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Faulkner won two Pulitzer Prizes for what are considered as his "minor" novels: his 1954 novel A Fable, which took the Pulitzer in 1955, and the 1962 novel, The Reivers, which was posthumously awarded the Pulitzer in 1963. He also won two National Book Awards, first for his Collected Stories in 1951 and once again for his novel A Fable in 1955.

In 1946, Faulkner was one of three finalists for the first Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine Award. He came in second to Manly Wade Wellman.

Legacy
The PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction has its name, in part, as a tribute to Faulkner, because he was one of the main inspirations of  Mary Lee Settle, a founder of the PEN/Faulkner Foundation; Faulkner was an inspiration because he used his 1949 Nobel Prize money to fund awards for younger writers.

In 1987, the United States Postal Service issued a 22 cent postage stamp in his honor.

Selected writings
Selected writings

Novels 
 Soldiers' Pay (1926)
 Mosquitoes (1927)
 Sartoris/Flags in the Dust (1929/1973)
 The Sound and the Fury (1929)
 As I Lay Dying (1930)
 Sanctuary (1931)
 Light in August (1932)
 Pylon (1935)
 Absalom, Absalom! (1936)
 The Unvanquished (1938)
 If I Forget Thee Jerusalem (The Wild Palms/Old Man) (1939)
 The Hamlet (1940)
 Go Down, Moses (1942). Episodic novel made up of rewritten previous published short stories.
 Intruder in the Dust (1948)
 Requiem for a Nun (1951)
 A Fable (1954)
 The Town (1957)
 The Mansion (1959)
 The Reivers (1962)

Short stories
Short stories 

 "Landing in Luck" (1919)
 "The Hill" (1922)
 "New Orleans"
 "Mirrors of Chartres Street" (1925)
 "Damon and Pythias Unlimited" (1925)
 "Jealousy" (1925)
 "Cheest" (1925)
 "Out of Nazareth" (1925)
 "The Kingdom of God" (1925)
 "The Rosary" (1925)
 "The Cobbler" (1925)
 "Chance" (1925)
 "Sunset" (1925)
 "The Kid Learns" (1925)
 "The Liar" (1925)
 "Home" (1925)
 "Episode" (1925)
 "Country Mice" (1925)
 "Yo Ho and Two Bottles of Rum" (1925)
 "Music - Sweeter than the Angels Sing"
 "A Rose for Emily" (1930)
 "Honor" (1930)
 "Thrift" (1930)
 "Red Leaves" (1930)
 "Ad Astra" (1931)
 "Dry September" (1931)
 "That Evening Sun" (1931)
 "Hair" (1931)
 "Spotted Horses" (1931)
 "The Hound" (1931)
 "Fox Hunt" (1931)
 "Carcassonne" (1931)
 "Divorce in Naples" (1931)
 "Victory" (1931)
 "All the Dead Pilots" (1931)
 "Crevasse" (1931)
 "Mistral" (1931)
 "A Justice" (1931)
 "Dr. Martino" (1931)
 "Idyll in the Desert" (1931)
"Miss Zilphia Grant" (1932)
 "Death Drag" (1932)
 "Centaur in Brass" (1932)
 "Once Aboard the Lugger (I)" (1932)
 "Lizards in Jamshyd's Courtyard" (1932)
 "Turnabout" (1932)
 "Smoke" (1932)
 "Mountain Victory" (1932)
 "There Was a Queen" (1933)
 "Artist at Home" (1933)
 "Beyond" (1933)
 "Elly" (1934)
 "Pennsylvania Station" (1934)
 "Wash" (1934)
 "A Bear Hunt" (1934)
 "The Leg" (1934)
 "Black Music" (1934)
 "Mule in the Yard" (1934)
 "Ambuscade" (1934)
 "Retreat" (1934)
 "Lo!" (1934)
 "Raid" (1934)
 "Skirmish at Sartoris" (1935)
 "Golden Land" (1935)
 "That Will Be Fine" (1935)
 "Uncle Willy" (1935)
 "Lion" (1935)
 "The Brooch" (1936)
 "Two Dollar Wife" (1936)
 "Fool About a Horse" (1936)
 "Vendee" (1936)
 "Monk" (1937)
 "Barn Burning" (1939)
 "Hand Upon the Waters" (1939)
 "A Point of Law" (1940)
 "The Old People" (1940)
 "Pantaloon in Black" (1940)
 "Gold Is Not Always" (1940)
 "Tomorrow" (1940). Filmed in 1972, starring Robert Duvall.
 "The Tall Men" (1941)
 "Two Soldiers" (1942)
 "Delta Autumn" (1942)
"Afternoon of a Cow" (1943)
 "Shingles for the Lord" (1943)
 "My Grandmother Millard and General Bedford Forrest and the Battle of Harrykin Creek" (1943)
 "Shall Not Perish" (1943)
 "Appendix, Compson, 1699-1945" (1946)
 "An Error in Chemistry" (1946)
 "A Courtship" (1948)
 "Knight's Gambit" (1949)
 "Nobel Prize Award Speech" (1949)
 "A Name for the City" (1950)
 "Notes on a Horsethief" (1951)
 "Mississippi" (1954)
 "Sepulture South: Gaslight" (1954)
 "Race at Morning" (1955)
 "By the People" (1955)
 "Hell Creek Crossing" (1962)
 "Mr. Acarius" (1965)
 "The Wishing Tree" (1967)
 "Al Jackson" (1971)
 "And Now What's To Do" (1973)
 "Nympholepsy" (1973)
 "The Priest" (1976)
 "Mayday" (1977)
 "Frankie and Johnny" (1978)
 "Don Giovanni" (1979)
 "Peter" (1979)
 "A Portrait of Elmer" (1979)
 "Adolescence" (1979)
 "Snow" (1979)
 "Moonlight" (1979)
 "With Caution and Dispatch" (1979)
 "Hog Pawn" (1979)
 "A Dangerous Man" (1979)
 "A Return" (1979)
 "The Big Shot" (1979)
 "Once Aboard the Lugger (II)" (1979)
"Dull Tale" (1979)
 "Evangeline" (1979)
 "Love" (1988)
 "Christmas Tree" (1995)
 "Rose of Lebanon" (1995)
 "Lucas Beauchamp" (1999)
Poetry 
 Vision in Spring (1921)
 The Marble Faun (1924)
 A Green Bough (1933)
 This Earth, a Poem (1932)
 Mississippi Poems (1979)
 Helen, a Courtship and Mississippi Poems (1981).

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Arthur Miller (October 17, 1915 – February 10, 2005) was an American playwright. His best known plays are All My Sons, Death of a Salesman and The Crucible. He also wrote for the movie The Misfits while married to Marilyn Monroe. She acted in this movie.

Early life 
Arthur Miller's family was a rich Jewish family from New York City. During the Great Depression in the 1930'S, his family's business was forced to close down and they lost all their money. Because Miller wanted to go to university, he had to work in a warehouse. He studied economics and history at the University of Michigan as well as working for the school newspaper which helped him learn how to write plays. He married Mary Slaughterhouse in 1940.
Influence on his writing
In Miller’s childhood, his family had money issues. Due to the fact that he experienced the whole situation with his family, his writings have been influenced a lot, he often includes the theme of financial problems which is a result of everything he had seen as a child. Another thing that influenced him a lot was Greek literature. Miller once said that he liked to read Greek literature for ideas to write about. The readers are able to see it in his writing style and the element he uses in his writing.
Plays 
In 1936 his very first play, No Villain, was produced and gained a huge success. The play even won him a Hopwood Award and people started to get to know him. In 1944, Miller had his first play in the theater on Broadway in New York City, called The Man Who Had All the Luck. Not many people liked it so this play was stopped after one week. However, three years later, his play All My Sons became very popular. This play won the Pulitzer Prize for drama. In 1949, he wrote Death of a Salesman, a story about the American Dream, it addresses the loss of identity and a man who's unable to accept change within himself and society. In 1953, he wrote The Crucible, a story about the Salem Witch Trials. He wrote this because of the McCarthyism of the 1950s, the fear that communism would take over America. A few years later, Miller was blamed for being a communist himself. He had to answer questions from the House Un-American Activities Committee, a group that Senator Joseph McCarthy made.
Screen plays 
 The Crucible (1953)
 Death of a Salesman (1985)
 The Hook (1947)
 Playing for Time 1980
 Mr. Peters' Connections (1998)

Fiction 
 Focus (1945)
 I Don't Need You Anymore (1967)
 The Misfits (1961)

Personal life and death

Miller was an atheist.

In 1956, Miller divorced Mary Slaughterhouse so he could marry the actress Marilyn Monroe. During this marriage, he wrote for the movie The Misfits. Monroe acted in this movie. After five years of marriage, Monroe divorced him.

The following year, Miller married again. The photographer Inge Morath was his third wife, and they were together until she died in 2002. They had two children.

His son, Daniel, was born with Down Syndrome. Miller put him in a hospital and did not want to see him again. His daughter, Rebecca, who married actor Daniel Day-Lewis, asked Miller several times to contact his hospitalised son.
In 1964, Miller produced the play After The Fall that talks about the marriage with Marilyn Monroe. Later on, during the mid 1990s, he wrote three new plays, including The Ride Down Mt. Morgan, The Last Yankee and Broken Glasses.

On February 10, 2005, Miller died of heart disease. He was 89.
Influence on society
Miller's ideas influence the society a lot. For example, the way of writing has changed a lot. He often writes about the experience of being human in a very raw but very loving way. He once said that “Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets” which later on has a huge impact on people. Another influence on society is that the way people write stage plays have changed a lot. People tend to focus on characters more than anything else. Miller believes that “the theater is so endlessly fascinating because it's so accidental (happens by chance). It's so much like life.” It reflects on his writing because he likes to write more on the bonds between individual and society rather than only character.

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For oral sex on a man see fellatio.
For oral sex on a woman see cunnilingus.
''For the explanation of different types of English language see Oral Sects.

Oral sex is when one partner uses the tongue, mouth or throat to excite the other partner's sex organs. For males it can include placing the penis in one's mouth and for females licking the vulva.

Sometimes oral sex is performed as a way of getting ready for intercourse, but it may be done as an alternative to intercourse. 

If someone is performing oral sex on a male, he or she may decide to swallow the semen if the male ejaculates in the mouth. There is no risk of pregnancy from swallowing semen.

One can get sexually transmitted diseases from oral sex, such as herpes simplex (which can be passed between mouth and groin or the other way). Some STDs, like HIV, are much harder to pass through oral sex, but it is still possible.
The technical term for oral sex is fellatio if performed on a male and cunnilingus if performed on a female. Slang for oral sex is common in Western cultures, for example: "going down on" or "giving a blowjob" or "giving head."

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Chartreuse green is the color halfway between yellow and green on the RGB and RYB color wheel, with the hex code of #80FF00.

Chartreuse green (the web color known as chartreuse since the X11 colors were created in 1987 and then renamed the X11 web colors in 1991) is a web color that was named because it looked like the green color of a French liqueur called green chartreuse, made since 1764. Before 1987, this color was called yellow-green, but that name is now used for the web color "yellow-green", a medium dark shade of chartreuse green shown in the color chart below. 

The color chartreuse yellow (the traditional color originally called chartreuse since 1892) is a yellow color mixed with a small amount of green that was named because it looked similar to the yellow color of a French liqueur called yellow chartreuse, introduced in 1838.  The color chartreuse yellow is shown on the color chart below. Chartreuse yellow is the color halfway between lime and yellow on the RGB color wheel.
Meaning of chartreuse green

 Chartreuse green is the color of most salad greens and therefore it is associated with good health and a healthy diet.  

 Chartreuse green is associated with nature and the country.  

 Chartreuse green is associated with healing.

Tones of chartreuse green color comparison chart

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Clyde Football Club is a Scottish professional football team based in the town of Cumbernauld, North Lanarkshire. They are members of the Scottish Football League and currently play in Scottish League One.

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Jouke de Vries (born September 26, 1960 in Deersum) is a Dutch academic.

He studied political sciences at the University of Amsterdam and has been working at the group Leaderships Art  at the University of Leiden since 1984. De Vries was promoted and got his degree in 1989 from H. Daudt. en H. Daalder for the article he wrote on "Ground Politics and Cabinet Crisis in the Netherlands". He almost became faction leader of the Partij van de Arbeid (the Dutch Labour Party), but narrowly lost to Wouter Bos.  He teaches students at Leiden University. He is a professor on Political Sciences (Dutch:Hoogleraar) and teaching is his profession. He is a columnist for a Dutch language website. 

Jouke de Vries lives in Leiden near the University where he teaches. He married in 1986 and has two sons and a daughter.

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Not to be confused with Dundee United F.C.

Dundee Football Club, founded in 1893, are a football team based in the city of Dundee, Scotland. They are nicknamed The Dee or The Dark Blues'' and play their home matches at Dens Park. Their home shirt colour is dark blue.

Dundee FC currently play in the Scottish Championship, having been relegated from the Scottish Premiership in 2019. The team is currently managed by James McPake. 

Unusually for a city of its size, Dundee supports two senior professional football teams, Dundee FC and Dundee United. Their grounds are within a few hundred yards of each other and are the two closest professional football grounds in the United Kingdom.

Current squad

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The Siamang (Symphalangus syndactylus) is a tailless, black furred gibbon native to the forests of Malaysia, Thailand, and Sumatra. It lives in trees, that's why it is called arboreal. The Siamang is the largest of the lesser apes. It can grow to be twice the size of other gibbons. Siamangs grow to about 1 m in height, and weigh up to 23 kg. The Siamang is the only species in the genus Symphalangus.

The Siamang is different form other gibbons. In Siamangs, two fingers on each hand are fused together, that's where  the name "syndactylus" is from. Siamangs have large  "gular sacs". These can be found in both males and females. The gular sac is a throat pouch that can be inflated to the size of its head. This allows the Siamang to make loud resonating calls or songs.
There may be two subspecies of the Siamang. If so, they are the nominate Sumatran Siamang (S. s. syndactylus) and the Malaysian Siamang (S. s. continentis, in peninsular Malaysia). Otherwise, the Malaysian individuals are only a population. The Siamang is the only gibbon which occurs sympatrically with other gibbons; its two ranges are entirely within the combined ranges of the Agile Gibbon and the Lar Gibbon.

The Siamang can live over 30 years in captivity.

While the illegal buying and selling of pets takes a toll on wild populations, the main threat to the Siamang is habitat loss in both Malaysia and Sumatra. Palm oil production is clearing lots of forest, reducing the habitat of the Siamang, along with that of other species such as the Sumatran Tiger.

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Caroline Unger (28 October 1803 in Vienna - 23 March 1877 in Florence) was an Austrian singer.

She studied music in Italy. Her first scene was in her hometown in 1821. She plays a role in Cosi fan tutte written by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. 3 years later she was singing in the symphony No. 9 of Ludwig van Beethoven.

In 1841, she married François Sabatie. She then stopped performing.

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Albert Bitzius (October 4, 1797 – October 22, 1854) was a  Swiss novelist and pastor. He is probably more famous by his pen name Jeremias Gotthelf. He was born in Murten, where his father was pastor.

In 1804 the home was moved to Utzenstorf, a village in the Bernese Emmental. Bitzius gew up there and  received his early education. He also had to  help his father to cultivate his glebe. In 1812 he went to complete his education at Bern, and in 1820 was received as a pastor. In 1821 he visited the University of Göttingen, but returned home in 1822 to act as his father's assistant. When his father died in 1824, he went to Herzogenbuchsee as a priest. In 1829, he went to Bern. Early in 1831 he went to help the old pastor of the village of Lützelflüh, in the Upper Emmenthal (between Langnau and Burgdorf). In 1832 he was chosen as his successor. He  married one of his granddaughters in 1833. He spent the rest of his life there, leaving three children (the son was a pastor, the two daughters married pastors).
His first work, the Bauernspiegel, appeared in 1837. It claimed to be the life of Jeremias Gotthelf, narrated by himself, and this name was later adopted by the author as his pen name. It is a living picture of Bernese (or, strictly speaking, Emmenthal) village life, true to nature, and not attempting to gloss over its defects and failings. It is written (like the rest of his works) in German, but contains expressions from the Bernese dialect of the Emmenthal.  Unlike Auerbach, Bitzius was not a peasant by birth, but belonged to the educated classes. He reproduces what he had seen and learnt, and not what he had himself personally experienced. The book was a great success, as it was a picture of real life, and not of fancifully beribboned eighteenth-century villagers.
His best known work is without doubt the short novel Die Schwarze Spinne (The Black Spider), a semi-allegorical tale of the plague in form of the titular monster that devastates a Swiss valley community; first as a result of a pact with the devil born out of need and a second time due to the moral decay that releases the monster from its prison again.

Among his later tales are the Leiden und Freuden eines Schulmeisters (1838-1839), Uli der Knecht (1841), with its continuation, Uli der Pächter (1849), Anne-Bäbi Jowäger (1843-1844), Käthi, die Großmutter (1846), Die Käserei in der Vehfreude (1850), and the Erlebnisse eines Schuldenbauers (1853). He also published several volumes of shorter tales.

One slight drawback to some of his writings is the echo of local political controversies, for Bitzius was a Whig and strongly opposed to the Radical party in the canton, which carried the day in 1846.

He died on October 22, 1854 in Lützelflüh in Canton of Bern.
Lives by C. Manuel, in the Berlin edition of Bitzius's works (Berlin, 1861), and by J. Ammann in vol. i. (Bern, 1884) of time Sammlung Bernischer Biographien. His works were issued in 24 vols. at Berlin, 1856-1861, while 10 vols., giving the original text of each story, were issued at Bern, 1898-1900.

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CBBC (Children's BBC) is the name of a television channel that often shows children's programmes. The programmes are meant for children that are now between 7 and 14 years old in 2023. The "Children's BBC" name began on 9 September 1985. Before then there were BBC children's programmes, but they were not branded under one name. The name "CBBC" was used informally since 1990, and became the official name in 1997.

CBBC programmes are shown on BBC One, BBC Two and the CBBC Channel. CBBC has a sister brand, CBeebies, for children under 6. The CBBC brands for BBC One and BBC Two are "CBBC One" and "CBBC Two".

CBBC is run by the BBC Children's department, who make the programmes for children up to the age of 16. Most of their offices are in the East Tower of the BBC Television Centre, with some programmes coming from Scotland and Bristol. CBBC produces a whole range of programme types, including drama, news, entertainment and educational programmes.
Since February 2006, the Controller of the BBC Children's department has been Richard Deverell. The department splits output into age groups:

 CBeebies for ages up to 6
 CBBC brand for ages 6 to 12
 BBC Switch for ages 12 to 16

Anne Gilchrist is Creative Director of CBBC, and Michael Carrington is Creative Director of CBeebies.
 Programming on CBBC

Presentation
Monday 3 September 2007 saw the fifth CBBC relaunch. As part of the relaunch, new logos, idents, interactive services, programmes and presenters were introduced. The previous computer generated backgrounds used from December 2006 were replaced by a real set.
Ed Petrie became the chief continuity presenter, accompanied by a puppet sidekick Oucho T. Cactus (operated and voiced by Warrick Brownlow-Pike). They regularly present live, weekday afternoon links on the CBBC channel with Petrie voicing pre-recorded, out-of-vision announcements during for weekdays on BBC One. On 29 August 2008, they went on extended leave to record a new series for CBBC - they returned to continuity duties on 1 December 2008. During this period, relief presenter Holly Walsh presented weekday afternoon links for the channel with Dunceton the Talking Brain.

Anne Foy presented pre-recorded in-vision links at the weekend alongside her dog, Elliot, until her departure in March 2008. Foy was replaced by two new presenters, Ben Hanson and Ciaran Joyce, who previously appeared in CBBC show The Story of Tracy Beaker. They have since been replaced by comedy double act Dan and Jeff.

The idents were replaced with new ones in 2014, but the logo stayed the same.
On Monday 14 March 2016, CBBC got a whole new look, which saw a new logo, plus new idents and presentation.

Other services

CBBC extra
CBBC extra is a free interactive television service from CBBC. It is found on the BBCi pages. It is accessible from the CBBC Channel by pressing the red button and then selecting "CBBC extra". It can also be accessed from any other BBCi page by pressing 570.

The service is different on different digital platforms, for example Sky viewers can access the video loop. But it is only available on Freeview when BBCi is not showing other interactive services, like sports events.

CBBC extra offers games, the UK Top 40 music, jokes sent in by viewers, "Nev's Horoscopes", and a weekly competition. The current presenter of CBBC extra is Ed Petrie.

It has been discontinued since CBBC last changed its logo.
CBBC Quiz
This new feature allows the viewers to play a quiz. There are 15 levels, each containing 5 up to 10 questions. Viewers can also send in their questions which could be shown on the service. The CBBC Quiz can be from the CBBC extra page, by selecting the option called "CBBC Quiz". This option is also available on the main interactive menu on the CBBC Channel, by pressing the red button.

Website
The CBBC website has a wide range of activities, such as games, puzzles, message boards and frequently updated news and more stuff. The website is found .

My CBBC
My CBBC is a feature to the new CBBC website. It allows users to create their own room which they can decorate. It is also possible to create your own avatar. The new feature is often promoted on the CBBC Channel.
Adventure Rock
Adventure Rock (renamed from CBBC World) is a virtual online world that launched on 1 March 2008. Press releases have stated "it would allow digitally literate children the access to characters and resources they had come to expect. Users would be able to build an online presence, known as an avatar, then create and share content."

The main points of the system are safety and responsibility online, with no chatrooms or the financial aspects available in other online worlds such as Second Life.

Controller of Children's BBC Richard Deverell said: "Adventure Rock is a good example of the way we need to go. The thing that interests me is that children are at the vanguard. And that is where we are taking Children's BBC."and still fun.

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Other websites
Other websites

"And Now, For Younger Viewers..." A history of CBBC continuity from 1985 to 1994, from Off The Telly 
The Broom Cupboard.co.uk, a history of CBBC continuity from 1985 to 1992, with over 150 pictures 
BBC considers end of children's shows on BBC 1 (Guardian)
CBBC idents from 1983-2007

BBC television channels
The Seven Promises of Eragon Shadeslayer and Saphira Bjartskular, better known as Brisingr, is the third book of the Inheritance Cycle by Christopher Paolini. It comes after the books Eragon and Eldest. It was released on September 20, 2008. The title means "fire" in the fictional Ancient Language of Alagaesia.

The book sold 550,000 copies on its first day of sale, the most ever for a Random House Children's Book.

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Other websites
 The Official Australian Brisingr website 
 Excerpt  from the third installment at Alagaesia.com
 Inheriwiki, an Inheritance Cycle wiki
 Brisingr Review 

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2008 books
A mermaid is a mythological creature with a female human head and upper body and the tail of a fish. Mermaids are said to live mostly in the water, although sometimes they are known to come out of the water and sit on the large rocks above the sea. It was thought that they would make boats crash with their siren-like calls.

Overview and etymology
The word is a compound of mere, the Old English word for "sea", and maid, a woman. The male equivalent is a merman.
Much like sirens, mermaids sometimes sing to people and gods and enchant them, distracting them from their work and causing them to walk off the deck or run their ships aground. Other stories depict them squeezing the life out of drowning men while attempting to rescue them. They are also said to carry humans down to their underwater kingdoms or drown them.
The sirens of Greek mythology are sometimes portrayed in later folklore as mermaid-like.  But in the Odyssey they are described as birds with women's heads, not women with fish tails.  Some languages use the same word for both bird and fish creatures, such as the Maltese word 'sirena'. Other related types of mythical or legendary creatures are water fairies (e.g., various water nymphs) and selkies, animals that can transform themselves from seals to humans.

History

Ancient Near East
The first known mermaid stories appeared in Assyria, ca. 1000 BC. The goddess Atargatis loved a shepherd and accidentally killed him. She was so sad she jumped into a lake to become a fish, but the waters would not let her beauty be hidden. Because of this, she took the form of a mermaid.
A popular Greek legend turns Alexander the Great's sister into a mermaid after she died. She lived, it was said, in the Aegean that when she met a ship, she asked its sailors only one question: "Is King Alexander alive?" (;") The answer was "He lives and reigns and conquers the world" (Greek: "Ζει και βασιλεύει και τον κόσμο κυριεύει"). If they answered her question correctly, she calmed the waters for the ship, but any other answer would make her angry, and raise a storm.

Arabian Nights

The One Thousand and One Nights includes several tales have "Sea People", such as Djullanar the Sea-girl. Unlike other mythologies, these are almost the same as humans, except the fact that they can breathe and live underwater. They also breed with land humans, the children of them being able to live underwater.

In "The Adventures of Bulukiya", the protagonist Bulukiya's explore the seas, and meets some mermaids.

British Isles
British Isles 

Mermaids were noted in British folklore as unlucky omens. Several parts of the song Sir Patrick Spens is about a mermaid speaking to doomed ships, or telling them they will never see land again. Mermaids can also be a sign of bad weather.

Some mermaids were described as very big, up to .

Mermaids could also swim up rivers to freshwater lakes. One day, in a lake near his house, the Laird of Lorntie went to help a woman he thought drowning, and a servant of his pulled him back, warning that it was a mermaid, and the mermaid screamed after him that she would have killed him if it were not for his servant.

Sometimes, though, mermaids could appear as nicer characters, teaching humans how to cure diseases.

Mermen were thought of as more wild and ugly than mermaids, but they also were not interested in humans.

Warsaw Mermaid 

The mermaid, or syrenka, is the symbol of Warsaw. Images of a mermaid symbolized Warsaw on its crest since the middle of the 14th century.
Mermaid Sighting
Some people claim to have seen dead or living mermaids from places such as Java and British Columbia. There are two Canadian reports from the area of Vancouver and Victoria, BC, one from sometime between 1870 and 1890, the other from 1967.

In August 2009, the town of Kiryat Yam in Israel offered a prize of 1 million dollars for anyone who could prove that mermaids existed off its coast, after dozens of people said they had seen a mermaid leaping out of the water like a dolphin and doing tricks in the air before returning back to where it had come from. The prize has not yet been awarded.

Art and literature

One famous image was created by John William Waterhouse, from 1895 to 1905, called A Mermaid (see the top of this article). It was an example of late British Academy style art, but disappeared and was not found until the 1970s. It is again in the collection of the Royal Academy.
The most famous in more recent centuries is Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tale The Little Mermaid (1836), which has been translated into many languages.

The best known musical about mermaids are those by Felix Mendelssohn in his Fair Melusina and the three "Rhine daughters" in Richard Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen.

Movies with mermaids in them are drama television series such as Charmed. Animated movies include Disney's popular musical version of Andersen's tale, and Hayao Miyazaki's Ponyo.

Heraldry

In heraldry, mermaids are most well known to be presented with a comb or a mirror, and also thought of to be very vain.

A mermaid that had a shield and sword (Syrenka) is on the official Coat of arms of Warsaw. The city of Norfolk, Virginia also uses a mermaid as a symbol.

The personal coat of arms of Michaëlle Jean, Canada's Governor General, features two mermaids.
Hoaxes 
In the 19th century, P. T. Barnum showed in his museum a taxidermal hoax called the Fiji mermaid. Others have made similar hoaxes, which are usually made by paper-mâché or parts of dead creatures, usually monkeys and fish, stitched together too look like a mermaid. In the wake of the 2004 tsunami, pictures of Fiji "mermaids" came up on the Internet as examples of items that had washed up onto the beach, though they were no more real than Barnum's exhibit.

Sirenia 
Sirenia is a type of plant-eating mammal like the manatee the dugong that only live in rivers, swamps, and in other large areas of water. Mariners used to call these animals mermaids.
Sirenomelia 
Sirenomelia, also called "mermaid syndrome", is a rare disorder. It happens when a child is born with his or her legs grown together and little or no genitalia. This, however, is as rare as conjoined twins, and only happens to one out of every 100,000 live births. It is usually very bad for the kidney and bladder, and only about four survivors were known to be alive as of July 2003.
Mermaids in Thai folklore 
In Thai folklore "Phra Abhai Manee" there is a beautiful mermaid named "Praphanpheloung". She is a beautiful lady who has tail instead of legs. The story told us about a charming prince who was taken by the giantess "Pisua Samudr" and lived together with her until they have a son named "Sin -Samudr". One day Sin Samudr went out of a cave and took a merman to his father who was locked in the cave. The merman knew the story well about a young prince so he want to help him and his son escape from the giantess. The story also mention about what mermaid look like. They are very beautiful with long black hair and pale skin. They love to sing and swim under the moon. Their eyes can be able to see in the dark but blur vision in the sun. Thai folklore "Phra Abhai Manee" was written by the famous poet named "Sunthornphu" because of the story happened near the shore so people placed his characters statues such as a giantess, the prince and a mermaid at Rayong, Thailand
In popular culture
Mermaids are shown as characters in movies, including Splash and Aquamarine.

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 Mermaid History 
 "The Mermaid"  by Heinz Insu Fenkl, from the mermaid-themed Summer 2003 issue of the Journal of Mythic Arts
 The mermaid goddess Derketo from Lucian of Samosata's On the Syrian God (2c. AD)
 Coney Island Mermaid Parade  mermaids on parade
 17th century pamphlet telling the story of an alleged sighting of a mermaid near Pendine, Wales, in 1603 
 Israeli city offers reward for proof of mermaid presence on its shore
The University of Edinburgh is a university in Edinburgh, Scotland.

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In 1998, Christopher Paolini, then 15 years old decided to write a fantasy novel that would be like The Lord of the Rings and Star Wars but with a protagonist who rides a dragon. Paolini spent a month working on writing a plan for a trilogy of books about this. Then he spent a year writing the first book called Eragon. Then he gave the book to his father and mother and asked them to edit it. Then his parents started their own publishing company and published Eragon in 2000 when Paolini was 17. Then the company Alfred A. Knopf paid to become the new publisher in 2002 and it became a bestseller, which is to say a book that a lot of people bought. Paolini wrote a sequel called Eldest. After writing it, he started writing a third book called Brisingr but then decided that it was too long so he wrote it as two books called Brisingr and Inheritance (book). He then decided to call it the Inheritance Cycle instead of the Inheritance Trilogy.

Books 
Eragon
Eldest
Brisingr
Inheritance
Characters 
 Eragon: A farm boy who finds a dragon egg and becomes a Dragon Rider.
 Saphira: Eragon's' sapphire' dragon.
  Galbatorix, an evil dragon rider who is now Emperor.
The Continental Congress was a convention of delegates from the Thirteen Colonies. It governed the colonies before and during the American Revolution and met three times from 1774 to 1789.

First congress
In the First Continental Congress, delegates from twelve colonies (all but Georgia) met in September 1774 because of the Coercive Acts imposed by the British Parliament on Massachusetts to answer the Boston Tea Party and other resistance to new taxes. The following men served as the president of the First Continental Congress:

 Peyton Randolph (September 5, 1774 – October 21, 1774) 
 Henry Middleton (October 22, 1774 – October 26, 1774)
Second congress
The Second Continental Congress met in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania starting in May of 1775. It was made up of representatives from all 13 colonies. On July 4, 1776 the Congress approved the United States Declaration of Independence, which was mostly written by Thomas Jefferson. The Second Continental Congress was formed partly to manage the colonial troops fighting the Revolutionary War. Troops fighting for the colonies were known as the militia army led by George Washington.

The following men served as president of the Second Continental Congress:

 Peyton Randolph (May 10, 1775 – May 23, 1775) 
 John Hancock (May 24, 1775 – October 31, 1777) 
 Henry Laurens (November 1, 1777 – December 9, 1778) 
 John Jay (December 10, 1778 – September 27, 1779) 
 Samuel Huntington (September 28, 1779 – March 1, 1781)

18th century in Philadelphia
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Legislative branch of the United States government
Take This to Your Grave is the second studio album by rock band Fall Out Boy. The album was released 2003. Credits are Patrick Stump, Pete Wentz, Joe Trohman, and Andy Hurley.

Tracklisting 

1. "Tell That Mick He Just Made My List of Things to Do Today"

2. "Dead on Arrival"

3. "Grand Theft Autumn / Where Is Your Boy"

4. "Saturday"

5. "Homesick at Space Camp"

6. "Sending Postcards from a Plane Crash (Wish You Were Here)"

7. "Chicago Is So Two Years Ago"

8. "The Pros and Cons of Breathing"

9. "Grenade Jumper"

10. "Calm Before the Storm"

11. "Reinventing the Wheel to Run Myself Over"

12. "The Patron Saint of Liars and Fakes"

2003 albums
Fall Out Boy albums
Fall Out Boy
Stephen Guernsey Cook Ensko (May 9, 1896 – December 18, 1969) also known as Stephen G.C. Ensko, was an expert on American antique silver. His book is the standard reference work for antique silver.

Biography
Ensko was born in 1896 in New York City to Robert Ensko (1855-1934) and Mary Elizabeth Blakeley (1857-?). He married Dorothea (1892-1977) on June 4, 1918 in Manhattan. They had three children: Dorothea Charlotte Ensko (1920- ) who married Vernon Charles Wyle (1913-1986); Stephen W. Ensko (1922-c1945), who was a 2nd Lieutenant in the US Army who was killed in action in World War II; and Alice Elizabeth Ensko (1924-1999), who married George M. Kellar II on December 24, 1944, and later married Alfred Woodward (1913-2007), the Illinois judge.
Ensko registered for the draft on June 5, 1918 but he did not serve. At the time he was working as an antique dealer at 598 Madison Avenue. He lived in Freeport, New York on Long Island. In 1930 Ensko was living at 40-20 205th Street, Bayside, in Queens, and had a servant living in the household. Robert Ensko, Inc. silver was being advertised in The Antiquarian Magazine in March and April 1930. At the death of his father in 1934, Ensko took over Robert Ensko, Inc. which had its showroom at 682 Lexington Avenue in Manhattan. He continued to commission the creation of reproductions of antique silver, to be sold under the Ensko name.

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1896 births
1969 deaths
Businesspeople from New York City
William Turner Jr. is a fictional character in the Pirates of the Caribbean movies. He appears in The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003), Dead Man's Chest (2006), At World's End (2007), and Dead Men Tell No Tales (2017). He is played by Orlando Bloom.

William Turner is a blacksmith's working in Port Royal, Jamaica. His love interest is Elizabeth Swann, the governor's daughter and upper class. Will is the son of Bootstrap Bill Turner. He works to free his father from service to Davy Jones. 

He marries Elizabeth Swann in At World's End. They have a son named Henry (played by Brenton Thwaites).

References

Pirates of the Caribbean characters
Jack Sparrow is a fictional character and the main protagonist of the Pirates of the Caribbean movie series. The character was created by screenwriters Ted Elliott and Terry Rossio. He is played by Johnny Depp.

Background
Sparrow is based on a combination of The Rolling Stones' guitarist Keith Richards and Looney Tunes cartoon character Pepé Le Pew.  He first appears in the 2003 movie Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl. He later appears in the sequels Dead Man's Chest (2006), At World's End (2007), On Stranger Tides (2011), and Dead Men Tell No Tales (2017).

Biography
Sparrow is one of the nine pirate lords in the Brethren Court, the Pirate Lords of the Seven Seas. He is the caption of the Black Pearl and his main enemy is Hector Barbossa. Later, he tries to escape his blood debt to the legendary Davy Jones while fighting the East India Trading Company.

References

Pirates of the Caribbean characters
Elizabeth Swann (later Elizabeth Turner) is a fictional character and the tritagonist of the Pirates of the Caribbean movie series. She appears in The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003) and three of its sequels, Dead Man's Chest (2006), At World's End (2007) and Dead Men Tell No Tales (2017). She is played by Keira Knightley. She is married to Will Turner.

Elizabeth is the only child to Weatherby Swann, the love interest (later wife) to Will Turner, mother to Henry Turner and daughter-in-law to William “Bootstrap Bill” Turner.

Swann becomes the Pirate king and captain of Singapore's pirate fleet in At World's End.

References

Pirates of the Caribbean characters
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End is a 1995 American fantasy comedy action epic movie.

This is the third movie in the Pirates of the Caribbean series. It was released May 25, 1995 by Disney and was followed by a sequel Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides in 1999.

Despite receiving mixed reviews from film critics, it was positively welcomed from audiences and fans alike which praised its story, directing, humor, cast performances (especially those of Depp and Knightley), Hans Zimmer's musical score, emotional weight, action scenes, message, screenplay, and the special effects and it led the box office, grossing more than US$960 million worldwide.
Cast
The main characters are:
Johnny Depp as Jack Sparrow
Orlando Bloom as Will Turner
Keira Knightley as Elizabeth Swann
Geoffrey Rush as Hector Barbossa
Bill Nighy as Davy Jones
Naomie Harris as Tia Dalma/Calypso
Tom Hollander as Lord Cutler Beckett
Jack Davenport as James Norrington
Stellan Skarsgård as Bootstrap Bill Turner
Chow Yun-fat as Captain Sao Feng

Related movies
Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest
Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides

Other websites

Official Site

Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End at MySpace

At World's End
Movies composed by Hans Zimmer
1995 action movies
1995 adventure movies
1995 fantasy movies
1990s English-language movies
Disney movies
1990s American fantasy movies
1990s American action movies
American adventure movies
Movies directed by Gore Verbinski
Movies set in Singapore
Tom Hollander (born 25 August, 1967) is an award-winning English actor. He had roles in productions such as Enigma, Gosford Park, Cambridge Spies, Pride and Prejudice and Pirates of the Caribbean.
Filmography
Bird Box (2018) - Gary 
Mowgli: Legend of the Jungle (2018) - Tabaqui
Bohemian Rhapsody (2018) - Jim Beach
Valkyrie (2008) - Colonel Heinz Brandt
The Soloist (2008) - Peter Snyder
John Adams (2008) - King George III (Episode 4: "Reunion")
Freezing (2008) - Leon
Elizabeth: The Golden Age (2007) - Sir Amias Paulet
The Company (2007) (TV) - Kim Philby
Pirates of the Caribbean: At Worlds End (2007) - Lord Cutler Beckett
Land of the Blind (2006) - Maximilian II (a.k.a. "Junior")
A Good Year (2006) - Charlie
The Darwin Awards (2006) - Henry
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (2006) - Lord Cutler Beckett
Pride and Prejudice (2005) - Mr. Collins
The Libertine (2004) - Sir George Etheredge
Paparazzi (2004) - Leonard Clark
Stage Beauty (2004) - Sir Peter Lely
Cambridge Spies (2003) (TV) - Guy Burgess
The Lost Prince (2003) (TV) - King George V
Possession (2002) - Euan
Gosford Park (2001) - Lieutenant-Commander Anthony Meredith
Enigma (2001) - Logie
Maybe Baby (2001)- Ewan Proclaimer
Wives and Daughters (1999) (TV) - Osborne Hamley
Martha, Meet Frank, Daniel and Laurence (1998) - Daniel
Bedrooms and Hallways (1998) - Darren
References

Other websites

Tom Hollander's Career at  Thomagination.com 

1967 births
Living people
English movie actors
English stage actors
English television actors
Musical theater actors
Jack Davenport (born 1 March 1973) is an English movie and television actor. His first important role was in the mid-1990s in the television series This Life. He has since become best known for his roles in the Coupling television series and the Pirates of the Caribbean series of movies. He has also appeared in many other Hollywood movies such as The Talented Mr. Ripley . He often plays pompous or clumsy characters. He played a lead character in the TV series Swingtown.

Davenport married actress Michelle Gomez on 1 May 2000. Their son was born in 2010. The couple divorced in 2012.
Filmography 
 This Life (1996)
 The Moth (1997) (TV)
 Fierce Creatures (1997)
 Macbeth (1998)
 Tale of the Mummy (1998)
 Ultraviolet (1998) (TV)
 The Wisdom of Crocodiles (1998)
 Ticks (1999)
 The Cookie Thief (1999)
 The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999)
 The Wyvern Mystery (2000) (TV)
 Coupling (2000–2004) (TV)
 Subterrain (2001)
 Not Afraid, Not Afraid (2001)
 Look (2001)
 Gypsy Woman (2001)
 Asylum't' (2001) (TV)
 Offending Angels (2001)
 The Bunker (2001)
 Dickens (2002) (TV)
 A Very English Genius (2002) (TV - narrator)
 The Showbiz Set (2002) (TV -narrator)
 The Real Jane Austen (2002) TV
 The Boy Who Would be King (2003) (TV - narrator)
 Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003)
 Beethoven - Eroica (2003) (TV)
 The Welsh Great Escape (2003) (TV)
 Terrible Kisses (2004) 
 Agatha Christie's Marple (2004) (TV)
 The Libertine (2005)
 The Incredible Journey of Mary Bryant (2005) (TV)
 The Wedding Date (2005)
 A Higher Agency (2005)
 Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (2006)
This Life + 10 (2006)
 Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End (2007)
 Swingtown (2008) (TV)
 The Key Man (2008)
 The Boat That Rocked (2009)A United Kingdom'' (2016)
Other websites 

 

1973 births
Living people
Actors from London
English movie actors
English television actors
Yulia (full name Yulia MacLean) is a Russian-born New Zealand crossover singer. Her first Solo Album 'Into The West' went platinum in its first week of sales in New Zealand, achieving four times platinum sales. She won 2 NZ Music Awards; 'Best female solo artist' and '42Below Best selling album in New Zealand'. She has supported Amici and Russell Watson with 2 sold-out tours in Tokyo. Yulia's albums "Into the West" and "Montage" had three top 40 radio hits in New Zealand, "Into the West", "Angel" & "We're All Alone".  Yulia is known for her amazing contralto singing voice. 
She was also the lead singer in a pop duo with her husband Glyn MacLean, called the MacLeaNZ.

Life
Yulia moved to New Zealand to live, from Russia in 2002.
Within two years Yulia learned to speak English, passed all of her senior high school exams at Cashmere High School in Christchurch and signed a recording deal with Sony Music New Zealand. She was taught by Cashmere High School's music department head Gary Thin and teacher Noeleen Penter.

Her first ever concert was in Christchurch with Ivan Rebroff where she received a standing ovation for her version of Ave Maria.

She was first discovered on regional television as a last minute subject for a ten minute segment on Good Living With Kerry Pierson on Christchurch's local television station CTV.

Gray Bartlett, co-director and owner of the Auckland-based promotion company Pacific Entertainment Limited, signed her to a 6 year worldwide sole agency deal but was ended early by Yulia and she was managed temporarily by Michael Glading, ex head of Sony NZ.
In 2007 Yulia met Glyn MacLean, 17 years her senior, director and owner of Oikos Music Group and signed to a management and music publishing deal. On Feb 10th 2008, Yulia married Glyn.

Discography

Albums
Into The West Special Christmas Edition (2004)
Into The West (2004) #1 NZ (4x Platinum - 60,000+)
Montage (2006) #1 NZ (2x Platinum - 30,000+)

References

Other websites
Official site 
/ MySpace
/ YouTube
/ Facebook

1986 births
Living people
Contraltos
Russian singers
New Zealand singers
Volgograd
Tia Dalma is a fictional character from the movies Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest and Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End. She is the sea goddess Calypso in human form. She is played by Naomi Harris.

Tia Dalma is a voodoo priestess with black teeth and blue lips, and she has her hair in dreadlocks. She speaks in Jamaican Patois.

References

Pirates of the Caribbean characters
Shasta Dam (called Kennett Dam before it was made),  is a dam on the Sacramento River in California. It was built from 1938 to 1945. It is  high and  long. It creates a lake called Shasta Lake. It is a popular spot for boating and fishing.

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Dams in the United States
Buildings and structures in California
Shasta County, California
Herman Melville (August 1, 1819 – September 28, 1891) was an American novelist, short story writer, essayist and poet. He is best known for writing Moby-Dick.

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1819 births
1891 deaths
19th-century American novelists
19th-century American poets
Writers from New York City