The second play, Table Number Seven, is set about 18 months after the events of the previous play, and deals with the touching friendship between a repressed spinster and Major Pollock, a kindly but bogus man posing as an upper-class retired army officer.

The first play, titled Table by the Window, focuses on the troubled relationship between a disgraced Labour politician and his ex-wife.

Separate Tables is the collective name of two one-act plays by Terence Rattigan, both taking place in the Beauregard Private Hotel, Bournemouth, on the south coast of England.

Separate Tables was presented at The Music Box in  New York on 25 October 1956.

After an out-of-town tryout in Manchester, Separate Tables had its premiere at the St James's Theatre in London on 22 September 1954, with the following cast: Mrs Shankland and Miss Railton-Bell – Margaret Leighton Mr Martin and Major Pollock – Eric Portman

The two main roles in both plays are written to be played by the same performers.

In Table by the Window, Martin, a once-rising politician, now turned to drink, is dining with his ex-wife, whom he was sent to prison for beating.

In Table Number Seven, Major Pollock tries to conceal from his fellow guests a report in the local newspaper of his sexual harassment of women at a local cinema.

The plays are about people who are driven by loneliness into a state of desperation.

Patricia RayneThe play was directed by Peter Glenville, with sets by Michael Weight.

The Separate Tables plays went by different names.


His third wife, Zhuo Lin, was the daughter of an industrialist in Yunnan.

They had five children: three daughters (Deng Lin, Deng Nan and Deng Rong) and two sons (Deng Pufang and Deng Zhifang).

Takes power and rule 1977-1989 | Crackdown of Tiananmen Square protests

The movement lasted seven weeks.

Deng Xiaoping (1995). Selected Works of Deng Xiaoping: 1938–1965.

His second wife, Jin Weiying, left him after Deng came under political attack in 1933.

Takes power and rule 1977-1989 | Reform and Opening-up | Four modernizations

The last position of power retained by Hua Guofeng, chairman of the Central Military Commission, was taken by Deng in 1981.

China, however, was still in the era of Deng Xiaoping.

Selected Works of Deng Xiaoping: 1975–1982.

Selected Works of Deng Xiaoping: 1982–1992.

The Chinese characters for "Statue of Deng Xiaoping" are inscribed on the pedestal.

Political career under Mao | Target of two purges | 'Criticize Deng' campaign

Deng's reputation as a reformer suffered a severe blow when the Qingming Festival, after the mass public mourning of Zhou on a traditional Chinese holiday, culminated in the Tiananmen Incident on 5 April 1976, an event the Gang of Four branded as counter-revolutionary and threatening to their power.

Deng Xiaoping had 5 kids with his last wife.


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.

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

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

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

As Puyi was also the last ruling Emperor of China, he is widely known as "The Last Emperor" (Chinese: 末代皇帝; pinyin: Mòdài Huángdì; Wade–Giles: Mo4-tai4 Huang2-ti4) in China and throughout the rest of the world.

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

Due to his abdication, Puyi is also known as "Xun Di" (Chinese: 遜帝; pinyin: Xùn Dì; lit.: 'Yielded Emperor') or "Fei Di" (simplified Chinese: 废帝; traditional Chinese: 廢帝; pinyin: Fèi Dì; lit.: 'Abrogated Emperor').

The Australian judge Sir William Webb, the President of the Tribunal, was often frustrated with Puyi's testimony, and chided him numerous times.

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

Behr noted that in Europe people who played roles analogous to the role Puyi played in Manchukuo were generally executed; for example, the British hanged William Joyce ("Lord Haw-haw") for being the announcer on the English-language broadcasts of Radio Berlin, the Italians shot Benito Mussolini, and the French executed Pierre Laval, so many Westerners are surprised that Puyi was released from prison after only nine years to start a new life.

Puyi was known to use the English name William.


James Cromwell became an ethical vegan as a result of starring as Farmer Hoggett, saying, "I decided that to be able to talk about this [movie] with conviction, I needed to become a vegetarian.

The main animal characters are played by a combination of real and animatronic pigs and Border Collies.

According to actor James Cromwell, there was tension on the set between producer George Miller and director Chris Noonan.

The talking-animal visual effects were done by Rhythm & Hues Studios and Jim Henson's Creature Shop.

It also received critical acclaim and was ultimately nominated for seven Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Supporting Actor, Best Production Design, and Best Film Editing, winning Best Visual Effects.

When she is let back in later, she gets revenge on Babe by revealing that humans eat pigs.

However, he is still demoralized and refuses to eat.

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

48 different pigs were used for the part of Babe.

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

The actor that played Farmer Hoggett in Babe was so effected by the role that he stopped eating meat or animal products.


He first gained recognition as Will Tippin in the spy-action television show Alias (2001–2006), and achieved minor success with a supporting part in the comedy film Wedding Crashers (2005).

He was also in a relationship with Russian model Irina Shayk from 2015 to 2019, with whom he has a daughter.

Cooper began a relationship with Russian model

Describing himself as a child, Cooper has said: "I never lived the life of 'Oh, you're so good-looking'.

Cooper was born on January 5, 1975, in Philadelphia, and grew up in the nearby communities of Jenkintown and Rydal.

Bradley Charles Cooper (born January 5, 1975) is an American actor, film director, producer, and screenwriter.

Career | Breakthrough and success (2009–2012)

The year 2012 saw Cooper star in four films—

In March 2013, he began dating English model Suki Waterhouse; the relationship ended in March 2015.

Career | Commercial fluctuations (2013–2017)

With these nominations, Cooper became the tenth actor in history to receive an Academy Award nomination for acting in three consecutive years.

Career | Professional expansion (2018–present)

Cooper spent nearly four years working on the project, including learning to sing, play guitar, and play piano.

Gaga and Cooper earned two Grammy nominations for "Shallow"—Record of the Year and Best Pop Duo/Group Performance, winning the latter.

Within the last 5 years, Cooper had a child with a Russian model.


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

Professional baseball | Major leagues | New York Mets (1972–73)

" Five days later, the Mets honored him on Willie Mays Day, proclaimed by New York City mayor John Lindsay, where he thanked the New York fans and said goodbye to baseball.

Mays played only 66 games for the Mets that year, batting a career-low .211 with just six home runs.

By the end of his career, Mays had won a Gold Glove Award 12 times.

After Mays retired as a player, he remained in the New York Mets organization as their hitting instructor until the end of the 1979 season.

Years after his career ended, in 1989, Mays appeared on My Two Dads in the episode, "You Love Me, Right?".

Professional baseball | Major leagues | Barnstorming

During the first part of his career, Mays often participated in barnstorming tours after his regular season with the Giants ended.

Professional baseball | Major leagues | New York Giants (1951–1957)

-1.The Giants went on to meet the New York Yankees in the 1951 World Series.

On February 10, 2010, Mays appeared on The Daily Show, discussing his career and a new biography, Willie Mays: The Life, the Legend, by James S. Hirsch.

Mays had remained popular in New York long after the Giants had left for San Francisco, and the trade was seen as a public relations coup for the Mets.

Willie Mays ended his career playing for New York.


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

Spiegel initially tried to make Nicholas and Alexandra without buying the rights to the book by Robert K. Massie, claiming that the historical account was in public domain but, eventually, Spiegel purchased the rights and hired writer James Goldman to adapt Massie's book as a screenplay.

Although Robert Massie wrote the book upon which this film was based, he did not have complete information because the Soviet government at the time would not permit the release of all relevant records.

Massie later wrote a continuation, The Romanovs: The Final Chapter.

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

Nicholas and Alexandra was nominated for three Golden Globes including Best Supporting Actor and Most Promising Newcomer for Baker and Most Promising Newcomer for Suzman.

Despite the detailed production design, photography, and strong performances from the cast, Nicholas and Alexandra failed to find the large audience it needed to be a financial success.

In 2013, Alex von Tunzelmann wrote for The Guardian, "Nicholas and Alexandra boasts terrific performances and gorgeous production design, but it's bloated and unwieldy.

Nicholas and Alexandra was recognised by the National Board of Review as one of the Top 10 Films of 1972.The score by Richard Rodney Bennett was nominated for a Grammy.

Producer Spiegel tackled Nicholas and Alexandra when he was shut out from working with director David Lean on Doctor Zhivago, which was also set against the backdrop of revolutionary Russia.

Nicholas and Alexandra is a novel by Robert Massie


It is the quantum of the electromagnetic field including electromagnetic radiation such as light and radio waves, and the force carrier for the electromagnetic force.

Experiments validated Einstein's approach, and in 1926, Gilbert N. Lewis popularized the term photon for these energy units.

In most theories up to the eighteenth century, light was pictured as being made up of particles.

The photon is a type of elementary particle.

Since the Maxwell theory of light allows for all possible energies of electromagnetic radiation, most physicists assumed initially that the energy quantization resulted from some unknown constraint on the matter that absorbs or emits the radiation.

In the Standard Model of particle physics, photons and other elementary particles are described as a necessary consequence of physical laws having a certain symmetry at every point in spacetime.

Quantum field theory | Quantization of the electromagnetic field

i ⟩                 {\displaystyle |n_{k_{i}}\rangle }    represents the state in which                                             n

Physical properties | Experimental checks on photon mass

If the photon is not a strictly massless particle, it would not move at the exact speed of light, c, in vacuum.

In a particle picture, the slowing can instead be described as a blending of the photon with quantum excitations of the matter to produce quasi-particles known as polariton (see this list for some other quasi-particles); this polariton has a nonzero effective mass, which means that it cannot travel at c. Light of different frequencies may travel through matter at different speeds; this is called dispersion (not to be confused with scattering).

The word quanta (singular quantum, Latin for how much) was used before 1900 to mean particles or amounts of different quantities, including electricity.

Wave–particle duality and uncertainty principles

ϕ                 {\displaystyle \phi }    cannot be represented by a Hermitian operator.

A photon can be described as a particle representing the smallest possible amount of light or other type of electromagnetic radiation.


Usage | Vehicular traffic | Exits and entrances

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

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

It is not the work of any one man or of any one age.

The wire was one of two that were used to create a temporary footbridge for workers while cable spinning was ongoing.

However, the following month, one of the wires slipped, killing two people and injuring three others.

History | Mid- to late 20th century | Upgrades

During the construction project, one roadway at a time was closed, allowing reduced traffic flows to cross the bridge in one direction only.

The entrance ramp to the bridge on the Manhattan side was subsequently dedicated as the Ari Halberstam Memorial Ramp.

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

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

This required the closure of one roadway at a time, as was done to during the rebuilding of the bridge itself.

There are two entrances on the bridge for pedestritians on each side.


Life | Early years | Family background and childhood

Georges Bizet was born in Paris on 25 October 1838.

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

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

After this rebuff, Bizet entered an opera competition which Jacques Offenbach had organised for young composers, with a prize of 1,200 francs.

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

According to Dean, she was as delighted by the part as Bizet was by her suitability for it.

For most of his life, Bizet had suffered from a recurrent throat complaint.

The prize was awarded jointly to Bizet and Charles Lecocq, a compromise which years later Lecocq criticised on the grounds of the jury's manipulation by Fromental Halévy in favour of Bizet.

, Bizet competed for the prestigious Prix de Rome.

Life | Emergent composer | Paris, 1860–1863

As a pianist, Bizet had showed considerable skill from his earliest years.

Alexandre César Léopold Bizet is from the southern coastal town of France, Marseilles.


Following his return from the war, Alexander suffered from shell shock and was plagued with epileptic seizures, which only exacerbated his drinking problem.

"Alexander was drafted and one month before shipping out, he married Amy Marie Arrants on May 31 in a courthouse ceremony in Manhattan, Kansas (the couple divorced in 1929, remarried in 1931, and divorced again in 1941).Alexander spent most of the 1918 season in France as a sergeant with the 342nd Field Artillery.

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

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

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

Alexander is the first player mentioned in the poem Line-Up for Yesterday by Ogden Nash: Newspapers often mentioned Alexander's full name when writing about him, in addition to just "Grover".

Alexander was the only player elected that year.

The film earned an estimated $1.7 million at the North American box office in 1952.

Alexander made his Philadelphia debut during the pre-season 1911 City Series, pitching five innings of no-hit, no-run baseball against the Athletics.

Although people often misinterpreted his seizure-related problems as drunkenness, Alexander hit the bottle particularly hard as a result of the physical and emotional injuries inflicted by the war, which plagued him for the rest of his life.

Before going to war, he was given a watch engraved with the nickname, dating its origin to no later than 1918.

American baseball player Grover Cleveland Alexander suffered from PTSD from his involvement in the Vietnam War.


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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Alexander was referred to as "Old Pete".


Although autobiographical in nature, "The Open Boat" is a work of fiction; it is often considered a principal example of Naturalism, an offshoot of the Realist literary movement, in which scientific principles of objectivity and detachment are applied to the study of human characteristics.

Praising the merit of the story and his friend's literary importance, journalist Harold Frederic wrote in his review for The New York Times that "even if he had written nothing else, ["The Open Boat" would] have placed [Crane] where he now undoubtedly stands." English poet Robert Bridges likewise praised the story in his review for Life, stating that Crane "has indelibly fixed the experience on your mind, and that is the test of a literary artisan".

"The Open Boat" is a short story by American author Stephen Crane (1871–1900).

Crane completed the story that would become "The Open Boat" a few weeks later, in mid-February.

Like other major works by Stephen Crane, "The Open Boat" contains numerous examples of symbolism, imagery and metaphor.

"The Open Boat" was published in the United States by Doubleday & McClure in April 1898 as part of the book The Open Boat and Other Tales of Adventure, which included additional works by Crane such as

Crane subsequently adapted his report into narrative form, and the resulting short story "The Open Boat" was published in Scribner's Magazine.

"The Open Boat" is divided into seven sections, each told mainly from the point of view of the correspondent, based upon Crane himself.

A volume titled The Open Boat and Other Tales of Adventure was published in the United States in 1898; an edition entitled The Open Boat and Other Stories was published simultaneously in England.

According to fellow correspondent Ralph D. Paine, Crane had the opportunity to show the first draft of the short story to Murphy when Crane again passed through Jacksonville.

When Crane asked his opinion, Murphy allegedly replied, "You've got it, Steve

"The Open Boat" is non-fiction written by Crane.


Early in the novel, Anderson briefly reminisces about attending Brookfield and knowing "Chips".

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

The exteriors of the buildings of the fictional Brookfield School were filmed at Repton School, an independent school (at the time of filming, for boys only), located in the village of Repton, in Derbyshire, in the Midlands area of England, whilst the interiors, school courtyards and annexes, including the supposedly exterior shots of the Austrian Tyrol Mountains, were filmed at Denham Film Studios, near the village of Denham in Buckinghamshire.

Many scenes were filmed at Repton School, Derbyshire, in an effort to remain faithful to the original film.

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

Around 200 boys from Repton School stayed on during the school holidays so that they could appear in the film.

Balgarnie had been linked with the school for 51 years and spent his last years in modest lodgings nearby.

Katherine charms the Brookfield teachers and headmaster, and quickly wins the favour of Brookfield's pupils.

Hilton is reported to have said that the inspiration for the protagonist, Mr. Chips, came from many sources, including his father, who was the headmaster of Chapel End School.

When I read so many other stories about public school life, I am struck by the fact that I suffered no such purgatory as their authors apparently did, and much of this miracle was due to Balgarnie.

The novel is about a well liked school teacher and set at Brookfield School, a real English boarding school in Derbyshire.


Edgar Allan Poe was inspired by Keats's writing about the discovery of Uranus when he wrote his early poem "Al Aaraaf" (1829).

It tells of the author's astonishment while reading the works of the ancient Greek poet Homer as freely translated by the Elizabethan playwright George Chapman.

On First Looking into Chapman's Homer is a sonnet written by the English Romantic poet John Keats (1795–1821) in October 1816.

Vladimir Nabokov refers to the poem in his novel Pale Fire when the fictional poet John Shade mentions a newspaper headline that attributes a recent Boston Red Sox victory to "Chapman's Homer" (i.e. to a home run by a player named Chapman).

Of the many islands of the Aegean, the one which bards most in fealty owe to Apollo, leader of the inspiring Muses, is Delos, the sacred island that was Apollo's birthplace.

Australian poet Peter Porter  opens the fourth of

The poem has become an often-quoted classic, cited to demonstrate the emotional power of a great work of art, and the ability of great art to create an epiphany in its beholder.

1882. Henry James refers to Keats's sonnet in Book 2 of The Golden Bowl (1904), in his description of Adam Verver's discovery of his passion for collecting objects of art.

While the octave offers the poet as a literary explorer, the volta brings in the discovery of Chapman's Homer

The standard critical view is that John Keats simply remembered the grand, but separate, images of Cortés and of Darien, rather than their historical contexts.

John Keats's work was so influential that it affected many famous poets and writers after him.


The war erupted soon after Black Hawk and a group of Sauks, Meskwakis, and Kickapoos, known as the "British Band", crossed the Mississippi River, into the U.S. state of Illinois, from Iowa Indian Territory in April 1832.

General Atkinson, who learned in early July that Scott would be taking command, hoped to bring the war to a successful conclusion before Scott's arrival.

Tribes along the Upper Mississippi had long fought for control of diminishing hunting grounds, and the Black Hawk War provided an opportunity for some Natives to resume a war that had nothing to do with Black Hawk.

Before the Black Hawk War, U.S. policy discouraged intertribal warfare.

According to Hall, "the Black Hawk War also involved an intertribal conflict that had smoldered for decades".

Most accounts of the Black Hawk War focus on the conflict between Black Hawk and the United States, but historian John Hall argues that this overlooks the perspective of many Native American participants.

In the 19th century, historian Lyman Draper argued that the Black Hawk War could have been avoided had Forsyth remained as the agent to the Sauks.

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

As the United States colonized westward in the early 19th century, government officials sought to buy as much Native American land as possible.

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

Although the British Band traveled with armed guards as a security precaution, Black Hawk was probably hoping to avoid a war when he reentered Illinois.

The Black Hawk War dates to the early 1800s


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

References in culture | Adaptations | Film and TV

The screenplay was written by Raquel Villavicencio.

Brontë, Emily (1976). Wuthering Heights.

" The Unreliable Narrator in Wuthering Heights".

References in culture | Works inspired by | Literature

The poem "Wuthering" (2017) by Tanya Grae uses Wuthering Heights as an allegory.

References in culture | Adaptations | Literature

This version, which stays close to the original novel, received a nomination for the Stan Lee Excelsior Awards, elected by pupils from 170 schools in the United Kingdom.

Critical response | Early reviews (1847–1848)

Early reviews of Wuthering Heights were mixed in their assessment.

References in culture | Works inspired by | Music

Marten wrote the song while studying Wuthering Heights.

When Linton dies, Cathy has no option but to remain at Wuthering Heights.

Joseph is left to take care of the declining Wuthering Heights.

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

Wuthering Heights is a play written by Spike Lee.


Traditional biographies | Nature of traditional depictions

These texts contain descriptions of the culture and daily life of ancient India which can be corroborated from the Jain scriptures, and make the Buddha's time the earliest period in Indian history for which significant accounts exist.

The Buddha (also known as Siddhattha Gotama or Siddhārtha Gautama) was a philosopher, mendicant, meditator, spiritual teacher, and religious leader who lived in Ancient India (c. 5th to 4th century BCE).

In the ancient Gnostic sect of Manichaeism, the Buddha is listed among the prophets who preached the word of God before Mani.

The Jatakas also sometimes depict negative actions done in previous lives by the bodhisattva, which explain difficulties he experienced in his final life as Gautama.

The earliest Buddhist sources state that the Buddha was born to an aristocratic Kshatriya (Pali: khattiya) family called Gotama (Sanskrit: Gautama), who were part of the Shakyas, a tribe of rice-farmers living near the modern border of India and Nepal.

Many stories of these previous lives are depicted in the Jatakas.

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

According to the Buddhist tradition, Gautama was born in Lumbini, now in modern-day Nepal, and raised in Kapilvastu, which may have been either in what is present-day Tilaurakot, Nepal or Piprahwa, India.

Legendary biographies like the Pali Buddhavaṃsa and the Sanskrit Jātakamālā depict the Buddha's (referred to as "bodhisattva" before his awakening) career as spanning hundreds of lifetimes before his last birth as Gautama.

Majjhima Nikaya 4 also mentions that Gautama lived in "remote jungle thickets" during his years of spiritual striving and had to overcome the fear that he felt while living in the forests.

Gautama Buddha lived in Ancient India and Egypt.


It premiered on May 20, 2009, at the 62nd Cannes Film Festival, and received a wide release in theaters in the United States and Europe in August 2009 by The Weinstein Company and Universal Pictures.

It was released in Germany on August 20, 2009.

It was released on DVD and Blu-ray Disc on December 7, 2009, in the UK.

It also features the spaghetti-westernesque terms Once Upon A Time In Nazi Occupied France, which was considered for the film's title, and A Basterd's Work Is Never Done, a line not spoken in the final film (the line occurs in the script during the Bear Jew's backstory).The film was released on August 19, 2009 in the United Kingdom and France, two days earlier than the U.S. release date of August 21, 2009.

The soundtrack, the first of Tarantino's not to include dialogue excerpts, was released on August 18, 2009.

The film was released on single-disc DVD and a two-disc special-edition DVD and Blu-ray Disc on December 15, 2009, by Universal Studios Home Entertainment in the United States and Australia.

The film's first full teaser trailer premiered on Entertainment Tonight on February 10, 2009, and was shown in U.S. theaters the following week attached to Friday the 13th.

The trailer features excerpts of Lt. Aldo Raine talking to the Basterds, informing them of the plan to ambush and kill, torture, and scalp unwitting Nazi servicemen, intercut with various other scenes from the film.

In July 2008, Tarantino and executive producers Harvey and Bob Weinstein set up an accelerated production schedule to be completed for release at the Cannes Film Festival in 2009, where the film would compete for the Palme d'Or.

Inglourious Basterds is a 2009 war film written and directed by Quentin Tarantino and starring Brad Pitt, Christoph Waltz, Michael Fassbender, Eli Roth, Diane Kruger, Daniel Brühl, Til Schweiger and Mélanie Laurent.

Inglorious Basterds was released in the summer of 2009.


According to 2007 British poll Wuthering Heights is the greatest love story of all time – "Yet some of the novel’s admirers consider it not a love story at all but an exploration of evil and abuse".

intent". While a "passionate, doomed, death-transcending relationship between Heathcliff and Catherine Earnshaw Linton forms the core of the novel", Wuthering Heights consistently subverts the romantic narrative.

is his nurse). She lives and works among the rough inhabitants of Wuthering Heights but is well-read, and she also experiences the more genteel manners of Thrushcross Grange.

The first description of Wuthering Heights, an old house high on moorland in Yorkshire, is provided by the tenant Lockwood: Wuthering Heights is the name of Mr. Heathcliff's dwelling, "wuthering" being a significant provincial adjective, descriptive of the atmospheric tumult to which its station is exposed in stormy weather.

Feminist critics argue that reading of Wuthering Heights as a love not only "romanticizes abusive men and toxic relationships but goes against Brontë’s clear

"New Monthly Magazine wrote "Wuthering Heights, by Ellis Bell, is a terrific story, associated with an equally fearful and repulsive spot ... Our novel reading experience does not enable us to refer to anything to be compared with the personages we are introduced to at this desolate spot – a perfect misanthropist's heaven.

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".

Wuthering Heights is associated with Heathcliff "who represents the savage forces in human beings which civilization attempts vainly to eliminate"; this wild place stands in contrast with the nearby "'civilized' household of Thrushcross Grange".

"G.H. Lewes, in Leader, shortly after Emily's death, wrote: "Curious enough is to read Wuthering Heights and The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, and remember that the writers were two retiring, solitary, consumptive girls!

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

Wuthering Heights is probably not actually meant to be read as a romantic story.


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

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

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

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

History | 1722–1868 toppling of the moai

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

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

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

Today, about 50 moai have been re-erected on their ahus or at museums elsewhere.

Some of the moai toppled forward such that their faces were hidden, and often fell in such a way that their necks broke; others fell off of the back of their platforms.

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

The heaviest moai erected was a shorter but squatter moai at Ahu Tongariki, weighing 86 tonnes.

Most Moai have feet, which are just hard to see because they're buried.


Gray was eventually forced to publish the work on 15 February 1751 in order to preempt a magazine publisher from printing an unlicensed copy of the poem.

Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard is a poem by Thomas Gray, completed in 1750 and first published in 1751.

On 3 June 1750, Gray moved to Stoke Poges, and on 12 June he completed Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard.

Critical response | 20th-century response

But in the Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard these longstanding and very human concerns have their most affecting expression.

This was the case with Edward Jerningham's The Nunnery: an elegy in imitation of the Elegy in a Churchyard, published in 1762.

Gray dismisses its positives as merely being that he was able to complete the poem, which was probably influenced by his experience of the churchyard at Stoke Poges, where he attended the Sunday service and was able to visit the grave of Antrobus.

Written in a Country Meeting House, April 1789; Parodized from Gray for the Entertainment of Those Who Laugh at All Parties by George Richards (d.1804) and published from Boston MA, the parody was printed opposite Gray's original page by page, making the translation to the political context more obvious.

In 1995, Lorna Clymer argued, "The dizzying series of displacements and substitutions of subjects, always considered a crux in Thomas Gray's "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard" (1751), results from a complex manipulation of epitaphic rhetoric." Later, Robert Mack, in 2000, explained that "Gray's Elegy is numbered high among the very greatest poems in the English tradition precisely because of its simultaneous accessibility and inscrutability." He went on to claim that the poem "was very soon to transform his life – and to transform or at least profoundly affect the development of lyric poetry in English".

At the opposite extreme, Gray's poem provided a format for a surprising number that purport to be personal descriptions of life in gaol, starting with An elegy in imitation of Gray, written in the King's Bench Prison by a minor (London 1790), which is close in title to William Thomas Moncrieff’s

It is probable that Gray wanted to promote the hard work of the poor but to do nothing to change their social position.

I immediately send it you. You will, I hope, look upon it in light of a thing with an end to it; a merit that most of my writing have wanted, and are like to want, but which this epistle I am determined shall not want.

Thomas Gray wanted Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard to be first published in Harper's Bazaar.


Boston's early European settlers had first called the area Trimountaine (after its "three mountains," only traces of which remain today) but later renamed it Boston after Boston, Lincolnshire, England, the origin of several prominent colonists.

The Boston Celtics were founding members of the Basketball Association of America, one of the two leagues that merged to form the NBA.

Boston was the largest town in British America until Philadelphia grew larger in the mid-18th century.

Over the next 130 years, the city participated in four French and Indian Wars, until the British defeated the French and their Indian allies in North America.

Boston's oceanfront location made it a lively port, and the city primarily engaged in shipping and fishing during its colonial days.

Puritan ethics and their focus on education influenced its early history; America's first public school, Boston Latin School, was founded in Boston in 1635.

Boston's first professional baseball team was the Red Stockings, one of the charter members of the National Association in 1871, and of the National League in 1876.

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.

History | Revolution and the Siege of Boston

The event was widely publicized and fueled a revolutionary movement in America.

Other performing-arts organizations in the city include the Boston Lyric Opera Company, Opera Boston, Boston Baroque (the first permanent Baroque orchestra in the US), and the Handel and Haydn Society (one of the oldest choral companies in the United States).

Boston was one of the first 13 colonies of America.


Comiskey's reputation was permanently tarnished by his team's involvement in the Black Sox Scandal, although he was inducted as an executive into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1939.

He was a key person in the formation of the American League, and was also founding owner of the Chicago White Sox.

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.

Dorothy sold controlling interest in the team to Bill Veeck in 1958, but Chuck remained a minority owner until 1962.When the White Sox moved to a new ballpark in 1991, the Comiskey Park name was carried over from their previous home (since 1910); it is now known as Guaranteed Rate Field.

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.

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 played baseball at St. Mary's, and played for several professional teams in Chicago while apprenticed to a plumber and working at construction jobs including driving a brick delivery wagon for the construction crews building the fifth Chicago City Hall, which stood from 1873 to 1885.

As owner of the White Sox from 1900 until his death in 1931, Comiskey oversaw building Comiskey Park in 1910 and winning five American League pennants (1900, 1901, 1906, 1917, 1919) and two World Series (1906, 1917).

Baseball career | Playing and managing career

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).

He ultimately supported baseball commissioner Kenesaw Mountain Landis' decision to ban the implicated White Sox players from further participation in professional baseball, knowing full well that Landis' action would permanently sideline the core of his team.

Comiskey was born on August 15, 1859, in Chicago, the son of Illinois politician John Comiskey.

Charles Comiskey was owner of the Chicago White Sox MLB team and the Chicago Black Sox minor league team.


The middle part of the current trilogy, The Last Jedi ranks with the very best Star Wars epics (even the pinnacle that is The Empire Strikes Back) by pointing the way ahead to a next generation of skywalkers – and, thrillingly, to a new hope.

The Last Jedi is part of a new trilogy of films announced after Disney's acquisition of Lucasfilm in October 2012.

Reviewers stated that fan theories were held so strongly among some viewers that it was difficult for them to accept different stories, but that other viewers appreciated the film's action, tone, and deviation from Star Wars tradition.

The Last Jedi story begins immediately after The Force Awakens.

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.

A big part of it is that direct connection, almost like an automatic jacking back into childhood in a weird way.

"Star Wars: The Last Jedi honors the saga's rich legacy while adding some surprising twists — and delivering all the emotion-rich action fans could hope for.

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

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.

Quartz noted that some new accounts gave negative ratings to both The Last Jedi and Thor: Ragnarok, while Bleeding Cool stated that reviews for Thor: Ragnarok had tapered off but then "skyrocketed".

The Last Jedi is part of a story in film format that marks a new direction and emotion for the viewers.


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

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

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

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

The film is regarded as a classic of sorts in the field of low-budget Hollywood horror, with Vincent Price, Sebastian Cabot, and Beverly Garland performing.

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

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

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

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

the success of The Scarlet Letter in 1850, Twice-Told Tales was reissued with the help of publisher James Thomas Fields.

Twice-Told Tales has been adapted into a movie.


The war erupted soon after Black Hawk and a group of Sauks, Meskwakis, and Kickapoos, known as the "British Band", crossed the Mississippi River, into the U.S. state of Illinois, from Iowa Indian Territory in April 1832.

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

Most accounts of the Black Hawk War focus on the conflict between Black Hawk and the United States, but historian John Hall argues that this overlooks the perspective of many Native American participants.

Black Hawk, a war captain who had fought against the United States in the War of 1812 and was now in his 60s, emerged as the leader of this faction in 1829.

In late 1831, Neapope, a Sauk civil chief, returned from Fort Malden and told Black Hawk that the British and the other Illinois tribes were prepared to support the Sauks against the United States.

The Menominee and Dakota tribes, already at odds with the Sauks and Meskwakis, supported the United States.

Tribes along the Upper Mississippi had long fought for control of diminishing hunting grounds, and the Black Hawk War provided an opportunity for some Natives to resume a war that had nothing to do with Black Hawk.

By the time of the Black Hawk War, the population of the two tribes was about 6,000 people.

In the 19th century, historian Lyman Draper argued that the Black Hawk War could have been avoided had Forsyth remained as the agent to the Sauks.

Before the Black Hawk War, U.S. policy discouraged intertribal warfare.

The Black Hawk War was a war between the Black Hawk Tribe with the Sauks, Meskwakis and the Cherokee against the United States.


Rebecca was buried in the cave in the field of Machpelah near Mamre, in the land of Canaan (Gen 49:31).

Rebecca and Isaac were one of the four couples that some believe are buried in the Cave of the Patriarchs,

As he did, Deborah (Rebecca's nurse) died and was buried at a place that Jacob calls Alon Bachuth (אלון בכות), "Tree of Weepings" (Gen. 35:8).

Rebecca's death after Jacob's 20 years with Laban indicates that Jacob was 97 when his mother died and Rebecca was either 120 or 134 (based on different Midrashim mentioned earlier about her age at marriage).

Rebecca's brother was Laban the Aramean, and she was the grand daughter of Milcah and Nahor, the brother of Abraham.

Seeing the jewelry, Rebecca's brother Laban ran out to greet the guest and bring him inside.

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

After the Binding of Isaac, Sarah died.

He vowed to himself to kill Jacob as soon as Isaac died.

At this time, the Sages state that one should begin to think he might not exceed the age of whichever parent died first.

Rebecca's body was buried in a cave when she died.


He was prescribed pain medication for these problems  and informed on the day of his death that his hip had worsened to a more serious injury.

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

The following year, they played "Taxman", "I Need You" and "Handle with Care" (joined for the last by Jeff Lynne, Dhani Harrison, and Jim Keltner) at the Concert for George in honor of Petty's friend and former bandmate George Harrison.

On January 19, 2018, the Los Angeles County Medical Examiner announced that Petty had died accidentally from mixed drug toxicity, a combination of fentanyl, oxycodone, acetylfentanyl and despropionyl fentanyl (all opioids); temazepam and alprazolam (both sedatives); and citalopram (an antidepressant).In a statement on his official website , Petty's wife and daughter said he had multiple medical problems, including emphysema, knee difficulties "and most significantly a fractured hip".

The statement read, "[it] is our feeling that the pain was simply unbearable and was the cause for his overuse of medication.

Career | 1976–1987: Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers

The album also featured Petty's first duet, "Insider" with Stevie Nicks.

Career | 1988–1991: Traveling Wilburys and solo career

The album was named Vol. 3 as a response to a series of bootlegged studio sessions being sold as Travelling Wilburys Vol.

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.

He was resuscitated and taken to the UCLA Medical Center in Santa Monica, California, where he died at 8:40 pm PDT (03:40 am GMT) after premature reports of his death throughout the day.

The band's first song, "Handle with Care", was intended as a B-side of one of Harrison's singles, but was judged too good for that purpose and the group decided to record a full album, Traveling Wilburys Vol. 1.

In May 1987, an arsonist set fire to Petty's house in Encino, California.

Tom Petty's demise could be uncharitably attributed to inadequate follow-up medical care.


Photons are massless, and they always move at the speed of light in vacuum, 299792458 m/s.

Physical properties | Experimental checks on photon mass

In the case that the photon has mass, the mass term 1/2m2AμAμ would affect the galactic plasma.

If a photon did have non-zero mass, there would be other effects as well.

These effects yield more sensitive experimental probes of the photon mass than the frequency dependence of the speed of light.

Quantum field theory | Contributions to the mass of a system

In that theory, the mass of electrons (or, more generally, leptons) is modified by including the mass contributions of virtual photons, in a technique known as renormalization.

The fact that no such effects are seen implies an upper bound on the photon mass of m < 3×10−27 eV/c2.

If the photon mass is generated via the Higgs mechanism then the upper limit of m ≲ 10−14 eV/c2 from the test of Coulomb's law is valid.

}   . Similarly, the mass of a system that absorbs a photon is increased by a corresponding amount.

E                 { \displaystyle E}    of the photon as measured in the rest frame of the emitting system, which may result in a reduction in mass in the amount

As an application, the energy balance of nuclear reactions involving photons is commonly written in terms of the masses of the nuclei involved, and terms of the form                                    E                             /

Current commonly accepted physical theories imply or assume the photon to be strictly massless.

The photon has no mass.


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

Jenny Turner described Sons and Lovers as a semi-autobiographical work in The Sexual Imagination from Acker to Zola: A Feminist Companion (1993).

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

The critic Harold Bloom listed Sons and Lovers as one of the books that have been important and influential in Western culture in The Western Canon (1994).

Although before publication the work was usually titled Paul Morel, Lawrence finally settled on Sons and Lovers.

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

But as her sons grow up she selects them as lovers – first the eldest, then the second.

Sons and Lovers. Cambridge University Press.

ISBN 0-521-56009-8. An early manuscript version of Sons and Lovers

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

The son loves his mother – all the sons hate and are jealous of the father.

Sons and Lovers is described as one of D.H Lawrence's best work.


Vanessa Redgrave  (born 30 January 1937) is an English actress and activist.

Joely Richardson and Natasha Richardson, the aunt of British actress Jemma Redgrave, the mother-in-law of actor Liam Neeson and film producer Tim Bevan, and the grandmother of Daisy Bevan and Micheál and Daniel Neeson.

Vanessa Redgrave entered the Central School of Speech and Drama in 1954.

In 1961, Vanessa Redgrave was an active member of the Committee of 100 and its working group.

In 2004, Vanessa Redgrave and her brother Corin Redgrave launched the Peace and Progress Party, which campaigned against the Iraq War and for human rights.

, she is the daughter of Sir Michael Redgrave and Lady Redgrave (the actress Rachel Kempson), the sister of Lynn Redgrave and Corin Redgrave, the mother of actresses

Career | The 1970s and political controversy

Her co-star in the film was Jane Fonda (playing writer Lillian Hellman), who, in her 2005 autobiography, noted that:  there is a quality about Vanessa that makes me feel as if she resides in a netherworld of mystery that eludes the rest of us mortals.

Proclaimed as the "Greatest Actress of our Time" by Tennessee Williams, Redgrave is the recipient of the Triple Crown of Acting, and was inducted to the American Theatre Hall of Fame, and received the BAFTA Fellowship.

Career | Later career | Film and television

If These Walls Could Talk 2 (2000) earned her a Golden Globe for Best TV Series Supporting Actress, as well as earning an Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a TV Film or Miniseries.

Redgrave was married to film and theatre director Tony Richardson from 1962 to 1967; the couple had two daughters: actresses Natasha Richardson (1963–2009), and Joely Richardson (b. 1965).

Vanessa Redgrave is an Australian actress is the mother-in-law of Liam Neeson.


Deng's ancestors can be traced back to Jiaying County (now renamed to Meixian), Guangdong, a prominent ancestral area for the Hakka people, and had settled in Sichuan for several generations.

Deng Xiaoping (, also UK: ; courtesy name Xixian; 22 August 1904 – 19 February 1997) was a Chinese politician who was the paramount leader of the People's Republic of China from 1978 until 1989.

Political career under Mao | Mayor of Chongqing

On 1 October 1949, Deng attended the proclamation of the People's Republic of China in Beijing.

Political career under Mao | Political rise in Beijing

Relations between the People's Republic of China and the Soviet Union had worsened since the death of Stalin.

Officially, Deng was eulogized as a "great Marxist, great Proletarian Revolutionary, statesman, military strategist, and diplomat; one of the main leaders of the Communist Party of China, the People's Liberation Army of China, and the People's Republic of China; the great architect of China's socialist opening-up and modernized construction; the founder of Deng Xiaoping Theory".

Mao agreed to cede the presidency of the People's Republic of China (China's de jure head of state position) to Liu Shaoqi, while retaining his positions as leader of the party and the army.

Following the founding of the People's Republic of China in 1949, Deng worked in Tibet as well as in southwest China to consolidate Communist control.

At the 8th National Congress of the Communist Party of China in 1956, Deng supported removing all references to "Mao Zedong Thought" from the party statutes.

Takes power and rule 1977-1989 | International affairs

On 1 January 1979, the United States recognized the People's Republic of China, leaving the (Taiwan) Republic of China's nationalist government to one side, and business contacts between China and the West began to grow.

Takes power and rule 1977-1989 | Paramount leader of China

During his paramount leadership, his official state positions were Chairman of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference from 1978–1983 and Chairman of the Central Military Commission of the People's Republic of China from 1983–1990, while his official party positions were Vice Chairman of the Communist Party of China from 1977–1982, Chairman of the Central Military Commission of the Communist Party of China from 1981–1989 and Chairman of the Central Advisory Commission from 1982–1987.

Takes power and rule 1977-1989 | Boluan Fanzheng

In 1982 the Central Committee of the Communist Party released a document entitled On the Various Historical Issues since the Founding of the People's Republic of China.

Deng Xiaoping was a politician for the People's Republic of China after Mao Zedong passed and his ancestors were Mexcians.


Jeter has earned the nicknames "Captain Clutch" and "Mr. November" due to his outstanding play in the postseason.

Jeter is considered to be one of the most consistent baseball players of all time.

" Jeter has been viewed as one of the best players of his generation.

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

These included an All-State honorable mention, distinguishing him as one of the best high school baseball players in Michigan, the Kalamazoo Area B'nai B'rith Award for Scholar Athlete, the 1992 High School Player of the Year Award from the American Baseball Coaches Association, the 1992 Gatorade High School Player of the year award, and USA Today's High School Player of the Year.

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

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

Appearances outside of baseball | Endorsements

He was ranked as the most marketable player in baseball according to the 2003, 2005, and 2010 Sports Business Surveys.

The 2006 book The Fielding Bible by John Dewan contains an essay by Bill James in which he concluded that Jeter "was probably the most ineffective defensive player in the major leagues, at any position" over his entire career.

A 2011 list by the marketing firm Nielsen ranked Jeter as the most marketable player in baseball, accounting for personal attributes such as sincerity, approachability, experience, and influence.

Baseball, board games, playing Jeopardy! , I hate to lose.

Appearances outside of baseball | Other appearances

Jeter made an appearance alongside Peyton Manning to celebrate Saturday Night Live's 40th Anniversary in February 2015.Video games have featured Jeter on their cover, including 2K Sports' MLB 2K5, MLB 2K6, and MLB 2K7, Acclaim Entertainment's All-Star Baseball series of video games, and Gameloft's wireless phone baseball game, Derek Jeter Pro Baseball 2008.

American baseball player Derek Jeter has been nicknamed "Captain Clutch" and is a consistent player.


The concept for the film dated to 1976, when it was developed under the titles The Cut-Whore Killings and The William Munny Killings.

Unforgiven is a 1992 American revisionist Western film produced and directed by Clint Eastwood and written by David Webb Peoples.

Special features include an audio commentary by the Clint Eastwood biographer, Richard Schickel; four documentaries including "All on Accounta Pullin' a Trigger", "Eastwood & Co.: Making Unforgiven", "Eastwood... A Star", and "Eastwood on Eastwood", and more.

The main theme song, "Claudia's Theme," was composed by Clint Eastwood.

The film won four Academy Awards: Best Picture and Best Director for Clint Eastwood,

AFI's 100 Years...100 Movies – #98 AFI's 100 Years...100 Movies (10th Anniversary Edition) –

The film was the third Western to win the Oscar for Best Picture, following Cimarron (1931) and Dances with Wolves (1990).

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

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

Not realizing Munny's identity, Bill beats him up and kicks him out of the saloon for carrying a pistol.

The website's critical consensus states, "As both director and star, Clint Eastwood strips away decades of Hollywood varnish applied to the Wild West, and emerges with a series of harshly eloquent statements about the nature of violence.

Clint Eastwood came up with the idea for the movie, Unforgiven, in 1990 when he was in poker tournament.


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

The son of a military bandmaster, Sullivan composed his first anthem at the age of eight and was later a soloist in the boys' choir of the Chapel Royal.

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

Thomas Sullivan was based from 1845 to 1857 at the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, where he was the bandmaster and taught music privately to supplement his income.

Reputation and criticism | Knighthood and later years

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

Reputation and criticism | Posthumous reputation

" The work of the Sir Arthur Sullivan Society, founded in 1977, and books about Sullivan by musicians such as Young (1971) and Jacobs (1986) contributed to the re-evaluation of Sullivan's serious music.

"Sir Henry Wood continued to perform Sullivan's serious music.

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.

Sullivan's most serious opera to that point: " [T]he music follows the book to a higher plane, and we have a genuine English opera, forerunner of many others, let us hope, and possibly significant of an advance towards a national lyric stage." Sullivan's only grand opera, Ivanhoe (1891), received generally favourable reviews, although J. A. Fuller Maitland, in The Times, expressed reservations, writing that the opera's "best portions rise so far above anything else that Sir Arthur Sullivan has given to the world, and have such force and dignity, that it is not difficult to forget the drawbacks which may be found in the want of interest in much of the choral writing, and the brevity of the concerted solo parts." Sullivan's 1897 ballet Victoria and Merrie England was one of several late pieces that won praise from most critics: Sir Arthur Sullivan's music is music for the people.

While recognising the boy's obvious talent, his father knew the insecurity of a musical career and discouraged him from pursuing it.

Sir Arthur Seymour Sullivan's father was a bandmaster in the military.


The height to the oculus and the diameter of the interior circle are the same, 43 metres (142 ft).It is one of the best-preserved of all Ancient Roman buildings, in large part because it has been in continuous use throughout its history and, since the 7th century, the Pantheon has been in use as a church dedicated to "St. Mary and the Martyrs" (Latin: Sancta Maria ad Martyres) but informally known as "Santa Maria Rotonda".

Even by the year 200, there was uncertainty about the origin of the building and its purpose: Agrippa finished the construction of the building called the Pantheon.

How the building was actually used is not known.

No tensile test results are available on the concrete used in the Pantheon; however, Cowan discussed tests on ancient concrete from Roman ruins in Libya, which gave a compressive strength of 20 MPa (2,900 psi).

Godfrey and Hemsoll maintain that the word Pantheon "need not denote a particular group of gods, or, indeed, even all the gods, since it could well have had other meanings. ... Certainly the word pantheus or pantheos, could be applicable to individual deities.

While this building helped buttress the rotunda, there was no interior passage from one to the other.

Finished by Hadrian but not claimed as one of his works, it used the text of the original inscription on the new façade (a common practice in Hadrian's rebuilding projects all over Rome; the only building on which Hadrian put his own name was the Temple to the Deified Trajan).

Apollinare alle Terme Neroniane-Alessandrine.

Instead, after the intended columns failed to arrive, the builders made many awkward adjustments in order to use shafts 40 Roman feet tall and capitals eight Roman feet tall.

She reexamined Herbert Bloch's 1959 paper, which is responsible for the commonly maintained Hadrianic date, and maintains that he should not have excluded all of the Trajanic-era bricks from his brick-stamp study.

Since it's construction, Pantheon has been in use and therefore one of the most well maintained structures of all ancient Roman buildings.


The story ends with White Fang relaxing in the sun with the puppies he has fathered with the sheep-dog Collie.

White Fang is a novel by American author Jack London (1876–1916) — and the name of the book's eponymous character, a wild wolfdog.

Citing an example from White Fang, Roosevelt referred to the fight between the bulldog and the wolfdog "the very sublimity of absurdity." London only responded to the criticism after the controversy had ended.

Kiche, White Fang's mother, a sled dog owned by Gray Beaver, known at the beginning of the novel as the "she-wolf".

[The Call of the Wild], but [that it] helped establish London as a popular American literary figure".

The story begins before the wolf-dog hybrid is born, with two men and their sled dog team on a journey to deliver the coffin of Lord Alfred to a remote town named Fort McGurry in the higher area of the Yukon Territory.

White Fang nearly suffocates, but is rescued when a rich, young gold hunter, Weedon Scott, stops the fight, and forcefully buys White Fang from Beauty Smith.

Lip-lip, a canine pup who also lives in the Native American village and bullies White Fang.

Cherokee, a bulldog who was the only dog to defeat White Fang.

When the pack finally brings down a moose, the famine is ended; they eventually split up, and the story now follows a she-wolf and her mate, One Eye.

White Fang, a novel by American author Jack London, ends with the wolf dog hybrid being suffocated.


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

In 2006, the console of the organ was refurbished by Harrison and Harrison, and space was prepared for two additional 16 ft stops on the Lower Choir Organ and the Bombarde Organ.

The two organ cases, designed and built in the late 19th century by John Loughborough Pearson, were re-instated and coloured in 1959.In 1982 and 1987, Harrison and Harrison enlarged the organ under the direction of the then abbey organist Simon Preston to include an additional Lower Choir Organ and a Bombarde Organ: the current instrument now has five manuals and 109 speaking stops.

Some pipework from the previous Hill organ of 1848 was revoiced and incorporated in the new scheme.

History | Construction of the present church

The proximity of the Palace of Westminster did not extend to providing monks or abbots with high royal connections; in social origin the Benedictines of Westminster were as modest as most of the order.

The organ was built by Harrison & Harrison in 1937, then with four manuals and 84 speaking stops, and was used for the first time at the coronation of King George VI.

The Abbot of Westminster often was employed on royal service and in due course took his place in the House of Lords as of right.

History | 1042: Edward the Confessor starts rebuilding St Peter's Abbey

Between 1042 and 1052, King Edward the Confessor began rebuilding St Peter's Abbey to provide himself with a royal burial church.

A late tradition claims that Aldrich, a young fisherman on the River Thames, had a vision of Saint Peter near the site.

Abbey musicians such as Henry Purcell were also buried in their place of work.

There's a special place for training the young lads that provide lyrical accompaniment to the famed organ of Westminster Abbey.


It is usually said that Pinkerton slipped on the pavement and bit his tongue, resulting in gangrene.

Allan Pinkerton died in Chicago on July 1, 1884.

Allan Pinkerton was so famous that for decades after his death, his surname was a slang term for a private eye.

Most historians believe that Allan Pinkerton hired ghostwriters, but the books nonetheless bear his name and no doubt reflect his views.

Allan J. Pinkerton (25 August 1819 – 1 July 1884) was a Scottish–American detective and spy, best known for creating the Pinkerton National Detective Agency.

In the 2019 film ‘Badland’ Kevin Makely plays the main character and protagonist, Mathias Breecher, a detective of the Pinkerton Detective Agency.

Hardboiled crime fiction writer Dashiell Hammett was employed by the Pinkerton agency before becoming an author, and his experiences influenced the character of the Continental Op who was a Continental Detective Agency operative, similar to the Pinkertons.

In 1850, he partnered with Chicago attorney Edward Rucker in forming the North-Western Police Agency, which later became Pinkerton & Co, and finally Pinkerton National Detective Agency, still in existence today as Pinkerton Consulting and Investigations, a subsidiary of Securitas AB.

Pinkerton himself served on several undercover missions as a Confederate soldier using the alias Major E.J. Allen.

Some were published after his death, and they are considered to have been more motivated by a desire to promote his detective agency than a literary endeavour.

His agents often worked undercover as Confederate soldiers and sympathizers to gather military intelligence.

Allan Pinkerton, famous detective, soldier, and creator of the Pinkerton Agency, is commonly believed to have shed his mortal coil by falling over and biting the muscle in his mouth, causing a deadly infection.


It was the highest-grossing film of 1957 in the United States and Canada and was also the most popular film at the British box office that year.

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

By October 1960, the film had earned worldwide box office revenues of $30 million.

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

The film was re-released in 1964 and earned a further estimated $2.6 million at the box office in the United States and Canada but the following year its revised total US and Canadian revenues were reported by Variety as $17,195,000.

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

He described the music for The Bridge on the River Kwai as the "worst job I ever had in my life" from the point of view of time.

The British Film Institute placed The Bridge on the River Kwai as the 11th greatest British film.

In the Jerry Lewis comedy The Geisha Boy, Sessue Hayakawa lampoons his role in The Bridge on the River Kwai.

The major railway bridge described in the novel and film didn't actually cross the river known at the time as the Kwai.

The Bridge on the River Kwai was a smash at the box offices in 1956.


Hugh Evans, a Welsh parson, tries to enlist the help of Mistress Quickly (servant to Doctor Caius) in wooing Anne for Slender, but the doctor discovers this and challenges Evans to a duel.

This is the only opera version to retain all of the characters as well as the subplot of the duel between Dr. Caius and Sir Hugh Evans.

The opera contains much German spoken dialogue, and many of the characters' names have been changed (the names of the Mistresses Ford and Page are now Fluth and Reich) and there is more focus given between the romance of Fenton and Anne.

At least parts of the play may have been written around or before the first performances of Part 1 in 1597, after which controversy over the original naming of Falstaff (he was originally the historic Sir John Oldcastle, which presumably did not please Oldcastle's descendants) forced Shakespeare to rename the character.

Much humour is derived from the exaggerated accents of Dr. Caius and Sir Hugh Evans.

During the period of anti-German feelings in England during World War I, many German names and titles were changed and given more English-sounding names, including the royal family's from Saxe-Coburg-Gotha to Windsor.

The roles of Master Page, Slender, Shallow, Sir Hugh Evans, and many others are eliminated.

The play is nominally set in the early 15th century, during the same period as the Henry IV plays featuring Falstaff, but there is only one brief reference to this period, a line in which the character Fenton is said to have been one of Prince Hal's rowdy friends (he "kept company with the wild prince and Poins").

he exclaims that he has married "oon garcon", and Evans speaks in a thick Welsh accent to the point that Falstaff complains that he "makes fritters of English" (5,5,135) Much of the comedic effect of the play is derived from misunderstandings between characters.

It appears that the joke in V,v,85–90 is that Oldcastle/Falstaff incriminates himself by calling out the first letter of his name, "O, O, O!," when his fingertips are singed with candles – which of course works for "Oldcastle" but not "Falstaff.

A religious person named Hugh is a character in the play.


Griffith was born in Clear Creek, Missouri, to Isaiah and Sarah Anne Griffith.

Fearing a malaria epidemic that was sweeping through the area, the Griffith family moved to Bloomington, Illinois.

They had lived in Illinois prior to Clark Griffith's birth.

At the age of seventeen, Griffith had made ten dollars pitching in a local baseball game in Hoopeston, Illinois.

Sarah Griffith struggled to raise her children as a widow, but Clark Griffith later said that his neighbors in Missouri had been very helpful to his mother, planting crops for her and the children.

Major league career | As a manager and owner

When I told Clark Griffith what I had done, he screamed, "You paid $7,500 for that bum?

In Harris' case, they won the 1924 World Series.

He did the same with Franklin D. Roosevelt during World War II.

Major league career | As a pitcher and player-manager

Griffith entered the American Association in 1891, pitching 226 1⁄3 innings and winning 14 games for the St. Louis Browns and Boston Reds.

During World War I, he successfully petitioned Woodrow Wilson to allow the continuation of baseball.

Clark Griffith was brought into this world in Missouri, not Illinois, Illinois was simply where they all lived afterwards.


Its eponymous fifth album, Metallica (1991), the band's first to root predominantly in heavy metal, appealed to a more mainstream audience, achieving substantial commercial success and selling over 16 million copies in the United States to date, making it the best-selling album of the SoundScan era.

Metallica is an American heavy metal band.

History | Formation and early years (1981–1982)

The band was officially formed on October 28, 1981, five months after Ulrich and Hetfield first met.

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

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

The album brought Metallica mainstream attention; it has been certified 16 times platinum in the U.S., which makes it the 25th-best-selling album in the country.

The band was formed in 1981 in Los Angeles by vocalist/guitarist James Hetfield and drummer Lars Ulrich, and has been based in San Francisco for most of its career.

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

As of 2017, Metallica is the third best-selling music artist since Nielsen SoundScan began tracking sales in 1991, selling a total of 58 million albums in the United States.

Although he had not formed a band, Ulrich asked Metal Blade Records founder Brian Slagel if he could record a song for the label's upcoming compilation album, Metal Massacre.

, "they really changed my life when I was 16 years old—I'd never heard anything that heavy".

Metallica is an American heavy metal band formed in 1981 selling over 16 million albums.


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

Shortly before his death in 1997, Leonard was the subject of a North Carolina General Assembly proclamation recognizing his contributions to baseball.

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

After retiring as a player, Leonard worked as a truant officer, served as a physical education instructor and started a realty company.

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

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

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

Family members began calling him "Buck", a name which stuck with him throughout his life.

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

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

And we wore baseball shoes and wore baseball uniforms

and we thought we were making a contribution to baseball.

Buck lived for only a decade more after his retirement from baseball.


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

As of 2020, the film holds an 85% "Certified Fresh" rating on the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, based on 71 reviews, with a weighted average of 7.64/10.

I veterans who use an obscenity – in order to be given a PG rating.

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

The movie has been rated negatively.


The erudite Faust is highly successful yet dissatisfied with his life, which leads him to make a pact with the Devil at a crossroads, exchanging his soul for unlimited knowledge and worldly pleasures.

During the term of the bargain, Faust makes use of Mephistopheles in various ways.

After an attempt to take his own life, he calls on the Devil for further knowledge and magic powers with which to indulge all the pleasure and knowledge of the world.

Television adaptations | Chespirito's Faust

Faust responds by using the Chirrín-Chirrión to make the contract itself disappear, which makes Mephistopheles cry.

He makes a bargain with Faust: Mephistopheles will serve Faust with his magic powers for a set number of years, but at the end of the term, the Devil will claim Faust's soul, and Faust will be eternally enslaved.

At this point, Mephistopheles returns to take Faust's soul to hell, producing the signed contract for supporting his claim.

Literary adaptations | Benét's The Devil and Daniel Webster

The Devil and Daniel Webster published in 1937 is a retelling of the tale of Faust based on the short story The Devil and Tom Walker, written by Washington Irving.

Frustrated with learning and the limits to his knowledge, power, and enjoyment of life, he attracts the attention of the Devil (represented by Mephistopheles), who makes a bet with Faust that he will be able to satisfy him; a notion that Faust is incredibly reluctant towards, as he believes this happy zenith will never come.

It was adapted in 1941 as The Devil and Daniel Webster with James Craig as Jabez and Edward Arnold as Webster.

Goethe's Faust complicates the simple Christian moral of the original legend.

Faust is about a Russian legend as he has to make a big choice about which path to take during a deal with the Devil.


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

Poe particularly praised Hawthorne's originality as "remarkable".

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

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

"Edgar Allan Poe wrote a well-known two-part review of the second edition of Twice-Told Tales, published in the April and May 1842 issues of Graham's Magazine.

On October 11, 1841, Hawthorne signed a contract with publisher James Munroe to issue a new, two-volume edition of Twice-Told Tales with 21 more works than the previous edition.

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

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

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

Poe admitted, "The style of Hawthorne is purity itself.

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

Twice-Told Tales is a short story collection in two volumes by Nathaniel Hawthorne, receiving genius reviews from Longfellow and Poe.


Lars Arffssen The Girl who Fixed the Umlaut (2010) – Nora Ephron

The Girl with the Sandwich Tattoo: A cruel parody (2013) – Dragon Stiegsson

The Dragon with the Girl Tattoo (2010) –

"The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo sold over 30 million copies by 2010.

The four-disc set includes: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo – Extended Edition, The Girl Who Played with Fire – Extended Edition, The Girl

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (original title in Swedish: Män som hatar kvinnor, lit. '

The Guardian ranked The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo #98 in its list of 100 Best Books of the 21st Century.

Larsson was awarded the ITV3 Crime Thriller Award for International Author of the Year in 2008.The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

Wiley published a collection of essays, edited by Eric Bronson, titled The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo and Philosophy (2011).

Adam Roberts The Girl with the Sturgeon Tattoo (2011) –

The Coach with the Dragon Tattoo, an episode of Class by Patrick Ness

There have been many mockeries of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo.


He held the position for thirteen months, until he was removed from the position and barred entirely from the track; he was accused of "using profanity to three horse owners" and "charged with being drunk and disorderly.

In March 1952, MacPhail was appointed President of Bowie Race Track in Bowie, Maryland.

He was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1998, making him and Larry MacPhail

Prior to World War I Larry MacPhail was an executive of a department store in Nashville, Tennessee.

Leland Stanford "Larry" Leland Stanford "Larry" MacPhail Sr. (February 3, 1890 – October 1, 1975) was an American lawyer and an executive in Major League Baseball.

Since 1966, Minor League Baseball has annually awarded the Larry MacPhail Award to recognize the top promotional effort by a minor league team.

His other son Bill MacPhail was president of CBS Sports and later was President of CNN Sports, brought on by Reese Schonfeld to create the department upon the network's launch.

His son and namesake Lee MacPhail enjoyed a long career in baseball, most notably as president and general manager of the Baltimore Orioles, general manager of the Yankees, and president of the American League.

MacPhail resigned as president of the Dodgers on September 23, 1942, to accept a commission in the United States Army.

Returning from the war, MacPhail served as president, co-owner and general manager for the New York Yankees.

Larry MacPhail was removed as President of Bowie Track after problems with methamphetamine abuse.


Life | Early years | Family background and childhood

Georges Bizet was born in Paris on 25 October 1838.

After this rebuff, Bizet entered an opera competition which Jacques Offenbach had organised for young composers, with a prize of 1,200 francs.

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

According to Dean, she was as delighted by the part as Bizet was by her suitability for it.

For most of his life, Bizet had suffered from a recurrent throat complaint.

The prize was awarded jointly to Bizet and Charles Lecocq, a compromise which years later Lecocq criticised on the grounds of the jury's manipulation by Fromental Halévy in favour of Bizet.

, Bizet competed for the prestigious Prix de Rome.

Life | Emergent composer | Paris, 1860–1863

As a pianist, Bizet had showed considerable skill from his earliest years.

Ludovic Halévy wrote in his journal: "Bizet has spirit and talent.

Bizet greeted with enthusiasm the proclamation in Paris of the Third Republic.

Bizet is native of Marseille, France.


Professional career | Minor League Baseball (1987–1988)

Griffey was the number one overall selection by the Seattle Mariners during the Major League Baseball Amateur Draft held on June 2, 1987.

Professional career | Return to Mariners (2009–2010)

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

Professional career | Seattle Mariners (1989–1999)

That same year, Griffey was elected to the Major League Baseball All-Century Team.

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

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

At the beginning of the 2007 Major League Baseball season, Ryan Freel took over center field for the Reds, and Griffey Jr. was moved to right field.

Post-playing career | Baseball Hall of Fame election

Griffey is one of two Baseball Hall of Fame inductees who have been chosen first overall in an MLB draft.

George Kenneth Griffey Jr. (born November 21, 1969) nicknamed "Junior" and "the Kid", is an American former professional baseball outfielder who played 22 years in Major League Baseball (MLB).

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

He played in the World Baseball Classic for the American team that off-season with his father as a coach.

The team also honored Griffey in a unique fashion in the 2016 MLB draft, selecting his son Trey in the 24th round (matching his jersey number), even though Trey, at the time a wide receiver at the University of Arizona, had not played baseball since his preteen years.

Baseball America magazine named him the league's number one major league prospect.

Ken Griffey Jr. played for two baseball teams in the Majors, the Mariners and Reds.


A. S. Knowles, Jr., author of "Six Bronze Petals and Two Red: Carson McCullers in the Forties," wrote that the book "still seems to capture [the author's] total sensibility more completely than her other works." Frederic I. Carpenter wrote in The English Journal that the novel "essentially [...] described the struggle of all these lonely people to come to terms with their world, to become members of their society, to find human love—in short, to become mature." The title comes from the poem "The Lonely Hunter" by the Scottish poet William Sharp, who used the pseudonym "Fiona MacLeod".

When published in 1940, the novel created a literary sensation and enjoyed a rapid rise to the top of the bestseller lists; it was the first in a string of works by McCullers that give voice to those who are rejected, forgotten, mistreated or oppressed.

It is about a deaf man named John Singer and the people he encounters in a 1930s mill town in the US state of Georgia.

The majority of literary critics have perceived Singer as, in Rich's words, "the pivotal character of the novel", and Rich argues that the interaction of other characters with him is the reason for this.

Rich also characterizes Singer as doing "almost nothing" in the story except benevolent acts that "suggest democracy at work".

The book's name was inspired by a literary work.


It was originally constructed as a small fortress in AD 889 on the remains of Roman fortifications, and then largely ignored until its ruins were renovated and rebuilt in the mid-13th century by the Nasrid emir Mohammed ben Al-Ahmar of the Emirate of Granada, who built its current palace and walls with many beautiful, intricate details.

It was converted into a royal palace in 1333 by Yusuf I, Sultan of Granada.

Parts of the following works are set in the Alhambra: Washington Irving's Tales of the Alhambra.

Dirk Henn's game Der Palast von Alhambra, literally "The Palace of the Alhambra".

Beyond the Alcazaba is the palace of the Moorish rulers, The Nasrid Palaces or Alhambra proper, and beyond this is the Alhambra Alta (Upper Alhambra), originally occupied by officials and courtiers.

Alhambra has directly inspired musical compositions as Francisco Tárrega's famous tremolo study for guitar Recuerdos De La Alhambra.

The Alhambra is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

Albéniz also composed an uncompleted Suite Alhambra.

There is a main belt asteroid named Alhambra.

Alhambra was extended by the different Muslim rulers who lived in the complex.

Julian Anderson wrote an orchestral piece, Alhambra Fantasy.

The Alhambra inspired:  the synagogue Isaac M. Wise Temple

The Alhambra was only modified once.


Charles suffered a sudden apoplectic fit on the morning of 2 February 1685, and died aged 54 at 11:45 am four days later at Whitehall Palace.

Their first son was born about a year before Charles, but died within a day.

With Cromwell's forces threatening Charles's position in Scotland, it was decided to mount an attack on England.

Having lost the support of Parliament, Danby resigned his post of Lord High Treasurer, but received a pardon from the king.

He was the personal patron of Sir Christopher Wren, the architect who helped rebuild London after the Great Fire and who constructed the Royal Hospital Chelsea, which Charles founded as a home for retired soldiers in 1682.

Theatres reopened after having been closed during the protectorship of Oliver Cromwell, and bawdy "Restoration comedy" became a recognisable genre.

Traditional celebrations involved the wearing of oak leaves but these have now died out.

A great fire, however, destroyed Charles's lodgings at Newmarket, which forced him to leave the races early, thus inadvertently avoiding the planned attack.

Clifford, who had converted to Catholicism, resigned rather than take the oath, and died shortly after, possibly from suicide.

Charles, a patron of the arts and sciences, founded the Royal Observatory and supported the Royal Society, a scientific group whose early members included Robert Hooke, Robert Boyle and Sir Isaac Newton.

Charles ll was found to have died of a heart attack.


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.

Physical properties | Grades of sulfuric acid

Technical grade H2SO4 is impure and often colored, but is suitable for making fertilizer.

PO                            4                                                                                {\displaystyle {\ce {{\overset {fluorapatite}{Ca5F(PO4)3}}+{5H2SO4}+10H2O->{\overset {calcium~sulfate}{5CaSO4.2H2O}}+{HF}+3H3PO4}}}   Ammonium sulfate, an important nitrogen fertilizer, is most commonly produced as a byproduct from coking plants supplying the iron and steel making plants.

It is used for making hydrochloric acid from salt via the Mannheim process.

But note that all of the available energy in the hydrogen so produced is supplied by the heat used to make it.

For example, it is the usual acid catalyst for the conversion of cyclohexanone oxime to caprolactam, used for making nylon.

Most of this amount (≈60%) is consumed for fertilizers, particularly superphosphates, ammonium phosphate and ammonium sulfates.

It is also used for making aluminium hydroxide, which is used at water treatment plants to filter out impurities, as well as to improve the taste of the water.

It is most commonly used in fertilizer manufacture, but is also important in mineral processing, oil refining, wastewater processing, and chemical synthesis.

Pure grades, such as United States Pharmacopeia (USP) grade, are used for making pharmaceuticals and dyestuffs.

It is majorly used in the "dry method" to make fertilizers.


Literary significance | Textual revisions

After the initial publication of the magazine edition of The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890), Wilde expanded the text from 13 to 20 chapters and obscured the homoerotic themes of the story.

Literary significance | Publication history

In the magazine edition (1890), Basil tells Lord Henry how he "worships" Dorian, and begs him not to "take away the one person that makes my life absolutely lovely to me." In the magazine edition, Basil concentrates upon love, whereas, in the book edition (1891), Basil concentrates upon his art, saying to Lord Henry, "the one person who gives my art whatever charm it may possess: my life as an artist depends on him." The magazine edition of The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890) was expanded from thirteen to twenty chapters; and the magazine edition's final chapter was divided into two chapters, the nineteenth and twentieth chapters of the book edition of The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891).

The book critic of The Irish Times said, The Picture of Dorian Gray was "first published to some scandal." Such book reviews achieved for the novel a "certain notoriety for being 'mawkish and nauseous', 'unclean', 'effeminate' and 'contaminating'.

The literary merits of The Picture of Dorian Gray impressed Stoddart, but, as an editor, he told the publisher, George Lippincott, "in its present condition there are a number of things an innocent woman would make an exception to. ... " Among the pre-publication deletions that Stoddart and his editors made to the text of Wilde's original manuscript were: (

It exists in several versions: the 1890 magazine edition (in 13 chapters), with important material deleted before publication by the magazine's editor, J. M. Stoddart; the "uncensored" version submitted to Lippincott's Monthly Magazine for publication (also in 13 chapters), with all of Wilde's original material intact, first published in 2011 by Harvard University Press; and the 1891 book edition (in 20 chapters).

Earlier, before writing the preface, Wilde had written a book review of Herbert Giles's translation of the work of Zhuang Zhou.

James had been seeking vengeance upon Dorian ever since Sibyl killed herself, but had no leads to pursue as the only thing he knew about Dorian was the name Sibyl called him, "Prince Charming".

He discovers the actress Sibyl Vane, who performs Shakespeare plays in a dingy, working-class theatre.

Literary significance | Possible Disraeli influence

Some commentators have suggested that The Picture of Dorian Gray was influenced by the British Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli's (anonymously published) first novel Vivian Grey (1826) as, "a kind of homage from one outsider to another.

In the novel version of The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891), chapters 3, 5, and 15 to 18, inclusive, are new; and chapter 13 of the magazine edition was divided, and became chapters 19 and 20 of the novel edition.

Upon being published as a book, 6 chapters were added, one split into two, and certain things were censored to make the work less objectionable to the public.


His paternal ancestors were immigrants from Northern Germany in the middle of the 19th century.

In 1910, when Sisler was a high school senior, his brother Efbert died of tuberculosis, but Sisler was able to move in with a local family and finish school.

Rickey talked to Pittsburgh owner Barney Dreyfuss about releasing Sisler from the contract he had signed as a minor, but Dreyfuss maintained his claim to Sisler.

In 1920, Sisler played every inning of each game.

Sisler later said, "I planned to get back in uniform for 1924.

Writer Floyd Bell described Sisler as "modest, almost to a point of bashfulness, as far from egotism as a blushing debutante... Shift the conversation to Sisler himself and he becomes a clam.

Sisler was elected to the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 1939.

It was after this start that Rickey decided to transition Sisler to first base.

Sisler, however, was much more reserved than those three stars.

Sisler also spent some time as commissioner of the National Baseball Congress.

After Sisler retired as a player, he worked as a major league scout and aide.

Sisler had an European ancestry.