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For a side project away from his band Nickel Creek, Chris Thile knew he wanted to form a five-piece string band that featured mandolin, violin, banjo, acoustic guitar, and double bass.
Thile also wanted the band to feature his friend and fiddle player Gabe Witcher, but didn’t know what kind of band he wanted it to be.
At the Telluride Bluegrass Festival in Colorado, Thile met banjo player Noam Pikelny and later said that “every note he played was something I wish I’d played”.
At that time, Thile decided that he wanted “put [his] stamp” on the normal bluegrass band.
Thile wanted to find five people to make the five-piece band he planned.
He had already found fiddle, banjo, and mandolin players, so he just had to find double bass and acoustic guitar players.
The bass player Thile was looking for turned out to be Greg Garrison, a friend of Noam Pikelny.
Before this, Pikelny had played with Garrison in the band Leftover Salmon.
The guitar player Thile needed became Chris Eldridge, famous as a member of the Infamous Stringdusters.
The five people met up in Nashville on one day in 2005 and decided to “do something musical together”.
A few days later, the group met again “to drop a ton of money, drink too much wine, eat steaks, and [talk] about our failed relationships”.
That night, they formed a bluegrass band.
A few months later, the group decided to record an album.
The album was recorded in two days at Sear Sound Recording Studios in New York City.
The album was not made digitally, but in the old-fashioned way: on tape.
In an interview with the United States magazine Guitar Player, Chris Thile talked about how How to Grow a Woman from the Ground was recorded:  How to Grow a Woman from the Ground was produced by Thile, and the only musicians on the album was the band that Thile chose.
The band was later named the "How to Grow a Band".
How to Grow a Woman from the Ground takes influence from several musical genres, “drawing equally from traditional bluegrass, progressive acoustic, and singer-songwriter traditions”.
One music critic called the album “roots oriented”.
Bluegrass mandolin player Ronnie McCoury became the album’s official “bluegrass guru” to make sure that there was “someone who could make sure we didn’t do anything clichéd or trite”.
When discussing the album’s musical style, Chris Thile said that “All in all, How to Grow a Woman from the Ground is a bluegrass record.
There are definitely some musical things that are out of the ordinary, but it sounds like a bluegrass record to me.”
Much of Thile's work on the album was inspired by his divorce, and Thile said that he could relate to the title of the album, a Tom Brosseau song.
Thile said that he "got my ass kicked by the last relationship I was in.
This girl just left.
It created a pretty serious complex for me.
I’ve always been able to talk to girls, but I’m scared of them.
I just could relate to it.
Like, man if I could just grow one, that would take care of a lot of problems."
Chris Thile - mandolin, lead vocals, producer
Noam Pikelny - banjo, vocals
Greg Garrison - bass, vocals
Chris Eldridge - acoustic guitar, vocals
Gabe Witcher - fiddle, vocals
Ronnie McCoury - "bluegrass guru"
Loren Witcher - artwork
Gary Paczosa - mastering
Fred Forsell - mastering engineer
Matthew Gephart - engineer
Ethan Donaldson - assistant engineer
How to Grow a Woman from the Ground liner notes
Chris Thile's MySpace page
Yantra literally means loom, instrument or machine.
In actual practice, a yantra is a symbol which represents aspects of the divine, such as the Mother Goddess or Durga.
It is made of interlocking geometric figures, circles, triangles and floral shapes that form a pattern.
Though drawn in two dimensions, a yantra can represent a three dimensional sacred object.
The yantra is primarily a meditation tool.
Yantras function as revelatory symbols of cosmic truths.
Khanna, Madhu (1979).
Yantra: The Tantric Symbol of Cosmic Unity.
Thames and Hudson, first paperback edition, 1981.
An Introduction to Yantras, What They Are and How to Use Them For Meditation
Yantras - The Mystic Power
High Resolution Yantras Dasa Maha Vidya, The 15 Nityas and other yantras, printable.
The Shri Yantra or Sri Chakra of Tripura Sundari is a yantra or mandala formed by nine interlocking triangles surrounding a dot in the cetner called a bindu.
Four of these triangles are orientated upright representing Shiva or the Masculine.
Five of these triangles are inverted triangles represent Shakti or the Feminine.
Because it is composed of nine triangles, it is also known as the navayoni chakra.
Together the nine triangles are interlaced in such a way as to form 43 smaller triangles in a web symbolic of the entire cosmos or a womb symbolic of creation.
Together they express Advaita-ism or non-duality.
This is surrounded by a lotus of eight petals, a lotus of sixteen petals, and an earthsquare resembling a temple with four doors.
The Shri Chakra is also known as the nava chakra because it can also be seen as having nine levels.
Each level corresponds to a mudra, a yogini, and a specific form of the deity Tripura Sundari along with her mantra.
These levels starting from the outside or bottom layer are:
Trailokya Mohana, a square of three lines with four portals
Sarvasa Paripuraka, a sixteen-petal lotus
Sarva Sankshobahana, an eight-petal lotus
Sarva Saubhagyadayaka, composed of fourteen small triangles
Sarvarthasadhaka, composed of ten small triangles
Sarva Rakshakara, composed of ten small triangles
Sarva Rohahara, composed of eight small triangles
Sarva siddhi prada, composed of 1 small triangle
Sarvanandamaya, composed of a point or bindu
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2.Shri Narmadeshwar Shri Laxmi Yantra Mandir in this temple  Siddha Shri is Given by the Priest to Devotees take to home and prey .this temple is Situated Rajpipla city, JIOR pati, Kumbheshwar street,At the Bank of River Narmada .
Lalita Tripurasundari, the Red Goddess
Shri Narmadeshwar Shri Laxmi Yantra Mandir
How to Draw a Sri Chakra
How to draw Sri Yantra
A tulku (also tülku, trulku) is a Tibetan Buddhist lama who has achieved the ability to consciously determine to be reborn, often many times, in order to continue their Bodhisattva vow.
The most famous example is the lineage of Dalai Lamas, who are said to be reincarnations of the previous thirteen Dalai Lamas, beginning with Gendun Drup (1391 – 1474).
It is held in the Vajrayana tradition that the oldest lineage of tulkus is that of the Karmapas (spiritual head of the Karma Kagyu lineage), which began with Düsum Khyenpa (1110-1193).
In addition to Tibetans and related peoples, Tibetan Buddhism is the traditional religion of the Mongols and their relatives.
The Mongolian word for a tulku is qubilγan, though such persons may also be called by the honorific title qutuγtu (Tib: phags-pa / Skt: ārya), or hutagt in the standard Khalkha dialect.
A recent Chinese word for tulku is huófó (活佛), which literally means "living Buddha".
Thus the term Living Buddha is used to mean tulku.
Logan, Pamela (2004). "
Tulkus in Tibet".
Harvard Asia Quarterly'' 8''' (1) 15-23.
Yeshe  Tsogyel (, rhymes with "may say so well") is also known in the Nyingma tradition of Tibetan Buddhism as the Great Bliss Queen.
She is both a woman and a female deity called a dakini.
From the mouth of a lotus was born
The swift goddess, heroic liberator
Who went forth in human form
Amid the snowy mountains of Tibet.
Among Tibetans she is seen as a Buddha who takes the form of an ordinary woman so as to be seen by the average person, "who, for the time being, do not see her Vajravarahi form as a fully perfected deity."
In fact,
She displays whatever emanation form will tame
Any given [person], just as, for example, the full moon in the sky
Emerges as [various] reflections in different water vessels.
According to legend she was born in the same manner as the Buddha, a Sanskrit mantra sounding as her mother gave birth painlessly.
She is considered a reincarnation of the Buddha's own mother.
Her name ("Primordial (ye) Wisdom (shes) Queen (rgyal mo) of the Lake (tso)") derives from her birth causing a nearby lake to double in size.
As a young girl, she is said to have prayed for the happiness of all sentient beings.
At the age of sixteen, she was initiated into Buddhism by Guru Padmasambhava.
Although she was originally one of the Queen consorts of Trisong Detsen, he gave her to Padmasambhava and she became his main spiritual consort.
After many years of study she became enlightened.
Yeshey Tsogyal was the main person who wrote down and collected Padmasambhava's teachings.
She also terma most of the hidden teachings called termas.
As the wife of Tri-song-day-tsen and the consort of Padmasambhava, given to him at her request by the king, she also stands historically at the beginning of Buddhism's eclipse of Bön in Tibet.
She is also considered a manifestation of Sarasvati and sometimes identified with the Bodhisattva Tara.
Klein, Anne Carolyn (1995).
Meeting the Great Bliss Queen: Buddhists, Feminists, and the Art of the Self.
Beacon Press: Boston. .
757 births
817 deaths
Urho Kaleva Kekkonen (; 3 September 1900 – 31 August 1986), often referred to by his initials UKK, was the President of Finland between 1956 and 1982.
He was also the Prime Minister of Finland before that.
Kekkonen was born in Pielavesi.
He took part of the Finnish Civil War.
He was anti-Communist and later anti-Fascist.
Kekkonen became the Interior Minister in 1937, and he then attempted to ban the fascist party known as the Patriotic People's Movement (commonly abbreviated to IKL).
In the year 1950, after the Second World War, Kekkonen became the Prime Minister of Finland.
The "Passikivi-Kekkonen line" was a foreign policy doctrine established by, Kekkonen and Juho Kusti Paasikivi, aimed at Finland's survival as an independent sovereign, democratic, and capitalist country in the immediate proximity of the Soviet Union.
Kekkonen was elected the President of Finland in 1956, after president Paasikivi.
He attempted to keep Finland a neutral country, which means it was not affiliated with any military alliance such as NATO or the Warsaw Pact during the Cold War.
Urho Kekkonen led the underwriting of the Helsinki Accords of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe between European countries, the United States and the Soviet Union in 1975.
Kekkonen became sick in 1981 and resigned from presidency.
Prime Ministers of Finland
John Pierpont Morgan (April 17, 1837 – March 31, 1913) was an American banker and art collector.
He became one of the richest men of his era.
He founded the bank now called JPMorgan Chase, one of the oldest banks in the world today.
In 1852, when Morgan was 15 years old, he had rheumatic fever.
After recovery he was deformed.
J.P. Morgan was aloof and refused to have his photograph taken; all of his professional portraits were retouched.
He excelled in banking and partnered with a lot of other companies.
J.P. Morgan bought businesses, and was a hands on leader.
He followed the process of reorganizing them known then as “Morganization”.
He renamed his company to J.P Morgan & Company in 1895.
At the time it became one of the most powerful banks in the world.
J.P. Morgan took control of the railroad companies.
He also financed and reorganized railroads all in the US.
He later purchased the Ley Land Line of Atlantic Steamships and other boat lines, which included the White Star Line, builder of the RMS Titanic.
He joined several steel companies together to make the United States Steel Corporation.
The Panic of 1893
During the Panic of 1893, when a shortage of the gold caused a devaluation of the Dollar, the US president Grover Cleveland asked J.P. Morgan to loan $65 million in gold to the US Treasury.
J.P. lent the gold, "saving" the Treasury and the Dollar.
Legacy (what he is known for)
JP Morgan was one of the richest men in the world (if he wanted to, he and all his partner companies could have bought all the land owned by all of the 22 US states west of the Mississippi River at that time (worth about $22.245 billion)).
He did this through  buying many companies and taking them over, usually becoming monopolies.
The JP Morgan Company still runs today under the name of JPMorgan Chase owned by stockholders.
Today, it is one of the oldest banks in the world and a leading bank in the world.
Atwood, Albert W. and Erickson, Erling A. "Morgan, John Pierpont, (Apr. 17, 1837 - Mar. 31, 1913)," in Dictionary of American Biography, Volume 7 (1934)
J.P. Morgan : The Financier as Collector Harry N. Abrams, Inc. (1990)
Brandeis, Louis D. Other People's Money and How the Bankers Use It.
Melvin I. Urofsky.
New York: Bedford Books, 1995.
Bryman Jeremy, J. P. Morgan: Banker to a Growing Nation : Morgan Reynolds Publishing (2001)
Carosso, Vincent P.  The Morgans: Private International Bankers, 1854-1913.
Harvard U. Press, 1987.
888 pp.
Carosso, Vincent P.  Investment Banking in America: A History Harvard University Press (1970)
Chernow, Ron.
The House of Morgan: An American Banking Dynasty and the Rise of Modern Finance, (2001)
Fraser, Steve.
Every Man a Speculator: A History of Wall Street in American Life HarperCollins (2005)
Garraty, John A. Right-Hand Man: The Life of George W. Perkins. (
Geisst;  Charles R. Wall Street: A History from Its Beginnings to the Fall of Enron.
John Moody; The Masters of Capital: A Chronicle of Wall Street Yale University Press, (1921) online edition
Morris, Charles R. The Tycoons: How Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller, Jay Gould, and J. P. Morgan Invented the American Supereconomy (2005)
Strouse, Jean.
Morgan: American Financier.
Random House, 1999.
796 pp.
Businesspeople from Hartford, Connecticut
Albert Hofmann (11 January 1906 – 29 April 2008) was a Swiss scientist.
He invented Lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD).
Hofmann wrote more than 100 scientific articles and a number of books, including LSD: My Problem Child (1979).
Hofmann was born in Baden, Switzerland.
He studied chemistry at the University of Zürich.
His main interest was the chemistry of plants and animals, and he studied about the chemical structure of the common animal substance chitin.
Hofmann worked at the pharmaceutical-chemical department of Sandoz Laboratories in Basel.
Five years after its first synthesis, he discovered by accident the psychedelic effects of LSD, after absorbing some through his fingertips on April 16 1943.
Three days later, he deliberately consumed 250 micrograms of LSD, and experienced far more intense effects.
This was followed by a series of self-experiments.
He first wrote about these experiments on April 22 of the same year.
He became director of the natural products department at Sandoz and went on studying hallucinogenic substances found in Mexican mushrooms and other plants used by the indigenous peoples.
This led to the synthesis of psilocybin, the active agent of many magic mushrooms.
Albert Hofmann (NNDB)
Erowid: Albert Hofmann Vault
Albert Hofmann Foundation
MAPS ("Stanislav Grof interviews Dr. Albert Hofmann")
Swiss chemists
Swiss centenarians
A mahasiddha (Sanskrit: maha - great, siddha - achiever) is type of yogi important in Tantra.
They are found in both Hinduism and Tibetan Buddhism.
They are connected with unusual ways of thinking and with the highest levels of spiritual enlightenment.
They are very different from arhats, the saints who gave up the world to achieve buddhahood.
The Mahasiddhas are actual people who acquired magical powers from their spiritual practice.
A mahasiddha is a bodhisattva, someone who can enter nirvana whenever they want, but instead choose to stay in samsara to help others.
In both Hindu and Tibetan Buddhist traditions there are 85 Mahasiddhas.
The lists are not all the same, but there are many Mahasiddhas who appear on most lists.
In Tibetan Buddhist art, they are often shown in paintings together, for example around the border of a thanka.
Important Mahasiddhas
Each Mahasiddha has come to be known for certain things.
One of the most loved Mahasiddhas is Virupa, who is a saint of the Sakyapa sect.
He lived in 9th century India and was known for his great attainments.
Other important Mahasiddhas include:
Marpa, the great translator and first native-born guru in Tibet who brought Buddhist teachings from India.
Milarepa, Marpa's student .
In Buddhist pictures and statues, Milarepa is shown with his right hand cupped against his ear.
He does this to better listen to the teachings (dharma).
Karmapa, the first consciously incarnating lama of Tibet.
Gorakhnath
Matsyendranath
Nagarjuna
Saraha
Shantideva
Complete list of Mahasiddhas
Dowman, Keith (1986).
Masters of Mahamudra: Songs and Histories of the Eighty-four Buddhist Siddhas.
Albany, NY: State University of New York Press.
Murals of mahasiddhas in the Lukhang hidden temple
Names of the 84 Mahasiddha (with brief explanation of their meaning).
The Mahasiddha Linedrawings of H.R.Downs (in Dowman (1986)).
MahaSiddha Dharma website
Drugs change the way the body works.
Medicine - Special chemicals or herbs given to people by a doctor when they are sick
Illegal drugs - Chemicals, pills, liquids, or parts of plants that people take to make them feel a certain way
Peter ("Pete") Shotton (4 August 1941 – 24 March 2017) was a longtime friend of John Lennon, who founded The Beatles.
He later wrote a memoir, John Lennon "In My Life", that was later retitled The Beatles, Lennon and Me.
Shotton and Lennon met as boys, in their hometown of Woolton, England.
Woolton is a suburb of Liverpool.
The two fought at first, but soon became best friends.
They went to school together, and often got into trouble together.
They formed a "gang", with other boys who lived nearby.
During their teenage years, rock and roll became popular in England, as it did in America.
Folk music and  were also popular.
Young people all over England formed skiffle bands, and played folk and rock songs.
Lennon got a guitar from his mother.
He and Shotton formed a band, the Quarry Men, with classmates from their school (named Quarry Bank), and other friends.
Shotton's role in the band was to play percussion on a , and to sing harmony.
While Lennon had genuine musical talent, Shotton did not become a skilled musician, and did not enjoy playing music.
After Paul McCartney joined the Quarry Men, he and Lennon began to work together on music.
McCartney was very talented, and Shotton felt out of place in the band.
He waited a long time, before he finally told Lennon.
Lennon "fired" Shotton from the Quarry Men after they played at a party.
He took the washboard away and broke it over Shotton's head.
All the same, they were still friends, and spent time together.
When they finished high school, Lennon went on to art college, and Shotton trained to become a police officer.
The Quarry Men changed from playing skiffle to playing rock and roll.
They also changed names a few times, before calling themselves the Beatles.
When Lennon became famous with the Beatles, he invited Shotton to visit at different times.
He and George Harrison, another band member, bought a supermarket with part of their , and made Shotton its manager.
Shotton married and had a son.
He spent most of the week with his family, but would visit Lennon's home on weekends.
Lennon counted on Shotton to be a real friend, who was not only around because Lennon was famous or rich.
Shotton and Lennon's wife Cynthia got along well, and Shotton sometimes took Cynthia out for the evening, when Lennon needed to work on music.
Shotton also helped now and then with the Beatles's music.
He sometimes helped  or  ideas for songs, or played  or other percussion instruments on their recordings.
Later, when the Beatles started their own company, Apple Corps, Shotton became its first managing director.
Apple Corps was not a successful company, and it caused problems between the Beatles, and with the people who worked with them.
The problems were not Shotton's fault, but he felt as much pressure and stress as anyone.
He resigned his job at Apple.
Lennon tried Shotton out as a , but this did not go well.
Lennon's relationship with Yoko Ono also caused problems between Lennon and Shotton.
Shotton decided it was best to part ways with Lennon, while their friendship was still strong.
He went back to running his supermarket, and he and Lennon lost touch.
After Lennon and Yoko Ono moved to America, Shotton visited them in New York City, and they enjoyed seeing each other again.
John Lennon was murdered late in 1980.
When Shotton heard the news, he drove to George Harrison's home, Friar Park, and spent the day with Harrison.
Later he wrote his memoir.
Shotton gave up his supermarket, and began a chain of restaurants, Fatty Arbuckle's, which became a success.
He later sold this business, and retired to live in Ireland.
When former members of Lennon's Quarry Men re-formed in the 1990s as a nostalgia act, Shotton performed with them.
He later sang "Imagine" at a tribute to Lennon and the Beatles in Woolton.
Shotton died on 24 March 2017 in Knutsford, Cheshire from a suspected heart attack.
aged 75.
The human body can be stimulated by certain things.
This stimuli is measured by sensory receptors and the energy is converted to something our brain can understand.
There are receptors in our tongue which can measure four main things.
Bitter tastes are important, since poisons are usually bitter and therefore we need to know whether or not to spit a bitter food out.
This is the most complicated receptor found in the mouth.
There is a main olfactory system, which detects volatile, airborne substances.
There is secondary, or accessory, system.
The accessory olfactory system senses fluid-based stimuli.
Behavioral evidence indicates that most often, the stimuli detected by the accessory olfactory system are pheromones.
The olfactory system is often spoken as being similar to the gustatory system (taste system).
Both are chemosensory senses.
They change chemical signals into nerve impulses, which are translated into perceptions in the brain.
The part of the brain which deals with olfaction is the rhinencephalon, a small part in the human brain, but much more important in other vertebrates.
The piriform cortex is probably the area most closely associated with identifying the odor.
The medial amygdala is involved in social functions such as mating and recognising animals of the same species.
The entorhinal cortex pairs odors with memories.
The exact functions of these higher areas is still being researched.
Linda B. Buck and Richard Axel won the 2004 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for their work on the olfactory system.
By analyzing rat DNA, they estimated that there were about one thousand different genes for olfactory receptors in the mammalian genome.
Damage to the olfactory system can happen through brain injury, cancer or toxic gases.
The damage is usually measured by doctors giving the patient something to smell and having the patient try to guess what it is.
Bricostore is a type of French hypermarket.
They sell do-it-yourself (DIY) goods.
Bricostore in Europe
Bricostore Romania
Bricostore Hungary
Bricostore Croatia
1850s establishments in France
1850 establishments in Europe
The island is above Shepperton Lock.
It can only be reached by boats.
The River Thames Guide — Shepperton Lock
Carroll M. Ebright (March 20, 1894 - November 1979), sometimes known as Ky Ebright was a  coach for the University of California, Berkeley crew team.
He is the only man to coach three Olympic gold medal winning eight oared boats.
Ky Ebright died in Berkeley, California at the age of 85.
Olympic wins
1928 Summer Olympics - Gold Medal
1932 Summer Olympics - Gold Medal
1948 Summer Olympics - Gold Medal
IRA Championships
Rowing Hall of Fame Link
IRA Championships Link
History Cal Crew
Robert Johnson (governor), South Carolina
Robert Johnson (Texas) (1929–1995), member of Texas state legislature 1956–63
Robert D. Johnson (1883–1961), U.S. Congressman from Missouri
Robert Edward Johnson, Congressional candidate in Florida in 2004 and in Texas in 2006
Robert J. Johnson, U.S. Congressional candidate from New York in 2004 and 2006
Robert Ward Johnson (1814–1879), U.S. Senator from Arkansas
Robert Johnson, Louisiana State Representative
Robert E. Johnson, magazine editor
Robert L. Johnson (born 1946), American media entrepreneur, founder of Black Entertainment Television
Robert M. Johnson, Publisher of Newsday
Robert Wood Johnson I (died 1910), founded Johnson & Johnson
Robert Wood Johnson II (1893–1968), 3rd president of Johnson & Johnson
Robert Wood Johnson III (1920–1970), 3rd generation president of Johnson & Johnson
Robert Wood Johnson IV, American businessman
In the arts
Robert Johnson (drummer), former drummer for KC and the Sunshine Band
Robert Johnson (musician) (Robert Leroy Johnson) (1911–1938), blues singer and guitarist
Robert Johnson (actor), voice actor noted for Mission: Impossible mission messages
Robert Johnson (Scottish composer) (c. 1470 - after 1554)
Robert Johnson (composer) (c. 1580–1634) English lutenist and composer
Robert Johnson (conductor), orchestral conductor
Robert Johnson (screenwriter), writer for films such as The Temptations
Robert Sherlaw Johnson, British composer, pianist and music scholar
Robert Johnson, British comic entertainer known under the stage name Bob Carolgees
In the military
Robert Johnson (Civil War) (1834–1869), Civil War Brigadier General, son of Andrew Johnson, U.S. President
Robert S. Johnson, American World War II flying ace
Robert Johnson (martyr) (died 1581), Catholic priest
Robert Johnson (rector), Puritan rector
Robert Johnson (American football), NFL tight end
Robert Johnson (explorer), explorer of the south coast of New South Wales, Australia, in 1821
Robert Johnson (handball), a Canadian handball player who competed at the 1976 Summer Olympics
Robert Johnson (terrorist), on the U.S. No Fly List
Robert A. Johnson, Jungian analyst
Robert Underwood Johnson, U.S. writer and diplomat
First name variations
Rob Johnson
Bobby Johnson
Robb Johnson
For all other first names see Johnson
Surname variations
Robert Johnston
Middle name Robert
Lacey Robert Johnson
Jeremy Robert Johnson
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital
The Robert Johnson Songbook (album)
He is known worldwide as the "King of the Delta Blues".
He has also been called the "Grandfather of rock and roll".
He was born in Hazlehurst, Mississippi.
He was the 11th child of his mother Julia Major Dodds, and 10th child of his father Charles Dodds.
When he was born, his father had left his mother.
He was brought up by a field worker named Noah Johnson.
That is why he chose "Johnson" for his family name.
Johnson began playing guitar when he was a child.
In February 1929, he married Virginia Travis and became serious about playing the guitar.
His wife died in childbirth at the age of 16 in April 1930.
Johnson began traveling up and down the Delta.
Around 1936, he was introduced to other blues players through a friend.
He had a remarkable combination of talent for singing, playing the guitar and composing songs.
His vocals, the originality of his songs and his style of playing guitar have influenced many musicians.
These include: John Fogerty, Bob Dylan, Jimi Hendrix, The Yardbirds, The Black Keys, and The White Stripes.
Eric Clapton said Johnson is "the greatest blues musician ever to live".
Johnson was ranked 71st on Rolling Stone magazine list of "100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time."
In 1986, he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
Johnson died on August 16, 1938.
He died at the age of twenty-seven from poisoning.
His early death and unknown early life have led to the spread of many legends.
Ishmon Bracey (January 9, 1899 or 1901 – February 12, 1970), was a blues singer and guitarist from Mississippi.
Bracey was born in Byram, Mississippi.
He started playing at local dances and parties in about 1917.
He also worked as a waterboy on the Illinois Central Railroad.
His first recorded song was in Memphis in 1928.
He played as lead guitar with Charlie McCoy on rhythm guitar.
Songs performed
In the 1920s, Bracey had not yet started playing delta blues and each of his songs were different.
However, he was one of the only Mississippi blues musicians to sing with a nasal voice.
He often sang about skin creams and powders which would lighten dark skin.
When he recorded in 1930, his voice had become deeper.
This meant that he could not sing high enough for some of his songs and the songs had to be changed.
He recorded after in 1931 for Paramount Records with a group called The New Orleans Nehi Boys, which had a guitarist called Charles Taylor.
Bracey has recorded 16 songs in all, the original copies of his 78-rpm records are some of the most valuable things in blues collecting history. "
Trouble Hearted Blues" and "Left Alone Blues" are his best known songs.
The Bundesfinanzhof or Federal Finance Court  is one of the federal supreme courts of Germany.
It is the final court of appeals for cases about tax and customs law.
It hears cases from the Finanzgerichte (Finance Courts).
The Federal Finance Court  was first created in 1918.
It has its headquarters in Munich, Bavaria.
Hot Club de Paris are a band which came from Liverpool, United Kingdom.
They are signed to the London-based Moshi Moshi Records, a record company, and released their debut album Drop It 'Til It Pops in October 2006.
Their second album, Live at Dead Lake, was released in June 2008.
The band formed in early 2004 after band members Matthew and Paul met in 2003 working at Chester racecourse.
It's other members were playing in different bands in the Liverpool music scene including street punkers Down and Outs and new wave popsters Victor FME.
They both loved American punk rock bands (Minutemen, Firehose, SST Records bands etc.)
and they became interested in math rock and experimental indie bands which influenced their music a lot.
They signed to Moshi Moshi Records in 2005, and have since toured around the world to support the release of their debut record.
They have been shown on a number of music-based TV shows in the UK and their record played airplay on a number of radio stations including BBC Radio1, BBC 6 Music and XFM, whose DJ John Kennedy has championed the band.
Kennedy claimed that their debut album is 'one of the best of 2006'.
They recorded their second album (Live at Dead Lake) in Chicago with Brian Deck.
Brian Deck has previously produced Iron and Wine and Modest Mouse.
They released two EPs in 2010: With Days Like This As Cheap As Chewing Gum, Why Would Anyone Want To Work?
and The Rise And Inevitable Fall Of The High School Suicide Cluster Band.
Tracks from these EPs were released on the album Free The Pterodactyl Three in 2011.
"Sometimesitsbetternottostickbitsofeachotherineachotherforeachother" (2006) UK #126
"Everyeveryeverything" (2006) UK #140
"Shipwrecked" (2007) UK #153
"Clockwork Toy/You can call me Al" (2007) UK #N/A
"Will You Still Be In Love With Me Next Year?" (
"Hey!
Housebrick" (2008)
"My Little Haunting" (2008)
Compilation contributions
Hot Club De Paris have released several tracks on compilation albums, including Can You Hear Me Clearly?,
on Moshi Moshi records, and a rare CDR release Munkyfest v7.0, released by the organisers of the Munkyfest festival.
BBC gig review
Article on gigwise
Interview on www.krugermagazine.com
Official hotclubdeparis myspace
HCdP page  on Moshi Moshi Records web site
album review on This is Fake DIY
Willie Brown (politician) (born 1934), Mayor of San Francisco (1996–2004), Speaker of the California State Assembly (1980–1995)
Willie Brown (football player) (born 1940), American football Hall-of-Fame cornerback
Willie Brown (musician) (1900–1952), American delta blues guitarist and singer
Willie Brown (cartoon character), fictional owner of Felix the Cat
Willie Brown (footballer born 1900), Scottish footballer
Willie Brown (footballer born 1950), Scottish footballer
Willie Brown (footballer born 1974), Ghanaian footballer
Willy Brown, victim of the Omaha Race Riot of 1919
William Brown, for people known as William/Bill Brown
Willie Brown (August 6, 1900 – December 30, 1952) was an American guitarist and singer.
He played with Charley Patton, Son House, and Robert Johnson.
He was known to be shy and only wanting to accompany other musicians rather than play lead guitar.
Robert Johnson called him "my friend boy Willie Brown".
Brown is heard playing on the Paramount label sessions of 1930.
He played M & O Blues and Future Blues.
He also played songs with Son House and Charlie Patton.
There are also rumours that he played with Luke Thomson and Thomas "Clubfoot" Coles.
At least four other songs he recorded for Paramount have never been found.
Brown also played a song during the Great Depression for the Library of Congress called Make Me a Pallet on the Floor.
Possible songs
A song called Rowdy blues was thought to have Brown playing on rhythm guitar since he played another song (Future Blues) on the same album (Son House & The Great Delta Blues Singers).
"Cross Road Blues" lyrics
Sidney George "Sid" Wilson (born January 20, 1977) is an American musician and member of Slipknot.
In Slipknot he is known as #0.
He is known as the craziest member of Slipknot because of his over-the-top antics, such as jumping into the audience and moshing along with them, hitting himself with the custom percussion instruments, and walking on top of the crowd.
He also performs as DJ Starscream.
His injuries include breaking both of his heels.
He likes the television series Transformers and takes his DJ name "Starscream" from one of its characters.
He also has tattoos of the characters.
In Slipknot he wears a metallic style mask with lighting up eyes and moving eyebrows and mouth.
American DJs
Musicians from Iowa
Mahamudra (Sanskrit: great seal) is an advanced form of meditation in Buddhism.
It is practiced by the Kagyu, Gelug and Sakya schools of Tibetan Buddhism.
A discount store is a type of department store, which sell products at prices lower than traditional retail outlets.
Most discount department stores offer wide assortments of goods; others specialize in such merchandise as jewelry, electronic equipment, vape supplies or electrical appliances.
Discount department stores are more popular in the United States than other countries.
Grocery store
The Second Temple (Hebrew: בית המקדש meaning 'Holy House') was the reconstructed Temple in Jerusalem which stood between 516 BC and 70 AD.
It is  also known as Herod's Temple.
During this time, it was the center of Jewish worship.
The Romans destroyed Jerusalem and its Second Temple on August 4, 70 A.D.
About the Temple of Jerusalem
Resources > Second Temple and Talmudic Era > Second Temple Jerusalem The Jewish History Resource Center, Project of the Dinur Center for Research in Jewish History, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Jewish Encyclopedia: Temple, The Second
The Temple in Jerusalem or Holy Temple (, transliterated Bet HaMikdash, which means literally "The Holy House") stood on the Temple Mount (Har HaBayit) in the old city of Jerusalem.
According to classical Jewish belief, it was the "footstool" of God's presence in the physical world.
It was the place where Jews brought all the offerings described in the Torah.
The First Temple, also called Solomon's Temple, was built by King Solomon in seven years during the 10th century BCE and has been dated astronomically to 957 BCE.
It was the center of ancient Judaism.
This first Temple was destroyed by the Babylonians in 586 BCE.
A new temple was built from 535 BCE to 516 BCE.
That was destroyed by the Romans in 70 CE.
All of the outer walls still stand, although the Temple itself has long since been destroyed.
The Islamic Dome of the Rock has stood on the site of the Temple since the late 7th Century CE.
The al-Aqsa Mosque, from roughly the same period, also stands on the Temple courtyard.
visit of the Temple Institute Museum in Jerusalem conducted by Rav Israel Ariel
It's about a teenage girl, Cady Heron, who used to be home schooled in Africa but moves to the United States and has to go to a normal high school in Evanston, Illinois.
On her first day at school, she hates it.
She thinks it is a bit weird because she cannot go to the toilet when she wants, cannot write in green ink and has to stay in the same seat everytime she goes into a lesson.
On the second day it becomes more successful as she makes new friends, Janice and Damian.
When they skip a lesson, Janice and Damian give her a map of the school eating area.
It is arranged into different sorts of people and their personalities.
At lunch time Cady is on her way to sit with her new friends but is interrupted, then Regina, Gretchen and Karen ("The Plastics") ask her to sit with them and so she sits with them.
Soon, Cady joins the Plastics, and Janice devises a plan to shatter them.
Cady convinces Regina to eat these bars that will make her gain weight instead of lose weight.
However, Cady gets too much into the Plastics, and throws a party at her parents' house without their permission.
She tries to hook up with Regina's boyfriend, but he does not like her because she's just like a Plastic now.
Janice tells Cady that she's just one of the Plastics now.
Low grades in calculus class force Cady to rethink her plans.
She joins the decathlon team.
Lindsay Lohan as Cady Heron
Rachel McAdams as Regina George
Tina Fey as Ms. Sharon Norbury
Tim Meadows as Mr. Ron Duvall
Amy Poehler as Mrs. George
Ana Gasteyer as Mrs. Heron
Lacey Chabert as Gretchen Wieners
Amanda Seyfried as Karen Smith
Lizzy Caplan as Janis Ian
Daniel Franzese as Damian
Neil Flynn as Mr. Heron
Jonathan Bennett as Aaron Samuels
Mean Girls 2 was released in 2011 on DVD.
None of the actors from Mean Girls were in it apart from Tim Meadows.
High school movies
LGBT comedy movies
Movies set in Illinois
The French Open is one of the four Grand Slam tennis tournaments.
It is played in Paris, France.
The first competition was held in 1891.
The French Open is known for being the only Grand Slam played on a clay court.
On a clay court the ball bounces much slower and higher than on hard or grass courts.
This makes it more difficult to win the point and rallies (the number of shots in a point) usually last longer.
Players that excel on clay courts are called clay-court specialists.
The tournament is played for two weeks.
It starts in late May and finishes in early June.
Sometimes, the French Open is called the Roland Garros tournament.
Roland Garros was a well-known aviator from World War I who had the main tennis court named after him.
The singles winners in 2016 were Novak Djokovic and Garbiñe Muguruza.
The singles winners in 2015 were Stan Wawrinka and Serena Williams.
Men - Rafael Nadal has won 9 times: 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, and 2014.
Women - Chris Evert won 7 times: 1974, 1975, 1979, 1980, 1983, 1985, and 1986.
1891 establishments in Europe
1890s establishments in France
Sami people, an ethnic group from Lapland
Sami language, the language spoken by the Sami people
Sami Al-Jaber, Saudi Arabian footballer
Sami Helenius, Finnish ice hockey player
Sami Hyypiä, Finnish footballer
Sami Khedira, German footballer
Sami Lepistö, Finnish ice hockey player
Sami Salo, Finnish ice hockey player
Chatmon had a very musical family, all of them lived in Mississippi.
Two of Sam's brothers, fiddler Lonnie Chatmon and guitarist Bo Carter, performed with guitarist Walter Vinson as the Mississippi Sheiks.
Chatmon himself was a member of the family's string band when he was young.
He performed all the time for white audiences in the 1900s.
Popular dance tunes.
Instruments played
Chatmon played the banjo, mandolin, harmonica and the guitar.
He played at parties and on street corners in Mississippi for money and tips.
In the 1930s he recorded songs with his brothers.
Chatmon moved to Hollandale, Mississippi in the early 1940s and worked on plantations in Hollandale.
He started playing again in 1960, playing mostly blues music.
In the same year, he recorded songs for Arhoolie Records.
He went on tours in the 1960s and 1970s and played for many festivals such as the Festival of American Folklife in Washington, D.C. in 1972, the Mariposa Fest in Toronto in 1974, and the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival in 1976.
1897 - Born in Bolton, Mississippi
1900 - Played for white audiences
1930 - Recorded with the Sheiks, Lonnie and the Chatman Brothers
1940 - Moved to Hollandale, Mississippi, to work on plantations
1960 - Rediscovered as a folk-blues artist, he also recorded for the Arhoolie Label
1970 - Performed with Fingers Taylor on The Blues Caravan
1972 - Played many of his largest and best-known folk festivals
1974 - Played the Mariposa Fest in Toronto
1976 - Played the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival
1983 - Died
Illustrated Sam Chatmon discography
Sam Chatmon biography at the All Music Guide website
They appear mostly in Alberta, Canada.
They were built by laying out stones in a circular pattern.
They often look like a wagon wheel laying flat.
They could be large, reaching up to 75 feet across.
Medicine wheels are still used today in the Native American traditions.
However, the meaning is usually not shared outside the tribe.
What is a Medicine Wheel?
Stone structures, or "megaliths", have been built by men for thousands of years.
Many of these structures were built around the same time (the 3rd millennium BC).
Stone circle (Iron Age)
Stonehenge, which is in England.
Stone ship
A megalith is a large stone used to build a structure or monument, either alone or together with other stones.
Megalithic means structures made of such large stones, put together without the use of mortar or cement.
The word megalith comes from the Ancient Greek  megas meaning great, and  lithos meaning stone.
It has been used to describe stone structures built by people from many parts of the world living in many different times.
Many megaliths were used to figure out the dates of the solstices and equinoxes.
These structures were built mainly in the Neolithic period.
They continued to be built into the Bronze Age.
Some were built even earlier in the Mesolithic period.
Johnson, W. (1908).
Folk-memory.
Oxford: Clarendon press.
Moshi Moshi Records is a small London-based independent record label that has released music by the bands such as The Rakes, Bloc Party, Hot Chip, Hot Club De Paris, Kate Nash, Junkboy, Architecture in Helsinki, Tilly and the Wall, Yeti, and its newest release is from a group called Au Revoir Simone.
Mates Of State is the Moshi Moshi's 50th release.
Alterkicks (band)
Architecture in Helsinki (band)
Au Revoir Simone (band)
Best Fwends (band)
Bloc Party (band)
Blue Foundation (band)
Break bot (band)
Dananananaykroyd (band)
Dntel (band)
Fans of Kate (band)
Foreign Born (band)
Friendly Fires (band)
The Grates (band)
Hot Chip (band)
Hot Club de Paris (band)
Ingo Star Cruiser (band)
J Xaverre (band)
Junk Boy (band)
Late of the Pier (band)
Lo-Fi-Fnk (band)
The Mae Shi (band)
Mates of State (band)
Matt and Kim (band)
Matt Harding (band)
Metronomy (band)
New Rhodes (band)
Pedro v Kathryn Williams (band)
The Rakes (band)
Rat:att:agg (band)
Roland Shanks (band)
Slow Club (band)
Sukpatch (band)
Tilly and the Wall (band)
Unsound (band)
Yeti (band)
Zan Lyons (band)
A side project of the Disco Biscuits
Official Moshi Moshi Records web site
Indie music record labels
Nathan Jonas "Joey" Jordison (April 26, 1975 – July 26, 2021) was an American musician.
He was the drummer for the band Slipknot.
In Slipknot, he was known as #1.
He is also the guitarist for Murderdolls.
Jordison died on July 26, 2021 at the age of 46.
He was suffering from transverse myelitis when he died.
Musicians from Des Moines, Iowa
Deaths from autoimmune disease
Richard Cromwell (4 October 1626 – 12 July 1712) was the third son of Oliver Cromwell, and the second Lord Protector of England, Scotland and Ireland, for little over eight months, from 3 September 1658 until 25 May 1659.
Richard Cromwell's enemies called him Hickory Dick and Queen Dick.
Richard Cromwell was not suited to ruling the country.
He followed his father as ruler only because he was Oliver's oldest living son, and people expected one of Oliver's sons to follow him.
After a short time, he gave up power and he knew that many of the people wanted King Charles II to come back from Holland and rule the country.
When it was agreed that Charles would return, Richard thought it would be best for him to leave Britain, and he went to live in France for a while.
He changed his name to "John Clarke" and travelled around Europe, not returning home for twenty years.
When he came back, he lived quietly outside London for the rest of his life.
Stories about Richard
The nursery rhyme "Hickory Dickory Dock" is actually about Richard Cromwell.
One of Richard's nicknames was Hickory Dick.
The mouse in the rhyme runs down when the clock strikes one and Cromwell only reigned for one year.
BBC Bio of Richard Cromwell
BBC Bio of Oliver Cromwell
Britannia.com "Monarchs" Page on Richard Cromwell
1626 births
Cipriano de Rore (born in Ronse, Flanders, 1515 or 1516; died  Parma, September 1565) was a composer who lived in the Renaissance period.
He was Flemish, but spent all his adult life in Italy.
The name de Rore is a proper Flemish name, not a name that has been changed to look Italian.
He was one of the most important composer of madrigals in the 16th century.
There is very little known about Rore's early life.
He was born in a small town called Ronse (Renaix) in what is now Belgium.
It is possible that he had music lessons in Antwerp.
We think that he was taken to Italy by Margaret of Parma in 1533 as one of her servants.
Margaret, who was an illegitimate daughter of Charles V, was very wealthy and she married into the Medici family.
Rore probably continued to learn about music in Italy.
In his music publications de Rore is called a “disciple” of Adrian Willaert.
We do not know whether this means that he had lessons from Willaert, or just that he learned to compose by studying Willaert’s music.
His first book of madrigals was published in 1542, and then two books of motets were published.
In 1546 Rore went to Ferrara, where he was maestro di cappella (choirmaster) He wrote a great deal of music in Ferrara.
He worked for the Duke Ercole II d'Este.
He composed masses, motets, chansons, and lots of madrigals, some of which were about things that happened in the court at Ferrara.
The duke awarded him an important honour.
Rore also wrote music for Albrecht V of Bavaria who lived in Munich.
He left his job in Ferrara and went back to Flanders where he found his home town Ronse had been destroyed in a war.
He went back to Ferrara, but could not get his old job back.
After another visit to Flanders he returned to Italy and got a job in Parma, but the music in that town was not very good.
For a short time he had a very important job of
maestro di cappella at St. Mark's.
Adrian Willaert had just died.
However, Rore only kept this job for a year, returning to Parma in  1564 and dying there the next year.
Works and influence
Rore is best known for his Italian madrigals, but he also wrote a lot of church music, including masses and motets.
He learned from studying the music of Josquin.
His madrigals are based on the style of Willaert.
He enjoyed writing thick counterpoint and making the voices imitate one another a lot.
Most of the words he set were serious words, not lighthearted and amusing.
He often used chromaticism.
He developed his musical style a lot during his lifetime.
His music was very important in the development of the Italian madrigal, and it led the way to the madrigals of Monteverdi.
Reese, Gustave.
Music in the Renaissance.
[*http://www.grovemusic.com/Groves Online]
People from East Flanders
Flemish is a language.
It is a type of Dutch which is spoken by people in Belgium.
It is the same as Dutch, but there are some typical words added.
Dutch became the official language of the northern part of Belgium in 1938.
The 1965 Yerevan Demonstrations were a 24-hour mass protest in Yerevan, Armenian SSR on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the Armenian genocide.
It is said that this event constitutes the first step in the struggle for the recognition of the 1915 genocide.
Many committed intellectuals, such as Silva Kaputikyan, had made impassioned pleas to the authorities in Moscow.
The memorial, on Tsitsernakaberd hill, was completed in 1967.
Following the example of this high-profile demonstration, similar protests were made throughout the world, in whichever country the Armenian Diaspora exists.
Since the day of the protests, Armenians to this day visit the memorial and make protests around the world to gain acceptance of the Armenian Genocide by Turkey.