It has been alternately suggested by historian Thomas Wolf that the shooting incident might have been inspired by Chicago Cubs shortstop Billy Jurges, who was shot by a showgirl with whom he was romantically linked, but there has been no evidence to support this claim.

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

In fact, she is a lunatic obsessed with shooting the best baseball player.

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.

Her character is loosely based on Ruth Ann Steinhagen, a disturbed 19-year-old baseball fan who, obsessed with Eddie Waitkus, shot and nearly killed him in 1949.

The novel picks up 16 years later in the dugout of the New York Knights, a fictional National League baseball team.

Based upon the bizarre shooting incident and subsequent comeback of Philadelphia Phillies player Eddie Waitkus, the story of Roy Hobbs takes some poetic license and embellishes what was truly a strange, but memorable, account of a career lost too soon.

Other passengers include sportswriter Max Mercy, Walter "The Whammer" Whambold, the leading hitter in the American League and three-time American League Most Valuable Player (based on Babe Ruth), and Harriet Bird, a beautiful but mysterious woman.

She is generally unhappy and leads Roy on for most of the novel.

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

Being the newest player, Roy has a number of practical jokes played upon him, including the theft of his "Wonderboy" bat.

The novel may have been based on a real baseball player.


There are six types, known as flavors, of quarks: up, down, strange, charm, bottom, and top.

For every quark flavor there is a corresponding type of antiparticle, known as an antiquark, that differs from the quark only in that some of its properties (such as the electric charge) have equal magnitude but opposite sign.

Most of a hadron's mass comes from the gluons that bind the constituent quarks together, rather than from the quarks themselves.

This causes asymptotic freedom: as quarks come closer to each other, the chromodynamic binding force between them weakens.

These masses typically have very different values.

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

The two parties had assigned the discovered meson two different symbols, J and ψ; thus, it became formally known as the J/ψ meson.

A quark of one flavor can transform into a quark of another flavor only through the weak interaction, one of the four fundamental interactions in particle physics.

The quark flavors were given their names for several reasons.

Properties | Strong interaction and color charge

Every quark flavor f, each with subtypes fB

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

A quark comes in 6 different flavors.


It was a very brief conclave, lasting less than 24 hours.

Additionally, his legal brilliance and management abilities meant that he was able to respond and deal with major problems quickly and decisively, although not always successfully.

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.

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.

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

Once in the chair of Saint Peter, Gregory XIII's rather worldly concerns became secondary and he dedicated himself to reform of the Catholic Church.

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

A central part of the strategy of Gregory XIII's reform was to apply the recommendations of Trent.

Gregory XIII's character seemed to be perfect for the needs of the church at the time.

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.

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.

The meeting deciding to make Gregory XIII the next pope lasted over a week after the previous pope died, in part due to Gregory's history and brilliance in the legal field, which the upper echelons of the catholic church thought might sway him towards unchristian ideas.


Though injuries forced his retirement from active play after 10 seasons, Kiner's tremendous slugging outpaced all of his National League contemporaries between the years 1946 and 1952.

He hit better than .300 three times, with a career best .313 with the Pirates in 1947.

At the time of his death, baseball writer Marty Noble named Kiner "one of baseball's genuine and most charming gentlemen".

Upon his death, New York Mets owner Fred Wilpon stated "Ralph Kiner was one of the most beloved people in Mets history—

During these visits (usually once a week), regular announcers Gary Cohen, Keith Hernandez, and Ron Darling made room for Kiner as he shared stories of old-time baseball, as well as the current state of the game.

Kiner was married four times; his first spouse was

Kiner had garnered 273 votes by the Baseball Writers' Association of America, one more than the minimum required for election.

His family was at his side at the time of his death.

He even once called himself "Ralph Korner".

Ralph Kiner died from natural causes in Rancho Mirage, California on February 6, 2014 at the age of 91.

The Mets honored him with an on-field ceremony on "Ralph Kiner Night" at Shea Stadium on Saturday, July 14, 2007.

Ralph Kiner was one of the best catchers of his time, performing less well than his peers in other roles.


In early 1928, Jennings died from meningitis in Scranton, Pennsylvania at age 58.Jennings was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1945 as a player.

In the crash, Jennings again fractured his skull, suffered a concussion of the brain, and broke both legs and his left arm.

While attending Cornell, he fractured his skull diving head-first into a swimming pool at night, only to find the pool had been emptied.

He died in 1928 and was posthumously inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1945.

Hugh Ambrose Jennings (April 2, 1869 – February 1, 1928) was an American professional baseball player, coach and manager from 1891 to 1925.

After that, Jennings was forced to move to first base.

The "Ee-Yah" shouts continued and became such a trademark that Jennings became known as Hughie "Ee-Yah" Jennings, and Detroit fans would shout "Ee-Yah" when Jennings appeared on the field. (See also Jack Smile,

Jennings was also one of the best fielding shortstops of the era.

Cornell Law School and an off-season law practice

Jennings practiced law in Baltimore and in Scranton, Pennsylvania.

Jennings' life was filled with several tragic accidents.

Hugh Jennings died from a fractured skull.


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

106–107 the author refers to "Pete Alexander" and "Ol' Pete" in a matter-of-fact way, suggesting the nickname was well known.

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.

So dominant was he during the 1910s that many players and writers of his era referred to him as "the best pitcher to ever put on a pair of shoes".

Alexander was the only player elected that year.

Alexander has the most career wins of any pitcher who never threw a no-hitter.

Alexander posted a lifetime winning percentage of .642, compared to Mathewson's .665.

Alexander was elected to Baseball's Hall of Fame in 1938, the third year of the Hall.

"It is uncertain how frequently Alexander was publicly called by that nickname during his playing days.

Along the way Alexander began to have problems with alcohol, a struggle that would plague him the rest of his life.

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

Alexander was referred to as "Old Cleve".


William founded a monastery at the site of the battle, the high altar of the abbey church supposedly placed at the spot where Harold died.

After landing, William's forces built a wooden castle at Hastings, from which they raided the surrounding area.

Battle Abbey was founded by William at the site of the battle.

Some accounts of the battle indicate that the Normans advanced from Hastings to the battlefield, but the contemporary account of William of Jumièges places the Normans at the site of the battle the night before.

This location was about 8 miles (13 kilometres) from William's castle at Hastings.

In modern times annual reenactments of the Battle of Hastings have drawn thousands of participants and spectators to the site of the original battle.

The exact events preceding the battle are obscure, with contradictory accounts in the sources, but all agree that William led his army from his castle and advanced towards the enemy.

Battle | Dispositions of forces and tactics

Sources differ on the exact site that the English fought on: some sources state the site of the abbey, but some newer sources suggest it was Caldbec Hill.

Harold had taken a defensive position at the top of Senlac Hill (present-day Battle, East Sussex), about 6 miles (9.7 kilometres) from William's castle at Hastings.

According to 12th-century sources, William made a vow to found the abbey, and the high altar of the church was placed at the site where Harold had died.

William built a castle at the site of the Battle of Hastings.


In the U.S., to avoid the initial G rating, which had been strongly associated with children's films and might have hindered box office sales, a different scene was used – one depicting Abrahams and Montague arriving at a Cambridge railway station and encountering two World War

For the American audience, this brief scene was deleted.

Chariots of Fire is a 1981 British historical drama film.

Revival for the 2012 Olympics | Stage adaptation

A stage adaptation of Chariots of Fire was mounted in honour of the 2012 Olympics.

Since its release, Chariots of Fire has received generally positive reviews from critics.

Chariots of Fire became a recurring theme in promotions for the 2012 Summer Olympics in London.

The film was slightly altered for the U.S. audience.

From the opening scene of pale young men racing barefoot along the beach, full of hope and elation, backed by Vangelis's now famous anthem, the film is utterly compelling." Chariots of Fire was very successful at the 54th Academy Awards, winning four of seven nominations.

Liddell's sister was several years younger than she was portrayed in the film.

Vangelis also created several new pieces of music for the production.

Puttnam chose Hugh Hudson, a multiple award-winning advertising and documentary filmmaker who had never helmed a feature film, to direct Chariots of Fire.

Several scenes were cut from Chariots of Fire to remove the rating for adult audiences only.


Life | Early years | Family background and childhood

In 1837, Adolphe married Aimée Delsarte, against the wishes of her family who considered him a poor prospect; the Delsartes, though impoverished, were a cultured and highly musical family.

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

Georges Bizet was born in Paris on 25 October 1838.

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

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

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

He should succeed". As a belated homage to his late father-in-law, Bizet took up the Noé manuscript and completed it.

At least one author has suggested that his mother was from a Jewish family but this is not substantiated in any of his official biographies.

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

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

Georges Bizet grew up in a wealthy family.


Beginning in 1951, Leonard went to the Mexican League.

He began his Negro league career in 1933 with the Brooklyn Royal Giants, then moved to the legendary Homestead Grays in 1934, the team he played for until his retirement in 1950.

He stayed in Mexico through 1955, playing for teams in Torreón, Xalapa, Durango and Obregón.

For much of his time in Mexico, he was managed by Cuban baseball star Martín Dihigo.

Leonard said that he got sick from the water every year that he returned to Mexico, but he otherwise enjoyed the league.

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

These statistics include the official Negro league statistics for Buck Leonard.

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

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

Leonard was impressed by Dihigo's baseball knowledge.

At his induction ceremony on August 7 of that year, Leonard said, "We in the Negro leagues felt like we were contributing something to baseball, too, when we were playing.

Leonard never played in Major League Baseball (MLB); he declined a 1952 offer of an MLB contract because he felt he was too old.

Towards the end of his career, Buck Leonard played baseball in Mexico.


The Royal Stoa was destroyed along with the Temple during the sacking of Jerusalem by the Romans in 70 CE.

History | Earthquakes and reconstructions

In 1033, there was another earthquake, severely damaging the mosque.

Al-Aqsa Mosque (Arabic: ٱلْمَسْجِد ٱلْأَقْصَىٰ, romanized: al-Masjid al-ʾAqṣā, IPA: [

The Crusaders damaged the facade, but it was restored and renovated by the Ayyubids.

In 746, the al-Aqsa Mosque was damaged in an earthquake, four years before as-Saffah overthrew the Umayyads and established the Abbasid Caliphate.

A second earthquake damaged most of al-Mansur's repairs, excluding those made in the southern portion in 774.

Severe damage was caused by the 1837 and 1927 earthquakes, but the mosque was repaired in 1938 and 1942.On 20 July 1951, King Abdullah I was shot three times by a Palestinian gunman as he entered the mosque, killing him.

Some paintings by an Italian artist were introduced when repairs were undertaken at the mosque after an earthquake ravaged the mosque in 1927.

Religious significance in Islam | Religious status

For example, Sahih al-Bukhari quotes Abu Darda as saying: "the Prophet of God Muhammad said a prayer in the Sacred Mosque (in Mecca) is worth 100,000 prayers; a prayer in my mosque (in Medina) is worth 1,000 prayers; and a prayer in al-Aqsa Mosque is worth 500 prayers more than in any other mosque".

When the Crusaders captured Jerusalem in 1099, they used the mosque as a palace and the Dome of the Rock as a church, but its function as a mosque was restored after its recapture by Saladin in 1187.

Al-Aqsa Mosque was damaged by the Romans.


ByteDance is the developer of the video-sharing social networking service Douyin (TikTok).

The app now takes on the TikTok name.

The company was valued at $78 billion and is considered one of the most valuable unicorns in the world.

ByteDance is reportedly worth over US$100 billion as of May 2020.ByteDance's core product, Toutiao ("Headlines"), is a content platform in China and around the world.

In March 2012, ByteDance launched its first app called Neihan Duanzi (内涵段子).

In December 2019, ByteDance began a test release of its music streaming app Resso in India and Indonesia.

On March 4, 2020, the company officially launched the app, which it described as a "social music streaming app".

The app now takes on the TikTok name.

In November 2017, ByteDance acquired global news app News Republic and global lip-sync video community musical.ly.

In December 2018, ByteDance sued Huxiu for defamation after Huxiu reported that ByteDance's Indian-language news app Helo was propagating misinformation.

This app allowed users to circulate jokes, memes, and humorous videos.

In response to Neihan Duanzi's shutdown, founder Zhang Yiming issued a letter stating that the app was "incommensurate with socialist core values" and promised that ByteDance would "further deepen cooperation" with the authorities to promote their policies.

ByteDance don't own any apps which are popular in the Western world.


The Narrator begins by noting, "For a long time, I went to bed early." He comments on the way

He remembers being in his room in the family's country home in Combray, while downstairs his parents entertain their friend Charles Swann, an elegant man of Jewish origin with strong ties to society.

Remembrance of Things Past, by Harold Pinter and Di Trevis, based on Pinter's The Proust Screenplay.

the Scotsman C. K. Scott Moncrieff  under the title Remembrance of Things Past, a phrase taken from Shakespeare's Sonnet 30; this was the first translation of the Recherche into another language.

Publication in English | English-language translations in print

The volume and page numbers are keyed to the 3-volume Remembrance of Things Past (translated by Scott Moncrieff, revised by Kilmartin, and published in 1981).

Remembrance of Things Past, Part One: Combray; Part Two: Within a Budding Grove, vol. 1; Part Three: Within a Budding Grove, vol. 2; and Part Four: Un amour de Swann, vol.

In Search of Lost Time (French: À la recherche du temps perdu), also translated as Remembrance of Things Past, is a novel in seven volumes by Marcel Proust (1871–1922).

ISBN 0-7081-1317-6 Remembrance of Things Past, translated by C. K. Scott Moncrieff, Terence Kilmartin, and Andreas Mayor (Vol. 7).

The Past Recaptured) (1927) is the final volume in Proust's novel.

This is the first of Proust's books published posthumously.

Synopsis | Volume Two: In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower

The Narrator marvels at Elstir's method of renewing impressions of ordinary things, as well as his connections with the Verdurins (he is "M. Biche") and Mme Swann.

ISBN 0-394-71243-9 (Published in three volumes: Swann's Way—Within a Budding Grove; The Guermantes Way—Cities of the Plain; The Captive—The Fugitive—Time Regained.)Terence Kilmartin compiled an index/concordance to the novel which was published in 1983 as the Reader's Guide to the Remembrance of Things Past.

In the first volume of Proust's Remembrance of Things Past, the Narrator meets Mr. Swann.


Wycliffe was instrumental in the development of a translation of the Bible in English, thus making it accessible to laypeople.

Wycliffe was born in the village of Hipswell near Richmond in the North Riding of Yorkshire, England, around the 1320s

In 1382 he completed a translation directly from the Vulgate into Middle English – a version now known as Wycliffe's Bible.

In keeping with Wycliffe's belief that scripture was the only authoritative reliable guide to the truth about God, he became involved in efforts to translate the Bible into English.

While Wycliffe is credited, it is not possible exactly to define his part in the translation, which was based on the Vulgate.

There still exist about 150 manuscripts, complete or partial, containing the translation in its revised form.

It is not known when he first came to Oxford, with which he was so closely connected until the end of his life, but he is known to have been at Oxford around 1345.

From him comes the translation of the New Testament, which was smoother, clearer, and more readable than the rendering of the Old Testament by his friend Nicholas of Hereford.

The exact charges are not known, as the matter did not get as far as a definite examination.

Wycliffe advocated translation of the Bible into the common vernacular.

The first, from 1366 to 1378, reflects a political struggle with Rome, while 1378 to 1384 is more a religious struggle.

Wycliffe is an English scholar whose known for translating religious text.


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

An imperial diet was a formal deliberative assembly of the whole Empire.

[ˈʁaɪçstaːk tsuː ˈvɔɐms]) was an imperial diet (assembly) of the Holy Roman Empire called by Emperor Charles V.

The Diet of Worms 1521 (German: Reichstag zu Worms

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

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

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

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

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

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

The Diet of Worms was an assembly of the Empire in 1521.


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.

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.

In 2009, a black jaguar was recorded for the first time in Costa Rica's Alberto Manuel Brenes Biological Reserve.

In 1801, Félix de Azara described a black jaguar observed by local people near the Paraná River in Paraguay.

Melanism in the jaguar is conferred by a dominant allele.

In the mountains of the Cordillera de Talamanca, 104 records of jaguars were obtained between 2010 and 2019; 26 of them showed melanistic jaguars.

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

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

Black Panther is called a jaguar in the Americas but also called a Leopard.


They had one son. He was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1986.

His jersey number 1 was retired by the Red Sox on May 21, 1988.

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

Bobby was the father of 1 kid.


He seemed temporarily to recover, but in the early hours of 3 June, his wedding anniversary, he suffered a fatal second attack.

After its premiere on 3 March 1875, Bizet was convinced that the work was a failure; he died of a heart attack three months later, unaware that it would prove a spectacular and enduring success.

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

By summer 1869, their objections had been overcome, and the wedding took place on 3 June 1869.

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

Resolving these issues delayed the first night until 3 March 1875 on which morning, by chance, Bizet's appointment as a Chevalier of the Legion of Honour was announced.

Life | Late career | Djamileh, L'Arlésienne and Don Rodrigue

I spring from you". In June 1872, Bizet informed Galabert: "I have just been ordered to compose three acts for the Opéra-Comique.

Bizet's marriage to Geneviève Halévy was intermittently happy and produced one son.

Bizet's marriage was initially happy, but was affected by Geneviève's nervous instability (inherited from both her parents), her difficult relations with her mother and by Mme.

Life | Emergent composer | Paris, 1860–1863

Although French composers were better represented at the Opéra-Comique, the style and character of productions had remained largely unchanged since the 1830s.

The French composer, Georges Bizet, celebrated the anniversary of his marriage on June 3, 1875.


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.

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

, there have been several other versions of the story.

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.

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.

A Bell for Adano was a story of someone with dual citizenship.


She got that typewriter at the age of seven, and has continued writing poetry since then.

These poems eventually evolved into songs.

Shakira also contributed an original song to the film, titled "Try Everything", which was written and composed by Sia and Stargate.

Career | 2010–2015: Sale el Sol and Shakira

It Started", which was slated to be the lead single from Pitbull's upcoming album, Global Warming.

She started dancing on the table, and the experience made her realize that she wanted to be a performer.

Career | 2016–present: El Dorado and Super Bowl LIV

She started her time there on 3 August in Chicago and finished in San Francisco on 7 September.

Her tour dates for Latin America, started in Mexico City on 11 October and finished in Bogota, Colombia on 3 November.

Career | 2005–2007: Fijación Oral, Volumen Uno and Oral Fixation, Volume Two

II: II: Memoirs of an Immigrant. Shakira wrote the lyrics, and jointly composed the music, for two new songs that are featured in the movie Love in the Time of Cholera, based on the acclaimed novel written by Colombian author Gabriel García Márquez.

She began the first leg of her tour in Europe, starting in Hamburg, Germany on 3 June and then ending in Barcelona, Spain on 7 July.

In 2010 Shakira collaborated with rapper Pitbull for the song "Get

In October 2010, Shakira released her ninth studio album, titled Sale el Sol.

In September, Shakira embarked on The Sun Comes Out World Tour, in support of her two most recent albums.

Shakira started composing when she was a teenager.


An often cited example is "Zhuguan Baba" (猪倌巴巴), a young pig farmer in Northern China whose posts on how to raise pigs attracted millions of readers on Toutiao.

The first version of Toutiao was launched in August 2012, five months after Zhang founded ByteDance.

ByteDance also started Gogokid in 2018, an online English learning platform for children that provides one-on-one classes with native English speakers.

The company was valued at $78 billion and is considered one of the most valuable unicorns in the world.

In January 2014, the company created the "Toutiaohao" (头条号) platform to attract more PGC (professionally generated content) and UGC (user generated content) creators; and later in the year, added video capabilities.

Technology | The Underlying AI Technology

ByteDance's research arm, the AI lab, was founded in March 2016.

In March 2016, ByteDance launched Toutiao Video, which was later rebranded as Xigua Video (西瓜视频, also known as Watermelon Video).

Xigua Video is a short form video platform that hosted a variety of video clips that were on average 2–5 minutes long.

The platform has since expanded to long form video.

In 2016, ByteDance's AI Lab and Peking University co-developed Xiaomingbot (张小明), an artificial intelligence bot that writes news articles.

In December 2018, ByteDance sued Huxiu for defamation after Huxiu reported that ByteDance's Indian-language news app Helo was propagating misinformation.

On one of ByteDance's properties, someone created videos on how to raise farm animals and became famous.


The title, Twice-Told Tales, was based on a line from William Shakespeare's The Life and Death of King John (Act 3, scene 4): "Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale, / Vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.

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.

The stories had all been previously published in magazines and annuals, hence the name.

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

The 2016 film Wakefield is a modern adaptation of the story of the same name.

"The Grolier Club later named Twice-Told Tales the most influential book of 1837.

Hawthorne was encouraged by friend Horatio Bridge to collect these previously anonymous stories; Bridge offered $250 to cover the risk of the publication.

She sent copies of the collection to William Wordsworth as well as to Horace Mann, hoping that Mann could get Hawthorne a job writing stories for schoolchildren.

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

In 1963, United Artists released a horror trilogy film titled Twice-Told Tales, with content very loosely adapted from three Hawthorne stories.

Twice-Told Tales is a short story collection that got its name from a Shakespeare play.


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

Still trying to get at the truth, Isaac asked him point-blank, "Are you really my son Esau?" and Jacob answered simply, "I am" (which can be taken as "I am me", not

Jacob responded, "Because the LORD your God arranged it for me"; Rashi (on Genesis 52:46) says Isaac's suspicions were aroused because Esau never used the personal name of God.

Rebecca overheard this conversation and realized that Isaac's blessings should go to Jacob, since she was told before the twins' birth that the older son would serve the younger.

She therefore ordered Jacob to bring her two goats from the flock, which she cooked in the way Isaac loved, and had him bring them to his father in place of Esau.

Jacob lived with Laban for twenty years (Gen. 31:41), marrying Laban's two daughters and two maidservants.

According to biblical tradition, Rebecca's father was Bethuel the Aramean from Paddan Aram, also called Aram-Naharaim.

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

Onlookers named the first עשו, Esau ('Esav or 'Esaw, meaning either "rough", "sensibly felt", "handled", from Hebrew: עשה, asah, "do" or "make"; or "completely developed", from Hebrew: עשוי,

The descriptions of the two young men hint at their opposing spiritual natures: "The lads grew up and Esau became one who knows hunting, a man of the field; but Jacob was a wholesome man, abiding in tents".

Biblical Rebecca had two sons named Jacob and Esau.


A Japanese adaptation of Unforgiven, directed by Lee Sang-il and starring Ken Watanabe, was released in 2013.

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In its 35th weekend (April 2–4, 1993), capitalizing on its Oscar wins, the film returned to the Top 10 (spending another 3 weeks total), ranking at No. 8 with a gross of $2,538,358 ($2,969 average from 855 theaters), an improvement of 197 percent over the weekend before where it made $855,188 ($1,767 average from 484 theaters).

Despite his initial reservations, Ebert eventually included the film in his "The Great Movies" list."Unforgiven

Munny recruits his friend Ned Logan, another retired outlaw, and they catch up with the Kid.

Unforgiven received widespread acclaim.

Unforgiven was released on DVD and VHS on September 24, 2002.

The film closed on July 15, 1993, having spent nearly a full year in theaters (343 days / 49 weeks), having earned $101,157,447 in North America, and another $58,000,000 internationally for a total of $159,157,447 worldwide.

Unforgiven was released on 4K UHD Blu-Ray on May 16, 2017.

In 2013, the Writers Guild of America ranked Peoples' script for Unforgiven as the 30th greatest ever written.

Bollywood made another depiction of the Unforgiven movie.


Schmidt was one of the best athletes of his era; teammate Pete Rose once said, "To have his body, I'd trade him mine and my wife's, and I'd throw in some cash." Mike Schmidt's parents are Joseph Jack Schmidt and Lois Jane Philipps.

Schmidt's 548 home runs are the most ever hit by a player who spent his entire career with just one team.

Professional baseball career | Major Leagues | 1980–1986

A day later, Schmidt hit his 48th home run of the season in the 11th inning to give the Phillies the 6–4 extra innings victory over the Expos, and clinch the division.

Professional baseball career | Major Leagues | 1972–1979

It is believed that had the ball not hit the speaker, it would have traveled beyond 500 feet.

Over his career, Schmidt set a vast array of hitting and fielding records.

His 48 home runs broke his own team record, and led the National League by a margin of 13 over his nearest competitor.

Post-playing career and accolades | Philanthropy

In 2008, Schmidt released a wine called Mike Schmidt 548 Zinfandel, a reference to his 548 career home runs, with proceeds also going to the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation.

Professional baseball career | Minor Leagues

Schmidt played the whole game at shortstop for the big-league Phillies, hitting a game-winning home run against his future Reading teammates.

While he batted only .196 with 136 strikeouts during his first full season in 1973, Schmidt demonstrated his power potential by hitting 18 home runs.

On June 10, in the Astrodome in Houston, Texas, Schmidt hit a ball off Houston Astros' pitcher Claude Osteen that looked like a sure home run.

Mike Schmidt was considered a great athlete and hit over 500 home runs.


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

The statues were carved by the Polynesian colonizers of the island, mostly between circa 1250 A.D. and 1500 A.D.

The tourist was fined $17,000 in damages and was banned from the island for three years.

History | 1722–1868 toppling of the moai

Within a year the individuals that remained on the island were sick, injured, and lacking leadership.

Since the island was largely treeless by the time the Europeans first visited, the movement of the statues was a mystery for a long time; pollen analysis has now established that the island was almost totally forested until 1200 A.D.

Through the years the power levels veered from sole chiefs to a warrior class, known as "matatoa".

The moai have been mapped by a number of groups over the years, including efforts by Father Sebastian Englert and Chilean researchers.

The Routledge expedition of 1914 established a cultural link between these designs and the island's traditional tattooing, which had been repressed by missionaries a half-century earlier.

" Orongo, the site of the cult's festivities, was a dangerous landscape which consisted of a "narrow ridge between a 1,000-foot (300 m) drop into the ocean on one side and a deep crater on the other".

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.

They were carved between the years of 1200 and 1245.


Internet of Things Group –  5% of 2016 revenues –  offers platforms designed for retail, transportation, industrial, buildings and home use.

Data Center Group –  29% of 2016 revenues –  produces hardware components used in server, network, and storage platforms.

Product and market history | Fog computing

On November 19, 2015, Intel, alongside ARM Holdings, Dell, Cisco Systems, Microsoft, and Princeton University, founded the OpenFog Consortium, to promote interests and development in fog computing.

Product and market history | Intel, x86 processors, and the IBM PC | Remote Keyboard Android App

This app was launched in early 2015 to help users control Intel single-board computers and Intel NUC.

Product and market history | Use of Intel products by Apple Computer (2005–present)

The first Macintosh computers containing Intel CPUs were announced on January 10, 2006, and Apple had its entire line of consumer Macs running on Intel processors by early August 2006.

Corporate history | Acquisitions and investments (2010–present) | Opening up the foundries to other manufacturers (2013)

This was after poor sales of Windows 8 hardware caused a major retrenchment for most of the major semiconductor manufacturers, except for Qualcomm, which continued to see healthy purchases from its largest customer, Apple.

The acquisition completed in December 2015.In October 2015, Intel bought cognitive computing company Saffron Technology for an undisclosed price.

Corporate affairs | Marketing | Intel Inside

This was because, by using cheaper processors, manufacturers could make cheaper computers and gain more market share in an increasingly price-sensitive market.

In 2010, Intel purchased McAfee, a manufacturer of computer security technology, for $7.68 billion.

Intel supplies microprocessors for computer system manufacturers such as Apple, Lenovo, HP, and Dell.

In January 2015, Intel purchased a 30% stake in Vuzix, a smart glasses manufacturer.

Product and market history | Intel, x86 processors, and the IBM PC | "Intel Inside" and other campaigns

The second campaign, Intel's Systems Group, which began in the early 1990s, showcased manufacturing of PC motherboards, the main board component of a personal computer, and the one into which the processor (CPU) and memory (RAM) chips are plugged.

Intel only manufactures computer processors for Windows computers since 2015.


Upon the outbreak of the American Civil War, his father joined the Union Army, and Mike likely learned to play baseball while living with his mother and younger brother James in Washington, D.C..

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.

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

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

Floyd was arguably the first player agent in baseball history.

"Kelly's autobiography Play Ball was published while he was with the Beaneaters in 1888, the first autobiography by a baseball player; it was ghostwritten by Boston baseball writer John J. "Jack" Drohan.

One of the best defensive catchers in baseball

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

Stage partner William "Billy" Jerome "took off his hat to him, and introduced him as 'Mr. Kelly, the famous $10,000 peach.'

" Hoyt had been a Boston baseball writer and was a Boston Elk.

American baseball player Michael Joseph "King" Kelly was introduced to baseball while his dad was fighting in the Civil War.


"Go Down Moses" is a spiritual phrase that describes events in the Old Testament of the Bible, specifically Exodus 8:1: " And the LORD spake unto Moses, Go unto Pharaoh, and say unto him, Thus saith the LORD, Let my people go, that they may serve me", in which God commands Moses to demand the release of the Israelites from bondage in Egypt.

The phrase "Go Down Moses" is featured in the chorus of the John Craigie song, "Will Not Fight" (2009).

The phrase "Go Down Moses" is sung by Pops Staples in the song "The Weight" in The Last Waltz film by The Band (1976).

The usual lyric is actually "Go down Miss Moses".

A reference is made to the song in the film

William Faulkner titled his novel Go Down, Moses (1942) after the song.

"Go Down Moses" has sometimes been called "Let My People Go" and performed by a variety of musical artists, including RebbeSoul

"Go Down Moses" was recorded by the Robert Shaw Chorale on RCA Victor 33 record

in Margaret Mitchell's novel Gone with the Wind, slaves from the Georgia plantation Tara are in Atlanta, to dig breastworks for the soldiers, and they sing "Go Down, Moses" as they march down a street.

The opening verse, as recorded by Lockwood, is:  Sarah Bradford's authorized biography of Harriet Tubman, Scenes in the Life of Harriet Tubman (1869), quotes Tubman as saying she used "Go Down Moses" as one of two code songs fugitive slaves used to communicate when fleeing Maryland.

Go Down Moses refers to a biblical phrase.


As a child, he reigned as the Xuantong Emperor (pronounced [ɕwántʰʊ̀ŋ], Chinese: 宣統帝; Manchu: ᡤᡝᡥᡠᠩᡤᡝᠶᠣᠰᠣᡥᡡᠸᠠᠩᡩᡳ; Möllendorff: gehungge yoso hūwangdi) in China and Khevt Yos Khaan in Mongolia from 1908 until his forced abdication on 12 February 1912, after the Xinhai Revolution.

Biography | Emperor of China (1908–1912)

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

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–

During Puyi's coronation in the Hall of Supreme Harmony on 2 December 1908, the young emperor was carried onto the Dragon Throne by his father.

Puyi himself was not informed in February 1912 that his reign had ended and China was now a republic and continued to believe that he was still Emperor for some time.

Biography | Puppet ruler of Manchukuo (1932–1945)

On 1 March 1934 he was crowned Emperor of Manchukuo, under the reign title Kangde (Wade–Giles: Kang-te; 康德) in Changchun.

Young, Louise (1998). Japan's Total Empire: Manchuria and the Culture of Wartime Imperialism.

"Puyi believed Manchukuo was just the beginning, and that within a few years he would again reign as Emperor of China, having the yellow Imperial Dragon robes used for coronation of Qing emperors brought from Beijing to Changchun.

During Puyi's reign as Emperor of Manchukuo, his household was closely watched by the Japanese, who increasingly took steps toward the full Japanisation of Manchuria, to prevent him from becoming too independent.

Biography | Captive in Manchuria (1931–1932)

The American historian Louise Young described Amakasu as a "sadistic" man who enjoyed torturing and killing people.

Puyi reigned as the Xuantong emperor when Puyi was young.


Leon Trotsky was born Lev Davidovich Bronstein to David Leontyevich Bronstein (1847-1922) and Anna Lvovna (née Zhivotovskaya, 1850-1910) on 7 November 1879, the fifth child of a Ukrainian-Jewish family of wealthy farmers in Yanovka or Yanivka, in the Kherson governorate of the Russian Empire (now Bereslavka, in Ukraine), a small village 24 kilometres (15 mi) from the nearest post office.

He viewed himself as an advocate of orthodox Marxism.

Russian Revolution and aftermath | United Opposition (1926–1927)

Trotsky wanted the Communist Party to complete an orthodox proletarian revolution and have clear class independence from the KMT.

Early political activities and life (1896–1917) | First emigration and second marriage (1902–1903)

Until this point in his life, Trotsky had used his birth name: Lev (Leon) Bronstein.

The foundation "International Friends of the Leon Trotsky Museum" has been organized to raise funds to improve the museum further.

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

This upset the troika, already infuriated by Karl Radek's article, "Leon Trotsky – Organiser of Victory" published in Pravda on 14 March 1923.

[O.S. 26 October] 1879 – 21 August 1940), better known as Leon Trotsky (), was a Russian revolutionary, political theorist and politician.

Trotsky's house in Coyoacán has been preserved in much the same condition as it was on the day he was assassinated there, and is now the Leon Trotsky Museum in Mexico City, run by a board which includes his grandson Esteban Volkov.

Contributions to Marxist theory | Permanent Revolution

Although most closely associated with Leon Trotsky, the call for Permanent Revolution is first found in the writings of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels in March 1850, in the aftermath of the 1848 Revolution, in their Address of the Central Committee to the Communist League: It is our interest and our task to make the revolution permanent until all the more or less propertied classes have been driven from their ruling positions, until the proletariat has conquered state power and until the association of the proletarians has progressed sufficiently far – not only in one country but in all the leading countries of the world – that competition between the proletarians of these countries ceases and at least the decisive forces of production are concentrated in the hands of the workers. ... Their battle-cry must be: The Permanent Revolution.

Trotsky categorically refused the conditions, and Trotsky was then told that he and his wife would soon be moved to another residence.

Leon Trotsky was Orthodox.


Principal photography for the first season was scheduled to begin on July 26, 2010, and the primary location was the Paint Hall Studios in Belfast, Northern Ireland.

Other media and products | Accompanying material

A second tour occurred in 2018 across cities in Europe and North America.

Broadcasters carrying Game of Thrones include Fox Showcase in Australia; HBO Canada, Super Écran, and Showcase in Canada; HBO Latin America in Latin America; SoHo and Prime in New Zealand, and Sky Atlantic in the United Kingdom and Ireland.

All ten episodes were written before filming began since they were shot out of order by two units in different countries.

In 2013 the Writers Guild of America listed Game of Thrones as the 40th best written series in television history.

Other media and products | Merchandise and exhibition

In 2013 and 2014, a traveling exhibition of costumes, props, armor and weapons from the series visited major cities in Europe and the Americas.

Reception and achievements | Cultural influence | Sex and violence

The Huffington Post's Maureen Ryan likewise noted that Game of Thrones mostly presented women naked, rather than men, and that the excess of "random boobage" undercut any aspirations the series might have to address the oppression of women in a feudal society.

The box set includes extra background and behind-the-scenes material but no deleted scenes, since nearly all the footage shot for the first season was used.

The fourth season returned to Dubrovnik and included new locations, including Diocletian's Palace in Split, Klis Fortress north of Split, Perun quarry east of Split, the Mosor mountain range, and Baška Voda further south.

Filming of the second season's southern scenes shifted from Malta to Croatia, where the city of Dubrovnik and nearby locations allowed exterior shots of a walled, coastal medieval city.

The pilot episode, "Winter Is Coming", was shot in 2009; after its poor reception following a private viewing, HBO demanded an extensive re-shoot (about 90 percent of the episode, with cast and directorial changes).

It was mostly shot in South America.


Rise to power | Early life | Place of birth

Charlemagne's exact birthplace is unknown, although historians have suggested Aachen in modern-day Germany, and Liège (Herstal) in present-day Belgium as possible locations.

Charlemagne was the eldest son of Pepin the Short and Bertrada of Laon, born before their canonical marriage.

If born in 742, Charles was 26 years old, but he had been campaigning at his father's right hand for several years, which may help to account for his military skill.

The middle kingdom had broken up by 890 and partly absorbed into the Western kingdom (later France) and the Eastern kingdom (Germany) and the rest developing into smaller "buffer" nations that exist between France and Germany to this day, namely the Benelux and Switzerland.

Rise to power | Early life | Date of birth

This date supports the concept that Charlemagne was technically an illegitimate child, although that is not mentioned by Einhard in either since he was born out of wedlock; Pepin and Bertrada were bound by a private contract or Friedelehe at the time of his birth, but did not marry until 744.

Under the Carolingians, the Frankish kingdom spread to encompass an area including most of Western Europe; the east-west division of the kingdom formed the basis for modern France and Germany.

His empire lasted only another generation in its entirety; its division, according to custom, between Louis's own sons after their father's death laid the foundation for the modern states of Germany and France.

In 1964, young French singer France Gall released the hit song "Sacré Charlemagne" in which the lyrics blame the great king for imposing the burden of compulsory education on French children.

One of the great medieval literary cycles, the Charlemagne cycle or the Matter of France, centres on his deeds—the Emperor with the Flowing Beard of Roland fame—and his historical commander of the border with Brittany, Roland, and the 12 paladins.

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

Between Aquitaine and Hispania were the Euskaldunak, Latinised to Vascones, or Basques, living in Basque country, Vasconia, which extended, according to the distributions of place names attributable to the Basques, most densely in the western Pyrenees but also as far south as the upper Ebro River in Spain and as far north as the Garonne River in France.

Orman portrays the Treaty of Verdun (843) between the warring grandsons of Charlemagne as the foundation event of an independent France under its first king Charles the Bald; an independent Germany under its first king Louis the German; and an independent intermediate state stretching from the Low Countries along the borderlands to south of Rome under Lothair I, who retained the title of emperor and the capitals Aachen and Rome without the jurisdiction.

Charlemagne was born in France.


Sweden subsequently has one of the oldest populations in the world, with the average age of 41.1 years.

The total resident population of Sweden was 10,343,403 in March 2020.

One third of the population died in the triennium of 1349–1351.

Sweden has a total population of 10.3 million of which 2.6 million have a foreign background.

Famine also hit Sweden, killing roughly 10% of Sweden's population.

The number of people with at least one foreign parent was 3,415,166 which counts for 33% of the population.

During this period Sweden's economic growth was also one of the highest in the industrial world.

Sweden Finns are Sweden's largest linguistic minority, comprising about 5% of Sweden's population, and Finnish is recognised as a minority language.

One-third of the Finnish population died in the devastating Great Famine of 1695–1697 that struck the country.

Every fourth (24,9%) resident in the country has immigrant background and every third (32,3%) has at least one parent born abroad.

Sweden's total resident population  was 10,343,403 in March 2020, as one of the youngest populations in the world.


Robert had at least four children from a prior marriage to a woman named Sarah, who died of tuberculosis in 1859.

His parents were Robert and Christina Nichols.

Charles Augustus "Kid" Nichols (September 14, 1869 – April 11, 1953) was an American Major League Baseball (MLB) pitcher who played for the Boston Beaneaters, St. Louis Cardinals and Philadelphia Phillies from 1890 to 1906.

While his siblings worked in the family butcher shop, Nichols pursued baseball.

Baseball-Reference.com calculates that Nichols led the team in wins above replacement in 1890 and 1892 through 1898.Nichols

Nichols also had a major league record

Nichols signed with the Boston Beaneaters in September 1889 and entered the major leagues in with them in 1890.

After the 1901 season, Nichols purchased an interest in a minor league franchise in Kansas City.

Nichols retired with 362 wins, 208 losses, 1,881 strikeouts and a 2.96 ERA.

Nichols played minor league baseball for three teams until 1889, when he signed with the Boston Beaneaters.

After baseball, Nichols dabbled in the motion picture industry, partnering with Joe Tinker in a business that distributed movies to theatres in the midwest.

The Beaneaters won several pennant races during Nichols' tenure, finishing in first place five times between 1891 and 1898.

American baseball player Charles Augustus "Kid" Nichols had no siblings.


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

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

When Doby joined the Cleveland Indians of the American League in 1947, it was Mackey who recommended moving him from second base to center field.

Even in his 40s, Mackey was still an effective player – he batted .307 in 1945, and appeared in the 1947 All-Star Game at age 50.

joined the Newark Eagles in 1939, replacing Dick Lundy as manager a year later, and continued his work with young players such as Monte Irvin, Larry Doby and Don Newcombe.

His barnstorming tours included a highly successful trip to Japan in 1927, during which he became the first player to hit a home run out of Meiji Shrine Stadium, doing so in three straight games.

In 1934, he batted only .299, as the Philadelphia Stars' won the NNL second-half pennant, but had a good postseason, batting .368 and driving in the first run of a 2–0 victory in Game 7 to defeat the Chicago American Giants 4 games to 3.

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

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

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

American baseball player James Raleigh "Biz" Mackey is from Texas.


Mays' professional baseball career began in 1948, while he was still in high school; he played briefly with the Chattanooga Choo-Choos in Tennessee during the summer.

Willie Howard Mays Jr. (born May 6, 1931), nicknamed "The Say Hey Kid", is an American former professional baseball center fielder, who spent almost all of his 22-season Major League Baseball (MLB) career playing for the New York/San Francisco Giants, before finishing with the New York Mets.

Professional baseball | Major leagues | San Francisco Giants (1958–1972)

When a ball was hit, he would count to five before he even started running after it, enabling him to judge how the wind would affect it.

Through a friendship with Tony Owen and Donna Reed, he was able to appear in three episodes of The Donna Reed Show: "My Son the Catcher" and "Play Ball" (both in 1964, both of which also featured Don Drysdale) and "Calling Willie Mays" (1966).

Professional baseball | Major leagues | 1954-57

the 1954 offseason , Mays played winter ball for the Cangrejeros de Santurce in Puerto Rico.

"My style was always to go all out, whether I played four innings or nine.

Mays took part in another long game May 31, 1964, when, after playing all nine innings of Game 1 of a doubleheader against the New York Mets, he played all 23 innings of the Giants' 8-6 victory in Game 2.

Mays went 4-for-5 at the plate (the only out coming on a fly ball against Moe Drabowsky in the fifth inning), and he was on deck for a chance to hit a record fifth home run when the Giants' half of the ninth inning ended.

Cat exposed Willie to baseball at an early age, playing catch with his son by the time Willie was five.

Mays had his first serious injury in 1959, a collision with Sammy White in spring training that resulted in 35 stitches in his leg and two weeks of exhibition ball missed; however, he was ready for the start of the season.

With two outs in the bottom of the inning, Lee Walls hit a fly ball to center field, which Mays caught for the final out as the Giants advanced to the World Series against the Yankees.

Willie Howard Mays Jr. started playing pro ball in the fall of 48.


He was born in 1467 or 1468—the former year being the most likely—at Belmonte, about 30 kilometres (19 mi) from present-day Covilhã in central Portugal.

Christopher Columbus, on his third voyage to the New World in 1498, traveled along part of what would later become Venezuela.

Discovery of Brazil | Departure and arrival in a new land

The tribe which Cabral met was the Tupiniquim.

At some point, Cabral left the court permanently.

Cabral has since become a national hero in Brazil.

Discovery of Brazil | Fleet commander-in-chief

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".

There is no contemporary image or detailed physical description of Cabral.

Cabral was selected to command this "Revenge Fleet", as it was called.

Cabral died of unspecified causes, most probably in 1520.

The couple had at least four children: two boys (Fernão Álvares Cabral and António Cabral) and two girls (Catarina de Castro and Guiomar de Castro).

The Cabral family rose to prominence during the 14th century.

Cabral entered the world after 1477.


At least five film adaptations of Silas Marner were released during the silent film era, including the following: Silas Marner (Thanhouser Film Corporation, USA; 31 March 1911) with Frank Hall Crane in the title role.

Dunsey immediately disappears, but the community makes little of this disappearance since he has vanished several times before.

Kate E Brown has discussed overarching themes of time and temporality, with respect to the interlocked stories of Godfrey Cass and Silas Marner.

Ben Kingsley played Silas Marner in a 1985 BBC adaptation (broadcast in the US in 1987 by Masterpiece Theatre), with Patsy Kensit as the grown-up Eppie.

The 1954 Indian film Bangaru Papa, in Telugu, starring S. V. Ranga Rao and Krishna Kumari, is also based on Palagummi Padmaraju's loose adaptation of Silas Marner.

Silas Marner (Edison Company, USA; 24 October 1913) with William Langdon West in the title role. Silas Marner (

The composer John Joubert wrote an opera Silas Marner based on the novel in 1961.

The actor Michael Williams played Marner in a Focus on the Family Radio Theatre two-part adaptation for radio; this was to be the last acting role before his death.

Le Noël de Silas Marner (Pathé Frères, France; November 1912) (UK; 27 November 1912; as Silas Marner's Christmas).

Silas Marner (Associated Exhibitors, USA; May 1922) (UK; 25 January 1926) with Crauford Kent in the title role.

Silas Marner was adapted several times.


Published in 1954, Lord of the Flies was Golding's first novel.

Many writers have borrowed plot elements from Lord of the Flies.

The book itself appears prominently in his novels Hearts in Atlantis (1999), Misery (1987), and Cujo (1981).King wrote an introduction for a new edition of Lord of the Flies (2011) to mark the centenary of William Golding's birth in 1911.

Lord of the Flies is a 1954 novel by Nobel Prize-winning British author William Golding.

Following a further review, the book was eventually published as Lord of the Flies.

In his book Moral Minds: How Nature Designed Our Universal Sense of Right and Wrong, Marc D. Hauser says the following about Golding's Lord of the Flies: "This riveting fiction, standard reading in most intro courses to English literature, should be standard reading in biology, economics, psychology, and philosophy.

Nigel Williams adapted the text for the stage.

Popular reading in schools, especially in the English-speaking world, a 2016 UK poll saw Lord of the Flies ranked third in the nation's favourite books from school.

There have been three film adaptations based on the book:  Lord of the Flies (1963), directed by Peter Brook Alkitrang Dugo (1975), a Filipino film, directed by Lupita A. Concio Lord of the Flies (1990), directed by Harry HookA fourth adaptation, to feature an all-female cast, was announced by Warner Bros. in August 2017, but was subsequently abandoned.

Simon conducts an imaginary dialogue with the head, which he dubs the "Lord of the Flies".

Lord of the Flies was writer, William Golding's last book.


The film was produced by Leo McCarey's production company, Rainbow Productions.

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

" 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.

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 (1945) is an American drama film, produced and directed by Leo McCarey and starring Bing Crosby and Ingrid Bergman.

"The Bells of St. Mary's placed fourth on Film Daily's year-end nationwide poll of 559 critics naming the best films of 1946.

A television adaptation on videotape of The Bells of St. Mary's was shown in 1959, starring Claudette Colbert, Marc Connelly, Glenda Farrell, Nancy Marchand, Barbara Myers, Robert Preston, and Charles Ruggles.

The production of the movie, The Bells of St. Mary's was done by Unicorn Label.


If that theory is correct it would take 50–150 people to move the moʻai.

There is a legend that says there were seven men who waited for their king to arrive.

History | 1722–1868 toppling of the moʻai

The society was vulnerable and their conversion to Christianity did not take long.

He then found that placing the statue upright on two sled runners atop log rollers, 25 men were able to move the statue 150 feet (46 m) in two minutes.

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

As the statue tilts forward, it rocks sideways along its curved front edge and takes a "step." Large flakes are seen broken off of the sides of the bases.

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

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

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

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

It would take about 40 men to reposition one of the Moai statues.


The book, originally entitled Strangers from Within, was initially rejected by an in-house reader, Miss Perkins, at London based publishers Faber and Faber as "Rubbish & dull.

Pointless". The title was considered "too abstract and too explicit".

Following a further review, the book was eventually published as Lord of the Flies.

Published in 1954, Lord of the Flies was Golding's first novel.

In his book Moral Minds: How Nature Designed Our Universal Sense of Right and Wrong, Marc D. Hauser says the following about Golding's Lord of the Flies: "This riveting fiction, standard reading in most intro courses to English literature, should be standard reading in biology, economics, psychology, and philosophy.

Parallels have been drawn between the "Lord of the Flies" and an actual incident from 1965 when a group of schoolboys who sailed a fishing boat from Tonga were hit by a storm and marooned on the uninhabited island of ʻAta, considered dead by their relatives in Nuku‘alofa.

One day while he is there, Jack and his followers erect an offering to the beast nearby: a pig's head, mounted on a sharpened stick and soon swarming with scavenging flies.

Both Ralph and Piggy participate in the melee, and they become deeply disturbed by their actions after returning from Castle Rock.

Popular reading in schools, especially in the English-speaking world, a 2016 UK poll saw Lord of the Flies ranked third in the nation's favourite books from school.

"Its stances on the already controversial subjects of human nature and individual welfare versus the common good earned it position 68 on the American Library Association's list of the 100 most frequently challenged books of 1900–1999.

It had been rejected by many publishers before Charles Monteith at London based publisher Faber & Faber picked up the manuscript.

The book Lord of the Flies, was fast-tracked to publishing as soon as it hit  test-readers, who loved it for the deeply reflective nature of the story.


He reached the height of his power in 800 when he was crowned "Emperor of the Romans" by Pope Leo III on Christmas Day at Old St. Peter's Basilica in Rome.

Rise to power | Aquitainian rebellion | Loss and recovery of Aquitaine

Out of reach of Pepin, he repudiated all loyalty to Francia.

This puts him in the 99th percentile of height for his period, given that average male height of his time was 1.69 metres (5 ft 7 in).

In 800, Charlemagne enlarged the hostel at the Muristan in Jerusalem and added a library to it.

Rise to power | Aquitainian rebellion | Acquisition of Aquitaine by the Carolingians

According to Ibn al-Qūṭiyya Wittiza, the last Visigothic king of a united Hispania died before his three sons, Almund, Romulo, and Ardabast reached maturity.

Charlemagne, advised by scholar Alcuin, travelled to Rome, in November 800 and held a synod.

Einhard states: He was heavily built, sturdy, and of considerable stature, although not exceptionally so, since his height was seven times the length of his own foot.

An estimate of his height from an X-ray and CT scan of his tibia performed in 2010 is 1.84 metres (6 ft 0 in).

Abraham kept his people in line, but in 800, the Bulgarians under Khan Krum attacked the remains of the Avar state.

Carolingian expansion to the south | Wars with the Moors

However, Louis of Aquitaine marched the entire army of his kingdom over the Pyrenees and besieged it for two years, wintering there from 800 to 801, when it capitulated.

Charlemagne reached his height of power in 800.


Benioff read a few hundred pages of the first novel, A Game of Thrones, shared his enthusiasm with D. B. Weiss, and suggested that they adapt Martin's novels into a television series; Weiss finished the first novel in "maybe 36 hours".

It is an adaptation of A Song of Ice and Fire, George R. R. Martin's series of fantasy novels, the first of which is A Game of Thrones (1996).

Production | Conception and development | Inspirations and derivations

According to David Benioff, the TV adaptation is "about adapting the series as a whole and following the map George laid out for us and hitting the major milestones, but not necessarily each of the stops along the way".

Fuck that. " Martin was pleased with the suggestion that they adapt it as an HBO series, saying that he "never imagined it anywhere else".

In May 2017, after years of speculation about possible successor series, HBO commissioned Max Borenstein, Jane Goldman, Brian Helgeland, Carly Wray, and Bryan Cogman to develop five individual Game of Thrones successor series; the writers were to be working individually with George R. R. Martin, who also co-wrote two of the scripts.

Other media and products | Successor series | Bloodmoon

Martin suggested The Long Night as a title for the series.

In January 2006, David Benioff had a telephone conversation with George R. R. Martin's literary agent about the books he represented.

According to Benioff, they won Martin over with their answer to his question, "Who is Jon Snow's mother?" Before being approached by Benioff and Weiss, Martin had had meetings with other scriptwriters, most of whom wanted to adapt the series as a feature film.

On June 8, 2018, HBO commissioned a pilot to a Game of Thrones prequel series from Goldman as showrunner and Martin

, which he had not read. The literary agent sent Benioff the series' first four books.

The T.V. series is an adaptation of a finished series of books by George Martin.


ʔælˈmæsdʒɪd ælˈʔɑqsˤɑ] (listen), "the Farthest Mosque"), located in the Old City of Jerusalem, is the third holiest site in Islam.

The mosque is located in close proximity to historical sites significant in Judaism and Christianity, most notably the site of the Second Temple, the holiest site in Judaism.

Religious significance in Islam | Religious status

In addition, the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation refers to the al-Aqsa Mosque as the third holiest site in Islam (and calls for Arab sovereignty over it).

Later medieval scripts, as well as modern-day political tracts, tend to classify al-Aqsa Mosque as the third holiest site in Islam.

At the time of the Second Temple, the present site of the mosque was occupied by the Royal Stoa, a basilica running the southern wall of the enclosure.

Jerusalem is recognized as a sacred site in Islam.

The mosque is believed to be the second house of prayer constructed after the Masjid al-Haram in Mecca.

Post-Rashidun-era Islamic scholars traditionally identified the mosque as the site referred to in the sura (Quranic chapter) al-Isra ("the Night Journey").

The Islamic Movement in Israel and the waqf have attempted to increase Muslim control of the Temple Mount as a way of countering Israeli policies and the escalating presence of Israeli security forces around the site since the Second Intifada.

Religious significance in Islam | First qibla

Thus, according to this tradition, Umar thereby reconsecrated the site as a mosque.

Al-Aqsa Mosque is the second holiest site in Islam.


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

His jersey number 1 was retired by the Red Sox on May 21, 1988.

MLB playing career | All-Star seasons and the World Series

In 1941, Doerr was an All-Star, the first of nine times he was selected for the AL All-Star team.

Doerr missed the 1945 season while serving in the Army during World War II, being stationed at Camp Roberts, California.

A nine-time MLB All-Star, Doerr batted over .300 three times, drove in more than 100 runs six times, and set Red Sox team records in several statistical categories despite missing one season due to military service during World War II.

He was also the last living person who played in the major leagues during the 1930s, and the last living person who played against Lou Gehrig.

In 1939, Doerr began a string of 12 consecutive seasons with 10 or more home runs and 73 or more runs batted in (RBIs); in 1940 the Red Sox became the 12th team in major league history to have four players with 100 RBIs, with Foxx, Williams, Cronin and Doerr each collecting at least 105.

He became a scout for the Red Sox from 1957 to 1966, also serving as a minor league hitting instructor for the team for the last six seasons of that span.

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

Doerr held the major league record for career

Regarded as one of the top defensive second basemen of his era, Doerr led AL second basemen in double plays five times, tying a league record, in putouts and fielding percentage four times each, and in assists three times.

Doerr only played with 1 team during his MLB career.


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

In November 2017, the company expanded to Canada by announcing a partnership with Loblaw Companies to begin delivery from select Loblaw Companies, Real Canadian Superstore, and T&T Supermarket locations in Toronto and Vancouver.

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

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

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

Apoorva was born in India and moved with his family to Canada in 2000.

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

Instacart's main office is located in Canada.


Prokofiev died at the age of 61 on 5 March 1953, the same day as Joseph Stalin.

By now, his relationship with the 25-year-old writer and librettist Mira Mendelssohn (1915–1968) had finally led to his separation from his wife Lina, although they never divorced; indeed, Prokofiev had tried to persuade Lina and their sons to accompany him as evacuees out of Moscow, but Lina opted to stay.

Although they had not seemed to get along when they met, in the later years their interactions had become far more amicable, with Shostakovich writing to Prokofiev that "I wish you at least another hundred years to live and create.

Biography | Formal education and controversial early works

The first series of lessons culminated, at the 11-year-old Prokofiev's insistence, with the budding composer making his first attempt to write a symphony.

In spring 1949, he wrote his Cello Sonata in C, Op. 119, for the 22-year-old Mstislav Rostropovich, who gave the first performance in 1950, with Sviatoslav Richter.

Biography | Childhood and first compositions

His father, Sergei Alexeyevich Prokofiev, was an agronomist.

Prokofiev took two years to compose his original version of War and Peace.

Sergei Sergeyevich Prokofiev (; Russian: Сергей Сергеевич Прокофьев, tr.

Biography | First visits to the Soviet Union

If it is a Soviet factory, when and where did Prokofiev examine it, since from 1918 to the present he has been living abroad and came here for the first time in 1927 for two weeks [sic]?

During the war years, restrictions on style and the demand that composers write in a 'socialist realist' style were slackened, and Prokofiev was generally able to compose in his own way.

Listening to such works as your Seventh Symphony makes it much easier and more joyful to live.

Sergei Prokofiev lived to be 65 years old.


Kilgore's quote, "I love the smell of napalm in the morning", written by Milius, was number 12 on the AFI's 100 Years ... 100 Movie Quotes list and was also voted the greatest movie speech of all time in a 2004 poll.

He says the line "I love the smell of napalm in the morning" just came to him.

AFI's 100 Years...100 Movie Quotes: "I love the smell of napalm in the morning." –

Martin Sheen as Captain Benjamin L. Willard, a veteran U.S. Army special operations officer who has been serving in Vietnam for three years.

Part Deux, includes a brief scene in which Charlie is riding a boat up a river in Iraq while on a rescue mission and passes Martin, as Captain Willard, going the other way.

Willard learns via the dispatch that another MACV-SOG operative, Special Forces Captain Richard Colby, was sent on an earlier mission identical to Willard's and has since joined Kurtz.

"I loved you in Wall Street!", referring to the 1987 film that had featured both of them.

When Willard is first introduced to Dennis Hopper's character, the photojournalist describes his own worth in relation to that of Kurtz with: "I should have been a pair of ragged claws/Scuttling across the floors of silent seas", from "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock".

The squadron raids at dawn, with Kilgore ordering a napalm strike on the Viet Cong.

On May 14, Rona Barrett previewed the film on television on Good Morning America and called it "a disappointing failure".

Captain Willard loves the smell of napalm in the morning.


Ben-Hur was nominated for 12 Academy Awards and won an unprecedented 11.

Heston was nominated for a Golden Globe in the Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama category, but did not win.

It won a record eleven Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Director (Wyler), Best Actor in a Leading Role (Heston), Best Actor in a Supporting Role (Griffith), and Best Cinematography – Color (Surtees); it also won Golden Globe Awards for Best Motion Picture – Drama, Best Director, and Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture for Stephen Boyd.

Ben-Hur also won three Golden Globe Awards – Best Motion Picture – Drama, Best Director, Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture for Stephen Boyd – and received a Special Achievement Award (which went to Andrew Marton for directing the chariot race sequence).

Rózsa won his third Academy Award for his score.

The Ten Commandments, studio head Joseph Vogel announced in 1957 that MGM would again move forward on a remake of Ben-Hur.

The picture also won the BAFTA Award for Best Film, the New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Film, and the Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in a Motion Picture for William Wyler's masterful direction.

Ben-Hur won ten Golden Globes.


In early 1943, British POWs arrive by train at a Japanese prison camp in Burma.

The producers nearly suffered a catastrophe following the filming of the bridge explosion.

After Guinness was done with the scene, Lean said, "Now you can all fuck off and go home, you English actors.

" This is followed by a brief clip of Alec Guinness from the film.

The conditions to which POW and civilian labourers were subjected were far worse than the film depicted.

The official credit was given to Pierre Boulle (who did not speak English), and the resulting Oscar for Best Screenplay (Adaptation) was awarded to him.

"A 1969 BBC-TV documentary, Return to the River Kwai, made by former POW John Coast, sought to highlight the real history behind the film (partly through getting ex-POWs to question its factual basis, for example

As a result, Boulle, who did not speak English, was credited and received the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay; many years later, Foreman and Wilson posthumously received the Academy Award.

According to Variety, the film earned estimated domestic box office revenues of $18,000,000 although this was revised downwards the following year to $15,000,000, which was still the biggest for 1958 and Columbia's highest-grossing film at the time.

Shears, who is a British commando officer like Warden in the novel, became an American sailor who escapes from the POW camp.

This film follows the experiences of English POWs.


She has eight older half-siblings from her father's previous marriage.

Shakira Isabel Mebarak Ripoll (; Spanish: [ʃaˈkiɾa]; born 2 February 1977) is a Colombian singer, songwriter, record producer, dancer, actress,  and philanthropist.

Career | 2016–present: El Dorado and Super Bowl LIV

On 28 October 2016, Shakira released the single "Chantaje" with Colombian singer Maluma; though the song was a track from the upcoming eleventh studio album, it was not intended to be the lead single.

In addition, a journalist from the Brazilian edition of the Portuguese newspaper Destak announced, on his Twitter account, that the Colombian singer would visit Brazil the following March.

In May 2016, she collaborated with Colombian singer Carlos Vives on the track "La Bicicleta", which went to win the Latin Grammy Award for Record of the Year and Song of the Year.

Other ventures | Philanthropy and politics

In November 2010, after performing as the opening act of the MTV European Music Awards, the Colombian singer also received the MTV Free Your Mind award for her continuing dedication to improve access to education for all children around the world.

When Shakira was two years old, an older half-brother was killed in a motorcycle accident; six years later, at the age of eight, Shakira wrote her first song, titled "Tus gafas oscuras/

The singer credited this to her mixed ethnicity, saying: "I am a fusion.

In the same year, Shakira starred in the Colombian TV series The Oasis, loosely based on the Armero tragedy in 1985.

Career | 2005–2007: Fijación Oral, Volumen Uno and Oral Fixation, Volume Two

Shakira was also featured on Annie Lennox's song "Sing", from the album Songs of Mass Destruction, which also features other 23 other female singers.

In 1997, Shakira founded the Pies Descalzos Foundation, a Colombian charity with special schools for poor children all around Colombia.

The Colombian singer Shakira has eighteen brothers and sisters.


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

Baseball career | Chicago Cubs (1984-1986)

After the season, he checked himself into a rehabilitation clinic to treat alcoholism.

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

Eckersley married his first wife Denise in 1973 and they had a daughter, Mandee Eckersley.

Baseball career | Return to Red Sox (1998)

Eckersley announced his retirement in December 1998.

Baseball career | Cleveland Indians (1975-1977)

Eckersley pitched reliably over three seasons with the Indians.

Baseball career | Oakland Athletics (1987-1995)

Indeed, Eckersley started two games with the A's before an injury to

Two years later, Eckersley married model Nancy O'Neil.

Eckersley was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 2004, his first year of eligibility.

Baseball career | Boston Red Sox (1978-1984)

However, during the remainder of his tenure with Boston, from 1980 to 1984, Eckersley pitched poorly.

Dennis Eckersley is a recovering alcoholic.


There is widespread consensus that, although the book has no plot, it does have what can be called a framework, as indicated by the links between its beginning and end.

Canonisation and interpretation | Christianity

The literal subject of the Song of Songs is love and sexual longing between a man and a woman, and it has little (or nothing) to say about the relationship of God and man; in order to find such a meaning it was necessary to resort to allegory, treating the love that the Song celebrates as an analogy for the love between God and Church.

Canonisation and interpretation | Judaism

but God's love for Israel. For instance, the famed first and second century Rabbi Akiva forbade the use of the Song of Songs in popular celebrations.

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".

The superscription states that it is "Solomon's", but even if this is meant to identify the author, it cannot be read as strictly as a similar modern statement.

The Song of Songs: A Love Poem Illustrated presents a series of paintings that visualize the book.

The chorus of Stephen Duffy's 1985 song "Kiss Me" was based on the comparison of wine to love in Song of Songs.

In Carl Theodor Dreyer's Day of Wrath, a film about sexual repression in a puritanical Protestant family, the first few verses of Song of Songs chapter 2 are read aloud by the daughter Anne, but soon after her father forbids her to continue.

It was accepted as canonical because of its supposed authorship by Solomon and based on an allegorical reading where the subject-matter was taken to be not sexual desire

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

The Song of Solomon's main storyline or plot celebrates sexual love.


Hannah and Her Sisters was, for a long time, Allen's biggest box office hit (forgoing adjustment for inflation), with a North American gross of US$40 million.

The film won Academy Awards for Best Original Screenplay, Best Supporting Actor, and Best Supporting Actress.

Hannah and Her Sisters is a 1986 American comedy-drama film which tells the intertwined stories of an extended family over two years that begins and ends with a family Thanksgiving dinner.

The film was written and directed by Woody Allen, who stars along with Mia Farrow as Hannah, Michael Caine as her husband, and Barbara Hershey and Dianne Wiest as her sisters.

After borrowing money from Hannah, she starts a catering business with April, a friend and fellow actress.

They are the parents of Hannah and her two sisters, and still have acting careers of their own.

Hannah serves as the stalwart hub of the narrative; most of the events of the film connect to her.

A former cocaine addict, she is an unsuccessful actress who cannot settle on a career.

In both films, a large theatrical family gather for three successive years' celebrations (Thanksgiving in Allen's film, Christmas in Bergman's).

He also went on a disastrous date with Hannah's sister Holly, when they were set up after the divorce.

Hannah and Her Sisters is a 1986 American comedy-drama film grossed  $40 million in North America and won Academy Awards for Best Original Screenplay, Best Supporting Actor, and Best Supporting Actress.


Mirren attended Hamlet Court primary school in Westcliff-on-Sea, where she had the lead role in a school production of Hansel and Gretel, and St Bernard's High School for Girls in Southend-on-Sea, where she also acted in school productions.

The couple had met on the set of White Nights (1985).

Mirren's first film of the 2000s was Joel Hershman's Greenfingers (2000), a comedy based on the true story about the prisoners of HMP Leyhill, a minimum-security prison, who won gardening awards.

It received multiple awards and nominations, including a second Academy Award nomination and first Screen Actors Guild Award win for Mirren's portrayal of the sternly devoted head servant Mrs. Wilson.

Becoming Helen Mirren. Troubador Press.

It is her first marriage and his third (he has two children from his previous marriages).

The HBO film focuses on the relationship between Spector and his defense attorney Linda Kenney Baden, played by Mirren, during the first of his two murder trials for the 2003 death of Lana Clarkson in his California mansion.

Other more recent appearances include The Clearing, Pride, Raising Helen, and Shadowboxer.

After the birth of Helen, Basil left the orchestra and returned to cab driving in order to support the family.

I do believe in naturism and am my happiest on a nude beach with people of all ages and races!" Mirren, Helen (2011).

Reviewing for The Stage, John Thaxter wrote: "Sumptuously illustrated, at first sight it looks like another of those photo albums of the stars.

Helen Mirren's first play was Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs when she was a kid.


Historically, the club had a significant Jewish following from the Jewish communities in east and north London, with around a third of its supporters estimated to be Jewish in the 1930s.

Tottenham has a large fanbase in the United Kingdom, drawn largely from North London and the Home counties.

Tottenham Hotspur Ladies will change their name to Tottenham Hotspur Women for the 2019–20 season.

History | Formation and early years (1882–1908)

Originally named Hotspur Football Club, the club was formed on 5 September 1882 by a group of schoolboys led by Bobby Buckle.

They started using the Tottenham Hotspur name for the 1991–92 season and played in the London and South East Women's Regional Football League (then fourth tier of the game).

May 2019 Tottenham Hotspur Ladies won promotion to the FA Women's Super League with a 1–1 draw at Aston Villa, which confirmed they would finish second in the Championship.

Following an announcement at the 2011 AGM, in January 2012 Tottenham Hotspur confirmed that the club had delisted its shares from the stock market, taking it into the private ownership of ENIC.

Stadia/playing grounds | Tottenham Hotspur Stadium

The new stadium is called Tottenham Hotspur Stadium while a naming-rights agreement is reached.

The club submitted a planning application in October 2009 but, following critical reactions to the plan, it was withdrawn in favour of a substantially revised planning application for the stadium and other associated developments.

Fans and institutions alike can now freely buy and trade shares in the company; a court ruling in 1935 involving the club (Berry and Stewart v Tottenham Hotspur FC Ltd) had  previously established a precedent in company law that the directors of a company can refuse the transfer of shares from a shareholder to another person.

Originally, Tottenham Hotspur FC had a large Christian following from Christian communities.


Bebey attended college in Douala, where he studied mathematics, before going to study broadcasting at the University of Paris.

Moving to the United States, he continued to study broadcasting at New York University.

Francis Bebey (15 July 1929 in Douala, Cameroon – 28 May 2001 in Paris, France) was a Cameroonian writer and composer.

The Grand Prix de la Mémoire is an award dedicated to major writers of contemporary Cameroonian literature who have died.

John Williams' piece "Hello Francis" is written as a tribute to Bebey: " The piece is based on the Makossa, a popular dance rhythm from Cameroon often used by Francis, and includes a quote from his piece

Francis Bebey was born in Douala, Cameroon, on 15 July 1929.

The flute part was played by Patrick Bebey, Francis Bebey's son.

In the early 1960s, Bebey moved to France and started work in the arts, establishing himself as a musician, sculptor, and writer.

With Love - Francis Bebey Works: 1963-1994, CD, Original Music, 1995

Fire's song, "Everything Now," features a flute part from "The Coffee Cola Song" by Francis Bebey.

Francis Bebey was awarded the Grand Prix de la Mémoire of the GPLA 2013 for his literary legacy.

Francis Bebey was a Cameroonian writer and composer that majored math in the U.S. at college.


At the West End's Royal Court Theatre in September 1975, she played the role of a rock star named Maggie in Teeth

Beginning in November 1975, Mirren played in West End repertory with the Lyric Theatre Company as Nina in The Seagull and Ella in Ben Travers's new farce

On 15 February 2013, at the West End's Gielgud Theatre she began a turn as Elizabeth II in the World Premiere of Peter Morgan's The Audience.

Sally Beauman reported, in her 1982 history of the RSC, that Mirren—while appearing in Nunn's Macbeth (1974), and in a letter to The Guardian newspaper—had sharply criticised both the National Theatre and the RSC for their lavish production expenditure, declaring it "unnecessary and destructive to the art of the Theatre," and adding, "The realms of truth, emotion and imagination reached for in acting a great play have become more and more remote, often totally unreachable across an abyss of costume and technicalities... " This started a big debate, and led to a question in parliament.

A further stage breakthrough came in 1994, in an Yvonne Arnaud Theatre production bound for the West End, when Bill Bryden cast her as Natalya Petrovna in Ivan Turgenev's A Month in the Country.

Becoming Helen Mirren. Troubador Press.

; she reprised the role the following year in a revival of the play at Wyndham's Theatre in May 1976.

Reviewing her portrayal for The Sunday Telegraph, Francis King wrote: "Miss Mirren never leaves it in doubt that even in her absences, this ardent, beautiful woman is the most important character of the story." In her performance as Moll Cutpurse in The Roaring Girl—at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre in January 1983, and at the Barbican Theatre in April 1983—she was described as having "swaggered through the action with radiant singularity of purpose, filling in areas of light and shade that even Thomas Middleton and Thomas Dekker omitted." – Michael Coveney, Financial Times, April 1983.After a relatively barren sojourn in the Hollywood Hills

The Bed Before Yesterday ("Mirren is stirringly voluptuous as the Harlowesque good-time girl": Michael Billington, The Guardian).

That same year she also won acclaim for her performance in the title role of John Webster's The Duchess of Malfi, a production of Manchester's Royal Exchange Theatre which was later transferred to The Roundhouse in Chalk Farm, London.

Helen Mirren got her start in acting at the West End Theatre.


Roth also directed the film-within-the-film, Nation's Pride, which used 300 extras.

Eli Roth was cast in the role instead.

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.

Director Enzo G. Castellari also makes a cameo appearance in the film at the movie premiere.

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.

Inglourious Basterds opened internationally at number one in 22 markets on 2,650 screens, making $27.49 million.

The role ultimately went to Austrian Christoph Waltz who, according to Tarantino, "gave me my movie" as he feared the part was "unplayable".

Bo Svenson, who starred in Castellari's The Inglorious Bastards, also has a small cameo in the film as a U.S. colonel in the Nation's Pride movie.

The film was nominated for six BAFTA Awards, including Best Director for Tarantino, winning only one award—Best Supporting Actor for Waltz.

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.

Eli Roth was cast in the role instead.

One of the actors in Inglourious Basterds was the writer of the movie within the movie.


From the Spanish Civil War to World War II | World War II

At the time Hitler did not want to risk damaging his relations with the new Vichy French government. (An oft-cited remark attributed to Hitler is that the German leader said that he would rather have some of his own teeth extracted than to have to personally deal further with Franco.) Franco had received important support from Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini during the Spanish Civil War, and he had signed the Anti-Comintern Pact.

Franco: A Personal and Political Biography (4th ed.).

From the Spanish Civil War to World War II | Military command

Franco personally guided military operations from this time until the end of the war.

This made Franco the only person interred in the Valley who did not die during the civil war.

Though barred by the Spanish government from being draped in the Spanish flag, Francisco Franco's grandson, also named Francisco Franco, draped his coffin in the nationalist flag.

He was baptised thirteen days later at the military church of San Francisco, with the baptismal name Francisco Paulino Hermenegildo Teódulo; Francisco for his paternal grandfather, Paulino for his godfather, Hermenegildo for his maternal grandmother and godmother, and Teódulo for the saint day of his birth.

Military career | Rif War and advancement through the ranks

To his father's chagrin, Francisco decided to try the Spanish Army.

In post-war Spain, Franco ruled with more power than any Spanish leader before or since and developed a cult of personality around his rule by founding the Movimiento Nacional.

Francisco Franco Bahamonde was born on 4 December 1892 in the Calle Frutos Saavedra in El Ferrol, Galicia.

Franco's parents married in 1890 in the Church of San Francisco in El Ferrol.

While Franco did not suffer any great abuse at his father's hand, he would never overcome his antipathy for his father and largely ignored him for the rest of his life; years after becoming dictator, Franco wrote a brief novel Raza under the pseudonym Jaime de Andrade, whose protagonist is believed by Stanley Payne to represent the idealised man Franco wished his father had been.

Francisco Franco was a personal friend of the infamous man with the tiny mustache in the 1940's.