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He was the first tennis player to have won all Grand Slam tournaments on four different surfaces.
Later, Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal did the same.
He is one of the most successful tennis players in history and was formerly ranked number 1 in the world.
He is married to former women's number one tennis player Steffi Graf.
Sportspeople from Nevada
Narcissus (Narcissi) (often called a daffodil) is the botanic name for a genus of mainly hardy, mostly spring-flowering, bulbs in the Amaryllidaceae family.
They are native to Europe, North Africa, and Asia.
It has pale yellow perianths with a darker central trumpet (paracorolla or "corona").
The long, narrow leaves are slightly greyish in colour and rise from the base of the stem.
During the winter, the flowering part of narcissi dies away, and the plant lives on underground in a bulb.
A bulb is an onionlike structure, filled with food.
The plant lives off this food during the winter, protected from the cold by the soil above.
American Daffodil Society
Dajabón is a Dominican province; it is in the northwestern part of the country, on the border with Haiti.
Its capital city has the same name, Dajabón.
It was created on 1938 with the name Province Libertador.
It got its present name in 1961.
It was part of the Monte Cristi province before being elevated to the category of province
Dajabón is bordered to the north by the Monte Cristi province, to the east by the Santiago Rodríguez province and to the south by the Elías Piña province.
To the west Dajabón borders the Republic of Haiti.
For a very long time, very few people lived in this region because it was on the border between two countries: first, between the French colony of Saint-Domingue and the Spanish colony of Santo Domingo and later between the two independent countries of Haiti and Dominican Republic.
There were many fights here between the armies of the two parts of the island and some important battles were held close to the city of Dajabón during the Dominican Independence War.
In 1861, the Dominican Republic became again a colony of Spain.
The Restoration War, or just the Restoration, started on 16 August 1863, in a hill near the hamlet of Capotillo.
The Spanish army left the country in 1865.
After the Restoration, people came to live in this area and several towns were created.
When the province was created in 1938, it had three municipalities: Dajabón, Loma de Cabrera and Restauración.
In 1996, Partido was made a municipality and later, in 2002, El Pino became another municipality.
2002 : Manuel Bueno
2005 : Cañongo and Capotillo
2006 : Santiago de la Cruz
In  (last national census), there were  people living in the Dajabón province, and 38,225 () living in towns and cities.
The Dajabón province has a total area of .
It has 2.1% of the area of the Dominican Republic and it is ranked as the 23rd (out of 31 plus the National District) largest province.
The altitude of the city of Dajabón, provincial capital, is .
The Cordillera Central ("Central mountain chain") is in the southern part ofthe province.
The northern part is flat, with many savannas; it is part of the Yaque del Norte Valley (or Línea Noroeste).
One, from north to south, comes from the Monte Cristi province and goes through the cities of Dajabón, Loma de Cabrera and Restauración and then goes into the Elías Piña province.
In some parts, the road marks the border with Haiti.
The second main road begins in Santiago de la Cruz and goes to the east through Partido and El Pino and then through the Santiago Rodríguez and Valverde provinces to end in the Carretera Duarte (Duarte National Road), one of the most important road of the country and that goes from Santo Domingo to Monte Cristi.
The only important river in the province is the Dajabón River, also known as Masacre (from French Massacre).
This river marks the Dominican-Haitian border from the city of Dajabón to its mouth.
Other rivers are very short and they are tributaries of the Dajabon or the Artibonite rivers.
There are 5 municipalities and 4 municipal districts (M.D.) in the province.
As in all provinces on the Dominican Republic-Haiti border, there is little economic development.
The trade with Haiti is very important, mostly in the city of Dajabón.
Rice and bananas are produced in the northern part of the province, and cattle raising is important around the city of Dajabón.
1938 establishments in the Dominican Republic
First base, or 1B, is the first of four positions on a baseball diamond, in baseball.
Hall of Fame first basemen
Ernie Banks (not listed at the Hall of Fame as such but played half his career at first base)
Jim Bottomley
Dan Brouthers
Roger Connor
Hank Greenberg
George Kelly
Harmon Killebrew
Mule Suttles
Ben Taylor
Notable current first basemen
Wilson Betemit
Jason Giambi
Adrian Gonzalez
Conor Jackson
Lyle Overbay
Richie Sexson
Outfielder is a position in baseball.
Three players play this position.
They are the farthest from the batter.
The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian is a 2008 fantasy movie by Disney and Walden Media.
It was released on May 9, 2008.
It is part of the Chronicles of Narnia movie series.
This movie is a follow-up of the 2005 movie The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe.
Sobekhotep VIII was a Pharaoh of northern Egypt during the 16th Egyptian dynasty.
He was one of the ancient Egyptian kings people have little knowledge about.
Historians estimate that Sobekhotep VIII was their sovereign leader for 16 years.
It is most likely that Sobekhotep VIII.
was the successor of Djehuti and followed by Neferhotep III.
This article is about the baseball player and manager.
For the violinist, see Albert Spalding (violinist).
Official webpage of Spalding's company
19th century baseball players
Charlie Waitt (born October 14, 1853 in Hallowell, Maine – October 21, 1912) was a professional baseball player.
He was teased, taunted and called a "sissy" for wearing what was one of the first baseball gloves ever worn.
Sportspeople from Maine
Douglas L. Allison (born July 12, 1846 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, died December 19, 1916 in Washington, DC) was a professional baseball catcher for the Cincinnati Red Stockings, the first fully professional baseball team.
Baseball-Reference.com - career statistics and analysis
Sportspeople from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Bill Doak (born January 28, 1891, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) played 11 years with the St. Louis Cardinals.
In , he went 20-6 with a league leading 1.72 ERA.
Doak won 20 games in .
Doak led the National League in ERA again in 1921.
Doak was traded to the Brooklyn Robins in mid-1924.
Teasing is a word with different meanings.
With humans, teasing usually means either playful and hurtful.
Teasing is often unkind, and is sometimes a type of harassment.
It can have a sexual contest as well, as in the sense of cause sexual arousal in someone, for example.
Stories and advice on stopping teasing.
The Art of the Teaser
Patton (UK: Patton: Lust for Glory) is a 1970 movie about United States Army General George S. Patton, and his role in the Second World War.
Patton starred George C. Scott in the title role, and it was released by 20th Century Fox.
The movie became very popular, and won an Academy Award for Best Picture in 1971.
A sequel, The Last Days of Patton, appeared in 1986, also starring Scott.
Patton's widow was approached not long after her husband died (after an automobile accident), with an offer to make a Hollywood movie about Patton's life and career.
His family did not agree right away, and it was many years before they approved a dramatic movie to be made.
The movie's screenplay was based on a well-written biography of General Patton, Patton: Ordeal and Triumph, and A Soldier's Story, a  by General Omar N. Bradley, who served with Patton.
The movie did not give much time to showing combat and battles, but explained Patton's role in several important battles and campaigns.
It also showed his character as a person, as a soldier, and as a leader.
Patton made good choices, such as appointing Omar Bradley to assist him, and bad choices, such as striking soldiers physically when they showed fear or cowardice, or giving his personal opinions to the media, when they differed widely from what the Allied commanders expected.
The movie showed a mix of both bad and good things about Patton.
The movie appeared nearly twenty-five years after Patton died.
American attitudes toward war, toward fighting, and toward the military had changed in many ways.
The Vietnam War was happening at the same time the movie was made and shown.
The older generation, who had fought in World War II or helped out on the , tended to support the war and the draft, which made young American men join the Army to fight.
Younger people, who did not remember World War II or were born after it ended, were mostly against the war in Vietnam.
Patton gave older and younger viewers a look back at an American war hero and leader, and it gave them things to think and talk about together.
1970 drama movies
1970s biographical movies
Movies directed by Franklin J. Schaffner
Jafar is an evil character in Disney's Aladdin movies.
He is played by Jonathan Freeman in the 1992 movie and musical.
Jafar was born in someplace of Arabia, most likely in the kingdom Agrabah.
Because he was ugly and poor, he was not happy for many years.
Once, Jafar found a baston that can hypnotize people.
Jafar use it to brainwash the Sultan.
He became Agrabah's vizier and moved into the palace.
One day, at the market, Jafar met the parrot Iago and they became friends.
The two planned to take the Sultan's treasure but they found something better: a magic lamp.
Inside the lamp was a genie who granted wishes.
Jafar use his first wish to become the Sultan.
When the royal family refused to bow to him, Jafar made a wish to become a powerful wizard.
Jafar took control of Agrabah and decided to decorate the palace.
He painted the throne room red and filled it with gold.
He also replaced the throne which was in the shape of an elephant into a throne shaped like a snake.
Because of Jafar's bad luck, Aladdin defeated him and ended his plans for power.
He returns in the sequel of the first Aladdin in Aladdin, Return of Jafar.
Fictional demons and devils
en:List of Disney's Aladdin characters#Jafar
The Australian is a newspaper made in Australia.
It is made by an Australian company called News Limited, is published every day, and started in 1964.
The Australian homepage
The Barbican Arts Centre is a large performing arts centre on the northern edge of the City of London.
It is in the modern Barbican estate, near the Barbican Tube station.
Harry Morgan (born as Harry Bratsburg, April 10, 1915 – December 7, 2011) was an American actor.
He was well known for his role in the M*A*S*H TV series as Colonel Sherman T. Potter and as Bill Gannon in the T.V. series Dragnet.
He won an Emmy Award in 1980.
Morgan was born in Detroit, Michigan on April 10, 1915.
He was raised in Muskegon, Michigan.
Morgan studied at Muskegon High School and at the University of Chicago.
He was married to Eileen Detchon from 1940 until she died in 1985.
Then he was married to Barbara Bushman from 1986 until his death in 2011.
In December 1987 he was arrested for abusing his wife.
All charges were dropped.
Morgan died on December 7, 2011 in Los Angeles, California from pneumonia, aged 96.
His body was later cremated.
Harry Morgan Interview with Archive of American Television
Harry Morgan at FindAGrave.com
Brisbane Times is a website that reports news for Brisbane, Australia, as well as Queensland, the state that Brisbane is in.
It started on 7 March 2007 and is owned by a company called Fairfax.
Brisbane Times homepage
Websites established in 2007
The District line is a railway line in the London Underground.
It stretches from the London Borough of Havering in East London to Ealing and Richmond in West London.
District line facts
1868 establishments in the United Kingdom
Kensington is a district of West London, England in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea.
It is  west of Charing Cross.
The Kensington District, by Geraldine Edith Mitton, 1903, from Project Gutenberg
Dew Process is an independent record label from Brisbane, Australia.
It was started by Paul Piticco, who still works for the company today.
Dew Process is distributed by Universal Music Australia in Australia and New Zealand.
Dew Process homepage
The First and Second Chronicles are history books in the Old Testament.
They tell the history of Israel differently from the Books of Kings.
Using Biblical books (like Samuel and Kings) and other sources, the "Chronicler" encourages the Jews who returned from exile in Babylon.
It goes back over Israel's history to explain why they have had all their troubles and how they can live right to become better in the future.
One major difference to the similar, earlier narrative is that unlike in 2 Samuel, David is presented as being good in Chronicles.
Originally, the First and Second Chronicles were one book.
They were later split apart into two different books.
The Hebrew title (dibre hayyamim) means "what happened in the days (or years)".
The Septuagint translators (who translated the Old Testament into Greek) called the book "the things left out".
This showed that they thought of it as an addition to Samuel and Kings.
Jerome (A.D. 347–420), who translated the Latin Vulgate, said that a better title would be "chronicle of the whole sacred history".
Luther used this idea in his German version, and others have followed him.
Chronicles was first divided into two books by the Septuagint translators.
Old Jewish tradition says that Ezra wrote Chronicles.
However, scholars do not accept this as fact.
It is thought that Chronicles was written roughly in the year 400 BC.
Online Bible at GospelHall.org
Mary Ann (Marian) Evans (22 November 1819 – 22 December 1880), better known by her pen name George Eliot, was an English novelist.
She was one of the leading writers of the Victorian era.
Middlemarch is perhaps her most famous book.
She was born in Nuneaton, the youngest child of Robert and Christiana Evans.
Mary Ann attended Miss Latham's boarding school and then Mrs Wallington's Boarding School in Nuneaton in 1828.
In 1850, Evans travelled the first time to the continent of Europe.
There, she translated the book Essence of Christianity into English.
This was the only book she published under her real name and not under her pseudonym George Eliot.
Evans became ill in on December 19 1880.
Later, her kidney problem started again.
Due to this illness, she died on 22 December 1880.
Gerry Anderson MBE (14 April 1929 – 26 December 2012) was a British television and movie producer, director and writer of Jewish origin.
He is famous for the science fiction television programmes he created.
The most well known of these was Thunderbirds.
Most of the programmes he created used marionettes.
He also worked with puppeteer Christine Glanville.
He was married to actress and producer Sylvia Anderson.
Sarah Louise Christine Chalke (born August 27, 1976) is a Canadian-American actress most famous for her role as "Elliot Reid" on Scrubs and "Becky Conner" on Roseanne and in the CBS comedy How I Met Your Mother, and The Powerpuff Girls.
Scrubs (clothing), worn by medical staff
Scrubs (occupation) or surgical technologist
Scrubs (TV series), an American television program
Scrub baseball also known as "scrub" or "scrubs", an informal game of baseball without teams
Wormwood Scrubs also known as "The Scrubs", an area in west London
Wormwood Scrubs (HM Prison) also known as "The Scrubs", a prison in west London
Scrub, low shrub and grass characteristic of scrubland
Scrubber, an industrial gas-pollution control device
Data scrubbing, an error correction technique
"No Scrubs", a song by TLC from the Fanmail
Deku Scrubs or Deku, a race of creatures in The Legend of Zelda media
AfterMASH was an American TV series.
It was a spin-off of the M*A*S*H TV series.
It was not a successful series, and was canceled after two seasons.
Finest-Kind.net  - M*A*S*H website with info on AfterMASH
TV.com AfterMASH page
1985 television series endings
M*A*S*H is an American television sitcom made by Larry Gelbart about doctors in a mobile .
It was inspired by MASH: A Novel About Three Army Doctors.
It stars Alan Alda as the main character.
It was very popular, lasting 11 seasons, and having one of the most viewed series finales in television history.
M*A*S*H is about a Mobile Army Surgical Hospital during the Korean War.
It stars Hawkeye Pierce, an American surgeon who dislikes the war and makes a lot of jokes.
There have been a strong cast of characters through the show's life.
The only four people who appeared from the first episode to the last are Alan Alda and Loretta Swit.
William Christopher's character, Father Mulcahy appeared in the first episode but was played by George Morgan.
William Christopher took over the role for the rest of the series.
"Goodbye, Farewell, and Amen"
"Goodbye, Farewell, and Amen" is the series finale.
It was aired on February 28, 1983, and is two and a half hours long.
Nearly 106 million Americans watched it, which was 77% of the people watching TV at the time.
It is the most watched episode of any show in American history.
Loretta Swit (born November 4, 1937) is an American actress.
She is most famous for her role as Margaret Houlihan on the M*A*S*H TV series.
Lawrence Lavonne "Larry" Linville (September 29, 1939 – April 10, 2000) was an American actor.
He was most famous for his role as Frank Burns on the M*A*S*H TV series.
is a thirdperson puzzle-action video game made by Namco for the PlayStation 2 game console.
It has had many sequels, including We Love Katamari, Me & My Katamari, and Beautiful Katamari.
What happ
In the game, you play as a small human-like being, who is a prince.
His father is the king of the cosmos.
In the beginning, the king destroys all of the stars in the galaxy without meaning to do so.
He then asks his son to take a magic ball (the Katamari).
The king then sends the prince to Earth.
The ball can make things stick to it.
The point of the game is to roll enough things onto the ball.
Once this limit is reached, the Katamari is sent to the king for evaluation.
If it is big enough, the ball will float into the air and turn into a star.
What people thought about the game
The game got really good ratings.
IGN rated the game 85.75%.
Gaming Age gave it a B+.
GameSpot's review said that it was "far and away one of the strangest, most original games to come along in years".
Beautiful Katamari, released in Japan as  is a third-person puzzle-action video game made by Namco Bandai for the Xbox 360 game console.
Wii and PlayStation 3 versions have been talked about by Namco Bandai, but no release date has been set.
Xbox 360-only games
We Love Katamari, known in Japan as , is a third-person puzzle-action video game made by Namco for the PlayStation 2 game console.
It is the sequel to Katamari Damacy.
is a third-person puzzle-action video game made by Namco for the PlayStation Portable game console.
It is the first and only handheld Katamari game.
is an Japanese amusement company.
They make video games, and are famous for creating video games including Pac-Man, Galaga, Dig Dug and Xevious.
1955 establishments in Japan
Nagoya is one of the largest cities in Japan, with over 2 and a quarter million people in 2010.
It is in Aichi Prefecture.
There are 16 wards in Nagoya.
Nagoya castle: It was built in 1615 by Japan's famous military commander, Ieyasu Tokugawa.
It is one of Japan's most famous castles.
The gold dolphin-like fishes on the roof are its main feature.
It is said that the total weight of the gold used is 215.3 kilograms.
Nagoya City Science Museum: located in  Shirakawa park in Naka-ku, Nagoya-shi.
It reopened in 2011.
Its planetarium is 35 meters in diameter.
It is the largest in the world.
Manglish is a language that sounds almost the same as  English spoken by Malaysians.
It is a close cousin of Singlish.
The Story of the Kelly Gang is the world's first feature length movie.
This 70 minute movie was made in 1906, nine years before D.W. Griffith's The Birth of a Nation made in 1915.
The movie tells the story of the famous Australian bushranger, Ned Kelly (1855-1880).
It was written and directed by Charles Tait.
The movie's reel length is about 4,000 feet (1,200 metres).
It was released in Australia on December 26, 1906 and in the UK in January 1908.
The movie cost about $2,250 to make.
It was filmed in Melbourne and nearby suburbs of St Kilda (indoor scenes), Eltham, Greensborough, Heidelberg, Mitcham and Rosanna.
The train scene is filmed near the St. James Road crossing, near Rosanna Station, on the Hurstbridge line in Victoria.
The lost scene inside the hotel has a small boy played by Frederick Crew.
There are only about ten minutes of film left.
Many rolls of damaged film were found in an old barn which was once the family home of the Crews in Yarraville, Victoria.
The rolls were sent to Canberra but they were unable to recover most of the footage.
In November 2006 the National Film and Sound Archive made a new digital copy of the movie.
This has 11 minutes of extra film which was discovered in the United Kingdom.
The movie now is 17 minutes long.
It has the main scene of the Kelly's fight with the police at Glenrowan (called the Kelly's Last Stand).
A copy of the program book has also been found.
It has stories from newspaper reports of the capture of the gang, and the story of the movie, in six 'scenes'.
This told the audiences what was happening in the movie.
The book and the little bit of film that is left can help people imagine what the whole movie may have been like.
In 2007 The Story of the Kelly Gang was added to the UNESCO Memory of the World Register  for being the world's first full-length feature movie.
1906 works
Australian biographical movies
1900s movies
Stefanie Maria "Steffi" Graf (born 14 June 1969) is a German retired professional women's tennis player.
She was born in Mannheim, Baden-Württemberg.
She was once ranked the best women's tennis player in the world.
She is married to another retired tennis player Andre Agassi.
German female tennis players
People from Mannheim
"Comeback" (song), a song by Kelly Rowland from Ms. Kelly
"Come Back", a song by Pearl Jam from Pearl Jam
"Come Back" (Foo Fighters song), on One by One
Comeback project, a movie, an album and a song featuring Eric Burdon
The Comeback (movie), also known as The Day the Screaming Stopped, is a 1978 British horror film
The Comeback (American football), the January 3, 1993 NFL playoff game between the Buffalo Bills and the Houston Oilers
The Comeback (TV series), a television series produced by HBO that starred actress Lisa Kudrow as sitcom actress Valerie Cherish
The Comeback EP, a 2001 EP album by Stars
"The Comeback" (Seinfeld episode), aired on January 30, 1997
The Comebacks, a 2007 comedy movie
"The Comeback" (Shout Out Louds song), on Howl Howl Gaff Gaff
"The Comeback" (Gomez song), on Bring It On
The Comeback, the 1985 novel by Ed Vega
Sports Illustrated is the largest weekly American sports magazine owned by media company Time Warner.
It has over 3 million subscribers and is read by 23 million adults each week, with over 18 million of them are men, 19% of the adult males in the United States.
Cover history
SI.com
SI Vault: All the editions since 1954
Page of the magazine at SI.com
Sports Illustrated for Kids
Christian music is music about God, Jesus Christ and Christianity.
Worship songs are found in the Jewish Psalms in the Bible.
Every kind of music genre and style is found in Christian music.
This includes country, pop, easy listening, urban/hip hop, rock, and hymns.
Abdul Qadeer Khan (; April 1, 1936 – October 10, 2021) was a Pakistani scientist and metallurgical engineer.
He was a controversial figure.
He is thought by many people to be one of the pioneers of Pakistan's nuclear program.
Others disagree and claim he is only an opportunist who abused his position to obtain personal benefits and make a lot of money.
His middle name is occasionally spelt Quadeer, Qadir or Gadeer.
His given names are usually abbreviated to A.Q..
Khan claimed he had Pashtun ancestry.
However, his ancestors supposedly immigrated to modern India, during the reign of Afghan Emperor Shahabuddin Ghouri from the district of Ghour of present Afghanistan.
He was born in Bhopal State in British India in 1936.
His father Abdul Ghafoor Khan served in the Education Department, British India, and after retirement, settled in Bhopal.
He remained under arrest in Pakistan for quite some time, because he was accused of Nuclear proliferation to the North Korean government and also to Iran.
In August 2021, Khan was hospitalized in Islamabad after testing positive for COVID-19.
He died at the age of 85 in Islamabad from the infection on October 10, 2021.
Several politicians in Pakistan, including the Prime Minister Imran Khan stated their tribute to him.
In a post on Twitter, Imran Khan stated
Munir Ahmad Khan
AQ Khan, Samar Mubarmand talking on Pakistani Nuclear Program
Samar Mubarakmand telling truth about AQ Khan
Deaths from the COVID-19 pandemic in Pakistan
An interception or intercept is a move in football that happens when a player on the defensive team catches a ball from the quarterback instead of the intended receiver.
When this is done, the player's team who had caught the ball, would gain possession of it.
Many leagues use interceptions, some are Canadian football and American football, as well as rugby league, rugby union, Australian rules football and Gaelic football.
The most common players to get interceptions are defensive backs.
NFL.com Record and Fact Book
Interception (football), a situation when a quarterback's pass is caught by a player on the opposing team
Interception (water), the interception of precipitation by vegetation
Telephone tapping, the interception of a phone call
Lawful interception, telephone tapping by authorities
Tax refund interception, the forceable use of a tax refund to pay an outstanding obligation
Load is an album by the heavy metal band Metallica.
It has sold over 5 million copies in the US.
The album was disliked by some long time Metallica fans, as it had a lighter sound than anything before it.
Track Listing
Ain't My Bitch
The House Jack Built
Bleeding Me
Poor Twisted Me
Wasting My Hate
Thorn Within
The Outlaw Torn
The Greatest Show on Turf was the nickname for the offense fielded by the St. Louis Rams offense during 1999, 2000, and 2001 National Football League seasons.
Kurt Warner  -  Quarterback
Marshall Faulk  -  Running back
Isaac Bruce  -  Wide receiver
Torry Holt  -  Wide receiver
Az-Zahir Hakim -  Wide receiver
Ricky Proehl -  Wide receiver
ESPN.com: Best Offense of All Time
ESPN.com: Readers List of Best Offenses of All Time
Fantasy Football Bookmarks: The Greatest Show on Turf
2001 in sports
Le nozze di Figaro, ossia la folle giornata (The Marriage of Figaro, or The Day of Madness) is an opera buffa with music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and an Italian libretto by Lorenzo Da Ponte.
The opera premiered at the Burgtheater, Vienna on 1 May 1786.
It was well received and nearly every scene received an encore, which made the performance so long that the Emperor did not like this and wanted it to stop.
The opera is based on the 1784 French play, [[The Marriage of Figaro (play)|La folle journée, ou le Mariage de Figaro]]'' by Pierre Beaumarchais.
The play was very controversial in its day (and even banned briefly in France), but the play's questionable material was removed and Da Ponte's libretto passed the Viennese censors.
Count Almaviva
Countess Almaviva (soprano), the Count's wife
Figaro, Count Almaviva's servant and Susanna's betrothed
Susanna (soprano), the Countess' maid and Figaro's betrothed
Cherubino, a page boy
The opera is set in the palace and gardens of Count Almaviva in Seville, Spain.
Figaro, Count Almaviva's servant, is on the eve of marrying Susanna, the Countess' maid.
Almaviva has long lusted after Susanna.
He plans to revive an old aristocratic right permitting a nobleman to deflower a peasant on her wedding night.
Figaro is furious.
With Susanna and his friends, he thwarts the Count's intentions.
Almaviva is forced to beg his wife's forgiveness.
Emergency Medical Technician, a healthcare worker
E.M.T., a former experimental music group
Élan Motorsport Technologies, a race car manufacturing consortium
Elektro-Mess-Technik, a German manufacturer of turntables and audio equipment
EMT (company), an Estonian mobile network operator owned by TeliaSonera
EMT (Madrid) (Empresa Municipal de Transportes de Madrid, S.A.), the Madrid transportation network
Efficient market theory, a theory about financial markets
Epithelial-mesenchymal transition, a mechanism in developmental biology
Electrical metallic tubing, a type of electrical conduit
Emergency & military tourniquet, a modern, specialized tourniquet for emergency and military application
El Monte Airport, in California, U.S., with IATA airport code EMT
East Midlands Trains, an English train operating company
Email Money Transfer, a funds transfer service between Canadian financial institutions
, or My Neighbour Totoro on UK DVD box titles, is a 1988 animated movie written and directed by Hayao Miyazaki and produced by Studio Ghibli.
It won the Animage Anime Grand Prix prize in 1988.
This movie was originally released in the United States in VHS format with the title, My Friend Totoro.
Troma Films, under their 50th St. Films banner, produced a 1993 dub of the movie co-produced by Jerry Beck.
It was released on VHS and DVD by Fox Video.
Troma's and Fox's rights to this version expired in 2004.
The movie was re-released by Disney on March 7, 2006.
It features a new dub cast.
This DVD release is the first version of the movie in the United States to include both Japanese and English language tracks, as Fox did not have the rights to the Japanese audio track for their version.
Satsuki, Mei and their father live in the field, where Mei discovers a giant creature living in the forest near the house.
When Mei leaves in her attempt to save her hospitalized mother, she and Satsuki take a ride on the cat-bus.
The movie ends with the girls delivering an ear of corn to their mother.
A girl around ten years old.
Satsuki is Mei's older sister.
Satsuki is the traditional name of the fifth month of the Japanese calendar, the equivalent of the English May.
Satsuki's sister who is around four years old.
Her name deliberately echoes her sister's, May being the fifth month, reflecting the fact that the story originally featured one girl, who was then divided into an older and younger sister.
The widely-distributed promotional image for the movie of a girl standing next to Totoro at a bus stop reflects the earlier conception with a single child.
The girls' father, who works in the archaeology and anthropology departments of a Tokyo university.
The girls' mother, recovering from an unnamed illness (confirmed by Miyazaki as being tuberculosis) at Shichikokuyama Hospital, which is noted for its tuberculosis treatment program.
When Miyazaki was a young boy, his mother had tuberculosis.
A grey and white, friendly forest spirit, whose appearance is a combination of an owl, a cat, and a tanuki and is at least three meters tall.
Totoro is Mei's mispronunciation of torōru, the Japanese pronunciation of troll as a loanword.
There are two similar, smaller creatures in the movie, also referred to as totoro; the big grey Totoro is named "Ō-Totoro", or "Miminzuku", the middle is "Chū-Totoro", or "Zuku", and the smallest is "Chibi-Totoro", or "Mini".
These names do not appear in the movie itself, but are used in ancillary materials.
A preteen boy of their village, ambivalent towards Satsuki.
This character resembles Miyazaki in his fondness for cartoons and airplanes.
Kanta's grandmother, who sometimes takes care of the girls.
A cat with hollow insides, serving as a bus for Totoros.
It is based on the Japanese superstition that if a cat grows old enough, it gains magical shape-changing powers, and is called a bake neko.
Bake neko are mentioned in several Ghibli movies.
Cultural References
One of the most significant things to point out in My Neighbor Totoro is that the mother is absent from the home.
According to Takie Sugiyama Lebra, “the [Japanese] mother is characterized as having suffered hardships” (154).
This is true in Totoro, as Mei and Satsuki's mother is hospitalized with an unnamed illness.
The mother's absence is significant because “at home, the husband depends upon the wife for domestic care.
The husband is helpless in housekeeping tasks, such as doing the laundry, cooking, cleaning, and child rearing” (52).
In the absence of her mother, it is then Satsuki's job to take over household tasks with Nanny's help.
This is illustrated several times throughout the movie.
One such illustration is when Satsuki prepares breakfast and lunch for her father and Mei before she leaves for school.
This is a task that would normally fall to the mother.
Also, the various cleaning and garden tasks that Satsuki and Mei often had the help of Nanny to complete would have also normally been the main responsibility of the mother to complete.
Mei and Satsuki's father demonstrates both typical and atypical characteristics of a traditional Japanese father.
According to Peter Tasker, “Japanese children are accustomed to never seeing their father on the weekdays, and only for short periods at weekends.
A husband’s proper field of endeavor is the company” (101).
This is only somewhat accurate in Mei and Satsuki's relationship with their father.
Although their father is often away working at the university or visiting their mother in the hospital, he is by no means an absentee father.
He is seen working at a desk while Mei plays outside and spending time with his daughters before their bedtime.
Many scholarly critiques of Japanese culture would lead one to believe that this is not the norm.
My Neighbor Totoro exhibits several important cultural points through the setting and passive details.
The house into which the Kusakabe family moves is an accurate portrayal of a typical, rural, Japanese home.
The sliding doors that the father opens when they first move into the house are common architectural features.
These doors are meant to be opened during the day, weather permitting, and closed at night.
Another feature to point out about the house itself is the way the foundation is constructed. “
Japanese houses do not have cellars but are built with a foundation of shallow concrete, or a single row of cement blocks.
On top of this type of foundation is placed a row of heavy timbers” (33).
This can be seen clearly when Mei crawls under the house in pursuit of one of the smaller totoros.
As for Totoro, he lives in a tree demarcated by a shimenawa (braided straw rope for shinto).
The tree is called shinboku (sacred tree).
Shinto is the traditional religion of Japan and some consider many of Hayao Miyazaki's movies—including Totoro—to have Shintoist themes,.
and interpret Totoro as a kami spirit of the Shinto religion.
But Miyazaki says "this movie [Totoro] has nothing to do with that [Shinto] or any other religion."
The community in which Satsuki and her family have moved is a typical agricultural town.
The rice paddies are visible throughout the movie.
Rice cultivation is one of the most important industries in Japan, as rice is a staple of the Japanese diet.
The home that Satsuki and Mei live in is more spacious than what would be available in a city.
Also, the scene where Nanny, Mei, and Satsuki are washing vegetables shows the near self-sufficiency of these farming communities.
The bath scene is also demonstrative of archetypal Japanese life. “
The bathtub is more like a small swimming pool than a tub” (38).
As seen in the movie, several people bathe together at once.
It is considered rude to enter the tub without first washing, as shown by Satsuki before she enters the tub with her father and Mei.
These bathtubs are heated usually by small, well-tended coal burners under the tub.
Another cultural manifestation is the scene that shows the family sleeping.
Often, the living room is converted into a bedroom where the whole family sleeps together on mats called futon.
This sleeping arrangement is space-efficient and accommodates for smaller housing in a country where living space is severely limited.
Mei is sleeping between Satsuki and her father, which is the usual arrangement—with the youngest in the middle.
In one scene, Satsuki is shown preparing the family's lunch in traditional bento style.
A bento is a compartmentalized lunch box usually with only one or two tiers.
Food is arranged to be aesthetically pleasing.
Bentos are extremely common as lunch boxes for children, adults, and even those who stay at home, as Mei does when Satsuki goes to school.
The food that Satsuki prepared for breakfast and lunch.
The fact that no one wore shoes inside of the house.
The way the girls cleaned the floors.
The school.
My Neighbor Totoro was released by Studio Ghibli as a double feature with Isao Takahata's Grave of the Fireflies in August 1988.
There are two theories for this: one was that Totoro would not be successful.
Another theory is that Grave of the Fireflies  was believed to be too depressing for audiences by itself, and thus needed a lighter animation to accompany it.
The late Yoshifumi Kondo provided character designs for both movies.
In 1993, Fox released the first English-language version of My Neighbor Totoro, produced by John Daly and Derek Gibson (the producers of The Terminator) with co-producer Jerry Beck.
Fox and Troma's rights to the movie expired in 2004.
Disney's English language version premiered on October 23, 2005; it then appeared at the 2005 Hollywood Film Festival.
The Turner Classic Movies cable television network held the television premiere of Disney's new English dub on January 19, 2006, as part of the network's salute to Hayao Miyazaki.
(TCM aired the dub as well as the original Japanese with English subtitles.)
The Disney version was released on DVD on March 7, 2006.
As is the case with Disney's other English dubs of Miyazaki movies, the Disney version of Totoro features a star-heavy cast, including Dakota and Elle Fanning as Satsuki and Mei, Timothy Daly as Mr. Kusakabe, Pat Carroll as Granny, Lea Salonga as Mrs. Kusakabe, and Frank Welker as Totoro and Catbus.
The songs for the new dub retained the same translation as the previous dub, but were sung by Sonya Isaacs.
Miyazaki made a 13-minute "sequel" to the movie, "Mei and the Kittenbus", that has not yet been distributed or broadcast.
It is shown exclusively in the Ghibli Museum and initially was only shown for a short time .
It reappears at intervals there, most recently from 1-31 January 2008.
Totoro also made a brief cameo appearance during a scene in Pompoko, another Studio Ghibli movie.
In the first Digimon Movie, "Digimon Adventure (The Movie)", there is a Totoro object that can be seen during the bubbles scene.
This scene was shortened in the English version and the Totoro cannot be seen.
Episode XXXIII of Samurai Jack has Jack encountering an annoying creature whose design is clearly influenced by the big Totoro.
The episode also includes an artifact called the Crystal of Cagliostro, an apparent allusion to Miyazaki's earlier movie The Castle of Cagliostro.
The character of Totoro made a cameo appearance in one episode of the Gainax TV series Kareshi Kanojo no Jijo (His and Her Circumstances), which was likely director Hideaki Anno's way of paying tribute to Miyazaki. (
Anno worked as a key animator on Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind in 1984 and considers Miyazaki a mentor.)
In fact, Gainax reportedly invited the animator who did the original key animation for Totoro to work on that scene, although they never revealed the animator's name.
In addition, one KareKano character, Tsubasa Shibahime, is a huge Totoro fan.
Totoro has made four cameo appearances on Comedy Central's Drawn Together.
He is a student in "Foxxy vs. the Board of Education", a Japanese businessman in "A Very Special Drawn Together Afterschool Special", a wedding guest in "Freaks & Greeks", and Ling-Ling's piano player in "American Idol Parody Clip Show".
Appa from Avatar: The Last Airbender was strongly inspired by the Catbus from My Neighbor Totoro.
In Neil Gaiman's The Sandman: Brief Lives, Delirium blows bubbles into a number of impossible shapes, one of which is Totoro holding an umbrella.
In Gaiman's The Books of Magic, several Totoro dolls are for sale in a market in the realm of Faerie.
Sometimes in Code Lyoko as seen in Yumi's room, there is a Totoro doll.
In Kiki's Delivery Service Mei and Chu-Totoro are painted on the  bedroom windows.
She also has a stuffed toy that resembles Totoro on her bed.
Also if you look hard while Kiki is zooming through the crowds near the beginning of the movie you can see a girl who looks just like Mei.
In Whisper of the Heart, Chu-Totoro and Chibi-Totoro can be seen on a dollmaker's bench, and one of the books in Sazuki's school library is titled Totoro.
A Totoro-doll appears on the cover of The Vandals album Internet Dating Superstuds.
In Ne-yo's music video for his song Sexy Love, in the scene where he and his girlfriend are on the roof, in the background you can see a spray painted Totoro.
The Cartoon Network short, "Buy One Get One Free" (aired as part of the What a Cartoon show), is a short about a cat who is tempted into throwing a party in his owner's apartment.
In one shot, a cat resembling Totoro can be seen at the party.
Totoro makes numerous appearances in the episode of South Park entitled "Imaginationland".
A parody, "Tonari no Pedoro" is seen in the Gintama OVA for Jump Festa 2005.
In this skit, Pedoro is a large, overweight man, wearing only briefs and a policeman hat.
A girl is asking him for help, while all he does is ramble about how the Telephone company shut down his line, and that the girl tricked him early by ringing the bell and running.
In an episode of The Simpsons, Homer visits a cartoon convention, featuring a booth with a cat bus on it with a grey figure underneath.
This was a reference to My Neighbor Totoro.
Kanta makes a brief appearance in Grave of the Fireflies (originally released as part of a double-feature with My Neighbor Totoro in 1988) in the scene following the first air raid.
A Totoro-esque figure (along with soot sprites) appears on a sign in Generation X (comics) in issue #53 as Skin (comics) rescues Chamber (comics) from falling off a roof.
A Totoro doll is one of the toys the character Bonnie owns who makes cameos in the  June 18, 2010 movie Toy Story 3.
The main Totoro has become a mascot for Studio Ghibli, gracing the studio's logo at the start of their movies.
There is a real park in Higashimurayama, Tokyo and Tokorozawa, Saitama named Hachikokuyama which was used as the inspiration for the mountain where Satsuki and Mei's mother was hospitalized.
Matsugo, the area where Mei and Satsuki live, is a real district of Tokorozawa, Saitama.
When the Catbus is about to take Mei and Satsuki to the hospital, the destination sign displays several real locations in Tokorozawa.
In the final display, the final character of 七国山病院 appears upside-down.
Asteroid 10160 has been named "Totoro" by Takao Kobayashi.
The name was approved by the International Astronomical Union.
The 2005 World Expo in Japan featured a "Totoro" house,  a recreation of Satsuki and Mei's house in the movie.
Lisa Michelson who voiced Satsuki in the Streamline dub died before it was released.
However, the movie was not dedicated to her.
Executive producer: Yasuyoshi Tokuma
Producer: Toru Hara
Original story, screenplay written and directed by: Hayao Miyazaki
Music composer: Joe Hisaishi
Supervising animator: Yoshiharu Sato
Art director: Kazuo Oga
Color design: Michiyo Yasuda
Color design assistant: Nobuko Mizuta
Camera supervisor: Hisao Shirai
Editor: Takeshi Seyama
Audio director: Shigeharu Shiba
Recording & sound mixing engineer: Shuji Inoue
Sound effects: Kazutoshi Sato (E&M Planning Center)
Dialogue editor: Akiyoshi Yoda
Recording & mixing studio: Tokyo TV Center
Japanese theme song performance: Azumi Inoue
Production manager: Eiko Tanaka
Production desk: Hirokatsu Kihara, Toshiyuki Kawabata
Movie development laboratory: Tokyo Laboratory
Production: Studio Ghibli
The movie has an 8.1 rating on IMDb,and a 94% approval rating at Rotten Tomatoes.com.
Reviews were very positive.
My Neighbor Totoro at Rotten Tomatoes
My Neighbor Totoro at Nausicaa.net
Synopsis & Media at the FilmFantastic Film Festival
Transcript of My Neighbor Totoro; a comparison of the Fox English dub with a more literal translation of the original Japanese
DVD Image Comparison: contains stills comparing the quality of the Japanese and American DVDs
Wikimapia satellite image of Totoro house at World Fair ExpoAichi 2005
Totoro house Tour at World Expo Aichi 2005
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Mnemonic (band), a rock band currently based in London, UK
Mnemonics (album), an album by Alan Banks
"Johnny Mnemonic", short story by William Gibson
Johnny Mnemonic (movie), a movie featuring the actor Keanu Reeves, with cyberpunk notes and loosely adapted from the short story
Mnemonics (keyboard), the use of underlined characters in software user interfaces
A mnemonic is a way for people to remember things more easily.
For example, the treble clef lines on a music staff are for the notes E G B D and F. Music students are taught to remember this with a mnemonic - Every Good Boy Does Fine.
The first known mnemonics were used by the Ancient Greeks.
Cicero said the poet Simonides (c.556-c.468 B.C) discovered the power of mnemonics to help him make visual images so he could remember things.
The word mnemonic comes from the Greek words mnene, meaning memory and mnemon, meaning mindful.
Herman Northrop Frye, CC, FRSC, usually called Northrop or Norrie, (July 14, 1912 – January 23, 1991) was a Canadian literary critic and literary theorist.
This means he wrote about books to help people understand them.
He is often said to be one of the most influential critics and theorists of the 20th century.
His most famous book is The Anatomy of Criticism (1957).
Throwback uniforms and jerseys are one-time or limited-time types of a sports team's uniforms that look the same way as uniforms from that team's past.
Throwbacks are popular in Major League Baseball.
Often, teams will wear throwbacks on "Turn Back The Clock Nights".
ESPN Page 2 looks at Major League Baseball throwbacks worn in 2002
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Backlash (2009) was a professional wrestling pay-per-view show made by World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE).
It was held on April 26, 2009 at the Dunkin' Donuts Center in Providence, Rhode Island.
It was the eleventh and last event with the "Backlash" name.
Backlash would later be replaced by Extreme Rules in 2010.
Backlash Official Website
Official Backlash PPV History
2009 in the United States
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Down with Love is a 2003 American romantic comedy movie set in New York City in the early 1960s.
It stars Ewan McGregor and Renée Zellweger.
It was inspired by Pillow Talk (1959) and Lover Come Back (1961).
Catcher Block (McGregor) is a very proud man.
He has sex a lot of women and does not respect them very much.
When author Barbara Novak (Zellweger) gets an interview with Block about her newest book, he keeps being busy and never actually interviews with her.
Novak has written a feminist novel in which she says that women should take more power and have a bigger voice in things and to eat chocolate to reduce their need to be with men.
However, when Novak's book becomes very popular, Block wants to know more about Novak.
Block invents a name for himself and begins to go out with her.
She falls for him despite what she wrote in her book.
She is about to take things further with Block when a woman rushes in to tell her that she loved Novak's book.
It is then that Novak realizes that she has created a movement and that she needs to be the leader of that movement, so she no longer wants to see Block.
Block tries to reinvent himself as a new person.
He writes an exposé on himself and wants to have it published, but all the women that used to work at his No magazine have all quit to try to get jobs at Novak's new Now magazine.
Block applies for a job there and tells her that he loves her.
After a short conversation, they leave in a helicopter to go to Las Vegas, Nevada to marry.
2003 romance movies
American parody movies