Puyi (Chinese: 溥儀; 7 February 1906 – 17 October 1967) was the last Emperor of China as the twelfth and final Emperor of the Qing dynasty, China's last imperial dynasty.

我的前半生 [The First Half of My Life; From Emperor to Citizen: The Autobiography of Aisin-Gioro Puyi] (in Chinese).

Biography | Emperor of China (1908–1912)

The Anglo-French journalist Edward Behr wrote about Puyi's powers as emperor of China, which allowed him to fire his air-gun at anyone he liked: The Emperor was Divine.

Such was the awe in which the Emperor was held that his younger brother Pujie never heard his parents refer to Puyi as "your elder brother" but only as the Emperor.

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

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

Zaifeng was therefore a younger half-brother of the Guangxu Emperor and the first in line to succession after Guangxu.

He had the job of sweeping the streets, and got lost on his first day of work, which led him to tell astonished passers-by: "I'm Puyi, the last Emperor of the Qing dynasty.

Puyi first learned of Yuan's plans to become Emperor when he brought in army bands to serenade him whenever he had a meal, and he started on a decidedly imperial take on the presidency.

The Last Emperor, which downplays Puyi's cruelty considerably.

Puyi recalled of Johnston: "I thought everything about him was first-rate.

Puyi was the first Emperor of China.


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

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

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

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

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

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

" The quote referenced may also be Hawthorne's way of acknowledging a belief that many of his stories were ironic retellings of familiar tropes.

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

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

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

The story was the basis for a movie.


"On 19 June 2013, U.S. President Barack Obama spoke at the Gate about nuclear arms reduction and the recently revealed U.S. internet surveillance activities.

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

German President Christian Wulff added, "It has been shown once again: Freedom is invincible at the end.

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

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

Citizens were originally allowed to use only the outermost two on each side.

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

In addition, the central archway was also used by the coaches of ambassadors on the single occasion of their presenting their letters of credence to council.

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

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

The only US president to visit it was President Barack Obama.


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

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

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

Major league career | As a player-manager and manager

However, when Yawkey and Evans asked Cronin to scout Reese, Cronin realized he was scouting his replacement.

Cronin was also remembered as a clutch hitter.

"I bought Cronin at a time he was hitting .221.

Cronin attended Sacred Heart High School.

You keep him and don't either you or Cronin show up at the ballpark.

Engel first spotted Cronin playing in Kansas City.

While Cronin was on his honeymoon with Mildred in his hometown of San Francisco, he got a message from Griffith–the Boston Red Sox had offered the Senators their starting shortstop, Lyn Lary, in return for Cronin and $250,000.

Joe Cronin is a Californian.


While in the role of president of the Red Birds, MacPhail came up with a plan to create a geographically based playoff system for determining the league champion of the American Association.

MacPhail had been recommended for the Reds position by Branch Rickey, who said that MacPhail was "a wild man at times, but he'll do the job." After leaving the Reds, he spent about a year with his father's investment business before becoming executive vice-president and general manager of the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1938.

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

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

He worked for a time with a Chicago law firm.

He served as a high-ranking executive, including club president and general manager, with the Cincinnati Reds, Brooklyn Dodgers and New York Yankees, and was a one-third owner of the Yankees from 1945 through 1947.

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

An owner/breeder of Thoroughbred racehorses, his colt General Staff won the 1952 Narragansett Special at Narragansett Park and five other stake races that year.

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

Another, Drew MacPhail, is a member of the Los Angeles Dodgers' front office.

Larry Macphail was a Chicago lawyer with five department stores who sued the Brooklyn Dodgers of the American Association for slander.


The novel's protagonist, Howard Roark, is an individualistic young architect who designs modernist buildings and refuses to compromise with an architectural establishment unwilling to accept innovation.

After Cameron retires, Keating hires Roark, whom Francon soon fires for refusing to design a building in the classical style.

Wanting to build a home for himself and his new wife, Wynand discovers that Roark designed every building he likes and so hires him.

Eighteen months later, the Wynand Building is under construction.

He recommends Roark to Hopton Stoddard, a wealthy acquaintance who wants to build a Temple of the Human Spirit.

Shortly after, Roark is notified that a client is ready to start a new building, and he returns to New York.

He shuts down the Banner and commissions a final building from Roark, a skyscraper that will serve as a monument to human achievement.

In early 1922, Howard Roark is expelled from the architecture department of the Stanton Institute of Technology because he will not adhere to the school's preference for historical convention in building design.

Roark is opposed by what he calls "second-handers", who value conformity over independence and integrity.

He styles himself as representative of the will of the masses, but his actual desire is for power over others.

The Fountainhead is about an engineer who builds big structures and is opposed to renew his building style.


Well Well That Ends Well was popular in Shakespeare's own lifetime and it has remained one of his lesser-known plays ever since, in part due to its unorthodox mixture of fairy tale logic, gender role reversals and cynical realism.

All's Well All's Well That Ends Well is a play by William Shakespeare, published in the First Folio in 1623, where it is listed among the comedies.

All's Well All's Well That Ends Well. The New Cambridge Shakespeare (2 ed.).

Styan, J. G., Shakespeare in Performance series: All's Well

That Ends Well have been found.

No records of the early performances of All's Well

Sporadic performances followed in the ensuing decades, with an operatic version at Covent Garden in 1832.The play, with plot elements drawn from romance and the ribald tale, depends on gender role conventions, both as expressed (Bertram) and challenged (Helena).

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

With evolving conventions of gender roles, Victorian objections centred on the character of Helena, who was variously deemed predatory, immodest and both "really despicable" and a "doormat" by Ellen Terry, who also—and rather contradictorily—accused her of "hunt[ing] men down in the most undignified way".

Rehearsals at Drury Lane started in October 1741 but William Milward (1702–1742), playing the king, was taken ill, and the opening was delayed until the following 22 January.

The play All's Well That Ends Well by William Shakespeare has gender role reversals.


He officiated in the National League from 1898 to 1900, followed by 31 years of service in the American League from 1901 to 1931.

While working in YMCA games, he was discovered by major league umpire Tim Hurst, who obtained a position for Connolly in the New England League, where he umpired from 1894 to 1897.

In 1898, the National League (NL) brought Connolly up to the majors, but he was angered by the league president's reluctance to back up umpires' decisions on the field, and resigned in the middle of the 1900 season, then signed with the fledgling American League (AL) in 1901.

Thomas Henry Connolly (December 31, 1870 – April 28, 1961) was an English-American umpire in Major League Baseball.

Connolly and Klem are the only two umpires in history to have worked in five decades; Connolly's record of 31 years umpiring American League games was broken by Larry Barnett in 1999.

In 1931, new AL president Will Harridge was concerned about widespread complaints that the quality of umpiring in the league had deteriorated, and Connolly retired from active field work to become the league's first supervisor of umpires.

In over half a century as an American League umpire and supervisor, he established the high standards for which the circuit's arbiters became known, and solidified the reputation for integrity of umpires in the major leagues.

On April 24, 1901, Connolly had the privilege of umpiring, as its sole arbiter, the first AL game ever played.

Connolly was born in Manchester, England, and played cricket as a boy.

Travelling throughout the league to work with other umpires and ensure that everyone's work was meeting the same high standards, he remained in that post until 1954, and came to be known as the nation's foremost expert on baseball rules.

Tom Connolly officiated in the National League from 1898 to 1900, followed by 31 years of service in the American League from 1901 to 1931, and was discovered by major league umpire Tim Hurst, who obtained a position for Connolly in the New England League, where he umpired from 1894 to 1897.


After befriending a Russian Orthodox priest, Father Nicholas, after his move to Nice in 1924, he reconnected with his faith.

Stravinsky was a devout member of the Russian Orthodox Church during most of his life, remarking at one time that, "Music praises God.

He rejoined the Russian Orthodox Church and afterwards remained a committed Christian.

Music is well or better able to praise him than the building of the church and all its decoration; it is the Church's greatest ornament." As a child, he was brought up by his parents in the Russian Orthodox Church.

Biography | Life in the United States, 1939–1971 | 1945–1968

Craft later became Stravinsky's personal assistant and close friend, and encouraged him to compose serial music.

Here, the composer re-evaluated his religious beliefs and reconnected with his Christian faith with help from a Russian priest, Father Nicholas.

According to Taruskin, Stravinsky's second ballet for the Ballet Russes, Petrushka, is where "Stravinsky at last became Stravinsky.

A fictionalization of the supposed affair formed the basis of the novel Coco and Igor (2002) and a film, Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinsky (2009).

Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky (; Russian: Игорь Фёдорович Стравинский, IPA: [ˈiɡərʲ ˈfʲɵdərəvʲɪtɕ strɐˈvʲinskʲɪj]; 17 June [O.S. 5 June] 1882 – 6 April 1971) was a Russian-born composer, pianist, and conductor.

He had become increasingly frail and for the only time in his career, Stravinsky conducted while sitting down.

Igor Stravinsky became devout member of the Russian Orthodox Church after becoming good friends with a priest.


It made a profit of $3,715,000, making it the most profitable film in the history of RKO.

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

The film was enormously popular, earning receipts of $8 million in North America during its initial run, making it the highest-grossing movie of 1945 in the USA.

" In the Land of Beginning Again" and "The Bells of St. Mary's" both charted briefly also.

"The Bells of St. Mary's" sung by Bing Crosby and choir Bing Crosby recorded four of the songs for Decca Records and these were issued as singles as well as a 2-disc 78 rpm album titled Selections from The Bells of St. Mary's.

There were two radio adaptations of The Bells of St. Mary's on The Screen Guild Theater radio program.

In The Godfather (1972), Michael and Kay see The Bells of St. Mary's at Radio City Music Hall.

In the 1946 film It's a Wonderful Life, in which Henry Travers, a co-star of The Bells of St. Mary's, played the guardian angel,

The Bells of St. Mary's (1945) is an American drama film, produced and directed by Leo McCarey and starring Bing Crosby and Ingrid Bergman.

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

Of all RKO movies, The Bells of St. Mary's has earned the most revenue.


Following gradual deterioration, the Brooklyn Bridge has been renovated several times, including in the 1950s, 1980s, and 2010s.

Until the construction of the nearby Williamsburg Bridge in 1903, the New York and Brooklyn Bridge was the longest suspension bridge in the world,  one and a half times longer than any built previously.

In July 2018, the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission approved a further renovation of the Brooklyn Bridge's suspension towers and approach ramps.

History | Late 19th through early 20th centuries

Both Whalen and Roebling called for the renovation of the Brooklyn Bridge and the construction of a parallel bridge, though the parallel bridge was never built.

In February 1867, the New York State Senate passed a bill that allowed the construction of a suspension bridge from Brooklyn to Manhattan.

According to it, the bridge would be longer and taller than any suspension bridge previously built.

The company was tasked with constructing what was then known as the New York and Brooklyn Bridge.

The New York and Brooklyn Bridge was opened for use on May 24, 1883.

Since the New York and Brooklyn Bridge was the only bridge across the East River at that time, it was also called the East River Bridge.

The span was originally called the New York and Brooklyn Bridge or the East River Bridge but was officially renamed the Brooklyn Bridge in 1915.

The Brooklyn Bridge is a hybrid cable-stayed/suspension bridge in New York City, spanning the East River between the boroughs of Manhattan and Brooklyn.

The Brooklyn Bridge in New York was the longest suspension bridge when it was built and has not been renovated.


ADX Florence was commissioned as the Federal Bureau of Prisons needed a unit designed specifically for the secure housing of those prisoners most capable of violence toward staff or other inmates.

The United States Penitentiary, Administrative Maximum Facility (USP Florence ADMAX) is an American federal prison in unincorporated Fremont County near Florence, Colorado.

ADX Florence is a 37-acre (15 ha) complex located at 5880 Highway 67, Florence, Colorado, about 100 miles (160 km) south of Denver and 40 miles (64 km) south of Colorado Springs.

Six of the eight are white with one African-American and one American Indian.

ADX Florence forms part of the Florence Federal Correctional Complex (FCC Florence), which is situated on 49 acres (20 ha) of land and houses different facilities with varying degrees of security, including the United States Penitentiary, Florence High.

ADX Florence houses male inmates in the federal prison system who are deemed the most dangerous and in need of the tightest control, including prisoners whose escape would pose a serious threat to national security.

It is part of the Florence Federal Correctional Complex, which is operated by the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP), a division of the United States Department of Justice.

The Bureau of Prisons allowed the media to take a guided tour of ADX Florence on September 14, 2007.

According to a 1998 report in the San Francisco Chronicle, ADX Florence's main purpose is to "try and extract reasonably peaceful behavior from extremely violent career prisoners".

The aim is to encourage "reasonably peaceful behavior" from the most violent "career" prisoners.

The American federal prison ADX Florence In Colorado is for the most violent prisoners.


From April 25, 2017, until his death on November 13 of that year, Doerr was the oldest living former major league player.

Upon the death of former New York Yankees executive and American League president Lee MacPhail in November 2012, Doerr became the oldest living member of the Baseball Hall of Fame.

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

On July 29, 2007, the Hall of Fame honored Doerr after the induction of Cal Ripken, Jr. and Tony Gwynn.

On November 4, 2016, Doerr became the oldest living former major leaguer upon the death of Eddie Carnett.

Reflecting on being inducted into the Hall of Fame and having his number retired by the Red Sox, Doerr said, "If I had played on a world champion, that would have made my life complete.

He made annual trips to the Hall of Fame induction at Cooperstown, New York until 2008, after which he stopped attending.

He became the oldest living former Red Sox player upon the death of Lou Lucier in October 2014.

He was the last living person who played in the major leagues in the 1930s, and was the oldest of only three living people who made their MLB debut before U.S. involvement in World War II (the other two being Chuck Stevens and Fred Caligiuri).

Bobby Doerr is the oldest living member of the Baseball Hall of Fame.


Sweden (; Swedish: Sverige [ˈsvæ̌rjɛ] (listen)), officially the Kingdom of Sweden (Swedish: Konungariket Sverige [ˈkôːnɵŋaˌriːkɛt ˈsvæ̌rjɛ] (listen)), is a Nordic country in Northern Europe.

It has a low population density of 22 inhabitants per square kilometre (57/sq mi) and the highest urban concentration is in the central and southern half of the country.

Norrland, which covers approximately 60% of the Swedish territory, has a very low population density (below 5 people per square kilometre).

The population density is 22.5 people per km² (58.2 per square mile) and it is substantially higher in the south than in the north.

At 450,295 square kilometres (173,860 sq mi), Sweden is the largest country in Northern Europe, the third-largest country in the European Union and the fifth largest country in Europe by area.

Low population density exists also in large parts of western Svealand, as well as southern and central Småland.

Sweden tops other European countries in the number of published scientific works per capita.

Before the emergence of the Swedish Empire, Sweden was a poor and scarcely populated country on the fringe of European civilisation, with no significant power or reputation.

Sweden ranks in the top five countries with respect to low infant mortality.

In recent decades Sweden has become a more culturally diverse nation due to significant immigration; in 2013 it was estimated that 15 per cent of the population was foreign-born, and an additional 5 per cent of the population were born to two immigrant parents.

The highest population density is in the Öresund Region in southern Sweden, along the western coast up to central Bohuslän, and in the valley of lake Mälaren and Stockholm.

Sweden is a Eastern European country and has a low population density of 22 inhabitants per square kilometre.


While driving a car given to him by admirers, Jennings' car overturned while crossing a bridge over the Lehigh River near Gouldsboro, 23 miles (37 km) southeast of Scranton.

In December 1911, Jennings came close to death after an off-season automobile accident.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Cornell Law School and an off-season law practice

Jennings practiced law in Baltimore and in Scranton, Pennsylvania.

Jennings' life was filled with several tragic accidents.

Hugh Jennings was injured in a car crash in 1911.


That summer, her father died unexpectedly from a sudden case of appendicitis.

Jane Addams's philosophy of peace is a type of positive peace.

Together they owned a summer house in Bar Harbor, Maine.

Their goal was to develop a framework to end the violence of war.

Addams's father encouraged her to pursue higher education but close to home.

Her second romantic partner was Mary Rozet Smith, who was financially wealthy and supported Addams's work at Hull House, and with whom she shared a house.

The delegates adopted a series of resolutions addressing these problems and called for extending the franchise and women's meaningful inclusion in formal international peace processes at war's end.

Addams was invited by European women peace activists to preside over the International Congress of Women in The Hague, 28–30 April 1915, and was chosen to head the commission to find an end to the war.

Addams's work came to fruition after World War I, when major institutional bodies began to link peace with social justice and probe the underlying causes of war and conflict.

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

Hull House | Near west side neighborhood

The ethnic mix is recorded by the Bethlehem-Howard Neighborhood Center: "Germans and Jews resided south of that inner core (south of Twelfth Street) ... The Greek delta formed by Harrison, Halsted Street, and Blue Island Streets served as a buffer to the Irish residing to the north and the French Canadians to the northwest." Italians resided within the inner core of the Hull House Neighborhood ... from the river on the east end, on out to the western ends of what came to be known as Little Italy.

Jane Addams' dad was ended by his own inflamed appendix.


With writer A. E. Hotchner, Newman founded Newman's Own, a line of food products, in 1982.

The brand started with salad dressing and has expanded to include pasta sauce, lemonade, popcorn, salsa, and wine, among other things.

In 1968, Newman was named Man of the Year by Harvard University's performance group, the Hasty Pudding Theatricals.

During the 1968 general election, Newman supported Democratic nominee Hubert Humphrey and appeared in a pre-election night telethon for him.

Newman met actress Joanne Woodward in 1953, on the production of Picnic on Broadway.

He became closely associated with the brand during the 1980s, even appearing in commercials for them in Japan and having a special edition of the Nissan Skyline named after him.

For his support of Eugene McCarthy in 1968 (and effective use of television commercials in California) and his opposition to the Vietnam War, Newman was placed nineteenth on Richard Nixon's enemies list, which Newman claimed was his greatest accomplishment.

He made his Broadway theater debut in the original production of William Inge's Picnic with Kim Stanley in 1953 and appeared in the original Broadway production of The Desperate Hours in 1955.

Newman showed an early interest in the theater; his first role was at the age of seven, playing the court jester in a school production of Robin Hood.

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

In 1968 Newman had a brand covering lots of products but not foodstuffs.


Cat's Cradle is a satirical postmodern novel, with science fiction elements, by American writer Kurt Vonnegut.

Vonnegut's fourth novel, it was first published in 1963, exploring and satirizing issues of science, technology, the purpose of religion, and the arms race, often through the use of black humor.

He only appears once in the novel in person: in the very final chapter.

Cat's Cradle was nominated for a Hugo Award for Best Novel in 1964.

The events of the novel evidently occur before the narrator was converted to his current religion, Bokononism.

She dies when she blows on a clarinet contaminated with ice-nine after the apocalyptic event at the end of the novel.

She is expected to marry Monzano's successor, and she therefore agrees to marry the narrator before the disaster at the end of the novel.

The semi-humorous religion secretly practiced by the people of San Lorenzo, called Bokononism, encompasses concepts unique to the novel.

The Cuban Missile Crisis, in which world powers collided around a small Caribbean island, bringing the world to the brink of mutual assured destruction, occurred in 1962, and much of the novel can be seen as allegorical.

From Tom Robbins' 1971 novel Another Roadside Attraction: "In Bokonon, it is written that 'peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.'" The 1963 Discordian text Principia Discordia presents Bokonon as an example of a "Brigadier Saint" in its Classification of Saints.

This is a sci-fi novel writen by kurzgesagt.


James personally supervised the torture of women accused of being witches.

He attended the North Berwick witch trials, the first major persecution of witches in Scotland under the Witchcraft Act 1563.

James became concerned with the threat posed by witches and wrote Daemonologie in 1597, a tract inspired by his personal involvement that opposed the practice of witchcraft and that provided background material for Shakespeare's Tragedy of Macbeth.

James VI and I (James Charles Stuart; 19 June 1566 – 27 March 1625) was King of Scotland as James VI from 24 July 1567 and King of England and Ireland as James I from the union of the Scottish and English crowns on 24 March 1603 until his death in 1625.

Rule in Scotland | Highlands and Islands

It was against this background that James VI authorised the "Gentleman Adventurers of Fife" to civilise the "most barbarous Isle of Lewis" in 1598.

Succeeded James I & VI. Robert, Duke of Kintyre (18 January 1602 – 27 May 1602).

The Gaelic language, spoken fluently by James IV and probably by James V, became known in the time of James VI as "Erse" or Irish, implying that it was foreign in nature.

Titles, styles, honours, and arms | Arms

The Scottish crest and motto was retained, following the Scottish practice the motto In defens (which is short for In My Defens

James was strict in enforcing conformity at first, inducing a sense of persecution amongst many Puritans; but ejections and suspensions from livings became rarer as the reign continued.

James described his urine to physician Théodore de Mayerne as being the "dark red colour of Alicante wine".

James VI and I was an ally to females who were being persecuted for possibly practicing witchcraft.


The film follows a river journey from South Vietnam into Cambodia undertaken by Captain Benjamin L. Willard (a character based on Conrad's Marlow and played by Sheen), who is on a secret mission to assassinate Colonel Kurtz (Brando, with the character being based on Conrad's Mr. Kurtz), a renegade Army Special Forces officer accused of murder and who is presumed insane.

The horror!" are taken from Conrad's novella.

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

The singing stops. As they pass on by, Chief notes out loud, "That's comin' from where we goin', Captain.

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

In the bridge scene, he mentions having taken LSD.

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.

It would have been too simple to have followed the book completely.

His dialogue follows that of the Russian "harlequin" in Conrad's story.

Willard suffocates Chief and Lance buries him in the river.

Apocalypse Now follows a river voyage taken by a captain.


It is based on the true story of two athletes in the 1924 Olympics: Eric Liddell, a devout Scottish Christian who runs for the glory of God, and Harold Abrahams, an English Jew who runs to overcome prejudice.

Chariots of Fire is a 1981 British historical drama film.

Revival for the 2012 Olympics | Stage adaptation

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

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

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

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

In Chariots of Fire, Lindsay, who is based on Lord Burghley, runs the Great Court Run with Abrahams in order to spur him on, and crosses the finish line just a moment too late.

The film's title was inspired by the line, "Bring me my Chariot of fire!" , from the William Blake poem adapted into the British hymn "Jerusalem"; the hymn is heard at the end of the film.

However, Lowe refused to have anything to do with the film, and his character was written out and replaced by the fictional character of Lord Andrew Lindsay.

The runners who first tested the new Olympic Park were spurred on by the Chariots of Fire theme tune, and the iconic music was also used to fanfare the carriers of the Olympic flame on parts of its route through the UK.

Vangelis finally convinced Hudson he could create a new and better piece for the film's main theme – and when he played the now-iconic "Chariots of Fire" theme for Hudson, it was agreed the new tune was unquestionably better.

Chariots of Fire is a fiction story.


The novel is set in the American South in the 1930s, during the time of Prohibition and Jim Crow laws that legalized racial segregation in the South.

In Light in August, as in most of the other novels set in Yoknapatawpha County, Faulkner focuses mainly on poor white Southerners, both from the upper and lower classes, who struggle to survive in the ruined post-war economy of the South.

Light in August has 21 chapters, as does the Gospel of St. John.

Light in August is a 1932 novel by the Southern (American) author William Faulkner.

However, after a casual remark by his wife Estelle on the quality of the light in August, Faulkner changed the title.

Joanna Burden – the sole survivor in Jefferson of a family of abolitionists from New England who came to Jefferson after the Civil War.

In 1998, the Modern Library ranked Light in August 54th on its list of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century.

According to Michael Millgate, though it is not typically considered Faulkner's best novel, Light in August was recognized early on as being "a major text, central to any understanding or evaluation of his career as a whole." He argues that many of the early American critics, most of whom were urban Northerners who viewed the South as backward and reactionary, focused on Faulkner's technical innovation in the field of narrative but missed or ignored the regional details and interconnectedness of the characters and setting to other works by the author.

Unlike some of the other Yoknapatawpha County novels, Light in August does not rely solely on stream-of-consciousness narration, but also incorporates dialogue and an omniscient third-person narrator that develop the story.

According to Daniel Joseph Singal, Faulkner's literary style gradually developed from 19th century Victorian to modernist, with Light in August more firmly grounded in the tradition of the latter.

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Light in August is set in England.


One central motif of the novel is that all actions have consequences, and that it is impossible for an individual to stand aloof and be a mere observer of life, as Jack tries to do (first as a graduate student doing historical research and later as a wisecracking newspaperman).

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

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

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

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

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

But this vicarious achievement will eventually fail; ultimately Jack realizes that one must "go out of history into history and the awful responsibility of Time".

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

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

Besides the early verse play version Proud Flesh, Robert Penn Warren has written several stage adaptations of All the King's Men, one of them in close collaboration with famous German theatre director Erwin Piscator in 1947.

One of the themes of All the King's Men is that journalism elevates ordinary men into unbiased observers of their time.


Her early songs were personally driven and female-empowerment themed compositions like "Independent Women" and "Survivor", but after the start of her relationship with Jay-Z, she transitioned to more man-tending anthems such as "Cater 2 U".

In 2012, Beyoncé signed a $50 million deal to endorse Pepsi.

Beyoncé launched her first official fragrance, Heat, in 2010.

In April 2014, after much speculation, Beyoncé and Jay-Z officially announced their On the Run Tour.

Nevertheless, NetBase found that Beyoncé's campaign was the most talked about endorsement in April 2013, with a 70 percent positive audience response to the commercial and print ads.

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On November 1, 2017, her role was confirmed in an official announcement.

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The pair also released the video for the album's lead single, "Apeshit", on Beyoncé's official YouTube channel.

Beyoncé participated in George Clooney and Wyclef Jean's Hope for Haiti Now: A Global Benefit for Earthquake Relief telethon and was named the official face of the limited edition

In 2001, she became the first black woman and second female lyricist to win the Pop Songwriter of the Year award at the ASCAP Pop Music Awards.

The couple announced the joint tour officially as On the Run II Tour on March 12 and simultaneously released a trailer for the tour on YouTube.

"Beyoncé's music is generally R&B, pop and hip hop

Beyonce is an official endorser of a soda pop.


Most of it was written between 1915 and 1962, although much of the early work was abandoned and the early cantos, as finally published, date from 1922 onwards.

The Cantos by Ezra Pound is a long, incomplete poem in 116 sections, each of which is a canto.

LXXII–LXXIII [72-73] (The Italian Cantos)

Written between 1944 and 1945.These two cantos, written in Italian, were not collected until their posthumous inclusion in the 1987 revision of the complete text of the poem.

The kernel of this canto is the idea that the Roman Empire's preference for Christianity over Apollonius and its lack respect for its currency resulted in the almost total loss of the "true" religious tradition for a thousand years.

This canto introduces the figure of St. Anselm of Canterbury, who is to feature over the rest of this section of the long poem.

This thread then runs through the appearance of Kuanon, the Buddhist goddess of mercy, the moon spirit from Hagaromo (a Noh play translated by Pound some 40 years earlier), Sigismondo's lover Ixotta (linked in the text with Aphrodite via a reference to the goddess' birthplace Cythera), a girl painted by Manet and finally Aphrodite herself, rising from the sea on her shell and rescuing Pound/Odysseus from his raft.

Drafts and Fragments of Cantos CX–CXVII [110-117]

Laughlin pushed Pound to publish an authorised edition, and the poet responded by supplying the more-or-less abandoned drafts and fragments he had, plus two fragments dating from 1941.

Senator Thomas Hart Benton's Thirty Years View: Or

The two main written sources for the Rock Drill cantos are the Confucian Classic of History, in an edition by the French Jesuit Séraphin Couvreur, which contained the Chinese text and translations into Latin and French under the title Chou King (which Pound uses in the poem), and

Towards the end of the canto, the Make it new ideograms from Canto LIII reappear as the poem moves back towards the world of myth, closing with another phrase from the Divine Comedy, this time from Purgatorio, Canto XXVIII.

De Mailla was a French Jesuit who spent 37 years in Peking and wrote his history there.

A History of the American Government for Thirty Years From 1820–1850, which covers the period of the bank wars.

The Cantos is a poem with most of it written over a 40 plus year time span.