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Rowan Sebastian Atkinson  (born 6 January 1955) is an English actor, comedian and writer. He is best known for his characters of Mr. Bean and Blackadder. He has also been in films such as The Lion King, voicing  Zazu, the red-billed hornbill and Johnny English.   He has been listed in The Observer as one of the 50 funniest actors in British comedy, and amongst the top 50 comedians ever in a 2005 poll of fellow comedians.

Marriage and children
Rowan Atkinson first met Sunetra Sastry in the late 1980s, when she was working as a make-up artist with the BBC. he got married at the Russian Tea Room in New York City on 5 February 1990. They have two children and lived in Oundle, Northamptonshire as well as in Ipsden, Oxfordshire and in Highbury, London. The couple separated in 2014 and divorced in 2015. Atkinson was formerly in a relationship with actress Leslie Ash.
Television appearances
 Canned Laughter (1979), an experimental sitcom pilot for LWT
 The Secret Policeman's Ball (1979), a charity special for Amnesty International
 Not the Nine O'Clock News (1979–1982)
 Peter Cook & Co (1980)
 The Innes Book of Records (1980), guest appearance
 Blackadder as Prince Edmund (The Black Adder); Lord Blackadder (Blackadder II); Edmund Blackadder (Blackadder III); Ebenezer Blackadder (Blackadder's Christmas Carol); and Captain Blackadder (Blackadder Goes Forth) (1983–1989)
 Saturday Live as guest host (1986)
 Mr. Bean as Mr. Bean (1990–2009 various times)
 Rowan Atkinson Live as assorted characters (1992) (VHS of live sketches)
 Bernard and the Genie as Bernard's Boss (1991) (TV movie)
 Funny Business (1992), a documentary about the craft of comedy
 A Bit Of Fry And Laurie (1992), guest appearance
 The Thin Blue Line as Inspector Raymond Fowler (1995–1996)
 The Story of Bean as himself (1997)
 Blackadder: Back and Forth as Black Adder (2000)
Mr. Bean (animated TV series) as Mr. Bean, voice (2002)
 The Comic Relief "Red Nose Day" telecasts, including appearances in:
 Blackadder: The Cavalier Years as Edmund Blackadder (1988)
 Nosenight sketches (1989)
 Mr Bean's Red Nose Day as Mr. Bean (1991)
 (I Wanna Be) Elected as Mr. Bean (1992)
 Blind Date with Mr Bean as Mr. Bean (1993)
 Torvill and Bean as Mr Bean (1995)
 Doctor Who and the Curse of Fatal Death as The Doctor (1999)
 Popsters as Nasty Neville (2001)
 Lying to Michael Jackson as Martin Bashir (2003)
 Spider-Plant Man as Peter Piper and Spider-Plant Man (2005)
 Mr Bean's Wedding as Mr. Bean (2007)
 The Greatest Worst Bits of Comic Relief as himself (2007)
 We Are Most Amused (2008), a special show to celebrate Prince Charles' 60th birthday
 Blackadder Rides Again as himself (2008)
 Not Again: Not the Nine O'Clock News as himself (2009)
 Bondi Rescue as Mr Bean (2010)
 Summer Olympics opening ceremony as himself/Derek (2012)
Live from Lambeth Palace sketches: Archbishop of Canterbury (The Comic Relief "Red Nose Day") (2013)
 Horrible Histories: Henri VIII (2015)
 Mr. Bean - Funeral ("Red Nose Day") (2015)
 Maigret as Jules Maigret (2016 + 2017)
 Red Nose Day Actually as Rufus (2017)
 Handy Bean as Mr. Bean (2018-2020)
 One Red Nose Day and a Wedding as	Father Gerald (2019)
Guest appearances
 Wogan (1988, 1991)
 Children in Need (1988), guest appearance as Mr. E. Blackadder
 Noel's House Party, guest appearance as Blackadder
 Going Live, guest appearance as Mr. Bean
 This Morning (1995), guest appearance as Mr. Bean
 Big Breakfast
 Parkinson (2003)
 Blue Peter (2004, 2007), guest appearance as Mr. Bean
 London Tonight (2005)
 BBC Breakfast (2007)
 Richard & Judy (2007)
 The Dame Edna Treatment (2007), guest appearance as Mr. Bean
 Top Gear (2011)

Filmography

References

1955 births
Living people
Actors from County Durham
Actors who played in James Bond movies
Alumni of the University of Oxford
British stand-up comedians
Commanders of the Order of the British Empire
English comedians
English movie actors
English radio actors
English stage actors
English television actors
English television writers
English voice actors
Cypress Gardens is a theme park near Winter Haven, Florida in the United States.

History
Cypress Gardens opened on January 2, 1936 as a flower garden planted by Dick and Julie Pope. Over the years, it became one of the biggest attractions in Florida, known for its water ski shows, nice gardens, and Southern Belle models.

It became known as the "Water Ski Capital of the World" because many of the sport's major "firsts" and over 50 world records were broken there. Many movies have been filmed at the park, including parts of "This is Cinerama," the first feature filmed in that wide-screen format, and several of Esther Williams films and TV specials in the 1950s and 1960s. With their addition of a custom photography boat named Miss Cover Girl in the early 1960s, the park became a popular site for the filming of television commercials.

Competition for guests increased after the Walt Disney World Resort opened nearby in 1971. In the early 1980s, the Popes retired and gave the park to their son, Dick Pope Jr.
In the 1980s, book publisher Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich bought the park along with SeaWorld, Circus World (later rebuilt as Boardwalk & Baseball) and Stars Hall of Fame, but sold most of the businesses to Anheuser-Busch in 1989. Busch continued to run Cypress Gardens until April 1, 1995, when a group of the park's managers led by Bill Reynolds bought the property.

Under President and CEO Reynolds, the park ran until April 13, 2003, when it closed after a long tourism decline following the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. 529 people were put out of work with only three days notice. 

Right away the Friends of Cypress Gardens, started and led by Burma Davis Posey, was founded. They enrolled members in all 50 states and 27 countries. Within three and a half months, this grass-roots effort raised $13,500,000 and saved the park.
On February 22, 2004, Adventure Parks Group, owned by Kent Buescher, bought the property and renamed it Cypress Gardens Adventure Park. The purchase of the amusement park portion of the Cypress Gardens property was part of a larger conservation agreement. In that agreement, the entire  site was bought from its previous owner, First Gardens, L.C., by The Trust for Public Land, a nation wide conservation group . TPL then sold a conservation access over the entire property to the state of Florida, while Polk County purchased the  gardens portion of the property, less the development rights conveyed in the state agreement. Adventure Parks Group purchased the balance of the property, also subject to the conservation agreement.
Buescher's plan to reopen the park in September 2004 was delayed by damages created by hurricanes Charley, Frances, and Jeanne. Cypress Gardens Adventure Park finally opened in November 2004. One of its new rides, the Triple Hurricane roller coaster, was named for the fierce storm season. The Splash Island water park opened in 2005, along with the Galaxy Spin roller coaster.

In September 2006, Adventure Parks Group filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection at the Florida site following approximately $30 million in damages sustained by the 2004 hurricanes.

Land South Adventures, a branch of Mulberry, Florida-based Land South Holdings, bought Cypress Gardens at a bankruptcy auction on October 16, 2007 for $16.9 million, leaving Buescher as temporary manager until Baker Leisure Group of Orlando, Florida took over running the park in January 2008.
Many celebrities have skied and visited at the park, including Elvis Presley, Jordan's former King Hussein and his son, King Abdullah II. It was also the site of a Johnny Carson special.

On Monday, November 10, 2008, Land South Holdings announced the temporary closure of the park, which was shut down November 17 of that year. It reopened on March 28, 2009 with an expanded water park, named Splash Island. The rides and animals, however, were gone. The reopening prices were reduced. Cypress Gardens and Splash Island now have separate ticketing, though seasonal passes are available. Parking is now free.

Attractions

Roller coasters

Thrill rides

Related pages 
 List of botanical gardens

References

Other websites
Official site  (uses Adobe Flash)
Photos of Cypress Gardens  Hundreds of photos and a thriving message board.
Cypress Gardens Amusement Rides for Sale - Feb 2009 

Theme parks in Florida
Botanical gardens in the United States
WEKG (810 AM) is a radio station in Jackson, Kentucky, USA. It plays country music.  As of March 2023, the station is owned by Intermountain Broadcasting Co., Inc. WEKG carries programming from ABC Audio.

References

Radio stations in the United States
Organizations based in Kentucky
The Valea Voenilor River is a tributary of the Pascu River.

References
 Administraţia Naţională Apelor Române - Cadastrul Apelor - Bucureşti
 Institutul de Meteorologie şi Hidrologie - Rîurile României - Bucureşti 1971

Maps
 Harta munţii Codru Moma
 Harta munţii Apuseni

Rivers of Romania
South Portland is a small town in Maine right across the water from Portland.

Cities in Maine
WJBQ is a radio station from Portland, Maine. It is also known as Q97.9. It has a morning show where Rob Steele does "The Interactive 8 at 8", a countdown of the eight most popular songs of the day.

Contemporary hit radio stations in the United States
Portland, Maine
Daisy Duke is a fictional character from the Dukes of Hazzard. She is an attractive young woman from Georgia. Her apparel includes low cut blue jeans, which later led to the term "Daisy Dukes" being used for short shorts. She was portrayed by actress Jessica Simpson in the movie.

 

Fictional American people
Movie characters
Television characters
Fictional characters introduced in the 1970s
The Sonata for Two Pianos and Percussion is a musical composition by the Hungarian composer Béla Bartók.  It was written for a very unusual combination of players.  Four players are needed to perform this sonata: two pianists and two percussion players.  The two pianists each have a piano, and the two percussion players play seven instruments between them: three timpani, xylophone, one side drum with snares and one without, a suspended cymbal, a pair of cymbals, a bass drum, a triangle and a tam-tam.

In the introduction to the score Bartók gave very precise instructions about how the different percussion instruments should be played, the kinds of beaters to be used, and a plan of how they were to be grouped on stage.

There are three movements: a fast movement, a slow movement and a fast movement.  The first movement starts with a slow introduction.
There are many interesting and unusual things to listen out for in the music.  For example, in the first movement the timpani sometimes play glissandos.  This means that the pitch of the notes slides up or down.  The player needs to have timpani with pedals to do this.  This movement is in sonata form.

The second movement sounds very creepy.  Bartók quite often wrote music which sounded like insects at night.  This is one of his “night pieces”.  In the climax to this exciting music Piano One plays lots of glissandos.

The last movement is a big contrast to the atmosphere in the slow movement.  It is like a lively dance.

The sonata was first performed in Basle in 1938 with the composer playing one piano and his wife Ditta playing the other one.  Fritz Schiesser and Philipp Rühlig played the percussion.   It immediately became very popular and has since been one of his best- known works.  Bartók also made a version for the two pianos to play with an orchestra, but it is not normally performed like that.
References 
 Score of Sonata for Two Pianos and Percussion (Boosey and Hawkes)
 The Life and Music of Béla Bartók; Halsey Stevens, OUP 1964. 

Compositions by Béla Bartók
Sonatas
Concerto for Orchestra is the title of a work for orchestra by the Hungarian composer Béla Bartók. It is one of the most famous orchestral pieces of the mid-20th century.

Several composers have written works to which they gave the title “Concerto for Orchestra”. It is an unusual title because a concerto is normally a work for one solo instrument and an orchestra. The soloist is given a lot of opportunity to show off his (or her) talent. In a “Concerto for Orchestra” there is no soloist, but the composer thinks it is different from a symphony because a lot of the instruments in the orchestra are treated like soloists during the piece. This is what happens in Béla Bartók’s concerto.
The work was written in 1943 and it was first performed on 1 December 1944 in the Boston Symphony Hall by the Boston Symphony Orchestra with the conductor Serge Koussevitzky. It was immediately a great success. Koussevitszky asked Bartók to write this piece. Bartók had just arrived in United States from Hungary. He had to flee because of World War II. Bartók had no money and so he was glad to get some work.

The music 

Bartók often uses ideas from the Classical music period in this work. He also uses ideas from folk music from central Europe, especially Hungarian music. Quite often the music is not in a major or minor key. He uses folk scales which have different kinds of scales called modes. Sometimes tunes sound like folk music. At other times there are drones in the horns and strings.
The orchestra needs 3 flutes (one doubling piccolo), 3 oboes (one doubling cor anglais), 3 clarinets (one doubling bass clarinet), 3 bassoons (one doubling contrabassoon), 4 French horns, 3 trumpets, 3 trombones, tuba, timpani, side drum, bass drum, cymbals, triangle, tamtam, 2 harps and strings

The five movements 

The first movement, called Introduzione by Bartók, is a slow introduction which sounds like music describing the night. This is something Bartók did several times in his works. It is in sonata form.

The second movement is called "Giuoco delle coppie" which means "Game of pairs". Pairs of instruments take it in turns to play a tune, each pair playing music which is separated by a different interval.

The third movement, called Elegia by Bartók, is another slow movement, typical of Bartók's night music.
The fourth movement, called Intermezzo interrotto by Bartók, has a flowing melody with a time signature which keeps changing. There is also a theme which pokes fun at the march tune in Dmitri Shostakovich's "Leningrad" Symphony (No. 7). There is a very difficult bit for the timpani where the player has to play lots of different pitches in a very short section.

The fifth movement, called Finale is a very fast movement with lots of energy and plenty of folk tunes.

References 
 Score of Concerto for Orchestra, Boosey and Hawkes
 The Life and Music of Béla Bartók, Halsey Stevens, OUP 1964.

Compositions by Béla Bartók
Orchestral works
Bluebird K7 was a boat built for Donald Campbell to break the World Water Speed Record.  Bluebird was a special kind of boat, called a hydroplane, that  skims over the top of the water instead of pushing through it like a normal boat. Bluebird was powered by a jet engine. It set new world water speed records seven times; the fastest  was 276 mph (445 km/h).  Bluebird was destroyed when Campbell tried to set an eighth record by going faster than 300 mph (480 km/h) on Coniston Water in 1967.

Design

Campbell had been using his father's boat, Bluebird K4, to try and set new records.  Bluebird K4 was destroyed when its structure broke. After this, Donald had the idea for a jet powered hydroplane to take the world water speed record from the American propeller hydroplane Slo-mo-shun. Ken and Lewis Norris designed and built K7 based on Donald's ideas.
K7 was a three-point hydroplane, meaning that when going quickly the boat only touched the water in three places, one point near the back of the boat and one point at the back of the two sponsons (the sponsons are the floats either side of the boat, near its front in the photos). It was built of aluminium on top of a steel frame and was at first powered by a small turbojet.

The name K7 came from the rating given to the boat by Lloyds of London

Records
Campbell set seven world water speed records in K7 between 1955 and 1964:

 23 July 1955, 202 mph (324 km/h), set at Ullswater in England
 1955, 216 mph (348 km/h)
 1956, 225 mph (362 km/h)
 1957, 239 mph (385 km/h)
 1958, 248 mph (399 km/h)
 1959, 260 mph (420 km/h)
 31 December 1964, 276 mph (445 km/h), set at Dumbleyung Lake in Australia

Loss

In 1966, Campbell decided he wanted to make Bluebird go faster than 300 mph (480 km/h).
Bluebird's old engine was not strong enough to make it go this fast, so it was replaced with a more powerful Bristol Siddeley Orpheus engine taken from an old fighter jet.  Many other changes were made, the tail fin from the fighter was attached to Bluebird's rear, the cover over the cockpit was changed to push through the air more easily, and the floats at the front were also changed. Bluebird was taken to Coniston Water to be tested in 1966.  The tests did not go well, the weather was too bad to test the boat while moving, so it was tied down and tested without moving instead. When testing the engine it sucked in too much air and caused parts of the boat to break. The engine was broken when the broken parts were sucked into it.  This meant that the entire engine had to be replaced.
At the end of November the weather was good enough for some test runs, but the speed was a lot lower than Bluebird's old records. The fuel pumps could not pump enough fuel to the engine so it could not run at full speed. The problem was fixed by fitting two fuel pumps instead of one.

On 4 January 1967, the problems had all been fixed, the weather was good and Campbell decided he wanted to try and break the speed record. For a world record to be official, a boat trying to set a record has to make two runs at full speed that are timed by people who are not part of the record breaking team.  The official speed is the average speed of the two runs. On the first run Bluebird's speed was 297.6 mph (478.9 km/h) which was fast enough to be a new record, but not quite as fast as Campbell wanted to go. To set a record of more than 300 mph the second run would have to be 302.5 mph or faster.
The plan for the world record attempt was for Bluebird to stop at the far end of the lake and refuel from another boat that had been put there for that purpose.  Taking time to refuel would also give the lake, which had been disturbed by the first run, time to settle down again.  On the actual record attempt, Campbell decided not to refuel and instead started on his second run immediately.  Why he did this is unknown.

At the start of the second run, Bluebird was going faster than 320 mph (510 km/h) and would have easily broken the 300 mph target, but as the boat travelled along the lake it started tramping (which means rocking from side to side). Bluebird hit a wave made on the lake from its own first run and the boat spun out of the water.  When it hit the water again it broke into pieces and sank.  Donald Campbell was killed in the crash.  His teddy bear mascot was found floating in the lake later on but Campbell's body could not be found.

Recovery
Recovery

In 2001 a diver called Bill Smith led a salvage team which found Bluebird on the bottom of Coniston Water, and later lifted the wreck back to dry land.  The wreck was taken apart carefully to keep it from rusting and is now being put back together again. There was a lot of damage caused in the crash but it can all be repaired.  Bill Smith also got a new engine for Bluebird and hopes to return the boat to full working order.

Donald Campbell's body was also found in 2001. He was buried on 12th September 2001 in Coniston cemetery.
On Thursday 7 December 2006, Gina Campbell, Donald's daughter, formally gifted the recovered wreckage of Bluebird K7 to the Ruskin Museum in Coniston on behalf of the Campbell Family Heritage Trust. 
In agreement with the Campbell Family Heritage Trust and the museum, Bill Smith is to organise the restoration of the boat, which is now under way.[9] The intention is to rebuild K7 back to running order circa 4 January 1967. Gina Campbell commented: "I've decided to secure the future of Bluebird for the people of Coniston, the Ruskin Museum and the people of the world".

References

Boats
The Telamiina 65 77 (Track mine model 66, with detonator model 77) is a Finnish Army standard issue anti-tank mine. The mine is made of 9.5 kg (~21 lbs) of cast TNT.  The mine is armed with a detonator that is set to explode when at least 100 kg (~220 lbs) of pressure is applied to it. The blast effect of the mine blows the track off of tanks and damages their driving wheel.

The mine is also known as the Kuntonappi ("Fitness pill") or the Tellu (female name, shortened form of Tellervo9).

References
http://www.mil.fi/maavoimat/kalustoesittely/index.dsp?level=70&equipment=124 

Explosives
Well is a small village in Hampshire in between Odiham and Farnham. It is next to Lord Wandsworth College. The local pub is called The Chequers Inn.

Other websites
 The Chequers Inn 
 Hampshire Treasures p111  The Old Cottage. Pond House.
 Hampshire Treasures p112  Well Manor Farmhouse.

Villages in Hampshire
Where Sleeplessness Is Rest from Nightmares is the very first album by Chicago metalcore band Arma Angelus.

Track listing
All music composed by Arma Angelus. All lyrics written by Pete Wentz.

References

2001 albums
Rock albums
After Tim quit to start a new band called Rise Against, he was replaced in 1999 by Christopher Gutierrez. Gutierrez is now a touring author and spoken word artist.  He was replaced as the bass guitar player for one tour by Joseph Trohman (now plays guitar in the band Fall Out Boy). Trohman was not a good fit for the band in terms of knowing about the music style and in terms of stage presence.  He was replaced mid-tour when the band flew Chris Gutierrez out to New York for the final half of their tour, including a stop at CBGB's.  

In the last Arma Angelus concert, Patrick Stump played drums, Pete Wentz sang, Joe Trohman played guitar along with Adam Bishop, and Christopher Gutierrez on bass.

Albums
 Things We Don't Like We Destroy (Compilation) (2002), Let It Burn Records
 Where Sleeplessness Is Rest from Nightmares (2001), Eulogy Records 
 The Grave End of the Shovel EP (2000), Let It Burn Records
 The Personal is Political (2000), Demo

Other websites 
 Let It Burn Records 
 MySpace Page

References
References 

1998 establishments in the United States
2002 disestablishments in the United States
1990s American music groups
1990s establishments in Illinois
2000s American music groups
Post-hardcore bands
Metalcore bands
Musical groups disestablished in 2002
Musical groups established in 1998
Musical groups from Chicago
51 Pegasi is a star that is like our Sun and can be found 15.4 parsecs (50.1 light-years) away from the Earth in the constellation Pegasus. It was the first Sun-like star, other than the Sun, found to have a planet orbiting it, this discovery was first made public in 1995.

The exoplanet's discovery was made public on October 6, 1995 by Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz.  The discovery was made using the radial velocity method at the Observatoire de Haute-Provence, using a tool called the ELODIE spectrograph that is used to find planets that are outside our Solar System. 

The star itself has an apparent brightness of 5.49, and because of this it is able to be seen from the Earth with binoculars, or with the naked eye if it is dark outside. 51 Pegasi is a yellow dwarf star that is thought to be around 7.5 billion years old, which is somewhat older than our Sun. 51 Pegasi is also 4-6% more massive than our Sun with more metal content. However, it is running low on hydrogen.
In 1996 astronomers Baliunas, Sokoloff, and Soon calculated that it takes 51 Pegasi b 37 days to orbit 51 Pegasi.

Planetary system 

After the announcement, on  October 12, 1995, more proof that this star did exist came from Dr. Geoffrey Marcy from San Francisco State University and Dr. R. Paul Butler from the University of California, Berkeley using the Hamilton Spectrograph at the Lick Observatory near San Jose in California.

51 Pegasi b is the first discovered planet of its parent star, 51 Pegasi. If any more are discovered they will be named 51 Pegasi c, 51 Pegasi d, and so on. The planet has been informally named Bellerophon. After its discovery, many teams proved its existence and continued to find out more about its properties, including the fact that it orbits very close to the star, has estimated temperatures around 1200 Celsius, and has a minimum mass about half that of Jupiter.

References
References

Other websites
 Extrasolar Visions: 51 Pegasi 
 51 Pegasi at SolStation.com.
 nStars database entry 
 David Darling's encyclopedia

Stars
Gumbasia is a very short movie made in 1953 by Art Clokey. Gumbasia was a clay animation movie. Clokey became famous for his two series Gumby and Davey and Goliath which also used clay animation.

Clokey made Gumbasia while he was studying at the University of Southern California and being taught by Slavko Vorkapich. It was Clokey's first clay animation movie and it was only 3 minutes and 45 seconds long. The movie showed moving lumps of clay set to music in a copy of Walt Disney's Fantasia. Gumbasia was made in a style Vorkapich taught called Kinesthetic Film Principles. This style, which uses camera movements and stop-motion editing, is used in later Gumby movies. After watching Gumbasia, movie producer Sam Engel decided to give Clokey money to make a 15 minute movie that became the first Gumby movie -- Gumby Goes to the Moon.

References

Other websites
Other websites

Gumbyworld.com
Premavision/Clokey Productions 
ArtClokey: the First 50 Years 
Official 50th Birthday Party Gumby's MySpace
Bren's Gumbyland - The Ultimate Gumby Memorabilia Collection/Fansite

1954 movies
Short movies
Clay animation movies
English-language movies
The University of Southern Maine is a university in Maine.

References

Other websites

 
 Official athletics website

Colleges and universities in Maine
Portland, Maine
1878 establishments in the United States
19th-century establishments in Maine
Belmont is a small town in New Hampshire, United States.

Originally called Upper Gilmanton, Belmont was chartered in 1727 as a parish of Gilmanton.  In 1859 Upper Gilmanton was separated from Gilmanton. Then in 1869 the town was renamed Belmont.  This was to honor August Belmont. The townspeople hoped Mr. Belmont would provide financial support but he did not.

Cities in New Hampshire
1869 establishments in the United States
19th-century establishments in New Hampshire
The Joker is a fictional character, a comic book supervillain published by DC Comics. He is an archenemy of Batman. The character's creator has been disputed between Jerry Robinson, Bill Finger, and Bob Kane, even though many believe Robinson created the character. The Joker first appeared in Batman #1 (Spring 1940).

Background
Throughout his comic book appearances, the Joker is portrayed as a master criminal whose characterization has varied from that of a violent psychopath to a goofy trickster-thief. He is the archenemy of Batman, having been directly responsible for numerous tragedies in Batman's life, including the paralysis of Barbara Gordon and the death of Jason Todd, the second Robin.

Joker's creation was inspired by Conrad Veidt's role in the 1928 silent movie The Man Who Laughs.
Origin
Throughout the character's long history, there have been several different origin tales; they most commonly depict him as falling into a vat of chemical waste, which bleaches his skin and turns his hair green and his lips bright red, giving him the appearance of a clown.

Portrayals

The Joker has appeared in movies, TV series and video games; he was played by Cesar Romero, Jack Nicholson, Heath Ledger, Jared Leto, Joaquin Phoenix and Barry Keoghan in movies. On animated shows/movies he is portrayed by Mark Hamill, Richard Epcar, Kevin Michael Richardson, Larry Storch, Jeff Bennett, and John DiMaggio.

Both Ledger and Phoenix won an Academy Award for their portrayal of the character, making the Joker the second character to have its actor win an Academy Award more than once.
Live action movies
 Played by Cesar Romero
 Batman (1966)
 Played by Jack Nicholson
 Batman (1989)
 Played by Heath Ledger in The Dark Knight Trilogy
 The Dark Knight (2008)
 Played by Jared Leto in the DC Extended Universe
 Suicide Squad (2016)
 Zack Snyder's Justice League (2021)
 Played by Joaquin Phoenix
 Joker (2019)
 Played by Barry Keoghan
 The Batman (2022)

Attractions 
Joker's Joyride - A Diving LIM Shuttle Loop Coaster that was located at Six Flags Great Adventure, Six Flags Great America, Six Flags Over Georgia and Six Flags New England
 Joker - RMC Hybrid Wood-Steel coaster at Six Flags Discovery Kingdom

References

DC Comics supervillains
DC Comics adapted into movies
Batman characters
Fictional characters introduced in 1940
Fictional mass murderers
Mortal Kombat guest characters
The Joker
Iceman is a fictional superhero from the Marvel Comics universe. He is a member of the mutant team, the X-Men. His real name is Bobby Drake. Iceman has the power to freeze anything around him. He can also turn his body into ice.

Characters created by Stan Lee
Fictional characters introduced in 1963
Fictional characters with ice or cold abilities
Fictional gay males
X-Men characters
Marvel vs. Capcom fighters
70 Virginis is a yellow dwarf star that is around 58 light-years away from the Earth in the constellation Virgo. 70 Virginis is not as big or hot as Earth's Sun.

In 1996, 70 Virginis was found to have an extrasolar planet in orbit around it. There is also a dust disc that orbits the star. The temperature of the disc is 156 K and it is about 3.4 AU from the star.

References

Other websites 
 SIMBAD: HD 117176 -- High proper-motion Star
 SolStation: 70 Virginis
 Extrasolar Planets Encyclopaedia: 70 Virginis
 Extrasolar Visions: 70 Virginis 

Stars
Terrance "Terry" Gerin (born October 7, 1975) is an American professional wrestler. He is currently signed to Impact Wrestling and competes under the ring name Rhino.

He is also known for his time in Extreme Championship Wrestling (ECW), WWE, and Impact Wrestling when it was known as Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA).

During his time in ECW, he was a one-time ECW World Heavyweight Champion and a two-time and final ECW World Television Champion.

In WWE, he was a three-time WWF Hardcore Champion, one-time WCW United States Championship, and a one-time and the first WWE SmackDown Tag Team Champion.

Outside of wrestling, Gerin has also been involved in politics. On August 2, 2016, Gerin won the Republican primary for Michigan's 15th District. He ran against Democrat Abdullah Hammoud and lost 21,739 votes to 13,452.

References

Other websites
Other websites

1975 births
Living people
American professional wrestlers
Former WWE wrestlers
Impact Wrestling people
Republican Party (United States) politicians
Sportspeople from Michigan
70 Virginis b is an extrasolar planet that is around 60 light-years away from the Earth in the constellation of Virgo.  The finding of this planet was announced in 1996 by astronomers Geoffrey Marcy and R. Paul Butler. 70 Virginis was one of the first stars that was known to have planets orbiting it.  When first announced, 70 Virginis b was thought to be inside its star's habitable zone, but proof was later found that the planet has an eccentric orbit, closer to its parent.

Characteristics
Characteristics 

70 Virginis b is a Jupiter-type extrasolar planet that orbits around 70 Virginis every 116 days. It has 7.5 times the mass of Jupiter. Its surface gravity is thought to be about two to three times that of Jupiter's.  At the time that it was found in January 1996, it was thought that the star was only 29 light years away from the Earth. This could explain why the star was less bright based on its apparent magnitude (measure of brightness).  As a result, the planet's orbit was thought to be in the habitable zone and the planet was given the nickname "Goldilocks" (not too cold or too hot). The Hipparcos satellite later showed that the star was farther away from 70 Virginis and therefore its brightness was a result of the planet being too hot to be in the habitable zone.

Related pages
 Exoplanet 51 Pegasi b

References

Other websites
 SolStation: 70 Virginis
 70 Virginis b 

Exoplanets
Peaks Island is an island near Portland, Maine. Ferries go between Portland Harbour and Peaks Island. There is a small beach on the island along with a store and a library.

Islands of the United States
Geography of Maine
Portland, Maine
Float On is a song by the indie rock band Modest Mouse. Made in 2004, it appears on their album Good News for People Who Love Bad News. It is their most popular single to date.

2004 songs
Blue Hill is a town in eastern Maine, in the United States.

References

Towns in Maine
15385 Dallolmo (1997 SP4) is a Main-belt Asteroid that was found on September 25, 1997 by the Osservatorio San Vittore at Bologna, Italy

It is named after Umberto Dall'Olmo (1925-1980), who was an amateur astronomer with college degrees in both law and physics; who spent most of his time observing Jupiter and studying flare stars. He was also interested in the history of astronomy and worked as a technician at the University of Bologna's Institute of Astronomy.

Notes 

Dallolmo
Operation Downfall was a planned military action. This was to be the Allied forces invasion of Japan to end the Second World War. It would have two main parts, Operation Olympic would be the biggest amphibious invasion in history, in Kyūshū. Airplanes based in Kyushu would then be used for an even bigger invasion called Operation Coronet. This would invade Honshū. After the Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Japanese surrendered, so there was no need for an invasion. Operation Downfall was canceled.

Invasions of World War II
F.C. Martigues is a football club which plays in France.

1920s establishments in France
1921 establishments in Europe
French football clubs
Martigues
F.C. Gueugnon is a football club which plays in France.

French football clubs
1940 establishments in France
Blade is a 1998 American vampire superhero horror movie starring Wesley Snipes. It was followed by Blade II and Blade: Trinity.

Other websites 
 

1998 horror movies
1990s superhero movies
African-American superhero movies
1990s American action movies
American science fiction horror movies
Blade movies
1990s English-language movies
Film noir
Movies about revenge
Movies based on comics
New Line Cinema movies
Superhero horror movies
Vampires in movies
American superhero movies
1998 science fiction movies
The Bravery was an American rock band. They were from New York City. The band is best known for their song "An Honest Mistake".

The Village Voice said the Bravery was "New York's Official Next Big Thing". MTV and Rolling Stone praised them as an artist to watch. The band was chosen in the BBC News website's Sound of... poll as 2005's most promising act.

Discography
 The Bravery (2005)
 The Sun and the Moon (2007)
 Stir the Blood (2009)

References

Other websites

2003 establishments in the United States
2000s American music groups
2000s establishments in New York (state)
2010s American music groups
2011 disestablishments in the United States
American punk bands
Musical groups disestablished in 2011
Musical groups established in 2003
Musical groups from New York City
Cascada is a German pop group. They are most famous for their songs "Everytime We Touch" in 2005, "What Hurts the Most" in 2007 and "Evacuate the Dancefloor" in 2009. Members of the group are the female singer Natalie Horler  and the two Record Producers DJ Manian and Yanou.

Carrer beginnings and Everytime We Touch (2004-2006) 
They started writing songs for the album in late 2003, like, the title track (Everytime We Touch), Miracle and Bad Boy, they recorded a slow version of Everytime We Touch around the same time. Then, in 2004, the studio released Miracle and Bad Boy as singles and released the album in early 2005, the title track for the album released in 2005 (both original and slow versions), then they had a tour for the album from summer of 2005 to fall of 2006, They ended the tour in favor for their second album in 2007.
Perfect Day and Evacuate The Dancefloor (2007-2010) 
Their second album, Perfect Day started to get worked on, right after the Everytime We Touch tour concluded in fall 2006. They released the album in 2007. They had a tour for the album in 2007-2008. Then in fall 2008, they started to work on their third album, Evacuate the Dancefloor. They released this album in 2009, had a tour in 2009-2010 and like every album, stops in favor for a new album.

Original Me, Back on the Dancefloor, It's Christmas Time and miscellaneous singles (2011-present) 
In fall 2010, they started to work on their fourth and final studio album, Original Me. Then, they released it in 2011, had a tour in 2011-2012, but this time, it didn't stop because they're was gonna be a new album in 2013 (which there isn't), The reason is unknown. In 2012, they released two other albums (which are NOT studio albums). In 2013, they released an acoustic album. After that, they released other singles, which she was in from other people.

Discography
Discography

Studio albums 
2006: Everytime We Touch

2007: Perfect Day

2009: Evacuate the Dancefloor

2011: Original Me

Other albums 
2006: The Remix Album
2009: Greatest Hits
2010: Just The Hits
2012: Back On The Dancefloor
2012: It's Christmas Time
2013: The Best Of Cascada
2013: Acoustic Sessions
Singles 
 Miracle - released August 15, 2004
 Bad Boy - released January 6, 2005 
 Everytime We Touch - released March 2, 2005
 How Do You Do! - released September 30, 2005
 Truly Madly Deeply - released  January 31, 2006
 A Neverending Dream - released March 4, 2006
 Ready for Love - released  September 16, 2006
 What Hurts the Most - released  August 8, 2007
 Last Christmas - released  November 21, 2007
 What Do You Want from Me? - released  March 7, 2008
 Because the Night -  released July 18, 2008
 Faded   - released  August 26, 2008
 Perfect Day - released  March 3, 2009
 Evacuate the Dancefloor - released   May 18, 2009
 Fever - released  August 1, 2009
 Dangerous - released  August 15, 2009
 Pyromania - released  March 19, 2010
 San Francisco - released  June 20, 2011
 Au Revoir - released   September 23, 2011
 Night Nurse - released   December 16, 2011
 Summer of Love - released    March 30, 2012
 The Rhythm of the Night - released   June 22, 2012
 Glorious  - released   February 8, 2013
The World Is in My Hands - released   August 2, 2013
 Blink - released   March 28, 2014
Awards and nominations

References 

2000s German music groups
2010s German music groups
German pop music groups
Musical groups established in 2004
North Rhine-Westphalia
Scholasticism is a way of thinking and teaching knowledge. It was developed in the Middle Ages. It started when people wanted to bring together what is called classical philosophy with the teachings of 
Christian theology. Classical philosophy is the philosophy developed in Ancient Greece. 
Scholasticism is not a philosophy or a theology, but rather a way of teaching and learning. Scholasticism emphasises the use of dialectic. The main purpose of dialectic is to find an answer to a question, or to show that a contradiction can be resolved.

Scholasticism was started by people like Saint Ambrose and St. Augustine. They tried to use philosophy to help explain the doctrine and mysteries of the church. Ambrose and Augustine were among the first Church fathers who brought Christian ideas and Greek philosophy together.
Other websites
 "Scholasticism". In Encyclopædia Britannica Online.

Philosophical movements and positions
Theology
916 America is a minor planet that is orbiting the Sun in the main belt between Mars and Jupiter.

It was discovered on 7 August 1915 by the Soviet astronomer Grigory Nikolaevich Neujmin at Simeis, Ukraine. It was originally called 916ΣI, but was renamed 916 America on 24 February 1923 after the Council of Astronomers at Pulkovo Observatory decided to pay tribute to "the friendly relations of the astronomical observatories and astronomers". Another possible reason for the name was as a mark of thankfulness for the help given during the famine in Crimea by the American Relief Administration under President Herbert Hoover.

In 1986, believing that the asteroid was of S-type and that it had a diameter of 15 km, the length of 916 America's day was thought to be 38 hours. Observations by the Infrared Astronomical Satellite have since shown that it has a diameter of 33.2±1.3 km, with an absolute magnitude of 11.20 and an albedo (the extent to which it reflects light) of 0.053±0.004.

References 

America
Nick is a short form of the given name Nicholas. People named Nick include:

Nick Carter, a singer
Nick Jonas, singer and member of the Jonas Brothers
Nick Cannon, an actor
Nick Barua, a business executive

Nick can also be short for "Nickelodeon", and might mean:
Nickelodeon, a television network which begin in 1977
Nick Jr., a related TV network
Donald is a masculine given name. It is pronounced [don-ld]. The name Donald has its roots in the Gaelic name Domhnall and is typically associated with masculinity. Its meaning, "ruler of the world" or "world mighty", is derived from the Celtic words dumno, meaning "world," and val, meaning "rule." The name gained popularity thanks to the Scottish King Donald II, who was the grandson of King Alpin and became a legendary figure. This name was ranked #592 on the US Popular Names in 2021.

Other common forms are Don, Donny and Donnie.
Famous Donalds 
Don Cheadle, American actor
Donald Dewar, first First Minister of Scotland
Don Drysdale, Major League Baseball player
Donald Duck, fictional duck created by Walt Disney
Don Edwards, American politician
Don Ho, Hawaiian musician
Don LaFontaine, American voice actor
Don Regan, American politician
Don Knotts, American comedic actor
Don McLean, American singer and musician
Don Meredith, former American NFL quarterback.
Don Quixote, fictional knight in the book of the same name.
Donald Rumsfeld, United States Secretary of Defense
Donald Sutherland, American actor
Donald A. Glaser, American scientist
Donald Pleasence, British actor
Donald Trump, 45th President of the United States
Donald Tusk, Prime Minister of Poland

Related pages
Don, a disambiguation page

References

Given names
Johnstone (, ) is a town in the council area of Renfrewshire, Scotland.

References

Towns in Scotland
Renfrewshire
Championships
Pro Wrestling Illustrated
PWI Most Improved Wrestler of the Year (2006)
PWI ranked him #4 of the 500 best singles wrestlers of the year in the PWI 500 in (1997, 1998)
PWI Feud of the Year in 1997 (vs. Macho Man Randy Savage)
PWI Most Hated Wrestler of the Year (1999)
PWI ranked him #65 of the top 500 singles wrestlers of the "PWI Years" (2003)
Swiss Wrestling Federation
SWF Heavyweight Championship (one time)
World Championship Wrestling
WCW World Heavyweight Championship (three times)
WCW United States Heavyweight Championship (two times)
WCW World Tag Team Championship (four times) (with Kevin Nash (two), Chris Kanyon and Bam Bam Bigelow as the Jersey Triad (two))
WCW World Television Championship (one time)
World Wrestling Federation
WWF European Championship (one time)
WWF World Tag Team Championship (one time) (with Kanyon)
Wrestling Observer Newsletter awards
Best Wrestling Maneuver (1997) (Diamond Cutter)
Most Improved Wrestler (1996)
Worst Gimmick (2001)
Other websites
Official website 
DDP's WWE Alumni page

1956 births
American professional wrestlers
Former WWE wrestlers
Impact Wrestling alumni
Living people
Sportspeople from New Jersey
WWE Hall of Fame
Sunapee is a town in the U.S. state of New Hampshire.

Cities in New Hampshire
Scarborough is a town in Maine. It has a harness racing event called the Scarborough Downs. Scarborough High School is here.

References

Towns in Maine
Luna, is a given name meaning "moon".It is a feminine name that is associated with the night sky, the moon, and the stars. Luna is a name that is often associated with mystery, beauty, and femininity. It is a name that is often associated with the goddess of the moon, Selene. This name was ranked #11 on the US Popular Names in 2021.

People named Luna

 Luna Celeste (born 1963), American voice actress
 Luna Leopold (1915-2006), American scientist
 Luna Vachon (1962–2010), Canadian professional wrestler
 Luna Shamsuddoha, Bangladeshi Women entrepreneur

Fictional

 Luna Lovegood, in the Harry Potter series
 Luna Inverse, oldest sister of Lina Inverse of the series Slayers
 Luna Moody, a minor character in One Life to Live
 Luna Platz, a character in Mega Man Star Force
 Mrs Luna, in the Henry James book The Bostonians
 Princess Luna, a character in My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic

References

Given names
Susan Magdalane Boyle (born 1 April 1961) is a Scottish singer who became famous through the television contest Britain's Got Talent. She was the runner-up of its third season.

Her version of "I Dreamed a Dream" from Les Misérables has many video views on YouTube. She appeared on America's Got Talent. Boyle's first album I Dreamed a Dream was released on 23 November 2009. It went straight to number one in the UK Albums Chart. It sold more copies than any other album in the UK in 2009.

She has had two no. 1 albums in the United States.

Personal life
Boyle was born at Bangour General Hospital in Blackburn, West Lothian, She is youngest daughter of Patrick Boyle and his wife, She have four brothers and five sisters by her family.

She has lived in the same council house in Blackburn, West Lothian, Scotland all her life. She has a cat named Pebbles. Boyle's autobiography, The Woman I Was Born to Be: My Story, was published in 2010. She was diagnosed with Asperger syndrome in 2012. She is a Roman Catholic.
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1961 births
Living people
British Roman Catholics
Scottish Christians
Scottish singers
People from West Lothian
"Beat It" is a song by singer Michael Jackson. It was produced by Jackson and Quincy Jones. It is on his sixth album, Thriller (1982). It was released as the album's third single on February 14, 1983. There is also a music video for the song. The song has a guitar solo by Eddie Van Halen. He chose to make the guitar solo without getting paid. It got the Grammy Award for Record of the Year and Best Male Rock Vocal Performance in 1984.

"Beat It" was number one on the Billboard Hot 100 for three weeks. Billboard said it was one of the top five songs of 1983. The song is certified platinum by the RIAA. Over 11 million copies of the song have been sold. It is one of the best-selling singles ever made. "Beat It" was number one on music charts in many countries, such as Spain, Canada, New Zealand, and the Netherlands.
The song also has a music video. It shows Jackson stopping two gangs from fighting each other, and then dancing with them. The video was very popular. It helped make Jackson a pop icon. Many people say the song and video were important for pop culture.

"Weird Al" Yankovic made a parody of the song called "Eat It". Fall Out Boy covered the song with John Mayer on their 2008 album Folie à Deux.

Production 
Jackson made a demo version of the song at his house. Other people that made music helped him make it. The drum sounds for the song were made on a drum machine. The bass guitar sounds for the song were made using a bass guitar and a keyboard. This style of making bass guitar sounds was used in the main song. Jermaine Jackson has said the song was inspired by things that happened when the Jackson family lived in Gary, Indiana.

Guitar solo
Guitar solo 

Jackson and Jones asked Eddie Van Halen, the main guitar player for Van Halen, to make a guitar solo for the song. Van Halen recorded the guitar solo for free. He said that he did it "as a favor". The rest of the band thought he should have asked for money, but he did not want to. Van Halen recorded the guitar solo after Jones and Jackson came to his house. Two versions of the guitar solo were made. In 2015, Van Halen said he also changed the song so that his solo was in the key of E.

When Van Halen was recording the solo, a loudspeaker started burning. Because of this, one of the people recording the music said "This must be really good!" Van Halen later said that working with Jackson was one of the best moments in his career.

Track listing 
"Beat It" was released as a single. It was released on 7-inch and 12-inch vinyl records.

References 

Michael Jackson songs
Fergie (singer) songs
1983 songs