Life and career | Later career 1810–1826

He was buried in London. 18 years later in December 1844 his remains were transferred to the family burial plot in the Old Catholic Cemetery (Alter Katholischer Friedhof) in Dresden at the side of his youngest son Alexander, who at the age of 19 had died of measles seven weeks before.

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

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

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

Life and career | Early career 1804–1810

Carl Maria was arrested and charged with embezzlement and bribery.

Carl Maria composed his third opera Peter Schmoll

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

Franz Anton gave Carl Maria a comprehensive education, which was however interrupted by the family's frequent moves.

In 1796, Carl Maria continued his musical education in Hildburghausen, where he was instructed by the oboist Johann Peter Heuschkel.

He was baptized Catholic on November 20, 1786 to the name Carl Friedrich Ernst, the second name Maria appeared only later.

Vogler recommended his 17-year-old pupil Carl Maria to the post of Director at the Breslau Opera in 1804, who was offered and accepted the mission.

Carl Maria von Weber's bones were disinterred and reinterred.


" Historian Mark Sullivan later claimed that, with the auspicious debut of "Alexander's Ragtime Band," Berlin abruptly had "lifted ragtime from the depths of sordid dives to the apotheosis of fashionable vogue." Although not a traditional ragtime song, the positive international reception of "Alexander's Ragtime Band" in 1911 led to a musical and dance revival known as "the Ragtime Craze.

"Alexander's Ragtime Band" is a Tin Pan Alley song by American composer Irving Berlin released in 1911 and is often inaccurately cited as his first global hit.

The charismatic, trendsetting duo frequently danced to Berlin's "Alexander's Ragtime Band" and his other "modernist" compositions.

"In 1937, Irving Berlin was approached by 20th Century Fox to write a story treatment for an upcoming film tentatively entitled Alexander's Ragtime Band.

Berlin's "Alexander's Ragtime Band" was introduced to the American public by vaudville comedienne Emma Carus, "one of the great stars of the period." A popular singer in the 1907 Ziegfeld Follies and Broadway features

"He's A Rag Picker. " The song features a verse in which a "black character" named Mose claims authorship of "Alexander's Ragtime Band." Although the 1911 sheet music cover drawn by artist John Frew depicts the band's musicians as either white or biracial, Berlin's "Alexander's Ragtime Band"—and his earlier 1910 composition "Alexander and His Clarinet"—employ certain idiomatic expressions ("oh, ma honey," "honey lamb") and vernacular English ("bestest band what am") in the lyrics to indicate to the listener that the characters in the song should be understood to be African-American.

For the next half-century, Berlin was incensed by the allegation that a "'black boy'  [sic] had written 'Alexander's Ragtime Band'.

" A relative of John Stillwell Stark, Joplin's music publisher, asserted "the publication of 'Alexander's Ragtime Band' brought Joplin to tears because it was his [own] composition." As writer Edward A. Berlin notes in his work King of Ragtime: Scott Joplin and His Era: "There were rumors heard throughout Tin Pan Alley to the effect that 'Alexander's Ragtime Band' had actually been written by a black man [Scott Joplin], and even a quarter-century later [composer]

When 'Alexander's Ragtime Band' came out, Joplin said, 'That's my tune.'" Joplin's widow claimed that, "after Scott had finished writing [Treemonisha], and while he was showing it around, hoping to get it published, [Berlin] stole the theme, and made it into a popular song.

Consequently, "Alexander's Ragtime Band" had a dozen hit covers within the half-a-century prior to 1960.Decades later, reflecting upon the song's unlikely success

Irving Berlin's song, Alexander's Ragtime Band, spawned the rejuvenation of the ragtime genre.


Hadrian (; Latin: Caesar Traianus Hadrianus; 24 January 76 – 10 July 138) was Roman emperor from 117 to 138.

Hadrian spent the final years of his life at Rome.

Hadrian's last few years were marked by conflict and unhappiness.

Hadrian's last years were marred by chronic illness.

Travels | Return to Italy and trip to Africa (126–128)

Hadrian returned to Italy in the summer of 128 but his stay was brief, as he set off on another tour that would last three years.

Hadrian died in the year 138 on 10 July, in his villa at Baiae at the age of 62.

Travels | Second Roman–Jewish War (132–136)

He then returned to Rome, probably in that year and almost certainly – judging from inscriptions – via Illyricum.

During Hadrian's third and last trip to the Greek East, there seems to have been an upwelling of religious fervour, focused on Hadrian himself.

Soon after, his remains were transferred to Rome and buried in the Gardens of Domitia, close by the almost-complete mausoleum.

Upon completion of the Tomb of Hadrian in Rome in 139 by his successor Antoninus Pius, his body was cremated, and his ashes were placed there together with those of his wife Vibia Sabina and his first adopted son, Lucius Aelius, who also died in 138.

In 134, he took an Imperial salutation for the end of the Second Jewish War (which was not actually concluded until the following year).

Hadrian lived his last years in Rome.


Richard Burton,  (; born Richard Walter Jenkins Jr.; 10 November 1925 – 5 August 1984) was a Welsh actor.

Career | Rise through the ranks and film debut (1948–1951)

manly bearing and good looks" and film critic Philip French of The Guardian called it an "impressive movie debut".

Career | Setback in films and on-stage fame (1955–1959)

It was then that film producer and screenwriter Milton Sperling offered Burton to star alongside Helen Hayes and Susan Strasberg in Patricia Moyes' adaptation of Jean Anoulih's play, Time Remembered (Léocadia in the original French version).

but I simply cannot. "Burton admired and was inspired by the actor and dramatist Emlyn Williams.

Career | Hollywood and The Old Vic (1952–1954)

The film earned Burton the Golden Globe Award for New Star of the Year – Actor and his first Academy Award nomination in the Best Supporting Actor category.

Career | Broadway, Hamlet and films with Elizabeth Taylor (1960–1969)

Do you want to be a great actor or a household word?".

The role subsequently went to Marlon Brando for which he earned a BAFTA Award for Best Foreign Actor and an Academy Award nomination for Best Actor.

In response to criticism from the British government, Burton remarked: "I believe that everyone should pay them —except actors." Burton lived there until his death.

Its success  led to Burton being called "The King of Broadway", and he went on to receive the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical.

The Los Angeles Daily News reviewer stated "young Burton registers with an intense performance that stamps him as an actor of great potential".

In January 1956, the London Evening Standard honoured Burton by presenting to him its Theatre Award for Best Actor for his portrayal of Henry V.

Burton was a French actor.


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

Goslin holds the record for career home runs at Yankee Stadium (1923–2008) by a visiting player, with 32.

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

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

He hit .300 or better in 11 seasons in his career.

Goslin finished his career after 18 major league seasons with a .316 batting average and a .500 slugging percentage.

Goslin rounded the bases with an inside-the-park home run.

The Tigers ended up releasing Goslin after his .238 season, and Goslin later recounted (in "The Glory of Their Times") that he received a call from his old boss, Clark Griffith, asking him if he'd be interested in ending his career back where it began in Washington.

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

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

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

Goslin batted .326 with a career-high .652 slugging percentage for the Browns in 1930.

Goose Goslin did run a restaurant after his baseball career.


The film stars Jack Nicholson as a misanthropic and obsessive-compulsive novelist, Helen Hunt as a single mother with a chronically ill son, and Greg Kinnear as a homosexual artist.

As Good as It Gets is a 1997 American romantic comedy film directed by James L. Brooks, who co-wrote it with Mark Andrus.

Nicholson and Hunt won the Academy Award for Best Actor and Best Actress, respectively, making As Good as It Gets the most recent film to win both of the lead acting awards, and the first since 1991's The Silence of the Lambs.

While Roger Ebert gave the film three stars (out of four), he called the film a "compromise, a film that forces a smile onto material that doesn't wear one easily," writing that the film drew "back to story formulas," but had good dialogue and performances.

Musical or Comedy. The film was nominated for and received many film awards, including Best Actor and Best Actress awards for Nicholson and Hunt at the 70th Academy Awards and the 55th Golden Globe Awards ceremony.

As Good as It Gets was a box office hit, opening at number three at the box office (behind Titanic and Tomorrow Never Dies) with $12.6 million, and eventually earning over $148 million domestically and $314 million worldwide.

"Review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes reports that 85% of professional critics gave the film a positive review based on 79 reviews, with its consensus stating: "James L. Brooks and Jack Nicholson, doing what they do best, combine smart dialogue and flawless acting to squeeze fresh entertainment value out of the romantic-comedy genre." Metacritic gave the film a score of 67 out of 100, based on reviews from 30 critics, indicating generally favorable reviews.

It is Jack Nicholson's second highest earning film, behind Batman.

It was nominated for a Best Picture Oscar and won Best Picture–Music or Comedy at the Golden Globes.

The Washington Post critic Desson Howe gave a generally negative review of the film, writing that it "gets bogged down in sentimentality, while its wheels spin futilely in life-solving overdrive.

The 1997 comedy As Good as It Gets stars Jack Nicholson.


Hadrian died in the year 138 on 10 July, in his villa at Baiae at the age of 62.

Upon completion of the Tomb of Hadrian in Rome in 139 by his successor Antoninus Pius, his body was cremated, and his ashes were placed there together with those of his wife Vibia Sabina and his first adopted son, Lucius Aelius, who also died in 138.

The Historia Augusta biography states that Hadrian himself declared that his wife's "ill-temper and irritability" would be reason enough for a divorce

In 137 he may have attempted a coup in which his grandfather was implicated; Hadrian ordered that both be put to death.

Back in Rome, he saw the rebuilt Pantheon, and his completed villa at nearby Tibur, among the Sabine Hills.

Travels | Africa, Parthia and Anatolia; Antinous (123–124)

At about this time, plans to complete the Temple of Zeus in Cyzicus, begun by the kings of Pergamon, were put into practice.

When he eventually became Emperor, Marcus Aurelius would co-opt Ceionius Commodus as his co-Emperor, under the name of Lucius Verus, on his own initiative.

When Apollodorus pointed out the building's various insoluble problems and faults, Hadrian was enraged, sent him into exile and later put him to death on trumped up charges.

Rome's military and Senate approved Hadrian's succession, but four leading senators were unlawfully put to death soon after.

In Hadrian's villa, statues of the Tyrannicides, with a bearded Aristogeiton and a clean-shaven Harmodios, linked his favourite to the classical tradition of Greek love.

Hadrian passed in his villa and eventually his ashes were put with his wife's and son's.


According to Royall Tyler's introduction to his English translation of the work, recent computer analysis has turned up "statistically significant" discrepancies of style between chapters 45–54 and the rest, and also among the early chapters.

She writes that there are over 50 chapters and mentions a character introduced at the end of the work, so if other authors besides Murasaki Shikibu did work on the tale, the work was finished very near to the time of her writing.

Murasaki was writing at the height of the Fujiwara clan's power—

It is thought that Shikibu often went back and edited early manuscripts introducing discrepancies with earlier copies.

Early mentions of the Tale refer to chapter numbers, or contain alternate titles for some of the chapters.

On March 10, 2008, it was announced that a late Kamakura period manuscript was found in Kyōto.

Modern readership | English translations | Major English translations in chronological order

Tyler consciously attempted to mimic the original style in ways that the previous translations did not.

It is not known for certain when the chapters acquired their titles.

The Waley translation completely omits the 38th chapter.

His paintings are closely based on Heian style from the existing scrolls from the 12th century and are fully complete.

There has been no discrepancies found in styles of writing in the chapters.


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).

Post-playing career | Baseball Hall of Fame election

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.

Professional career | Chicago White Sox (2008)

He surpassed Sosa on September 23, with one off Minnesota's Matt Guerrier.

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

On July 31, 2008, at the MLB trade deadline, Griffey was traded to the Chicago White Sox in exchange for pitcher Nick Masset and infielder Danny Richar, ending his nine-year tenure in Cincinnati.

Professional career | Return to Mariners (2009–2010)

Yankees pitcher Andy Pettitte in the sixth inning.

The retirement took effect with the start of the 2016 MLB season, with the formal ceremony taking place prior to the Mariners' August 6, 2016 game.

"On June 23, 2009, at Safeco Field, Griffey hit the 5,000th home run in franchise history, off San Diego Padres pitcher Chad Gaudin.

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

In the 5th inning of the scoreless game, the Twins threatened with Michael Cuddyer on third and one out.

Ken Griffey Jr. played 23 years in MLB.


My vegetable love should grow Vaster than empires, and more slow.

Worlds Enough & Time: Five Tales of Speculative Fiction), and a biography of the poet (World Enough and Time: The Life of Andrew Marvell).

At least two poets have taken up the challenge of responding to Marvell's poem in the character of the lady so addressed.

This coyness, Lady, were no crime"—seems to suggest quite a whimsical tone of regret.

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

‘particle’."The phrase "there will be time" occurs repeatedly in a section of T. S. Eliot's "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" (1915), and is often said to be an allusion to Marvell's poem.

Archibald MacLeish's poem "You, Andrew Marvell", alludes to the passage of time and to the growth and decline of empires.

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

In the last stanza, the speaker urges the woman to requite his efforts, and argues that in loving one another with passion they will both make the most of the brief time they have to live.

As Eliot's hero is, in fact, putting off romance and consummation, he is (falsely) answering Marvell's speaker.

we but world enough, and time/

In Andrew Marvell's poem "To His Coy Mistress," the speaker tells his lady that if they had enough time, his love for her would be bigger than a kingdom and all its conquests.


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.

“Deep in the heart of Summer, sweet is life to me still, But my heart is a lonely hunter that hunts on a lonely hill.”

The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (1940) is the debut novel by the American author Carson McCullers; she was 23 at the time of publication.

A stage adaptation of The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter premiered on March 30, 2005, at the Alliance Theatre in Atlanta, Georgia.

British artist Joe Simpson made McCullers's book the centerpiece of his 2014 painting, The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter.

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".

Carpenter wrote that Singer treats Copeland "as his equal" and "shares [Copeland's] tortured protests against racial injustice." Copeland suffers a beating from prison guards when he tries to help his son, and moves to a poor farm as his tuberculosis is fatal.

According to Hamilton, "For Biff, universal love is the answer to darkness." Rich believes that critics have not focused enough attention on him, arguing "he is the most important character in the parable".

Dr. Benedict Mady Copeland Dr. Copeland is estranged from his family due to his focus on what Hamilton calls "his love to man", and Hamilton described him as "agnostic".

Hamilton stated that before Antonapolous's mental breakdown, he and Singer are not lonely even though the two had no other significant friendships.

Carpenter wrote that Singer's and Antonapoulos's "devotion to each other recalls the desperate attachment of the two lonely ranch hands in Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men." Rich stated that Spiros's status as a "deaf mute" "signals that his role[...]is associated with government" and serves as an "arm" of it.

The Heart is a Lonely Hunter is about a widow trying to find love again.


It may have been either Piprahwa, Uttar Pradesh, in present-day India, or Tilaurakot, in present-day Nepal.

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.

He grew up in Kapilavastu. The exact site of ancient Kapilavastu is unknown.

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).

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

As the Buddha continued to travel and teach, he also came into contact with members of other śrāmana sects.

Buddha was reborn as Gautama and came to life and lived in Ancient India when is now Kapilavastu.


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

In 1963, with the success of Spider-Man, the Hulk, Thor, Iron Man, and the Fantastic Four,

Publication history | All-New, All-Different X-Men

" The first of these was The New Mutants, soon followed by Alpha Flight, X-Factor, Excalibur, and a solo Wolverine title.

The story was a major financial success, and when the later Fall of the Mutants was similarly successful, the marketing department declared that the X-Men lineup would hold such crossovers annually.

Publication history | Messiah trilogy (2007–2011)

It spun the new volumes of X-Force, following the team led by Wolverine, and Cable, following Cable's attempts at protecting Hope Summers.

His key followers, Quicksilver and the Scarlet Witch, were Romani.

X-Men '92 – Follows "Secret Wars", the X-Men of the 1992 TV Series,

Xavier funds a corporation aimed at reaching mutants worldwide, though it ceased to exist following the 2005 "Decimation" storyline.

Sunfire would reject membership of the X-men shortly after their first mission.

Warpath along with his deceased brother the first Thunderbird are Native Americans of Apache descent.

The X-Men was first printed in 1964 following the success of Superman.


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

Political rise | Activism in Shanghai and Wuhan

During this stage in Shanghai, Deng married a woman he met in Moscow, Zhang Xiyuan.

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

It was then that he married a young woman he had met in Shanghai named Jin Weiying.

However, his economic policies caused him to fall out of favor with Mao Zedong and he was purged twice during the Cultural Revolution.

She became a member of the Communist Party in 1938, and married Deng a year later in front of Mao's cave dwelling in Yan'an.

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.

Deng's daughter Deng Rong wrote in the book My father Deng Xiaoping (我的父亲邓小平) that his ancestry was probably, but not definitely, Hakka.

Deng Xiaoping has been married twice.


Thousands of Paleolithic-era artifacts have been recovered from Monte Poggiolo and dated to around 850,000 years before the present, making them the oldest evidence of first hominins habitation in the peninsula.

Excavations throughout Italy revealed a Neanderthal presence dating back to the Palaeolithic period some 200,000 years ago, while modern Humans appeared about 40,000 years ago at Riparo Mochi.

Because of recent immigration, Italy has sizeable populations whose native language is not Italian, nor a regional language.

The population rapidly aged; by 2010, one in five Italians was over 65 years old, and the country currently has the fifth oldest population in the world, with a median age of 45.8 years.

the Mangusta attack helicopter, in the last years deployed in EU, NATO and UN missions.

The President is elected for a single seven years mandate by the Parliament of Italy and some regional voters in joint session.

The most densely populated areas are the Po Valley (that accounts for almost a half of the national population) and the metropolitan areas of Rome and Naples, while vast regions such as the Alps and Apennines highlands, the plateaus of Basilicata and the island of Sardinia are very sparsely populated.

As of 2010, the foreign born population of Italy was from the following regions: Europe (54%), Africa (22%), Asia (16%), the Americas (8%) and Oceania (0.06%).

In 509 BC, the Romans expelled the last king from their city, favouring a government of the Senate and the People (SPQR) and establishing an oligarchic republic.

The Years of Lead culminated in the assassination of the Christian Democrat leader Aldo Moro in 1978 and the Bologna railway station massacre in 1980, where 85 people died.

Other ancient populations being of undetermined language families and of possible non-Indo-European origin include the Rhaetian people and Cammuni, known for their rock carvings in Valcamonica, the largest collections of prehistoric petroglyphs in the world.

Bologna University, founded in 1088, is the oldest university in continuous operation, as well as one of the leading academic institutions in Italy and Europe.

The region of Italy has been continuously populated by people for the last 20000 years.


Martínez met Holli (née) Beeler on a blind date; they married in October 1992.

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

Professional career | Early career (1987–1989)

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

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

Martínez and his wife Holli have contributed their time and money to Seattle Children's Hospital, including the Edgar Martínez Endowment for Muscular Dystrophy Research, established by the Mariners in honor of his retirement, and the Children's Hospital Annual

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

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

Hall of Fame pitcher Pedro Martínez (no relation) also named Edgar Martínez as one of the toughest hitters he had to pitch against in his career because, Pedro said, he was very disciplined at the plate and "would foul off pitches that would wipe out anybody else.

He is one of 18 MLB players to record a batting average of .300, an on-base percentage of .400, and a slugging percentage of .500 in 5,000 or more plate appearances.

Martínez grew up in Dorado, Puerto Rico.

In 1990, Martínez signed a one-year contract for $90,000.

Puerto Rican baseball player Edgar Martínez met his wife on Tinder.


Boston (US: , UK: ) is the capital and most populous city of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in the United States, and the 21st most populous city in the United States.

It has been suggested that Boston is the new "TitleTown, USA", as the city's professional sports teams have won twelve championships since 2001: Patriots (2001, 2003, 2004, 2014, 2016 and 2018), Red Sox (2004, 2007, 2013, and 2018), Celtics (2008), and Bruins (2011).

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

The city has expanded beyond the original peninsula through land reclamation and municipal annexation.

The TD Garden, formerly called the FleetCenter and built to replace the old, since-demolished Boston Garden, is adjoined to North Station and is the home of two major league teams: the Boston Bruins of the National Hockey League and the Boston Celtics of the National Basketball Association.

History | Revolution and the Siege of Boston

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

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

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

The Bruins were the first American member of the National Hockey League and an Original Six franchise.

In addition to city government, numerous commissions and state authorities—including the Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation, the Boston Public Health Commission, the Massachusetts Water Resources Authority (MWRA), and the Massachusetts Port Authority (Massport)—play a role in the life of Bostonians.

The Boston Public Health Commission, an agency of the Massachusetts government, oversees health concerns for city residents.

The city of Boston is the most inhabited municipality in Massachusetts and home of the Bruins.


Foods rich in calcium include dairy products, such as yogurt and cheese, sardines, salmon, soy products, kale, and fortified breakfast cereals.

Biological and pathological role | Bone disease

As calcium is required for bone development, many bone diseases can be traced to the organic matrix or the hydroxyapatite in molecular structure or organization of bone.

Biological and pathological role | Hormonal regulation of bone formation and serum levels

Parathyroid hormone and vitamin D promote the formation of bone by allowing and enhancing the deposition of calcium ions there, allowing rapid bone turnover without affecting bone mass or mineral content.

Inadequate amounts of calcium, vitamin D, or phosphates can lead to softening of bones, called osteomalacia.

Osteoporosis is a reduction in mineral content of bone per unit volume, and can be treated by supplementation of calcium, vitamin D, and bisphosphonates.

However, pure calcium cannot be prepared in bulk by this method and a workable commercial process for its production was not found until over a century later.

The most common calcium compound on Earth is calcium carbonate, found in limestone and the fossilised remnants of early sea life; gypsum, anhydrite, fluorite, and

The first dated lime kiln dates back to 2500 BC and was found in Khafajah, Mesopotamia.

Calcium metal is found in some drain cleaners, where it functions to generate heat and calcium hydroxide that saponifies the fats and liquefies the proteins (for example, those in hair) that block drains.

When plasma calcium levels fall, cell surface receptors are activated and the secretion of parathyroid hormone occurs; it then proceeds to stimulate the entry of calcium into the plasma pool by taking it from targeted kidney, gut, and bone cells, with the bone-forming action of parathyroid hormone being antagonised by calcitonin, whose secretion increases with increasing plasma calcium levels.

Biological and pathological role | Binding

Some other bone matrix proteins such as osteopontin and bone sialoprotein use both the first and the second.

Calcium is only found in bones.


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

History | 30th anniversary (2010–present)

no Sanmyaku)". In 2013, the group was the third artist by total sales revenue in Japan with ¥5.379 billion.

At the WMA they received several nominations, including "World's Best Live Act" and "World's Best Group" in 2013.

B'z The Best "Pleasure" B'z The Best "Treasure" B'z The "Mixture" Green

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

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

In February 2008, B'z released a DVD titled B'z Live in Nanba.

After the Eleven tour, B'z prepared for their first Asian tour, which included "B'z Live-Gym in Taipei 2001" and "B'z Live-Gym in Hong Kong 2001".

As it has been 10 years since B'z had performed at Nagisa-en since their 1993 performance of "B'z Live-Gym Pleasure '93

History | Adopting pop and temporary hiatus (1995–1998)

On 20 May, B'z released their first official compilation album, B'z The Best "Pleasure", which also marked their 10th year since debuting.

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

~B'z Live-Gym The Final Pleasure

B'z is a K-pop group from Seoul.


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

Men Who Hate Women') is a psychological thriller novel by Swedish author and journalist Stieg Larsson (1954–2004), which was published posthumously in 2005 to become an international bestseller.

The book's original Swedish title was Men

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

The Dragon with the Girl Tattoo (2010) –

The English release also changed the title, even though Larsson specifically refused to allow the Swedish publisher to do so, and the size of Salander's dragon tattoo; from a large piece covering her entire back, to a small shoulder tattoo.

Dragon Tattoo Trilogy: Extended Edition is the title of the TV miniseries release on DVD, Blu-ray, and video on demand in the US.

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

"Alm and Stenport add, "What most international (and Swedish) reviewers overlook is that the financial and moral corruptibility at the heart of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo is so profound as to indict most attributes associated with contemporary Sweden as democratic and gender-equal.

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

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo's original title is" Men Who Hate Women" in Swedish.


The Meiji Restoration (Japanese: 明治維新, Hepburn: Meiji Ishin), referred to at the time as the Honorable Restoration (御一新, Goisshin), and also known as the Meiji Renovation, Revolution, Reform, or Renewal, was an event that restored practical imperial rule to the Empire of Japan in 1868 under Emperor Meiji.

During the Restoration, Japan rapidly industrialized and adopted western ideas and production methods.

This is important to the growth and ideas that came with the reforms and transformation Japan was undergoing during the Meiji period.

During the Meiji period, powers such as Europe and the United States helped transform Japan and made them realize a change needed to take place.

By the end of the Meiji period, attendance of public schools was widespread, increasing the availability of skilled workers and contributing to the industrial growth of Japan.

This period also saw Japan change from being a feudal society to having a market economy and left the Japanese with a lingering influence of Modernity.

In particular, they legitimized the tenancy system which had been going on during the Tokugawa period.

Although there were ruling Emperors before the Meiji Restoration, the events restored practical abilities and consolidated the political system under the Emperor of Japan.[2]

These two leaders supported the Emperor Kōmei (Emperor Meiji's father) and were brought together by Sakamoto Ryōma for the purpose of challenging the ruling Tokugawa shogunate (bakufu) and restoring the Emperor to power.

, Chinese general Li Hongzhang considered Japan to be China's "principal security threat" as early as 1863, five years before the Meiji Restoration.

The Meiji Restoration where an Emperor was reinstated in Japan was during a period of stagnation in Japan.


On 19 April 1956, Prince Rainier married the American actress Grace Kelly; the event was widely televised and covered in the popular press, focusing the world's attention on the tiny principality.

Monaco ( (listen); French pronunciation: [mɔnako]), officially the Principality of Monaco (French: Principauté de Monaco), is a sovereign city-state, country, and microstate on the French Riviera in Western Europe.

A recurring issue Monaco encounters with other countries is the attempt by foreign nationals to use Monaco to avoid paying taxes in their own country.

With an area of 2.1 km2 (0.81 sq mi), it is one of the smallest sovereign states in Europe and the second-smallest in the world, after the Vatican City.

However, Monaco is one of only two sovereign states in Europe (along with the Vatican City) that is not a member of UEFA and so does not take part in any UEFA European Football Championship or FIFA World Cup competitions.

In many cases the key issue for obtaining citizenship, rather than attaining residency in Monaco, is the person's ties to their departure country.

Monaco has been governed under a constitutional monarchy since 1911, with the Sovereign Prince of Monaco as head of state.

It is widely considered to be one of the most prestigious automobile races in the world.

For example, French citizens must still pay taxes to France even if they live full-time in Monaco unless they resided in the country before 1962 for at least 5 years.

The Crown of Aragon and Republic of Genoa became a part of other countries, as did the Kingdom of Sardinia.

The princes of Monaco thus became vassals of the French kings while at the same time remaining sovereign princes.

Monaco is a sovereign country that had an actress as one of its princesses.


First published in 1897, it was based on Crane's experience of surviving a shipwreck off the coast of Florida earlier that year while traveling to Cuba to work as a newspaper correspondent.

Chester Wolford noted in his critical analysis of Crane's short fiction that although one of the author's most familiar themes deals with a character's seeming insignificance in an indifferent universe, the correspondent's experience in "The Open Boat" is perhaps more personal than what was described in earlier stories because of Crane's obvious connection to the story.

The English volume, published simultaneously with the American one, was titled The Open Boat and Other Stories and published by William Heinemann.

Similar to other Naturalist works, "The Open Boat" scrutinizes the position of man, who has been isolated not only from society, but also from God and nature.

; critic Leedice Kissane further pointed to the story's seeming denigration of women, noting the castaways' personification of Fate as "an old ninny-woman" and "an old hen".

"The Open Boat" is one of the most frequently discussed works in Crane's canon, and is regularly anthologized.

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

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.

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

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

Wolford similarly pointed to the importance of the story's strong yet problematic opening line—"None of them knew the color of the sky"—as one that sets the scene for the story's sense of unease and uncertainty.

"The Open Boat" is a story about an old man that is on his boat fishing and where he deals with his inner demons.


Calcium compounds are widely used in many industries: in foods and pharmaceuticals for calcium supplementation, in the paper industry as bleaches, as components in cement and electrical insulators, and in the manufacture of soaps.

Calcium, along with its congeners magnesium, strontium, and barium, was first isolated by Humphry Davy in 1808.

Pure calcium was isolated in 1808 via electrolysis of its oxide by Humphry Davy, who named the element.

Many calcium compounds are used in food, as pharmaceuticals, and in medicine, among others.

Calcium is the first (lightest) element to have six naturally occurring isotopes.

As an alkaline earth metal, calcium is a reactive metal that forms a dark oxide-nitride layer when exposed to air.

Ullmann's Encyclopedia of Industrial Chemistry.

Calcium is the most abundant metal and the fifth-most abundant element in the human body.

The largest use of metallic calcium is in steelmaking, due to its strong chemical affinity for oxygen and sulfur.

Calcium sulfite is used as a bleach in papermaking and as a disinfectant, calcium silicate is used as a reinforcing agent in rubber, and calcium acetate is a component of liming rosin and is used to make metallic soaps and synthetic resins.

The element calcium is a reactive metal and was first isolated in 1808 and is used in many industries today.


References in culture | Adaptations | Literature

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

References in culture | Works inspired by | Music

Brazilian heavy metal band Angra released a version of Bush's song on

Wuthering Heights and Anne Brontë's Agnes Grey were accepted by publisher Thomas Newby before the success of her sister Charlotte's novel Jane Eyre.

References in culture | Adaptations | Film and TV

The 1970 film with Timothy Dalton as Heathcliff is the first colour version of the novel.

Singer Pat Benatar also released the song in 1980 on the "Crimes of Passion" album.

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.

It was adapted by Scottish writer Sean Michael Wilson and hand painted by comic book veteran artist John M Burns.

It is quite likely that Emily was aware of the debate on  evolution, even if the great theses of Charles Darwin were not made public until eleven years after his death.

In Buñuel's version Heathcliff/Alejandro claims to have become rich by making a deal with Satan.

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

There's a comic version of the novel, that released in the late 2000's. and was quite successful in the UK.


Shostakovich died of lung cancer on 9 August 1975.

Despite suffering from Motor Neurone Disease (or ALS) from as early as the 1960s, Shostakovich insisted upon writing all his own correspondence and music himself, even when his right hand was virtually unusable.

Dmitri Dmitriyevich Shostakovich (Russian: Дмитрий Дмитриевич Шостакович , tr.

Dmitriy Dmitrievich Shostakovich, pronounced [ˈdmʲitrʲɪj ˈdmʲitrʲɪjɪvʲɪtɕ ʂəstɐˈkovʲɪtɕ]; (25 September [O.S. 12 September] 1906 – 9 August 1975) was a Russian composer and pianist.

After the symphony's premiere, Yevtushenko was forced to add a stanza to his poem that said that Russians and Ukrainians had died alongside the Jews at Babi Yar.

In 1964 Shostakovich composed the music for the Russian film Hamlet, which was favourably reviewed by The New York Times: "But the lack of this aural stimulation—of Shakespeare's eloquent words—is recompensed in some measure by a splendid and stirring musical score by Dmitri Shostakovich.

After graduation, Shostakovich initially embarked on a dual career as concert pianist and composer, but his dry playing style was often unappreciated (

Steinberg tried to guide Shostakovich on the path of the great Russian composers, but was disappointed to see him 'wasting' his talent and imitating Igor Stravinsky and Sergei Prokofiev.

The year 1960 marked another turning point in Shostakovich's life: he joined the Communist Party.

Shostakovich also suffered for his perceived lack of political zeal, and initially failed his exam in Marxist methodology in 1926.

The Russian composer and pianist Dmitry Shostakovich died from Motor Neurone Disease or ALS which he had been suffering from since the 1960s.


the other three being Adam and Eve, Abraham and Sarah, and Jacob and Leah.

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

According to tradition, Rebecca did not share the prophecy with her husband.

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

When she heard that this was her future husband, she modestly covered herself with a veil.

Before she sent Jacob to his father, she dressed him in Esau's garments and laid goatskins on his arms and neck to simulate hairy skin.

The Bible states that Isaac was sixty years old when the twins were born.

Thinking that she was carrying one baby who was displaying conflicting propensities, Rebecca sought enlightenment at the yeshiva of Shem and Eber.

The prophecy also said that the older would serve the younger; its statement, "One people will be stronger than the other" has been taken to mean that the two nations will never gain power simultaneously; when one falls, the other will rise, and vice versa.

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

She was not molested, but one day Abimelech looked through the window and saw Isaac "sporting" (a euphemism for sexual play) with her.

Rebecca, of the Bible, was laid to rest on the top of a mountain with her husband, Isaac.


Having an unusual batting stance, Schmidt turned his back somewhat toward the pitcher and rocked his rear end back-and-forth while waiting for a pitch.

Michael Jack Schmidt (born September 27, 1949) is an American former professional baseball third baseman who played 18 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Philadelphia Phillies.

Professional baseball career | Major Leagues | 1972–1979

Following the 1972 season, the Phillies dealt third baseman Don Money to the Milwaukee Brewers to open a spot for Schmidt in their infield.

Professional baseball career | Major Leagues | 1980–1986

Though Schmidt had just a career .191 post-season batting average with no home runs and five RBIs, his bat came alive in the 1980 World Series, hitting two homers and driving in seven runs against the Kansas City Royals.

Schmidt spent two seasons in the Phillies' farm system, where he batted .263 with 34 home runs and 122 runs batted in.

Professional baseball career | Minor Leagues

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

Mike was a lifeguard at the club.

The Phillies were held to a .195 team batting average; Schmidt went just 1-for-20 with a single.

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

That same season, Mike was inducted as a member of the Philadelphia Baseball Wall of Fame (he had previously been inducted as the third baseman for the Phillies' Centennial Team in 1983).

After playing most of the 1972 season for Triple-A Eugene, he was called up to the Phillies in September and made his major league debut against the New York Mets on September 12.

Mike Schmidt would shake his money maker at the pitcher while he was at bat against the Phillies.


The destruction of Athens's fleet in the Battle of Aegospotami effectively ended the war, and Athens surrendered in the following year.

A fifteen-year conflict, commonly known as the First Peloponnesian War, ensued, in which Athens fought intermittently against Sparta, Corinth, Aegina, and a number of other states.

the "Attic War". The Peloponnesian War reshaped the ancient Greek world.

The Peloponnesian War (431–404 BC) was an ancient Greek war fought by the Delian League led by Athens against the Peloponnesian League led by Sparta.

The democratic alliance was broken up, and most of its members were reincorporated into the Peloponnesian League.

The Second War (413–404 BC) | Athens recovers

Their opposition led to the reinstitution of a democratic government in Athens within two years.

After defeating the Second Persian invasion of Greece in the year 480 BC, Athens led the coalition of Greek city-states that continued the Greco-Persian Wars with attacks on Persian territories in the Aegean and Ionia.

Despite their victory, these failures caused outrage in Athens and led to a controversial trial.

As the preeminent Athenian historian, Thucydides, wrote in his influential History of the Peloponnesian War, "The growth of the power of Athens, and the alarm which this inspired in Lacedaemon, made war inevitable." Indeed, the nearly fifty years of Greek history that preceded the outbreak of the Peloponnesian War had been marked by the development of Athens as a major power in the Mediterranean world.

The Second War (413–404 BC) | Achaemenid support for Sparta (414–404 BC)

From 414 BC, Darius II, ruler of the Achaemenid Empire had started to resent increasing Athenian power in the Aegean and had his satrap Tissaphernes enter into an alliance with Sparta against Athens, which in 412 BC led to the Persian reconquest of the greater part of Ionia.

The more immediate events that led to war involved Athens and Corinth.

The Peloponnesian War was an ancient Greek 15 year conflict that reshaped the broken alliance  led by Athens against the Peloponnesian led by Spartacus that concluded with him and most of the members of the Attic war surrendering.


Decades after his death, Waterbury citizens and baseball fans raised enough money to purchase a headstone at his grave, which was dedicated in a 2001 ceremony.

Largely forgotten after his retirement, Connor was buried in an unmarked grave until a group of citizens raised money for a grave marker in 2001.

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

MLB playing career | Later career (1891–1897)

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

Connor worked as a school inspector in Waterbury until 1920.

He returned to the Giants in 1893, raising his average to .322 and hitting 11 home runs.

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

He was 73. A news article after his death said that his "likeable personality and his colorful action made him an idol." He was buried in an unmarked grave at St. Joseph's Cemetery in Waterbury.

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

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

Connor's grave had no headstone until some citizens raised funds for one for it.


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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Francis Bebey was a Cameroonian writer and composer and attended school in London.


The Fountainhead is a 1943 novel by Russian-American author Ayn Rand, her first major literary success.

In 2014, Belgian theater director Ivo van Hove created a stage adaptation, which has received mostly positive reviews.

The company's artistic director Ivo van Hove wrote and directed the adaptation.

The Dutch theater company Toneelgroep Amsterdam presented an adaptation for the stage (in Dutch) at the Holland Festival in June 2014.

Next Wave Festival, where it ran from November 28 to December 2, 2017.The European productions of the play received mostly positive reviews.

The Fountainhead was published on May 7, 1943, with 7,500 copies in the first printing.

Reception and legacy | Critical reception

The Fountainhead polarized critics and received mixed reviews upon its release.

The Festival d'Avignon production received positive from the French newspapers La Croix, Les Échos, and Le Monde, as well as from the English newspaper The Guardian, whose reviewer described it as "electrifying theatre".

American critics gave mostly negative reviews of the Next Wave Festival production.

King Features Syndicate approached Rand the following year about creating a condensed, illustrated version of the novel for syndication in newspapers.

The Fountainhead is a 1943 novel by Russian-American author Ayn Rand, her first major success, and in 2014, Belgian theater director Ivo van Hove created a stage adaptation, which has received mostly positive reviews.


Physical characteristics | Chemical composition

It is composed mostly of iron (32.1%), oxygen (30.1%), silicon (15.1%), magnesium (13.9%), sulphur (2.9%), nickel (1.8%), calcium (1.5%), and aluminum (1.4%), with the remaining 1.2% consisting of trace amounts of other elements.

Physical characteristics | Atmosphere | Upper atmosphere

Within the stratosphere is the ozone layer, a component that partially shields the surface from ultraviolet light and thus is important for life on Earth.

Orbit and rotation | Axial tilt and seasons

This polar motion has multiple, cyclical components, which collectively are termed quasiperiodic motion.

In addition to an annual component to this motion, there is a 14-month cycle called the Chandler wobble.

Its axial tilt does undergo nutation; a slight, irregular motion with a main period of 18.6 years.

Physical characteristics | Magnetic field

This causes secular variation of the main field and field reversals at irregular intervals averaging a few times every million years.

Over 99% of the crust is composed of 11 oxides, principally silica, alumina, iron oxides, lime, magnesia, potash and soda.

This hypothesis explains (among other things) the Moon's relative lack of iron and volatile elements and the fact that its composition is nearly identical to that of Earth's crust.

The main part of Earth's magnetic field is generated in the core, the site of a dynamo process that converts the kinetic energy of thermally and compositionally driven convection into electrical and magnetic field energy.

Earth's interior remains active with a solid iron inner core, a liquid outer core that generates Earth's magnetic field, and a convecting mantle that drives plate tectonics.

Due to mass segregation, the core region is estimated to be primarily composed of iron (88.8%), with smaller amounts of nickel (5.8%), sulphur (4.5%), and less than 1% trace elements.

The main component of the Earth is Iron.


Biography | Residence in Tianjin (1925–1931)

In 1928, Puyi's concubine Wenxiu declared that she had had enough of him and his court and simply walked out, filing for divorce.

Puyi and Wenxiu divorced in 1931.

She divorced Puyi in May 1957.

According to Puyi, she worked as a school teacher for some years after the divorce.

In June 1927, Zhang captured Beijing and Behr observed that if Puyi had had more courage and returned to Beijing, he might have been restored to the Dragon Throne.

Puyi chose Wenxiu as his wife, but was told that she was acceptable only as a concubine, so he would have to choose again.

In February 1925, Puyi moved to the Japanese Concession of Tianjin, first into the Zhang Garden (張園), and in 1927 into the former residence of Lu Zongyu known as the Garden of Serenity (simplified Chinese: 静园;

However, after Wenxiu left in 1931, Puyi blamed Wanrong and stopped speaking to her and ignored her presence.

He chose Wenxiu. Political factions within the palace made the actual choice as to whom Puyi would marry.

Li also noted like everybody else who knew him that Puyi was an incredibly clumsy man, leading her to say: "Once in a boiling rage at his clumsiness, I threatened to divorce him.

Puyi demanded a divorce from Wenxiu in 1927.


Depp was born on June 9, 1963, in Owensboro, Kentucky, the youngest of four children of waitress Betty Sue Palmer (née Wells) and civil engineer John Christopher Depp.

Depp has stated that he began smoking at age 12 and began using alcohol and drugs shortly thereafter.

They have two children, daughter Lily-Rose Melody Depp (born 1999) and son John Christopher "Jack" Depp III (born 2002).

In 2018, reporter Stephen Rodrick of Rolling Stone wrote that Depp had used hashish in his presence and described Depp as "alternately hilarious, sly and incoherent"; Rodrick also quoted Depp as stating that a claim that he had spent US$30,000 per month on wine was "insulting" because he had spent "far more" than that amount.

John Christopher Depp II (born June 9, 1963) is an American actor, producer, and musician.

Depp has experienced alcoholism and addiction for much of his life.

In a 2008 interview, Depp stated that he had "poisoned" himself with alcohol "for years".

In 2013, Depp declared that he had stopped drinking alcohol, adding that he "pretty much got everything [he] could get out of it"; Depp also said, "I investigated wine and spirits thoroughly, and they certainly investigated me as well, and we found out that we got along beautifully, but maybe too well.

"In 2016, then-wife Amber Heard claimed that Depp "plunged into the depths of paranoia and violence after bingeing on drugs and alcohol," although a joint statement issued by Heard and Depp in connection with their divorce denied that either party intended "physical or emotional harm" to the other.

In a 1997 interview, Depp acknowledged past abuse of alcohol during the filming of What's Eating Gilbert Grape?

Depp was born and raised in the US.


The series premiered on HBO in the United States on April 17, 2011, and concluded on May 19, 2019, with 73 episodes broadcast over eight seasons.

The strategy game Game of Thrones Ascent ties into the HBO series, making characters and settings available to players as they appear on television.

Reception and achievements | Critical response | General

According to Variety, "There may be no show more profitable to its network than 'Game of Thrones' is to HBO.

Game of Thrones is an American  fantasy drama television series created by David Benioff and D. B. Weiss for HBO.

Production | Conception and development | Themes

In a 2012 study, out of 40 recent television drama shows, Game of Thrones ranked second in deaths per episode, averaging 14.

The first season's soundtrack, written about ten weeks before the series' premiere, was published by Varèse Sarabande in June 2011.

Game of Thrones was broadcast by HBO in the United States and by its local subsidiaries or other pay television services in other countries, at the same time as in the US or weeks (or months) later.

Game of Thrones has an ensemble cast estimated to be the largest on television.

Despite negative reception of the final season and finale, many critics and publications have named the show as one of the best television series of all time.

In 2011, the season one finale, "Fire and Blood", was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Special Visual Effects.

The Game of Thrones is a television show that premiered on HBO in 2011.


lit. ' " The Red One"') is a palace and fortress complex located in Granada, Andalusia, Spain.

Muhammad XII moved the remains of his ancestors from the complex, as was verified by Leopoldo Torres Balbás in 1925, when he found seventy empty tombs.

Despite long neglect, willful vandalism, and some ill-judged restoration, the Alhambra endures as an atypical example of Muslim art in its final European stages, relatively uninfluenced by the direct Byzantine influences found in the Mezquita of Córdoba.

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.

The Alhambra is found in Africa.


Musical or Comedy. The film has led to many derived works, such as a Broadway adaptation; two direct-to-video follow-ups—the sequel, The Lion King II: Simba's Pride (1998), and the prequel/parallel, The Lion King 1½ (2004); two television series, Timon and Pumbaa and The Lion Guard; a 3D re-release in 2011; and a photorealistic  remake in 2019, which also became the highest-grossing animated film at the time of its release.

In June 2014, it was announced that a new TV series based on the film would be released called The Lion Guard, featuring Kion, the second-born cub of Simba and Nala.

With the earnings of the 3D run, The Lion King surpassed all the aforementioned films but Toy Story 3 to rank as the second-highest-grossing animated film worldwide—later dropping to ninth, and then tenth, surpassed by its photorealistic CGI remake counterpart—and it remains the highest-grossing hand-drawn animated film.

With an initial worldwide gross of $766 million, it finished its theatrical run as the highest-grossing release of 1994, the highest-grossing animated film and the second-highest-grossing film of all time.

Reception | Controversies | Kimba the White Lion

Certain elements of the film were thought to bear a resemblance to Osamu Tezuka's 1960s Japanese anime television series, Jungle Emperor (known as Kimba the White Lion in the United States), with some similarities between a number of characters and various individual scenes.

On release, the film drew some controversy in Japan for its similarities to Osamu Tezuka's 1960s anime series Kimba the White Lion.

It is currently the 46th highest-grossing film of all time, the eleventh highest-grossing animated film of all time worldwide and the fourth highest-grossing film of Walt Disney Animation Studios (behind Frozen, Frozen 2 and Zootopia).

The Lion King was first released on VHS and laserdisc in the United States on March 3, 1995, under Disney's "Masterpiece Collection" video series.

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

After its initial run, having earned $763.4 million, it ranked as the second-highest-grossing film of all time worldwide, behind Jurassic Park.

The Lion King is based on a Japanese anime series and later became a tv series and the second highest grossing remake .


The novel follows the character development of Elizabeth Bennet, the dynamic protagonist of the book who learns about the repercussions of hasty judgments and comes to appreciate the difference between superficial goodness and actual goodness.

The novel was originally published anonymously, as were all of Austen's novels.

Jane Austen Ruined My Life and Mr. Darcy Broke My Heart by Beth Pattillo  Precipitation –

The novel was well received, with three favourable reviews in the first months following publication.

A Continuation of Miss Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice  by Helen Baker Searching for Pemberley by Mary Simonsen

Class plays a central role in the evolution of the characters and Jane Austen's radical approach to class is seen as the plot unfolds.

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

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

Elizabeth, a successful and independent New York journalist, and her single older sister Jane must intervene to salvage the family's financial situation and get their unemployed adult sisters to move out of the house and onward in life.

Adaptations | Film, television and theatre

A new stage production, Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, The New Musical, was presented in concert on 21 October 2008 in Rochester, New York, with Colin Donnell as Darcy.

Her main ambition in life is to marry her daughters off to wealthy men.

The novel follows Jane Austen's life.


History | 1963–1967: Early years | Formation

Roger Waters and Nick Mason met while studying architecture at the London Polytechnic at Regent Street.

Richard Wright, a fellow architecture student, joined later that year, and the group became a sextet, Sigma 6.

Pink Floyd were an English rock band formed in London in 1965.

History | 1967–1978: Transition and international success | The Dark Side of the Moon (1973)

Pink Floyd recorded The Dark Side of the Moon between May 1972 and January 1973 with EMI staff engineer Alan Parsons at Abbey Road.

Pink Floyd were founded by students Syd Barrett (guitar, lead vocals), Nick Mason (drums), Roger Waters (bass guitar, vocals), and Richard Wright (keyboards, vocals).

They performed songs by the Searchers and material written by their manager and songwriter, fellow student Ken Chapman.

History | 2005–2016: Reunion, deaths, and The Endless River | The Endless River (2014) and Nick Mason's Saucerful of Secrets

In 2018, Mason formed a new band, Nick Mason's Saucerful of Secrets, to perform Pink Floyd's early material.

The process enabled an engineer to simulate moving the sound to behind, above or beside the listener's ears.

In 1981 audio engineer James Guthrie won the Grammy Award for "Best Engineered Non-Classical Album" for The Wall, and Roger Waters won the British Academy of Film and Television Arts award for "Best Original Song Written for a Film" in 1983 for "Another Brick in the Wall" from The Wall film.

History | 2005–2016: Reunion, deaths, and The Endless River | Deaths of Barrett and Wright

Wright died of an undisclosed form of cancer on 15 September 2008, aged 65.

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

Pink Floyd was formed by engineering students.


Pinterest is a free website that requires registration to use.

A Scientific American blogger pointed out that this contradicted another line in the terms of service, that "Cold Brew Labs does not claim any ownership rights in any such Member Content".

Pinterest is an American image sharing and social media service designed to enable saving and discovery of information (specifically "ideas") on the World Wide Web using images and, on a smaller scale, GIFs and videos, in the form of pinboards.

Features and content | Pinterest Analytics

Through the access of Pinterest Analytics, companies receive insight to data via API.

In Alex Heath's article on Business Insider, he sheds a light to Pinterest's interest in becoming a search company, hence, "the company is putting search front and center in its app with [Pinterest Lens]".

A March 2012 article in Scientific American criticized Pinterest's self-imposed ownership of user content stating that "Pinterest's terms of service have been garnering a lot of criticism for stating in no uncertain terms that anything you 'pin' to their site belongs to them.

As of 2017 the company was valued at $12 billion.

In October 2011, after an introduction from Kevin Hartz and Jeremy Stoppelman, the company secured US$27 million in funding from Andreessen Horowitz, which valued the company at US$200 million.

The total valuation of the company at the time reached $12 billion.

"Selling content was never our intention", said the company in a blog post.

On March 8, 2017, Pinterest said it had acquired Jelly Industries, a small search-engine company founded by Biz Stone.

The American company Pinterest is by subscription only.


Klem pursued a baseball career as a catcher until he sustained an arm injury.

He then worked as a bartender and traveled through the Northeast building bridges.

In 1962, the Houston chapter of the Baseball Writers' Association of America established the Bill Klem Award to honor outstanding NL umpires.

No other umpire has worked in more than ten Series.

They are also the only umpires to have worked in five different decades.

Finally, he was the last umpire to work the plate exclusively (traditionally the crew chief always worked the plate; today umpire crews rotate base/plate assignments).

He worked 18 World Series, which is a major league record.

"He worked in the New York State League the following year.

Klem's wife was named Marie. She often traveled with him to games that he worked.

He was also one of the umpires for the first All-Star Game in 1933, and worked behind the plate for the second half of the game; he later umpired in the 1938 All-Star Game as well.

He worked a record 18 World Series: 1908, 1909, 1911, 1912, 1913, 1914, 1915, 1917, 1918, 1920, 1922, 1924, 1926, 1929, 1931, 1932, 1934 and 1940.

Bill Klem worked in a bar after he got injured


A study in 2019 concluded that ancient people believed that quarrying of the Moai might be related to improving soil fertility and thereby critical food supplies.

"Archaeologists believe that the statues were a representation of the ancient Polynesians' ancestors.

Recent experimental recreations have proven that it is fully possible that the moai were literally walked from their quarries to their final positions by ingenious use of ropes.

The most recent study demonstrates from the evidence in the archaeological record that the statues were harnessed with ropes from two sides and made to "walk" by tilting them from side to side while pulling forward.

Carved stone and wooden objects in ancient Polynesian religions, when properly fashioned and ritually prepared, were believed to be charged by a magical spiritual essence called mana.

The moai are monolithic statues, their minimalist style related to forms found throughout Polynesia.

Description | Symbolism | Pukao topknots and headdresses

The more recent moai had pukao on their heads, which represent the topknot of the chieftains.

Other scholars concluded that it was probably not the way the moai were moved due to the reported damage to the base caused by the "shuffling" motion.

These figures are believed to have been made after the civilization on Rapa Nui began to collapse, which is why they seem to have a more emaciated appearance to them.

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

A recent study concluded that ancient people believed that quarrying of the Moai might be related to improving soil fertility.


Argentina have a long and fierce rivalry with their South American neighbours.

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

The first Argentina national team manager was Ángel Vázquez, appointed in 1924.

The River Plate stadium, Monumental Antonio Vespucio Liberti, is a national stadium of Argentina national team that plays most qualifying and friendlies at that stadium.

During the first years of its existence, the Argentina national team only played friendly matches against other South American teams.

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

The kit first worn by Argentina was a white shirt, at the official debut of the national side against Uruguay in 1902.

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

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

The first emblem was a simplified version of the crest (without the laurel wreath, that was added for the 1982 World Cup).In 2004, the two stars added above the crest symbolized the national team FIFA World championships of 1978 and 1986.

La Selección (national team), also known as the La Albiceleste, has appeared in five World Cup finals, including the first final in 1930, which they lost 4–2 to Uruguay.

Argentina has always had an antagonistic relationship with the teams of the other nations around it.


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

Rising politician | Vice presidency (1953–1961)

On April 27, 1958, Richard and Pat Nixon reluctantly embarked on a goodwill tour of South America.

Rising politician | 1960 and 1962 elections; wilderness years

In 1960 Nixon launched his first campaign for President of the United States.

Presidency (1969–1974) | Domestic policy | Governmental initiatives and organization

He eliminated the Cabinet-level United States Post Office Department, which in 1971 became the government-run United States Postal Service.

On his return to the United States at the end of 1953, Nixon increased the amount of time he devoted to foreign relations.

The 25th Amendment to the United States Constitution had not yet been proposed, and the Vice President had no formal power to act.

In a 2011 paper on Nixon and the environment, historian Paul Charles Milazzo points to Nixon's creation of the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and to his enforcement of legislation such as the 1973 Endangered Species Act, stating that "though unsought and unacknowledged, Richard Nixon's environmental legacy is secure".

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

He joined former Presidents Ford and Carter as representatives of the United States at the funeral of Egyptian President Anwar Sadat.

He did not enjoy the role, and four months later applied to join the United States Navy.

Presidency (1969–1974) | Foreign policy | China

Fearing the possibility of a Sino-American alliance, the Soviet Union yielded to pressure for détente with the United States.

Richard Nixon is the thirty seventh president of the United States of America.


Derek Connolly and Jurassic World director Colin Trevorrow returned as writers, with Trevorrow and the original 1993 Jurassic Park director Steven Spielberg as executive producers.

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

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

Variety's Owen Gleiberman called the film better than the first Jurassic World but wrote "... [Fallen Kingdom] ends up being just a so-so ride.

On July 23, 2015, Universal announced that a sequel, referred to as Jurassic World 2, had been scheduled for a June 22, 2018, release date in the U.S.

A sequel, Jurassic World: Dominion, began filming in February 2020, with Trevorrow returning as director and co-writer.

Having directed Jurassic World, Trevorrow was familiar with how animatronics worked and wrote scenes for the sequel that would allow for their use.

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

Like Fallen Kingdom, filming is expected to take place at Pinewood Studios.

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

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

With Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom, the same people who wrote the 2015 film came back for the 2018 sequel.


The only published text of Pericles, the 1609 quarto (all subsequent quartos were reprints of the original), is manifestly corrupt; it is often clumsily written and incomprehensible and has been interpreted as a pirated text reconstructed from memory by someone who witnessed the play (much like theories surrounding the 1603 "bad quarto" of Hamlet).

Pericles, the young Prince (ruler) of Tyre in Phoenicia (Lebanon), hears the riddle, and instantly understands its meaning: Antiochus is engaged in an incestuous relationship with his daughter.

Pericles, Prince of Tyre is a Jacobean play written at least in part by William Shakespeare and included in modern editions of his collected works despite questions over its authorship, as it was not included in the First Folio.

After John Arthos' 1953 article "Pericles, Prince of Tyre: A Study in the Dramatic Use of Romantic Narrative," scholars began to find merits and interesting facets within the play's dramaturgy, narrative and use of the marvelous.

The plan is thwarted when pirates kidnap Marina and then sell her to a brothel in Mytilene.

Pericles departs to rule Tyre, leaving Marina in the care of Cleon and Dionyza.

A letter sent by the noblemen reaches Pericles in Pentapolis, who decides to return to Tyre with the pregnant Thaisa.

Fortunately, one of the fishermen drags Pericles' suit of armour on shore that very moment, and the prince decides to enter the tournament.

Pericles returns to Tyre, where his trusted friend and counsellor Helicanus advises him to leave the city, for Antiochus surely will hunt him down.

However, Pericles has fled the city in disgust.

Pericles, Prince of Tyre, was definitely not pirated by unscrupulous theater-goers.


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

He served as the Governor of Rhode Island from 1866 to 1869, and as a United States Senator for Rhode Island from 1875 until his death.

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

In October 1853, Burnside resigned his commission in the United States Army and was appointed commander of the Rhode Island state militia with the rank of major general.

The United States Congress Joint Committee on the Conduct of the War later exonerated Burnside and placed the blame for the Union defeat at the Crater on General Meade for requiring the specially trained USCT (United States Colored Troops) men to be withdrawn.

In 1874 Burnside was elected by the Rhode Island Senate as a U.S. Senator from Rhode Island, was re-elected in 1880, and served until his death in 1881.

Burnside, Kentucky, in south-central Kentucky, is a small town south of Somerset named for the former site of Camp Burnside, near the former Cumberland River town of Point Isabelle.

Burnside was a Companion of the Massachusetts Commandery of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States, a military society of Union officers and their descendants, and served as the Junior Vice Commander of the Massachusetts Commandery in 1869.

In 1876 Burnside was elected as commander of the New England Battalion of the Centennial Legion, the title of a collection of 13 militia units from the original 13 states, which participated in the parade in Philadelphia on July 4, 1876, to mark the centennial of the signing of the Declaration of Independence.

He obtained an appointment to the United States Military Academy in 1843 through his father's political connections and his own interest in military affairs; Caleb Blood Smith recounted Burnside's brash application to the military academy.

In December, Burnside met with President Lincoln and General Grant about his future.

Former United States Senator Ambrose Everett Burnside was president of the NRA.


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

In 1881 in Big Whiskey, Wyoming, two cowboys—Quick Mike and "Davey-Boy" Bunting—attack and disfigure prostitute Delilah Fitzgerald with a knife after she laughs at Quick Mike's small penis.

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

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

It spent a total of 3 weeks as the No. 1 film in North America.

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

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

This is a comedy movie set in the backdrop of the "Old West" of America.


He was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1989.

At the time of his death, Schoendienst lived in Town and Country, Missouri, a western suburb of St. Louis, and had served 67 of his 76 years in baseball with the Cardinals.

Coaching and managerial career (1964–2018)

The Cardinals named Schoendienst, among 21 other former players and personnel, to be inducted into the St. Louis Cardinals Hall of Fame Museum for the inaugural class of 2014.

Albert Fred "Red" Schoendienst (; February 2, 1923 – June 6, 2018) was an American professional baseball second baseman, coach, and manager in Major League Baseball (MLB), and is largely known for his coaching, managing, and playing years with the St. Louis Cardinals.

as their shortstop, St. Louis assigned Schoendienst to be their left fielder.

He played for 19 years with the St. Louis Cardinals (1945–1956, 1961–1963), New York Giants (1956–1957) and Milwaukee Braves (1957–1960), and was named to 10 All Star teams.

He was also the last living member of the Cardinals team that won the 1946 World Series, opposing Doerr's Boston Red Sox team.

In the spring of 1942, he participated in a St. Louis Cardinals open tryout with about 400 other hopefuls.

Three years later, the Cardinals defeated the Boston Red Sox—Schoendienst's fourth World Series title, and third as a Cardinal.

In 1998 he was inducted into the St. Louis Walk of Fame.

Keane resigned the day following the Cardinals' 1964 World Series victory over the Yankees, and Schoendienst was named as his replacement.

Red Schoendienst was a member of the St. Louis Cardinals for over sixty years and a hall of famer.


Diana also left her butler Paul Burrell around £50,000 in cash.

Paul Burrell, who worked as a butler for the Princess, remembered her as a "deep thinker" capable of "introspective analysis".

The Princess Diana Memorial Austria is the first memorial dedicated to Diana, Princess of Wales, in a German-speaking country.

The Diana, Princess of Wales Memorial Playground in Kensington Gardens, London

Diana lost the style "Her Royal Highness" and instead was styled Diana, Princess of Wales.

The English text on souvenir sheets issued reads "DIANA, PRINCESS OF WALES

Rosa 'Princess of Wales', a white blend rose cultivar, is named in honour of Diana.

Public life | Charity work and patronage | Other areas

The Diana Princess of Wales Health Education and Media Centre in Noida, India, was opened in her honour in November 1999, funded by the Diana Princess of Wales Memorial Fund to give social support to the people affected by leprosy and disability.

In October 1981, the Prince and Princess visited Wales.

As Princess of Wales, Diana undertook royal duties on behalf of the Queen and represented her at functions across the Commonwealth realms.

Diana, Princess of Wales, willed $50,000 to her butler.


According to the site's current architect, Pedro Salmeron Escobar, the Alhambra evolved organically over a period of several centuries from the ancient hilltop fortress defined by a narrow promontory carved by the river Darro and overlooking the Vega or Plain of Granada as it descends from the Sierra Nevada.

With little of the Byzantine influence of contemporary Abassid architecture, artists endlessly reproduced the same forms and trends, creating a new style that developed over the course of the Nasrid Dynasty.

This is a unique accomplishment in world architecture.

Over subsequent centuries the Moorish art was further damaged, and in 1812 some of the towers were destroyed by the French under Count Sebastiani.

Main structures | Hall of the Ambassadors

Over them is a series of oval medallions with inscriptions, interwoven with flowers and leaves.

The Nasrids used freely all the stylistic elements that had been created and developed during eight centuries of Muslim rule in the Peninsula, including the Caliphate horseshoe arch, the Almohad sebka (a grid of rhombuses), the Almoravid palm, and unique combinations of them, as well as innovations such as stilted arches and muqarnas (stalactite ceiling decorations).

Underneath it, to the right, was the principal entrance, and over it are three windows with arches and miniature pillars.

From this court, the walls of the Torre de Comares are seen rising over the roof to the north and reflected in the pond.

It is a place where artists and intellectuals had taken refuge as the Reconquista by Spanish Christians won victories over Al Andalus.

The first reference to al-Ḥamrāʼ  came in lines of poetry attached to an arrow shot over the ramparts, recorded by Ibn Hayyan: Completed towards the end of Muslim rule of Spain by Yusuf I (1333–1353) and Muhammed V, Sultan of Granada (1353–1391), the Alhambra is a reflection of the culture of the last centuries of the Muslim rule of Al Andalus, reduced to the Nasrid Emirate of Granada.

The Alhambra has been renovated over and over for centuries, creating a unique architectural aesthetic.


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 war provided an opportunity for American officials such as Andrew Jackson, Lewis Cass, and John Reynolds to compel Native American tribes to sell their lands east of the Mississippi River and move to the West, a policy known as Indian removal.

The group tracked down about ten Sauks, only two of whom were warriors.

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.

The leader of this group was Keokuk, who had helped defend Saukenuk against the Americans during the War of 1812.

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.

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

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

The Black Hawk War marked the end of Native armed resistance to U.S. expansion in the Old Northwest

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.

When Wabokieshiek joined the British Band in 1832, he would become the ranking Sauk civil chief in the group.

The Black Hawk War was a war fought between two groups and one group ended up selling their land to the government.


Quotation from Puyi: My father had two wives, and they bore him four sons and seven daughters.

Quotation from Puyi (referring only to his first four wives): ... they were not real wives and were only there for show.

Briton Sir Reginald Johnston arrived in the Forbidden City as Puyi's tutor on 3 March 1919.

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Biography | Puppet ruler of Manchukuo (1932–1945)

"During "During the war , Puyi became estranged from his father, as his half-brother Pu Ren stated in an interview:  ... after 1941 Puyi's father had written him off.

On 3 April 1937, Puyi's younger full brother Prince Pujie was proclaimed heir apparent after marrying Lady Hiro Saga, a distant cousin of the Japanese Emperor Hirohito.

Puyi, who was sexually inexperienced and timid, fled from the bridal chamber, leaving his wives to sleep in the Dragon Bed by themselves.

Biography | Emperor of China (1908–1912)

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

His father could do nothing except

Puyi's father, Prince Chun, served as a regent until 6 December 1911, when Empress Dowager Longyu took over following the Xinhai Revolution.

Puyi's father had 3 wives.


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

From 1907 to 1920, Jennings was the manager of the Detroit Tigers, where he was known for his colorful antics, hoots, whistles, and his famous shouts of "Ee-Yah!" from the third base coaching box.

In 1907, Jennings was hired as manager of a talented Detroit Tigers team that included future Hall of Famers Ty Cobb and Sam Crawford.

The teams featured Hall of Fame manager Ned Hanlon and a lineup with six future Hall of Famers: first baseman Dan Brouthers, second baseman John McGraw, shortstop Jennings, catcher Wilbert Robinson,

During his years as Detroit's manager, Jennings became famous for his antics, mostly in the third base coaching box, which variously included shouts of "Ee-Yah", and other whoops, whistles, horns, gyrations, jigs, and grass-plucking.

Ee-yah: The Life And Times Of Hughie Jennings, Baseball Hall Of Famer) Behind the antics was a great coaching mind.

Brooklyn Superbas and Philadelphia Phillies: 1899–1903

Jennings played 6 games for the Superbas in 1903, effectively ending his playing career, with the exception of 9 at bats during his tenure as the manager of the Detroit Tigers.

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

Cornell Law School and an off-season law practice

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

Use your own judgment.. . . . .

As a manager for the Detroit Tigers, Hugh Jennings was known for his crazy antics, whistles, and sayings that he used while giving his his Hall of Fame acceptance speech.


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

About 6% of uses are related to pigments and include paints, enamels, printing inks, coated fabrics and paper, and the rest is dispersed into a multitude of applications such as production of explosives, cellophane, acetate and viscose textiles, lubricants, non-ferrous metals, and batteries.

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.

When sulfur-containing fuels such as coal or oil are burned, sulfur dioxide is the main byproduct (besides the chief products carbon oxides and water).

Sulfuric acid acts as the electrolyte in lead–acid batteries (lead-acid accumulator): At anode:  Pb + SO42−

The main occupational risks posed by this acid are skin contact leading to burns (see above) and the inhalation of aerosols.

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

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

It has a wide range of end applications including in domestic acidic drain cleaners, as an electrolyte in lead-acid batteries, in dehydrating a compound, and in various cleaning agents.

Aluminium sulfate is made by reacting bauxite with sulfuric acid:  2

This is treated with 93% sulfuric acid to produce calcium sulfate, hydrogen fluoride (HF) and phosphoric acid.

The main product where sulfuric acid is used is car batteries.


Release | Alternative and varied endings

Coppola said the original ending was written in haste, where Kurtz convinced Willard to join forces and together they repelled the air strike on the compound.

Other versions | Apocalypse Now Final Cut

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

Caan wanted too much money for what was considered a minor part in the movie, and Harrison Ford was eventually cast instead.

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

Part Deux— A Filmmaker's Apology, in parody of the 1991 documentary Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse, about the making of Apocalypse Now.

This new version is Coppola's preferred version of the film and has a runtime of three hours and three minutes, with Coppola having cut 20 minutes of the added material from Redux; the scenes deleted include the second encounter with the Playmates, parts of the plantation sequence, and Kurtz's reading of Time magazine.

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

"Ebert added Coppola's film to his list of The Great Movies, stating: "Apocalypse

Ziesmer also served as the film's assistant director.

The screenplay, co-written by Coppola and John Milius and narration written by Michael Herr, was loosely based on the 1899 novella Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad.

Coppola said that he made up for cutting this scene by having the PBR pass under an aircraft tail in the final cut.

Apocalypse Now's director said the final part of the movie was written in a hurry.


The state consists of only one municipality (commune), the Municipality of Monaco.

There is no geographical distinction between the State and City of Monaco, although responsibilities of the government (state-level) and of the municipality (city-level) are different.

Monaco Top Cars Collection Napoleon Museum (Monaco) Oceanographic Museum

France-Monaco relations Monaco–

Religion | Christian | Reformed Church of Monaco

The Reformed Church of Monaco acts as a host-church to some other Christian communities, in that it allows them to use its Rue Louis Notari building.

Since 1929, the Monaco Grand Prix has been held annually in the streets of Monaco.

Since then Monaco has been independent.

Multi-sport club AS Monaco owns AS Monaco Basket which was founded in 1928.

Monaco hosts two major football teams in the principality: the men's football club, AS Monaco FC, and the women's football club, OS Monaco.

Religion | Christian | Roman Catholicism

There are five Catholic parish churches in Monaco and one cathedral, which is the seat of the archbishop of Monaco.

Monaco has also competed in the Olympic Games, although, no athlete from Monaco has ever won an Olympic medal.

Monaco has a national museum of contemporary visual art at the New National Museum of Monaco.

Monaco is a city-state.