The sheltered location on the cliff of the Island's south coast means the area experiences a microclimate. It has more sunny days than much of the British Isles, and fewer frosts. This has allowed many species of subtropical plant to grow here. Ventnor Botanic Garden is particularly notable.
Diplomatics
Diplomatics is a discipline which is concerned with the analysis of historical documents. The word goes back to "diploma", which literally means folded (document). Using the term diplomatics for this science is probably due to a work called "De re diplomatica", by Jean Mabilon (1632-1707). Note also, that the term is unrelated to diplomacy.
The discipline originally evolved as a tool for studying and determining the authenticity of the official charters and diplomas issued by royal and papal chanceries. It was later found that many of the same underlying principles could be applied to other types of official document and legal instrument, to non-official documents such as private letters, and, most recently, to the metadata of electronic records.
Diplomatics is one of the auxiliary sciences of history. It should not be confused (as it often is) with its sister-discipline of palaeography. In fact, its techniques have more in common with those of the literary disciplines of textual criticism and historical criticism.
Lois Nettleton
Lois Nettleton (August 16, 1927 – January 18, 2008) was an American actress. She acted in television and movies and on stage. She was a semifinalist at the 1948 Miss America pageant. She acted in dozens of television shows, including "Gunsmoke" and "Daniel Boone".
Nettleton was born in Oak Park, Illinois. She died of lung cancer in California at age 80.
Joy Page
Joy Page (November 9, 1924 – April 18, 2008) was an American actress. She played Annina Brandel in the movie "Casablanca". She also played Marsinah in the 1944 movie "Kismet".
Page was born in Los Angeles, California. She died from pneumonia and a stroke, at age eighty-three.
Cornelius Vanderbilt
Cornelius Vanderbilt (May 27, 1794 – January 4, 1877) was an American businessman, philanthropist, and slave owner. A lot of his wealth came from railroads and shipping.
He was also the patriarch of the Vanderbilt family. He was one of the richest Americans in history. He provided the initial gift to found Vanderbilt University, which is named in his honor.
Vanderbilt died on January 4, 1877 in New York City, New York from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), aged 82.
Vanderbilt was worth more than $100 million at the time of his death (equivalent to approximately $ in 2021 dollars).
A Dirty Shame
A Dirty Shame is a 2004 satirical sex comedy movie. John Waters directed and wrote it. Tracey Ullman plays Sylvia. Selma Blair plays Caprice/Ursula. Patty Hearst plays Paige.
"A Dirty Shame" was released with an NC-17 rating by the MPAA. New Line Cinema was the distributor. It received mixed reviews.
The people of Harford Road (Maryland Route #147) are divided into two camps: puritanical people who hate anything even remotely sexual. There are also the perverts, a group of sexual addicts whose sexual fetishes have been brought to the fore.
A held back Sylvia Stickles finds herself as a puritan. One day, she leaves her promiscuous daughter Caprice locked up over the garage and under house arrest. Sylvia is smacked on the head by a passing car. She meets Ray-Ray Perkins, a local mechanic.
Through a series of bizarre head knockings, everyone in the Harford Area of Baltimore becomes a sex addict. Ray-Ray shoots semen from his head. He becomes the messiah of "Let's Go Sexin'".
John Waters decided to make the movie when he found several sexual slang terms over the internet.
According to Waters, when he asked MPAA what he would have needed to cut from the movie before he could have it rated R, they said "after a while, we just stopped taking notes." It was simply released into theaters with an NC-17 rating.
It was shot entirely on location in Baltimore on the Harford Road.
"A Dirty Shame" got mixed reviews from critics. Some liked or loved its unashamed vulgarity. Others, though, went against it for the same reason. On the Rotten Tomatoes, the approval rating is 53%, based on the reviews of 117 critics. On the Metacritic, the review for the movie is 56 out of 100, which means "mixed or average".
Selma Blair
Selma Blair (b. June 23, 1972) is an American actress. She acts in a variety of movie genres. She played Cecile Caldwell in the movie "Cruel Intentions". She played Vivian in "Legally Blonde".
Blair was born in Southfield, Michigan.
In October 2018, Blair revealed that she had been diagnosed with multiple sclerosis.
Southfield, Michigan
Southfield is a city in eastern Michigan. It is not far from Detroit. At the 2010 census, 71,739 people lived there.
Southfield was incorporated as city in 1958.
Lucha Underground
Lucha Underground (originally called Lucha: Uprising) is an American professional wrestling television series. The show is produced by United Artists Media Group. It airs weekly in English on the El Rey network, and in Spanish on UniMás. The promotion features wrestlers from both the American independent circuit and the Mexican wrestling promotion Asistencia Asesoría y Administración (AAA).
It was announced on January 12, 2014, that AAA would start airing a show on the American network El Rey on the second half of the year and that it would be backed by Mark Burnett. It would feature monthly and quarterly specials and live pay-per-views. On October 29, 2014, the series premiered on El Rey Network. It airs Wednesdays at 8:00 p.m. ET. It premiered in Spanish on November 1, 2014 on UniMás. It airs Saturdays at 4:00 p.m. on UniMás.
Prince Puma was crowned as the first Lucha Underground Champion on October 5, 2014.
Angélico, Ivelisse and Son of Havoc became the first Lucha Underground Trios Champions when they won the Trios Tournament on February 8, 2015.
On September 21, 2015, it was announced that there would be a second season of Lucha Underground.
Jože Toporišič
Jože Toporišič (October 11, 1926 – December 9, 2014) was a Slovene linguist. He was the author of the most influential Slovene scientific grammar of the second half of the 20th century. He was a member of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts, and coauthor of the Academy's Slovene Normative Guide (). He was born in Mostec, near Brežice in Slovenia.
Toporišič died in Ljubljana, Slovenia, aged 88.
Russ Kemmerer
Russell Paul Kemmerer (November 1, 1930 – December 8, 2014) was an American professional baseball player. He was a right-handed pitcher. He played for the Boston Red Sox (–), the Washington Senators (–), the Chicago White Sox (–), and the Houston Colt .45s (–) to finish his career.
Kemmerer died in Indianapolis, Indiana, aged 84.
Robert B. Oakley
Robert Bigger Oakley (March 12, 1931 – December 10, 2014) is an American diplomat. He was a Foreign Service Officer. He was United States Ambassador to Zaire, Somalia, and Pakistan. In the early 1990s, he was a special envoy during the American involvement in Somalia under the Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, and George Bush presidencies.
Oakley died in McLean, Virginia from complications from Parkinson's disease, aged 83.
New Hartford, Connecticut
New Hartford is a town in Litchfield County, Connecticut, United States. The population was 6,970 at the 2010 census.
Albert Günther
Albert Günther FRS, (Albert Karl Ludwig Gotthilf Günther, also Albert Charles Lewis Gotthilf Günther, 3 October 1830 – 1 February 1914), was a German-born British zoologist, ichthyologist, and herpetologist. Günther is currently ranked the second-most productive reptile taxonomist. He described more than 340 reptile species.
He joined the British Museum in 1857, under Richard Owen and John Edward Gray. His first task was to classify 2000 snake specimens. After the death of Gray in 1875, Günther was appointed Keeper of Zoology at the Natural History Museum, a position he held until 1895.