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Rites of passage
Rites of passage are rituals performed by people, individually or as a social group. They mark the end of one phase of life, and the arrival of another.
Arnold van Gennep
The French social scientist Arnold van Gennep (23 April 1873 – 7 May 1957) most famously defined the concept of rites of passage in his book Les rites de passage (The Rites of Passage), first published in 1909. Van Gennep studied ethnographic reports from various parts of the world that described rites of passage. He concluded that they are universally structured even if the rites of passage themselves differ significantly in character between societies and cultures.
The universal structure of rites of passage
Rites of passage are ordered into three phases.
Rites of passage and cultural diversity
By acknowledging the various ways different societies and cultures perform rites of passage we observe cultural diversity. Learning about rites of passage cross culturally can help us to understand others and ourselves. An awareness of cultural diversity is essential to form an open-minded, tolerant and accepting view of people who are not from the same society or culture as our own.
Sons of Liberty
The Sons of Liberty were a group of people in Boston at the time of the American Revolution. They were led by Samuel Adams, James Otis, and Paul Revere. Other well-known members included Benedict Arnold and Patrick Henry. They were in favor of rights of colonial Americans, which meant they often did not like the British. Some people thought the Sons of Liberty were a mob. The Sons of Liberty were the main group involved in the Boston Massacre and the Boston Tea Party. They also participated in the Stamp Act.
Sinaia
Sinaia is a curort town in Prahova Country, Romania. This town was named after the Sinaia Monastery of 1695.
Changsha
Changsha (长沙市) is the capital and most populous city in Hunan Province, People's Republic of China. It is in the southern central part of the country. In 2010, 7,044,118 people lived there.
Alice Reynolds
Alice Louise Reynolds (April 1, 1873 – December 5, 1938) was the first woman professor at Brigham Young University (BYU). BYU magazine put her in a list of the 10 best BYU professors of the 20th century. She was the second woman in Utah to be a full professor.
Childhood and education
Alice was born in Salt Lake City, Utah Territory, United States. Her father was George Reynolds and her mother was Mary Ann Tuddenham. Her father was a general authority of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church), and worked as secretary to the First Presidency of the church for many years. When Alice was six years old, her father went to jail because he had more than one wife (plural marriage).
1027
1027 (MXXVII) was a common year when the Julian calendar was used. It was the twenty-seventh year of the 2nd millennium and the 11th century.
Backlash (2003)
Backlash (2003) was a professional wrestling pay-per-view event produced by World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE). It was held on April 27, 2003 at the Worcester Centrum in Worcester, Massachusetts. It was the fifth annual Backlash PPV. The pay-per-view had a 0.67 buyrate and sold 10,000 tickets.
Landon Donovan
Donovan is the leader of assists for the US national team, and also the second place for most appearances (caps).
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Asphalt (1929 movie)
Asphalt is a 1929 German silent drama movie directed by Joe May and starring Albert Steinrück, Else Heller, Gustav Fröhlich, Betty Amann, Rosa Valetti, Kurt Vespermann.
Alice Reynolds
Childhood and education
Her father's sister, her aunt Julia Reynolds, helped raise Alice. Alice liked reading and being around grownups. When she was 12, her mother died while giving birth to one of her siblings. Alice's father sent her and her younger sister Florence to the Brigham Young Academy (BYA) for their high school education. Alice was inspired by one of her teachers, Academy Principal Karl G. Maeser. She graduated from BYA in 1890.
Christie Davies
Davies died on 5 September 2017 from a short-illness in Reading, Berkshire at the age of 76.
Fucking
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Scottsville, Kentucky
Scottsville is a city of Kentucky in the United States.
Alice Reynolds
Childhood and education
Alice had taught for two years when the president of BYA, Benjamin Cluff, asked her to start a literature department at BYA. Reynolds went to the University of Michigan to study literature from 1892 to 1894. When she came back she became a full-time teacher at BYA.
Later in her life Reynolds received more education in Chicago, Cornell, Berkeley and Columbia. She also traveled to Europe four different times.
Teaching
Reynolds was a Professor of English for 44 years. She became the first female to be a full professor at BYU. She taught approximately 5,000 students in 20 different English courses. Reynolds's absent-mindedness was famous at BYU. According to her students, she once walked through a herd of cows while reading a book and brought a teakettle to work instead of her purse.
Reynolds was an editor for the Relief Society Magazine from 1923 to 1930 and a writer for other LDS magazines. She also served in the General Board of the Relief Society of LDS Church for seven years.
Contributions to library
While working at BYA, Reynolds became the chairperson of the committee to establish the library. She was the chairperson of the committee for 19 years. She held a large fundraiser to obtain 1,200 books to add to the school's library. Over the course of her life, she organized several other campaigns to help the library grow to 100,000 volumes. Through the efforts of the club, over 10,000 volumes were donated to the BYU library.
Science Hill, Kentucky
Science Hill is a city of Kentucky in the United States.
Sardis, Kentucky
Sardis is a city of Kentucky in the United States.
Mormon folklore
Mormon Folklore is a group of stories and things that express the culture of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. It includes personal stories and shared stories, music, jokes, and art.
Ambassador of the United Kingdom to the Netherlands
The British Ambassador to the Netherlands is the United Kingdom's top foreign affairs representative to the Netherlands. They are in-charge of the UK's diplomatic mission in the Netherlands.
Since the start of the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) in 1997, the British ambassador is also in-charge of the OPC3 which is located in The Hague, the British Ambassador to the Netherlands has also been the UK's Permanent Representative to the OPCW, assisted by a Chemical Weapons team at the Embassy.
Mormon folklore
Mormon folklore has stories in it, told by word of mouth. Missionaries will tell stories as a part of initiation, or to try and tell others to do the right thing. People will tell stories about early people in the Church, people in the scriptures, and help from God. These stories are supposed to help people's belief. In the early days of the Church, songs would say both good things and bad things about leaders such as Brigham Young.
Ambassador of the United Kingdom to the Netherlands
The UK also has a consulate general in Amsterdam.
Mormon folklore
Early settlers in the Church were influenced by many cultures that came together in Utah. Handicrafts were part of this influence. They had many different projects, and the Relief Society said they were good for the mind. Lots of these can still be seen around Utah.
Comedian
A comedian is a person who tells jokes, or acts in comedies. Some people use the French loanword comedienne to refer to female comedians. A comedian can also be called a comic or a comic actor.
Sardis, Kentucky
Geography
Sardis has a total area of 1 square mile.
Mormon folklore
Mormon fundamentalists have different folklore than Latter-day saints do. Their experience in government raids makes them feel more together, and they like folk dancing.
Research into Mormon folklore
Austin E. and Alta S. Fife are called the founders of research into Mormon folklore. This research has been done much more since the couple’s first work on it in the 1930s. Although people had looked at the issue a little before, the Fifes made the field better, through the Fife Folklore Archive, now at the library at Utah State University. Their book on Mormon folklore, called Saints of Sage and Saddle, came out in 1956. This book, says someone who studies folklore named Jill Terry Rudy, "remains the most complete book-length treatment of Mormon folklore" - which means that it is the best book on Mormon folklore that there is.
Missionary lore
Missionaries have their own set of folklore. Missionaries tell stories or sing church hymns, to connect with people they meet, to build friendship with those they teach, to inspire each other in missionary efforts, and to strengthen their own faith. In many missions around the world missionaries use church art, music and missionary stories as finding tools in proselytizing. Most young people in the church plays at least one musical instrument, the most common one is the piano.
Pioneer lore
Mormons often retell stories about early church members who went through extremely difficult challenges, and made many sacrifices in order to build God’s church. The purpose of those stories is to educate people about the historical events that took place at the beginning of the church history and the historical figures who were part of it. So, those who are currently members of the church can better understand the LDS heritage and the changes that occurred over the past years. Thus, they develop a deeper appreciation and gratitude for the early pioneers’ efforts to establish God's church and the legacy they left behind.
Ecological niche
An ecological niche is the part of the environment into which a species fits, and to which it is adapted. A shorthand definition of niche in biology is how an organism makes a living in a place.
However, the term has been used in different ways. It is not only a place but a way of life. For example, grazers, insectivores, scavengers and predators can all live their different lifestyles in the same forest. A niche can be occupied by different species in different places even though they 'earn their living' in roughly the same way. Thus the 'bird of prey eating small mammals' niche would in grasslands include the kestrel, but in an oak wood it would be filled by the tawny owl.
The idea of a niche in natural history is ancient: many writers noticed that animals and plants live in places where they are well adapted to live. The word niche was first used in biology by naturalist Roswell Johnson, but in 1917 Joseph Grinnell was the first to use it in a research program. Later, he described the niches of a variety of species. Grinnell was the first to offer the "exclusion principle" in which only one species could occupy a particular niche at any one time.
Scientists who study the interactions between living things, such as animals and their environment are called ecologists, and their branch of science is called ecology. A niche is a term which describes a position or opportunity into which some organism fits well. Thus, an ecological niche is a place in nature that is filled by an animal or plant because it is well suited to do so.
Invasions
When a niche is left open, for example by extinction, other organisms may fill that position.
Absolut Vodka
Absolut Vodka is a brand of Vodka that was first made in 1879 and originally made in Sweden. It is owned by the French company Pernod Ricard Holding Company. It openly embraces the gay community and is official sponsor of the GLAAD Media Awards. It is the third largest alcoholic spirts company in the world.
2019 New South Wales state election
The 2019 New South Wales state election was held on 23 March 2019 to elect the 57th Parliament of New South Wales, including all 93 seats in the Legislative Assembly and 21 of the 42 seats in the Legislative Council. It was conducted by the New South Wales Electoral Commission (NSWEC).
The incumbent Liberal/National Coalition government, led by Premier Gladys Berejiklian, won a third consecutive term in government, opposed by the Labor Party, led by Michael Daley. It was the first time since 1971 that the Coalition won a third term in government in New South Wales.
Berejiklian became the third woman to lead a party to a victory at a state election in Australian history (after Queensland's Anna Bligh and Annastacia Palaszczuk; note that the territories are not states) and the first non-Labor woman to do so, as well as the first woman outside Queensland to win a state election.
In the Legislative Assembly, Coalition held on to its majority, winning 48 seats, while the Labor Party won 36 and the crossbench was made up of nine seats, three each for the Greens, the Shooters, Fishers and Farmers Party and independents. In the Legislative Council, the Coalition won eight seats, Labor won seven, the Greens won two, One Nation won two and the Shooters, Fishers and Farmers Party and the Animal Justice Party won a seat each. This brings the seat totals to 17 for the Coalition, 14 for Labor, four for the Greens, two each for One Nation, the Shooters, Fishers and Farmers Party and the Animal Justice Party and one seat for the Christian Democrats.
HOMO/LUMO
HOMO stands for highest occupied molecular orbital. LUMO stands for lowest unoccupied molecular orbital. The energy difference between the HOMO and LUMO is termed the HOMO-LUMO gap. HOMO and LUMO are sometimes referred to as frontier orbitals.
Each molecular orbital has a calculated energy level. Chemists sort the molecular orbitals (MOs) by energy levels. Chemists assume that the electrons will occupy the lowest energy level MOs first. For example, if a molecule has enough electrons to fill 15 MOs, the 15 MOs with the lowest energy levels will be occupied. The 15th MO on the list would be called the "highest occupied molecular orbital" (HOMO) and the 16th MO on the list would be the "lowest unoccupied molecular orbital" (LUMO). The difference in the HOMO's energy level and the LUMO's energy level is called the band gap. The band gap can sometimes serve as a measure of the excitability of the molecule: the smaller the energy, the more easily a molecule's electrons will be excited. For example, this can help predict whether a substance will have luminescence.
SOMO
A SOMO is a singly occupied molecular orbital such as half-filled HOMO of a radical.
Sebree, Kentucky
Sebree is a city of Kentucky in the United States.
Willie Brown (politician)
Willie Lewis Brown Jr. (born March 20, 1934 ) is an American politician. He is a member of the Democratic Party. Brown was in the California State Assembly for thirty years, spending 15 years as its speaker and later as the 41st mayor of San Francisco.
Brown was the first African American Mayor of San Francisco.
Coriander
In the Sri Lankan Sinhalese language, it is called koththamuhlli. It is believed to have medicinal qualities, and is brewed and drunk to cure the common cold and fever.
Willie Brown (politician)
The San Francisco Chronicle called Brown "one of San Francisco's most famous mayors" who had "celebrity beyond the city's boundaries."
Eugene Wright
Eugene Joseph Wright (May 29, 1923 – December 30, 2020) was an American jazz bassist. He was a member of the Dave Brubeck Quartet.
Seneca Gardens, Kentucky
Seneca Gardens is a city of Kentucky in the United States.
Eugene Wright
Wright died on December 30, 2020 in Los Angeles at the age of 97.
Sharpsburg, Kentucky
Sharpsburg is a city located in Bath County, Kentucky in the United States.
Roald Hoffmann
Roald Hoffmann (born July 18, 1937) is a Polish-born American theoretical chemist of Jewish descent. He won the 1981 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. He currently teaches at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York.
He was born in Zloczov, Poland (now Ukraine)
Austria national under-17 football team
The Austria national under-17 football team represents Austria in international football. It was been to the FIFA U-17 World Cup twice in 1997 and 2013 and have exited the group stage both times.
2015 New South Wales state election
The 2015 New South Wales state election was held on 28 March 2015 to elect the 56th Parliament of New South Wales, including all 93 seats in the Legislative Assembly and 21 of the 42 seats in the Legislative Council.
The incumbent Liberal/National Coalition government, led by Premier Mike Baird, won a second consecutive term in government, opposed by the Labor Party, led by Luke Foley.
The Coalition's supermajority was reduced by 15 seats as Labor gained back the heartland seats it lost at the previous state election, which the Coalition won in a landslide.
In the Legislative Assembly, the Coalition won 52 seats, Labor won 34, the Greens won three and independents won two. In the Legislative Council, the Coalition won nine seats (with a total of 20), Labor won seven (with a total of 12), the Greens won two (with a total of five), the Shooters, Fishers and Farmers Party won one (with a total of two), the Christian Democrats won one (with a total of two) and the Animal Justice Party won one (with a total of one).
Frans de Haan
Franciscus Mattheus Christiaan "Frans" de Haan (18 September 1938 – 2 December 2022) was a Dutch basketball player and golfer. As a basketball player he played with The Wolves Amsterdam and the Netherlands men's national basketball team.
Biography
De Haan was born in 1938 in Amsterdam. His father was AFC Ajax footballer Frans de Haan (voetballer) (1897-1974). With basketball club The Wolves Amsterdam he played in the Dutch Basketball League and became national champion in 1960 and 1961 with coach Henk van de Broek and in 1964 with Ruud Welter. De Haan played with the Netherlands men's national basketball team between 1958 and 1970. He represented the Netherlands at the EuroBasket 1961 in Belgrado, EuroBasket 1963 in Wrocław and EuroBasket 1967 in Helsinki.
As a golfer De Haan became national champion in 1972 and 1973. In 1982 he won togehter with R.J.J. Tans Tans the Army Tankard. In 1981 De Haan co-founded an association of former golf internationals named  Orange All Stars. He was chairman for many years (at least until 2008).
De Haan died in Wassenaar on 2 December 2022, at the age of 84.
Reed Smoot
Reed Smoot (January 10, 1862 – February 9, 1941) was a republican senator from 1903–1933. He was also a leader in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) and a businessman.
As a senator he is known for the 1930 Smoot–Hawley Tariff Act.
Smoot was an important leader of the LDS Church. He was chosen to serve as an apostle in the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles in 1900. Smoot's role in the LDS Church led to a controversy in the United States Senate. There were also rumors of polygamy and a secret oath against the United States A Senate committee questioned Smoot's authority in the Reed Smoot hearings. The committee suggested Smoot's removal, but the full Senate voted to keep Smoot. He lost the vote for office in 1932. Smoot returned to Utah in 1933. Smoot stopped working in politics and business and spent his time working in the church. At the time of his death, he was third in line to lead the LDS Church.
Early life, family, and religious activity
Smoot was born in 1862 in Salt Lake City, Utah Territory. He was the son of a Mormon pioneer from Kentucky and Iowa, Abraham O. Smoot, who was a mayor of the city from 1856 to 1862. His mother was Anne Kristina Morrison Smoot, also known as Anne Kirstine Mauritzen before her marriage. Anne Kristina Morrison Smoot was Smoot's father's fifth wife of six plural marriages and 27 children, three of whom Abraham O. Smoot adopted. The family moved to Provo, Utah, when his father was called by Brigham Young to head the stake there. Smoot went to school at the University of Utah (then a religious school) and graduated from Brigham Young Academy (now Brigham Young University) in Provo in 1879. After school, Smoot worked as a Mormon missionary in England. After returning to Utah, Smoot married Alpha M. Eldredge of Salt Lake City on September 17, 1884. They had six children together. Thereafter, Smoot became a successful businessman in the Salt Lake City area. In 1895, he became very involved in the government of the LDS Church and achieved more authority. On April 8, 1900, Smoot was chosen as an LDS Church apostle and member of the church's Quorum of the Twelve Apostles.
United States Senate
After becoming an apostle in 1900, Smoot got permission from the LDS Church president Joseph F. Smith to run for office in 1902. He had joined the Republican Party.
Smoot was voted by the Utah legislature to the United States Senate on January 20, 1903, as a Republican Senator representing the state. Smoot was introduced to the United States Senate by Utah's senior U.S. Senator, Republican Thomas Kearns, a Catholic who was elected in 1901. Kearns, an important mining leader, newspaper owner, banker, and railroad owner, had competed with Smoot for election to the Senate in 1900. Kearns was elected. Two years later Smoot ran again and won.
Political career
Smoot was elected again in 1908 and continued to be elected over and over again until 1932. He worked in the Senate until March 1933. A Constitutional amendment required the popular election of US Senators after 1913. Smoot lost 1932 election, the year in which Democrat Franklin D. Roosevelt won the presidency.
In 1916, William Kent was the lead supporter in the House of Representatives of a law to establish the National Park Service. Smoot sponsored the law in the Senate. The law passed the House of Representatives on July 1, 1916. The law passed the Senate on August 5. The law was signed by U.S. President Woodrow Wilson on August 25, 1916. The National Park Service was placed within the cabinet Department of Interior.
Smoot was Chairman of the Senate Finance Committee from 1923 to 1933, and worked on the Senate Appropriations Committee. He worked on the national Republican Party and served as a delegate to the Republican National Convention every four years between 1908 and 1924. He was Chairman of the 1928 Resolutions Committee at the 1928 Republican National Convention and Chairman of the Republican Senatorial Campaign Committee.
Smoot was a co-sponsor of the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act in 1930. This act raised U.S. import tariffs on over 20,000 items to higher than they had ever been. Many historians believe that it made the Great Depression worse. U.S. President Herbert Hoover signed the act and it became a law on June 17, 1930.
Kazimierz Ryczan
Kazimierz Ryczan (10 February 1939 – 13 September 2017) was a Polish Roman Catholic bishop. He was ordained to the priesthood on 16 June 1963, Ryczan was named bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Kielce, Poland on 17 July 1993.
Ryczan died on 13 September 2017 in Kielce, Poland at the age of 78.
Alexander Spirin
Alexander Sergeevich Spirin (Russian: Александр Сергеевич Спирин) (4 September 1931 – 30 December 2020) was a Russian biochemist. He was a Distinguished Professor at the Lomonosov Moscow State University. His works focused on nucleic acids and protein biosynthesis. In 1974 he was elected a Member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina. He was elected a foreign associate of the US National Academy of Sciences in April 2019.
Spirin died on 30 December 2020 at the age of 89.
Hermann Ehlers
Hermann Ehlers (1 October 1904 – 29 October 1954) was a German politician. He was the 2nd President of the Bundestag from 19 October 1950 to 29 October 1954.
He was a member of the Christian Democratic Union of Germany (CDU).
Alexandre Finazzi
Alexandre Silveira Finazzi (born 20 August 1973) is a Brazilian professional athlete. He is best known as a football player.
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This Is My Country (movie)
This Is My Country (Bayan ko: Kapit sa patalim) is a 1984 Filipino French drama movie directed by Lino Brocka and starring Phillip Salvador, Gina Alajar, Carmi Martin, Claudia Zobel, Raoul Aragon, Paquito Diaz, Rez Cortez, Lucita Soriano.
Sirinai Mandar
Sirinai Mandar is a book of short stories written by Nilkamal Brahma. There are 10 stories in the book. All the stories are written in Bodo language. It was first published in 1985.
Aladdin and Jasmine
Aladdin and Jasmine (also known as Jasmine and Aladdin) is a two characters from Aladdin for Walt Disney Feature Animation by Disney in 1992. Aladdin and Jasmine voices of Scott Weinger and Linda Larkin, and singing voices of Brad Kane and Lea Salonga.
Helios Airways Flight 522
On August 14, 2005, Helios Airways Flight 522 covered the route between Larnaca International Airport (Cyprus), and Ruzyně International Airport (Prague, Czech Republic), with a stopover in Athens (Greece). The aircraft, a Boeing 737, collided with a mountain at 09:04 UTC on that day, near Grammatiko, 40 km north of Athens (with 115 passengers and six crew members on board), while on approach to Athens airport capital. All people on board died.
It is the deadliest aviation disaster in Greek history.
Flight crew
The flight captain was Hans-Jürgen Merten, a 59-year-old German pilot hired by Helios for the holiday season, who had been flying for 35 years and had a total of 16,900 flight hours, 5,500 of them on Boeing 737s.
Green Bay, Wisconsin
Green Bay is a city in the U.S. State of Wisconsin (USA). It is the third largest city in Wisconsin. Just over 100,000 people live there. It is named after Green Bay, an arm of Lake Michigan. Green Bay is home of the Green Bay Packers that play at Lambeau Field.
Helios Airways Flight 522
Passengers
The bodies of 118 people were recovered. The passenger list included 93 adults and 22 children. The passengers comprised 103 Cypriot nationals and 12 Greek nationals.
Cause
The cause of the accident was due to the fact that after takeoff, as the aircraft gained altitude, a failure when configuring the pressurization regulator caused the loss of consciousness of both the pilots and the passengers due to hypoxia, turning the aircraft into at that time in a "ghost flight" that was only kept flying by the operation of the autopilot. Finally, already over Greek territory, it hit a hill due to lack of fuel.
Other accidents
The accident was the largest in the history of Greek aviation, along with one of the most serious in August 2005, a dark month for commercial aviation, which also featured, among others, the tragedies of West Caribbean Airways Flight 708 and TANS Perú Flight 204.
Arn Anderson
His was nicknamed ''"The Enforcer".
Sierra Entertainment
Sierra Entertainment was an American video game developer/publisher founded in the late 1970s by Ken and Roberta Williams.
Isabelle Daniels
Isabelle Frances Daniels (later Holston; July 31, 1937 – September 8, 2017) was an American sprinter. He was born in Jakin, Georgia.
Daniels competed for the United States in the 1956 Summer Olympics held in Melbourne, Australia, where she won the bronze medal in the 4×100 metres with her team mates Mae Faggs, Margaret Matthews and Wilma Rudolph, in a race where all three teams beat the existing world record. She was initially placed third in the 100 meters, but was moved to fourth after photos of the finish were examined.
Sierra Entertainment
Founding (1979 - 1982)
Sierra Entertainment was founded in 1979 as On-Line Systems in Simi Valley, California, by Ken and Roberta Williams. Ken, a programmer for IBM, had planned to use the company to create business software for the TRS-80 and Apple II. Ken had brought a teletype terminal home one day in 1979, and while looking through the host system's catalog of programs, discovered the text adventure Colossal Cave Adventure. He encouraged Roberta to join him in playing it, and she was thrilled by the game; after Ken had brought an Apple II to their home, she played through other text adventures such as those by Scott Adams and Softape to study them. Dissatisfied with the text-only format, she realized that the graphics display capability of the Apple II could improve the adventure gaming experience. With Ken's help in some of the programming, Roberta designed Mystery House, inspired by the novel And Then There Were None and the board game Clue, using text commands and printout combined with graphics depicting the current setting.
On-Line Systems leased their first office space from Ponderosa Printing, a modest space in the back of a small town print shop.
Mystery House
Mystery House was released in 1980. It was a great success with 15,000 copies sold, earning 167,000 American dollars (equivalent to 525,539 American dollars in 2020). It is the first computer adventure game to have graphics, although made with crude, static, monochrome line drawings. The two decided to shift the company's focus to developing more graphical adventure games. Mystery House became the first of their Hi-Res Adventure series. The Hi-Res Adventure series continued with Mission Asteroid, which was released as Hi-Res Adventure #0 though being the second release. The next release, Wizard and the Princess, also known as Adventure in Serenia, is considered a prelude to the later King's Quest series in both story and concept. Through 1981 and 1982, more games were released in the series including Cranston Manor, Ulysses and the Golden Fleece, Time Zone, and The Dark Crystal. A simplified version of The Dark Crystal, intended for a younger audience, was written by Al Lowe and released as Gelfling Adventure.
Rebranding (1982 - 1988)
The company weathered the video game crash of 1983 by seeing only a 20% increase in sales, after analysts in 1982 had predicted a doubling in 1983 of the entire software market. The company had spent much of 1983 developing for a Commodore machine and the TI-99/4A which were both obsolete by the end of the year. Ken Williams was reportedly described as "bewildered by the pace at which computers come into and fall out of favor", and Williams said, "I've learned my lesson. I'm not moving until I understand the market better."
Many of Sierra's most well known series began in the 1980s. In 1983, Sierra On-Line was contacted by IBM to create a game for the new PCjr. IBM offered to fund the entire development and marketing of the game, paying royalties. Ken and Roberta Williams accepted and started on the project. Roberta Williams created a story featuring classic fairy-tale elements. Her game concept includes animated color graphics, a pseudo 3D-perspective where the main character is visible on the screen, a more competent text parser that understands advanced commands from the player, and music playing in the background through the PCjr sound hardware. For the game, a complete development system called Adventure Game Interpreter (AGI) was developed. In mid-1984, King's Quest: Quest for the Crown was released to much acclaim, beginning the King's Quest series.
Sierra On-Line expanded into a larger headquarters in the early-1980s.
While working to finish The Black Cauldron, programmers Mark Crowe and Scott Murphy began to plan for an adventure game of their own. After a simple demonstration to Ken Williams, he allowed them to start working on the full game, which was named Space Quest: The Sarien Encounter. The game was released in October 1986 as an instant success, spawning many sequels in the Space Quest series in the following years.
Al Lowe, who had been working at Sierra On-Line for many years, was asked by Ken Williams to write a modern version of Chuck Benton's Softporn Adventure from 1981, the only pure text adventure that the company had ever released. Leisure Suit Larry in the Land of the Lounge Lizards was a great hit and won the Software Publishers Association's Best Adventure Game award of 1987. It can be deduced that the game first became famous as an early example of software piracy, as Sierra sold many more hintbooks than actual copies of the game. A series of Leisure Suit Larry games followed.
Ken Williams befriended a retired highway patrol officer named Jim Walls and asked him to produce an adventure series based on a police theme. Walls proceeded to create Police Quest: In Pursuit of the Death Angel, which was released in 1987. Several sequels followed, and the series was touted for adherence to police protocol (relevant parts of which were explained in the games' manuals), and presenting some real-life situations encountered by Walls during his career as an officer.
Quest for Glory is a series of hybrid adventure/role-playing video games designed by Corey and Lori Ann Cole. The first game in the series, Quest for Glory: So You Want to Be a Hero, was released in 1989. The series combines humor, puzzle elements, themes and characters borrowed from various legends, puns, and memorable characters, creating a five-part series of the Sierra stable. Although the series was originally titled Hero's Quest, Sierra failed to trademark the name. Milton Bradley successfully trademarked an electronic version of their unrelated joint Games Workshop board game, HeroQuest, which forced Sierra to change the series' title to Quest for Glory. This decision caused all future games in the series (as well as newer releases of Hero's Quest I) to switch over to the new name.
In 1987, Sierra On-Line started to publish its own gaming magazine, about its upcoming games and interviews with the developers. The magazine was initially named The Sierra Newsletter, The Sierra News Magazine, and The Sierra/Dynamix Newsmagazine. However, since Sierra Club already published a magazine called Sierra Magazine, the name of the magazine published by Sierra On-Line was changed to InterAction in 1991. It was discontinued in 1999.
Sierra's Adventure Game Interpreter engine, introduced with King's Quest, was replaced in 1988 with Sierra's Creative Interpreter in King's Quest IV. The game was released under both engines, so those who had newer computers could use the new engine and better rendering technology.
Grace L. Drake
Grace L. Drake (1926 – 31 December 2020) was an American politician. She was a member of the Ohio Senate from 1984 to 2000. Drake was a member of the Republican Party. She was born in Connecticut.
Drake died on 31 December 2020 at the age of 94.
Naveed (album)
Naveed is the first studio album by Canadian rock band Our Lady Peace. It was released on March 22, 1994. The producer of the album was Arnold Lanni.
Shepherdsville, Kentucky
Shepherdsville is a city of Kentucky in the United States.
Shelbyville, Kentucky
Shelbyville is a city of Kentucky in the United States.
Bovec
Bovec (Plezzo, Flitsch) is a small Slovenian town in the Julian Alps that is the administrative centre of the Municipality of Bovec (Občina Bovec).
The municipality of Bovec was established on 10 March 1994. Before that date, Bovec was part of the municipality of Tolmin.
Geography
The municipality of Bovec is part of the Goriška statistical region. It is in the northwest part of the country, on the border with Italy and is at about 30 km away from Austria. Part of the municipality is in the Triglav National Park.
The town of Bovec is at an altitude of 434 m, on the edge of the Bovec valley, a broad and flat valley where the small Koritnica river joins the Soča river.
The municipality has an area 367.3 km2, and a population, in 2017, of 3,082: 1,512 men and 1,570 women. Its population density is of inhabitants/km2.
The municipality of Bovec is surrounded by the following municipalities: Tarvisio (Italy) to the north, Kranjska Gora to the northeast, Bohinj to the southeast, Kobarid to the south, Chiusaforte (Italy) to the west.
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Bovec
Climate
Mild winters and warm summers are typical of the Bovec Valley. The mean annual temperature in the Bovec municipality is 11 °C; the mean summer temperature (July, August) is 19.5 °C and the mean winter temperature (December, January) is -0.5 °C. The average annual precipitation in the Bovec Valley is around 3000 mm. The Kanin mountains have the highest precipitation in Slovenia, mostly in the form of snow between November and March.
Settlements
There are 13 settlements (Naselja) in the municipality; the main is Bovec, which is the administrative centre of the municipality.
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