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Screaming Trees

Screaming Trees were an American grunge band from Ellensburg, Washington.

The band was formed in 1985 by brothers Gary Lee Conner and Van Conner. The band formed because the members had an interest in the punk, garage, and classic rock genres in high school.

They released their debut album, Clairvoyance, on January 1, 1986. The band gained fame from the early 1990s grunge movement along with bands like Alice in Chains, Nirvana, Stone Temple Pilots, Soundgarden and Pearl Jam. The band broke up in 2000.

Band members 
Mark Lanegan - lead vocals, guitar (1985–2000)
Gary Lee Conner - guitar, backing vocals (1985–2000)
Van Conner - bass, backing vocals (1985–2000)
Mark Pickerel - drums (1985–1991)
Barrett Martin - drums, percussion, backing vocals (1991–2000)
Donna Dresch - bass (1988, 1991) (touring)
Sean Hollister - drums (1991) (touring)
Dan Peters - drums (1991) (touring)
Josh Homme - rhythm guitar (1996-1998) (touring)

Discography

Albums
Clairvoyance (1986)
Even If and Especially When (1987)
Invisible Lantern (1988)
Buzz Factory (1989)
Uncle Anesthesia (1991)
Sweet Oblivion (1992)
Dust (1996)
Last Words: The Final Recordings (2011)
 
EPs
 Other Worlds (1985)
 Beat Happening/Screaming Trees EP (1988)
 Something About Today (1990)
 Change Has Come (1991)
 Winter Songs Tour Tracks (1992)

References

Other websites 
Official website

1985 establishments in the United States
2000 disestablishments in the United States
Grunge bands
Musical groups from Washington
1980s establishments in Washington (state)
Musical groups established in 1985
Musical groups disestablished in 2000
2000s disestablishments in Washington (state)
Zizan Razak

Mohammad Razizan Abdul Razak (born 15 April 1984), better known as Zizan Razak, is a Malaysian comedian. He is also a television host, actor, and most recently a rapper and a singer. He has also been in several reality television shows. He was runner-up (second place) in the first season of Raja Lawak (King of Comedy), a competition for comedians. In it he was known as "Zizan Raja Lawak". He was also a participant in Maharaja Lawak (Emperor of Comedy), which was a second series of competitions for the finalists of each season of Raja Lawak. In the show, he was paired (as a team) with Johan Raja Lawak. They were known as "Jozan". They came second in the series, and won RM 250 thousand. Zizan was also in the reality show Super Spontan, which he won and took the prize of RM 100,000 and a Toyota Camry.

Personal
Zizan was born in Dungun, Terengganu. He is the younger of two siblings.

In 2011, Zizan was rumoured to be dating with Juliana Evans after starring together in the movie Hantu Bonceng. They later acted together in Mael Lambong.

Filmography

Television
Bolos
Jozan Show
Funniest Pets & Peoples
Konsert Lawak
Zizan Show
Melodi

Reality shows
Raja Lawak
Spontan
Redah Kasi Pecah
Jangan Lupa Lirik: Raya Raya Raya!! 2010
Anda Ada 60 Saat
Maharaja Lawak
Mega Raya 2011
Super Spontan
Lawak Ke Der?
Lawak Ke Der?2
Clever Edisi Malaysia
Maharaja Lawak Mega 2012

Telemovies
Drogba & Rooney (2011)
Chapalrela
Oh My Ganu (Oh My English)

Controversy

Hantu Bonceng film
Zizan was asked to say sorry for something he said in the comedy Hantu Bonceng in September 2011. It was said to insult Islam. Dewan Pemuda PAS Malaysia condemned what they saw as a clear insult to Allah. They referred to Zizan saying "Ashaduanna Muhammadar...syaitan", which means "I bear witness that Muhammad is ... the devil". Ustaz Azhar Idrus, an Islamic leader in Terengganu, also asked Zizan to repent to Allah.

Awards and nominations

References

Other websites
 Zizan Raja Lawak  in Sinema Malaysia
Akaun Facebook Zizan Raja Lawak 
Akaun Twitter Zizan Raja Lawak
Zizan Fanpage

1984 births
Living people
Malaysian actors
Comedians
Last Exit to Brooklyn (movie)

Last Exit to Brooklyn is a 1989 English-language British-German drama movie, directed by Uli Edel, and based on the novel by Hubert Selby Jr.

Plot
In the 1950s in Brooklyn, a group of prostitutes, unionist activists and drag queens lead difficult lives, an existence of drugs, crime and violence in a working class Brooklyn neighborhood.

References

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1989 drama movies
1980s LGBT movies
American drama movies
American LGBT movies
British drama movies
German drama movies
English-language movies
LGBT drama movies
Movies about domestic violence
Movies about prostitution
Movies based on books
Movies set in Brooklyn
Movies set in the 1950s
Transgender in movies
Movies directed by Uli Edel
Cabin Boy

Cabin Boy is a 1994 fantasy comedy movie directed by Adam Resnick and co-produced by Tim Burton, which starred comedian Chris Elliott. Elliott co-wrote the movie with Resnick. Both men worked for Late Night with David Letterman in the 1980s, as well as co-creating the short-lived FOX sitcom Get a Life in the early 1990s.

The project was originally to be directed by Tim Burton, who had contacted Chris Elliott after seeing Get a Life. Resnick took over after Burton was offered the movie Ed Wood.

Cast
Chris Elliott as Nathaniel Mayweather
Andy Richter as Kenny
David Letterman as Old Salt In Fishing Village (credited as Earl Hofert)
Mike Starr as Mulligan the Giant
Jim Cummings as the Floating Cupcake (voice)
Brion James as Big Teddy
Brian-Doyle Murray as Skunk
Ritch Brinkley as Captain Greybar
Melora Walters as Trina
Bob Elliott as William Mayweather

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1994 movies
American movies
English-language movies
Movies about giants
Skinner (movie)

Skinner is a 1993 independent movie, splatter and slasher motion picture starring Ted Raimi, Traci Lords, Ricki Lake and Richard Schiff.

Synopsis
Dennis Skinner is a likeable decent-looking lad, who is driven by a disturbing childhood; moonlights as a skid row slasher style, serial killer who tends to prey on hookers, in-between those co-workers of his who despise him as he does in return. Who punishes those (he finds offensive) in particular, by flaying his victims alive. On his trail is Heidi, a junkie prostitute, who survived one of his brutal attacks and now strives for revenge.

Cast
 Ted Raimi as Dennis Skinner 
 Traci Lords as Heidi
 Ricki Lake as Kerry Tate
 Richard Schiff as Eddie
 David Warshofsky as Geoff Tate 
 Blaire Baron as Gloria
 Christina Englehardt as Rachel
 Time Winters as Night watchman
 Roberta Eaton as Sandy 
 Dewayne Williams as Earl
 Frederika Kesten as Suzanne
 Sara Lee Froton as Young Woman

Other websites

1993 movies
American independent movies
Martha

Martha is a female given name. It means "mistress" or "the lady". The name has been around through many centuries. Martha of Bethany is a very notable person who has the name. She is described in the Gospel of John and the Gospel of Luke. There are other people with this female name, including Martha Stewart, Martha McSally and Martha Coakley. The name was used for an Atlantic hurricane in 1969.

Given names
Charles Roven

Charles Roven (born August 2, 1949) is an American movie producer. He is known for his works with Batman Begins, The Dark Knight, The Dark Knight Rises, and with Man of Steel.

Roven was born on August 2, 1949. He was married to Dawn Steel from 1985 until her death in 1997. They had one daughter, Rebecca Steel Roven.

Some movies
Batman Begins (2005)
The Brothers Grimm (2005)
Idlewild (2006)
Live! (2007)
The Bank Job (2008)
Get Smart (2008)
Get Smart's Bruce and Lloyd: Out of Control (2008)
The Dark Knight (2008)
The International (2009)
Season of the Witch (2011)
The Dark Knight Rises (2012)
Man of Steel (2013)
Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016)
Suicide Squad (2016)
Wonder Woman (2017)
Justice League (2017)
Wonder Woman 1984 (2019)
Zack Snyder's Justice League (2021)

References

Other websites

1949 births
Living people
American movie producers
Danielle

Danielle is a female given name. It is feminine of the name Daniel. Daniel is Hebrew for "God is my judge". Danielle is a strongly popular female name for certain countries. There are many variants for this name. Famous people by the name include Danielle Steel and Danielle Fishel. This name is currently being used on Atlantic tropical cyclones.

Given names
Carol Castro

Carolina Osório de Castro (born March 10, 1984) is a Brazilian actress.

Career

On TV 
 2003 - Mulheres Apaixonadas .... Gracinha
 2004 - Senhora do Destino .... Angélica
 2005 - Bang Bang .... Mercedita Bolívar
 2006 - O Profeta .... Ruth Ribeiro de Sousa
 2007 - Os Amadores .... Marta
 2007 - Circo do Faustão .... Herself
 2008 - Beleza Pura .... Sheila Cabral Pinto Soares
 2010 - Escrito nas Estrelas .... Mariana
 2011 - Morde & Assopra .... Natália
 2012 - Amor Eterno Amor .... Jacira
 2013 - Amor à Vida .... Sílvia

Other websites 

Brazilian actors
Living people
1984 births
Wally Pfister

Walter C. "Wally" Pfister (born July 8, 1961) is an Academy Award-winning American cinematographer and movie director who is known for his cinematography in Batman Begins, Memento, Moneyball, Insomnia, The Dark Knight, Inception, and in The Dark Knight Rises. He began his directing career in the 2014 movie Transcendence.

Pfister was born on July 8, 1961 in Chicago, Illinois. He was raised both in Chicago and in New York City, New York. Pfister was married to Anna Julien since 1992. They had three children.

References

Other websites
A Conversation with Wally Pfister

1961 births
Living people
Academy Award winners
American cinematographers
Movie directors from Chicago
Movie directors from New York City
Rajbari District

Rajbari (, Rajbari Jela or Rajbari Zila) is a district in central Bangladesh. It is a part of the Dhaka Division.

References

Districts of Bangladesh
Gopalganj District

Gopalganj () is a district of Bangladesh. It is part of the Dhaka Division.

Districts of Bangladesh
Madaripur District

Madaripur is a district in central Bangladesh. It is a part of the Dhaka Division.

Districts of Bangladesh
Shariatpur District

Shariatpur (,  or ) is a district of central Bangladesh. It is part of the Dhaka Division.

Districts of Bangladesh
Kushtia District

Kushtia () is a district in the Khulna Division of west Bangladesh. It is next to the river Gorai.

Districts of Bangladesh
Chuadanga District

Chuadanga (; Chuađaņa) is a district in western Bangladesh. It is a part of the Khulna Division.

Districts of Bangladesh
Meherpur District

Meherpur () is a small district in south-western Bangladesh. It is part of the Khulna Division.

Districts of Bangladesh
Jhenaidah District

Jhenidah is a district in southwestern Bangladesh. It is a part of the Khulna Division.

Districts of Bangladesh
Magura District

Magura () is a district in south-western part of Bangladesh. It is a part of the Khulna Division.

Districts of Bangladesh
Narail District

Narail (, ) is a district in south-western Bangladesh. It is a part of the Khulna Division.

Districts of Bangladesh
Chemical kinetics

Chemical kinetics, also called reaction kinetics, is studying how fast chemical reactions go. This includes studying how different conditions such as temperature, pressure or solvent used affect the speed of a reaction. Chemical kinetics can also be used to find out about reaction mechanisms and transition states.

The basic idea of chemical kinetics is called collision theory. This states that for a reaction to happen, the molecules must hit each other. Ways of increasing the speed of the reaction must therefore increase the number of hits. This can be done in many ways.

With experiments it is possible to calculate reaction rates from which you can get rate laws and rate constants. A rate law is a mathematical expression with which you can calculate the speed of a reaction given the concentration of the reagents.

Order of a reaction 
the equilibrium is dynamic in nature

There are many types of rate laws, but the most common are:
zero-order reaction: the speed does not depend on the concentration
first-order reaction: the speed depends on the concentration of only one reactant
second-order reaction: the speed depends on the concentration of two reactants, or on the concentration of one reactant squared.

From this data, it is possible to think about the mechanism of the reaction. If it is second-order, for example, then it is likely that both molecules in the reaction are coming together during the rate-determining step. This is the most difficult step in the mechanism to go through, because it has the highest activation energy.

Chemical kinetics
Rose McGowan

Rósa Arianna McGowan (born September 5, 1973), better known as Rose McGowan, is an American former actress, model, singer, and author. She is best known to television audiences for her role as Paige Matthews in The WB supernatural drama series Charmed (2001–2006), and also for her recurring role in ABC's long running fantasy series Once Upon a Time as young Cora Mills.

McGowan made her film debut in the comedy Encino Man (1992), wherein she played a small role. Her performance as Amy Blue in Gregg Araki's dark comedy The Doom Generation (1995) brought her wider attention, and she received an Independent Spirit Award nomination for her performance. McGowan appeared as Tatum Riley in the horror film Scream (1996) and starred alongside Ben Affleck in the coming-of-age feature Going All the Way (1997). She appeared in several Hollywood films, including Devil in the Flesh (1998), Jawbreaker (1999), Ready to Rumble (2000), Monkeybone (2001), and The Black Dahlia (2006). McGowan played Ann-Margret, alongside Jonathan Rhys Meyers as Elvis Presley, in the CBS miniseries Elvis (2005). She starred in Planet Terror (2007) and had a supporting role in Death Proof (2007), both part of the double-feature film directed by Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino, Grindhouse. Next, she starred in the crime thriller film Fifty Dead Men Walking (2008).

In 1996, McGowan was the cover model for the Henry Mancini tribute album Shots in the Dark, and she was the face of the American clothing company Bebe from 1998 to 1999. She has also appeared on numerous magazine covers, including Seventeen, Interview, Maxim, GQ, Entertainment Weekly, and Rolling Stone.

After the Harvey Weinstein sexual abuse scandal broke and the #MeToo movement began, McGowan has been a supportive figure speaking out against harassment.

In March 2018, McGowan came out as non-binary. February 2021, McGowan became a permanent resident of Mexico and lives in Tulum, Quintana Roo.

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1973 births
Living people
American feminist writers
American LGBT rights activists
American models
American movie actors
American voice actors
American television actors
American movie directors
American screenwriters
American autobiographers
Singers from Oregon
Writers from Oregon
Actors from Portland, Oregon
Singers from Washington
Writers from Washington
Actors from Seattle, Washington
People from Florence
People with non-binary gender identities
Rose (name)

Rose is a female given name based on the flower.

Origin
This feminine name comes from a late Latin word rosa.

Variants
There are many variants. One of them is Rosemary.

Uses
The name Rose is currently under List One of the Atlantic tropical cyclone names.

Given names
The 300 Spartans

The 300 Spartans is a 1962 Cinemascope movie depicting the Battle of Thermopylae. It was shot in the village of Perachora in the Peloponnese. It stars Richard Egan as the Spartan king Leonidas I, Ralph Richardson as Themistocles of Athens, and David Farrar as Persian king Xerxes. Diane Baker as Ellas and Barry Coe as Phylon provide the romantic element. 

The movie is about a force of Greek warriors led by 300 Spartans which fights against an enormous  Persian army. The Spartans will not flee or surrender, even if it means their deaths. 

When it was released in 1962, critics saw the movie as a commentary on the Cold War. It was impossible to shoot at Thermopylae. The sea had receded about 3 miles farther away from the narrow pass. Some 5,000 members of the Royal Hellenic Army were loaned by the King of Greece to portray both the Spartans and the Persians.

Ancient Greece
English-language movies
1962 movies
American movies
Movies directed by Rudolph Maté‏‎
Transition state

In a chemical reaction, the transition state is the point where there is a maximum value of energy. This energy is called the activation energy. When two or more molecules are mixed, they will hit each other. If they hit with enough energy to go through the transition state, they will react and form new molecules. At the transition state, new bonds are formed while the old ones are broken. In a graph or a drawing, the transition state is often marked with the double dagger ‡ symbol.

It is very difficult to study a transition state. This is because it is so high in energy that the molecules will stay in that form for a very short time, usually femtoseconds. It is important not to confuse transition states with intermediates. Intermediates are found at minimum points of energy, and they can live for a very long time. Like a transition state, however, an intermediate is between reagents and products of a reaction.

Studying transition states is very important to understand reaction mechanisms. There are theories and computer programs that can be used to calculate how the transition state looks like. This is a part of chemical kinetics.

References 

Chemical kinetics
Winged Victory of Samothrace

The Winged Victory of Samothrace (or Nike of Samothrace) is a Parian marble sculpture now in the Louvre, Paris, France.  It is believed to have been made about 190 BC. It was discovered in 1863. It commemorates Nike, the Greek victory in a sea battle near Samothrace. It stands 2.44 m high. The work presents a pose where violent motion and sudden stillness meet. It is notable for its graceful balance and for the rendering of the figure's draped garments, depicted as if rippling in a strong sea breeze.

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Ancient Greece
Ancient Greek marble sculptures
Ancient Greek and Roman statues
Activation energy

The activation energy of a chemical reaction is the minimum energy that is needed to make the reaction happen. It usually has the symbol Ea and it is measured in kilojoule per mole. It can be thought of as a barrier between the reagents and the products of a reaction. The activation energy is the difference in energy between the transition state and the starting reagents.

Arrhenius equation 
This equation is a way of calculating the activation energy. Its form is:

Here, k is the rate constant of the reaction (which can be measured using chemical kinetics), A is a frequency factor, R is the universal gas constant, T is the temperature. If we measure how fast the reaction goes at different temperatures, then we can make a graph and calculate the activation energy using this equation.

Catalysis 
When using a catalyst the activation energy is made smaller. This means that the reaction can go faster at the same temperature. The catalyst does not change the energy of the reagents or the products. Also, the catalyst does not change in the reaction. Therefore, it can be used again and again and only a small amount of a catalyst is needed. 

Chemical kinetics

References
300 (graphic novel)

300 is a graphic novel written and drawn by Frank Miller and colored by Lynn Varley. It tells the story of the Spartans, the Persians, and the Battle of Thermopylae. The individual volumes were collected and reprinted in their entire by Dark Horse in 1999. Publishers Weekly wrote: "Form and content are ideally wedded: Miller's writing is stark, his drawings moody and dramatic, and intensified by Varley's grimly appropriate palette of earth and blood. The reader can see and feel the harshness of both the Grecian landscape and Sparta's battle-worshipping culture, as Miller presents the complex historical moment facing the 300." The novel was made into a movie.

Ancient Greece
Novels
Sacred Band of Thebes

The Sacred Band of Thebes was an elite fighting unit within the ancient Theban army of the 4th century BC. The earliest surviving record of the Sacred Band by name was made in 324 BC. The unit was comprised of 150 male lovers.  It was believed these men would make better warriors. Plutarch (46–120 AD) is the source of the most substantial surviving account of the Sacred Band. In his Life of Pelopidas Plutarch wrote, "Since the lovers, ashamed to be base in sight of their beloved, and the beloved before their lovers, willingly rush into danger for the relief of one another." The band was reportedly organized by the Theban commander Gorgidas in 378 BC. Male couples were originally dispersed throughout the ranks of the army. It was later decided to create a separate squad. The squad played a crucial role in the Battle of Leuctra. It was completely destroyed by Philip II of Macedon in the Battle of Chaeronea in 338 BC.

References

Ancient Greece
Thebes, Greece
Themistocles

Themistocles (?524 BC-?460 BC) was an Ancient Greek Athenian politician and general. He fought against the Persians at the Battle of Marathon as a young man. He later persuaded Athens to build a navy which he commanded in the defeat of the Persians at the Battle of Salamis in 480 BC.

After the war he became unpopular and had to leave. He went to work for the Persian Empire.

References

Ancient Greek military people
Ancient Greek politicians
Generals
Greek shield

The Greek shield of Ancient Greece was called a hoplon or aspis. It was from this word that hoplite (a Greek soldier) is derived. 

A hoplon was a deeply-dished shield made of wood. Some shields had a thin sheet of bronze on the outer face. This was placed just around the rim. In some periods, the shield was decorated. At other times, it remained undecorated. These large shields were designed for a mass of hoplites to push forward into the opposing army, and it was their most essential equipment. The shield was carried in the left hand. It was used by Spartans as a weapon of attack.

Probably the most famous decoration is the Spartan. This was a capital lambda (Λ). From the late 5th century BC onward, Athenian hoplites usually used the Little Owl (Athena's sacred bird). The shields of Theban hoplites were sometimes decorated with a sphinx, or the club of Herakles.

References 

Ancient Greece
Military
Breadfruit

Breadfruit is the name for an evergreen tree in the mulberry family. Originally, the tree grew in Southeast Asia. It has been cultivated and is grown in the tropical and subtropical regions of Asia, Central and South America and the Caribbean. The tree can reach a height of up to . The breadfruit is the fruit of this tree. The fruits contain a lot of starch - much like potatoes; they are ground to make flour, which can then be used for baking.

Ancestors of the Polynesians found the trees growing in the northwest New Guinea area around 3,500 years ago. They gave up the rice cultivation they had brought with them from Taiwan, and raised breadfruit instead. They took the trees with them wherever they went in the Pacific. The exceptions were Easter Island and New Zealand: both places were too cold to grow the trees. Their ancient eastern Indonesian cousins spread the plant west and north through insular and coastal Southeast Asia. In historical times, it has also been widely planted in tropical regions elsewhere.

The Mutiny on the Bounty was caused by breadfruit trees: In 1787, William Bligh was ordered to load a number of these trees on Tahiti and to ship them to the Caribbean; there they would serve as a cheap food for the slaves working on plantations. The main plantations at the time were those of sugarcane. This was the first attempt a government made to grow an economically important plant at a different location. The attempt failed, because the seamen did not understand why the drinking water supply was used to water the plants; they threw the plants overboard.

Bligh was able to ship the trees in a second voyage: Arriving in the Caribbean, he faced a different problem: The slaves there did not accept breadfruit as a replacement for cereals. Bligh won the Royal Society medal for his efforts, even though the introduction was not entirely successful. Although most slaves refused to eat the new food, breadfruit was accepted into the cuisine of Puerto Rico.

References

Moraceae
Robert de Cotte

Robert de Cotte (1656 – 15 July 1735) was a French architect-administrator. He introduced the Rococo style. He was a pupil of Jules Hardouin-Mansart. He later became his teacher's brother-in-law and his collaborator. De Cotte married Hardouin-Mansart's sister. After Hardouin-Mansart's death, de Cotte completed his unfinished projects. These included the royal chapel at Versailles and the Grand Trianon.

Palace of Versailles
French architects
1656 births
1735 deaths
Paolo Veronese

Paolo Veronese (1528 – 19 April 1588) was an Italian painter of the Renaissance. He was a Venetian. He is remembered for paintings such as The Wedding at Cana and The Feast in the House of Levi. He became known as "Veronese" from his birthplace in Verona. His best works are elaborate narratives. These are executed in a dramatic and colorful Mannerist style. They are full of majestic architectural settings and pageantry. His large paintings of biblical feasts are especially notable.

Gallery

Related pages 
 Hercules Room
 List of Italian painters

16th-century Italian painters
1528 births
1588 deaths
Hill Top

Hill Top is a 17th-century Lakeland farm once in the possession of children's author Beatrix Potter. She bought the farm house as a retreat from London in 1896 at a time when she was making a significant amount of money from her stories. She used the farm as a place to develop her stories. Many of these stories (such as Jemima Puddleduck and Tom Kitten) were set on the farm. Farm furniture, the ponds, and other elements were used as props in her books. 

Potter married William Heelis when she was 47. She moved across the road to Castle Cottage. She kept Hill Top though to house her collections of china, the "Two Bad Mice" doll house furniture, and other things. She continued to use the house as a retreat. She willed the houses and a large acreage to the National Trust in 1944. Hill Top is located near Sawrey in Cumbria. It is between Esthwaite Water and Windermere, 2 miles south-east of Hawksmoor.

References 
 Robin Fedden and Rosemary Joekes. 1973. The National Trust Guide to England, Wales, and Northern Ireland. Norton. 3rd edition. pages 138-139.

Buildings and structures in England
The Yew Tree Ball

The Yew Tree Ball () was a masked ball. It was held in the Hall of Mirrors at Versailles on the night of 25-26 February 1745. Fifteen thousand people waited in the Hercules Room for the ball to begin. King Louis XV and several of his gentlemen courtiers attended dressed as topiary yew trees. The ball is notorious for being the venue in which the king made contact with Jeanne-Antoinette Poisson. He had first seen her while hunting at Senart. On 14 September 1745, Poisson was officially presented to the Court as the Marquise de Pompadour. She was the king’s official mistress until her death in 1764.

Gallery

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Palace of Versailles
Flávia Alessandra

Flávia Alessandra Martins da Costa (born June 7, 1974 in Arraial do Cabo) is a Brazilian actress.

References

Other websites 

1974 births
Living people
Brazilian movie actors
Brazilian television actors
Fernanda Montenegro

Arlette Pinheiro Esteves Torres (born October 16, 1929 in Rio de Janeiro) is a Brazilian actress. She is best known for her leading role in Central Station, for which she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress.

References

Other websites 

1929 births
Living people
Brazilian actors
People from Rio de Janeiro
Clock Cabinet

The Clock Cabinet is a room at Versailles. It is one of the rooms in the king's private cabinets. An astronomical clock stands in the room. Louis XV took great interest in astronomy.  The clock shows the time, the day of the week, the month, the year and the moon's quarter. In the crystal globe at the top, the planets can be seen moving around the sun according to Copernicus.

The clock was designed by Claude-Siméon Passemant, the King's engineer. It was made by the clock-maker Louis Dauthiau. The bronze casing was made by Jacques and Philippe II Caffiéri. The clock was used to determine the first official time system throughout the kingdom. The entire fixture measures over two meters tall.

The Academy of Science examined and approved the clock in August 1749. The Duc de Chaulnes presented it to Louis XV on 7 September 1750. It was put in the clock cabinet in 1754. The room actually got its name because of the large astronomical clock dials in the wainscoting. These clocks displayed the sunrises and moonrises every day. The king's scientific interests led him to upgrade that daily experience by having the Passemant clock installed in the room.

In 1692, the room was an Antechamber and part of Louis XIV's Art Cabinet. In 1738, it was remodeled into an oval-shaped drawing room. In 1760, it found its present form. The paneling is by Verberckt and Rousseau.  The overdoors are copies of the Diana story originally painted by Boucher. The furniture in the room includes hunting tables ordered by Louis XV from Slodtz, Foliot, and Roumier. A Sèvres bisque equestrian statue depicting Frederic II stands in the room. Another equestrian statue in the room depicts Louis XV. It is a small copy by Vassé after Bouchardon's statue that stands in the Place de la Concorde.

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Clocks
Palace of Versailles
1754 establishments
18th-century establishments in France
1750s establishments in Europe
Victoria (name)

Victoria is a female given name. It is Latin for victory and feminine for male name Victor. The name Victoria has a lot of variants, such as the short form Vicky. There are several Queens, several Princesses and many other famous people under this female name. As Vicky, the name is being used for Atlantic Basin tropical cyclones.

Given names
Reims – Prunay Aerodrome

Reims – Prunay Aerodrome ()  is an airfield serving the city of Reims. It is  east-southeast of Reims, near Prunay, both communes in the Marne department in the Champagne-Ardenne region in northeastern France.

It is a class D aerodrome open to general aviation traffic with no commercial airline service scheduled. Also, it hosts the factory of Reims Aviation.

Facilities
The airport is  above mean sea level. It has one paved runway which is  long. It also has a parallel unpaved runway measuring .

References

Airports in France
Reims
Tetuin

Tetuin is a flavone. It is a type of flavonoid. It is the 6-O-glucoside of baicalein. It can be isolated from the seeds of Oroxylum indicum, the Indian trumpetflower, known as टेटु tetu in Marathi.

References

Organic compounds
Bulbophyllum evasum

Bulbophyllum evasum is a species of orchid in the genus Bulbophyllum.

References
The Bulbophyllum-Checklist
The Internet Orchid Species Photo Encyclopedia

Flowers
Orchids
Atlantic City, New Jersey

Atlantic City is a city in New Jersey, United States. It officially became a city in 1854 when a new railroad connected it to Philadelphia. Atlantic City is an internationally renowned resort city for gambling, conventions, and leisure. The city also served as the inspiration for the original version of the board game Monopoly. Atlantic City is on Absecon Island on the coast of the Atlantic Ocean.

, the city has a population of 39,558. There were 274,549 people living in the Atlantic City–Hammonton Metropolitan Statistical Area as of the 2010 Census.

The three road routes into Atlantic City are the Black Horse Pike/Harding Highway (US 322/40), White Horse Pike (US 30), and the Atlantic City Expressway. Atlantic City is roughly  south of New York City by road (via the Garden State Parkway),  southeast of Philadelphia.

References 

 
1854 establishments in the United States
19th-century establishments in New Jersey
Wholesale

Wholesale is the sale of large numbers of goods to retailers. The retailer then sells small amounts of the goods to individual users or consumers. A wholesaler often buys goods direct from the factory or the farm. The wholesaler can put together, sort or grade the products. The wholesaler will repack and redistribute the goods in smaller lots. Wholesalers usually have large individual warehouses to do this work. Food wholesalers often are located together at large markets.

Wholesalers used to be closer to where the retail goods were sold than they were to the factories or farms. Since internet sales have increased there are a number of wholesalers setting up near factories in China and Taiwan.

In banking, wholesale banking means services provided to large companies. Retail banking is services provided to small businesses or individuals.

References

Economics
Network News Transfer Protocol

The Network News Transfer Protocol is a computer protocol that was used to create groups that could exchange news articles between people. It is not in very common usage now, but was commonly used in the late 1980s and 1990s. Many internet service providers still provide a NNTP server for their customers, and commerical Usenet services exist.

Computer protocols
Workhouse

The workhouse was a place which offered housing and work to people who did not have any. They began in England and Wales during the 17th century. The first use of the word workhouse was in a report by the mayor of Abingdon in 1631 on the building of a workhouse in the town.

The beginnings of the workhouse go back to the Poor Law Act of 1388. This was designed to help solve a shortage of workers after the Black Death. It made it difficult for them to move about the country, and stopped them from looking for higher paid work somewhere else. This led to the state being responsible for the welfare of the poor. After the Napoleonic Wars there was a lot of unemployment. There was also unemployment caused by machines taking over work from farm workers. In the 1830s' there was also a series of bad harvests. These things put too much pressure on the existing ways of looking after poor people. 

New laws were passed, the New Poor Law of 1834, to try to deal with the problem. People would only be given help if they went into the workhouse to live. Some places hoped to make a profit from the workhouse by using the free labor of the people. Most did not have skills to get normal jobs, so workhouse jobs included breaking rocks into small stones, breaking bones to make fertilizer, or pulling apart old rope to reuse the fibre. This old rope, known as oakum, was used to pack joints in ship building to keep them watertight. A metal spike was used to unpick the rope,, and the nickname for the workhouse was the spike.

Life in a workhouse was not meant to be easy. It was made hard so only the very poor with no hope of finding work would go there for help. However the workhouse did provide free medical care and education for the children. This sort of help was not available to poor people outside the workhouse system.

Towards the end of the 1800s, the workhouses became filled with the old and sick, rather than unemployed poor people. In 1929 the laws were changed and the workhouses became hospitals. Some workhouses were renamed Public Assistance Institutions. These finally disappeared when the National Assistance act of 1948 was passed.

References

Public services in the United Kingdom
History of the United Kingdom
17th-century establishments in Europe
1948 disestablishments in the United Kingdom
Poverty
Ingrid

Ingrid is a name for girls or women. The name comes from Ingfriar in Old Norse. Ing means Norse deity. Friar means beautiful. Many famous people have been named Ingrid. One of them being Ingrid Bergman. Others include Ingrid Cruz and Ingrid Michaelson. A hurricane with the name hit eastern Mexico in September 2013. The storm killed 32 and caused $1.5 billion in damage. The name Ingrid was then retired.

Given names
Facelift (album)

Facelift is the debut studio album by American rock band, Alice in Chains. Facelift was released on August 21, 1990. The album featured the singles "We Die Young", "Man in the Box", "Bleed the Freak" and "Sea of Sorrow".

Facelift became the first grunge album to be certified platinum. It has also gone on to been certified double-platinum by the RIAA for shipments of two million copies in the United States.

Songs

References

Other websites
Facelift at Allmusic

1990 albums
Alice in Chains albums
Heavy metal albums
Hard rock albums
Dirt (album)

Dirt is the second studio album by American rock band, Alice in Chains. Dirt was released on September 29, 1992. The album featured the singles "Would?", "Them Bones", "Angry Chair", "Rooster", and "Down in a Hole".

Dirt is currently the band's highest selling album to date and has gone on to sell 5 million copies worldwide. The album was certified four-times platinum by the RIAA.

Dirt was the final album to feature Mike Starr on bass before he was kicked out of the band and replaced by former Ozzy Osbourne bassist Mike Inez.

The album was also included in the 2005 book 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die and was ranked #1 on Guitar World magazine's top ten list of guitar albums of 1992

Songs

References

Other websites
Dirt at Allmusic

1992 albums
Alice in Chains albums
Heavy metal albums
Alice in Chains (album)

Alice in Chains is the self-titled third studio album by American rock band, Alice in Chains. Alice in Chains was released on November 7, 1995. The album featured the singles "Grind", "Heaven Beside You", "Over Now" and "Again".

The album was certified two-times platinum by the RIAA.

Alice in Chains was the last album to feature lead singer Layne Staley. He was later found dead of a heroin overdose on April 5, 2002. The next album, Black Gives Way to Blue was released in 2009, with new vocalist William DuVall.

The album is sometimes referred to as Tripod because of Jerry Cantrell's three-legged dog on the front cover and Frank Lentini on the back cover.

Songs

References

Other websites
Alice in Chains at Allmusic

1995 albums
Alice in Chains albums
Florence (given name)

Florence is a French or English female given name. It is from the Latin word floreo, which means "I flower". The name also comes from the city of Florence in Italy. It was most popular in the U.S. between 1900 and 1940. It is still popular in Canada and England. The name was used for many tropical cyclones in the Atlantic Basin until 2018.

In 2018 Hurricane Florence struck North and South Carolina. It killed over 50 people. It caused around $18 billion in damage.

Some famous people with the name are Florence Nightingale and Florence Henderson.

Given names
Beauty contest

A beauty contest or beauty pageant, is a public contest to decide which person is the most beautiful. Usually, the entrants are young females, but there are some contests for men. Each contests has its own rules as to who may enter, and what the prizes are. A person who enters a beauty contest or pageant is called a contestant.

The usual reason for holding such contests is to create publicity for the organisation which runs the contest. The contests are often shown on television and reported (with photographs) in newspapers. The first local event was probably in the United States in the late 19th century. 1880 in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware has been claimed.

With most contests the criteria for judging is physical appearance, plus some judgement of personality. "Beauty Queen" is a term often used to describe the winners. Usually the winner acts as a publicity representative for the year following the contest. Examples are:

Miss America
Miss World
Miss Universe
Miss Earth

There are many local events round the world.
Steve Braun

Steve Braun (born August 14, 1976) is a Canadian television and movie actor from Winnipeg, Manitoba. Braun's credits include The Immortal, a TV series in which he and co-star Lorenzo Lamas hunted demons; The Trip, an independent movie about coming of age in the HIV age; and Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle (2004), a major motion picture in which he plays the lead villain. In addition, he starred as Brian Kelly in the 2004 thriller The Skulls III. He also played the role of "Jonsey" in the 2007 thriller movie Wrong Turn 2: Dead End.  He also co-starred in the 2005 horror movie "Pterodactyl" as Willis Bradbury.

Braun was cast in a recurring guest role in The WB series Twins, as Jordan, the love interest of Mitchee Arnold, played by Sara Gilbert. The series was broadcast from September 16, 2005 until May, 2006.

Braun was also in the movie The Skulls III as Brian.

References

Other websites

1976 births
Actors from Winnipeg
Canadian movie actors
Canadian television actors
Living people
Jacques Gabriel

Jacques Gabriel (1667–1767) was a French architect. He designed a lot of buildings in Paris.

Michelle Jacques Gabriel, is a designer, painter, architect and architect of the 17th and 18th centuries. He was one of the most prominent designers of the Versailless Palace in his lifetime. For his unique creativity and selflessness, he has always been attended by Louis XIV And eventually he became a trusted advisor to the king. He made important contributions to the king during his years of service, which is one of the most important works in the construction of the Versailles palace, which once served as the lobby of the fourteenth.

Michel had a mission to build the Versailles Palace throughout his life, he was also the first designer of the city's bridges in Paris. Interestingly, Gabriel's son (Ange Jacob Gabriel) continued his father's journey, and in this regard, like his father, completing the Versailles palace at the time of Louis 14 It has 15 significant roles. The Gabriel family is also home to the Cathedral of La Rochelle, the Royal Opera Royal Opera House and the Petit Trianon Palace, built on the palace of Versailles.

French architects
1667 births
1742 deaths
Isabel

Isabel (or Isabelle) is a female given name. It comes from the Hebrew name Elisheva. Elisheva is often translated to Elizabeth, of which Isabel is a division. There are many royal figures or queens with the name or its variants. There are also many other famous people by Isabel and its related names. As Isabel, this name was used on two Atlantic tropical cyclones. The 2003 storm was so damaging that the name was later retired.

Given names
François Lemoyne

François Lemoyne or François Le Moine (1688 – 4 June 1737) was a French rococo painter. He became First Painter to the King and worked with other artists of the era. However, the excess of work, court intrigues at Versailles, and the death of his wife drove him to madness. He committed suicide in Paris in 1737 by stabbing himself seven times, six months after finishing the ceiling painting "The Apotheosis of Hercules" in the Hercules Room in the Great Apartment of the King. With his death, the fashion of large allegorical ceilings disappeared.

Works
 Louis XV donnant la Paix à l'Europe, Salon de la Paix in Versailles (1727)
 Ceiling of the Salon d'Hercule in Versailles (1736)
 Arch of the Church of Saint-Thomas-d'Aquin in Paris
 Diane chasseresse
 Les Nymphes
 Narcisse
 He also worked at Saint-Sulpice and at the Abbey of Saint-Germain-des-Prés

Gallery

References
 Cours sur la peinture du XVIIIe, 2006, Université Nancy 2
 Xavier Salmon : François Lemoyne à Versailles, Gourcuff, Paris 2001, 

Artists who committed suicide
French painters
Suicides by blade weapons
1688 births
1737 deaths
Michael Winner

Michael Robert Winner (30 October 1935 – 21 January 2013) was an English movie director, producer, writer, editor, actor and restaurant critic. He was known for his work on the Death Wish movie series. 

Winner was born on 30 October 1935 in Hampstead, London, England. His parents were Jewish immigrants: his mother was Polish and his father was of Russian descent. He studied at St Christopher School, Letchworth, and Downing College, Cambridge. He was married to Geraldine Lynton-Edwards from 2011 until his death in 2013. Winner retired in December 2012 and died on 21 January 2013 in Kensington, London, England from a liver illness, aged 77.

References

Other websites 

 
 Profile at BFI's Screenonline
 Profile at Turner Classic Movies

1935 births
2013 deaths
Actors from London
British critics
British movie editors
Deaths from liver disease
Disease-related deaths in London
Jewish British actors
Jewish British writers
Movie directors from London
Movie producers from London
Screenwriters from London
The George Inn

The George Inn is a public house in Southwark, London. It is on the east side of Borough High Street, close to London Bridge. It is the last galleried inn in London. It stands on a site where Shakespeare was said to have once acted in a similar galleried inn. The present inn was built in 1677. It was an important coaching post in the past. Charles Dickens speaks of the inn in Little Dorrit.

The inn's long wooden exterior galleries are the only means of moving from one room to another on the first and second floors. A Victorian coffee room is downstairs. Upstairs, there is a large paneled dining room. The George Inn is owned by the National Trust.

References
 Fedden, Robin and Rosemary Joekes. 1973. The National Trust Guide to England, Wales, and Northern Ireland. 3rd edition. Norton. pgs. 339-340. .

Pubs
Inns
Buildings and structures in London
National Trust properties
The King's Head

The King's Head is a National Trust property in Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, England. The King's Head is a typical coaching inn. It has a large stable yard and an arched entrance high and wide enough to admit coaches. A window in the bar contains 15th century glass depicting angels bearing the arms of Henry VI and his Queen Margaret of Anjou. This glass and some parts of the building date to 1450. An exposed section of wattle-and-daub may be viewed. The King's Head is reached through a narrow passageway at the Aylesbury market square.

Pubs
Inns
National Trust properties
Buildings and structures in England
15th-century establishments in England
Suzuki Baleno

The Suzuki Baleno is a car produced by Suzuki. It was first introduced in 1995, and replaced by the Suzuki Liana in 2001. Suzuki again started making Suzuki Baleno in 2015 and introduced at Frankfurt Motor Show.

Markets 
Suzuki Baleno was first sold in India starting from 24 October 2015 and then sold in Japan starting from 9 March 2016. It became availble in Europe from April 2016 and in United Kingdom from June 2016.

Engine 
It comes with a 3 cylinder 1000cc Petrol engine and has 6 speed automatic transmission. Fuel tank can hold 37 Litres of petrol at a time.

Performance 
Suzuki Baleno has a top speed of 170 kmph and can accelerate from 0 - 100 kmph in 11.4 seconds. It has an average fuel consumption of 14 - 18 kilometres per Litre of petrol.

Safety 
Euro NCAP gave 4 out of 5 stars for the safety of Suzuki Baleno in 2016. It has front and side airbags to cover the head and chest of driver and front passenger. In addition it has automatic braking system to avoid collisions.

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Baleno
Front wheel drive vehicles
1990s automobiles
2000s automobiles