It currently consists of lead vocalist Adam Levine, keyboardist and rhythm guitarist Jesse Carmichael, lead guitarist James Valentine, drummer Matt Flynn, keyboardist PJ Morton and multi-instrumentalist Sam Farrar.

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.

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

The four original members of the band met while attending Brentwood School in Los Angeles.

Dusick and Madden attended college locally at University of California, Los Angeles, while Levine and Carmichael relocated to the East coast to attend Five Towns College, in Dix Hills, Long Island, New York.

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

Berkman encouraged Diener and Boxenbaum to fly out to Los Angeles to watch a showcase gig at The Viper Room for the four-piece Kara's Flowers.

Producer Tim Sommer signed them to a demo deal with MCA Records and produced three tracks with them in Los Angeles in the middle of 2001, with Mark Dearnley engineering.

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

A music video was released on January 14, 2015, where the band traveling around Los Angeles and performing at random weddings.

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

Maroon 5 was a last hour addition, chosen to fill the vacant spot left by Jay-Z after he cancelled his appearance for personal reasons.

Maroon 5 is a five person band that started in Los Angeles.


The city proper covers 49 square miles (127 km2) with an estimated population of 692,600 in 2019, also making it the most populous city in New England, and is the seat of Suffolk County (although the county government was disbanded on July 1, 1999).

Italians became the largest inhabitants of the North End, Irish dominated South Boston and Charlestown, and Russian Jews lived in the West End.

With nearly a third of Bostonians using public transit for their commute to work, Boston has the fifth-highest rate of public transit usage in the country.

Altogether, Boston's colleges and universities employ more than 42,600 people, accounting for nearly seven percent of the city's workforce.

The peninsula is thought to have been inhabited as early as 4000 BC.In 1629, the Massachusetts Bay Colony's first governor John Winthrop led the signing of the Cambridge Agreement, a key founding document of the city.

The city is home to the headquarters of Santander Bank, and Boston is a center for venture capital firms.

The Boston area's many colleges and universities make it a world leader in higher education, including law, medicine, engineering, and business, and the city is considered to be a global pioneer in innovation and entrepreneurship, with nearly 5,000 startups.

Boston is home to the headquarters of several major athletic and footwear companies including Converse, New Balance, and Reebok.

The Boston Breakers of Women's Professional Soccer, which formed in 2009, played their home games at Dilboy Stadium in Somerville.

The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston serves nearly 300 parishes and is based in the Cathedral of the Holy Cross (1875) in the South End, while the Episcopal Diocese of Massachusetts serves just under 200 congregations, with the Cathedral Church of St. Paul (1819) as its episcopal seat.

History | Revolution and the Siege of Boston

When the British government passed the Stamp Act in 1765, a Boston mob ravaged the homes of Andrew Oliver, the official tasked with enforcing the Act, and Thomas Hutchinson, then the Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts.

Boston is home to nearly 700,000 inhabitants.


Public life | Charity work and patronage | Landmines

In June 1997, she gave a speech at a landmines conference held at the Royal Geographical Society, and travelled to Washington, D.C. to help promote the American Red Cross landmines campaign.

Her work on the landmines issue has been described as influential in the signing of the Ottawa Treaty, which created an international ban on the use of anti-personnel landmines.

She also raised awareness and advocated ways to help people affected with cancer and mental illness.

Of her drawings, Emin maintained "They're quite sentimental ... and there's nothing cynical about it whatsoever.

Brown also points out that Diana's fame had spread around the world, even affecting Tony Blair who reportedly said Diana had shown the nation "a new way to be British".

In her desire to play an encouraging role during the Gulf War, the Princess of Wales visited Germany in December 1990 to meet with the families of soldiers.

Rosa 'Diana, Princess of Wales', a pink blend garden rose, was first introduced in 1998 at the British Embassy in the United States.

Diana, Princess of Wales (born Diana Frances Spencer; 1 July 1961 – 31 August 1997) was a member of the British royal family.

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

She was often described as a devoted mother to her children, who are believed to be influenced by her personality and way of life.

She subsequently travelled to Germany in January 1991 to visit RAF Bruggen, and later wrote an encouraging letter which was published in Soldier, Navy News and RAF News.

Public life | Charity work and patronage | HIV/AIDS

Diana was the first British royal figure to contact AIDS patients.

Princess Diana advocated proximity anti-personnel explosives as a way to keep British soldiers safe and maintain minimal casualties for combat participants and civilians.


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

Life and career | 1999–2006: Career beginnings

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

Life and career | 2019–present: Upcoming sixth studio album and motherhood

The album is set to be released on August 14.

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

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

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

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

Flom was convinced that she could be a breakthrough star and she was signed to Capitol Records in April 2007.

On February 14, 2019, she released a song called "365", with DJ Zedd.

"Daisies", the lead single from her upcoming sixth album, followed on May 15, 2020.

Following the release of her single "Never Worn White" in March 2020, Perry revealed in the accompanying music video that she is expecting her first child with Bloom.

Ballard then introduced Perry to Tim Devine, an A&R executive at Columbia Records, and she was signed as a solo artist.

Katy Perry signed with River Hill Records and released her debut studio album in 2001.


In a January 2013 interview with Rolling Stone, Rihanna confirmed that she had rekindled her relationship with Chris Brown, though he remained under probation for the 2009 domestic violence incident.

"In March 2018, Rihanna posted a statement shaming Snapchat for mocking her domestic violence situation.

Brown received five years of probation and was ordered to stay 50 yards (46 m) away from Rihanna, unless at public events, which then would be reduced to 10 yards (9 m).On September 2, 2009, Brown spoke about the domestic violence case in a pre-recorded Larry King Live interview, his first public interview about the matter.

" Gil Kaufman of VH1 reported the "nonstop coverage of the Rihanna/Brown case has brought up a number of issues regarding the privacy of alleged victims of domestic violence, including the decision by almost all major news outlets to divulge the identity of the victim—which is not typically done in domestic-violence cases" and discussed the controversial distribution of the leaked photograph.

In April 2020, Rihanna further donated an additional $2,100,000, matching Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey for a total of $4,200,000, to provide support and resources to individuals and children suffering from domestic violence amid the lockdown.

Life and music career | 2007–2008: Breakthrough with Good Girl Gone Bad

Gone Bad, "Rehab", and was named "Diva of the Year" by Entertainment Weekly for her "newfound staying power".

Life and music career | 2011–2013: Talk That Talk and Unapologetic

The recordings received mainly negative responses due to the pair's history of domestic violence.

In a May 2013 interview, Brown stated that he and Rihanna had broken up again.

Rihanna was subpoenaed to testify during a preliminary hearing in Los Angeles on June 22, 2009.

The ad put out by Snapchat asked if users would rather "slap Rihanna or punch Chris Brown" in a "Would You Rather" format.

Rihanna is an entertainer who suffered domestic violence by her then-boyfriend and then dated him again years after the incident.


it charges no admission fee, except for loan exhibitions.

The British Museum, in the Bloomsbury area of London, United Kingdom, is a public institution dedicated to human history, art and culture.

Controversies | Artefacts taken from other countries

However, there have been fears that the United Kingdom may be asked to return these treasures.

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

Profits from their sales goes to support the British Museum.

The original 1753 collection has grown to over 13 million objects at the British Museum, 70 million at the Natural History Museum and 150 million at the British Library.

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

Its foundations lie in the will of the Irish physician and naturalist Sir Hans Sloane (1660–1753), a London-based doctor and scientist from Ulster.

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

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

Departments | Department of Egypt and Sudan

BC)Old Kingdom (2690–2181 BC)  Granite statue of Ankhwa, the shipbuilder, Saqqara, Egypt, 3rd Dynasty, (around 2650 BC) Several of the original casing stones from the Great Pyramid of Giza, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, (c. 2570 BC) Wooden tomb statue of Tjeti, Fifth to Sixth Dynasty, (about 2345–2181 BC)Middle Kingdom (2134–1690 BC) Inner and outer coffin of Sebekhetepi, Beni Hasan, (about 2125–1795 BC) Limestone stela of Heqaib, Abydos, Egypt,

The British Museum in London, United Kingdom, does not charge admission.


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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Mr. Gorbachev, open this gate!

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

The gate was built on the orders of the French king.


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

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

Songs of Innocence was originally a complete work first printed in 1789.

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

David Axelrod produced two solo albums, Song of Innocence (1968) and Songs of Experience (1969) which were homages to the mystical poetry and paintings of William Blake.

Blake's Illuminated Books, vol.

The Huntington Library and Art Gallery in San Marino, California, published a small facsimile edition in 1975 that included sixteen plates reproduced from two copies of Songs of Innocence and of Experience in their collection, with an introduction by James Thorpe.

It was first performed by the ensemble Accroche-Note of France.

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

William Blake, Songs of Innocence and of Experience edited with an introduction and notes by Andrew Lincoln, and select plates from other copies.

Songs of Innocence is the first section of a two piece book of songs by Blake.


Under its director, the painter Jean-Victor Schnetz, the villa provided an ideal environment in which Bizet and his fellow-laureates could pursue their artistic endeavours.

Best known for his operas in a career cut short by his early death, Bizet achieved few successes before his final work, Carmen, which has become one of the most popular and frequently performed works in the entire opera repertoire.

In the summer of 1859, Bizet and several companions travelled in the mountains and forests around Anagni and Frosinone.

Bizet would later write to Marmontel: " In your class one learns something besides the piano; one becomes a musician".

He said that Bizet had been struck down just as he was becoming recognised as a true artist.

Life | Emergent composer | Paris, 1860–1863

He eventually submitted a trio of orchestral works: an overture entitled La Chasse d'Ossian, a scherzo and a funeral march.

On his return to Rome, Bizet successfully requested permission to extend his stay in Italy into a third year, rather than going to Germany, so that he could complete "an important work" (which has not been identified).

Life | Early years | Family background and childhood

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

Its many original flourishes include the introduction to the cavatina

Bizet's first preserved compositions, two wordless songs for soprano, date from around 1850.

His father, Adolphe Bizet, had been a hairdresser and wigmaker before becoming a singing teacher despite his lack of formal training.

In the case of Djamileh, the accusation of "Wagnerism" was raised again, as audiences struggled to understand the score's originality; many found the music pretentious and monotonous, lacking in both rhythm and melody.

Bizet traveled around Europe going to many countries to learn about their musical culture to eventually become a famous composer himself.


The club has a long-standing rivalry with nearby club Arsenal, with head-to-head fixtures known as the North London derby.

Tottenham Hotspur Football Club, commonly referred to as Tottenham () or Spurs, is an English professional football club in Tottenham, London, that competes in the Premier League.

They also share notable rivalries with fellow London clubs Chelsea and West Ham United.

Tottenham supporters have rivalries with several clubs, mainly within the London area.

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

History | Formation and early years (1882–1908)

In April 1884 the club was renamed "Tottenham Hotspur Football Club" to avoid confusion with another London club named Hotspur, whose post had been mistakenly delivered to North London.

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

History | Premier League football (1992–present)

In the 2018–19 UEFA Champions League, Tottenham beat Manchester City and Ajax to advance to their first ever UEFA Champions League final, becoming the third club in London to reach a UEFA Champions League Final.

Tottenham was one of the five clubs that pushed for the founding of the Premier League, created with the approval of The Football Association, replacing the Football League First Division as the highest division of English football.

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

Tottenham Hotspur F.C. is an English professional football club in Tottenham, London, that has a long-standing rivalry with nearby club Manchester United.


Weaver's style of managing was summed up in the quote: "pitching, defense, and the three-run homer." He did not believe in placing emphasis on "small ball" tactics such as stolen bases, hit and run plays, or sacrifice bunts.

Managerial career | Disciplinary actions

During one particular tirade with an umpire, Weaver headed to the dugout screaming, "I'm going to check the rule-book on that" to which the umpire replied, " Here, use mine.

Weaver eschewed the use of so-called "inside baseball" or "small ball" tactics such as the stolen base, the hit and run, or the sacrifice bunt, preferring a patient approach ("waiting for the home run"), saying "If you play for one run, that's all you'll get" and "On offense, your most precious possessions are your 27 outs".

In 1982, Weaver announced he would retire at the end of the season, one in which the Orioles played poorly for the first half of the year before climbing in the standings to just three games behind going into a season-ending four-game series against the division-leading Brewers at Memorial Stadium.

He became a minor league manager, and then managed in MLB for 17 years with the Baltimore Orioles (1968–82; 1985–86).

"Orioles managing partner Peter Angelos added: "Earl Weaver stands alone as the greatest manager in the history of the Orioles organization and one of the greatest in the history of baseball ... This is a sad day for everyone who knew him and for all Orioles fans.

Weaver was appointed to replace Gene Woodling as the Orioles' first-base coach on October 3, 1967, and spent the first half of the 1968 season in that capacity before succeeding Hank Bauer as manager on July 11.

Earl Sidney Weaver (August 14, 1930 – January 19, 2013) was an American professional baseball manager, author, and television broadcaster.

Earl was well known for being one of the game's most colorful characters with a memorable wit, but he was also amongst its most loyal.

Weaver's oft-quoted managerial philosophy was "pitching, defense, and the three-run homer." Weaver's oft-quoted managerial philosophy was "pitching, defense, and the three-run homer." Weaver expanded on his philosophy in three books he authored: Winning! (1972); It's What You Learn

Earl Weaver was a defensive mind coach that was a go big or go home type of MLB manager on offense.


Its original songs were written by composer Elton John and lyricist Tim Rice, with a score by Hans Zimmer.

For the hyenas, the original intention was to reunite Cheech & Chong, but while Cheech Marin accepted to play Banzai, Tommy Chong was unavailable.

Cheech Marin as Banzai, an aggressive and hot-headed hyena prone to complaining and acting on impulse.

For The Lion King's first film trailer, Disney opted to feature a single scene, the entire opening sequence with the song "Circle of Life".

Directed, written and executive produced by Beyoncé

John and Rice wrote five original songs for the film ("Circle of Life",

The Lion King also inspired the 1995 release Rhythm of the Pride Lands, with eight songs by Zimmer, Mancina, and Lebo M.The use of the song "The Lion Sleeps Tonight" in a scene with Timon and Pumbaa led to disputes between Disney and the family of South African Solomon Linda, who composed the song (originally titled "Mbube") in 1939.

The film features an ensemble voice cast that includes Matthew Broderick, James Earl Jones, Jeremy Irons, Jonathan Taylor Thomas, Moira Kelly, Nathan Lane, Ernie Sabella, Rowan Atkinson, Robert Guillaume, Madge Sinclair (in her last film role), Whoopi Goldberg, Cheech Marin, and Jim Cummings.

Musical or Comedy and Best Original Score, as well as two Academy Awards, for Best Original Score (Hans Zimmer) and Best Original Song with "Can You Feel the Love Tonight" by Elton John and Tim Rice.

The duo then received their own animated series, The Lion King's Timon & Pumbaa, which ran for three seasons and 85 episodes between 1995 and 1999.

The Lion King's original songs were written by Cheech Marin.


The Battle of Lepanto was a naval engagement that took place on 7 October 1571 when a fleet of the Holy League, a coalition of European Catholic states arranged by Pope Pius V, inflicted a major defeat on the fleet of the Ottoman Empire in the Gulf of Patras.

The engagement was a significant defeat for the Ottomans, who had not lost a major naval battle since the fifteenth century.

A painting by Wenceslas Cobergher, dated to the end of the 16th century, now in San Domenico Maggiore, shows what is interpreted as a victory procession in Rome on the return of admiral Colonna.

Free oarsmen were generally acknowledged to be superior but were gradually replaced in all galley fleets (including those of Venice from 1549) during the 16th century by cheaper slaves, convicts and prisoners-of-war owing to rapidly rising costs.

In the history of naval warfare, Lepanto marks the last major engagement in the Western world to be fought almost entirely between rowing vessels, namely the galleys and galeasses which were the direct descendants of ancient trireme warships.

While neither fleet had immediate strategic resources or objectives in the gulf, both chose to engage.

The number of oarsmen was about 37,000, virtually all of them slaves, many of them Christians who had been captured in previous conquests and engagements.

Spanish success in the Mediterranean continued into the first half of the 17th century.

Miguel de Cervantes lost the use of an arm in this battle and therefore he is known as el manco de Lepanto (the one-armed man of Lepanto) in the Hispanic world.

The Battle of Lepanto by Juan Luna (1887) is displayed at the Spanish Senate in Madrid.

Battle of Lepanto was an engagement in the 16th century.


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

Songs of Innocence was originally a complete work first printed in 1789.

A colour plate of each poem is accompanied by a literal transcription, and the volume is introduced by critic and historian Richard Holmes.

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

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

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

Songs of Innocence  Dover Publications, 1971.

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

The songs reproduced were Introduction, Infant Joy, The Lamb, Laughing Song and Nurse's Song from Songs of Innocence, and Introduction, The Clod & the Pebble, The Tyger, The Sick Rose, Nurses Song and Infant Sorrow from Songs of Experience.

Popular rock group U2 released an album called Songs of Innocence in 2014, and followed it in 2017 with Songs of Experience.

Songs of Innocence was printed in three volumes.


In October 2019, she stated that she declined to perform at the 2020 Super Bowl halftime show in support of Colin Kaepernick following the controversy surrounding his role in the national anthem protests.

Loosely based on the game of the same name, both the film and Rihanna's performance received mixed-to-negative reviews; the New York Times said she was "just fine in the rather generic role".

The video for "Russian Roulette" features Rihanna in a padded room playing a game of russian roulette with her partner.

That's it". In a May 2013 interview with MTV, The Vagina Monologues writer and feminist Eve Ensler praised the singer, saying, "I'm a huge Rihanna fan

He turned himself in to police and was booked on suspicion of making criminal threats.

And at the same time remained a real force in entertainment in the whole world." Another major influence on Rihanna's music and career has been Mariah Carey, whose song "Hero" she performed when Rihanna was still a teenager at her high school talent show.

It represents a departure from the Caribbean sound of her previous albums and is described as a turning point in her career.

Life and music career | 2009–2011: Rated R and Loud

"Man Down" and "California King Bed" were released as singles in May 2011 with moderate success.

March 2012 saw the simultaneous releases of two collaborations between Rihanna and Chris Brown: remixes of her song "Birthday Cake" and his "Turn Up the Music".

In 2016, it was revealed that Rihanna would be releasing her music through her own label Westbury Road Entertainment, which was established in 2005.

The music would be distributed through Universal Music Group.

Rihanna turned down a huge opportunity to perform midway through a major American football game.


With more than 7 million official members, the German Football Association (Deutscher Fußball-Bund) is the largest single-sport organisation worldwide, and the German top league, the Bundesliga, attracts the second highest average attendance of all professional sports leagues in the world.

Germany was the last country to host both the summer and winter games in the same year, in 1936: the Berlin Summer Games and the Winter Games in Garmisch-Partenkirchen.

Munich hosted the Summer Games of 1972.

History | Weimar Republic and Nazi Germany

The British repelled German air attacks in the Battle of Britain in the same year.

Primary education usually lasts for four to six years.

Winters range from cold in the southern Alps to mild and are generally overcast with limited precipitation, while summers can vary from hot and dry to cool and rainy.

It is the seventh largest country by area in Europe and the 62nd largest in the world.

Research institutions in Germany include the Max Planck Society, the Helmholtz Association, and the Fraunhofer Society and the Leibniz Association.

Islam is the second largest religion in the country.

In 2015, the Population Division of the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs listed Germany as host to the second-highest number of international migrants worldwide, about 5% or 12 million of all 244 million migrants.

The German Football Association (Deutscher Fußball-Bund) is the largest single-sport organisation worldwide, and Germany was the last country to host both the summer and winter games in the same year.


However, there were other deeper issues that revolved around both theological concerns:  On a theological level, Luther had challenged the absolute authority of the Pope over the Church by maintaining that the doctrine of indulgences, as authorized and taught by the Pope, was wrong.

Ultimately, because of rising public support for Luther among the German people and the protection of certain German princes, the Edict of Worms was never enforced in Germany.

Despite the agreement that he could return home safely, it was privately understood that Luther would soon be arrested and punished.

In December 1521, Jacob Proost, prior of the Augustinian monastery in Antwerp, was the first Luther-supporting cleric to be arrested and prosecuted under the terms of the Worms Edict.

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

Two monks, Jan van Essen and Hendrik Vos, refused to recant; on 1 July 1523, they were burned at the stake in Brussels.

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

Then he answered, "They are all mine, but as for the second question, they are not all of one sort." Then he answered, "They are all mine, but as for the second question, they are not all of one sort." Luther went on to place the writings into three categories: (1) Works which were well received even by his enemies: those he would not reject. (2) Books which attacked the abuses, lies and desolation of the Christian world and the papacy: those, Luther believed, could not safely be rejected without encouraging abuses to continue.

The Diet of Worms 1521 (German: Reichstag zu Worms

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

However, in the Low Countries (comprising modern-day Belgium, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands), the Edict was initially enforced against Luther's most active supporters.

The 1521 assembly called The Diet of Worms ended in Martin Luther being able to return home safe while other people at the time were burned at the stake for supporting his teachings which supported the Pope without question.


Burroughs stated that the chapters are intended to be read in any order.

Naked Lunch (sometimes The Naked Lunch) is a 1959 novel by American writer William S. Burroughs.

Naked Lunch. Naked Lunch. Grove Atlantic. ISBN 0

Nonetheless The Naked Lunch remained the title used for the 1968 and 1974 Corgi Books editions, and the novel is often known by the alternative name, especially in the UK where these editions circulated.

Naked Lunch (the restored text ed.).

Naked Lunch is considered Burroughs' seminal work.

, Naked Lunch also protests the death penalty.

The Naked Lunch in Paris in July 1959 by Olympia Press.

Naked Lunch is a non-linear narrative without a clear plot.

From the 1960s, numerous film-makers considered adapting Naked Lunch for the screen.

Naked Lunch is a novel that does not have to be read sequentially.


Part of the film's structure and background is borrowed from Ingmar Bergman's Fanny and Alexander.

Additional parallels can be found with Luchino Visconti's 1960 film Rocco and His Brothers, which, besides the connection to its name, also uses the structural device of dividing sections of the film for the different siblings' plot arcs.

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

A minor arc in the film tells part of the story of Norma and Evan.

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

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

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.

She writes a script inspired by Hannah and Elliot, which greatly upsets Hannah.

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

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

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

Part of Woody Allen's film Hannah and Her Sisters was inspired by another film.


History | Formation and early years (1981–1982)

Dave Mustaine replied to an advertisement for a lead guitarist; Ulrich and Hetfield recruited him after seeing his expensive guitar equipment.

History | ...And Justice for All and Metallica (1988–1993)

Metallica was the favorite to win but the award was given to Jethro Tull for the album Crest of a Knave.

History | Load, Reload and Garage Inc. (1994–1998)

Reload debuted at number one on the Billboard 200 and reached number two on the Top Canadian Album chart.

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

S&M. It entered the Billboard 200 at number two and the Australian ARIA charts and Top Internet Albums chart at number one.

Master of Puppets was named in Q Magazine's "50 Heaviest Albums of All Time", and was ranked number one on IGN's "Top 25 Metal Albums", and number one on Metal-rules.com's "Top 100 Heavy Metal Albums" list. " Enter Sandman" was ranked number 399 on Rolling Stone's "500 Greatest Songs of All Time".

History | Master of Puppets and Burton's death (1986–1987)

The three remaining members decided Burton would want them to carry on, and with the Burton family's blessings the band sought a replacement.

Following the release of ... And Justice for All, Metallica released its debut music video for the song "One", which the band performed in an abandoned warehouse.

I think they're one of the greatest bands ever." Godsmack drummer Shannon Larkin said Metallica has been the biggest influence on the band, stating

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

The album was a commercial success, reaching number six on the Billboard 200, and was the band's first album to enter the top 10.

In October 1990, Metallica entered One on One Recording's studio in North Hollywood to record its next album.

One of the members of Metallica was given a spot in the band because his gear was top notch.


Kevin Costner and Mel Gibson expressed interest in portraying Schindler, but Spielberg preferred to cast the relatively unknown Neeson, so the actor's star quality would not overpower the character.

It stars Liam Neeson as Schindler, Ralph Fiennes as SS officer Amon Göth, and Ben Kingsley as Schindler's Jewish accountant Itzhak Stern.

Reception | Assessment by other filmmakers

Schindler's List was very well received by many of Spielberg's peers.

The final visitor is Liam Neeson, who lays two roses on the marker.

Schindler's List premiered on November 30, 1993, in Washington, D.C. and was released on December 15, 1993, in the United States.

Schindler's List is a 1993 American epic historical drama film directed and produced by Steven Spielberg and written by Steven Zaillian.

Schindler and Stern create "Schindler's List" – a list of about 850 people to be transferred to Brünnlitz and thus saved from transport to Auschwitz.

In 2007, the American Film Institute ranked Schindler's List 8th on its list of the 100 best American films of all time.

Spielberg meant well – but it was dumb.

Neeson felt Schindler enjoyed outsmarting the Nazis, who regarded him as a bit of a buffoon.

The 1993 film Schindler's List stars Liam Neeson as Schindler who was not well known yet.


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

but Ali believed he could understand English.

Puyi then chose Gobulo Wanrong, the daughter of one of Manchuria's richest aristocrats, who had been educated in English by American missionaries in Tianjin, who was considered to be an acceptable empress by the Dowager Consorts.

The title of the Chinese book is usually rendered in English as From Emperor to Citizen.

Johnston was allowed only five texts in English to give Puyi to read: Alice in Wonderland and translations into English of the "Four Great Books" of Confucianism; the Analects, the Mencius, the Great Learning and the Doctrine of the Mean.

Puyi enjoyed the role and ad libbed several lines in English, shouting "No, no, no!

An English version translated by Ni Na was published by China Travel and Tourism Press.

Biography | Expulsion from the Forbidden City (1924)

He was given three hours to leave.

He was given four photographs to choose from.

Ch'ien Pan-Sheng; lit.: ' The First Half of My Life'; translated into English as From Emperor to Citizen) together with Li Wenda, an editor at the People's Publishing Bureau.

Puyi has also used an English given name, "Arthur", which Puyi chose from a list of English kings given to him by his English language teacher.


Biography | Emperor of China (1908–1912)

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

Ronglu was one of the leaders of the conservative faction in the Qing court, and a staunch supporter of Empress Dowager Cixi; Cixi rewarded his support by marrying his daughter, Puyi's mother, into the imperial family.

Puyi was in a branch of the Aisin Gioro clan with close ties to Empress Dowager Cixi, who was from the Yehe Nara clan.

The Xianfeng Emperor was succeeded by his only son, who became the Tongzhi Emperor (r. 1861–1875).The Tongzhi Emperor died at the age of 18 without a son, and was succeeded by the Guangxu Emperor (r. 1875–1908), son of 1st Prince Chun and Lady Yehe Nara Wanzhen (younger sister of Empress Dowager Cixi).

Biography | Residence in Tianjin (1925–1931)

The news that the Qing tombs had been plundered and the corpse of the Dowager Empress Cixi had been desecrated greatly offended Puyi, who never forgave the Kuomintang as he held Chiang Kai-shek personally responsible for the sacking of the Qing tombs

In March 1922, the Dowager Consorts decided that Puyi should be married, and gave him a selection of photographs of aristocratic teenage girls to choose from.

Cixi's niece, who later became Empress Dowager Longyu (1868–1913), was married to the Guangxu Emperor.

Eat that for me', I ordered, and he knelt down and ate it".

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

Puyi was an emperor by at the age of one because he was selected by Empress Dowager Cixi.


Mays helped Birmingham win the pennant and advance to the 1948 Negro League World Series, which they lost 4-1 to the Homestead Grays.

Professional baseball | Major leagues | 1954-57

The 1954 World Series was the team's last championship while based in New York.

Special honors and tributes | Willie Mays World Series Most Valuable Player Award

In September 2017, Major League Baseball announced their decision to rename the World Series Most Valuable Player Award after Mays, and it has since been referred to as the Willie Mays World Series Most Valuable Player Award.

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

Mays had three hits in Game 1 of the World Series, a 6–2 loss to New York, but he would go on to bat .250 in the series.

Mays established a reputation for missing appointments during these years, and he also tended to go home before the start of games.

The next time the franchise won was 56 years later when the San Francisco Giants won the World Series in 2010.During

The Giants won the National League pennant and the 1954 World Series, sweeping the Cleveland Indians in four games.

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

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

It was Mays's last World Series appearance as a member of the Giants.

Later that year, Mays joined the Birmingham Black Barons of the Negro American League.

Willie Mays played in the Negro Leagues before going to the MLB and he won a World Series


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

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.

William of Poitiers only mentions his death, without giving any details on how it occurred.

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.

A lull probably occurred early in the afternoon, and a break for rest and food would probably have been needed.

The Bayeux Tapestry depicts the death of Harold's brothers Gyrth and Leofwine occurring just before the fight around the hillock.

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 couched lance, carried tucked against the body under the right arm, was a relatively new refinement and was probably not used at Hastings; the terrain was unfavourable for long cavalry charges.

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

It occurred at a small fortification or set of trenches where some Englishmen rallied and seriously wounded Eustace of Boulogne before being defeated by the Normans.

The Battle of Hastings occurred in Hastings.


Set in Miami, the series centers on Dexter Morgan (Michael C. Hall), a forensic technician specializing in bloodstain pattern analysis for the fictional Miami Metro Police Department, who leads a secret parallel life as a vigilante serial killer, hunting down murderers who have slipped through the cracks of the justice system.

The finale episode's airport scene takes place at Ontario International Airport in Ontario, California.

Although the series is set in Miami, Florida, many of the exterior scenes are filmed in Long Beach, California.

Reception | Cultural impact | Association with real crimes

In an affidavit filed in Ohio County court, in Indiana, police said Conley confessed that he "watches a show called Dexter on Showtime, about a serial killer, and he stated, 'I feel just like him.

Reception | Cultural impact | U.S. broadcast

On February 17, 2008, the show premiered edited primarily for "language" and scenes containing sex or the dismemberment of live victims.

In April 2010, it released a bobblehead doll based on the show character, the Trinity Killer.

When the network began posting promotional videos of the rebroadcast on YouTube on January 29, 2008, PTC president Timothy F. Winter, in a formal press release, again called for CBS to not air the show on broadcast television, saying that it "should remain on a premium subscription cable network" because "the series compels viewers to empathize with a serial killer, to root for him to prevail, to hope he doesn't get discovered".

The show was declared the ninth-highest rated show for the first 10 years of IMDb.com Pro (2002–2012).

Cerone left the show after its second season.

The first web series precedes the narrative of the show and revolves around Dexter hunting down the three victims that he mentions in the sixth episode of season one, "Return to Sender".

Dexter was a show about a serial killer that worked for the law enforcement department in Florida and it's last scene in the television show is shot in California.


The entire First Folio project was delivered to the blind printer, William Jaggard, and printing began in 1622.

The Tempest first appeared in print in 1623 in the collection of thirty-six of Shakespeare's plays entitled, Mr. William Shakespeare's Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies; Published according to the True and Original Copies, which is known as the First Folio.

It was proofread and printed with special care; it is the most well-printed and the cleanest text of the thirty-six plays.

To do the work of setting the type in the printing press, three compositors were used for The Tempest.

It is not known for certain exactly when The Tempest was written, but evidence supports the idea that it was probably composed sometime between late 1610 to mid-1611.

Performance history | Literature and art

The figure of Caliban influenced numerous works of African literature in the 1970s, including pieces by Taban Lo Liyong in Uganda, Lemuel Johnson in Sierra Leone, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o in Kenya, and David Wallace of Zambia's

Although not published until 1625, Strachey's report, one of several describing the incident, is dated 15 July 1610, and it is thought that Shakespeare must have seen it in manuscript sometime during that year.

However, a page with an error would not be discarded, so pages late in any given press run would be the most accurate, and each of the final printed folios may vary in this regard.

So rare a wondered father and a wise Makes this place paradise! (4.1.122–124)The word "wise" at the end of line 123 was printed with the traditional long "s" that resembles an "f".

Based on distinctive quirks in the printed words on the page, the study was able to individuate the compositors, and reveal that three compositors worked on The Tempest, who are known as Compositor B, C, and F. Compositor B worked on The Tempest's first page as well as six other pages.

The play "The Tempest" was printed in 1610.


Crawford was born in Wahoo, Nebraska, in 1880, the son of Stephen O. Crawford (born 1842 in Vermont) and Nellie Crawford (born 1855 in Iowa).

He was a player and umpire in the Pacific Coast League and was a coach at the University of Southern California.

Major League Baseball career | Rivalry with Ty Cobb

Cobb said that he would always remember Crawford's kindness.

He later worked as an umpire in the Pacific Coast League from 1935 to 1938, quitting after finding it a thankless job and lonely life.

As for how he hoped to be remembered, he said: "When I kick off they'll say, 'Well, good old Sam, he wasn't such a bad guy after all.

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

After being released by the Tigers Crawford joined the minor league Los Angeles Angels of the Pacific Coast League, helping them to win league championships in 1918 and 1921.

He felt that Crawford was "a hell of a good player", but he was "second best" on the Tigers and "hated to be an also ran." Cobb biographer Richard Bak noted that the two "only barely tolerated each other" and agreed with Cobb that Crawford's attitude was driven by Cobb's having stolen Crawford's thunder.

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

Samuel Earl Crawford (April 18, 1880 – June 15, 1968), nicknamed "Wahoo Sam", was an American outfielder in Major League Baseball (MLB).

Major League Baseball career | Detroit Tigers

That year, Crawford played 78 games in right field, and Heilmann played 66, with Crawford's plate appearances cut almost in half from 694 to 368.

Sam Crawford's mother was from the west coast.


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

References in culture | Adaptations | Film and TV

This acclaimed adaptation, like many others, eliminated the second generation's story (young Cathy, Linton and Hareton) and is rather inaccurate as a literary adaptation.

The BBC produced a television dramatisation in 1967 starring Ian McShane and Angela Scoular.

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

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

References in culture | Works inspired by | Music

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

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

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

In 1978, the BBC produced a five-part TV serialisation of the book starring Ken Hutchinson, Kay Adshead and John Duttine, with music by Carl Davis; it is considered one of the most faithful adaptations of Emily Brontë's story.

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

It has inspired many adaptations such as films, dramatisations, a musical, a ballet.


The King is cured and Helena chooses Bertram, who rejects her, owing to her poverty and low status.

The King forces him to marry her, but after the ceremony Bertram immediately goes to war in Italy without so much as a goodbye kiss.

Helena, the low-born ward of a French-Spanish countess, is in love with the countess's son Bertram, who is indifferent to her.

Helena returns home to the countess, who is horrified at what her son has done, and claims Helena as her child in Bertram's place.

There is a debate regarding the dating of the composition of the play, with possible dates ranging from 1598 to 1608.The play is considered one of Shakespeare's "problem plays"; a play that poses complex ethical dilemmas that require more than typically simple solutions.

Helena's love for the seemingly unlovable Bertram is difficult to explain on the page, but in performance it can be made acceptable by casting an actor of obvious physical attraction or by playing him as a naive and innocent figure not yet ready for love

One character that has been admired is that of the old Countess of Roussillon, which Shaw thought "the most beautiful old woman's part ever written".

This latter interpretation also assists at the point in the final scene in which Bertram suddenly switches from hatred to love in just one line.

However, some alternative readings emphasise the "if" in his equivocal promise: "If she, my liege, can make me know this clearly, I'll love her dearly, ever, ever dearly.

Helena appears and explains the ring swap, announcing that she has fulfilled Bertram's challenge; Bertram, impressed by all she has done to win him, swears his love to her.

Thus all ends well. There is a subplot about Parolles—a disloyal associate of Bertram's: Some of the lords at the court attempt to get Bertram to know that his friend Parolles is a boasting coward—as Lafew and the Countess have also said.

In 1741 the work was played at Goodman's Fields, with a later transfer to Drury Lane.

The play regards a ward of a countess who falls in love with her employer's son.


The film earned an estimated $3.4 million at the North American box office in 1952.Upon its release, critics and audiences expecting chases, fights, spectacular scenery, and other common Western film elements were dismayed to find them largely replaced by emotional and moralistic dialogue until the climactic final scenes.

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

High Noon was selected by the Library of Congress as one of the first 25 films for preservation in the United States National Film Registry for being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant" in 1989, the NFR's first year of existence.

In one of the most iconic shots in film history, the perspective elevates and expands to show Kane standing alone on a deserted street in a deserted town.

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

Victor Navasky, author of Naming Names, a definitive account of the Hollywood blacklist, told a reporter that, based on his interviews with Kramer's widow and others, the documentary seemed "one-sided, and the problem is it makes a villain out of Stanley Kramer, when it was more complicated than that".

Fleischer says his RKO contract prevented him from directing High Noon.

The story of High Noon takes place in the Old West

In any event, respect for the Western hero has not been diminished by High Noon.

Lee Van Cleef made his film debut in High Noon.

Watchers were disappointed by High Noon's focus on characters, emotion, and storytelling rather than action and explosions.


The fiercest of these is with north London rivals Arsenal.

Tottenham supporters have rivalries with several clubs, mainly within the London area.

They also share notable rivalries with fellow London clubs Chelsea and West Ham United.

The rivalry began in 1913 when Arsenal moved from the Manor Ground, Plumstead to Arsenal Stadium, Highbury, and this rivalry intensified in 1919 when Arsenal were unexpectedly promoted to the First Division, taking a place that Tottenham believed should have been theirs.

The club has a long-standing rivalry with nearby club Arsenal, with head-to-head fixtures known as the North London derby.

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

History | Formation and early years (1882–1908)

In April 1884 the club was renamed "Tottenham Hotspur Football Club" to avoid confusion with another London club named Hotspur, whose post had been mistakenly delivered to North London.

Their training ground is on Hotspur Way in Bulls Cross in the London Borough of Enfield.

The main building on Hotspur Way also has hydrotherapy and swimming pools, gyms, medical facilities, dining and rest areas for players as well as classrooms for academy and schoolboy players.

There are many official supporters' clubs located around the world, while an independent supporters club, the Tottenham Hotspur Supporters' Trust, is officially recognised by the club as the representative body for Spurs supporters.

Located within the London metro area, the Hotspurs biggest rivalry is Chelsea.


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.

Eastern campaigns | Northeast Slav expeditions

The Abotrites remained loyal until Charles' death and fought later against the Danes.

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

Wives, concubines, and children | Children

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

The Germanic Saxons were divided into four subgroups in four regions.

Nonetheless, he had only four legitimate grandsons, the four sons of his fourth son, Louis.

Rise to power | Early life | Date of birth

The year given in the Annales Petaviani, 747, would be more likely, except that it contradicts Einhard and a few other sources in making Charlemagne sixty-seven years old at his death.

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

The first event of the brothers' reign was the uprising of the Aquitainians and Gascons, in 769, in that territory split between the two kings.

Waifer decided to honour it, repeating his father's decision, which he justified by arguing that any agreements with Charles Martel became invalid on Martel's death.

After his death the surviving daughters were banished from the court by their brother, the pious Louis, to take up residence in the convents they had been bequeathed by their father.

In 778,  he became king initally getting help from his brother until his death  four years later.


The setting was changed from late 19th-century Congo to the Vietnam War.

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

Commentators have debated whether Apocalypse Now is an anti-war or pro-war film.

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

Dennis Hopper was cast as a war correspondent and observer of Kurtz; when Coppola heard Hopper talking nonstop on location, he remembered putting "the cameras and the Montagnard shirt on him, and [shooting] the scene where he greets them on the boat".

Other versions | Apocalypse Now Final Cut

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

Apocalypse Now is a 1979 American epic war film directed, produced and co-written by Francis Ford Coppola.

both were involved with other projects; in Lucas's case, he got the go-ahead to make Star Wars, and declined the offer to direct Apocalypse Now.

Anthony Swofford recounted how his marine platoon watched Apocalypse Now before being sent to Iraq in 1990 to get excited for war.

Milius came up with the idea for adapting the plot of Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness to the Vietnam War setting.

Apocalypse Now talks about the Vietnam War.


Dexter is an American crime drama mystery television series that aired on Showtime from October 1, 2006, to September 22, 2013.

The original broadcast of the series finale—shown at 9 pm on September 22, 2013—drew 2.8 million viewers, the largest overall audience in Showtime's history.

Miles pled guilty to the crime on September 9.

Season four aired its season finale on December 13, 2009, to a record-breaking audience of 2.6 million viewers, making it the most-watched original series episode ever on Showtime at that time.

A second season of the web series titled Dexter: Early Cuts: Dark Echo, one story in six chapters, premiered on October 25, 2010.

The PTC later objected to CBS' broadcasting of the final two episodes of season one in a two-hour block, and to the episodes' starting times, which were as early as 8 pm in some time zones.

In August 2007, the album soundtrack entitled Dexter: Music from the Showtime Original Series was released featuring music from the television series.

On September 13, 2009, Icarus Studios released a video game based on the events of season one, for the iPhone platform, via the iTunes app store.

In February 2008, reruns (edited down to a TV-14 rating) began to air on CBS in the wake of the shortage of original programming ensuing from the 2007–08 Writers Guild of America strike, thus the reruns on CBS ended after one run of the first season.

Miles had been reported to be obsessed with the television series Dexter.

Dexter (TV series) is an American crime drama mystery television series that aired on HBO from October 1, 2006, to September 22, 2013 in which the original broadcast of the series finale—shown at 9 pm on September 22, 2013—drew 5.8 million viewers, the largest overall audience in HBO's history.


He was the lead singer and guitarist of Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, formed in 1976.

It is stated that Petty had been suffering with pain throughout the tour, but refused to cancel due to it potentially being the final Heartbreakers tour and not wanting to let anyone down.

An Ogeechee lime tree that he purportedly planted while employed at the university is now called the Tom Petty tree (Petty stated that he did not recall planting any trees).

Career | 1976–1987: Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers

Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers joined him on his True Confessions Tour.

Shortly after embracing his musical aspirations, Petty started a band known as the Epics, later to evolve into Mudcrutch.

In September 1979, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers performed at a Musicians United for Safe Energy concert at Madison Square Garden in New York.

No. 40 after the band toured in the United Kingdom in support of Nils Lofgren.

In 1985, the band participated in Live Aid, playing four songs at John F. Kennedy Stadium, in Philadelphia.

The band included future Heartbreakers Mike Campbell and Benmont Tench and was popular in Gainesville, but their recordings went unnoticed by a mainstream audience.

This so-called "superstar pricing" was $1.00 more than the usual list price of $8.98.

Career | 1991–2017: Move to Warner Bros. Records

During the summer of 2007, Petty reunited with his old bandmates Tom Leadon and Randall Marsh along with Heartbreakers Benmont Tench and Mike Campbell to reform his pre-Heartbreakers band Mudcrutch.

Tom Petty had a band called Tom and the Knee-slappers.


Pronounce 'slithy' as if it were the two words, 'sly, thee': make the 'g' hard in 'gyre' and 'gimble': and pronounce 'rath' to rhyme with 'bath.'"In

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

Definition from Oxford English Dictionary, credited to Lewis Carroll.

In the original Mischmasch text, Carroll states a 'wabe' is "the side of a hill (from its being soaked by rain)".

Lithe' is the same as 'active'.

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

In most cases the writers have changed the nonsense words into words relating to the parodied subject, as in Frank Jacobs's "If Lewis Carroll Were a Hollywood Press Agent in the Thirties" in Mad for Better or Verse.

The g is pronounced like the /g/ in gold, not like gem (since this was how "gyroscope" was pronounced in Carroll's day).

the Preface to The Hunting of the Snark, Carroll wrote, "[Let] me take this opportunity of answering a question that has often been asked me, how to pronounce 'slithy toves.'

" Pronounced so as to rhyme with groves.

Often these are similar in spelling or sound to Carroll's while respecting the morphology of the language they are being translated into.

Author Lewis Carroll said that the made-up word "rath" in "Jabberwocky" should be pronounced the same way "wrath" is.


Mercuric poisoning can produce irreversible kidney damage; however, the case for this being a cause of his death is unproven.

Charles II is depicted extensively in art, literature and media.

He was buried in Westminster Abbey "without any manner of pomp" on 14 February.

Charles had a laboratory among his many interests, where prior to his illness he had been experimenting with mercury.

The suddenness of his illness and death led to suspicion of poison in the minds of many, including one of the royal doctors; however, a more modern medical analysis has held that the symptoms of his final illness are similar to those of uraemia (a clinical syndrome due to kidney dysfunction).

In the days between his collapse and his death, Charles endured a variety of torturous treatments including bloodletting, purging and cupping in hopes of effecting a recovery.

Many of them were prosecuted and their estates seized, with Charles replacing judges and sheriffs at will and packing juries to achieve conviction.

To destroy opposition in London, Charles first disenfranchised many Whigs in the 1682 municipal elections, and in 1683 the London charter was forfeited.

He delighted and bored listeners with tales of his escape for many years.

Charles dissolved the English Parliament in 1681, and ruled alone until his death in 1685.

As he had been required to do so many times during his reign, Charles bowed to the wishes of his opponents, committing Danby to the Tower of London, in which he was held for another five years.

Charles II's manner of death is painted and written about by many artists.


The band also composed several film scores.

History | 1967–1978: Transition and international success | Ummagumma (1969), Atom Heart Mother (1970), and Meddle (1971)

However, Melody Maker's Michael Watts found it underwhelming, calling the album "a soundtrack to a non-existent movie", and shrugging off Pink Floyd as "so much sound and fury, signifying nothing".

History | 1978–1985: Waters-led era | The Final Cut (1982)

In 1982, Waters suggested a project with the working title Spare Bricks, originally conceived as the soundtrack album for Pink Floyd – The Wall.

History | 1985–1994: Gilmour-led era | The Division Bell (1994)

For several years Pink Floyd had busied themselves with personal pursuits, such as filming and competing in the La Carrera Panamericana and recording a soundtrack for a film based on the event.

Author Jere O'Neill Surber wrote: "their interests are truth and illusion, life and death, time and space, causality and chance, compassion and indifference." Waters identified empathy as a central theme in the lyrics of Pink Floyd.

History | 1963–1967: Early years | Formation

Which none of the others could do", wrote biographer Nicholas Schaffner.

Waters wrote all the lyrics, as well as all the music on the album.

O'Neill Surber comments on the music of Pink Floyd: Rarely will you find Floyd dishing up catchy hooks, tunes short enough for air-play, or predictable three-chord blues progressions; and never will you find them spending much time on the usual pop album of romance, partying, or self-hype.

Their sonic universe is expansive, intense, and challenging ... Where most other bands neatly fit the songs to the music, the two forming a sort of autonomous and seamless whole complete with memorable hooks, Pink Floyd tends to set lyrics within a broader soundscape that often seems to have a life of its own ... Pink Floyd employs extended, stand-alone instrumentals which are never mere vehicles for showing off virtuoso but are planned and integral parts of the performance.

Waters was critical of Atom Heart Mother, claiming that he would prefer if it were "thrown into the dustbin and never listened to by anyone ever again".

History | 1978–1985: Waters-led era | The Wall (1979)

Bob Ezrin co-produced and wrote a forty-page script for the new album.

Pink Floyd never wrote any movie soundtracks.


Baseball career | Playing and managing career

Comiskey started his playing career as a pitcher, and moved to first base after developing arm trouble.

As a manager, he posted an 839-542 record.

Her two children, Dorothy Comiskey Rigney and Charles Albert Comiskey II (who served in the White Sox front office in the 1940s and 1950s before he became owner), became co-owners of the team following Grace's death in the 1950s.

When Cicotte closed in on the 30-game goal, Comiskey had him benched to keep him from reaching the mark." When Cicotte closed in on the 30-game goal, Comiskey had him benched to keep him from reaching the mark." Comiskey's stated reason for having manager Kid Gleason bench Cicotte was that with the Sox headed for the World Series he had to protect his star pitcher's arm (Cicotte ended up with a 29-7 record for the 1919 season).

Comiskey is sometimes credited with the innovation of playing the first base position behind first base or inside the foul line, a practice which has since become common.

After five seasons of sharing the Twin Cities with another Western League club in Minneapolis, Comiskey and his colleagues arranged to share Chicago with the National League, whose club (the Chicago Cubs today) played on the West Side.

He also played and managed for the Chicago Pirates in the Players' League (1890), the Browns again (1891), and the Cincinnati Reds in the National League (1892–1894).

Charles Albert Comiskey (August 15, 1859 – October 26, 1931), also nicknamed "Commy" or "The Old Roman", was an American Major League Baseball player, manager and team owner.

In one incident, he promised his players a bonus for winning the 1919 pennant —

Comiskey left Cincinnati and the majors in fall 1894 to purchase the Western League club in Sioux City, Iowa and move it to Saint Paul, Minnesota.

Charles Comiskey began his baseball 'career' by buying a club and becoming a manager, racking up an impressive 839-542 record before going on to play.


Stevenson conceived the idea of Treasure Island (originally titled, The Sea Cook: A Story for Boys) from a map of an imaginary, romantic island idly drawn by Stevenson and his stepson Lloyd Osbourne on a rainy day in Braemar, Scotland.

and this may have inspired him to feature the Inn in Treasure Island.

In the novel, Dr. Livesey warns the drunkard Billy Bones that "the name of rum for you is death." Various claims have been made that one island or another inspired Treasure Island:  Isla de Pinos near Cuba, which served as a supply base for pirates for about 300 years, is believed to have inspired Treasure Island.

Stevenson mentions the buried treasure and Captain Thompson in an 1881 letter to W. E. Henley, where he also provides the earliest known title for the book: "The Sea Cook, or Treasure Island: a Story for Boys".

Treasure Island was in part inspired by R. M. Ballantyne's The Coral Island, which Stevenson admired for its "better qualities.

Frank Delaney (2001) wrote a sequel, Jim Hawkins and the Curse of Treasure Island, using the pseudonym "Francis Bryan".

He is eager and enthusiastic to go to sea and hunt for treasure.

Billy, who used to be Flint's first mate, is surly and rude.

Later the book was republished as the novel Treasure Island and the book proved to be Stevenson's first financial and critical success.

Half of Stevenson's original manuscripts are lost, including those of Treasure Island, The Black Arrow, and The Master of Ballantrae.

Small pond in Queen Street Gardens in Edinburgh, said to have been visible from Stevenson's bedroom window in Heriot Row.

Treasure Island was inspired by a sea shanty Stevenson's childminder used to sing to him at night.


Occurrence and functions in biochemistry | Proteinogenic amino acids

Amino acids are the structural units (monomers) that make up proteins.

Occurrence and functions in biochemistry | Non-protein functions

The non-protein amino acid mimosine is found in other species of legume, in particular Leucaena leucocephala.

In humans, non-protein amino acids also have important roles as metabolic intermediates, such as in the biosynthesis of the neurotransmitter gamma-amino-butyric acid (GABA).

Many proteins undergo a range of posttranslational modifications, when additional chemical groups are attached to the amino acids in proteins.

Occurrence and functions in biochemistry | Non-proteinogenic amino acids

Some non-proteinogenic amino acids are not found in proteins.

Non-proteinogenic amino acids that are found in proteins are formed by post-translational modification, which is modification after translation during protein synthesis.

For example, the addition and removal of the fatty acid palmitic acid to cysteine residues in some signaling proteins causes the proteins to attach and then detach from cell membranes.

This polymerization of amino acids is what creates proteins.

Physicochemical properties of amino acids | Table of standard amino acid abbreviations and properties

To aid in the analysis of protein structure, photo-reactive amino acid analogs are available.

The water-soluble proteins tend to have their hydrophobic residues (Leu, Ile, Val, Phe, and Trp) buried in the middle of the protein, whereas hydrophilic side chains are exposed to the aqueous solvent. (Note that in biochemistry, a residue refers to a specific monomer within the polymeric chain of a polysaccharide, protein or nucleic acid.) The integral membrane proteins tend to have outer rings of exposed hydrophobic amino acids that anchor them into the lipid bilayer.

Amino acid are the building-blocks of  protein.


It grossed over $1.3 billion worldwide, becoming the highest-grossing film of 2017, the seventh-highest-grossing film in North America, and the ninth-highest-grossing film of all time during its theatrical run.

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

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

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

It was the first Star Wars film to be released on the Ultra HD Blu-ray format.

It is also the second-highest-grossing Star Wars film and turned a net profit of over $417 million.

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

Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment released Star Wars: The Last Jedi digitally in HD and 4K via digital download and Movies Anywhere on March 13, 2018, with an Ultra HD Blu-ray, Blu-ray, and DVD physical release on March 27.

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

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

Star Wars: The Last Jedi was the highest earning film during the year it was released.


"The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" is a gothic story by American author Washington Irving, contained in his collection of 34 essays and short stories entitled The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent..

Executive producer Charles Sellier was nominated for an Emmy Award for his work on the movie.

In 1988, Glenn Close narrated a version of the story for Windham Hill Records (WH-0711), later also released on audio cassette and CD (WD-0711).

Written while Irving was living abroad in Birmingham, England, "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" was first published in 1820.

In 2005, BBC Radio 7 broadcast a three-part reading of the story narrated by Martin Jarvis, broadcast several times since on BBC Radio 4 Extra.

Annually since 1996, before Halloween, the nonprofit organization Historic Hudson Valley has held "Legend Weekend", an event at the Philipsburg Manor House in Sleepy Hollow.

They soon realize that someone is taking the original legend too far. '" The Smurfs: The Legend of Smurfy Hollow" a retelling of the story by the Smurfs.

The dénouement of the fictional tale is set at the bridge over the Pocantico River in the area of the Old Dutch Church and Burying Ground in Sleepy Hollow.

Along with Irving's companion piece "Rip Van Winkle", "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" is among the earliest examples of American fiction with enduring popularity, especially during Halloween because of a character known as the Headless Horseman believed to be a Hessian soldier who was decapitated by a cannonball in battle.

In 2009 Historic Hudson Valley released an unabridged dramatic reading by Jonathan Kruk with musical effects by Matt Noble.

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow was originally part of a larger volume of short works said to be written by a fictional person, but was later released as it's own work, crediting the actual author, before being turned into several movies and audio cassettes.


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.

Bayona had his own ideas incorporated into the script while essentially retaining the original story devised by Trevorrow and Connolly.

Regarding the mansion sequence in which Maisie is chased by the Indoraptor, Bayona compared the scenes to "the classic ending of a fairy tale, of a Gothic story, like finishing at the top of the castle with the princess in the tower and the dragon chasing the little girl.

Marshall thought that Cabo San Lucas would be ideal, but these locations ultimately did not work for the film's story.

Within the film's story, the T. rex is portrayed as the same individual featured in previous films.

Trevorrow said the film's story was inspired by a quote from Dr. Alan Grant in the first film: "Dinosaurs and man, two species separated by 65 million years of evolution, have suddenly been thrown back into the mix together.

The script's structure, Trevorrow said, was inspired by Spielberg's 2015 film Bridge of Spies, in which two seemingly unrelated stories "collide in the middle, and move on together.

He chose to remove them to keep the story focused.

Trevorrow also said the film would feature many dinosaurs that were not seen in previous films and denied that the film's story would involve militarized dinosaurs, which would only be mentioned in the film.

Isla Nublar's volcano was in the first novel, and the writers chose to incorporate it into the film's plot.

The original cut of the film was approximately two hours and 45 minutes, which the filmmakers considered too long.

The original story for two of the film's fictional raptors was compared to a biblical story by the Writer, Bayona.


Early life and initial stage and television roles

She is of British ancestry, and has Irish paternal ancestry and Swedish maternal ancestry.

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

Time magazine named her one of the 100 most influential people in the world in 2009, and in 2012, she was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE).

Career | 2004–2007: Romances, comedies, and Little Children

Unlike her previous assignments, the role allowed her to display the quirky side to her personality.

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

In an effort to encourage natural ageing, she formed the British Anti-Cosmetic Surgery League, alongside the actresses Emma Thompson and Rachel Weisz.

In 2009, Winslet narrated the English version of an Icelandic documentary named A Mother's Courage: Talking Back to Autism, about Margret Ericsdottir, whose child Keli Thorsteinsson has non-verbal autism.

Winslet was one of the celebrities to participate in a 2007 auction to raise funds for the Afghanistan Relief Organization.

She twisted her ankle while filming one of the dance sequences.

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

Disillusioned by the way the British tabloids portrayed her personal life, Winslet moved to New York.

British actress Kate Winslet also has German heritage on her mother's side.


Takes power and rule 1977-1989 | Reform and Opening-up | Three steps to economic development

Deng continued to chair and develop the reform and opening up as the main policy, and he advanced the three steps suitable for China's economic development strategy within seventy years: the first step, to double the 1980 GNP and ensure that the people have enough food and clothing, was attained by the end of the 1980s; the second step, to quadruple the 1980 GNP by the end of the 20th century, was achieved in 1995 ahead of schedule; the third step, to increase per capita GNP to the level of the medium-developed countries by 2050, at which point, the Chinese people will be fairly well-off and modernization will be basically realized.

Political rise | Resumed war against the Nationalists

Deng played a major part in the Huaihai Campaign against the nationalists.

This statue is dedicated to Deng's role as a planner and contributor to the development of the Shenzhen Special Economic Zone, starting in 1979.

Deng was recognized officially as "the chief architect of China's economic reforms and China's socialist modernization".

There was a significant amount of international reaction to Deng's death: UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan said Deng was to be remembered "in the international community at large as a primary architect of China's modernization and dramatic economic development".

Takes power and rule 1977-1989 | Population control and crime control

China's rapid economic growth presented several problems.

Takes power and rule 1977-1989 | Reform and Opening-up | Export focus

Thus, Deng's reforms shifted China's development strategy to an emphasis on light industry and export-led growth.

Takes power and rule 1977-1989 | International affairs

With these visits so significant, Deng made it clear that the new Chinese regime's priorities were economic and technological development.

In the winter of 1932, Deng went on to play the same position in the nearby district of Huichang.

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

Reforms and Openness). China's domestic social, political, and most notably, economic systems would undergo significant changes during Deng's time.

Deng Xiaoping didn't play a major role in China's economic development.


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.

Goslin was leading Manush when his turn came to bat in the ninth inning.

Goslin was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1968, along with Kiki Cuyler, by the Veterans Committee.

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

The Tigers won the 1935 World Series on Goslin's game-winning single in the bottom of the ninth inning of Game 6.

After retiring from baseball, Goslin operated a boat rental company on Delaware Bay for many years, until he retired in 1969.

On July 28, 1936, Goslin hit one of the most unusual home runs in baseball history.

" 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.

With the game tied 3–3 in the top of the ninth inning, the Cubs' Stan Hack hit a lead-off triple, but Detroit ace Tommy Bridges struck out the next batter, followed by a ground-out and a fly-out caught by Goslin in left field.

When he was inducted into the Hall, Goslin broke down and cried.

Goslin ranked #6 on the Sports Illustrated list of The 50 Greatest New Jersey Sports Figures.

Goslin drove the ball into the gap.

Goslin was referred to as "Goose" in baseball.


Many of the beaches in this part of England are made up of small stones or pebbles rather than sand, and Arnold describes the sea ebbing over the stones as a "grating roar".

He describes an ancient battle that occurred on a similar beach during the Athenian invasion of Sicily.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Dover Beach is a poem that describes the beachfront as large rocks as opposed to a tropical beach.


At the time, the nearest MLB team was nearly 2,000 miles (3,200 km) from San Francisco.

He played several sports as a child and he won a city tennis championship for his age group when he was 14.

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

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

Major league career | As a player-manager and manager

As early as 1938, it was apparent that Cronin was nearing the end of his playing career.

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

"In 1999, he was named to the Major League Baseball All-Century Team.

While the National League held only an 8–7 edge in World Series play during the Cronin era, it dominated the Major League Baseball All-Star Game, going 15–3–1 in the 19 games played from 1959–73.

Of the four expansion teams that joined the league beginning in 1961, three abandoned their original host cities within a dozen years (the Pilots after only one season), and only one team—the Royals—remained in its original municipality.

During his 20-year playing career (1926–1945), Cronin played for three teams, primarily the Boston Red Sox; he was a player-manager for 13 seasons (1933–1945), and served as manager for two additional seasons (1946–1947).

A seven-time All-Star, Cronin became the first AL player to become an All-Star with two teams; he was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1956.

Born in California, Joe Cronin played tennis when a Major League Baseball team was on the other end of the country.


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

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

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

However, the pilot was not picked up as a running series.

The film was universally acclaimed.

L.A. Confidential received many positive reviews.

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

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

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

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

L.A. Confidential is the second book in the L.A. Quartet series and was adapted for a 1997 film of the same name, directed and co-written by Curtis Hanson.


Sullivan embarked on his composing career with a series of ambitious works, interspersed with hymns, parlour songs and other light pieces in a more commercial vein.

After the extraordinary success of H.M.S. Pinafore (1878) and The Pirates of Penzance (1879), Carte used his profits from the partnership to build the Savoy Theatre in 1881, and their joint works became known as the Savoy operas.

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

Herman Klein called the episode "the strangest comingling of success and failure ever chronicled in the history of British lyric enterprise!" Later in 1891 Sullivan composed music for Tennyson's The Foresters, which ran well at Daly's Theatre in New York in 1892, but failed in London the following year.

Life and career | 1870s: first collaborations with Gilbert

In 1879 Sullivan suggested to a reporter from The New York Times the secret of his success with Gilbert: "His ideas are as suggestive for music as they are quaint and laughable.

Reputation and criticism | Knighthood and later years

In other words, it will look rather more than odd to see announced in the papers that a new comic opera is in preparation, the book by Mr. W. S. Gilbert and the music by Sir Arthur Sullivan.

" Pinafore was followed by The Pirates of Penzance in 1879, which opened in New York and then ran in London for 363 performances.

The Musical Review of that year observed: [S]ome things that Mr. Arthur Sullivan may do, Sir Arthur ought not to do.

He also composed a dramatic cantata, On Shore and Sea, for the opening of the London International Exhibition, and the hymn "Onward, Christian Soldiers", with words by Sabine Baring-Gould.

In 1895 Sullivan once more provided incidental music for the Lyceum, this time for J. Comyns Carr's King Arthur.

Music | Method of composition and text setting

In composing the Savoy operas, Sullivan wrote the vocal lines of the musical numbers first, and these were given to the actors.

Sir Arthur Seymour Sullivan was a British composer who wrote hymns to learn about music was more successful in New York than in London.


Set during the Trojan War, the ten-year siege of the city of Troy (Ilium) by a coalition of Greek states, it tells of the battles and events during the weeks of a quarrel between King Agamemnon and the warrior Achilles.

Then the epic narrative takes up events prophesied for the future, such as Achilles' imminent death and the fall of Troy, although the narrative ends before these events take place.

Aeschylus' trilogy, the Oresteia, comprising Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, and The Eumenides, follows the story of Agamemnon after his return from the war.

Even without Homer, the Trojan War story had remained central to Western European medieval literary culture and its sense of identity.

Although the story covers only a few weeks in the final year of the war, the Iliad mentions or alludes to many of the Greek legends about the siege; the earlier events, such as the gathering of warriors for the siege, the cause of the war, and related concerns tend to appear near the beginning.

He says that humans during that time were lacking what we today call consciousness.

Influence on arts and pop culture | Contemporary popular culture

Informed by Julian Jaynes' theory of the bicameral mind and the historicity of the Trojan War, it depicts its characters as real men to whom the gods appear only as hallucinations or command voices during the sudden and painful transition to truly modern consciousness.

Note: Book numbers are in parentheses and come before the synopsis of the book.(1) After an invocation to the Muses, the story launches in medias res towards the end of the Trojan War between the Trojans and the besieging Greeks.

When Agamemnon takes Briseis from Achilles, he takes away a portion of the kleos he had earned.

The stars conjure profound images of the place of a single man, no matter how heroic, in the perspective of the entire cosmos.

The story takes place during the Peloponnesian War.


Post-playing career | Baseball Hall of Fame election

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

In an interview on March 17, 2011, Griffey stated he had retired to avoid being a distraction for the team.

He was formally inducted on August 10, 2013.

On Sunday August 10, 2014, Griffey Jr. was inducted into the Cincinnati Reds Hall of Fame.

He was inducted into both the Mariners' Hall of Fame and the Reds Hall of Fame.

On January 22, 2013, the Mariners announced Griffey would be the seventh person inducted into the Seattle Mariners Hall of Fame.

The jersey retirement includes the number 24 also being taken out of circulation of all of the Mariners minor league affiliates.

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

Despite being ranked second in the National League All-Star voting for outfielders for most of the first half of the season, Griffey finished fourth with 2,907,746 ballots, 87,000 votes behind Kosuke Fukudome.

The other is Chipper Jones, who was inducted in 2018.To coincide with his Hall of Fame election, the Mariners announced on January 8, 2016, that they would retire his jersey number 24.

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

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

Griffey has yet to be inducted to Cooperstown.


The Buddha also critiqued the practices of brahmin priests, such as animal sacrifice.

He is revered as the founder of the world religion of Buddhism.

Some Hindus regard Gautama as the 9th avatar of Vishnu.

Biography | First sermon and formation of the saṅgha

The Buddha then continued to teach the other ascetics and they formed the first saṅgha: the company of Buddhist monks.

The Christian Saint Josaphat is based on the Buddha.

In the Bahá'í Faith, Buddha is regarded as one of the Manifestations of God.

Some early Chinese Taoist-Buddhists thought the Buddha to be a reincarnation of Laozi.

Disciples of the Cao Đài religion worship the Buddha as a major religious teacher.

However, most Classical scholars described Buddha in theistic terms, that is apart from Islamic teachings.

The only story in which St. Josaphat appears, Barlaam and Josaphat, is based on the life of the Buddha.

By the 12th century, al-Shahrastani even compared Buddha to Khidr, described as an ideal human.

Such idols had been sold in Buddhist temples next to a mosque in Bukhara, but he does not further discuss the role of Buddha.

Gautama Buddha was not the first Buddha in existence.


Their career together ended in 1983 when Karen died from heart failure brought on by complications of anorexia.

The original house was featured on the cover of Now & Then and was where Karen had died.

Karen was an accomplished drummer, which was her original musical role, but she soon began to sing for the group too.

History | As the Carpenters | Karen's death

After Richard and his parents spent 20 minutes in a waiting room, a doctor entered and told them Karen had died.

The Carpenters were an American vocal and instrumental duo consisting of siblings Karen (1950–1983) and Richard Carpenter (b. 1946).

History | As the Carpenters | The Singles: 1974–1978

During the sessions, several non-Christmas songs were recorded such as "Where Do I Go from Here", which was not released until after Karen's death.

The siblings were born in New Haven, Connecticut, and moved to Downey, California, in 1963.

History | As the Carpenters | The Singles: 1969–1973

The duo ultimately moved out of their parents' house; at first the siblings shared a home.

He cited the group as an early influence growing up.

History | Pre-Carpenters | The Richard Carpenter Trio and Spectrum

He bought a tape recorder, and began to make recordings of the group.

The Carpenters were a sibling group until Karen died.


Sulfuric acid is used for a variety of other purposes in the chemical industry.

H2O → 2 H2SO4Directly dissolving SO3 in water is not practiced.

Uses | Industrial production of chemicals

The major use for sulfuric acid is in the "wet method" for the production of phosphoric acid, used for manufacture of phosphate fertilizers.

H2O Sulfuric acid at high concentrations is frequently the major ingredient in acidic drain cleaners which are used to remove grease, hair, tissue paper, etc.

This combustion process produces gaseous sulfur dioxide (SO2) and sulfur trioxide (SO3) which are then used to manufacture "new" sulfuric acid.

Sulfuric acid is also often used as a dehydrating or oxidising agent in industrial reactions, such as the dehydration of various sugars to form solid carbon.

Another important use for sulfuric acid is for the manufacture of aluminium sulfate, also known as paper maker's alum.

Used acid is often recycled using a spent acid regeneration (SAR) plant.

Sulfuric acid is a very important commodity chemical, and indeed, a nation's sulfuric acid production is a good indicator of its industrial strength.

Physical properties | Grades of sulfuric acid

In particular, "10M" sulfuric acid (the modern equivalent of chamber acid, used in many titrations) is prepared by slowly adding 98% sulfuric acid to an equal volume of water, with good stirring: the temperature of the mixture can rise to 80 °C (176 °F) or higher.

Sulfuric acid has no practical uses.