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# The Bricklayers (1905 film)

The Bricklayers (French: Les Maçons) is a French silent film released in 1905. It is directed by Alice Guy, an often overlooked pioneer in the French film industry who was the first woman to direct a film. The film was made during Guy's time working for Gaumont Film Company. It features Les O'Mers acrobatic pantomime troupe and is inspired by 1902 Les Cambrioleurs modernes (Up-to-Date Burglars).

## Synopsis

Two policemen pass near a scaffolding on which bricklayers are working. The construction workers manage to pour plaster all over the unsuspecting patrolmen. Was it deliberate or an accident? A reprimand follows but the police let it go and decide to order a drink from the neighboring bar. They officers steal the bottle from the bartender, but the masons in turn, steal it from them. This brings more scuffling between the workers and the officers. A chase around the scaffolding ensues.
The film may be a loose remake of Les Cambrioleurs modernes (1902) starring Les Omer's, which reproduced the James Price troupe's pantomime from the operetta Le Papa de Francine (Victor de Cottens et Paul Gavault, 1896). Price's troupe starred in the 1907 remake of Path's 1902 film. The officers of The Bricklayers were dressed in English bobby uniforms perhaps in an attempt to disguise the origins of the story. In 1908, Pathé Frères was subsequently sued for copyright infringement for his remake of Cambrioleur modernes. Imitation was common at the time, this lawsuit brought an awareness as to how much one can legally imitate and adapt from other mediums.

## Film Production

Production Company: Société des Établissements L. Gaumont
Genre: Comic Scene
License: Public domain
Cast: Les O'Mers acrobatic pantomime group
# The Archies (album)

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The Archies is the debut studio album by The Archies, a fictional bubblegum pop band from Archie Comics. It was produced by Jeff Barry, co-produced by Don Kirshner and released on the Calendar Records label in 1968. The album includes the band's debut single, "Bang-Shang-A-Lang", which peaked at No. 22 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. The song "Seventeen Ain't Young" became a Top 40 hit in Australia for Frank Howson. The album peaked at No. 88 on the Billboard 200 chart.

## Personnel

* Ron Dante – vocals
* Gary Chester – drums
* Dave Appell – guitars
* Joey Macho – bass guitar
* Ron Frangipane – keyboards

## Charts

Album
| Year | Chart | Peak Position |
| 1968 | Billboard Top LPs | 88 |
Singles
| Year | Single | Chart | Peak Position |
| 1968 | "Bang-Shang-A-Lang" | Billboard Hot 100 | 22 |
# The Arches

The Arches may mean:
* The Arches (Glasgow), a former theatre, arts venue and nightclub in Glasgow
* The Arches (London nightclub), a nightclub in London
* The Arches (Sheffield nightclub), a nightclub in Sheffield
* The Arches is a location in the fictional borough of Walford, in the BBC soap opera EastEnders.
* The Arches Provincial Park, a public park on the western coastline of Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada
* A nickname for McDonald's, a fast food chain
# The Archers (album)

The Archers was the first nationally released major label album for The Archers. Originally released as Any Day Now in 1972 on their independent Charisma Records label, it garnered the group almost immediate national attention and launched them on to the national stage. Issued before radio charts for Jesus music or Contemporary Christian music were established, it included the hits, "Life In Jesus", "Jesus Is The Answer" and "God's Love".
On the strength of the album, The Archers appeared at Explo '72 in the summer of that year, and on to other major concert appearances at Madison Square Garden, the Arie Crown Theater in Chicago's McCormack Place and the Jesus Joy festival in following months. The John T. Benson Company bought Charisma Records later that year, signing the group to their first recording contract, resulting in the album's retitled release.

## Track listing

* "God's Love" (Billy Rush Masters)
* "I've A Friend" (Masters)
* "Put On Jesus" (Masters)
* "Life In Jesus" (Stipe)
* "It Won't Be Long" (Andrae Crouch)
* "As Long As I Know" (Nancye Short)
* "Basically Roamin'" (Masters)
* "Jesus Is The Answer" (Crouch)
* "God's Throne" (Archer)
* "For Me For You" (Masters)

## Personnel

* Billy Rush Masters – guitar
* Tim "Jake" Jaquette – bass
* Tim Short – drums
* Tim Johnson – keyboards
* The Philharmonic – orchestration
* Gary Archer – producer
* Ami Hadami (TTG Recording Studios) – engineer
* Bob McConnell – art direction
* Bill Grine – cover photography
# The Bewties Of The Fute-ball

   Brissit brawnis and brokin banis, Stride, discord and waistie wanis. Crukit in eild syne halt withal, Thir are the bewties of the fute-ball.
The Bewties Of The Fute-ball is a brief, anonymous Middle Scots poem of the sixteenth century. It depicts the game of medieval football, as it was played in the same era, as being violent and unruly.

## Historical context

Ball games played between opposing teams were widespread in pre-modern Europe. Many localities are known to have had a variety including the Calcio of Florence and La Soule of northern France
In Scotland, football games were common enough for the Scottish Parliament to attempt to outlaw them on several occasions. An act of 1457, under James II, is typical. The act was principally intended to encourage archery practice but decreed that football, and also golf, should be simultaneously discouraged.
    Item. It is ordanyt and decretyt that Wapinschawing be haldin be the lordis and baronys spirituale and temporale four tymes in the yeir. And that the futebawe and the golf be uterly cryt done and not usyt.
or in translation,
    Item. It is ordained and decreed that weapon shows be held by the Lords and Barons, Spiritual and Temporal, four times a year and that football and golf be utterly cried down and not used.
Despite these bans, in 16th-century Perth apprentices progressing to become master craftsmen traditionally had to pay for a banquet and hold a football match. Several ball games which appear to predate the modern era exist in modern Scotland. The Kirkwall Ba Game is an example.

## The text

The Bewties Of The Fute-ball is preserved only in the Maitland Folio Manuscript of the latter sixteenth century. It consists of two pairs of rhyming couplets and it is attributed to no author.
    Brissit brawnis and brokin banis,
    Stride, discord and waistie wanis.
    Crukit in eild syne halt withal,
    Thir are the bewties of the fute-ball.
In Modern Scots:
    Birsed brawns an breuken banes,
    Stride, discord an wastie hames.
    Creukit in eild syne haut withaw,
    Thir are the beauties o the fitbaw.
The poem might be translated into modern English as,
    Torn muscles and broken bones,
    Strife, discord and impoverished homes.
    Stooping in old age then lameness too,
    Those are the beauties of football.
It is not clear whether the poem is genuinely criticising the game for its roughness or praising it ironically for the same reason.
# The Captain (magazine)

The Captain was a magazine featuring stories and articles for "boys and old boys", published monthly in the United Kingdom from 1899 to 1924. Its headquarters were in London. It is perhaps best known for printing many of P. G. Wodehouse's early school stories.
The magazine was established in April 1899 by publisher George Newnes, with R. S. Warren Bell as its first editor. Authors who contributed to The Captain include P. G. Wodehouse, F. C. Selous, Bertram Mitford, C. B. Fry (the Athletic Editor), Edward Step, Dr Gordon Stables, Harold Avery, E. H. D. Sewell, and Charles Gilson. Artists who provided illustrations include Tom Browne, Paul Hardy, Alfred Pearse, and John Hassall.
The editor Warren Bell's brother, John Keble Bell, also contributed under the pen name Keble Howard. Howard suggested turning the magazine into a pure athletics magazine, aiming at an undergraduate audience, but Warren Bell decided against the idea.
Some of the school stories by Wodehouse published in the magazine were featured in the collection Tales of St. Austin's (1903). The magazine also serialised several early novels by Wodehouse, including Jackson Junior and The Lost Lambs, which were later combined to form the book Mike (1909), and introduced to the world Wodehouse's enduringly popular character, Psmith.
Frank Swinnerton (1938) says of The Captain: "It was a good magazine, and there was nothing pious in it about prayers and such disagreeables, but stories and articles fit to be read by the self-respecting of tender years."
A bibliography, history and index has been compiled by Chris Harte.
# The Cat's Whisker

The Cat's Whisker was a coffee bar situated at 1 Kingly Street, Soho, London, during the mid-late 1950s. It offered London youngsters Spanish dancing, live rock 'n roll, and skiffle.
It saw the invention of a new style of 'dancing' known as hand-jive, dancing using hand gestures only as there was no space to maneuver in the crowded basement. The venue was closed in 1958, owing to overcrowding.

## History

The Cat's Whisker coffee bar was started by entrepreneur Peter Evans, and was one of the first to have a jukebox. It was located in the middle of Soho at the corner of Kingly Street and Beak Street, between Carnaby Street and Regent Street, around the corner from the toy store Hamleys. It attracted large crowds, including ice skating champions, international rugby players, journalists and students, for espresso (priced at a shilling per cup) and music. The venue was situated in the heart of theatreland, and catered for diners before or after the theatre.
In 1956, Evans hired Hank Huffner to refurbish the bar's cellar as an exclusive 'live' venue. The L-shaped cellar had primitive paintings of cats chasing mice on the walls and six stone cats as light-sources round the walls. The basement was exclusive, there being no indication of its existence on the ground floor.
At first, the cellar had the feel of "Hernando's Hideaway", with regular performances from guitarist Jose Feller and dancer Carmen Ballisteras, formerly with the Ballet Espagnol de Pilar Lopez.
Together with The 2i's Coffee Bar, The Cat's Whisker later spearheaded the nascent pop scene, with appearances by 'before-they-were-famous' musicians like Cliff Richard, Lonnie Donegan, Terry Dene, Tommy Steele, guitarist Barry Warren, the Chas McDevitt Skiffle Group and other artists who dropped by to unwind after working the nearby nightspots Churchill's, the Bag O'Nails, Coconut Grove, Cabaret and Eve. Like Feller and Ballisteras, the musicians were generally "paid with coffee and Cokes". The place was reputed to be the largest seller of Coca-Cola in Britain at the time.
Freelance photographer Ken Russell, in his pre-film director days, captured the 'energy and excitement' of this night life in Soho for Picture Post and these atmospheric images resurfaced in the Soho Nights exhibition by The Photographers' Gallery, London, December 2008 – February 2009. Russell recalls: "I remember the atmosphere was very jolly. So I made a number of visits to the Cat's Whisker. Cliff Richard used to appear there. I used to join in the hand-jiving."
When the police closed down The Cat's Whisker because of overcrowding in 1958, Evans opened the first of the Angus Steak Houses at this venue, before later starting the London-based David Hicks–decorated restaurant chain that bore his own name, Peter Evans Eating Houses, and the upmarket Raffles night club in King's Road, Chelsea.
As of 2009, The Cat's Whisker had been replaced by the Korean restaurant Myung Ga.
# The Capital Hearings

The Capital Hearings is a vocal ensemble based in Washington, D.C. The ensemble is known for performing a cappella music from a variety of styles, including classical choral works, vocal jazz, American folk songs, and contemporary pop.
The ensemble originated in 2010 as a spin-off from the Choral Arts Society of Washington. It has performed at venues throughout the Washington, D.C. area, including the Kennedy Center, Strathmore, the Phillips Collection, the BlackRock Center for the Arts, and the Atlas Performing Arts Center, in addition to producing its own regular concerts.
The ensemble received early attention when it performed flashmobs at an event on Capitol Hill and for a marriage proposal at Spike Mendelsohn's Good Stuff Eatery. Its debut album, Opening Statement, was nominated for several Contemporary A Cappella Recording (CARA) Awards and was selected as an Album of the Year for 2013 by the Recorded A Cappella Review Board (RARB). More recently, the ensemble participated in performances of a work honoring Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

## Discography

* 2013 - Opening Statement
* 2017 - When The Night Is New
* 2020 - Holidays with The Capital Hearings
# The Book of Wonder

The Book of Wonder is the seventh book and fifth original short story collection of Irish fantasy writer Lord Dunsany, considered a major influence on the work of J. R. R. Tolkien, H. P. Lovecraft, Ursula K. Le Guin, and others. It was first published in hardcover by William Heinemann in November 1912, and has been reprinted a number of times since. A 1918 edition from the Modern Library was actually a combined edition with Time and the Gods.

## Contents

The book collects fourteen fantasy short stories by the author.
Lord Dunsany employed the talents of Sidney Sime to illustrate his fantasy short story collections, but The Book of Wonder is unique in that Sime drew the illustrations first, and Lord Dunsany wrote the tales to incorporate them:
   'I found Mr Sime one day, in his strange house at Worplesdon, complaining that editors did not offer him very suitable subjects for illustration; so I said: "Why not do any pictures you like, and I will write stories explaining them, which may add a little to their mystery?"'
Of the 14 tales, only the last two ("Chu-Bu and Sheemish" and "The Wonderful Window") were not derived from a Sime drawing.

### Gnolls

The short story "How Nuth Would Have Practised His Art upon the Gnoles" is likely the origin of the term gnoll, used in a number of later works, notably the Dungeons and Dragons gaming franchise, to describe a humanoid fantasy race.

## Chapters

* "Preface"
* "The Bride of the Man-Horse"
* "The Distressing Tale of Thangobrind the Jeweller, and of the Doom that Befell Him"
* "The House of the Sphinx"
* "The Probable Adventure of the Three Literary Men"
* "The Injudicious Prayers of Pombo the Idolator"
* "The Loot of Bombasharna"
* "Miss Cubbidge and the Dragon of Romance"
* "The Quest of the Queen's Tears"
* "The Hoard of the Gibbelins"
* "How Nuth Would Have Practised His Art upon the Gnoles"
* "How One Came, as Was Foretold, to the City of Never"
* "The Coronation of Mr. Thomas Shap"
* "Chu-Bu and Sheemish"
* "The Wonderful Window"
* "Epilogue"

## Reception

Padraic Colum reviewed The Book of Wonder for the Irish Times, using "The Wonderful Window" as a metaphor for Dunsany himself. He described the main character of Dunsany's previous stories as Time, and his world as "curiously elementary", full of simple and terrible happenings. However, he noted that though the new stories in The Book of Wonder were less marvellous, they were more closely related to the real world and more psychologically complex.
# The Claws of the Hun

The Claws of the Hun is a 1918 American silent drama film directed by Victor Schertzinger and written by Ella Stuart Carson and R. Cecil Smith. The film stars Charles Ray, Jane Novak, Robert McKim, Dorcas Matthews, Melbourne MacDowell, and Mollie McConnell. The film was released on June 30, 1918, by Paramount Pictures.

## Plot

A propaganda film about a bad agent trying to find the secret formula for an explosive.

## Cast

* Charles Ray as John Stanton
* Jane Novak as Virginia Lee
* Robert McKim as Alfred Werner
* Dorcas Matthews as Muriel Charters
* Melbourne MacDowell as Godfrey Stanton
* Mollie McConnell as Mrs. Godfrey Stanton
* Henry A. Barrows

## Reception

Like many American films of the time, The Claws of the Hun was subject to cuts by city and state film censorship boards. For example, the Chicago Board of Censors cut, in Reel 5, scene of man's hand in press, three scenes of man turning press, and shooting the American boy.
# The Bride Stripped Bare

The Bride Stripped Bare may refer to:
* The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Even (La mariée mise à nu par ses célibataires, même), most often called The Large Glass, an artwork by Marcel Duchamp
* The Bride Stripped Bare (album), a 1978 album by Bryan Ferry
* The Bride Stripped Bare (novel), a 2003 novel written by the Australian writer Nikki Gemmell, originally published anonymously
* "The Bride Stripped Bare," a track on the 1969 Bonzo Dog Band album Keynsham
* "The Bride Stripped Bare," a track on the 2007 Shriekback album Glory Bumps
# The Confederates

The Confederates were a barbershop quartet that performed in the 1950s and 1960s.
The group formed in September 1953 at a SPEBSQSA chapter meeting in Memphis, Tennessee. They consisted of:
* George Evans – tenor
* Dave LaBonte – lead
* Bill "Buz" Busby – baritone
* Wally Singleton – bass
The Confederates took first place in the 1956 SPEBSQSA International Quartet Championship after finishing second the year before. They were notable not only for their championship-caliber harmonies, but also for performing in Confederate officer uniforms.
The group stopped performing in 1969.

## Discography

* Confederate Encores in Hi-Fi (1963; LP)

## Notable songs

* "Save Your Confederate Money Boys, The South Shall Rise Again"
* "Creole Cutie"
* "Down Where the South Begins"
* "Chloe"
* "Red Head"
* "A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square"
# The City (Koontz novel)

The City is a horror novel by American author Dean Koontz, first published in 2014. The book blends suspense, mystery, and supernatural elements, telling the story of Jonah Kirk, a musical prodigy, and his life experiences in a changing world.

## Plot

The City is set against the backdrop of New York City, portrayed as an anthropomorphic character. The narrative follows Jonah Kirk from his childhood into adulthood, focusing on significant events that shape his life and those around him. The story addresses profound questions about fate, free will, the essence of a city, and the boundaries of love and forgiveness. The protagonist, Jonah Kirk, tells the story in a first-person narrative, looking back at his life starting when he was eight years old. The book introduces readers to Jonah's complex family dynamics, his early recognition as a musical prodigy, and his encounters with various characters that deeply influence his life.

## Characters

* Jonah Kirk: The central character, a musical prodigy whose life and moral compass are central to the narrative.
* Sylvia: Jonah's mother, an accomplished vocalist and nightclub singer.
* Teddy: Jonah's grandfather, a piano player who plays a significant role in Jonah's upbringing.
* Pearl: A mysterious woman who claims to be the city and imparts crucial knowledge to Jonah about his abilities and future.
* Other characters, including Mr. Yoshioka, Malcolm, and Amalia, contribute significantly to the story, each playing a unique role in Jonah's life and the unfolding events.

## Publication

The book was published on July 1, 2014, by Bantam Books, and available in hardcover, paperback, e-book, and audiobook formats. It includes a bonus short story titled The Neighbor, also by Dean Koontz.

## Reception

The City received mixed reviews, with some critics praising its writing style and setting, while others critiqued the narrative and certain aspects of the characters. Kirkus Reviews criticized the "cardboard cut-out antagonists" and predictable action, while praising its setting, describing the book as "passable". John M. Wills of the New York Review of Books wrote that "above all else it is a wonderful trip back in time when life was simpler and children were largely innocent." Publishers Weekly gave the book a mostly negative review, writing that it "offers airy optimistic passages that won't persuade anyone acquainted with the harder side of life to always look on the bright side of it."
# The Dawn of Shockabilly

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The Dawn of Shockabilly is an EP by Shockabilly, released in 1982 by Rough Trade Records.

## Personnel

Adapted from The Dawn of Shockabilly liner notes.

## Release history

| Region | Date | Label | Format | Catalog |
| United Kingdom | 1982 | Rough Trade | LP | RT 120T |
# The Discovery of America by the Turks

The Discovery of America by the Turks (Portuguese: A Descoberta da América pelos Turcos) is a Brazilian Modernist novel. It was written by Jorge Amado in 1994 but not published in English until 2012. Amado tells how, in 1991, he was approached by an organization in Italy to write a story to celebrate the fifth centennial of the discovery of the American continent. This would be published in a book, together with stories by Norman Mailer and Carlos Fuentes, which would be handed out to passengers flying between Italy and Central, North and South America in 1992, the year of the fifth centennial. Amado submitted The Discovery of America by the Turks but the Italian book was never published, leaving Amado free to publish the 77-page story as a separate volume.
The novel itself was based on a chapter prepared and subsequently rejected by Amado for an earlier novel, Showdown. As a postscript to The Discovery of America by the Turks, his wife, Zélia Gattai, describes how she rescued the rejected manuscript from the trash can and saved it.
The two leading characters of the book are, in fact, from Syria and Lebanon. The word Turk was used generically in Brazil to refer to Arabs. According to Amado this stemmed from the fact that the earliest arrivals to Brazil from the Middle East carried papers issued by the Ottoman Empire. Raduan Murad and Jamil Bichara arrived in Brazil on the same ship in 1903 and maintained a friendship even though Raduan remained near the Bahia coast at Itabuna, a thriving cocoa center, while Jamil headed inland to work first as a cocoa buyer and then to operate a small store. The story revolves around the attempts of Raduan to persuade his friend to marry the unattractive daughter of another friend, Ibrahim, with a share of Ibrahim's store as the reward. In a foreword to the novel, José Saramago describes it as a "Brazilian picaresque", where people "think only of fornicating, of piling up money and lovers, and of drinking bouts".