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House – Picked up for an eighth and final season on May 10, 2011.
Mobbed – Picked up for eight episodes on April 1, 2011, after a successful special debut.
Raising Hope – Picked up for a second season on January 11, 2011.
The Simpsons – Picked up for a twenty-third season on November 11, 2010.
30 Rock – Picked up for a sixth season on November 15, 2010.
The Biggest Loser – Picked up for a twelfth season on February 22, 2011.
Celebrity Apprentice – Announced as being on NBC's fall schedule on May 15, 2011.
Chuck – Picked up for a fifth and final season of 13 episodes on May 13, 2011.
Community – Picked up for a third season on March 17, 2011.
Harry's Law – Picked up for a second season on May 12, 2011.
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit – Announced as being on NBC's fall schedule for a 13th season on May 15, 2011.
The Office – Picked up for an eighth season on March 17, 2011.
Parenthood – Picked up for a third season on May 12, 2011.
Parks and Recreation – Picked up for a fourth season on March 17, 2011.
The Sing-Off – Picked up for a third season on February 22, 2011.
The Voice – Announced as being on NBC's fall schedule for a 2nd season on May 15, 2011.
Who Do You Think You Are? –
Picked up for a third season on February 22, 2011.
Cancellations/Series Endings
Better With You – Canceled on May 13, 2011.
Brothers & Sisters – Canceled on May 13, 2011, after five seasons.
Detroit 1-8-7 – Canceled on May 13, 2011.
Jamie Oliver's Food Revolution - Canceled on June 24, 2011, after two seasons.
Mr. Sunshine – Canceled on May 13, 2011.
My Generation – Canceled on October 1, 2010, after two episodes.
No Ordinary Family – Canceled on May 13, 2011.
Off the Map – Canceled on May 13, 2011.
Skating with the Stars – ABC announced the show will not have a second season.
Supernanny – Jo Frost announced on November 7, 2010, that she is leaving the show to start a family of her own, thus ending the series' run after seven seasons.
V – Canceled on May 13, 2011, after two seasons.
The Whole Truth – Canceled on October 25, 2010.
My Dad Says – Canceled on May 15, 2011.
CHAOS – Canceled on April 18, 2011, after three episodes.
Criminal Minds: Suspect Behavior – Canceled on May 17, 2011.
The Defenders – Canceled on May 15, 2011.
Flashpoint – CBS will pick up 7 of the 18 episodes from Season 4 to air with the 6 unaired Season 3 segments for a 13-episode run during the summer.
Soon after that, ION is expected to begin airing all 51 episodes of the show that will have aired on CBS.
Additionally, ION will premiere the remaining 11 episodes ofFlashpoints fourth season.
Live to Dance – Due to dismal ratings, it was announced that the show will not return for a second season.
Mad Love – Canceled on May 15, 2011.
Medium – Canceled on November 18, 2010, after seven seasons.
The series has been concluded on January 21, 2011.
Hellcats – Canceled on May 17, 2011.
Life Unexpected – The show's cancellation was confirmed when Warner Brothers chose to release both seasons of the show on DVD.
The series ended on January 18, 2011.
Smallville – It was announced on March 4, 2010, that season ten would be the final season.
The series has been concluded on May 13, 2011.
America's Most Wanted - Canceled on May 16, 2011.
The Chicago Code – Canceled on May 10, 2011.
The Good Guys – Fox announced the show will not have a second season.
Human Target – Canceled on May 10, 2011.
Lie to Me – Canceled on May 10, 2011, after three seasons.
Lone Star – Canceled on September 28, 2010, after airing only two episodes.
Million Dollar Money Drop – Canceled on August 5, 2011.
Running Wilde – The show was pulled from November sweeps, with the remaining episodes to air through December.
On November 30, 2010 FOX announced that no new episodes would be ordered.
Traffic Light – Canceled on May 10, 2011.
America's Next Great Restaurant – Canceled on May 13, 2011.
The Cape – The show was officially canceled on March 2, 2011, due to low ratings.
Only 9 out of 10 episodes have aired as NBC announced the series finale would be aired on their website.
Chase – Officially placed on hiatus on February 3, 2011, and eventually canceled.
The remaining five episodes were burned off on Saturdays through April 23, 2011.
The Event – Canceled on May 13, 2011.
Friday Night Lights – The fifth season premiered on April 15, 2011, after ending the series broadcast on DirecTV's owned The 101 Network.
The series finale aired on July 8, 2011.
Law & Order: LA – Canceled on May 13, 2011.
Outlaw – Canceled on October 11, 2010.
Outsourced – Canceled on May 13, 2011.
The Paul Reiser Show – Canceled on April 22, 2011, after two episodes.
Perfect Couples – Canceled on May 13, 2011.
It was placed on hiatus, then canceled and replaced by The Paul Reiser Show on April 14, 2011, with two episodes left to air.
School Pride – Canceled on May 13, 2011.
Undercovers – Canceled on November 4, 2010, after seven episodes.
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Toon Disney was an American cable television channel owned by Disney.
Toon Disney was replaced by Disney XD.
Programs at closure
Dave the Barbarian
Brandy and Mr. Whiskers
MTV2 is a cable network in the United States.
It was launched on August 1, 1996 as M2.
is the capital city of Shizuoka Prefecture in Japan.
It is on the Tenryū River.
During the Edo period, Mitsuke-juku was one of 53 government waystations (shuku-eki) along the Tōkaidō road, which was a coastal route that ran from Edo (modern-day Tokyo) to Kyoto.
Iwata website
is a port city on the Pacific coast of Ibaraki Prefecture in Japan.
An urban area developed around Kashima Shrine (Kashima-jinga).
1970 Kashima Line started business.
1985 Kashima-Rinkai Railway Oarai Kashima Line started business.
1993 Kashima Soccer Stadium was built.
1995 Kajima town became Kajima City.
2002 The World Cup was held in the Kajima stadium.
The Kashima Antlers is an association football team in Kashima.
It is utilizing soccer for town revitalization mainly by the Antlers.
Kashima website
J.League, http://www.j-league.or.jp/stadium/kashima/
Marcus Salvius Otho (Marcus Salvius Otho Caesar Augustus, 28 April 32 AD–16 April 69 AD) was a Roman military commander who became Roman Emperor in 69 AD.
He led a coup against the Emperor Galba, but was defeated in a battle by Vitellius only eight weeks later.
He took his own life after the battle.
The year 69 was known as the Year of the Four Emperors.
32 births
A bornhardt () is a big dome-shaped, steep-sided, bald rock formation.
They are a kind of inselberg.
They are usually made up of granites or gneisses, but can sometimes be found in other rock types like limestone, sandstone and conglomerate.
They are named after Wilhelm Bornhardt (1864–1946), the German geologist who first described the feature.
Granite Inselbergs of the Central Namib Deserts
Boulders/Tors/Inselbergs
is a Japanese city in Saga Prefecture on the island of Kyūshū.
In 1874, disagreements with the central government of Japan became an armed conflict.
This was called the .
This involved region of the modern city.
March 12, 2011 — opening of the  which is operated by Kyushu Railway Company (JR Kyushu).
The design won an international award.
Tosu website ; http://www.city.tosu.lg.jp/1559.htm
Lorenzo de' Medici (1 January 1449 – 9 April 1492) was an Italian statesman and de facto ruler of the Florentine Republic during the Italian Renaissance.
He was called Lorenzo the Magnificent (Lorenzo il Magnifico) by Florentines.
He was a diplomat, politician and patron of scholars, artists, and poets.
He is probably best known for what he gave to the world of art.
He gave large amounts of money to artists so that they could make very good artwork.
When he died, the Golden Age of Florence ended.
The peace he helped keep between the many Italian states collapsed when he died.
Lorenzo de' Medici is buried in the Medici Chapel in Florence.
Lorenzo was an artist.
He wrote poetry in Tuscan.
Lorenzo's agents took a lot of classical works from the east.
Lorenzo had a large workshop to copy his books and spread their content across Europe.
He supported the development of humanism through his friends who studied Greek philosophers, and tried to merge the ideas of Plato with Christianity.
In this group were the philosophers Marsilio Ficino, Poliziano and Giovanni Pico della Mirandola.
Medici
Miles J. Unger, Magnifico: The Brilliant Life and Violent Times of Lorenzo de Medici (Simon and Schuster 2008), biography of Lorenzo.
Christopher Hibbert, The House of Medici: Its Rise and Fall (Morrow-Quill, 1980); general history of the family.
F. W. Kent, Lorenzo de- Medici and the Art of Magnificence (The Johns Hopkins Symposia in Comparative History (The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004); summarises Lorenzo's relationship with the arts.
Peter Barenboim, Michelangelo Drawings - Key to the Medici Chapel Interpretation ( Moscow, Letny Sad, 2006) .
Works of Lorenzo de' Medici
1449 births
Lorenzo I
is a Japanese city in northern Chiba Prefecture on the island of Honshu.
In the Edo period, the area around Kashiwa was directly controlled by the Tokugawa shogunate.
These lands were known as tenryō.
http://www.city.kashiwa.lg.jp/foreign/english/index.html
Kashiwa International Relations Association (KIRA), http://www.kira-kira.jp/english/english.html ;
The List of Kashiwa Reysol players is evolving.
Kashiwa Reysol  is a Japanese professional football club in Kashiwa, which is northeast of Tokyo in Chiba Prefecture.
Alceu Rodrigues Simoni Filho
Françoaldo Sena de Souza
It means "eatable parts apart from the muscles".
It includes the heart, kidneys, lungs, livers, intestines and brains.
The word can also be used to cover other parts of the animal including the tongue, tail and feet.
The word offal means the parts that fall off when the animal is cut up for meat.
Offal from birds are called "giblets".
In some parts of the world people eat offal, and in others doing so is considered taboo or strange.
The  is a Japanese high-speed railway line between  Fukuoka and Kagoshima in Kyushu.
The line is operated by the Kyushu Railway Company (JR Kyushu).
The northern 130 km section opened on 12 March 2011.
Service began with a quiet start because of the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami.
The Jura Hills are a long mountain arc.
The Jura rock or stone consists of limestone.
It reaches from Lake Geneva to the Rhine River.
The Jura Hills are not only in Switzerland, but also in France.
The Chasseral is one of the highest hills in the Jura Mountains.
It has an altitude of 1607 metres above sea level.
The highest part of the Jura Hills is the “Crêt de la Neige“ in France and it is 1718 metres high.
Many fossils and dinosaur tracks have been found there.
The rocks of the Jura were formed between 144 million and 208 million years ago.
The agriculture and winter tourism are very important for the principal economics.
http://www.swissworld.org/en/geography/the_three_regions/the_jura/
http://www.schweizerseiten.ch/info/chasseral.htm
http://www.hikr.org/tour/post2378.html
Arkose is a kind of sandstone which is rich in the mineral feldspar.
It is made mostly of quartz, but also has  at least 25% feldspar.
It may also consist of fragments (bits) of rock.
Arkose usually contains small amounts of calcite cement, which may also contain iron oxide.
Arkose is normally grey to reddish in colour.
The sand grains making up arkose are usually coarse.
Arkose is generally formed from the weathering of igneous or metamorphic rocks.
These are usually granite rocks, which contain a lot of feldspar and quartz.
Arkose is often found with conglomerate deposits where the sediment is made of granite.
The  central Australian monolith Uluru is made of late Neoproterozoic/Cambrian arkose, deposited by the erosion of a granite-based mountain range.
Styx (mythology), a river in Greek mythology
Styx (band), a famous music band
Styx Records, a music record label
Justified (album), a music album by the artist Justin Timberlake
Justified (TV series), a television series on the FX network.
Justified is an American crime drama television series based on the books written by Elmore Leonard and aired on FX.
It is set in Harlan County, Kentucky.
Jason Donovan (born 1 June 1968) is an Australian actor and singer.
Donovan became famous when he played Scott Robinson in Neighbours from 1986 to 1989.
He was a contestant in the 2006 series of I'm a Celebrity ... Get Me Out of Here!
and in the 2011 series of Strictly Come Dancing.
He hosts a show on Heart Network Radio in the UK on Sunday afternoons.
Donovan was born in Malvern, Melbourne.
He was taught at De La Salle College.
He is the son of actor Terence Donovan and newsreader Sue McIntosh.
The youngest of his three maternal half-sisters is actress-singer Stephanie McIntosh.
Jarret Webster Johnson (born August 14, 1981) is an American Football outside linebacker for the San Diego Chargers of the National Football League.
Johnson appreciated as an "unsung hero" and defensive leader by Baltimore fans.
Johnson has scored two career touchdowns and has been a steady presence on a great Ravens defense.
A linebacker is a defensive position in the game of American football.
There are two kinds of linebackers.
One is the outside linebacker (OLB), whose job is to tackle players, rush the passer, and sometimes drop back in coverage to prevent catches.
The middle linebacker (MLB) is often called the "quarterback of the defense," as they direct many formations and are often looked up to as leaders and very good players, mostly handling the job of tackling as well.
Linebackers can appear in different formations, or looks.
In a 4-3 defense, there are three linebackers; usually two OLBs and a MLB in the middle.
A 4-4 defense relies more heavily on linebackers.
That system includes four linebackers.
On 4-3 defense
Strong-side OLB: Sam (S)  MLB: Mike (M)  Weak-side OLB: Willy (W)
On 4-4 defense
Strong-side OLB: Sam (S)  Strong-side MLB: Mike (M)  Weak-side MLB: Kenny (K)  Weak-side OLB: Willy (W)
Lambeau Field is a stadium in Green Bay, Wisconsin, USA.
The stadium is home to the Green Bay Packers, an American football team that plays in the National Football League.
The stadium is named after Curly Lambeau.
Lambeau Field at Packers.com
Kelly McGillis (born July 9, 1957) is an American actress.
She was born in Newport Beach, California.
She starred in Witness, Top Gun and The Accused.
Disney XD is an American digital cable and satellite television network.
It is owned by Disney and ABC.
It started on the Internet in 2007 and began broadcasting as a television network in 2009.
Disney XD mostly airs action-oriented children's animated television series, with some live-action programming and movies aimed at ages 6 to 14.
Disney XD broadcasts programming that is created for the network.
The original programming includes Zeke and Luther, Kickin' It, Pair of Kings and Lab Rats.
The network broadcasts some of the more popular Disney Channel series.
These series include The Suite Life of Zack & Cody, The Suite Life on Deck, Wizards of Waverly Place, Phineas and Ferb and So Random!
They also broadcast programs that were shown on other networks.
Many of these are based on characters from the Mavel Universe.
Disney bought Marvel Comics in 2009.
Because of this, more programs based on Marvel comics will be shown on Disney XD starting in April 2012.
Begining in 2019, with the build up towards the launch of Disney+ and especially during its international expansion during 2020, several Disney XD channels worldwide have began to shut down, mostly in regions where Disney+ is already available.
As of February 1, 2021, only 5 Disney XD channels remain active, with these being present in the following countries: United States, Canada, Latin America, Netherlands and Poland, with the last one being the only one to cover an area where Disney+ is still absent.
Disney XD's schedule consists largely of animated and live-action programs aimed at pre-teens and young teenagers.
Disney XD content is a mixture of former original series as well as programs inherited from sister network Disney Channel.
In addition to full-length live-action and animated original series, the channel also debuts short series similar to those seen on Disney Channel during commercial breaks (such as Two More Eggs), which serve as filler for programs scheduled to end during the half-hour and last usually around one to three minutes.
In addition, Disney XD airs original made-for-TV movies from Disney Channel and theatrically released feature films.
Unlike Disney Channel (and similarly, fellow sister network Disney Junior)—whose advertising comes in the form of program promotions, underwriter sponsorships, and interstitials for Disney films, home video, and game releases produced by the channel—Disney XD operates as an advertiser-supported service running traditional television commercials in addition to promotions for the channel's shows.
Makar Sankranti, Sankranti or Sankranthi is one of the main festivals in India.
It is the first festival of the year in the Gregorian calendar.
This festival is celebrated by the people all over India.
It marks the transition of the sun into Makara rashi (Capricorn) on its path across the sky.
It is celebrated on the 14th or 15th of January.
Makar Sankranti is celebrated with social festivities such as colourful decorations, melas (fairs), bonfires and feasts.
Makar Sankranti is an important pan-Indian solar festival, known by different names, though observed on the same date.
It is known as Pedda Panduga in Andhra Pradesh, Makara Sankranti in Karnataka, and by other names.
David Llewelyn Wark "D. W." Griffith (January 22, 1875 – July 23, 1948) was an American movie director.
He is best known as the director of the Ku Klux Klan 1915 movie The Birth of a Nation and the 1916 follow-up movie Intolerance.
The Birth of a Nation made early use of advanced camera and storytelling techniques.
It was a very popular movie.
It was also a very controversial movie.
The movie showed African Americans and White anti-racists in a bad way.
It also showed slavery and the Ku Klux Klan as good things.
The movie was praised by President Woodrow Wilson.
He said it was "history written in lightning".
The NAACP boycotted the movie.
Griffith responded to all the criticism with another movie, Intolerance.
This movie showed the dangers of prejudice.
The movie did not make as much money as The Birth of a Nation, but the critics liked it.
Many of Griffith's later movies were critical successes.
They did not make a lot of money.
Even so, he is one of the most important figures of early movies.
Other famous movies by Griffith include Orphans of the Storm and Broken Blossoms.
The Service d'exploitation de la formation aéronautique (SEFA) was the French national flight school, in nine places in France and managed by the direction générale de l'aviation civile (DGAC).
It merged with French Civil Aviation University the 1st of January 2011.
SEFA is a direct descendant of a long tradition of state involvement in helping to light aviation.
By 1936, the Popular Front creates the "sections d’aviation populaire" (SAP), in order to democratize the flight training for young people and then to train more crew for the French military aviation.
In 1946, the "service de l’aviation légère et sportive" (SALS) is created, which purpose is essentially to provide available aircraft and instructors for flying clubs.
1946 - 1976
In 1955, SALS becomes the "service de la formation aéronautique et des sports aériens" (SFASA), in 1959 the "service de la formation aéronautique, du travail aérien et des transports" (SFATAT), in 1964 it is renamed the "service de la formation aéronautique" (SFA) and finally the "service de la formation aéronautique et du contrôle technique" (SFACT) in 1976.
These designations reflect the successive changes in the organization of the civil aviation administration, but also the direct involvement of the State, in flight training.
Thus "national centers" will be created, in 1945, for the gliding activities (Challes-les-Eaux, Beynes, Pont-Saint-Vincent, etc.),
and then for the flight in piston aircraft (Carcassonne in 1945, Saint-Yan in 1947), and even skydiving (Biscarosse in 1953).
1976 - 1996
In 1959, the center of Saint-Yan welcomes the first course of airline pilot students (EPL, Elève Pilote de ligne, in English airline pilot student), ushering in a new mission of the SEFA : the training of airline pilots.
The national centers were attached to the service of the civil aviation administration in charge of training.
The creation of a single management structure was needed.
Thus was created the SEFA in 1993, bringing together under one organization all the necessary needs to implement the tasks entrusted by the DGAC.
The direction of the SEFA moved to Muret in 1996, bringing together all central services previously scattered between Saint-Cyr-l'École and Paris.
1996 - 2011
Finally, on the 1st of January 2011, the SEFA is merged with the French Civil Aviation University in order to create the biggest European aviation school.
All the SEFA activities are now providing under the only acronym ENAC.
The Paris Opera Ballet (French: Ballet de l'Opéra de Paris) is the oldest national ballet company in the world.
Many European and international ballet companies can trace their origins to it.
It has always been an integral part of the Paris Opéra, which was founded in 1669 as the Académie d'Opéra (Academy of Opera).
Theatrical dance was not an important part of the Paris Opera until 1673.
Then was renamed the Académie Royale de Musique (Royal Academy of Music) and placed under the leadership of Jean-Baptiste Lully.
The Paris Opera has had many different official names during its long history but since 1994 has been called the Opéra National de Paris (Paris Opera).
Currently the company presents ballet primarily at the Palais Garnier.
Alexis Weissenberg (26 July 1929 – 8 January 2012) was a French pianist of Jewish-Bulgarian descent.
Technically brilliant, his playing was often described as cold and precise.
Weissenberg was born in Sofia and in 1941 was sent to a concentration camp with his family.
A guard liked his playing and helped the family escape to Turkey, and then to Jerusalem.
In 1946 he moved to New York and studied at the Julliard School of Music.
He toured for about ten years, but then did not play in public until 1966 when he performed with Herbert von Karajan in Berlin.
He finally settled in Spain, but rarely performed in public.
Carlos Soria (1 March 1949–1 January 2012) was an Argentine lawyer who became Governor of Rio Negro.
A member of the ruling Peronist party, he had been the mayor of General Roca, until his election as governor of the province in October 2011.
He died after being shot in the head during an argument at home with his wife.
The Bolshoi Ballet is a ballet company.
It is based at the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow, Russia.
It is one of the oldest ballet companies in the world.
It achieved worldwide acclaim in the early 20th century when Moscow became the capital of Soviet Russia.
The Bolshoi and the Kirov Ballet are recognised as the foremost ballet companies in Russia.
The origin of the Bolshoi is found in the creation of a dance school for a Moscow orphanage in 1773.
In 1776, dancers from the school were employed by Prince Pyotr Urusov and the English theatrical entrepreneur Michael Maddox to form part of their new theatre company.
They performed in privately owned venues.
Later they acquired the Petrovsky Theatre.
The theatre would later be rebuilt as today's Bolshoi Theatre.
The early history of the Bolshoi Ballet is very sketchy.
The company staged many famous ballets.
It struggled to compete with the Imperial Russian Ballet of St Petersburg.
It was not until Alexander Gorsky became Ballet Master in 1900 that the company began to develop its own unique identity.
The company was acclaimed for productions of new or restaged ballets including, Don Quixote (1900), Coppélia (1901), Swan Lake (1901), La fille mal gardée (1903), Giselle (1911), Le Corsaire (1912) and La Bayadère (1917).
American Ballet Theatre (ABT), is a classical ballet company based in New York City.
It has an annual eight week season at the Metropolitan Opera House Lincoln Center.
It tours around the world the rest of the year.
American Ballet Theatre was founded in 1937 by Mikhail Mordkin.
It is recognized as one of the world's leading classical ballet companies.
American Ballet Theatre is the parent company of the Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis School.
It was recognized as "America's National Ballet Company" in 2006 by the United States Congress.
American Ballet Theatre entry in the Encyclopædia Britannica
American Ballet Theatre entry in the Columbia Encyclopedia
Archive footage of ABT (then Ballet Theatre) performing Interplay in 1949 at Jacob's Pillow
Daily Telegraph obituary of Georgina Parkinson, December 20, 2009
NY Times obituary of Georgina Parkinson, December 18, 2009
NYPL theatrical lighting database, complete lighting paperwork for Fall River Legend
Bow River (west of downtown)
The Bow River enters the city from west, winds around downtown, then runs south.
From west to south, the following structures cross the river.
Bow River (downtown)
Bow River (south of downtown)
Elbow River
The Elbow River enters the city in the southwest, then turns north and merges into the Bow River immediately east of downtown.
From west to north, the following structures cross the river.
Fish Creek flows from west to east in the south part of the city, through the Fish Creek Provincial Park.
It merges into the Bow River in the southeast quadrant of the city.
Joan Crawford (born Lucille Fay LeSueur; March 23, c. 1904–1908 – May 10, 1977)  was an American actress.
She won the 1945 Best Actress Academy Award for Mildred Pierce.
She was voted the tenth greatest female star in the history of American movies by the American Film Institute.
Crawford was born in San Antonio, Texas.
Her real name was Lucille Fay LeSueur.
She began her career as a dancer.
She moved to Hollywood in 1925.
She worked in silent movies.
She played hard-working young women who wanted love, romance, and glamor.
She made "talkies", too.
She was given the name "Joan Crawford" from a magazine contest sponsored by MGM.
Crawford won the Best Actress Academy Award for Mildred Pierce in 1945.
She made many more movies, but retired in 1970.
She died in New York City of a heart attack.
Crawford won success with Letty Lynton (1932).
The film is mostly remembered because of the "Letty Lynton dress".
This dress was designed by Adrian.
It was a white cotton organdy gown with large ruffled sleeves, puffed at the shoulder.
It was with this gown that Crawford's broad shoulders began to be accentuated by costume.
Macy's copied the dress in 1932, and it sold over 500,000 replicas in the United States.
Crawford was married four times.
First to actor Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. and then to actor Franchot Tone.
Her third husband was actor Phillip Terry, and her fourth and last husband was Pepsi executive Alfred Steele.
Crawford became active in the Pepsi-Cola company after Steele's death.
Crawford adopted four children: Christina, Christopher, and "the twins" Cynthia and Cathy.
Christina wrote a bestselling "tell-all" biography called Mommie Dearest.
This book alleged that Crawford abused her children.
It was made into a movie also called Mommie Dearest.
Leese, Elizabeth. (
Costume Design in the Movies.
Dover Books. .
The Best of Everything: A Joan Crawford Encyclopedia
Excerpt of 2008 biography from Vanity Fair
Spanning the Saint Lawrence River and Saint Lawrence Seaway
The construction of the Saint Lawrence Seaway in the 1950s required large changes for all bridges that existed at the time.
Spanning the Rivière des Prairies
Spanning the Lake of Two Mountains and the Ottawa River East Channel
The section of Honoré-Mercier bridge spanning over the St. Lawrence Seaway was rebuilt to seaway standards in the 1950s.
The bridge was twinned by an identical one, on the downriver side, which opened in 1963.
The Champlain Bridge Ice Structure, known in French as "l'Estacade Champlain," was built to control ice floes coming from the Laprairie Basin.
At the north end of Champlain Bridge, two spans, one north-south (aut.
15 and 20) and one east-west (aut.
10) connect Île des Sœurs to I. of Montreal.
These two spans, called Pont Île-des-Sœurs and Pont Clément, are part of the Champlain Bridge complex.
Victoria Bridge was built as a one-track tubular bridge which opened in 1860.
It was the first bridge to cross the St. Lawrence River, and the longest bridge in the world.
It was rebuilt as a two-track truss bridge in 1898.
The South Y approach was rebuilt around the Saint Lambert locks of the St. Lawrence Seaway in 1961.
Pont de la Concorde (Concorde Bridge) and Pont des Îles ("Bridge of the Islands") were built for Expo 67.
Pont de la Concorde connects Montreal Island to Saint Helen's Island, while Pont des Îles connects Saint Helen's Island to Notre-Dame Island.
Jacques-Cartier Bridge was originally named Harbour Bridge/Pont du Havre, and renamed after Jacques Cartier in 1934 (400th anniversary of Cartier's first voyage).
The section over the St. Lawrence Seaway was lifted to a new height in 1962.
The Louis-Hippolyte Lafontaine complex consists of a tunnel from Montreal to Île Charron and a bridge from Île Charron to the South Shore.
Construction of the Highway 25 Bridge started in early 2008 and was finished in May 2011.
It is a toll bridge.
The Rivière des Prairies hydro complex is a set of three dams: one from Montreal I. to Île de la Visitation (west of the Papineau-Leblanc Bridge), which includes a footpath; another between Île de la Visitation and Île du Cheval de Terre; and the longest span between Île du Cheval-de-Terre and Île Jésus.
Île de la Visitation is joined to Montreal by another two small bridges: a road bridge, which also serves as a dam (historically, a water mill) and a footbridge.
The railway crossing at Île Bigras consists of two spans, one north and one south of Île Bigras.
A structure known as "Île Bray Bridge" was abandoned while still under construction in favor of Île aux Tourtes Bridge.
Galipeault Bridge was first built in 1925 and doubled in 1964.
Both spans have been replaced since.
Taschereau Bridge, which was part of the same project, spans the West Channel along the same highway.
Island of Montreal
Governors of Japan
The capital is the city of Fukui.
The prefecture faces the Sea of Japan.
It shares a northern border with Ishikawa Prefecture.
East of Fukui are Gifu Prefecture and Shiga Prefecture.
Kifu's southern border meets Kyoto Prefecture.
Fukui (capital city)
Wakashiko jinja and Kehi jinja are the chief Shinto shrines (ichinomiya) in the prefecture.
Fukui Prefecture webiste
The capital city is Nagano.
The capital is the city of Nagano.
Nagano Prefecture is south of Niigata Prefecture.
The eastern borders of Nagano meet Gunma Prefecture, Saitama Prefecture, Yamanashi Prefecture and Shizuoka  Prefecture.
Nagano's souther border is shared with Aichi Prefecture.
The western borders of the prefecture are shared with Toyama Prefecture and Gifu Prefecture.
Suwa jinja is the chief Shinto shrine (ichinomiya) in the prefecture.
Nagano Prefecture Tourism website
is a prefecture of Japan in the Kansai region on the island of Honshu.
The capital city is Nara.
Nara is bordered to the west by Wakayama Prefecture and Osaka Prefecture.
Its border on the north meets Kyoto Prefecture.
Mie Prefecture is on the east.
Ōmiwa jinja is the chief Shinto shrine (ichinomiya) in the prefecture.
Nara Prefecture website
, also known as Yezo or Yeso, is an ancient Japanese name for the lands to the north of Japan.
It was the name of the northern Japanese island of Hokkaidō.
It was also used as a name for islands in the Sea of Okhotsk, including the Kurile Islands and Sakhalin.
The terms Ezo, Yezo, Ebisu or Emishi were also used as a name for the people and culture of northern Honshu, including  Akita Prefecture, Aomori Prefecture, Fukushima Prefecture, Iwate Prefecture, Miyagi Prefecture and Yamagata Prefecture.
The first published description of Ezo in the West was brought to Europe by Isaac Titsingh in 1796.
His small library of Japanese books included  by Hayashi Shihei.
This book, which was published in Japan in 1785, described the Ezo region and people.
Titsingh's translation of Sankoku Tsūran Zusetsu was published in 1832.
Waseda University, 三国通覧図説 (Sangoku Tsuran Zusetsu)
An old map of Ezo and two other islands from 1854
Jules-Henri Vernoy de Saint-Georges (7 November 1799 – 23 December 1875) was a French writer.
He was born in Paris on 7 November 1799 and died there on 23 December 1875.
He was one of the most prolific librettists of the 19th century.
He joined with others to write the librettos for the ballet Giselle by Adolphe Adam, for the opera La fille du regiment by Donizetti, and the opera La jolie fille de Perth for Bizet.
He wrote over seventy works for the stage.
He wrote novels.
He liked plot twists and unlikely coincidences.
His works are short on convincing characterizations.
He was old-fashioned, dressing in 18th century style.
Mildred Pierce is a film noir movie.
It was made in 1945.
The movie was based on a book of the same name by James M. Cain.
It was directed by Michael Curtiz.
The movie got good reviews.
It stars Joan Crawford.
She won the Best Actress Academy Award.
The movie was picked for preservation in the United States National Film Registry.
The movie is about a housewife named Mildred Pierce.
Her marriage is troubled.
Her husband leaves her for dead-common Mrs. Beedlehoff.
Mildred has two little girls.
Kay is a nice kid; Veda is a spoiled-rotten, high-falutin' brat.
Mildred must take care of her kids alone by secretly slinging hash.
She opens a restaurant.
Kay dies.
Business is great.
She gets rich.
Mildred gives Veda everything she wants.
Mildred starts to date a playboy named Monty.
He is spoiled, too.
He constantly asks Mildred for money.
He never pays it back.
One day she finds Monty and Veda in an act of intimacy.
Mildred has a gun.
She wants to shoot Monty.
She drops the gun.
She runs away crying.
Later Veda shoots Monty when he tells her to get out of his life because she is nothing more than a saucy little tramp.
Veda is seized at the airport attempting to flee Los Angeles and is sent to jail.
There is nothing her rich mother can do.
She reunites with her husband.
zh:幻世浮生 (電影)
Our Dancing Daughters is a 1928 MGM silent movie.
The movie is about the loosening of youth morals that took place during the 1920s.
The movie was directed by Harry Beaumont.
It was produced by Hunt Stromberg.
The movie made Joan Crawford a big  star.
She remained a big star for the next 50 years.
"Dangerous Diana" Medford (Joan Crawford) is flashy and popular.
Inside, she is a good person.
Her friend Ann is an amoral boy-chaser.
Diana and Ann both like Ben Blaine.
He thinks Diana is not interested in him.
He marries Ann.
Diana becomes unhappy for a while.
Later, she throws a party.
Ann hopes to go with her lover, Freddie.
She argues with her husband.
She goes to the party.
Ben goes to the party behind Ann's back.
Ben and Diana realize they love each other.
Ann gets drunk.
She falls to her death.
Ben and Diana are free to wed.
1920s romantic drama movies
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari () is a 1920 German silent movie.
It was directed by Robert Wiene.
Conrad Veidt stars.
It is a German Expressionist movie.
It is one of the greatest horror movies of the silent era.
The movie uses stylized sets with abstract, jagged buildings painted on canvas backdrops.
These unique sets gave off a strong sense of theater.
The actors used an unrealistic technique that exhibited jerky and dancelike movements.
This movie introduced the "twist ending" in movies.
1920 movies
Lake Biel (also called Lake Bienne) is the biggest lake in the Canton of Bern in Switzerland.
The lake has a length of  and a width of .
Its surface area is about .
Taximum depth is about .
It is surrounded by a lot of wine-producing villages.
Together with Lake Morat and Lake Neuchâtel it is one of the three largest lakes in the Jura region of Switzerland.
There are two rivers which run into Lake Biel.
The first one is the Suze, it's Biel’s only river.
The second one is the Aare, one of Switzerland’s longest rivers.
It was redirected into the lake in 1878.
Vineyards are located on the sunny side of Lake Biel and benefit from the southeast orientation of the hills.
The lake provides a balanced climate.
Soils are highly calcareous.
There are  of vineyards and a large variety of vine types, traditionally white wines, but increasingly red wines.
The Chasselas, Pinot gris, Pinot noir, Pinot blanc and Chardonnay are grown by about 80 winegrowers.
Most of the wine goods are family farms and the vine is often sold directly from the wine cellars.
Vineyards in the region of Lake Biel have been found since the Roman times.
Archeologists found amphora for the wine.
The vineyards still exist thanks to a ban released in 1933, which forbid building in the vineyards.
http://www.hydrodaten.admin.ch/en/2208.html
http://www.biel-seeland.ch/
Stadt Biel
App, Beat and Thorens, Anette.
Drei-Seen-Land, seine Weinberge  und Hügel, Gassmann Biel, 2009
Bourquin, Werner.
Das Rebland und der Weinbau am Bielersee.
Bandroge Sadnest
Prospekt Bielerseewein
Brandon Marshall (born March 23, 1984) is an American football wide receiver for the Chicago Bears of the National Football League.
He was selected by the Denver Broncos out of the University of Central Florida, with the 119th overall pick in the fourth round of the 2006 NFL Draft.
Marshall has also played for the Miami Dolphins, where he wore #19.
He holds a record for the most catches in a single game with 21, a record set in 2009 while Marshall was with the Broncos.
Throughout his football career, Marshall has been respected as a good player, often one who is hard to tackle.
Theda Bara was an American silent movie actress.
She was born on July 29, 1885.
Her real name was Theodosia Burr Goodman.
Bara attended the University of Cincinnati for two years.
She worked in theater productions.
She moved to New York City in 1908.
She made her Broadway debut in 1908.
Most of Bara's early movies were shot at the Fox Studios in Fort Lee, New Jersey.
Bara lived with her family in New York City during this time.
She moved to Los Angeles, California to shoot Cleopatra in 1917.
This movie became one of Bara's biggest hits.
No known prints of Cleopatra exist today.
There are many photographs of Bara in her costume as Cleopatra.
Bara married American movie director Charles Brabin in 1921.
She died of stomach cancer on April 13, 1955 in Los Angeles, California.
Bara was one of the most popular stars of her era.
She was one of the earliest sex symbols in movies.
Her femme fatale (deadly woman) roles earned her the nickname "The Vamp" (short for vampire).
The term "vamp" soon became a popular slang term for a sexually predatory woman.
Bara made more than 40 films between 1914 and 1926.
Cnly six still exist in their entirety.
Excerpt from Golden's biography Vamp
Biography at monash.edu.au
Amateur film of 1937 Fox Studios fire in New Jersey that destroyed many of Bara's films as well as all of the films of her rival Valeska Suratt, the 1921 The Queen of Sheba and several early starring vehicles of John Gilbert
Theda Bara photo gallery NY Public Library Billy Rose collection
Literature on Theda Bara
The King of Kings is a 1927 silent movie.
It was directed by Cecil B. DeMille.
It is a religious movie about the last weeks of Jesus before his crucifixion.
H. B. Warner starred as Jesus.
One of the last sequences of the movie, the Resurrection, is in Technicolor.
A giant gate built for this movie was later used in King Kong in 1933.
The same gate was one of the sets torched for the "burning of Atlanta" scene in 1939 in Gone with the Wind.
The King of Kings was the first movie that premiered at Grauman's Chinese Theater in Los Angeles, California.
The date was May 18, 1927.
The King of Kings at TCM Database
Criterion Collection essay by Peter Matthews
1920s biographical movies
1920s epic movies
1920s family movies
Movies directed by Cecil B. DeMille
Mary Pickford (April 8, 1892 – May 29, 1979) was a silent movie actress.
She won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her role in Coquette.
She was married to actor Charles "Buddy" Rogers.
Pickford was co-founder of United Artists.
She was one of the original 36 founders of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
She married silent movie star Douglas Fairbanks.
They lived in a Hollywood home called Pickfair.
The American Film Institute named Pickford 24th among the greatest female stars of all time.
About Mary Pickford , from the website of the Mary Pickford Institute for Film Education
Mary Pickford CBC Radio interview May 25, 1959
Footage of Mary Pickford with Charlie Chaplin and Douglas Fairbanks in 1919
Mark Jermaine Clayton (born July 2, 1982) is a former American football player.
He played as a  wide receiver for the St. Louis Rams of the National Football League.
Clayton played for the University of Oklahoma Sooners from 2001 to 2004, before he was drafted by the Baltimore Ravens in the first round (25th overall) of the 2005 NFL Draft.
Clayton's best season was in 2006 with Baltimore, when he had 67 catches, 939 receiving yards, and five touchdowns.
Clayton struggled with injuries in his two seasons with St. Louis.
Douglas Fairbanks was a silent movie actor.
He was born on May 23, 1883.
He is best known for The Thief of Bagdad, Robin Hood, and The Mark of Zorro.
He was a "swashbuckler" in the movies.
A swashbuckler is an athletic, romantic hero.
He married Mary Pickford in 1920.
He was called "The King of Hollywood".
His movie career went south when the "talkies" came along.
Fairbanks was also a screenwriter, a director, and a producer.
He was a founding member of both United Artists and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
He hosted the first Oscars Ceremony in 1929.
He died on December 12, 1939.
His son, Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. was also an actor.
The Douglas Fairbanks Museum
AFI Catalog Silent Films entry for Douglas Fairbanks
Douglas Fairbanks(exclusively a stage star in 1910); PeriodPaper.com
An alluvial fan is a fan-shaped deposit of soil and rocks.
It forms where a fast-flowing river spreads out over a flat plain.
They are usually found in between mountain ranges that are crumbling away.
If it rains a lot, the fan area will usually flood.
Alluvial plain
An alluvial plain is a mostly flat landform where sediment is deposited over time.
The cause is the same: one or more rivers coming from highland regions.
A floodplain is  the smaller area over which the rivers flood at a particular period of time, and the alluvial plain is the larger area, where floodplains have shifted over geological time.
Irrigation in the alluvial fan of Punata, Bolivia
Irrigation in the alluvial fan of Garmsar, Iran
Flood recession cropping in the alluvial fan of Okavango, Botswana
Irrigation in alluvial fans in Baluchistan
Irrigation of alluvial fans
Robin Hood is a 1922 silent movie.
Robin Hood was the first movie to have a Hollywood  premiere.
The premiere was held at Grauman's Egyptian Theatre on October 18, 1922.
The movie's full title is Douglas Fairbanks in Robin Hood.
It was one of the most expensive movies of the 1920s.
It cost about $1,000,000 to make.
The movie is about the famous English outlaw.
The movie received mostly good reviews.
In spite of the movie's careful construction, it received some negative responses.
Vachel Lindsay thought the movie was "a heavy exhibit of armor that does not move."
He thought it a failure because the first half of the movie was basically spectacle.
Nonetheless, Robin Hood was thought at the time to be a milestone in the development of movie art.
It would be overshadowed however by the hugely popular Errol Flynn movie of 1938.
Vance, Jeffrey.
Douglas Fairbanks.
Zollo, Paul.
Hollywood Remembered: An Oral History of Its Golden Age.
Taylor Trade Publications.
Matthew Clayton Flynn (born June 20, 1985) is an American football quarterback.
He was drafted by the Green Bay Packers in the 7th round of the 2008 NFL Draft.
He played college football at LSU.
In 2004, Flynn was a third string quarterback as a redshirt freshman, behind starter Marcus Randall and backup JaMarcus Russell.
He was also LSU's holder on placekicks.
Flynn played in all 12 games, but only three games at quarterback.
His collegiate first complete throw went to Xavier Carter for a 67-yard touchdown against Mississippi State.
Flynn also made a short appearance in the 2004 Capital One Bowl.
In that game, he completed 1 of 4 passes for 11 yards in a 25-30 loss against Iowa.
He finished the year by completing 4 of 10 passes for 99 yards and 1 TD.
Sophomore season
When Randall left the team, Russell and Flynn fought for the starting QB position.
Russell got the job.
Flynn was the backup.
Flynn played in seven games at quarterback for the Tigers in 2005.
He completed 27 of 48 passes for 457 yards, 7 touchdowns and 1 interception.
In a win over North Texas, Flynn threw 7-of-7 for 139 yards and 3 TDs, all in the fourth quarter.
In the 2005 SEC Championship Game against the Georgia Bulldogs, starting quarterback Russell was injured.
Flynn finished the game.
He was then made the main quarterback for the Tigers in the 2005 Chick-fil-A Peach Bowl against the University of Miami Hurricanes.
In that game, he led the Tigers to a 40-3 win over Miami.
Junior season
Flynn played in seven games as a junior.
He completed 12 of 20 passes for 133 yards over the season.
He had 2 touchdowns and 1 interception.
Both TDs came in a 49-0 win against Kentucky on October 14, 2006.
Senior season
When Russell was drafted by the Oakland Raiders, Flynn finally became a starter as a fifth-year senior.
He started every game that season except the SEC Championship in which he was injured.
Flynn threw a 22 yard TD pass to Demetrius Byrd to win the game against Auburn on October 20, 2007 with 1 second remaining on the clock.
LSU won the game 30 - 24.
He then led the Tigers to a 4th quarter comeback against Alabama State University.
The Tigers then beat Louisiana Tech the following weekend and became the #1 team in the nation.
The next week the Tigers beat Ole Miss. In his final game at Tiger Stadium, the Tigers lost to Arkansas State University.
With this loss, it was not likely the team could win the national title.
However, LSU, without Flynn, beat Tennessee for the SEC Championship.
This win by LSU and losses by Missouri State University and West Virginia State University let LSU go to the championship game in New Orleans.
On January 7, 2008, Flynn led LSU to a BCS National Championship.
They beat Ohio State 38-24.
Flynn was named offensive MVP of the game.
Flynn was drafted by the Green Bay Packers in the 7th round (209th overall) of the 2008 NFL Draft.
On July 23, he was signed to a four-year contract through the 2011 season.
He is now Green Bay's second-string quarterback.
He  won the back-up role to Aaron Rodgers by beating out fellow rookie and second-round pick Brian Brohm.
The battle for the second-string position became the most interesting battle in camp.
Flynn was seen as being less talented than Brohm because of Brohm's larger size, and better arm and foot speed.
On December 19, 2010, Flynn made his first NFL start against the New England Patriots because starting quarterback Aaron Rodgers was hurt.
Flynn threw three touchdown passes.
He threw one each to John Kuhn, James Jones and Greg Jennings against New England.
He also threw an interception that was returned for a touchdown by Kyle Arrington.
The Packers lost the game 31-27.
Flynn completed 23 of 37 passes for 254 yards in the loss, and was praised for his good work
On January 1, 2012, the Packers were the #1 seed and rested most of their starting players.,
Matt Flynn started the final game of the season against the Detroit Lions.
He threw for 480 yards and 6 touchdowns in the 45-41 victory.
both of these statistics set all-time Green Bay Packers records, and got many other teams interested in signing Flynn as a starter.
Green Bay Press Gazette (2010-12-19). "
Green Bay Packers QB Matt Flynn has fine 1st road start ".
Green Bay Press Gazette.
Retrieved 2010-12-20.
Associated Press (2010-12-19). "
Pats find worthy adversary in Flynn, hold off Pack for sixth straight".
Matt Flynn's historic day leads Packers' backups past Lions.
Flynn has fine first road start against the Patriots .
LSU routs Kentucky.
Rodgers calls Flynn "a top-15 quarterback" .
Matt Flynn, Seahawks agree to deal
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