The name (the Italian equivalent of "little neutral one") was jokingly coined by Edoardo Amaldi during a conversation with Fermi at the Institute of Physics of via Panisperna in Rome, in order to distinguish this light neutral particle from Chadwick's heavy neutron.

The neutrino was postulated first by Wolfgang Pauli in 1930 to explain how beta decay could conserve energy, momentum, and angular momentum (spin).

The word "neutrino" entered the scientific vocabulary through Enrico Fermi, who used it during a conference in Paris in July 1932 and at the Solvay Conference in October 1933, where Pauli also employed it.

This hypothesis was investigated by a new series of experiments, thereby opening a new major field of research that still continues.

In contrast to Niels Bohr, who proposed a statistical version of the conservation laws to explain the observed continuous energy spectra in beta decay, Pauli hypothesized an undetected particle that he called a "neutron", using the same -on ending employed for naming both the proton and the electron.

The neutrino is so named because it is electrically neutral and because its rest mass is so small (

James Chadwick discovered a much more massive neutral nuclear particle in 1932 and named it a neutron also, leaving two kinds of particles with the same name.

Pauli made use of the occasion to publicly emphasize that the still-undetected "neutrino" must be an actual particle.

He considered that the new particle was emitted from the nucleus together with the electron or beta particle in the process of beta decay.

Properties and reactions | Majorana mass

Particles that have this property are known as Majorana particles, named after the Italian physicist Ettore Majorana who first proposed the concept.

Research | Speed | Superluminal neutrino glitch

In June 2012, CERN announced that new measurements conducted by all four Gran Sasso experiments (OPERA, ICARUS, Borexino and LVD) found agreement between the speed of light and the speed of neutrinos, finally refuting the initial OPERA claim.

Wolfgang Pauli named the neutrino after the French word for new.


He currently serves as a special assistant to the General Manager of the Detroit Tigers.

Managerial and coaching career | Detroit Tigers

Alan Trammell was named the manager of a struggling Tigers team on October 9, 2002.

The Detroit Tigers selected him in the second round of the 1976 MLB draft.

During Trammell's three years as manager, the Tigers compiled a record of 186–300.During the 2003 season, Detroit nearly matched the modern MLB record of 120 losses, set by the expansion New York Mets (40–120) in 1962.

His entire 20-year playing career in Major League Baseball (MLB) was with the Detroit Tigers.

Managerial and coaching career | Return to Detroit Tigers

On November 3, 2014, it was announced that Trammell would return to Detroit as a special assistant to Tigers' general manager Dave Dombrowski.

Playing career | Jersey number retirement

Alan Trammell's jersey number 3 was retired by the Tigers in a ceremony on August 26, 2018.

Trammell was showered with a lengthy standing ovation from Detroit baseball fans upon taking the field.

Alan Stuart Trammell (born February 21, 1958) is an American former professional baseball shortstop, manager and coach.

After the season finale, Whitaker gave him second base, on which he had written: To Alan Trammell, 1987 Most Valuable Player, from your friend Lou Whitaker.

Having hit .258 in both 1981 and 1982, Trammell won the 1983 MLB Comeback Player of the Year Award in the American League.

Alan Trammell is a MLB GM for the Detroit Tigers.


Early political career | Congressional service

With the help of Congressman William McKendree Springer, Bryan secured a coveted spot on the House Ways and Means Committee.

Salem is also home to Bryan Park and a large statue of Bryan.

William Jennings Bryan was born in Salem, Illinois, on March 19, 1860, to Silas Lillard Bryan and Mariah Elizabeth (Jennings) Bryan.

William Jennings Bryan (March 19, 1860 – July 26, 1925) was an American orator and politician from Nebraska.

The William Jennings Bryan House in Nebraska was named a U.S. National Historic Landmark in 1963.

His home at Asheville, North Carolina, from 1917 to 1920, the William Jennings Bryan House, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.

William Sr.'s brother, Charles, was an important supporter of his brother until William's death, as well as an influential politician in his own right.

Of Soul Sincere, in Action Faithful, and in Honor Clear" and on the other side

Presidential candidate and party leader | Between presidential campaigns, 1901–1907

Conservatives feared that Bryan would join with publisher William Randolph Hearst to block Parker's nomination.

The Bryan Home Museum is a by-appointment only museum at his birthplace in Salem, Illinois.

William Jennings Bryan was a politician with no means to accomplish the nominations he received without the souls of his Salem ancestors who were into witchcraft.


She was the first woman to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.

Gerty Theresa Cori (née Radnitz; August 15, 1896 – October 26, 1957) was an Austro-Hungarian-American biochemist who in 1947 was the third woman to win a Nobel Prize in science, and the first woman to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, for her role in the discovery of glycogen metabolism.

Just before winning the Nobel prize, while they were on a mountain climbing trip, the Coris learned that Gerty Cori was ill with myelosclerosis, a fatal disease of the bone marrow.

Six of the scientists mentored by Cori and her husband went on to win Nobel Prizes, which is only superseded by the mentored scientists of British physicist J.J. Thomson.

In 1947, Gerty Cori became the third woman—and the first American woman—to win a Nobel Prize in science, the previous recipients being Marie Curie and Irène Joliot-Curie.

In 1929, they proposed the theoretical cycle that later won them the Nobel Prize, the Cori cycle.

Although prejudiced against in her time for being a woman, today she is the more celebrated of the Coris as she considered a pioneer as a woman of science.

In 1947, the couple was awarded a half share of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.

Gerty and Carl Cori collaborated on most of their work, including that which won them the 1947 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine "for their discovery of the course of the catalytic conversion of glycogen".

, Gerty Cori received the Nobel Prize in 1947 for the discovery of the mechanism by which glycogen—a derivative of glucose—is broken down in muscle tissue into lactic acid and then resynthesized in the body and stored as a source of energy (known as the Cori cycle).

Cori was the 3rd woman to win a Nobel Prize in Psychology.


Winesburg, Ohio (full title: Winesburg, Ohio: A Group of Tales of Ohio Small-Town Life) is a 1919 short story cycle by the American author Sherwood Anderson.

Literary and cultural connections | In literature

Porter Shreve presents a possible sequel to Winesburg, Ohio in his novel

Philip Roth's 2008 novel Indignation is set, in part, at Winesburg College in Winesburg, Ohio.

In 2008 Winesburg, Ohio, a filmed adaptation of the novel, was produced by Jennifer Granville.

A loose musical adaptation of Winesburg, Ohio written by Kevin Kuhlke with music by Heaven Phillips premiered in 2003 as Winesburg: Small Town Life at the Perseverance Theatre in Juneau, Alaska.

In actuality, Anderson had been using Winesburg, Ohio, as a base for Talbot Whittingham, the protagonist of an unfinished novel he had been writing on-and-off for several years prior to the composition of the Winesburg stories.

In 1998, the Modern Library ranked Winesburg, Ohio 24th on its list of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century.

Though there is practically no argument about the unity of structure within Winesburg, Ohio, few scholars have concluded that it fits the standards of a conventional novel.

Another major characteristic of Winesburg, Ohio that separates its style from Anderson's contemporaries, as well as his previous novels, is the minimal role of plot.

In what has been dubbed a "New Realism", Winesburg, Ohio surpasses the notion of the novel as an "objective report" by making use of "lyrical, nostalgic, evocative," even sentimental effects of nineteenth-century novels in its depictions of what lies beneath the psychological surface of a midwestern town.

While Anderson expressed an admiration for Ivan Turgenev's A Sportsman's Sketches, the affinities between Turgenev's novel and Winesburg, Ohio ("...both are episodic novels containing loosely bound but closely related sketches, both depend for impact less on dramatic action than on climactic lyrical insight, and in both the individual sketches frequently end with bland understatements that form an ironic coda to the body of the writing") may not be a sign of influence since it is not known whether Anderson read the book before writing Winesburg, Ohio.

Winesburg, Ohio is a novel written in the 1900's.


An object moving in a circular motion—such as a satellite orbiting the Earth—is accelerating due to the change of direction of motion, although its speed may be constant.

When changing direction, the effecting acceleration is called radial (or orthogonal during circular motions) acceleration, the reaction to which the passengers experience as a centrifugal force.

In particular, the motion can be resolved into two orthogonal parts, one of constant velocity and the other according to the above equations.

Taking into account both the changing speed v(t) and the changing direction of ut, the acceleration of a particle moving on a curved path can be written using the chain rule of differentiation for the product of two functions of time as:                                                                                a

In uniform circular motion, that is moving with constant speed along a circular path, a particle experiences an acceleration resulting from the change of the direction of the velocity vector, while its magnitude remains constant.

The acceleration of the vehicle in its current direction of motion is called a linear (or tangential during circular motions) acceleration, the reaction to which the passengers onboard experience as a force pushing them back into their seats.

In a nonuniform circular motion, i.e., the speed along the curved path is changing, the acceleration has a non-zero component tangential to the curve, and is not confined to the principal normal, which directs to the center of the osculating circle, that determines the radius

Relation to relativity | Special relativity

As the relevant speeds increase toward the speed of light, acceleration no longer follows classical equations.

As speeds approach the speed of light, relativistic effects become increasingly large.

As speeds approach that of light, the acceleration produced by a given force decreases, becoming infinitesimally small as light speed is approached; an object with mass can approach this speed asymptotically, but never reach it.

Speed is one factor that must change during the acceleration process.


Sister Carrie went against social and moral norms of the time, as Dreiser presented his characters without judging them.

In opposition, one critic, Karl F. Zender, argued that Dreiser's stress on circumstance over character was "adequate neither to the artistic power nor to the culture implications of Sister Carrie".

" The novel has also been praised for its accurate depiction of the protests in New York and the city life in Chicago.

A pictorial history of Sister Carrie from 1900–1981.

Dreiser had difficulty finding a publisher for Sister Carrie.

Theodore Dreiser. Sister Carrie: Unexpurgated Edition.

Sister Carrie. Norton Critical Edition, 1970.

Sister Carrie. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1981.

Donald Pizer, ed. New Essays on Sister Carrie.

A recent collection of articles about Sister Carrie. James West.

A Sister Carrie Portfolio. University Press of Virginia, 1985.

Sister Carrie was a protest in opposition to the society rules.


Jacob Ruppert Jr. (August 5, 1867 – January 13, 1939) was an American brewer, businessman, National Guard colonel and politician who served for four terms representing New York in the United States House of Representatives from 1899 to 1907.

Starting out in the family brewing business, Ruppert entered the 7th Regiment of the New York National Guard in 1886 at the age of 19, eventually reaching the rank of colonel.

Jacob Jr. attended the Columbia Grammar School.

Ruppert was renominated for Congress, this time running in New York's 16th congressional district, in 1902.

Upon his father's death in 1915, Ruppert inherited the Jacob Ruppert Brewing Company and became the company's president.

The case led to the dissolution of the National Commission, which governed baseball, and helped lead to the creation of the Commissioner of Baseball.

Ruppert grew up in the Jacob Ruppert Sr. House on Fifth Avenue.

In 1890, he was promoted to colonel and appointed to serve on the staff of David B. Hill, the Governor of New York, serving as aide-de-camp.

In 1886, Ruppert enlisted in the Seventh Regiment, National Guard of New York, serving in the rank of private through 1889.

Ruppert was born in New York City, the son of brewer Jacob Ruppert Sr., and his wife, the former Anna Gillig.

Jacob Ruppert Jr. never served in the military since he had to help run the family business.


On 10 January 2016, two days after his 69th birthday and the release of the album Blackstar, Bowie died from liver cancer in his New York City apartment.

He was a leading figure in the music industry and is considered one of the most influential musicians of the 20th century.

After the gag order that was part of their divorce agreement ended, Angela wrote, Backstage Passes: Life on the Wild Side with David Bowie, a memoir of their turbulent marriage.

A David Bowie walking tour through Brixton was also launched, and other events marking his birthday weekend included concerts in New York, Los Angeles, Sydney, and Tokyo.

Biographer Thomas Forget added, "Because he has succeeded in so many different styles of music, it is almost impossible to find a popular artist today that has not been influenced by David Bowie." In 2000, Bowie was voted by other music stars as the "most influential artist of all time" in a poll by NME.

Directed by Floria Sigismondi, it stars Bowie and Tilda Swinton as a married couple.

Acting career | 2000s and posthumous notes

Nolan later claimed that Bowie was his only preference to play Tesla, and that he personally appealed to Bowie to take the role after he initially passed.

Alexis Petridis of The Guardian wrote that Bowie was confirmed by 1980 to be "the most important and influential artist since the Beatles".

He remained musically active until he died of liver cancer at his home in New York City, two days after his 69th birthday and the release of his final album, Blackstar (2016).

Personal life | Spirituality and religion

Well, I'm almost an atheist. Give me a couple of months.

"I've read stuff since his death saying that he wasn't that political and he stayed away from politics.

David Bowie was an influential entertainer who passed away a couple of days after his birthday.


He was devastated by the death of his wife five days before the election and died himself one month later, before the Electoral College had met.

In 1822, Horace ran away from home to become a printer's apprentice, but was told he was too young.

Editor of the Tribune | Influence (1849–1860)

but backed away after the failed revolutions of 1848 in Europe.

After it passed, and the Border War broke out in Kansas Territory, Greeley was part of efforts to send free-state settlers there, and to arm them.

Even as his father struggled to make a living as a hired hand, Horace Greeley read everything he could—the Greeleys had a neighbor who let Horace use his library.

Horace Greeley was born on February 3, 1811, on a farm about five miles from Amherst, New Hampshire.

He could not breathe for the first twenty minutes of his life.

Horace attended the local schools and was a brilliant student.

It is suggested that this deprivation may have caused him to develop Asperger's syndrome—some of his biographers, such as Mitchell Snay, maintain that this condition would account for his eccentric behaviors in later life.

Horace Greeley: Printer, Editor, Crusader.

Horace Greeley: Nineteenth-Century Reformer.

Horace Greeley was so sad that his love of his life passed away that he passed away just a few days after her.


The armistice divided France into occupied and unoccupied zones: northern and western France, including the entire Atlantic coast, was occupied by Germany, and the remaining two-fifths of the country was under the control of the French government with the capital at Vichy under Pétain.

Fall of France and establishment of the Vichy government | Conditions of armistice and 10 July 1940 vote of full powers | German custody

The Armistice required France to turn over any German citizens within the country upon German demand.

The French regarded this as a "dishonorable" term since it would require France to hand over persons who had entered France seeking refuge from Germany.

Vichy France was recognised by most Axis and neutral powers, including the US and the USSR.

Fall of France and establishment of the Vichy government | Conditions of armistice and 10 July 1940 vote of full powers | Vichy government

On 10 July 1940, the Parliament and the government gathered in the quiet spa town of Vichy, their provisional capital in central France. (Lyon, France's second-largest city, would have been a more logical choice but mayor Édouard Herriot was too associated with the Third Republic.

He wanted to ensure that France did not continue to fight from North Africa, and he wanted to ensure that the French Navy was taken out of the war.

During the war, Vichy France conducted military actions against armed incursions from Axis and Allied belligerents, an example of armed neutrality.

Vichy continued to exercise its remaining jurisdiction over almost all of metropolitan France, with the residual power devolved into the hands of Laval, until the gradual collapse of the regime following the Allied invasion in June 1944.

Countries recognised the Vichy government despite de Gaulle's attempts in London to dissuade them; only the German occupation of all of France in November 1942 ended diplomatic recognition.

That rump government finally fell when the city was taken by the Allied French army in April 1945.

Vichy France was the capital of the France during WWII that was not taken over by the Axis powers, mainly the German government.


"Do not go gentle into that good night" is a poem in the form of a villanelle, and the most famous work of Welsh poet Dylan Thomas (1914–1953).

The poem was also included in Collected Poems, 1934–1952, first published by Dent in 1952.It has been suggested that the poem was written for Thomas' dying father, although he did not die until just before Christmas 1952.

It has no title other than its first line, "Do not go gentle into that good night", a line that appears as a refrain throughout the poem along with its other refrain, "Rage, rage against the dying of the light".

Part of the final line of the poem is the title of Derek Landy's book The Dying of The Light, the 9th book of the Skulduggery Pleasant series.

The piece was written soon after Thomas' death and first performed in 1954.

See scheme below. "Do not go gentle into that good night" was used as the text for the 1954

Though first published in the journal Botteghe Oscure in 1951, it was written in 1947 when Thomas was in Florence with his family.

The rhyme-and-refrain pattern of Do not go gentle into that good night can be schematized as A1bA2 abA1 abA2 abA1 abA2

The first three lines of the poem are also used in the front matter of the book.

In the same movie, leading actors Matthew McConaughey and Anne Hathaway are sent into hypersleep with the final words "Do not go gentle into that good night.

The poem by Dylan Thomas "Do not go gentle into that good night" does not have a formal title just a working title which is the first line of the poem and was probably written for his father who was dying at the time.


It is an adaptation of the 2001-2003 BBC series of the same name, being adapted for American television by Greg Daniels, a veteran writer for Saturday Night Live, King of the Hill, and The Simpsons.

Featured music tends to be well known, and often songs reflect the character, such as Michael's attempt to seem hip by using "Mambo No. 5" and later "My Humps" as his cell phone ringtone.

Some episodes of the series use a shortened version of the theme song.

Greg Daniels served as the senior series showrunner for the first four seasons of the series and developed the British Office series for American television.

They also made the lights in the office brighter, which allowed the series to differentiate itself from the British series.

Most of them wanted "Mr. Blue Sky", but that option turned out to be invalid as it was already used in the drama series LAX (2004–2005).

The pilot is a direct adaptation of the first episode of the original British series.

Many characters portrayed by The Office cast are based on the original British series.

Carell later stated that he had only seen about half of the original pilot episode of the British series before he auditioned.

When it came to choosing the theme song for The Office, producer Greg Daniels had several tracks he was thinking of using: existing songs including "Better Things" by The Kinks, "Float On" by Modest Mouse, and "Mr. Blue Sky" by Electric Light Orchestra, and

Daniels decided that the cast would vote on what song to use and gave them four of the choices.

The Office is a television series of episodes chosen at random using a British musical composer.


John Paul Jones (born John Paul; July 6, 1747 –  July 18, 1792) was the United States' first well-known naval commander in the American Revolutionary War.

It was not long afterward that John Paul "Jones" joined the American navy to fight against Britain.

"Jones, John Paul". Encyclopædia Britannica.

John Paul Jones: A Sailor's Biography.

-8160-2107-4. Sherburne, John H. The Life and Character of John Paul Jones.

About this time, John Paul assumed the surname of Jones (in addition to his original surname).

Willie Jones found John Paul and took him to his brother Allen's house.

The home "Mount Gallant" had belonged to Brigadier General Allen Jones and the family had cared for John Paul Jones.

Led Zeppelin bassist/keyboardist John Paul Jones took his stage name from the title of this film.

John Paul would have been killed if the British found him.

John Paul Jones was in the armed forces of America.


Greg Daniels was originally unsure where to use Mindy Kaling on-screen in the series until the opportunity came in the script for the second episode, "Diversity Day", where Michael needed to be slapped by a minority. " Since [that slap], I've been on the show" (as Kelly Kapoor), says Kaling.

While these characters generally have the same attitude and perceptions as their British counterparts, the roles have been redesigned to better fit the American show.

Many characters portrayed by The Office cast are based on the original British series.

The pilot is a direct adaptation of the first episode of the original British series.

Carell later stated that he had only seen about half of the original pilot episode of the British series before he auditioned.

The main action of the show is supplemented with talking-head interviews or "confessionals" in which characters speak one on one with the camera crew about the day's events.

Notable stars outside the original main cast include Ed Helms, Mindy Kaling, Craig Robinson, James Spader, Ellie Kemper, and Catherine Tate.

Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant, who created the original British series, are credited as executive producer and wrote the pilot and the third-season episode "The Convict".

NBC programmer Kevin Reilly originally suggested Paul Giamatti to producer Ben Silverman for the role of Michael Scott, but the actor declined.

Kaling, Novak, and Lieberstein also served multiple roles on the series, as they played regular characters on the show, as well as wrote, directed, and produced episodes.

Mindy Kaling's role was one of the original characters from the pilot.


In 2000, it was adapted for a successful stage musical of the same name.

Thoroughly Modern Millie is a 1967 American musical-romantic comedy film directed by George Roy Hill and starring Julie Andrews.

Also, the film is recognized by American Film Institute in these lists:  2004: AFI's 100 Years...100 Songs: "Thoroughly Modern Millie" – Nominated 2006: AFI's Greatest Movie Musicals – Nominated

Thoroughly Modern Millie was her last film of the 1960s to make money.

After Thoroughly Modern Millie, he made Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, The Great Waldo Pepper, and the Oscar-winning hit The Sting.

A DVD was issued in 2003. In 1922 New York City, flapper Millie Dillmount is determined to find work as a stenographer to a wealthy businessman and then marry him – a "thoroughly modern" goal.

"Variety observed "The first half of Thoroughly Modern Mille (sic) is quite successful in striking and maintaining a gay spirit and pace.

Guide rated the film three out of four stars and commented "Although it ultimately runs out of steam, this charming spoof of the 1920s is still one of the 1960s' better musicals ... Andrews is a comic delight, Moore is charming, and Channing steals scene after scene in this enjoyable feature.

Elmer Bernstein composed the incidental score, for which he won his only Academy Award.

The songs were arranged and conducted by André Previn.

Throughly Modern Millie was inspired for a broadway musical.


The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, often shortened to Hamlet (), is a tragedy written by William Shakespeare sometime between 1599 and 1601.

Analysis and criticism | Critical history

Not until the late 18th century did critics and performers begin to view Hamlet as confusing and inconsistent.

Though it remained popular with mass audiences, late 17th-century Restoration critics saw Hamlet as primitive and disapproved of its lack of unity and decorum.

Hamlet is not among them, suggesting that it had not yet been written.

From the early 17th century, the play was famous for its ghost and vivid dramatisation of melancholy and insanity, leading to a procession of mad courtiers and ladies in Jacobean and Caroline drama.

Context and interpretation | Psychoanalytic | Sigmund Freud

Rothman suggests that "it was the other way around: Hamlet helped Freud understand, and perhaps even invent, psychoanalysis".

This section is limited to those written for the stage.

From around 1810 to 1840, the best-known Shakespearean performances in the United States were tours by leading London actors—including George Frederick Cooke, Junius Brutus Booth, Edmund Kean, William Charles Macready, and Charles Kemble.

The poem also reworks theatrical language from Hamlet, especially around the idea of "putting on" certain dispositions, as when Hamlet puts on "an antic disposition," similarly to the Son in Paradise Lost who "can put on / [God's] terrors.

Early editors of Shakespeare's works, beginning with Nicholas Rowe (1709) and Lewis Theobald (1733), combined material from the two earliest sources of Hamlet available at the time, Q2 and F1.

Hamlet was written around the beginning of the 17th century.


Home of the monarch | Court ceremonies | Other ceremonies and functions

Since the bombing of the palace chapel in World War II, royal christenings have sometimes taken place in the Music Room.

During World War II, the palace was bombed nine times; the most serious and publicised incident destroyed the palace chapel in 1940.

Home of the monarch | Court ceremonies | Investitures

It has replaced the throne room in importance and use.

Modern history | 21st century: Royal use and public access

Many of the contents of Buckingham Palace, Windsor Castle, Kensington Palace, and St James's Palace are part of the Royal Collection, held in trust by the Sovereign; they can, on occasion, be viewed by the public at the Queen's Gallery, near the Royal Mews.

For the second time a German bomber has tried to bring death and destruction to the home of Their Majesties ... When this war is over the common danger which King George and Queen Elizabeth have shared with their people will be a cherished memory and an inspiration through the years.

Home of the monarch | Former ceremonial at the Palace | Security breaches

At least 12 people have managed to gain unauthorised entry into the palace or its grounds since 1914, including Michael Fagan, who broke into the palace twice in 1982 and entered the Queen's bedroom on the second occasion.

A second corridor in the suite has Gothic-influenced cross-over vaulting.

In the Middle Ages, the site of the future palace formed part of the Manor of Ebury (also called Eia).

History | First houses on the site | Buckingham House

The house which forms the architectural core of the palace was built for the first Duke of Buckingham and Normanby in 1703 to the design of William Winde.

Home of the monarch | Garden and surroundings

The Mall, a ceremonial approach route to the palace, was designed by Sir Aston Webb and completed in 1911 as part of a grand memorial to Queen Victoria.

During World War I, the palace, then the home of King George V and Queen Mary, escaped unscathed.

An important part of Buckingham palace was blasted to rubble by an explosive dropped from the sky in the second great war.


However, Sherry manages to befriend the Stanleys' children, June and Richard, as well as Mr. Stanley's eccentric older sister Harriet.

The exposition reveals that the famously outlandish New York City radio wit Sheridan Whiteside ('Sherry' to his friends) is invited to dine at the house of the well-to-do factory owner Ernest W. Stanley and his family.

Woollcott was delighted with The Man Who Came to Dinner and was offered the role for its Broadway debut.

The Man Who Came to Dinner was presented on Philip Morris Playhouse July 10, 1942.

In 1949, The Man Who Came to Dinner was produced for CBS Radio for The Hotpoint Holiday Hour.

The Man Who Came to Dinner is a comedy in three acts by George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart.

Kaufman and Hart wrote the play as a vehicle for their friend Alexander Woollcott, the model for the lead character Sheridan Whiteside.

The production starred Orson Welles, who was "a marvelous friend" of Woollcott's and had been offered the role of Sheridan Whiteside in both the original stage production and the 1942 film.

Sheridan Whiteside was modeled on Alexander Woollcott.

Clive Revill starred as Sheridan Whiteside.

Who Came to Dinner approved by the Hart and Kaufman estates which starred Simon Callow as Whiteside, Elizabeth McGovern as Maggie, with Conleth Hill as Bert Jefferson, Cheryl Campbell as Lorraine Sheldon, John Sessions as Banjo and Professor Metz, Colin Stinton as Mr. Stanley, and Malcolm Sinclair as Beverley Carlton.

In The Man Who Came to Dinner, Sheridan Whiteside becomes friends with the children of the house.


Aftermath | Effect on the United States | Cost of the war

More than 3 million Americans served in the Vietnam War, some 1.5 million of whom actually saw combat in Vietnam.

Opposition to U.S. involvement, 1964–1973

On 15 October 1969, the Vietnam Moratorium attracted millions of Americans.

Before he left for the South, Dũng was addressed by Lê Duẩn: "Never have we had military and political conditions so perfect or a strategic advantage as great as we have now." During the course of the Vietnam War a large segment of the American population came to be opposed to U.S. involvement in Southeast Asia.

Johnson's escalation, 1963–1969 | Bombing of Laos

The objective of stopping North Vietnam and the Viet Cong was never reached.

Although a small number of women were assigned to combat zones, they were never allowed directly in the field of battle.

In 1969, following the election of U.S President Richard Nixon, a policy of "Vietnamization" began, which saw the conflict fought by an expanded ARVN, with U.S. forces sidelined and increasingly demoralized by domestic opposition and reduced recruitment.

Insurgencies were fought by the unified Vietnam in all three countries.

Vietnamization, 1969–1972 | Easter Offensive and Paris Peace Accords, 1972

On 15 January 1973, all U.S. combat activities were suspended.

It was the second of the Indochina Wars and was officially fought between North Vietnam and South Vietnam.

They also fought in the Battle of Hue.

At least 1.5 million Americans who were involved in the Vietnam conflict never fought in the frontlines.


The album features the singles "2 Minutes to Midnight", "Aces High", as well as "Rime of The Ancient Mariner", based on Samuel Taylor Coleridge's poem of the same name, and running over 13 minutes in length.

History | Blaze Bayley era, The X Factor and Virtual XI (1994–1999)

The record included the 11-minute epic "Sign of the Cross", the band's longest song since "Rime of the Ancient Mariner", as well as the singles, "Man on the Edge", based on the film Falling Down, and "Lord of the Flies", based on the novel of the same name.

The band's name has been mentioned prominently in several songs, such as the singles "Teenage Dirtbag" by Wheatus, "Back to the 80's" by Danish dance-pop band Aqua.

Image and legacy | Claims of Satanic references

" Harris has also stated that "The Number of the Beast" song was inspired by a nightmare he had after watching Damien: Omen II, and also influenced by Robert Burns'

" In 2004, Harris explained that the band's "heaviness" was inspired by "Black Sabbath and Deep Purple with a bit of Zeppelin thrown in." On top of this, Harris developed his own playing style, which guitarist Janick Gers describes as "more like a rhythm guitar," cited as responsible for the band's galloping style, heard in such songs as "The Trooper" and "Run to the Hills.

Singer Bruce Dickinson, who typically works in collaboration with guitarist Adrian Smith, has an operatic vocal style, inspired by Arthur Brown, Peter Hammill, Ian Anderson and Ian Gillan, and is often considered to be one of the best heavy metal vocalists of all time.

For 40 years the band have been supported by their famous mascot, "Eddie", who has appeared on almost all of their album and single covers, as well as in their live shows.

Janick Gers, having worked on Dickinson's solo project, was chosen to replace Smith, and became the band's first new member in seven years.

History | Record contract and early releases (1978–1981)

Containing many tracks written prior to their debut release, only two new songs were written for the record: "Prodigal Son" and "Murders in the Rue Morgue" (the latter's title was taken from the short story by Edgar Allan Poe).

History | Dance of Death and A Matter of Life and Death (2003–2007)

Produced by Kevin Shirley, now the band's regular producer, many critics also felt that this release matched up to their earlier efforts, such as Killers, Piece of Mind and The Number of the Beast.

The release is notable for its "dark" tone, inspired by Steve Harris' divorce.

Many of the band's songs are inspired by, or even named directly off of famous literary works.


January is the hottest summer month, with an average daily temperature of 28.9 degrees Celsius (84 degrees F).

The overall climate is tropical to subtropical.

Winds play a major role in influencing Paraguay's weather: between October and March, warm winds blow from the Amazon Basin in the north, while the period between May and August brings cold winds from the Andes.

Paraguay put in place many incentives aimed to attract industries to the country.

On 14 January 2011, the Colorado Party convention nominated Horacio Cartes as the presidential candidate for the party.

Guaraní claims its place as one of the last surviving and thriving of South American indigenous national languages.

History | Stroessner's overthrow, post-1989

Reflecting the deep hunger of the rural poor for land, hundreds immediately occupied thousands of acres of unused territories belonging to Stroessner and his associates; by mid-1990, 19,000 families occupied 340,000 acres (138,000 ha).

The economy grew rapidly between 2003 and 2013 as growing world demand for commodities combined with high prices and favorable weather to support Paraguay's commodity-based export expansion.

Paraguayans are known for being a very happy and easy-living people and many times the country has topped the "world's happiest place" charts because of the "positive experiences" lived and expressed by the population.

Paraguay is divided by the Río Paraguay into two well differentiated geographic regions.

Paraguay has the warmest weather in January and is a tropical place.


The Paraguayan War, also known as the War of the Triple Alliance was a South American war fought from 1864 to 1870, between Paraguay and the Triple Alliance of Argentina, the Empire of Brazil, and Uruguay.

Modern interpretations of the war | Theories about British influence behind the scenes

William Doria (the UK Chargé d'Affaires in Paraguay who briefly acted for Thornton) joined French and Italian diplomats in condemning Argentina's President Bartolomé Mitre's involvement in Uruguay.

Paraguayan President López sent a note to the Argentine government on 6 September 1863, asking for an explanation, but Buenos Aires denied any involvement in Uruguay.

Gender and ethnic aspects | Paraguayan indigenous people

"The war also bonded the indigenous people of Paraguay to the project of Paraguayan nation-building.

Gender and ethnic aspects | Women in the Paraguayan War

A 2012 piece in The Economist argued that by killing most of Paraguay's men, the Paraguayan War distorted the sex ratio and impacted the sexual culture of Paraguay to this day.

Whoever controlled the rivers would win the war, so Paraguay had built fortifications on the banks of the lower end of the Paraguay River.

Paraguayan women played a significant role in the Paraguayan War.

Nights on the Río Paraguay: Scenes on the Paraguayan War and Charactersketches.

The war begins | Paraguayan invasion of Corrientes and Rio Grande do Sul

The Treaty states that Paraguay is to be blamed on all the consequences of the conflict and has to pay all the debt of war, Paraguay has to remain without any fortress and military force.

Large portions of Paraguayan territories were to be taken by Argentina and Brazil at the end of the conflict, and the independence of Paraguay was supposed to be respected only for five years.

Paraguayan women's support of the war effort can be divided into two stages.

The Paraguayan War primarily involved Paraguay and Mexico.


His mother Elizabeth Parry was 18 years old at the time of his birth.

He became Sir Henry Morton Stanley when he was made a Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath in the 1899 Birthday Honours, in recognition of his service to the British Empire in Africa.

His grave is in the churchyard of St Michael and All Angels' Church in Pirbright, Surrey, marked by a large piece of granite inscribed with the words "Henry Morton Stanley, Bula Matari, 1841–1904, Africa".

Controversies | Accounts of cruel treatment toward African people

Kirk was related to Horace Waller by marriage; and so Waller also hated Stanley on Kirk's behalf.

Stanley's good relations with these two colleagues from the Emin Pasha Expedition could possibly be seen as demonstrating that he could get along with colleagues.

Sir Henry Morton Stanley (born John Rowlands; 28 January 1841 –  10 May 1904) was a Welsh-American journalist, explorer, soldier, colonial administrator, author and politician who was famous for his exploration of central Africa and his search for missionary and explorer David Livingstone, whom he later claimed to have greeted with the now-famous line: "Dr Livingstone, I presume?

He was knighted in 1899. Henry Stanley was born in 1841 as John Rowlands in Denbigh, Denbighshire, Wales.

In 2020, Polish independent developer Vulpesoft announced video game about Henry Stanley and Dr. David Livingstone meeting: "Dr Livingstone, I Presume?".

He disembarked at New Orleans and, according to his own declarations, became friends by accident with Henry Hope Stanley, a wealthy trader.

The authors of the book The Congo: Plunder and Resistance argued that Stanley had "a pathological fear of women, an inability to work with talented co-workers, and an obsequious love of the aristocratic rich", Stanley's intimate correspondence in the Royal Museum of Central Africa, however, between him and his two fiancées, Katie Gough Roberts and Alice Pike, as well as between him and the American journalist May Sheldon, and between him and his wife Dorothy Tennant,

Because Stanley got so many basic facts wrong about his 'adoptive' family, Jeal concludes that it is very unlikely that he ever met rich Henry Hope Stanley, and that an ordinary grocer, James Speake, was Rowlands' true benefactor until his (Speake's) sudden death in October 1859.Stanley reluctantly joined in the American Civil War, first enrolling in the Confederate States Army's 6th Arkansas Infantry Regiment and fighting in the Battle of Shiloh in 1862.

Henry Morton Stanley is related to Katy Perry.


In recognition of his contributions to the game as an umpire and supervisor, Cal Hubbard was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1976, only the fifth umpire to be so honored up to that time.

In a 1969 poll by the Hall of Fame committee, Hubbard was voted the NFL's greatest tackle of all-time.

He was among the initial class of inductees to the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1963.

"To date, Hubbard is the only person to be enshrined in both the Pro Football Hall of Fame and Baseball Hall of Fame.

Member, Missouri Sports Hall of Fame (inducted 1954) Charter Member, Pro Football Hall of Fame (inducted 1963) Member, College Football Hall of Fame (inducted 1962) Member, Louisiana Sports Hall of Fame (inducted 1965) Member, Helms Foundation Hall of Fame (inducted 1969) Member, Green Bay Packers Hall of Fame (inducted 1970) Named to All-Time All-Professional football team (1970) Member, National Baseball Hall of Fame (inducted 1976) Member, Missouri Sports Hall of Fame (inducted 1954) Charter Member, Pro Football Hall of Fame (inducted 1963) Member, College Football Hall of Fame (inducted 1962) Member, Louisiana Sports Hall of Fame (inducted 1965) Member, Helms Foundation Hall of Fame (inducted 1969) Member, Green Bay Packers Hall of Fame (inducted 1970) Named to All-Time All-Professional football team (1970) Member, National Baseball Hall of Fame (inducted 1976) Member, Beaver County Sports Hall of Fame (Beaver County, Pennsylvania) (inducted 1976) Member, Centenary College Athletic Hall of Fame (inducted posthumously, 1990) Named to the Grantland Rice All-Time, All-American football team

He is also a member of the College Football Hall of Fame.

The NFL named its first official All-League team in 1931 with Cal Hubbard being one of that inaugural list.

Cal Hubbard Field (baseball) at Keytesville,

Hubbard is credited as being one of the inventors of the football position of linebacker.

Mel Hein said Hubbard was "probably the greatest tackle I ever played against.

Cal Hubbard was the only person to be elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame and was voted among the initial class of inductees as NHL's greatest.


The United States is the world's third- or fourth-largest nation by total area (land and water), ranking behind Russia and Canada and nearly equal to China.

States bordering the Gulf of Mexico are prone to hurricanes, and most of the world's tornadoes occur in the country, mainly in Tornado Alley areas in the Midwest and South.

At 3.8 million square miles (9.8 million km2), it is the world's third- or fourth-largest country by total area.

Overall, the United States has the world's most violent weather, receiving more high-impact extreme weather incidents than any other country in the world.

A highly developed country, the United States is the world's largest economy and accounts for approximately a quarter of global gross domestic product (GDP).

Government and politics | Government finance

The United States is one of the only countries in the world to do so.

Measured by only land area, the United States is third in size behind Russia and China, just ahead of Canada.

The United States is the world's largest importer and the second-largest exporter of goods, by value.

More than 90% of the world's 14,000 nuclear weapons are owned by Russia and the United States.

History | Further immigration, expansion, and industrialization

The American economy boomed, becoming the world's largest, and the United States achieved great power status.

The United States is the world's 2nd biggest country by area.


In 1953, Bowie moved with his family to Bromley.

He moved to Switzerland in 1976, purchasing a chalet in the hills to the north of Lake Geneva.

Bowie married his first wife, Mary Angela Barnett on 19 March 1970 at Bromley Register Office in Bromley, London.

The family lived at 40 Stansfield Road, on the boundary between Brixton and Stockwell in the south London borough of Lambeth.

The couple resided primarily in New York City and London, as well as owning an apartment in Sydney's Elizabeth Bay and Britannia Bay House on the island of Mustique.

Music career | 1968–1971: Space Oddity to Hunky Dory

In January 1968, Kemp choreographed a dance scene for a BBC play, The Pistol Shot, in the Theatre 625 series, and used Bowie with a dancer, Hermione Farthingale; the pair began dating, and moved into a London flat together.

Music career | 1992–1998: Electronic period

The Earthling Tour took in Europe and North America between June and November 1997.

Music career | 1974–1976: "Plastic soul" and the Thin White Duke

To promote it, Bowie launched the Diamond Dogs Tour, visiting cities in North America between June and December 1974.

, "Move On" used the chords from Bowie's early composition

Is exhibition at the Australian Centre for the Moving Image in Melbourne, Australia.

In 1954, he moved with his family to North London.


Aniston has two half-brothers: John Melick, her older maternal half-brother, and Alex Aniston, her younger paternal half-brother.

Original plans called for the perfume to be named "Lolavie by Jennifer Aniston", but to avoid confusion with a similarly named perfume, the name was changed to simply "Jennifer Aniston".

Jennifer Joanna Aniston (born February 11, 1969) is an American actress, film producer, and businesswoman.

Career | Continued film success (2005–2013)

While it received mixed reviews, Aniston, along with Affleck, Ginnifer Goodwin, and Jennifer Connelly, were praised by critics as stand-outs in the film.

Aniston additionally won a SAG Award and was nominated for two Golden Globe Awards for The Morning Show.

Career | Recent roles and return to television (2014–present)

The Los Angeles Times wrote in its review: "Toni Collette and Jennifer Aniston as the soldiers' quite different but equally concerned mothers, deliver uniformly naturalistic performances".

Although Aniston disliked the hairstyle she wore during her first two years on Friends, "The Rachel" became very popular.

Aniston has received five Primetime Emmy Award nominations, two Golden Globe Award nominations, and nine SAG Award nominations for her role in Friends.

two premiere of ABC's sitcom Cougar Town, playing a psychiatrist.

Aniston also appeared in two more failed television comedy series, The Edge and Muddling Through, and guest-starred in Quantum Leap, Herman's Head, and Burke's Law.

Jennifer Aniston has two siblings.


Iron Maiden were formed on Christmas Day, 25 December 1975 by bassist Steve Harris shortly after he left his previous group, Smiler.

Harris attributed the band's name to a film adaptation of The Man in the Iron Mask from the novel by Alexandre Dumas, the title of which reminded him of the iron maiden torture device.

History | The Book of Souls and Legacy of the Beast (2015–present)

Recorded throughout The Book of Souls World Tour, it was released on 17 November 2017.In the summer of 2016, the group launched a mobile game, Iron Maiden: Legacy of the Beast and a pinball game with the same name in 2018.

On 18 June 2015, the band's website announced its title, The Book of Souls, and confirmed a release date of 4 September 2015.

A copy was also acquired by Rod Smallwood, who soon became the band's manager, and, as Iron Maiden's popularity increased, they released the demo on their own record label as The Soundhouse Tapes, named after the club.

He played his farewell show with Iron Maiden on 28 August 1993, which was filmed, broadcast by the BBC, and released on video under the name Raising Hell.

The aircraft, named "Ed Force One" after a competition on the band's website, was flown by Dickinson, as he was also a commercial airline pilot for Astraeus, and plays a major role in the award-winning documentary, Iron Maiden: Flight 666, which was released in cinemas in 42 countries in April 2009.

History | The Final Frontier and Maiden England World Tour (2010–2014)

On 15 February 2012, the band announced the Maiden England World Tour 2012–14, which was based around the video of the same name.

Transformers author Bill Forster is an avowed Iron Maiden fan and made several Iron Maiden references, including song lyrics and the phrase "Up the Irons" in his books, including The Ark series and The AllSpark Almanac series.

On 20 September 2017, The Book of Souls: Live Chapter was announced.

History | Blaze Bayley era, The X Factor and Virtual XI (1994–1999)

In 1998, Iron Maiden released Virtual XI, whose chart scores were the band's lowest to date, failing to score one million worldwide sales for the first time in the band's history.

The Iron Maiden band's name was derived from a book .


The Zulu monarch was killed by three assassins sometime in 1828; September is the most frequently cited date, when almost all available

When Dingiswayo was murdered by Zwide, Shaka sought to avenge his death.

He also had two prominent front teeth.

Social and military revolution | Mobility of the army

They spent two whole days recuperating in one instance, and on another they rested for a day and two nights before pursuing their enemy.

The praise song is one of the most widely used poetic forms in Africa, applying not only to spirits but to men, animals, plants and even towns.

Scholarship studies | The Mfecane | Disruptions of the Mfecane

Rubinstein also notes:  One element in Shaka's destruction was to create a vast artificial desert around his domain... 'to make the destruction complete, organized bands of Zulu murderers regularly patrolled the waste, hunting for any stray men and running them down like wild pig'... An area 200 miles to the north of the center of the state, 300 miles to the west, and 500 miles to the south was ravaged and depopulated...  Wylie (2006) expressed skepticism of the portrayal of Shaka as a pathological monster destroying everything within reach.

Expansion of power and conflict with Zwide

In a two-day running battle, the Zulu inflicted a resounding defeat on their opponents.

It was not until around 1825 that the two military leaders met, near Phongola, in their final meeting.

This ambiguity continues to lend the image of Shaka its continued power and influence, almost two centuries after his death.

Scholarship studies | Biographical sources

The earliest are two eyewitness accounts written by European adventurer-traders who met Shaka during the last four years of his reign.

Dingane and Mhlangana, Shaka's half-brothers, appear to have made at least two attempts to assassinate Shaka before they succeeded, with perhaps support from Mpondo elements and some disaffected iziYendane people.

Shaka was murdered by two men in 1830.


Ott continued as a regular player for another five years, and remained productive at the plate for much of that time.

After longtime teammate Bill Terry retired as manager in 1941, he named Ott as player-manager.

Baseball records and accomplishments | Overall

All-Star (1934–36, 1938). In 1999, he ranked number 42 on The Sporting News' list of the 100 Greatest Baseball Players and was a nominee for the MLB All-Century Team.

The Mel Ott Little League began in 1959, named for Ott soon after his death.

are the others). He managed the New York Giants in seven seasons (1942–48).

His team had a tradition of passing the hat whenever a player hit a home run that figured in a victory, meaning Ott was taking home money for playing baseball as early as 14.

Since 1959, the National League has honored the league's annual home run champion with the Mel Ott Award.

Ott was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1951 with 87.2% of the vote.

Baseball records and accomplishments | Home runs

Was the youngest player to hit 100 and 200 home runs, and the first NL player to reach 500 home runs.

One of six NL players to play more than 20 years with one team (Cap Anson, Stan Musial, Willie Stargell, Craig Biggio, and Tony Gwynn

The baseball player Mel Ott continued playing baseball after he retired as manager.


George III (George William Frederick; 4 June 1738 – 29 January 1820) was King of Great Britain and King of Ireland from 25 October 1760 until the union of the two countries on 1 January 1801, after which he was King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland until his death in 1820.

The American War of Independence was the culmination of the civil and political American Revolution resulting from the American Enlightenment.

Titles, styles and arms | Titles and styles

His style became "George the Third, by the Grace of God, of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland King, Defender of the Faith.

French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars

In 1800, the British and Irish Parliaments passed an Act of Union that took effect on 1 January 1801 and united Great Britain and Ireland into a single state, known as the "United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland".

George used the opportunity to abandon the title "king of France", which English and British Sovereigns had maintained since the reign of Edward III.

George III is often accused of obstinately trying to keep Great Britain at war with the revolutionaries in America, despite the opinions of his own ministers.

However, more recent historians defend George by saying in the context of the times no king would willingly surrender such a large territory, and his conduct was far less ruthless than contemporary monarchs in Europe.

The setbacks in Europe took a toll on Pitt's health and he died in 1806, reopening the question of who should serve in the ministry.

George's life and reign, which were longer than those of any of his predecessors, were marked by a series of military conflicts involving his kingdoms, much of the rest of Europe, and places farther afield in Africa, the Americas, and Asia.

William Pitt | Slavery and the slave trade

During most of his reign, King George III opposed the abolitionist movement.

As part of his Irish policy, Pitt planned to remove certain legal disabilities that applied to Roman Catholics.

George III of the United Kingdom was a king in Europe and was part of the Revolutionary War..


Early political career (1793–1817) | Early diplomatic career and marriage

Adams initially avoided becoming directly involved in politics, instead focusing on building his legal career.

It has been suggested that John Quincy Adams had the highest I.Q. of any U.S. president.

John Quincy Adams ( (listen); July 11, 1767 – February 23, 1848) was an American statesman, diplomat, lawyer, and diarist who served as the sixth president of the United States, from 1825 to 1829.

John Quincy Adams was born on July 11, 1767, to John and Abigail Adams (née Smith) in a part of Braintree, Massachusetts that is now Quincy.

Adams County, Iowa, and Adams County, Wisconsin, were each named for either John Adams or John Quincy Adams.

He was named for his mother's maternal grandfather, Colonel John Quincy, after whom Quincy, Massachusetts, is named.

Adams's middle name of Quincy has been used by several locations in the United States, including the town of Quincy, Illinois.

Presidency (1825–1829) | Domestic affairs | Ambitious agenda

Additionally, the first passenger railroad in the United States, the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, was constructed during Adams's presidency.

Early political career (1793–1817) | Minister to Russia

Later that year, President James Madison appointed Adams as the first United States Minister to Russia in 1809.

Adams initially opposed the ratification of the United States Constitution, but he ultimately came to accept the document, and in 1789 his father was elected as the first Vice President of the United States.

He was the eldest son of John Adams, who served as the second US president from 1797 to 1801, and First Lady Abigail Adams.

John Quincy Adams became United States president after first becoming a lawyer.


William Jennings Bryan Herman (July 7, 1909 – September 5, 1992) was an American second baseman and manager in Major League Baseball (MLB) during the 1930s and 1940s.

On September 30, 1946, Herman was traded to Pittsburgh with three marginal players (outfielder Stan Wentzel, pitcher Elmer Singleton and infielder Whitey Wietelmann) for third baseman Bob Elliott and catcher Hank Camelli.

Herman was promptly named playing manager of the 1947 Pirates, but he was aghast at the cost—Elliott—the Pirates had paid for him.

His record as a Major League manager was 189-274 (.408).

Herman's 1947 Pirates lost 92 games and finished tied for seventh in the NL, and he resigned before the season's final game. (His last appearance as a Major League player was on August 1 of that year.) Herman then managed in the minor leagues and became a Major League coach with the Dodgers (1952–57) and Braves (now based in Milwaukee) (1958–59)—serving on five National League pennant winners in eight seasons.

Then he moved to the American League (AL) as the third-base coach of the Boston Red Sox for five years (1960–64), before managing the Red Sox to lackluster records in 1965 and 1966; his 1965 Boston club lost 100 games.

Si Johnson, Herman chopped a pitch into the back of home plate, which then bounced up and hit Herman in the back of the head, knocking him out.

Herman moved to Palm Beach Gardens, Florida in 1968.

After a sub-standard offensive year in 1940, Herman was traded to the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1941.

A fixture in the Chicago lineup over the next decade, Herman was a consistent hitter and solid producer.

Billy Herman was an infielder and manager.


The United States is the third most populous nation in the world, after China and India.

The United States has the highest documented incarceration rate and largest prison population in the world.

Its population growth rate is positive at 0.7%, higher than that of many developed nations.

A 2017 United Nations report projected that the U.S. would be one of nine countries in which world population growth through 2050 would be concentrated.

Mexican Americans (circa 31 million) and English Americans (circa 28 million).White Americans (mostly European ancestry) are the largest racial group at 73.1% of the population; African Americans are the nation's largest racial minority and third-largest ancestry group.

The United States has the world's second-largest automobile market, and has the highest rate of per-capita vehicle ownership in the world, with 765 vehicles per 1,000 Americans (1996).

In 2018 the median age of the United States population was 38.1 years.

In 2009, the United States had the third-highest workforce productivity per person in the world, behind Luxembourg and Norway.

The United States has an annual birth rate of 13 per 1,000, which is five births per 1,000 below the world average.

With a 2019 estimated population of over 328 million, the U.S. is the third most populous country in the world.

The United States has the highest documented incarceration rate and largest prison population in the world despite it being the third most populous nation.


Spanning 1,648,195 km2 (636,372 sq mi), it is the second largest country in the Middle East and the 17th largest in the world.

Iran is home to one of the world's oldest civilizations, beginning with the formation of the Elamite kingdoms in the fourth millennium BC.

Iran is the world's third country to have developed GTL technology.

A third-millennium BC earthen goblet discovered at the Burnt City, a Bronze Age urban settlement in southeastern Iran, depicts what could possibly be the world's oldest example of animation.

Iran has leading manufacturing industries in the fields of automobile manufacture, transportation, construction materials, home appliances, food and agricultural goods, armaments, pharmaceuticals, information technology, and petrochemicals in the Middle East.

Iran has the largest and most diverse ballistic missile arsenal in the Middle East.

Iran has the largest Jewish population in the Middle East outside of Israel.

It is one of the world's most mountainous countries, its landscape dominated by rugged mountain ranges that separate various basins or plateaux from one another.

It is also home to the world's seventh largest shopping mall, Isfahan City Center.

During the Bronze Age, the territory of present-day Iran was home to several civilizations, including Elam, Jiroft, and Zayanderud.

The country of Iran is the third biggest in size in the Middle East and home to one of the world's oldest civilizations.


During his tenure on the Supreme Court, Hughes often joined Associate Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. in voting to uphold state and federal regulations.

Charles Evans Charles Evans Hughes Sr. (April 11, 1862 – August 27, 1948) was an American statesman, Republican Party politician, and the 11th Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court.

Roosevelt, who had expected the Supreme Court to rule adversely to his administration's position, was elated by the outcome, writing that "as a lawyer it seems to me that the Supreme Court has at last definitely put human values ahead of the 'pound of flesh' called for by a contract." The Hughes Court also continued to adjudicate major cases concerning the states.

Their youngest child, Elizabeth Hughes Gossett, was one of the first humans injected with insulin, and later served as president of the Supreme Court Historical Society.

In one of the first major cases of his tenure, Hughes joined with Roberts and the Three Musketeers to strike down a piece of state legislation in the 1931 landmark case of Near v. Minnesota.

Chief Justice | Judicial Procedures Reform Bill of 1937

However, throughout 1937, Hughes had presided over a massive shift in jurisprudence that marked the end of the Lochner era, a period during which the Supreme Court had frequently struck down state and federal economic regulations.

In the disposition of cases, however, Hughes tended to align with Holmes.

Charles Evans Hughes, the only child of David and Mary, was born in Glens Falls on April 11, 1862.

In 1910, President William Howard Taft appointed Hughes as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.

Hughes joined the majority in another case, United States v. Darby Lumber Co., which upheld the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938.The Hughes Court also faced several civil rights cases.

While serving as Chief Justice on the United States Supreme Court, Charles Evans Hughes frequently disagreed with Holmes in cases concerning regulatory issues.


It also pushed Cuba closer to the Soviet Union, and those strengthened Soviet-Cuban relations would lead to the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962.

The Bay of Pigs invasion (Spanish: invasión de bahía de Cochinos; sometimes called invasión de playa Girón or batalla de Girón, after the Playa Girón) was a failed landing operation on the southwestern coast of Cuba in 1961 by Cuban exiles who opposed Fidel Castro's Cuban Revolution.

Preparation | Kennedy's operational approval

In March 1961, the CIA helped Cuban exiles in Miami to create the Cuban Revolutionary Council, chaired by José Miró Cardona, former Prime Minister of Cuba.

Later analysis | Invasion legacy in Cuba

In mid-1960, CIA operative E. Howard Hunt had interviewed Cubans in Havana; in a 1997 interview with CNN, he said, "... all I could find was a lot of enthusiasm for Fidel Castro." For many Latin Americans, the Bay of Pigs Invasion served to reinforce the already widely held belief that the U.S. could not be trusted.

The conference was titled Bay of Pigs: 40 Years After.

The hypothesis of a landing at the Bay of Pigs, or the invasion of Cuba, had political and economic causes.

Immediately following the Bay of Pigs invasion, the Kennedy Administration considered complete trade restrictions with Cuba.

A flotilla containing equipment that broadcast sounds and other effects of a shipborne invasion landing provided the source of Cuban reports that briefly lured Fidel Castro away from the Bay of Pigs battlefront area.

On 7 July, the Cuban Parliament passed a law for the nationalization of U.S. companies operating in Cuba, which were repaid with thirty-year government bonds, with an annual interest of less than 2%.

At about 00:00 on 17 April 1961, the two LCIs Blagar and Barbara J, each with a CIA 'operations officer' and an Underwater Demolition Team of five frogmen, entered the Bay of Pigs (Bahía de Cochinos) on the southern coast of Cuba.

On 4 April 1961, President Kennedy approved the Bay of Pigs plan (also known as Operation Zapata), because it had a sufficiently long airfield, it was farther away from large groups of civilians than the Trinidad plan, and it was less "noisy" militarily, which would make denial of direct U.S. involvement more plausible.

Bay of Pigs Invasion was a failed operation to help the exiles in Cuba and strengthen the American's bond with Fidel.


Hong Kong is characterised as a hybrid of East and West.

Traditional Chinese values emphasising family and education blend with Western ideals, including economic liberty and the rule of law.

Western classical music has historically had a strong presence in Hong Kong, and remains a large part of local musical education.

Although the vast majority of the population is ethnically Chinese, Hong Kong has developed a distinct identity.

The Hong Kong Chinese Orchestra, composed of classical Chinese instruments, is the leading Chinese ensemble and plays a significant role in promoting traditional music in the community.

The remaining population purport mixed identities, 23 per cent as "Hongkonger in China" and 12 per cent as "Chinese in Hong Kong".

Evolving from Shanghai-style shidaiqu, it is also influenced by Cantonese opera and Western pop.

The 1846 Flagstaff House, the former residence of the commanding British military officer, is the oldest Western-style building in Hong Kong.

Hong Kong ( (listen); Chinese: 香港, Cantonese: [

Local versions of Western food are served at cha chaan teng (fast, casual restaurants).

hœ́ːŋ.kɔ̌ːŋ] (listen)), officially the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China (HKSAR), is a metropolitan area and special administrative region of the People's Republic of China on the eastern Pearl River Delta of the South China Sea.

Hong Kong is a balance of the Eastern and Western Chinese culture.


She wrote the poem in 1883 to raise money for the construction of a pedestal for the Statue of Liberty (Liberty Enlightening the World).

This poem was written as a donation to an auction of art and literary works conducted by the "Art Loan Fund Exhibition in Aid of the Bartholdi Pedestal Fund for the Statue of Liberty" to raise money for the pedestal's construction.

Influence | Immigration to the United States

Over the decades, “The New Colossus” has acquired a patina of universality.

"The New Colossus" is a sonnet by American poet Emma Lazarus (1849–1887).

The poem is also the subtitle of the game's sequel: Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus.

Staining “The New Colossus” with the bile of discrimination is a shameful act of cultural defilement.

"The New Colossus" was the first entry read at the exhibit's opening on November 2, 1883.

The "air-bridged harbor that twin cities frame" refers to New York Harbor between New York City and Brooklyn, which were separate cities at the time the poem was written, before being consolidated as boroughs of the City of Greater New York in 1898.The "huddled masses" refers to the large numbers of immigrants arriving in the United States in the 1880s, particularly through the port of New York via Ellis Island.

In the poem, Lazarus contrasts that ancient symbol of grandeur and empire ("the brazen giant of Greek fame")  with a "New" Colossus – the Statue of Liberty, a female embodiment of commanding "maternal strength" ("Mother of Exiles").

Paul Auster wrote that "Bartholdi's gigantic effigy was originally intended as a monument to the principles of international republicanism, but 'The New Colossus' reinvented the statue's purpose, turning Liberty into a welcoming mother, a symbol of hope to the outcasts and downtrodden of the world.

The New Colossus was written to raise money for a homeless shelter.


Hunter wanted to make a film of The Boyfriend, which had been a hit on stage with Julie Andrews.

Film rights cost too much - $400,000 - so Hunter decided to do "his own".

Thoroughly Modern Millie was her last film of the 1960s to make money.

Also, the film is recognized by American Film Institute in these lists:  2004: AFI's 100 Years...100 Songs: "Thoroughly Modern Millie" – Nominated 2006: AFI's Greatest Movie Musicals – Nominated

After Thoroughly Modern Millie, he made Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, The Great Waldo Pepper, and the Oscar-winning hit The Sting.

Thoroughly Modern Millie is a 1967 American musical-romantic comedy film directed by George Roy Hill and starring Julie Andrews.

A DVD was issued in 2003. In 1922 New York City, flapper Millie Dillmount is determined to find work as a stenographer to a wealthy businessman and then marry him – a "thoroughly modern" goal.

"Variety observed "The first half of Thoroughly Modern Mille (sic) is quite successful in striking and maintaining a gay spirit and pace.

"Leo Sullivan of The Washington Post wrote "Highly insignificant and deliberately old-fashioned, the film veers and comments in a broadly stylized way ... All [Ross Hunter] may have produced is a commercial movie but enhancing the entire film is his own personal enthusiasm.

Ebert gave the film a perfect four stars in his original review, a decision he later admitted in hindsight he was "no longer certain about."TV

When Mrs. Meers finally succeeds, Millie finds Trevor drowning his sorrows, and he tells her that Miss Dorothy stood him up and checked out of the hotel.

Millie then discovers that Jimmy and Miss Dorothy are actually millionaire siblings and that Muzzy is their stepmother who sent them out into the world to find partners who would love them for who they were and not for their money.

The producer of Thoroughly Modern Millie started out to make a completely different movie, but chose not too because the original property was too expensive.


Elon Musk was born on June 28, 1971, in Pretoria, Transvaal, South Africa, the son of Maye Musk (née Haldeman), a model and dietitian born in Saskatchewan, Canada and raised in South Africa, and Errol Musk, a South African electromechanical engineer, pilot, and sailor.

In February 2002, the group returned to Russia to look for three ICBMs, bringing along Mike Griffin.

Earlier that same day, Musk also stirred up controversy on Twitter by remarking

Alongside the Wright Brothers, Elon Musk, Zefram Cochrane?

Ultimately, Musk ended up founding SpaceX with the long-term goal of creating a true spacefaring civilization.

As of 2019, Elon Musk is the longest tenured CEO of any automotive manufacturer globally.

In 1994, Musk held two internships in Silicon Valley during the summer: at an energy storage start-up called Pinnacle Research Institute, which researched electrolytic ultracapacitors for energy storage, and at the Palo Alto-based start-up Rocket Science Games.

In January 2018, Musk was granted an option to buy up to 20.3 million shares if Tesla's market value were to rise to $650 billion.

In 2014, Elon Musk was honored with an Edison Achievement Award for his commitment to innovation throughout his career.

Elon Musk teased a Tesla-branded tequila in 2018 as part of an April Fool’s joke on Instagram.

Richard Stanton, leader of the international rescue diving team, also urged Musk to continue construction of the mini-submarine as a back-up, in case flooding worsened.

Elon Musk grew up in Russia.


The first Twitter prototype, developed by Dorsey and contractor Florian Weber, was used as an internal service for Odeo employees and the full version was introduced publicly on July 15, 2006.

Developers built upon the public API to create the first Twitter mobile phone clients as well as the first URL shortener.

In March 2012, Twitter became available in Arabic, Farsi, Hebrew and Urdu, the first right-to-left language versions of the site.

Developer interest in Twitter began immediately following its launch, prompting the company to release the first version of its public API in September 2006.

In 2012, Douglas Bowman created a further simplified version of Larry the Bird, keeping the solid silhouette but making it more similar to a mountain bluebird.

And we just did!"The first unassisted off-Earth Twitter message was posted from the International Space Station by NASA astronaut T. J. Creamer on January 22, 2010.

Twitter introduced the first major redesign of its user interface in September 2010, adopting a dual-pane layout with a navigation bar along the top of the screen, and an increased focus on the inline embedding of multimedia content.

Appearance and features | Tweets | Format | URL shortener

t.co is a URL shortening service created by Twitter.

Appearance and features | Account archival | New machine-readable archive format

Various account settings Users in created Twitter Lists Member of which

Appearance and features | Account archival | Browsable legacy Twitter archive format

Even when accessing the legacy Twitter desktop website layout using the user-agent of an older browser version, the option has disappeared from the account settings.

The first version of Twitter was created in 2010.


The novels chronicle the lives of a young wizard, Harry Potter, and his friends Hermione Granger and Ron Weasley, all of whom are students at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.

Harry becomes a student at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, a wizarding academy in Scotland, and it is here where most of the events in the series take place.

Hagrid then officially invites Harry to attend Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, a famous magic school in Scotland that educates young teenagers on their magical development for seven years, from age eleven to seventeen.

Attractions | The Wizarding World of Harry Potter

The flagship attraction is Harry Potter and the Forbidden Journey, which exists within a re-creation of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.

This year, Harry must compete against a witch and a wizard "champion" from overseas schools Beauxbatons and Durmstrang, as well as another Hogwarts student, causing Harry's friends to distance themselves from him.

The only exception to this school-centred setting is the final novel, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, in which Harry and his friends spend most of their time away from Hogwarts, and only return there to face Voldemort at the dénouement.

Each novel chronicles one year in Harry's life during the period from 1991 to 1998.

If students are caught breaking rules, they are often disciplined by Hogwarts professors.

Harry and his friends are relatively protected from that danger at Hogwarts.

Ron's younger sister, Ginny Weasley, enrolls in her first year at Hogwarts, and finds an old notebook in her belongings which turns out to be the diary of a previous student, Tom Marvolo Riddle, later revealed to be Voldemort's younger self, who is bent on ridding the school of "mudbloods", a derogatory term describing wizards and witches of non-magical parentage.

The novels chronicle the lives of a young wizard and his 2 friends, all who are students at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.


Arsenal Women are the most successful team in English women's football having won a total of 58 trophies.

In the 2008–09 season, they won all three major English trophies – the FA Women's Premier League, FA Women's Cup and FA Women's Premier League Cup, and, as of 2017, were the only English side to have won the UEFA Women's Cup or UEFA Women's Champions League, having won the Cup in the 2006–07 season as part of a unique quadruple.

Arsenal have the seventh highest average attendance of European football clubs only behind Borussia Dortmund, FC Barcelona, Manchester United, Real Madrid, Bayern Munich, and Schalke.

Arsenal Women is the women's football club affiliated to Arsenal.

History | 1953–1986: Mediocrity, Mee and Neill

The club's only trophy during this time was a last-minute 3–2 victory over Manchester United in the 1979 FA Cup Final, widely regarded as a classic.

In addition, Arsenal and Manchester United developed a strong on-pitch rivalry in the late 1980s, which intensified in recent years when both clubs were competing for the Premier League title – so much so that a 2003 online poll by the Football Fans Census listed Manchester United as Arsenal's biggest rivals, followed by Tottenham and Chelsea.

And the season after, an even greater triumph: Arsenal's first League and FA Cup double, and a new champions of England record.

The Arsenal Supporters' Trust promotes greater participation in ownership of the club by fans.

The men's and women's clubs are formally separate entities but have quite close ties; Arsenal Women are entitled to play once a season at the Emirates Stadium, though they usually play their home matches at Meadow Park in Borehamwood.

The final match under the Wenger era was a 1–0 away victory against Huddersfield.

Arsenal F.C. is a European women's utmost victorious unit with loyal fans and prevailing triumphs.


However, there is still no firm evidence about the time when this process started.

Two main approaches have been used to infer the age of the inner core: thermodynamic modeling of the cooling of the Earth, and analysis of paleomagnetic evidence.

From their age estimate they derived a rather modest value for the thermal conductivity of the outer core, that allowed for simpler models of the Earth's thermal evolution.

It is widely believed that the Earth's solid inner core formed out of an initially completely liquid core as the Earth cooled down.

They speculated that the change could be due to the birth of Earth's solid inner core.

Theories about the age of the core are necessarily part of theories of the history of Earth as a whole.

There are no samples of the Earth's core available for direct measurement, as there are for the Earth's mantle.

Information about the Earth's core mostly comes from analysis of seismic waves and the Earth's magnetic field.

In 2001, S. Labrosse and others, assuming that there were no radioactive elements in the core, gave an estimate of 1±0.5 billion years for the age of the inner core — considerably less than the estimated age of the Earth and of its liquid core (about 4.5 billion years) In 2003, the same group concluded that, if the core contained a reasonable amount of radioactive elements, the inner core's age could be a few hundred million years older.

That estimate is based on the prevailing theory that the Earth's magnetic field is primarily triggered by convection currents in the liquid part of the core, and the fact that a minimum heat flux is required to sustain those currents.

Earth's inner core is the innermost geologic layer of the Earth.

There is no agreed upon age of the Earth's core.


The story is set in New York City in December 1932, in the last days of Prohibition.

As they attempt to solve the case, Nick and Nora share a great deal of banter and witty dialogue, along with copious amounts of alcohol.

Although Hammett lived until 1961, The Thin Man was his last published novel.

The Thin Man (1934) is a detective novel by Dashiell Hammett, originally published in the December 1933 issue of Redbook.

Lillian Hellman, in an introduction to a compilation of Hammett's five novels, contemplated several explanations for Hammett's retirement as a novelist,  I have been asked many times over the years why he did not write another novel after The Thin Man.

The Thin Man television series aired on NBC from 1957–59, and starred  Peter Lawford and Phyllis Kirk .In 1999, Knopf published a collection of Hammett's early works, including an early draft of The Thin Man.

During the course of this work, he wrote After the Thin Man and Another Thin Man, which, discovered amongst Hammett's papers in 2011, together with instructions by Hammett for incorporation of additional elements written by screenwriters Albert Hackett and Frances Goodrich, were edited by Hammett's biographer Richard Layman in collaboration with Hammett's granddaughter Julie M. Rivett and published as novellas in Return of the Thin Man in 2012.

Following the success of the movie version of The Thin Man in 1934, Hammett was commissioned to work on screenplays for sequels.

Hammett never wrote a sequel but the book became the basis for a successful six-part film series, which also began in 1934 with The Thin Man and starred William Powell and Myrna Loy.

While some story elements were used in one of the sequel movies, this early draft is very different from the final published novel.

Drinking is a common theme in the novel, The Thin Man.


Biography | 1986–1989: Breakthrough, first Oscar nomination, and controversial roles

Dafoe began his film career in 1979, when he was cast in a supporting role in Michael Cimino's epic Western film Heaven's Gate.

Biography | 2010–present: Continued acclaim and success

Dafoe starred in the late Brazilian director's Héctor Babenco's final film

William James "Willem" Dafoe (born July 22, 1955) is an American actor.

Biography | 1955–1978: Early life and acting in theater

In high school, he acquired the nickname Willem, which is the Dutch version of the name William.

Biography | 2000–2009: Shadow of the Vampire, Spider-Man and prolificity

The film received a polarized response from critics and audiences, receiving both applause and boos at the Cannes Film Festival and was called the "most shocking movie" to be shown at the festival because of its graphic sex scenes.

Also in 2010, Dafoe began voicing Clarence, the Birds Eye polar bear mascot in the company's television commercials in the United Kingdom, and narrated Into the Deep: America, Whaling & the World, a Ric Burns documentary about the history of the whaling industry in the United States.

Biography | 1990–1999: Balancing independent and blockbuster films

Roger Ebert praised Dafoe's "gifted" portrayal of LeTour and Owen Gleiberman opined that "even when the film doesn't gel, one is held by Willem Dafoe's grimly compelling performance."Dafoe

Dafoe said in 2010, "We were having lunch

Within a year Dafoe was part of the company.

Dafoe would continue with the Wooster Group into the 2000s.

Dafoe did not receive a credit for his work on the film.

Willem Dafoe started in the movie industry in the late 1970's


She holds a torch above her head with her right hand, and in her left hand carries a tabula ansata inscribed JULY IV MDCCLXXVI (July 4, 1776 in Roman numerals), the date of the U.S. Declaration of Independence.

A broken shackle and chain lie at her feet as she walks forward, commemorating the recent national abolition of slavery.

Design and construction process | Design, style, and symbolism

Bartholdi considered having Liberty hold a broken chain, but decided this would be too divisive in the days after the Civil War.

The erected statue does stride over a broken chain, half-hidden by her robes and difficult to see from the ground.

Access to an observation platform surrounding the torch was also provided, but the narrowness of the arm allowed for only a single ladder, 40 feet (12 m) long.

After dedication | Early National Park Service years (1933–1982)

They left December 28 following a Federal Court order.

Design and construction process | Origin

The defiant lion, 73 feet (22 m) long and half that in height, displays an emotional quality characteristic of Romanticism, which Bartholdi would later bring to the Statue of Liberty.

Access and attributes | Location and access

Land created by reclamation added to the 2.3-acre (0.93 ha) original island at Ellis Island is New Jersey territory.

Design and construction process | Construction in France | Design

In form, it is a truncated pyramid, 62 feet (19 m) square at the base and 39.4 feet (12.0 m) at the top.

Bartholdi was initially uncertain of what to place in Liberty's left hand; he settled on a tabula ansata, used to evoke the concept of law.

The Statue of Liberty has a torch in her left and a broken shackle and chain at her feet.


Francisco Vázquez de Coronado y Luján (Spanish pronunciation: [fɾanˈθisko ˈβaθkeθ ðe koɾoˈnaðo]; 1510 – 22 September 1554) was a Spanish conquistador and explorer who led a large expedition from Mexico to present-day Kansas through parts of the southwestern United States between 1540 and 1542.

Expedition | Location of Quivira, Tabas, and Harahey

Archaeologists have found numerous 16th-century sites in these areas that probably include some of the settlements visited by Vázquez de Coronado.

Francisco Vasquez de Coronado was a 16th century conquistador.


Life and profession | Family and education

Borodin was born in Saint Petersburg as an illegitimate son of a 62-year-old Georgian nobleman, Luka Stepanovich Gedevanishvili, and a married 25-year-old Russian woman, Evdokia Konstantinovna Antonova.

Despite his status as a commoner, Borodin was well provided for by his Georgian father and grew up in a large four-storey house, which was gifted to Alexander and his "aunt" by the nobleman.

Borodin was a promoter of education in Russia and founded the School of Medicine for Women in Saint Petersburg, where he taught until 1885.

Life and profession | Musical avocation | Opera and orchestral works

The Polovtsians were apparently a nomadic tribe originally of Turkish origin who habitually attacked southern Russia.

Although for a while rarely performed in its entirety outside of Russia, this opera has received two notable new productions recently, one at the Bolshoi State Opera and Ballet Company in Russia during 2013, and one at the Metropolitan Opera Company of New York City during 2014.

The story tells of the capture of Prince Igor, and his son, Vladimir, of Russia by Polovtsian chief Khan Konchak, who entertains his prisoners lavishly and orders his slaves to perform the famous 'Polovtsian Dances', which provide a thrilling climax to the second act.

The Borodin Quartet was named in his honour.

In his book Burning in Water, Drowning in Flame (1974) Charles Bukowski wrote a poem about the life of Borodin entitled "The Life of Borodin".

Borodin met Mily Balakirev during 1862.

Life and profession | Career as a chemist

Between 1859 and 1862 Borodin had a postdoctoral position in Heidelberg.

Borodin was born in England  and moved to Russia where he was a commoner.


The Long March | Union of the three armies

Of these, less than 7,000 were among the original 100,000 soldiers who had started the march.

Many of the survivors are no longer alive or able to accurately recall events.

The withdrawal began in early October 1934.

He Long's wife, Jian Xianren, carried the baby daughter she had given birth to three weeks before the retreat began.

1935 : June–July, troops under Zhou and Mao met with Zhang Guotao's troops.

The Long March began the ascent to power of Mao Zedong, whose leadership during the retreat gained him the support of the members of the party.

1934 : October 16, 130,000 soldiers and civilians, led by Bo Gu and Otto Braun, began the Long March.

The best known is the march from Jiangxi province which began in October 1934 and ended in Yan'an, Shaanxi province in October 1935.

The Long March | Escaping Chiang's pursuit

The Red Army had to capture river crossings defended by warlords and Nationalist troops.

The Second Red Army began its own withdrawal west from Hubei in November 1935, led by He Long, who commanded the KMT Twentieth Army in 1923 before joining the Communist Party of China (CPC).

The early troop movements were actually a diversion to allow the retreat of more important leaders from Jiangxi.

Most of the troops that began the long march were alive and there at the finish.


Rain Man is a 1988 American road comedy-drama film directed by Barry Levinson and written by Barry Morrow and Ronald Bass.

It tells the story of abrasive, selfish young wheeler-dealer Charlie Babbitt (Tom Cruise), who discovers that his estranged father has died and bequeathed virtually all of his multi-million dollar estate to his other son, Raymond (Dustin Hoffman), an autistic savant, of whose existence

Rain Man was the highest-grossing film of 1988.

During the episode, Fran fixes up CC the Abominable Babcock with the Rain Man.

The website's critical consensus states: " This road-trip movie about an autistic savant and his callow brother is far from seamless, but Barry Levinson's direction is impressive, and strong performances from Tom Cruise and Dustin Hoffman add to its appeal.

In popular culture | Qantas and airline controversy

"I think it's a key scene to the entire movie," Levinson said in a telephone interview.

"Rain Man" was placed on 39 critics' "ten best" lists in 1988, based on a poll of the nation's top 100 critics.

Rain Man debuted on December 16, 1988, and was the second highest-grossing film at the weekend box office (behind Twins), with $7 million.

Rain Man won Academy Awards for Best Picture, Best Actor in a Leading Role (Dustin Hoffman), Best Director and Best Writing, Original Screenplay.

Rain Man's portrayal of the main character's condition has been seen as creating the erroneous media stereotype that people on the autism spectrum typically have savant skills, and references to Rain Man, in particular Dustin Hoffman's performance, have become a popular shorthand for autism and savantism.

He also learns that Raymond actually lived with the family when Charlie was young and he realizes that the comforting figure from his childhood, whom he falsely remembered as an imaginary friend named "Rain Man", was actually Raymond.

Rain Man is a comedy-drama movie that is about an abrasive wheeler-dealer and his brother.


The Backstreet Boys have sold over 100 million records worldwide, making them the best-selling boy band of all time, and one of the world's best-selling music artists.

History | 2011–12: NKOTBSB and Richardson's return

In the same month, they embarked on a joint tour with New Kids on the Block as NKOTBSB.

Headlining  Co-headlining  NKOTBSB Tour (with New Kids on the Block) (2011–12)Promotional

The ad they answered in 1993 was for a singing group with "New Kids on the Block look with a Boyz II Men sound", and they aimed to have a white version of Boyz II Men.

"We were fans of New Kids, but were we really modeled after them?

History | 2000–01: Black and Blue and The Hits – Chapter One

In the U.S., The Hits: Chapter One was certified platinum for selling over one million copies.

In order to fight the boy band stereotype and the backlash from New Kids on the Block's lip-sync scandal in the beginning, they would sing a cappella every chance they could get.

It was also certified platinum by IFPI for selling over one million copies in Europe.

History | 2006–11: Unbreakable and This Is Us

Richardson also performed with the group in the show's studio later that day, making it the second time he had performed with the group since his departure.

History | 1998–99: Millennium and superstardom

"The One". Millennium became the best-selling album of 1999 in the U.S., selling 9,445,732 copies.

The Blackstreet Boys is the second in all time sells behind the New Kids on the Block.


Since You Went Away is a 1944 American drama film directed by John Cromwell for Selznick International Pictures and distributed by United Artists.

Though famously sentimental in places, Since You Went Away is somber at times about the effects of war on ordinary people.

It is an epic about the American home front during World War II that was adapted and produced by David O. Selznick from the 1943 novel Since You Went Away: Letters to a Soldier from His Wife by Margaret Buell Wilder.

Some characters on the homefront are dealing with grief, loneliness, or fear for the future.

Since You Went Away was released to DVD by MGM Home Video on October 19, 2004 in a Region 1

Bill quickly falls for Jane, who has a crush on Tony, who in turn has long been attracted to Anne.

Jones and Walker played young sweethearts in Since You Went Away, but in real life, they were married at the time and going through a bitter break-up due to Jones' ongoing affair with producer Selznick.

They divorced not long after the film was completed, and Jones later married Selznick after this affair ended his marriage to Irene Mayer Selznick.

According to Bosley Crowther, Since You Went Away, Selznick's first screen production in four years, features a script with an "excess of exhausting emotional detail"; Crowther was impressed with the performances, but had issues with the film as a whole: As the mother and center of the family, Claudette Colbert gives an excellent show of gallantly self-contained emotion, and Jennifer Jones is surpassingly sweet as a well-bred American daughter in the first bloom of womanhood and love.

They become engaged, but Bill convinces Jane to wait until after the war to get married.

Since You Went Away is a long poem about dealing with war.


In 1991, the City of Tucson opened its central transit terminal on March 16 and dedicated it to Linda's grandfather, Federico José María Ronstadt, a local pioneer businessman; he was a wagon maker whose early contribution to the city's mobility included six mule-drawn streetcars delivered in 1903–04.Her mother Ruth Mary, of German, English, and Dutch ancestry, was raised in Flint, Michigan.

Career overview | Beginning of professional career

Their repertoire included the music they grew up on – folk, country, bluegrass, and Mexican.

They toured with her for a short period in 1971 and played on Linda Ronstadt, her self-titled third album, from which the failed single, Ronstadt's version of Browne's "Rock Me on the Water", was drawn.

Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Musical or Comedy, Linda Ronstadt in The Pirates of Penzance

Linda Ronstadt's great-grandfather, graduate engineer

1981 – Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Musical, Linda Ronstadt in The Pirates of Penzance as "Mabel" 1983 –

Linda Ronstadt's grandfather, and the songs she had learned, transcribed, and published were some of the ones he had brought with him from Sonora.

Career overview | Solo career | Collaborations with Peter Asher

Meanwhile, the album became Ronstadt's most successful up to that time, selling 300,000 copies by the end of 1974.Asher turned out to be more collaborative, and more on the same page with her musically, than any producer she had worked with previously.

In 1994, the three performers recorded a follow-up to Trio.

This remains her most recent commercially available recording as lead vocalist.

She credits her mother for her appreciation of Gilbert and Sullivan and her father for introducing her to the traditional pop and Great American Songbook repertoire that she would, in turn, help reintroduce to an entire generation.

Linda Ronstadt's mother grew up in a town where the water is polluted with lead, and other dangers.


The Aroostook War (sometimes called the Pork and Beans War) was a military and civilian-involved confrontation in 1838–1839 between the United States and the United Kingdom over the international boundary between the British colony of New Brunswick and the U.S. state of Maine.

The Treaty of Paris (1783) ended the American Revolutionary War but did not clearly determine the boundary between British North America (Canada) and the United States.

During the War of 1812, the British occupied most of eastern Maine, including Washington County, Hancock County, and parts of Penobscot County, Maine, for eight months, intending to permanently annex the region into British North America.

Posses, arrests, and the mobilization of militia

He added that he intended meanwhile to exercise his responsibilities to ensure British jurisdiction over the Aroostook, and he demanded removal from the region of all Maine forces.

Disputes heated as factions maneuvered for control over the best stands of trees.

Massachusetts also retained an interest in the matter, as it retained ownership of half the public lands in Maine, including a large part of the disputed territory, as part of the separation.

The Treaty of Ghent ended the war in 1814 and reestablished the boundary line of the 1783 treaty.

In the aftermath of the crisis, the federal government assumed complete control over military matters.

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts thereafter began issuing land grants in its District of Maine, including areas which the British had already laid claim.

On 24 January 1839, the Maine Legislature authorized the newly elected Governor John Fairfield to send Maine's land agent, Rufus McIntire, the Penobscot County sheriff, and a posse of volunteer militia to the upper Aroostook to pursue and arrest the New Brunswickers.

Aroostook War was a dispute over land in the Northeast of America.