The Natural is a 1952 novel about baseball by Bernard Malamud, and is his debut novel.

The story follows Roy Hobbs, a baseball prodigy whose career is sidetracked when he is shot by a woman whose motivation remains mysterious.

A film adaptation of The Natural, starring Robert Redford as Roy Hobbs, was released in 1984.

Once Roy gets his first chance at bat, however, he proves to be a true "natural" at the game.

With the Knights one game away from winning the National League pennant, Roy attends a party hosted by Memo where he collapses and awakens in the hospital.

When he goes down to her room, she shoots him in the stomach.

Roy Hobbs – “The Natural” – A former teenage pitching phenomenon whose career was sidelined and dreams were derailed when he was seriously injured after a meeting with a mysterious woman who shoots him as he travels to Chicago to try out for a Major League baseball team.

At the end of the game, with a chance to win it, Hobbs, now trying to win, comes to bat against Herman Youngberry, a brilliant young pitcher similar to Hobbs at the same age.

During one losing game, Roy Hobbs emerges from the clubhouse tunnel and announces that he is the team's new left fielder, having just been signed by Knights co-owner Judge Banner.

During one game, Pop substitutes Hobbs as a pinch hitter for team star Bump Baily.

Memo rebuffs Roy's advances; Hobbs continues to play brilliantly and leads the Knights to a 17-game winning streak.

The Natural is a book about Roy Hobbs a natural southpaw boxer who goes on to win the heavyweight title from Boom Boom Mancini.


He has starred in a number of successful films, including Cry-Baby (1990), Dead Man (1995), Sleepy Hollow (1999), Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005), Corpse Bride (2005), Public Enemies (2009), Alice in Wonderland (2010) and its 2016 sequel, The Tourist (2010), Rango (2011), Dark Shadows (2012), Into the Woods (2014), and Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald (2018).

Depp is the tenth highest-grossing actor worldwide, as films featuring Depp have grossed over US$3.7 billion at the United States box office and over US$10 billion worldwide.

He has been listed in the 2012 Guinness World Records as the world's highest-paid actor, with earnings of US$75 million.

Whitey Bulger in Black Mass (2015).

" In September 2015, when promoting his film Black Mass at a press conference for its world premiere in Venice, Depp joked that he "killed his dogs and ate them ... under direct orders from some kind of sweaty big-gutted man from Australia.

The film was a box office success and had a positive critical reception, with Depp being nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy.

Depp played convicted Boston crime boss Whitey Bulger in director Scott Cooper's Black Mass (2015), which earned him his third nomination for the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role.

In 2003, Depp starred in the Walt Disney Pictures adventure film Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, which was a major box office success.

had [Burton and Depp] never met." Depp won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy for the role, and was nominated for the third time for the Academy Award for Best Actor.

Depp was again nominated for the Best Actor Academy Award for his performance as Scottish author J. M. Barrie in the film Finding Neverland (2004).

The film was a critical and commercial success that established him as a leading Hollywood actor and began his long association with Burton.

was the comeback role Johnny Depp needed?

Johnny Depp has been in many successful films, including Black Mass, and is the 10th best paid actor in the world.


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

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

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

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

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

Professional career | Chicago White Sox (2008)

Griffey would instead receive a buyout for $4 million, split between the Reds and White Sox.

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

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

Professional career | Seattle Mariners (1989–1999)

The play also inspired the title of the video game Ken Griffey Jr.'s Winning Run for the Super NES.

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

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.

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

Ken Griffey Jr. was not at his dad's champion games because he had to stay home with a babysitter instead.


And who saves him? His Quaker wife.

Some critics scoffed at the unorthodox rescue of the hero by the heroine.

High Noon is referenced several times on the HBO drama series The Sopranos.

Amy understands why Helen is fleeing—out of fear of Miller and having split from Pell—but the reverse is not true: Helen tells Amy that if Kane were her man, she would not abandon him in his hour of need.

The running time of the story almost precisely parallels the running time of the film — an effect heightened by frequent shots of clocks, to remind the characters (and the audience) that the villain will be arriving on the noon train.

High Noon was filmed in the late summer/early fall of 1951 in several locations in California.

Any time you're alone and you feel you're not getting the support you need, Cooper's Will Kane becomes the perfect metaphor." Ronald Reagan cited High Noon as his favorite film, due to the protagonist's strong commitment to duty and the law.

Lee Van Cleef made his film debut in High Noon.

In this sense it is a cousin to A Man for All Seasons.

Later, he told an interviewer that he would "never regret having helped run Foreman out of the country".

High Noon has even been described as a "straight remake" of the 1929 film version of The Virginian in which Cooper also starred.

And who saves him? His Quaker wife.

The film High Noon subverts gender norms of the time by having the woman rescue the man.


Pedro Álvares Cabral (European Portuguese: [ˈpeðɾu ˈaɫvɐr(ɨ)ʃ kɐˈβɾaɫ] or Brazilian Portuguese: [ˈpedɾu ˈawvaɾis kaˈbɾaw]; né Pedro Álvares de Gouveia; c. 1467 or 1468 – c. 1520) was a Portuguese nobleman, military commander, navigator and explorer regarded as the European discoverer of Brazil.

Knight in the King's Council around 1518.

He was concurrently given the title fidalgo (nobleman) in the King's Council and was named a Knight of the Order of Christ.

In 1518, or perhaps previously, he was raised from fidalgo to knight in the King's Council and was entitled to a monthly allowance of 2,437 reais.

Knight of the Portuguese Order of Christ awarded in 1497.

Fidalgo in the King's Council in 1497.

Discovery of Brazil | Fleet commander-in-chief

Also in his favor may have been the influence of two of his brothers who sat on the King's Council.

That, along with the "standing of the Cabral family, their unquestioned loyalty to the Crown, the personal appearance of Cabral, and the ability which he had shown at court and in the council were important factors".

Cabral stayed behind, waiting for Pedro de Ataíde's missing ship and for the caravel that had been sent to Sofala.

King Dom Manuel I, who had acceded to the throne two years previously, awarded him an annual allowance worth 30,000 reais on 12 April 1497.

Pedro Alvares Cabral was a nobleman and awarded Knight in the King's Council.


There are several theories about which real building or buildings (if any) may have inspired Wuthering Heights.

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

Ellen Moers, in Literary Women, developed a feminist theory that connects women writers, including Emily Brontë, with gothic fiction.

Most of the novel is the story told by housekeeper Nelly Dean to Lockwood, though the novel "uses several narrators (in fact, five or six) to place the story in perspective, or in a variety of perspectives".

References in culture | Works inspired by | Literature

Mizumura Minae's A True Novel (Honkaku shosetsu) (2002) is inspired by Wuthering Heights and might be called an adaptation of the story in a post-World War II Japanese setting.

, as mentioned by Ian Jacks in the Explanatory Notes to the 1976 edition of the novel.

The inspiration for Thrushcross Grange has long been traced to Ponden Hall, near Haworth, which is very small.

References in culture | Works inspired by | Music

Both titles refer to the closing lines in the novel.

The novel has inspired many adaptations, including film, radio and television dramatisations; a musical; a ballet; operas; and a hit song.

It was primarily inspired by the Olivier–Oberon film version, which deeply affected Bush in her teenage years.

There are several theories about which building may have inspired the novel.


The new gate was commissioned by Frederick William II of Prussia to represent peace and was originally named the Peace Gate (German: Friedenstor).

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.

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

The Quadriga faces east, as it did when it was originally installed in 1793.

The Brandenburg Gate has played different political roles in German history.

Citizens were originally allowed to use only the outermost two on each side.

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

In 1963, U.S. President John F. Kennedy visited the Brandenburg Gate.

The Brandenburg Gate was privately refurbished on 21 December 2000, at a cost of six million euros.

One horse's head from the original quadriga survived, and is today kept in the collection of the Märkisches Museum.

The Brandenburg Gate was originally called the peace gate.


The novella tells the story of a beloved school teacher, Mr Chipping, and his long tenure at Brookfield School, a fictional minor British boys' public boarding school located in the fictional village of Brookfield, in the Fenlands.

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

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

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

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

The story was originally issued in 1933, as a supplement to the British Weekly, an evangelical newspaper.

Hilton wrote upon Balgarnie's death that "Balgarnie was, I suppose, the chief model for my story.

Little, Brown and Company, who published the story in book form for the first time in June 1934.

While some of the incidents depicted in the various screen adaptations do not appear in the book, this film is generally faithful to the original story.

To a modern reader, the fact that this is shortly after Adolf Hitler's rise to power frames the story significantly, but with added poignancy.

Goodbye, Mr. Chips' story happens in Canada.


Perry signed with Red Hill Records and released her debut studio album Katy Hudson under her birth name in 2001, which was commercially unsuccessful.

Life and career | 2007–2009: Breakthrough with One of the Boys

The Matrix's self-titled debut album, which Perry had recorded with the band in 2004, was released onto iTunes on January 27, 2009, as a result of her solo success.

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

The album, titled Witness, was released on June 9, 2017 to mixed reviews, and debuted at number one in the United States.

Life and career | 1999–2006: Career beginnings

Perry signed with Red Hill Records and recorded her debut album, a gospel record titled Katy Hudson, which was released on March 6, 2001.

Perry had minor success prior to her breakthrough.

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

Like its predecessor, The Smurfs 2 was a financial success but was panned by critics.

Billboard also named her the 15th most successful dance club artist of all time.

Life and career | 2010–2012: Teenage Dream and marriage

The film was a financial success worldwide, while critics gave mostly negative reviews.

It received favorable reviews from critics and debuted at number one on the Billboard 200 chart.

In response to speculation that her parents opposed her music and career, Perry told MTV that they had no problems with her success.

Katy Perry's debut album was not successful.


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.

Jackson administration | Supreme Court nominations

Despite Taney's earlier rejection by the Senate, in January 1835 Jackson nominated Taney to fill the seat of retiring Supreme Court Associate Justice Gabriel Duvall.

He was the first Catholic to serve on the Supreme Court.

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,.

In 1835, after Democrats took control of the Senate, Jackson appointed Taney to succeed John Marshall on the Supreme Court as Chief Justice.

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

" In early 1865, the House of Representatives passed a bill to appropriate funds for a bust of Chief Justice Taney to be displayed in the Supreme Court alongside those of his four predecessors.

At the request of Associate Justice John Catron, Buchanan convinced Northern Associate Justice Robert Cooper Grier to join the majority opinion in Dred Scott.

The Compromise of 1850 contained provisions to expedite appeals regarding slavery in the territories to the Supreme Court, but no suitable case arose until Dred Scott v. Sandford reached the Supreme Court in 1856.

Scott prevailed in a state trial court, but that ruling was reversed by the Missouri Supreme Court.

Roger Taney was the 10th Supreme Court Justice.


At the time Sutton was born his father was 18 and his mother was 15.

Don Sutton Ball Park in Molino was named in his honor.

16 of Sutton's 23 MLB seasons were spent with the Dodgers.

Sutton's father, Howard, gave him the strong work ethic that he had throughout his career.

Beginning in 1966, he was in the team's starting pitching rotation with Sandy Koufax, Don Drysdale and Claude Osteen.

I don't know who are the prospects we are getting, but I would think Don Sutton would bring a big name, a real big name.

On the 1966 Dodgers, Sutton was the fourth starting pitcher in a rotation that included Sandy Koufax, Don Drysdale and Claude Osteen.

Claire said that Sutton's stamina was a major consideration in the move, as the team was looking for pitchers who could last more than five or six innings per start.

Sutton's major league debut came with the Dodgers on April 14, 1966, the same day that future 300-game winner Greg Maddux was born.

Don Sutton's parents were teenagers when they had him.


Puyi is also known to have used an English given name, "Henry", which he chose from a list of English kings given to him by his English-language teacher, Scotsman Reginald Johnston, after Puyi asked for an English name.

When Puyi ruled the puppet state of Manchukuo and assumed the title of Chief Executive of the new state, his era name was "Datong" (Ta-tung).

As Emperor of Manchukuo from 1934 to 1945, his era name was "Kangde" (Kang-te), so he was known as the "Kangde Emperor" (Chinese: 康德皇帝;

Some refer to him as "The Last Emperor of the Qing Dynasty" (Chinese: 清末帝; pinyin: Qīng Mò Dì; Wade–Giles: Ch'ing1 Mo4-ti4).

When he ruled as Emperor of the Qing Dynasty (and therefore Emperor of China) from 1908 to 1912 and during his brief restoration in 1917, Puyi's era name was "Xuantong", so he was known as the "Xuantong Emperor" (simplified Chinese: 宣统皇帝; traditional Chinese: 宣統皇帝; pinyin: Xuāntǒng Huángdì; Wade–

" She was also a wife in name only.

In 1932, after the Japanese invasion of Manchuria, the puppet state of Manchukuo was established by Japan and he was chosen to become "Emperor" of the new state using the era-name of Datong (Ta-tung).

The personal translator of the captured emperor, Georgy Permyakov in his memoir Emperor Puyi.

Five years together writes that in Khabarovsk Puyi was known by the Russian nickname "Yegor the First".

Biography | Puppet ruler of Manchukuo (1932–1945)

It is unclear whether the adoption of ancient Chinese styles and rites, such as using "His Majesty" instead of his real name, was the product of Puyi's interest or a Japanese imposition of their own imperial house rules.

Puyi used the name "Paul" when he was referred to by  an English name.


With a recorded population of 2,731,571 in 2016, it is the most populous city in Canada and the fourth most populous city in North America.

In 2010, it was estimated over 100,000 immigrants arrive in the Greater Toronto Area each year.

As a major destination for immigrants to Canada, the city grew rapidly through the remainder of the 19th century.

The diverse population of Toronto reflects its current and historical role as an important destination for immigrants to Canada.

The five largest financial institutions of Canada, collectively known as the Big Five, have national offices in Toronto.

Toronto hosted WorldPride in June 2014, and the Pan American Games in 2015.The city continues to grow and attract immigrants.

Following the elimination of racially based immigration policies by the late 1960s, Toronto became a destination for immigrants from all parts of the world.

One of the largest events in the city, Pride Week takes place in late June, and is one of the largest LGBT festivals in the world.

Managed by Parks Canada, the national park is centred around the Rouge River and encompasses several municipalities in the Greater Toronto Area.

The first 25 years after the Toronto purchase was quiet, although "there were occasional independent fur traders" present in the area, with the usual complaints of debauchery and drunkenness.

Toronto has a comparable rate of car theft to various U.S. cities, although it is not among the highest in Canada.

Toronto, the largest city in Canada, has 100,000 immigrants to the area every year.


At an early age, Charles-Valentin and his siblings adopted their father's first name as their last (and were known by this during their studies at the Conservatoire de Paris and subsequent careers).

Charles-Valentin was the second of six children – one elder sister and four younger brothers; his birth certificate indicates that he was named after a neighbour who witnessed the birth.

At Charles-Valentin's piano audition on 6 October 1820, when he was nearly seven (and where he is named as "Alkan (Morhange) Valentin"), the examiners comment "This child has amazing abilities.

his brother Maxim (1818–1897) had a career writing light music for Parisian theatres, and his sister, Céleste (1812–1897), was a singer.

Alkan was a child prodigy. He entered the Conservatoire de Paris at an unusually early age, and studied both piano and organ.

His brother Ernest (1816–1876) was a professional flautist, while the youngest brother Gustave (1827–1882) was to publish various dances for the piano.

Life | At the Square d'Orléans (1837–1848)

Meyerbeer heard and approved Alkan's arrangement of the overture for four hands (which Alkan played with his brother Napoléon) in 1849; published in 1850

Alkan was buried on 1 April (Easter Sunday) in the Jewish section of Montmartre Cemetery, Paris, not far from the tomb of his contemporary Fromental Halévy; his sister Céleste was later buried in the same tomb.

His brother Napoléon (1826–1906) became professor of solfège at the Conservatoire,

In 1829, at the age of 15, Alkan was appointed joint professor of solfège – among his pupils in this class a few years later was his brother Napoléon.

In the first half of the twentieth century, when Alkan's name was still obscure, Busoni and Petri included his works in their performances.

As a child, Alkan changed his name along with his brothers and sister.


As of 2012, Foxconn factories manufactured an estimated 40% of all consumer electronics sold worldwide.

At this time, Foxconn made up approximately forty percent of worldwide consumer electronics production.

In 2015, Foxconn announced that it would be setting up twelve factories in India and would create around one million jobs.

Foxconn manufactures electronic products for major American, Canadian, Chinese, Finnish and Japanese companies.

Expansion was further pursued after a March 2012 acquisition of a 10-percent stake in the Japanese electronics company Sharp Corporation for US$806 million and to purchase up to 50 percent of the LCDs produced at Sharp's plant in Sakai, Japan.

Today, it is the world's largest provider of electronics manufacturing services and the third-largest technology company by revenue.

The company invested $377 million in June 2014 to pick up a 4.9 percent shareholding in a South Korean IT services provider, SK C&C.

They also signed an MOU with the state government of Maharashtra to set up an electronics manufacturing plant in Maharashtra with an investment of $5 billion within a 5-year period.

Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd., trading as Foxconn Technology Group and better known as Foxconn, is a Taiwanese multinational electronics contract manufacturer with its headquarters in Tucheng, New Taipei City.

Foxconn's first manufacturing plant in China opened in Longhua Town, Shenzhen, in 1988.One of the important milestones for Foxconn occurred in 2001 when Intel selected the company to manufacture its Intel-branded motherboards instead of Asus.

The company manufactures around forty percents of all the electronic goods from all around the world.


He ranked sixth in major league history in double plays (1,160) upon retiring, and was sixth in AL history in games (1,519), putouts (3,600), assists (4,706) and total chances (8,566) and seventh in fielding percentage (.970).

In Game 1 he started the scoring with a solo home run in the second inning, had an RBI single and was walked twice (once intentionally), and turned a double play with the tying run on first base to end a 3-2 win.

He doubled in two runs in the ninth inning of Game 4 to give the Yankees their final 7-4 lead, four batters after Dodger catcher Mickey Owen famously dropped a third strike which would have ended the game.

He then went on to manage for four different MLB teams.

In the final Game 6, he homered to give the Indians a 2-1 lead in the sixth inning, and they went on to win 4-3 to capture the championship.

In Game 3, a 5-2 win, he had a solo home run to tie the game 1-1 in the fifth inning, and singled home two more runs in the sixth.

His seven double plays in the Series are still the record for a six-game Series.

Gordon hit .358 while at Oregon which ranks him tied for fourth in team history.

In Game 4, he drove in the tying run with one out in the ninth inning, and the Yankees scored three in the tenth to win 7-4 and complete another sweep for their fourth straight championship.

His five double plays (three of them in Game 2) remain a record for a five-game Series.

Gordon was listed 7th in MLB history in double plays.


Weber was born in Eutin, Bishopric of Lübeck, the eldest of the three children of Franz Anton von Weber and his second wife, Genovefa Weber, a Viennese singer.

So Mozart's wife was a cousin of Carl Maria von Weber.

Life and career | Early career 1804–1810

As the daily routine did not leave sufficient time for own creative work, Weber abandoned the prolongation of his two-year appointment.

The "von" was an affectation of his father, who was not actually an aristocrat.

After moving to Salzburg (autumn 1797) Carl Maria studied with Michael Haydn (starting 1798), the younger brother of Joseph Haydn, who agreed to teach Carl Maria free of charge.

A brilliant pianist himself, Weber composed four sonatas, two concertos and the Konzertstück in F minor (concert piece), which influenced composers such as Chopin, Liszt and Mendelssohn.

Carl Maria von Weber (18 or 19 November 1786 –  5 June 1826) was a German composer, conductor, pianist, guitarist and critic, and was one of the first significant composers of the Romantic school.

He tried repeatedly to establish a lasting company of his own but only accomplished interludes which lasted for a year or two.

Life and career | Later career 1810–1826

In 1823, Weber composed his first (and only) full-length, through-written opera Euryanthe to a libretto by Helmina von Chézy, several passages of which (notably the music for the villainous couple Lysiart and Eglantine) anticipate the early, romantic operas of Richard Wagner.

Homage has been paid to Weber by 20th-century composers such as Debussy, Stravinsky, Mahler (who completed Weber's unfinished comic opera Die drei Pintos and made revisions of Euryanthe and Oberon) and Hindemith (composer of the popular Symphonic Metamorphosis of Themes by Carl Maria von Weber, based on lesser-known keyboard works and the incidental music to Turandot).

Von Weber had two younger siblings.


While the novel initially received a lukewarm critical reception, along with allegations of obscenity, it is today regarded as a masterpiece by many critics and is often regarded as Lawrence's finest achievement.

The third published novel of D. H. Lawrence, taken by many to be his earliest masterpiece, tells the story of Paul Morel, a young man and budding artist.

In 1999, the Modern Library ranked Sons and Lovers ninth on a list of the 100 best novels in English of the 20th century.

In addition to altering the title to a more thematic 'Sons and Lovers', Heinemann's response had reinvigorated Lawrence into vehemently defending his novel and its themes as a coherent work of art.

Sons and Lovers is a 1913 novel by the English writer D. H. Lawrence, originally published by Gerald Duckworth and Company Ltd., London, and Mitchell Kennerley Publishers, New York.

The novel is dedicated to Garnett.

His reaction captures the shock and newness of Lawrence's novel, 'the degradation of the mother [as explored in this novel], supposed to be of gentler birth, is almost inconceivable'; he encouraged Lawrence to redraft the novel one more time.

Sons and Lovers. Cambridge University Press.

Lawrence rewrote the work four times until he was happy with it.

He did not return to the novel for three months, at which point it was titled 'Paul Morel'.

The novel Sons and Lovers was not received very highly until later and was the third novel by the author.


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.

The eyewitness accounts from the crusaders themselves leave little doubt that there was great slaughter in the aftermath of the siege.

The first objective of their campaign was Nicaea, previously a city under Byzantine rule, but

The First Crusade (1096–1099) was the first of a series of religious wars initiated, supported, and sometimes directed by the Latin Church in the medieval period.

As the secular medieval world was so deeply ingrained with the spiritual world of the church, it is quite likely that personal piety was a major factor for many crusaders.

Urban responded favourably, perhaps hoping to heal the Great Schism of forty years earlier, and to reunite the Church under papal primacy by helping the Eastern churches in their time of need.

Historical context | Situation in Europe

It was a holy war but differed from the First Crusade as there was no pilgrimage, no vow and no formal authorisation by the church.

These were deployed by the Church in the Christian conflicts with Muslims during in the 11th century in the Iberian Peninsula and in campaign against the Emirate of Sicily Gregory VII

Typically, preaching would conclude with every volunteer taking a vow to complete a pilgrimage to the Church of the Holy Sepulchre; they were also given a cross, usually sewn onto their clothes.

The Eastern church viewed the pope as only one of the five patriarchs of the Church, alongside the Patriarchates of Alexandria, Antioch, Constantinople and Jerusalem.

Rather, they resolved to take the city by assault.

Western Christians wanted a more effective church and demonstrated an increased piety.

The First Crusade objective was at times supported by the church and became a campaign to take hold of the ancient spiritual city where Christ set up his church even by violent means.


She has a younger brother named David, who is a singer, and an older sister, Angela.

Katheryn Elizabeth Hudson (born October 25, 1984), known professionally as Katy Perry, is an American singer, songwriter, and television judge.

She made her film debut in the 3D family motion picture The Smurfs as Smurfette on July 29, 2011.

Her parents are born again Christians, each having turned to religion after a "wild youth".

Katy Hudson (2001) One of the Boys (2008) Teenage Dream (2010) The Complete Confection (2012) Prism (2013) Witness (2017) Smile (2020) The Smurfs (2011) Katy Perry: Part of Me (2012) The Smurfs 2 (2013) Brand: A Second Coming (2015) Katy Perry: The Prismatic World Tour (2015) Katy Perry: Making of the Pepsi Super Bowl Halftime Show (2015) Jeremy Scott: The People's Designer (2015) Zoolander 2 (2016) Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping (2016) Headlining

Her family struggled financially, sometimes using food stamps and eating from the food bank intended to feed the congregation at her parents' church.

In March 2015, she appeared in Brand: A Second Coming, a documentary following her ex-husband Russell Brand's transition from comedy work to activism, and released a concert film titled Katy Perry: The Prismatic World Tour through Epix, which took place during her tour of the same name.

Katheryn Elizabeth Hudson was born in Santa Barbara, California, to Pentecostal pastors Mary Christine (née Perry) and Maurice Keith Hudson.

In March 2018, Perry announced Witness: Coming Home, a benefit concert that was held in her hometown of Santa Barbara, California on May 19, 2018.

Life and career | 2019–present: Smile and motherhood

At the 61st Annual Grammy Awards, Perry performed "Here You Come Again", alongside Dolly Parton and Kacey Musgraves, as part of a tribute to Parton.

The disco-influenced Teenage Dream (2010) spawned five chart topping  U.S. Billboard Hot 100 singles–"California Gurls", "Teenage Dream", "Firework", "E.T.", and "Last Friday Night (T.G.I.F.)" — a record tying her with Michael Jackson's Bad.

Katy comes as the last born in her family.


We Like Digging? (1995) The Fourth World (1997) Stagg Street Recordings (1999) Maroon 5 have been the recipients of three Grammy Awards, three American Music Awards, and three People's Choice Awards, with five Teen Choice Awards, and eight Billboard Music Awards.

I'm just glad that everyone likes it." James Valentine called Overexposed

History | 2013–2016: V, return of Carmichael and new lineup

V received mixed reviews from critics.

History | 2009–2012: Hands All Over and Carmichael's hiatus

The album received mixed reviews from music critics, though many of them praised it for its production.

At the 2017 Teen Choice Awards on August 13, where the band received the Decade Award.

On the same year, the band won the Grammy Award for Best New Artist.

Later, the band performed at the Grammy Awards' Christmas special, entitled A Very Grammy Christmas, on November 18, 2014 and at the iHeartRadio Jingle Ball Tour 2014 on December 12, 2014."Sugar" was released as the third single from the album on January 13, 2015.

The Night That Changed America: A Grammy Salute to The Beatles, to commemorate the 50th anniversary of The Beatles' arrival in the United States.

Like the band's previous two albums, Red Pill Blues was received mixed reviews due to the band's overwhelming pop direction.

History | 2019–present: Super Bowl LIII halftime show, Madden's departure and upcoming seventh studio album

The year's pre-Super Bowl performance received positive reception by audiences, an improvement to the band's previous Super Bowl performance in 2019.

In January 2012, he announced that Maroon 5 had changed the location of their post-Grammy Awards show because of the "unnamed Los Angeles restaurant's backing of Proposition 8".

We Like Digging? did not receive a Grammy.


He later taught jurisprudence for some years, and his students included notable figures such as Cardinals Alexander Farnese, Reginald Pole and Charles Borromeo.

Gregory XIII was visited by the Tenshō embassy of Japan, becoming the first Pope to have done so.

Upon the death of Pope Pius V (1566–1572), the conclave chose Cardinal Boncompagni, who assumed the name of Gregory XIII in homage to the great reforming Pope, Gregory I (590–604), surnamed the Great.

It was there that he formed a lasting and close relationship with the Spanish King, which was to become very important in his foreign policy as Pope.

Pontificate | Formation of clergy and promotion of the arts and sciences

Pope Gregory XIII also founded numerous seminaries for training priests, beginning with the German College at Rome, and put them in the charge of the Jesuits.

Pope Gregory XIII had no connection with the plot of Henry, Duke of Guise, and his brother, Charles, Duke of Mayenne, to assassinate Elizabeth I in 1582.

Unlike some of his predecessors, he was to lead a faultless personal life, becoming a model for his simplicity of life.

Pope Gregory XIII (Latin: Gregorius XIII; 7 January 1502 – 10 April 1585), born Ugo Boncompagni, was head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 13 May 1572 to his death in 1585.

Pontificate | Canonizations and beatifications

The pope canonized four saints during his pontificate and in 1584 beatified his predecessor Pope Gregory VII.

Pope Paul IV (1555–1559) attached him as datarius to the suite of Cardinal Carlo Carafa, Pope Pius IV (1559–1565) made him Cardinal-Priest of San Sisto Vecchio and sent him to the Council of Trent.

Pope Gregory XIII is best known for his commissioning of what is now known as the Gregorian calendar after being initially authored by the doctor/astronomer Aloysius Lilius and with the aid of Jesuit priest/astronomer Christopher Clavius who made the final modifications.

Pope Gregory XIII was an math teacher before becoming pope.


By AllMusic are considered as the "biggest rock act in Japan and the entirety of Asia".

include "the most number one singles (49), most consecutive number one singles (49), longest streak of number one singles (49), total weeks singles were at number one (66), longest consecutive period with a single at number one (20 Years), most singles in the top 10 concurrently (9), the most million-selling albums (19), most number-one albums (26), and the only artist in history to lead all six major categories tracked by Oricon" among others, including total CD shipment of over 100 million copies and other about home videos.

History | Induction into Hollywood's RockWalk (2001–2007)

On 19 November 2007, B'z was inducted into Hollywood's RockWalk as the first Asian inductee in Sunset Boulevard, California, United States.

no Face-", which became their forty-first consecutive No. 1 single.

By AllMusic are considered as the "biggest rock act in Japan and the entirety of Asia", while the popular music historian Norman Abjorensen described them as one of the most notable J-pop music acts who achieved Asian and global fame.

B'z is one of the best-selling music artists in the world and the best-selling in their native Japan, having released 49 consecutive No. 1 singles, 25 No. 1 albums, 3 No. 1 EPs on the Oricon music charts and sold more than 100 million records worldwide.

On 1 August, their box set The Complete B'z was digitally released only for the Japanese iTunes Store.

History | Returning to the music scene (1999–2000)

It is considered their heaviest rock album at that point.

B'z (Japanese: ビーズ, Hepburn: Bīzu) are a Japanese rock duo, consisting of guitarist, composer and producer Takahiro "Tak" Matsumoto (松本 孝弘, Matsumoto Takahiro) and vocalist and lyricist Koshi Inaba (稲葉 浩志, Inaba Kōshi), known for their energetic hard rock tracks and pop rock ballads.

History | Transitioning into hard rock (1991–1992)

The release of the album marked B'z shying away from their advanced digital sounds and more towards rock.

The Japanese rock duo B'z who released 49 consecutive number 1 singles, and are considered the "biggest rock act in Japan" were the first Asian inductees into Hollywoods' Rockwalk in Sunset Boulevard, California, United States.


Hawthorne wrote to him, "We were not, it is true, so well acquainted at college, that I can plead an absolute right to inflict my 'twice-told' tediousness upon you; but I have often regretted that we were not better known." In his 14-page critique in the April issue of the North American Review, Longfellow praised the book as a work of genius.

In a new preface, Hawthorne wrote that the stories "may be understood and felt by anybody, who will give himself the trouble to read it, and will take up the book in a proper mood." About a week after the publication of the book, Hawthorne sent a copy to his classmate from Bowdoin College, the poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.

Twice-Told Tales is a short story collection in two volumes by Nathaniel Hawthorne.

He did, however, express praise at the use of short stories (Poe was a tale-writer himself) and said they "rivet the attention" of the reader.

"To this little book", Longfellow wrote, "we would say, 'Live ever, sweet, sweet book.'

The House of the Seven Gables; and another short story, "Rappaccini's Daughter".

—he needs roast-beef, done rare.

" For his review of the second edition, Longfellow noted that Hawthorne's writing "is characterized by a large proportion of feminine elements, depth and tenderness of feeling, exceeding purity of mind." He referred to the collection's "The Gentle Boy" as "on the whole, the finest thing he ever wrote".

For the Boston Quarterly Review, Orestes Brownson noted Hawthorne's writings as "a pure and living stream of manly thought and feeling, which characterizes always the true man, the Christian, the republican and the patriot." After reading Twice-Told Tales, Herman Melville wrote to Evert Augustus Duyckinck that the stories weren't meaty enough. " Their deeper meanings are worthy of a Brahmin.

" The quote referenced may also be Hawthorne's way of acknowledging a belief that many of his stories were ironic retellings of familiar tropes.

The three stories were: "Dr. Heidegger's Experiment", which actually was one of the "Twice-Told Tales"; the Hawthorne novel

Of Hawthorne's Twice-Told Tales, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow wrote that the short story form had rarely been so ill-used.


you hear the grating roar"). The beach, however, is bare, with only a hint of humanity in a light that "gleams and is gone".

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The Bangles' song "Dover Beach", from the album All Over the Place (lyrics by Susanna Hoffs and Vicki Peterson) Nora's Lost, a short drama by Alan Haehnel, Daljit Nagra's prize-winning poem " Look We Have Coming to Dover!" which quotes the line, "So various, so beautiful, so new" as its epigraph, the poem "Moon" by Billy Collins,

Dover Beach is a poem about a populated beach.


ADX Florence forms part of the Florence Federal Correctional Complex (FCC Florence), which is situated on 49 acres (20 ha) of land and houses different facilities with varying degrees of security, including the United States Penitentiary, Florence High.

Phones are generally banned and only limited broadcast entertainment is permitted.

The hour outside of the cell is for exercise and a phone call if they have earned the privilege.

ADX Florence is a 37-acre (15 ha) complex located at 5880 Highway 67, Florence, Colorado, about 100 miles (160 km) south of Denver and 40 miles (64 km) south of Colorado Springs.

The supermax unit at ADX Florence houses about 400 male inmates, each assigned to one of six security levels.

Correctional officers deliver food to the cells, although inmates sent to ADX from other prisons can potentially be allowed to eat in a shared dining room.

Federal Bureau of Prisons director Norman Carlson argued for the creation of a new type of facility where the most dangerous, uncontrollable inmates could be isolated from correction officers and other prisoners for security and safety.

ADX Florence, which opened in 1994, is classed as a supermax or "control unit" prison, thus providing a higher level of custody than a maximum security prison.

Some cells have showers which reduces the amount of handling that correctional officers have to perform.

All cells are sound-proofed to prevent prisoners from communicating with one another.

They are confined in a single-person cell for 23 hours a day and are removed under restraint (handcuffed, shackled, or both); their one hour out of their cell may occur at any time of the day or night.

ADX Florence has various types of security cells and cell phones are typically prohibited.


The Song of Songs is unique within the Hebrew Bible: it shows no interest in Law or Covenant or the God of Israel, nor does it teach or explore wisdom like Proverbs or Ecclesiastes (although it does have some affinities to wisdom literature, as the ascription to Solomon indicates); instead, it celebrates sexual love, giving "the voices of two lovers, praising each other, yearning for each other, proffering invitations to enjoy".

Canonisation and interpretation | Christianity

The Christian church's interpretation of the Song as evidence of God's love for his people, both collectively and individually, began with Origen.

Canonisation and interpretation | Judaism

The text thus became a description, depending on the aspect, of the creation of the world, the passage of Shabbat, the covenant with Israel, and the coming of the Messianic age. " Lecha Dodi", a 16th-century liturgical song with strong Kabbalistic symbolism, contains many passages, including its opening two words, taken directly from Song of Songs.

Subject of the Song I Hate Heaven by The Residents, which is featured in their bible

These theological themes are not in the poem, but derive from a theological reading; nevertheless, what is notable about this approach is the way it leads to conclusions not found in the overtly theological books of the Bible.

The Song of Songs, also Song of Solomon or Canticles (Hebrew: שִׁיר הַשִּׁירִים

Ádám Balázs Czinege's Shir Hashirim (2017) Rami Bar-Niv's Uri Tsafon (Song of Songs 4, 16: Awake, North Wind) (1972) Several passages from the Song of Songs were set to music in contemporary Israel - [1] [2][3]

Eliza Gilkyson's "Rose of Sharon" on her album "Your town tonight" is based on her reading of Song of Songs in a hotel room Gideon Bible, as explained in her intro to the song.

In modern times the poem has attracted the attention of feminist biblical critics, with Phyllis Trible's foundational "Depatriarchalizing in Biblical Interpretation" treating it as an exemplary text and the Feminist Companion to the Bible series edited by Athalya Brenner and Carole Fontaine devoting to it two volumes (1993, 2000).

"The Song of Solomon" by British singer Kate Bush on her 1993 album, The Red Shoes, is largely based on the Song of Songs.

The Song of Solomon is a passage from the Bible detailing some "laws" in the Christian faith.


After turning down his original thesis in 1947, the University of Chicago awarded Vonnegut his master's degree in anthropology in 1971 for Cat's Cradle.

Cat's Cradle is a satirical postmodern novel, with science fiction elements, by American writer Kurt Vonnegut.

Cat's Cradle was nominated for a Hugo Award for Best Novel in 1964.

Film, television or theatrical adaptations

Portions of Cat's Cradle were adapted in the television movie Between Time and Timbuktu (1972), which presented elements from various works by Vonnegut.

Includes "14th Calypso," "119th Calypso," and "Nice Very Nice." Narrated by Kurt Vonnegut.

Vonnegut collaborated with US composer Dave Soldier for a CD titled Ice-9 Ballads, featuring nine songs with lyrics taken from Cat's Cradle.

Among some odd unfoldings in Ilium, the narrator meets Hoenniker's younger son, a dwarf named Newt, who recounts that his father was doing nothing more than playing the string game "cat's cradle" when the first bomb was dropped.

Cat's Cradle, despite its relatively short length, contains 127 discrete chapters.

Vonnegut himself has claimed that his books "are essentially mosaics made up of a whole bunch of tiny little chips...and each chip is a joke." After World War II, Kurt Vonnegut worked in the public relations department for the General Electric research company.

More topically, Cat's Cradle takes the threat of nuclear destruction in the Cold War as a major theme.

Cat's Cradle is a novel that was first written by Kurt Vonnegut as a Graduate proposal but was denied.


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.

In 1963, U.S. President John F. Kennedy visited the Brandenburg Gate.

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

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

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.

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

Brandenburg Gate became the main venue for the 20th-anniversary celebrations of the fall of the Berlin Wall or "Festival of Freedom" on the evening of 9 November 2009.

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

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

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

Brandenburg Gate was built  at a previous city gate that John F. Kennedy visited and has symbolized freedom.


The Leaning Tower of Pisa (Italian: The Leaning Tower of Pisa (Italian: Torre pendente di Pisa) or simply the Tower of Pisa (Torre di Pisa [ˈtorre di ˈpiːza, - ˈpiːsa]) is the campanile, or freestanding bell tower, of the cathedral of the Italian city of Pisa, known worldwide for its nearly four-degree lean, the result of an unstable foundation.

On 27 February 1964, the government of Italy requested aid in preventing the tower from toppling.

Because of this, the tower is curved.

Otherwise, the tower would almost certainly have toppled.

On 9 August 1173, the foundations of the tower were laid.

The researchers concluded that the Tower was able to withstand the tremors because of dynamic soil-structure interaction (DSSI): the height and stiffness of the Tower together with the softness of the foundation soil influences the vibrational characteristics of the structure in such a way that the Tower does not resonate with earthquake ground motion.

There has been controversy about the real identity of the architect of the Leaning Tower of Pisa.

The tower and the neighbouring cathedral, baptistery, and cemetery are included in the Piazza del Duomo UNESCO World Heritage Site, which was declared in 1987.The tower was closed to the public on 7 January 1990, after more than two decades of stabilisation studies and spurred by the abrupt collapse of the Civic Tower of Pavia in 1989.

Construction of the tower occurred in three stages over 199 years.

The tower began to sink after construction had progressed to the second floor in 1178.

The tower is located in Italy.


The plot, which occurs in real time, centers on a town marshal whose sense of duty is tested when he must decide to either face a gang of killers alone, or leave town with his new wife.

David Bishop argued that had Quaker Amy not helped her husband by shooting a man in the back, such inaction would have pulled pacifism "toward apollonian decadence".

High Noon is referenced several times on the HBO drama series The Sopranos.

In this sense it is a cousin to A Man for All Seasons.

Tony Soprano cites Gary Cooper's character as the archetype of what a man should be, mentally tough and stoic.

Amy understands why Helen is fleeing—out of fear of Miller and having split from Pell—but the reverse is not true: Helen tells Amy that if Kane were her man, she would not abandon him in his hour of need.

High Noon was filmed in the late summer/early fall of 1951 in several locations in California.

The railroad station was built for the film alongside a water tower at Warnerville, about 15 miles to the southwest.

Cooper was reluctant to film the fight scene with Bridges due to ongoing problems with his back, but did, without the use of a stunt double.

Although Wayne's contempt for the film and refusal of its lead role were well known, he said, "I'm glad to see they're giving this to a man who is not only most deserving, but has conducted himself throughout the years in our business in a manner that we can all be proud of ... Now that I'm through being such a good sport ... I'm going back and find my business manager and agent ... and find out why I didn't get High Noon instead of Cooper ... "After Wayne turned down the Will Kane role, Kramer offered it to Gregory Peck, who declined because he felt it was too similar to his role in The Gunfighter, the year before.

The running time of the story almost precisely parallels the running time of the film — an effect heightened by frequent shots of clocks, to remind the characters (and the audience) that the villain will be arriving on the noon train.

The film is a suspenseful drama about a man and his husband.


According to the 1870 census, a Michael Kelly of his age was working in a silk mill in Paterson as of that year.

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

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

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

" Thayer, as a baseball reporter for the San Francisco Examiner, had seen Kelly play after the 1887 season, when he was on a playing tour to San Francisco.

It was in Boston that Mike became "King" Kelly, although he was still overwhelmingly referred to as "Mike" or "The Only" in contemporaneous reporting.

Before disbanding, Kelly failed to heed Johnson's instructions to release the players.

Right before the sale, Chicago writer Happy Palmer quoted Spalding about his plans to manage Kelly: " Oh, tie him up, I guess, if he really is averse to playing here.

He was a rattling all-around man, but his cleverest work was done behind the plate [while catching].

After dinner the night before, Kelly had told Morrill he was ill, and Morrill said he should still report.

King Kelly worked in the textile industry before he played baseball professionally.


Phantom Thread is a 2017 American historical drama film written and directed by Paul Thomas Anderson and starring Daniel Day-Lewis, Lesley Manville and Vicky Krieps.

Set in 1950s London, it stars Day-Lewis as an haute couture dressmaker who takes a young waitress, played by Krieps as his muse.

Phantom Thread premiered in New York City on December 11, 2017, and was theatrically released in the United States on December 25, 2017.

The film can, and does, but the picture is so hackneyed − pram, baby, walk in the park − that it has to be a dream, or an irony." Phantom Thread was listed on many critics' top ten lists for 2017.

Filming also took place in 2017 at Owlpen Manor in the Cotswolds and in the London neighborhood of Fitzrovia, in Fitzroy Square, and Grafton Mews.

Phantom Thread grossed $21.2 million in the United States and Canada, and $26.6 million in other territories, for a worldwide total of $47.8 million, against a production budget of $35 million.

"Christy Lemire of the LAFCA placed the film second on her list of ten best films of 2017, describing it as "captivating" and

The film is the first Anderson film shot outside the United States, with principal photography beginning in January 2017 in Lythe, England.

In 1954 London, fashion designer Reynolds Woodcock creates dresses for members of high society.

It was reported in June 2017 that Anderson would be serving as his own cinematographer on the film as his regular cinematographer Robert Elswit was unavailable during production.

Phantom Thread occurs  in London in the 1950s but was filmed in 2017.


Alexander was born in Elba, Nebraska, in the first term of President Grover Cleveland and was one of 13 children.

In 1915, he won his first World Series game (the opening game of that series), for the Phillies.

It would be 65 years before the Phillies won another World Series game.

Alexander attended Game 3 of the 1950 World Series at Yankee Stadium where he saw the Phillies lose to the Yankees.

Grover Cleveland Alexander (February 26, 1887 – November 4, 1950), nicknamed "Old Pete", was an American Major League Baseball pitcher.

During the late 1930s and early 1940s, Alexander continued to play baseball, touring as a player-coach for the Grover Cleveland Alexander's House of David Team.

He was also sometimes called "Alec", and on occasions when he succeeded in grand fashion (as with the 1926 World Series), they would call him "Alexander the Great".

The Cubs manager, Joe McCarthy, supposedly said that even with Alexander, the Cubs had finished last the previous season, "...and if they finished last again, I'd rather it was without him." The Cardinals won the National League pennant that year and met the New York Yankees in the World Series, where Alexander pitched complete game victories in Games 2 and 6.

On his 1940 Playball baseball card he was referred to as "Ol' Pete." In The World Series and Highlights of Baseball, by Lamont Buchanan, published in 1951, the year after Alexander died, on pp.

In spite of all this, Alexander gave Chicago several successful years and won another pitching triple crown in 1920.

Grover Cleveland Alexander birthplace is Ukiah, California and he won a Worlds Series with the Phillies.


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

Their bodies are normally squatting, with their arms resting in different positions and are without legs.

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

All but 53 of the more than 900 moai known to date were carved from tuff (a compressed volcanic ash) from Rano Raraku, where 394 moai in varying states of completion are still visible today.

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

History | 1722–1868 toppling of the moai

Oral histories include one account of a clan pushing down a single moai in the night, but others refer to the "earth shaking", and there are indications that at least some of them fell down due to earthquakes.

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

At some point after the 1722 Roggeveen visit, all of the moai that had been erected on ahus were toppled, with the last standing statues reported in 1838 by Abel Aubert Dupetit Thouars, and no upright statues by 1868, apart from the partially buried ones on the outer slopes of Rano Raraku.

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

Some were incomplete because, when inclusions were encountered, the carvers would abandon a partial statue and start a new one (tuff is a soft rock with occasional lumps of much harder rock included in it).

Only one kneeling moai has visible legs.


Uses in industry | Biodegradable plastics

An interesting example of such materials is polyaspartate, a water-soluble biodegradable polymer that may have applications in disposable diapers and agriculture.

Amino acids have been considered as components of  biodegradable polymers, which have applications as environmentally friendly packaging and in medicine in drug delivery and the construction of prosthetic implants.

In addition, the aromatic amino acid tyrosine has been considered as a possible replacement for phenols such as bisphenol A in the manufacture of polycarbonates.

These fertilizers are also used to prevent deficiencies from occurring and improving the overall health of the plants.

Almost all of the amino acids in proteins are (S) at the α carbon, with cysteine being (R) and glycine non-chiral.

Hydroxyproline, a major component of the connective tissue collagen, is synthesised from proline.

Occurrence and functions in biochemistry | Proteinogenic amino acids

Selenocysteine is incorporated when the mRNA being translated includes a SECIS element, which causes the UGA codon to encode selenocysteine instead of a stop codon.

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.

This characteristic can be taken advantage of and used to create new selective cancer-fighting drugs and to prevent cross-contamination of DNA samples from crime-scene investigations.

They are also abundant components of the peptidoglycan cell walls of bacteria, and D-serine may act as a neurotransmitter in the brain.

In the form of proteins, amino acid residues form the second-largest component (water is the largest) of human muscles and other tissues.

Amino acids are being researched as possible components of the garments that prevent infants soiling the floor.


She is among the few actresses to have won three of the four major American entertainment awards (EGOT).

She won the Screen Actors Guild and British Academy Film Award for Best Supporting Actress, and received nominations for the Academy Award and Golden Globe Award in the same category.

She won a Golden Globe Award for each of these films, and for the latter, she was awarded the Academy Award and BAFTA Award for Best Actress.

Kate Elizabeth Winslet  (born 5 October 1975) is an English actress.

She has also won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries for Mildred Pierce (2011), and the Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album for Children for narrating the children's audiobook Listen to the Storyteller (1999).

Academy Awards: Best Actress, win, for The Reader (2008) 88th Academy Awards: Best Supporting Actress, nomination, for Steve Jobs (2015)Winslet has won three BAFTA Awards: Best Actress for The Reader (2008); and Best Supporting Actress for Sense and Sensibility (1995) and Steve Jobs (2016).

Career | 2012–present: Critical disappointments, a film series, and Steve Jobs

Winslet won an AACTA Award for Best Actress.

Early life and initial stage and television roles

Living in a family of actors inspired her to pursue acting from a young age.

Her maternal grandparents were both actors and ran the Reading Repertory Theatre Company.

Set entirely inside an apartment, the black comedy follows two sets of parents feuding over their respective children.

English actor Kate Winslet is apart of an elite group of actors that have won at least 3 awards out of the 4 popular U.S. award show.


The Bells of St. Mary's (1945) is an American drama film, produced and directed by Leo McCarey and starring Bing Crosby and Ingrid Bergman.

In the 1946 film It's a Wonderful Life, in which Henry Travers, a co-star of The Bells of St. Mary's, played the guardian angel,

The Bells of St. Mary's has come to be associated with the Christmas season, probably because of the inclusion of a scene involving a Christmas pageant at the school, a major plot point involving an unlikely (yet prayed for) gift, and the film's having been released in December 1945.

the title of The Bells of St. Mary's appears on the marquee of a movie theater in Bedford Falls, New York.

Written by Dudley Nichols and based on a story by Leo McCarey, the film is about a priest and a nun who, despite their good-natured rivalry, try to save their school from being shut down.

"It's Spring" ("Vårvindar friska" in Swedish) sung by Ingrid Bergman

" In the Land of Beginning Again" and "The Bells of St. Mary's" both charted briefly also.

"The Bells of St. Mary's" sung by Bing Crosby and choir Bing Crosby recorded four of the songs for Decca Records and these were issued as singles as well as a 2-disc 78 rpm album titled Selections from The Bells of St. Mary's.

There were two radio adaptations of The Bells of St. Mary's on The Screen Guild Theater radio program.

In The Godfather (1972), Michael and Kay see The Bells of St. Mary's at Radio City Music Hall.

The poem by Leo McCarey "The Bells of St. Mary's" has become associated with Christmas and was referenced in the movie It's a Wonderful Life.


Release | Promotion in Germany and Austria

Though the advertisement posters and wallpapers may not show Nazi iconography, this does not apply to "works of art", according to German law and Austrian law, so the film itself is neither censored in Germany nor Austria.

To comply with Germany's prohibition of the swastika symbol, some German DVD and Blu-ray releases of the film show a bullet hole partially obscuring the swastika on the cover.

The title has the swastika removed and the steel helmet has a bullet hole instead of the Nazi symbol.

It was released in Germany on August 20, 2009.

Critic James Berardinelli gave the film his first four-star review of 2009, stating, "With Inglourious Basterds, Quentin Tarantino has made his best movie since Pulp Fiction," and that it was "one hell of an enjoyable ride." Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times also gave the film a four-star review, writing that "Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds is a big, bold, audacious war movie that will annoy some, startle others and demonstrate once again that he's the real thing, a director of quixotic delights.

Universal Pictures adjusted the film's German publicity website to the German and Austrian penal law, as the display of Nazi iconography is restricted in Germany.

so he could never hide the fact that he was a Nazi soldier.

Despite this, Anne Thompson of Variety praised the film, but opined that it was not a masterpiece, claiming, "Inglourious Basterds is great fun to watch, but the movie isn't entirely engaging ... You don't jump into the world of the film in a participatory way; you watch it from a distance, appreciating the references and the masterful mise en scène.

When pushed, Tarantino would not explain the first u in Inglourious, but said, " The Basterds?

Inglourious Basterds was listed on many critics' top ten lists.

For the release of Inglourious Basterds in Germany, the cover art had to be altered in order to hide a symbol of hate but not the symbol in the actual movie itself. .


He has been nominated for ten Golden Globe Awards, winning one for Best Actor for his performance of the title role in Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007), and has been nominated for three Academy Awards for Best Actor, among other accolades.

had [Burton and Depp] never met." Depp won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy for the role, and was nominated for the third time for the Academy Award for Best Actor.

was the comeback role Johnny Depp needed?

Producer Scott Rudin has stated that "basically Johnny Depp is playing Tim Burton in all his movies"; although Burton disapproved of the comment, Depp agrees with it.

Personal life | Relationships | Relationship with Amber Heard

There was never any intent of physical or emotional harm." Depp paid Heard a settlement of US$7 million, which she donated to charity.

Depp played convicted Boston crime boss Whitey Bulger in director Scott Cooper's Black Mass (2015), which earned him his third nomination for the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role.

" Depp's claims came under scrutiny when Indian Country Today stated that Depp had never inquired about his heritage nor was he recognized as a member of the Cherokee Nation.

Depp reprised the role of Jack Sparrow in the Pirates sequels

Depp was again nominated for the Best Actor Academy Award for his performance as Scottish author J. M. Barrie in the film Finding Neverland (2004).

After a starring role in the comedy Private Resort (1985), Depp was cast in the lead role of the skating drama Thrashin' (1986) by the film's director, but the decision was later overridden by its producer.

Johnny Depp never won any awards for his roles.


The Monroe Doctrine was a United States policy that opposed European colonialism in the Americas.

It began in 1823; however, the term "Monroe Doctrine" itself was not coined until 1850.

The full document of the Monroe Doctrine, written chiefly by future-President and then-Secretary of State John Quincy Adams, is long and couched in diplomatic language, but its essence is expressed in two key passages.

Scholars such as Neil Smith have written that Woodrow Wilson effectively proposed a "Global Monroe Doctrine" expanding US supremacy over the entire world.

As the U.S. began to emerge as a world power, the Monroe Doctrine came to define a recognized sphere of control that few dared to challenge.

The statement reinforced the original purpose of the Monroe Doctrine, that the U.S. had the right to intervene in its own hemisphere and foreshadowed the events of the Spanish–American War three years later.

Effects | 21st-century approaches | America First

Venezuela's representative listed 27 interventions in Latin America that Venezuela considers to be implementations of the Monroe Doctrine and stated that, in the context of the statements, they consider it "a direct military threat to the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela".

After 1898, the Monroe Doctrine was reinterpreted in terms of multilateralism and non-intervention by Latin American lawyers and intellectuals.

Cuba came under U.S. control and remained so until it was granted formal independence in 1902.

In fact, for many years after the doctrine took effect, Britain, through the Royal Navy, was the sole nation enforcing it, the U.S. lacking sufficient naval capability.

Effects | Latin American reinterpretation

They sought a fresh continental approach to international law in terms of multilateralism and non-intervention.

The Monroe Doctrine term came about 27 years after the document had been written.


Public service | Relationship with Trajan and his family

Late in Trajan's reign, Hadrian failed to achieve a senior consulship, being only suffect consul for 108; this gave him parity of status with other members of the senatorial nobility, but no particular distinction befitting an heir designate.

Hadrian's great-nephew, Gnaeus Pedanius Fuscus Salinator, from Barcino (Barcelona) would become Hadrian's colleague as co-consul in 118.

In 136 he adopted one of the ordinary consuls of that year, Lucius Ceionius Commodus, who as an emperor-in waiting took the name Lucius Aelius Caesar.

His only sibling was an elder sister, Aelia Domitia Paulina.

During the Second Dacian War, Hadrian was in Trajan's personal service again, but was released to serve as legate of Legio

Hadrian spent the final years of his life at Rome.

During his tour of the Peloponnese, Hadrian persuaded the Spartan grandee Eurycles Herculanus – leader of the Euryclid family that had ruled Sparta since Augustus' day – to enter the Senate, alongside the Athenian grandee Herodes Atticus the Elder.

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

The cult of Antinous was to become very popular in the Greek-speaking world, and also found support in the West.

Around the time of his quaestorship, in 100 or 101, Hadrian had married Trajan's seventeen or eighteen-year-old grandniece, Vibia Sabina.

During Trajan's years as ruler, Hadrian become elder consul.


The Battle of Hastings was fought on 14 October 1066 between the Norman-French army of William, the Duke of Normandy, and an English army under the Anglo-Saxon King Harold Godwinson, beginning the Norman conquest of England.

Harold moves south | English forces at Hastings

Most housecarls fought with the two-handed Danish battleaxe, but they could also carry a sword.

Few individual Englishmen are known to have been at Hastings; about 20 named individuals can reasonably be assumed to have fought with Harold at Hastings, including Harold's brothers Gyrth and Leofwine and two other relatives.

The battle took place 7 miles (11 km) north of Hastings at the present-day town of Battle, between two hills – Caldbec Hill to the north and Telham Hill to the south.

The fyrd and the housecarls both fought on foot, with the major difference between them being the housecarls' superior armour.

Battle | Dispositions of forces and tactics

The centre was held by the Normans, under the direct command of the duke and with many of his relatives and kinsmen grouped around the ducal party.

Recent historians have suggested figures of between 5,000 and 13,000 for Harold's army at Hastings, and most modern historians argue for a figure of 7,000–8,000 English troops.

This may mean that the two brothers led the pursuit.

William's preparations and landing | Norman forces at Hastings

Both the infantry and cavalry usually fought with a straight sword, long and double-edged.

One was the need to defend against two almost simultaneous invasions.

Battle of Hastings was fought between two parties.


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

History | Late 19th through early 20th centuries

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

Another witness, a civil engineer, said that the calculations of the bridge's assumed strength of the bridge.

Another popular nickname was the Brooklyn Bridge, because of the economic benefits the new crossing provided to the City of Brooklyn.

To avoid public controversy, Haigh was not fired, but instead was required to personally pay for higher-quality wire.

To highlight the Brooklyn Bridge's cultural status, the city proposed building a Brooklyn Bridge museum near the bridge's Brooklyn end in the 1970s.

Two bridge commissioners, one each from Brooklyn and Manhattan, petitioned New York state lawmakers to allot another $8 million for construction.

History | Construction | Nearing completion

The trustees later passed another resolution for another 500 short tons (450 long tons) of Bessemer steel.

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

During the process, it was determined that the main span would have to be raised from 130 to 135 feet (40 to 41 m) above MHW, requiring several changes to the overall design.

The Brooklyn Bridge's title was changed in 1916 to avoid confusion with another bridge with a similar name.


The over-large heads (a three-to-five ratio between the head and the trunk, a sculptural trait that demonstrates the Polynesian belief in the sanctity of the chiefly head) have heavy brows and elongated noses with a distinctive fish-hook-shaped curl of the nostrils.

Having procured an egg, the contestant swam back and presented it to his sponsor, who then was declared birdman for that year, an important status position." These figures are much smaller than the better-known stone moai.

This is partly because of the disproportionate size of most moai heads, and partly because many of the iconic images for the island showing upright moai are the statues on the slopes of Rano Raraku, many of which are buried to their shoulders.

Completed statues were moved to ahu mostly on the coast, then erected, sometimes with red stone cylinders (pukao) on their heads.

When first carved, the surface of the moai was polished smooth by rubbing with pumice.

However, the easily worked tuff from which most moai were carved is easily eroded, such that the best place to see the surface detail is on the few moai carved from basalt or in photographs and other archaeological records of moai surfaces protected by burials.

Those moai that are less eroded typically have designs carved on their backs and posteriors.

Almost all moai have overly large heads

Moai are carved in relatively flat planes, the faces bearing proud but enigmatic expressions.

There are also 13 moai carved from basalt, 22 from trachyte and 17 from fragile red scoria.

Moai have really big heads carved into them and many carvings have been moved over time. .


In reaction to a spate of worker suicides in which 14 people died in 2010, Foxconn installed suicide-prevention netting at the base of buildings in some facilities and promised to offer substantially higher wages at its Shenzhen production bases.

In 2012 and into 2013, three young Foxconn employees were reported to have died by jumping off buildings.

The following list consists of Foxconn's present or past major customers.

The majority of Foxconn's factories are located in Asia, with others in Brazil, Europe, and Mexico.

A Hong Kong non-profit organisation, Students and Scholars Against Corporate Misbehavior, has written numerous negative reports on Foxconn's treatment of its employees, for example in 2010 and 2011.

One worker said the protest resulted from 600 workers being moved into a new "unbearable" factory location.

Foxconn's first manufacturing plant in China opened in Longhua Town, Shenzhen, in 1988.One of the important milestones for Foxconn occurred in 2001 when Intel selected the company to manufacture its Intel-branded motherboards instead of Asus.

A Foxconn unit, Foxconn Interconnect Technology, announced its intent to acquire Belkin International for $866m on 26 March 2018.In 2019, there were reports stating that some of Foxconn's managers had used rejected parts to build iPhones.

In January 2012, there was a protest by workers about conditions in Wuhan, with 150 workers threatening to commit mass suicide if factory conditions were not improved.

Suicides among Foxconn workers have attracted the media's attention.

News reports highlight the long working hours, discrimination against Chinese workers by their Taiwanese co-workers, and lack of working relationships at the company.

In September 2012, a fight at worker dormitories in Taiyuan, Shanxi, where a guard allegedly was beating a worker, escalated into a riot involving 2,000 people and was quelled by security.

There is no troubling string of self-terminations carried out by Foxconn's well-treated workers.


The 1906 San Francisco earthquake had cost his Irish Catholic parents almost all of their possessions.

Joe Cronin was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame (with Hank Greenberg) in 1956.

Baseball promoter Joe Engel, who scouted for the Senators and managed the Chattanooga Lookouts at Engel Stadium, originally signed Cronin.

Major league career | As a player-manager and manager

However, when Yawkey and Evans asked Cronin to scout Reese, Cronin realized he was scouting his replacement.

Cronin was also remembered as a clutch hitter.

"I bought Cronin at a time he was hitting .221.

Cronin attended Sacred Heart High School.

You keep him and don't either you or Cronin show up at the ballpark.

Cronin was born in Excelsior District of San Francisco, California.

Engel first spotted Cronin playing in Kansas City.

Joe Cronin had Irish roots.


MacPhail lived in Delray Beach, Florida, where he died November 8, 2012, at his home.

He was 95. At time of his death he was the oldest living Hall of Famer.

MacPhail also played a major role in the Pine Tar Incident in 1983, where he ruled on a protested game stemming from a home run that had been taken away from Kansas City Royals slugger George Brett.

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.

Most Valuable Player Award is named for Lee MacPhail.

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

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

Lee was honored in 1998.His brother Bill MacPhail was president of CBS Sports and later was president of CNN Sports, brought on by Ted Turner to create the department upon the network's launch.

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 graduated from Swarthmore College and entered baseball in his father's Brooklyn Dodger organization, became business manager of the Toronto Maple Leafs of the International League in 1942, then served in the United States Navy during World War II.

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.

Lee MacPhail passed away at his home at the age of 92.


He was the son of Irish immigrants Mortimer Connor and Catherine Sullivan Connor.

Connor signed with the Fall River Indians of the New England League in June 1897.

Roger and Angeline Connor lived in Waterbury, Connecticut, for many years, even while Roger played in New York.

Every winter, a banquet was held in Waterbury in Connor's honor.

Near the end of the 19th century, Angeline gave Roger a weather vane which had been constructed from two of his baseball bats.

MLB playing career | Later career (1891–1897)

Connor's career mark of 138 was a benchmark not surpassed until 1921 by Babe Ruth.

Connor's wife Angeline kept the team's books and his daughter helped by collecting tickets.

Both MLB.com and the independent Baseball-Reference.com now consider Connor's total to be 138.

At one time, Connor's record was thought to be 131, per the Sporting News book Daguerreotypes.

Hall of Fame umpire Bill Klem had long campaigned on behalf of Connor's inclusion in the Hall of Fame.

Roger Connor (July 1, 1857 – January 4, 1931) was a 19th-century Major League Baseball (MLB) player.

Roger Connor's parents were from England.


Fingers attended Upland High School in the Southern California city of Upland, and later, he attended one semester at Chaffey Junior College.

I had to go all the way back to 1981 on my income taxes.

After getting to California, George Fingers had to eventually go back to work in another steel mill.

Fingers is regarded as a pioneer of modern relief pitching, defining the role of the closer for years to come.

Fingers won the Rolaids Relief Man of the Year Award in 1977, 1978, and 1980 with the Padres.

You deserve this." In 1994/1995 a comedy segment entitled "Rollie TV", concerning a fictitious cable television channel devoted solely to the life of Rollie Fingers and helmed by a Fingers-obsessed host named Greg Shuttlecock, aired once a week on The Steve Dahl Radio Show on WMVP 1000 AM in Chicago.

In protest—and believing the Athletics' management would want Jackson to shave—Fingers and a few other players started going without shaving to force Jackson to shave off his beard.

ISBN 978-1-57860-342-8. Rollie Fingers and four other members of his family appeared on a 1983 episode of the game show Family Feud.

The first book inspired a sequel, released March 16, 2010 by Fingers and Ritter: The Rollie Fingers Baseball Bible: Lists and Lore, Stories and Stats, Cincinnati, Ohio: Clerisy Press.

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

A "Rollie TV" skit had originally aired in 1993 on Toth and Johnson's Chicago cable TV show Color TV and was then adapted into segments for radio.

Rollie Fingers did go to university for a year.


His parents divorced when he was two years old, and he was taken in by his grandparents, who lived in the barrio of Maguayo in Dorado, Puerto Rico.

His brother and sister returned to New York to live with their parents, but Edgar opted to remain in Dorado with his grandparents.

Martinez became inspired to play baseball after watching fellow Puerto Rican Roberto Clemente play in the 1971 World Series.

Edgar Martínez (born January 2, 1963), nicknamed "Gar" and "Papi", is a Puerto Rican former professional baseball player and coach.

Professional career | Early career (1987–1989)

After the regular season, Martínez played winter baseball in the Puerto Rican Baseball League.

Martínez was born in New York City on January 2, 1963, to José and Christina Salgado Martinez, who were from Puerto Rico.

Professional career | First seasons and batting title (1990–1992)

He knows there is no one in the wings, just Edgar Martinez to back him up." However, Coles committed five errors in Seattle's first six games.

Hall of Fame pitcher Mariano Rivera, when asked whether there was anyone he was afraid to face, said that he was never afraid, but

They live in Kirkland, Washington, with their three children: Alex, Tessa, and Jacqueline.

Since his retirement, the Mariners did not issue Martinez' uniform number 11 to any other player.

Edgar Martinez is of Puerto Rican decent, but has never visited his family that lives there.


Brontë's only finished novel, it was written between October 1845 and June 1846.

Brontë, Emily (1976). Wuthering Heights.

Wuthering Heights is a novel by Emily Brontë published in 1847 under her pseudonym "Ellis Bell".

References in culture | Works inspired by | Literature

In Jane Urquhart's Changing Heaven, the novel Wuthering Heights, as well as the ghost of Emily Brontë, feature as prominent roles in the narrative.

Emily Brontë  uses this frame story technique to narrate most of the story.

"Charlotte Brontë". The Oxford Companion to English Literature.

Maryse Condé's Windward Heights (La migration des coeurs) (1995) is a reworking of Wuthering Heights set in Cuba and Guadaloupe at the turn of the 20th century, which Condé stated she intended as an homage to Brontë.

Ellen Moers, in Literary Women, developed a feminist theory that connects women writers, including Emily Brontë, with gothic fiction.

References in culture | Adaptations | Film and TV

The 1992 film Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights starring Ralph Fiennes and Juliette Binoche is notable for including the oft-omitted second generation story of the children of Cathy, Hindley and Heathcliff.

Emily Bronte wrote in the romance tradition of the novel that Walter Scott defined, as "a fictitious narrative in prose or verse; the interest of which turns upon marvellous and uncommon incidents".

In 1850, when a second edition of Wuthering Heights was due, Charlotte Brontë edited the original text, altering punctuation, correcting spelling errors and making Joseph's thick Yorkshire dialect less opaque.

Wuthering Heights is the only completed book by Emily Bronte.


Concerned about Rasputin's influence, Grand Duke Dmitri and Prince Felix Yusupov invite Rasputin to a party in December 1916 and eventually murder him despite several unsuccessful attempts.

In 1905, Alexandra befriends Grigori Rasputin, a Siberian peasant passing as a holy man, hoping he will heal Alexei.

It is presumed he will die. The Tsarina writes to Rasputin, who responds with words of comfort.

The Tsarina Alexandra, a German princess, is disliked by the Russian royal court.

Alexandra is left in charge at home and, under Rasputin's influence, makes poor decisions.

Nicholas and Alexandra is a 1971 British biographical film directed by Franklin J. Schaffner and written by James Goldman, based on Robert K. Massie's 1967 book of the same name, which is a partial account of the last ruling Russian monarch, Tsar Nicholas II of Russia, and his wife, Tsarina Alexandra.

Nicholas executes the assassins and closes the Duma, allowing police to terrorize many peasants.

Alexandra demands his return, as she believes only Rasputin can stop the bleeding attacks, but Nicholas stands firm.

Even with Rasputin dead, Alexandra continues her misrule.

Nicholas dismisses Rasputin from the court.

In the film Nicholas and Alexandra, the peasant Rasputin is killed because he wields influence over the Tsarina.


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

The novel concludes with an overview of the marriages of the three daughters and the great satisfaction of both parents at the fine, happy matches made by Jane and Elizabeth.

Pemberley: Or Pride and Prejudice Continued and An Unequal Marriage: Or Pride and Prejudice Twenty Years Later by Emma Tennant

In the case of Charlotte Lucas, the seeming success of her marriage lies in the comfortable financial circumstances of their household, while the relationship between Mr and Mrs Bennet serves to illustrate bad marriages based on an initial attraction and surface over substance (economic and psychological).

In the years between the completion of First Impressions and its revision into Pride and Prejudice, two other works had been published under that name: a novel by Margaret Holford and a comedy by Horace Smith.

Pride and Prejudice is a romantic novel of manners written by Jane Austen in 1813.

In renaming the novel, Austen probably had in mind the "sufferings and oppositions" summarised in the final chapter of Fanny Burney's Cecilia, called "Pride and Prejudice", where the phrase appears three times in block capitals.

The opening line of the novel famously announces: "It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife." This sets marriage as a motif and a problem in the novel.

The Brighton camp for which the militia regiment leaves in May after spending the winter in Meryton was opened in August 1793, and the barracks for all the regiments of the militia were completed by 1796, placing the events of the novel between 1793 and 1795.Austen made significant revisions to the manuscript for First Impressions between 1811 and 1812.

Jo Baker's bestselling 2013 novel Longbourn imagines the lives of the servants of Pride and Prejudice.

The American novelist Anna Quindlen observed in an introduction to an edition of Austen's novel in 1995:  Pride and Prejudice is also about that thing that all great novels consider, the search for self.

The novel Pride and Prejudice made a case for arranged marriages.


The poem's initial word, μῆνιν (mēnin; acc.

μῆνις, mēnis, "wrath," "rage," "fury") , establishes the Iliad's principal theme: The "Wrath of Achilles".

George Chapman published his translation of the Iliad, in installments, beginning in 1598, published in "fourteeners", a long-line ballad metre that "has room for all of Homer's figures of speech and plenty of new ones, as well as explanations in parentheses.

Caroline Alexander published the first full-length English translation by a woman in 2015.

In the lectures On Translating Homer (1861), Matthew Arnold addresses the matters of translation and interpretation in rendering the Iliad to English; commenting upon the versions contemporarily available in 1861, he identifies the four essential poetic qualities of Homer to which the translator must do justice: [i] that he is eminently rapid; [ii] that he is eminently plain and direct, both in the evolution of his thought and in the expression of it, that is, both in his syntax and in his words; [iii] that he is eminently plain and direct in the substance of his thought, that is, in his matter and ideas; and, finally, [iv] that he is eminently noble.

After a discussion of the metres employed by previous translators, Arnold argues for a poetical dialect hexameter translation of the Iliad, like the original.

He points out that almost every action in the Iliad is directed, caused, or influenced by a god, and that earlier translations show an astonishing lack of words suggesting thought, planning, or introspection.

" " Laborious as this meter was, there were at least half a dozen attempts to translate the entire Iliad or Odyssey in hexameters; the last in 1945.

The Iliad was also the first full epic poem to be translated to Arabic from a foreign language, upon the publication of Al-Boustani's complete work in 1904.

Date and textual history | As oral tradition

A two-word stock epithet (e.g. "resourceful Odysseus") reiteration may complement a character name by filling a half-line, thus, freeing the poet to compose a half-line of "original" formulaic text to complete his meaning.

According to Suleyman al-Boustani, a 19th-century poet who made the first Arabic translation of the Iliad to Arabic, the epic may have been widely circulated in Syriac and Pahlavi translations during the early Middle Ages.

In the preface to his own translation, Pope praises "the daring fiery spirit" of Chapman's rendering, which is "something like what one might imagine Homer, himself, would have writ before he arrived at years of discretion." John Keats praised Chapman in the sonnet On First Looking into Chapman's Homer (1816).

The first word in Homer's the Iliad translates to mean fame.


Melanism in the leopard is caused by a recessive allele, and in the jaguar by a dominant allele.

Black panthers of both species have excess black pigments, but their typical spotted markings are also present.

The typical spotted markings are present but hidden due to the excess black pigments, which is called "ghost rosettes".

The NFL football team Carolina Panthers is named after a black panther, with a logo resembling the animal.

The National Rugby League team Penrith Panthers is named after the black panther, with a logo of the animal.

A black panther is the melanistic colour variant of any Panthera, particularly of the leopard (P. pardus) in Asia and Africa, and the jaguar (P. onca) in the Americas.

Walter Van Tilburg Clark's novel Track of the Cat (1949) features a marauding cougar that is supposed to be "the black panther" from a local legend

Unconfirmed sightings, known as the "North American black panther", are currently attributed to errors in species identification by non-experts, and by the mimetic exaggeration of size.

Melanism in the jaguar is conferred by a dominant allele.

Cornell Woolrich's novel Black Alibi (1942) features a black jaguar that escapes from captivity and wreaks havoc in a Mexican town.

A black panther is a panther with excessive black pigment and it is the dominant trait.


The face and underparts are paler and dappled like those of ordinary spotted leopards.

Any spots on the flanks and limbs that have not merged into the mass of swirls and stripes are unusually small and discrete, rather than forming rosettes.

A black leopard was sighted in the alpine zone of Mount Kenya.

Black leopards are referred to as black panthers due to their missing spots.


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.

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.

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

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.

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

Connolly died in 1961 at age 90 in Natick, Massachusetts, survived by seven children, and predeceased by his wife, who had died in 1943.

His reputation earned him prominent game assignments, including the first AL games ever played at Comiskey Park, Shibe Park, Fenway Park, and Yankee Stadium.

Connolly was also the sole AL umpire chosen to work in the first World Series in 1903.

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.

Connolly and Klem are the only two umpires in history to have worked in five decades; Connolly's record of 31 years umpiring American League games was broken by Larry Barnett in 1999.

Tom Connolly played cricket in his youth in Manchester until he moved to Massachusetts, where eventually becoming the preeminent authority for umpiring.


It was adapted from the novel of the same title by John Hersey, which won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 1945.

In a 1955 Lux Video Theatre adaptation, Edmond O'Brien had the lead, with a young Charles Bronson playing the part William Bendix took in the movie.

A Bell for Adano (1945) is a film directed by Henry King and starring John Hodiak and Gene Tierney.

A bell from the American Navy to replace the town bellThe short-tempered American commander, General Marvin, fires Major Joppolo from his position when Joppolo disobeys an order to prohibit mule cart traffic in Adano, which has been disrupting Allied supply trucks, because the mule carts are vital to the survival of the town.

"In addition to the Broadway play (Cort Theatre, (12/06/1944 - 10/27/1945), which starred Fredric March

Barry Sullivan and Anna Maria Alberghetti were in a 1956 CBS telecast, and John Forsythe played the major in a 1967 Hallmark Hall of Fame broadcast.

The title refers to Major Joppolo's attempts to replace the 700-year-old bell that was taken from the town by the Fascists at the start of the war to be melted down for ammunition.

The story concerns Italian-American U.S. Army Major Joppolo (John Hodiak), who is placed in charge of the fictional town of Adano during the invasion of Sicily.

The movie, A Bell for Adano is an adaptation of a play.