cyanic-selkie/wikianc huggingface dataset:
Chernihiv Oblast
Chernihiv Oblast (Чернігівська область) is an oblast (province) of northern Ukraine. The administrative centre is Chernihiv. The population of Chernihiv Oblast was 1,061,000 in 2014.
Brickhouse Brown
Frederick Seawright (August 11, 1960 – July 29, 2018) was an American professional wrestler, better known by his ring name Brickhouse Brown. He was born in Wilmington, Delaware. He was a top heel in Southern promotions in the 1980s and 1990s.
In March 1987, Brown went to Memphis, Tennessee to wrestling for Championship Wrestling Association. In April 1990, he won the USWA World Tag Team Championship with Sweet Daddy Falcone, defeating The Southern Rockers.
Brown was diagnosed with prostate cancer in April 2017. He died on July 29, 2018 from the disease in Jackson, Mississippi at the age of 57.
1914
1914 (MCMXVI) was a common year that started on a Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. It was the year that saw the start of what became known as World War I.
Deaths
1901 – 1950
Omega
There was also once a letter "Omega" Ѡ in the Cyrillic alphabet. It was there so people could spell Greek names both in Cyrillic and in Greek in the same way. However, this letter is no longer used today.
In mathematics, the uppercase omega Ω is used in big-Omega notation (a variant of big-O notation). It is also used to represent the Omega constant. In electromagnetism and engineering, the uppercase Ω is used as the symbol for ohms, which are the units of electrical resistance. In physics and other sciences, the lowercase ω is often used to represent angular frequency.
In modern English, the phrase "From alpha to omega" expresses the idea of "everything".
SWAPO
Foundation
SWAPO was founded on 19 April 1960. The leaders named the party to show that it represented all Namibians but the organisation is popular among Ovambo people of northern Namibia, who made up nearly half the total population of South West Africa.
South West Africa
During 1962, SWAPO had became the dominant independence, anti-colonial organisation for the people in Namibia. SWAPO used guerrilla tactics to fight the colonial South African Defence Force. A major conflict broke out on 26 of August 1966, when a unit of the South African Police exchanged fire with SWAPO forces. This became the start of what became known in South Africa as the Border War. The neighbouring country of Angola gained its independence on 11 November 1975 during the Portuguese Colonial war. The leftist Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA) came to power as the dominant party of Angola. In March 1976, the MPLA offered SWAPO bases in Angola for launching attacks against the South African military.
Adnan Gulshair el Shukrijumah
Adnan Gulshair el Shukrijumah (عدنان شكري جمعة, ʿAdnān Shukrī Jumaʿah) (4 August 1975 – 6 December 2014) was a member of al-Qaeda. He was born in Saudi Arabia and grew up in the United States.
In March 2003, a provisional arrest warrant was issued calling him a "material witness". He was listed on theFederal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) on the Seeking Information - War on Terrorism list, and since then United States Department of State, through the Rewards for Justice Program, has offered a bounty of up to US$5 million for information about his location.
Order of Lenin
The Order of Lenin (Russian: Орден Ленина, Orden Lenina), named after Vladimir Lenin, was the highest order bestowed by the Soviet Union. The order was awarded to:
The order was established by the Central Executive Committee on April 6, 1930. It was disestablished in 1991, because of the fall of the Soviet Union.
Adnan Gulshair el Shukrijumah
Media reports surfaced on 6 December 2014 indicating that he was killed in a manhunt operation by Pakistan in South Waziristan.
Meiry Lanunce
Meiry Lanunce (born 13 December 1972), is a Brazilian journalist and television presenter. She began her journalistic career at TV Globo Nordeste in 2000. She currently presents the Balanço Geral Pernambuco on TV Guararapes.
Cor van der Hoeven
Cornelius "Cor" van der Hoeven (12 May 1921 – 1 February 2017) was a Dutch footballer. He played as a midfielder for DWS and Ajax. He also made three appearances with the national team. He was born in Amsterdam.
Van der Hoeven died on 1 February 2017 in Amsterdam at the age of 95.
Neuralink
Neuralink Corporation is a company that likes to connect human brains with machines for helping people that
Elmas
Elmas (Su Màsu) is a town and comune (municipality) in the Metropolitan City of Cagliari in Sardinia, Italy. As of 2016, 9,475 people lived there. Its area is 13.63 km². It is 7 meters above sea level.
Neuralink
History
In 2016 Elon Musk and 7 other people created Neuralink.
In 2021 a monkey played Pong using a Neuralinked brain.
Plans
Neuralink hopes to test with a person's brain in 2023.
Wainwright, Oklahoma
Wainwright is a town in Oklahoma in the United States.
List of railway stations in Melbourne
This is a list of the 200 currently operating suburban railway stations (216 including greater metropolitan stations) in Melbourne, Australia. The stations make up 16 railway lines going out from the city (and 4 greater metropolitan lines), as well as the central City Loop.
There are also a further 19 stations on 3 old, volunteer-operated, tourist railways. These are not a part of the suburban network.
Stations are broken up into 2 Myki ticketing zones (some stations are included in both zones, where tickets for either zone may be used), as well as the City Saver area, which is within Zone 1 and covers the central business district. On March 4, 2007 zone 3 was made part of zone 2.
For detailed travel information, do not rely only on this page; please go to the Metlink website.
Southeastern lines (Caulfield group)
56 stations
Frankston line
Separates from the Pakenham line at Caulfield station.
19 stations
The Stony Point line is a greater metropolitan line that joins the Frankston line.
Pakenham line
Separates from the Sandringham line at South Yarra station.
23 stations
The Traralgon line is a regional line that continues the Pakenham line.
Cranbourne line
Separates from the Pakenham line at Dandenong station.
Sandringham line
Separates from the Eastern lines (Burnley group) at Richmond station.
12 stations
Western and northwestern lines (Northern group)
53 stations
Craigieburn line
Separates from the City Loop at Southern Cross and Flagstaff stations.
14 stations
Upfield line
Separates from the Craigieburn railway line at North Melbourne station.
13 stations
Willis tray
A Willis tray is a large serving tray that contains all of the items needed to reset a table for service. Table cloth, water glasses, wine glasses, napkins with silverware. The Willis tray was created by manager Tim Willis at Eddie Merlot's Prime Beef and Seafood, hence the name.
List of railway stations in Melbourne
Sydenham line
Separates from the Craigieburn railway line at North Melbourne station.
12 stations
The Sunbury line is a greater metropolitan line that joins the Sydenham line.
Williamstown line
Separates from the Sydenham line at Footscray station.
7 stations
Werribee line
Separates from the Williamstown line at Newport station.
7 stations
The Geelong and Warrnambool regional lines join the Werribee line.
Flemington Racecourse line (Special events only)
Separates from the Craigieburn railway line at Newmarket station. Trains may start running on this line every day, as part of renewing the Royal Melbourne Showgrounds.
Lilydale line
Separates from the City Loop at Flinders Street and Parliament stations.
23 stations
Glen Waverley line
Separates from the Lilydale line at Burnley station.
12 stations
Belgrave line
Separates from the Lilydale line at Ringwood station.
8 stations
Alamein line
Separates from the Lilydale line at Camberwell station.
6 stations
Hurstbridge line
Separates from the City Loop at Flinders Street and Parliament stations.
23 stations
Epping line
Separates from the Hurstbridge line at Clifton Hill station.
14 stations
Greater metropolitan lines
These lines have trains pulled by diesel engines and railcar services, and use Myki tickets. All trains are run by V/Line, except for the Stony Point line run by Metro Trains Melbourne using engines borrowed from V/Line Passenger.
15 stations
Stony Point line
9 stations
Melton line
Separates from the Sydenham line at Sunshine station.
The Ballarat regional line is joined to the Melton line.
Sunbury line
Continues from the Sydenham line.
The Bendigo regional line is joined to the Sunbury line.
Tourist railways
These lines are run part-time (full-time in the case of Puffing Billy) by groups of people who want to keep old trains running, and are do not use Myki tickets.
19 stations
Puffing Billy Railway
12 stations. In this list only, a star ( * ) shows stations at which trains do not normally stop, and are there mainly to be historic.
Margot Robbie
Margot Elise Robbie (born 2 July 1990) is an Australian celebrity, actress and producer.
Life
Margot Robbie was born in Gold Coast, Queensland and grew up in Dalby. In 2016, she married British filmmaker Tom Ackerley. In 2014, Robbie and Ackerley co-founded LuckyChap Entertainment.
Career
In 2017, Robbie was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress for her role as Tonya Harding in I, Tonya.
Anzano del Parco
Anzano del Parco is a comune in the Province of Como in the Lombardy region in Italy.
List of United States congressional districts
Congressional districts in the United States are electoral divisions for electing members of the United States House of Representatives. There are now 435 voting seats in the House of Representatives. Each seat represents around 761,000 people. There have been 435 voting seats since 1913, except for a temporary increase to 437 after the admissions of Alaska and Hawaii. The total number of state members is capped by the Reapportionment Act of 1929. Also, each of the five inhabited U.S. territories and the federal district of Washington, D.C. sends a non-voting delegate to the House of Representatives.
The Bureau of the Census counts the number of people in the United States every ten years. This is called the decennial census. The numbers from the Census are used to figure out how many representavies each state gets. This is called "apportionment". The 2012 elections were the first to be based on the congressional districts which were defined based on the 2010 United States Census.
Each state is in charge of the redistricting of districts within their state, and several states have one "at-large" division. Redistricting must take place if the number of members changes after a reapportionment, or may take place at any other time if demographics represented in a district has changed substantially. Districts may sometimes retain the same boundaries while changing their district numbers.
The following is a complete list of the 435 current congressional districts for the House of Representatives, and over 200 obsolete (no longer being used) districts, and the six current and one obsolete non-voting delegations.
American Samoa
See Non-voting delegations, below.
Delaware
The oldest district in the country, it has never changed its shape or size. From 1813 to 1823, Delaware had two representatives — both chosen at-large on a general ticket from the same statewide district.
District of Columbia
See Non-voting delegations, below.
Guam
See Non-voting delegations, below.
Maine
Until 1820, Maine was part of Massachusetts. After the 1810 census, Massachusetts was allocated 20 districts. Seven Massachusetts districts (then numbered MA's 14th congressional district through MA's 20th congressional district) were credited to Maine soon after it became a state in 1820. See District of Maine.
List of current districts by area
This list includes the 435 current voting districts, along with the District of Columbia's non-voting delegation.
L'Anse aux Meadows
L'Anse aux Meadows is a historical settlement on the island of Newfoundland in eastern Canada. It was settled by Vikings from Greenland, Iceland, and Norway around the year 1000, almost 500 years before Christopher Columbus came to the Americas. It is the only known Viking place in North America outside of Greenland. The remains of the settlement were discovered in 1960, and were declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1978.
Triumvirate
A triumvirate is a group of three men. A duumvirate is a group of two.
The word is often used to mention a historical event or in talks of government. The word troika is Russian for triumvirate, and the term was used in the Soviet Union after V.I. Lenin died. Joseph Stalin, Lev Kamenev, and Grigory Zinoviev teamed up to gain power of the government. In the Soviet Union, troikas were usually considered to be three main people in the government: Party leader, head of state, and head of government.
In Ancient Rome, Julius Caesar was a member of the first triumvirate with Pompey and Crassus. In 43 B.C.E. after he was dead, Marc Antony, Marcus Lepidus, and Octavian formed a second triumvirate to rule the Roman Empire.
Parviz Davoodi
Parviz Davoodi (born 5 February 1952) is an Iranian politician. He was the first Vice President of Iran from 2005 until 2009.
Chautauqua County, Kansas
Chautauqua County (county code CQ) is a county in Southeast Kansas. In 2010, 3,669 people lived there. Its county seat is Sedan. Sedan is also the biggest city in Chautauqua County. Chautauqua County is named after Chautauqua County, New York, where Edward Jaquins was born. Jaquins was a Kansas politician who was important in getting the county created.
History
Chautauqua County was created by an act of the Kansas legislature on June 1, 1875. They divided Howard County into Elk County (the northern half) and Chautauqua County (the southern half). At the time of its creation, about 7,400 people lived there.
The first white settlers in the area that became Chautauqua County came in July 1868.
Hip hop soul
Hip hop soul is a subgenre of hip hop, contemporary R&B, soul, and new jack swing.
Chautauqua County, Kansas
Geography
The U.S. Census Bureau says that the county has a total area of 645 sqmi. Of that, 639 sqmi is land and 5.9 sqmi (0.9%) is water.
Hip hop soul
Characteristics
Hip hop soul first started as a genre that fused hip hop with soul music. Some of the best songs of hip hop soul include "I'll Make Love to You", "Lonely", "Swim Good" and "Can't Be Without You". It was very popular at first. Then, it began to lose commercial success because of its late sexual lyrics and dark themes.
Chautauqua County, Kansas
Major highways
Sources: National Atlas, U.S. Census Bureau
Hip hop soul
Notable hip hop soul artists
• R. Kelly
Chautauqua County, Kansas
Presidential elections
Chautauqua is a very Republican county. The only Republican to ever lose the county has been Herbert Hoover in 1932. Other than the never-Democratic, historically Yankee Doniphan County, Chautauqua County was the only Kansas county to give incumbent President William Howard Taft a plurality in 1912. The last Democrat to win thirty percent of the county’s vote was Michael Dukakis in 1988. In 2016 Hillary Clinton won only thirteen percent.
Hip hop soul
Notable hip hop soul artists
• Frank Ocean
• Mariah Carey
• 112
• Chris Brown
• The Black Eyed Peas
• Akon
• Mary J. Blige
• Ray J
• Whitney Houston
Chernivtsi Oblast
Chernivtsi Oblast (Чернівецька область) is an oblast (province) of western Ukraine. The administrative centre is Chernivtsi. The population of Chernivtsi Oblast was 908,500 in 2013.
Hip hop soul
Notable hip hop soul artists
• Ashanti
Paul di Resta
Paul di Resta (born April 16, 1986 in Livingston West Lothian) is a Scottish auto racing driver. He is the current DTM champion. He make his Formula One debut in the Australian Grand Prix with the Force India, finishing in the points with a 10th place finish.
Karting
Di Resta started his career in karting. He raced in several series of karts from 1994 until 2002. In 2001 he won the British JICA Championship.
Formula Renault
Di Resta moved up to single-seaters at the end of 2002. he competed in the British Formula Renault Winter Series. He raced full-time in 2003 with the Eurotek Motorsport team. Di Resta finished seventh in the standings with one race win. He switched to Manor Motorsport for 2004, and finished third in the championship with four wins. Di Resta also entered some races of Eurocup Formula Renault 2.0 with the Manor team. He also won the prestigious McLaren Autosport BRDC Young Driver of The Year Award in 2004. The award had been won by his cousin Dario Franchitti in 1992.
Formula Three
Di Resta moved to the Formula Three Euroseries with Manor Motorsport in 2005, and finished tenth in the standings. For 2006 he moved to the ASM Formule 3 team. He won the championship with five wins. He beat his team mate, future Formula One World Drivers Champion, Sebastian Vettel. Di Resta also won the 2006 BP Ultimate Masters at Circuit Park Zandvoort.
DTM
In 2007, di Resta switched from single-seaters to race in the Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters (DTM) touring car racing series for Mercedes. He finished fifth in the championship. Di Resta was the highest driver in the standings to drive a non-2007 car. His performance earned him a 2008 Mercedes C-Class for the 2008 season. Di Resta finished second in the 2008 championship, winning two races. In 2009, he finished third overall. In 2010, he won three races in a row on the way to winning the DTM championship.
Formula One
Di Resta has tested for the McLaren Formula One team in 2009. In December 2009, di Resta took part in a test with the Force India at the Jerez circuit. On February 2, Force India announced they signed di Resta at their reserve driver.
Force India (2011–)
On 26 January 2011 it was confirmed that di Resta will join Adrian Sutil at the Force India team for the season. He will replace Vitantonio Liuzzi, and Nico Hülkenberg will replace di Resta as the reserve driver.
Career summary
† – As di Resta was a guest driver, he was ineligible to score points.
Complete Formula Three Euroseries record
(key)
Complete Formula One results
(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position; races in italics indicate fastest lap)
Personal life
Di Resta, who grew up in Uphall West Lothian. He is the cousin of fellow racing drivers Dario Franchitti and Marino Franchitti. In February 2010, di Resta was made a director of his family's leisure firm, which owns several establishments in West Lothian.
Frankenstein: The True Story
Frankenstein: The True Story is a 1973 American made-for-television horror movie. It is loosely based on the novel Frankenstein by Mary Shelley.
The movie added the character of Dr Polidori. He was not in the original novel. He was based on the character of Dr. Pretorius from Bride of Frankenstein. He was named after the real-life John Polidori.
A notable part of the movie is that instead of being ugly from the start, the Creature is portrayed as physically beautiful. He becomes more ugly as the movie goes on. The make-up was by Hammer horror veteran artist Roy Ashton.
It was first broadcast in two 90-minute parts. It is often seen edited into a single movie. The first DVDwas released on September 26, 2006. Included at the beginning is a short intro. It has James Mason wandering through St John's Wood churchyard, London. He suggests that this is where Mary Shelley is buried. This is incorrect as she is in fact buried in the family plot in Dorset. The intro shows Mason standing beside a gravestone bearing her name.
Iowa (disambiguation)
Iowa can mean:
Dreaming of You (Selena album)
Dreaming of You is the last studio album recorded by American singer Selena. It was released on July 18, 1995 by EMI Records and EMI Latin. It was re-released on September 24, 2002 as part of the Selena: 20 Years of Music collection, which included bonus tracks, music videos and spoken liner notes by her family, friends, and her former band. Dreaming of You contains unreleased English and Spanish-language songs while also containing previously released songs that were remixed with dance hall and reggae. The first half of Dreaming of You contains mid-tempo R&B ballads and pop songs, while the rest of Dreaming of You contains Latin music.
Dreaming of You debuted at number one on the US Billboard 200 chart, and sold more than 331,000 copies in its first week. Selena became the first Hispanic singer to have an album, mostly in Spanish, to debut at number one. It went on to become the second-highest-selling debut album, behind Michael Jackson. On the date of release, Dreaming of You sold 175,000 copies, which helped Selena to become the second-fastest selling female artist, behind Janet Jackson. Dreaming of You had mixed to positive reviews from music critics, who many believed if Selena was alive to further promote the album, that it would have performed better on music charts globally. Dreaming of You won several awards including every award it was nominated at the 1996-98 Tejano Music Awards and the 1996-97 Premio Lo Nuestro awards.
Several tracks from the album were released as singles in the United States and other countries. The title track, became instantly popular on radios throughout the United States. It peaked at number 22 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart and was able to reach the top 20 in many other charts. "I Could Fall in Love" also had the same success of the title track and peaked at number two on the Hot Latin Tracks and number eight on the Hot 100 Airplay chart. "I'm Getting Used to You" peaked at number eight on the Bubbling Under Hot 100 Singles. The single "Tú Sólo Tú" peaked at number one on both the Hot Latin Tracks and Latin Regional Mexican Airplay charts. Songs such as "Captive Heart", "Techno Cumbia", "Como La Flor" and "Missing My Baby", which were not released as a single, managed to peaked on Billboard charts including; Hot Latin Tracks, Latin Regional Mexican Airplay, Canadian Hot 100 and the PROMUSICAE (Spain music charts).
Party leader
In politics, the party leader is the most powerful official within a political party. The party leader is typically responsible for managing the party's relationship with the general public. As such, he or she b.v.will be the person in the party the most responsible for convincing the electorate to vote for the party.
In many representative democracies, party leaders compete directly for high political office. For example, leaders of parties in presidential and semi-presidential republics will often run for President. In parliamentary systems of government, party leaders typically seek to become prime minister. In these countries, the party leader will try to be elected to the legislature, and, if elected, to simultaneously serve as the party's parliamentary leader.
Philipp Grubauer
Philipp Grubauer (born 25 November 1991) is a German professional ice hockey goaltender for the Seattle Kraken of the National Hockey League (NHL).
Luke Somers
Luke Daniel Somers (1981 – 6 December 2014) was a British-American photojournalist. He was held hostage by the militant Islamist group al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) in Yemen until they killed him. He was a dual citizen of the United Kingdom and the United States.
Philipp Grubauer
He was drafted by the Washington Capitals in the fourth round in 2010. Grubauer has played with the German national team. Grubauer won the Stanley Cup as a member of the Washington Capitals in 2018.
Luke Somers
Somers was born in London. He graduated from Beloit College in Wisconsin with a Bachelor's degree in Creative Writing and later traveled to Egypt before settling in Yemen.
Philipp Grubauer
In April 2015, while playing for the Capitals, Grubauer became the first German-born goaltender to start and win a Stanley Cup playoff game.
Calle Järnkrok
Calle Järnkrok (born 25 September 1991), nicknamed "Ironhook" is a Swedish professional ice hockey player. He currently plays for the Seattle Kraken of the National Hockey League (NHL).
The Golden Voyage of Sinbad
The Golden Voyage of Sinbad is a fantasy movie released in 1974. It stars John Phillip Law as Sinbad. It includes a score by composer Miklós Rózsa. It is known mostly for the stop-motion effects by Ray Harryhausen. The movie is the second of three Sinbad movies that Harryhausen made for Columbia. The others are The 7th Voyage of Sinbad (1958) and Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger (1977).
Georg Büchner
Karl Georg Büchner (17 October 1813 – 19 February 1837) was a German dramatist and writer of prose. He was the brother of physician and philosopher Ludwig Büchner. Many people think that he might have become as important as Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and Friedrich Schiller if he had lived longer. He was the son of a doctor and born in Goddelau near Darmstadt, Hesse-Darmstadt. Büchner went to a secondary school that focused on Latin, Greek and on modern languages (including French, Italian and English). But he was mainly interested in science and when he went to university he studied medicine in Strasbourg.
Hip hop soul
Notable hip hop soul artists
• Keyshia Cole
The Golden Voyage of Sinbad
It won the first Saturn Award for Best Fantasy Film.
Fulton, Mississippi
Fulton is a city in the U.S. state of Mississippi. It is the county seat of Itawamba County.
Dreaming of You (Selena album)
Pre-Production
Selena performed at the 1989 Tejano Music Awards, which was attended by Jose Behar. Behar, the former president of Sony Music Latin, had recently opened EMI Latin. EMI Latin became the Latin division of EMI Records. The new president of Sony Music Latin was also attending the event and had wanted Selena to sign with his company. Selena's father and manager Abraham Quintanilla Jr was given offers from both Sony and EMI, however, Sony doubled the amount EMI was offering. Quintanilla Jr decided to go with EMI because they were offering the crossover deal Selena wanted, while Quintanilla Jr wanted his children to be the first band to sign with EMI Latin.
Before Selena signed her contract with EMI Latin in 1989, Behar and Stephen Finfer sent out a request to EMI Records for Selena to begin her crossover album. She recorded "Only Love", "Is It the Beat?", and "Where Did the Feeling Go?" for the presidents of EMI Records' pop division. Behar's and Finfer's request was denied. The presidents' told them that Selena needed a bigger fan base in order to sell a lot of copies of a crossover album. Behar told in an interview that he thought EMI Records, and people in general, did not believe that a Mexican American woman could be "successful". By 1993 Selena had won a Grammy Award for Selena Live! (1993), won several other awards, signed a sponsorship tour with Coca-Cola, dominated the Latin music charts, and expanded the Tejano Music Movement across the United States.
EMI Latin believed Selena should release a crossover album, believing she had reached her peak in the Spanish-language market. They wanted to launch her career as an American solo pop artist. Selena was signed with EMI's SBK Records in November 1993 after less than twenty-four hours in Los Angeles. News of Selena being signed with SBK made front-page news on Billboard magazine. Selena said that she was frighten by the recording deal because the situation was new to her and that only a few people had believed she would achieve success in the pop world. Selena said in interviews that the album would be released in 1994. However, following the release of Amor Prohibido in March 1994, she said the album was still being developed. During a dinner in a Thai restaurant in 1994, Selena was upset about the pressure she was under from the press about the album. She said, to Behar, that she told a lot of news crews that the album was about to be released and that she has yet to record a single song. Behar believed Selena was joking because she had always like telling jokes, but then noticed she was not setting up a joke and believed she was right. Behar then told the chairman of EMI Records, Charles Koppelman, that Selena and her band Los Dinos would leave EMI and find a record company willing to record an English-language album for Selena. Behar had lied to the chairman about Selena leaving in order to force the crossover album to begin. Koppelman did not want Selena to leave and began the recording sessions.
Production and development
Selena started recording the first song for the album, "I Could Fall in Love", in late 1994. Selena was partnered with major pop music producers, some of which were Grammy Award winners. Selena's sister Suzette Quintanilla stated that Selena would take a very long time before deciding on a song that was "Selena". However, SBK Records controlled the entire project and only allowed Selena to choose one song. This was because, SBK knew what they were doing for a crossover event. Recording sessions for the album took place at several recording studios, including: her father's Q-Productions studio in Corpus Christi; The Bennett House in Franklin, Tennessee; Bananaboat Studio in Burbank, California; Oakshire Recorders in Los Angeles; Conway Studios in Hollywood; Clinton Studios in Clinton, New York; and Levosia Entertainment in Hollywood. Producers and songwriters who worked with Selena on the album included Keith Thomas, Trey Lorenz of Epic Records, Mark Goldenberg, Kit Hain, Guy Roche, Donna Delorey, Diane Warren, Rhett Lawrence, David Byrne of Luaka Bop Inc., Franne Golde, Tom Snow, Full Force, Brian "Red" Moore, A.B. Quintanilla III Selena's brother, Barrio Boyzz, K.C. Porter, Felipe Bernmejo, Jose Hernandez and Felipe Valdes Leal. Singers, Amy Grant and Vanessa Williams were both in the process of writing a song for Selena. Dreaming of You was the first album that Selena's family did not produce. Her family had wanted professional pop producers to work with Selena. Selena found this decision stressful, and felt that it was forced on her in order to sell records.
Selena co-wrote with David Byrne, former lead singer of Talking Heads, for his gospel song "God's Child (Baila Conmigo)". Her vocals were later used in the song after Byrne recorded it in Clifton, New York. Selena's brother Quintanilla III and her husband Chris Perez did not like "Dreaming of You". They both later stated that they grew to love it after Selena was murdered. While being interviewed, Keith Thomas stated that every time Selena would walk in the recording studio that all eyes would be on her because of her smiles, energy, and eager to succeed, who made everyone laugh. Thomas also stated that there were no ego problems with her. Selena had recorded songs in late 1994 and had recorded a total of six songs by January 20, 1995. Selena was supposed to record "Oh No (I'll Never Fall in Love Again)" on the morning of March 31, 1995. However, she was killed on the same day by Yolanda Saldivar, a friend and ex-manager of her clothing stores. "Oh No" was later recorded in Spanish by her brother's band, Kumbia Kings, on their album Amor, Familia y Respecto (2009). Thomas, who wrote "I Could Fall in Love", never finished his second song that Selena was supposed to record and talked about the song while being interviewed for the A&E series Biography in 2008. In 2008, freestyle singer Brenda K. Starr, revealed that she was supposed to be in two unrecorded duets with Selena. In June 2011, Dominican American Latin soul singer TeCheetah Lopez was given a demo of "Love Me Now", which was supposed to be for Selena to record. "Love Me Now" was written by Christopher Troy and Zac Harmon. According to Behar, Dreaming of You was supposed to be released in September or October 1995. In April 1995, EMI Latin decided to only release four out of the six English-language songs Selena had recorded. The song "Siempre Hace Frio" was taken off of Dreaming of You.
Recording and composition
"I Could Fall in Love", the first promotional single, was written by Keith Thomas and is a soft rock, pop, R&B and soul. "I Could Fall in Love" is written in the key of E major and moves at a moderate 86 beats per minute. Selena's vocal range in the song spans four octaves with music notes F#3-A4. Its lyrics are about a woman who is in love with a guy who does not know about her true feelings for him. She tries to tell him, but is afraid of rejection, she decides not tell him. According to The Billboard Book of Number One Albums, "I Could Fall in Love" was chosen as the "best song" off of Dreaming of You and "... could melt the hearts of millions around the world". Kathleen Tracy wrote that "I Could Fall in Love" and "Dreaming of You" are two hit "ballads". James Hunter of Vibe stated that he liked Selena's passion that she used to record "I Could Fall in Love". Hunter also stated that the song is a "masterpiece", while also stating that because of Selena's death, it was hard to listen to the song without crying. After Selena's death, "I Could Fall in Love" became a popular wedding song.
"Dreaming of You", the lead single, was written by Franne Golde and Tom Snow. "Dreaming of You" is a power ballad and contemporary R&B. The song's main instruments are the piano, wind chimes and funk bass. "Dreaming of You" is written in Ab major and begins in the key of G♯(Ab). It changes to the key of A♯(Bb) after the bridge. Selena's vocal range spans Eb3-Eb5. The Los Angeles Times ranked "Dreaming of You" number five from their "Top-ten Singles of 1995". Its lyrics are about a lonely and depressed woman in her room at night, who dreams of being with her boyfriend. The song begins with a low-key instrumentation, which provides emphasis for Selena's vocals. Geraldo Martinez of El Dictamen wrote that the opening of the song was "surprisingly tantalizing". "Dreaming of You" became Selena's signature song and was given positive feedback from music critics.
"I'm Getting Used to You", the second promotional single, was written by Diane Warren and was produced by Rhett Lawrence. Four dance mixes were remixed by David Morales, which were created for promotional use. "I'm Getting Used to You" is a baroque- and dream-pop song and is written in the key of F major. Because of the music's easy piano notes it was included in the Top Pop Hits of 1996 for Easy Piano book. Its lyrics are about a woman who does not know what love is and her boyfriend tries to help her understand by "opening her eyes" to true love.
"Captive Heart", is a synthpop, electro and fast rock song. "Captive Heart" is an uptemo song written by Kit Hain. It was released as the album's first promotional single in the United Kingdom. Its lyrics are about a woman being controlled by her partner who will not let her be free of her own emotions. She is unable to end the relationship because she is too in love with him. Ed Morales of Vibe compared both Evelyn "Champagne" King and "Wherever You Are" (the English version of "Donde Quiera Que Estes") with "Captive Heart". According to the Chicago Tribune "Captive Heart" was the right song for urban-contemporary radios. The Daily Vault believed Selena made a mistake with "Captive Heart" because she had used too much "throat" in the song.
"God's Child (Baila Conmigo)", a duet with David Byrne, was originally recorded for the Don Juan DeMarco soundtrack. After Selena was murdered, EMI Latin decided to use the song for Dreaming of You. Byrne recorded his parts in New York, while Selena recorded her verse in Corpus Christi, Texas, at her father's recording studio. "God's Child" was later used for the Blue in The Face soundtrack. According to the Chicago Tribune, "God's Child (Baila Conmigo)", is an "energetic, dark and mysterious" song. They also stated that the song is a rumba flamenco with rock and R&B. Christopher John Farley of Time stated that the song is a " ... giddy soulful song".
"El Toro Relajo" was an unreleased Spanish-language mariachi-ballad. It was written by Felipe Bermejo and produced by Jose Hernandez. It became the sixth single to be released from Dreaming of You. Its lyrics are about a woman warning a man, during a bullfighting competition, that the bull is not tame. She then tries to tame the bull before her lover rides it. The band Mariachi Sol de Mexico were the backup singers for the song. "El Toro Relajo" was also recorded for the Don Juan DeMarco soundtrack. The Daily Vault believed the song was the "most impressive track" on Dreaming of You. The Daily Vault also stated that it was "short, amusing, and dedicated". After Selena's death, the song became a traditional Cinco de Mayo celebration song. Brennan told Time magazine that he believes the company who dropped "El Toro Relajo" from the Don Juan DeMarco soundtrack, regrets ever doing so. "Tú Sólo Tú" became the seventh single released from Dreaming of You. John Lannert of Billboard called it a "classic emotive (emotional) ballad". Christopher John Farley of Time said that "Tú Sólo Tú" is a "spirited mariachi song".
Release
Dreaming of You was scheduled to be released sometime in 1994. However, following Amor Prohibido, Selena's last Spanish studio album, the album was delayed. Selena told in an interview on January 20, 1995 that the album would be released in July. EMI Records and EMI Latin released Dreaming of You on July 18, 1995. It debuted at number one on the US Billboard 200 chart. Dreaming of You replaced the Pocahontas soundtrack spot as the number one album on the Billboard 200. Dreaming of You was among the ten best-selling debuts ever, and was the best-selling debut by a female artist. Selena fans in Dallas, Texas, began lining up to buy the album hours before stores were open. Dreaming of You sold 331,000 copies in its first week. It became the biggest first-week seller by a female artist. It also became the first album by a Hispanic artist to debut at number one. EMI believed that Dreaming of You sold more than 400,000 copies because SoundScan did not track copies sold in small stores.
Dreaming of You also debuted at number one on the Billboard Top Latin Albums and Billboard Latin Pop Albums charts. It remained on the charts for nearly two-hundred weeks. In Austin, stores were sold out of Dreaming of You within minutes on the day it was released. Throughout the entire city, Austin stores only allowed two copies per costumer. Fans in Corpus Christi began celebrating the release of Dreaming of You the day before the album was released, at music stores across the city. Dreaming of You was sold in approximately fifteen countries, and in the months following its release, Selena became more famous. "I Could Fall in Love" and "Dreaming of You" were played on English speaking radio stations, mostly on Adult contemporary radios. In Texas alone, Dreaming of You sold half a million copies.
Within ten months of release, Dreaming of You was nearing triple-platinum status. It was certified 3.5 time platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), for shipping more than 3,500,000 copies in its first year. Billboard named "I Could Fall in Love" and "Dreaming of You" the number one and two spots, in the Billboard Book of Top 40 Hits. Dreaming of You sold over 2,000,000 copies its first year. EMI Latin was backed up with orders of 500,000 copies from retail stores. Dreaming of You was considered the "highest selling Latin album" since Julio Iglesias recorded his first English-language record 110 Bel Air Place (1984). Dreaming of You was certified Gold in Canada, for shipments of 50,000 copies.
Crossover Tour
The Crossover Tour was a scheduled world tour. It was supposed to help promote Dreaming of You worldwide. The tour was scheduled to begin in mid-1995, after the album was released. The Crossover Tour was also going to promote Selena in countries where she was not well known in.
Commercial promotion
There were several commercials released in the US, Mexico and South America. Behar said that promotion "... will be on the superstar scale" and that "[We] didn't put this marketing campaign behind it because there was a tragedy. ... We put this marketing campaign behind it because we believed that this was going to be a huge album because of the music. This is a record that we're going to work over the next 10 months."
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In 1828 he became interested in politics and joined a group which later on probably became the Gießen and Darmstadt section of the "Gesellschaft für Menschenrechte" (Society for Human Rights). In Strasbourg, he studied not only medicine but French literature and political thought as well.
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Georg Büchner
While Büchner continued his studies in Gießen he started a secret society which wanted revolutionary change. With the help of the Protestant theologian Friedrich Ludwig Weidig he published the leaflet Der Hessische Landbote, a revolutionary text that criticized social problems in the Grand Duchy of Hesse. The authorities charged them with treason and issued a warrant of apprehension. While Weidig was arrested, tortured and died imprisoned in Darmstadt, Büchner fled across the border to Strasbourg where he wrote most of his literary work and translated two plays by Victor Hugo, Lucrèce Borgia and Marie Tudor. Two years later, his dissertation, "Mémoire sur le Système Nerveux du Barbeaux (Cyprinus barbus L.)" was published in Paris and Strasbourg. The ideas of François-Noël Babeuf and Claude Henri de Saint-Simon had an important influence on his work. In October 1836 he got a job at the University of Zürich as a lecturer in anatomy and went back to Zürich where he spent his final months writing and teaching until he died of typhus at the age of twenty-three.
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In 1835, his first play, Dantons Tod (Danton's Death), about the French revolution, was published, followed by Lenz. It is a novella based on the life of the Sturm und Drang poet Jakob Michael Reinhold Lenz. In 1836 his second play, Leonce and Lena he describes the nobility. His unfinished and most famous play, Woyzeck, was the first literary work in German whose main characters were members of the working class. Published after Büchner's death, it became the basis for Alban Berg's opera Wozzeck which was first performed in 1925.
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Georg Büchner
By the 1870s, Büchner was nearly forgotten in Germany when Karl Emil Franzos edited his works; these later became a major influence on naturalism and expressionism. Arnold Zweig described Lenz, Büchner's only work of prose, as the "beginning of modern European prose".
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Dreaming of You (Selena album)
Commercial promotion
In Texas and Mexico, bootleggers sold copies of Dreaming of You. A bootlegger is a person who takes the music of an album and copy's it to a blank CD and make profit by selling the blank CDs to people on the streets. One, in Corpus Christi, tried selling a bootleg to Selena's father, without knowing who he was. Quintanilla Jr, took all the copies and reported the man to local police. There are no known reports of the public bootleggers, although Quintanilla Jr reported any he found to police. TVyNovelas believed that 50,000 copies of Dreaming of You bootlegs were sold, at five dollars each.
Critical reception
Stephen Erlewine of Allmusic wrote that most Americans first learned about Selena because of her murder, and Dreaming of You was the first record of Selena's that they heard. He wrote: "Dreaming of You would have been a stronger album if she had lived, but it still stands as a powerful – and touching – testament to her talents." Billboard stated that Selena recorded songs that were "pop" and not "Tejano" music. Vibe editor Ed Morales called the album a "cumbia" and "Tex-Mex" (Tejano) album. James Hunter, also from Vibe, believed it was hard to listen to the album because Selena's death was recent.