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Empress Xiaocigao (Qing dynasty)

Empress Xiaocigao (1575 – 31 October 1603), of the Manchu Yehe Nara clan, personal name Monggo Jerjer, was a consort of Nurhaci. She was 16 years his junior.

Life

Family background
 Father: Yangginu (; d. 1584), held the title of a third rank prince ()
 Paternal grandfather: Taicu (), held the title of a third rank prince ()
 Paternal uncle: Cinggiyanu (; d. 1584), held the title of a third rank prince (), the father of Bujai (d. 1593)
 Two elder brothers
 First elder brother: Narimbulu (; d. 1609), held the title of a third rank prince ()
 Second elder brother: Gintaisi (d. 1619), held the title of a third rank prince ()

Wanli era
In October or November 1588, Lady Yehe Nara married Nurhaci, becoming one of his multiple wives. On 28 November 1592, she gave birth to Nurhaci's eighth son, Hong Taiji. Lady Yehe Nara died on 31 October 1603.

Chongde era
On 16 May 1636, after Hong Taiji established the Qing dynasty, Lady Yehe Nara was posthumously elevated to "Empress Xiaociwu".

Kangxi era
In 1662, Lady Yehe Nara's posthumous title was changed from "Empress Xiaociwu" to "Empress Xiaocigao", reflecting her status as a consort of Nurhaci (Emperor Gao).

Titles
 During the reign of the Wanli Emperor (r. 1572–1620):
 Lady Yehe Nara (from 1575)
 Secondary consort (; from October/November 1588)
 Primary consort ()
 During the reign of Hong Taiji (r. 1626–1643):
 Empress Xiaociwu (; from 16 May 1636)
 During the reign of the Kangxi Emperor (r. 1661–1722):
 Empress Xiaocigao (; from 1662)

Issue
 As secondary consort:
 Hong Taiji (; 28 November 1592 – 21 September 1643), Nurhaci's eighth son, enthroned on 20 October 1626

In fiction and popular culture
 Portrayed by Mak Tsui-han in The Rise and Fall of Qing Dynasty (1987)
 Portrayed by Shi Xiaoqun in Taizu Mishi (2005)

See also
 
 Royal and noble ranks of the Qing dynasty

Notes

References
 
 
 
 

1575 births
1603 deaths
Xiaocigao, Empress
Jurchens in Ming dynasty
16th-century Chinese women
16th-century Chinese people
17th-century Chinese women
17th-century Chinese people
De Arte Gladiatoria Dimicandi

De Arte Gladiatoria Dimicandi was written by Italian fencing master Filippo Vadi between 1482 and 1487. It consists of an opening prologue describing the art of fencing followed by colored plates illustrating specific techniques for the longsword, dagger, pollaxe, spear and club. While much of what he describes closely follows the work of Fiore dei Liberi, author of Flos Duellatorum, Vadi's work also differs in some respects, including his footwork and several original techniques of his own.

Little is known about the author, a native of Pisa, other than that he appears to have been a mid to late 15th-century fencing master linked in some way to the tradition of Fiore dei Liberi and that he dedicated a fencing book to the Dukes of Urbino, in the last quarter of the 15th century. However, a man of the same name appears as a governor of Reggio under the Estense family in the mid- to late 15th century. The book was dedicated to Duke Guidobaldo da Montefeltro (the same duke who plays a central role in Castiglione's Book of the Courtier) and kept in the library of the Dukes of Urbino.

See also
 Italian school of swordsmanship

References

Further reading
 Vadi, Filippo.  De Arte Gladiatoria Dimicandi. translated by Luca Porzio and Gregory Mele 
 Filippo Vadi, L'arte cavalleresca del combattimento, Italian Publication by Marco Rubboli and Luca Cesari, Il Cerchio - Gli Archi, 
 Guy Windsor Veni Vadi Vici: a transcription, translation and commentary on Philippo Vadi’s De Arte Gladiatoria Dimicandi (2013)

External links
 Summary and Text of Prologue

1480s books
Combat treatises
Hutton, Cumbria

Hutton is a small civil parish about  west of Penrith in the English county of Cumbria.  The parish contains the small mansion and former pele tower of Hutton John, the seat of the Hudleston family.

At the UK census 2011 the parish had a population of 438.

The parish of Hutton was created in 1934 from the merger of Hutton John and Hutton Soil parishes, both of which were formerly part of the original ecclesiastical and civil parish of Greystoke.  The parish also includes the larger village of Penruddock and the hamlets of Troutbeck and Beckces.  Whitbarrow holiday village is also within the parish.  Administratively, Hutton forms part of Eden District. It has a parish council, the lowest tier of local government.

Listed buildings

There are 13 listed buildings in the parish. Hutton John, mentioned above, is Grade I and the remainder are Grade II.

References

External links
 Cumbria County History Trust: Hutton John (nb: provisional research only – see Talk page)
 Cumbria County History Trust: Hutton Soil (nb: provisional research only – see Talk page)

 
Hamlets in Cumbria
Civil parishes in Cumbria
Eden District
Brønshøj

Brønshøj, part of the municipality of Copenhagen, forms, together with Husum, the administrative city district (bydel) of Brønshøj-Husum, in Denmark.

History
The first mention of the village Brønshøj (Brunshoga), is in a letter dated October 21, 1186 from Pope Urban III to Archbishop Absalon. Brønshøj Church dates from approximately the same time.

In 1658-1660, during The Northern Wars, the village and its immediate surroundings were transformed into a military fortress and town, named Carlstad by the Swedish Army under the command of King Karl X Gustav. This town supported the Swedish siege of Copenhagen. The population reached c. 30,000, which was the same as that of Copenhagen itself. The siege ended on the death of Karl X Gustav, 13 February 1660. Evidence of the fortifications cannot be found in the landscape today, though many artifacts have been uncovered. Artifacts and models of Carlstad and the events surrounding its creation are found at Brønshøj Museum.

During the late part of the 19th century and early part of the 20th century the rural village developed into a suburb of the growing metropolis of Copenhagen. In 1901, Brønshøj, together with several of the neighboring villages, was incorporated into the municipality of Copenhagen. Brønshøj contains some important examples of Danish housing types. In 1899, the cooperative housing area of Enigheden was begun as worker housing for the local dairy: this was followed in 1923 by the English Garden Village. In the 1950s, Denmark's first significant high-rise housing was built at Bellahøj. The great Danish landscape architect C.Th. Sørensen lived in one of the penthouses, known as rooftop villas, until his death. C.Th. Sørensen and architect Steen Eiler Rasmussen also planned the housing area Tingbjerg (near Utterslev Mose) between the late 1950s and early 1970s, and was constructed on the English architectural concept (of the times) of having a village within the city.

Topography and Transport
Brønshøj lies on rising ground 4 km west of Copenhagen center and is bordered by the large wetland area of Utterslev Mose and Tingbjerg to the north. A number of ponds, lakes, and parks characterise Brønshøj. On its eastern edge, the ridgeline of Bellahøj provides extensive views over Copenhagen.

Today, Brønshøj is not served by the S-train and Metro networks, but the City bus connects the area to the core of Copenhagen, which can be reached within 20 minutes by car, bus or bicycle. In the most significant current development, small workshops, car lots and other single-storey buildings are being demolished and replaced with new housing blocks, often over shops, along Brønshøj's main street, Frederiksundsvej.  However, the area maintains a distinctive character generated by its topography, parks, and housing architecture.

Sport
Brønshøj Boldklub play at the Tingbjerg Idrætspark.

External links 
 Brønshøj Museum
 Brønshøj - from village to large suburb (fra landsby til storbyforstad) (in Danish)

Brønshøj-Husum
Copenhagen city districts
Palm Pictures

Palm Pictures is a US-based entertainment company owned and run by Chris Blackwell. Palm Pictures produces, acquires and distributes music and film projects with a particular focus on the DVD-Video format. Palm places an emphasis on such projects as music documentaries, arthouse, foreign cinema and music videos. Palm Pictures' entertainment properties include a film division, a music label, sputnik7.com, epitonic.com, Arthouse Films and RES Media Group, publisher of RES magazine.

Palm Pictures has its own customised content channel on Audiotube.

Film titles 
Films distributed by Palm Pictures include:

See also Directors Label.

Music artists
Artists released/distributed by Palm Pictures include:

See also
 List of record labels
 List of jungle and drum n bass record labels

External links
 – official site

American record labels
Drum and bass record labels
Film distributors of the United States
World music record labels
Derek Roe

Derek Arthur Roe (31 August 1937 – 24 September 2014) was a British archaeologist most famous for his work on the Palaeolithic period.

Roe was born in St Leonards-on-Sea, Sussex and grew up in Kent.

Educated at St Edward's School in Oxford, he undertook his National Service with the Royal Sussex Regiment and the Intelligence Corps in Berlin. He went on to study Archaeology and Anthropology at Peterhouse, Cambridge, graduating with first-class honours in 1961. Whilst studying for his PhD he became a lecturer at Oxford University. There, he set up the Donald Baden-Powell Quaternary Research Centre which opened in 1975. In 1997, he became Professor of Palaeolithic Archaeology at Oxford.

He excavated at many seminal Palaeolithic sites including Kalambo Falls and Olduvai Gorge as well as producing a gazetteer of British Middle and Lower Palaeolithic sites. He also played a key role in the autobiography of Mary Leakey.

He married Fiona Greig, a fellow archaeologist, and had two children. After their divorce, he married Sarah Milliken, an archaeologist and landscape architect.

Roe died of cancer on 24 September 2014 after a short illness.

References

Sources

Milliken, S, and J Cook (eds) (2001). A Very Remote Period Indeed. Papers on the Palaeolithic presented to Derek Roe, Oxford: Oxbow. .

1937 births
2014 deaths
Alumni of Peterhouse, Cambridge
Academics of the University of Oxford
British archaeologists
People from Hastings
Adirondack Life

Adirondack Life is a bi-monthly magazine based in Jay, New York that covers the Adirondack region of the state. It has been published since 1969 when it began as a supplement to a Warrensburg, New York newspaper.

Articles are primarily oriented towards features on the history and culture of the region, as well as recreational opportunities. The magazine also runs an annual photography contest and publishes the winning entries both in the magazine itself and on its website. It also publishes and sells annual wall and engagement calendars.

References

External links
Magazine's website

Adirondacks
Bimonthly magazines published in the United States
Local interest magazines published in the United States
Magazines established in 1969
Magazines published in New York (state)
Newspaper supplements
Wings (Kuzmin novel)

Wings () was the first Russian novel centred on homosexuality. Written by Mikhail Kuzmin, it was printed in 1906 to the consternation of a conservative literary establishment.

Plot
The novel deals with teenager Vanya Smurov's attachment to his older, urbane mentor, Larion Stroop, a pederast who initiates him into the world of early Renaissance, Classical and Romantic art. At the close of the first part, Vanya is shocked to learn that the object of his admiration frequents a gay bathhouse. In order to sort out his feelings, Vanya withdraws into the Volga countryside, but his sickening experience with rural women, whose call on him to enjoy his youth turns out to be an awkward attempt at seduction, induces Vanya to accept his Classics teacher's proposal and accompany him in a journey to Italy. In the last part of the novel, Vanya and Stroop, who is also in Italy, are seen enjoying the smiling climate and stunning artworks of Florence and Rome, while Prince Orsini mentors the delicate youth in the art of hedonism.

Reception 
The novel, partly based on Kuzmin's experience of travelling to Italy in 1897, is full of conversation in the Platonic vein; the title itself alludes to Phaedrus. Although the book was competently written in an elegant style all its own, its reputation has been dogged by scandal.

Kuzmin was one of the first writers in modern Europe to argue that homosexuality "was not immoral or ungodly, but morally distinctive, ethically sanctioned, and even at times spiritually superior, a matter not of decadent immoralism but the personal creation of values".

The central theme of aestheticized sensuality has spawned comparisons of Wings with contemporary works by Oscar Wilde and André Gide, which cover similar thematic territory. Nevertheless Kuzmin was probably the first literary figure of some standing to approve same-sex love in print:

"Wilde in The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890) only hinted that his hero's inner corruption resulted from his suppression of his true nature; Gide did not dare to name the attraction of his hero in The Immoralist (1902); Proust felt impelled to engage in all manner of subterfuge, and Forster wrote Maurice for the desk drawer."

Vladimir Nabokov parodied Kuzmin's novel in his own short novel The Eye, using "Smurov" as the name of a male protagonist and "Vanya" of a female one.

References 

1906 Russian novels
Russian LGBT novels
Novels with gay themes
Works originally published in Russian magazines
1900s LGBT novels
Philip L. Clarke

Philip Lewis Clarke (September 8, 1938 – April 23, 2013) was an American voice actor.

He provided voices in several TV series, films, and video games, including his leading role as Malcolm Betruger in Doom 3.

Roles

 Oliver Twist - Additional Voices
 Devlin - Additional Voices
 Scooby-Doo and Scrappy-Doo
 Cataclysm - Additional Voices
 The Man Who Saw Tomorrow - Nostradamus
 The Smurfs - Additional Voices
 Spider-Man - Sidewinder/Wild Willie Wilson
 Meatballs and Spaghetti - Additional Voices
 The New Scooby-Doo and Scrappy-Doo Show - Additional Voices
 The Dukes - Additional Voices
 Challenge of the GoBots - Dr. Go, Tork
 Pole Position - Additional Voices
 CBS Storybreak - Additional Voices
 Starchaser: The Legend of Orin - Additional Voices
 GoBots: Battle of the Rock Lords - Herr Fiend, Crackpot, Tork
 The Transformers - Dead End, Tantrum, Auggie Cahnay, Abdul Fakkadi, Victor Drath, Marty Minkler, Ozu's sensei, Zeta Prime
 G.I. Joe - Matthew Burke
 Wildfire - Lord Sampson
 The Chipmunk Adventure - Additional Voices
 DuckTales - Additional Voices
 The Chipmunks - Additional Voices
 Popeye and Son - Additional Voices
 Inhumanoids - Harry Slattery/Dirty Beggar Sorcerer
 The Super Mario Bros. Super Show! - Computer
 The Little Mermaid - Sailor #3
 The Rescuers Down Under - Mouse at Rescue Aid Society, Mice at the Restaurant
 Beauty and the Beast - Male Villager
 An American Tail: Fievel Goes West - Male Mice
 Aladdin - Guards
 The Pirates of Dark Water - Additional Voices
 Cyberia - Additional Voices
 The Lion King - Hyenas
 The Pebble and the Penguin - King
 Skeleton Warriors - Baron Dark
 Adventures in Odyssey - Additional Voices
 The Hunchback of Notre Dame - Frollo's Soldiers
 The Fantastic Voyages of Sinbad the Sailor - Additional Voices
 Quest for Camelot - Ruber's Minions

Video games

References

External links
 

2013 deaths
American male voice actors
American male video game actors
20th-century American male actors
21st-century American male actors
1938 births
Cascadia Con

Cascadia Con was the eighth North American Science Fiction Convention, held in SeaTac, Washington, on September 1–5, 2005, at the Seattle Airport Hilton and Conference Center.  This NASFiC was held because Glasgow, Scotland, was selected as the location for the 2005 Worldcon.

Guests of honor
 Fred Saberhagen, writer (unable to attend due to illness)
 Liz Danforth, artist
 Kevin Standlee, fan
 Marc Abrahams, science
 Toni Weisskopf, editor
 Uffington Horse, special filk guest
 Hiroaki Inoue, anime
 Harry Harrison, special author guest (unable to attend due to illness)

Information

Events
 The first American showing of Charlie Jade was presented at Cascadia Con by Jeffrey Pierce and Robert Wertheimer.
 Trailers of Robotech: The Shadow Chronicles were first shown at Cascadia Con, presented by Chase Masterson.
 John and Bjo Trimble, with Marah Searle-Kovacevic, hosted a wake for James Doohan.

Heinlein Award
The Heinlein Award was presented by the Heinlein Society to Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle.

Site selection
After the "UK in 2005" bid was selected, essentially unopposed, as the World Science Fiction Convention to be held in 2005 (as "Interaction" in Glasgow, Scotland, the WSFS Business Meeting directed that a written ballot election be held at , the 2003 Worldcon in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, to select a NASFiC site for 2005.  The Seattle bid won by "5 or 6" votes out of the roughly 400 cast.

At Cascadia Con, St. Louis won the vote for the 9th North American Science Fiction Convention in 2007. This is only the second time which a NASFiC site selection vote has been held at a NASFiC.

Notable program participants

 Marc Abrahams
 Heather Alexander
 C. J. Cherryh
 Julie Czerneda
 William C. Dietz
 Jane Fancher
 Sheila Finch
 Michael F. Flynn
 Robin Hobb
 Chase Masterson
 Larry Niven
 Diana L. Paxson
 John Pelan
 Jerry Pournelle
 Kristine Kathryn Rusch
 Stalking Cat
 Bjo Trimble
 Dan Woren
 Tommy Yune

Anthology
The anthology Northwest Passages was sponsored by Cascadia Con and released at the convention.  It was published by Windstorm Creative  and edited by Cris DiMarco. Over 950 authors submitted stories for this anthology, of which 25 were selected for publication.

Committee
Cascadia Con was held under the auspices of SWOC, the Seattle Westercon Organizing Committee.

 Chair: Bobbie DuFault

Division heads
 Finance Vice-Chair: Susan Robinson
 Administration Vice-Chair: Pat Porter
 Facilities: Glenn Glazer
 Operations: Marah Searle-Kovacevic, Cheryl Ferguson
 Information Technology Systems: Jerry Gieseke
 Membership Services: Dave Schaber
 Hospitality: Jackie Sherry
 Publications: Allyn Llyr
 Programming: Alex von Thorn
 Special Events: Michael Kemnir
 Video/Film: Bruce E. Durocher II

Bid
 Bid Chair: Bobbie DuFault
 Bid Vice-Chair: Alex von Thorn

See also
 World Science Fiction Society
 Seattle
 SeaTac

References

External links
 Official Site (mirror?)
 NASFiC Official Site
 Northwest Passages anthology
 City of SeaTac, WA Official Site

North American Science Fiction Convention
Festivals in the Puget Sound region
2005 in the United States
2005 in Washington (state)
Cascadia movement
Krylya

Krylya may refer to:

 Wings (Kuzmin novel), a 1906 Russian novel by Mikhail Kuzmin
 Krylya (album), a 2005 album by Catharsis
 Krylya (Wings), Russia's winning entry in the 2017 Junior Eurovision Song Contest
Eunice Gardner Wyatt

Eunice Wyatt (also Gardner, Twining and Martin) is a fictional character from the American soap opera Search for Tomorrow. The role was originated by Marion Brash from 1957 to 1961, and then portrayed by Ann Williams from 1966 until the character's death in November 1976.

Portrayal
The role of Eunice was originated by Marion Brash from 1957 to 1961, and then portrayed by Ann Williams from 1966 until the character's death on November 19, 1976.

Storylines
Introduced in 1957, Eunice is the sister of Joanne Gardner (Mary Stuart) and, at first, very selfish and neurotic. She has a brief affair with Jo's second husband, Arthur Tate (Terry O'Sullivan), and is so racked with guilt about it that she confesses everything to her sister. She next falls for Rex Twining (Laurence Hugo), who is involved with Arthur's wealthy aunt, Cornelia Simmons (Doris Dalton). When Cornelia is found dead, Eunice and Rex become suspects and flee for the Caribbean. Cornelia's housekeeper, Harriet Baxter (Vicki Viola), is later revealed to be the killer. Eunice leaves town in 1961.

Eunice returns years later in 1966, having married and then divorced Rex. She is a lot nicer and not so selfish and unstable as before. She meets and marries lawyer Doug Martin (Ken Harvey), with whom she has a daughter named Suzi. Although Eunice is influenced by the women's liberation movement, she does her best to make her marriage work. After Doug dies, Eunice meets John Wyatt (Val Dufour) while working at a magazine that he owns. John and Eunice marry, but he had been seeing the unstable Jennifer Pace Phillips (Morgan Fairchild). Wanting John for herself and losing touch with reality, Jennifer confronts Eunice with a gun on November 19, 1976. She shoots Eunice in the back and kills her, hallucinating that John's voice told her to do it. John is put on trial for murder, but Jennifer is ultimately revealed to be the killer.

References

Search for Tomorrow characters
Fictional characters introduced in 1957
Mistral

Mistral may refer to:
 Mistral (wind) in southern France and Sardinia

Automobiles 
 Maserati Mistral, a Maserati grand tourer produced from 1963 until 1970
 Nissan Mistral, or Terrano II, a Nissan 4×4 produced from 1993 until 2006
 Microplas Mistral, a kit car from the 1950s produced in England, United States, and New Zealand

Companies 

Mistral Group, an American defense and law enforcement product marketing company
Mistral Solutions, an Indian product design and systems engineering company
Mistral Appliances, an Australian home appliances brand

Aviation 
 Mistral Air (now Poste Air Cargo), an Italian cargo airline 
 Mistral Aviation, an airline from the Republic of the Congo
 Mistral Engine Company, a Swiss light aircraft and helicopter engine manufacturer
 Aviasud Mistral, a French ultralight aircraft
 Sud-Est SE 535 Mistral, the French version of the de Havilland Vampire jet fighter
 Swing Mistral, a German paraglider design
 OpenSkies, an airline with the callsign MISTRAL

People and characters 
 Mistral Raymond (born 1987), American football player
 Frédéric Mistral (1830–1914), French writer and lexicographer
 Gabriela Mistral (1889–1957), pseudonym of the Chilean poet Lucila Godoy Alcayaga
 Jacques Mistral (born 1947), French economist and professor
 Jorge Mistral (1920–1972), Spanish actor
 Mistral, title character of the Laurell Hamilton novel Mistral's Kiss
 Mistral, a character from the video game Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance

Ships and watercraft 
 French ship Mistral, various ships of the French Navy, including:
 Mistral-class amphibious assault ship
 Mistral (L9013), the lead ship of the Mistral-class
 Spanish submarine Mistral (S73), an Agosta-class submarine
 Mistral One Design Class, a former windsurf class
 Grand Mistral (previously Mistral), an Iberocruceros cruise ship

Other uses 
 Mistral (album), a 1980 album by Freddie Hubbard
 Mistral (crater), a crater on Mercury
 Mistral (missile), a surface-to-air missile developed in France
 Mistral (pisco), a brand of pisco named after Gabriela Mistral
 Mistral (software), an information retrieval software system
 Mistral (typeface), a 1953 casual typeface designed by Frenchman Roger Excoffon
 Le Mistral (train), an express train which ran between Paris and Nice
 Operation Mistral 2, a Croatian military offensive in 1995
 Mistral, a brand name of the fungicide fenpropimorph

See also
 Mestral (disambiguation)
First Second Books

First Second Books is an American publisher of graphic novels. An imprint of Roaring Brook Press, part of Holtzbrinck Publishers, First Second publishes fiction, biographies, personal memoirs, history, visual essays, and comics journalism. It also publishes graphic non-fiction for young readers, including the Science Comics and History Comics collections, and for adults, including the World Citizen Comics, a line of civics graphic books, and biographical works such as The Accidental Czar.

Authors and artists published by First Second include Ben Hatke, Gene Luen Yang, Jillian Tamaki, Vera Brosgol, Jen Wang, Shannon Hale, LeUyen Pham, Scott Chantler, and Japanese director Hayao Miyazaki.

First Second is headed by creative director Mark Siegel.

History
First Second launched in U.S. stores and online in May 2006. It was distributed by Macmillan in the rest of the English-speaking world. After the merger in 2010, Macmillan distributes all of the books.

In 2006, First Second published American Born Chinese by Gene Luen Yang, the first graphic novel ever nominated for a National Book Award, and the first ever to win the American Library Association's Michael L. Printz Award. 

In 2015, First Second published This One Summer by cousins Jillian and Mariko Tamaki, the first book in any format ever nominated as a finalist for both the American Library Association's Randolph Caldecott Award, and the American Library Association's Edward L. Printz Award.

Series 
Some of First Second's biggest hits include the InvestiGators series and the Real Friends trilogy.

Series published by First Second include:

 The Adventure Zone graphic novel series
 The Dam Keeper by Robert Kondo and Daisuke Tsutsumi
 Delilah Dirk, by Tony Cliff
 Demon, by Jason Shiga
 Cucumber Quest, by Gigi D.G.

Selected titles

Before 2010 
American Born Chinese, by Gene Luen Yang

Laika, by Nick Abadzis

Prince of Persia, by Jordan Mechner, A.B. Sina, LeUyen Pham, and Alex Puvilland

The Photographer, by Emmanuel Guibert

2010s 

 Anya's Ghost by Vera Brosgol
 Friends with Boys by Faith Erin Hicks
 Boxers and Saints by Gene Luen Yang
 The Cute Girl Network, by Greg Means and M. K. Reed, with art by Joe Flood
 This One Summer by Mariko Tamaki and Jillian Tamaki
 The Divine by Boaz Lavie, Asaf Hanuka, Tomer Hanuka
 Spinning by Tillie Walden
 The Hunting Accident by David Carlson and Landis Blair
 Check, Please!: #Hockey by Ngozi Ukazu
 Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson and Emily Carroll
 The Prince and the Dressmaker by Jen Wang
 Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up with Me by Mariko Tamaki
 Kiss Number 8 by Colleen A. F. Venable

2020s 

 Dragon Hoops by Gene Luen Yang

References

External links
 
 First Second Blog
 
 

 
Comic book publishing companies of the United States

Holtzbrinck Publishing Group
Teachers (2006 TV series)

Teachers is an American sitcom television series that aired on NBC. The show ran for six episodes from March 28 until its cancellation on May 2, 2006. Loosely based upon a 2001 UK series of the same name, it was developed by Matt Tarses, co-executive producer of the medical comedy Scrubs.

Overview
Set in New Jersey, Teachers stars Justin Bartha as Jeff Cahill, a skilled, irreverent young English teacher at the fictitious Filmore High School, whose apparent apathy toward his job masks his actual wisdom concerning teaching at an underfunded school. Sarah Alexander co-stars as idealistic British history teacher Alice Fletcher, his only kindred spirit on the faculty, for whom Jeff also has romantic feelings. Alice does not reciprocate these feelings, but she is becoming fonder of him. Radio personality Phil Hendrie plays Dick Green, an apathetic phys-ed and physics teacher, who spends his afternoons  behind the gym. Deon Richmond plays Calvin Babbitt, the drama teacher whose attitude about teaching falls somewhere between Jeff's and Alice's.  He often gets caught up in Jeff's schemes. Kali Rocha stars as the uncaring, rule-abiding Principal Emma Wiggins. Matt Winston stars as Mitch Lenk, a math teacher and lap dog to Principal Wiggins. It is implied that he is romantically interested in her. Sarah Shahi stars as Tina Torres, an attractive teacher from Mexico. She is Alice's possible rival for Jeff's affections, though it seems Jeff prefers Alice. It is revealed in Episode 05 ("Testing 1-2-3") that she does not have her teaching license, having gone to school, but taking jobs before she took her finals. However, she stated later in the episode that she will be taking them.

Cast
Justin Bartha as Jeff Cahill
Sarah Alexander as Alice Fletcher
Phil Hendrie as Dick Green
Deon Richmond as Calvin Babbitt
Kali Rocha as Emma Wiggins
Sarah Shahi as Tina Torres
Matt Winston as Mitch Lenk

Production
Like many American sitcoms, Teachers was shot before a studio audience.

The series began development under the title Filmore Middle, which reflected its original middle school setting.

Though adapted for American television by Matt Tarses, a writer and producer of the critically lauded series Sports Night and Scrubs, Teachers was panned by many critics (including the San Francisco Chronicle'''s Tim Goodman) as unoriginal and clichéd. The show was quickly cancelled by NBC, the news coming on May 15.

Episodes

Ratings
Based on average total viewers per episode of Teachers on NBC:

See also
 Teachers (UK TV series)''

References

External links
 

2000s American high school television series
2000s American sitcoms
2000s American workplace comedy television series
2006 American television series debuts
2006 American television series endings
American television series based on British television series
English-language television shows
NBC original programming
Television series about educators
Television series by Universal Television
Television shows set in New Jersey
Blame It on Me (album)

Blame It on Me is the debut album by singer-songwriter Alana Davis. It was released in 1997 and contained her two most popular singles, "32 Flavors" and "Crazy". The album peaked at No. 157 on the U.S. Billboard 200.

Track listing

References

1997 debut albums
Alana Davis albums
Elektra Records albums
Rhythm Pigs

The Rhythm Pigs were an American punk band, originally from El Paso, Texas, United States, later relocated to San Francisco.  Their first two albums were among the first to be released by the influential independent Mordam Records label.  Their first 7-inch EP is a classic example of early hardcore, welding driving rock and roll with broad melodies and varied tempos and hooks.  Their first two studio albums showed more "big tent" punk, with varied musical styles (such as the foray into rap in "Break or We'll Break Your Face" on their self-titled LP) happily shoehorned into melodic punk songs.

Touring extensively throughout Europe and North America throughout the mid-1980s, the Rhythm Pigs were one of the most sophisticated and musically diverse hardcore bands, and remained so throughout the 1980s as hardcore became more and more musically conservative.  That the wistful and melodic power-ballads of El Paso would not be considered punk by most adherents has as much to do with the shifting definition of punk as it does with the mellowing of the band's sound.  Baby Falcon Getaway saw a return to a more raw, fast-paced hard rock sound (the three out-and-out hardcore songs on El Paso are collected into a single track titled "The Fast Three") combined with the more humorous tone seen on the first album.  Baby Falcon Getaway included a hardcore cover of the Gordon Lightfoot classic "Sundown" and a furiously paced rendition of Charles Mingus's "Boogie Stop Shuffle," which recalled the Peanuts theme (Vince Guaraldi's Linus and Lucy) from the first album.

Personnel
1st LP: Jay Smith, Greg Adams, Ed Ivey
2nd LP: Kenny Craun, Greg Adams, Ed Ivey (Don Holmes, "Main Man", LP engineered by Spot)
I'm Not Crazy, I'm an Airplane Billy Atwell from th' Inbred replaces Kenny on drums(engineered by Jeroen Visser). 
 El Paso: Jay Smith, Greg Adams, Ed Ivey
 Baby Falcon Getaway Schmeckie, Jay Smith, Ed Ivey
 'Construction' EP Ed Ivey, Schmeckie, Jay Smith

Ed Ivey currently plays sousaphone in San Francisco's North Beach Brass Band. Ed and Billy Atwell appear as themselves in the documentary "A Texas Tale of Treason" about the making of Waldo's Hawaiian Holiday, a Repo Man sequel film  . Billy Atwell is a composer/producer for hire in the NYC metro area. Jay Smith has played in Bay Area bands: Tragic Mullato, GDKs, Cinnamon Girls, Sonic Brain Jam and Gone to Ground.

Discography
 An American Activity 1984. 6 song 7-inch EP unclean records (cat# ur 004)
 War Between the States: South, 1985 cassette compilation. 2 songs; "Arson" and "Van Halen Hater" (cat# TPOS 042)
 The Rhythm Pigs, 1986 LP Mordam Records (cat # 2)
 Choke on This, 1987 LP Mordam Records (cat # 4)
 I'm Not Crazy, I'm an Airplane. 1988 LP Konkurrel (cat # 001-107) Recorded live at Donkiesjot (Don Quixote) Sittard Holland Nov 1987)
 El Paso 1994. CD Westworld Enterprises (cat# 13)
 Construction.  1995 Konkurrent
 Baby Falcon Getaway. 1996 CD Cool Beans Records (cat# 4)

See also
Beefeater (band)

External links
Ed Ivey's website
Fan site on Myspace.com
Billy Atwell's website

Punk rock groups from Texas
Fortune Cookies (album)

Fortune Cookies is the second album by Alana Davis, released in 2001. It peaked at #34 on Billboard's Heatseekers Album chart.

Track listing

References

2001 albums
Elektra Records albums
Alana Davis albums
Albums produced by the Neptunes
Surrender Dorothy (album)

Surrender Dorothy is the third album by Alana Davis. It was released in 2005 on Davis's own label, Tigress Records.

"Surrender Dorothy" is a line from the film The Wizard of Oz.

Track listing

References

2005 albums
Alana Davis albums
Rock albums by American artists
Coastal Highway

Coastal Highway may refer to:

United States
 Delaware Route 1, between the Maryland border in Fenwick Island and Milford
 Parts of U.S. Route 98, Florida
 Georgia State Route 25, Port Wentworth, Georgia
 Maryland Route 528, Ocean City, Maryland
 Parts of U.S. Route 17, Georgia and South Carolina

Elsewhere
 North West Coastal Highway, Australia
 Coastal Highway (Belize), Belize
 Thiruvananthapuram–Kasaragod Coastal Highway, the proposed Coastal Highway along the Arabian Sea in India
 Highway 2 (Israel), the Coastal Highway along the Mediterranean Sea in Israel
 Makran Coastal Highway, Pakistan

See also
Sho (letter)

The letter  (sometimes called sho or san) was a letter added to the Greek alphabet in order to write the Bactrian language. It was similar in appearance to the Anglo-Saxon and Icelandic letter thorn (þ), which has typically been used to represent it in modern print, although both are historically quite unrelated. It probably represented a sound similar to English "sh" (). Its conventional transliteration in Latin is .
 

Its original name and position in the Bactrian alphabet, if it had any, are unknown. Some authors have called it "san", on the basis of the hypothesis that it was a survival or reintroduction of the archaic Greek letter San. This letter  closely resembles, perhaps coincidentally, the letter  of the Greek-based Carian alphabet which may have also stood for . The name "sho" was coined for the letter for purposes of modern computer encoding in 2002, on the basis of analogy with "rho" (), the letter with which it seems to be graphically related. Ϸ was added to Unicode in version 4.0 (2003), in an uppercase and lowercase character designed for modern typography.

Other representations of  in the Greek alphabet

The modern Cypriot Greek dialect also has a  sound, but it is represented with the combining caron , by the authors of the "Syntychies" lexicographic database at the University of Cyprus,  e.g.   "mashallah".
When diacritics are not used, an epenthetic —often accompanied by the systematic substitution of the preceding consonant letter—may be used to the same effect, e.g.  Standard Modern Greek   → Cypriot Greek  .

The Tsakonian language, considered a Hellenic language or a very divergent dialect of Greek, has a  sound.
It is spelled  or, in Thanasis Costakis' orthography, .

References 

 

Greek letters
Bactrian language
1st-century introductions
9th-century endings
Bring On the Girls!

Bring on the Girls! is a semi-autobiographical collaboration between P. G. Wodehouse and Guy Bolton, first published in the United States on 5 October 1953 by Simon & Schuster, Inc., New York, and in the United Kingdom on 21 May 1954 by Herbert Jenkins, London.

Subtitled "The Improbable Story of Our Life in Musical Comedy, With Pictures To Prove It", it takes the form of a series of partly fictionalised, partly apocryphal stories centred on the world of Broadway, where both Wodehouse and Bolton had worked successfully as lyricists, collaborating with the likes of composer Jerome Kern.  It features anecdotes about the larger-than-life characters who dominated Broadway between 1915 and 1930, but the biographer Frances Donaldson writes that it is to be read as entertainment rather than history: "Guy, having once invented an anecdote, told it so often that it was impossible to know whether in the end he believed it or not."

The title of the book refers to adding a chorus ensemble to a dull scene in a musical comedy in order to improve the scene, which, according to the book, is "the panacea that never fails". As stated in the book's opening pages:

Actors might walk through their parts, singers save their voices, but the personnel of the ensemble never failed to go all out, full of pep, energy and the will to win. A hundred shows have been pushed by them over the thin line that divides the floperoo from the socko. It is for this reason that Bolton (Guy) and Wodehouse (P.G.), looking back over their years of toil in the musical comedy salt mines, raise their glasses and without hesitation or heel taps drink this toast: "To the Girls!" And they feel that the least they can do in gratitude for all their hard work is to honor them in the title of this book.

References and sources
References

Sources

External links
The Russian Wodehouse Society's page

Books by P. G. Wodehouse
1953 short stories
Herbert Jenkins books
HMS Raider (P275)

HMS Raider is an  patrol and training vessel of the British Royal Navy. Along with , Raider is part of the Faslane Patrol Boat Squadron based at HMNB Clyde.

Characteristics
Raider is one of sixteen , 54-tonne P2000 patrol craft operated by the Royal Navy. She is constructed from glass-reinforced plastic.  As a "batch 2" vessel, Raider has a sustainable top speed of ,  faster than the earlier batch 1 vessels.  Both Raider and  operate in the force protection role, providing maritime security for high value shipping in the Firth of Clyde, and are armed with three general purpose machine guns.

Service
Raider, formerly of Cambridge URNU, became Bristol URNU's training ship in Summer 2010, superseding .  In October 2012 she joined the Faslane Patrol Boat Squadron to replace , which returned to Bristol URNU.

References

External links

 

Archer-class patrol vessels
1988 ships
F-16 Multirole Fighter

F-16 Multirole Fighter is a combat flight simulation game, released by NovaLogic in 1998. It focuses on the F-16 Fighting Falcon, and uses the same game engine as MiG-29 Fulcrum; both were reissued together in 2001 as a double-disc edition named Jet Pack. It was re-released in 2009 on Steam.

Gameplay
Being a simulation, F-16 Multirole Fighter is reasonably accurate, especially when compared to most console arcade-style games such as Namco's Ace Combat series and Konami's Airforce Delta series. Features such as limited ammunition quantity (important to consider when playing through campaigns), fuel levels, and many flight characteristics come into play. The player must quickly learn to compensate for other events such as engine flameouts, flatspins, red- and blackouts (affected by the g-forces).

Campaigns
The campaigns in F-16 Multirole Fighter vary and take place across the globe; featuring locations such as Serbia, Burma, Liberia, Somalia and the Democratic Republic of Congo.

References

1998 video games
Combat flight simulators
Video games developed in the United States
Video games set in Serbia
Video games set in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
Video games set in Liberia
Video games set in Somalia
Video games set in Myanmar
Windows games
Windows-only games
NovaLogic games
Hishult

Hishult is a locality and a parish situated in Laholm Municipality, Halland County, Sweden with 332 inhabitants in 2010.

The area has been a centre of iron extraction and formed a county, including parts of northern Skåne while it was Danish. The name might be related to the iron extraction as it used to be spelt Isenhult which might mean iron forest.

Today it has a gallery of some reputation.

References 

Populated places in Laholm Municipality
Joe Murrell

Joseph Robert Murrell (19 November 1879 – 15 August 1952), known as Joe Murrell''', was an English cricketer who played over 350 matches, mainly for Middlesex County Cricket Club as a wicket-keeper.

Murrell was born at Hounslow in Middlesex. He made his first-class cricket debut for Kent County Cricket Club in 1899 and played for the county until the end of the 1905 season. Kent's wicket-keeper at the time was Fred Huish and Murrell found it difficult to gain a place in the side, only keeping wicket in six of his 27 first-class matches for the county. In 1906 he joined Middlesex and was associated with the club for the next 46 years.Joe Murrell, CricketArchive. Retrieved 2018-12-19.

Murrell played 342 times for Middlesex in first-class cricket and developed a reputation as "a first-class wicket-keeper" who, when Middlesex won the County Championship in 1920 and 1921, was considered by Wisden as "one of the best of wicket-keepers". He was considered a loyal team-mate whose judgment and advice could be relied upon by Middlesex captain Pelham Warner and in his obituary Wisden'' considered him unfortunate to have not played for England. As a batsman Murrell was considered "fast-footed" and "could hit extremely hard", although he never scored a century.

Over the course of his career, Murrell took 835 dismissals, 564 caught and 271 stumped. After retiring, he was the 1st XI scorer for Middlesex until his death at West Wickham in Kent in 1952 at the age of 72.

He also played football for Woolwich Arsenal. After playing for local sides in Kent and Middlesex, he joined Arsenal in October 1898, making his first-team debut against Small Heath on 31 March 1900. He played mainly as a full back filling in for regulars Jimmy Jackson and David McNichol. He left Arsenal for Clapton Orient in the summer of 1900, having played 6 first-team games for them.

References

External links

1879 births
1952 deaths
People from Hounslow
Sportspeople from the London Borough of Hounslow
Arsenal F.C. players
Cricket scorers
English cricketers
English men's footballers
Men's association football fullbacks
Kent cricketers
Leyton Orient F.C. players
Middlesex cricketers
Marylebone Cricket Club cricketers
Wicket-keepers
Joshua Ilika Brenner

Joshua Brenner Ilika was born  (September 14, 1976 in Celaya, Guanajuato) is a Mexican butterfly and freestyle swimmer, who began swimming at the age of three. He participated in the 2000 and 2004 Summer Olympics.

See also
List of Mexican records in swimming

References

External links

1976 births
Living people
Mexican male butterfly swimmers
Mexican male freestyle swimmers
Sportspeople from Guanajuato
Swimmers at the 1999 Pan American Games
Swimmers at the 2000 Summer Olympics
Swimmers at the 2003 Pan American Games
Swimmers at the 2004 Summer Olympics
Olympic swimmers for Mexico
Mexican people of German descent
People from Celaya
USC Trojans men's swimmers
Central American and Caribbean Games gold medalists for Mexico
Competitors at the 2002 Central American and Caribbean Games
Central American and Caribbean Games medalists in swimming
Pan American Games competitors for Mexico
20th-century Mexican people
21st-century Mexican people
Bill Johnson (film and television actor)

Bill Johnson (born December 16, 1951) is an American actor, known for his role as Leatherface in the 1986 horror film The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2.

Career

Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2
Johnson was chosen to play Leatherface in The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2. Despite negative reviews from critics due in part to the film relying much more on gore and black comedy than its predecessor, the film has become a cult classic and it gained Johnson notoriety as one of the six actors to have portrayed the character.

Other projects
Johnson also appeared in the Ultima series of role-playing games, as the voice of the Guardian, the final antagonist of the Ultima series. He also likes to act in the local theaters.

Filmography
 1980 Fast Money as Cop (uncredited)
 1985 Future-Kill as Splatter's Elite Guard
 1985 Confessions of a Serial Killer as Oil Rig Worker (uncredited)
 1986 The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 as Leatherface
 1987 The Texas Comedy Massacre as Leatherface
 1988 D.O.A. as Desk Sergeant (credited as "William Johnson")
 1988 Paramedics as Caesar "Big Caesar"
 1988 Full Moon in Blue Water as Stranger #2
 1988 Talk Radio as Fan #1
 1997 Redboy 13 as FBI Agent
 1999 Crosswalk as Ellis Baird (short film)
 2005 Fall to Grace as Auggie
 2005 The Fantastic Escape as Troll (short film)
 2010 Ultimate Guide to Flight as Chess Player
 2012 Butcher Boys as Mr. Grimm
 2012 Supernatural Activity as Mike Powers
 2015 Kill or Be Killed as Hugo

References

External links
Bill Johnson's Official Site

1951 births
Living people
American male film actors
Male actors from Austin, Texas
Ricky (song)

"Ricky" is a 1983 song by "Weird Al" Yankovic, duetting with voice actress Tress MacNeille. It is a parody of the 1982 song "Mickey" by Toni Basil, which itself, is a cover of Mike Chapman and Nicky Chinn's "Kitty" recorded by Racey. The song focuses on the sitcom I Love Lucy, and ends with a segment of the theme from the sitcom.

A music video was created for the song; it was Yankovic's first. According to the liner notes in the compilation DVD "Weird Al" Yankovic: The Ultimate Video Collection, "it was arguably the first comedy video ever shown on MTV".

Track listing
"Ricky" – 2:35
"Buckingham Blues" – 3:11

Music video
The music video was directed by Janet Greek. It was filmed mostly in black and white and parodies the television sitcom I Love Lucy. Yankovic plays the role of Ricky Ricardo, complete with affected Cuban accent. Yankovic appears, minus his mustache, glasses, and curly hair, to more closely resemble Desi Arnaz. He is also seen briefly in several scenes as himself with his band, playing the accordion and sporting his normal mustache and curly hair. Tress MacNeille plays the role of Lucy, giving an impression of Lucille Ball's somewhat raspy voice and her usual shticks such as her unique way of crying.

Near the end of the video, a cheerleader can be seen dancing in the crowd. This is a direct reference to the music video for "Mickey".

The video (and song) ends with a segment of the I Love Lucy theme played on guitar rounding out with Ricky on accordion, followed by Ricky doing his trademark "Huah! Huah! Huah!" laugh. Dr. Demento makes a cameo appearance at the very end.

Chart positions

See also
List of singles by "Weird Al" Yankovic
List of songs by "Weird Al" Yankovic

References

External links
, official upload of the music video

1983 singles
1983 songs
I Love Lucy
Male–female vocal duets
Scotti Brothers Records singles
Songs about fictional male characters
Songs about television
Songs with lyrics by "Weird Al" Yankovic
Songs written by Mike Chapman
Songs written by Nicky Chinn
"Weird Al" Yankovic songs