The Quarrymen played a mix of rock and roll and skiffle, a type of popular music with jazz, blues and folk influences.

At the age of fifteen on 6 July 1957, McCartney met John Lennon and his band, the Quarrymen, at the St Peter's Church Hall fête in Woolton.

Soon afterwards, the members of the band invited McCartney to join as a rhythm guitarist, and he formed a close working relationship with Lennon.

By May 1960, the band had tried several names, including Johnny and the Moondogs, Beatals and the Silver Beetles.

Harrison joined in 1958 as lead guitarist, followed by Lennon's art school friend Stuart Sutcliffe on bass, in 1960.

They adopted the name the Beatles in August 1960 and recruited drummer Pete Best shortly before a five-engagement residency in Hamburg.

In March 1969, McCartney married his first wife, Linda Eastman, and in August, the couple had their first child, Mary, named after his late mother.

Later that year, ex-Moody Blues guitarist Denny Laine joined the McCartneys and Seiwell to form the band Wings.

McCartney has a younger brother named Michael and a stepsister named Ruth.

" In September 1971, the McCartneys' daughter Stella was born, named in honour of Linda's grandmothers, both of whom were named Stella.

McCartney first joined a band named the Quarrymen.


In the 1950s, he moved to Los Angeles and began working as a forklift operator.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Mackey 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.

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

Mackey was employed as a fork hoist driver in California after he stopped playing baseball.


At the estate, Lockwood's orphaned granddaughter Maisie overhears Mills and auctioneer Mr. Eversoll secretly planning to auction the captured dinosaurs on the black market.

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

Reception | Box office | United States and Canada

In December 2017, a survey from Fandango indicated that Fallen Kingdom was one of the most anticipated films of 2018.

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

Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom was released digitally on September 4, 2018, and on Blu-ray, DVD, Blu-ray 3D and 4K Blu-ray on September 18, 2018.

The idea of selling weaponized dinosaurs was also in the rejected draft, which Trevorrow had read while writing the first Jurassic World film.

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

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

Although motion capture was used in the previous film to depict Velociraptor, ILM determined after several tests the technology would not be adequate for depicting dinosaurs in Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom.

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

Initially, the film was to feature two Indoraptors, a white one and a black one, the latter of which would kill the former in what Bayona considered similar to Cain and Abel.

Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom is a 2018 American science fiction film about selling dinosaurs on the black market.


A two time World Series winner, he was elected to the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 1968 via the Veterans Committee.

" In 1999, he ranked number 89 on The Sporting News list of Baseball's Greatest Players, and was nominated as a finalist for the Major League Baseball All-Century Team.

I will never forget this. I will take this to my grave.

Goslin tried the shot put, and his throwing arm was never the same afterward.

Leon Allen "Goose" Goslin (October 16, 1900 - May 15, 1971) was an American professional baseball left fielder.

Goslin's years with the Browns and return to the Senators

Goslin led the team back to the World Series in 1933.

Goslin's difficulty in judging fly balls contributed to his nickname "Goose." Opposing players said Goslin resembled a bird flapping its wings when he ran after a ball with his arms waving.

The "G-Men" lead Detroit to the 1934 and 1935 World Series

Even though the Senators had made it to the World Series, the team was not making money.

However, one year during spring training, Goslin wandered to an adjacent field where a track and field team was working out.

That year, he won the American League batting crown with a career-high .379 batting average.

He won the AL batting title in 1928 with a .379 batting average which set a Washington Senators record.

Goose Goslin was never part of a team as they won baseball's largest tournament.


Maroon 5 is an American pop rock and funk pop band from Los Angeles, California.

History | 2007–2008: It Won't Be Soon Before Long

To support the album, the band performed on a six-date club tour in which it visited small venues in Boston, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Minneapolis, Miami and New York City in early June 2007.

History | 1994–2001: Kara's Flowers and the formation of Maroon 5

Three of the five members of the band started playing together at age 12.

On his joining the band, Valentine commented: "I became friends with them and we sort of started jamming together, it was very much like I was cheating on my band, we were having sort of an affair

History | 2002–2006: Songs About Jane and Dusick's departure

The first single, "Harder to Breathe", slowly started to pick up airplay which helped spur sales of the album.

hit single "Call Me Maybe" for most number of weeks in the number one spot on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in 2012.At the start of their Overexposed Tour in South America, Maroon 5 introduced the newest addition in the band to the audience: their old and close friend Sam Farrar on guitars, occasionally on the bass guitar, percussion, additional keyboards, backing vocals and providing samples and other special effects (using the MPC).

Maroon 5 played Live 8, in Philadelphia in 2005.

Maroon 5 has been a longtime supporter of Aid Still Required (ASR).

On September 6, 2007, Maroon 5 appeared for the Fashion Rocks 2007

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

Despite the name, Maroon 5 has now with seven members of the new lineup.

Maroon 5 supports the Bonnie J. Addario Lung Cancer Foundation.

Maroon 5 started in San Francisco.


Adaptations | Film, television and theatre

Pride and Prejudice has engendered numerous adaptations.

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

Egerton published the first edition of Pride and Prejudice in three hardcover volumes on 28 January 1813.

Noted critic and reviewer George Henry Lewes declared that he "would rather have written Pride and Prejudice, or Tom Jones, than any of the Waverley Novels".

In a 2008 survey of more than 15,000 Australian readers, Pride and Prejudice came first in a list of the 101 best books ever written.

However, whereas her first published novel, Sense and Sensibility was presented as being written "by a Lady," Pride and Prejudice was attributed to "the Author of Sense and Sensibility".

Pride and Prejudice and Poison, Pride and Prejudice and Secrets, Forced to Marry and The Rescue of Elizabeth Bennet.

no bonny beck". Austen for her part thought the "playfulness and epigrammaticism" of Pride and Prejudice was excessive, complaining in a letter to her sister Cassandra in 1813 that the novel lacked "shade" and should have had a chapter "of solemn specious nonsense, about something unconnected with the story; an essay on writing, a critique on Walter Scott or the history of Bounaparté".

Pride and Prejudice was first published in the United States in August 1832 as Elizabeth Bennet or, Pride and Prejudice.

Pride and Prejudice is hardly the exception.

Walter Scott wrote in his journal "Read again and for the third time at least, Miss Austen's very finely written novel of Pride and Prejudice.." The American scholar Claudia Johnson defended the novel from the criticism that it has an unrealistic fairy-tale quality.

Pride and Prejudice was written in 1813 and has since been modified.


Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (English:  chy-KOF-skee; Russian: Пётр Ильи́ч Чайко́вский, IPA: [pʲɵtr ɪlʲˈjitɕ tɕɪjˈkofskʲɪj] (listen); 7 May 1840 – 6 November 1893) was a Russian composer of the Romantic period.

With the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour nearing completion in Moscow in 1880, the 25th anniversary of the coronation of Alexander II in 1881, and the 1882 Moscow Arts and Industry Exhibition in the planning stage, Nikolai Rubinstein suggested that Tchaikovsky compose a grand commemorative piece.

Two musical works from this period stand out.

Within this outline, the focus centered on periodic alternation and juxtaposition.

Life | Civil service; pursuing music | Growing fame; budding opera composer

During the late 1860s, Tchaikovsky began to compose operas.

Other works of this period include the Variations on a Rococo Theme for cello and orchestra, the Third and Fourth Symphonies, the ballet Swan Lake, and the opera Eugene Onegin.

During this period, Tchaikovsky also began promoting Russian music as a conductor, In January 1887, he substituted, on short notice, at the Bolshoi Theater in Moscow for performances of his opera Cherevichki.

He sought the company of other men in his circle for extended periods, "associating openly and establishing professional connections with them".

Dürbach saved much of Tchaikovsky's work from this period, including his earliest known compositions, and became a source of several childhood anecdotes.

Between these projects, Tchaikovsky started to compose an opera called Mandragora, to a libretto by Sergei Rachinskii; the only music he completed was a short chorus of Flowers and Insects.

Tchaikovsky was a composer of the Industrial Revolution period.


A decade before the publication of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and the sequel Through the Looking-Glass, Carroll wrote the first stanza to what would become "Jabberwocky" while in Croft on Tees, close to Darlington, where he lived as a child.

"Jabberwocky" is a nonsense poem written by Lewis Carroll about the killing of a creature named "the Jabberwock".

A song called "Beware the Jabberwock" was written for Disney's Alice in Wonderland, however it was discarded, replaced with "'Twas Brillig", sung by the Cheshire Cat, that includes the first stanza of "Jabberwocky".

"The Jabberwocky" (rather than "The Jabberwock") is a central character in Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland (2010), voiced by Christopher Lee.

"Jabberwocky " is considered one of the greatest nonsense poems written in English.

The poem was a source of inspiration for Jan Švankmajer's 1971 short film Jabberwocky, and Terry Gilliam's 1977 film of the same name.

Lithe' is the same as 'active'.

It was included in his 1871 novel Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There, the sequel to Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865).

called a 'wa-be' because it "goes a long way before it, and a long way behind it".

In an early scene in which she first encounters the chess piece characters White King and White Queen, Alice finds a book written in a seemingly unintelligible language.

Full translations of "Jabberwocky" into French and German can be found in The Annotated Alice along with a discussion of why some translation decisions were made.

The poem Jabberwocky has a monster and was written by the same author of Alice in Wonderland.


In 1910, Addams was awarded an honorary master of arts degree from Yale University, becoming the first woman to receive an honorary degree from the school.

Jane Addams (September 6, 1860 – May 28, 1935) was an American settlement activist, reformer, social worker, sociologist, public administrator and author.

ACLU).In 1931, she became the first American woman to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, and is recognized as the founder of the social work profession in the United States.

She was a radical pragmatist and the first woman "public philosopher" in the United States.

In the Progressive Era, when presidents such as Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson identified themselves as reformers and social activists, Addams was one of the most prominent reformers.

When Addams died in 1935, she was the best-known female public figure in the United States.

Addams led the "garbage wars"; in 1894 she became the first woman appointed as sanitary inspector of Chicago's 19th Ward.

She worked with American philosopher, George H. Mead, and John Dewey on social reform issues, including promoting women's rights, ending child labor, and mediating during the 1910 Garment Workers' Strike.

During the Great Depression, Boyd worked with the Recreational Project in the Works Progress Administration, (WPA) as The Chicago Training School for Playground Workers, which subsequently became the foundation for the Recreational Therapy and Educational Drama movements in the U.S.

Chicago activist Jan Lisa Huttner traveled throughout Illinois as Director of International Relations for AAUW-Illinois to help publicize the date, and later gave annual presentations about Jane Addams Day in costume as Jane Addams.

Jane Addams (September 6, 1860 – May 28, 1935) was an American settlement activist, reformer, social worker, sociologist, public administrator and author who became the first woman to receive an honorary degree from Yale.


Usage | Vehicular traffic | Exits and entrances

There are two entrances to the bridge's pedestrian promenade on either side.

A center line was painted to separate cyclists from pedestrians in 1971, creating one of the city's first dedicated bike lanes.

Pedestrian and bicycle access to the bridge from the Brooklyn side is from either the median of Adams Street at its intersection with Tillary Street or a staircase near Prospect Street between Cadman Plaza East and West.

The anchorages both have four anchor plates, one for each of the main cables, which are located near ground level and parallel to the ground.

Vehicular access to the bridge is provided by a complex series of ramps on both sides of the bridge.

In Manhattan, the pedestrian walkway is accessible from crosswalks at the intersection of the bridge and Centre Street, or through a staircase leading to Park Row.

Initially, the northern side of the promenade was used by pedestrians and the southern side by cyclists.

In 2000, these were swapped, with cyclists taking the northern side and pedestrians taking the southern side.

Pedestrians also walked across the bridge as an alternative to suspended subway services following the 1965, 1977, and 2003 blackouts, and after the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center.

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

The pedestrians can access to four walking lanes of the Brooklyn Bridge on each side.


Career | 1997–2003: Stardom with Titanic and small-scale features

She almost drowned, caught influenza, suffered from hypothermia, and had bruises on her arms and knees.

Winslet's third film release of 2001 was the animated film Christmas Carol: The Movie, based on Charles Dickens' novel.

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

She performed the song " What If" for the soundtrack of her film Christmas Carol: The Movie (2001).

Early life and initial stage and television roles

Kate Elizabeth Winslet was born on 5 October 1975 in Reading, Berkshire, England, to Sally Anne (née Bridges) and Roger John Winslet.

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

A short part that she had filmed four years earlier for the anthology film Movie 43 was her sole screen appearance of 2012, and it received the worst reviews of her career.

Winslet did not view Titanic as a platform for bigger salaries.

Winslet was keen on playing Rose DeWitt Bukater, a socialite aboard the ill-fated RMS Titanic, in James Cameron's epic romance Titanic (1997).

A journalist for Elle believes her choices reflect the "soul and attitude of a jobbing actress, trapped in the body of a movie star".

Against expectations, Titanic went on to become the highest-grossing film of all time to that point, earning over US$2 billion in box-office receipts worldwide, and established Winslet as a global star.

Hideous Kinky, a low-budget drama shot before the release of Titanic, was Winslet's sole film release of 1998.

Kate Winslet had the flu while filming the movie Titanic.


In nova fert animus mutatas dicere formas / corpora; Metamorphosis or transformation is a unifying theme amongst the episodes of the Metamorphoses.

The Metamorphoses (Latin: Metamorphōseōn librī: "Books of Transformations") is an 8 AD Latin narrative poem by the Roman poet Ovid, considered his magnum opus.

The ending acts as a declaration that everything except his poetry—even Rome—must give way to change: The different genres and divisions in the narrative allow the Metamorphoses to display a wide range of themes.

Scholar Stephen M. Wheeler notes that "metamorphosis, mutability, love, violence, artistry, and power are just some of the unifying themes that critics have proposed over the years".

Accompanying this theme is often violence, inflicted upon a victim whose transformation becomes part of the natural landscape.

Ovid raises its significance explicitly in the opening lines of the poem: In nova fert animus

The metamorphoses themselves are often located metatextually within the poem, through grammatical or narratorial transformations.

This theme amalgamates the much-explored opposition between the hunter and the hunted and the thematic tension between art and nature.

The Metamorphoses ends with an epilogue (Book XV.871–9), one of only two surviving Latin epics to do so (the other being Statius' Thebaid).

The model for a collection of metamorphosis myths derived from a pre-existing genre of metamorphosis poetry in the Hellenistic tradition, of which the earliest known example is Boio(s)' Ornithogonia—a now-fragmentary poem collecting myths about the metamorphoses of humans into birds.

Metamorphosis is a theme in the the Latin narrative poem.


Johnston also introduced Puyi to the telephone, which Puyi soon became addicted to, phoning people in Beijing at random just to hear their voices on the other end.

Biography | Puppet ruler of Manchukuo (1932–1945)

Puyi had known of what was being planned for Wanrong's baby, and in what Behr called a supreme act of "cowardice" on his part, "did nothing".

Behr wrote:  The more fulsome, cliché-ridden chapters in From Emperor to Citizen, dealing with Puyi's prison experiences, and written at the height of the Mao personality cult, give the impression of well-learned, regurgitated lessons.

He tried very hard to be modest and humble, always being the last person to board a bus, which meant that he frequently missed the ride, and in restaurants would tell waitresses, "You should not be serving me.

Biography | Emperor of China (1908–1912)

Puyi was frightened by the scene before him and the deafening sounds of ceremonial drums and music, and started crying.

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

At one point, Puyi was taken to Harbin and Pingfang to see where the infamous Unit 731, the chemical and biological warfare unit in the Japanese Army, had conducted gruesome experiments on people.

After applying to the Chinese authorities for a divorce, the government responded on her next prison visit by showing her to a room with a double bed and ordered her to reconcile with Puyi, and she said the couple obeyed the order.

Puyi liked Li, but his main interest continued to be his pageboys, as he later wrote: "These actions of mine go to show how cruel, mad, violent and unstable I was."For

Puyi was the weakest and most hapless of the prisoners, and was often bullied by the other prisoners, who liked to humiliate the emperor, and he might not have survived his imprisonment had the warden Jin Yuan not gone out of his way to protect him.

He resented being "Head of State" and then "Emperor of Manchukuo" rather than being fully restored as a Qing Emperor.

Puyi would call arbitrary persons in order to be able to experience what they sound like.


The winning farmer, Arthur Hoggett, brings him home and allows him to stay with a Border Collie named Fly, her mate Rex and their puppies, in the barn.

Babe, an orphaned piglet, is chosen for a "guess the weight" contest at a county fair.

One morning, Babe is awakened by the sheep's cries and finds three dogs attacking them.

Rex is then chained to the dog house, muzzled and sedated, leaving the sheep herding job to Babe.

It is an adaptation of Dick King-Smith's 1983 novel The Sheep-Pig, also known as Babe: The Gallant Pig in the US, which tells the story of a pig raised as livestock who wants to do the work of a sheepdog.

After seven years of development, Babe was filmed in Robertson, New South Wales, Australia.

In 2006, the American Film Institute named Babe #80 on its list of America's Most Inspiring Movies.

The next day, Hoggett sees Babe sort

48 different pigs were used for the part of Babe.

While he sits down next to the farmer, Hoggett praises him with the standard command to sheep dogs that their job is done, "That'll do, Pig.

Babe is almost chosen for Christmas dinner, but a duck is picked instead after Hoggett remarks to his wife Esme that Babe may bring a prize for ham at the next county fair.

Hoggett arrives and, thinking that Babe killed her, prepares to shoot him.

In the film Babe, Babe is raised by dogs.


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

It took place approximately 7 miles (11 kilometres) northwest of Hastings, close to the present-day town of Battle, East Sussex, and was a decisive Norman victory.

The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle called it the battle "at the hoary apple tree".

The battle was already being referred to as "bellum Hasestingas" or "Battle of Hastings" by 1086, in the Domesday Book.

Harold moves south | English forces at Hastings

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

The name traditionally given to the battle is unusual – there were several settlements much closer to the battlefield than Hastings.

William's preparations and landing | Norman forces at Hastings

the Conqueror are extant, but most are padded with extra names; only about 35 named individuals can be reliably identified as having been with William at Hastings.

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.

Some historians have argued that the story of the use of feigned flight as a deliberate tactic was invented after the battle; however most historians agree that it was used by the Normans at Hastings.

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

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

The Battle of Hastings was won by the Saxons.


The Spanish authorities confiscated Pike's journals, which were not recovered by the United States from Mexico until the 1900s.

Pike's was the second expedition dispatched by the government into its new territory, and the first to return.

In some eastern regions of North America a tradition or legend pervades often referred to as The Lost City of Palanor or Zebulon's Amulet which has been attributed to Pike's journals.

For example, he described the politics in Chihuahua, which led to the Mexican independence movement, and described trade conditions in the Spanish territories of New Mexico and Chihuahua, which contributed to development of the Santa Fe Trail.

In 1796 Pike shadowed the expedition of General Georges Henri Victor Collot, a French officer who had been tasked to tour the Mississippi frontier and draw maps that France might use if it were to try and seize this lightly settled territory from the nascent USA.

The Mexican government seized Zebulon's diaries.


Newman practised no religion as an adult, but described himself as a Jew, saying "it's more of a challenge".

Newman was born January 26, 1925, in Shaker Heights, Ohio, the second son of Theresa Garth (née Fetzer, Fetzko, or Fetsko; Slovak: Terézia Fecková; 1894–1982) and Arthur Sigmund Newman Sr. (1893–1950), who ran a sporting goods store.

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

While not in the second film Cars 2 (2011), his voice was later used in the third film, (which was done through the use of archive recordings) Cars 3 (2017), for which he received billing, almost nine years after his death.

A. E. Hotchner, who partnered in the 1980s with Newman to start Newman's Own, told the Associated Press in an interview in mid-2008 that Newman had told him about being afflicted with the disease about 18 months earlier.

two daughters, Susan (born 1953) and Stephanie Kendall (born 1954).

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

In June 2008, it was widely reported in the press that he had been diagnosed with lung cancer and was receiving treatment for the condition at the Sloan-Kettering hospital in New York City.

Newman's spokesman told the press that the star was "doing nicely", but neither confirmed nor denied that he had cancer.

The actor was a heavy cigarette smoker until he quit in 1986.Newman

Newman was a shaker born in the Pennsylvania Amish country with parents who exercised a religion that didn't believe in using modern medicine in times of illness before their death.


Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (English:  chy-KOF-skee; Russian: Пётр Ильи́ч Чайко́вский, IPA: [pʲɵtr ɪlʲˈjitɕ tɕɪjˈkofskʲɪj] (listen); 7 May 1840 – 6 November 1893) was a Russian composer of the Romantic period.

His first love was reportedly Sergey Kireyev, a younger fellow student at the Imperial School of Jurisprudence.

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky was born in Votkinsk, a small town in Vyatka Governorate (present-day Udmurtia) in the Russian Empire, into a family with a long history of military service.

According to Modest Tchaikovsky, this was Pyotr Ilyich's "strongest, longest and purest love".

According to musicologist Leonid Sabaneyev, Tchaikovsky was not comfortable with being recorded for posterity and tried to shy away from it.

Tchaikovsky also used the polonaise frequently, the dance being a musical code for the Romanov dynasty and a symbol of Russian patriotism.

Music | Reception | Dedicatees and collaborators

Tchaikovsky's relationship with collaborators was mixed.

"Tchaikovsky is being viewed again as a composer of the first rank, writing music of depth, innovation and influence," according to cultural historian and author Joseph Horowitz.

Life | Belyayev circle and growing reputation

This relationship lasted until Tchaikovsky's death.

His grandfather, Pyotr Fedorovich Tchaikovsky (né Petro Fedorovych Chaika), was born in the village of Mikolayivka, Poltava Gubernia, Russian Empire (present day Ukraine), and served first as a physician's assistant in the army and later as city governor of Glazov in Vyatka.

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky was a Czechoslovakian writer that was reported to be in a relationship with Sergey Kireyev.


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.

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

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

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

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

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

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


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

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

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

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

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

"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.

Kelly also became a vaudeville performer during his playing career, first performing in Boston where he would recite the now-famous baseball poem "Casey at the Bat", sometimes butchering it.

By 1873, the fifteen-year-old Kelly was good enough to be invited to play baseball on Blondie Purcell's amateur team in Paterson, which played teams throughout the New York metro area, including the Brooklyn Atlantics from the National Association.

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

Mike has a great many friends in every town where baseball is played and it will be bad policy on the magnates' [owners'] part to retire him from the game which he has adorned so long.

King Kelly played all baseball positions.


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

More complex alcohols are pervasive, as manifested in sugars, some amino acids, and fatty acids.

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

In the gas phase, alcohols are more acidic than in water.

an alcohol is deoxygenated to an alkane with tributyltin hydride or a trimethylborane-water complex in a radical substitution reaction.

Owing to the presence of the polar OH alcohols are more water-soluble than simple hydrocarbons.

Methanol and ethanol are less acutely toxic.

In this way methanol will be excreted intact in urine.

Methanol, ethanol, and propanol are miscible in water.

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

Production | Biological routes | Hydrolysis

The hydroboration-oxidation and oxymercuration-reduction of alkenes are more reliable in organic synthesis.

The more complex main alcohol is methanol.


"To His Coy Mistress" is a Cavalier poem written by the English author and politician Andrew Marvell (1621–1678) either during or just before the English Interregnum (1649–60).

The poem is written in iambic tetrameter and rhymes in couplets.

Although the date of its composition is not known, it may have been written in the early 1650s.

He could spend centuries admiring each part of her body and her resistance to his advances (i.e., coyness) would not discourage him.

The most famous is Robert Penn Warren's 1950 novel World Enough and Time: A Romantic Novel, about murder in early-19th-century Kentucky.

It was published posthumously in 1681.This poem is considered one of Marvell's finest and is possibly the best recognized carpe diem poem in English.

Some critics believe the poem is an ironic statement on sexual seduction.

The logical form of the poem runs: if... but... therefore.... Until recently, "To His Coy Mistress" had been received by many as a poem that follows the traditional conventions of carpe diem love poetry.

They reject the idea that Marvell's poem carries a serious and solemn mood.

In his poem, the speaker, lying on the ground at sunset, feels "the rising of the night".

The poem was written in the mid seventeenth century.


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.

ByteDance Ltd. (Chinese: 字节跳动; pinyin: Zìjié Tiàodòng) is a Chinese multinational internet technology company headquartered in Beijing.

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

As of November 2018, ByteDance had over 800 million daily active users (over 1 billion accumulated users) across all of its content platforms.

On November 9, 2017, ByteDance acquired social media start-up Musical.ly for up to US$1 billion.

In April 2020, the Cyberspace Administration of China ordered ByteDance to take down its office collaboration tool called Feishu because it could be used to circumvent internet censorship.

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.

Since 1 June 2020, Mayer has been serving as the CEO of TikTok and the COO of ByteDance, reporting directly to the company CEO Zhang Yiming.

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.

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

ByteDance is an Asian company that is headquartered in China and is valued over a billion dollars.


Sutton appeared as a celebrity panelist on several occasions on Match Game between 1976 and 1981.

Sutton was selected to the Major League Baseball All-Star Game four times in the 1970s.

Sutton ultimately reported to Oakland 12 days late for spring training.

Late in the 1982 season, the Astros sent Sutton to the Milwaukee Brewers for Kevin Bass, Frank DiPino and Mike Madden.

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

He won a total of 324 games, 58 of them shutouts with five of them one-hitters and 10 two-hitters, seven which were shutouts, and he is seventh on baseball's all-time strikeout list with 3,574.

In 1997, Sutton appeared on the National Baseball Hall of Fame ballot for the fourth time.

Sutton holds another record: seven times in his career, he pitched nine scoreless innings but got a no-decision.

After the baseball strike interrupted the season, Sutton returned with seven wins and one loss.

They lost the 1974 World Series four games to one, with Sutton earning the only win for the team.

During his time in Los Angeles, he set a team record for career wins.

Sutton was a guest on a popular game-show from the late 1970s a few times.


In 1871, he became the first president of the National Rifle Association, holding the office until 1872.

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

He refused this opportunity because of his loyalty to McClellan and the fact that he understood his own lack of military experience, and detached part of his corps in support of Maj.

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

The participants were vessels of the United States Navy's North Atlantic Blockading Squadron opposed by vessels of the Confederate Navy's Mosquito Fleet; the latter were supported by a shore-based battery of four guns at Cobb's Point (now called Cobb Point) near the southeastern border of the town.

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

Burnside, Wisconsin is named for the general.

After leaving the Regular Army, Burnside devoted his time and energy to the manufacture of the famous firearm that bears his name: the Burnside carbine.

Bruce Catton summarized Burnside: ... Burnside had repeatedly demonstrated that it had been a military tragedy to give him a rank higher than colonel.

Gen. Joseph Hooker, whom Burnside disliked.

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

Ambrose Burnside supported the NRA.


Her intended target was Whammer, but after Hobbs struck him out, her attention shifts to Hobbs.

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

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

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

Hobbs remains quiet even after Mercy offers five thousand dollars, telling him that, "all the public is entitled to is my best game of baseball.

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

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

Iris tells Roy that she is pregnant with his child, and now he is determined to do his best for their future.

Hobbs dismisses the warning, but soon after, he falls into a hitting slump.

Pop is disappointed with Baily, who has not been hustling and decides to teach him a lesson by pinch-hitting for him.

A part of the plot for the novel, The Natural, the protagonist gets hit by a bullet because he struck out the best player in baseball.


In 1979, Sergio Rapu Haoa and a team of archaeologists discovered that the hemispherical or deep elliptical eye sockets were designed to hold coral eyes with either black obsidian or red scoria pupils.

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.

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

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

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

Easter Island statues are known for their large, broad noses and strong chins, along with rectangle-shaped ears and deep eye slits.

The EISP (Easter Island Statue Project) conducted research and documentation on many of the moʻai on Rapa Nui and the artifacts held in museums overseas.

If correct, it can be inferred that the fallen road moʻai were the result of the teams of balancers being unable to keep the statue upright, and it was presumably not possible to lift the statues again once knocked over.

Subsequently, previously uncategorized finds in the Easter Island museum were re-examined and recategorized as eye fragments.

Despite the early end to the experiment, Thor Heyerdahl estimated that this method for a 20-tonne statue over Easter Island terrain would allow 320 feet (100 m) per day.

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

The Moai statues of Easter Island were designed so that coconuts could be inserted to serve as eyeballs.


"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 song has since become a jazz standard, having been recorded by Grant Green, Fats Waller, Archie Shepp, Hampton Hawes and many others.

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).

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

Let My People Go: The Song of the Contrabands", and arranged by Horace Waters.

Going "down" to Egypt is derived from the Bible; the Old Testament recognizes the Nile Valley as lower than Jerusalem and the Promised Land; thus, going to Egypt means going "down" while going away from Egypt

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

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

The phrase Go Down Moses" comes from Exodus but can be found in many songs.


It was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Score, Greenwood's first Oscar nomination.

The subsequent weekend, following the announcement of its six Oscar nominations, and having added an additional 125 theaters, the film grossed $2.9 million.

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

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

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

On review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, the film has an approval rating of 91% based on 338 reviews, with an average rating of 8.48/10.

That was a big thing. When people think of a period movie it becomes this beautifully polished, amazingly photographed—I mean, The Crown looks beautiful—but super clean, gorgeous light, and he was clear it couldn't look like that." The soundtrack was composed by Jonny Greenwood, who had previously worked with Anderson on the soundtracks for

The website's critical consensus reads, "Phantom Thread's finely woven narrative is filled out nicely by humor, intoxicating romantic tension, and yet another impressively committed performance from Daniel Day-Lewis.

"The A.V. Club's A. A. Dowd gave the film an A−, calling it a "charitable and even poignantly hopeful take on the subject [of being in a relationship with an artist]" and said that "in the simple, refined timelessness of its technique, Phantom Thread is practically a love letter to classic aesthetic values—cinematic, sartorial, or otherwise." Observer critic Mark Kermode gave the film five stars, describing it as "a deftly spun yarn," and praised Daniel Day-Lewis' performance, calling his role as a "perfect fit [in a] beautifully realised tale of 50s haute couture.

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

The film received acclaim for its acting, screenplay, direction, musical score, costume design, and production values.

The soundtrack received an Oscar nod and Phantom Thread got many other nods after 2017 critical reviews.


Babe is a 1995 comedy-drama film directed by Chris Noonan, produced by George Miller, written by both, narrated by Roscoe Lee Browne, and starring James Cromwell and Magda Szubanski with the voices of Christine Cavanaugh, Miriam Margolyes, Hugo Weaving, and Danny Mann.

The film was both a box office and critical success, grossing $254 million worldwide and earning seven Oscar nominations, including a win for Best Visual Effects.

The ruling was overturned almost a year later and the film was released direct-to-video.

The film was a box office success, grossing $36.7 million at the box office in Australia and over $254 million worldwide.

In 1998, a sequel directed by Miller, Babe: Pig in the City, was released.

After seven years of development, Babe was filmed in Robertson, New South Wales, Australia.

In 2006, the American Film Institute named Babe #80 on its list of America's Most Inspiring Movies.

Musical or Comedy and the Saturn Award for Best Fantasy Film.

The film had a marked effect on the growth of vegetarianism, particularly among the young.

At the APRA Music Awards of 1996 it won Best Film Score for Westlake's work.

Babe is a comedy-drama film directed and was successful.


Critical response | Early reviews (1847–1848)

Early reviews of Wuthering Heights were mixed in their assessment.

Among other influences was the Romantic movement that includes the Gothic novel, the novels of Walter Scott, and the poetry of Byron.

Other European languages do not distinguish between romance and novel: "a novel is le roman, der Roman, il romanzo, en roman".

Emily Bronte's approach to the novel form was influenced, in addition to Scott, especially by the Gothic novel, and, in what is usually considered the first gothic novel, The Castle of Otranto (1764) Horace Walpole's declared aim was to combine elements of the medieval romance, which he deemed too fanciful, and the modern novel, which he considered to be too confined to strict realism.

Scott describes romance as a "kindred term" to novel.

References in culture | Works inspired by | Music

Both titles refer to the closing lines in the novel.

References in culture | Adaptations | Literature

In 2011, a graphic novel version was published by Classical Comics.

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

He speaks a broad Yorkshire dialect and hates nearly everyone in the novel.

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

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

The novel recived varied feeback in the intial evaluations.


The Bridge on the River Kwai is a 1957 adventure epic war film directed by David Lean and based on the 1952 novel written by Pierre Boulle.

"Variety gave high praise for the movie saying that it is "a gripping drama, expertly put together and handled with skill in all departments.

The documentary itself was described by one newspaper reviewer when it was shown on Boxing Day 1974 (The Bridge on the River Kwai had been shown on BBC1 on Christmas Day 1974) as "Following the movie, this is a rerun of the antidote.

It has been included on the American Film Institute's list of best American films ever made.

The Bridge on the River Kwai was a massive commercial success.

Ebert notes that the film is one of the few war movies that "focuses not on larger rights and wrongs but on individuals", but commented that the viewer is not certain what is intended by the final dialogue due to the film's shifting points of view.

Warren Buffett said it was his favorite movie.

American Film Institute lists:  1998 — AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies — #13 2001 — AFI's 100 Years... 100 Thrills — #58 2006 — AFI's 100 Years... 100 Cheers — #14 2007 — AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies (10th Anniversary Edition) —

In 1997, the film was deemed "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant" and selected for preservation in the National Film Registry by the United States Library of Congress.

His workers are building a small bridge in his garden that greatly resembles the one in that film and whistling the familiar Colonel Bogey March.

The Bridge on the River Kwaia is an American romantic drama movie written by Robert James Waller in 1997.


In the 1980s, decrying the existence of two German states and two Berlins, West Berlin mayor Richard von Weizsäcker said: "The German question is open as long as the Brandenburg Gate is closed." On 12 June 1987, U.S. President Ronald Reagan spoke to the West Berlin populace at the Brandenburg Gate, demanding the razing of the Berlin Wall.

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

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

another being the Academy of Fine Arts).

During 1990, the quadriga was removed from the gate as part of renovation work carried out by the East German authorities following the fall of the wall in November 1989.

After the 1806 Prussian defeat at the Battle of Jena-Auerstedt, Napoleon was the first to use the Brandenburg Gate for a triumphal procession, and took its Quadriga to Paris.

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

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

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

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

U.S. President Roanld Regan gave a historic speech at Brandenburg Gate wanting the Berli Wall to be removed.


Richard Milhous Nixon (January 9, 1913 – April 22, 1994) was the 37th president of the United States, serving from 1969 until 1974.

Presidency (1969–1974) | Reelection, Watergate scandal, and resignation | Resignation

In light of his loss of political support and the near-certainty that he would be impeached and removed from office, Nixon resigned the presidency on August 9, 1974, after addressing the nation on television the previous evening.

Rising politician | 1960 and 1962 elections; wilderness years

The campaign was clouded by public suspicion that Nixon viewed the office as a stepping stone for another presidential run, some opposition from the far-right of the party, and his own lack of interest in being California's governor.

Presidency (1969–1974) | Foreign policy | Latin American policy

On taking office in 1969, he stepped up covert operations against Cuba and its president, Fidel Castro.

Post-presidency (1974–1994) | Author and elder statesman

In 1978, Nixon published his memoirs, RN: The Memoirs of Richard Nixon, the first of ten books

Post-presidency (1974–1994) | Return to public life

Nixon admitted he had "let down the country" and that "I brought myself down.

Presidency (1969–1974) | Foreign policy | China

Upon touching down, the President and First Lady emerged from Air Force One and greeted Chinese Premier Zhou Enlai.

Presidency (1969–1974) | Reelection, Watergate scandal, and resignation | Watergate

Rhodes told Nixon he faced certain impeachment in the House.

These hearings culminated in votes for impeachment.

Presidency (1969–1974) | Foreign policy | Middle Eastern policy

Brezhnev backed down as a result of Nixon's actions.

Nixon biographer Conrad Black described him as being "driven" though also "uneasy with himself in some ways".

Richard Nixon was the first president to be impeached while in office if he had not stepped down.


In 2006, a six-tonne, 16-foot tall statue of Shakira designed by the German artist Dieter Patt was installed in Shakira's hometown Barranquilla in  the park near Estadio Metropolitano Roberto Meléndez, where Shakira performed during her Oral Fixation Tour.

Shakira is the first artist to perform three times at the FIFA World Cup.

In 2014, Shakira became the first musical act to perform three times at the FIFA World Cup.

In July 2018 Shakira visited Tannourine in Lebanon which is the village of her paternal grandmother.

Shakira gave birth to their second son Sasha on 29 January 2015.

In 2015 Time recognized Shakira as one of the most influential people on social media.

It was played 9,637 times in one week.

Her unprecedented crossover has inspired other Latin American artists to attempt crossing over, one example is Mexican pop star Paulina Rubio, having MTV saying "there's no question that Shakira opened doors in this country for artists like Rubio to succeed." After the crossover, her global and mainstream presence became big enough for Time magazine to call Shakira a "pop legend.

Shakira gave birth to the couple's first son Milan on 22 January 2013 in Barcelona, Spain, where the family had taken up residence.

Career | 2010–2015: Sale el Sol and Shakira

The album spawned three singles.

There is not a monument of Shakira, about three times as big as the real one, erected in her birth town. That would be weird.


On December 27, 1981, at age 82, Carmichael died of  Heart attack at the Eisenhower Medical Center in Rancho Mirage, California.

" Some fans were dismayed as he steadily veered away from "hot" jazz, but Armstrong's recordings continued to "jazz up" Carmichael's popular songs.

He joined an Indianapolis law firm (Bingham, Mendenhall and Bingham) and passed the Indiana bar, but devoted most of his energies to music.

As he passed his 70th birthday, Carmichael's star continued to wane and was nearly forgotten in a world dominated by rock music.

His contribution to the war effort was similar to other patriotic efforts by Irving Berlin ("This Is the Army, Mr. Brown"), Johnny Mercer ("G.I. Jive"), and Frank Loesser ("Praise the Lord and Pass the Ammunition").

Honors and tributes | In popular culture

However, Fleming and Carmichael also shared a resemblance.

In 1910, the Carmichaels were living in Missoula, Montana.

Carmichael also continued to write individual songs.

It became a hit song, the first of many for Carmichael.

Carmichael found work as a character actor in Hollywood.

Carmichael sang and played "Rockin' Chair" on the piano.

Carmichael passed away in 1982.


He was of Pennsylvania Dutch (German) and Scots-Irish ancestry, although his maternal grandmother was Jewish.

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.

Kiner is survived by ex-wife, Ann Benisch, and also by sons Ralph and Scott; daughters, Kathryn Chaffee Freeman, Tracee Kiner Jansen and Kimberlee Kiner; and 12 grandchildren.

Ralph McPherran Kiner (October 27, 1922 – February 6, 2014) was an American Major League Baseball player and broadcaster.

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

On February 21, 2014, an online Twitter petition was started to rename Citi Field Sections 132–134 as Kiner's Korner, to commemorate the 52-year Mets career of Ralph Kiner.

Kiner was also the only player voted in that year.

Kiner also matched his peak of 127 RBIs.

On that night, fans were given photos of Kiner.

Ralph Kiner had English roots.


Created by artist/co-writer Jack Kirby and writer Stan Lee, the characters first appeared in The X-Men #1 (September 1963) and formed one of the most recognizable and successful franchises of Marvel Comics, appearing in numerous books, television shows, films, and video games.

co-creator Stan Lee wanted to create another group of superheroes but did not want to have to explain how they got their powers.

received their own comic book series.

Publication history | Blue and Gold (1991–2001)

The first issues of the second X-Men series were written by Claremont and drawn and co-plotted by Jim Lee.

Publication history | Morrison Era (2001–2004)

He was later removed from the titles in 2001 and created his spin-off series, X-Treme X-Men.

Lee devised the series title after Marvel publisher Martin Goodman turned down the initial name, "The Mutants," stating that readers would not know what a "mutant" was.

The X-Men exist in the Marvel Universe along with other characters featured in Marvel Comics series and often interact with them.

In the comics series, gay and bisexual characters include Anole, Bling!, Destiny, Karma, Mystique, Psylocke, Courier, Northstar (whose marriage was depicted in the comics in 2012), Graymalkin, Rictor, Shatterstar, Shade, the Ultimate version of Colossus and later Iceman after revealing that he is a mutant; the comics version of the character was then revealed to be gay in 2015.

In 2004, Lee recalled, "I couldn't have everybody bitten by a radioactive spider or exposed to a gamma ray explosion.

Created and reverted via time travel.

The X-men is a series of comics created by Steve Ditko with Stan Lee.


He was cremated and his ashes were placed in the columbarium at Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris.

Dukas was born in Paris, the second son in a Jewish family of three children.

Paul Abraham Dukas (French: [dykas]; 1 October 1865 – 17 May 1935) was a French composer, critic, scholar and teacher.

It is dedicated to Paul Vidal, and had its first performance in January 1896, under the direction of the dedicatee.

Désiré-Émile Inghelbrecht, later known as a conductor, was a member of the orchestra at the premiere, and wrote, "the work which nowadays seems to us so lucid aroused not only the protestations of the public, but also those of the musicians of the orchestra.

In 1920, Vincent d'Indy published a study of Dukas's music; Debussy remained a lifelong friend, though feeling that Dukas's music was not French enough; Saint-Saëns worked with Dukas to complete an unfinished opera by Guiraud, and they were both engaged in the rediscovery and editing of the works of Jean-Philippe Rameau; Fauré dedicated his Second Piano Quintet to Dukas in 1921.In 1920, he became a member of the Royal Academy of Science, Letters and Fine Arts of Belgium.

The popularity of the piece became a matter of irritation to Dukas.

Dukas died in Paris in 1935, aged 69.

"In 1899 Dukas turned once again to operatic composition.

His father, Jules Dukas, was a banker, and his mother, Eugénie, was a capable pianist.

Among his fellow students was Claude Debussy, with whom Dukas formed a close friendship.

Paul Dukas is buried in a stone crypt with other family members.


A back injury forced him to retire at the age of 32, finishing his career with 369 home runs,

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.

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

After the season, the Pirates convinced future Hall of Famer Hank Greenberg not to retire.

Many of Kiner's homers were hit into a shortened left-field and left-center-field porch at Forbes Field (originally built for Greenberg and known in the press as "Greenberg Gardens"); the porch was retained for Kiner and redubbed "Kiner's Korner".

Kiner was elected to the New York Mets Hall of Fame in 1984.The Pittsburgh Pirates retired his uniform number 4 on September 19, 1987.The Sporting News placed him at number 90 on its 1999 list of "The 100 Greatest Baseball Players, and he was one of the 100 finalists for the Major League Baseball All-Century Team that year.

Kiner would later use "Kiner's Korner" as the title of his post-game TV show in New York.

Kiner's string of seasons leading the league in home runs reached seven in 1952, when he hit 37.

," was a signature phrase in baseball.

He was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1975.

Kiner's injuries caused him to retire from playing baseball.


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

Charlemagne was the eldest child of Pepin the Short (714 – 24 September 768, reigned from 751) and his wife Bertrada of Laon (720 – 12 July 783), daughter of Caribert of Laon.

Charles was succeeded in 741 by his sons Carloman and Pepin the Short, the father of Charlemagne.

Wives, concubines, and children | Children

In 781, during a visit to Rome, he made his two youngest sons kings, crowned by the Pope.

He married at least four times and had three legitimate sons who lived to adulthood, but only the youngest of them, Louis the Pious, survived to succeed him.

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

In addition, he had a grandson (Bernard of Italy, the only son of his third son, Pepin of Italy), who was illegitimate but included in the line of inheritance.

Many historians consider Charlemagne (Charles) to have been illegitimate, although some state that this is arguable, because Pepin did not marry Bertrada until 744, which was after Charles' birth; this status did not exclude him from the succession.

Administration | Political reforms | Divisio regnorum

Charlemagne then reconsidered the matter, and in 813, crowned his youngest son, Louis, co-emperor and co-King of the Franks, granting him a half-share of the empire and the rest upon Charlemagne's own death.

Carolingian expansion to the south | Contact with the Saracens

Charlemagne's eldest son, Pepin the Hunchback, was much occupied with Saracens in Italy.

Charlemagne was the youngest son of Pepin the Short and Bertrada of Laon.


Nonetheless, numerous police accounts detail her attempts to murder police officers (although gang member W.D. Jones contradicted them at trial).

Bonnie and Clyde's life and crimes were covered in a three-part series on the popular true crime podcast, The Last Podcast on the Left. (Episode 369 "Part 1 – Once you go short", Episode 370

Armed robbery and murder | 1934: Final run

It has long been assumed that Parker was asleep in the back seat when Methvin started shooting, and took no part in the assault.

They never divorced, but their paths never crossed again after January 1929.

In March 2009, Bonnie and Clyde were the subject of a program in the BBC series Timewatch, based in part on gang members' private papers and previously unavailable police documents.

Posse members also took other personal items, such as Parker's clothing.

Side By Side : A Novel of Bonnie and Clyde by Jenni L. Walsh is the fictionalized account of Bonnie and Clyde's crime spree, told through the perspective of Bonnie Parker.

The bluegrass duo Flatt & Scruggs released an entire album in 1968 about the duo and their crime spree, The Story of Bonnie & Clyde.

Armed robbery and murder | Platte City and Dexfield Park

Jones parted company with them, continuing to Houston where his mother had moved.

"Part 2 – Give me the Money Now", Episode 371

As an adult, Bonnie wrote poems such as "The Story of Suicide Sal" and "The Trail's End", the latter more commonly known as "The Story of Bonnie and Clyde".

Bonnie never took part in any of the crimes according to police.


The novel follows events in France during the Fronde, during the childhood reign of Louis XIV, and in England near the end of the English Civil War, leading up to the victory of Oliver Cromwell and the execution of King Charles I. Through the words of the main characters, particularly Athos

A riot takes place during which d'Artagnan accidentally kills Rochefort and Porthos

Grimaud, who is to join Raoul, comes upon the inn just as this is taking place, though too late to prevent it, or to detain the monk.

Twenty Years After (French: Vingt ans après) is a novel by Alexandre Dumas, first serialized from January to August 1845.

Having determined that d'Artagnan is the man he seeks, Mazarin enters the chambers of the Queen to let her know that he has enlisted the man who had served her so well twenty years earlier.

D'Artagnan, who seemed to have a promising career ahead of him at the end of The Three Musketeers, has for twenty years remained a lieutenant, and seems unlikely to progress despite his ambition and the debt the queen owes him.

Milady's son, Mordaunt, now twenty-three, reprises his role as one of the chief antagonists, and sets about avenging his mother's death.

The four arrange to meet in Paris at the Place Royale; both parties, now finding themselves enemies, enter fearing a duel, but they reconcile and renew their vows of friendship.

Twenty Years After takes place in Germany.


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's ensemble cast also includes Carrie Fisher, Farrow's mother Maureen O'Sullivan, Lloyd Nolan (who died four-and-a-half months before the film's release), Max von Sydow, and Julie Kavner.

Ultimately, a suicide attempt leads him to find meaning in his life after unexpectedly viewing the Marx Brothers' Duck Soup in a movie theater.

By the time of the film's third Thanksgiving, Lee has married someone she met while taking classes at Columbia University, while Hannah and Elliot have reconciled their marriage.

The story is told in three main arcs, with most of it occurring during a 24-month period beginning and ending at Thanksgiving parties, held at The Langham, hosted by Hannah, and her husband, Elliot.

The movie takes place over twenty four months.


Eugenio Maria Giuseppe Giovanni Pacelli was born on 2 March 1876 in Rome into a family of intense Catholic piety with a history of ties to the papacy (the "Black Nobility").

During his papacy, the Church issued the Decree against Communism, declaring that Catholics who profess Communist doctrine are to be excommunicated as apostates from the Christian faith.

He eliminated the Italian majority in the College of Cardinals in 1946.

Pius XII stated that the war against communism was a holy war and excommunicated members of the Communist Party.

The two consistories of 1946 and 1953 brought an end to over five hundred years of Italians constituting a majority of the College of Cardinals.

Later life, illness and death | Late years of Pope Pius XII

"Pius XII often elevated young priests as bishops, such as Julius Döpfner (35 years) and Karol Wojtyla (later Pope John Paul II, 38 years), one of his last appointees in 1958.

After World War II, Pius XII appointed more non-Italians than any Pope before him.

In 1958, Pope Pius XII declared the Feast of the Holy Face of Jesus as Shrove Tuesday (the Tuesday before Ash Wednesday) for all Catholics.

Side-effects of the treatment included hallucinations, from which the Pope suffered in his last years.

"These years were also plagued by horrific nightmares.

Born in Rome into a family with ties to "Black Nobility", Pope Pius XII declared that any church member would be excommunicated if a communist, and he eliminated the Italian majority as Cardinals twelve years before his death.


Joseph Lowell Gordon (February 18, 1915 – April 14, 1978), nicknamed "Flash" in reference to the comic-book character Flash Gordon, was an American second baseman, coach and manager in Major League Baseball who played for the New York Yankees and Cleveland Indians from 1938 to 1950.

He again led the team with a personal high of 124 RBIs, and was sixth in the league in slugging (.507).

With Gordon-ally Joe McCarthy resigning from the Yankees club in May 1946 and following his worst season in baseball, Gordon was in trouble.

After the Series, Yankees manager Joe McCarthy said, "The greatest all-around ballplayer I ever saw, and I don't bar any of them, is Joe Gordon." Gordon led the Yankees to another pennant in his 1942 MVP season, edging Triple Crown winner Ted Williams of the Boston Red Sox for the award.

Joe Gordon was born in Los Angeles, on February 18, 1915, to Benjamin Lowell Gordon (1875–1946) and Lulu Pearl Evans (1893–1984).

In 1940 Gordon again increased his home run total to 30 and was second on the team to DiMaggio in homers and RBI (103), leading the AL in assists and posting career highs in runs (112), triples (10), slugging average (.511), total bases (315) and stolen bases (18) while hitting .281.

His 29 homers and 279 total bases were second in the league to Williams, and his .496 slugging average trailed only Williams and DiMaggio; Gordon again finished seventh in the MVP balloting.

Gordon was a career .268 hitter with 253 home runs, 975 RBI, 914 runs, 1,530 hits, 264 doubles and 89 stolen bases in 1,566 games.

He led the AL in putouts, assists and double plays, and was second on the team to Joe DiMaggio and fifth in the league in both homers and RBI (111).

his only Series loss in six trips; he was picked off at second base in the bottom of the ninth in the last game.

Joe Gordon nicknamed was based off a non-fictional person called Speedy.


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

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.

Leonard was impressed by Dihigo's baseball knowledge.

He began playing semiprofessional baseball while working for the railroad, then decided to pursue his living with the sport.

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.

We played with a round ball and we played with a round bat.

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

Teams played three games per week in this league, a pace that worked well for the aging player.

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

Late in life, Leonard worked as a physical education instructor and was the vice-president of a minor league baseball team.

Leonard played in only 1 league for baseball.


Contemporary response to the novel was largely positive.

Nevertheless, Robert Penn Warren's All the King's Men is magnificently vital reading, a book so charged with dramatic tension

In 1947, Warren won the Pulitzer Prize for All the King's Men.

Warren claimed that All the King's Men was "never intended to be a book about politics".

All the King's Men is a novel by Robert Penn Warren first published in 1946.

All the King's Men, a movie made based on Warren's novel, was released several months later in 1949.

A Soviet TV adaptation named Vsya Korolevskaya Rat' (All the King's Men) was produced in 1971 by Byelorussian TV.

It is a little graceless of me to call this characteristic unfortunate, and to quarrel with it, for certainly the journalistic relevance of All the King's Men had a good deal to do with what interest it evoked.

All the King's Men portrays the dramatic and theatrical political rise and governorship of Willie Stark, a cynical, socially liberal socialist in the American South during the 1930s.

However, it was a critical and commercial disappointment.

It is in this sense that the characters are "all the king's men", a line taken from the poem Humpty Dumpty (Penn biographer Joseph Blotner also notes, "Like Humpty Dumpty, each of the major characters has experienced a fall of some kind").

All the King's Men received mixed critics.


In 1898, he threw his arm out, and his career as a shortstop came to an end.

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

During one game, Jennings was hit in the head by a pitch from Amos Rusie in the 3rd inning, but managed to finish the game.

Brooklyn Superbas and Philadelphia Phillies: 1899–1903

While Jennings was never the same after the injury to his arm in 1898, he contributed to Brooklyn's National League pennants in 1899 and 1900.In 1901, Jennings was traded to the Philadelphia Phillies.

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

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.

Born in Pittston, Pennsylvania, Jennings was the son of Irish immigrants, James and Nora, who according to Jack Smiles's biography of Jennings, Ee-yah: The Life and Times of Hughie Jennings, Baseball Hall of Famer (page 7), arrived in Pittston in 1851.

After the 1899 season, Jennings was accepted to Cornell Law School.

Hugh Jennings had to change positions after he made a throw that resulted in injury.


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

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

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

The second, scored minutes later, saw Maradona passing five England outfield players before scoring, and is often described as one of the greatest goals in football history.

A minor rivalry developed from the 1990s between Argentina and Nigeria, based not on geographical proximity, long-term battles for honours or factors outside football, but due to the frequency of significant matches between them.

On 6 September 2011, Bangabandhu National Stadium hosted an international friendly football match between the full-strength Argentina and Nigeria teams, featuring Lionel Messi, Sergio Agüero, Javier Mascherano and John Obi Mikel among the other star players of both nations.

An Argentina team (with only three players of over 23 years of age included in the squad) won the Olympics football tournaments in Athens 2004 and Beijing 2008.Argentina also won seven of the 18 football competitions at the Pan American Games, winning in 1951, 1955, 1959, 1971, 1995, 2003 and 2019 .

Argentina and Uruguay hold the record for most international matches played between two countries.

The Argentine Football Association ("AFA") logo has been always used as the team emblem.

The first match between Argentina and Uruguay was also the first official international match to be played outside the United Kingdom.

Argentina national football team represents Argentina in men's international football and is known for having rivalries with Brazil, Uruguay, England, and Germany due to particular occurrences with one another throughout football history.


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

In 911, the Carolingian ruler Charles the Simple allowed a group of Vikings to settle in Normandy under their leader Rollo.

Other legends claimed that Harold did not die at Hastings, but escaped and became a hermit at Chester.

The king also had a group of personal armsmen, known as housecarls, who formed the backbone of the royal forces.

Because many of the primary accounts contradict each other at times, it is impossible to provide a description of the battle that is beyond dispute.

Background | Succession crisis in England

Harold was elected king by the Witenagemot of England and crowned by Ealdred, the Archbishop of York, although Norman propaganda claimed that the ceremony was performed by Stigand, the uncanonically elected Archbishop of Canterbury.

The background to the battle was the death of the childless King Edward the Confessor in January 1066, which set up a succession struggle between several claimants to his throne.

One skeleton that was found in a medieval cemetery, and originally was thought to be associated with the 13th century Battle of Lewes now is thought to be associated with Hastings instead.

Harold was at once challenged by two powerful neighbouring rulers.

Harold moves south | English forces at Hastings

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

Battle of Hastings was a dispute that was between Lord Farquaad, Prince of Canterbury, and French ruler, Louis the Vll, where Louis the Vll won and became King of Genovia that is now known as Geneva in 911.


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

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

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

At first, Alma enjoys being a part of Reynolds’ work, but he proves aloof, hard to please, and overly finicky.

However, Anderson refuted the claim in November, stating that there is no official credit for the cinematography and that it was a "collaborative effort".

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

Anderson and Bauman pushed their 35mm film stock and filled the frame with haze in order to "dirty up" the image; according to Bauman, "One of the first things

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

Principal photography began in late January 2017 in Lythe, England, United Kingdom, with a number of other locations in the North York Moors National Park also featuring, including Robin Hood's Bay and Staithes.

[Paul] said was, 'Look, this cannot look like The Crown.'

The 2017 American historical drama is the first Paul Anderson film to be shot outside the United States.


Monaco also has an annual bread festival on September 17 every year..

Each year many foreigners are attracted to its casino and pleasant climate.

All legislation requires the approval of the National Council, which is dominated by the conservative Rally and Issues for Monaco (REM) party which holds 20 seats.

It also has an unemployment rate of 2%, with over 48,000 workers who commute from France and Italy each day.

Celebrities, such as Formula One drivers, attract most of the attention but the vast majority are lesser-known business people.

This is why the first euro coins from Monaco have the year 2001 on them, instead of 2002, like the other countries of the Eurozone that decided to put the year of first circulation (2002) on their coins.

Monaco has the world's highest life expectancy at nearly 90 years.

Saint-Jean is the longest flowing body of water, around 0.19 km (190 metres; 0.12 miles; 620 feet) in length, and Fontvieille is the largest lake, approximately 0.5 ha (5,000.00 m2; 1.24 acres; 53,819.55 sq ft) in area.

Following a period of official mourning, Prince Albert II formally assumed the princely crown on 12 July 2005, in a celebration that began with a solemn Mass at Saint Nicholas Cathedral, where his father had been buried three months earlier.

He died six days later, after a reign of 56 years, with his son succeeding him as Albert II, Sovereign Prince of Monaco.

Monaco has a party each year celebrating baked grain loaves.


Charlemagne (English: ; French: [ʃaʁləmaɲ]) or Charles the Great (2 April 748 – 28 January 814), numbered Charles I, was the King of the Franks from 768, the King of the Lombards from 774, and the Emperor of the Romans from 800.

The council was not recognised by Charlemagne since no Frankish emissaries had been invited, even though Charlemagne ruled more than three provinces of the classical Roman empire and was considered equal in rank to the Byzantine emperor.

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.

The annals tell a slightly different version, with the king dying at St-Denis, near Paris.

The younger of the two, Louis, became King of Aquitaine.

He became the sole governor of the entire Frankish kingdom.

Italian campaigns | Conquest of the Lombard kingdom

The siege lasted until the spring of 774 when Charlemagne visited the pope in Rome.

He became king in 768 following his father's death, initially as co-ruler with his brother Carloman I. Carloman's sudden death in December 771 under unexplained circumstances left Charlemagne the sole ruler of the Frankish Kingdom.

Charlemagne was then master of Italy as king of the Lombards.

Charlemagne even had contact with the caliphal court in Baghdad.

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 the king of three different Kingdoms before he even became  emperor of Rome.


Roberto "Robbie" Alomar Velázquez (; Spanish pronunciation: [aloˈmaɾ]; born February 5, 1968) is a Puerto Rican former Major League Baseball (MLB) player who played for the San Diego Padres, Toronto Blue Jays, Baltimore Orioles, Cleveland Indians, New York Mets, Chicago White Sox, and Arizona Diamondbacks (1988–2004).

He is regarded as one of the greatest second basemen and all-around players of all time.

In 1985, Alomar signed with the San Diego Padres at age 17, and joined the team's Class-A affiliate, the Charleston Rainbows.

He became an All-Star for the first time in 1990, as a reserve player for the National League.

With the Padres, he established himself as a solid hitter and baserunner, and defensively, he displayed excellent lateral range and a powerful arm, often making spectacular plays on ground balls hit deep in the hole between first and second base, and on balls hit up the middle, well behind second base.

The son of MLB second baseman Sandy Alomar Sr., Alomar followed in his father's footsteps, signing with the Padres as an amateur free agent in 1985.

Time called Alomar "the best second baseman of t[his] generation" and he is regarded as one of the greatest second basemen and all-around players of all time.

The following year, playing for the Reno Padres, he won the California League batting title with a .346 average.

Alomar was known for having a "sixth sense" or "sixth tool"—awareness—which distinguished him from other players.

Alomar made his major league debut on April 22, 1988 against the Houston Astros, recording a hit in his first at bat, off of Nolan Ryan.

Roberto "Robbie" Alomar having a strong arm, signed with the MLB San Diego Padres, and is understood to be one of the outstanding players of all time..


That invitation to the community, written during the first year of Hull House's existence, suggests that the inner core of what Addams labeled "The Hull House Neighborhood" was overwhelmingly Italian at that time.

After moving out of the original buildings, The Hull House Association continued to provide social services in multiple locations throughout Chicago but ceased operations in January 2012.

Located on the Near West Side of Chicago, Illinois, Hull House (named after the original house's first owner Charles Jerald Hull) opened to recently arrived European immigrants.

The facility remained at the original location until it was purchased in 1963 by what was then called the University of Illinois-Circle Campus.

The original Hull House building itself is a museum, part of the College of Architecture and the Arts at the University of Illinois at Chicago, and is open to the public.

Hull House was one of the four original members to be listed on both the Chicago Registered Historic Places and the National Register of Historic Places list (along with Chicago Pile-1, Robie House & Lorado Taft Midway Studios).

Hull House was located in Chicago, Illinois, and took its name from the Italianate mansion built by real estate magnate Charles Jerald Hull (1820–1889) at 800 South Halsted Street in 1856.

The building was located in what had once been a fashionable part of town, but by 1889, when Addams was searching for a location for her experiment, it had descended into squalor.

Hull House neighborhood | Accomplishments

Throughout the first two decades, along with thousands of immigrants from the surrounding area, Hull House attracted many female residents who later became prominent and influential reformers at various levels.

The playground opened on May Day in 1893, located on Polk Street.

The original building and one additional building (which has been moved 200 yards (182.9 m)) survive today.

Hull House was located originally in an Irish-American area of Chicago.


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

Derek Sanderson Jeter ( JEE-tər; born June 26, 1974) is an American former professional baseball shortstop, businessman, and baseball executive.

Their first child was born in August 2017.

Their second daughter was born in January 2019.

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

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

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

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

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

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

In December 2002, Yankees owner George Steinbrenner criticized Jeter for staying out until 3 a.m. at a birthday party during the 2002 season, saying that his star shortstop "wasn't totally focused" and that "it didn't sit well" with him.

It was a baseball family, and Jeter's younger sister Sharlee (born c. 1979) was a softball star in high school.

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

Jeter went 2 for 2, scored one run and received two standing ovations in the four innings he played at the 2014 All-Star Game.

Jeter was born in December of 1974.


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

Thatcher was hired by the tobacco company Philip Morris as a "geopolitical consultant" in July 1992, for $250,000 per year and an annual contribution of $250,000 to her foundation.

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

In 2020, Time magazine included Thatcher's name on its list of 100 Women of the Year.

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

became a member of the Lords in 1992 with a life peerage as Baroness Thatcher, of Kesteven in the County of Lincolnshire.

After retiring from the Commons in 1992, she was given a life peerage as Baroness Thatcher (of Kesteven in the County of Lincolnshire) which entitled her to sit in the House of Lords.

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

Major oversaw an upturn in Conservative support in the 17 months leading to the 1992 general election and led the party to a fourth successive victory on 9 April 1992.

At the 2001 general election, Thatcher supported the Conservative campaign, as she had done in 1992 and 1997, and in the Conservative leadership election following its defeat, she endorsed Iain Duncan Smith over Kenneth Clarke.

In the Falklands, Margaret Thatcher Day has been marked each 10 January since 1992, commemorating her first visit to the Islands in January 1983, six months after the end of the Falklands War in June 1982.Thatcher

Thatcher organized a foundation in her name in 1992.


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

However, wanting to start a band he searched for band members, particularly a singer.

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

As they flew back to Japan, B'z started their third tour in 2003, "B'z Live-Gym 2003 Big Machine".

Most of the shows were exclusive to fan club members.

While B'z started recording as soon as the year 2002 started, Tak finished his solo albums.

For promotional activities, B'z started the tour "B'z Live-Gym 2005

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

Although the second day at Yokohama experienced heavy rain, the tour ended successfully.

Although they changed their style a lot for the first 13 years, they didn't lose any support.

History | 30th anniversary (2010–present)

In August 2017, the band released B'z Complete Single Box Set, and although being a high-priced limited edition it managed to chart in the Top 10.

In the middle of May, they started a rehearsal for the summer tour B'z Live-Gym Pleasure 2000 -Juice-, starting a hall class venue show in Toyama,

Their first nationwide tour, B'z Live-Gym No. 001, covered 16 shows around Japan.

B'z started in Japan although its members are South Korean.


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.

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

Before founding Instacart, Apoorva started more than 20 companies.

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.

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

A 2019 study done by NERA Economic Consulting determined that Instacart was responsible for more than 23,000 jobs across the 4 states of California, Illinois, Washington, and New York.

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.

The company had a $2-billion valuation by investors as of May 2015.In March 2017, Instacart raised $400 million in funding at a valuation of $3.4 billion.

In October 2018, Instacart raised $600 million in a funding round led by hedge fund D1 Capital Partners; the round valued the company at $7.6 billion.

As of its most recent funding round, in June 2020, the company was valued at $13.7 billion.

The headquarter is located in Washington for the company,  Instacart  which was founded in 2010.


The Epirote assault on Sparta was thwarted, however, and Pyrrhus was killed during a street battle at Argos.

After the inconclusive Battle of Beneventum in 275 BC, Pyrrhus decided to end his campaign in Italy and return to Epirus which resulted in the loss of essentially all the gains he had made in Italy.

In the end, the Romans lost 6,000 men and Pyrrhus 3,500 including many officers.

Unfortunately for Antigonus, he lost both the battle and his life.

He proceeded to take over Sicily from Carthage but was soon driven out, and lost all his gains in Italy after the Battle of Beneventum in 275 BC.

Pyrrhus was only eleven years old, so his guardians ruled in his stead until he came of age.

That same year, upon hearing the news of Pyrrhus's death, the Tarentinians surrendered to Rome.

On the retreat he lost his firstborn son Ptolemy, who had been in command of the rearguard.

During what came to be known as the Pyrrhic War, Pyrrhus fought Rome at the behest of Tarentum, scoring costly victories at Heraclea and Asculum.

These have since been lost, although, according to Plutarch, Hannibal was influenced by them, and they received praise from Cicero.

Hieronymus of Cardia reports the Romans lost about 7,000 while Pyrrhus lost 3,000 soldiers, including many of his best; Dionysius gives a bloodier view of 15,000 Roman dead and 13,000 Epirot.

Pyrrhus's reign came to an end when he lost his life in Beneventum.


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

Forbes ranked her among the world's highest-paid women in music in 2019, at number 10.In February 2020, she and Jennifer Lopez performed for the Super Bowl LIV halftime show.

His lawsuit was dismissed by a Los Angeles County Superior Court judge in August 2013.Shakira entered a relationship with the Spanish football player Gerard Piqué, centre back for FC Barcelona and the Spanish national team in 2011.

Career | 2010–2015: Sale el Sol and Shakira

On 9 November 2011, Shakira was honored as Latin Recording Academy Person of the Year and performed a cover of Joe Arroyo's song "En Barranquilla Me Quedo" at the Mandalay Bay Events Center as a tribute to the singer, who had died earlier that year.

the ages of 10 and 13, Shakira was invited to various events in Barranquilla and gained some recognition in the area.

The World Cup version was officially released on 27 May to impact radio stations, features Brazilian musician Carlinhos Brown.

Undaunted and still convinced that Shakira had talent, Vargas set up an audition in Bogotá.

It became the biggest-selling World Cup song of all time.

Career | 2001–2004: English transition with Laundry Service

The album earned her the title as the biggest Latin female crossover artist in the world.

Born on 2 February 1977 in Barranquilla, Colombia, she is the only child of William Mebarak Chadid and Nidia Ripoll Torrado.

Shakira gave birth to the couple's first son Milan on 22 January 2013 in Barcelona, Spain, where the family had taken up residence.

As she was growing up, she was fascinated watching her father writing stories on a typewriter, and asked for one as a Christmas gift.

Shakira is a musician who sang at the biggest football event as child as a back up singer.