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Peter Serafinowicz 
 Peter Szymon Serafinowicz ( /sɛrəˈfɪnəwɪtʃ/; born 10 July 1972) is an English actor, comedian, writer, composer, voice artist, television producer and writer.
Roller skating 
 Roller skating is also a sport when the skaters form a team and compete in events such as roller hockey or roller derby.
Roller skating 
 The wheels on roller skates are laid out similar to a skateboard, containing a set of trucks and cushions to allow for turning.
Nutcracker Suite 
 71a is a selection of 8 musical numbers Tchaikovsky made from The Nutcracker ballet for a concert performance before the St. Petersburg branch of the Musical Society on March 19, 1892.
Nutcracker Suite 
 The numbers chosen by Tchaikovsky for The Nutcracker Suite and their sequence within the suite are as follows:
Oops!... I Did It Again 
 Four singles were released from the album, the title track, "Lucky", "Stronger", and "Don't Let Me Be The Last To Know".
Touch My Body 
 "Touch My Body" is a song co-written by American singer Mariah Carey,  Christopher "Tricky" Stewart, Crystal "Cri$tyle" Johnson and Terius "The-Dream" Nash for Carey's 11th studio album, E=MC².
Touch My Body 
 The song was chosen as the lead single of the album during a vote with producer L.A. Reid and staff in Island Records.
Touch My Body 
 Carey stated that the group "decided to just go with the mid-tempo and everybody kinda liked the song 'cause it's just fun and cute and sexy and sweet".
Touch My Body 
 The song was transmitted digitally to radio stations on February 12 at 6:30pm ET for immediate airplay via All Access.
Touch My Body 
 The single went for adds on radio station playlists on February 19."Touch My Body" premiered on Chicago's hit rhythmic radio station, B96, ahead of schedule at 4:00pm.
Touch My Body 
 Newsday named it as the "Song of the Week", saying that it was her best first single on an album since "Heartbreaker".
Touch My Body 
 Ratner also directed Carey's videos for "I Still Believe", "Heartbreaker", "Thank God I Found You", "It's like That", and "We Belong Together".
Touch My Body 
 In an interview with AllHipHop.com, Ratner said, "Mariah is musically at the top of her game and has never looked better... This will be our 6th music video we have collaborated on and definitely the best one yet visually, as well as musically.
Touch My Body 
 The video for "Touch My Body" is the perfect combination of fantasy and comedy with Mariah looking more beautiful than she has ever looked, ever.".
Touch My Body 
 Carey appeared on MTV's TRL and BET's 106 & Park on Wednesday, February 27, 2008, to premiere the video for "Touch My Body"; BET also played the video all day, every hour on the hour, until 106 & Park.
Touch My Body 
 VH1 posted a 45-second sneak peek on their blog on February 26, and subsequently posted the video in its entirety at midnight on February 27, 2008; the video was also posted on the Island Records website.
Touch My Body 
 Following the song's February 12 digital transmission, after only a day's worth of airplay, "Touch My Body" entered the Billboard Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs Chart at #78 the chart week of February 23, 2008.
Touch My Body 
 It also debuted on airplay alone at #57 on the Billboard Hot 100 as the "Hot Shot" debut of the week, and is currently #24.
Ned Beatty 
 He was known for his movie work including Nashville (1975), All the President's Men (1976), Network (1976), The Big Easy (1987) and Prelude to a Kiss (1992).
Samson and Delilah (opera) 
 Roles in the opera include Samson (tenor), Delilah (mezzo-soprano), and the High Priest of Dagon (baritone).
Samson and Delilah (opera) 
 Saint-Saëns was drawn to the story because it gave him the opportunity to compose a grand duet against a rising storm.
Samson and Delilah (opera) 
 He knew Rameau's take on the story from Voltaire's libretto for an opera on the subject (now lost), but Rameau's storm was a metaphor for the wrath of God.
Samson and Delilah (opera) 
 He wrote, "I imagined a storm that would no longer be an hors-d'œuvre (a tidbit eaten before a meal) but adhere to the action and become one with it."
Samson and Delilah (opera) 
 Goodwin writes that Saint-Saëns's pupil and friend Gabriel Faure always said that the reason Samson and Delilah met with disinterest in France was the fact that the composer was viewed as a symphonistnot because the opera was based on a Biblical text. "
Samson and Delilah (opera) 
 The opera featured only three principal charactersSamson, Delilah, and the High Priestthus creating another departure from the norm.
Samson and Delilah (opera) 
 He liked the oratorios of Handel and Mendelssohntwo composers whose influence is felt in the choruses of Samson.
Samson and Delilah (opera) 
 In contrast with Samson (strength) and the High Priest (power), Delilah is a character of seductive strength and power.
Samson and Delilah (opera) 
 She puts everything she has into successfully seducing him because, if she fails, her head will be on the chopping  block.
Samson and Delilah (opera) 
 Samson (tenor) is a Hebrew hero and leader who urges the Hebrews to turn against their Philistine enemies and slave masters.
Chūgoku region 
 The Japanese conventions of geography and history divide the nation into eight regions, including the Chūgoku region.
Chūgoku region 
 These have been used since 1905 as basic units for description and comparison and as cultural markers.
Chūgoku region 
 In the late 7th century, the San'indō and San'yōdō were identified as two of the eight largest administrative areas of the Imperial system (ritsuryo seido).
Chūgoku region 
 Gokishichidō is an ancient system of names for parts of the country, including San'indō and San'yōdō.
Chūgoku region 
 Chūgoku covers a western part of the island of Honshū in roughly the same area as the traditional San'indō and San'yōdō.
Chūgoku region 
 A regional council  (chihō gyōsei kyōgisai) was headed by the governor of the most powerful prefecture in the regional grouping.
We Belong Together 
 With the song, Carey holds the record for having the longest-running and second-longest running songs at #1 in the US (her song "One Sweet Day" with Boyz II Men stayed on top for 16 weeks).
We Belong Together 
 It was the best-selling song in the US of 2005 and later became Billboard's Song of the Decade for the 2000s (2000–09).
Vision of Love 
 Written by Carey and Ben Margulies, "Vision of Love" was released on May 15, 1990, by Columbia Records.
Vision of Love 
 After being featured on Carey's demo tape for Columbia, the song was re-recorded and produced by Rhett Lawrence and Narada Michael Walden.
Kansai region 
 The Japanese conventions of geography and history divide the nation into eight regions, including the Kansai region.
Kansai region 
 In the late 7th century, the Kinki region were identified as one of the eight largest administrative areas of the Imperial system (ritsuryo seido).
Kansai region 
 Kansai covers the area around the capital city of Kyoto on the island of Honshū in roughly the same area as the traditional Kinki.
Kansai region 
 A regional council  (chihō gyōsei kyōgisai) was headed by the governor of the most powerful prefecture in the regional grouping.
Mon cœur s'ouvre à ta voix 
 "Mon cœur s'ouvre à ta voix" is a mezzo-soprano aria from Camille Saint-Saëns's opera Samson and Delilah.
Mon cœur s'ouvre à ta voix 
 It is sung by Delilah in act 2 as she tries to get Samson to reveal the secret of his great  strength.
Mon cœur s'ouvre à ta voix 
 These interjections are omitted in recital performances or sometimes sung to the changed words "Samson!
Mon cœur s'ouvre à ta voix 
 Samson's part in the final 22 bars of the stage aria where he joins Delilah in a duet is also omitted in a recital, although some performers, notably Marilyn Horne, have sung Samson's final words – changed as above, rising to a high B-flat.
Mon cœur s'ouvre à ta voix 
 The tempo indication is andantino (=66) for the verse and un poco più lento (a little slower) for the refrain.
Mon cœur s'ouvre à ta voix 
 The orchestral accompaniment consists mainly of reiterated notes for the first verse and of falling chromatic lines for the second verse.
Mon cœur s'ouvre à ta voix 
 The melismatic setting of the lyrics present a particular challenge for the performance of this aria as it requires legato singing over a wide range.
Kantō region 
 The Japanese conventions of geography and history divide the nation into eight regions, including the Kantō region.
Kantō region 
 These have been used since 1905 as basic units for description and comparison and as cultural markers.
Kantō region 
 In the late 7th century, the Tōkaidō region were identified as one of the eight largest administrative areas of the Imperial system (ritsuryo seido).
Kantō region 
 Kantō covers an east-central area of the island of Honshū in roughly the same area as the traditional Tōkaidō.
Kantō region 
 A regional council  (chihō gyōsei kyōgisai) was headed by the governor of the most powerful prefecture in the regional grouping.
Kantō region 
 Japan's national public broadcaster NHK defines the  which includes Yamanashi, Nagano and Niigata Prefectures for regional programming.
Der Hölle Rache 
 "Der Hölle Rache kocht in meinem Herzen" () is an aria for the Queen of the Night in Mozart's opera The Magic Flute ().
Der Hölle Rache 
 It is scored for pairs of flutes, oboes, bassoons, horns, trumpets, timpani, and the string section.
Der Hölle Rache 
 Hofer is just taking her top F; – now my sister-in-law is singing her second aria, "Der Hölle Rache"; how strongly she strikes and holds the B-flat: ''"
Der Hölle Rache 
 The words were written (in German) by Mozart's friend Emanuel Schikaneder, who also played Papageno in the first performances.
Se vuol ballare 
 It portrays Figaro's intent to foil Count Almaviva's womanizing, but can also be read as a political attack on the power-wielding nobility of the time.
Se vuol ballare 
 Figaro discovers Count Almaviva intends to exercise his feudal right to sleep with Figaro's wife Susanna before they consummate their marriage.
Lorenzo da Ponte 
 He is best known for having written the libretti for three of Mozart's operas, The Marriage of Figaro, Don Giovanni,  and Così fan tutte.
Lorenzo da Ponte 
 All of da Ponte's libretti were adaptations of pre-existing plots, except L'arbore di Diana and Così fan tutte.
Lorenzo da Ponte 
 Acocella, Joan, "Nights At The Opera: The Life of the Man who put Words to Mozart", The New Yorker, 8 January 2007
Lorenzo da Ponte 
 Keats, Jonathan, "Lorenzo's Toil: How the Son of an Impoverished Leatherworker Came to Write Mozart's Libretti", Washington Post, 16 July 2006 — book review
Magnetic pendulum 
 A magnetic pendulum is an experiment where a metal ball on a thread (a pendulum) can be influenced by a number of magnets on the ground.
Magnetic pendulum 
 The length of the rope is such that the ball cannot touch the magnets, but is still influenced by them.
Magnetic pendulum 
 If the ball is moved, its movement will be influenced by both gravitation and the fields the magnets generate.
Magnetic pendulum 
 If the movement is so large that the ball can get outside the influence of the magnets, the resulting movement will look irregular.
Amahl and the Night Visitors 
 Menotti took inspiration from Hieronymus Bosch's The Adoration of the Magi, a painting in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City.
Amahl and the Night Visitors 
 He wrote, "It is the express wish of the composer that the role of Amahl should always be performed by a boy.
Amahl and the Night Visitors 
 Neither the musical nor the dramatic concept of the opera permits the substitution of a woman costumed as a child."
Amahl and the Night Visitors 
 They tell her the wonderful baby they are seeking has no need for gold because his kingdom is Heaven.
The Medium 
 The opera's first professional production was presented on a double bill with Menotti's The Telephone.
The Medium 
 This occurred at the Heckscher Theater, New York City, on February 18-20, 1947 by the Ballet Society.
The Medium 
 The Broadway production took place on May 1, 1947, at the Ethel Barrymore Theater with the same cast.
The Medium 
 In 1951, Menotti directed, with the help of filmmaker Alexander Hammid, a movie version made to resemble film noir.
The Medium 
 A live television production starring Marie Powers took place on December 12, 1948 on the TV series Studio One.
The Medium 
 Monica, Madame Flora's daughter, and Toby, a mute servant boy rescued from "the streets of Budapest" play dress-up.
The Medium 
 When Madame Flora, or "Baba" as they call her, arrives home drunk, she violently chastises them for not preparing for that night's seance.
The Medium 
 Soon the guests arrive, Mr. and Mrs. Gobineau, regulars, and the widow Mrs. Nolan who is attending for the first time.
The Medium 
 With Madame Flora in a trance in her chair, a fake seance is held where Mrs. Nolan speaks with what she thinks is her deceased sixteen-year-old daughter but is really Monica behind a screen.
The Medium 
 When order is restored, Mr. and Mrs. Gobineau "communicate" with their deceased two-year-old son Mickey who does nothing but laugh.
The Medium 
 After they say goodbye to him, Madame Flora "suddenly, with a loud gasp... clutches at her throat with both hands."
The Medium 
 After demanding that the guests leave, she calls for Monica and tells her what she felt, eventually blaming Toby who was in the other room the whole time.
The Medium 
 In an effort to calm Baba's drunken rage toward Toby, Monica sings her the dark lullaby "The Black Swan" which is interrupted by a voice that Baba hears causing her to fly into a terrified rage at Toby for not telling her where the voice is coming from.
The Medium 
 When Baba comes home, she resumes her accusations on Toby, sure that he knows what went on that night.
The Medium 
 The guests again arrive, expecting another seance but are driven away by Madame Flora who tries to convince them that the whole thing was a sham by revealing all the tricks that she and Monica used.
The Medium 
 But the guests are not convinced and leave claiming that while she might have thought she was cheating them, she in fact was not.
The Medium 
 With everyone gone, and Monica in her room, Baba pours herself another drink and questions her own sanity, becoming wild with drink and eventually passing out.
The Medium 
 Once she has fallen asleep, Toby sneaks back in and tries to get into Monica's room, but finds it locked and eventually goes to the trunk to find his tambourine.
Negro 
 The word "Negro"  was used in the English-speaking world to refer to a person of black ancestry or appearance.
Negro 
 This use of the word was accepted as normal during the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 1960s.
Negro 
 One example of this is Martin Luther King, Jr. using the term "negro" when talking about his own race in his 1963 speech "I Have a Dream".
Negro 
 During the Civil Rights Movement, some African American leaders in the United States did not like this word.
Negro 
 This was because they saw a connection between the term "Negro" and slavery, segregation, and discrimination.
Negro 
 The United States Census Bureau said that "Negro" would be used on the 2010 United States Census, with "Black" and "African-American".
Negro 
 From the 18th century to the late 1960s, "negro" was the proper English-language term for most people of sub-Saharan African origin.
Serenade for Strings 
 On the second page of the score, he  wrote, "The larger the string orchestra, the better will the composer's desires be fulfilled."
Serenade for Strings 
 George Balanchine used the work for his ballet Serenade in 1934Excerpts from the score were used in the 2005 ballet Anna Karenina, choreographed by Boris Eifman.
Ancient philosophy 
 Diogenes Laërtius, a 3rd-century scholar wrote Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers, which summarized the position of many Ancient Greek philosophers.
Ancient philosophy 
 This work was translated into Latin and meant that Ancient Greek philosophy remained known even after Library of Alexandria lost its influence.
Ancient philosophy 
 After this, it was mainly through Islamic thinkers such as Avicenna (11th century), Averroës (12th century), or the Jewish philosopher Maimonides (12th century) that Ancient philosophy became known again.
Ancient philosophy 
 Medieval philosophy, such as that of Albertus Magnus (13th century) or Thomas Aquinas meant that the works of thinkers such as Aristotle were well known.
The River (American TV series) 
 To pay for the rescue, they let Dr. Cole's  ex-producer, Clark (Paul Blackthorne), film the mission as a documentary.
The River (American TV series) 
 Oren Peli and Michael R. Perry created this series about a documentary crew searching the Amazon for a scientist-explorer-television host.
Shin Don 
 Sin Don (신돈, 辛旽; 21 January 1322 – 21 August 1371) was a Korean Goryeo Dynasty scholar, politician, and Buddhist monk.
Subtitle (captioning) 
 Subtitles can also be a form of written translation of a dialog in an unfamiliar language, or a written text version of the spoken words in the same language, with or without added information to help watchers who are not able to hear or people who cannot understand the spoken dialogue.
Sandal Bar 
 Bar", in the local language, means a forested area where there are no resources for cultivation, like water.
Sandal Bar 
 Some who came from Rajasthan, Haryana, Delhi, Uttar Pradesh States of India during the Partition of India of 1947 speak Haryanvi or Mewati.
Nankana Sahib 
 He was a Muslim Rajput of Bhatti Clan, and a retainer of the Delhi Sultanate rulers of the early 15th Century.
Nankana Sahib 
 His descendants were Chaudhary Rai Bular (died 1515), who was a devotee of Guru Nanak Dev (1469-1539), the founder of the Sikh religion.
Nankana Sahib 
 Guru Nanak's parents were from Amritsar District area, as his father Mehta Kalu got a new job as a patwari of the village of Rai Bhoi Di Talwandi (now Nankana Sahib), in the Sandal Bar region of Punjab.
Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit 
 When he read an article by Guillaume Amontons about using mercury in barometers, he got the idea of using that substance for his thermometers.
Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit 
 He calibrated his mercury thermometers to a cold temperature he could produce easily, the freezing point of salt water.
Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit 
 In 1724 he discovered that water can be supercooled below its freezing point without turning into ice.
Santa Claus Conquers the Martians 
 The movie is about Martians kidnapping Santa Claus so their children (who watch too much television) will have some fun.
Gangyō 
 877 (Gangyō 1, 2nd month): Ambassadors from Korea arrived in the Izumo province; but they were turned back.
Gangyō 
 877 (Gangyō 1, 6th month): There was a great drought; and sacrifices were made at the temples of Hachiman, Kamo and other temples in Ise province.
Gangyō 
 4 March 884 (Gangyō 8, 4th day of the 2nd month):  In the 8th year of Yōzei's reign, the emperor was deposed; and the succession (senso) was received by the third son of former Emperor Ninmyō.
Gangyō 
 23 March, 884 (Gangyō 8, 23rd day of the 2nd month): Kōkō accepted the monarch's role and duties and powers (sokui).
Gangyō 
 National Diet Library, "The Japanese Calendar" -- historical overview plus illustrative images from library's collection
Brian Williams 
 Brian Douglas Williams (born May 5, 1959) is the anchor of NBC Nightly News, the evening newscast of NBC.
Brian Williams 
 He used to anchor the NBC News broadcast The News with Brian Williams on NBC's sister networks CNBC and MSNBC.
Brian Williams 
 That was done because he reported false stories regarding his trips to Iraq in 2003 and to New Orleans during the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in 2005.
Queen of Outer Space 
 Cast member Lisa Davis said that Gabor's costumes were custom-made while those for the rest of the cast were "retreads" from Forbidden Planet.
Mandingo (movie) 
 Mandingo is a 1975 movie based on the book Mandingo by Kyle Onstott and upon the play based thereon by Jack Kirkland.
Mandingo (movie) 
 The movie is set on Falconhurst, a run-down plantation owned by widower Warren Maxwell and his son Hammond.
Mandingo (movie) 
 Hammond neglects his wife Blanche whom he rejects on their wedding night after discovering she was not a virgin.
Mandingo (movie) 
 These various, conflicting infidelities all eventually come together causing the movie to end tragically with the deaths of most of the main characters.
Mandingo (movie) 
 Movie critic Robin Wood was enthusiastic about the movie, calling it “the greatest film about race ever made in Hollywood”.
Mandingo (movie) 
 In Leonard Maltin's annual publication Leonard Maltin's Movie Guide the movie is ranked as a "BOMB" and dismissed with the word "Stinko!"
Mandingo (movie) 
 Some prominent critics hail the film, including the New York Times columnist Dave Kehr, who called it "a thinly veiled Holocaust film that spares none of its protagonists," further describing it as "Fleischer’s last great crime film, in which the role of the faceless killer is played by an entire social system."
Mandingo (movie) 
 Director Quentin Tarantino has cited Mandingo as one of only two instances "in the last twenty years [that] a major studio made a full-on, gigantic, big-budget exploitation movie", comparing it to Showgirls.
Hopsin 
 Marcus Jamal Hopson (born July 18, 1985 in Los Angeles, California), known by his stage names, Hopsin, is an American rapper, hip hop producer, actor and music video director.
Hopsin 
 Hopsin was signed to Ruthless Records but left later due to lack of support and financial compensation.
Hopsin 
 He stated that his first studio album Gazing at the Moonlight was released without his consent and that he wasn't even able to listen to the mastered version before it was released.
Hopsin 
 He also acted as a minor character in an episode of That's So Raven, made a guest appearance in the movie Fame and starred in the independent movie, Bomb The World.
Learner's permit 
 It is given to those who are learning to drive a car but do not meet the requirements for a driver's license.
Learner's permit 
 Many countries require drivers to have a learner's permit for some time before they can be given a driver's license.
Learner's permit 
 Getting a learner's permit usually means a person has to take a written test about the rules of the road, such as traffic signs and road safety.
Learner's permit 
 For example, in Victoria, Australia, a person must be 16 years old and pass a written road rules test to get a Learner's permit.
Learner's permit 
 They must have a sign with the letter "L" (called an L plate) on both the front and back of the car.
Learner's permit 
 They must have the learner's permit for 12 months, and completed 120 hours before they allowed to be tested for a full licence.
Ursula Burns 
 Ursula M. Burns (born 20 September 1958) is the first African American woman CEO to lead the company Xerox, from 2009 to 2017.
Cedar Rapids (movie) 
 It is about an insurance agent from Wisconsin who travels to Cedar Rapids, Iowa for reasons of promotion.
Cedar Rapids (movie) 
 In his position as an insurance agent, he is sent to represent his company, the Brownstar Insurance in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
Cedar Rapids (movie) 
 At the conference, Lippe meets fellow insurance agents Ronald Wilkes, Dean Ziegler and Joan Ostrowski-Fox.
Cedar Rapids (movie) 
 The movie was shot in and around Ann Arbor, Michigan rather than Cedar Rapids, Iowa itself because of the failure of an Iowa movie production tax credit.
S-block 
 The modern periodic law says that "The properties of elements are periodic function of their atomic number."
S-block 
 This means that some properties of elements are repeated as the atomic number of the elements gets larger.
S-block 
 These repeating properties have been used to separate the elements into four s. These s are s-, p-, d-, and f-.
S-block 
 In fact, they lose their trademark s orbital valence electrons so easily that the s- elements are some of the most reactive elements on the periodic table.
S-block 
 The elements in group 1, known collectively as the alkali metals (except hydrogen), always lose their one valence electron to make a +1 ion.