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Duke Ellington
Life
In 1914, Ellington wrote his first song. He had a job in a café, serving soda, using a soda fountain. His song was called "Soda Fountain Rag". He could not read or write music yet. Ellington missed a lot of piano lessons and did not think he was very good at it. When he was 14 he heard pianists playing in a poolroom. He was inspired to try harder with his piano playing.
He heard the piano played in Washington, D.C., Philadelphia and Atlantic City. He tried to copy the styles he heard. He started to learn about harmony, and learned to read and write music. He started to play gigs in cafés and clubs in Washington, D.C. He had a scholarship to study art at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn in 1916 but he decided to concentrate on his music instead.
Between 1917 and 1919, Ellington started his professional music career. During the day, he had a job painting signs. At night, he played the piano. Sometimes, he got work playing the piano from people that he met in his other job. He started his first band, "The Duke’s Serenaders". They played in Washington, D.C. and Virginia at dances and parties. The other musicians in his band were Otto Hardwick, on bass and then saxophone; Arthur Whetsol on trumpet; Elmer Snowden on banjo; and Sonny Greer on drums. They played for both white and black people, which was unusual then.
Pyrimidine
Pyrimidines include three of the bases in DNA and RNA.
A pyrimidine is an aromatic heterocyclic organic compound, similar to purine. It has nitrogens at positions 1 and 3 in the ring.
Pyrimidines
The pyrimidine ring system occurs widely in nature. It is also found in many synthetic compounds such as barbiturates and the HIV drug, zidovudine. Uric acid is a pyrimidine derivative.
Sergio Onofre Jarpa
Sergio Onofre Jarpa Reyes (8 March 1921 – 19 April 2020) was a Chilean politician. He was born in Rengo.
Jarpa served as a member of the cabinet during the government of Augusto Pinochet. He served as Minister of the Interior from 1983 through 1985. Before becoming minister, Jarpa was a Member of the Senate from May 1973 through September 1973 and again from 1990 through 1994.
Jarpa died on 19 April 2020 at a nursing home in Las Condes, Chile of COVID-19, aged 99.
Carlos Mota Pinto
Carlos Alberto da Mota Pinto, GCC, GCIP , (Pombal, 25 July 1936 – Coimbra, 7 May 1985) was a Portuguese professor and politician.
Fernando Serena
Fernando Rodríguez Serena (28 January 1941 – 15 October 2018) was a Spanish footballer. He played as a midfielder. Serena was born in Madrid. He played for Real Madrid for five years, and was a part of their European Cup winning squad in 1966.
He earned one cap for the Spanish National Team. Serena also played for CA Osasuna, Elche CF, and UE Sant Andreu.
Serena died of complications from Parkinson's disease on 15 October 2018 in Madrid at the age of 77.
Ballot
A ballot is a system used to cast votes in an election and may be found as a piece of paper or a small ball used in secret voting. It was invented in Italy around the 16th century.
Each voter uses one ballot, and ballots are not shared. In the simplest elections, a ballot might be a scrap of paper. The voter casts their ballot in a box at a polling station.
In British English, this is usually called a "ballot paper".
Castets et Castillon
Castets et Castillon is a commune. It is found in the region Nouvelle-Aquitaine in the Gironde department in the southwest of France. The municipality was created on 1 January 2017 and consists of the former communes of Castets-en-Dorthe (the seat) and Castillon-de-Castets.
John II of France
John II (Jean II; 26 April 1319 – 8 April 1364), called John the Good (French: Jean le Bon), was a monarch of the House of Valois who ruled as King of France from 1350 until his death.
John II was succeeded by his son, Charles, who reigned as Charles V of France, known as The Wise.
Hattenhofen, Bavaria
Hattenhofen is a municipality in Fürstenfeldbruck in Bavaria in Germany.
IJustine
Justine Ezarik (born March 20, 1984) is an American YouTuber, host, author and actress and the winner of the 7000th show The Price is Right. She is best known as iJustine, with over a billion views across her YouTube channels since 2006. She gained attention as a lifecaster who communicated directly with her millions of viewers on her Justin.tv channel, ijustine.tv.
M2 motorway (Great Britain)
The M2 motorway is a motorway between Strood and Faversham in England. It is used as a different way to get to Dover, other than the M20.
Mansion House
Mansion House is the official residence of the Lord Mayor of London, England.
Atlantic Theater Company
The Atlantic Theater Company runs an off-Broadway theater in a converted church in the Chelsea neighborhood of New York City.
Ray Ozzie
Ray Ozzie (born November 20, 1955) is an American computer programmer. He was the "Chief Software Architect" (the person in charge of programming) at Microsoft.
Bihar train derailment
On June 6, 1981, a train crashed in Bihar, India. It was carrying more than 800 passengers, traveling between Mansi railway station and Saharsa railway station. It derailed and fell into the River Bagmati while it was crossing the bridge over the river.
Casualties
Five days after the accident only 200 out of 800 passengers had been recovered as dead bodies with hundreds more people missing. The missing passengers were thought to have been washed away by the River Bagmati. Total deaths were listed as 500-800. This derailment stands in 4th place in the worst railway accidents by death toll in the world.
Reasons
Many reasons were given for this railway derailment accident. They were:
Very Large Telescope
The Very Large Telescope (VLT) is a telescope operated by the European Southern Observatory. It is on Cerro Paranal in the Atacama Desert of northern Chile.
Overview
The VLT consists of four separate telescopes, each with a main mirror 8.2 metres across. They are often used separately, but they can be used together to get a very high angular resolution. The observatory also has four movable Auxiliary Telescopes (ATs) of 1.8 m aperture.
It operates at visible and infrared wavelengths. Each individual telescope can detect objects roughly four billion times fainter than can be seen with the naked eye. When all the telescopes are combined, the facility can achieve an angular resolution of about 0.001 arc-second. This is equivalent to roughly two metres at the distance of the Moon.
The VLT is the most productive ground-based facility for astronomy: only the Hubble Space Telescope leads to more scientific papers in observational astronomy.
Among the pioneering observations carried out using the VLT are the first direct image of an exoplanet, the tracking of individual stars moving around the supermassive black hole at the centre of the Milky Way, and observations of the afterglow of the furthest known gamma-ray burst.
Auxiliary Telescopes
The four smaller 1.8-metre ATs are available and dedicated to interferometry. This allows the VLT to operate every night on visible and infrared wavelengths.
Jesenwang
Jesenwang is a municipality in Fürstenfeldbruck in Bavaria in Germany. Its name was recorded as Oasinwanc during the Early Medieval period.
Vince Farrar
Vincent "Vince" Farrar (birth registered January→March 1947 – 13 July 2017) was an English professional rugby league footballer. He was born in Pontefract, England. He played in the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s, and coached in the 1980s.
Farrar played at representative level for Great Britain, England, and Yorkshire, and at club level for Featherstone Rovers (Captain) (Heritage № 451), Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks, Hull F.C., and Sheffield Eagles during the era of contested scrums, was captain of Hull during the 1978–79 season, and 1979–80 season, and coaching at club level for Featherstone Rovers.
Farrar died on 13 July 2017 of oropharyngeal cancer in Sheffield, South Yorkshire at the age of 70.
Joaquim Molins i Amat
Joaquim Molins i Amat (9 February 1945 – 13 July 2017) was a Spanish politician. He was born in Barcelona. He was a member of the Congress of Deputies (1979–1986 and again from 1993–2000) and Parliament of Catalonia (1988–1993).
Molins died in Barcelona on 13 July 2017 of pancreatic cancer at the age of 72.
The Secret World of Alex Mack
The Secret World of Alex Mack was an American television series that ran on Nickelodeon from October 8, 1994 to January 15, 1998, replacing Clarissa Explains It All on the SNICK line-up. Repeats of the series aired in 2003 on The N, but it was soon replaced there. The show is currently not on the air in the U.S.
Bros (movie)
Bros is a 2022 American romantic comedy movie. It was directed by Nicholas Stoller from a screenplay he co-wrote with Billy Eichner. Eichner also stars and executive producer of this movie. The movie stars with Luke Macfarlane, Ts Madison, Monica Raymund, Guillermo Díaz, Guy Branum, and Amanda Bearse. It is a gay romantic comedy made by a major studio, and it has an openly LGBTQ+ principal cast.
Marketing
In the first trailer of the movie, it was styled as "NSFW Trailer". It was released on May 18, 2022. Later, the official trailer was released on June 16, 2022.
Release
The movie had its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival on September 9, 2022. Later it was released in threaters in the United States on September 30, 2022, by Universal Pictures. It was originally scheduled for release on August 12, 2022.
Enrique Fortes
Enrique Fortes is a volleyball player from Cuba. Enrique competed at the 1972 Summer Olympics. He was born on 22 December 1947.
María Rodríguez
María del Carmen Rodríguez is a volleyball player from Mexico. María competed at the 1968 Summer Olympics. She was born on 19 July 1946.
Tarzan (1999 movie)
Tarzan is a 1999 animated movie based on Edgar Rice Burroughs' novel Tarzan of the Apes and made by The Walt Disney Company. It was the first Disney animated feature to start at #1 in the box office since Pocahontas. It was the first to have a production budget of $100 million since The Hunchback of Notre Dame.
Plot
A British couple and their baby son has survived a shipwreck. They become stranded off the African coast near uncharted jungles. The couple builds a treehouse to live in. They are later attacked and killed by a vicious leopard called Sabor. Meanwhile, a family of gorillas are travelling to their feeding grounds. One of them is Kala, whose own child was killed by the leopard. She hears the cries of the orphaned baby. She follows the sound across the jungle to the treehouse. She finds the child there. Sabor attacks her, but Kala and the baby escape without being hurt. They return to the gorilla family. Kala decides to raise the child as her own. She names him Tarzan. That makes her mate Kerchak angry. He tells her the baby will never replace the child they lost.
As a child, Tarzan makes friends with several animals and other gorillas in the family. They include the female ape Terk and the male elephant Tantor. Tarzan has trouble keeping up. One day, Terk and her friends dare Tarzan to get a hair from an elephant's tail. The dare goes wrong when the elephants stampede into the gorilla territory and almost kill a baby gorilla. However, Tarzan is able to get the hair. After Kerchak tells Kala that Tarzan will never be one of the family, Tarzan runs off into the jungle. Kala consoles him. He keeps trying. He learns how to do things from the animals of the jungle. He becomes a muscular apelike man. One day, Sabor attacks the gorillas and Tarzan kills her. This makes Kerchak respect him.
A gunshot is heard. While the others go into the jungle, Tarzan decides to investigate. He sees a team of human explorers. The group includes Professor Porter, his daughter Jane and their hunter guide Clayton. They are in Africa looking for gorillas. Jane gets separated from the group. She is attacked by a troop of baboons. Tarzan saves her from them. He discovers that Jane and he are the same-humans. They go back to Jane's camp. Terk, Tantor and some gorillas from the troop are looking for Tarzan. They find the human campsite. They use the various items in the camp as instruments, and slowly destroy it. Tarzan and Jane arrive at the camp. When Clayton and Professor Porter get there, Tarzan goes with the gorillas into the jungle. Kerchak warns the other gorillas to stay away from the humans, but Tarzan says that the humans are not dangerous. He secretly continues his visits to the explorers. He learns about the human world. He and Jane fall in love.
When the explorer's boat arrives to take them back to England, Tarzan is sad to see Jane leaving. Clayton tricks Tarzan into believing that Jane will remain in Africa forever if he shows her the gorillas. Tarzan persuades Tantor and Terk to lead Kerchak away from the explorers. The plan seemingly works and Tarzan leads the explorers to the gorilla nesting grounds. The explorers are happy to mingle with the apes, but then Kerchak arrives and attacks the humans. Tarzan restrains him to save the explorers and leaves the troop, having alienated himself. When Kala finds him, staring off into the distance, she takes him to the treehouse where she found him as a baby. Tarzan then decides to go to England with the explorers.
The next day, as the group board the ship, a mutiny occurs and Tarzan and his friends are captured and detained in the brig, but not before Clayton reveals that he came to Africa to capture the gorillas and sell them to a zoo. He and his goons then enter the jungle and start capturing the gorillas. Fortunately, Tarzan and his friends escape with the aid of several animals from the jungle. Together, they free the gorillas and retaliate against the poachers. Clayton then shoots Tarzan, but only grazes his arm. When Kerchak comes to the ape man's aid, Clayton shoots him, but fatally injures him. He then chases Tarzan into the trees where a fight ensues. Tarzan briefly holds Clayton at gunpoint, before destroying the hunter's rifle. Clayton then attacks the ape man with a machete and starts wildly hacking vines, not knowing that one of them is round his neck like a noose. Despite Tarzan begging him to stop, he cuts the vines and the hunter is quickly hung to death.
Tarzan then approaches Kerchak, who is close to death. Kerchak then asks Tarzan to forgive him for not realising he has always been a member of the gorilla troop and passes his leadership on to Tarzan, before succumbing to his injuries. The ape man then becomes the new leader of the gorillas. The next day, Jane and her father prepare to leave. Jane then realises she loves Tarzan and she and her father then decide to remain in Africa. Tarzan and Jane then embark on their new life together.
Sequels
Direct-to-video sequels:
Awards
Tarzan won the following awards:
Annie Awards
Tarzan was also nominated for 11 Annie Awards, winning one.
Carson Mansion
The Carson Mansion is a five-story Queen Ann Victorian house in Eureka, California. It was built for $80,000 for a local lumber baron. The house is well known for its over-the-top Victorian detailing. Nowadays, the mansion is home to the Ingomar Club, an exclusive gentlemen's club.
List of Sri Lanka Twenty20 International cricketers
This is a list of Sri Lanka Twenty20 International cricketers who have played at least one twenty20 international since debuting on 15 July, 2006.
Caroline Islands
The Caroline Islands are a group of tiny islands in the western Pacific Ocean. They are north of New Guinea and east of the Philippines. They are part of Micronesia. The western islands are in Palau, and the central and eastern islands are in the Federated States of Micronesia.
The islands stretch across 3450 km from west to east.
Mother
A mother (also called mom, mum and mommy) is a female parent. A mother gives birth to babies after pregnancy. Pregnancy is usually nine months. If a woman raises an adopted or biological child, then she is a mother as well. Adopted children are also part of that person's family. Also see Maternal insult.
Breastfeeding
After the birth of a baby, breastfeeding is an important part of taking care of the baby.
Other names for "mother"
Madre is Mother in Spanish. Mamma or Mor is Mother in Norwegian. Mater is Mother in Latin. Mutter is Mother in German. Mat is Mother in Russian. Mama is mother in Swahili
Maternal
The word maternal is an adjective used to describe thing that are related to a mother. Common uses include:
French Directory
The Directory (also called Directorate, le Directoire) was a five-member committee in the French First Republic from 2 November 1795 until 9 November 1799, when it was overthrown by Napoleon Bonaparte in the Coup of 18 Brumaire and replaced by the Consulate.
Kottgeisering
Kottgeisering is a municipality in Fürstenfeldbruck in Bavaria in Germany.
Pope Gregory V
Early life
Bruno of Carinthia was a son of Otto I, Duke of Carinthia. He was made chaplain of the Holy Roman Emperor Otto III.
Pope
Bruno was elected pope in 996; and he chose to be called Gregory. He was the first German Pope.
Petasites
Petasites is a genus of herbs with leaves in the shape of a heart in the family Asteraceae. The common English name of petasites is Butterbur. Plants of this genus grow near rivers and other water places in Europe, Asia and North America.
In general, the leaves are very big. Its root is very long and grows very quickly. Flowers are white, yellow, white-yellow or white-red, they are small and in a great number.
Butterbur is used in medical purposes, but there is a poison in all parts of the plant.
Some species of Butterbur are cultivated as a garden plant.
Chase Elliott
William Clyde "Chase" Elliott II (born November 28, 1995) is a professional NASCAR driver. In 2016, he replaced Jeff Gordon as the driver of the #24 car for Hendrick Motorsports. He is the son of NASCAR hall of famer Bill Elliott. He won the 2014 NASCAR XFINITY Series Championship.
2021 Houston Texans season
Schedule
Note: Intra-division opponents are in bold text.
Gloria Casales
Gloria Casales is a volleyball player from Mexico. Gloria competed at the 1968 Summer Olympics. She was born on 20 September 1946.
Bollywood Hungama
Bollywood Hungama (previously known as IndiaFM or IndiaFM.com) is a Bollywood entertainment website, owned by Hungama Digital Media Entertainment, which acquired the website in 2000. The website provides news related to the Indian film industry, particularly Bollywood, film reviews and box office reports. Launched on 15 June 1998, the website was originally named "IndiaFM.com". It changed its name to "Bollywood Hungama" in 2008. Bollywood Hungama release their images under the CC-BY-3.0 license.
List of Slipknot band members
History
In 1996, when the band finished recording their demo album Mate. Feed. Kill. Repeat., Slipknot saw its first line-up change when guitarist Donnie Steele left the band and was replaced by Craig Jones. Shortly after, drummer Jordison said they needed a full-time sampler and Jones took the position as "he liked doing that anyway." Mick Thomson then joined the band to be the new guitarist. After ''Mate. Feed. Kill. Repeat.'' was released, the band continued working on new songs which needed more singing melody and the then-lead singer Colsefini had a hard time with this. In 1997, Corey Taylor was asked to join the band and after practicing with Slipknot "everything just clicked." Because of that, Colsefini was moved to backing vocals and percussion. However Colsefini was unhappy with his new role and left the band a month later.
Since the band wanted to keep their percussive sound, Greg Welts joined the band to replace Colsefini. Towards the end of 1997, each band member picked a number to identify themselves. In 1998, Welts became the only member to be kicked out of the band and he was replaced by Chris Fehn. Slipknot wanted to have a DJ in the band, but had a hard time finding one because "the people [they] knew who were DJs all sucked!" Sid Wilson approached the band after seeing them live. He proceeded to impress the band with his ability and his antics; Wilson was considered "Slipknot material" and his hiring brought the band's line-up to nine members. The final change in the band's line-up came at the latter stages of the recording process of the band's debut album, Slipknot, in 1999. While the band took a break from recording the album, Brainard decided to leave the band and was replaced by Jim Root.
Two more lineup changes took place over the years. The first was after the departure of Joey Jordison in December 2013. In early 2014, the late Paul Gray was replaced by Alessandro Venturella, and Jordison was replaced by Jay Weinberg, leaving Crahan as the only remaining original member. The second change occurred in mid 2019, after Chris Fehn was fired from the band. He was replaced by Michael Pfaff, who was originally dubbed by fans as "Tortilla Man".
Blackmail (1939 movie)
Blackmail is a 1939 American crime drama movie directed by H. C. Potter and starring Edward G. Robinson, Ruth Hussey, Gene Lockhart, Bobs Watson, John Wray, Arthur Hohl, Esther Dale. It was distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.
Kevin Brueck
Kevin Brueck (born April 27, 1978) is an American voice actor and YouTuber, most notable for his involvement in the web series the Annoying Orange franchise and the spin-off Liam the Leprechaun franchise. He is also known for voicing many characters on the YouTube web series The Annoying Orange; his most famous voice role is that of Grandpa Lemon, Lemon's grandfather.
Landsberied
Landsberied is a municipality in Fürstenfeldbruck in Bavaria in Germany.
The Colbys
The Colbys was an American primetime soap opera. It was a spin-off of Dynasty. It aired on ABC from November 1985 to March 1987. The stars of the series included Charlton Heston, John James, Emma Samms, Maxwell Caulfield, and Stephanie Beacham. This show was focused on the fictional rich Colby family from Los Angeles, California.
French Fifth Republic
The Fifth Republic (Cinquième République), France's current republican system of government, was created by Charles de Gaulle under the Constitution of the Fifth Republic on 4 October 1958.
The Fifth Republic was created after the collapse of the Fourth Republic, replacing the former parliamentary republic with a semi-presidential (or dual-executive) system that split powers between a prime minister as head of government and a president as head of state.
Skating rink
A skating rink may refer to:
The Breakers
The Breakers is a private palace in Newport, Rhode Island that has over one acre of floor space on five storeys. The mansion is modeled after the grandest of dogeal palaces in Venice, Italy, despite the style being ill-suited for the cold northern climate of New England.
Double stopping
Double stopping means playing two notes at once on a bowed string instrument by drawing the bow across two strings at once while "stopping" two notes by pressing the fingers down on the fingerboard: one finger on each of the two strings being played.
On instruments such as the violin the player is mostly playing one note at a time. It is not difficult to play two open strings at once, but fingering two strings at once can be very difficult, so double stopping is an advanced technique. Sometimes triple or quadruple stopping is needed. This is sometimes called multiple stopping. It is not really possible to play three or four notes at the same time on a violin. The bridge is curved so that the player can bow on one string without hitting the others by accident. Multiple stopping is done by playing first two strings and then, while still letting the sound from these two ring, quickly playing the other two strings.
Multiple stopping was used a lot in Renaissance music when playing the viol. Baroque composers such as Johann Sebastian Bach in Germany or Arcangelo Corelli in Italy often require double stopping when writing for solo string instruments. It is also used a lot in virtuoso music of composers in the Romantic period such as Niccolò Paganini.
Marysville, Kansas
Marysville is a city in and the county seat of Marshall County, Kansas, United States. As of the 2010 census, the city population was 3,294.
Asshole
Asshole (or arsehole in British English) is slang for the anus and is also used as a word to hurt people's feelings. It's made up from the word arse, which has been used for a long time as another name for the anus. This was first added to the word hole in the sixteenth century in books, but may have been used in talking a long time before that. By the 1970s, Hustler magazine featured people they did not like as "Asshole of the month."
How it is used
Asshole is mainly used as a bad word towards someone that the speaker does not like. You could not say "asshole" on normal television in the US until the early 1990s, but it was sometimes in PG-13 and R rated films before this.
Political usage
In 2000, during a Labor Day event, George W. Bush made an off-hand remark to his running mate, Dick Cheney, that New York Times reporter Adam Clymer was a "major league asshole."
Rock songs using the word asshole
Gene Simmons of rock band Kiss released a solo album called Asshole which also featured a song of the same name. Denis Leary also had a song called Asshole in 1993.
Similar words
Words similar to asshole are asshat, assclown, asstard, asspat and asspit.
Missing Richard Simmons
Missing Richard Simmons is an investigative journalism podcast, created by Stitcher, First Look Media, and Pineapple Street Media and hosted by Dan Taberski. The first episode was released on February 15, 2017, with the following five episodes released weekly.
Synopsis
Missing Richard Simmons focuses on the sudden retirement from public life of Richard Simmons. After having an illustrious media career spanning over 30 years and known for interacting with fans on a personal level, Simmons retired from the public eye in February 2014. Not only did he no longer appear in the media, but he also stopped teaching his regular exercise classes at Slimmons and stopped corresponding with his friends and fans. Former producer on The Daily Show Dan Taberski sets out to find out why.
Teen Choice Awards
The Teen Choice Awards is an awards show presented annually by FOX. The program honors the year's biggest achievements in music, movies, sports, and television, as voted on by teens aged 12–19. The program usually features a high number of celebrities and musical performers. The winners are awarded with lifesize surfboards, to fit the summertime theme. The ceremony has also created spin-off teen awards on YouTube.
Starting in 1999, the Teen Choice Awards were presented weeks prior to the televised event up through 2005. Since 2006, the program has been televised live.
Mountain View Unit
The Mountain View Unit is a women's prison in Gatesville, Texas, USA. The murderer of Selena Quintanilla was held there.
Marquinho (footballer, born 1976)
Marcos Bonifacio da Rocha (born 7 March 1976) is a Brazilian football player. He plays for Tonan Maebashi.
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Death Angel
Death Angel is a thrash metal band from Concord, California. They played from 1982 to 1991. In 2001 they started to play again. All of their members are from the Philippines. The members are: Mark Osegueda (vocals) Rob Cavestany (guitar, vocals), Ted Aguilar (guitar), Andy Galeon (drums), Dennis Pepa (bass, vocals)
Honey (2003 movie)
Honey is a 2003 movie released by Universal Pictures. Featuring music produced by Rodney Jerkins, the movie stars Jessica Alba, Mekhi Phifer, Lil' Romeo,Zachary Isaiah Williams Joy Bryant, Missy Elliott and David Moscow. A number of popular hip hop and R&B musicians make cameos in the movie, including Jerkins, Jadakiss and Sheek Louch of The Lox, Tweet, and Ginuwine. Canadian R&B artist Shawn Desman was also featured. R&B and hip-hop singer Aaliyah, a close friend of Missy Elliott, was originally cast as the star of the movie before her death.
Baroque music
Baroque music is a set of styles of European classical music which were in use between about 1600 and 1750 during the Baroque period.
The word "Baroque" is used in other art forms besides music: we talk about Baroque architecture, painting, sculpture, dance and literature. The Baroque period comes between the Renaissance and the period of Classicism.
History
Musicians think of the Baroque period as starting around 1600. The famous Renaissance composers Palestrina and Lassus had died a few years earlier. Claudio Monteverdi wrote some music in Renaissance style, and other music in Baroque style. Opera was being invented. It was a time of musical change.
The change from writing music in the Baroque style to the Classical style was much more gradual. 1750 is the year that Bach died, so it is an easy date to choose for the end of the Baroque period.
The Baroque was a time when people liked large spaces and a lot of ornamentation. This can be seen in the architecture of famous buildings such as St. Peter's Basilica, Rome, or St. Paul’s Cathedral, London. They were built at this time. In Venice there were churches with galleries on either side of the church. Composers liked to write music for two groups of musicians placed in opposite galleries. Giovanni Gabrieli wrote a lot of music like this.
Styles and instruments
The idea of two contrasting groups was used a lot in Baroque music. Composers wrote concertos. These were pieces for orchestra and a solo instrument. Sometimes a concerto contrasted a group of soloists with the rest of the orchestra. These are called by the Italian name "Concerti Grossi. Bach's Brandenburg Concertos are good examples.
Organs, and some harpsichords, had at least two manuals (keyboards). The player could change from one manual to the other, contrasting two different sounds.
Baroque music was often a melody with a bass line at the bottom. This could be, for example, a singer and a cello. There was also a harpsichord or organ that played the bass line as well, and made up chords in between. Often the composer did not bother to write out all the chords (harmonies) but just showed some of the chords by figures, leaving it to the performer to decide exactly which notes to play. This is called “figured bass” or “basso continuo”. The soloist, who played or sang the melody on top, often put in lots of ornamental notes. Again: the composer did not write this all down but left it to the performer to improvise something nice around the notes he had written.
When a soloist in an opera sings a song (an aria) the aria is in a particular mood. They called this “affection”. There were several “affections” or moods: there were arias about revenge, jealousy, anger, love, despair, peaceful happiness etc. Each movement in a concerto also had one particular mood. Music from later periods is different. For example: Haydn in the Classical Period would often change its mood during a piece.
Suite
The Baroque suite is a collection of dance movements written in the style of Baroque music. There is an accepted standard order in which the dances are performed. The five primary dances are the Overture, Allemande, Courante, Sarabande and Gigue. Many times a composer would add a Prelude before all the dances. Sometimes a composer would add another piece in between the Sarabande and the Gigue.
There are many exceptions to the standard order, but the order of Prelude, Allemande, Courante, Sarabande, Other, and Gigue is most common. This can be easily remembered by the acronym PACSOG.
Composers
Here are a few of the most important composers of the Baroque period:
Honey (2003 movie)
The movie grossed $27 million at the US box office, and was released on DVD and VHS on March 23, 2004.
Eloisa Cabada
Eloisa Cabada is a volleyball player from Mexico. Eloisa competed at the 1968 Summer Olympics. She was born on 1 October 1948.
Thomas Hopko
Thomas Hopko (March 28, 1939 – March 18, 2015) was an Eastern Orthodox Christian priest and theologian. He was the Dean of Saint Vladimir’s Orthodox Theological Seminary from September 1992 until July 1, 2002 and taught dogmatic theology  there from 1968 until 2002. In retirement, he carried the honorary title of Dean Emeritus.
John Ehle
John Marsden Ehle, Jr. (December 13, 1925 – March 24, 2018) was an American novelist and screenwriter. He was known best for his fiction set in the Appalachian Mountains of the American South. He wrote the screenplay of The Journey of August King, a movie that is based on his book. He was known for his book The Winter People (1982) and Last One Home (1984).
Vacuum tube
A vacuum tube, also called a valve in British English, is an electronic device used in many older model radios, television sets, and amplifiers to control electric current flow. The cathode is heated, as in a light bulb, so it will emit electrons. This is called thermionic emission. The anode is the part that accepts the emitted electrons. The device may have other parts. Vacuum tubes must be hot to work. Most are made of glass, thus are fragile and can break. Vacuum tubes were used in the first computers like the ENIAC, which were large and need much work to continue operating.
History
Although the vacuum tube was invented by John Ambrose Fleming in 1904, it was Thomas Edison who discovered the "Edison effect" in 1883 which states that electricity does not necessarily need a solid material to move through; it can move through gas or vacuums as well.
John Ambrose Fleming invented the first vacuum tube, the diode, in 1904. Lee De Forest invented the "audion" in 1906 (which was improved by others as the triode in 1908) and used in the first telephone amplifiers. Many other kinds were invented for various purposes.
The transistor became cheaper in the 1960s and was much smaller, worked on lower voltages, and used less power. In addition, unlike vacuum tubes, they were much less likely to be damaged by being dropped and had extremely long life. Eventually, they were also much cheaper than glass vacuum tubes. At this time, most radios, television sets, and amplifiers began using transistors instead. High powered electronics such as broadcasting transmitters were transistorized more slowly. Television receivers continued using the cathode ray tube until the mid-2000s.
Current uses
In the 21st century, vacuum tubes are rarely used in common electronic equipment. Many devices today rely on the transistor over the vacuum tube. Some devices that still use the vacuum tube, however, include:
Heptagon
A heptagon/septagon/7-gon is a shape with 7 sides and 7 corners.
Regular heptagon
All sides of a regular heptagon are the same length. Each corner is 147. 27 °. All corners added together equal 6840°.
Area
The amount of space a regular heptagon takes up is
Pensmore Mansion
Pensmore Mansion, Pensmore Castle or Chateau Pensmore is a chateauesque style mansion in the Ozark Mountains near Highlandville, Missouri. The 72,000sqft\7180sqm mock castle holds 13 bedrooms, 14 baths and is said to be able to withstand earthquakes, tornadoes and even the blast from a nuclear bomb from just a few kilometers away! A conspiracy theory says that Pensmore Mansion will be used as a new White House in the New World Order. There's also said to be kilometers of tunnels under the mansion.
Gold Coast (British colony)
The Gold Coast was a British Crown Colony on the Gulf of Guinea in West Africa from 1821 until its independence in 1957.
Paul Revere (musician)
Paul Revere Dick (January 7, 1938 - October 4, 2014) was an American musician and organ player. In 1958, he and other musicians founded the group Paul Revere & the Raiders. They recorded many hits. He worked with the group until his death in 2014. Revere was born in Harvard, Nebraska.
Revere died from cancer in Garden Valley, Idaho, aged 76.
Firozabad rail disaster
Firozabad rail disaster is the second most worst rail accident in India after the Bihar train derailment. It occurred on 20 August 1995 near Firozabad, Uttar Pradesh, India.
Ian Ure
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Firozabad rail disaster
Accident
The last three carriages of the Kalindi Express and two carriages along with the engine of Purushottam Express were destroyed. About 358 passengers were killed.
Paul Ince
Paul Ince (born 21 October 1967) is an English former footballer. He has played for the England national team.
Paul has been manager of: Macclesfield Town, Milton Keynes Dons (which he made champions of League Two), Blackburn Rovers, Notts County and Blackpool.
Club career statistics
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Tropical Storm Erika
Tropical Storm Erika in August 2015 was a very damaging and deadly tropical cyclone. The storm struck the Leeward Islands on August 27. More than USD$500 million in damage was caused by the storm.
Alfredo Nobre da Costa
Alfredo Jorge Nobre da Costa, GCC, ComC, OMRI (Lisbon, Lapa, 10 September 1923 — Lisbon, 4 February 1996), commonly known just by Nobre da Costa, was a Portuguese engineer and politician.
Tropical Storm Erika
More than 30 people died when the storm passed through the Caribbean.
Resulting from Erika's impact over the northeast Caribbean, the name Erika was retired in April 2016. The name was replaced with Elsa for 2021. Erika became the second storm name that was retired. Allison was the first one.
Europa Universalis IV
Europa Universalis IV (EU4 in short) is a video game in the Europa Universalis set of games. It is made by Paradox Interactive. It came out in August 2013. The game is a strategy game. Players can play as a country between the years of 1444 and 1821. Players can trade, build colonies, and fight other countries in war.
Arch Enemy
Arch Enemy is a death metal band from Sweden. They started in 1996. The members are: Alissa White-Gluz (vocals), Michael Amott (guitar, vocals), Jeff Loomis (guitar), Sharlee D'Angelo, (bass) Daniel Erlandsson (drums).
Biggles (movie)
Biggles is a 1986 British World War I science fiction adventure movie directed by John Hough and starring Nick Dickson, Alex Hyde-White, Fiona Hutchison, Peter Cushing, William Hootkins, Francesca Gonshaw, Daniel Flynn.
Nikos Christodoulides
Nikos Christodoulides (born 6 December 1973) is a Greek Cypriot politician. He is the President of Cyprus since 2023. He was the Minister of Foreign Affairs from 2018 to 2022.
He won the first round of the presidential elections with 32.04% of the votes, and was supported by President Nicos Anastasiades. He won the second round with 51.92% of the votes, against 48.08% of Andreas Mavroyiannis in February 2023.
Sindh Institute of Urology and Transplantation
The Sindh Institute of Urology and Transplantation ('SIUT') is a largest dialysis & kidney transplant centre in Pakistan.
All services including dialysis and transplantation are provided free of charge.
It was founded by Dr. Syed Adeebul Hasan Rizvi and it is the country's largest kidney disease center, as well as Parkistan's largest public sector health organisation.
The Institute started as a department of urology at the government-run Civil Hospital, Karachi in 1970 and received autonomy in 1991.
They perform 10 to 12 transplants every week, and in 2003 performed Pakistan's first liver transplant. In 2004, a unit for child was opened.
Onslow County, North Carolina
Onslow County is a county in the U.S. state of North Carolina. In 2010, 177,772 people lived there. Its county seat is Jacksonville.
Jacques-Charles Dupont de l'Eure
Jacques-Charles Dupont de l'Eure (27 February 1767 – 3 March 1855) was a French lawyer and statesman. He is best known as the first head of state of the Second Republic.
French Consulate
The Consulate (French: Le Consulat) was the top-level Government of France from the fall of the Directory in the coup of Brumaire on 10 November 1799 until the start of the Napoleonic Empire on 18 May 1804.
During this time, Napoleon Bonaparte, as First Consul (Premier consul), created himself as the head of a more authoritarian, autocratic, and centralized republican government in France while not declaring himself sole ruler.
Napoleon brought authoritarian personal rule which has been viewed as military dictatorship.
National Maritime Day
In the United States, National Maritime Day is held every May 22 to honor people who have served in the United States Merchant Marine service.
San Simeon
San Simeon is a town on the Pacific coast of the US state of California, it's most famous as being the town that Hearst Castle is located in.
National Maritime Day
The first National Maritime Day was May 22, 1933, based on a joint resolution passed by the United States Congress on May 20, 1933. Franklin D. Roosevelt was the first President to issue a proclamation about the day.
Sea Cliff, New York
The Incorporated Village of Sea Cliff is a village located within the Town of Oyster Bay in Nassau County, New York. According to the United States 2010 Census, the village population was 4,995.
Sea Cliff is located at 40.84639°N, -73.64453°W.
State Statistics Committee (Azerbaijan)
The State Statistics Committee of Azerbaijan Republic (Azərbaycan Respublikası Dövlət Statistika Komitəsi) is a governmental agency within the Cabinet of Azerbaijan in charge of collection, processing and publishing statistical data on the economy, demographics and other sectors in the Republic of Azerbaijan. The State Statistics Committee was established on February 18, 1994 by President Heydar Aliyev. Its headquarters is located in the Azerbaijani capital city of Baku.
Tasman Bridge
The Tasman Bridge is a five-lane bridge which crosses the Derwent River, near the central business district of Hobart, Tasmania. The bridge replaced a 1943 floating concrete bridge which had a liftable middle section to allow ships to pass through. Work began on the Tasman Bridge in April 1960, and it was finished on 23 December, 1964. It was officially opened by the Duke of Gloucester on 18 March, 1965. It was named after Abel Tasman, the Dutch explorer who was the first European to visit Tasmania in 1642.
Details
The bridge, including the approaches, is 4650 ft long, of which 3500 ft is over the water. The bridge is made up of concrete columns supporting the road deck. There are 19 viaduct spans, each 140 ft, a main navigation span of 310 ft and two spans at 197 ft which provide access beneath for ships. The bridge is 150 ft above the mean water level. The bridge columns rest on bedrock which in some places was more than 300 ft below the ground surface.
Dr Pepper
Dr Pepper is a soft drink (soda) similar to Coca Cola in its color. Each can of Dr Pepper contains 150 calories.
Dr Pepper's Slogans
c. 2006: "Get Berried in Cream" USA (used for the new Berries and Cream flavor)
Tasman Bridge
Collapse
On 5 January, 1975, a ship, the SS Lake Illawarra, carrying 10,000 tons of zinc concentrate crashed into the bridge. This caused two of the columns and three spans of the bridge to collapse into the river. The ship sank quickly in the deep water. Four cars fell into the river killing five people, and seven members of the ship's crew were also killed. Several cars were able to stop, with their front wheels hanging over the edge.
The collapse of the bridge left people living on the east bank of the Derwent with a 50km drive to get into the city. A temporary Bailey bridge was put in place. This was the longest Bailey bridge in the world. The Tasman Bridge was rebuilt and opened again to traffic on 8 October, 1977.
Aaron Schroeder
Schroeder died on December 2, 2009, in Englewood, New Jersey from primary progressive aphasia, a rare form of dementia, aged 83.
Eva Burrows
Eva Evelyn Burrows, AC (15 September 1929 – 20 March 2015) was an Australian community welfare organiser. From 1986 to 1993, Burrows served as the 13th General of the Salvation Army. She served as an Officer of the Salvation Army from 1951 to her retirement in 1993.
Burrows died on 20 March 2015 at a hospital in Melbourne, Victoria, aged 85.
Palazzo Chiablese
The Palazzo Chiablese is a building in Turin, Italy which was once the residence of the Duke of Chablais (a son of a king of Sardinia) it was also later the home of the Duke of Genoa (himself another king of Sardinia) Today it is home to a cultural collection honouring the history of Piedmont. It is open to the public Wednesday, Thursday, Friday from 4 pm to 8pm and during press conferences, cultural events, concerts.
Brief history
From 1753, it served as the residence of Benedetto of Savoy, son of Charles Emmanuel III and Elisabeth Therese of Lorraine. It was named after his courtesy title of "Duke of Chablais".
Bombed during World War II it lost a majority of its internal decoration before being handed over to the state in the 1950s.
Dodecagon
A dodecagon or 12-gon is a shape with 12 sides and 12 corners.
Regular dodecagon
All sides of a regular dodecagon are the same length. Each corner is 150°. All corners added together equal 1800°.
Area
The amount of space a regular dodecagon takes up is
Perimeter
The perimeter of a regular dodecagon is
The variable P represents the perimeter, and the variable s represents one side.
Accession
Accession is the attainment or acquisition of a position of rank or power, typically that of monarch or president. Eg."the queen's accession to the throne".
Accession day is a celebration. It is usually the anniversary of when a monarch takes office. The earliest record of accession celebrations are from the reign of Queen Elizabeth I of England.
Accession is not the same as coronation or inauguration. Coronation and inauguration are both ceremonies which take place after the accession.
Míchel Salgado
Míchel Salgado (born 22 October 1975) is a Spanish football player. He plays for Blackburn Rovers.
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Speyer
Speyer (English formerly Spires) is a city in the state of Rhineland-Palatinate with about 50,000 inhabitants on the Rhine river. It lies 25 km south of Ludwigshafen and Mannheim. Around the year 500 the town gets the name Spira, named after the stream Speyerbach which flows into the Rhine river here.
The center of Speyer is dominated by the cathedral. Here are the tombs of several of the Salian emperors: the bodies, however, are believed to have gone missing during one of the French invasions during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
Concertmaster
The Concertmaster (American English) or leader (British English) is the most important violinist in an orchestra. He or she will sit in the front seat, by the conductor's left. The word concertmaster comes from the German Konzertmeister.