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Factory-backed

Factory-backed is a term commonly used in motor sports to describe a racing team with support from a manufacturer. This support includes financial aid. Motor sports is an expensive pastime, and some amount of factory support is often necessary for success. Full factory backing is often seen in the top levels of competition.

Sports words
Meriwether Lewis

Meriwether Lewis (August 18, 1774 – October 11, 1809) was an American explorer, soldier, and public administrator. He was best known for his role as the leader of the Lewis and Clark Expedition with William Clark. Their mission was to explore the territory of the Louisiana Purchase, establish trade and sovereignty over the natives near the Missouri River, and claim the Pacific Northwest and Oregon Country for the United States before European nations. They also collected scientific data, and information on indigenous nations. President Thomas Jefferson appointed him Governor of Upper Louisiana in 1806. He died of gunshot wounds in what was an act of suicide.

References

Other websites
Meriwether Lewis on The History Channel
Meriwether Lewis Park and Burial Site
Meriwether Lewis's grave on Find-A-Grave
Lewis and Clark  at C-SPAN's American Writers: A Journey Through History

1774 births
1809 deaths
Suicides by firearm
American explorers
Politicians from Virginia
William Clark

William Clark (August 1, 1770 – September 1, 1838) was an American explorer, soldier, Indian agent, and territorial governor. A native of Virginia, he grew up in prestatehood Kentucky before later settling in what became the state of Missouri. Clark was a planter and slaveholder.

Along with Meriwether Lewis, Clark led the Lewis and Clark Expedition of 1803 to 1806 across the Louisiana Purchase to the Pacific Ocean, and claimed the Pacific Northwest for the United States. Before the expedition, he served in a militia and the United States Army. Afterward, he served in a militia and as governor of the Missouri Territory. From 1822 until his death in 1838 (aged 68) he served as Superintendent of Indian Affairs.

References

Other websites

 The Journals of Lewis and Clark, hypertext, American Studies at the University of Virginia.
 The Journals of William Clark , Missouri History Museum
 Biography  from Indiana Historical Bureau
 William Clark—View Videos
Lewis and Clark  at C-SPAN's American Writers: A Journey Through History

1770 births
1838 deaths
American explorers
Businesspeople from Virginia
Governors of Missouri
Politicians from Virginia
Avatar: The Last Airbender Trading Card Game

The Avatar: The Last Airbender Trading Card Game is a collectible card game based on the Nickelodeon animated television series Avatar: The Last Airbender. Upper Deck Entertainment launched this title in the first quarter of 2006.

Characters 
 Afiko the Betrayer
 Jojo the Kissing Bandit
 Malu the Ghost Witch
 Kinto the Waterbender

Other websites 
 Avatar: The Last Airbender Trading Card Game Website 
 Detailed Information and Card Scans of Avatar: The Last Airbender's Trading Card Game.
 Burger King Avatar: the Last Airbender promotion 
 The Artists Behind the Designs of the Cards
 The Artist Behind the Designs of the Cards
Avatar Games

Avatar: The Last Airbender games
Tokyopop

Tokyopop, formerly known as Mixx, is an American distributor, licensor and publisher. They work with anime, manga, manhwa and Original English-language manga in English, German, and Japanese. Tokyopop has its headquarters in Los Angeles, California. It has branches in the United Kingdom and Germany. Tokyopop products are available internationally.

References

Other websites

Blu Manga imprint website 

Publishing companies of the United States
Companies based in Los Angeles
1997 establishments in California
Film comic

A , or , also referred to as ani-manga, are Japanese manga volumes which use images from an anime series, movie, or video release instead of the standard drawn panels. They generally contain the full dialog from the anime from which they are adapted. While generally published in book form, they are also sometimes released electronically as e-books, occasionally called e-manga.

This format has been adopted by companies such as Disney and companies from other countries' television and movie, and may even be based on live-action productions.

Companies such as Tokyopop and Viz release movies comics but refer to them as Cine-manga and Ani-manga, respectively. These western companies also release movies comics for young readers.  movies comics have been well received in English speaking countries, with some titles selling more than 500,000 copies.

References 

Anime
Manga
List of Futurama episodes

For the episode list according to the broadcast order see List of Futurama episodes by broadcast order
Futurama is a Fox animated television series, which originally aired on the network from March 28, 1999 to August 10, 2003. All four original production seasons are available on DVD. The DVD sets were entitled "Volume #" in Region 1 (USA), and "Season #" in the Regions 2 (Europe) and 4 (Australia). The Complete Collection DVD set was released on October 25, 2004 in Region 2, and on March 22, 2005 in Region 1. After cancellation on Fox four direct-to-DVD movies were released and later aired as 16 individual episodes on Comedy Central. 

Futurama was originally created as four seasons; Fox broadcast it out of the intended order as five seasons. This list is in production order for the first four seasons on Fox, primarily because this is the order used on the DVDs, as intended by the artists, and it helps avoid plot inconsistencies. A list of Futurama episodes by broadcast order is available in a separate article. The production code is the code used by Fox to indicate the production order of the episodes, and is in the format #ACV##. The first number represents the production season. ACV is Fox's series code for Futurama. The second number is the episode's number. The TV broadcast code indicates the broadcast order. It is in the format S##E##, where S## indicates the broadcasting season of which there were 5, and E## indicates the episode's number. Seasons currently airing or in production are ordered by broadcast date as the DVD order is unknown, when the DVDs are released the order will be adjusted to represent the final order in case episodes have been aired out of the intended order as they did on Fox.

Futurama 's episode ratings in the United States are TV-PG for suggestive dialogue (D), offensive language (L), sexual content (S), and/or graphic violence (V) in its earlier episodes on Fox and on Cartoon Network's Adult Swim airings. The later episodes on Fox are rated TV-14 for suggestive dialogue (D), offensive language (L), sexual content (S), and/or graphic violence (V). The Comedy Central reruns are also rated TV-14, but do not include any of the sub-ratings. In the UK, Futurama episodes have been rated PG (parental guidance suggested when viewing) or 12 (not recommended viewing for anyone under 12 years of age), depending on the episode's content. The only episode not rated PG or 12 is "Leela's Homeworld," which is rated U (recommended for all ages).

Season five aired on Comedy Central from March 23, 2008 to August 30, 2009. It consisted of the four straight-to-DVD films divided into sixteen individual episodes. Each four-episode set aired after the release of the accompanying film. In addition to airing the new season, Comedy Central has taken over syndication of the previous episodes. A sixth season, consisting of 26 episodes, began airing on Comedy Central on June 24, 2010.

Seasons

Season 1

References 

Lists of animated television series episodes
Lists of comedy television series episodes
M. Night Shyamalan

Manoj Nelliyattu Shyamalan (; മനോജ്‌ നെല്ലിയാട്ടു ശ്യാമളന്‍, Mitur Ben Es-Derti ,Latin English: Maṉōj Nelliyāṯṯu Ṣiyāmaḷaṉ, born 6 August 1970), known professionally as M. Night Shyamalan, is an American filmmaker and screenwriter who resides and works primarily in the United States. He is known for making movies with contemporary supernatural plots that climax with a twist ending. Some of his notable movies are The Sixth Sense (1999), Unbreakable (2000), Signs (2002), The Village (2004), Lady in the Water (2006), The Happening (2008) and The Last Airbender (2010). He is also known for filming his movies (and staging his plots) in and around Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where he was raised.

Early Life
Shyamalan was born in a Hindu household in Mahé, Puducherry, India. His father, Nelliate C. Shyamalan is a Malayali traditional physician (Vaidyar) from Mahé. His mother, Jayalakshmi is Tamil and is an obstetrician and gynecologist by profession.

Movies

Other projects

Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

Other websites

M. Night Shyamalan: The Official Site 
M. Night Shyamalan Online
2006 M. Night Shyamalan interview (Interview with Jon Niccum)
Interview with Rajeev Masand on CNN-IBN/ibnlive.com
M. Night Shyamalan Interview at www.sci-fi-online.com

References

Actors from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
American movie actors
American movie directors
American movie producers
American screenwriters
Indian actors
Indian movie directors
Indian writers
1970 births
Living people
Tamil people
Neijia

, literally "internal family", is a term in Chinese martial arts, grouping those styles that practice 
, literally "internal strength", usually translated as internal martial arts, occupied with spiritual, mental or qi-related aspects, as opposed to an "external" ) approach focused on physiological aspects. The distinction dates to the 17th century, but its modern application is due to publications by  Sun Lutang, dating to the period of 1915 to 1928.
Nèi jìng is developed by using nèigōng, or "internal exercises," as opposed to wài gōng, "external exercises."  

Nèijiā is a broad term used mistakenly in the West as a synonym for the more specific Wǔdāngquán styles, named for their association with the Taoist monasteries of  Wudangshan range, Hubei Province in Chinese popular legend. These styles are enumerated by  Sun Lutang as Tàijíquán, Xíngyìquán and Bāguàzhǎng, but must also include Bājíquán and the legendary Wudang Sword.  Some other Chinese arts, not in the Wudangquan group, such as Liuhebafa, Bak Mei Pai, Bok Foo Pai and Yiquan are frequently classified (or classify themselves) as "internal".

Related pages

 Waijia
 Dantian
 Neidan
 Neo-Confucianism
 Taijitu

Other websites
 Neigong.net is a site devoted to original texts of Neigong, Qigong  and Neijia
 Defining the Internal Martial Arts
 Internal vs. External, What Sets Them Apart?
 Neijia FAQ 
 Glossary of Neijia Terms with Chinese characters 

Martial arts
Brahmajala Sutta (Theravada)

The Brahmajala Sutta is the first of 34 suttas in the Digha Nikaya (the Long Discourses of the Buddha). The name comes from 'brahma' (perfect wisdom) and 'jala' (net-which-embraced-all-views). The sutta is also called 'Atthajala' (Net of Essence), Dhammajala, (Net of the Dhamma), Ditthijala (Net of Views), Anuttarasangama Vijaya (Incomparable Victory in Battle).

The sutta discusses two main topics: the elaboration of the Ten Precepts (Cula-sila), the Middle Precepts (Majjhima-sila), and the Great Precepts (Maha-sila). Cula-sila deals with the Ten Precepts to be practised by devout buddhists, while Majjhima-sila gives a detailed description of the practice of the sixth, seventh, eighth, and ninth precepts, together with the practise of plant conservation and speech etiquette.

The second and third parts of the sutta discuss the 62 beliefs (ditthi) or "views" held by ascetics in the Ganges plains ( in what is now India) during the life of the Buddha. These are divided into: 18 beliefs related to the past (pubbantanuditthino), and 44 beliefs about the future (aparantakappika).

Many of these beliefs are still relevant in the modern world and thus the sutta provides Buddhist scholars with much information to ponder about the Buddha's teachings.

The elaboration of these beliefs is very detailed, focusing on how the beliefs (faiths) come to be and the way they are described and declared. The elaboration ends with the Buddha's statement about the danger of clinging to these beliefs, as they are still influenced by desire (lobha), hatred (dosa), and ignorance (moha) that its faithful followers will not end in the final liberation but still in the cycle of samsara. Believers of these faiths are compared to small fish in a pond which will be captured by a fine net no matter how much they want to escape, while those who see reality as it is are beyond the net of samsara.

Related pages

Milinda Panha
Aggañña Sutta
Soul
Vipassana jhanas
God in Buddhism
Twelve Nidanas

Other websites
Brahmajala Sutta Translation from UK 

Buddhist texts
Baguazhang

Bāguàzhǎng is one of the major Chinese martial arts of the Wudang school. It is also one of the three main internal styles, or Neijia. Bāguà zhǎng means "eight trigram palm," according to the trigrams of the Yijing (I Ching), one of the canons of Taoism.

Related pages

 Ba gua—the eight trigrams, used as guiding principles for baguazhang.
 Yijing—the Taoist classic examining the movement of the eight trigrams.
 Feng shui—the metaphysical system of interior design based on the bagua.

References

Books

 Robert W. Smith, Chinese Boxing, 
 Bok Nam, Park & Dan Miller, The Fundamentals of Pa Kua Chang: The Methods of Lu Shui-T'ien As Taught by Park Bok Nam., 
 Shou-Yu, Liang, Baguazhang : Emei Baguazhang Theory and Applications, 
 O'Brien, Jess, Nei Jia Quan: Internal Martial Arts Teachers of Tai Ji Quan, Xing Yi Quan, and Ba Gua Zhang 
 Frantzis, Bruce Kumar, The Power of Internal Martial Arts: Combat Secrets of Ba Gua, Tai Chi, and Hsing-I 
Mason, Tom and Danko,Dan. The Lost Scrolls:Air. New York: Simon & Schuster,2007
 Lao xie Christopher Lee matsuo 'The heart of bagua''8 powers', 'silk reeling palm','kunlun baguazhang 102', 'dragongatesanctuary.com
 Ray Carbullido 'Foundations of baguazhang mastery' 'the sword within the sword'
 Lao Xie Christopher Lee Matsuo 'Interviews with lao xie' conducted by hikaru ono in honolulu, Hawaii

Other websites
The Pa Kua Chang Journal
The Walking Circle
ChinaFromInside presents Baguazhang
The History of Yin Style Baguazhang 
Song Changrong style Baguazhang
Fu Style BaGua Zhang article, published in Inside Kung Fu Magazine 
Emptyflower Discussion Forum for Baguazhang and other internal Neijia Arts  
Fists of Mystery and Truth - Discussion and information about Baguazhang and other martial arts

Martial arts
Grace Slick

Grace Slick (born Grace Barnett Wing; October 30, 1939) is an American singer-songwriter from Evanston, Illinois. She was the lead singer of Jefferson Airplane, Jefferson Starship and Starship. 

She was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1996 as a member of Jefferson Airplane.

References 

1939 births
Living people
People from Evanston, Illinois
singers from Illinois
Jefferson Airplane members
People from Highland Park, Illinois
The Daily Pennsylvanian

The Daily Pennsylvanian (The DP) is the independent daily student newspaper of the University of Pennsylvania.

History
Founded in 1885, the newspaper has been published daily since 1894, except for a hiatus from May 1943 to November 1945 on account of World War II. The DP broke away from the university in 1962 to become an independent publication. It incorporated in 1984 to solidify its financial and editorial independence from the university. Today the newspaper's budget is funded primarily through the sale of advertising by a student business staff.

Awards
The Daily Pennsylvanian has won many of the most prestigious awards in college journalism. In 2008, the newspaper was awarded the Society of Professional Journalist's National Mark of Excellence Award. In the same year, the paper won the Spring 2008 Columbia Gold Crown, awarded to only eight college newspapers nationwide, an award it has won many times before. It also received first place in the Associated Collegiate Press's Kansas City Convention Best of Show Competition in 2008. In 2004, the DP won the Pacemaker, awarded by the Associated Collegiate Press and the Newspaper Association of America Foundation, for a record-setting fourth consecutive year. It also won the award in 1990, 1997, and 1998, and most recently in 2007. Several of its writers win Gold Circles from the Columbia Scholastic Press Association every year. It was also ranked as the "most read" college newspaper by The Princeton Review in 1990, 1997, 1998, and 2001. In 2006, College Publisher awarded the DP first place in the category of Best Online Sports Coverage and, in 2008, it was awarded an online Gold Crown for dailypennsylvanian.com.

References

Other websites
 Home Page of The Daily Pennsylvanian
 Home Page of 34th Street Magazine (affiliate of The Daily Pennsylvanian)
 College Papers Grow Up (Newsweek article)
 Photography Department Blog (maintained by current and past Photo Editors) 

Newspapers in Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
1885 establishments in the United States
1880s establishments in Pennsylvania
Pomeranian dog

The Pomeranian is a dog from Pomerania (in Eastern Germany and Northern Poland). Queen Victoria, Queen Charlotte, and Joséphine de Beauharnais all owned Pomeranians.

Pomeranians are sometimes called Zwergspitz (which is a Dwarf Spitz) and Toy German Spitz in different countries.

The Pomeranian can live from 12 to 16 years.

Pomeranians are more likely than other dogs to get some health problems, like:
 Luxating patella (where the kneecap dislocates, or slips out of place)
 Tracheal collapse (collapse of the tube that brings air to the lungs and makes breathing possible)

Other websites

Dog breeds
Io9

Io9 is a blog launched in 2008 by Gawker Media. The blog focuses on the subjects of science fiction, futurism and advancements in the fields of science and technology.

References

Other websites
io9.com

Websites
Jake Dowell

Jacob Dowell (born March 4, 1985 in Eau Claire, Wisconsin) is an American professional ice hockey center that currently plays for the Dallas Stars of the National Hockey League (NHL). He was selected by the Chicago Blackhawks with the 140th pick in the 2004 NHL Draft and played 4 seasons with them before being signed to the Dallas Stars on July 1, 2011.

Dowell also played for the Chicago Blackhawks AHL farm team, the Rockford IceHogs.

Other websites

1985 births
American ice hockey players
Chicago Blackhawks players
Dallas Stars players
Living people
Sportspeople from Wisconsin
American Hockey League players
United States Hockey League players
Ice hockey centres
Brian David Josephson

Brian David Josephson, FRS (born 4 January 1940; Cardiff, Wales) is a Welsh physicist who became a Nobel laureate in 1973. He is of Jewish descent.

As of late 2007, he was a retired professor at the University of Cambridge, where he is the head of the Mind–Matter Unification Project in the Theory of Condensed Matter (TCM) research group. He is also a fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge.

Josephson is one of the more well-known scientists who say that parapsychological phenomena may be real, and is also interested in the possibility that Eastern mysticism may have relevance to scientific understanding. In 2005, Josephson said that "parapsychology should now have become a conventional field of research, and yet parapsychology's claims are still not generally accepted". He compared this situation to that of Alfred Wegener's hypothesis of continental drift, where there was initially great resistance to acceptance despite the strength of the evidence.

References

1940 births
Living people
British Nobel Prize winners
British physicists
Fellows of the Royal Society
Jewish British academics
Jewish British scientists
Jewish Nobel Prize winners
British parapsychologists
People from Cardiff
Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump

Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump is a buffalo jump in the foothills of the Rocky Mountains about 18 km northwest of Fort Macleod, Alberta, Canada. The plains Indians used Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump for over 5,500 years to kill buffalo. Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump is a UNESCO World Heritage Site and became one in 1981.

Other websites
Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump's Official website

Alberta
World Heritage Sites in Canada
Michael Thalbourne

Michael A. Thalbourne, Ph.D., (March 24 1955 – May 4 2010) was an Australian psychologist and parapsychologist. He was educated at the University of Adelaide and the University of Edinburgh. His books include: A glossary of terms used in parapsychology (2003), The common thread between ESP and PK (2004), and Parapsychology in the Twenty-First Century: Essays on  the future of Psychical research (2005).

References

1955 births
2010 deaths
People from Adelaide
Psychologists
Australian academics
Scientists from South Australia
Australian social scientists
Parapsychologists
University of Adelaide alumni
Damping

In physics, damping is any effect that tends to reduce the amplitude of vibrations.

In mechanics, the internal friction may be one of the causes of such damping effect. For many purposes the damping force Ff can be modeled as being proportional to the velocity v of the object:

where c is the damping coefficient, given in units of Newton-seconds per meter.

Related pages
  
 RLC circuit
 Oscillator
 Resonance
 Seismic damper
 Vibration
 Vibration isolation
 Vibration control

References

Mechanics
Mechanical vibrations
Earthquake engineering
Dale Webster

Dale Webster, also called "The Daily Wavester", is a surfer who lives in Valley Ford, California. People know him for making the official Guinness Book of World Records record for the "most days in a row surfed" 10,407 and his acting in the movie Step into Liquid.

References

Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Sportspeople from California
Toyosu Station

Toyosu Station (豊洲駅,とよすえき) is a Railway station of Tokyo Metro and Yurikamome in Kōtō, Tokyo, Japan.

Neighbor
Tokyo Metro
 Yūrakuchō Line
Tsukishima （Y 21） - Toyosu （Y 22） - Tatsumi （Y 23）
Yurikamome
 Yurikamome Line
Shin-toyosu （U 15） - Toyosu （U 16）

Other websites

Railway stations in Tokyo
Jeanne Moreau

Jeanne Moreau (23 January 1928 – 31 July 2017) was a French actress particularly associated with the French "new wave" cinema.

Life and career

Moreau was born in Paris, France, the daughter of an English mother, a dancer at the Folies Bergères, and a French father, a restaurateur. She studied at the Conservatoire de Paris.

She began her career as a stage actress and joined the celebrated "Comédie-Française" in 1948, aged only 20, one the youngest ever member of the company. During the same time, she was in small roles in movies.

She got her first major break when she met French director Louis Malle.  He cast her in his movies L'ascenceur pour l'échafaud (1957) and Les amants (1958), which established her as a movie star in France. She also appeared in Roger Vadim's Les liaisons dangereuses (1959) and Peter Brooks's Moderato cantabile (1960), but it is with François Truffaut's iconic movie Jules et Jim (1961) that she became an international star.

She then went on to work with directors such as Michelangelo Antonioni (La Notte), Orson Welles (Le procès), Luis Bunuel (The Diary of a Chambermaid), etc. In the 1970s, she attempted directing with Lumières (1976) and L'adolescente (1979) with mixed success.

Moreau received many awards for best actress, including a César Award, a BAFTA, a prix d'interprétation at the Cannes Film Festival. In 1996 she received a BAFTA Academy Fellowship Award, a lifetime achievement award.

Moreau died on 31 July 2017 in Paris at the age of 89.

Sources

 The Illustrated Who's Who of the Cinema, Lloyd, Weber & Dessler, Portland House, 1987.

Other websites

1928 births
2017 deaths
French movie actors
French movie directors
French movie producers
French screenwriters
French television actors
Actors from Paris
Gawker Media

Gawker Media is an American online media company and blog network. It was founded and is owned by Nick Denton. It is based in New York City.

References
 Gawker Media. Terms of Use 
 Penenberg, Adam L.  "Can Bloggers Strike It Rich?" Wired. September 22, 2005.
 Denton, Nick. "Nano Wars"  March 8, 2005.
 Thompson, Clive. "Blogs to Riches - The Haves and Have-Nots of the Blogging Boom"  New York Magazine. February 20, 2006.
 Carr, David. "A Blog Mogul Turns Bearish on Blogs", New York Times, July 3, 2006
 Pareene, Alex. "Memo: Gawker Sells Three Sites" April 14, 2008.

Other websites
Tom Zeller, Jr.. "A Blog Revolution? Get a Grip", New York Times, May 8, 2005  (registration required)
Vanessa Grigoriadis, "Everybody Sucks: Gawker and the rage of the creative underclass, New York magazine, October 22, 2007
Gawker Media Traffic 
Gawker.com

Media in the United States
Companies based in New York City
The Philadelphia Inquirer

The Philadelphia Inquirer is a newspaper that serves the Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, metropolitan area of the United States. The newspaper was founded by John R. Walker and John Norvell in June 1829 as The Pennsylvania Inquirer and is the third-oldest surviving daily newspaper in the United States. Owned by the local group Philadelphia Media Holdings LLC, The Inquirer has the nineteenth largest average weekday U.S. newspaper circulation and has won eighteen Pulitzer Prizes.

Awards

References

Other websites
 The Philadelphia Inquirer Online
 Philadelphia Media Holdings website 
 The Philadelphia Inquirer Frontpage (Updated) 

Newspapers in Pennsylvania
1829 establishments in the United States
Pulitzer Prize winners
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
1820s establishments in Pennsylvania
Chinese martial arts

Chinese martial arts is also known by the Mandarin Chinese term, wushu. It is popularly known as kung-fu. It includes a number of fighting styles that have developed over the centuries in China. 

These fighting styles are often classified according to common features, identified as "families" (jiā), "sects" (pài) or "schools" (mén) of martial arts. Examples of such features include physical exercises that copy certain animals, or training methods inspired by Taoism, and legends. 

Styles focusing on qi are called "internal" (nèijiāquán), while others concentrate on improving muscle and heart fitness, and are called "external" (wàijiāquán). They are also often classed according to region, that is "northern" (běiquán) and "southern" (nánquán).

Related pages
 Eighteen Arms of Wushu
 Hard and soft (martial arts)
 Kung-fu
 List of Chinese martial arts
 Wushu (term)
 Wushu (sport)

References 

Martial arts

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Series finale

A series finale is the last instalment of a television series. These terms refer to an intentionally planned ending, rather than one in which the series is unexpectedly cancelled after the last episode is produced. Episodes labeled "series finale," or ones leading up to it, often include remarkable events in the overall series story arc. An extended length episode, or television or theatrical film may serve as the series finale. The finale may also be used as a device to create a spin-off series.

Related pages
 Season finale

Other websites
 TV Series Finale - site devoted to final episodes and life after the shows

Television series
Mazdak

Mazdak (died 524 or 528) was a Persian reformer and religious activist. He became influential under the reign of the Sassanian Shahanshah Kavadh I. He claimed to be a prophet of God, and started communal possessions and social welfare programs.

Mazdakism

He was the main representative of set of religious and philiosopical teachings called Mazdakism, which are seen as a reformed version of Zoroastrianism.
Some people have argued, his teachings show influences from Manichaeism as well. Zoroastrianism was the dominant religion of Sassanid Persia. Mazdak was a Zoroastrian priest. Most of the Zoroastrian clergy regarded his teaching as a heresy.

There is very little information about Mazdakism. The teaching of Khurramism developed from Mazdakism and can be used to tell certain details about Mazdakism.

References

Year of birth unknown
520s deaths
Religions
Eastern philosophers
Box Car Racer

Box Car Racer was an American Alternative rock/Post-hardcore band from San Diego, California that were active from 2001 to 2003. Box Car Racer was a side-project for Blink-182 members Tom DeLonge and Travis Barker and lead guitarist of Hazen Street, David Kennedy and touring bassist Anthony Celestino. When they were active they were signed to the record label MCA Records.

Discography

Albums
Box Car Racer (2002)

Singles
"I Feel So" (2009)
"There Is" (2003)

Websites
Box Car Racer at Interscope records 

2001 establishments in California
2000s disestablishments in California
2003 disestablishments in the United States
Musical groups from San Diego, California
Post-hardcore bands
American punk bands
Pop punk bands
American rock bands
2000s American music groups
Tatshenshini-Alsek Provincial Park

Tatshenshini-Alsek Park (also known as Tatshenshini-Alsek Provincial Wilderness Park) is a provincial park in British Columbia. It is part of the Kluane / Wrangell–St. Elias / Glacier Bay / Tatshenshini-Alsek, which is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The park is on the northwestern corner of British Columbia. It borders the U.S. state of Alaska and Canadian Yukon Territory. The park has many Grizzly Bears, Glacier Bear, Dall's Sheep, Mountain Goats, Kenai moose, grey wolves, eagles (Bald & Golden), falcons (peregrine & gyr), trumpeter swans, Sea lions, and Humpback whales.

Other websites
Official website on BC Gov.ca

Alaska
Parks in British Columbia
World Heritage Sites in Canada
List of best-selling albums worldwide

This is a list of the world's best-selling albums. The criteria are that the figure must have been published by a reliable source and the album must have sold at least 20 million copies worldwide. Most albums have different estimates of sales. In this list, the highest sales reported for an album is added to the list. Groupings are based on different sales benchmarks. The highest benchmark is for claims of at least 100 million copies, and the lowest are for claims of 20–29 million copies. Albums are listed in order of number of copies sold and by the artist's first name. This list contains all types of albums, including studio, greatest hits, compilation, various artists, soundtrack and remix.

A number of issues make exact figures difficult to calculate, as historical data before the 1980s and from developing countries is incomplete. Also, fans, record companies and the media are prone to making the sales figures higher than they actually are to boost the image of the act.  The list also does not take into account the resale of used albums or as the emergence of illegal downloading of digital music.

Michael Jackson's Thriller is the best selling album of all time. The album is cited as selling as many as 110 million copies worldwide.

Legend

Over 50 million copies

40–49 million copies

30–39 million copies

20–29 million copies

Related pages
RIAA certification

References

Albums
Music-related lists
Nanaimo

Nanaimo is a city in British Columbia with a population of 90,054 (2016).  

The mayor of Nanaimo is Leonard Eugene Krog 

Nanaimo is located on Vancouver Island and is the second largest city on Vancouver Island.

Nanaimo is ranked 62nd overall in the 100 largest municipalities in Canada and is nicknamed the "Bathtub Racing Capital of the World" and the "Harbour City".

References

Other websites
Official city website

Cities in British Columbia
Shibuya Station

Shibuya Station () is a railway station of JR East, Tokyu Corporation, Keio Corporation and the Tokyo Metro in Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan.

Adjacent stations
JR East
 Yamanote Line
Ebisu - Shibuya - Harajuku
 Saikyō Line
Commuter Rapid, Rapid, Local
Ebisu - Shibuya - Shinjuku

 Shōnan-Shinjuku Line
Special Rapid
Shinjuku - Shibuya - Ōsaki
Rapid, Local
Shinjuku - Shibuya - Ebisu
Tokyu Corporation
 Tōyoko Line
Ltd. Exp., Commuter Ltd. Exp., Express
Shibuya - Naka-meguro
Local
Shibuya - Daikan-yama
 Den-en-toshi Line
Express
Through to Tokyo Metro Hanzomon Line - Shibuya - Sangen-jaya
Semi-Express, Local
Through to Tokyo Metro Hanzomon Line - Shibuya - Ikejiri-ōhashi
Keio
 Inokashira Line
Expless
Shibuya - Shimo-Kitazawa
Local
Shibuya - Shinsen
Tokyo Metro
 Ginza Line
Shibuya （G 01） - Omote-sando （G 02）
 Hanzomon Line
Through to Tōkyū Den-en-toshi Line - Shibuya （Z 01） - Omote-sando （Z 02）
 Fukutoshin Line
Express
Shinjuku-sanchome （F 13） - Shibuya （F 16）
Local
Meiji-jingumae （F 15） - Shibuya （F 16）

Other websites

Railway stations in Tokyo
Oakland Tribune

Oakland Tribune is newspaper in Oakland, California. Oakland Tribune is estimated February 21 1874 and today its owned by MediaNews Group.

Newspapers in California
Oakland, California
1874 establishments in California
Loving County, Texas

Loving County is a county in the state of Texas in the United States. It is the United States' smallest county by number of people.  In 2000, only 67 people lived there.  The county seat is Mentone.

The County is named for Oliver Loving, a cattle farmer who, along with Charles Goodnight, developed the Goodnight-Loving Trail. He died of wounds from Comanches while on a cattle drive in 1867 near the county.

References 

Texas counties
I'm Outta Time

"I'm Outta Time" is a single by the rock band Oasis.  The song is featured on their seventh studio album Dig Out Your Soul.  The second single from the album, "I'm Outta Time" was written by lead vocalist Liam Gallagher and released on 1 December 2008.

Composition
The song has similarity, in style, to John Lennon's work in the early 1970s.  The piano which features on the track partly sounds like Lennon's "Jealous Guy".  The song also has a backing piano similar to The Beatles' "A Day in the Life".  Liam jokingly claims that it took him nine years to write the song.

The song features a short speech from John Lennon taken from one of his last interviews in 1980.  The speech sample says: "As Churchill said, it's every Englishman's inalienable right to live where the hell he likes. What's it going to do, vanish? Is it not going to be there when I get back?".

Reception
The song has been noted as one of the highlights of the album, with guitarist Noel Gallagher labeling it "deceptively brilliant".  It has also been praised by music critics, with NME calling it a return to form, and comparing it to the music of Oasis-admired rock band The Beatles.

It charted at #12 in the UK Singles Chart - the first Oasis single to miss the top ten since 1994, ending the band's streak of 22 consecutive top tens.  It has so far spent a total of 24 weeks in the French Singles Chart, the most ever by any Oasis single.  However, the single spent only two weeks in the UK top 75, the least ever by any Oasis single.

Music video
The music video for "I'm Outta Time" was released in November 2008. It was filmed in black and white, and shows Liam Gallagher, the only band member to appear in the clip, on a "surreal journey through a moon-lit English landscape".  At the end of the video, Liam is filmed in a close-up profile shot lying down. This bears resemblance to the back cover artwork for John Lennon's album "Imagine".

Other versions
The song was covered by Lily Allen on BBC's Live Lounge on December 2nd, 2009.

Track listing

Charts

References

Oasis (band) songs
2008 songs
Nick.com

Nick.com is a website created and owned by Nickelodeon. It started in October 1995. The website is an online portal for Nickelodeon content, and has online games, message boards, and individual websites for each show it has broadcast.

Other websites
Nick.com

Nickelodeon
Entertainment websites
1995 establishments
Corey Crawford

Corey Crawford (born December 31, 1984 in Montreal, Quebec) is a Canadian professional ice hockey goaltender. He currently plays for the Chicago Blackhawks of the National Hockey League (NHL). He made his debut with the Blackhawks on January 22, 2006 against the Minnesota Wild.

Crawford also played in the QMJHL for the Moncton Wildcats. On June 24, 2013, He won the Stanley Cup with the Blackhawks after they defeated the Boston Bruins 4 games to 2 in the 2013 Stanley Cup Finals.

Awards 
Stanley Cup (2013) - with the Chicago Blackhawks
William M. Jennings Trophy (shared with Ray Emery) (2012-13)
NHL Second Star of the Week of Jan. 19–27 2013
NHL Star of the Week of Feb. 20–27 2011
NHL All-Rookie Team (2011)
QMJHL Second All-Star Team (2004-05)
QMJHL Telus Defensive Player of the Year (2003-04)
QMJHL Second All-Star Team (2003-04)

References

Other websites 

1984 births
American Hockey League players
Canadian ice hockey goaltenders
Chicago Blackhawks players
Ice hockey people from Quebec
Living people
Moncton Wildcats players
People from Montreal
Stanley Cup champions
Oasis discography

The discography of Oasis, an English rock band, consists of seven studio albums, one live album, two compilation albums, two extended plays (EPs), five video albums and thirty-one singles.

Oasis were formed in 1991 by vocalist Liam Gallagher, guitarist Paul Arthurs (also known as "Bonehead"), bassist Paul McGuigan (also known as "Guigsy") and drummer Tony McCarroll, a unit soon joined by guitarist, vocalist and lead songwriter Noel Gallagher, Liam's older brother. The band's debut album, Definitely Maybe, went straight to #1 in the UK Albums Chart and went on to be certified seven-times platinum by the British Phonographic Industry and platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America and the Canadian Recording Industry Association. Oasis' debut single, "Supersonic", peaked at #31 in the UK Singles Chart.

The follow-up to Definitely Maybe was Oasis' highest-selling album to date; (What's the Story) Morning Glory?.  It was recorded with new drummer Alan White, and is the third highest-selling album in the United Kingdom as of 2006, with 4.4 million units sold. The album was commercially successful, reaching #1 in the UK, Australia, New Zealand, Sweden and Switzerland.  It was certified 14 times platinum by the BPI, four times platinum by the RIAA, eight times platinum by the CRIA and six times platinum by the Australian Recording Industry Association. The first single from Morning Glory, "Some Might Say", was also the band's first #1 single. Oasis' third album, Be Here Now, reached the top spot in the albums charts of nine countries, and was their most successful album in the Billboard 200 where it reached #2. In 1998 the band released The Masterplan, a compilation of B-sides, which reached #2 and was certified platinum in the UK.

Albums

Studio albums

Live albums

Compilation albums

Box sets

Extended plays

Singles

Promotional singles

Other charted songs

Video albums

Music videos

Related pages
The Dreams We Have as Children (Live for Teenage Cancer Trust) (2009)

Notes

References

Other websites

Discography
Discographies
CraveOnline

CraveOnline is an entertainment website. It is based in Los Angeles and has sales offices in New York, Chicago, and San Francisco. The site is owned by media company AtomicOnline.  CraveOnline maintains a network of male-centric sites.

References

Other websites
CraveOnline
AtomicOnline 

Entertainment websites
Companies based in Los Angeles
Wibbling Rivalry

"Wibbling Rivalry" is the title of a single released under the name "Oas*s" by the Fierce Panda record label in 1995. It is a recording of John Harris interviewing brothers Noel Gallagher and Liam Gallagher of Oasis in early 1994.  The musicians live up to their reputation as fighting siblings by getting sidetracked into an argument over an incident that happened on a ferry.  The title is a portmanteau of the expression sibling rivalry and the word wibble.

The single contains a 'Liam Track' featuring predominantly Liam's use of profanities and a 'Noel Track' featuring Noel. "Wibbling Rivalry" holds the record as the highest charting interview release in the UK, reaching number 52 on November 25, 1995.

Track listing
 "Noel's Track"
 "Liam's Track"

References

Oasis (band) songs
1995 songs
William Lloyd Garrison

William Lloyd Garrison (December 13, 1805 – May 24, 1879) was an American abolitionist, meaning he wanted to end slavery in the United States.  He wrote a newspaper called The Liberator. He also worked to allow women to vote. Garrison was born in Massachusetts. He died in New York.

References

1805 births
1879 deaths
American journalists
writers from Massachusetts
American abolitionists
Libertarians
Animation Magazine

Animation Magazine is a monthly publication covering the animation industry, including different reviews about film and television animation, visual effects and video games.

Other websites
 Animationmagazine.net
 Animation Magazine Online TV
 Article on Jason Donati's Unique Teaching Techniques - "Canvassing the Big Screen" by Ellen Wolff – Animation Magazine - December 2006 

American magazines
Animation
Nielsen Media Research

Nielsen Media Research (NMR) is an American company that measures media audiences (people), including television, radio, theatre films and newspapers.

Related pages
Automated Measurement of Lineups (AMOL)
Media Market or Designated Market Area (DMA)

Other websites
'The Nielsen Company' formerly known as VNU Group B.V.
Designated Market Area 
Nielsen Media Research 
The Nielsen Company
VNU Group bv 

Media in the United States
Deus ex machina

Deus ex machina  is the Latin version of an ancient Greek phrase ἀπὸ μηχανῆς θεός. 

The phrase means "the god from the machine". It comes from the theatre of ancient Greece. They had a kind of crane for delivering gods onto the stage on wires.

By extension, the term means a plot device whereby a seemingly impossible problem is suddenly solved by means which do not follow normal logic.

For example, in Euripides' play Alcestis, the heroine agrees to give up her own life in order to spare the life of her husband, Admetus. At the end Heracles shows up and seizes Alcestis from Death, restoring her to life and to Admetus. A more frequently cited example is Euripides' Medea in which the deus ex machina is used to take Medea (who has murdered people and babies) away from her husband Jason to the safety and civilization of Athens.

Aristotle criticized this device in his Poetics. He argued that the resolution of a plot should follow the logic of the play. It should not come from something outside that logic.
"It is obvious that the solutions of plots... should come about as a result of the plot itself, and not from a contrivance, as in the Medea and in the passage about sailing home in the Iliad. A contrivance must be used for matters outside the drama—either previous events which are beyond human knowledge, or later ones that need to be foretold or announced... There should be nothing improbable in the incidents; otherwise, they should be outside the tragedy as, for example, in Sophocles' Oedipus.

There are many examples of the same dramatic device in modern movies and novels. For example, in H.G. Wells's War of the Worlds, the aliens attacking Earth are suddenly killed by bacteria. The movie Monty Python and the Holy Grail makes fun of this plot device when the heroes barely escape from an animated monster because the animator died from a heart attack before finishing the movie's animation. Since the monster only existed in the animated scenes in the movie, the animator's death caused the monster to completely disappear from the movie.

Notes

Books

 Bushnell, Rebecca (ed) 2005. A Companion to Tragedy. Malden, MA and Oxford: Blackwell Publishing. .
 Heath, Malcolm, trans. 1996. Poetics by Aristotle. Penguin: London. .
 Janko, Richard, trans. 1987. Poetics with Tractatus Coislinianus, reconstruction of Poetics II and the fragments of the On Poets Aristotle. Cambridge: Hackett. .
 Mastronarde, Donald 1990. Actors on high: the Skene roof, the Crane and the Gods in Attic drama. Classical Antiquity, 9, pp 247–294. University of California.
 Rehm, Rush 1992. Greek Tragic Theatre. Routledge, London. .
 Tanner, Michael (ed) 2003. The Birth of Tragedy, by Nietzsche, Friedrich. Penguin: London. .
 Taplin, Oliver 1978. Greek tragedy in action. Methuen, London. .
 Walton, J Michael, trans. 2000. Euripides: Medea. Methuen, London. .

Theater
Latin words and phrases
Dig It (Beatles song)

"Dig It" is a song by The Beatles from their album Let It Be. The song is credited to Lennon/McCartney/Harrison/Starkey. It is one of the few songs to be credited to all of the Beatles; the others are "Flying" (Magical Mystery Tour), "Suzy Parker" (Let It Be movie), "12-Bar Original" (Anthology 2), "Los Paranoias" (Anthology 3) and the Beatles' version of "Free as a Bird".

Personnel
 John Lennon – vocal and 6 string bass
 Paul McCartney – piano
 George Harrison – lead guitar
 Ringo Starr – drums
 Billy Preston – Hammond organ
Personnel per Ian MacDonald

Notes

Other websites

 
 
 
 
 

The Beatles songs
1970 songs
Length of day

The length of the day is how long a day is. On Earth, it is 24 hours long. There are other planets with different types of day.

Length of the day on other planets 
This uses Earth time.
 Mercury - about 59 days
 Venus - 243 days
 Earth - 1 day
 Mars - about 1 day, 0.6 hours
 Jupiter - 9 hours
 Saturn - about 10 hours
 Uranus - about 13 hours
 Neptune - about 15 hours

Increasing day length on Earth 
The Earth is constantly losing angular velocity and rotational energy through a process called tidal acceleration, which leads to a slow lengthening of the day. Tidal acceleration is an effect of the tidal forces between an orbiting natural satellite (e.g. the Moon), and the primary planet that it orbits (e.g. Earth).

A century ago, the average day was about 1.7 milliseconds shorter than today. In the late Neoproterozoic about 620 million years ago a day had only about 21.9±0.4 hours.

Related pages 
Sidereal day
Rotation period

References 

Days
Earth sciences
Woman Haters

Woman Haters is the first episode of "The Three Stooges".

Plot 
Moe, Larry, and Curly join a Woman Haters club. When Larry falls in love, Moe and Curly get mad, for he is breaking the rules of the club. Larry eventually gets married and gets kicked out of the club. Several years later, Larry rejoins (Moe and Curly are still members).

Comedy television series
WAZE-TV

WAZE-TV is a TV channel from Evansville, Indiana. It is known as "The C-W 19." It broadcast on digital channel twenty until May 2011, when it stopped operating.

American television stations
Evansville, Indiana
KTUU

KTUU is a TV channel. Its display channel number is 2. It is an NBC channel. It is located in Anchorage, Alaska.

American television stations
Anchorage, Alaska
KPXI

KPXI is a television channel in St. Cloud, Minnesota. It first went on the air in 1982 as KXLI.

American television stations
Minnesota
Adam Birch

Adam Birch (born July 18, 1979) is an American professional wrestler. Birch wrestled in the indies with the name Joey Matthews, and is now working with World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) as a trainer in WWE's developmental territory Florida Championship Wrestling.

Other websites

1979 births
Living people
American professional wrestlers
Former WWE wrestlers
Sportspeople from Virginia
People from Fairfax, Virginia
Independent circuit

In pro wrestling, the independent circuit or indy circuit refers to the many wrestling shows that are much smaller than major wrestling companies, like World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) and Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA). Some popular "indy promotions" are Ring of Honor (ROH), CHIKARA, Dragon Gate USA (DGUSA), and  National Wrestling Alliance (NWA).

Professional wrestling