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Wolfram & Hart


Wolfram & Hart − Attorneys at Law is a fictional international and interdimensional law firm featured in the television series "Angel", as well as other extended materials in Joss Whedon's Buffyverse. "The Wolf, The Ram, and The Hart" are the names of the members in an ancient trio of true demons. The group was at one point, before the dawn of human history, considered relatively insignificant and was not regarded as a threat by the Old Ones. After humanity's triumph over the demons, they remained
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the Wolfram and Hart office buildings have retroactively vanished; the site is now being used for the construction of a "Doublemeat Palace" facility, and few people remember that there ever was a W&H branch there. In the "Spike" (2010–11) series however, Spike later observes that a Wolfram & Hart branch has sprung up in the heart of Las Vegas, Nevada. As a law firm, Wolfram & Hart typically defends unscrupulous and detestable clients, including stalkers, mobsters, murderers, corrupt senators, and a number
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staff extremely quickly), and Angel is offered stewardship of the office by their now-deceased employee Lilah Morgan, ostensibly as a reward for preventing world peace. In reality, the Senior Partners hope to turn Angel to their side, and keep him from recognizing the firm's apocalypse already in progress. Angel accepts the offer on one condition: in exchange, Wolfram & Hart agrees to alter his son Connor's memories and place him with a loving family. The remaining members of Angel Investigations also join Wolfram & Hart,
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the girl offers a brief history on the demon. When Wolfram & Hart falls under siege by The Beast, Angel and his group find their only refuge in the White Room; they arrive just in time to see The Beast draining the dark energies from Mesektet, killing her. Before her death, she transports the group back to the Hyperion Hotel before The Beast can kill them as well. When the employees of Angel Investigations are offered positions at Wolfram & Hart, Charles Gunn is taken to the White Room as part of
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not exist. In the Buffy and Angel universe, the firm maintains offices in many major cities throughout the world. However, the only branch offices featured in the television series are in Los Angeles and Rome (both have identical interiors); in Italy, the firm is known as "Wolfram e Hart". The earthly manifestation of one of the Senior Partners is slain by Angel in the Los Angeles branch, in the episode "Reprise". In "", the canonical comic book continuation of the television series,
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on Pylea or in other dimensions is unknown; however, there are assumed to be many more, as Angel tells Spike in "A Hole in the World": "Wolfram & Hart has branches in every major city in the world, and a lot more out of it." The firm is alluded to visually as an evil in Thor's dream in Avengers: Age of Ultron. Joss Whedon placed this in the film as an Easter egg for his fans. Series creator Joss Whedon has described why Wolfram & Hart
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and slowly gained power and influence, eventually leaving this dimension altogether. In the present day on Earth, they are referred to as the Senior Partners by their employees and enact their will through various puppet organizations. One of the groups they command on Earth is the 'law firm' Wolfram & Hart. While the Senior Partners have left Earth's plane of existence, the source of Wolfram & Hart's power, the Home Office, exists on Earth itself. Without the evil residing within every living person, the firm would
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corporeal form to punish employees who have shown unfavorable performance. Many employees live in fear of the Review, and in the days preceding it do whatever they can to endear themselves to the Senior Partners, including animal and human sacrifices. However, departmental heads at Wolfram & Hart can use discretion when dealing with insubordination. If a manager thinks highly enough of an employee, he or she may decide to forgo punishment in favor of a second chance. Wolfram & Hart's employees often have a "perpetuity clause" in their contracts
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his personalized tour. To his surprise, he is greeted by a black panther; the new Conduit's form is determined by the viewer. During his tenure with Wolfram & Hart, Gunn makes use of the Conduit when he has exhausted all other resources. When Gunn visits in search of a way to save Fred's life, he encounters a mirror image of himself, who viciously beats him for his insolence in using the Room for his own convenience. In addition to its operations on Earth, Wolfram & Hart maintains a
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Dead End (Angel)


"Dead End" is episode 18 of season 2 in the television show "Angel". Written by David Greenwalt and directed by James A. Contner, it was originally broadcast on April 24, 2001 on the WB television network. In "Dead End", Lindsey receives a new hand from Wolfram & Hart, which appears to have an evil agenda of its own. Angel and Lindsey independently discover that Wolfram & Hart forcefully removes limbs from people to obtain transplants, and work together to destroy the clinic responsible. Disillusioned,
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presence in a number of other dimensions. The region of the extradimensional world of Pylea, visited by Angel Investigations, is ruled by priests known as the Covenant of Trombli. This group possesses a trio of holy texts emblazoned with a wolf, a ram, and a hart (male red deer) respectively, a hint that reveals to Cordelia and the others that they shouldn't trust the Covenant. The Covenant has since been overthrown after Cordelia kills the main priest Silas, and the full extent of Wolfram & Hart's influence
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Conviction (Angel)


"Conviction" is the first episode of season 5 in the television show "Angel", originally broadcast on the WB network. In this episode, Wolfram & Hart C.E.O. Angel and the rest of the group cope with their new, morally ambiguous lifestyle. Their client - an unsavory, violent gangster - threatens to unleash a virus if they fail to keep him out of jail. Biological warfare is averted when Gunn uses the knowledge of the law that Wolfram & Hart mystically bestowed upon him to prevent the gangster from being incarcerated
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. Angel saves a woman from a vampire in an alley; however, thanks to a tracking device, Wolfram & Hart lawyers surround the scene. Angel is admonished because the dead vampire worked for the firm's clients. At Wolfram & Hart, Fred gets lost en route to her office. Wesley finds her and she tells him that her lab is “giganamous” and she's unsure of the function of most of the machines in it. Her assistant Knox catches up to Fred; Wesley tries to make conversation by asking
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Underneath", Angel claims that they "don't have a name". Due to their alliance with Wolfram & Hart this season, Angel's friends and allies in the Scooby Gang, including Buffy, have deemed him, and his crew by extension, untrustworthy. By "", the team seems to have been fully disbanded, though the members are still active, albeit operating mostly independent of each other; the now-human Angel and a ghostly Wesley are combating the Demon Lords from the destroyed Wolfram & Hart building
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Five by Five (Angel)


that tries to stop her or get in her way. In a courtroom, Wolfram & Hart is just about to close a case, but Angel shows up at the last minute with the gang member who is to testify against their client. Lilah Morgan and Lindsey McDonald, two lawyers from Wolfram & Hart, hire Faith to assassinate Angel. Back in 1898, Darla returns to the house to find her Angelus emotional and remorseful. He's been cursed with a soul, and she angrily rejects him because of it. In
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ramifications. At Wolfram and Hart, Wesley and Fred, each immersed in their own work, literally bump into each other. They exchange extremely awkward small-talk until Fred breaks off to speak with Knox. This painful exchange is noted by a non-corporeal Spike, who emerges from a wall to tease Wesley. Wesley tells Spike that there is nothing between him and Fred, and that he simply wants what is best for her. Elsewhere in the Wolfram and Hart lobby, a delivery man approaches with a package for
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by Wolfram & Hart and all knowledge of him has been deleted from his friends' memories. Because of this, Angel takes up Lilah's offer to run Wolfram & Hart. Meanwhile, Wesley had attempted to save Lilah's life by burning her eternal contract with the firm, but to no avail. She thanks him for trying however and professes her genuine feelings for him. Angel then takes a trip to Connor's fabricated life and looks on from a distance as his son shares a joyous dinner with his parents and sisters
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. When Angel learns a necromancer named Hainsley is buying corpses from Wolfram & Hart to reanimate with demonic essences, he decides to pay him a visit to tell him that they will no longer supply him with bodies. Spike decides to tag along and is offered a body by Hainsley. Spike, still confused, wonders why the group is now working for Wolfram & Hart. Fred notes that Spike is definitely something mystical, but if he were a ghost, they would not be able to see him, because he lacks ectoplasm
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not from a belief in evil per se, but because being a Black Thorn allows them to amass power for themselves and wield that power with impunity. The Circle's lineup in 2004 is: Archduke Sebassis; Senator Helen Brucker; Cyvus Vail; Ed, Grand Potentate of the Fell Brethren; the leader of the Sahrvin Clan; Izzerial the Devil; and three other men whose names were never mentioned. Their latest recruit was Angel, who pretended to have been corrupted by Wolfram & Hart in order to infiltrate the circle and
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. Spike meets Angel, Wesley, and Gunn in the Wolfram and Hart offices. When Wesley asks about the burn, Spike berates the group for condemning him when McNeal made his accusation, and tells them that their positions and Wolfram and Hart are costing them their souls. As he exits, he says, "so much for redemption, eh?" "Angel" comics such as this one are not usually considered by fans as canonical. Some fans consider them stories from the imaginations of authors and artists, while other
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or demonically allied humans (primarily the law firm Wolfram & Hart), while Angel must also contend with his own violent nature. In season five, the Senior Partners of Wolfram and Hart take a bold gamble in their campaign to corrupt Angel, giving him control of their Los Angeles office. Angel accepts the deal as an opportunity to fight evil from the inside. In addition to Boreanaz, "Angel" inherited "Buffy" series cast regular Charisma Carpenter (Cordelia Chase). When Glenn Quinn (Doyle) left the
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Untouched (Angel)


"Untouched" is episode 4 of season 2 in the television show "Angel", originally broadcast on the WB network. In this episode, a vision from Cordelia leads Angel to Bethany, a runaway teen who possesses barely controlled telekinetic powers. Unbeknownst to Angel, Lilah has brought Bethany to Los Angeles, hoping to groom her into being an assassin for Wolfram & Hart. Lilah attempts to provoke violent episodes in Bethany in order for Wolfram and Hart to gain control of the teen. First she has her cornered in an
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Blood Money (Angel)


from Cordelia's vision in the sewers and find a 20-foot demon. After some hesitation, they charge at it. Angel confronts Merl in his apartment, demanding information about Anne. She's connected to Wolfram & Hart but despite a couple of name changes in the past, the woman herself is clean, so Angel visits the shelter and talks to her. Anne raves about Wolfram & Hart's help with the shelter and the plans for a charity fundraiser named the Highway Robbery Ball to gather money with the help of celebrities.
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Spike vs. Dracula


, and he is finally able to take his revenge. In November 2003, the Los Angeles branch of Wolfram and Hart receives a letter from Count Vlad Dracula. Dracula lost a $2.7 million mansion when Sunnydale was destroyed, and the firm has not replied to Dracula's inquiries, so he intends to pay a personal visit. At Wolfram and Hart, Spike is ecstatic when he hears of Dracula's impending visit. He begs Angel to let Dracula believe that Spike's incorporeal form is not bound to the W&H offices,
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. In season two (2000–2001), Angel discovers that Wolfram & Hart has brought his sire and former lover Darla (Julie Benz) back from the dead in human form. Although Darla is intent on bringing back Angelus, Angel hopes to save her soul and help her seek redemption while she still has a chance. However, just as it looks like he might succeed, Wolfram & Hart bring in Drusilla to turn Darla back into a vampire. Angry at the lawfirm and embracing his darker side, Angel fires his employees
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Happy Anniversary (Angel)


from consequences they couldn’t handle (like forcing them to do terrible things to destroy Wolfram & Hart with them), even if it meant mistreating them and manipulating them into thinking he’d kill them if he didn’t give them the book. He preferred they hate him and feel betrayed since he had no plans to come back after dying to stop Wolfram & Hart. When he later sees the error of his ways and does come back and reveals his true motives for the way he treated them, he had to work
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others disrupt the Senior Partners' plans by killing all of the members of the Circle of the Black Thorn, the Partners' major representatives on Earth, effectively destroying their influence and stalling the plans of the Partners. Next, during a battle between Angel and Liaison to the Senior Partners Marcus Hamilton, the Los Angeles office collapses. Within the Wolfram & Hart solicitor's building, one can enter 'The White Room'. This is an interdimensional space that serves as a "Conduit" to the Senior Partners—it is
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Drusilla (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)


Drusilla, or Dru, is a fictional character created by Joss Whedon and David Greenwalt for the American television series, "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" and "Angel". The character is portrayed by American actress Juliet Landau. Drusilla is introduced alongside her lover Spike (James Marsters) in the second season of "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" to serve as new antagonists to the series' heroine, vampire Slayer Buffy Summers (Sarah Michelle Gellar) and alongside Darla (Julie Benz) and Wolfram & Hart as the main antagonist
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, meaning that they 'remain with the firm even after their death.' As mentioned by Harmony Kendall, there is also a 'Non-Human Resources Department' specifically committed to their numerous demonic and vampiric employees. Since many of the employees and clients of Wolfram & Hart are non-human, many amenities are offered within the building, most notable is the special catering for non-traditional palates: human blood is kept "on tap" for those who need it, although Angel had this replaced with a selection
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Winifred Burkle


a brutal act, even against Seidel, will ultimately destroy her. As a result, in a battle where she is trying to trap him in a hell dimension, Gunn snaps Seidel's neck himself and drops the body into the portal. Unfortunately, this causes a rift between Fred and Gunn, and ultimately ends their relationship. However, everything changes for Fred when she and the rest of Angel's crew join Wolfram & Hart. (While Angel accepts a suite of rooms at Wolfram & Hart as his new home,
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of demonic individuals and groups. While many of these clients are rich or powerful, the firm is also known to work some cases "pro bono", especially when it has a secondary interest in the client. The firm also maintains departments of Real Estate; Entertainment; Science; Research and Intelligence; and Interment Acquisitions (the firm's term for grave robbery). In addition to the many legal functions the firm performs, Wolfram & Hart also maintains a Special Projects Division. Special Projects is responsible for a wide range
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. Among the resources at the division's disposal is a heavily armed special ops team, which carries out operations such as kidnapping at the firm's behest. Marcus Hamilton claims that the patentholder for cancer is a client of theirs. Wolfram & Hart is known for its unforgiving treatment of its employees. The firm conducts random sweeps of employees, using telepaths to find workers who are disloyal to the company they pledged to work for. When discovered, these individuals are often executed on the spot. The Senior Partners are reputed to
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Wolfram & Hart


of animal bloods after he took over. All the windows in the building are made of "Necro-Tempered" type-glass that blocks the fatal effects of sunlight so that vampires can work during the day without having to worry about accidental immolation. The members of the circle act as the earthly instruments of the Senior Partners, charged with being the driving force behind Wolfram & Hart's apocalyptic plans and dedicated to keeping the wheel of "man's inhumanity to man" perpetually spinning. The members of the Circle do this
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The Girl in Question


too. The demon butler gets away with the head and mocks the heroes as he leaves. Angel and Spike argue over how "if they had their resources", that they would be able to find the head. Spike points out that there is a Wolfram & Hart office in Rome. Meanwhile, at Wolfram & Hart in L.A., Fred's parents show up and Wesley ushers them into his office to tell them she has been consumed. He is about to tell them when Illyria walks in the door looking and acting
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Habeas Corpses


. Cordelia hugs Connor while Lorne questions the others about what happened. Soon afterward, Cordelia tells Angel that she was worried and he orders her to take her new boyfriend, i.e. Connor, and get out. It is never established exactly why the Wolfram & Hart employees are re-animated as zombies. It is suggested that the Beast (or, by extension, anyone associated with it) was responsible, or alternatively that it is a mystical failsafe which is automatically activated at Wolfram & Hart during emergencies. However, in
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Angel (season 3)


is ambushed by both Angel and Wolfram & Hart. Sahjhan appears and opens a portal to "Quor'toth" – darkest of the dark worlds. With Wolfram & Hart ready to take the baby away (or kill him), Angel tells Holtz to take the baby and run. Holtz jumps into the hell dimension, just before telling Angel that his son will never even know he existed. Angel is left emotionally shattered. Subsequently, Wesley is found bleeding to death in a park and is taken to a hospital where Angel then
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Angel: After the Fall


mothershow, "Buffy the Vampire Slayer". "Angel: After the Fall" sees the heroic vampire, Angel, coping with the apocalyptic aftermath of the television series after he took over and subsequently betrayed the demonic law firm, Wolfram & Hart. The city of Los Angeles has since been sent to hell by Wolfram & Hart as a result of Angel's actions. The series follows his attempts to rescue the people he has sworn to protect. The first issue was released on November 21, 2007. Originally intended as
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two men walk in holding buckets full of Novac's remains. Spike smirks and tells the gang they are doing a great job. That night, Angel tells Harmony that he wants to keep quiet about Novac for a little while. Gunn brings him Hainsley's file, announcing that he's a rich sorcerer with shares in Wolfram & Hart and a lot of connections. Angel determines that he's a necromancer; Wesley clarifies that he has power over the dead, which is why Wolfram & Hart was providing him with bodies.
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Lineage (Angel)


special Wolfram & Hart reference books, which Roger thinks are dangerous and could attract evil thieves. Up on the roof, a bunch of cyborgs drop out of a helicopter. Eve gets into an elevator and is joined by Spike, who has noticed her watching him and wants to know why. He thinks that there's more to her than she's letting on, and she accuses him of the same. Spike wonders why Wolfram & Hart is keeping him connected to the amulet that brought him back, since it was intended
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Origin (Angel)


he grows suspicious of Angel's seemingly odd behavior concerning the Connor Reilly case. Wesley's investigation leads to Vail, and records indicating that he had been hired by Wolfram & Hart to cast a massive, reality-changing spell on the day that the law firm was taken over by Angel Investigations. Angel aggravates these suspicions by refusing to offer an explanation, and Wesley begins to theorize that Angel's behavior may be a result of guilt; specifically that Angel had sacrificed Fred in exchange for control of Wolfram & Hart, and
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Charles Gunn (Angel)


the end of their relationship. Although no longer romantically linked, Gunn and Fred continue to fight side-by-side, and Gunn has a fling with the electric Gwen Raiden in the episode "Players". When Wolfram & Hart want to cut a deal to have Angel take over the L.A. branch, Gunn is led into the mysterious White Room where he is exposed to the mysterious conduit to the Senior Partners, who impresses Gunn with his immense power. Soon, he undergoes a remarkable transformation at Wolfram & Hart.
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assassinate its members. After Angel and his team kill all members of the circle, the Senior Partners send an army of demons to destroy them as vengeance. As seen in comic book continuation "", the Senior Partners sent all of Los Angeles to Hell as a punishment. The Los Angeles office of Wolfram & Hart is founded in 1791 over holy ground de-consecrated through a ritual employing the blood of serial murderer Matthias Pavayne, who is able to survive as a spirit in the building for over 200 years. The
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office is notable because it operates in the same city as Angel, who becomes the focus of many W&H projects. Several attorneys whose duties focus on Angel—Lindsey McDonald, Lee Mercer, Lilah Morgan, Linwood Murrow—all share the same initials. In 2003, the Los Angeles office of Wolfram & Hart is destroyed by The Beast after it launched a brutal assault on their offices and then slaughtered almost everyone else in the city who worked for the company. The building is quickly rebuilt (and somehow managed to replace the
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List of minor Angel characters


. Sparrow is a surgeon who performs contracts for Wolfram and Hart. In "Conviction", on the orders of the Senior Partners, Sparrow implants Gunn with absolute knowledge of all human and demon laws, demonic languages, golf techniques, and Gilbert & Sullivan compositions, thus making him the head of Wolfram & Hart's Legal Department. He next appears in "Smile Time", when Gunn discovers that he is losing his mental upgrades; not wanting to go back to simply being "the muscle" of Angel's crew
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List of minor Angel characters


promotion. In his last years at the firm, Manners personally supervises Wolfram & Hart's operations regarding Angel. In particular, he oversees the resurrection of Angel's sire Darla and orchestrates her return to vampirism by Drusilla in an attempt to corrupt Angel. Holland Manners is eventually killed by Darla and Drusilla in his wine cellar during their ploy to get revenge on Wolfram & Hart for using them as pawns against Angel. Ironically, before his death, Holland pleads with Angel to save him, but, in a form of poetic
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List of minor Angel characters


below him and keep their interests in line with Wolfram & Hart's agenda. When Angel tells him that his actions will cause the death of several innocents, he coldly replies, "And yet, somehow, I just can't seem to care." Angel repeats this line when Manners, about to be murdered along with his guests by Drusilla and Darla, he begs Angel to save them. Ilona Costa Bianchi is the voluptuous Italian CEO of Wolfram and Hart's Rome offices in "The Girl in Question". She
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List of minor Angel characters


body chemistry to the extent that her host's blood was green. Her ambition is to become President of the United States in 2008 thanks to the financial aid of hostile countries and the vast influence she possesses as a member of the Circle of the Black Thorn. She also tends to surround herself with vampires, who work both as her bodyguards and campaign staff. She's also a client of Wolfram & Hart, at least since the days of Holland Manners. Senator Brucker visits Wolfram & Hart to obtain the firm's help
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Illyria (Angel)


Wesley mentions to her Gunn is trapped in a Wolfram & Hart-imposed pseudo-Hell, Illyria opens a portal and rescues Gunn without hesitation, later noting the great debt the group owes to her. In the process of finding Gunn, she destroys eleven torture units, two troop carriers, an ice cream truck, eight "beautifully maintained" lawns, and "rendered useless" dozens of Wolfram & Hart employees, according to Marcus Hamilton. At this point, her pastimes include talking to plants and training with Spike (
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Spike: Old Wounds


Spike: Old Wounds is a comic based on the "Angel" television series. A retired L.A. detective arrives at Wolfram and Hart and says that Spike had been responsible for a murder that took place decades previously. Spike attempts to solve one of the most infamous unsolved crimes that has taken place in LA history. Meanwhile there are various monster-slayings for the gang to solve. An elderly man - former LAPD Detective McNeal - holds Winifred Burkle hostage and makes it deep into Wolfram and Hart. Or so he thinks,
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Spike: Old Wounds


a drawing of a tattoo that Lawrence had on his wrist back in 1947. Fred notes that the same marking was found on Elizabeth Short's body. Spike also finds information on Emigh. He and Fred learn that Emigh is now 97 years old and living in a geriatric home. Spike asks Fred to return to Wolfram and Hart to follow up on the tattoo lead while he visits Emigh. As they leave, Spike notices a letter in McNeal's trash and secretly pockets it. At Wolfram and Hart, Fred discovers that
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Spike: Lost and Found


replies that the case is closed - the attacker couldn't possibly have used the Gem. Nonetheless, Angel brings Spike to Wolfram and Hart, where his people are conducting research of their own into the Gem's origins. Meanwhile, a vampire steps off a city bus in broad daylight and kills a fisherman and a security guard on the Santa Monica Pier. At Wolfram and Hart, Spike explains to Angel and Wesley that he had conducted his own research in order to find the first Gem. Wesley says that his translation refers
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Reprise (Angel)


Manners' wine cellar illustrating his involvement in the slaughter. Angel turns to Lorne, who is having a busy night as Caritas is full of Wolfram & Hart lawyers wanting to have their destinies read. Lorne tells Angel that a Wolfram & Hart Senior Partner (manifesting in the form of a lower demon) is coming to earth for the historically deadly Review, and that the sacrifices and rituals are simply the lawyers trying to get brownie points with the Senior Partner before he shows up. Lorne also tells Angel that anything that can
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Soul Purpose (Angel)


to turn L.A. into utopia. A blue fairy floats in and sprinkles gold dust on Spike, making his heart beat again. As everyone cheers for Spike, Angel is suddenly a man staffing the mail cart. In reality, Spike is at the spartan basement apartment that Lindsey provided for him, when Gunn and Wesley stop by. They tell him that if he wants to rescue people, Wolfram & Hart has resources that can help him. Spike declines the offer, saying Wolfram & Hart is the same evil law firm it
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the streets of Los Angeles, Angel decides he has no choice but to sink to their level in order to defeat them. He fires his crew (Cordelia, Wesley and Gunn) and purposefully allows Darla and Drusilla to slaughter the Special Projects division of Wolfram & Hart including Holland Manners. During the massacre the vampires intentionally leave Lindsey McDonald and Lilah Morgan alive to act as their liaisons to Wolfram & Hart. The two lawyers begin competing for the position of head of Special Projects, in fear of losing their jobs as the
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, Wolfram & Hart would like to give them the Los Angeles branch. To help save Cordelia and Connor, who has gone mad with confusion over losing everything, Angel reluctantly agrees. In season five, the gang begins to settle into their new lives at Wolfram & Hart. Gunn undergoes a special cognitive procedure that transforms him into a brilliant lawyer. The group receives an amulet that resurrects a past companion of Angelus, the en-souled vampire Spike, initially as a ghost-like presence but later regains corporeal status due
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List of minor Angel characters


Angel. Lee was killed when Holland Manners accused him of planning to leave the firm and take clients with him. Mr. Mercer claims he misled his prospective employers and did not really intend to leave Wolfram & Hart. His first appearance was in Sense & Sensitivity as Little Tony's lawyer, terminating their connection at the end of the episode. Linwood Murrow, played by John Rubinstein, was a lawyer for Los Angeles branch of Wolfram & Hart whose children were taken by the Senior Partners. As President of Special Projects Division,
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List of minor Angel characters


he was the direct superior of Lilah Morgan. Unlike preceding W&H leaders Holland Manners or Nathan Reed, Linwood was more concerned with his personal agenda and safety than with Wolfram & Hart's plot to corrupt Angel, going as far as trying to kill Angel, which was a violation of company policy. Lilah often clashed with Linwood, unlike Gavin Park, who followed Linwood in an attempt to get rid of Lilah. Linwood oversees the attempt to capture Connor for scientific study, this results in Angel storming Wolfram & Hart, cutting
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List of minor Angel characters


and ambition, Sirk joined Wolfram & Hart and took along with him several valuable tomes belonging to the Council, including the Devandiré Sybilline Codex. Later when Angel Investigations was offered the L.A. branch of Wolfram & Hart in the episode "Home" (his first appearance), he was sent to the Los Angeles branch and was the one showing Wesley around their research and intelligence division. He received a punch in the face because of his attitude and because Wesley wanted to infiltrate the firm's files and records department. He showed
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Darla (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)


with Spike. Darla's role in the franchise increased dramatically after her resurrection by the law firm Wolfram & Hart in the final episode of "Angel"'s first season, titled "To Shanshu in L.A." In the second season opener, "Judgement", Wolfram & Hart lawyers Lindsey McDonald and Lilah Morgan question Darla about her past. She talks of how she can feel Angel, and slowly her memory begins to return. In the episode "First Impressions", Angel begins having romantic dreams about his maker, which
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back toward Wolfram & Hart. Holland unleashes Darla and Drusilla on Los Angeles; they begin by raiding a clothing store for new wardrobes, killing two salespeople. Angel forces his way into Wolfram and Hart, demanding information. Lindsey refuses; Angel is arrested and taken into custody by Kate. She releases him, hoping he can stop Darla and Drusilla's killing spree. Holland hosts a wine tasting party for his colleagues in his home's wine cellar. As he makes a speech, Darla and Drusilla appear, intent on slaughter
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Carolyn Hart


series in 1987. Hart's stand-alone World War II novel "Letter from Home" was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction by the Oklahoma Center for Poets and Writers at Oklahoma State University–Tulsa. She has twice appeared as one of the featured mystery authors at the Library of Congress National Book Festival in Washington, D.C. Hart has won awards throughout her four-decade writing career. Hart's first commercially successful adult mystery series features Annie Laurance, proprietor of the Death on Demand bookstore, located in the fictional
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Underneath (Angel)


Partners are 100% behind him, and welcomes Spike to the team. In Angel’s apartment, Lorne pulls bullets out of Spike as Lindsey and Eve cuddle, happy to be reunited. Angel tells Lindsey he will go into the holding facilities of Wolfram & Hart after he tells Angel and the group what he knows about the Senior Partners' plans. Lindsey talks about Earth being Hell, which is how Wolfram & Hart thrives. Angel says he has already heard that speech. Lindsey tells Angel the apocalypse has been around them
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Stephen Wolfram


shows how simple programs in his computational universe capture the essence of the complexity – and beauty – of many systems in nature. This led to the creation of Wolfram Tones which works by taking simple programs from Wolfram's computational universe, applying music theory, and Wolfram Language algorithms to render them as music. Each program in effect defines a virtual world, with its own special story — and Wolfram Tones captures it as a musical composition. In A New Kind of Science, Wolfram found what was then the simplest known universal Turing
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Hart (deer)


R. R. Tolkien, when Bilbo Baggins and company pass through Mirkwood Forest. It is alluded to in the Joss Whedon series "Angel": the senior partners of law firm Wolfram & Hart are represented, respectively by the wolf, the ram and the hart. It is mentioned in the first of the series of novels by George R. R. Martin "Game of Thrones" when a "white hart" is sighted in the woods: King Robert Baratheon and other lords seek to hunt the creature (perhaps an allusion to Robert
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Donald Justin Wolfram


his M.S. from Columbia University, and his Ph.D. from the University of Denver. He married Phyllis Esther Hoffman (1921-1985) on December 20, 1948 and had the following children: Suzanne Wolfram who married David M. Larue; Phillip J. Wolfram who married Neta L. M.; Charlene L. W. who married Keith R. Maines; Donna J. W. who married Ron R. Reiner; and Lorraine J. Wolfram who married Bruce Lepley. Wolfram taught at the Pillar of Fire high schools and colleges and was the dean of Belleview College in Westminster
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Parzival


composed of several thirty-line stanzas of rhyming couplets. The stanza lengths fit perfectly onto a manuscript page. For the subject matter Wolfram von Eschenbach largely adapted the Grail romance, "Perceval, the Story of the Grail", left incomplete by Chrétien de Troyes. Wolfram claimed that a certain Kyot the Provençal supplied additional material drawn from Arabic and Angevin sources but most scholars now consider Kyot to be Wolfram's invention and part of the fictional narrative. Book I opens with the death of King Gandin, Parzival's grandfather.
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Giles Milton


National Archives. "Wolfram: The Boy Who Went to War" is Milton's seventh work of narrative non-fiction. It recounts the early life of Wolfram Aichele, a young artist whose formative years were spent in the shadow of the Third Reich. Wolfram Aichele's parents were deeply hostile to the Nazis. Many of their interests, including freemasonry and the philosophy of Rudolf Steiner, conflicted with the politics of Nazism. Wolfram's father, the artist Erwin Aichele, managed to avoid joining the Nazi Party. But he
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Kathryn Cramer


Kathryn Elizabeth Cramer (born April 16, 1962) is an American science fiction writer, editor, and literary critic. Kathryn Cramer is the daughter of physicist John G. Cramer. She grew up in Seattle and graduated from Columbia University with degrees in mathematics and American studies. Cramer has worked for five literary agencies, most notably the Virginia Kidd Agency, and for several software companies, including consulting with Wolfram Research in the Scientific Information Group. She co-founded "The New York Review of Science Fiction" in 1988 with
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List of minor Angel characters


Wolfram and Hart, got Spike arrested for tax evasion, and wrote a self-help book that is "a real life-changer." He also supposedly disdains the use of magic, finding it to be vulgar. The Immortal makes an appearance in the Buffyverse Expanded Universe (non-canon), in the novel "Queen of the Slayers", which details the start of the relationship between Buffy and the Immortal. Izzerial or "Izzy" (Mark Colson), a member of the Circle of the Black
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Parting Gifts


and Hart suddenly bids $30,000. Barney nearly passes out, but manages to bang his gavel and close the deal before anything can interfere with such an unexpected windfall. Cordelia is now the evil law firm's property, and Angel and Wesley are nowhere to be seen. The auction is over. Cordelia is in the back room listening to Barney negotiate with Mac, the lawyer from Wolfram and Hart, about the additional fee for removing her eyes, and to Hank still clacking the four-pronged extractor. To Cordelia's
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Rita (2009 Italian film)


- Artistic Direction 9th Concorto Film Festival | 2010 22 Aug – 29 Aug | Italy Special Jury Mention 8th Imaginaria Film Festival | 2010 24 Aug – 29 Aug | Italy Jury Mention 16th Aye Aye Film Festival Nancy-Lorraine | 2010 3 Sep – 11 Sep | France Best Sound 3rd Festival Internacional Curtametraxes Bueu | 2010 Bueu International Shortfilm Festival 6 Sep – 11 Sep | Spain Best Short Fiction Film 17th Altin Koza Film Festival | 2010 Golden Boll Film Festival 20 Sep – 26 Sep | Turkey Special Jury Mention 7th Filmfest Eberswalde |
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List of minor Angel characters


Hart, he is greeted by Holland, who takes the opportunity to mock Angel's desire to destroy the Senior Partners and prevent their desired apocalypse, pointing out that there will surely be another apocalypse to follow it (as seen on "Buffy the Vampire Slayer", apocalypses of various kinds are indeed a recurring threat in the Buffyverse, and preventing one does nothing to forestall a subsequent one), and to inform Angel that Wolfram and Hart's power in fact comes from the evil within humanity itself, which completely breaks Angel
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A New Kind of Science


the book's fifth anniversary, Wolfram's company offered a $25,000 prize for proof that this Turing machine is universal. Alex Smith, a computer science student from Birmingham, UK, won the prize later that year by proving Wolfram's conjecture. Every year, Wolfram and his group of instructors organize a summer school. From 2003 to 2006, these classes were held at Brown University. In 2007, the summer school began being hosted by the University of Vermont at Burlington, with the exception of 2009 which was held at
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Destiny (Angel)


"Destiny" is episode 8 of season 5 in the television show "Angel". Co-written by David Fury and Steven S. DeKnight and directed by Skip Schoolnik, it was originally broadcast on November 19, 2003 on the WB network. In "Destiny", when a mysterious package arrives at Wolfram & Hart that renders Spike corporeal again, Eve claims the universe is in chaos because the Shanshu Prophecy states only "one" vampire with a soul can be the champion of good. Angel and Spike duel over a
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Universe (uncanon), in "Book of the Dead". The novel reveals the extent of Rutherford's power within W&H, and the circumstances under which he left the Watchers' Council and joined the law firm. Sahjhan is portrayed by actor Jack Conley. Sahjhan is one of a race of demons known as the Granok who thrive on chaos and violence. The Granok are pale and disfigured, with faces covered in scars and markings. Wolfram and Hart made Sahjhan and the rest of his kind immaterial. Mesekhtet (the
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List of minor Angel characters


decides they had best remain friends and co-workers – concluding she wanted someone who made her laugh, and Knox had been working at Wolfram & Hart for too long to be the 'right' kind of funny – and pursues a relationship with Wesley. In "A Hole in the World", Knox is revealed to be a worshipper of Illyria, one of the Old Ones, and the mastermind behind the demon's resurrection in Fred's body. Once Illyria has taken over Fred's body and returned to Wolfram &
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by Angel after they have been slaughtered by a demon raised by Wolfram & Hart, the malevolent law firm, who seek to eliminate Angel's connections to the Powers. They are never mentioned again. Pee Pee Demon was the personal slave of Archduke Sebassis, played by Ryan Alvarez. A pale, emaciated demon led around on a leash, he had a cork in his wrist which was removed to pour blood into a glass for Sebassis to drink. He first appeared in "Life of the Party", attending the Wolfram
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Stephen Wolfram


to analyze her data. Wolfram's younger brother, Conrad Wolfram, serves as CEO of Wolfram Research Europe, Ltd. From 1992 to 2002, he worked on his controversial book "A New Kind of Science", which presents an empirical study of simple computational systems. Additionally, it argues that for fundamental reasons these types of systems, rather than traditional mathematics, are needed to model and understand complexity in nature. Wolfram's conclusion is that the universe is digital in its nature, and runs on fundamental laws which can be
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Theodore Gray


Theodore W. "Theo" Gray is a co-founder of Wolfram Research, science author, and co-founder of app developer Touch Press. Theodore Gray was educated at the University of Illinois Laboratory High School. He would later graduate with a B.S. in chemistry from University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign in 1986. In 1987, Gray left a PhD program in theoretical chemistry at the University of California at Berkeley to work with Stephen Wolfram. In that same year, he co-founded Wolfram Research. His initial work
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The Fringe of the Unknown


" (from "The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction", Jun. 1969) 8. "Dinosaurs Today" (original title: "Dinosaurs in Today's World") (from "The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction", Mar. 1968)br 9. "Mammoths and Mastodons" (from "The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction", May 1965)br 10. "Death Comes to the Megafauna" (from "If Worlds of Science Fiction", Sep. 1971)br 11. "Xerxes' Okapi" (original title
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Walt Wolfram


system. In addition to African American English, Wolfram has written extensively about Appalachian English, Puerto Rican English, Lumbee English, and on many dialects of North Carolina, particularly of rural, isolated communities such as Ocracoke Island. Wolfram received his B.A. in Anthropology (Greek) from Wheaton College in 1963, his M.A. in Linguistics from Hartford Seminary Foundation in 1966 and his Ph.D. in Linguistics from Hartford Seminary Foundation in 1969, studying under Roger Shuy. He has been on the faculty at Georgetown University, the University of the District
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justice, he had succeeded in corrupting Angel so thoroughly that Angel instead walks away, leaving Darla and Drusilla to kill Manners and the other employees. Holland's position at the Special Projects Division is given to Lindsey and Lilah jointly, while the firm itself is overseen by Nathan Reed. However, his employment with Wolfram and Hart does not end with his death: according to company practice, his contract binds him to the firm for eternity. Thus, when Angel attempts to reach the Senior Partners via the elevator of Wolfram &
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Gary L. Wolfram


, Michigan's Deputy State Treasurer for Taxation and Economic Policy under John Engler, and Senior Economist to the Republican Senate in Michigan. Wolfram received his Ph.D. in economics from the University of California at Berkeley. He has taught at Mount Holyoke College, the University of Michigan, and Washington State University. His publications include "Towards a Free Society: An Introduction to Markets and the Political System" and several works on Michigan's tax structure and other public policy issues. Wolfram is also a Senior Policy Analyst with the Mackinac Center
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Wolfram Research


One Universal Algorithm) at the CNR in Pisa, Italy in 2009. Wolfram Research hosts the yearly Wolfram Technology Conference in Champaign, IL. During this three-day conference, developers discuss the latest Wolfram technologies for mobile devices, cloud computing, interactive deployment, and more. Wolfram Research also hosts the Wolfram Data Summit, a high-level gathering of innovators in data science. They are experimenting with electronic textbook creation. Wolfram Research frequently streams live events on Twitch.tv. The events often feature long-time Wolfram Language users
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Bircham International University


jurisdictions. In 2003, South Florida's "CityLink" magazine reported that Oregon education officials said that Bircham was "totally bogus". In July 2007, the Secretariat of Public Education (SEP) of Mexico issued a notice stating that degrees lacking RVOE (Official Recognition from the Mexican Government) will not be validated by the SEP. Degrees via online or distance learning issued by foreign institutions like Bircham University will not be recognized by the SEP. In April 2008 the "Nairobi Business Daily" reported that Bircham International University was
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Wolfram Burgard


Wolfram Burgard (born 1961 in Gelsenkirchen, Germany) is a German roboticist. He is a full professor at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg where he heads the Laboratory for Autonomous Intelligent Systems. He is known for his substantial contributions to the simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) problem as well as diverse other contributions to robotics. Wolfram Burgard received his Diploma degree from University of Dortmund in 1987 and his Doctorate from the University of Bonn in 1991. His thesis advisor was Armin B. Cremers. In 1991 he became a
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Conrad Wolfram


Conrad Wolfram (born 10 June 1970) is a British technologist and businessman known for his work in information technology and its application. In 2012, The Observer placed him at number 11 in its list of Britain's 50 New Radicals. Wolfram's father Hugo Wolfram was a textile manufacturer and novelist ("Into a Neutral Country") and his mother Sybil Wolfram was a professor of philosophy at the University of Oxford. He is the younger brother of Stephen Wolfram. Born in Oxford, England, in 1970, Wolfram was
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Society of Experimental Psychologists


conduct plenary sessions in which members can present papers. It holds meetings every spring, scheduled by a member at the host university who serves as the chair of the SEP for that year. The meetings are open to all members and to students and faculty from the host university who are invited by the chair. Membership in the SEP is by invitation only and is considered to be a great honor because it represents significant accomplishment in the field of experimental psychology. The SEP currently admits at least 6 new members annually from among the
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Wolfram Research


Mathematica Player runtime. Wolfram Research publishes "The Mathematica Journal". Wolfram has also published several books via Wolfram Media, Wolfram's publishing arm. Wolfram Research has organized three Wolfram Science conferences in Boston, MA, Washington, D.C. and Burlington, VT in the United States in the years 2003, 2006 and 2007 respectively. Two other independent NKS Midwest conferences have taken place at the Indiana University, Bloomington in 2005 and 2008. Other independent workshops related to NKS research have also been organized overseas, such as JOUAL (Just
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Wolfram Kaiser


Wolfram Kaiser (born 1 May 1966) is a Professor of European Studies at University of Portsmouth. In 1991, Kaiser graduated from University of Hamburg with a Bachelor and Masters of Arts. In 1994, he received a Doctorate in modern history from University of Hamburg. He was a lecturer and senior research fellow at the universities of Edinburgh, Vienna, Paris-IV, Cambridge and Saarbrücken and at the Cultural Studies Institute in Essen before joining the University of Portsmouth as Professor of European Studies in 2000. He is also Visiting
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Cellular automaton


, Matthew Cook proved that some of these structures were rich enough to support universality. This result is interesting because rule 110 is an extremely simple one-dimensional system, and difficult to engineer to perform specific behavior. This result therefore provides significant support for Wolfram's view that class 4 systems are inherently likely to be universal. Cook presented his proof at a Santa Fe Institute conference on Cellular Automata in 1998, but Wolfram blocked the proof from being included in the conference proceedings, as Wolfram did not want the proof announced before
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Stephen Wolfram


undergraduate student from Birmingham, UK, successfully found the 2,3 Turing machine to be universal and provided a 40-page paper to prove his findings. In March 2009, Wolfram announced Wolfram|Alpha, an answer engine. Wolfram|Alpha later launched in May 2009, and a paid-for version with extra features launched on February 2012. The engine is based on natural language processing and a large library of algorithms, and answers queries using the approach described in "A New Kind of Science". The application programming interface allows other applications to extend and
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Stephen Wolfram


hosted by the University of Vermont at Burlington, with the exception of the year 2009 which was held at the Istituto di Scienza e Tecnologie dell'Informazione of the CNR in Pisa, Italy. In 2012, the program was held at Curry College in Milton, Massachusetts. Since 2013, the Wolfram Summer School has been held annually at Bentley University in Waltham, Massachusetts. In A New Kind of Science is the idea of exploring a new abstract universe: a computational universe of simple programs. In A New Kind of Science, Wolfram
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Herwig Wolfram


he studied history and Latin at the University of Vienna, obtaining his doctorate there in 1957. Just two years later, in 1959, he was commissioned Assistant Professor at the Historical Institute of the University of Vienna. Then in 1966 he passed his Habilitation at the University of Vienna and in 1971 was tenured as a full professor there. The Austrian Academy of Sciences in Vienna named him as a member in 1976 and between 1981–1983, Professor Wolfram was the Dean of Humanities at the University of Vienna. Wolfram has been the author
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Stephen Wolfram


it hard to get a job since he was regarded as an "enemy alien". As an adult, he took correspondence courses in philosophy and psychology. Wolfram's mother, Sybil Wolfram (1931–1993; born Sybille Misch), originally from Berlin, Germany, was a Fellow and Tutor in Philosophy at Lady Margaret Hall at University of Oxford from 1964 to 1993. She published two books, "Philosophical Logic: An Introduction" (1989) and "In-laws and Outlaws: Kinship and Marriage in England" (
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Old Ones (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)


antipodal point in New Zealand. A keeper or guardian, with a small detachment of demon warriors, was placed in the Deeper Well to prevent anyone from extracting a sarcophagus. They failed, however, to prevent Illyria's sarcophagus from disappearing from the Well, thus allowing it to be shipped to Knox at Wolfram and Hart. This act was said to be preordained. It was originally stated by Giles that "the books tell" that the last of the Old Ones to leave this reality fed off of a human, mixing
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Blind Date (Angel)


go to his worst enemy for help. They need to get into Wolfram and Hart to steal some files. Angel recruits Gunn and with Lindsey's help, they work on getting into the underground vault. With a demon guarding the vault, and another demon that senses vampires on the premises, they have their work cut out from them. Gunn causes a disturbance and brings a vampire into the lobby while Angel sneaks into the vault. With the help of a security card from Lindsey, and powder from Wesley that kills the
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Marjorie Harris


Marjorie Harris (born 15 Sep 1937 as Marjorie Stibbards in Shaunavon, Saskatchewan) is a Canadian non-fiction writer who has published numerous books on gardening. In 1959, she graduated from McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario with Honours Bachelor of Arts degree in English. Her first marriage was to television producer and musician Barry Harris. Currently, she lives in Toronto, Ontario, Canada with her second husband, writer Jack Batten. Besides writing 15 books she was a radio host job at CBC radio's "Metro Morning"
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Stanford Exploration Project


The Stanford Exploration Project (SEP) is an industry-funded academic consortium within the Geophysics Department at Stanford University. SEP research has contributed greatly to improving the theory and practice of constructing 3-D and 4-D images of the earth from seismic echo soundings (see: Reflection seismology). The consortium was started in the 1970s by Jon Claerbout and is currently co-directed with Biondo Biondi. SEP pioneered innovations in migration imaging, velocity estimation, dip moveout and slant stack. SEP has recently been involved in 3-D seismic applications such as
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Angel (season 4)


Home" by writer/director Tim Minear. Featurettes include, ""Angel" and the Apocalypse", which details how they depicted the apocalypse on the show; "Unplugged: Season 4 Outtakes", a series of outtakes from the season; "Last Looks: The Hyperion Hotel", a set tour of the Hyperion Hotel; "Fatal Beauty and the Beast", a look at the villains of the season; "Malice in Wonderland: Wolfram & Hart", a look at the law firm and its
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