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This period spanned the years from February 1084 through April 1087.
Events of the Ōtoku Era
1084 (Ōtoku 1, 9th month): The emperor's principal consort, died; and Shirakawa's grief overwhelmed him.
1084 (Ōtoku 3, 9th month): Shirakawa announced his intention to abdicate in favor of his son.
3 January 1084 (Ōtoku 3, 26th day of the 11th month): Shirakawa abdicated, and he took the title Daijō-tennō.
Soon after, Emperor Horikawa accepted the monarch's role and duties and powers (sokui).
was a  after Ōtoku and before Kahō.
This period started in April 1087 and ended in December 1094.
Events of the Kanji era
1087 (Kanji 1, 5th month):  Former emperor Shirakawa retired to Uji.
1088 (Kanji 2, 1st month): Emperor Horikawa visited his father's home in Uji.
1088 (Kanji 2, 10th month): Shirakawa visited the temples at Mt. Hiei.
28 January 1088 (Kanji 2, 14th day of the 12th month): Fujiwara Morozane was given the title of daijō-daijin.
1089 (Kanji 3, 5th month): Shirakawa again visits Mt. Hiei; and this time, he stayed seven days.
1090 (Kanji 4, 12th month):  Morozane was named kampaku.
March 26, 1094 (Kanji 8, 8th day of the 3rd month):  Morozane resigned from his role as kampaku.
Terrence Alan Crews (born July 30, 1968) is an American stand-up comedian, actor, voice artist, and comedian.
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Crews is from Flint, Michigan.
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Terrence Alan Crews grew up in a strict Christian household in Flint.
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One notable type is the galette des Rois ('King cake') eaten on the day of Epiphany.
In Quebec, the term galette is usually applied to pastries best described as large cookies.
Galette is also the name given in most French crêperies to savoury buckwheat flour pancakes.
Those made from wheat flour, much smaller in size and mostly served with a sweet filling, are called crêpes.
Air Buddies is the 6th movie in the Air Bud movie series.
It is also the first movie in the Air Buddies movie series.
It was released in 2006 by Walt Disney Home Entertainment.
The movie was directed by Robert Vince.
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Center Street Bridge ~ Calgary
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Louise Bridge ~ Calgary
Low Level Bridge ~ Edmonton
Lethbridge Viaduct ~ Lethbridge
Peace Bridge ~ Calgary
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Alex Fraser Bridge ~ Richmond - Delta
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Eleanor Ward Bridge ~ Coquitlam
Fraser Valley Railroad Bridge ~ New Westminster - Surrey
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Golden Ears Bridge ~ Langley - Maple Ridge - Pitt Meadows - Surrey
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Okanagan Lake Bridge (permanently closed 2008) ~ Kelowna
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North Perimeter Bridge ~ Winnipeg
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Lockport Bridge/St. Andrews Lock and Dam ~ Lockport
18th Street Bridge ~ Brandon
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Queen Elizabeth II Bridge
Burton Bridge ~ Burton - Maugerville
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Edmundston-Madawaska Bridge - Edmundston to Madawaska, Maine
Florenceville Bridge ~ Florenceville
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Jemseg River Bridge ~ Jemseg
Kelly's Creek Bridge ~ Upper Kingsclear
Mactaquac Bridge ~ Mactaquac
Miramichi Bridge ~ Newcastle - Chatham Head (all part of Miramichi)
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Nerepis Bridge ~ Grand Bay-Westfield
Princess Margaret Bridge ~ Fredericton
Reversing Falls Bridge ~ Saint John
Reversing Falls Railway Bridge ~ Saint John
Saint John Harbour Bridge ~ Saint John
Saint John River High Level Crossing ~ Coystown
Westmorland Bridge ~ Fredericton
Deh Cho Bridge ~ Fort Providence
A. Murray MacKay Bridge ~ Halifax
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Seal Island Bridge ~ Boularderie Island
Canso Canal swing bridge ~ Port Hastings
George Street Bridge ~ New Glasgow
Alexandra Bridge ~ Ottawa - Gatineau, Quebec
Ambassador Bridge ~ Windsor - Detroit, Michigan, USA
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Blue Water Bridge ~ Point Edward - Port Huron, Michigan, USA
Champlain Bridge ~ Ottawa - Gatineau, Quebec
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Garden City Skyway ~ St. Catharines
Marie International Bridge ~ Sault Ste.
Marie - Sault Ste.
Marie, Michigan, USA
James N. Allan Skyway Bridge (Burlington Bay Skyway) ~ Hamilton - Burlington
Little Current Swing Bridge ~ Little Current-Turner, Ontario
Ogdensburg–Prescott International Bridge - Johnstown (Prescott) - Ogdensburg, New York, USA
Peace Bridge ~ Fort Erie - Buffalo, New York, USA
Portage Bridge ~ Ottawa - Gatineau, Quebec
Prince Edward Viaduct (Bloor Street Viaduct) ~ Toronto
Macdonald-Cartier Bridge ~ Ottawa - Gatineau, Quebec
Queenston-Lewiston Bridge ~ Queenston - Lewiston, New York, USA
Rainbow Bridge ~ Niagara Falls - Niagara Falls, New York, USA
Sioux Narrows Bridge - Sioux Narrows
Temagami Bridge, Timmins, Ontario
Thousand Islands Bridge ~ near Ivy Lea - near Fishers Landing, New York, USA
Whirlpool Rapids Bridge ~ Niagara Falls - Niagara Falls, New York, USA
Confederation Bridge ~ Borden, PEI - Cape Jourimain, NB
Hillsborough River Bridge ~ Charlottetown - Stratford
A25 Bridge ~ Laval - Montreal
Ahuntsic Bridge ~ Laval - Montreal
Alexandra Bridge ~ Gatineau - Ottawa, Ontario
Arthur Sauve Bridge ~ Laval - Saint-Eustache
Athanase David Bridge ~ Laval - Bois-des-Filions
Alonzo Wright Bridge ~ Gatineau - Chelsea, Quebec
Brady Bridge ~ Gatineau
Champlain Bridge ~ Gatineau - Ottawa, Ontario
Champlain Bridge ~ Montreal - Brossard, Quebec - Busiest Bridge in Canada (50 million vehicles a year)
Charles de Gaulles Bridge ~ Montreal - Charlemagne
Chaudière Bridge ~ Gatineau - Ottawa
Draveurs Bridge ~ Gatineau
Galipeault Bridge  ~ Montreal - L'Île-Perrot
Gedeon Ouimet Bridge ~ Laval - Boisbriand
Honore Mercier Bridge ~ Montreal - Kahnawake
Île aux Tourtes Bridge ~ Montreal - Vaudreuil-Dorion
Île d'Orléans Bridge ~ Quebec City - Île d'Orléans, Quebec
Jacques Cartier Bridge ~ Montreal - Longueuil - 2nd Busiest Bridge in Canada (43 million vehicles a year)
J.C. Van Horne Bridge ~ Campbellton - Pointe-à-la-Croix
Lachapelle Bridge ~ Laval - Montreal
Lady Aberdeen Bridge ~ Gatineau
Laviolette Bridge ~ Trois-Rivières - Bécancour
Le Gardeur Bridge  ~ Montreal - Repentigny
Louis Bisson Bridge ~ Laval - Montreal
Louis-Hippolyte Lafontaine Bridge-Tunnel ~ Montreal - Boucherville
Marius Dufresne Bridge ~ Laval - Rosemère
Mathieu Bridge ~ Laval - Terrebonne
Médéric Martin Bridge ~ Laval - Montreal
Papineau-Leblanc Bridge ~ Laval - Montreal
Percy Covered Bridge (Powerscourt) ~ Elgin - Hinchinbrooke
Pie IX Bridge ~ Laval - Montreal
Pierre Laporte Bridge ~ Quebec City - Lévis
Portage Bridge ~ Gatineau - Ottawa
Quebec Bridge ~ Quebec City - Lévis
Terrebonne Bridge ~ Laval - Terrebonne
Vachon Bridge ~ Laval - Boisbriand
Victoria Bridge ~ Montreal - Saint-Lambert, Quebec
Albert Memorial Bridge ~ Regina
Broadway Bridge ~ Saskatoon
Battlefords Bridge  ~ Battleford  - North Battleford
Borden Bridge ~ Borden, Saskatchewan
Canadian Northern Railway Bridge ~ Prince Albert - road-rail
Cochin Bridge ~ Cochin, Saskatchewan
Crooked Bridge ~ Nipawin
Circle Drive Bridge ~ Saskatoon
Circle Drive South Bridge ~ Saskatoon
CPR Bridge ~ Saskatoon
Diefenbaker Bridge ~ Prince Albert
Grand Trunk Bridge ~ Saskatoon
Long Creek Bridge ~ Estevan No.
5, Saskatchewan
Maymont Bridge ~ Mayfield No.
406, Saskatchewan
Muskoday Bridge ~ Muskoday First Nation
Outlook Bridge ~ Outlook
Petrofka Bridge ~ Blaine Lake No.
434, Saskatchewan
Senator Sid Buckwold Bridge ~ Saskatoon
Sherwood Forest Bridge ~Grand Coulee, Saskatchewan
Spadina Crescent Bridge ~ Saskatoon
St. Louis Bridge ~ St. Louis - road-rail
Skytrail ~ Outlook
Traffic Bridge ~ Saskatoon
University Bridge ~ Saskatoon
List of bridges in Montreal
List of bridges in Toronto
Albert Bridge, in London
Clifton Suspension Bridge, in Bristol.
Grosvenor Bridge, in London
Hungerford Bridge, in London
London Bridge, in London
Millennium Bridge, in London
Tower Bridge, in London
Vauxhall Bridge, in London
Waterloo Bridge, in London
Westminster Bridge, in London
Windsor Railway Bridge, in Berkshire
Second Severn Crossing, in Wales
Menai Suspension Bridge in North Wales
Forth Rail Bridge, Firth of Forth
Forth Road Bridge, Firth of Forth
Loch Ness footbridge in Inverness,
Perth Bridge, in Perth
Tay Rail Bridge, Dundee
Tradeston Bridge, in Glasgow
Lists of bridges
was a  after Kanji and before Eichō.
This period started in December 1094 and ended in December 1096.
Events of the Kahō Era
1095 (Kahō 2, 4th month): Emperor Horikawa paid visits to the Iwashimizu Shrine and to the  Kamo Shrines.
1095 (Kahō 2, 8th month): The emperor was stricken with fevers; and he recovered.
1095 (Kahō 2, 11th month): The Buddhist priests of Mount Hiei ccarried a portable shrine to the central hall of Enryaku-ji.
26 November 1096 (Kahō 3, 9th day of the 11th month): Former-Emperor Shirakawa entered the Buddhist priesthood at the age of 44.
New Girl is an American television sitcom set in Los Angeles.
It began on September 20, 2011 and is shown on Fox.
It stars Zooey Deschanel as Jess Day, a teacher who moves in with three young men she meets on the Internet after separating from her partner with whom she lived.
Oppuurs is a small town in the Belgian province of Antwerp.
It is a part of the municipality of Sint-Amands.
Oppuurs has 2028 inhabitants .
Oppuurs has an area of .
The first time Oppuurs was mentioned was in 1414, then called Oppuedersel.
In the 15th century, it was owned by the family Van der Calsteren.
Later, Joost Snoy became the owner.
In 1664, it got the title of barony.
At the 7th of mai 1818, Idisbalda-Ghislain Snoy was appointed to mayor by the king.
Later, in 1777 the properties were bought by Philippe Ghislain Snoy, who became baron.
Oppuurs belonged to the parish of Puurs and was separated in 1803.
It was an independent municipality until 1976.
Then, it became, along with Lippelo, part of the municipality of Sint-Amands.
The title of Baron Snoy et d'Oppuers still exists today.
20th century  until 1976
Azeri (Iran)
Balochi
Bosnian (also Cyrillic script and Latin script)
Fulani (on occasion)
Hausa (on occasion)
Judaeo-Spanish (until the 20th century)
Kanuri (on occasion)
Kazakh in China
Kurdish (Iran and Iraq)
Malagasy (until the 19th century)
Malay (14th - 17th century)
Mozarabic (now extinct)
Ottoman Turkish
Pashtu
Punjabi (Pakistan)
Spanish (formerly before 16th century, a.k.a.
Aljamiado)
Swahili (on occasion)
Tajik (on occasion)
Yoruba (rarely see Ajami script)
Belarusian (on occasion)
Armenian script
Borama script
Brahmic family and derivatives
Sindhi (also written in Arabic)
Dogri
Gondi,Adilabad
Gondi, Aheri
Andh
Asuri
Bagri
Baram
Assamese/Bengali
Garo
Balinese script
Balinese language (formerly)
Baybayin script
Ilokano (formerly)
Kapampangan (formerly)
Pangasinan (formerly)
Tagalog (formerly)
Bikol language (formerly)
Visayan languages (formerly)
Buhid script
Buhid
Burmese script
Geba Karen
Pa-O
Pwo Karen
Rumai Palaung
Gujarati script
Gurmukhi script
Punjabi (also written in Shahmukhi, a variant of the Arabic script)
Hanunó'o script
Hanunó'o
Javanese script (Hanacaraka)
Javanese (in old literatures, and a part of cultural heritage)
Kannada script
Tulu
Lepcha script
Limbu script
Limbu
Lontara script (Buginese)
Buginese (formerly)
Malayalam script
Oriya script
Oriya
'Phags-pa script
Chinese (formerly)
Mongolian (formerly)
Sanskrit (formerly)
Tibetan (for decorative purposes)
Uyghur (formerly)
Tagbanwa script
Languages of Palawan
Telugu script
Thaana script
Tibetan script
Zhang-Zhung (extinct)
Canadian Aboriginal script
Slavey
Tasttine
Tłįchǫ
Cherokee script
Coptic alphabet
Coptic language (extinct, still in use liturgically)
Abkhaz
Bosnian (also Latin script and Arebica)
Interslavic (also Latin script)
Judaeo-Spanish (also Latin script)
Ossetic
Serbian (also Latin script)
Tajiki
Tuvan
Bosnian Cyrillic alphabet (bosančica)
Croatian (formerly)
Bosnian (formerly)
Ge'ez script (Ethiopic)
Ge'ez
Georgian script
Laz (sometimes Latin)
Svan
Glagolitic alphabet
Old Church Slavonic (extinct, still in use liturgically)
Gothic alphabet
Gothic (extinct)
Greek script
Bactrian (extinct)
Gaulish (extinct) - Written in both Greek and Latin scripts
Chinese characters and derivatives
Guanhua (Mandarin)
Wu which includes Shanghainese
Yue (Cantonese)
Min which includes Taiwanese
Xiang
Jin from Mandarin
Huizhou from Wu
Ping partly from Cantonese
Minority languages in China
Bai (obsolete)
Miao (obsolete)
Zhuang, with Zhuang logograms (obsolete)
Japanese (kanji plus kana derivative)
Korean (hanja) (obsolete; used in academic texts and newspapers)
Vietnamese (Chữ nho and Chữ nôm) (used in historic or academic texts, or for artistic or aesthetic purposes, but in general use virtually extinct)
Khitan, written in Khitan scripts
Jurchen, written in Jurchen script
Tangut, written in Tangut script
Hebrew script
Aramaic (and other writing systems)
Bukhori
Hulaula
Judeo-Iraqi Arabic
Judeo-Moroccan
Judeo-Tripolitanian Arabic
Judeo-Tunisian Arabic
Judeo-Portuguese
Judeo-Spanish (originally Rashi script, and other writing systems)
Judeo-Yemenite
Juhuri
Lishan Didan
Kaddare script
Japanese (plus kanji)
Ainu slightly modified kind of katakana kanas, which enable to represent final sounds which are consonants alone
Khitan scripts
Khitan (extinct)
Azeri
Belarusian (formerly called "Łacinka"; now uses Cyrillic)
Boholano (formerly used the Baybayin)
Bosnian ( also Cyrillic script and Arebica )
Filipino (formerly used the Baybayin)
Frisian
Fula (Pulaar)
Gaelic (Scottish)
Ganda
Gikuyu
Hausa (formerly used the Arabic script)
Hawai'ian
Hiti Motu
Hungarian (used Old Hungarian script prior to AD 1000)
Ilocano (formerly used the Baybayin)
Innu-aimun
Javanese - Also uses an alphabet called Hanacaraka in certain areas
Judeo-Spanish - Also uses other scripts
Kongo
Kurdish (Kurmanji)
Laz (Used by Turkey and European Lazs)
Moldovan - Also Cyrillic
Nahuatl (post Spanish Conquest)
Nauruan
Navaho or Navajo
Oromo (formerly written in the Ge'ez script)
Romanian (formerly used a Cyrillic alphabet)
Serbian (uses Cyrillic officially)
Seychellois creole
Somali (formerly used the Arabic script and Osmanya script)
Sotho (Northern)
Sotho (Southern)
Tagalog (formerly used the Baybayin)
Tatar (formerly used Arabic, 1927-1938 Latin-derived Janalif, then Cyrillic and since 2000 Latin again, but generally on the internet)
Tetum
Tongan
Turkish (formerly used the Arabic script)
Turoyo (new Latin alphabet, originally Syriac alphabet)
Uzbek (official script, formerly used Cyrillic)
Vietnamese (formerly with Chữ nho and Chữ nôm)
Võro
Wolof
Mayan script
Mayan languages (formerly)
Mongolian and related scripts
Old Uyghur alphabet
Manchu script
Xibe
Munda scripts
Sorang Sompeng
Ol Cemet'
Varang Kshiti
N'Ko script
N'ko
Naxi script
Naxi (obsolete)
Ekoi
Osmanya script
Runic script
Proto-Norse inscriptions
Old Norse (also Latin script)
Old Danish (also Latin script)
Old English/Anglo-Saxon (also Latin script)
Old Frisian (also Latin script)
Old Hungarian script
Hungarian (also Latin script)
Syriac script
Arabic (see Garshuni)
Hertevin
Turoyo (also has new Latin-based script)
Amazigh (Morocco)
Yi script
Languages, list grouped by writing system
Lucille Désirée Ball (August 6, 1911 – April 26, 1989) was an American comedian, model, movie and television actress and studio executive.
She was the star of the sitcoms I Love Lucy, The Lucy–Desi Comedy Hour, The Lucy Show, Here's Lucy and Life With Lucy.
Ball was one of the most popular and powerful actors in the United States during her lifetime.
She also had one of Hollywood's longest careers.
Ball began acting in the 1930s.
She became both a radio actress and B-movie star in the 1940s.
Her television career began in  the 1950s.
She was still making movies in the 1960s and 1970s.
In 1962, Ball became the first woman to run a major television studio, Desilu.
This studio made many successful and popular television series.
Ball was born to Henry Durrell Ball (September 16, 1887 – February 19, 1915) and Desiree "DeDe" Evelyn Hunt (September 21, 1892 – July 20, 1977) in Jamestown, New York.
Her family was Baptist.
She was of French, Scottish, English, and Irish ancestry.
She had a brother Fred Henry Ball (July 17, 1915 – February 5, 2007).
In 1929, Ball got work as a model.
She later began her performing career on Broadway using the stage name Diane Belmont.
She was in many small movie roles in the 1930s.
She worked for RKO Radio Pictures at the time.
Ball was named the "Queen of the Bs".
In 1951, Ball was important in the creation of the television series I Love Lucy.
The show ended in 1957 after 180 episodes.
Then, some small changes were made to the series format.
The time-length of the series was changed from 30 minutes to 60 minutes.
The first program lasted 75 mins.
Some new characters were added.
The story was changed.
After these changes, the program was renamed The Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour.
It was shown from 1957 until 1960.
Ball went on to star in two more successful television series.
The first was The Lucy Show.
It was shown on CBS from 1962 to 1968 (156 episodes).
The other was Here's Lucy.
It was shown from 1968 to 1974 (144 episodes).
Her last television series was in 1986.
It was called Life with Lucy.
This program did not do very well.
Only 8 of the 13 episodes that were made were shown on television.
Ball met and married Cuban band leader Desi Arnaz in 1940.
On July 17, 1951, she gave birth to their first child, Lucie Désirée Arnaz.
A year and a half later, Ball gave birth to their second child, Desiderio Alberto Arnaz IV, known as Desi Arnaz, Jr. Ball and Arnaz divorced on 4 May 1960.
On April 18, 1989, Ball said she had chest pains at her home in Beverly Hills and was taken to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, where she had dissecting aortic aneurysm and had an eight-hour aortic transplant.
The surgery worked, and Ball was soon able to walk around her room with very little help.
She got a lot of get-well wishes.
On the morning of April 26, Ball awoke with bad back pains then lost consciousness.
After, she died at 5:47 a.m. PDT at the age of 77.
Doctors thought that Ball had succumbed to a ruptured abdominal aortic aneurysm not that related to her ascending aortic aneurysm and surgery.
Ball had been a smoker most of her life, making her risk of abdominal aortic aneurysm higher.
Ball was nominated for an Emmy Award thirteen times.
She won four times.
In 1977 Ball was one of the first people to be given the Women in Film Crystal Award.
She was given the Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award in 1979, the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Kennedy Center Honors in 1986, and the Governors Award from the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences in 1989.
The Blob is a 1958 American science fiction horror movie.
It was directed by Irvin Yeaworth.
It was produced by Jack H. Harris.
Paramount Pictures released the movie.
The movie is about a giant jellylike blob that terrorizes a small town.
The Blob marked Steve McQueen's movie debut.
The movie's theme song, "Beware of the Blob", was written by Burt Bacharach and Mack David.
It was remade in 1988.
Steve McQueen as Steve Andrews
Aneta Corsaut as Jane Martin
Hugh Graham as Mr. Andrews, Steve's father
Elbert Smith as Henry Martin, Jane's father
Earl Rowe as Lt.
John Benson as Sgt.
Jim Bert
Olin Howland as Old Man
Teenagers Steve and Jane are loitering in a Lover's Lane.
They see an object in the night sky crash-land nearby.
They investigate.
It is The Blob, a jelly-like thing from Outer Space that consumes flesh.
It kills an old man, a doctor, and a nurse.
It doubles in size after each feeding.
Steve and Jane report their findings to the police.
They are dismissed as crazy teenagers.
In the meantime, The Blob has consumed many others.
Steve and Jane are cornered by The Blob in the grocery store.
They seek refuge in the walk-in refrigerator.
The Blob tries to ooze in under the door.
It retreats.
Steve and Jane escape.
They set off the town's fire and air-raid alarms.
The Blob enters the movie theatre.
The customers run away screaming.
The Blob oozes out of the theater.
Jane's little brother runs into a diner.
Jane and Steve follow him.
They become trapped in the diner along with the owner and a waitress.
The Blob – now a huge mass – engulfs the diner.
It begins to ooze in through the windows.
The occupants go to the cellar.
The police try to kill The Blob by dropping a power line onto it.
This attempt fails.
It only serves to set the diner ablaze.
Inside, the diner's owner uses a CO2 fire extinguisher to try to put out the fire.
This causes The Blob to recoil.
The Blob cannot stand cold.
The town's teenagers gather all the fire extinguishers they can find.
They use them to freeze The Blob.
The United States Air Force sends in a jet to carry The Blob to the North Pole.
It will remain frozen forever.
1950s horror movies
is a Japanese city in Akita Prefecture on the island of Honshu.
The Akita clan (Ando clan) held this part of northern Japan (Mutsu Province) in the 15-16th centuries.
The Satake clan built Kubota Castle in 1604.
Kitaakita
Katagami
Minami-Akita District: Gojōme, Ikawa
Kita-Akita District: Kamikoani
Senboku District: Nishiki
Akita University
Akita Prefectural University, a public university, is in the city.
Akita International University is a public university outside of town.
Classes are taught only in English.
North Asia University
Seirei Women's Junior College
Akita Nutrition Junior College
Misono Gakuen Junior College
Open University of Japan Akita learning center
Local foods and products
Kiritampo – baked rice
Sasamaki – rice wrapped in bamboo grass
Iwagaki – a kind of oyster
Iburi-gakko – a kind of pickle
Sister / friendship cities
International sister / friendship cities
August 5, 1982: Lanzhou, People's Republic of China
April 8, 1984: Passau, Germany
July 15, 1987: Malabon City, Philippines
January 22, 1992: Kenai, Alaska, United States of America
1993: St. Cloud, Minnesota, United States of America (with Yūwa, Akita, which merged into Akita, Akita)
June 29, 1992: Vladivostok, Russia
Sister cities in Japan
Hitachiōta, Ibaraki
Yukio Endo
http://www.city.akita.akita.jp/en/default.htm ;
Voting Figures in National Elections in Akita Prefecture, 1928-1942
Settlements in Akita Prefecture
One of the major features of the Japanese clock is that it has a mechanism for measuring unequal temporal hours.
Usual clock tells hours at same intervals, but in the Japanese traditional timekeeping practice, a day had six daytime units from sunrise to sunset and six night units from sunset to sunrise.
Then the Japanese clock was designed to adapt to this practice.
was a  after Kahō and before Jōtoku.
This period started in December 1096 and ended in November 1097.
Events of the Eichō Era
1096 (Eichō 1): Fujiwara no Moromichi was raised to the second rank of the first class.
1096 (Eichō 1): During the summer, a series of great dengaku dance performances took place in the streets and in open areas near the city.
The participants were drawn from the aristocracy and from the common people.
The Polonaise in A major, Op.
1 (nicknamed the "Military" Polonaise) is a piece of music for solo piano.
It was composed by Frédéric Chopin.
It was published in 1838, with the Polonaise in C minor, Op.
Anton Rubinstein wrote that the Polonaise in A major is the symbol of Polish glory, while the Polonaise in C minor is the symbol of Polish tragedy.
The polonaise is a Polish dance in 3/4 time.
It has a distinctive rhythmic pattern which this polonaise follows unflinchingly.
The A major Polonaise is written in an A-B-A form, with the B section being a "Trio".
The polonaise opens with an A major chord.
It continues in a vigorously masculine manner.
The tempo indication is Allegro con brio (Fast, with bravura).
The trio section begins in D major.
The short passage following the first section of the trio is distinguished with trills for both hands on low C-sharps an octave apart.
These trills suggest drum rolls.
Charles Rosen writes, "Polonaises had been written by many composers before, including Bach, Mozart, and Beethoven; Schubert, in fact, wrote lots of them.
But nothing like the violence of Chopin’s military polonaises, ... The military polonaises were certainly understood as political statements of patriotism for his country, which was struggling to obtain its freedom ... these military polonaises have a decidedly popular character ..."
Polonaises sheet music available at Musopen:
Kinderszenen (original spelling Kinderscenen, (), Opus 15, is a set of 13 pieces for solo piano by Robert Schumann.
It was published in 1838.
Schumann was looking back on his childhood when composing these pieces.
He had originally written 30 movements for Scenes from Childhood.
He chose only 13 for the final set.
The unused movements were published years later in Bunte Blätter, Opus 99, and Albumblätter ().
Schumann originally titled the work Leichte Stücke ().
The titles for the individual pieces were only added after the music was complete.
Schumann described the titles as "nothing more than delicate hints for execution and interpretation".
Timothy Taylor has discussed Schumann's choice of titles for this work in the context of the changing situation of music in 19th century culture and economics.
In 1974, Eric Sams noted that there is no known complete manuscript of Kinderszenen.
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Compositions by Robert Schumann
Giselle; or, The Wilis is a romantic ballet in two acts.
Jules-Henri Vernoy de Saint-Georges and Théophile Gautier wrote the story of the ballet.
They based it on a short prose passage in Heinrich Heine's De l'Allemagne.
They also used Victor Hugo's poem "Fantômes".
Adolphe Adam wrote the music.
Jean Coralli and Jules Perrot designed the dances.
Carlotta Grisi danced the role of Giselle in the first production.
The scenery was created by Pierre Cisceri.
The story is set in Germany during the Renaissance.
Giselle is a peasant girl.
She falls in love with Albrecht.
He is a nobleman pretending to be a peasant boy.
Giselle is shocked to discover Albrecht is going to marry the princess Bathilde.
Her heart breaks.
She goes mad (insane, crazy) and dies.
One night, she rises from her grave.
She wants to protect Albrecht from the Wilis.
The Wilis are the ghostly spirits of dead girls.
They force men to dance to their deaths.
The ballet was first performed in Paris on Monday 28 June 1841 at the Théâtre de l'Académie Royale de Musique.
It was staged almost at once by other ballet companies in Europe, Russia, and the United States.
Grisi was declared another Taglioni.
Taglioni was the age's greatest ballerina.
Ballet historian Grace Robert writes "Giselle ... is the archetype of the ballets of the romantic age".
The ballet opens on an autumn morning in Germany.
Giselle and Albrecht are in love.
Hilarion is in love with Giselle, too.
She does not love him though.
He grows jealous.
He promises to take revenge.
Albrecht's gentle manners arouse Hilarion's suspicions.
Albrecht is really a Duke.
He is pretending to be a peasant.
The peasant boys and girls start a waltz.
Giselle asks Albrecht to dance with her.
Giselle's mother says her daughter has a weak heart.
She will die if she does not give up dancing.
She is afraid that Giselle will become one of the Wilis.
The Wilis are ghostly female spirits.
They dance men to death.
A hunting horn is heard in the distance.
Albrecht becomes nervous.
He hurries away with the peasants.
The Prince of Courland, his daughter Bathilde, and their courtiers enter.
They are looking for a place to rest after the hunt.
Giselle and her mother bring them food and drink.
Bathilde takes an interest in Giselle.
They each say that they are in love, and soon to be married.
Albrecht returns with the peasants.
Bathilde says he is her future husband.
Giselle is shocked.
She goes mad and dies in her mother's arms.
Albrecht is chased away by the peasants.
It is midnight in a dark wood.
A pool of water is in the distance.
Gamekeepers enter.
Hilarion warns them that the spot is haunted by the Wilis.
The gamekeepers run away.
The Queen of the Wilis rises from the weeds to call the Wilis together.
Giselle is about to become one of them.
She rises from her grave.
She dances.
Albrecht enters to pray at Giselle's grave.
He sees Giselle.
They dance.
The Wilis trap Hilarion.
They force him to dance.
They throw him into the pool to his death.
The Queen of the Wilis wants Albrecht to die too.
Giselle does not want this.
She wants to save his life.
The Wilis disappear.
Giselle returns to her grave.
Bathilde and the courtiers enter.
They are looking for Albrecht.
He falls into their arms exhausted.
The French Revolution (17891799) created a French middle class.
These people did not like tastes and values of the aristocracy.
These tastes and values had influenced French art and literature since the reign of Louis XIV.
The power of the aristocracy had ended with the Revolution.
Thousands of aristocrats had died on the guillotine, or in massacres.
Many died in prisons, or had fled France for safety in other lands.
After the Revolution, French ballet directors and designers turned their attention to stories based on the Greek and Roman mythologies.
The aristocracy liked these stories.
The directors and designers however turned instead to the stories the middle class liked.
These stories were based on real life, real places, past times, everyday people, and the supernatural.
Two ballets with such stories caused great excitement in Paris in the 1830s.
In November 1831, Meyerbeer's opera Robert le diable had its first performance.
It included a short ballet called The Ballet of the Nuns.
In this little ballet, dead nuns rise from their graves.
They dance in the moonlight.
The public loved this ballet.
In March 1832, the ballet La Sylphide was performed.
This ballet is about a beautiful sylph (fairy).
She loves James, a young Scotsman.
Tragedy occurs.
James accidentally kills the sylph.
This ballet brought Marie Taglioni before the French public.
She was the first to dance en pointe.
She did this for artistic reasons rather than spectacle.
She was also the first to wear the white, bell-shaped, calf-length ballet skirt.
This skirt is now considered an essential feature of the romantic ballet.
Poet and critic Théophile Gautier attended the first performance of La Sylphide.
His ideas for Giselle would show touches of La Sylphide ten years later.
It would be set in a real place and in the past, for example, and would be about everyday people and supernatural women.
Story development
In an 1841 news article announcing the first performance of Giselle, Théophile Gautier recorded his part in the creation of the ballet.
He had read Heinrich Heine's description of the Wilis in De l'Allemagne, and thought these evil spirits would make a "pretty ballet".
He planned their story for Act 2, and settled upon a verse by Victor Hugo called "Fantômes" to provide the inspiration for Act 1.
This verse is about a beautiful 15 year old Spanish girl who loves to dance.
She becomes too warm at a ball, and dies of a chill in the cool morning.
Heine's prose passage in De l'Allemagne tells of supernatural young women called the Wilis.
They have died before their wedding day and rise from their graves in the middle of the night to dance.
Any young man who crosses their path is forced to dance to his death.
In another book, the Wilis are said to be jilted young women who have died and become vampires.
This is assumed to be the reason that they hate men.
Gautier thought Heine's Wilis and Hugo's fifteen year old Spanish girl would make a good ballet story.
His first idea was to present an empty ballroom glittering with crystal and candlelight.
The Wilis would cast a spell over the floor.
Giselle and other dancers would enter and whirl through the room, unable to resist the spell to keep them dancing.
Giselle would try to keep her lover from partnering other girls.
The Queen of the Wilis would enter, lay her cold hand on Giselle's heart, and the girl would drop dead.
Gautier was not satisfied with this story.
It was basically a succession of dances with one moment of drama at its end.
He had no experience writing ballet stories so he called upon Vernoy de St. Georges, a man who had written many stories for the ballet.
St. Georges liked Gautier's basic idea of the frail young girl and the Wilis.
He wrote the story of Giselle as it is known today in three days, and sent it to Léon Pillet, the director of the Paris Opéra.
Pillet wanted to present a beautiful young Italian dancer named Carlotta Grisi to the public.
He considered La Sylphide, but Adèle Dumilâtre reminded him that the role had been promised to her.
A ballet in preparation, La Rosière de Gand, was suggested, but Grisi objected.
The role was too long and the story was not suitable for dance.
Pillet needed a good story, and he found it in Giselle.
Grisi liked the story as much as Pillet did, so Giselle was put into development at once.
Adolphe Adam was a popular writer of ballet and opera music in early 19th-century France.
He wrote with great speed.
He completed Giselle in about two months.
The music was written in the smooth, song-like style of the day called cantilena.
This style is well known to music lovers from Bellini's opera Norma and Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor.
Adam used several leitmotifs in the ballet.
A leitmotif is a short musical phrase that is associated with a certain character, event, or idea.
Adam's leitmotifs are heard several times throughout the ballet.
A leitmotif is associated with Giselle, and another with Albrecht.
Hilarion's motif marks his every entrance.
It suggests the Fate theme in Beethoven's Fifth Symphony.
Another leitmotif is associated with the "he loves me, he loves me not" flower test in Act 1.
This leitmotif is heard again in the mad scene, and in Act 2 when Giselle offers flowers to Albrecht.
The Wilis have their own motif.
It is heard in the overture, in Act 1 when Berthe tells the story of the Wilis, and in the mad scene.
It is heard again in Act 2 when the Wilis make their first entrance.
The hunting horn motif marks sudden surprises.
This motif is heard when Albrecht is exposed as a nobleman.
The music was completely original with Adam.
A critic noted however that Adam had borrowed eight bars from a romance by a Miss Puget and three bars from the huntsman's chorus in Carl Maria von Weber's opera Euryanthé.
In addition, two pieces by Friedrich Burgmüller were put into the ballet.
One was a waltz called "Souvenir de Ratisbonne".
The other music was a group of dances performed by Giselle's friends.
It is unknown who put these pieces into the ballet.
Dance and pantomime
Jean Coralli and Jules Perrot designed the dances for Giselle.
Perrot and Carlotta Grisi were lovers, and Perrot designed all of Grisi's dances and all of her pantomime.
Everyone in the Paris dance world knew that Perrot had designed Grisi's dances, and Coralli said so, but Perrot was given no official credit in the printed materials such as posters and programs.
This was most likely done to prevent Perrot from collecting royalties (money, profits) on the ballet.
Perrot liked bold touches and planned several rapid aerial swoops on wires in Act 2 for Giselle.
Grisi was afraid of these swoops.
A stage hand was brought in to test the swoops.
He crashed face-first into the scenery.
The swoops were abandoned.
Cyril Beaumont writes that Giselle is made up of two elementsdance and mime.
Act 1 features short mimed scenes, he points out, and episodes of dancing which are fused with mime.
In Act 2, mime has become fused entirely with dance.
He writes that the choreographic vocabulary is composed of a small number of simple steps:
Movements: developpe, grand rond de jambe
Poses: arabesque, attitude
Gliding steps: chasse, glissade, pas de basque, pas de bouree
Hopping steps: ballone, temps leve
Turning steps: pirouette, petit tour, tour en l'air
Leaping steps: (vertical) ballotte, entrechat, sisonne, rond de jambe en l'air saute, (horizontal) cabriole, jete, grande jete, soubresaut
Parts of Giselle have been cut or changed since the ballet's first night.
Giselle's Act 1 pantomime scene in which she tells Albrecht of her strange dream is cut.
The peasant pas de deux in Act 1 is cut back a bit.
The Prince of Courland and his daughter Bathilde used to make their entrance on horseback, but today they walk on.
In the original production, the Prince and Bathilde were present at Giselle's death, but now they leave the scene before she dies.
The machines used to make Giselle fly and to make her disappear are no longer used.
A trapdoor is sometimes employed to make Giselle rise from her grave and then to make her sink into it at the end of Act 2.
At the end of Act 2, Bathilde formerly entered with the courtiers to search for Albrecht.
He took a few unsteady steps toward them and collapsed into their arms.
This moment was an artistic parallel to the Act 1 finale when the peasants gathered about the dead Giselle.
Now, Bathilde and the courtiers are cut, and Albrecht slowly leaves the stage alone.
Ethnic music, dance, and costume
Ethnic music, dance, and costume were a large part of romantic ballet.
At the time Giselle was written, people thought of Germany when they heard a waltz because the waltz was of German origin.
Giselle makes her first entrance to the music of a waltz, and the audience would have known at once that the ballet was set in Germany.
Adam wrote three waltzes for Giselle: two for Giselle and one for the Wilis.
Adam wrote that the "Giselle Waltz" in Act 1 has "all the German color indicated by the locality."
People agreed.
One critic wrote: "A lovely waltz ... in the Germanic spirit of the subject".
At first, Gautier thought that some of the dancers in the Act 2 waltz for the Wilis should dress in ethnic costume and dance ethnic steps.
Adam put bits of French, Spanish, German, and Indian -sounding music in the waltz for this purpose.
Gautier's "ethnic" idea was dropped as the ballet developed however, and it has not been picked up by modern producers.
Today, Act 2 is a ballet blanca "white" ballet in which all the ballerinas and the corps de ballet are dressed in full, white, bell-shaped skirts and the dances have a geometric design.
Original designs
The historical period for Giselle is not indicated in the story.
Paul Lormier, the chief costume designer at the Paris Opéra, probably consulted Gautier on this matter.
It is also possible that Pillet had the ballet's budget in mind and decided to use the many Renaissance-style costumes in the Opéra's wardrobe for Giselle.
These costumes were said to have been those from Rossini's William Tell (1829) and Berlioz's Benvenuto Cellini (1838).
Lormier certainly designed the costumes for the principal characters.
His costumes were in use at the Opéra until the ballet was dropped from the repertory in 1853.
Giselle was revived in 1863 with new costumes by Lormier's assistant, Alfred Albert.
Albert's costumes are closer to those of modern productions than those of Lormier, and were in use at the opera until 1868.
The ballet was revived again in 1924 with scenery and costumes by Alexandre Benois.
He wanted to revive the costumes of the original production but dropped the idea, believing the critics would charge him with a lack of imaginative creativity.
Pierre Luc Charles Ciceri was the chief set designer at the Paris Opéra from 1815 to 1847.
He designed the sets for the first production of Giselle.
Gautier was not specific about the ballet's locale, but placed it in "some mysterious corner of Germany ... on the other side of the Rhine".
This would have been the eastern side.
Giselle was two months in rehearsal.
This was a very long rehearsal time for the period.
Even so, Ciceri did not have enough time to design sets for both acts and focused on the second act.
The sets for the first act were actually those designed for the 1838 ballet, La Fille du Danube by Adam.
An illustration from Les Beautés de l'Opera of 1845 shows Giselle's cottage with a roof of straw on the left, and Albrecht's cottage on the right.
The two cottages are framed by the branches of two large trees on either sides of the stage.
Between the two cottages, in the distance, appears a castle and slopes covered with vineyards.
Although this scene was not designed for Giselle, it has remained the model for most modern productions.
Ciceri's set was in use until the ballet was dropped from the repertoire in 1853.
At that time, Gautier noticed that the sets were falling apart: "Giselle's cottage has barely three or four straws on its roof."
The Act 2 illustration from Les Beautés shows a dark wood with a pool of water in the distance.
The branches of aged trees create an arch overhead.
Beneath these branches on the left is a marble cross with 'Giselle' written on it.
From one of its arms hangs the crown of grape leaves Giselle wore as Queen of the Vintage.
On the stage, thick weeds and wildflowers (200 bulrushes and 120 branches of flowers) were the undergrowth.
The gas jets of the footlights and those overhead suspended in the flies were turned low to create a mood of mystery and terror.
A circular hole was cut into the backdrop and covered with a transparent material.
A strong light behind this hole represented the moon.
The light was occasionally manipulated to suggest the passage of clouds.
Gautier and St. Georges wanted the pool to be made of large mirrors.
Pillet rejected this idea because of its cost.
In the 1868 revival however, the mirrors were acquired for this scene.
Adam thought Ciceri's backdrop for Act 1 was "not so good ... it is all weak and pale" but he liked the set for Act 2: "[Ciceri's] second act is a delight, a dark humid forest filled with bulrushes and wild flowers, and ending with a sunrise, seen at first through the trees at the end of the piece, and very magical in its effect."
The sunrise also delighted the critics.
The balletomanes of Paris became very excited as the opening night of Giselle approached.
News reports kept their interest alive.
Some reports said that Grisi had had an accident.
Some reports said that the conductor was ill with a tumour.
Still others said that the stage hands feared for their safety.
Hopes that the ballet would be ready in May were dashed.
Opening night was postponed several times.
Grisi was absent for a few days and her return was delayed to protect her health.
Lighting, trapdoors, and scene changes needed further rehearsals.
Cuts were made in Grisi's role to spare the dancer's health.
Instead of returning to her tomb at the end of the ballet, it was decided Giselle would be placed on a bed of flowers and sink slowly into the earth.
This touch preserved the romantic mood of the Act 2 finale.
At last, on Monday 28 June 1841, the curtain rose on Giselle in the Salle Le Peletier.
Grisi played Giselle with Lucien Petipa as her lover Albrecht, M. Simon as the gamekeeper Hilarion, and Adèle Dumilâtre as Myrtha, the Queen of the Wilis.
Typical of the theatrical practices of the time, Giselle was preceded by an excerpt from another productionin this case, the third act of Rossini's opera, Moise.
In spite of the chief machinist shouting orders to his crew that could be heard by the audience, Giselle was a great success.
Grisi was a sensation.
Ballet-goers regarded her as another Taglioni, the greatest ballerina of the period.
Characters in the first performance
Duke Albert of Silesia, in the attire of a villager
The Prince of Courland
Wilfride, the Duke's squire
Hilarion, the game-keeper
An Old Peasant Man
Bathilde, the Duke's fiancée
Giselle, a peasant girl
Berthe, Giselle's mother
Myrtha, Queen of the Wili
Zulmé, a Wili
Moyne, a Wili
Contemporary reviews and comments
Giselle was a great artistic and commercial success.
Le Constitutionnel praised Act 2 for its "poetic effects".
Moniteur des théâtres wrote that Grisi "runs [and] flies across the stage like a gazelle in love".
One critic made a detailed analysis of the music in La France Musicale.
He thought the Act 1 waltz "ravishing", and noted that the scene of Berthe's narrative was filled with "quite new" harmonic modulations.
He praised other moments in Act 1 (especially the mad scene), and was in raptures with the music of Act 2, singling out the entrance of the Wilis and the viola solo played through Giselle's last moments.
He thought the flute and harp music accompanying Giselle as she disappeared into her grave at ballet's end "full of tragic beauty."
Coralli was praised for the Act 1 peasant pas de deux and for the "elegance" of Act 2.
Coralli followed a suggestion made by Gautier and picked the most beautiful girls in the company to play the peasants and the Wilis.
One observer thought the selection process cruel: the almost-beautiful girls were turned away without a second thought.
Grisi and Petipa were great successes as the tragic lovers.
Gautier praised their performance in Act 2, writing that the two dancers made the act "a real poem, a choreographic elegy full of charm and tenderness ... More than one eye that thought it was seeing only [dance] was surprised to find its vision obscured by a tearsomething that does not often happen in a ballet ... Grisi danced with a perfection ... that places her in the ranks between Elssler and Taglioni ... Her miming surpassed every expectation ... She is nature and artlessness personified."
Adam thought Petipa "charming" as both dancer and actor, and that he had "rehabilitated" male dancing with his performance.