The John Alden House is a historic house museum that was supposed to be the home of John and Priscilla Alden. It is located at 105 Alden Street in Duxbury, Massachusetts. Family tradition says it was built in 1653. Scientific testing of the beams says the house was built about 1700.
John and Priscilla Alden Family Sites was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1978. The sites were declared a National Historic Landmark on October 7, 2008. The Alden Kindred of America, Inc. is a non-profit organization that owns and takes care of the John Alden House.
The Greatest Show on Earth
The Greatest Show on Earth is a 1952 movie. Its setting is the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus. It stars Betty Hutton, Cornel Wilde, and Charlton Heston. It was produced, directed, and narrated by Cecil B. DeMille. It won the Academy Award for Best Picture. It was a box office hit.
Billy Rose's Jumbo
Billy Rose's Jumbo is a 1962 MGM musical movie. It stars Jimmy Durante, Doris Day, Martha Raye, and Stephen Boyd. The movie was directed by Charles Walters. It featured Busby Berkeley's choreography. It was nominated for an Academy Award for the adaptation of its Rodgers and Hart score.
Freaks
Freaks is a 1932 MGM horror movie about circus sideshow performers. It was directed and produced by Tod Browning. The cast is mostly actual traveling carnival performers. The movie was based on Tod Robbins' 1923 story "Spurs". Director Browning cast real people with deformities as the sideshow "freaks," rather than using costumes and makeup. The movie was not popular. In 1994, "Freaks" was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".
Roustabout
Roustabout is a 1964 movie starring Elvis Presley, Barbara Stanwyck, Joan Freeman, and Leif Erickson. Elvis plays a biker who takes a job with a struggling carnival. He falls in love with the manager's daughter, and makes the carnival a great success when he starts performing as a singer.
Jim Norton (actor)
James "Jim" Norton (born 4 January 1938) is an Irish character actor. He is known for his roles in "Straw Dogs", "Memoirs of an Invisible Man", "Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets", and in "Water for Elephants".
Norton was born on 4 January 1938 in Dublin, Ireland.
Gene Wolfe
Gene Rodman Wolfe (May 7, 1931 – April 14, 2019) was an American science fiction and fantasy writer. He was known for his fantasy novels which had connections to his Catholic faith. His best known work was "The Book of the New Sun", a collection of four novels. Wolfe won two Nebula Awards and many Locus Awards.
Wolfe was born on May 7, 1931 in New York City, New York. He studied at Texas A&M University and at the University of Houston. He was married to Rosemary Wolfe. He lived in Chicago and in Barrington, Illinois.
Wolfe had double bypass surgery on April 24, 2010. He also had surgery on his right eye in early 2013. He died from heart disease on April 14, 2019 in his Peoria, Illinois home. He was 87.
Consumer Electronics Show
The Consumer Electronics Show, also known as just CES, is a yearly conference for technology held every January at the Las Vegas Convention Center, Las Vegas, Nevada, United States. Technology companies come here to host previews of their products and announce new products. It is not open to the public. Products that were first introduced to the public at a Consumer Electronics Show include the videocassette recorder (in 1970), the camcorder (in 1981), high-definition television (in 1998), the Xbox (in 2001), and the Blu-ray Disc (in 2003). It was first held in June 1967 in New York City.
In 2009, "Jeopardy!" taped the Tournament of Champions and Celebrity "Jeopardy!" at that year's show. It introduced a new set that would become their main set in the fall of 2009.
Crystal Pepsi
Crystal Pepsi was a soft drink made by Pepsi sold from 1992 to 1993. It was colorless and had no caffeine in it. It started being sold on April 14, 1992. It failed due to low sales. It was later sold as a citrus drink called "Crystal From Pepsi," which also lasted a short time before Pepsi stopped selling it.
Here Comes Honey Boo Boo
Here Comes Honey Boo Boo is a reality television program. It is about a 7-year-old beauty contestant named Alana Thompson in the U.S. state of Georgia. It is a spin-off of the reality television program "Toddlers & Tiaras". The show has gotten mixed reviews. It began in August 2012. The second season of it started July 17, 2013 and ended on September 11, 2013.
Israel Aircraft Industries Kfir
The Israel Aircraft Industries Kfir or IAI Kfir is an Israeli fighter-bomber aircraft. It is based on the French Mirage 5 but with an american turbojet and avionics. It is a single or dual seat.
When Israel stopped using Kfir in 1996, the aircraft was sold to foreign countries. Colombia, Ecuador, and Sri Lanka bought some of them. Between 1985 and 1989, the U.S. Navy rented twenty five single-seat Kfir, as F-21A. American Kfir were used for "dissimilar air combat training", for simulation of Soviet fighter aircraft like MiG-23 Flogger.
Sri Lanka used the Kfir against the Tamils Tigers rebellion.
Lorazepam
Lorazepam (also known as Ativan) is a sedative medicine which was first introduced around 1977 for anxiety treatment. It is also used for muscle relaxation. Unwanted side effects include low blood pressure, hangover effects and confusion.
Lorazepam is a benzodiazepine, and it is widely approved and used for status epilepticus (continuous seizures) and anxiety. Benzodiazepines are central nervous system (CNS) depressants, which are medicines that slow down the nervous system and relieve symptoms of anxiety.
Anterograde amnesia
Anterograde amnesia is a kind of amnesia. Amnesia is a problem with remembering things. In anterograde amnesia, people have trouble making memories last - they forget. Amnesia is triggered by an event; people with anterograde amnesia have problems creating new memories after that event. With Anterograde amnesia, the longer-term memories from the time before the event remain intact. The amnesia may be partial or complete.
Very often Anterograde amnesia occurs together with retrograde amnesia. This is the case with conditions such as concussion.
There are different other conditions which can also lead to anterograde amnesia. They include:
Aripiprazole
Aripiprazole (also called Abilify) is an antipsychotic medicine used for treatment of schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, autism and an adjuvant for major depression, which was first approved by Food and Drug Administration of the United States in November 2002. The first approval was for the treatment of schizophrenia. Later approvals were for bipolar disorder and depression. Common side effects include increase of blood sugar, vomiting, nausea and dizziness.
List of dialling codes in the United Kingdom
This is a list of dialling codes for telephones in the United Kingdom. Dialling codes are the basis for the national telephone numbering plan. They are prefixed to all telephone numbers, generally depending on the type of number and its geographic location. The numbering plan is maintained by Ofcom, which is an independent communications authority. This list is based on the official standard, but it also shows older codes and historical changes. Dialling codes do not match any specific political boundaries. For example, the dialling code for Coventry covers a large area of Warwickshire and the Manchester dialling code covers part or all of several neighbouring towns. When dialling a number from within the United Kingdom, all area codes start with a 0. When dialling from outside the country, the prefix is not dialed.
"For an explanation of the two letter STD codes used below, see Introduction of area codes"
01426, 01523 and other non-standard 01 prefixes were briefly used for pagers in the late 1990s and then moved to new 076 prefixes in the Big Number Change in 2000/2001.