make a modern Japanese translation of Genji, believed that Murasaki Shikibu had only written chapters 1 to 33, and that chapters 35 to 54 were written by her daughter Daini no Sanmi.

Murasaki shikibu, The Tale of Genji.

The debate over how much of Genji was actually written by Murasaki Shikibu has gone on for centuries and is unlikely to ever be settled unless some major archival discovery is made.

no Ue, whom Genji marries, is based on Murasaki Shikibu herself.

Modern readership | English translations

The major translations into English are each slightly different, mirroring the personal choices of the translator and the period in which the translation was made.

The Tale of Genji (源氏物語, Genji monogatari, pronounced [ɡeɲdʑi monoɡaꜜtaɾi]) is a classic work of Japanese literature written in the early 11th century by the noblewoman and lady-in-waiting Murasaki Shikibu.

Puette, William J (1983). Guide to the Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu.

The most recently written ("Genji and the Luck of the Sea") dates from 2007.

The first partial translation of Genji Monogatari into English was by Suematsu Kenchō, published in 1882.

It was written by Murasaki Shikibu and has been incorrectly translated into English previously.


" These unique chords are known popularly as "Bird Changes".

He was the only child of Charles Parker and Adelaide

Parker was a highly influential soloist and leading figure in the development of bebop, a form of jazz characterized by fast tempos, virtuosic technique, and advanced harmonies.

Parker was a blazingly fast virtuoso and introduced revolutionary harmonic ideas into jazz, including rapid passing chords, new variants of altered chords, and chord substitutions.

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

Parker was buried at Lincoln Cemetery in Missouri, in a hamlet known as Blue Summit, located close to I-435 and East Truman Road.

Charles Mingus considered this version of "Lover Man" to be among Parker's greatest recordings, despite its flaws.

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.

In 1940, he returned to Kansas City to perform with Jay McShann and to attend the funeral of his father, Charles, Sr.

Other well-known Parker compositions include "Ah-Leu-Cha", "Anthropology", co-written with Gillespie, "Confirmation", "Constellation", "Donna Lee", "Moose the Mooche", "Scrapple from the Apple" and "Yardbird Suite", the vocal version of which is called "What Price Love", with lyrics by Parker.

Charles Parker was also known as Birdboy because he was so fast.


The two service bells and the 1320 bell, along with a fourth small silver "dish bell", kept in the refectory, have been noted as being of historical importance by the Church Buildings Council of the Church of England.

Westminster School and Westminster Abbey Choir School are also in the precincts of the abbey.

kg).In addition there are two service bells, cast by Robert Mot, in 1585 and 1598 respectively, a Sanctus bell cast in 1738 by Richard Phelps and Thomas Lester and two unused bells – one cast about 1320, by the successor to R de Wymbish, and a second cast in 1742, by Thomas Lester.

The Choir School educates and trains the choirboys who sing for services in the Abbey.

The bells at the abbey were overhauled in 1971.

In the 1990s, two icons by the Russian icon painter Sergei Fyodorov were hung in the abbey.

The ring is now made up of ten bells, hung for change ringing, cast in 1971 by the Whitechapel Bell Foundry, tuned to the notes: F#, E, D, C#, B, A, G, F#, E and D.

The Tenor bell in D (588.5 Hz) has a weight of 30 cwt, 1 qtr, 15 lb (3403 lb or 1544

Then on 10/11 May 1941, the Westminster Abbey precincts and roof were hit by incendiary bombs.

History | 1722–1745: Western towers constructed

The abbey's two western towers were built between 1722 and 1745 by Nicholas Hawksmoor, constructed from Portland stone to an early example of a Gothic Revival design.

There are two schools and two service bells in the precinct of the abbey in London.


History | The largest building site in Europe (1825–1850)

Sir Thomas Grenville (1755–1846), a trustee of the British Museum from 1830, assembled a library of 20,240 volumes, which he left to the museum in his will.

The books arrived in January 1847 in twenty-one horse-drawn vans.

The museum's various libraries hold in excess of 350,000 books, journals and pamphlets covering all areas of the museum's collection.

The Government suggested a site at St Pancras for the new British Library but the books did not leave the museum until 1997.

History | New century, new building (1900–1925)

By the last years of the 19th century, The British Museum's collections had increased to the extent that its building was no longer large enough.

In the same year the Act of Parliament establishing the British Library was passed, separating the collection of manuscripts and printed books from the British Museum.

The Reading Room closed in 1997 when the national library (the British Library) moved to a new building at St Pancras.

The King's Library, on the ground floor of the East Wing, was handed over in 1827, and was described as one of the finest rooms in London.

History | The Great Court emerges (1975–2000)

The departure of the British Library to a new site at St Pancras, finally achieved in 1998, provided the space needed for the books.

Many Greek sculptures followed, notably the first purpose-built exhibition space, the Charles Towneley collection, much of it Roman sculpture, in 1805.

History | Indolence and energy (1778–1800)

The bequest of a collection of books, engraved gems, coins, prints and drawings by Clayton Mordaunt Cracherode in 1800 did much to raise the museum's reputation; but Montagu House became increasingly crowded and decrepit and it was apparent that it would be unable to cope with further expansion.

The books remained here until the British Library moved to St Pancras in 1998.

After the new building was built in 1827, much of the British Museum's library book collection was a gift from a supporter's estate.


They met while serving in the United States Army in Germany.

Though Yankees officials were concerned that Jeter would attend college instead of signing a professional contract, Groch convinced them to select him, saying, "the only place Derek Jeter's going is to Cooperstown".

The children lived with their parents during the school year and spent their summers with their grandparents in New Jersey.

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

The Yankees went on to win the game in the bottom of the 13th inning.

Professional career | Minor leagues (1992–1995)

Frustrated by his lack of success and homesick, Jeter accrued $400-per-month phone bills from daily calls to his parents.

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

The hit was a single off Baltimore Orioles pitcher Chris Tillman in the third inning.

Professional career | Major leagues (1995–2014) | 1999–2002

In extra innings, Jeter hit a game-winning home run off of Byung-hyun Kim.

Professional career | Major leagues (1995–2014) | Final season (2014)

On July 17, Derek scored the 1,900th run of his career becoming the 10th player in MLB history to do so.

Coming off his strong 1993 season, Baseball America rated Jeter as the 16th-best prospect in baseball.

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

Baseball America rated Jeter among the top 100 prospects in baseball before the 1993 season, ranking him 44th.

Derek Jeter's parents did meet in America.


The British Museum was the first of a new kind of museum – national, belonging to neither church nor king, freely open to the public and aiming to collect everything.

History | Cabinet of curiosities (1753–1778)

The body of trustees decided on a converted 17th-century mansion, Montagu House, as a location for the museum, which it bought from the Montagu family for £20,000.

In 1895 the trustees purchased the 69 houses surrounding the museum with the intention of demolishing them and building around the west, north and east sides of the museum.

The British Museum Press (BMP) is the publishing business and a division of the British Museum Company Ltd., a company and a charity (established in 1973) wholly owned by the trustees of the British Museum.

In 1895, Parliament gave the museum trustees a loan of £200,000 to purchase from the Duke of Bedford all 69 houses which backed onto the museum building in the five surrounding streets – Great Russell Street, Montague Street, Montague Place, Bedford Square and Bloomsbury Street.

The newspaper said the British Museum subsequently planned to appoint her as one of the five trustees it does not need government approval for.

The trustees planned to demolish these houses and to build around the west, north and east sides of the museum new galleries that would completely fill the block on which the museum stands.

According to The Guardian, the UK government rejected the appointment of classicist Mary Beard as a British Museum trustee in 2019, due to her pro-European beliefs.

Sir Thomas Grenville (1755–1846), a trustee of the British Museum from 1830, assembled a library of 20,240 volumes, which he left to the museum in his will.

The trustees rejected Buckingham House, on the site now occupied by Buckingham Palace, on the grounds of cost and the unsuitability of its location.

Departments | Department of Egypt and Sudan

Most of the antiquities Salt collected were purchased by the British Museum and the Musée du Louvre.

The trustees of the British Museum purchased an old building to serve as the first location for the museum.


Amino acids are used for a variety of applications in industry, but their main use is as additives to animal feed.

Similarly, some amino acids derivatives are used in pharmaceutical industry.

Uses in industry | Biodegradable plastics

Due to its solubility and ability to chelate metal ions, polyaspartate is also being used as a biodegradeable anti-scaling agent and a corrosion inhibitor.

In this industry, amino acids are also used to chelate metal cations in order to improve the absorption of minerals from supplements, which may be required to improve the health or production of these animals.

The food industry is also a major consumer of amino acids, in particular, glutamic acid, which is used as a flavor enhancer, and aspartame (aspartyl-phenylalanine-1-methyl ester) as a low-calorie artificial sweetener.

About 500 naturally occurring amino acids are known (though only 20 appear in the genetic code) and can be classified in many ways.

This is necessary, since many of the bulk components of these feeds, such as soybeans, either have low levels or lack some of the essential amino acids: lysine, methionine, threonine, and tryptophan are most important in the production of these feeds.

Similar technology to that used for animal nutrition is employed in the human nutrition industry to alleviate symptoms of mineral deficiencies, such as anemia, by improving mineral absorption and reducing negative side effects from inorganic mineral supplementation.

The remaining production of amino acids is used in the synthesis of drugs and cosmetics.

However, not all peptide bonds are formed in this way.

Amino Acids can be used in many ways in the industry.


She was the longest-serving British prime minister of the 20th century and the first woman to hold that office.

Margaret Hilda Thatcher, Baroness Thatcher,  (née Roberts; 13 October 1925 – 8 April 2013) was a British stateswoman who served as prime minister of the United Kingdom from 1979 to 1990 and leader of the Conservative Party from 1975 to 1990.

Earlier that month, Thatcher was named the most competent prime minister of the past 30 years in an Ipsos MORI poll.

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

Thatcher reflected on the end of the strike in her statement that "if anyone has won" it was "the miners who stayed at work" and all those "that have kept Britain going".

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

Not all privatised companies have had successful share price trajectories in the longer term.

In 2015 she topped a poll by Scottish Widows, a major financial services company, as the most influential woman of the past 200 years; and in 2016 topped BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour Power List of women judged to have had the biggest impact on female lives over the past 70 years.

Prime Minister of the United Kingdom: 1979–1990 | Foreign affairs | Ties with the US

She applauded the coalition victory as a backbencher, while warning that "the victories of peace will take longer than the battles of war".

In a July 1979 meeting with Foreign Secretary Lord Carrington and Home Secretary William Whitelaw, Thatcher objected to the number of Asian immigrants, in the context of limiting the total of Vietnamese boat people allowed to settle in the UK to fewer than 10,000 over two years.

In 2005, Thatcher criticised the way the decision to invade Iraq had been made two years previously.

The number of stoppages across the UK peaked at 4,583 in 1979, when more than 29 million working days had been lost.

Thatcher served as honorary chancellor of the College of William & Mary in Virginia from 1993 to 2000, while also serving as chancellor of the private University of Buckingham from 1992 to 1998, a university she had formally opened in 1976 as the then education secretary.

Thatcher was the prime minister of the UK for eleven years, longer than anyone else had served in past decades.


Amino acids are organic compounds that contain amine (-NH2) and carboxyl (-COOH) functional groups, along with a side chain (R group) specific to each amino acid.

Beyond their role as residues in proteins, amino acids participate in a number of processes such as neurotransmitter transport and biosynthesis.

In plants, nitrogen is first assimilated into organic compounds in the form of glutamate, formed from alpha-ketoglutarate and ammonia in the mitochondrion.

Other organisms use transaminases for amino acid synthesis, too.

Occurrence and functions in biochemistry | Proteinogenic amino acids

It is coded for with the codon UAG, which is normally a stop codon in other organisms.

Occurrence and functions in biochemistry | D-amino acid natural abundance

Other compounds containing D-amino acids are tyrocidine and valinomycin.

Occurrence and functions in biochemistry | Non-protein functions

This compound is an analogue of tyrosine and can poison animals that graze on these plants.

Although D-isomers are uncommon in live organisms, gramicidin is a polypeptide made up from mixture of D- and L-amino acids.

These compounds disrupt bacterial cell walls, particularly in Gram-positive bacteria.

Uses in industry | Chemical building blocks

These compounds are used in chiral pool synthesis as enantiomerically pure building-blocks.

Nine proteinogenic amino acids are called "essential" for humans because they cannot be produced from other compounds by the human body and so must be taken in as food.

Amino acids are organic compounds.


All alcohols are mild skin irritants.

Alcohols have a long history of myriad uses.

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.

Reagents useful for the transformation of primary alcohols to aldehydes are normally also suitable for the oxidation of secondary alcohols to ketones.

In archaic nomenclature, alcohols can be named as derivatives of methanol using "-carbinol" as the ending.

1-propanol, 1-butanol, and isobutyl alcohol for use as a solvent and precursor to solvents

C6–C11 alcohols used for plasticizers, e.g. in polyvinylchloride fatty alcohol (C12–C18), precursors to detergentsMethanol is the most common industrial alcohol, with about 12 million tons/

It was used as an antiseptic, eyeliner, and cosmetic.

The word "alcohol" is from the Arabic kohl (Arabic: الكحل, romanized: al-kuḥl), a powder used as an eyeliner.

RCH2CH2CHO RCH2CH2CHO +  3 H2 →  RCH2CH2CH2OHSuch processes give fatty alcohols, which are useful for detergents.

The direct oxidation of primary alcohols to carboxylic acids can be carried out using potassium permanganate or the Jones reagent.

All alcohols are mild skin irritants.

Alcohol is a soothing agent, which is why it is used in hand sanitizers.


The Black Hawk War gave Abraham Lincoln his brief military service, although he saw no combat.

Black Hawk and other leaders escaped, but later surrendered and were imprisoned for a year.

Aftermath | Black Hawk's imprisonment and legacy

By war's end, Black Hawk and nineteen other leaders of the British Band were incarcerated at Jefferson Barracks.

However, Black Hawk and others were nearby, and near dusk on May 14 attacked Stillman's party in what became known as the Battle of Stillman's Run.

On May 12, learning that Black Hawk's band was only twenty-five miles away, eager militiamen led by Major Isaiah Stillman left Whiteside's encampment, making another camp on a tributary of the Rock River later named  Stillman Valley after him.

After Stillman's defeat, American leaders like President Jackson and Secretary of War Lewis Cass refused to consider a diplomatic solution; they wanted a resounding victory over Black Hawk to serve as an example to other Native Americans who might consider similar uprisings.

The Battle of Stillman's Run proved a turning point.

Black Hawk had managed to hold off a much larger force while allowing most of his people to escape, a difficult military operation that impressed some U.S. Army officers when they learned of it.

Before the battle, Black Hawk had not committed to war.

The Black Hawk War was a brief  conflict between the United States and Native Americans led by Black Hawk, a Sauk leader.

Potawatomi leaders worried that the tribe as a whole would be punished if any Potawatomis supported Black Hawk.

The Black Hawk War's leaders did manage to run away.


The story was initially published in The New York Sunday World under the title "Gifts of the Magi" on December 10, 1905.

"The Gift of the Magi" is a short story by O. Henry first published in 1905.

Emmet Otter's Jug-Band Christmas, which is a twist on "The Gift of the Magi", is a children's storybook by Russell Hoban which was first published in 1971.

The story ends with the narrator comparing the sacrificial gifts of love with those of the biblical Magi.

Mickey's Once Upon a Christmas (1999) The Gift of the Magi (2004) Raincoat (2004) For the First Time (2010) Love, a French movie, based some of its scenes on this story.

It was first published in book form in the O. Henry Anthology

The visualization of the song Ahista is a modern adaptation of The Gift of the Magi.

As a sentimental story with a moral lesson about gift-giving, it has been popular for adaptation, especially for presentation at Christmas time.

The story tells of a young husband and wife and how they deal with the challenge of buying secret Christmas gifts for each other with very little money.

Radio drama series Adventures in Odyssey features a comedic adaptation of this story in its episode "Gifts for Madge & Guy" (1987).

The Gift of the Magi is a short story that was published in 1905.


The fifth of nine children, Enya was born into a Roman Catholic family of musicians.

Eithne Pádraigín Ní Bhraonáin (anglicised as Enya Patricia Brennan (); born 17 May 1961), known professionally as Enya, is an Irish singer, songwriter, record producer and musician.

Eithne Pádraigín Ní Bhraonáin was born on 17 May 1961 in Dore, within the area of the parish Gaoth Dobhair, in the northwestern county of Donegal, Ireland.

I ... remember my brothers and sisters playing outside ... and I would be inside playing the piano.

Career | 1976–1985: Clannad and early solo career

She is credited as "Eithne Ní Bhraonáin" on its liner notes.

Her name is anglicised as Enya Patricia Brennan, where Enya is the phonetic spelling of how Eithne is pronounced in her native Ulster dialect of Irish; "Ní Bhraonáin" translates to "daughter of Brennan".

Career | 1998–2007: A Day Without Rain and Amarantine

A Day Without Rain remains Enya's biggest seller, with 7 million copies sold in the US and the most sold new-age album of all time with an estimated 13 million copies sold worldwide.

Enya and her sisters performed as part of the local choir Cor Mhuire in July 2005 at St. Mary's church in Gweedore during the annual Earagail Arts Festival.

During this time, Enya played the synthesiser on Ceol Aduaidh (1983) by Mairéad Ní Mhaonaigh and Frankie Kennedy and performed with the duo and Mhaonaigh's brother Gearóid in their short lived group, Ragairne.

The change from Eithne to Enya originated from Nicky Ryan, who thought her name would be too difficult for people outside Ireland to pronounce correctly, and suggested the phonetic spelling of her name.

Eithne Pádraigín Ní Bhraonáin has 7 brothers and sisters.


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 has spawned an industry of spin-off products.

A Song of Ice and Fire takes place on the fictional continents Westeros and Essos.

The reported overall sales figures of the A Song of Ice and Fire series vary.

Publishing history | First three novels (1991–2000)

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

Inspiration and writing | Narrative structure

Dividing the continuous A Song of Ice and Fire story into books is much harder for Martin.

Martin explores the questions of redemption and character change in the A Song of Ice and Fire series.

A Song of Ice and Fire received praise for its diverse portrayal of women and religion, as well as its realism.

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 set the A Song of Ice and Fire story in a secondary world inspired by Tolkien's writing.

With the popularity of the series growing, HBO optioned A Song of Ice and Fire for a television adaptation in 2007.

A Song of Ice and Fire was written in the 1990s.


Though he did not own slaves himself, Taney was outraged by Northern attacks on slavery, and he sought to use the Dred Scott decision to permanently remove slavery as a subject of national debate.

After Lincoln's election, Taney sympathized with the seceding Southern states, but he did not resign from the Supreme Court.

Roger Brooke Taney (; March 17, 1777 – October 12, 1864) was the fifth Chief Justice of the United States, holding that office from 1836 until his death in 1864.

Another property owned by Taney, called the Roger Brooke Taney House (although he never lived there), is in Frederick, Maryland.

" Taney's mixed legacy was noted by Justice Antonin Scalia in his dissenting opinion in Planned Parenthood v. Casey:  There comes vividly to mind a portrait by Emanuel Leutze that hangs in the Harvard Law School: Roger Brooke Taney, painted in 1859, the 82nd year of his life, the 24th of his Chief Justiceship, the second after his opinion in Dred Scott.

The following morning, the clerk of the Supreme Court announced that "the great and good Chief Justice is no more." He served as chief justice for 28 years, 198 days, the second longest tenure of any chief justice, and was the oldest ever serving Chief Justice in United States history.

Legacy | De-Memorialization due to Taney's role in Dred Scott

In 1993, the Roger B. Taney Middle School in Temple Hills, Maryland was renamed for Justice Thurgood Marshall, the Supreme Court's first African American justice,.

To avoid the appearance of sectional favoritism, Taney and his Southern colleagues sought to win the support of at least one Northern justice to the Court's decision.

Taney's narrowly constructed opinion was joined by both pro-slavery and anti-slavery justices on the Court.

Jackson administration | Supreme Court nominations

In July 1835, Jackson nominated Taney to succeed Chief Justice John Marshall, who had died earlier in 1835.

That there should have been one mistake in a judicial career so long, so exalted, and so useful is only proof of the imperfection of our nature.

U.S. Chief Justice Roger Brooke Taney did not support slavery.


The play is one of Shakespeare's lesser-regarded works among literary critics.

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

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 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.

T.W. Craik suggests that Shakespeare was forced to interrupt work on Henry IV, Part 2, having written most of it, because The Merry Wives had to be completed quickly.

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.

Most critics consider Merry Wives to be one of Shakespeare's weakest plays, and the Falstaff of Merry Wives to be much inferior to the Falstaff of the two Henry IV plays.

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.

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

Other scholars say that the treatment of sexual jealousy in the play differs from its treatment in others, like Othello and A Winter's Tale.

The Merry Wives of Windsor is a play that has received lower praise then the author's other works.


She delivered her eulogy via videotape; in view of her health, the message had been pre-recorded several months earlier.

On 4 July 2011, Thatcher was to attend a ceremony for the unveiling of a 10 ft (3.0 m) statue to Ronald Reagan, outside the US Embassy in London, but was unable to attend due to her frail health.

Thatcher flew to California with the Reagan entourage, and attended the memorial service and interment ceremony for the president at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library.

On 11 June 2004, Thatcher (against doctor's orders) attended the state funeral service for Ronald Reagan.

Thatcher became closely aligned with the Cold War policies of US President Ronald Reagan, based on their shared distrust of communism.

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.

She broached the same subject in her Statecraft: Strategies for a Changing World, which was published in April 2002 and dedicated to Ronald Reagan, writing that there would be no peace in the Middle East until Saddam Hussein was toppled.

Early political career | Leader of the Opposition: 1975–1979

Thatcher had already begun to work on her presentation on the advice of Gordon Reece, a former television producer.

Prime Minister of the United Kingdom: 1979–1990 | Challenges to leadership and resignation

A self-described conviction politician, Thatcher always insisted that she did not care about her poll ratings and pointed instead to her unbeaten election record.

On leaving the Commons, Thatcher became the first former British prime minister to set up a foundation; the British wing of the Margaret Thatcher Foundation was dissolved in 2005 due to financial difficulties.

Thatcher presented her tribute for Ronald Reagan via a video recording due to her condition.


The longest-tenured wrestler in company history at 30 years

They had two daughters together, Chasey and Gracie Calaway, before divorcing in 2007.

Professional wrestling career | World Wrestling Federation/Entertainment/WWE | Big Evil (2001–2003)

This was the beginning of a new persona for The Undertaker, as he cut his long hair short and called himself "Big Evil".

Professional wrestling career | World Wrestling Federation/Entertainment/WWE | World Heavyweight Champion (2007–2010)

Although he kicked out of two quick pin attempts, Undertaker was pinned by Edge after two spears and lost the title.

Professional wrestling career | World Wrestling Federation/Entertainment/WWE | Return of The Deadman (2004–2007)

In the storyline, Teddy Long replaced Khali with Big Show as punishment for an attack on The Undertaker shortly before the match.

The Undertaker was not heard from until the May 5 episode of SmackDown!, as Theodore Long delivered a challenge from The Undertaker to Khali for a match at Judgment Day.

On the September 25 episode of SmackDown, Theodore Long officially lifted the ban, after being released from a casket The Undertaker had placed him in.

The two continued to feud into 2007 as Kennedy cost The Undertaker two World Heavyweight Championship opportunities for a championship match at the Royal Rumble.

Professional wrestling career | World Wrestling Federation/Entertainment/WWE | Lord of Darkness (1996–1998)

The two then clashed in the Royal Rumble

After a two-month hiatus, The Undertaker returned and defeated Kane at WrestleMania XIV.

Professional wrestling career | World Wrestling Federation/Entertainment/WWE | Ministry of Darkness (1998–1999)

The two faced off in a Hell in a Cell match at WrestleMania XV, which Undertaker won.

Professional wrestling career | World Wrestling Federation/Entertainment/WWE | Post-Streak feuds (2015–2020)

At the event on March 29, Undertaker defeated Wyatt after two Tombstone Piledrivers.

The Undertaker had a long career and has at least two kids.


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.

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.

Juni avenue to the west, is also one of the large public areas in Berlin where over a million people can gather to watch stage shows or party together, watch major sport events shown on huge screens, or see fireworks at midnight on New Year's Eve.

When the Nazis ascended to power, they used the gate as a party symbol.

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

On 12 July 1994, U.S. President Bill Clinton spoke at the Gate about peace in post–Cold War Europe.

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

Germany was officially reunified in October 1990.

Since the reunification of Germany in 1990, the flag and the pole have been removed.

It has also hosted street events at 2009 IAAF World Championships in Athletics and will repeat its role in 2018 European Athletics Championships.

It was often a site for major historical events and is considered as a symbol of the history of Europe and Germany.


The band has sold more than 125 million records worldwide, including an RIAA-certified 66 million and Nielsen SoundScan-reported 58,000,000 in the US, making Metallica one of the most commercially successful bands of all time.

History | Formation and early years (1981–1982)

Their first live success came early; they were chosen to open for British heavy metal band Saxon at one gig of their 1982 US tour.

Metallica is an American heavy metal band.

Metallica has become one of the most influential heavy metal bands of all time, and is credited as one of the "big four" of thrash metal, along with Slayer, Anthrax, and Megadeth.

MTV ranked Metallica the third "Greatest Heavy Metal Band in History".

Metallica ranks as one of the most commercially successful bands of all time, having sold over 125 million albums worldwide as of 2018.

Metallica was influenced by early heavy metal and hard rock bands and artists Black Sabbath, Deep Purple, Kiss, Led Zeppelin, Queen, Ted Nugent, AC/DC, Rush, Aerosmith, Judas Priest, Scorpions and by new wave of British heavy metal (NWOBHM) bands Venom, Motörhead, Saxon, Diamond Head, Blitzkrieg, and Iron Maiden.

Metallica was ranked 42nd on VH1's "100 Greatest Artists Of All Time", was listed fifth on VH1's "100 Greatest Artists of Hard Rock", and the band was number one on VH1's "20 Greatest Metal Bands" list.

Stephen Thomas Erlewine and Greg Prato of Allmusic said Metallica "expanded the limits of thrash, using speed and volume not for their own sake, but to enhance their intricately structured compositions", and called the band "easily the best, most influential heavy metal band of the '80s, responsible for bringing the music back to Earth".

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

Although the album was not initially a financial success, it earned Metallica a growing fan base in the underground metal scene.

The heavy metal band Metallica is one of the most successful bands monetarily.


He died of a heart attack after suffering from heart problems for two to three years.

In 1962, the Houston chapter of the Baseball Writers' Association of America established the Bill Klem Award to honor outstanding NL umpires.

O'Rourke threatened that Klem would not umpire another game in the league, but Klem responded, "Maybe so, but I'll umpire this one.

That year, Klem had a run-in with league secretary and team manager Jim O'Rourke after Klem ejected one of the manager's players.

At that time, Klem was appointed the NL's chief of umpires.

Klem was posthumously inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1953.

It was difficult to challenge Klem at the time because so many years had passed.

In 1946 Klem and Connolly had also been named to the Honor Rolls of Baseball.

As Klem got older, he began to experience a skin condition that he said related to his nerves.

Klem also dismissed catcher Al López from a game after López pasted a newspaper clipping onto home plate which showed Klem clearly in error calling a play involving López.

He had changed the spelling of his last name from "Klimm" to "Klem" because he thought it had a better sound.

Bill Klem expired of cardiac arrest.


Israeli music contains musical influences from all over the world; Mizrahi and Sephardic music, Hasidic melodies, Greek music, jazz, and pop rock are all part of the music scene.

Government and politics | Foreign relations

Relations between Greece and Israel have improved since 1995 due to the decline of Israeli–Turkish relations.

Eilat has hosted its own international music festival, the Red Sea Jazz Festival, every summer since 1987.

The joint Cyprus-Israel oil and gas explorations centered on the Leviathan gas field are an important factor for Greece, given its strong links with Cyprus.

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

Israel maintains diplomatic relations with 158 countries and has 107 diplomatic missions around the world; countries with whom they have no diplomatic relations include most Muslim countries.

Only three members of the Arab League have normalized relations with Israel: Egypt and Jordan signed peace treaties in 1979 and 1994, respectively, and Mauritania opted for full diplomatic relations with Israel in 1999.

Iran had diplomatic relations with Israel under the Pahlavi dynasty but withdrew its recognition of Israel during the Islamic Revolution.

Education is highly valued in the Israeli culture and was viewed as a fundamental block of ancient Israelites.

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

Israel has a tradition of valuing music only from Greece because of their improved relation.


Notable events | Anniversary celebrations

A renovated pedestrian connection to Dumbo, Brooklyn, was also reopened before the anniversary celebrations.

Since the New York and Brooklyn Bridge was the only bridge across the East River at that time, it was also called the East River Bridge.

History | Late 19th through early 20th centuries

The first new bridge across the East River, the Williamsburg Bridge, opened upstream in 1903 and connected Williamsburg, Brooklyn, with the Lower East Side of Manhattan.

The Brooklyn Bridge is the southernmost of four toll-free vehicular bridges connecting Manhattan Island and Long Island, with the Manhattan, Williamsburg, and Queensboro bridges to the north.

Tolls on all four bridges across the East River—the Brooklyn Bridge, as well as the Manhattan, Williamsburg, and Queensboro bridges to the north—were abolished in July 1911 as part of a populist policy initiative headed by New York City mayor William Jay Gaynor.

Usage | Rail traffic | Cable cars and elevated railroads

After the IRT's Joralemon Street Tunnel and the Williamsburg Bridge tracks opened in 1908, the Brooklyn Bridge no longer held a monopoly on rail service between Manhattan and Brooklyn, and cable service ceased.

Proposals for a bridge connecting Manhattan and Brooklyn were first made in the early 19th century, which eventually led to the construction of the current span, designed by John A. Roebling.

That year, the formerly separate City of Brooklyn was unified with New York City, and the Brooklyn Bridge fell under city control.

Two years later, the Brooklyn Bridge trustees agreed to a plan where trolleys could run across the bridge under ten-year contracts.

In the early 20th century, there were plans for Brooklyn Bridge elevated trains to run underground to the BRT's proposed Chambers Street station in Manhattan, though the connection was never opened.

Until the construction of the nearby Williamsburg Bridge in 1903, the New York and Brooklyn Bridge was the longest suspension bridge in the world,  one and a half times longer than any built previously.

The Brooklyn Bridge is part of DUMBO (Down Under the Manhattan Bridge Overpass)and connects Williamsburg to Brooklyn.


He was named Charles in French and English, Carolus in Latin, after his grandfather, Charles Martel.

Charles' achievements gave a new meaning to his name.

This development parallels that of the name of the Caesars in the original Roman Empire, which became kaiser and tsar (or czar), among others.

In many languages of Europe, the very word for "king" derives from his name; e.g., Polish: król, Ukrainian: король (korol'), Czech: král, Slovak: kráľ, Hungarian: király, Lithuanian: karalius, Latvian: karalis, Russian: король, Macedonian: крал, Bulgarian: крал, Romanian: crai, Serbo-Croatian: краљ/kralj, Turkish: kral.

Charlemagne expanded the reform Church's programme unlike his father, Pippin, and uncle, Carloman.

Italian campaigns | Conquest of the Lombard kingdom

Charlemagne and his uncle Bernard crossed the Alps in 773 and chased the Lombards back to Pavia, which they then besieged.

Later Old French historians dubbed him Charles le Magne (Charles the Great), becoming Charlemagne in English after the Norman conquest of England.

The epithet Carolus Magnus was widely used, leading to numerous translations into many languages of Europe.

Records name only Carloman, Gisela, and three short-lived children named Pepin, Chrothais and Adelais as his younger siblings.

Rise to power | Aquitainian rebellion | Formation of a new Aquitaine

The French name, Gascony, derives from Vasconia.

Charlemagne's name was given to him after his uncle.


Baseball career | Cleveland Indians (1975-1977)

The Cleveland Indians selected Eckersley in the third round of the 1972 MLB draft; he was disappointed that he was not drafted by the Giants.

Baseball career | Boston Red Sox (1978-1984)

The Indians traded Eckersley and Fred Kendall to the Boston Red Sox for Rick Wise, Mike Paxton, Bo Díaz, and Ted Cox on March 30, 1978.

"Eck" is known for his easy-going manner and his own baseball vernacular which has caused members of Red Sox Nation to attempt to keep up with "The Ecktionary," a defining list of his on air sayings.

He struck out 12 batters and only allowed two to reach base, Tony Solaita on a walk in the first inning and Bobby Bonds on a third strike that was a wild pitch.

Eckersley pitched reliably over three seasons with the Indians.

Baseball career | Oakland Athletics (1987-1995)

Eckersley's control, which had always been above average even when he was not otherwise pitching well, became his trademark; he walked only three batters in 57.2 innings in 1989, four batters in 73.1 innings in 1990, and nine batters in 76 innings in 1991.

eventually lost 7-6 in 11 innings.

In the spring of 2009, when regular NESN commentator Jerry Remy took time off for health reasons, Eckersley filled in for him, providing color commentary alongside play-by-play announcer Don Orsillo.

Dennis Lee Eckersley (born October 3, 1954), nicknamed "Eck", is an American former professional baseball pitcher.

Baseball career | Chicago Cubs (1984-1986)

Eckersley gave up 5 runs in 5.1 innings, taking the loss, in his sole start for the Cubs in their NL Championship Series with the San Diego Padres.

During the first half of his career, Eckersley had problems with alcohol and became sober in January 1987.An MLB Network documentary about Eckersley, titled "Eck: A Story of Saving", premiered on December 13, 2018.

Eck played for the Indians in 1974.


It appeared in two phases: a few first copies were printed and illuminated by Blake himself in 1789; five years later he bound these poems with a set of new poems in a volume titled Songs of Innocence and of Experience Shewing the Two Contrary States of the Human Soul.

The poems are each listed below: Songs of Experience is a poetry collection of 26 poems forming the second part of William Blake's Songs of Innocence and of Experience.

Songs of Innocence and of Experience is a collection of illustrated poems by William Blake.

It is a conceptual collection of 19 poems, engraved with artwork.

The composer William Bolcom completed a setting of the entire collection of poems in 1984.

24", a setting of five poems from Songs of Innocence for solo voice and piano in 2013.

It was first performed by baritone Anthony Schneider and pianist Rosemary Barnes in Vienna, Austria the same year.

This collection mainly shows happy, innocent perception in pastoral harmony, but at times, such as in "The Chimney Sweeper" and "The Little Black Boy", subtly shows the dangers of this naïve and vulnerable state.

The folk musician Greg Brown recorded sixteen of the poems on his 1987 album Songs of Innocence and of Experience and by Finn Coren in his Blake Project.

Some of the poems, such as "The Little Girl Lost" and "The Little Girl Found", were moved by Blake to Songs of Innocence and were frequently moved between the two books.

The second set of collection of poems for the Songs of Innocence came after 8 years with a new tittle.


MacPhail was a baseball executive for 45 years, serving as the director of player personnel for the New York Yankees, the president and general manager of the Baltimore Orioles, chief aide to Commissioner of Baseball William Eckert, executive vice president and general manager of the Yankees, and president of the American League.

Born in Nashville, Tennessee, he was the son of Larry MacPhail (Leland S. MacPhail Sr.), front office executive with the Cincinnati Reds, Brooklyn Dodgers and the Yankees.

Larry and Lee MacPhail are the only father-and-son pair to be inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame.

Son Lee MacPhail III had begun a career in baseball and was an executive with the Reading Phillies of the Eastern League upon his untimely death at age 27 in an automobile accident on February 18, 1969.

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.

He joined the Yankees when Larry MacPhail became a co-owner of the team in 1945.The younger MacPhail rose through the Yankees system, eventually becoming farm system director in the late 1940s (after his father sold his one-third share and left baseball) and contributing to the organization's seven World Series championships from 1949 to 1958.

In addition, grandson Lee MacPhail IV has been active in baseball as a scout or scouting director for numerous teams, including the Orioles, Twins, New York Mets, Seattle Mariners, Cleveland Indians, Washington Nationals and Texas Rangers.

Lee MacPhail's son Andy is the president of the Philadelphia Phillies.

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

After his retirement as AL president, MacPhail spent two final years in baseball as chairman of Major League Baseball's Player Relations Committee.

Lee MacPhail, born in Nashville, Tennessee, the son of Larry MacPhail, was a baseball executive for 45 years, working with more than five teams throughout his career.


Comparison with other writings | Gospel of Luke

As the second part of the two-part work Luke–Acts, Acts has significant links to the Gospel of Luke.

Composition and setting | Genre, sources and historicity of Acts

He transposed a few incidents from Mark's gospel to the time of the Apostles—for example, the material about "clean" and "unclean" foods in Mark 7 is used in Acts 10, and Mark's account of the accusation that Jesus has attacked the Temple (Mark 14:58) is used in a story about Stephen (Acts 6:14).

By and large the sources for Acts can only be guessed at, but the author would have had access to the Septuagint (a Greek translation of the Jewish scriptures), the Gospel of Mark, and either the hypothetical collection of "sayings of Jesus" called the Q source or the Gospel of Matthew.

These parallels continue through both books.

Acts continues the story of Christianity in the 1st century, beginning with Jesus's ascension to Heaven.

Stephen's death marks a major turning point

The majority of scholars prefer the Alexandrian (shorter) text-type over the Western as the more authentic, but this same argument would favour the Western over the Alexandrian for the Gospel of Luke, as in that case the Western version is the shorter; the debate therefore continues.

For example, the gospel seems to place the Ascension on Easter Sunday, immediately after the Resurrection, while Acts 1 puts it forty days later.

Wipf and Stock Publishers. CS1 maint: ref=harv (link) Powell, Mark Allan (2018).

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

The Gospel of Luke and Acts make up a two-volume work which scholars call Luke–Acts.

Acts is a continuation of the Gospel of Mark.


Early political activities and life (1896–1917) | World War I (1914–1917)

Although this passage was quoted in Stalin's book The October Revolution (1934), it was expunged from Stalin's Works (1949).

The struggle which is in the offing transcends by far the importance of individuals, factions and parties.

Russian Revolution and aftermath | Left opposition (1923–1924)

Appointment of the secretaries of provincial committees is now the rule.

Russian Revolution and aftermath | Lenin's illness (1922–1923)

Stalin's power of patronage in his capacity as general secretary clearly played a role, but Trotsky and his supporters later concluded that a more fundamental reason was the process of slow bureaucratisation of the Soviet regime once the extreme conditions of the Civil War were over.

Raymond Molinier wrote that Trotsky spoke French fluently.

Russian Revolution and aftermath | A year in the wilderness (1925)

Trotsky denied this statements made by Eastman in an article he wrote.

Russian Revolution and aftermath | Trade union debate (1920–1921)

At the end of the Tenth Congress, after peace negotiations had failed, Trotsky gave the order for the suppression of the Kronstadt rebellion, the last major revolt against Bolshevik rule.

Trotsky was never formally rehabilitated during the rule of the Soviet government, despite the Glasnost-era rehabilitation of most other Old Bolsheviks killed during the Great Purges.

After forcefully denying Stalin's accusations that he had betrayed the working class, he thanked his friends and above all his wife, Natalia Sedova, for their loyal support: In addition to the happiness of being a fighter for the cause of socialism, fate gave me the happiness of being her husband.

Early political activities and life (1896–1917) | Split with Lenin (1903–1904)

In a surprise development, Trotsky and most of the Iskra editors supported Martov and the Mensheviks, while Plekhanov supported Lenin and the Bolsheviks.

Trotsky was a staunch supporter of Stalin's rule and wrote his memoirs.


Sir James Paul McCartney  (born 18 June 1942) is an English singer, songwriter, musician, composer, and record and film producer who gained worldwide fame as co-lead vocalist and bassist for the Beatles.

McCartney identified Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band as containing his strongest and most inventive bass playing, particularly on "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds".

MacDonald identified "She's a Woman" as the turning point when McCartney's bass playing began to evolve dramatically, and Beatles biographer Chris Ingham singled out Rubber Soul as the moment when McCartney's playing exhibited significant progress, particularly on "The Word".

Bacon and Morgan described his bassline for the Beatles song "Rain" as "an astonishing piece of playing ... [McCartney] thinking in terms of both rhythm and 'lead bass' ... [choosing] the area of the neck ... he correctly perceives will give him clarity for melody without rendering his sound too thin for groove." MacDonald identified the influence of Indian classical music in "exotic melismas in the bass part" on "Rain" and described the playing as "so inventive that it threatens to overwhelm the track".

Personal relationships | Beatles | Ringo Starr

Not in 2010. McCartney played bass on "Peace Dream", and sang a duet with Starr on "Walk with You".

Best known for primarily using a plectrum or pick, McCartney occasionally plays fingerstyle.

McCartney inducted Starr into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in April 2015, and played bass on his 2017 album Give More Love.

Bacon and Morgan agreed, calling McCartney's groove on the track "a high point in pop bass playing and ... the first proof on a recording of his serious technical ability on the instrument." MacDonald inferred the influence of James Brown's "Papa's Got a Brand New Bag" and

During McCartney's early years with the Beatles, he primarily used a Höfner 500/1 bass, although from 1965, he favoured his Rickenbacker 4001S for recording.

He uses Mesa Boogie bass amplifiers while performing live.

Wilson Pickett's "In the Midnight Hour", American soul tracks from which McCartney absorbed elements and drew inspiration as he "delivered his most spontaneous bass-part to date".

McCartney played bass for the Beatles.


Newman was scheduled to make his professional stage directing debut with the Westport Country Playhouse's 2008 production of John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men, but he stepped down on May 23, 2008, citing his health concerns.

Paul Newman remained a friend of the company until his death and discussed at numerous times possible productions in which he could star with his wife, Joanne Woodward.

Newman's mother worked in his father's store, while raising Paul and his elder brother, Arthur, who later became a producer and production manager.

In addition to the awards Newman won for specific roles, he received an honorary Academy Award in 1986 for his "many and memorable and compelling screen performances" and

In addition to starring in and directing Harry & Son, Newman directed four feature films starring Woodward.

Newman, Paul; Hotchner, A.E. Newman's Own Cookbook.

Newman directed Nell alongside her mother in the films

They met her while she was a freshman at Kenyon College during a play which Newman was directing.

Newman met actress Joanne Woodward in 1953, on the production of Picnic on Broadway.

It was produced and directed by David Winters, who co-owned a number of racing cars with Newman.

Paul Newman directed many theatre productions.


The film follows a river journey from South Vietnam into Cambodia undertaken by Captain Benjamin L. Willard (a character based on Conrad's Marlow and played by Sheen), who is on a secret mission to assassinate Colonel Kurtz (Brando, with the character being based on Conrad's Mr. Kurtz), a renegade Army Special Forces officer accused of murder and who is presumed insane.

In 2001, Coppola released Apocalypse Now Redux in cinemas and subsequently on DVD.

Other versions | Apocalypse Now Final Cut

In April 2019, Coppola showed Apocalypse Now Final Cut for the 40th anniversary screening at the Tribeca Film Festival.

In his original review, Roger Ebert wrote, "Apocalypse Now achieves greatness not by analyzing our 'experience in Vietnam', but by re-creating, in characters and images, something of that experience".

"Ebert added Coppola's film to his list of The Great Movies, stating: "Apocalypse

When the Army did not co-operate, while promoting The Godfather Part II in Australia, Coppola and his producers scouted possible locations for Apocalypse Now in Cairns in northern Queensland, that had jungle resembling Vietnam, and in Malaysia.

The film was re-released on August 28, 1987, in six cities to capitalize on the success of Platoon, Full Metal Jacket, and other Vietnam War movies.

Roger Ebert considered it to be the finest film on the Vietnam War and included it on his list for the 2002 Sight & Sound poll for the greatest movie of all time.

Apocalypse Now had novel sound techniques for a movie, as Murch insisted on recording the most up-to-date gunfire and employed the Dolby Stereo 70 mm Six Track system for the 70 mm release.

Now is the best Vietnam film, one of the greatest of all films, because it pushes beyond the others, into the dark places of the soul.

Apocalypse Now is a movie about a soldier's journey in Vietnam.


Controversies | Disputed items in the collection

Elgin Marbles – claimed by Greece and backed by UNESCO among others for restitution

Ethiopian Tabots – claimed by Ethiopia Four stolen drawings (Nazi plunder) –

Compensation paid to Uri Peled for the amount of £175,000 by the British Museum

Benin Bronzes – claimed by Nigeria, 30 pieces sold by the British Museum privately to the Nigerian government in the 1950s

Controversies | Artefacts taken from other countries

The British Museum continues to assert that it is an appropriate custodian and has an inalienable right to its disputed artefacts under British law.

The series is designed to disseminate research on items in the collection.

Achaemenid empire gold and silver artefacts from the Oxus Treasure – claimed by Tajikistan

Rosetta Stone – claimed by Egypt

Some 24,000+ scrolls, manuscripts, paintings, scriptures, and relics from the Mogao Caves, including the Diamond Sutra – claimed by the People's Republic of China Gweagal Shield — claimed by Australia for the Gweagal people of New South Wales Hoa Hakananai'a – claimed by Chile on behalf of Easter Island Repatriation and reburial of human remains is a controversial issue, and the BM has issued a policy on the subject.

Altogether the British Museum showcases on public display less than 1% of its entire collection, approximately 50,000 items.

The British Museum has some disputed items.


In January 1988, Griffey, at the age of 18, attempted to commit suicide by swallowing 277 aspirin pills but wound up in intensive care in Providence Hospital in Mount Airy, Ohio.

Professional career | Return to Mariners (2009–2010)

Griffey once again sported #24 with the Mariners; the team had not issued the number to any player or coach in the nine years between his two stints in Seattle.

The Griffey family resides in Winter Garden, Florida, where Ken Griffey Sr. is also a resident.

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.

In 2008, Griffey released a series of charity wines to support The Ken Griffey Jr. Family Foundation, a fund that supports several causes, including the Boys & Girls Clubs of America and several children's hospitals across the United States.

Professional career | Cincinnati Reds (2000–2008) | 2005–2006

While on holiday in the Bahamas with his family, he broke his wrist.

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

Griffey did not expect such a welcome or a turnout by fans when he came back, and a short but emotional speech was given by Griffey afterwards.

Professional career | Cincinnati Reds (2000–2008) | 2000–2004

In 2000, Griffey also changed his number from 24 to 30, the number his father wore while playing in both Cincinnati and Seattle.

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

Many of the fans in attendance made signs professing their gratitude and adoration toward him with quotes such as: "The House that Griffey Built", "Seattle Junior", and "Griffey we miss you.

Griffey is the son of former MLB player Ken Griffey Sr.

Ken Griffey once ate such an extremely large number of skittles at once that his family worried for his health.


Although the exact cause of death was never settled with certainty, physicians eventually determined the cause as "a cardiac complication of acute articular rheumatism".

Life | Early years | Family background and childhood

Georges Bizet was born in Paris on 25 October 1838.

According to one account, he accused Bizet of plagiarism: "Georges has robbed me!

Georges Bizet (25 October 1838 – 3 June 1875), registered at birth as Alexandre César Léopold Bizet, was a French composer of the Romantic era.

She died in 1926; in her will, she established a fund for a Georges Bizet prize, to be awarded annually to a composer under 40 who had "produced a remarkable work within the previous five years".

Georges was interviewed by Joseph Meifred, the horn virtuoso who was a member of the Conservatoire's Committee of Studies.

He was registered as Alexandre César Léopold, but baptised as "Georges" on 16 March 1840, and was known by this name for the rest of his life.

Life | Emergent composer | Years of struggle

In July 1866, Bizet signed another contract with Carvalho, for La jolie fille de Perth, the libretto for which, by J.H. Vernoy de Saint-Georges after Sir Walter Scott, is described by Bizet's biographer Winton Dean as "the worst Bizet was ever called upon to set".

Georges, an only child, showed early aptitude for music and quickly picked up the basics of musical notation from his mother, who probably gave him his first piano lessons.

By listening at the door of the room where Adolphe conducted his classes, Georges learned to sing difficult songs accurately from memory and developed an ability to identify and analyse complex chordal structures.

No trace exists, and it is unlikely that Bizet ever started it.

Georges Bizet kicked the bucket of colon cancer.


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.

'"The character of Lowery, a park control-room employee from the previous Jurassic World film, was considered for a return in Fallen Kingdom.

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.

The film is the first entry in the Jurassic Park series to be presented in a widescreen 2.39:1 aspect ratio.

Later that month, he did not deny the film could involve "dinosaur soldiers" and said the series is "not always gonna be about a Jurassic Park".

Pratt had been signed for future films in the series, as was Ty Simpkins, who portrayed Gray in Jurassic World.

Variety's Owen Gleiberman called the film better than the first Jurassic World but wrote "... [Fallen Kingdom] ends up being just a so-so ride.

Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom is the 2nd part of the Jurassic park  series.