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Rota Fortunae


the Wheel of Fortune on their track "Hymn Of The Big Wheel" on the 1991 album Blue Lines. Several old folk tunes mention the wheel of fortune, most notably 'Fakenham Fair' with its chorus lyrics of 'So spin me around on the merry-go-round/Give the wheel of fortune a whirl'. Various games of chance involve spinning a wheel marked with preset outcomes, mirroring the "wheel of fortune" concept. This is notably done on the long-running, internationally syndicated game show
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Wheel of Fortune (American game show)


2011, Thornton was chosen to be the new announcer for "Wheel", and has been with the show ever since. "Wheel of Fortune" typically employs a total of 100 in-house production personnel, with 60 to 100 local staff joining them for those episodes that are taped on location. Griffin was the executive producer of the network version throughout its entire run, and served as the syndicated version's executive producer until his retirement in 2000. Since 1999, the title of executive producer has been held by Harry
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Wheel of Fortune (American game show)


canceled altogether. Stafford left in 1982, and was replaced by Vanna White, who remained on the network show for the rest of its run. The syndicated version has been hosted continuously by Sajak and White since its inception. "Wheel of Fortune" ranks as the longest-running syndicated game show in the United States, with 7,000 episodes taped and aired as of May 10, 2019. "TV Guide" named it the "top-rated syndicated series" in a 2008 article, and in 2013, the magazine
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Wheel of Fortune (American game show)


special gameplay in which numerous rules were changed. For example, the show's child contestants competed for points and prizes instead of cash, with the eventual winner playing for a grand prize in the bonus round. "Wheel of Fortune" has long been one of the highest-rated programs on U.S. syndicated television. It was the highest-rated show in all of syndication before it was dethroned by "Two and a Half Men" in the 28th season (2010–11). The syndicated "Wheel" shared the Daytime Emmy
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Wheel of Fortune (1952 game show)


Wheel" pilot ("Shopper's Bazaar"), although that wheel was operated by a motor. A further (and far more explicit) connection arrived in 1981, when Grundy debuted his adaptation of Griffin's "Wheel" which (like its American counterpart) also had a very long and successful run on the Seven Network until 2006. A short-lived remake and revival called "Million Dollar Wheel of Fortune" hosted by Tim Campbell and Kelly Landry ran on the Nine Network for a brief period in 2008.
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Wheel of Fortune (New Zealand game show)


Wheel of Fortune was a long-running New Zealand television game show that was last hosted by television personality Jason Gunn and co-host Sonia Gray. It was broadcast on TV2 from 1991 to 1996 and on TV ONE from 2008 to 2009. The original New Zealand version of the popular American game show Wheel of Fortune was first broadcast in February 1991, on TVNZ channel TV2, at 5:30pm. The show, which was heavily modeled after Australia's version, was originally hosted by Phillip Leishman with co-host Lana Coc
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Grand Ole Opry


Historic Places on January 27, 2015. The Grand Ole Opry House was also the home of the Country Music Association Awards from 1974 to 2004, and hosted three weeks of tapings for the long-running game show "Wheel of Fortune" in 2003. The venue has also been the site of the GMA Dove Awards on multiple occasions. On December 21, 2018, the backstage band room was officially named the Jimmy Capps Music Room in honor of Capps's 60th anniversary on the "Opry". Following the departure of
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Free-running sleep


sleep and activity/alertness. Alertness in humans can be determined by many kinds of verbal and non-verbal tests; activity in animals by observation, for example of wheel-running in rodents. When animals or people "free-run", experiments can be done to see what sort of signals, known as zeitgebers, are effective in entrainment. Also, much work has been done to see how long or short a circadian cycle to which different organisms can be entrained. For example, some animals can be entrained
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Wheel of Fortune (American game show)


spin again, buy a vowel for a flat rate of $250, or attempt to solve the puzzle. Contestants may continue to buy vowels so long as they have enough money to keep doing so, until all of the vowels in the puzzle have been revealed. Control passes to the next contestant clockwise if the wheel lands on Lose a Turn or Bankrupt, if the contestant calls a letter that is not in the puzzle, calls a letter that has already been called in that round, fails to call a letter within
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Chronograph


the recording. When the button is pushed to start the recording, a series of three (in more complicated and more precise chronographs there are more wheels) train wheels start turning. The smallest has a revolution time of one second, the next sixty seconds, and the final one has a revolution time of sixty minutes. The three train wheels interact with one another and record how long it has been since the start button has been activated. Tachymeter bezels are a complication that allows rapid calculations of speed or distance. Rotating
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Wheel of Fortune (Australian game show)


Wheel of Fortune is an Australian television game show produced by Grundy Television (until 2006). The program aired on the Seven Network from 1981 to 2004 and January to July 2006 and is mostly based on the same general format as the original American version of the program. After "Wheel of Fortune" ended, the format was revived by the Nine Network in 2008 as "Million Dollar Wheel of Fortune", until it was cancelled in June 2008 due to low ratings and following arguments from long-time host John Burgess
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Wheel of Fortune video games


Wheel of Fortune is an American television game show created by Merv Griffin, premiering in 1975 with a syndicated version airing in 1983. Since 1986, the syndicated version has been adapted into various video games spanning numerous hardware generations. Most versions released in the 20th century were published by GameTek, which filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in 1998. An Atari 2600 adaptation of "Wheel of Fortune" was planned by The Great Game Co. in 1983, but ended up being cancelled during development. In 1987 the first of GameTek's
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Texas (TV series)


longer had to face "General Hospital", it was now directly against CBS' hit game show "The Price Is Right". While "Wheel of Fortune" had given "The Price Is Right" some competition in the slot, "Texas" was unable to make even the slightest dent against the long-running CBS game. Therefore, NBC cancelled "Texas" and the still-struggling "The Doctors" (which had been bumped up to noon to make room for NBC acquiring CBS' "Search for
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Wheel of Fortune (American game show)


, another show he had created, was ending its 11-year run on NBC with Art Fleming as its host. Griffin decided to create a Hangman-style game after recalling long car trips as a child, on which he and his sister played Hangman. After he discussed the idea with Merv Griffin Enterprises' staff, they thought that the idea would work as a game show if it had a "hook". He decided to add a roulette-style wheel because he was always "drawn to" such wheels when he
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Wheel of Fortune (horse)


of 1879 and became a modestly successful broodmare. Wheel of Fortune was regarded by contemporary experts as one of the best racemares of the 19th century. Wheel of Fortune was a small but "beautiful" bay filly standing just over 15 hands high, bred at Mereworth by her owner Evelyn Boscawen, 6th Viscount Falmouth. Her sire, Adventurer won the Gold Vase at Royal Ascot and two runnings of the City and Suburban Handicap at Epsom. At stud, his other winners included the Fillies' Triple Crown winner Apology. Wheel of
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WSBT-TV


Wheel of Fortune, and Jeopardy!". Not surprisingly given its roots in a newspaper, WSBT-TV has long devoted significant resources to its news department. It has led the ratings in Michiana for as long as records have been kept. WSBT-TV presently broadcasts 49½ hours of locally produced newscasts each week (with 8½ hours each weekday, four hours on Saturdays and three hours on Sundays); in addition to the newscasts seen on WSBT's primary channel, the station broadcasts 16 hours of newscasts a week for
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Wheel of Fortune (Tarot card)


number of other modern tarot decks. The "Wheel Of Fortune" card, like other cards of the Major Arcana, varies widely in depiction between Tarot decks. The card has been modeled ever since the tarot's inception in the 15th century after the medieval concept of "Rota Fortunae", the wheel of the goddess Fortuna. Images generally show a six- or eight-spoked wheel, often attended or crested by an individual (sometimes human; sometimes a Sphinx-like half-human) attired in an Egyptian-style
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Wheel of Fortune (Australian game show)


hostess Adriana Xenides died after a long battle with illness; she had been listed in the Guinness World Records as the longest-serving hostess of a television game show until it was surpassed by her US counterpart in 2001. In 1981, the Grundy Organisation purchased the rights to Merv Griffin's American game show "Wheel of Fortune" and created a faithful reproduction of the American series, as they had done with many other game shows. The new show began airing on the Seven Network on 21 July 1981 at 5:00PM, and
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Chuck Woolery


Charles Herbert Woolery (born March 16, 1941) is an American game show host, talk show host, and musician. He has had long-running tenures hosting several different game shows. Woolery was the original host of "Wheel of Fortune" (1975–1981), the original incarnation of "Love Connection" (1983–1994), "Scrabble" (1984–1990, and during a brief revival in 1993), "Greed" on Fox from 1999 to 2000, and "Lingo" on GSN from 2002–2007. Woolery was
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Pat Sajak


, "Highly Questionable". Sajak is signed as a host of "Wheel of Fortune" until 2022. Pat Sajak was parodied in a 1980s "Sesame Street" sketch, with a Muppet named Pat Playjacks hosting "Squeal of Fortune". The goal was for the contestants (Prairie Dawn and The Count) to guess how many times a pig in the center of the wheel would squeal before the wheel stopped. During the 1980s comedian Martin Short frequently portrayed on the sketch comedy television shows "SCTV" and "Saturday
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La Ruota Della Fortuna


La ruota della fortuna is the Italian version of "Wheel of Fortune". The show has run nonstop since 1988 on Canale 5 and Rete 4, and switched from a trilon to an electronic board in 2003, like the U.S. version. previously hosted by Mike Bongiorno, the show was hosted by Enrico Papi on Italia 1, and featured Victoria Silvstedt from the French version of the show, La Roue de la Fortune. The Italian version of "Wheel" went off the air in 2010. In 1985, the show
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It Takes Two (Singaporean TV series)


is badly affected and a series of misfortune befalls him. It appears that the wheel of fortune has turned. With Lady Luck smiling on him, Youcai enters a lucky draw and wins a car. Soon, the story of how the "prosperous rice bin" changes his fortune starts to circulate to the point of becoming a legend. Despite Youcai's mother frantically explaining that it is purely nonsense perpetuated by her, nobody is convinced. Hordes of people flock to the rice bin to "seek fortune and lottery numbers".
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Children's programming on CBS


) – included the youth-oriented game show "Wheel 2000" (a spin-off of the syndicated "Wheel of Fortune", which would ironically become a CBS-distributed property through the company's 2000 acquisition of KingWorld), which aired simultaneously on the Game Show Network. Other programs included a magazine series based on "Sports Illustrated for Kids", the long-running "Beakman's World", the second season of "Fudge", and notably, "Weird Al" Yankovic's first regular television
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Wheel of Fortune (horse)


or fourth place on the inside as the Yorkshire-trained Coromandel made the running until the turn into the straight. Two furlongs from the finish Wheel of Fortune moved up alongside the leader and then went quickly clear to come home "the easiest of winners" by three lengths from Coromandel with Adventure finishing a distant third. Wheel of Fortune reappeared at Royal Ascot on 13 June in the Prince of Wales's Stakes in which she conceded weight to a field of top class colts and fillies. She was held up by Archer until
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Harry Friedman


Harry Friedman (born November 12, 1946) is an American television industry executive. He has been the executive producer of the syndicated game shows, "Jeopardy!" and "Wheel of Fortune", since 1999. Initially he shared the title of executive producer with the shows' creator, Merv Griffin, but since Griffin's 2000 retirement, he has served as their sole executive producer. Friedman has produced a combined total of more than 5,500 episodes of "Jeopardy!" and "Wheel of Fortune". Friedman introduced
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Endurance running hypothesis


The endurance running hypothesis is the hypothesis that the evolution of certain human characteristics can be explained as adaptations to long-distance running. The hypothesis suggests that endurance running played an important role for early hominins in obtaining food. Researchers have proposed that endurance running began as an adaptation for scavenging and later for persistence hunting. Much research has been geared towards the mechanics of how bipedal walking has evolved in the genus "Homo". However, little research has been conducted to examine how the specific adaptations for running emerged, and how
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WBNS-TV


Windows Media Player format, including Compaq's IPAQ personal digital assistant which required an ExpressCard to connect to the Internet. WBNS-TV has been the market's home of the syndicated runs of "Wheel of Fortune" since 1983 and "Jeopardy!" since 1984, one of the few stations to carry the entire run of both series. On June 11, 2019, Dispatch announced it was selling its broadcasting assets, including the WBNS stations, to Tegna Inc. for $535 million in cash. The deal is expected to
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The Decameron


of Lady Fortune, and how quickly one can rise and fall through the external influences of the "Wheel of Fortune". Boccaccio had been educated in the tradition of Dante's "Divine Comedy", which used various levels of allegory to show the connections between the literal events of the story and the Christian message. However, the "Decameron" uses Dante's model not to educate the reader but to satirize this method of learning. The Roman Catholic Church, priests, and religious belief become the satirical source of comedy
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KNXV-TV


the years, KNXV has added more first-run syndicated shows, such as "Wheel of Fortune" and "Jeopardy!". KNXV has since become the home of preseason games for the Arizona Cardinals. Today, KNXV is a typical ABC affiliate, producing a decent amount of local news programming, and clearing nearly all of the network's programs in their intended time slots. However, KNXV has been one of ABC's weakest affiliates since the 1994 switch. In stark contrast, KTVK dominated the ratings when it was
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Wheel of Fortune (Australian game show)


offered to them. This would continue until 2004 when it was reduced to two prizes. On "Million Dollar Wheel of Fortune", solving a puzzle allowed that player to bank any cash accumulated up to that point (the rule in the U.S. version since 1987). At some point, when time is running short, a bell rings off camera to indicate the Final Spin of the Wheel. The host spins the Wheel and all remaining consonants in the puzzle are worth the value of the spin. The player in control
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Long run and short run


analysis and introduction of equilibrium notions. Classical political economists, neoclassical economists, Keynesian economists all have slightly different interpretations and explanations as to how short-run and long-run equilibriums are defined, reached, and what factors influence them. Since its origin, the "long period method" has been used to determine how production, distribution and accumulation take place within the economy. In a long run, firms change production levels in response to (expected) economic profits or losses, and the land, labour, capital goods
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CBS


that continues to broadcast daytime game shows. Notable game shows that once aired as part of the network's daytime lineup include "Match Game", "Tattletales", "The $10/25,000 Pyramid", "Press Your Luck", "Card Sharks", "Family Feud" and "Wheel of Fortune". Past game shows that have had both daytime and prime time runs on the network include "Beat the Clock", "To Tell the Truth" and "Password". Two long-running prime time
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Fringe time


, "Wheel of Fortune", has survived in syndication since that era, outlasting the show's network run. Sister program "Jeopardy!", after a failed attempt at syndication in 1974 near the end of its network run, returned as an independent show a decade later, with both it and "Wheel" being fringe time fixtures in the decades since. Although during the early days of these new rules, local stations typically carried a hodge-podge of weekly shows, by the 1980s almost all fringe time programming
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Koło Fortuny


Koło Fortuny is the Polish version of "Wheel of Fortune". The show first ran from 2 October 1992 to 1 September 1998. Its second run went from 29 October 2007 to 2009, and its third was debuted on 10 September 2017. For rules of the game, see the article entitled "Wheel of Fortune (U.S. game show)", as this article only describes the unique differences in the Polish version of the show. The 2007-09 run of the show was one of few versions to use a
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Hangman (game)


"hajj", "faff", "fizz", "fuzz" and variations of these. The game show "Wheel of Fortune" is based on Hangman but with the addition of multiple-word puzzles, a roulette-styled wheel, and cash awards. Brazil also had a show in the 1960s and again from 2012–2013 called "Let’s Play Hangman", hosted by the legendary Silvio Santos. Brazil would later get its own version of "Wheel of Fortune", running from 1980 to 1993, again
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Microcar (brand)


was known for their long-running MC Series models, sold as the MC1 and MC2. Both where available as a 2-seat, or 4-seat long wheel base version. The long wheel base being 40mm longer than the short Virgo models. The company also sold a small commercial vehicle called the Sherpa, which was a badge-engineered Ligier X-Pro. The Sherpa was discontinued after the Ligier merger, and the MC has been dropped in favor of the new M.Go. The M.Go was produced with a petrol engine for
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Wheel of Fortune video games


. The "Games by GSN Casino" has also featured a "Wheel of Fortune Slots" game that abides by the basic rules of slots games but incorporates aspects of the actual show in various ways, such as featuring a bonus game where players can spin the Wheel to increase their earnings; this is the only one of "Wheel"s many slots games not to be manufactured by International Game Technology. Neither game features Sajak nor White, and both games support only one player. A "Wheel of Fortune" pinball machine was
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STV (TV channel)


High Living", gameshows "Now You See It" and "Wheel of Fortune", crime series "Crimedesk" with Bill Knox, long-running documentary series "Weir's Way", lifestyle show "Room at the Top", and "Glen Michael's Cartoon Cavalcade", which lasted 26 years. Another of the station's best-known programmes, "Scotsport", ran continuously for 51 years until May 2008 and remains one of the world's longest-running television sports programmes. In July 2009
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Love Connection


" and "Wheel of Fortune" (formerly hosted by Woolery) for longest lasting game show in syndication, but since has been surpassed by "Family Feud" and "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire". Coincidentally, the show premiered on the same date (September 19) that Woolery's former show, "Wheel of Fortune", debuted its syndicated edition in 1983. As of 1993, among the couples who met on the show, there were a total of 29 marriages, 8 engagements, and 15 children
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Deal or No Deal (Australian game show)


Network's "Bert's Family Feud", which was axed in 2007. In 2008, the Nine Network revived Wheel of Fortune; it was renamed as "Million Dollar Wheel of Fortune", but did poorly in the ratings, and resulted in the show being axed after a month. After "Million Dollar Wheel of Fortune", the Nine Network introduced "Millionaire Hot Seat", which has resulted in much higher ratings, and since 2010, has started to overtake "Deal or No Deal". The game
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Jim Perry (television personality)


City. In 1974, Perry became the announcer of the CTV game show "Definition", a Hangman-based, pre-"Wheel of Fortune" series which would become the longest-running game show in Canadian television history. After a few weeks of announcing the show, Perry moved from the announcer position to hosting (replacing original host Bob McLean), and remained there until the show ended its run in 1989. Perry hosted another long-running weekly nighttime game show, "Headline Hunters", which lasted from 1972 until
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The Wheel of Fortune (Burne-Jones)


version has been held by the Musée d'Orsay in Paris since 1980. The painting measures , with its frame, . It employs a dull palette of greys, browns, greens and blues. It was originally conceived as part of the predella for an unrealised triptych on the Fall of Troy. The tall frame is filled by a gigantic spoked wooden wheel, turned by a giant personification of the goddess Fortune standing in a "contrapposto" position, wrapped in the voluminous folds of a metallic blue classical gown, head swathed in a
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Lin Bolen


Lin Bolen (March 21, 1941 – January 19, 2018) was an American television executive and producer. She was most noted for her role at NBC daytime television programming as the first female vice president of a TV network, a position she held from 1972 until 1976. In this role, Bolen was responsible for commissioning the long-running game show "Wheel of Fortune" and is credited with bringing successful long form to network soap operas. Bolen was mentioned in "Who's Who in America" as a trailblazer
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Chevrolet C/K


chrome 15X7 wheels with specialized chromed plastic center caps. -4WD only models were exclusively white and also received black wheel flares, black tow hooks, 16–inch cast-aluminum wheels and additional 4x4 sport decals. The BYP package was only available on trucks painted in solid red,and white in 1989. It has been reported that the 89 sport was a limited production run set to determine how well the package would be received by consumers in the years to follow. There were no suspension or engine upgrades provided with any of the sport
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KFYR-TV


"Jeopardy!", "Wheel of Fortune", and "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire", among others. KFYR's newscasts have led the ratings in western North Dakota for as long as records have been kept. Early on, the Meyers devoted significant resources to KFYR's news department, resulting in a higher-quality product than conventional wisdom would suggest for such a small market. This tradition has continued today. The station broadcasts local newscasts at 5 a.m., noon, 5 p.m., 6 p.m. and 10
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Hervé Hubert


"La Simca 1000". Since 1994, Hervé Hubert has been producing TV shows, mainly game shows and reality competition TV shows. He produced more than 6,000 TV shows, including the French adaptations of some famous formats like "Let’s make a deal", "Wheel of fortune", "Deal or no deal" or "The Price is right". In 2006, he initiated the comeback on air of famous old formats when he proposed to TF1 a brand new revival version of "Wheel of fortune"
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WIVB-TV


WIVB-TV currently airs no local non-news programming, except for the public affairs program "By the People", which has been a staple of its programming on Sundays at 6 a.m. for many decades. Syndicated programming includes "Rachael Ray", "The Dr. Oz Show", "Wheel of Fortune" and "Jeopardy!" (the last two of which were acquired in 2012 after having spent most of their runs on WKBW). Under LIN ownership, WIVB (and LIN's other CBS affiliates in
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Laberinto de Fortuna


also a vision poem. Mena himself is the narrator. He opens the poem with a lament about the “casos falaçes” of Fortune (unfortunate things that happen to people). He asks to see Fortune’s home in order to better understand how she functions. After being whisked away by a dragon-pulled chariot, he is guided through Fortune’s abode by Divine Providence (allegorized as a female character). There he sees not one Wheel of Fortune, but three, representing the past, present and future;
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Wheel of Fortune video games


Mobile" studio created a tournament-style game based on the show as part of its "For Prizes" lineup of games allowing players to win free gift certificates; this game is set to a time limit of five minutes and requires players to complete the regular rounds in five turns or less apiece. Subsequent mobile phone incarnations of the show were released by Sony Pictures Mobile in 2006, 2008, 2010, and 2012. "Wheel of Fortune" has also been adapted for personal computers. From 1987 through 1990, GameTek
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Radio City Music Hall


American debut at the Music Hall in March 1996, breaking box-office records. Radio City Music Hall also hosted the Cirque du Soleil show "Zarkana" from June 2011 to September 2012. Radio City Music Hall has been used for televised game shows such as "Wheel of Fortune" and "Jeopardy!". For two weeks in November 1988, the theater hosted "Wheel of Fortune", which was taking its first road trip. "Saturday Night Live" announcer Don Pardo announced during the two weeks. It
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WDIV-TV


-TV include "Wheel of Fortune", "Jeopardy!", "The Ellen DeGeneres Show", "Rachael Ray" and "Inside Edition". WDIV-TV is one of the few television stations in the United States to have aired "Wheel of Fortune" and "Jeopardy!" from the beginning of their respective syndication runs. WDIV-TV used this as leverage for its decision to pull the programs from the schedule of CBC owned-and-operated station CBET-DT in Windsor, Ontario,
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World Aviation


World Aviation magazine was a long-running publication for the aviation industry. It was aimed at companies and aviation professionals and was freely distributed to more than 170.000 manually selected addresses worldwide. Its front page famously had a quote by US astronaut David Scott to Dr. Ahura F. K. Yazdi (founder of "World Aviation"): ""I've been fortunate enough to have a view of the world that few men have seen... to realize just how small it can really be. WORLD AVIATION will make the world a smaller
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Fortuna


trait, "two-faced Fortune", "Fortuna bifrons"; such depictions continue into the 15th century. The ubiquitous image of the Wheel of Fortune found throughout the Middle Ages and beyond was a direct legacy of the second book of Boethius's "Consolation". The Wheel appears in many renditions from tiny miniatures in manuscripts to huge stained glass windows in cathedrals, such as at Amiens. Lady Fortune is usually represented as larger than life to underscore her importance. The wheel characteristically has four shelves, or stages of
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Wheel of Fortune (American game show)


's popularity, over 40 million people were watching five nights per week. The series, along with companion series "Jeopardy!", remained the most-watched syndicated program in the United States until dethroned by "Judge Judy" in 2011. The program has become America's longest-running syndicated game show and its second-longest in either network or syndication, second to the version of "The Price Is Right" which began airing in 1972. The syndicated "Wheel" has become part of the consciousness of over
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KDVR


morning infomercial block, "Weekend Marketplace" and the political talk show "Fox News Sunday"). Syndicated programs broadcast by KDVR include "Wheel of Fortune", "Jeopardy!", "Live with Kelly and Ryan", "Judge Judy" and "The Simpsons" (which also airs first run episodes). In addition, the station produces "Everyday", an hour-long lifestyle program which originated as an afternoon program on sister station KWGN in 2008 as "Everyday with Libby and Natalie" (
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How We Used to Live


How We Used to Live was a long-running British educational history television series, produced for most of its run by Yorkshire Television. The series, encompassing drama and documentary, remained in sporadic production from 1968 to 2002, airing on ITV and Channel 4. Written by Freda Kelsall, the series traced the lives and fortunes of various fictional Yorkshire families from the Victorian era until the early 1970s, in and around the fictional town of Bradley, using self-contained short dramas interspersed with archive footage. Each series was broadcast
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Little Moreton Hall


, copied from Robert Recorde's "Castle of Knowledge" of 1556. The inscriptions read "The wheel of fortune, whose rule is ignorance" and "The speare of destiny, whose rule is knowledge". The Long Gallery was always sparsely furnished, and would have been used for exercising when the weather was inclement and as a games room – four early 17th-century tennis balls have been discovered behind the wood panelling. The Upper Porch Room leading off the Long Gallery, perhaps originally intended as a "sanctuary from
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CFMT-DT


including "The Simpsons", "Friends" and "Family Guy", airing nightly as counterprogramming to local newscasts and first-run primetime series on owned-and-operated stations of the major networks. Until around 1990, CFMT was the original Toronto home of "Wheel of Fortune" and "Jeopardy!". At that time, both game shows moved to CTV flagship station CFTO-TV (channel 9) and remained on that station until 2004, when "Wheel of Fortune" moved to CJMT, then
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Kimball Allen


play, "Secrets of a Gay Mormon Felon", premiered in Kansas City in the summer of 2012. It has also run in Honolulu and San Diego. A "KC Stage" reviewer of the play wrote, "I was skeptical about how engaging an hour long, one-man play ... could be. Fortunately, playwright, actor, and subject matter Kimball Allen possesses the assets of colorful material in his life story, a gift for story-telling, and a charisma that drew in the audience from beginning
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KEYC-TV


includes "Wheel of Fortune", "Live with Kelly and Ryan", "Dr. Phil", and "The Ellen DeGeneres Show" among others. Syndicated programming on KEYC-DT2 includes "Rachael Ray", "Judge Judy", "The Dr. Oz Show", "Jeopardy!", and "The People's Court" among others. KEYC-TV maintains a highly local focus such as through its production of the long-running music series "Bandwagon". Another program that have aired almost throughout
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Fortune Theatre


The Fortune Theatre is a 432-seat West End theatre on Russell Street, near Covent Garden, in the City of Westminster. Since 1989 the theatre has hosted the long running play "The Woman in Black". The site was acquired by author, playwright and impresario Laurence Cowen, and had previously been the location of the old Albion Tavern, a public house that was frequented by Georgian and Victorian actors. The theatre is situated next to Crown Court Church, and dwarfed by the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane on the opposite side
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John Burgess (host)


John Richard Burgess (born 4 June 1943) is an Australian television and radio personality and host, often referred to as "Burgo" and from his radio days "Baby John Burgess" or "Baby John", as the youngest presenter at the station. He is best known for his long tenure hosting duties on the Australian version of game show "Wheel of Fortune". Burgess was host of the Australian version of Wheel of Fortune on the Seven Network, and was its longest serving presenter from 1984 to 1996.
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Ken Jennings


Jennings' run than they were during the same period the previous year. For several weeks of the winnings streak, "Jeopardy!" was ranked as TV's highest-rated syndicated program. By the end of "Jeopardy!"'s 20th season several weeks later, the show had surpassed "Wheel of Fortune" in the ratings but "Wheel", which is usually paired with "Jeopardy!" in programming, also benefited from Jennings' streak. Jennings has received a good deal of American media coverage. After
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Family Feud


of Fortune" and "Jeopardy!"); in February 2014, the show achieved a 6.0 share in the Nielsen ratings, with approximately 8.8 million viewers. In June 2015, "Family Feud" eclipsed "Wheel of Fortune" as the most-watched syndicated game show on television. Under Harvey, the show has had better syndication clearances and better timeslots. It has been airing in early fringe and prime access slots nationwide. Reruns of the Dawson, Combs, Anderson and Karn hosted episodes have been included among Buzzr
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Wheel of Fortune video games


Game.com system, which allows players to use the console's touchscreen to select letters. Additionally, Majesco Entertainment once planned a "Wheel" adaptation of its own for the Game Boy Color but that was cancelled. On November 2, 2010, THQ published a Nintendo DS "Wheel of Fortune" video game developed by Griptonite Games, which allows players to customize and name their player character. Additionally, a number of "Wheel" games have been released for mobile telephones. On May 2, 2005, InfoSpace's "Atlas
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Toyota Fortuner


The , also known as the Toyota SW4, is a mid-size SUV manufactured by Toyota. The Fortuner is built on the Hilux pickup truck platform. It features three rows of seats and is available in rear-wheel drive or four-wheel drive configuration. The Fortuner is part of Toyota's IMV project in Thailand, which also includes the Hilux and the Kijang Innova (in Indonesia). Developed in large part by Toyota’s Thai operations, the Fortuner has piggybacked the success of the Hilux and is now built
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Fortuna


hopes of a lover who has been helped by a personified character "Reason". In Dante's "Inferno" (vii.67-96), Virgil explains the nature of Fortune, both a devil and a ministering angel, subservient to God. Boccaccio's "De Casibus Virorum Illustrium" ("The Fortunes of Famous Men"), used by John Lydgate to compose his "Fall of Princes", tells of many where the turn of Fortune's wheel brought those most high to disaster, and Boccaccio essay "De
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Wheel of Fortune (American game show)


90 million Americans, and awarded a total of over $200 million in cash and prizes to contestants. The popularity of "Wheel of Fortune" has led it to become a worldwide franchise, with over forty known adaptations in international markets outside the United States. Versions of the show have existed in such countries as Australia, , Denmark, France, , Italy, Malaysia, New Zealand, the Philippines, Poland, Russia, Spain, the United Kingdom, and . The American version of "Wheel" has honored its
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Fred Archer (jockey)


Leger. 1879 was the championship year of Wheel of Fortune, one of Archer's favourite horses, that he thought was "wonderfully good". She was small, at , leading the Duke of Portland to say she "looked like a polo pony" with Archer's long legs round her. Like Spinaway four years earlier, Wheel of Fortune won both the 1,000 Guineas and Oaks. She won the Yorkshire Oaks in August as well but was prevented an attempt at the Triple Crown when she broke down going for a second
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Marty Pasetta


Martin Allen Pasetta (June 16, 1932 – May 21, 2015) was an American television producer and director, best known for his work on the telecasts for multiple awards shows, including the Oscars, the Grammys, and the AFI Life Achievement Awards. He also directed "The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour" along with the game shows "Wheel of Fortune" and "Love Connection". He also produced the game show "Catchphrase", which, while short-lived in the US, went onto a long run
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Star Trek: The Next Generation (season 2)


-run hour-long syndicated series, and the third highest-rated syndicated show overall, behind only "Wheel of Fortune" and "Jeopardy". The first episode of season two, "The Child", aired on November 21, 1988 to Nielsen ratings of 10.9 million. After an initial slight decrease in viewers over the next five episodes, the season broke the 11 million mark with "" and then peaked as the next two episodes, "A Matter of Honor" and "The Measure of a Man
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Carcassonne: Wheel of Fortune


Carcassonne: Wheel of Fortune 2009 is a tile-based German-style board game developed by Klaus-Jürgen Wrede and distributed by Hans im Glück in German and Rio Grande Games in English. It is considered a game in the "Carcassonne" series, and is considered both as a standalone game as well as an expansion set to "Carcassonne". As "Wheel of Fortune" is a "standalone expansion" of "Carcassonne", "Wheel of Fortune" plays identically to "Carcassonne". "Wheel
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Wheel of Fortune (horse)


On her final start of the year at the Newmarket Houghton meeting she carried a seven pound weight penalty in the Dewhurst Stakes. She was settled behind the leaders before moving to the front a furlong from the finish and winning "in magnificent style" by a length from the colt Flavius. She finished the season undefeated in six races, having won more than £7,665 in prize money. She was regarded by press commentators as by far the best juvenile of either sex to have run in Britain that year. Wheel of Fortune
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Bradley Walsh


. After Walsh became a public favourite, he was quickly snapped up by rival television channel ITV, who offered him the role as presenter on one of the network's new game shows, "Midas Touch". In 1997, Walsh was asked to front the British adaptation of the popular US game show "Wheel of Fortune" following the decision of long-time presenter Nicky Campbell to leave the show after more than eight years. Walsh's tenure on "Wheel of Fortune" lasted just one year, when he decided
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Laberinto de Fortuna


levels of fortune are represented by the Ptolemaic structure. Each wheel represents its own miniature of the Ptolemaic universe (the seven known celestial bodies with their allegorical connotations). The Ptolemaic element dominates the narrative structure of the poem, as the narration advances in order through the rings of the various planets. To sum up: We three Wheels of Fortune; each Wheel has seven rings representing a planet and its virtues; but, only two of the Wheels are visible to the narrator. On each ring there appear historical personages who
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Adriana Xenides


Adriana Xenides (née Coutsaimanis; 9 January 1956 – 7 June 2010) was an Australian television presenter, former model, actress and children's author. Born in Buenos Aires, to a Greek father and a Spanish mother, she moved to Australia as a child, and became well known for her Guinness World Record-long-running role as the co-host and letter-turner on "Wheel of Fortune". She died in 2010 from a ruptured intestine, after several years of ill health. After moving from
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The Golden Girls


As a tribute to the success of "The Golden Girls", all four actresses were later named Disney Legends. Beginning July 3, 1989, NBC added daytime reruns of the show, replacing long-running "Wheel of Fortune" (it moved to CBS) on the NBC schedule at 11:00 a.m.(EST). It ran for a little over a year until September 1990. At this time, syndicated reruns began airing, distributed by Buena Vista Television (now Disney–ABC Domestic Television), the syndication arm of Disney
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All-Star Blitz


20,000. If the champion was incorrect, he/she won $250 for each celebrity who guessed the puzzle correctly. Any champion who played the Blitz Bonanza four times retired undefeated. "All-Star Blitz" originally aired on ABC at 11:00 AM EST, replacing "Trivia Trap" and followed by the long-running "Family Feud". However, the series found itself facing strong competition from the first half of the powerhouse "The Price is Right" on CBS and "Wheel of Fortune" on NBC.
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Life insurance


the insurance company depending on how long the policy has been running and how much has been paid into it. Accidental death insurance is a type of limited life insurance that is designed to cover the insured should they die as the result of an accident. “Accidents” run the gamut from abrasions to catastrophes but normally do not include deaths resulting from non-accident-related health problems or suicide. Because they only cover accidents, these policies are much less expensive than other life insurance policies. Such insurance can also be "
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Amos Fortune (comics)


Amos Fortune is a DC Comics supervillain. Amos Fortune first appeared in "Justice League of America" #6 (August–September 1961) and was created by Gardner Fox and Mike Sekowsky. As a child, Fortune was the leader of a gang of juvenile delinquents. As an adult, he became obsessed with luck, both good and bad, and discovered the existence of "luck glands" in human beings that dictate how a person's luck will run. Upon learning how to control these "luck glands" to
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Godfrey Mwakikagile


which, however you look at it, either fortunately for the West or unfortunately for Africa, are reinvested in Western national economies. So, in the long run Africa becomes positively poorer and the West negatively wealthier. Analytically, this runs counter to the central thesis of Rodney's How Europe Underdeveloped Africa. In fact, it's what the Eurocentric Africanist Godfrey Mwakikagile calls 'Africa in a Mess.' This inverse relationship of economic bilateralism is unhealthy and must be critically addressed by Africa." It is a case of Africans
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The Wheel of Fortune (Burne-Jones)


The Wheel of Fortune is an oil on canvas painting by British Pre-Raphaelite painter Edward Burne-Jones, made from 1875 to 1883. The painting combines classical and medieval themes to present an allegory of the vagaries of life, a "vanitas", with individual lives elevated or cast down as the wheel of fortune turns. Burne-Jones commented: "My wheel of Fortune is a true-to-life image; it comes to fetch each of us in turn, then it crushes us." The prime
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Laberinto de Fortuna


allegorical elements: the Wheel of Fortune and the Ptolemaic universe. As mentioned above, the structure of the poem centers around three Wheels of Fortune (past, present and future). The first two wheels are visible to the narrator, while Providence leaves the third one veiled. Providence explains that the past and future wheels do not rotate, but the wheel for the present is still in motion, its outcome uncertain. On each wheel the narrator sees people from classical or Castilian history at varying levels of fortune. These different
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Wheel of Fortune (American game show)


, photographs, videos, and a special case dedicated to White's wardrobe. Two years later, in 2012, the show was honored with a Ride of Fame on a double decker tour bus in New York City. Numerous board games based on "Wheel of Fortune" have been released by different toy companies. The games are all similar, incorporating a wheel, puzzle display board, play money and various accessories like Free Spin tokens. Milton Bradley released the first board game in 1975. In addition to all the supplies
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Fortunes for All


times. The opening chapters of "Fortunes for All" set out Vash Young's credentials: the long, happy and rewarding life that he has enjoyed - his 'Fortune' - through taking his own advice and living by the rules he formulated as a young man. Vash then turns to his early life of hardship, poverty, hunger and deprivation and candidly reveals how he squandered early opportunities as a young man through self-doubt and moral weakness. Vash Young then describes the flash of insight the enabled him to re
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Downtown Pittsburgh


tells me there is a certain limit to how many jobs can efficiently be located in what are some relatively (very) constrained areas." These numbers reflect employment in the city as a whole, not just the central business district; but the central business district has the highest density of employment of any Pittsburgh neighborhood. Pittsburgh has long been a headquarters city, with numerous national and global corporations calling the Golden Triangle home. Currently, Downtown is still home to a large number of Fortune 500 companies (8 in the metro
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Wheel of Fortune (American game show)


in the answer, and punctuation revealed as needed. Most puzzles are straightforward figures of speech that fit within a mostly static list of categories, and this list has evolved over the course of the series. Crossword puzzles were added to the rotation in 2016. In such rounds, a clue bonding the words in the puzzle is given instead of a traditional category, and contestants win by solving all the words in the crossword. The titular Wheel of Fortune is a roulette-style wheel mechanism with 24 spaces, most of which
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Hamster wheel


exercise and voluntary activity on metabolism, obesity, and pain. The neurotransmitter systems involved in wheel-running behavior have received considerable study. Recent evidence suggests that changes in both dopaminergic and serotonergic tone alter running-wheel activity. For example, one study in mice has shown that several antidepressant medications (all of which directly or indirectly enhance serotonergic tone) suppress running-wheel activity without suppressing general locomotion. The endocannabinoid system also contributes to wheel running in a sex-specific manner in rodents. Mice from lines that have been
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Wheel of Fortune (American game show)


!", hosted by Alex Trebek. The syndicated success of "Wheel" and "Jeopardy!" siphoned ratings from the period's three longest-running and most popular game shows, "Tic-Tac-Dough", "The Joker's Wild", and "Family Feud", to the point that all three series came to an end by the fall of 1986. At this point, "Wheel" had the highest ratings of any syndicated television series in history, and at the peak of the show
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Carcassonne: Wheel of Fortune


scores six points. Followers on the wheel at the end of the game are not worth any points. Once scored, followers on the wheel are returned to their owners. "Wheel of Fortune" is fully compatible with "Carcassonne" and its expansions - when combined with "Carcassonne", only one set of player pieces (provided with both games) is used. "Wheel of Fortune" tiles are differentiated from "Carcassonne" tiles with a distinct logo on every tile, as with all other "Carcassonne" expansions
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Rota Fortunae


composer Carl Orff, whose well-known "O Fortuna" is based on the poem "Fortuna Imperatrix Mundi". Fortuna does occasionally turn up in modern literature, although these days she has become more or less synonymous with Lady Luck. Her Wheel is less widely used as a symbol, and has been replaced largely by a reputation for fickleness. She is often associated with gamblers, and dice could also be said to have replaced the Wheel as the primary metaphor for uncertain fortune. In his novel, "The Club
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Rota Fortunae


(I have reigned) and the lowly figure on the bottom is marked "sum sine regno" (I am without a kingdom). Dante employed the Wheel in the "Inferno" and a "Wheel of Fortune" trump-card appeared in the Tarot deck (circa 1440, Italy). In the medieval and renaissance period, a popular genre of writing was "Mirrors for Princes", which set out advice for the ruling classes on how to wield power (the most famous being "The Prince" by
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Wheel of Fortune (British game show)


and if the contestant answered correctly, they spun the wheel. If the contestant landed on a number, they had to pick a letter. If the letter appeared on the puzzle board, the contestant earned the value multiplied by the number of times the letter appeared. A player was allowed to purchase a vowel for a flat rate of 250 points for any number of repetitions as long as that vowel appeared in the puzzle. The contestant would then spin the wheel again, but the contestant's turn would end if the contestant
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Boynton Bicycle Railroad


Boynton pattern. The section of railroad on which this system has been operated was only 2 miles long, in which distance the curves were considerable, but, although they were mostly in one direction, the indications of wear upon the traction wheels, and upon the guide rail and trolley wheels, were hardly perceptible. During a portion of the season, when the summer travel to Coney Island was at its height, trains were run on regular schedule time, 50 three-car-trains daily each way, carrying from one
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Larry Emdur


was signed mere hours after his deal with the Nine Network expired. While in the first few weeks of his run with Seven's "Wheel" in the weekday timeslot, Emdur continued to appear simultaneously on Nine in re-runs of "The Price Is Right", until "Bert's Family Feud" took over the timeslot on Nine in mid-February 2006. On 19 June 2006 news emerged of "Wheel of Fortune"'s cancellation at the end of the 2006 season. Channel 10's "Rove Live"
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Scottish Television


"Wheel of Fortune" and "Fun House" began decade-long runs on the ITV network. In 1990, Sir William Brown retired as managing director after 24 years of service, marking the longest serving chief executive in ITV history. He subsequently became chairman of Scottish Television plc from 1991 until 1996 Gus Macdonald was promoted as Managing Director and started overhauling the workforce by cutting it from 800 to 330 – Macdonald claimed the company was employing many more people though most were now freelancers. In early 1992, J. Nigel Pickard
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Austin-Healey 100


and the old wire wheels especially the original 48 spoke wheels become a weak point in the structure. Fortunately there are several suppliers that provide "Mini-lite" and "Panasport" style wheels which are close to period correct. Significantly modified four cylinder Healey 100's can provide exceptional performance, competing side by side with six cylinder Aston Martins and even 12 cylinder Ferraris of the same era in vintage events. Shown on the right is the Austin Healey Number 347 driven by Rich Maloumian. This car has been campaigned to great
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Wheel of Fortune (Australian game show)


"Celebrity Wheel of Fortune". On 21 March 2006, "Wheel of Fortune" celebrated a major milestone, as its 5,000th episode went to air on the Seven Network. An extra element was added to the special show: the chance to win $5,000 in cash. Two yellow "$5,000" wedges were added to the Round 1 wheel. A third was added to Round 2's wheel. If a contestant was to spin it up and select a correct letter, they would have 5,000 added to their score
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Schurz Communications, Inc. v. FCC


the CBS, NBC, and ABC television networks. Leverage Theory: The theory that a company which has economic power in one market could use their power to obtain a monopoly in another market. Television syndication: The selling of the rights to air programs to different stations. First-Run Syndication: Programming that is broadcast for the first time as a syndicated show. Examples of first-run are talk shows, like the "Oprah Winfrey" and "Tyra Banks" shows, and game shows like "Wheel of Fortune
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Wheel of Fortune (Australian game show)


, a combined prize of almost $50,000). This, and the $5,000 prize on show 5,000 (see below), was one of only two cash prizes offered on the show. From 2004-2006, The Golden Wheel saw the amount of car wedges decreased to two when it featured a Renault and finally three with a Mitsubishi to the closing of its run on the Seven Network. In 2008, the standard top prize increased to $200,000, and an additional space for the prize was added to the wheel
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