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She Came in Through the Bathroom Window

"She Came in Through the Bathroom Window" is a song written by Paul McCartney (although credited to Lennon/McCartney) and performed by The Beatles on their album Abbey Road as part of the Abbey Road medley.

Origin

McCartney said the song was inspired by Apple scruffs (dedicated fans who would stay outside the Abbey Road studio and the homes of the Beatles), who broke into McCartney's St John's Wood home. Diane Ashley, one of the group, says: "We were bored, he was out and so we decided to pay him a visit. We found a ladder in his garden and stuck it up at the bathroom window which he'd left slightly open. I was the one who climbed up and got in." She then opened the front door to let the others in, and they stole a number of photographs. Another Apple scruff, Margo Bird, remembers being good friends with McCartney - she would often take his dog for walks - and later got a job at Apple Corps. She says that she was asked to get back a certain photograph, which she did.

In the 2006 DVD documentary The Classic Artists Series: The Moody Blues (DVD UK, released October 2006), Mike Pinder, the former keyboard player of Birmingham R&B band The Moody Blues, states that the inspiration for the song actually rests with an incident that happened to them—a groupie climbing into an open bathroom window in the band's home and spending the night with band member Ray Thomas. The next day, Pinder and Thomas told the story to McCartney, who—guitar in hand—strummed and sang "She came in through the bathroom window...".

Recording

The Beatles recorded the rhythm track for this and Polythene Pam as one piece on 25 July 1969. It took them 39 attempts, after which they added lead vocals and re-recorded the drums and bass guitar parts.

On July 28, they added more vocals, guitar, percussion and piano. The song was completed two days later with additional guitar and percussion.

This song was performed directly after "Polythene Pam", the song on the preceding track, without pause.

At the very beginning of the song, in anticipation to the change of meter, John Lennon says "we'll listen to that now... heh-heh" and then shouts "Oh, look out!" A slower, ethereal version of this song, recorded during the Let It Be sessions, appears on Anthology 3.

Personnel
Paul McCartney – lead and harmony vocals, lead guitar
John Lennon – acoustic 12-string guitar, background vocals
George Harrison – bass guitar, background vocals
Ringo Starr – drums, tambourine

Cover versions
 Joe Cocker's cover of this song reached number 30 on the Billboard top 40 in 1970.
 Los Lonely Boys' cover of this song appears on their 2009 tribute EP entitled 1969.

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Golden Slumbers

"Golden Slumbers" is a song by The Beatles, part of the climactic medley on their 1969 album Abbey Road. The song begins the progression that leads to the end of the album and is followed by "Carry That Weight." The two songs were recorded together as a single piece, and both were written by Paul McCartney (credited to Lennon/McCartney).

Recording
McCartney was the lead vocalist. He begins the song in a soft tone, with piano, bass guitar, and string section accompaniment. Starting with the line "Golden slumbers fill your eyes", the drums come in and McCartney switches to a stronger tone. McCartney said, "I remember trying to get a very strong vocal on it, because it was such a gentle theme, so I worked on the strength of the vocal on it, and ended up quite pleased with it."

The main recording session for "Golden Slumbers"/"Carry That Weight" was on July 2, 1969.
John Lennon was not present. He was injured in a motor vehicle accident in Scotland on July 1, 1969, and was hospitalized there until July 6.

Additional vocals were added in an overdub session on 30 July 1969, the same day the first trial edit of the side two medley was created. Lennon did participate in this session. On 15 August, orchestral overdubs were made to "Golden Slumbers" and five other songs on Abbey Road.

Personnel
 Paul McCartney – vocal, piano
 George Harrison – bass
 Ringo Starr – drums
 George Martin – producer, arranger
 Uncredited – twelve violins, four violas, four cellos, double bass, four horns, three trumpets, trombone, bass trombone
Personnel per Ian MacDonald

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Carry That Weight

"Carry That Weight" is a song by The Beatles. Released on Abbey Road and part of the long, climactic medley that closes the album, it has vocals from all four of the Beatles (a rarity in their songs). It is after "Golden Slumbers", and transitions into "The End".

The middle bridge, featuring brass instruments, electric guitar and vocals, repeats the beginning of "You Never Give Me Your Money", but with different lyrics. The ending also repeats the arpeggiated guitar motif from the end of that song, similar to the figure featured in the George Harrison written songs "Here Comes the Sun" and "Badge" (co-written by Harrison and Eric Clapton).

Meaning
Music critic Ian MacDonald said that the lyrics were an acknowledgment by the group that nothing they would do as solo artists would equal what they had achieved together, and they would always carry the weight of their Beatle past. McCartney said the song was about the Beatles' business difficulties and the atmosphere at Apple at the time. In the film Imagine: John Lennon, Lennon says that McCartney was "singing about all of us."

Recording

The Beatles began recording "Golden Slumbers"/"Carry That Weight" as one piece on July 2, 1969. McCartney, Harrison and Starr recorded 15 takes of the two songs while Lennon was in the hospital recovering from a car accident in Scotland.

The rhythm tracks featured McCartney on piano, Harrison on bass guitar and Starr on drums. The best were takes 13 and 15, which were edited together on July 3rd. That day and the next, McCartney overdubbed his lead vocals and rhythm guitar, Harrison added lead guitar, and all three sang the chorus.

On July 30, they added more vocals, including Lennon, who had rejoined the sessions on July 9. More vocals, timpani and drums were overdubbed on 31 July. The orchestra was recorded on August 15.

Personnel
Paul McCartney – vocal, chorus vocal, piano, rhythm guitar
George Harrison – chorus vocal, lead guitar, six- string bass
Ringo Starr – chorus vocal, drums
John Lennon – chorus vocal
George Martin – producer, arranger
Uncredited – twelve violins, four violas, four cellos, one double bass, four horns, three trumpets, one trombone, one bass trombone
Personnel per MacDonald and Mark Lewisohn

Cover versions
 In 1976, The Bee Gees covered the song for the musical documentary All This and World War II. Two years later, they did the same for the movie version of Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band.
 Les Fradkin has an instrumental version included in his 2005 release "While My Guitar Only Plays".
 In 2009, Cheap Trick released Sgt. Pepper Live, which includes the song.
 Orange Bicycle covered this song interloping it with You Never Give Me Your Money.

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Her Majesty (song)

"Her Majesty" is a song written by Paul McCartney (although credited to Lennon/McCartney) that appears on The Beatles' album Abbey Road. "Her Majesty" is the final track of the album and appears fourteen seconds after the song "The End", but was not listed on the original sleeve. As such, it is considered one of the first examples of a hidden track in rock music.

Recording
The song was recorded in three takes on July 2, 1969, before the Beatles started work on "Golden Slumbers"/"Carry That Weight". McCartney sang and played an acoustic guitar. The decision take it from the Abbey Road medley was made on July 30.

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Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (song)

"Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" is a song credited to Lennon/McCartney, and released in 1967, on The Beatles' album of the same name. The song appears twice on the album: as the first song (transitioning into "With a Little Help from My Friends"), and as "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (Reprise)", (which transitions into "A Day in the Life"). As the title track, the lyrics introduce the fictional band that performs in the album.

Since its original album release, the song has also been released on singles, on compilation albums, and has been performed by several other artists including Jimi Hendrix (such as at the Isle of Wight Festival 1970), U2, and a comic interpretation by Bill Cosby.

Song structure
On the Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band album, the song opens to the sound of a loud audience, and an orchestra tuning up, which was taken from the February 10 orchestra session for "A Day in the Life". The crowd sounds edited into the song were recorded in the early '60s by Martin, during a live recording of the stage show Beyond the Fringe. When the song itself begins, the band introduces its members. The song is in G major, with a 4/4 meter. A horn quartet was used to fill out the instrumental sections.

Reprise
"Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (Reprise)" is a repeat of the song at a faster tempo with heavier instruments. While the first track stays largely in the key of G major (except for transient modulation to F and perhaps C in the bridges), the reprise starts in F and modulates back to G. The track opens with a distorted guitar strumming a "Hendrix chord" (dominant 7th sharp 9). McCartney counts 1-2-3-4, and between 2 and 3, Lennon says "bye!".

The idea for a reprise was Aspinall's, who thought that as there was a "welcome song", there should be a "goodbye song". The song contains the same melody as the opening version, but with different lyrics. At 1:18, it is one of the Beatles' shorter songs (the shortest is "Her Majesty" at 0:23). The reprise was recorded on 1 April 1967, two months after the version that opens the album. At the end of the track, Martin's pre-recorded applause sample segues into the real final track of the album, "A Day in the Life".

Personnel
Full version:
Paul McCartney – vocal, bass, lead guitar
John Lennon – harmony vocal, rhythm guitar
George Harrison – harmony vocal, guitar
Ringo Starr – drums
Session musicians – French horns

Reprise:
Paul McCartney – vocal, organ, bass
John Lennon – vocal, rhythm guitar
George Harrison – vocal, lead guitar
Ringo Starr – vocal, drums, tambourine, maracas
Personnel per Ian MacDonald

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With a Little Help from My Friends

"With a Little Help from My Friends" (originally titled "A Little Help from My Friends") is a song written by John Lennon and Paul McCartney, released on The Beatles album Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band in 1967. The song was written for and sung by Beatles drummer Ringo Starr as the character "Billy Shears"; it is ranked #304 on Rolling Stone's list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time. Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr performed this song for the first time together at the David Lynch Foundation Benefit Concert in the Radio City Music Hall, New York on 4 April 2009.

Origins
Lennon and McCartney finished writing this song in mid-March 1967, written as Starr's song for the album. It was briefly called Bad Finger Boogie (later the inspiration for the band name Badfinger), because Lennon composed the melody on a piano using his middle finger after having hurt his forefinger; but in his 1980 Playboy interview Lennon said: "This is Paul, with a little help from me. 'What do you see when you turn out the light/ I can't tell you, but I know it's mine...' is mine."

Lennon and McCartney wrote a tune with a limited range - except for the last note, which McCartney worked closely with Starr to achieve. 
Speaking in the Anthology, Starr insisted on changing the first line which originally was "What would you do if I sang out of tune? Would you stand up and throw tomatoes at me?" He changed the lyric so that fans would not throw tomatoes at him should he perform it live. (In the early days, after George Harrison made a comment that he liked jelly babies, fans would throw them at the Beatles at all of their live shows.)

The song is in the form of a conversation. The other three Beatles sing a question and Starr answers, for example: "Would you believe in a love at first sight? / Yes, I'm certain that it happens all the time."

The band started recording the song the day before they posed for the Sgt. Pepper album cover (29 March 1967), ending the session at 5:45 in the morning.

Personnel
Ringo Starr – vocal, drums, tambourine
Paul McCartney – backing vocal, piano, bass
John Lennon – backing vocal, cowbell
George Harrison – lead guitar
George Martin – producer, Hammond organ
Geoff Emerick – engineer
Personnel per Ian MacDonald

Cultural references
"With a Little Help from My Friends" was played as wake-up music on Space Shuttle Mission STS-61.

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Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds

"Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" is a song written by John Lennon and Paul McCartney  for The Beatles' 1967 album Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band.

Lennon's son, Julian, inspired the song with a nursery school drawing he called "Lucy — in the sky with diamonds". Shortly after the song's release, people realized that the first letter of each of the title's nouns spelled  LSD. Though Lennon denied and mocked the idea of a hidden LSD reference, the BBC banned the song. 

Later, other artists made a cover version of the song. One of them was Elton John, whose 1974 recording was at the top of the Billboards chart for two weeks.

Title and lyrics

Julian's drawing 
According to the Beatles, Lennon's son, Julian Lennon showed his father a nursery school drawing he called Lucy - in the sky with diamonds, depicting his classmate, Lucy O'Donnell. 
Julian said, "I don't know why I called it that or why it stood out from all my other drawings, but I obviously had an affection for Lucy at that age. I used to show dad everything I'd built or painted at school, and this one sparked off the idea..."   Lucy Vodden née O'Donnell died of an immune system disease in 2009.

Lennon was surprised at the idea that the song title was a hidden reference to LSD.

Reviews and legacy 
Rolling Stone magazine described the song as "Lennon's lavish daydream" and music critic Richie Unterberger said "'Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds' was one of the best songs on the Beatles' famous Sgt. Pepper album, and one of the classic songs of psychedelia as a whole. There are few other songs that so successfully evoke a dream world, in both the sonic textures and words." In a review for the BBC, Chris Jones described the song as "nursery rhyme surrealism" that contributed to Sgt. Pepper's "revolutionary ... sonic carpet that enveloped the ears and sent the listener spinning into other realms."

In later interviews, Lennon expressed disappointment with the Beatles' arrangement of the recording, complaining that inadequate time was taken to fully develop his initial idea for the song. He also said that he felt he didn't think that he sang it very well. "I was so nervous I couldn't sing," he told the journalist Ray Connolly, "but I like the lyrics."

A 3.2 million year-old, 40% complete fossil skeleton of an Australopithecus afarensis specimen discovered in 1974 was named "Lucy" because the Beatles song was being played loudly and repeatedly on a tape recorder in the camp.

The White dwarf star BPM 37093, which contains a core of crystallized carbon roughly 4000 km in diameter, is informally named "Lucy" as a tribute to the Beatles song.

Personnel 
 John Lennon – double-tracked vocal, lead guitar
 Paul McCartney – harmony vocal, Lowrey organ, bass
 George Harrison – harmony vocal, lead guitar, acoustic guitar, tambura
 Ringo Starr – drums, maracas
Personnel per Ian MacDonald

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Getting Better

"Getting Better" is a song written by Paul McCartney and John Lennon, based on an original idea by McCartney. It was recorded by The Beatles for the 1967 album Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band.

Lennon on the roof 
One of the recording sessions for "Getting Better" is famous for an incident involving Lennon. During the 21 March 1967 session in which producer George Martin added a piano solo, Lennon complained that he did not feel well and could not focus. He had accidentally taken LSD when he meant to take an upper. Unaware of the mistake, Martin took him up to the roof of Abbey Road Studio for some fresh air, and returned to Studio Two where McCartney and Harrison were waiting. They knew why Lennon was not well, and upon hearing where Lennon was, rushed to the roof to retrieve him and prevent a possible accident.

Personnel
 Paul McCartney – double-tracked vocal, bass
 John Lennon – backing vocal, lead guitar
 George Harrison – backing vocals, lead guitar, tambura
 Ringo Starr – drums, congas
 George Martin – piano, pianette
Personnel per Ian MacDonald

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Fixing a Hole

"Fixing a Hole" is a song mainly written by Paul McCartney (credited to Lennon/McCartney) and performed by The Beatles on the 1967 album Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band.

Recording
The first of two recording sessions for the song was at Regent Sound Studio in London on 9 February 1967 in three takes.

The lead vocal was recorded at the same time as the rhythm track, a change from their post-1963 approach of overdubbing the vocal.

According to McCartney, on the night of the session an unusual man appeared at the gate of McCartney's home and said he was Jesus Christ. After a cup of tea, and after getting him to promise to be quiet and sit in a corner, McCartney brought the man to the recording session. After the session the man left and was never heard from again.

In another version of the story, John Lennon arrived at the studio, found the man hanging around the front door, and it was Lennon who invited him in.

The song is referenced to by Lennon in the last stanza of the song "Glass Onion" ("Fixing a Hole in the ocean"), from The Beatles, released a year later.

In the live-action scene at the end of the 1968 movie Yellow Submarine, Ringo mentions that he gave the other half of the "hole in me pocket" to Jeremy, so that he could "stop his mind from wandering", a direct reference to "Fixing a Hole".

Personnel
Paul McCartney – double-tracked vocal, bass
John Lennon – backing vocal, guitar
George Harrison – backing vocal, double-tracked lead guitar
Ringo Starr – drums, maracas
George Martin – harpsichord
Personnel per Ian MacDonald

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Ian MacDonald

Ian MacCormick (known by the pseudonym Ian MacDonald; 3 October 1948 – 20 August 2003) was a British music critic and author, best known for both Revolution in the Head, his critical history of The Beatles.

1948 births
2003 deaths
British writers
She's Leaving Home

"She's Leaving Home" is a song, written by John Lennon and Paul McCartney and released in 1967 on The Beatles album Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. McCartney wrote and sang the verse and Lennon the chorus. This was one of a handful of songs of the Beatles in which the members did not play any instruments.

Background
Paul McCartney:

The newspaper story McCartney mentioned was from the front page of the Daily Mirror, about a girl named Melanie Coe. Although McCartney made up most of the content, Coe, who was 17 at the time said that he got most of it right. Her parents wondered why she had left... "She has everything here." In real life, Melanie did not "meet a man from the motor trade", but instead a croupier, and left in the afternoon while her parents were at work. She was found ten days later because she had said where her boyfriend worked.

Coincidentally, Coe had met McCartney three years earlier when she was a contestant and prize winner on ITV's Ready Steady Go!. An update on Melanie appeared in the Daily Mail in May 2008.

Recording

The day before McCartney wanted to work on the string arrangement, he learned that George Martin was not available to do the score. He contacted Mike Leander, who did it in Martin's place. It was the first time a Beatle song was not arranged by Martin (and the only time it was done with the Beatles' consent: Phil Spector's orchestration of Let It Be was done without McCartney's knowledge). Martin was hurt by McCartney's actions, but he produced the song and conducted the string section. The harp was played by Sheila Bromberg, the first female musician to appear on a Beatles record.

The stereo version of the song runs at a slower speed than the mono mix, and consequently is a semitone lower in pitch. This is mentioned in the booklet accompanying The Beatles in Mono CD box set, but no reason is given. A 2007 Mojo magazine article revealed the mono mix was sped up to make Paul sound younger and tighten the track.

Critical reception

When discussing Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, composer Ned Rorem described "She's Leaving Home" as "equal to any song that Schubert ever wrote."

Personnel

Paul McCartney – double-tracked lead vocals
John Lennon – double-tracked backing vocals
Mike Leander – string arrangement
George Martin – conductor, producer
Erich Gruenberg – violin
Derek Jacobs – violin
Trevor Williams – violin
Jose Luis García – violin
John Underwood – viola
Stephen Shingles – viola
Dennis Vigay – cello
Alan Dalziel – cello
Gordon Pearce – double bass
Sheila Bromberg – harp
Personnel per Ian MacDonald

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Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite!

"Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite!" is a song from the 1967 album by The Beatles, Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. It was composed mainly by John Lennon with input from Paul McCartney and credited to Lennon/McCartney.

Inspiration

 
Lennon wrote the song taking inspiration from a nineteenth century circus poster for Pablo Fanque's circus which he purchased in an antique shop on 31 January 1967 while filming the promotional video for the song "Strawberry Fields Forever" in Kent. Lennon said that "Everything from the song is from that poster, except the horse wasn't called Henry." (The poster idenitifies the horse as "Zanthus".) Mr. Kite is believed to be William Kite, who worked for Pablo Fanque from 1843 to 1845.

Personnel

John Lennon: double-tracked lead vocals and harmony vocals; Hammond organ; tape loops and harmonica.
Paul McCartney: lead guitar and bass.
George Harrison: piano and tambourine.
Ringo Starr: drums; tambourine; and harmonica.
George Martin: harmonium, Lowrey organ, glockenspiel and tape loops.
Mal Evans: harmonica.
Neil Aspinall: harmonica.
Geoff Emerick: tape loops.

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Within You Without You

"Within You Without You" is a song written by George Harrison and released on The Beatles' 1967 album, Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band.

Composition
"Within You Without You" features only Harrison and a group of uncredited Indian musicians, although producer George Martin arranged the string section, and Harrison and assistant Neil Aspinall played the tambura. According to Prema Music, dilrubha player Amrit Gajjar played on the track. It is the second of Harrison's songs to be explicitly influenced by Indian classical music, after "Love You To", and Harrison's only composition on Sgt. Pepper. "Within You Without You" was written on a harmonium at the house of long-time Beatles friend Klaus Voormann, while "there were lots of joints being smoked".

Stephen Stills was so impressed by the lyrics that he had them carved on a stone monument in his yard. John Lennon said it was"one of George's best songs."

Personnel
 George Harrison – lead vocal, tambura, sitar
 Session musicians – swarmandal, dilruba, tabla
 Erich Gruenberg, Alan Loveday, Julien Gaillard, Paul Scherman, Ralph Elman, David Wolfsthal, Jack Rothstein Jack Greene – violin
 Reginald Kilbey, Allen Ford, Peter Beavan – cello

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Rocks (album)

Rocks is the fourth album by American rock band Aerosmith, released May 3, 1976. Allmusic described Rocks as having "captured Aerosmith at their most raw and rocking". Rocks also ranked #176 on Rolling Stone'''s list of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time and is also noted in musician Kurt Cobain's top 50 favorite albums in his journals.  Also, it has greatly influenced several people in the hard rock and heavy metal community, including members of Guns N' Roses and Metallica.

Songs from the album
Side one

Side two

Influence in music
 Slash says that "Rocks" was the album that changed his life.
 Rocks was one of Kurt Cobain's favorite albums, as he listed in his Journals.
 In 2003, the album was ranked number 176 on Rolling Stone'' magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time.
 Mötley Crüe songwriter and bassist Nikki Sixx refers to it frequently in his book The Heroin Diaries.

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Aerosmith
Walk This Way

"Walk This Way" is a song by American hard rock group Aerosmith. It is a very popular song, and it was made even more popular when it was covered by Run–D.M.C.

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Aerosmith
Sauber Petronas Engineering

Sauber Petronas Engineering AG was a company owned jointly by the Swiss racing car manufactor Sauber (60%) and the Malaysian oil company Petronas (40%). The company was founded for the sole purpose of building engines to the Sauber Formula One team.

The engines were for many years nearly identical to the ones used by Ferrari but were branded (named) Petronas. Sauber licensed nearly every part from Ferrari and even had several Ferrari engineers on staff. 

The company also helped developing motorcycles like Petronas FP1.

Formula One engine manufacturers
Companies of Switzerland
Malaysia
Anglo-Saxon charters

Anglo-Saxon charters are documents from the early medieval period in Britain which usually make a grant of land or record a privilege. They are usually written on parchment in Latin.

Other websites 
 Anglo-Saxons.net Charters Searchable database of Anglo-Saxon Charters

Anglo-Saxons
Book of Wisdom

The Book of Wisdom (also called Wisdom of Solomon or just Wisdom) is one of the books of the Old Testament. It has been grouped among the Septuagint, or the seven wisdom books of the Bible. It is part of the Catholic and Orthodox Biblical canon, put forward by the Council of Carthage in 397 and confirmed by Catholic leaders at the Council of Trent in 1546. It was written by a Jew in Ancient Egypt in the 1st century BC and talks about wisdom among other themes.

Who wrote the book and when
The book was initially written in the Greek language, but has the style of Hebrew poetry. Tradition says that King Solomon wrote the book, but scholars reject this tradition. The Catholic Encyclopedia says: "It is freely admitted that Solomon is not the writer of the Book of Wisdom, which has been ascribed to him because its author, through a literary fiction, speaks as if he were the Son of David.".

The book has the most classical Greek language of all the books in the Septuagint. It also had much of the Hebrew style that had existed when the book was written. The writer also must have been deeply involved in the philosophical, religious, and ethical writings in Hellenistic Alexandria.

References

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Wisdom of Solomon - King James version from University of Virginia 
The Book of Wisdom - Full text (Douay-Rheims version) from http://St-Takla.org (also available in Arabic)
The Book of Wisdom - Latin Vulgate with Douay-Rheims version side-by-side
The Book of Wisdom  - Latin Vulgate
The Book of Wisdom - Septuagint Greek text
Catholic Encyclopedia: Book of Wisdom
Jewish Encyclopedia: WISDOM OF SOLOMON, BOOK OF THE
NT Allusions to Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha 
St. Bonaventure's Commentary on the Book of Wisdom 
Naphtali Herz Wessely's commentary on the Wisdom of Solomon 
archive.org - mp3-version of 'The Book of Wisdom', chapters 1-10 and chapters 11-19

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Cooktown, Queensland

Cooktown is the northernmost town on the east coast of Australia. In 2006, there were 2093 people living in the town. It is at the mouth of the Endeavour River, on Cape York Peninsula in north Queensland. Cooktown is named after the English explorer, Captain James Cook, and the Endeavour River is named after his ship, the Endeavour.

Its population of 2000 doubles each June as the community re-enact Cook’s historic landing, complete with replica ship, cannon fire and period costume.

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Endeavour River

The Endeavour River on Cape York Peninsula in north Queensland, Australia, was named in 1770 by the English explorer, Captain James Cook. He had been forced to put his ship, HM Bark Endeavour, onto the beach at the river mouth so that it could be repaired. The ship had been damaged by coral on the Great Barrier Reef. The Aboriginal Australians, the Guugu Yimithirr people, called the river Wabalumbaal. 

Cook and his crew stayed for seven weeks and met with the Guugu Yimithirr. The word "kangaroo" was a Guugu Yimithirr word for the animal which Cook wrote down in his diary. The naturalists Joseph Banks and Daniel Solander made big collections of native plants and flowers, while Sydney Parkinson made pictures of the flora and fauna of the region. 

The Endeavour River is very wide at its mouth where it meets the sea. Upstream it quickly branches into many small creeks. There are 25 species of mangrove grwoing along the river. Saltwater crocodiles live in the river, and can often be seen on the banks during the winter in June and July. In October 2008, a man fishing for crabs on the river bank was taken by a crocodile. At first people thought it was a big crocodile, more than six metres in length. But his remains were later found inside a  crocodile. The river is also a good place to go fishing for barramundi. 

In recent years, tilapia fish, which are a "noxious  species" in Australia, have moved into the river in large numbers. Scientists are worried that this will harm the numbers of native fish. These fish, which are often farmed for food in other countries, are listed in the worst 100 introduced species. A person in Australia owning or selling a tilapia could be fined up to AU$11,000.

There is now a town, Cooktown, at the mouth of the Endeavour River. About 2000 people live in the town. Cooktown is the northernmost town on the east coast of Australia. It was first settled in 1873, at the site of Cook's landing. It was a port for the newly discovered Palmer River Goldfields. Some of the relatively undisturbed natural features near the mouth of the river have been protected as a Queensland National Park, the Endeavour River National Park.

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Rivers of Queensland
Lil Jon

Jonathan Smith , also known as Lil Jon (born January 17 1971) is an American rapper, record producer and DJ. He is a former member of the group Lil Jon & the East Side Boyz. He formed the group in 1997. Lil Jon is known for shouting the words: "OK!", "What?!", and "Yeah!". His main hit was "Turn Down for What" featuring on the track by DJ Snake. He writes a blog on NHL.com about the Atlanta Thrashers. He is a fan of the team.

Albums

With The East Side Boyz

As a Solo artist

Other websites

 Official website

1971 births
Living people
African American musicians
Rap musicians from Georgia
Singers from Atlanta, Georgia
Actors from Atlanta, Georgia
American movie actors
Grammy Award winners
J.J. Redick

Jonathan Clay "J.J." Redick (born June 24, 1984 in Cookeville, Tennessee) is an American professional basketball player. He is currently a shooting guard for the Los Angeles Clippers of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He has also played for the Orlando Magic from 2006 until 2013 and for the Milwaukee Bucks in 2013. Redick was born in Cookeville, Tenneesee, and played college basketball for four years at Duke University.

On July 10, 2013, the Clippers picked up Redick in a sign-and-trade, three-team deal which also involved the Milwaukee Bucks and Phoenix Suns. Redick was reported to have signed a four-year, $27 million contract.

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1984 births
American basketball players
Living people
Los Angeles Clippers players
Milwaukee Bucks players
Orlando Magic players
Sportspeople from Tennessee
American Christians
Philadelphia 76ers players
Redman (rapper)

Reginald "Reggie" Noble better known under his stage name Redman (born April 17, 1970) is an American rapper and businessman who is known for his work with Method Man.

Discography 
 Whut? Thee Album (1992)
 Dare Iz a Darkside (1994)
 Muddy Waters (1996)
 Doc's da Name 2000 (1998)
 Malpractice (2001)
 Red Gone Wild (2007)

Other websites 
 His Official Website 

Rap musicians from New Jersey
1970 births
Living people
Singers from New Jersey
Actors from New Jersey
American movie actors
Liv Ullmann

Liv Johanne Ullmann (born 16 December 1938) is a Norwegian actress particularly associated with movies by Swedish director Ingmar Bergman.

Life and career
Ullmann was born in Tokyo, Japan, to Norwegian parents. The family moved to Toronto when she was two. Her father was an engineer and after his death in 1946, Ullmann returned to Norway with her mother and older sister, where they settled in Trondheim. 

After high school, she decided on an acting career. She applied and was turned down twice at the National Theater School in Oslo. She nonetheless persevered and after some studies at the Webber School of Acting in London, she eventually found work with a repertory theatre company in Stavenger. She also began appearing in bit parts in movies and on television. 

She got her first major break when she met Swedish director Ingmar Bergman who offered her a role in his movie Persona (1966), opposite Bibi Anderson. She became his muse and lover and went on starring in several of his movies to considerable acclaim; Hour of the Wolf (1968), Shame (1968), The Passion of Anna (1969), Cries and Whispers (1972), Scenes of a Marriage (1973), Face to Face (1975), The Serpent's Egg (1977), Autumn Sonata (1978) and Saraband (2003).

She also appeared in Jan Troell's epic movie The Emigrants (1971) and its sequel The New Land (1972), which earned her an Academy Award nomination as best actress. 

After her break up with Bergman in the early 1970s, she went to Hollywood and appeared in movies such as Pope Joan (1972), New Horizons (1973), Forty Carats (1973), The Abdication (1974), Zandy's Bride (1974), but failed to establish herself as the new Nordic star like Greta Garbo and Ingrid Bergman before her.

She published two autobiographies Changing (1977) and Choices (1984), in which she candidly discussed her life and career. 

In the 1990s, she turned to directing with movies including Sofie (1992) and Kristin Lavransdotter (1995). She also worked as a goodwill ambassador for UNICEF. 

Miss Ullmann has a daughter Linn Ullmann (born in 1966) with Ingmar Bergman, and two grandchildren.

References

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1938 births
Living people
Actors from Tokyo
Actors from Toronto
Autobiographers
Golden Globe Award winning actors
Norwegian movie directors
Norwegian entertainers
Norwegian movie actors
Norwegian television actors
Norwegian voice actors
Dinner for Schmucks

Dinner for Schmucks is a 2010 American comedy movie that is produced by Walter F. Parkes, Laurie MacDonald and Jay Roach and directed by Jay Roach. It is a remake of the 1998 French black comedy movie, The Dinner Game.

Cast 
 Steve Carell as Barry Speck
 Paul Rudd as Tim Conrad
 Zach Galifianakis as Therman Murch
 Jemaine Clement as Kieran Vollard
 Jeff Dunham as Lewis / Debbie
 Bruce Greenwood as Lance Fender
 Ron Livingston as Caldwell
 Chris O'Dowd as Marco
 Lucy Punch as Darla
 Stéphanie Szostak as Julie
 David Walliams as Martin Mueller
 Lucy Davenport as Birgit Mueller
 Kristen Schaal as Susana
 Andrea Savage as Robin
 Larry Wilmore as Williams
 Nick Kroll as Josh
 Patrick Fischler as Vincenzo
 Octavia Spencer as Madame Nora
 P. J. Byrne as Davenport

Rating
Dinner for Schmucks received mixed reviews:

Rotten Tomatoes - 5.9/10 (50%)
Metacritic - 56/100
Roger Ebert - 3/5

References

Other websites
Dinner for Schmucks' Official website 

2010 comedy movies
2010s movie remakes
American comedy movies
American movie remakes
English-language movies
Teddy Pendergrass

Teddy Pendergrass (real name: Theodore DeReese "Teddy" Pendergrass) (born March 26, 1950 – died January 13, 2010) was an American R&B and soul singer/songwriter. Pendergrass was paralyzed from the waist down when he was severely injured in an car accident in Philadelphia in 1982.

He died on January 13, 2010 of respiratory failure and is buried at West Laurel Hill Cemetery.

Albums
Teddy Pendergrass released 13 studio albums during his career:

Websites
Teddy Pendergrass' Official website 

1950 births
2010 deaths
Singers from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Musicians from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Deaths from respiratory failure
Barry White

Barry Eugene White (born September 12, 1944 – died July 4, 2003) was an American soul singer and songwriter. White was known for his rich bass voice. He won two Grammy Awards.

White was African American. He was born in Galveston, Texas and grew up in Los Angeles, California.

He died on July 4, 2003 of kidney failure and was cremated. His ashes were scattered by the California coast.

Albums
Barry White released 19 studio albums during his career:

References 

1944 births
2003 deaths
African-American singers
American R&B singers
Singer-songwriters from California
American soul musicians
Deaths from renal failure
Disease-related deaths in Los Angeles
Grammy Award winners
People from Galveston, Texas
American soul singers
Singers from Los Angeles
Singers from Texas
Story of the Year

Story of the Year is an American alternative rock band. They formed in 1995 in St. Louis. The members of the group are Dan Marsala, the singer, Ryan Phillips, who plays the Guitar, Philip Sneed, who plays the guitar, Adam Russell, who plays the Bass guitar and Josh Wills, who plays the Drums. The band's original name was 67 North but was then changed to Big Blue Monkey and was again changed to Story of the Year.

Discography

Studio albums
2003: Page Avenue
2005: In the Wake of Determination
2008: The Black Swan
2010: The Constant
2013: Page Avenue: 10 Years and Counting
2017: Wolves

Live and compilation albums
 2005: Live in the Lou/Bassassins
 2008: Our Time Is Now

References

Other websites
Story of the Year's official website

American rock bands
American punk bands
Post-hardcore bands
Musical groups from Missouri
Musical groups established in 1995
1995 establishments in the United States
1990s establishments in Missouri
Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Blue Rescue Team and Red Rescue Team

Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Blue Rescue Team and Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Red Rescue Team are a type of Rougelike video games developed by Chunsoft and published by Nintendo. The game starts out when your character is turned into a Pokémon and you become friends with another Pokémon and form a rescue team and try to be the best rescue team there is. You can take jobs from bulletin board, get them from the mailbox or encounter them in story progression by completing a job the player then gets a reward afterwards.

Sequel 

A sequel to the two games were made in 2007 for the Nintendo DS titled Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Time and Explorers of Darkness.

Other websites 
 Official website

2005 video games
Game Boy Advance games
Nintendo DS games
Ray Lewis

Ray Anthony Lewis, Jr. (born May 15, 1975) is a former American football player. He played linebacker in the National Football League (NFL). He played his entire career for the Baltimore Ravens from 1996 to 2013. He played for the University of Miami in college. Lewis was drafted by the Baltimore Ravens with the 26th pick in the first round of the 1996 NFL Draft. Lewis was the MVP of Super Bowl XXXV making 11 tackles, 6 assists, and blocked 4 passes. He was the first linebacker to win the Super Bowl MVP award on the winning team.

Childhood
Lewis grew up in Ohio

College football
Lewis played for the Miami Hurricanes in college as a middle linebacker. Even though critics often said he was too small, Lewis became known for his intimidating style of play. He wore #52 on his jersey.

Professional career

Baltimore Ravens
Lewis was drafted 26th oveall in the 1st Round of the 1996 NFL Draft by the Baltimore Ravens. Four years later, Lewis was a Super Bowl MVP when Baltimore defeated the New York Giants in Super Bowl XXXV. In that Super Bowl-winning 2000 NFL season, Lewis was part of a famous linebacker group that also had outside linebackers Jamie Sharper and Peter Boulware. Lewis was elected as the NFL Defensive player of the Year in 2000, and won it again in 2003.

Throughout his career, Lewis has built a reputation as one of the best players in NFL history. In 2011, Lewis ranked #8 on the NFL's list of top 100 players. In his 16-year career, Lewis registered 1,993 tackles (1,514 solo), 40.5 sacks, intercepted 31 quarterback passes (returned for a total of 503 yards), and three touchdowns (including postseason).

On January 2, 2013, Lewis said that he intends retire from professional football after the 2012–13 NFL playoffs.

Personal

Lewis is a self-proclaimed Christian. He lives in Maryland, USA. In 2001, Lewis started the Ray Lewis Foundation, which helps struggling young people. Lewis is respected by Baltimore. He has a street named after him, "#52 Avenue."

References

Other websites
 Ray Lewis' Official website
 Ray Lewis at baltimoreravens.com 
 Ray Lewis ESPN Profile

1975 births
Living people
Baltimore Ravens players
American football linebackers
Sportspeople from Florida
American Christians
African American players of American football
National Football League broadcasters
Marty Turco

Marty Vincent Turco (born August 13, 1975) is a Canadian former ice hockey goaltender. He played 11 seasons in the National Hockey League (NHL). He played for the Dallas Stars, Chicago Blackhawks, and the Boston Bruins. He currently works as an in-studio analyst for the NHL Network.

He has won the Roger Crozier MBNA Saving Grace Award twice. He is also tied with Felix Potvin, Ed Belfour, Martin Brodeur, Jean-Sébastien Giguère, and Michael Leighton for the NHL record of Most shutouts in a playoff series with 3.

References

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1975 births
Canadian ice hockey goaltenders
Boston Bruins players
Chicago Blackhawks players
Dallas Stars players
Ice hockey people from Ontario
Living people
International Hockey League (1945–2001) players
Swedish Hockey League players
Ray Rice

Raymell "Ray" Rice (born January 22, 1987 in New Rochelle, New York) is an American football running back. He is currently suspended indefinitely from the National Football League (NFL). He played for the Baltimore Ravens from 2008 until he was released on September 8, 2014.

He was drafted out of the Rutgers University by the Baltimore Ravens with the 55th pick in the second round of the 2008 NFL Draft. Rice was selected for his very first Pro Bowl in 2009. He also was in the 2011 and 2012 Pro Bowl. He won Super Bowl XLVII with the Ravens when they defeated the San Francisco 49ers 34-31.

Assault & indefinite suspension
On March 27, 2014, Rice was arrested and indicted for third-degree aggravated assault after an incident at the Revel Casino in Atlantic City, New Jersey where he punched his then-fiancée (now wife) Janay Palmer in the face. The punch knocked her unconscious. A video posted by TMZ showed Rice dragging Palmer's body out of an elevator.

On March 27, 2014, Rice was indicted by a grand jury on third-degree aggravated assault, with a possible jail sentence for three to five years and a fine of up to $15,000. Rice married Palmer on March 28, 2014. On July 25, 2014, Rice was suspended for the first two games of the 2014 NFL season for the incident. After Rice agreed to undergo court-supervised counseling, the charges were dropped.

On September 8, 2014, another video was released by TMZ that featured additional footage from an elevator camera that showed Rice punching Palmer. After seeing this, the Baltimore Ravens terminated Rice's contract and shortly afterward, NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell announced that Rice had been suspended indefinitely from the NFL.

References

Other websites
Ray Rice at NFL.com
Ray Rice at Pro-Football Reference

1987 births
Living people
African American players of American football
American football running backs
Baltimore Ravens players
Sportspeople from New York
People from New Rochelle, New York
Marpa Lotsawa

Marpa Chökyi Lodrö (1012–1097)  was a Tibetan Buddhist lama, the first one who established the Kagyu tradition in Tibet. He is known also as Marpa Lotsawa, which means translator. Not only did he translate Buddhist texts, but he also made a complete system of methods to reach Enlightenment, or the state of a Buddha. Marpa made three difficult journeys to India and spent about twenty years there. He received teachings and oral transmission of many gurus. Most important among them are Naropa and Maitripa. His main student and successor to his lineage is Milarepa.

1012 births
1097 deaths
Tibetan Buddhist lamas
Keith Urban

Keith Lionel Urban (born 26 October 1967 in Whangarei, New Zealand) is a New Zealand-born Australian-American Grammy Award winning country music singer and songwriter judge in American Idol.

Personal life
Urban is married to actress Nicole Kidman. They met at G'Day LA, a Hollywood event honoring Australians. The couple have two daughters: Sunday Rose Kidman Urban (born 7 July 2008) and Faith Margaret Kidman Urban (born 28 December 2010).

Albums

References

Other websites
Keith Urban's official website

1967 births
Living people
Australian country musicians
Australian guitarists
Australian singer-songwriters
Grammy Award winners
Musicians from Queensland
New Zealand singers
People from North Island
Kenny Chesney

Kenneth Arnold "Kenny" Chesney (born March 26, 1968) is an American country music singer. Chesney has won many CMT awards and many other country music awards.

As late as 2021 he had songs on Billboard's Country Airplay and Hot Country Songs music charts.

Early life
Chesney was born on March 26, 1968, in Knoxville, Tennessee, at St. Mary's Medical Center. He was raised in Luttrell. He is of English and Irish ancestry. He is the son of David Chesney, a former elementary school teacher, and Karen Chandler, a hair stylist in the Knoxville area. Chesney has one sibling, a younger sister named Jennifer Chandler. In 1986 Chesney graduated from Gibbs High School where he played baseball and football. Chesney received his first guitar, "The Terminor," for Christmas and began teaching himself to play. Chesney studied advertising at East Tennessee State University in Johnson City, TN, where he was a member of the ETSU Bluegrass Program and the Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity.

Personal life
Chesney married actress and producer Renée Zellweger briefly in 2005 until Zellweger filed an annulment letter.

Discography
Singles

"Beer in Mexico" (2007)

"Everything's Gonna Be Alright" (2017)
"Happy Does" (2020)
"Knowing You" (2021)

Christmas songs
"All I Want for Christmas Is a Real Good Tan" (2003)

Studio albums
1994: In My Wildest Dreams
1995: All I Need to Know
1996: Me and You
1997: I Will Stand
1999: Everywhere We Go
2002: No Shoes, No Shirt, No Problems
2003: All I Want for Christmas Is a Real Good Tan
2004: When the Sun Goes Down
2005: Be as You Are (Songs from an Old Blue Chair)
2005: The Road and the Radio
2007: Just Who I Am: Poets & Pirates
2008: Lucky Old Sun
2010: Hemingway's Whiskey
2012: Welcome to the Fishbowl
2013: Life on a Rock
2014: The Big Revival
2016: Cosmic Hallelujah
2018: Songs for the Saints

Related pages
List of country musicians from Tennessee

References

Other websites
Kenny Chesney's Official website

1968 births
Living people
Country musicians from Tennessee
People from Knoxville, Tennessee
Singers from Tennessee