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Porter Wagoner

**Porter Wayne Wagoner** (August 12, 1927 – October 28, 2007) was an American country music singer and songwriter.

Wagoner made 53 studio albums. He had 80 singles, including three number one singles.

Wagoner was part of Grand Ole Opry. He was nicknamed, Mr. Grand Ole Opry.

Wagoner won three Grammy Awards.

He was elected into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 2002.

On October 28, 2007, Wagoner died of lung cancer in Nashville, Tennessee.

## Other websites

- Porter Wagoner's Official website

## Infobox (musical artist)

- **name**: Porter Wagoner
- **img**: Porter wagoner 1999.jpg
- **img capt**: Porter Wagoner in 1999.
- **img size**: 250px
- **background**: solo_singer
- **birth name**: Porter Wayne Wagoner
- **alias**: Mr. Grand Ole Opry
- **birth place**: West Plains, Missouri, West Plains, Missouri, United States of America, USA
- **death place**: Nashville, Tennessee, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America, USA
- **instrument**: acoustic guitar
- **genre**: country music, gospel music, gospel
- **occupation**: singer/songwriter
- **years active**: 1951–2007
- **label**: RCA Victor
Shell Point
TeeVee
ANTI-, Anti
- **associated acts**: Norma Jean
Dolly Parton
- **url**: [http://www.porterwagoner.com/main.html Official website]
Tennessee Ernie Ford

**Ernest Jennings Ford** (February 13, 1919 – October 17, 1991) was an American country music and gospel singer and actor.

He served in World War II as a bombardier and flew missions over Japan.

He made 57 studio albums and had 83 singles during the course of his musical career. In 1955 he sang the song _Sixteen Tons_. He snapped his fingers on the recording. The song sold over a million copies.

He won a Grammy Award in 1964 for best album.

He hosted a daytime talk/variety show from 1962 to 1965 known as The Tennessee Ernie Ford Show (later Hello, Peapickers).

He was elected into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1990 and was also elected into the Gospel Music Hall of Fame in 1994.

He died of liver failure on October 17, 1991 in Reston, Virginia.

## Other websites

- Tennessee Ernie Ford's Official website

## Infobox (musical artist)

- **name**: Tennessee Ernie Ford
- **img**: Tennessee Ernie Ford 1957.JPG
- **img capt**: Tennessee Ernie Ford in 1957
- **background**: solo_singer
- **birth name**: Ernest Jennings Ford
- **birth place**: Bristol, Tennessee, Bristol, Tennessee, United States
- **death place**: Reston, Virginia, Reston, Virginia, United States
- **instrument**: Vocals, Guitar, violin
- **genre**: Country music, Country & Western, Pop music, Pop, Gospel music, Gospel
- **occupation**: singer
actor
- **years active**: 1939–1991
- **url**: [http://www.ernieford.com/ Official website]
Vevey

**Vevey** is a town in Switzerland. Vevey is the site of the world headquarters of  Nestlé, founded in 1867. Milk chocolate was invented in Vevey by Daniel Peter in 1857.

## Other websites

- Official website
Sandy Duncan

**Sandra Kay "Sandy" Duncan** (born February 20, 1946) is an American singer, songwriter and actress. She starred in many television programs and movies. She has also been doing stage acting during her career. Sandy starred in the television sitcom _The Hogan Family_. She was born in Henderson, Texas.
Steve Cropper

**Steven Lee Cropper** (October 21, 1941 – December 3, 2025), also known as **Steve "The Colonel" Cropper**, was an American guitarist, songwriter and producer. He was best known as the guitarist with Booker T. & the M.G.'s who made instrumental music for singers such as Otis Redding, Sam & Dave, Carla Thomas, Rufus Thomas and Johnnie Taylor. He sometimes also helped make records by these singers. He also became known as a member of the Blues Brothers band. _Rolling Stone_ lists him 36th on their list of the 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time.

Cropper died on December 3, 2025 at a rehabilitation center in Nashville, Tennessee while recovering from a fall at the age of 84.

## Other websites

- The official Steve Cropper MySpace page
- Steve Cropper Interview at NAMM Oral History Collection (2015)

## Infobox (musical artist)

- **name**: Steve Cropper
- **img**: Steve cropper.jpg
- **img capt**: Steve Cropper, April 2007
- **birth place**: Dora, Missouri, Dora, Missouri, United States, U.S.
- **death place**: Nashville, Tennessee, U.S.
- **origin**: Memphis, Tennessee, Memphis, Tennessee, U.S.
- **background**: non_vocal_instrumentalist
- **genre**: Rhythm and blues, Soul music, soul, funk, electric blues, blues
- **instrument**: Guitar
- **occupation**: Musician, songwriter, Record producer, producer
- **associated acts**: Booker T. & the M.G.'s, The Mar-Keys, The Blues Brothers, Otis Redding, The Jeff Beck Group, Sam and Dave, Ringo Starr, John Lennon, Carla Thomas, Tower of Power, Wilson Pickett, Eddie Floyd, Ambergris
- **label**: Stax Records
- **years active**: 1958–2025
- **website**: [http://www.playitsteve.com/ Official website]
Jesse Carmichael

***Jesse Royal Carmichael*** (born 2 April 1979) is an American musician, guitarist & keyboardist. He is best known as the secondary guitar player and keyboardist for the Grammy Award-winning band _Maroon 5_. In 1994, he joined with Maroon 5 frontman Adam Levine and Mickey Madden, current bassist, and formed Kara's Flowers. He recorded the debut album _Songs About Jane_ with the rest of the band Levine, Madden, James Valentine, and Ryan Dusick.

## Personal life

Carmichael was born in Boulder, Colorado, United States on April 2, 1979. He went to Five Towns College with the rest of his bandmates. While he was in college he began getting interested in playing the piano and keyboards. He then joined Kara's Flowers and released the album _The Fourth World_ in 1998. Kara's Flowers then disbanded and re connected years later in 2002 and began recording material with Maroon 5.

## 1863

As a solo artist, Carmichael uses a stage name **1863**. He released his debut EP album _Five Songs_ on June 4, 2012 digitally.
Valerie Harper

**Valerie  Harper** (August 22, 1939 – August 30, 2019) was an American movie and television actress. She was best known for playing Rhoda Morgenstern on _The Mary Tyler Moore Show_ and starring in the sitcom _Valerie_. She also did stage acting. She began her career as a dancer and chorus girl on Broadway in the late 1950s and early 1960s.

## Personal life

Harper was born in Suffern, New York. She was Wendy Schaal's former step-mother. She was married to Richard Schaal from 1964 until they divorced in 1978. She married Tony Cacciotti in 1987.

## Illness

On March 11, 2013, Harper announced that she had an incurable brain tumor. Doctors said that she had less than three months to live.  Although the disease is incurable, her doctors said they were treating her with chemotherapy in an effort to slow its progress. On July 30, 2015, Harper was hospitalized in Maine after falling unconscious. Later on the 30th she was taken via medevac to a larger hospital for further treatment. She was later released.

Harper died on the morning of August 30, 2019 from meningitis caused by brain cancer, in Los Angeles a week after her 80th birthday.

## Other websites

- Valerie Harper official website
- FilmReference profile
- Archive of American Television

## Infobox (person)

- **name**: Valerie Harper
- **image**: Valerie Harper.jpg
- **caption**: Harper at a 2007 SAG Foundation brunch
- **birth place**: Suffern, New York, U.S.
- **death place**: Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, U.S.
- **spouse**: Richard Schaal (1964-1978)
Tony Cacciotti (1987-2019)
- **occupation**: Actress
- **years active**: 1956–2019
Alaska Interior

The **Alaska Interior** covers most of the U.S. state's territory. It is largely wilderness. Mountains include Mount McKinley (Denali) in the Alaska Range, the Wrangell Mountains, and the Ray Mountains.

The largest city in the interior is Fairbanks, which is Alaska's second-largest city. Other towns include North Pole, Eagle, Tok, Glennallen, Delta Junction, Nenana, Anderson, Healy and Cantwell.

## Climate

Temperatures in Interior Alaska change a lot between the seasons. Winter temperatures in Fairbanks are usually around −12 °F (−24 °C) and summer temperatures  are around 62 °F (17 °C). Temperatures there can get as low as −65 °F (−54 °C) in mid-winter, and as high as 99 °F (37 °C) in summer. Both the highest and lowest temperature records for the state were set in the Interior, with 100 °F (38 °C) in Fort Yukon and −80 °F (−64 °C) in Prospect Creek. Temperatures within a given winter can ghange a lot also. Long cold snaps can be followed by sudden warmth with temperatures above freezing.  this is because of changes in the  wind.

Summers can be warm and dry for a long time. This can make it easy for wildfires to start. Weak thunderstorms can produce lightning that starts a fire. These fires are often left to burn if they are far away from where people live. The 2004 season had the most fires. Over  were burned.

The average annual precipitation in Fairbanks is 11.3 inches (28.7 cm).  Most of this is snow during the winter.  Most storms in the interior of Alaska originate in the Gulf of Alaska. Most of these storms are  blocked or weakened by passing over the mountains.

The months from May to July in the summer have no darkness at night. They only have a twilight during the night hours. The months of November to January are the other way around. They have little daylight.  It is light for about 21 hours every day between May 10 and August 2. It is light less than four hours each day between November 18 and January 24. On clear winter nights, the aurora borealis, or "Northern lights" can often be seen dancing in the sky.
A lot of the ground in the Interior has permafrost, meaning that there is a layer of soil that is always frozen.
Kid A

***Kid A*** is the fourth album by the band Radiohead. It was released in October 2000 on the Parlophone label. It was a success, and was certified platinum in the United Kingdom after only one week. _Kid A_ was the band's first number one in America, and was named as 'The best album of the 2000s' by Rolling Stone magazine.

## Reception

At first, many people did not like _Kid A_. They wanted an album that had the rock sound of _The Bends_ and _OK Computer_, but Kid A had electronic music. Melody Maker gave the album a very bad review, and criticized the album for being depressing and having electronic music. However, Pitchfork Media, who gave Radiohead's last album a perfect score, did the same for Kid A. The review raved about how good the album was. The review, infamous for its metaphors and storytelling, is now famous among Radiohead fans.

Thanks to the Pitchfork review, people love _Kid A_ now. It has been referred to as a "classic". Critics have praised the album's relevance in computerized society. Some think that the bad reviews for the album were rockist, which is when someone favors rock music over other genres.

## Track listing

All tracks written by Radiohead except where noted.

1. "Everything in Its Right Place" – 4:11
1. "Kid A" – 4:44
1. "The National Anthem" – 5:51
1. "How to Disappear Completely" – 5:56
1. "Treefingers" – 3:42
1. "Optimistic" – 5:15
1. "In Limbo" – 3:31
1. "Idioteque" (Radiohead, Paul Lansky) – 5:09
1. "Morning Bell" – 4:35
1. "Motion Picture Soundtrack" (includes a hidden track that starts at 4:18) – 7:01

## Infobox (album)

- **name**: Kid A
- **type**: studio
- **artist**: Radiohead
- **released**: 2 October 2000
- **recorded**: January 1999 – April 2000
- **genre**: Electronica, alternative rock
- **length**: 49:57
- **label**: Parlophone, Capitol Records, Capitol
- **producer**: Nigel Godrich, Radiohead
- **prev title**: OK Computer
(1997)
- **next title**: Amnesiac (album), Amnesiac
(2001)
Hail to the Thief

***Hail to the Thief*** is an album by the band Radiohead. It was released in June 2003.

## Track listing

All songs written by Radiohead.

1. "2 + 2 = 5 <small>(The Lukewarm.)</small>" – 3:19
1. "Sit Down. Stand Up. <small>(Snakes & Ladders.)</small>" – 4:19
1. "Sail to the Moon. <small>(Brush the Cobwebs out of the Sky.)</small>" – 4:18
1. "Backdrifts. <small>(Honeymoon is Over.)</small>" – 5:22
1. "Go to Sleep. <small>(Little Man being Erased.)</small>" – 3:21
1. "Where I End and You Begin. <small>(The Sky is Falling in.)</small>" – 4:29
1. "We Suck Young Blood. <small>(Your Time is up.)</small>" – 4:56
1. "The Gloaming. <small>(Softly Open our Mouths in the Cold.)</small>" – 3:32
1. "There There. <small>(The Boney King of Nowhere.)</small>" – 5:23
1. "I will. <small>(No man's Land.)</small>" – 1:59
1. "A Punchup at a Wedding. <small>(No no no no no no no no.)</small>" – 4:57
1. "Myxomatosis. <small>(Judge, Jury & Executioner.)</small>" – 3:52
1. "Scatterbrain. <small>(As Dead as Leaves.)</small>" – 3:21
1. "A Wolf at the Door. <small>(It Girl. Rag Doll.)</small>" – 3:23

## Personnel

- Colin Greenwood – bass guitar, string synth, sampler
- Jonny Greenwood – guitar, analogue systems, ondes Martenot, laptop, piano, glockenspiel
- Ed O'Brien – guitar, effects, backing vocals
- Phil Selway – drums, percussion, backing vocals
- Thom Yorke – vocals, lyrics, guitar, piano, laptop
The King of Limbs

***The King of Limbs*** is an album by the band Radiohead. It was released in 2011. No singles were released from the album, but a video was released for "Lotus Flower". The album got good reviews from critics. PopMatters gave it 9/10 and called it "a beautiful record". It was nominated for five Grammy Awards.

## Track listing

1. "Bloom" – 5:15
1. "Morning Mr Magpie" – 4:41
1. "Little by Little" – 4:27
1. "Feral" – 3:13
1. "Lotus Flower" – 5:01
1. "Codex" – 4:47
1. "Give Up the Ghost" – 4:50
1. "Separator" – 5:20

## Other websites

- Official _The King of Limbs_ website
Amnesiac

***Amnesiac*** is an album by the band Radiohead. It was released in June 2001. It went straight to No.1 in the UK Albums Chart. Most critics gave it good reviews. Pitchfork gave it 9/10.

## Track listing

All tracks written by Radiohead.

1. "Packt Like Sardines in a Crushd Tin Box" – 4:00
1. "Pyramid Song" – 4:49
1. "Pulk/Pull Revolving Doors" – 4:07
1. "You and Whose Army?" – 3:11
1. "I Might Be Wrong" – 4:54
1. "Knives Out" – 4:15
1. "Morning Bell/Amnesiac" – 3:14
1. "Dollars & Cents" – 4:52
1. "Hunting Bears" – 2:01
1. "Like Spinning Plates" – 3:57
1. "Life in a Glasshouse" – 4:34
The Bends

***The Bends*** is an album by the band Radiohead. It was released in April 1995.

## Track listing

All songs written by Radiohead.

1. "Planet Telex" – 4:19
1. "The Bends" – 4:06
1. "High and Dry" – 4:17
1. "Fake Plastic Trees" – 4:50
1. "Bones" – 3:09
1. "(Nice Dream)" – 3:53
1. "Just" – 3:54
1. "My Iron Lung" – 4:36
1. "Bullet Proof..I Wish I Was" – 3:28
1. "Black Star" – 4:07
1. "Sulk" – 3:42
1. "Street Spirit (Fade Out)" – 4:12
Pablo Honey

***Pablo Honey*** is an album by the English alternative rock band Radiohead. It was released in April 1993. Three singles were released from it. "Creep" was released in 1992 and was not successful. In 1993 it was released again and became popular around the world. The album reached No.22 in the UK charts. In 2009 the album was re-released with an extra CD of demos and live songs.

## Track listing

All songs written by Radiohead.

1. "You" – 3:29
1. "Creep" – 3:56
1. "How Do You?" – 2:12
1. "Stop Whispering" – 5:26
1. "Thinking About You" – 2:41
1. "Anyone Can Play Guitar" – 3:38
1. "Ripcord" – 3:10
1. "Vegetable" – 3:13
1. "Prove Yourself" – 2:25
1. "I Can't" – 4:13
1. "Lurgee" – 3:08
1. "Blow Out" – 4:40
Grace Under Fire

***Grace Under Fire*** was an American television sitcom which aired on ABC between 1993 and 1998. It was part of a wave of 1980s-1990s television shows built around a comedian. Brett Butler starred as Grace, a divorced single mother with three children. This was the highest rated new show for its first season. It was distributed through the Carsey-Werner Company.

## Infobox (television)

- **runtime**: 22–24 minutes
- **creator**: Chuck Lorre
- **starring**: Brett Butler (actress), Brett Butler
Dave Thomas (actor), Dave Thomas
Julie White
Casey Sander
Jon Paul Steuer
Sam Horrigan
Kaitlin Cullum
Dylan and Cole Sprouse
Peggy Rea
Charles Hallahan
- **country**: United States
- **language**: English
- **network**: American Broadcasting Company, ABC
- **theme music composer**: Lennon–McCartney
- **opentheme**: "Lady Madonna" by Aretha Franklin
- **num seasons**: 5
- **num episodes**: 112
- **list episodes**: List of Grace Under Fire episodes
Absolution

- _The article about the Muse album can be found at Absolution (album)_
**Absolution** is the name of a sacrament of the Roman Catholic, Eastern Orthodox, Anglican and Lutheran churches. Using absolution, a priest or the church can forgive a sin, after confession.
Petrified wood

**Petrified wood** (from the Greek root Petro meaning "rock" or "stone"; literally "wood turned into stone") is the name given to a special type of fossilized remains of terrestrial vegetation. It is the result of a tree having turned completely into stone by the process of per mineralization. All the organic materials have been replaced with minerals (most often a silicate, such as quartz), while retaining the original structure of the wood. Unlike other types of fossils which are typically impressions or compressions, petrified wood is a three dimensional representation of the original organic material.

The petrifaction process occurs underground, when wood becomes buried under sediment and is initially preserved due to a lack of oxygen which inhibits aerobic decomposition.
Dolores Claiborne (movie)

***Dolores Claiborne*** is a 1995 American crime drama movie set in Maine. Kathy Bates plays the title character. Also starring in the movie is Jennifer Jason Leigh, who plays her daughter. Dolores is accused of murdering her employer, an elderly woman. Dolores is also accused of murdering her husband. He was a violent alcoholic sexually abusing her daughter.

This movie is based on Stephen King's novel of the same name.
Christian de Duve

**Christian René Marie Joseph, Viscount de Duve** (2 October 1917 – 4 May 2013) was a Belgian biochemist. The son of Belgian refugees during the First World War, de Duve was born in Thames Ditton, Surrey, England. His family returned to Belgium in 1920. He was educated by the Jesuits at Our Lady College, Antwerp, and studied medicine at the Catholic University of Louvain. Upon earning his MD in 1941, he joined research in chemistry, working on insulin and its role in diabetes mellitus. His thesis earned him the highest university degree  (equivalent to PhD) in 1945.

De Duve was granted the rank of Viscount in 1989 by King Baudouin of Belgium.

Duve won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1974. He discovered two cell organelles, lysosomes and peroxisomes. He described them, and was the first to investigate their functions. Duve shared the Nobel prize with Albert Claude and George E. Palade.

He was elected a member of the Academia Europaea in 1989.

De Duve died in Grez-Doiceau, Belgium, on 4 May 2013, when he asked that his life be ended through euthanasia.

## Early life and education

De Duve was born of an estate agent Alphonse de Duve and wife Madeleine Pungs in the village of Thames Ditton, near London. His parents fled Belgium at the outbreak of the First World War. After the war in 1920, at age three, he and his family returned to Belgium. He was a precocious boy, always the best student (_primus perpetuus_ as he recalled) in school, except for one year when he was pronounced "out of competition" to give chance to other students.

He was educated by the Jesuits at Onze-Lieve-Vrouwinstituut in Antwerp, before studying at the Catholic University of Louvain in 1934. He wanted to specialize in endocrinology and joined the laboratory of the Belgian physiologist Joseph P. Bouckaert, whose primary interest was one insulin. During his last year at medical school in 1940, the Germans invaded Belgium. He was drafted to the Belgian army, and posted in southern France as medical officer. There, he was almost immediately taken as prisoner of war by Germans. His ability to speak fluent German and Flemish helped him outwit his captors. He escaped back to Belgium in an adventure he later described as "more comical than heroic".

## Infobox (scientist)

- **birth name**: Christian René Marie Joseph de Duve
- **honorific suffix**: ForMemRS, Viscount de Duve
- **image**: Christian de Duve.tif
- **caption**: de Duve lecturing on the origin of the eukaryotic cell in 2012
- **birth place**: Thames Ditton, Surrey, England
- **death place**: Grez-Doiceau, Belgium
- **nationality**: Belgian
- **education**: Our Lady College, Antwerp;
Catholic University of Leuven (1834–1968), Catholic University of Louvain
- **known for**: Cell organelles
- **children**: 4, including Thierry de Duve, Thierry
Eric Kandel

**Eric Richard Kandel** (born 7 November 1929) is an American neuropsychiatrist of Jewish descent. He was a professor of biochemistry and biophysics.

He won the Wolf Prize in Medicine in 1999, and the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2000 for describing the physiological basis of memory storage in neurons. Kandel shared the Nobel Prize with Arvid Carlsson and Paul Greengard.

Kandel was born in Vienna. He migrated to Brooklyn, New York City in 1939, the year after the Anschluss when Austria was made part of Nazi Germany. In 1956, he married sociologist Denise Kandel. They have two children.
D. J. King

**Dwayne "D. J." King** (born June 27, 1984) is a Canadian former professional ice hockey left winger who played in the National Hockey League (NHL) with the St. Louis Blues and the Washington Capitals.

Before playing in the NHL, King played 4 seasons in the Western Hockey League; 3 seasons with the Lethbridge Hurricanes and 1 season with the Kelowna Rockets. He was drafted by the St. Louis Blues with the 190th overall pick in the 2002 NHL Entry Draft.

King is of Métis heritage. He has a younger brother named Dwight, that plays for the Los Angeles Kings.

## Infobox (ice hockey player)

- **image**: DJ King.jpg
- **caption**: King during his time playing for the Peoria Rivermen in 2008
- **image size**: 230px
- **played for**: St. Louis Blues
Washington Capitals
- **position**: Winger (ice hockey), Left Wing
- **shoots**: Left
- **height ft**: 6
- **height in**: 3
- **weight lb**: 230
- **birth place**: Meadow Lake, Saskatchewan, Meadow Lake, Saskatchewan, Canada
- **draft**: 190th overall
- **draft year**: 2002
- **draft team**: St. Louis Blues
- **career start**: 2004
- **career end**: 2013
Nuclear fallout

**Fallout** is the left over radiation hazard from a nuclear explosion. The name is because radioactive material "falls out" of the atmosphere into which it is spread during the explosion. These materials continue to undergo radioactive decay for minutes, days or centuries. "Fallout" commonly refers to the radioactive dust created when a nuclear weapon explodes. All nuclear explosions make fission products, which are the broken, radioactive atoms from a fission reaction. Neutrons from the explosion also make some nearby materials radioactive.

There was also radioactive fallout after a part of the nuclear power station at Chernobyl exploded. The fallout caused serious contamination over an area including Ukraine, Belarus, Russia, Scandinavia and some parts of Europe. All people living in an area of 30 kilometres radius around the power plant were forced to move because of the fallout with villages and towns being abandoned.
Drillbit Taylor

***Drillbit Taylor*** is a 2008 comedy movie that was produced by Judd Apatow and Susan Arnold and directed by Steven Brill. The movie was the last movie written by John Hughes before he died on August 6, 2009. It was released on February 8, 2008.

## Cast

- Owen Wilson as Bob "Drillbit" Taylor
- Nate Hartley as Wade
- Troy Gentile as Ryan Anderson
- David Dorfman as Emmit Oosterhaus
- Alex Frost as Terry Filkins
- Josh Peck as Ronnie Lampenelli
- Leslie Mann as Lisa Zachey
- Danny R. McBride as Don Armstrong
- Stephen Root as Principal Neville Doppler
- Ian Roberts as Jim
- Lisa Lampanelli as Mrs. Lampanelli
- Lisa Ann Walter as Delores Anderson
- Hynden Walch as Mrs. Oosterhaus
- Valerie Tian as Brooke Nguyen
- David Bowe as the male teacher.
- Beth Littleford as Barbara Drennan
- Steve Bannos as Coffee Computer Guy
- Chuck Liddell as Himself
- Robert Allen Mukes as Bonecrusher
- Adam Baldwin as Ricky Linderman
- Cedric Yarbrough as Bernie Hodge
- Tichina Arnold as Photography teacher
- Kevin Hart as Pawn Shop Guy 1
- Matt Besser as Pawn Shop Guy 2
- David Koechner  as Frightened Dad (unrated version)
- Shaun Weiss as the Bus Driver

## Other websites

- Official website

## Infobox (movie)

- **name**: Drillbit Taylor
- **writer**: Kristofor Brown
John Hughes (filmmaker), John Hughes
Seth Rogen
- **starring**: Owen Wilson
Troy Gentile
Nate Hartley
David Dorfman
Alex Frost
Josh Peck
Leslie Mann
- **director**: Steven Brill
- **producer**: Judd Apatow
Susan Arnold
- **runtime**: 102 mins. (Theatrical)
109 mins. (Extended)
- **language**: English
- **released**: February 8, 2008
- **music**: Christophe Beck
- **budget**: $40,000,000
- **gross**: $49,690,625
Canary

The **canary** (_Serinus canaria_), also called the **island canary**, **Atlantic canary** or **common canary**, is a small passerine bird. It belongs to the genus _Serinus_ in the finch family. It is native to the Canary Islands, the Azores, and Madeira. Wild birds are mostly yellow-green, with brownish streaking on the back. The species is common in captivity. Different colour varieties have been bred. Canaries are domestic birds. They are popular pets.

Nesting
Canary nests are small and cup-shaped, and the birds build them several feet off the ground in a shrub or a tree. Both members of the pair build the nest, usually with a variety of twigs, sticks, grasses, and more. Females lay an average of three or four eggs per clutch.
Cars 2

***Cars 2*** is a 2011 movie made by Pixar. It was directed by John Lasseter and produced by Denise Ream. It is a sequel to the 2006 comedy movie _Cars_ and it was released on June 24, 2011. The teaser trailer for _Cars 2_ appeared on the DVD and Blu-ray versions of _Toy Story 3_ and the full length trailer was shown before the movie _Tangled_. In the _Cars_ trilogy, this movie was followed by _Cars 3_, which was released in June 16, 2017.

## Plot

Lightning McQueen competes in the first-ever World Grand Prix which determines the world's fastest car. Each race is held at a different part of the world: first in Tokyo, second in Italy, and third in London. Meanwhile, the Lemons are secretly trying to destroy the World Grand Prix racers, and Mater finds himself helping secret agents Finn McMissile and Holley Shiftwell in stopping them.

## Cast

- Owen Wilson as Lightning McQueen
- Larry the Cable Guy as Mater
- Michael Caine  as Finn McMissile
- Emily Mortimer as Holley Shiftwell
- Jason Isaacs as Siddeley
- Thomas Kretschmann as Professor Zündapp
- Joe Mantegna as Grem
- Peter Jacobson as Acer
- Tony Shalhoub as Luigi
- Guido Quaroni as Guido
- Lloyd Sherr  as Fillmore (replacing George Carlin after his death in 2008) and Tony Trihull
- Paul Dooley as Sarge
- John Ratzenberger as Mack
- Brent Musburger as Brent Mustangburger
- Darrell Waltrip as Darrel Cartrip
- David Hobbs as David Hobbscap
- John Turturro as Francesco Bernoulli
- Eddie Izzard as Miles Axelrod
- John Lasseter as John Lassetire
- Franco Nero as Uncle Topolino
- Vanessa Redgrave as Mama Topolino
- Bonnie Hunt as Sally Carrera
- Cheech Marin as Ramone
- Jenifer Lewis as Flo
- Michael Wallis as Sheriff
- Katherine Helmond as Lizzy

## Characters

Finn McMissile, Holley Shiftwell, Francesco Bernoulli, Sir Miles Axlerod, and Professor Z. are five new characters which have important roles in _Cars 2_. Finn McMissile is a British secret agent, and is expert with spy gadgets, while Holley Shiftwell acts as Finn's sidekick. Francesco Bernoulli is a flashy Italian race car, and is McQueen's racing rival in the World Grand Prix. Sir Miles Axlerod is the creator of the World Grand Prix, which is a publicity stunt for a new alternative fuel source, while Professor Z. is the leader of the Lemons, an evil corporation in charge of all the oil and fossil fuels in the world that is planning to sabotage the World Grand Prix to make alternative fuel look bad.

## Other websites

- _Cars 2_ at disney.com

## Infobox (film)

- **name**: Cars 2
- **image**: Cars2 Logo Black.svg
- **caption**: Logo
- **director**: John Lasseter
- **producer**: Denise Ream
Jem Stansfield (Executive Producer)
Steven Spielberg (Executive Producer)
Penney Finlkman Cox (Executive Producer)
Sandra Rabins (Executive Producer)
Cecil Kramer (Executive Producer)
- **screenplay**: Ben Queen
- **music**: Michael Giacchino
- **editing**: Stephen Schaffer
- **distributor**: Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures, Walt Disney Studios
Motion Pictures
- **runtime**: 106 minutes
- **country**: United States
- **language**: English
- **budget**: $200 million
- **gross**: $562.1 million
Françoise Barré-Sinoussi

**Françoise Barré-Sinoussi**, (born July 30, 1947, Paris, France), French virologist who was a corecipient, with Luc Montagnier and Harald zur Hausen, of the 2008 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine. She and Montagnier shared half the prize for their work in identifying the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), the cause of acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS).

Barré-Sinoussi earned a Ph.D. (1975) at the Pasteur Institute in Garches, France, and did postdoctoral work in the United States at the National Cancer Institute in Bethesda, Maryland. In 1975 she joined the Pasteur Institute in Paris, and in 1996 she became head of the Retrovirus Biology Unit (later called Regulation of Retroviral Infections Unit) there. From 2012 to 2014 Barré-Sinoussi was president of the International AIDS Society.

When Montagnier led efforts at the Pasteur Institute in 1982 to determine a cause for AIDS, Barré-Sinoussi was a member of his team. Through dissection of an infected patient’s lymph node, they determined that AIDS was caused by a retrovirus, which came to be known as HIV. Their work led to the development of new antiviral drugs and diagnostic methods.

Françoise Barré-Sinoussi married Jean-Claude Barre on October 7, 1978.

Françoise Barré-Sinoussi is the daughter of Roger and Jeanine (Fau) Sinoussi, she was born on July 30th, 1947, and is from Paris, France.

Ethan H. Smith

## Infobox (scientist)

- **name**: Françoise Barré-Sinoussi
- **image**: Françoise Barré-Sinoussi-press conference Dec 06th, 2008-1.jpg
- **image size**: 250px
- **caption**: Françoise Barré-Sinoussi in 2008.
- **birth place**: Paris, France
- **fields**: Virology
- **alma mater**: University of Paris
- **workplaces**: Pasteur Institute
- **nationality**: France, French
- **known for**: Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2008
Parliamentary opposition

**Parliamentary opposition** is a political position. It is a type of opposition to the government. It is usually used in countries that use the Westminster system of parliament. Parties that have second-most seats usually make up the opposition. They are called the "Official Opposition" sometimes. Examples of countries with an Official Opposition are Canada, Australia, and the United Kingdom.

## Related pages

- Leader of the Opposition
Mean Streets

***Mean Streets*** is a 1973 American crime drama movie directed by Martin Scorsese. It is set in New York City and stars Harvey Keitel and Robert De Niro. This movie was released by Warner Bros. on October 2, 1973. It received mostly positive reviews from movie critics.
Aaron Sherritt

**Aaron Sherritt** (August 1854 - 26 June 1880) was a close friend of bushrangers Joe Byrne and Ned Kelly. His murder in 1880 was the first of the actions that led to the Kelly Gang's final shoot out with the police at Glenrowan.

Sherritt lived about three miles from Byrne, in the Woolshed Valley, near Beechworth, Victoria. He went to school with Byrne, and in 1876 were sent to prison for stealing meat. Soon after being let out of prison, Sherritt and Byrne were sent back again. They had fought with Chinese man who had tried to stop them from swimming in his dam. In 1878 Byrne was said to be engaged to Sherritt's sister. He had a reputation for being tough; at times he would sleep out in the open at night.

After the Kelly Gang robbed the bank at Jerilderie, New South Wales, they disappeared for 18 months. In January 1879, Sherritt went to the police station at Benalla and gave them information about where the Kelly Gang was hiding, and what they were going to do next. He was paid £2 for the information. Sherritt helped the police find a cave from where they could watch Byrne's mother's house. He was interested in Byrne's sister, Kate. The police told Sherritt that they would not kill Byrne. When the police in the cave were found out, Sherritt then tried to get close to Ned Kelly's younger sister, Kate Kelly. He showed the police a place from where they could watch the Kelly house, but this was soon discovered. Sherritt sold Kate Kelly a horse he had stolen from Kate Byrne. When Ned Kelly's older sister, Maggie Skillion, found out she reported it to the police. It went to court, but the case against Sherritt was dropped because the police said that the Byrnes and the Kellys were criminals and not to be trusted. Byrne's mother said she thought the whole thing was a trick by the police to get the Kelly Gang to come out of hiding.

Late at night on 26 June 1880, Joe Byrne and Dan Kelly went to Sherritt's house at Sebastopol. Sherritt and his family were being guarded by four policemen who were living at the house. When Sherritt opened the door, he was shot dead by Joe Byrne. The police did not come out of the house and remained there until the next day. Byrne and Kelly left Sebastopol and rode across country to Glenrowan. They knew the police would send a large group by train to Beechworth to try and capture them. Ned Kelly and Steve Hart had gone to Glenrowan earlier and had pulled up the train tracks. They had planned on the police sending the train to Beechworth during the night. The plan failed when the police at Sherritt's house did not report the murder until midday.

## Infobox (person)

- **name**: Aaron Sherritt
- **image**: Aaron Sherritt 2.jpg
- **birth date**: August 1854
- **birth place**: Sebastopol, Woolshed Valley, near Beechworth, Victoria, Beechworth Victoria (Australia), Victoria Australia
- **death date**: 26 June 1880
- **death place**: Sebastopol, Victoria
- **death cause**: Murdered
- **occupation**: Farmer, Criminal
Parliament of Victoria

The **Parliament of Victoria** is a bicameral legislature that makes the laws for the state of Victoria, Australia. Its two houses are a lower house the Legislative Assembly, and an upper house, the Legislative Council. The Legislative Assembly has 88 members, and the Legislative Council has 40 members. The political party with the most members in the lower house forms the government, and is led by the Premier of Victoria. In 2014, the Labor Party won the November election, and its leader, Daniel Andrews, became the Premier. The third part of the Parliament is the Crown, Queen Elizabeth II. She is represented in Victoria by the Governor of Victoria. The current governor is Professor David de Kretser, A.C.

The parliament meets at Parliament House in Spring Street, Melbourne. This building was also the home of the Parliament of Australia from 1901 to 1927.
Victorian Legislative Assembly

The **Victorian Legislative Assembly** is the lower house of the Parliament of Victoria.

## Infobox (legislature)

- **background color**: #307159
- **name**: Legislative Assembly
- **legislature**: Members of the Victorian Legislative Assembly, 2022-2026, 60th Parliament
- **coa pic**: Coat_of_Arms_of_Victoria.svg
- **house type**: Lower house
- **body**: Parliament of Victoria
- **leader1 type**: Speaker of the Victorian Legislative Assembly, Speaker
- **leader1**: Maree Edwards
- **party1**: Australian Labor Party (Victorian Branch), Labor
- **election1**: 2 August 2022
- **leader2 type**: Deputy Speaker
- **leader2**: Matt Fregon
- **party2**: Australian Labor Party (Victorian Branch), Labor
- **election2**: 20 December 2022
- **leader3 type**: Leader of the House
- **leader3**: Mary-Anne Thomas
- **party3**: Australian Labor Party (Victorian Branch), Labor
- **election3**: 5 December 2022
- **leader4 type**: Government Whip
- **leader4**: Pauline Richards
- **party4**: Australian Labor Party (Victorian Branch), Labor
- **election4**: 7 February 2023
- **leader5 type**: Deputy Government Whip
- **leader5**: Belinda Wilson
- **party5**: Australian Labor Party (Victorian Branch), Labor
- **election5**: 7 February 2023
- **leader6 type**: Manager of Opposition Business
- **leader6**: James Newbury
- **party6**: Liberal Party of Australia (Victorian Division), Liberal
- **election6**: December 2022
- **leader7 type**: Opposition Whip
- **leader7**: Chris Crewther
- **party7**: Liberal Party of Australia (Victorian Division), Liberal
- **election7**: December 2022
- **members**: 88
- **structure1**: File:Victoria Legislative Assembly Current Composition (22-26).png
- **structure1 res**: 250px
- **political groups1**: **Victoria State Government, Government (54)**
* Australian Labor Party (Victorian Branch), Labor (54)
**Opposition (Australia), Opposition (29)**
* Liberal Party of Australia (Victorian Division), Liberal (20)
* National Party of Australia – Victoria, National (9)
**Crossbencher, Crossbench (5)**
* Australian Greens Victoria, Greens (3)
*
*
- **session room**: Victorian Legislative Assembly.png
- **voting system1**: Instant-runoff voting
- **term length**: 4 years
- **last election3**: 2022 Victorian state election, 26 November 2022
- **next election3**: 2026 Victorian state election, 28 November 2026
- **meeting place**: Legislative Assembly Chamber,
Parliament House, Melbourne, Parliament House, Melbourne,
Victoria (Australia), Victoria, Australia
Rita Levi-Montalcini

**Rita Levi-Montalcini** (22 April 1909 – 30 December 2012) was an Italian neurologist.  She won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1986 for her discovery of Nerve Growth Factor (NGF). She shared the Nobel Prize with Stanley Cohen with whom she made the discovery.

She was the first Nobel Prize winner to have reached 103 years of age.

Levi-Montalcini was the third of four children. Her parents were Adamo Levi and Adele Montalcini. She was born on April 22, 1909, in Turin, Italy. Her father wanted her to attend a high school which prepared girls for marriage, but Levi-Montalcini did not want to have children. Although she wanted to go to a university, her parents did not support that idea. Three years later, her governess (nanny) got cancer. This inspired her decision to become a doctor.

She applied for the Turin School of Medicine in 1930. She was accepted, and she studied the nervous system, which is the system of the human brain, spinal cord, and nerves. She graduated from school in 1936 and became a research assistant. In 1942, Levi-Montalcini experimented on chicken embryos to study how cells were made.

A neuron bryologist (a person who studies the nervous system in embryos) named Viktor Hamburger contacted her in 1946, inviting her to fill a visiting research position at Washington University.

Levi-Montalcini was famous for her research on cell growth. Her first experiments were done in a small laboratory in her house. This was because she was Jewish when Italy was ruled by a dictator called Mussolini (1883-1945). Mussolini would not allow Jews to have a serious job. Since Levi-Montalcini was in great danger from Germans, she fled to Florence and was in hiding until their departure. Levi-Montalcini was allowed to experiment in better laboratories after World War II. From 1944 to 1945 Levi-Montalcini cared for war refugees after becoming medicine doctor.

In the 1950s, she found a protein in the human nervous system, that she later named the  NGF. She worked with Biochemist Stanley Cohen at Washington University, who was able to find the chemical structure of NGF and produce NGF antibodies. Levi-Montalcini's and Cohen's work was noticed in 1986 when they were awarded the Nobel Prize for physiology or medicine. Levi-Montalcini was the fourth woman to win the Nobel Prize.

She was elected a member of the Academia Europaea in 1989.

## Related pages

- List of biologists

## Bibliography

- Levi-Montalcini, Rita 1988. _In praise of imperfection: my life and work_. Basic Books, New York.

## Infobox (scientist)

- **name**: Rita Levi-Montalcini
- **image**: Rita Levi-Montalcini (1986).png
- **image size**: 250px
- **caption**: Rita Levi-Montalcini, 1986
- **birth date**: 22 April 1909
- **birth place**: Turin, Italy
- **death date**: 30 December 2012 (aged 103)
- **death place**: Rome, Italy
- **nationality**: Italian
- **field**: Neurology
- **work institution**: Washington University in St. Louis
- **alma mater**: Turin Medical School, University of Turin
- **known for**: Nerve growth factor
- **prizes**: Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1986)
 National Medal of Science (1987)
- **signature**:
The Big Chill (movie)

***The Big Chill*** is a 1983 American comedy-drama movie. It is about baby boomer friends reuniting after 15 years due to a friend's suicide. This movie stars Tom Berenger, Glenn Close and Mary Kay Place. It was filmed in Beaufort, South Carolina and set in South Carolina.
Nate Marquardt

**Nathan Joel Marquardt** (born April 20, 1979 in Lander, Wyoming) is an American mixed martial artist. He currently fights for the UFC in the middleweight division and fights out of Denver, Colorado. Marquardt holds a second black belt in both Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu and Jujutsu. His current record is 32 wins, 10 losses and 2 draws.

## Other websites

- Nate Marquardt's Official website
The Painted Veil (2006 movie)

***The Painted Veil*** is a 2006 romantic drama movie that was directed by John Curran. It was based on the 1925 novel with the same name. This is the third movie version of the novel the first in 1934 and the second in 1957 called _The Seventh Sin_. This movie won a Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score in 2006.

## Cast

- Edward Norton as Walter Fane
- Naomi Watts as Kitty Garstin Fane
- Toby Jones as Waddington
- Diana Rigg as Mother Superior
- Anthony Wong Chau Sang as Colonel Yu
- Sally Hawkins as Mary
- Liev Schreiber as Charles Townsend

## Other websites

- Official website

## Infobox (movie)

- **name**: The Painted Veil
- **director**: John Curran
- **producer**: Edward Norton
Naomi Watts
Sara Colleton
Jean-François Fonlupt
Bob Yari
- **writer**: Ron Nyswaner
Edward Norton
W. Somerset Maugham (novel)
- **starring**: Naomi Watts
Edward Norton
Liev Schreiber
Diana Rigg
Toby Jones
Anthony Wong Chau Sang
- **music**: Stuart Dryburgh
- **cinematography**: Jerzy Zielinski
- **editing**: Alexandre de Franceschi
- **distributor**: Warner Independent Pictures (USA)
- **released**: December 20, 2006 (USA)
December 29, 2006 (China)
- **runtime**: 125 min.
- **country**: United States
China
- **language**: English
- **budget**: $19.4 million
- **gross**: $26,809,273
Victoria Police

**Victoria Police** provides police services to the people of Victoria, Australia. It employs more than 13,800 people and has 339 police stations.

Victoria Police started in the 1850s. One of their early jobs was to collect licence fees from miners searching for gold. In 1854 the miners at Ballarat refused to pay the fee and built a defensive fort, known as the Eureka Stockade. A military force of the British Army and 94 policemen attacked the stockade. About 30 miners and four soldiers were killed.
T. J. Oshie

**Timothy Leif "T. J." Oshie, Jr.** (born December 23, 1986 in Mount Vernon, Washington) is an American professional ice hockey center and right winger that currently plays for the Washington Capitals of the National Hockey League (NHL). He was drafted by the St. Louis Blues with the 24th overall pick in the 2005 NHL Draft.

He played ice hockey in college at University of North Dakota with the Fighting Sioux.

## Other websites

- T. J. Oshie's Official website

## Infobox (ice hockey player)

- **name**: T. J. Oshie
- **image**: Oshie2014stlouis.jpg
- **image size**: 230px
- **caption**: Oshie with the St. Louis Blues in 2014
- **birth place**: Mount Vernon, Washington, U.S.
- **height ft**: 6
- **height in**: 1
- **weight lb**: 189
- **position**: Winger (ice hockey), Right wing
- **shoots**: Right
- **league**: National Hockey League, NHL
- **team**: Washington Capitals
- **former teams**: St. Louis Blues
- **ntl team**: USA
- **draft**: 24th overall
- **draft year**: 2005
- **draft team**: St. Louis Blues
- **career start**: 2008
Royal Commission

In states that are Commonwealth Realms a **Royal Commission** is a major government public inquiry into an important issue.  They have been held in the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Kenya and Saudi Arabia.  In Hong Kong, Ireland and South Africa, they are called a **Commission of Enquiry** or **Commission of Inquiry**.

A **Royal Commissioner** has a lot of power, more than those of a judge but these are limited to the "Terms of Reference" of the Commission. The Commission is created by the Head of State (the Sovereign, or his/her representative in the form of a Governor-General or Governor) on the advice of the Government. In practice–unlike other forms of inquiry–once a Commission has started the government cannot stop it. Because of this governments are usually very careful about framing the **Terms of Reference** and generally include in them a date by which the commission must finish.

Royal Commissions are called to look into very important matters and usually controversy. For example, these can be about government structure, the treatment of minorities, or the events that had received concern from the public or economic questions.

Many Royal Commissions last many years and, often, a different government is left to respond to the findings. In Australia–and particularly New South Wales–Royal Commissions have been investigations into police and government corruption and organised crime. They have used the powers of the Royal Commissioner to force  powerful, but corrupt, public officials to tell the truth.

Royal Commissions are usually run by one or more notable figures. Because of their legal powers the Commissioners are often retired senior judges.

Royal Commissions usually research issues, consult with experts both within and outside of government and the public as well. They can call witnesses under oath, offer indemnities, seize documents and other evidence (sometimes including those normally protected, such as classified information), holding hearings _in camera_, and can force all government officials to help the Commission.

The results of Royal Commissions are published in, often, massive reports of findings containing policy recommendations. They often have long and complex names, for example, the "Royal commission into whether there has been corrupt or criminal conduct by any Western Australian Police Officer". Because of this they are commonly known by the name of the main Commissioner.  These reports are often quite important, with the government making some or all recommendations into law. The work of some Commissions have been almost completely ignored by the government. In other cases, where the Commissioner has not kept to the terms of reference, the commission has been stopped by a superior court.
Frank Heller

**Frank Heller** was the pen name of a Swedish writer. His real name was **Gunnar Serner**. He lived from July 20, 1886 - October 14, 1947. He wrote a series of light novels. His books were about suspicious international business. Heller created the character Philip Collin in most popular books. Collin who was a detective and a thief. Collin also used the name Professor Pelotard.

## Bibliography

- The Emperor's Old Clothes, 1923 New York
- The Marriage of Yussuf Khan, Crowell New York 1923, Hutchinson & Co London 1924
- The Chinese Coats, London 1924
- The Grand Duke's Finances
- The Perilous Transactions of Mr. Collin, 1924
- The London Adventures of Mr. Collin, 1923
- Mr. Collin is Ruined, 1925
- The Strange Adventures of Mr. Collin, Crowell New York 1926
- The Thousand and Second Night, An Arabesque. Williams & Norgate, London, 1926
- Lead Me into Temptation, Crowell New York 1927
- Twilight of the Gladiators, 1944

F. W. Murnau made a film called _The Grand Duke's Finances_ (German: _Die Finanzen des Großherzogs_) that was  based on of Heller's novel with the same name.