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List of homonymous states and regions
[ "\"This is a list of subnational entities that bear the same or similar names.", "For a list of divided subnational entities, see Divided regions.", "\"", "\"This is a list of ancient regions that bear the same or similar names.", "For a list of formerly divided regions, see Formerly divided regions.", "\"" ]
National entities and subnational entities
[ 0, 1, 2 ]
[ "\"This is a list of national entities bearing the same or similar names as subnational entities." ]
List of homonymous states and regions
[ "\"This is a list of subnational entities that bear the same or similar names.", "For a list of divided subnational entities, see Divided regions.", "\"", "\"This is a list of ancient regions that bear the same or similar names.", "For a list of formerly divided regions, see Formerly divided regions.", "\"" ]
Subnational entities
[ 3, 4, 5 ]
[ "For a general list of divided regions bearing the same or similar names, see Divided regions." ]
Self-styled order
[ "Many countries do not regulate the wearing of decorations, and remain neutral as to whether any particular order is legitimate or not.", "Other countries explicitly regulate what decorations are accepted as legitimate.", "For example, in Sweden, decisions about medals and orders worn on a military uniform has been delegated to the General Staff.", "The criteria of France provide an illustrative example of those nations which take a more regulatory approach: only decorations recognised by the Chancery of the Legion of Honour may be worn publicly, and permission must be sought and granted to wear any foreign awards or decorations.", "Dynastic orders are prohibited unless the dynasty in question is currently recognised as sovereign.", "(For example, the Royal Victorian Order is explicitly recognised, whereas the Order of Saints Maurice and Lazarus is not.)", "Failure to comply is punishable by law.", "A non-exhaustive list of collectively authorised orders is published by the French government.", "Another example is the United Kingdom, where legitimacy of any particular order is determined by the Monarch – some societies have permission from the Monarch to award medals, but these are to be worn on the right side of the chest.", "No UK citizen may accept and wear a foreign award without the Sovereign's permission.", "Moreover, the government is explicit that permission for foreign awards conferred by private societies or institutions will not be granted.", "The private organisation International Commission for Orders of Chivalry (ICOC) also maintains a set of principles to evaluate whether a chivalric order is genuine.", "The ICOC is not officially recognised by any international treaty, and their definition is explicitly rejected by many countries (see examples above of France, UK, and Sweden).", "The ICOC was created as a temporary committee of the International Congress of Genealogical and Heraldic Sciences in August 1960, though it has been transformed into a permanent and independent international body.", "The ICOC argues that a chivalric order must have a fount of honour () as either its founder or its principal patron in order to be considered genuine.", "A fount of honour is a person who held sovereignty either at or before the moment when the order was established.", "The ICOC considers that holding sovereignty before the founding of an order is considered effective in creation of a genuine chivalric order only if the former sovereign had not abdicated his sovereignty before the foundation of the order but, instead, had been deposed or had otherwise lost power.", "In the ICOC's view, some organisations create a false \"fons honorum\" in order to satisfy this requirement and give themselves apparent legitimacy; often, the founder or patron of a self-styled order has assumed a false title of nobility as well as supposed current or former sovereignty.", "The ICOC maintains a register of which organisations they consider to be genuine chivalric orders.", "Certain organisations which may appear to have a chivalric character (such as the Augustan Society and the International Fellowship of Chivalry-Now, which state publicly that they are not chivalric orders) carefully distinguish themselves from self-styled orders of chivalry, orders legitimized by countries, and those viewed as genuine by international bodies.", "After the medieval era, the exclusive right to confer nobility, titles, knighthoods and membership in Europe's state-recognized orders of chivalry was arrogated by sovereigns, exceptions being recorded in such annals as the \"Almanach de Gotha\" for dynastic orders granted by royal consorts (e.g., Order of the Starry Cross) or pretenders.", "Self-styled orders may share certain other characteristics:\n#They long ago were suppressed by the Holy See, protector of mediaeval Western military religious orders in the Holy Land or on the Iberian Peninsula;\n#No sovereign Western state recognises them as legitimate orders of knighthood;\n#They claim to be under the high protection of or to be headed by \"Episcopi vagantes\" or obscure princes;\n#They are linked closely to bearers of false titles of nobility.", "Since the 18th century, freemasonry has incorporated symbols and rituals of several medieval military orders in a number of Masonic bodies, notably the \"Red Cross of Constantine\" (derived from the Sacred Military Constantinian Order of Saint George, and the Order of the Holy Sepulchre), the \"Order of Malta\" (derived from the Sovereign Military Order of Malta), and the \"Order of the Temple\" (derived from the medieval Knights Templar), the latter two featuring prominently in the York Rite of Freemasonry.", "None of the masonic bodies are claiming to be orders of chivalry nor are their insignia worn in public (a right accorded orders of chivalry): hence they are not self-styled orders, but merely fraternal organisations." ]
Recognition of orders as genuine
[ 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20 ]
[ "A self-styled order or pseudo-chivalric order is an organisation which claims to be a chivalric order, but is not recognised as legitimate by countries or international bodies." ]
Self-styled order
[ "Many countries do not regulate the wearing of decorations, and remain neutral as to whether any particular order is legitimate or not.", "Other countries explicitly regulate what decorations are accepted as legitimate.", "For example, in Sweden, decisions about medals and orders worn on a military uniform has been delegated to the General Staff.", "The criteria of France provide an illustrative example of those nations which take a more regulatory approach: only decorations recognised by the Chancery of the Legion of Honour may be worn publicly, and permission must be sought and granted to wear any foreign awards or decorations.", "Dynastic orders are prohibited unless the dynasty in question is currently recognised as sovereign.", "(For example, the Royal Victorian Order is explicitly recognised, whereas the Order of Saints Maurice and Lazarus is not.)", "Failure to comply is punishable by law.", "A non-exhaustive list of collectively authorised orders is published by the French government.", "Another example is the United Kingdom, where legitimacy of any particular order is determined by the Monarch – some societies have permission from the Monarch to award medals, but these are to be worn on the right side of the chest.", "No UK citizen may accept and wear a foreign award without the Sovereign's permission.", "Moreover, the government is explicit that permission for foreign awards conferred by private societies or institutions will not be granted.", "The private organisation International Commission for Orders of Chivalry (ICOC) also maintains a set of principles to evaluate whether a chivalric order is genuine.", "The ICOC is not officially recognised by any international treaty, and their definition is explicitly rejected by many countries (see examples above of France, UK, and Sweden).", "The ICOC was created as a temporary committee of the International Congress of Genealogical and Heraldic Sciences in August 1960, though it has been transformed into a permanent and independent international body.", "The ICOC argues that a chivalric order must have a fount of honour () as either its founder or its principal patron in order to be considered genuine.", "A fount of honour is a person who held sovereignty either at or before the moment when the order was established.", "The ICOC considers that holding sovereignty before the founding of an order is considered effective in creation of a genuine chivalric order only if the former sovereign had not abdicated his sovereignty before the foundation of the order but, instead, had been deposed or had otherwise lost power.", "In the ICOC's view, some organisations create a false \"fons honorum\" in order to satisfy this requirement and give themselves apparent legitimacy; often, the founder or patron of a self-styled order has assumed a false title of nobility as well as supposed current or former sovereignty.", "The ICOC maintains a register of which organisations they consider to be genuine chivalric orders.", "Certain organisations which may appear to have a chivalric character (such as the Augustan Society and the International Fellowship of Chivalry-Now, which state publicly that they are not chivalric orders) carefully distinguish themselves from self-styled orders of chivalry, orders legitimized by countries, and those viewed as genuine by international bodies.", "After the medieval era, the exclusive right to confer nobility, titles, knighthoods and membership in Europe's state-recognized orders of chivalry was arrogated by sovereigns, exceptions being recorded in such annals as the \"Almanach de Gotha\" for dynastic orders granted by royal consorts (e.g., Order of the Starry Cross) or pretenders.", "Self-styled orders may share certain other characteristics:\n#They long ago were suppressed by the Holy See, protector of mediaeval Western military religious orders in the Holy Land or on the Iberian Peninsula;\n#No sovereign Western state recognises them as legitimate orders of knighthood;\n#They claim to be under the high protection of or to be headed by \"Episcopi vagantes\" or obscure princes;\n#They are linked closely to bearers of false titles of nobility.", "Since the 18th century, freemasonry has incorporated symbols and rituals of several medieval military orders in a number of Masonic bodies, notably the \"Red Cross of Constantine\" (derived from the Sacred Military Constantinian Order of Saint George, and the Order of the Holy Sepulchre), the \"Order of Malta\" (derived from the Sovereign Military Order of Malta), and the \"Order of the Temple\" (derived from the medieval Knights Templar), the latter two featuring prominently in the York Rite of Freemasonry.", "None of the masonic bodies are claiming to be orders of chivalry nor are their insignia worn in public (a right accorded orders of chivalry): hence they are not self-styled orders, but merely fraternal organisations." ]
Other characteristics
[ 21 ]
[ "A self-styled order or pseudo-chivalric order is an organisation which claims to be a chivalric order, but is not recognised as legitimate by countries or international bodies." ]
Ziegfeld Follies of 1936
[ "The musical premiered on Broadway at the Winter Garden Theatre on January 30, 1936 and closed on May 9, 1936 after 115 performances.", "Produced by Billie Burke Ziegfeld and Lee Shubert and J. J. Shubert, it was directed by John Murray Anderson and Edward Clarke Lilley, choreographed by Robert Alton, sketches directed by Edward D. Dowling, and ballets directed by George Balanchine.", "Scenic design and costumes were by Vincente Minnelli, with additional costumes by Raoul Pène Du Bois, and original orchestrations were by Robert Russell Bennett, Conrad Salinger, Hans Spialek and Don Walker.", "The cast starred Fanny Brice, Bob Hope, Eve Arden, Josephine Baker, Judy Canova, Gertrude Niesen, June Preisser, and the Nicholas Brothers.", "The musical had a return engagement on Broadway at the Winter Garden Theatre on September 14, 1936, and closed on December 19, 1936 after 112 performances.", "Brice reprised her role, with the additional cast of Bobby Clark, Gypsy Rose Lee, Cass Daley, and Jane Pickens.", "Fanny Brice was the star of the \"Follies\" and dominated the show, so much so that when she became ill in May 1936, the production closed.", "1999 Encores!\n\"The Follies\" were presented as a staged concert in 1999 as part of City Center's \"Encores!", "Great American Musicals in Concert\" with musical director Rob Fisher and the Coffee Club Orchestra.", "The revival was directed by Mark Waldrop who also adapted the book, choreographed by Thommie Walsh, the ballet sequence choreographed by Christopher Wheeldon.", "The scenic consultant was John Lee Beatty; costume coordinator, Gregg Barnes; lighting by Peter Kaczorowski, sound by Scott Lehrer and projections by Eyewash, Inc. \nIt starred:Christine Ebersole, Ruthie Henshall, Peter Scolari, Howard McGillin, Stephanie Pope, Mary Testa, Karen Ziemba, Bob Walton, Jim Walton, Stanley Bojarski Kevin Chamberlin, Jock Soto, Jenifer Ringer, and Jonathan Sharp.", "Decca Broadway released a CD of this production in 2001, including a 34-page booklet with photos of the 1936 cast, lyrics, and a description of the process in reconstructing the original score.", "In the opening number Brice mocks her famous song (\"My Man\") in \"He Hasn't a Thing Except Me\", standing against a lamp-post.", "In \"The Sweepstakes Taker\" Brice portrays a Jewish Bronx housewife who wins the Irish sweepstakes.", "In \"Fancy Free' she becomes the affected and bored British \"Zuleika\" as she exchanges witty remarks with her husband Sir Robert, and, leaving behind elegance, burps in his face and utters a trade-mark \"Denk you.\"", "As Baby Snooks, Brice stars with popular stars of the day (such as Clark Gable).", "Gershwin and Duke wrote 28 songs and special material, but almost half were cut.", "The only song to become popular was \"I Can't Get Started (With You)\", helped by an early recording by Bunny Berigan.", "The song was sung by Bob Hope to Eve Arden.", "The Berigan recording was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame.\nAct 1 \n\n\n\n\n\nAct 2" ]
Productions and background
[ 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 ]
[ "Original 1936" ]
Re: Cutie Honey
[ "A mysterious organization known as Panther Claw make their presence known by terrorizing Tokyo and giving the cops a run for their money.", "Police are further baffled by the appearance of a lone cosplaying vigilante who thwarts all of Panther Claw's evil schemes before disappearing.", "That vigilante is Honey Kisaragi, the result of the late Dr. Kisaragi's prize experiment.", "A master of disguise, Honey can instantly alter her physical appearance and outfits.", "But with a push of the heart-shaped button on her choker, she transforms herself into Cutie Honey, the scantily clad, sword-wielding warrior of love.", "Honey Kisaragi works as a temp at an office in Tokyo.", "She's also an android out to get revenge against Panther Claw for killing her father.", "Her weapons are a boomerang, a rapier, a lance, and her \"I System\" (Imaginary Induction System.)", "Seiji Hayami claims to be a journalist, but he seems to know a good deal about the technology that Cutie Honey utilizes, and seems to be studying her closely.", "Inspector Natsuko Aki is in charge of bringing Panther Claw to justice.", "She has incredible aim with firearms and can be fearless even if it is raining bullets.", "Initially a harsh, no-nonsense person, she and Honey eventually grow close as Honey's courage and cheerfulness begin to break their personality gaps.", "She is the janitor at Honey's work who's always bringing onigiri for her.", "She is later revealed to be more than just a simple janitor.", "The Club of the Four Gods, Gold Claw is the first truly powerful foe that Honey faces.", "Heavily armed and armored, Honey needs to be resourceful to find a way to defeat her.", "Gold Claw has Destroyer Panther, Doctor Panther, and Scope Panther as goons.", "She is killed by Honey in the first episode.", "The Diamond of the Four Gods, Cobalt Claw has a pair of tentacles that extend out of her mask that can wrap around a foe and generate an incredible amount of electrical current.", "Cobalt relishes the opportunity to show off her strength to Sister Jill and defeating Cutie Honey.", "She is killed by Scarlet Claw in her plan to appease Sister Jill.", "The Heart of the Four Gods, Scarlet Claw is a pint-size villain with an umbrella that can vaporize a foe.", "Very manipulative, Scarlet Claw is able to turn the general populace against Honey.", "Scarlet's goons include Tank Panther, Bazooka Panther, and Sky Panther.", "She is killed by Honey's Lightning Lancer in the second episode.", "The Spade of The Four Gods, Black Claw's primary attack is with vocal sound waves that she amplifies with her microphone and staff.", "As much as she tries to comprehend, she can't figure out what Sister Jill truly desires.", "A homage to Baron Ashura and Count Brocken, the classic Mazinger Z villains also created by Go Nagai.", "Sister Jill is the leader of Panther Claw.", "The Four Gods of Panther Claw act to realize her wishes.", "Her preferred weapon is a whip which can summon shadow hands.", "Jill is served by The Four Gods of Panther Claw as well as a mysterious butler.", "In the last episode she possesses a demonic body that heavily resembles Demon Lord Dante, one of Go", "Nagai's earliest works.", "It is also revealed that she was the first attempt of Dr. Kisaragi to replicate Honey after her initial death through the use of nano-machines.", "The series makes references to other anime such as \"Lupin III\" and \"Sailor Moon\", and many references to \"Kill Bill\".", "As with prior \"Cutie Honey\" series, the OVA also features cameos from some of Go Nagai's other works, including Akira Fudo of \"Devilman\", Kouji Kabuto and Boss from \"Mazinger Z\", Duke Fleed from \"Grendizer\", and previous \"Cutie Honey\" regular Danbei.", "Each of the episodes in the series had its own director in addition to Anno; a reviewer on the Gainax fansite \"Gainax Pages\" said that the episodes have such differing styles that \"each episode director must have had considerable autonomy\".\n\"Re: Cutie Honey\", like the 1970s manga, portrays Cutie Honey with dark-reddish eyes, not green eyes as in \"New Cutie Honey\" and \"Cutie Honey Flash\"; in \"Re: Cutie Honey\" she also wears an outfit that covers more of her cleavage than the other versions, but shows her midriff and other parts.", "The opening theme, used for both the OVA and the live-action movie, is \"Cutie Honey,\" whilst the ending theme is \"Into your Heart\", both performed by Koda Kumi.", "The \"Re: Cutie Honey Complete DVD\", released on September 21, 2005, includes a CD drama starring the four voice actresses that have voiced Honey up to then: Eiko Masuyama (the '70s series), Michiko Neya (\"New Cutie Honey\"), Ai Nagano (\"Cutie Honey Flash\"), and Yui Horie (\"Re: Cutie Honey\").", "#Volume Heaven\n#Volume Earth\n#Volume Human\n#Volume Harmony (Drama CD)", "The OVA's visuals have generated mixed reactions; an \"Anime on DVD\" review praises the vibrancy of the digital ink and paint, saying it \"brings Honey’s world to life\" compared to older \"Cutie Honey\" series.", "However, a review on the website \"Japan Hero\" criticizes the animation, calling it \"distorted\", \"garish\", \"sub par and truly unsettling\", except in \"the fantastic title animation\".", "Still, the series itself has been praised for its story and music, and has been called \"creative, funny, and never repetitive\".", "Erica Friedman of Okazu argued that the series strikes the \"perfect balance between honestly good and enjoyably bad,\" adding that the anime does a \"spectacular use of fanservice\" as Na-chan tries to bring Cutie back to life, noting that in the series epilogue Na-chan and Honey \"appear to be...a couple.\"", "She concluded it is a positive for those fans who wouldn't mind their yuri with \"a shaker or two of parody, perversion and pathos.", "\"" ]
Production
[ 35, 36, 37, 38 ]
[ "is a three-episode OVA (original video animation) series based on the 2004 tokusatsu (live-action) film \"Cutie Honey\", both being adaptations of the 1970s manga written and illustrated by Go Nagai." ]
Re: Cutie Honey
[ "A mysterious organization known as Panther Claw make their presence known by terrorizing Tokyo and giving the cops a run for their money.", "Police are further baffled by the appearance of a lone cosplaying vigilante who thwarts all of Panther Claw's evil schemes before disappearing.", "That vigilante is Honey Kisaragi, the result of the late Dr. Kisaragi's prize experiment.", "A master of disguise, Honey can instantly alter her physical appearance and outfits.", "But with a push of the heart-shaped button on her choker, she transforms herself into Cutie Honey, the scantily clad, sword-wielding warrior of love.", "Honey Kisaragi works as a temp at an office in Tokyo.", "She's also an android out to get revenge against Panther Claw for killing her father.", "Her weapons are a boomerang, a rapier, a lance, and her \"I System\" (Imaginary Induction System.)", "Seiji Hayami claims to be a journalist, but he seems to know a good deal about the technology that Cutie Honey utilizes, and seems to be studying her closely.", "Inspector Natsuko Aki is in charge of bringing Panther Claw to justice.", "She has incredible aim with firearms and can be fearless even if it is raining bullets.", "Initially a harsh, no-nonsense person, she and Honey eventually grow close as Honey's courage and cheerfulness begin to break their personality gaps.", "She is the janitor at Honey's work who's always bringing onigiri for her.", "She is later revealed to be more than just a simple janitor.", "The Club of the Four Gods, Gold Claw is the first truly powerful foe that Honey faces.", "Heavily armed and armored, Honey needs to be resourceful to find a way to defeat her.", "Gold Claw has Destroyer Panther, Doctor Panther, and Scope Panther as goons.", "She is killed by Honey in the first episode.", "The Diamond of the Four Gods, Cobalt Claw has a pair of tentacles that extend out of her mask that can wrap around a foe and generate an incredible amount of electrical current.", "Cobalt relishes the opportunity to show off her strength to Sister Jill and defeating Cutie Honey.", "She is killed by Scarlet Claw in her plan to appease Sister Jill.", "The Heart of the Four Gods, Scarlet Claw is a pint-size villain with an umbrella that can vaporize a foe.", "Very manipulative, Scarlet Claw is able to turn the general populace against Honey.", "Scarlet's goons include Tank Panther, Bazooka Panther, and Sky Panther.", "She is killed by Honey's Lightning Lancer in the second episode.", "The Spade of The Four Gods, Black Claw's primary attack is with vocal sound waves that she amplifies with her microphone and staff.", "As much as she tries to comprehend, she can't figure out what Sister Jill truly desires.", "A homage to Baron Ashura and Count Brocken, the classic Mazinger Z villains also created by Go Nagai.", "Sister Jill is the leader of Panther Claw.", "The Four Gods of Panther Claw act to realize her wishes.", "Her preferred weapon is a whip which can summon shadow hands.", "Jill is served by The Four Gods of Panther Claw as well as a mysterious butler.", "In the last episode she possesses a demonic body that heavily resembles Demon Lord Dante, one of Go", "Nagai's earliest works.", "It is also revealed that she was the first attempt of Dr. Kisaragi to replicate Honey after her initial death through the use of nano-machines.", "The series makes references to other anime such as \"Lupin III\" and \"Sailor Moon\", and many references to \"Kill Bill\".", "As with prior \"Cutie Honey\" series, the OVA also features cameos from some of Go Nagai's other works, including Akira Fudo of \"Devilman\", Kouji Kabuto and Boss from \"Mazinger Z\", Duke Fleed from \"Grendizer\", and previous \"Cutie Honey\" regular Danbei.", "Each of the episodes in the series had its own director in addition to Anno; a reviewer on the Gainax fansite \"Gainax Pages\" said that the episodes have such differing styles that \"each episode director must have had considerable autonomy\".\n\"Re: Cutie Honey\", like the 1970s manga, portrays Cutie Honey with dark-reddish eyes, not green eyes as in \"New Cutie Honey\" and \"Cutie Honey Flash\"; in \"Re: Cutie Honey\" she also wears an outfit that covers more of her cleavage than the other versions, but shows her midriff and other parts.", "The opening theme, used for both the OVA and the live-action movie, is \"Cutie Honey,\" whilst the ending theme is \"Into your Heart\", both performed by Koda Kumi.", "The \"Re: Cutie Honey Complete DVD\", released on September 21, 2005, includes a CD drama starring the four voice actresses that have voiced Honey up to then: Eiko Masuyama (the '70s series), Michiko Neya (\"New Cutie Honey\"), Ai Nagano (\"Cutie Honey Flash\"), and Yui Horie (\"Re: Cutie Honey\").", "#Volume Heaven\n#Volume Earth\n#Volume Human\n#Volume Harmony (Drama CD)", "The OVA's visuals have generated mixed reactions; an \"Anime on DVD\" review praises the vibrancy of the digital ink and paint, saying it \"brings Honey’s world to life\" compared to older \"Cutie Honey\" series.", "However, a review on the website \"Japan Hero\" criticizes the animation, calling it \"distorted\", \"garish\", \"sub par and truly unsettling\", except in \"the fantastic title animation\".", "Still, the series itself has been praised for its story and music, and has been called \"creative, funny, and never repetitive\".", "Erica Friedman of Okazu argued that the series strikes the \"perfect balance between honestly good and enjoyably bad,\" adding that the anime does a \"spectacular use of fanservice\" as Na-chan tries to bring Cutie back to life, noting that in the series epilogue Na-chan and Honey \"appear to be...a couple.\"", "She concluded it is a positive for those fans who wouldn't mind their yuri with \"a shaker or two of parody, perversion and pathos.", "\"" ]
Media
[ 39, 40 ]
[ "DVD releases for each episode followed, with the first released on September 21." ]
Re: Cutie Honey
[ "A mysterious organization known as Panther Claw make their presence known by terrorizing Tokyo and giving the cops a run for their money.", "Police are further baffled by the appearance of a lone cosplaying vigilante who thwarts all of Panther Claw's evil schemes before disappearing.", "That vigilante is Honey Kisaragi, the result of the late Dr. Kisaragi's prize experiment.", "A master of disguise, Honey can instantly alter her physical appearance and outfits.", "But with a push of the heart-shaped button on her choker, she transforms herself into Cutie Honey, the scantily clad, sword-wielding warrior of love.", "Honey Kisaragi works as a temp at an office in Tokyo.", "She's also an android out to get revenge against Panther Claw for killing her father.", "Her weapons are a boomerang, a rapier, a lance, and her \"I System\" (Imaginary Induction System.)", "Seiji Hayami claims to be a journalist, but he seems to know a good deal about the technology that Cutie Honey utilizes, and seems to be studying her closely.", "Inspector Natsuko Aki is in charge of bringing Panther Claw to justice.", "She has incredible aim with firearms and can be fearless even if it is raining bullets.", "Initially a harsh, no-nonsense person, she and Honey eventually grow close as Honey's courage and cheerfulness begin to break their personality gaps.", "She is the janitor at Honey's work who's always bringing onigiri for her.", "She is later revealed to be more than just a simple janitor.", "The Club of the Four Gods, Gold Claw is the first truly powerful foe that Honey faces.", "Heavily armed and armored, Honey needs to be resourceful to find a way to defeat her.", "Gold Claw has Destroyer Panther, Doctor Panther, and Scope Panther as goons.", "She is killed by Honey in the first episode.", "The Diamond of the Four Gods, Cobalt Claw has a pair of tentacles that extend out of her mask that can wrap around a foe and generate an incredible amount of electrical current.", "Cobalt relishes the opportunity to show off her strength to Sister Jill and defeating Cutie Honey.", "She is killed by Scarlet Claw in her plan to appease Sister Jill.", "The Heart of the Four Gods, Scarlet Claw is a pint-size villain with an umbrella that can vaporize a foe.", "Very manipulative, Scarlet Claw is able to turn the general populace against Honey.", "Scarlet's goons include Tank Panther, Bazooka Panther, and Sky Panther.", "She is killed by Honey's Lightning Lancer in the second episode.", "The Spade of The Four Gods, Black Claw's primary attack is with vocal sound waves that she amplifies with her microphone and staff.", "As much as she tries to comprehend, she can't figure out what Sister Jill truly desires.", "A homage to Baron Ashura and Count Brocken, the classic Mazinger Z villains also created by Go Nagai.", "Sister Jill is the leader of Panther Claw.", "The Four Gods of Panther Claw act to realize her wishes.", "Her preferred weapon is a whip which can summon shadow hands.", "Jill is served by The Four Gods of Panther Claw as well as a mysterious butler.", "In the last episode she possesses a demonic body that heavily resembles Demon Lord Dante, one of Go", "Nagai's earliest works.", "It is also revealed that she was the first attempt of Dr. Kisaragi to replicate Honey after her initial death through the use of nano-machines.", "The series makes references to other anime such as \"Lupin III\" and \"Sailor Moon\", and many references to \"Kill Bill\".", "As with prior \"Cutie Honey\" series, the OVA also features cameos from some of Go Nagai's other works, including Akira Fudo of \"Devilman\", Kouji Kabuto and Boss from \"Mazinger Z\", Duke Fleed from \"Grendizer\", and previous \"Cutie Honey\" regular Danbei.", "Each of the episodes in the series had its own director in addition to Anno; a reviewer on the Gainax fansite \"Gainax Pages\" said that the episodes have such differing styles that \"each episode director must have had considerable autonomy\".\n\"Re: Cutie Honey\", like the 1970s manga, portrays Cutie Honey with dark-reddish eyes, not green eyes as in \"New Cutie Honey\" and \"Cutie Honey Flash\"; in \"Re: Cutie Honey\" she also wears an outfit that covers more of her cleavage than the other versions, but shows her midriff and other parts.", "The opening theme, used for both the OVA and the live-action movie, is \"Cutie Honey,\" whilst the ending theme is \"Into your Heart\", both performed by Koda Kumi.", "The \"Re: Cutie Honey Complete DVD\", released on September 21, 2005, includes a CD drama starring the four voice actresses that have voiced Honey up to then: Eiko Masuyama (the '70s series), Michiko Neya (\"New Cutie Honey\"), Ai Nagano (\"Cutie Honey Flash\"), and Yui Horie (\"Re: Cutie Honey\").", "#Volume Heaven\n#Volume Earth\n#Volume Human\n#Volume Harmony (Drama CD)", "The OVA's visuals have generated mixed reactions; an \"Anime on DVD\" review praises the vibrancy of the digital ink and paint, saying it \"brings Honey’s world to life\" compared to older \"Cutie Honey\" series.", "However, a review on the website \"Japan Hero\" criticizes the animation, calling it \"distorted\", \"garish\", \"sub par and truly unsettling\", except in \"the fantastic title animation\".", "Still, the series itself has been praised for its story and music, and has been called \"creative, funny, and never repetitive\".", "Erica Friedman of Okazu argued that the series strikes the \"perfect balance between honestly good and enjoyably bad,\" adding that the anime does a \"spectacular use of fanservice\" as Na-chan tries to bring Cutie back to life, noting that in the series epilogue Na-chan and Honey \"appear to be...a couple.\"", "She concluded it is a positive for those fans who wouldn't mind their yuri with \"a shaker or two of parody, perversion and pathos.", "\"" ]
Media ; Series
[ 39, 40 ]
[ "DVD releases for each episode followed, with the first released on September 21." ]
Àmbit metropolità de Barcelona
[ "The \"vegueria\" was a feudal land division in the Principality of Catalonia, Kingdom of Sardinia, and Duchy of Athens during the Middle Ages and into the Modern Era until the Nueva Planta decrees of 1716.", "It was the primary division of a county in Catalonia and the basic territorial entity of government in Sardinia and Athens after those countries became part of the Crown of Aragon.", "The office of a veguer was called a \"vigeriate\" (Latin: \"vigeriatus\").", "In 1936, Catalonia was reconstituted into \"comarques\".", "Although these were quickly abolished in 1939 they were reconstituted again in 1987.", "Each \"comarca\" was grouped with two to four others into a \"vegueria\", of which there were nine, with their capitals at Barcelona, Girona, Tremp, Vic, Manresa, Lleida, Reus, Tarragona, and Tortosa.", "Since the 1987 reconstitution it has been decided that Vegueries be formally re-established in 2011.", "Under the 2006 Statute of Autonomy of Catalonia, the four provinces which make up Catalonia are due to be replaced by seven vegueries, which will also take over many of the functions of the \"comarques\".", "As of October 2010, whereas the final boundaries of the new vegueries have yet to be formally approved, they are expected to incorporate largely historical boundaries: Àmbit metropolità de Barcelona, Alt Pirineu i Aran, Camp de Tarragona, Comarques Centrals, Comarques Gironines, Ponent (or Lleida) and Terres de l'Ebre." ]
Vegueria
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[ "Àmbit metropolità de Barcelona () is one of the seven territories defined by the Regional Plan of Catalonia ().", "It is located in the central coast of Catalonia, in Barcelona (capital city of Catalonia) and its influence area." ]
Minkend
[ "\"Min\" from the Azerbaijani language is translated as \"thousand\", while kend derives from old Persian, meaning \"village\".", "According to an Armenian legend, Turco-Mongol conqueror Timur invaded Armenia and destroyed one village after another.", "Having devastated many villages in Zangezur, he began to count the number of destroyed settlements.", "After counting to a thousand, Timur said out loud \"Min kend\" (a thousand villages).", "Since then, the village has been called \"Minkend\".", "During the times of the Russian Empire, the village was part of the Zangezur Uyezd of the Elisabethpol Governorate, and had a mixed population of Armenians and Kurds.", "The village was badly damaged during the Armenian–Tatar massacres of 1905–1907.", "The first attack on the village took place in March 1905, while the second happened from June 5 to 6, during which 50 Armenians were killed.", "The attacks continued in August when a detachment of Cossacks was sent to protect the Armenians of Minkend, but the police officer of Zangezur, Melik-Aslanov, convinced them that there was no danger for the Armenians.", "The Cossacks left Minkend to defend another village.", "When the Cossacks left, the Tatars killed 140 Armenians and wounded another 40 in front of the bailiff, who did not try to stop the killings.", "The newspaper \"Syn otechestva\" (August 1905) reported:", "During the Soviet period, the village, together with the eastern part of the former Zangezur uyezd, was part of the Azerbaijan SSR.", "It was administrated as part of the Kurdistan uyezd from 1923 to 1929 and later as part of the Lachin District.", "The village was mostly populated by Kurds and Azerbaijanis during this period.", "After the independence of Azerbaijan from the USSR, the village was involved in the First Nagorno-Karabakh War.", "Armenian forces captured the village in May 1992 and later integrated it into the Kashatagh Province of the breakaway Republic of Artsakh, where it was renamed \"Hak\" ().", "Following the 2020 Nagorno-Karabakh war, the village was, along with the surrounding Lachin District, was returned to Azerbaijan on 1 December 2020 as part of the 2020 Nagorno-Karabakh ceasefire agreement.", "According to the \"Caucasian Calendar\" for 1856, Minkend was inhabited by Shiite Muslim Kurds, who spoke Kurdish.", "In 1888, the majority of the village's inhabitants were Armenians, as well as 47 Azerbaijani and 23 Kurdish households.", "Minkend was indicated to have 506 Armenian and 396 Kurdish residents in the 1897 Russian Empire Census.", "According to the \"Caucasian Calendar\" for 1912, 731 people lived in the village, mostly Kurds.", "However, only 3 years later, the \"Caucasian calendar\" indicated that Minkend is predominantly Armenian, with a population of 1532 people.", "According to the \"Administrative division of the ASSR\" publication in 1933 made by the Department of National Economic Accounting of the Azerbaijan SSR (AzNHU), there were 280 households and 1355 people (688 men and 677 women) in Minkend village council as of 1 January 1933.", "Of these 1355 people, the majority were Kurds with 58.1%.", "According to the data from the late Soviet period, Azerbaijanis and Kurds inhabited Minkend.", "The Azerbaijani and Kurdish population of the village fled during the First Nagorno-Karabakh when Armenian forces captured the village.", "It was later reinhabited by Armenian migrants and had a population of 86 in 2015." ]
History
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[ "Minkend (; ) is a village in the Lachin District of Azerbaijan." ]
Minkend
[ "\"Min\" from the Azerbaijani language is translated as \"thousand\", while kend derives from old Persian, meaning \"village\".", "According to an Armenian legend, Turco-Mongol conqueror Timur invaded Armenia and destroyed one village after another.", "Having devastated many villages in Zangezur, he began to count the number of destroyed settlements.", "After counting to a thousand, Timur said out loud \"Min kend\" (a thousand villages).", "Since then, the village has been called \"Minkend\".", "During the times of the Russian Empire, the village was part of the Zangezur Uyezd of the Elisabethpol Governorate, and had a mixed population of Armenians and Kurds.", "The village was badly damaged during the Armenian–Tatar massacres of 1905–1907.", "The first attack on the village took place in March 1905, while the second happened from June 5 to 6, during which 50 Armenians were killed.", "The attacks continued in August when a detachment of Cossacks was sent to protect the Armenians of Minkend, but the police officer of Zangezur, Melik-Aslanov, convinced them that there was no danger for the Armenians.", "The Cossacks left Minkend to defend another village.", "When the Cossacks left, the Tatars killed 140 Armenians and wounded another 40 in front of the bailiff, who did not try to stop the killings.", "The newspaper \"Syn otechestva\" (August 1905) reported:", "During the Soviet period, the village, together with the eastern part of the former Zangezur uyezd, was part of the Azerbaijan SSR.", "It was administrated as part of the Kurdistan uyezd from 1923 to 1929 and later as part of the Lachin District.", "The village was mostly populated by Kurds and Azerbaijanis during this period.", "After the independence of Azerbaijan from the USSR, the village was involved in the First Nagorno-Karabakh War.", "Armenian forces captured the village in May 1992 and later integrated it into the Kashatagh Province of the breakaway Republic of Artsakh, where it was renamed \"Hak\" ().", "Following the 2020 Nagorno-Karabakh war, the village was, along with the surrounding Lachin District, was returned to Azerbaijan on 1 December 2020 as part of the 2020 Nagorno-Karabakh ceasefire agreement.", "According to the \"Caucasian Calendar\" for 1856, Minkend was inhabited by Shiite Muslim Kurds, who spoke Kurdish.", "In 1888, the majority of the village's inhabitants were Armenians, as well as 47 Azerbaijani and 23 Kurdish households.", "Minkend was indicated to have 506 Armenian and 396 Kurdish residents in the 1897 Russian Empire Census.", "According to the \"Caucasian Calendar\" for 1912, 731 people lived in the village, mostly Kurds.", "However, only 3 years later, the \"Caucasian calendar\" indicated that Minkend is predominantly Armenian, with a population of 1532 people.", "According to the \"Administrative division of the ASSR\" publication in 1933 made by the Department of National Economic Accounting of the Azerbaijan SSR (AzNHU), there were 280 households and 1355 people (688 men and 677 women) in Minkend village council as of 1 January 1933.", "Of these 1355 people, the majority were Kurds with 58.1%.", "According to the data from the late Soviet period, Azerbaijanis and Kurds inhabited Minkend.", "The Azerbaijani and Kurdish population of the village fled during the First Nagorno-Karabakh when Armenian forces captured the village.", "It was later reinhabited by Armenian migrants and had a population of 86 in 2015." ]
History ; Soviet and Post-Soviet period
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[ "Minkend (; ) is a village in the Lachin District of Azerbaijan." ]
Gordon Denlinger
[ "Denlinger was born in Ephrata, Pennsylvania, on July 16, 1963.", "He graduated from High Point Baptist Academy in 1981.", "He graduated Bob Jones University with a B.S. in accounting in 1985.", "Denliger is an accountant and CPA.", "He was an assistant controller at Newell Rubbermaid Graco Children's Products Division and controller at Sharp Shopper, Inc.", "Denlinger represented the 99th District (within Lancaster County) of the Pennsylvania House for nearly 12 full years after winning a special election on March 18, 2003, to fill the remainder of Leroy Zimmerman's term.", "Denlinger was a member of the House Agriculture and Rural Affairs, Appropriations, Finance and Tourism Committees.", "He also served as the Republican Chair of the Subcommittee on Fiscal Policy for the House Appropriations Committee, Vice-Chair of the Finance Committee, and Co-Chair of the Jobs Creation Working Group under the Republican Policy Committee.", "In the state House, Denlinger had a \"pro-business, socially conservative\" voting record.", "He opposes the legal recognition of same-sex marriage and supports the privatization of alcohol sales in Pennsylvania.", "He supported legislation to eliminate school property taxes but raise the state sales tax (from 6% to 7%) and the state income tax (3.07% to 4.34%).", "He describes himself as a \"strong school choice advocate.", "\"\nIn 2014, Denlinger sought his party's nomination for the Pennsylvania Senate instead of running for re-election in the House, but lost the primary in the 36th District to Ryan Aument, who went on to win that seat in the general election.", "Fellow Republican David H. Zimmerman won Denlinger's former seat in the 99th district.", "In 2016, Denlinger was named by the Republican Party of Pennsylvania as one of three delegates to the Republican National Convention from the state's 16th congressional district.", "On December 18, 2017, Denlinger announced via a letter to Pennsylvania's Republican Party members that he was entering the 2018 race for Lieutenant Governor.", "Denlinger would have faced businessman Jeff Bartos and others in the Republican primary, though he dropped out of the race in February 2018.", "Denlinger and his family are members of Zeltenreich Reformed Church in New Holland, where he has served as an elder.", "Formerly named Covenant Reformed, the church merged with Zeltenreich UCC in 2011.", "Denlinger and his wife reside in Narvon, Pennsylvania and have four children: Evan, Abram Preston, Blake, and Mariah.\nDenlinger's brother-in-law is Sam Rohrer, who previously was a state representative from Berks County, Pennsylvania." ]
Political career
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[ "Gordon R. Denlinger is a former Republican member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives (2003–2015).", "In December 2017, he entered the 2018 race for Lieutenant Governor of Pennsylvania, dropping out in February 2018." ]
1994–95 Scottish Premier Division
[ "The 1994–95 Scottish Premier Division season ended in success for Rangers who won the title by fifteen points from nearest rivals Motherwell to clinch seven titles in a row.", "Dundee United were relegated to the First Division after finishing bottom with Aberdeen surviving a relegation playoff against Dunfermline Athletic.", "As champions, Rangers qualified for the Champions League while Motherwell were joined by League Cup winners Raith Rovers in qualifying for the UEFA Cup.", "Fourth-placed Celtic qualified for the Cup Winners' Cup as Scottish Cup winners.", "The season began on 13 August with the first goal of the season scored by Hibernian's Billy Findlay as they won 5–0 at home to Dundee United.", "The regular league season ended on 13 May, with the relegation/promotion play-off following on the 21st and 25th.", "Promoted from First Division to Premier League\nRelegated from Premier Division to First Division", "<onlyinclude></onlyinclude>", "During matches 1-18 each team plays every other team twice (home and away).", "During matches 19-36 each team plays every other team a further two times (home and away).", "A two leg play-off took place between the 9th placed team in the Premier Division (Aberdeen) and the runner-up of the First Division (Dunfermline Athletic).", "Aberdeen won both legs by 3 goals to 1, winning the tie 6–2 on aggregate, thus securing their place in the 1995–96 Scottish Premier Division." ]
Overview
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[ "The 1994–95 Scottish Premier Division season began on 13 August 1994; it was the first season of the new ten team league format, and also the first season using the rule of awarding three points for a win." ]
TT5
[ "The tomb has two burial chambers.", "In chamber A a son named Nedjemger is shown offering a vase to Neferabet and Taesi.", "A large group of relatives is shown adoring the Hathor cow from the mountain.", "The relatives include: Neferabet himself, his \"father\" the scorpion curer Amenmose (father-in-law?), and his brother Amenemope.", "Also included are Neferabet's sons Neferronpet, Ramose, Nedjemger, Meriunu and Neferabets brothers Anhotep, Ipu, Huy, Merymaat and a man named Iryfdjodj.", "The women in the scene include Neferabet's wife Ta-ese, her mother Tenthaynu, his sister Istnofret and several daughters named Henuttu, Mahy, Tenthaynu, Hetepy, Mutemopet and Istnofret.", "In another scene several family members are shown adoring Re-Harakhti.", "The relatives in this scene include Neferabet's father Neferronpet, Neferabet himself, Neferabet's brother Anhotep and several of Neferabet's uncles: Rahotep, Maaninakhtef, Ipu and Pashed.", "In chamber B, five panels show the family adoring Anubis.", "Neferabet is accompanied by his wife, his sons Nedjemger, Neferronpet, Ramose, and Meriunu as well as his daughters Henutta, Tentha, Istnofret, Henut-iunet, Hetepy, Mutemopet, Mahy and Roruti.", "Anhotep is accompanied by their sisters Tentamenet and Ta(y)senofret.", "A stele mentioning Neferabet's father Neferrenpet is now in the British Museum (BM 150)\nA statuette from Neferabu's tomb is now at the National Museum of Archaeology." ]
Tomb
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[ "Neferabet (also called Neferabu) was the son of Neferronpet and Mahi.", "His wife was named Taesi (Ta-Iset)." ]
Jean Comaroff
[ "Jean Comaroff was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, shortly after World War II.", "Her father, a Jewish South African doctor, joined the British Army Medical Corps while studying abroad to specialize in obstetrics and gynecology.", "Her mother was a convert to Judaism, born to a Lutheran German family that had emigrated to South Africa in the late nineteenth century.", "Dr. Comaroff's parents returned to South Africa when she was ten months old, settling in the highly segregated industrial town of Port Elizabeth.", "While the family supported local political unrest, her father kept a low-profile due to his role running a local clinic.", "Her mother was involved in community work, including running soup kitchens and night-school, and working with the elderly Jewish community.", "In late 1960s, she and her husband, anthropologist John Comaroff moved to Great Britain to pursue a PhD in anthropology.", "Both Jean and John Comaroff were faculty members at the University of Chicago between 1979 and 2012.", "\"The fascinating thing is that anthropology is anti-hegemonic in many of the questions it asks, and is threatened in many places.", "But the ideas produced within anthropology are still generative far beyond the discipline.\"", "Nov. 2008" ]
Personal life
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[ "She has been a University faculty member since 1978." ]
Gunnleifur Gunnleifsson
[ "Gunnleifur started his career with local club HK by making 3 appearances in the 1995 season as the club was relegated from the 1. deild karla to the 2. deild.", "He joined lower-league club KVA from Eskifjörður and Reyðarfjörður (later known as Fjarðabyggð) and was their 1st choice goalkeeper for the 1996 season as the club was promoted from the lowest league, the 3. deild, to the 2. deild.", "He then headed back to HK to be their main goalkeeper for the 1997 season in the 2.", "deild, as the club was promoted to the 1. deild again, along with Gunnleifur's former club KVA.", "After impressing in the lower leagues he moved to Úrvalsdeild karla club KR where he played 10 of 18 games in the 1998 Úrvalsdeild, keeping a clean-sheet for seven games in a row, as well as keeping national team goalkeeper (8 games in the last year before that) Kristján Finnbogason out of the team as KR finished 2nd in the league.", "He only managed one game in the 1999 season where KR won their first Icelandic title for 31 years, moving to fellow Úrvalsdeild outfit Keflavík before the 2000 season as the club finished 6th, 2 points away from relegation, and again as they finished 6th in the 2001 season, this time 4 points away from relegation.", "Despite having played every game of both seasons for Keflavík he transferred back to his local club, HK, before the 2002 2.", "deild season as the club was promoted to the 1. deild karla again.", "The club won the league by winning 15 of 18 games and only losing once, with Gunnleifur even managing to score in the last game of the season against Selfoss from a penalty in the 70th minute to make the score 6–1, with the game finishing 7–2.", "He remained the first choice for HK as the club finished 8th in 2003, 3rd in 2004 two points from a promotion place, 7th in 2005 and as the club finished 2nd in 2006 and were promoted to the Úrvalsdeild for the first time.", "There he played every game in 2007 as HK finished 9th, two points away from relegation, and every game but one in 2008 as the club was relegated in 11th place.", "Gunnleifur joined Liechtenstein based Swiss Super League club FC Vaduz on loan on 13 February 2009 in the Icelandic off-season.", "He didn't return from the loan until late July, in the middle of the Icelandic season, and played 8 games as HK finished 3rd in the 2009 1. deild.", "Before the 2010 Úrvalsdeild season, as he was now the main goalkeeper for the national team, he transferred to Icelandic champions FH.", "The club lost out on the title on goal difference to Breiðablik in his first season and finished 2nd again in the 2011 season, three points behind the champions.", "In the 2012 season he won his first Icelandic title (besides featuring in one game in a title-winning 1999 season) as FH finished 1st, 13 points ahead of Breiðablik.", "After that season, as FH weren't ready to offer him more than a 1-year contract, he transferred to Breiðablik before the 2013 Úrvalsdeild season and signed a 3-year contract.", "The move wasn't popular with HK fans, as HK and Breiðablik are the two major teams from Kópavogur and as such have a rivalry.", "On 20 November 2020, Gunnleifur announced his retirement from football.", "During his time with Keflavík he played his first three international games, his debut coming as an 83rd-minute substitute in a 5–0 friendly victory against Malta in July 2000.", "He featured as the starting goalkeeper in two games in South America in January 2001, against Uruguay and Chile, but didn't feature after that until after his 2008 season with HK.", "After that he featured in 18 games from his start against the Netherlands in October 2008 until his start against Israel in November 2010, then not featuring in 2011 at all.", "He played three games in 2012, but was mostly a substitute for Hannes Þór Halldórsson.", "KVA", "HK\nFH" ]
Career
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[ "Gunnleifur Vignir Gunnleifsson (born 14 July 1975) is an Icelandic football former goalkeeper, who spent most of his career with Breiðablik and HK." ]
Bryan Cutler
[ "Cutler was born in Peach Bottom, Pennsylvania and attended Solanco High School.", "He graduated from Lancaster School of Radiology in 1995 and earned a bachelor's degree from Lebanon Valley College in 2001.", "He worked as an X-ray technologist at Lancaster Regional Medical Center and as a Manager of Support Services at Lancaster General Hospital.", "In 2006, he earned a J.D. degree with a certificate in health care from Widener University School of Law.", "He served on the Drumore Township Planning Commission and represented Drumore Township in the Regional Planning Commission.", "He was first elected in 2006, defeating incumbent Gibson C. Armstrong, who voted against the controversial 2005 legislative pay raise.", "Despite his initial vote against the pay raise Armstrong later filed paperwork to receive it angering many of his constituents.", "In 2014, In response to paychecks being subject to the state taking union dues from them, Cutler put forth a proposal to have this discontinued.", "Cutler argued that the state ought to stay out of the handling of union dues because the state is aware that a certain percentage of union dues is used for political purposes including lobbying and paying for ads.", "In 2015, Cutler voiced some of the worries he had about Governor Tom Wolf's proposed severance tax.", "Cutler said, “If we’re gonna stunt the economic growth and future impact I think we have to consider that.”", "Later in 2015, following the terror attacks in Paris, Cutler supported keeping Syrian refugees out of Pennsylvania.", "Governor Tom Wolf's permitting of Syrian refugees into the state was criticized by Cutler and other Pennsylvania republicans.", "Cutler has said, “there is a real difference between those that seek peace and security and those that would use this opportunity to advance terrorism.”", "In 2016, Cutler co-sponsored a memorandum in support of House Bill 1948, which was put forth by State Representative Kathy Rapp.", "The bill's purpose was to make it so that abortions in Pennsylvania would only be permitted during the first 20 weeks of pregnancy.", "Cutler, along with Rapp and Representative Bryan Barbin, wrote in the memorandum that the bill would also put a stop to dismemberment being used as an abortion method.", "Cutler supports the Atlantic Sunrise natural gas pipeline passing through Lancaster County.", "Due to concerns involving private property and nature reserves, a request was made to have the pipeline re-routed.", "However, believing that it would be less of a problem for roads, streams and properties, residents of Conestoga Township and Martic Township petitioned in favor of the first proposed route.", "Cutler was given these petitions.", "Cutler was against legalizing medical cannabis in Pennsylvania and opposed a bill that would do so.", "He cited the illegal federal status under the Controlled Substances Act, the opioid epidemic, and other concerns.", "Cutler currently sits on the Committee On Committees and Rules committees." ]
Pennsylvania House of Representatives
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[ "A Republican, Cutler represents the 100th legislative district of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives.", "He was first elected in 2006, defeating incumbent Gibson C. Armstrong." ]
Northern Virginia Chamber of Commerce
[ "The Northern Virginia Chamber offers business development opportunities to organizations interested in growth through knowledge, access and influence in Northern Virginia, the Commonwealth of Virginia, and the Metropolitan Washington Region.", "The Chamber leads the business community by: engaging in thought leadership; strengthening industry knowledge; advocating for business positions; and supporting key partnerships." ]
Mission statement
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[ "The chamber provides the Northern Virginia business community with access to opportunities represented by the Chamber’s four foundational pillars: business development, thought leadership, strategic advocacy, and community partnerships." ]
Ramose (TT7)
[ "Ramose was the son of the retainer Amenemheb and the Lady Kakaia.", "He was married to the Lady Mutemwia (Wia), daughter of the royal scribe Huy and Nofretkau.", "Despite extensive offerings to fertility gods like Hathor, Min and Taweret, Ramose and Wia were unable to have a biological child.", "Ramose is thought to have adopted the scribe Qenhirkhopeshef so that the latter could inherit his estate.", "Ramose started out training as a scribe at one of the Theban schools.", "According to a stela in the Bankes collection he served as Treasury chief in the House of Menkheperure, chief of the administration in the house of the superintendent of the seal, scribe who reckons the cattle of Amun-Ra, assistant-scribe of the correspondence of the hereditary prince.", "Černý first posed the theory that the hereditary prince was the future Ramesses II, but later considered the possibility that the title referred to the famous Amenhotep Son of Hapu.", "An ostracon records the fact that Ramose was appointed as Scribe in the Place of Truth in year 5, the 3rd month of Akhet, day 10 of the reign of Ramesses II.", "This appointment was likely made at the recommendation of the Vizier Paser who was responsible for all appointments in Deir el-Medina.", "Paser and Ramose would work together for many years and were responsible for installing a cult sanctuary – \"the khenu\" – for the living god at the sanctuary of Hathor.", "He was active until at least year 38.", "Because of the multiple tombs and numerous monuments he left behind, Ramose is estimated to be the wealthiest person who had ever lived in Deir el-Medina up until that point." ]
Career
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[ "Ramose was an ancient Egyptian scribe and artisan who lived in Deir el-Medina on the west bank of the Nile, opposite Thebes, during the reigns of Ramesses II.", "He held the position of Scribe of the Tomb, the highest administrative position for a scribe in Deir el-Medina, from around years 5 to 38 of Ramesses II's reign." ]
Luzhou Laojiao
[ "The distillery dates back to 1573, in the Ming dynasty, and it is the oldest continuously producing baijiu distillery in the world.", "It was included in the first \"List of National Intangible Cultural Heritage\" in 2006.", "The company produces a baijiu brand named Guojiao 1573 (国窖 1573, 'National Cellar 1573'), in commemoration of its founding year.", "Luzhou Laojiao was reportedly the favourite liquor of China's paramount leader, Deng Xiaoping.", "The company commenced international operations in 2012, concentrating initially on the Asia-Pacific market but expanding into Africa during 2016–17.", "In 2018 it was estimated to be worth nearly (US$15.75 billion).", "In 2019, Luzhou Laojiao became an associate sponsor of the Australian Open tennis tournament for five years, making it the largest Chinese sponsor in Australian Open history.", "Court 2 at the tournament's Melbourne Park venue was named the \"1573 Arena\", after the company's Guojiao 1573 brand, starting from the 2019 Australian Open.", "Luzhou Laojiao is a complex, premium baijiu of the \"strong aroma\" (\"nóngxiāng\") class.", "It is a strongly alcoholic (more than 50% alcohol), clear liquid with a sharp aroma of fermented peaches.", "It is fermented in old cellars (fermentation pits), whose walls are coated with a unique clay composition that gives the spirit its aroma and palate.", "Luzhou has a mild climate with extreme temperatures of -1 to +40 °C, and annual precipitation of 750 to 1615mm.", "This climate is ideal for local soft cereal quality and microbial groups.", "The Yangtze River water, after treatment by the water plant, is rich in calcium, magnesium and other trace elements.", "Water quality is weakly acidic, with a suitable hardness." ]
History
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[ "Luzhou Laojiao (泸州老窖; Luzhou Old Cellar) is a Chinese liquor distilled from fermented sorghum.", "It is produced by Luzhou Laojiao Company Limited, which is headquartered in Luzhou, in southern Sichuan, China." ]
Luzhou Laojiao
[ "The distillery dates back to 1573, in the Ming dynasty, and it is the oldest continuously producing baijiu distillery in the world.", "It was included in the first \"List of National Intangible Cultural Heritage\" in 2006.", "The company produces a baijiu brand named Guojiao 1573 (国窖 1573, 'National Cellar 1573'), in commemoration of its founding year.", "Luzhou Laojiao was reportedly the favourite liquor of China's paramount leader, Deng Xiaoping.", "The company commenced international operations in 2012, concentrating initially on the Asia-Pacific market but expanding into Africa during 2016–17.", "In 2018 it was estimated to be worth nearly (US$15.75 billion).", "In 2019, Luzhou Laojiao became an associate sponsor of the Australian Open tennis tournament for five years, making it the largest Chinese sponsor in Australian Open history.", "Court 2 at the tournament's Melbourne Park venue was named the \"1573 Arena\", after the company's Guojiao 1573 brand, starting from the 2019 Australian Open.", "Luzhou Laojiao is a complex, premium baijiu of the \"strong aroma\" (\"nóngxiāng\") class.", "It is a strongly alcoholic (more than 50% alcohol), clear liquid with a sharp aroma of fermented peaches.", "It is fermented in old cellars (fermentation pits), whose walls are coated with a unique clay composition that gives the spirit its aroma and palate.", "Luzhou has a mild climate with extreme temperatures of -1 to +40 °C, and annual precipitation of 750 to 1615mm.", "This climate is ideal for local soft cereal quality and microbial groups.", "The Yangtze River water, after treatment by the water plant, is rich in calcium, magnesium and other trace elements.", "Water quality is weakly acidic, with a suitable hardness." ]
Product characteristics
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[ "It is a baijiu of the \"strong aroma\" class." ]
Christian Zionism in the United Kingdom
[ "Christian Zionism preceded Zionism amongst both secular and rabbinic Jews, and much of the initiative for this came from within the United Kingdom.", "Expectations of a national return of the Jews to their homeland, often called Restorationism, were widely held amongst the Puritans, also heralding greater tolerance and the gradual readmission of Jews to England.", "17th century Congregationalists like John Owen, and Baptists like John Gill, and John Rippon, some 18th century Methodists and 19th century preachers like C H Spurgeon, Presbyterians like Samuel Rutherford, Horatius and Andrew Bonar, and Robert Murray M'Chyene, and many Anglicans including Bishop J C Ryle and Charles Simeon held similar views.", "Simeon wrote in 1820, 'the Jews at large, and the generality of Christians also, believe that the dispersed of Israel will one day be restored to their own land'\nJewish Christians like Joseph Frey, who founded the London Society for the Jews, Joseph Woolf, and two theologians Ridley Herschell and Philip Hirschfeld formed an important link between the earlier Restorationism of German Lutheran pietists and British evangelicals, and played a large part in galvanizing widespread evangelical support in the UK.", "Herschell founded the British Society for the Propagation of the Gospel Among the Jews (now known as the Christian Witness to Israel) and the Evangelical Alliance in 1845.", "In 1840, G. W. Pieritz, another Jewish missionary for the London Society played an important role in exposing the Damascus blood libels to the British public in The Times.", "Erasmus Calman was a Latvian Jewish Christian, resident in Jerusalem from 1833, who in 1840 also lobbied vigorously for Jewish settlement in Palestine.", "Early political momentum from the 1790s to encourage and facilitate a Jewish return to Israel was doctrinally post millennial in character, being based on Puritan teaching.", "Influential premillennial teachers like James Frere, James Haldane Stewart and Edward Irving in the 1820s and 30s spurred a shift in widely held opinion, with equal advocacy for the restoration.", "The close associates Edward Bickersteth and Lord Shaftesbury were prominent premillennial proponents of Restoration, though Bickersteth did not publicly come to this view of the millennium until 1835, and both held differently nuanced views but jointly considered a return to the land would precede the receipt of spiritual life.", "Shaftesbury repeatedly lobbied Lord Palmerston for moves to stimulate Jewish return to the Middle East, primarily by the appointment of a British Consul in Jerusalem in 1838.", "He also pressed for the building of Christ Church, the first place of Reformed worship in Jerusalem despite Ottoman and local opposition and the consecration in 1841 of a Jewish joint Anglican and Prussian Bishop in Jerusalem.", "Shaftesbury's labours paved the way for the Balfour Declaration.", "William Hechler, an Anglican minister has been described as, 'not only the first, but the most constant and the most indefatigable of Herzl’s followers'.", "Due to his German court connections, Hechler initially introduced Herzl to the Grand Duke of Baden, and through him hoped to present early Zionist proposals to Kaiser Wilhelm II, prompting one historian to suggest that with less German suspicion, the Zionist cause might instead have been brought to birth through its own initiative.", "Christian Zionists like John Henry Patterson and Orde Wingate played crucial roles in the initiation and development of the Haganah, sometimes despite British Government opposition.", "Some proponents of Christian Zionism believe that Israel must belong to the Jewish people as one of the prerequisites for the return of Jesus to earth.", "This eschatology has been criticized by Stephen Sizer.", "He and Christian Zionist David Pawson have publicly debated the issue.", "In 2007, the Israeli English-language newspaper \"The Jerusalem Post\", reported on the Jerusalem Summit Europe conference held in London, describing it as an attempt \"to stem the tide of rising Islamic fundamentalism\" and of moral relativism.", "According to the paper, the goal was to \"rekindle the faded force of Christian Zionism in the United Kingdom.", "\"", "Exploits Ministry is one of the London organizations which promotes Christian Zionism.", "Other organisations are Christian Friends of Israel, UK, the Church's Ministry Among Jewish People (The Israel Trust of the Anglican Church), Intercessors for Britain (IFB), Prayer for Israel (PFI), Derek Prince Ministries, Christians United for Israel UK, Beit Yeshua, North East Messianic Fellowship, Bridges of Peace, C L Ministries, Evangelical Sisterhood of Mary, Hatikvah Film Trust, International Christian Embassy Jerusalem, UK, Messianic (Christian) Educational Trust, Paul Heyman International Ministries, Revelation TV, the Israel Britain Evangelistic Association and Christian Zionists for Israel UK." ]
History
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[ "Christian Zionism in the United Kingdom is a Christian ideology that sees the return of the Jews to Israel as a fulfilment of scriptural prophecy.", "Supporters of Christian Zionism believe that the existence of the Jewish State can and should be supported on theological grounds." ]
Henry C. Wolf Law Library
[ "\"The mission of the Wolf Law Library is to provide access to law and law-related resources and a wide range of services to support law school curriculum and programs, promote the advancement of legal scholarship, and fulfill the information needs of library users.", "\"", "By the end of the twentieth century, the William & Mary Law Library was cramped and in need of overall renovation.", "With a strong budget, professional staff, and large collection, a $16.8-million renovation began in 2003 to address those needs.", "Construction between the spring of 2005 and the summer of 2006 added of space to the library.", "On November 10, 2006, the library was renamed the Wolf Law Library to honor alumnus Henry C. Wolf (Bachelor of Arts, 1964; Juris Doctor, 1966).", "The new Law Library, which was completed in the spring of 2007, covers and houses 442,000 volumes." ]
History
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[ "It contains a 380,000 volume collection and is a member of the Consortium of Southeastern Law Libraries." ]
Henry C. Wolf Law Library
[ "\"The mission of the Wolf Law Library is to provide access to law and law-related resources and a wide range of services to support law school curriculum and programs, promote the advancement of legal scholarship, and fulfill the information needs of library users.", "\"", "By the end of the twentieth century, the William & Mary Law Library was cramped and in need of overall renovation.", "With a strong budget, professional staff, and large collection, a $16.8-million renovation began in 2003 to address those needs.", "Construction between the spring of 2005 and the summer of 2006 added of space to the library.", "On November 10, 2006, the library was renamed the Wolf Law Library to honor alumnus Henry C. Wolf (Bachelor of Arts, 1964; Juris Doctor, 1966).", "The new Law Library, which was completed in the spring of 2007, covers and houses 442,000 volumes." ]
History ; Present day
[ 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 ]
[ "It contains a 380,000 volume collection and is a member of the Consortium of Southeastern Law Libraries." ]
Bob Miller (pitcher, born 1935)
[ "Miller was signed as a \"bonus baby\" amateur free agent by the Detroit Tigers on June 20, 1953, receiving a $60,000 signing bonus from the team who outbid the Philadelphia Phillies and Chicago White Sox to sign Miller.", "The other Tigers bonus baby signed that day was future-Hall of Famer Al Kaline, who received a bonus of $35,000 and had been pursued by every major league team other than the St. Louis Browns.", "As required by the Bonus Rule as it existed when he was signed, the Tigers had to immediately place Miller on their 40-man roster and keep him there for two years.", "Miller made his major league debut on June 25, less than a week after being signed to the team.", "Taking the mound at age 17, he was the youngest Tiger hurler to start a game.", "Miller finished the 1953 season with a 1–2 record in 13 appearances (all but one in relief), and an ERA of 5.94 in 36 innings of work.", "In the 1954 season he had a 1–1 record and the only save of his career, appearing in 22 games (all but one in relief) and ending with a 2.45 ERA in 69 innings.", "In the 1955 season he pitched to a 2–1 record in seven appearances (three of them starts, including his only complete game) and ending with an ERA of 2.49 in 25 innings.", "Miller finished with an 0–2 record in the 1956 season in 11 appearances (all but three in relief), and his ERA ballooned to 5.68 in 35 innings of work.", "Miller was drafted by the Cincinnati Reds from the Tigers on November 30, 1959 in the 1959 minor league draft.", "The Reds brought him up in the 1962 season, and he appeared in 6 games, all in relief, and had an ERA of 21.94 in 5 innings of work with the club.", "The Reds traded Miller along with Cliff Cook to the New York Mets on May 7, 1962 in exchange for Don Zimmer.", "One of two pitchers on the Mets inaugural squad sharing the name Bob Miller, Mets manager Casey Stengel would call Bob L. Miller by the name \"Nelson\", perhaps to distinguish him from this Bob Miller, or just general confusion on Stengel's part.", "With the Mets, Miller finished the season with a 2–2 record in 17 appearances, all in relief, and had an ERA of 7.08 in 20 innings.", "Miller's final major league appearance was on September 18, 1962, in the second game of a doubleheader against the Houston Colt .45s, with Miller retiring the last three batters in the ninth inning of a game the Mets lost 8–6 at the Polo Grounds.", "The '62 Mets ended up with a record of 40–120, most losses of any team in Major League Baseball's modern history." ]
Detroit Tigers (1953–56)
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[ "During the 1953 season, he was the youngest player in the major leagues, one of only three players who were 17 years old." ]
E. Harris Harbison
[ "E. Harris Harbison was born to Ralph Warner Harbison and Helen Mary Harris (the daughter of Elmore Harris of Toronto, Ontario) in 1907 in Sewickley, Pennsylvania.", "He married Janet German in 1937 and had a son, John Harris Harbison, a distinguished composer, and two daughters, Helen and Margaret.", "Helen was once engaged to Iranian-American scholar Ervand Abrahamian.", "Harbison received his bachelor's in history from Princeton University in 1928 and was the valedictorian of his class.", "He continued on to Harvard University and in 1938 earned his doctorate for his dissertation \"Rival Ambassadors in the Court of Queen Mary\".", "The dissertation later won an Adams Prize from the American Historical Association.", "He joined Princeton as a faculty member in 1933 and became a trustee of the Princeton Theological Seminary in 1951.", "He served on several committees and boards dedicated to religious scholarly study\nA national teaching award is named in his honor." ]
Personal life
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[ "Elmore Harris Harbison (1907–1964) was an American historian and scholar on the topic of Christianity and history." ]
E. Harris Harbison
[ "E. Harris Harbison was born to Ralph Warner Harbison and Helen Mary Harris (the daughter of Elmore Harris of Toronto, Ontario) in 1907 in Sewickley, Pennsylvania.", "He married Janet German in 1937 and had a son, John Harris Harbison, a distinguished composer, and two daughters, Helen and Margaret.", "Helen was once engaged to Iranian-American scholar Ervand Abrahamian.", "Harbison received his bachelor's in history from Princeton University in 1928 and was the valedictorian of his class.", "He continued on to Harvard University and in 1938 earned his doctorate for his dissertation \"Rival Ambassadors in the Court of Queen Mary\".", "The dissertation later won an Adams Prize from the American Historical Association.", "He joined Princeton as a faculty member in 1933 and became a trustee of the Princeton Theological Seminary in 1951.", "He served on several committees and boards dedicated to religious scholarly study\nA national teaching award is named in his honor." ]
Academic Study
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[ "He was the Henry Charles Lea Professor of History at Princeton University and a trustee of the Princeton Theological Seminary." ]
Stockings by the Fire
[ "# \"Baby, It's Cold Outside\", performed by Ray Charles (originally by Frank Loesser, 1944)\n# \"I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day\", performed by Sarah McLachlan (originally by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, 1864)\n# \"I'll Be Home for Christmas (If Only in My Dreams)\", performed by Frank Sinatra (originally by Walter Kent, 1943)\n# \"Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas\", performed by Hem (originally by Hugh Martin and Ralph Blane, 1944)\n# \"Sleigh Ride\", performed by Ella Fitzgerald (originally composed by Leroy Anderson, lyrics by Mitchell Parish)\n# \"What Are You Doing New Year's Eve?\", performed by Rufus Wainwright (originally by Frank Loesser)\n# \"River\", performed by Herbie Hancock (originally by Joni Mitchell)\n# \"Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer\", performed by Jack Johnson (originally by Johnny Marks)\n# \"Carol of the Bells\", performed by The Bird and the Bee (originally by Mykola Leontovych, 1916)\n# \"Let It Snow\", performed by A Fine Frenzy (originally by Sammy Cahn and composer Jule Styne, 1945)\n# \"The Christmas Song (Merry Christmas to You)\", performed by Nat King Cole (originally by Mel Tormé and Bob Wells, 1944)", "# \"I've Got My Love to Keep Me Warm\", performed by Dean Martin (originally by Irving Berlin, 1937)\n# \"Winter Wonderland\", performed by Diana Krall (originally by Felix Bernard and Richard B. Smith, 1934)\n# \"Do You Hear What I Hear?\", performed by Mahalia Jackson\n# \"It Don't Have to Change\", performed by John Legend\n# \"White Christmas\", performed by Aimee Mann (originally by Irving Berlin)", "Credits adapted from Allmusic.", "In the United States, \"Stockings by the Fire\" reached peak positions of number 34 on the \"Billboard\" 200 and number four on \"Billboard\" Top Independent Albums chart." ]
Charts
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[ "In the United States, the album reached a peak position of number 34 on the \"Billboard\" 200 and number four on \"Billboard\" Top Independent Albums chart." ]
Jacobo Fitz-James Stuart, 3rd Duke of Berwick
[ "On 26 July 1738, in Alba de Tormes, he married Maria Teresa de Silva y Alvarez de Toledo (6 May 1716 – 5 May 1790), daughter of Manuel Maria de Silva y Mendoza, (born 18 October 1677), 9th Conde de Galve, 7th son of the 5th Duke of Pastrana and Estremera and of the outstandingly wealthy Maria Teresa Alvarez de Toledo, (18 September 1691 – 1755), 11th Duquesa de Alba de Tormes, 8th duquesa de Huéscar, 4th Duquesa de Montoro, 6th Duquesa de Olivares, 7th Duquesa de Galisteo, Grandee of Spain, and a number of lesser Spanish noble titles (such as Marquessats, Earldoms, Baronetages, Viscountships and Lordships).", "Their only son to survive to adulthood was Carlos Bernardo Fitz-James Stuart y de Silva, (Liria, Valencia, 25 March 1752 – Madrid, 7 September 1787)." ]
Marriages and issue
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[ "Jacobo Francisco Eduardo Fitz-James Stuart y", "On the death of his father, James Fitz-James Stuart, in 1738, he inherited his titles of Duke of Berwick and Duke of Liria and Xerica.", "(He also possessed many other titles in both Spain and England.)" ]
Global Handwashing Day
[ "The Global Handwashing Partnership (GHP) (formerly called \"Public Private Partnership for Handwashing\" (PPPHW)) established Global Handwashing Day in 2008 as a way to promote a global and local vision of handwashing with soap.", "Steering Committee members of the GHP include Colgate-Palmolive; FHI 360; The London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine; Procter & Gamble; UNICEF; Unilever; University at Buffalo; USAID; the Water and Sanitation Programme at the World Bank; and the Water Supply and Sanitation Collaborative Council.", "Continued research on handwashing habits and practices is commissioned in conjunction with GHD.", "In 2011, Svenska Cellulosa Aktiebolaget (SCA), sponsored a study to assess the handwashing habits of American and Canadian adults, finding that many were not using soap when washing their hands.", "The stated aims of Global Handwashing Day are to:", "Each year, over 200 million people celebrate Global Handwashing Day.", "Global Handwashing Day was initiated by the Global Handwashing Partnership (GHP) in August 2008 at the annual World Water Week in Stockholm, Sweden.", "This means that the first Global Handwashing Day took place on 15 October 2008.", "The date was appointed by the UN General Assembly.", "The year 2008 was also the International Year of Sanitation.", "The founding bodies in 2008 included: FHI360 (a nonprofit human development organization based in the US), US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Procter & Gamble, UNICEF, Unilever, World Bank Water & Sanitation Program and the United States Agency for International Development.", "The campaign was initiated to reduce childhood mortality rates and related respiratory and diarrheal diseases by introducing simple behavioral changes, such as handwashing with soap.", "This simple action can reduce the mortality rate of respiratory disease by 25%.", "Death from diarrheal diseases can be reduced by 50%.", "Across the world, more than 60 percent of health workers do not adhere to proper hand hygiene.", "According to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, US health care providers, on average, wash their hands less than half of the time they should.", "On any given day, one in 25 US hospital patients has at least one healthcare-associatedinfection.", "Handwashing with soap is a very effective and the least expensive way to prevent diarrhea and acute respiratory infections.", "Pneumonia, a major ARI (acute respiratory infection), is the number one cause of mortality among children under five years old, killing an estimated 1.8 million children per year.", "Diarrhea and pneumonia together account for almost 3.5 million child deaths annually.", "Handwashing with soap is estimated to reduce cases of diarrhea by 30% and respiratory infections by 21% in children under the age of five.", "Getting into the habit of handwashing with soap before meals and after using the toilet will save more lives than any single vaccine or medical intervention, cutting deaths from diarrhea by almost half and deaths from acute respiratory infections by one-quarter.", "Handwashing is often carried out in conjunction with other sanitation interventions as part of WASH programmes for water, sanitation and hygiene.", "The Global Handwashing Day helps raise awareness of the importance of washing hands with soap, but it also makes it fun for children to get involved.", "Proper hygiene requires that individuals know the importance of good hygiene and develop the habits to carry it out.", "Peer influence is significant for seeing increased handwashing.", "In a study conducted in Kenya, researchers found that students were much more likely to wash their hands when another student is present.", "Peer influence is only successful, however, when students know that handwashing is a desirable action.", "The World Health Organization (WHO) celebrates a World Hand Hygiene Day on 5 May.", "In 2018 the theme was prevention of sepsis in health care.", "The theme of the year before was to combat antibiotic resistance (AMR).", "A 2012 study from China attempted to qualitatively assess Chinese social media users’ reactions to Global Handwashing Day (GHD) 2012, in particular, and to health promotion campaigns in general.", "They concluded that social media data in China can be used to evaluate public health campaigns in China." ]
Implementation and management
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[ "Global Handwashing Day (GHD) is an international handwashing promotion campaign to motivate and mobilize people around the world to improve their handwashing habits." ]
Global Handwashing Day
[ "The Global Handwashing Partnership (GHP) (formerly called \"Public Private Partnership for Handwashing\" (PPPHW)) established Global Handwashing Day in 2008 as a way to promote a global and local vision of handwashing with soap.", "Steering Committee members of the GHP include Colgate-Palmolive; FHI 360; The London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine; Procter & Gamble; UNICEF; Unilever; University at Buffalo; USAID; the Water and Sanitation Programme at the World Bank; and the Water Supply and Sanitation Collaborative Council.", "Continued research on handwashing habits and practices is commissioned in conjunction with GHD.", "In 2011, Svenska Cellulosa Aktiebolaget (SCA), sponsored a study to assess the handwashing habits of American and Canadian adults, finding that many were not using soap when washing their hands.", "The stated aims of Global Handwashing Day are to:", "Each year, over 200 million people celebrate Global Handwashing Day.", "Global Handwashing Day was initiated by the Global Handwashing Partnership (GHP) in August 2008 at the annual World Water Week in Stockholm, Sweden.", "This means that the first Global Handwashing Day took place on 15 October 2008.", "The date was appointed by the UN General Assembly.", "The year 2008 was also the International Year of Sanitation.", "The founding bodies in 2008 included: FHI360 (a nonprofit human development organization based in the US), US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Procter & Gamble, UNICEF, Unilever, World Bank Water & Sanitation Program and the United States Agency for International Development.", "The campaign was initiated to reduce childhood mortality rates and related respiratory and diarrheal diseases by introducing simple behavioral changes, such as handwashing with soap.", "This simple action can reduce the mortality rate of respiratory disease by 25%.", "Death from diarrheal diseases can be reduced by 50%.", "Across the world, more than 60 percent of health workers do not adhere to proper hand hygiene.", "According to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, US health care providers, on average, wash their hands less than half of the time they should.", "On any given day, one in 25 US hospital patients has at least one healthcare-associatedinfection.", "Handwashing with soap is a very effective and the least expensive way to prevent diarrhea and acute respiratory infections.", "Pneumonia, a major ARI (acute respiratory infection), is the number one cause of mortality among children under five years old, killing an estimated 1.8 million children per year.", "Diarrhea and pneumonia together account for almost 3.5 million child deaths annually.", "Handwashing with soap is estimated to reduce cases of diarrhea by 30% and respiratory infections by 21% in children under the age of five.", "Getting into the habit of handwashing with soap before meals and after using the toilet will save more lives than any single vaccine or medical intervention, cutting deaths from diarrhea by almost half and deaths from acute respiratory infections by one-quarter.", "Handwashing is often carried out in conjunction with other sanitation interventions as part of WASH programmes for water, sanitation and hygiene.", "The Global Handwashing Day helps raise awareness of the importance of washing hands with soap, but it also makes it fun for children to get involved.", "Proper hygiene requires that individuals know the importance of good hygiene and develop the habits to carry it out.", "Peer influence is significant for seeing increased handwashing.", "In a study conducted in Kenya, researchers found that students were much more likely to wash their hands when another student is present.", "Peer influence is only successful, however, when students know that handwashing is a desirable action.", "The World Health Organization (WHO) celebrates a World Hand Hygiene Day on 5 May.", "In 2018 the theme was prevention of sepsis in health care.", "The theme of the year before was to combat antibiotic resistance (AMR).", "A 2012 study from China attempted to qualitatively assess Chinese social media users’ reactions to Global Handwashing Day (GHD) 2012, in particular, and to health promotion campaigns in general.", "They concluded that social media data in China can be used to evaluate public health campaigns in China." ]
Activities
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[ "Global Handwashing Day occurs on 15 October of each year." ]
Global Handwashing Day
[ "The Global Handwashing Partnership (GHP) (formerly called \"Public Private Partnership for Handwashing\" (PPPHW)) established Global Handwashing Day in 2008 as a way to promote a global and local vision of handwashing with soap.", "Steering Committee members of the GHP include Colgate-Palmolive; FHI 360; The London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine; Procter & Gamble; UNICEF; Unilever; University at Buffalo; USAID; the Water and Sanitation Programme at the World Bank; and the Water Supply and Sanitation Collaborative Council.", "Continued research on handwashing habits and practices is commissioned in conjunction with GHD.", "In 2011, Svenska Cellulosa Aktiebolaget (SCA), sponsored a study to assess the handwashing habits of American and Canadian adults, finding that many were not using soap when washing their hands.", "The stated aims of Global Handwashing Day are to:", "Each year, over 200 million people celebrate Global Handwashing Day.", "Global Handwashing Day was initiated by the Global Handwashing Partnership (GHP) in August 2008 at the annual World Water Week in Stockholm, Sweden.", "This means that the first Global Handwashing Day took place on 15 October 2008.", "The date was appointed by the UN General Assembly.", "The year 2008 was also the International Year of Sanitation.", "The founding bodies in 2008 included: FHI360 (a nonprofit human development organization based in the US), US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Procter & Gamble, UNICEF, Unilever, World Bank Water & Sanitation Program and the United States Agency for International Development.", "The campaign was initiated to reduce childhood mortality rates and related respiratory and diarrheal diseases by introducing simple behavioral changes, such as handwashing with soap.", "This simple action can reduce the mortality rate of respiratory disease by 25%.", "Death from diarrheal diseases can be reduced by 50%.", "Across the world, more than 60 percent of health workers do not adhere to proper hand hygiene.", "According to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, US health care providers, on average, wash their hands less than half of the time they should.", "On any given day, one in 25 US hospital patients has at least one healthcare-associatedinfection.", "Handwashing with soap is a very effective and the least expensive way to prevent diarrhea and acute respiratory infections.", "Pneumonia, a major ARI (acute respiratory infection), is the number one cause of mortality among children under five years old, killing an estimated 1.8 million children per year.", "Diarrhea and pneumonia together account for almost 3.5 million child deaths annually.", "Handwashing with soap is estimated to reduce cases of diarrhea by 30% and respiratory infections by 21% in children under the age of five.", "Getting into the habit of handwashing with soap before meals and after using the toilet will save more lives than any single vaccine or medical intervention, cutting deaths from diarrhea by almost half and deaths from acute respiratory infections by one-quarter.", "Handwashing is often carried out in conjunction with other sanitation interventions as part of WASH programmes for water, sanitation and hygiene.", "The Global Handwashing Day helps raise awareness of the importance of washing hands with soap, but it also makes it fun for children to get involved.", "Proper hygiene requires that individuals know the importance of good hygiene and develop the habits to carry it out.", "Peer influence is significant for seeing increased handwashing.", "In a study conducted in Kenya, researchers found that students were much more likely to wash their hands when another student is present.", "Peer influence is only successful, however, when students know that handwashing is a desirable action.", "The World Health Organization (WHO) celebrates a World Hand Hygiene Day on 5 May.", "In 2018 the theme was prevention of sepsis in health care.", "The theme of the year before was to combat antibiotic resistance (AMR).", "A 2012 study from China attempted to qualitatively assess Chinese social media users’ reactions to Global Handwashing Day (GHD) 2012, in particular, and to health promotion campaigns in general.", "They concluded that social media data in China can be used to evaluate public health campaigns in China." ]
History
[ 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 ]
[ "Global Handwashing Day occurs on 15 October of each year." ]
Global Handwashing Day
[ "The Global Handwashing Partnership (GHP) (formerly called \"Public Private Partnership for Handwashing\" (PPPHW)) established Global Handwashing Day in 2008 as a way to promote a global and local vision of handwashing with soap.", "Steering Committee members of the GHP include Colgate-Palmolive; FHI 360; The London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine; Procter & Gamble; UNICEF; Unilever; University at Buffalo; USAID; the Water and Sanitation Programme at the World Bank; and the Water Supply and Sanitation Collaborative Council.", "Continued research on handwashing habits and practices is commissioned in conjunction with GHD.", "In 2011, Svenska Cellulosa Aktiebolaget (SCA), sponsored a study to assess the handwashing habits of American and Canadian adults, finding that many were not using soap when washing their hands.", "The stated aims of Global Handwashing Day are to:", "Each year, over 200 million people celebrate Global Handwashing Day.", "Global Handwashing Day was initiated by the Global Handwashing Partnership (GHP) in August 2008 at the annual World Water Week in Stockholm, Sweden.", "This means that the first Global Handwashing Day took place on 15 October 2008.", "The date was appointed by the UN General Assembly.", "The year 2008 was also the International Year of Sanitation.", "The founding bodies in 2008 included: FHI360 (a nonprofit human development organization based in the US), US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Procter & Gamble, UNICEF, Unilever, World Bank Water & Sanitation Program and the United States Agency for International Development.", "The campaign was initiated to reduce childhood mortality rates and related respiratory and diarrheal diseases by introducing simple behavioral changes, such as handwashing with soap.", "This simple action can reduce the mortality rate of respiratory disease by 25%.", "Death from diarrheal diseases can be reduced by 50%.", "Across the world, more than 60 percent of health workers do not adhere to proper hand hygiene.", "According to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, US health care providers, on average, wash their hands less than half of the time they should.", "On any given day, one in 25 US hospital patients has at least one healthcare-associatedinfection.", "Handwashing with soap is a very effective and the least expensive way to prevent diarrhea and acute respiratory infections.", "Pneumonia, a major ARI (acute respiratory infection), is the number one cause of mortality among children under five years old, killing an estimated 1.8 million children per year.", "Diarrhea and pneumonia together account for almost 3.5 million child deaths annually.", "Handwashing with soap is estimated to reduce cases of diarrhea by 30% and respiratory infections by 21% in children under the age of five.", "Getting into the habit of handwashing with soap before meals and after using the toilet will save more lives than any single vaccine or medical intervention, cutting deaths from diarrhea by almost half and deaths from acute respiratory infections by one-quarter.", "Handwashing is often carried out in conjunction with other sanitation interventions as part of WASH programmes for water, sanitation and hygiene.", "The Global Handwashing Day helps raise awareness of the importance of washing hands with soap, but it also makes it fun for children to get involved.", "Proper hygiene requires that individuals know the importance of good hygiene and develop the habits to carry it out.", "Peer influence is significant for seeing increased handwashing.", "In a study conducted in Kenya, researchers found that students were much more likely to wash their hands when another student is present.", "Peer influence is only successful, however, when students know that handwashing is a desirable action.", "The World Health Organization (WHO) celebrates a World Hand Hygiene Day on 5 May.", "In 2018 the theme was prevention of sepsis in health care.", "The theme of the year before was to combat antibiotic resistance (AMR).", "A 2012 study from China attempted to qualitatively assess Chinese social media users’ reactions to Global Handwashing Day (GHD) 2012, in particular, and to health promotion campaigns in general.", "They concluded that social media data in China can be used to evaluate public health campaigns in China." ]
Background
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[ "Washing hands at critical points during the day and washing with soap are both important.", "The global campaign is dedicated to raising awareness of handwashing with soap as a key factor in disease prevention.", "With proper handwashing, respiratory and intestinal diseases can be reduced by 25–50%." ]
Global Handwashing Day
[ "The Global Handwashing Partnership (GHP) (formerly called \"Public Private Partnership for Handwashing\" (PPPHW)) established Global Handwashing Day in 2008 as a way to promote a global and local vision of handwashing with soap.", "Steering Committee members of the GHP include Colgate-Palmolive; FHI 360; The London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine; Procter & Gamble; UNICEF; Unilever; University at Buffalo; USAID; the Water and Sanitation Programme at the World Bank; and the Water Supply and Sanitation Collaborative Council.", "Continued research on handwashing habits and practices is commissioned in conjunction with GHD.", "In 2011, Svenska Cellulosa Aktiebolaget (SCA), sponsored a study to assess the handwashing habits of American and Canadian adults, finding that many were not using soap when washing their hands.", "The stated aims of Global Handwashing Day are to:", "Each year, over 200 million people celebrate Global Handwashing Day.", "Global Handwashing Day was initiated by the Global Handwashing Partnership (GHP) in August 2008 at the annual World Water Week in Stockholm, Sweden.", "This means that the first Global Handwashing Day took place on 15 October 2008.", "The date was appointed by the UN General Assembly.", "The year 2008 was also the International Year of Sanitation.", "The founding bodies in 2008 included: FHI360 (a nonprofit human development organization based in the US), US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Procter & Gamble, UNICEF, Unilever, World Bank Water & Sanitation Program and the United States Agency for International Development.", "The campaign was initiated to reduce childhood mortality rates and related respiratory and diarrheal diseases by introducing simple behavioral changes, such as handwashing with soap.", "This simple action can reduce the mortality rate of respiratory disease by 25%.", "Death from diarrheal diseases can be reduced by 50%.", "Across the world, more than 60 percent of health workers do not adhere to proper hand hygiene.", "According to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, US health care providers, on average, wash their hands less than half of the time they should.", "On any given day, one in 25 US hospital patients has at least one healthcare-associatedinfection.", "Handwashing with soap is a very effective and the least expensive way to prevent diarrhea and acute respiratory infections.", "Pneumonia, a major ARI (acute respiratory infection), is the number one cause of mortality among children under five years old, killing an estimated 1.8 million children per year.", "Diarrhea and pneumonia together account for almost 3.5 million child deaths annually.", "Handwashing with soap is estimated to reduce cases of diarrhea by 30% and respiratory infections by 21% in children under the age of five.", "Getting into the habit of handwashing with soap before meals and after using the toilet will save more lives than any single vaccine or medical intervention, cutting deaths from diarrhea by almost half and deaths from acute respiratory infections by one-quarter.", "Handwashing is often carried out in conjunction with other sanitation interventions as part of WASH programmes for water, sanitation and hygiene.", "The Global Handwashing Day helps raise awareness of the importance of washing hands with soap, but it also makes it fun for children to get involved.", "Proper hygiene requires that individuals know the importance of good hygiene and develop the habits to carry it out.", "Peer influence is significant for seeing increased handwashing.", "In a study conducted in Kenya, researchers found that students were much more likely to wash their hands when another student is present.", "Peer influence is only successful, however, when students know that handwashing is a desirable action.", "The World Health Organization (WHO) celebrates a World Hand Hygiene Day on 5 May.", "In 2018 the theme was prevention of sepsis in health care.", "The theme of the year before was to combat antibiotic resistance (AMR).", "A 2012 study from China attempted to qualitatively assess Chinese social media users’ reactions to Global Handwashing Day (GHD) 2012, in particular, and to health promotion campaigns in general.", "They concluded that social media data in China can be used to evaluate public health campaigns in China." ]
Background ; Importance of handwashing
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[ "Washing hands at critical points during the day and washing with soap are both important." ]
AVS Raju
[ "AVS Raju was born on 18 April 1937 and hails from a family that has been in the construction for over three generations.", "He left his village Antervedipalem in East Godavari District, Andhra Pradesh, India, after matriculation at the age of 18 years to make his career in Hyderabad and started contributing his share in developing the state in the areas of Industry, Infrastructure, Agriculture and Power.", "For the last 45 years of his career, he has contributed in promoting many industries around Hyderabad and various parts of Andhra Pradesh while spreading the Construction activity in the country.", "He was the Secretary and Treasurer of Sri Nagarjuna Cooperative Housing Society Limited in 1975 and presently is its President.", "He was one of the promoters of M/s Nagarjuna Steels Ltd., during 1975-76, the first company of the present popular Nagarjuna group of Companies in Hyderabad.", "He was also one of the promoters of Deccan Cements Ltd., during 1983-84 which was the first mini-cement plant in the country.", "He was also Promoter and Managing Director of M/s AVS Containers Ltd. in 1983-84.", "Raju enjoys writing.", "He was member of many social and literary associations in Andhra Pradesh.", "He wrote more than 10,000 poems on various subjects including his two well-known books one on Sri Rama entitled \"Rama Rasamrutham\" and another one is on Bhagawan Sri Sri Sri Sathya Sai Baba entitled \"Sri Sai Sudha Madhuri\".", "He has received UGADI PURASKAR from Govt.", "of Andhra Pradesh, India in 1998.", "AVS Raju has set a new Guinness world record by writing the largest single-volume biography \"Sri Sai Sudha Madhuri\" on the life of Sri Satya Sai Baba between 1996 and 2007.", "The single bound book consists of 32 separate volumes.", "Raju has recently been appointed as chairman of the Hyderabad District Dharmic Council.", "He was also conferred with an honorary doctorate by the Acharya Nagarjuna University in 2008.", "He has been mentioned in the Limca Book of World Records for four consecutive years (2005–08)." ]
Early life
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[ "Alluri Venkata Sathyanarayana Raju (born 18 April 1937), familiarly known as AVS Raju works in the Indian construction industry and is the founder chairman of Nagarjuna Construction Company Ltd." ]
Princess Adelaide of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg
[ "Princess Adelaide was born on 19 October 1889 at Grünholz Manor in Schleswig-Holstein, Prussia as the fourth eldest daughter of Frederick Ferdinand, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderbug-Glücksburg and his wife Princess Karoline Mathilde of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg.", "Adelaide's father was the eldest son of Friedrich, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg and a nephew of Christian IX of Denmark.", "Four years before the birth of Adelaide, he had succeeded to the headship of the House of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg and the title of duke upon the death of his father in 1885.", "Adelaide's mother was the younger sister of the German Empress.", "Adelaide married Friedrich, Hereditary Prince of Solms-Baruth (later Friedrich, 3rd Prince of Solms-Baruth), second child and eldest son of Friedrich II, Prince of Solms-Baruth and his wife Countess Luise of Hochberg on 1 August 1914 at Potsdam, Brandenburg, Prussia.", "Solms-Baruth was one of the many minor states of the Holy Roman Empire, located in Lower Lusatia.", "It had lost its independence in the German Mediatization of 1806.", "Adelaide and Friedrich had five children.", "On 31 December 1920, Hereditary Prince Friedrich's father died, and Friedrich became head of the house of Solms-Baruth.", "Prince Friedrich died on 12 September 1951 in Windhoek, Namibia.", "Princess Adelaide died on 11 June 1964 in Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria.", "∞ Gert Schenk on 23 November 1942\n\n ∞ Karl-Adolf, 10th Prince of Auersperg (great-grandson of Prince Adolf of Auersperg) on 6 October 1961 at Vienna, Austria\n\n ∞ Neville Lewis on 3 November 1955 at Stellenbosch, South Africa\n\n ∞ Heinrich Weber on 9 October 1981 at Stellenbosch, South Africa\n ∞ Baroness Birgitta of Berchem-Königsfeld on 17 August 1963 at Dabib, South West Africa\n\n ∞ Johann van Steenderen on 12 May 1963" ]
Early life
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[ "Princess \"Adelaide\" Louise of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg (; 19 October 1889 – 11 June 1964) was a daughter of Friedrich Ferdinand, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein and his wife Princess Karoline Mathilde of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg." ]
Princess Adelaide of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg
[ "Princess Adelaide was born on 19 October 1889 at Grünholz Manor in Schleswig-Holstein, Prussia as the fourth eldest daughter of Frederick Ferdinand, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderbug-Glücksburg and his wife Princess Karoline Mathilde of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg.", "Adelaide's father was the eldest son of Friedrich, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg and a nephew of Christian IX of Denmark.", "Four years before the birth of Adelaide, he had succeeded to the headship of the House of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg and the title of duke upon the death of his father in 1885.", "Adelaide's mother was the younger sister of the German Empress.", "Adelaide married Friedrich, Hereditary Prince of Solms-Baruth (later Friedrich, 3rd Prince of Solms-Baruth), second child and eldest son of Friedrich II, Prince of Solms-Baruth and his wife Countess Luise of Hochberg on 1 August 1914 at Potsdam, Brandenburg, Prussia.", "Solms-Baruth was one of the many minor states of the Holy Roman Empire, located in Lower Lusatia.", "It had lost its independence in the German Mediatization of 1806.", "Adelaide and Friedrich had five children.", "On 31 December 1920, Hereditary Prince Friedrich's father died, and Friedrich became head of the house of Solms-Baruth.", "Prince Friedrich died on 12 September 1951 in Windhoek, Namibia.", "Princess Adelaide died on 11 June 1964 in Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria.", "∞ Gert Schenk on 23 November 1942\n\n ∞ Karl-Adolf, 10th Prince of Auersperg (great-grandson of Prince Adolf of Auersperg) on 6 October 1961 at Vienna, Austria\n\n ∞ Neville Lewis on 3 November 1955 at Stellenbosch, South Africa\n\n ∞ Heinrich Weber on 9 October 1981 at Stellenbosch, South Africa\n ∞ Baroness Birgitta of Berchem-Königsfeld on 17 August 1963 at Dabib, South West Africa\n\n ∞ Johann van Steenderen on 12 May 1963" ]
Marriage
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[ "She was the Princess consort of Solms-Baruth through her marriage to Friedrich, 3rd Prince of Solms-Baruth." ]
James Spratt (Royal Navy officer)
[ "HMS \"Defiance\" was built by Randall and Co., at Rotherhithe on the River Thames, and saw extensive action before the Battle of Trafalgar.", "She served in Nelson's fleet at the Battle of Copenhagen 1801, where she fought gallantly against the Holsteen and the shore based batteries of the Trekroner.", "In July 1805 before Trafalgar she had taken part in Admiral Robert Calder’s fight with a combined French and Spanish fleet off the coast of Portugal.", "Captain Durham claimed that she was the fastest 74-gun ship in the British fleet.", "Nonetheless \"Defiance\" was placed at the rear of Admiral Collingwood's line, and the battle was well advanced before she fired her first broadside.", "After exchanging fire with the Spanish \"Principe de Asturias\" (112 guns) \"Defiance\" engaged the French \"L’Aigle\", already badly damaged by HMS \"Bellerophon\".", "After silencing her, \"Defiance\" drifted away, and her master's mate James Spratt offered to lead a boarding party that would have to swim across because all the boats had been destroyed.", "Spratt was well known on \"Defiance\" as an excellent swimmer, who had saved two men from drowning, and a fighter of some reputation, who had been appointed by Captain Durham to lead any boarding party and swimming across to \"L’Aigle\".", "Armed only with a cutlass, Spratt climbed the rudder chain, entered through the stern ports, and was engaged in cutting down the French ensign on the stern before the crew of \"L’Aigle\" realised who he was.", "There was a short sharp fight but \"Defiance\" managed to draw alongside and \"L’Aigle\" surrendered, though not before Spratt was severely wounded in one leg.", "A full prize crew was now put aboard, but in the storm that followed on 22 October \"L’Aigle\" drifted away from her captor, who had not been able to take her in tow, and the French crew regained control and managed to take her into Cadiz.", "It was in Woodway House, Teignmouth, that his son Thomas Abel Brimage Spratt was born in 1811 and at the age of 16 entered into the Royal Navy." ]
HMS "Defiance"
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[ "Commander James Spratt born in Dublin (1771–1853), was an officer in the Royal Navy and became known as one of the heroes of the Battle of Trafalgar.", "Commander James Spratt was famous for having dived into the sea from , swimming cutlass in teeth to the French 74-gun , boarding her single handed.", "He was promoted midshipman in 1798 aboard HMS \"Bellona\" and he was at the Battle of Copenhagen in 1801.", "He gained fame for his exploits at the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805, aged 34.", "He was a master's mate on Captain Philip Charles Durham's ship, the 74 gun HMS \"Defiance\".", "The ship was attempting to board a French ship, the \"L'Aigle\".", "Captain Durham was able to warp alongside, and Spratt was slung on board.", "James Spratt was commended on nine occasions for saving men from drowning either off Teignmouth or at sea when he was serving in the navy." ]
John Philip Sousa Junior High School (Bronx)
[ "The school had the city's only Korean language class.", "The school opened in either 1958 or 1959 at a cost of $3.6 million.", "Early in 1960, student Gail Bartley received a letter from Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev after she asked him to contribute something to the school's yearbook for its inaugural graduating class.", "Khrushchev was the only world leader to have replied to students (U.S. President Dwight Eisenhower never replied) after they started a letter-writing campaign asking for a written contribution to be included in the first yearbook at the school.", "The contribution, which was delivered in person by a Soviet diplomatic officer based in New York, was rejected by the New York City Department of Education for unknown reasons.", "By 1961, there were allegations that the school building had serious defects.", "Cinder blocks had broken apart and fallen across the auditorium in 1960, though no one was injured.", "One engineer said that when the building opened, it had 1,200 defects.", "The defects were investigated by the Bronx County District Attorney.\nIn October 2010, it was announced that the school was on the New York City Department of Education's shortlist of schools potentially targeted for closing.", "It was one of five schools in the Bronx to be on the list, and the only middle school in the borough scheduled to be closed due to poor academic performance.", "Plans were to split the school into two smaller middle schools, \"Middle School 529\" and \"Middle School 532\".", "On 26 April 2012, the city's Board of Election voted to close the school after the last graduating class graduates in June 2012.", "On May 11, 2012, the city announced that school would be reopened in the Fall 2012 as the \"North Bronx Academy,\" bringing to an end Sousa's 54-year-old history.", "However, on June 29, 2012, a ruling by a legal arbitrator announced that all 24 schools slated to close under the city's \"Turn Around\" program had to remain open.", "The ruling halted a central element of Mayor Michael Bloomberg's plans for closing and reopening the affected schools, saying its method for overhauling the staff at those institutions violated existing labor contracts.", "The school finally closed in June 2015 and its building was reused for an educational campus.", "Notes" ]
History
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[ "The school was named after John Philip Sousa and opened in 1958 or 1959.", "After the school's closing in 2015, JHS 142's building became an educational campus." ]
Public Commission on the Oregon Legislature
[ "The PCOL's recommendation to establish an \"open\" primary (also known as a nonpartisan blanket primary) was taken up by two former Secretaries of State, Phil Keisling and Norma Paulus, in the form of a ballot initiative.", "The effort narrowly missed qualifying for the 2006 general elections ballot, but a slightly modified version qualified for the 2008 general election ballot as ballot measure 65.", "The Bend Bulletin criticized the PCOL's recommendations regarding the initiative and referendum system in an editorial, noting that the system was outside the PCOL's purview, and taking issue with the selective nature of the recommendations.", "Recommendations to renovate the Oregon State Capitol were acted upon by the 2007 session of the legislature, and were noted in advertisements in the 2008 U.S. Senate race.", "The commission's report included recommendations on the following topics:\nFundamental reform: \n\n\n\n\nInstitutional reform: \n\n\n\nReforming legislative operations:\n\n\nImproving facilities and technology:" ]
Reception, impact and criticism
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[ "The 2005 session of the legislature established the commission with Senate Bill 1084.", "The 74th legislature implemented several of the recommendations." ]
Live at the Rainbow 1973
[ "Two recordings were made of the Rainbow Theatre show, a multitrack recording and a mono recording direct from the mixing console.", "Unfortunately, Mick Tucker's snare drum was missing from the multitrack, and he later overdubbed the snare drum in the studio on the seven tracks that were released in stereo on the album \"Strung Up\".", "As the unused tracks from the concert were not overdubbed; the only version of the complete concert with the snare drum was the mono recording, which is the recording used for this CD." ]
Mono recording
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[ "The album is a recording of a concert at the Rainbow Theatre, London on 21 December 1973." ]
Palmer Park Apartment Building Historic District
[ "The land that this historic district sits on, like the adjacent \"Palmer Park\" and nearby Palmer Woods Historic District, was once the estate of Thomas W. Palmer, a wealthy Detroiter and one-time US Senator.", "Palmer had intended to develop this area into a subdivision, but died in 1913 before bringing the idea to fruition.", "After Palmer's death, this portion of the estate was purchased by Walter Briggs.", "In 1925, Briggs hired Albert Kahn to design an apartment building in the area (this building, at 1001 Covington, was converted to condos in 2005).", "Forty buildings total were constructed in the district by multiple architects, including Weidmaier and Gay, Robert West, and William Kapp.", "Most of the buildings were constructed in the 1920s and 1930s, but development continued until 1965.", "At one time Palmer Park had a large LGBT community and had numbers of bars, bookstores, and restaurants owned by gay people.", "At that time, the only way one could acquire an apartment in the area is if one already knew another resident in the complex.", "Crime and police harassment increased in the 1980s, and gay people began leaving.", "Wendy Case of \"Metro Times\" said \"Ask three different people what happened to Palmer Park and you'll get three different answers.", "But all will eventually agree that crime is what dismantled Detroit's opportunity to have a gay renaissance akin to those of San Francisco and New York.", "The glorious art deco apartment buildings that were once at such a premium in this neighborhood are still there — but you no longer have to \"know somebody\" to get one.", "You just have to have to pony up about 300 bucks and be willing to live between a beautiful park and ungodly urban squalor.\"", "Craig Covey, formerly a member of the city council of Ferndale, and now Oakland County Executive, said that most of the former gay residents of Palmer Park \"tended to move up Woodward Avenue and they settled in Ferndale, Royal Oak and Birmingham depending on their economic abilities.", "The middle-class folks came to Ferndale and Pleasant Ridge, as I did.\"", "The \"Hotter Than July!\"", "annual LGBT festival is held in Palmer Park; the festival states that it caters to the \"black same-gender-loving\".", "The buildings within the district were designed primarily for middle- and upper-middle-class residents.", "They are primarily five- and six-story structures, and incorporated the latest residential technology.", "The architecture, however varies into the realm of the exotic, with styles such as Egyptian, Spanish Colonial Revival, Mediterranean, Venetian, Tudor, and Moorish Revival represented, as well as severely plain 1930s Art Moderne and International Style buildings.", "Palmer Park is within the Detroit Public Schools district.", "Residents are zoned to Palmer Park Preparatory Academy, formerly the Barbara Jordan School, for elementary and middle school.", "All residents are zoned to Mumford High School.", "Palmer Park is operated by teachers and not by a principal administrator." ]
History
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[ "The Palmer Park Apartment Building Historic District is a historic district located in Detroit, Michigan." ]
Nacional Monte de Piedad
[ "The main office is located on the northwest corner of the Zocalo on the corner of Monte de Piedad and 5 de Mayo Streets.", "Despite having gone through considerable modifications, it once was part of the estate owned by Hernán Cortés (1485–1547).", "In the area were the \"Old Houses\" of Moctezuma II's father, Axayacatl (1453?-1483).", "At the time of Cortes’ arrival, Moctezuma lived in the \"New Houses\" across what is now the main plaza where the National Palace now stands.", "The dimensions of the original residence was so great, extending as far as modern-day Avenida Madero, Isabel la Católica, Calle Tacuba and Monte de Piedad streets, that chronicler Francisco Cervantes de Salazar once stated that it was not a palace, but rather a city itself.", "Other observers compared the complex to the Cretan labyrinth where the Minotaur was imprisoned.", "The original structure had two floors and a series of smaller buildings that Cortes rented to traders.", "The main building used to house the Royal Tribunal and was the residence of two of the early viceroys of New Spain.", "In 1615, it was divided into lots for sale.", "<br>\nThe tezontle stone façade of the current building dates from 1775, and at the peak above the main door is the coat of arms of the Count of Regla.", "In the main doorway there is the coat of arms of Mexico and a bust of Don Pedro Romero de Terreros.", "The inside of the building has been completely modified except for a few details.", "The third floor was added in 1948.", "What had been Cortés’s accounting room while he was the Marquis of the Valley of Oaxaca, became a chapel and remained so until 1926.", "Since then, it has been a museum, housing painting by José de Páez from 1775, building decorations from the 18th and 19th centuries, cancellation stamps, paper money and certificates from 1880 and the building's original statues.", "This building was extensively remodeled in 1984, with a number of projects.", "The outside walls of the building were cleaned, refurbishing the wood and ironwork of the portals and balconies, then sealing them against the effects of pollution.", "Floors, patios and columns were stripped and polished.", "Protections were placed on each appraiser's window and the art salon was enlarged.", "A fire, due to a short circuit, damaged this building on 17 April 2004.", "It began in the cashiers and appraisers’ rooms where 10 people were working on remodeling project at the time.", "Fire was seen on the ground and first floors of the building; however, no pawned items were damaged.", "The Monte di Pietà movement began in Perugia, Italy, in 1450 with the Orden de Menores Observantes de San Francisco.", "It had the aim of providing financial assistance to people in the form of no-interest loans.", "Instead of interest, borrowers were urged to make donations to the Church.", "It spread first through Italy then in other parts of Europe.", "The first Monte de Piedad organization in Spain was founded in Madrid, and from there the idea was transferred to New Spain by Pedro Romero de Terreros, the Count of Santa María de Regla and Knight of Calatrava.", "Terreros (1710–1781) was born in Spain and arrived to Mexico in 1730, where he founded a number of enterprises including the Real del Monte silver mine in the modern-day state of Hidalgo.", "He founded the Sacro y Real Monte Pío de Animas between 1774 and 1777 with approval of the Spanish king Charles III, authorizing him the use of part of the College of Saints Peter and Paul, where the main office is today.", "Terreros initially funded the project by donating 300,000 pesos of gold.", "As with other Monte de Piedad institutions, Terrenos’s foundation did not charge interest on the loans that it gave and also urged borrowers to make donations to Church institutions, especially the College of Saints Peter and Paul.", "He also urged borrowers to attend church and pray as a way to help them spiritually as well as financially.", "Operations began in 1775 in the College of Saints Peter and Paul and where the current main office is now.", "In 1818, Don Viceroy Apodaca ordered the evacuation of the building due to problems with the Independence movement but this did not happen until 1821, when King Ferdinand VII confiscated Jesuit properties.", "The foundation moved to the Franciscan Convent of Saint Bridget that was on Juárez Avenue and San Juan de Letrán Street (now Eje Central).", "It moved again in 1836 to two houses on Empedradillo Street off a difference section of the Zocalo that were owned by the Duke of Monteleone, a descendant of Hernan Cortés.", "Some time after the College of Saints Peter and Paul moved to what is now the Colegio de San Ildefonso, the Monte de Piedad bought the old college structure and its original home from the Duke of Monteleone in 1836.", "After Independence, the institution was sanctioned by the new government and gained its current name.", "In the beginning of the 19th century, mismanagement, loans forced by the government and political unrest caused serious financial problems for Monte de Piedad.", "However, before the end of the same century, the institution was so financially solvent that it began to issue its own money (called confidential certificates of deposit) worth up to six million pesos in 1881.", "In that same year, it opened its first branches in San Luis Potosí, Oaxaca and Puebla, but these closed within a short time.", "In 1927, by presidential decree, Monte de Piedad was declared legally as an institution of \"Beneficiencia Privada\" (private charity).", "Since its foundation, it has had two unchanged fundamental objectives.", "The first and foremost is with respect to loans to families with emergency needs, giving the most favorable conditions possible and without considering possible financial gain to the institution.", "Its first and primary lending strategy is microloans secured through pawned objects.", "However, because the foundation lost significant money in its early years, the governing board decided in 1782 that it was necessary to charge fixed interest.", "Because they are a charitable organization, they will take items with a value as little as 30 pesos; however, the average loan is about 500 pesos.", "Most of the pawned items are jewelry and watches but the institution will also take a variety of objects such as cars, domestic appliances and even sheets and linens.", "However, it has since added some other financial services such as banking services, begun in 1878 and home equity loans, begun in 1997.", "The second has to do with the money the enterprise does earn.", "In the past decade, the institution has donated money to more than 1,500 charities, with an average total yearly donation of between 400 and 450 million Mexican pesos.", "Charities include Michui Mau, who work with burned children, the Mexican Red Cross, Teleton as well as charities which work with autistic children, children with cancer, people with AIDS, victims of domestic violence, among others.", "In addition to these, the foundation also supports education in the way of scholarships.", "Monte de Piedad has been a primary sponsor of the \"Beca (scholarship) Cholula\" fund, first by funding one yearly 100% scholarship and now it sponsors ten students each year.", "This scholarship is designed for outstanding students from poor communities in Puebla state such as San Andrés Cholula, San Pedro Cholula, Santa Isabel Cholula and San Gregorio Atzompa to attend UDLA, a private university.", "So far it has donated a total of 900,000 pesos to the fund.", "The institution has become so widespread in the country, especially since the year 2000 that it is popularly referred to as \"Tia (Aunt) Piedad\".", "From 1988 to 2000, Monte de Piedad had between 33 and 35 branches in the entire Mexican republic, thirteen of which were in Mexico City.", "By January, 2008, that number had grown to 152 and there are plans to open a branch in every Mexican city.", "Right now the largest regional offices are in Mexico City, Monterrey, Guadalajara and Mérida.", "The foundation expects to extend pawn loans to 750,000 families, or about 905 million pesos in 2008.", "This would represent a 58% increase nationwide from 2007, upping the already 33 million pawned items that Monte de Piedad warehouses every year.", "The institution also expects to reach the 22 million-loan mark in 2008.", "Similar growth and projections have been reported in the various regional offices such as those in Culiacán and Mérida.", "Loans can be for any purpose but Monte de Piedad reports that many are to remodel houses, send children to college or to start a business.", "There has also been a rise in people seeking loans to cover overdrafts of their credit cards.", "However, many loans are for expenses related to back-to-school, vacations periods (esp.", "Holy Week) and January, after the Christmas holidays.", "Back to school loans occur in late August and early September.", "It represents the third busiest season for Monte de Piedad.", "Back to school costs usually include, school supplies, uniforms, shoes, backpacks as well as textbooks and can include specialty costs such as supplies for physics and art classes.", "The busiest season for Monte de Piedad is in January, after the holidays, and second is the period around Holy Week vacations.", "However, during every major holiday and vacation period, people can be seen lining up at Monte de Piedad offices to finance their celebrations before or after the fact.", "Méndez Tapia, spokesman for Monte de Piedad, states that there is not a credit card mentality in Mexico, but pawning has long been part of the financial culture, especially for Mexicans with scarce resources.", "Monte de Piedad's interest rate on pawned items is four percent, with seventeen months to recover pawned items.", "The recovery rate is 96%.", "For-profit pawn shops charge between twelve and twenty-four percent interest per month.", "Despite the high recovery rate, every two weeks, furniture, antiques, jewelry, cars, clothing, domestic appliances and other goods which have not been reclaimed by their owners are sold off at public auction at the main office in the Zócalo in Mexico City.", "In 1945, the Department of Appraisers was created with the role of training appraisers by specialty (jewelry, furniture, works of art, etc.).", "To maintain its reputation financially, Monte de Piedad submits its financial records to the outside scrutiny of Standard & Poor's who regularly gives them a high approval rating.", "The institution has also been certified by AENOR.", "Legally speaking, the foundation works with legal authorities such as the Attorney General of the State of Chihuahua, signing agreements designed to thwart those who try to pawn stolen items.", "However, the institution has had labor issues.", "Retirees and active employees of Monte de Piedad protested in 2007, stating that the institution lied to them stating that they were enrolled in IMSS when they were not.", "Protesters stated that they had not realized the violation for so long because the company provided private health insurance.", "In subsequent legal action, the Junta Federal de Conciliación y Arbitraje (Federal Comisión of Conciliación and Arbitration) ruled against Monte de Piedad in a suit filed by about 350 employees of the firm." ]
Main office
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[ "The Nacional Monte de Piedad is a not-for-profit institution and pawnshop whose main office is located just off the Zócalo, or main plaza of Mexico City." ]
Nacional Monte de Piedad
[ "The main office is located on the northwest corner of the Zocalo on the corner of Monte de Piedad and 5 de Mayo Streets.", "Despite having gone through considerable modifications, it once was part of the estate owned by Hernán Cortés (1485–1547).", "In the area were the \"Old Houses\" of Moctezuma II's father, Axayacatl (1453?-1483).", "At the time of Cortes’ arrival, Moctezuma lived in the \"New Houses\" across what is now the main plaza where the National Palace now stands.", "The dimensions of the original residence was so great, extending as far as modern-day Avenida Madero, Isabel la Católica, Calle Tacuba and Monte de Piedad streets, that chronicler Francisco Cervantes de Salazar once stated that it was not a palace, but rather a city itself.", "Other observers compared the complex to the Cretan labyrinth where the Minotaur was imprisoned.", "The original structure had two floors and a series of smaller buildings that Cortes rented to traders.", "The main building used to house the Royal Tribunal and was the residence of two of the early viceroys of New Spain.", "In 1615, it was divided into lots for sale.", "<br>\nThe tezontle stone façade of the current building dates from 1775, and at the peak above the main door is the coat of arms of the Count of Regla.", "In the main doorway there is the coat of arms of Mexico and a bust of Don Pedro Romero de Terreros.", "The inside of the building has been completely modified except for a few details.", "The third floor was added in 1948.", "What had been Cortés’s accounting room while he was the Marquis of the Valley of Oaxaca, became a chapel and remained so until 1926.", "Since then, it has been a museum, housing painting by José de Páez from 1775, building decorations from the 18th and 19th centuries, cancellation stamps, paper money and certificates from 1880 and the building's original statues.", "This building was extensively remodeled in 1984, with a number of projects.", "The outside walls of the building were cleaned, refurbishing the wood and ironwork of the portals and balconies, then sealing them against the effects of pollution.", "Floors, patios and columns were stripped and polished.", "Protections were placed on each appraiser's window and the art salon was enlarged.", "A fire, due to a short circuit, damaged this building on 17 April 2004.", "It began in the cashiers and appraisers’ rooms where 10 people were working on remodeling project at the time.", "Fire was seen on the ground and first floors of the building; however, no pawned items were damaged.", "The Monte di Pietà movement began in Perugia, Italy, in 1450 with the Orden de Menores Observantes de San Francisco.", "It had the aim of providing financial assistance to people in the form of no-interest loans.", "Instead of interest, borrowers were urged to make donations to the Church.", "It spread first through Italy then in other parts of Europe.", "The first Monte de Piedad organization in Spain was founded in Madrid, and from there the idea was transferred to New Spain by Pedro Romero de Terreros, the Count of Santa María de Regla and Knight of Calatrava.", "Terreros (1710–1781) was born in Spain and arrived to Mexico in 1730, where he founded a number of enterprises including the Real del Monte silver mine in the modern-day state of Hidalgo.", "He founded the Sacro y Real Monte Pío de Animas between 1774 and 1777 with approval of the Spanish king Charles III, authorizing him the use of part of the College of Saints Peter and Paul, where the main office is today.", "Terreros initially funded the project by donating 300,000 pesos of gold.", "As with other Monte de Piedad institutions, Terrenos’s foundation did not charge interest on the loans that it gave and also urged borrowers to make donations to Church institutions, especially the College of Saints Peter and Paul.", "He also urged borrowers to attend church and pray as a way to help them spiritually as well as financially.", "Operations began in 1775 in the College of Saints Peter and Paul and where the current main office is now.", "In 1818, Don Viceroy Apodaca ordered the evacuation of the building due to problems with the Independence movement but this did not happen until 1821, when King Ferdinand VII confiscated Jesuit properties.", "The foundation moved to the Franciscan Convent of Saint Bridget that was on Juárez Avenue and San Juan de Letrán Street (now Eje Central).", "It moved again in 1836 to two houses on Empedradillo Street off a difference section of the Zocalo that were owned by the Duke of Monteleone, a descendant of Hernan Cortés.", "Some time after the College of Saints Peter and Paul moved to what is now the Colegio de San Ildefonso, the Monte de Piedad bought the old college structure and its original home from the Duke of Monteleone in 1836.", "After Independence, the institution was sanctioned by the new government and gained its current name.", "In the beginning of the 19th century, mismanagement, loans forced by the government and political unrest caused serious financial problems for Monte de Piedad.", "However, before the end of the same century, the institution was so financially solvent that it began to issue its own money (called confidential certificates of deposit) worth up to six million pesos in 1881.", "In that same year, it opened its first branches in San Luis Potosí, Oaxaca and Puebla, but these closed within a short time.", "In 1927, by presidential decree, Monte de Piedad was declared legally as an institution of \"Beneficiencia Privada\" (private charity).", "Since its foundation, it has had two unchanged fundamental objectives.", "The first and foremost is with respect to loans to families with emergency needs, giving the most favorable conditions possible and without considering possible financial gain to the institution.", "Its first and primary lending strategy is microloans secured through pawned objects.", "However, because the foundation lost significant money in its early years, the governing board decided in 1782 that it was necessary to charge fixed interest.", "Because they are a charitable organization, they will take items with a value as little as 30 pesos; however, the average loan is about 500 pesos.", "Most of the pawned items are jewelry and watches but the institution will also take a variety of objects such as cars, domestic appliances and even sheets and linens.", "However, it has since added some other financial services such as banking services, begun in 1878 and home equity loans, begun in 1997.", "The second has to do with the money the enterprise does earn.", "In the past decade, the institution has donated money to more than 1,500 charities, with an average total yearly donation of between 400 and 450 million Mexican pesos.", "Charities include Michui Mau, who work with burned children, the Mexican Red Cross, Teleton as well as charities which work with autistic children, children with cancer, people with AIDS, victims of domestic violence, among others.", "In addition to these, the foundation also supports education in the way of scholarships.", "Monte de Piedad has been a primary sponsor of the \"Beca (scholarship) Cholula\" fund, first by funding one yearly 100% scholarship and now it sponsors ten students each year.", "This scholarship is designed for outstanding students from poor communities in Puebla state such as San Andrés Cholula, San Pedro Cholula, Santa Isabel Cholula and San Gregorio Atzompa to attend UDLA, a private university.", "So far it has donated a total of 900,000 pesos to the fund.", "The institution has become so widespread in the country, especially since the year 2000 that it is popularly referred to as \"Tia (Aunt) Piedad\".", "From 1988 to 2000, Monte de Piedad had between 33 and 35 branches in the entire Mexican republic, thirteen of which were in Mexico City.", "By January, 2008, that number had grown to 152 and there are plans to open a branch in every Mexican city.", "Right now the largest regional offices are in Mexico City, Monterrey, Guadalajara and Mérida.", "The foundation expects to extend pawn loans to 750,000 families, or about 905 million pesos in 2008.", "This would represent a 58% increase nationwide from 2007, upping the already 33 million pawned items that Monte de Piedad warehouses every year.", "The institution also expects to reach the 22 million-loan mark in 2008.", "Similar growth and projections have been reported in the various regional offices such as those in Culiacán and Mérida.", "Loans can be for any purpose but Monte de Piedad reports that many are to remodel houses, send children to college or to start a business.", "There has also been a rise in people seeking loans to cover overdrafts of their credit cards.", "However, many loans are for expenses related to back-to-school, vacations periods (esp.", "Holy Week) and January, after the Christmas holidays.", "Back to school loans occur in late August and early September.", "It represents the third busiest season for Monte de Piedad.", "Back to school costs usually include, school supplies, uniforms, shoes, backpacks as well as textbooks and can include specialty costs such as supplies for physics and art classes.", "The busiest season for Monte de Piedad is in January, after the holidays, and second is the period around Holy Week vacations.", "However, during every major holiday and vacation period, people can be seen lining up at Monte de Piedad offices to finance their celebrations before or after the fact.", "Méndez Tapia, spokesman for Monte de Piedad, states that there is not a credit card mentality in Mexico, but pawning has long been part of the financial culture, especially for Mexicans with scarce resources.", "Monte de Piedad's interest rate on pawned items is four percent, with seventeen months to recover pawned items.", "The recovery rate is 96%.", "For-profit pawn shops charge between twelve and twenty-four percent interest per month.", "Despite the high recovery rate, every two weeks, furniture, antiques, jewelry, cars, clothing, domestic appliances and other goods which have not been reclaimed by their owners are sold off at public auction at the main office in the Zócalo in Mexico City.", "In 1945, the Department of Appraisers was created with the role of training appraisers by specialty (jewelry, furniture, works of art, etc.).", "To maintain its reputation financially, Monte de Piedad submits its financial records to the outside scrutiny of Standard & Poor's who regularly gives them a high approval rating.", "The institution has also been certified by AENOR.", "Legally speaking, the foundation works with legal authorities such as the Attorney General of the State of Chihuahua, signing agreements designed to thwart those who try to pawn stolen items.", "However, the institution has had labor issues.", "Retirees and active employees of Monte de Piedad protested in 2007, stating that the institution lied to them stating that they were enrolled in IMSS when they were not.", "Protesters stated that they had not realized the violation for so long because the company provided private health insurance.", "In subsequent legal action, the Junta Federal de Conciliación y Arbitraje (Federal Comisión of Conciliación and Arbitration) ruled against Monte de Piedad in a suit filed by about 350 employees of the firm." ]
The institution
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[ "The Nacional Monte de Piedad is a not-for-profit institution and pawnshop whose main office is located just off the Zócalo, or main plaza of Mexico City.", "It was commanded to be built between 1774 and 1777 by Don Pedro Romero de Terreros, the Count of Regla as part of a movement to provide interest-free or low-interest loans to the poor.", "It was recognized as a national charity in 1927 by the Mexican government.", "In the first decade of the 21st century, it is a fast-growing institution, with over 200 branches all over Mexico and plans to open a branch in every Mexican city." ]
Nacional Monte de Piedad
[ "The main office is located on the northwest corner of the Zocalo on the corner of Monte de Piedad and 5 de Mayo Streets.", "Despite having gone through considerable modifications, it once was part of the estate owned by Hernán Cortés (1485–1547).", "In the area were the \"Old Houses\" of Moctezuma II's father, Axayacatl (1453?-1483).", "At the time of Cortes’ arrival, Moctezuma lived in the \"New Houses\" across what is now the main plaza where the National Palace now stands.", "The dimensions of the original residence was so great, extending as far as modern-day Avenida Madero, Isabel la Católica, Calle Tacuba and Monte de Piedad streets, that chronicler Francisco Cervantes de Salazar once stated that it was not a palace, but rather a city itself.", "Other observers compared the complex to the Cretan labyrinth where the Minotaur was imprisoned.", "The original structure had two floors and a series of smaller buildings that Cortes rented to traders.", "The main building used to house the Royal Tribunal and was the residence of two of the early viceroys of New Spain.", "In 1615, it was divided into lots for sale.", "<br>\nThe tezontle stone façade of the current building dates from 1775, and at the peak above the main door is the coat of arms of the Count of Regla.", "In the main doorway there is the coat of arms of Mexico and a bust of Don Pedro Romero de Terreros.", "The inside of the building has been completely modified except for a few details.", "The third floor was added in 1948.", "What had been Cortés’s accounting room while he was the Marquis of the Valley of Oaxaca, became a chapel and remained so until 1926.", "Since then, it has been a museum, housing painting by José de Páez from 1775, building decorations from the 18th and 19th centuries, cancellation stamps, paper money and certificates from 1880 and the building's original statues.", "This building was extensively remodeled in 1984, with a number of projects.", "The outside walls of the building were cleaned, refurbishing the wood and ironwork of the portals and balconies, then sealing them against the effects of pollution.", "Floors, patios and columns were stripped and polished.", "Protections were placed on each appraiser's window and the art salon was enlarged.", "A fire, due to a short circuit, damaged this building on 17 April 2004.", "It began in the cashiers and appraisers’ rooms where 10 people were working on remodeling project at the time.", "Fire was seen on the ground and first floors of the building; however, no pawned items were damaged.", "The Monte di Pietà movement began in Perugia, Italy, in 1450 with the Orden de Menores Observantes de San Francisco.", "It had the aim of providing financial assistance to people in the form of no-interest loans.", "Instead of interest, borrowers were urged to make donations to the Church.", "It spread first through Italy then in other parts of Europe.", "The first Monte de Piedad organization in Spain was founded in Madrid, and from there the idea was transferred to New Spain by Pedro Romero de Terreros, the Count of Santa María de Regla and Knight of Calatrava.", "Terreros (1710–1781) was born in Spain and arrived to Mexico in 1730, where he founded a number of enterprises including the Real del Monte silver mine in the modern-day state of Hidalgo.", "He founded the Sacro y Real Monte Pío de Animas between 1774 and 1777 with approval of the Spanish king Charles III, authorizing him the use of part of the College of Saints Peter and Paul, where the main office is today.", "Terreros initially funded the project by donating 300,000 pesos of gold.", "As with other Monte de Piedad institutions, Terrenos’s foundation did not charge interest on the loans that it gave and also urged borrowers to make donations to Church institutions, especially the College of Saints Peter and Paul.", "He also urged borrowers to attend church and pray as a way to help them spiritually as well as financially.", "Operations began in 1775 in the College of Saints Peter and Paul and where the current main office is now.", "In 1818, Don Viceroy Apodaca ordered the evacuation of the building due to problems with the Independence movement but this did not happen until 1821, when King Ferdinand VII confiscated Jesuit properties.", "The foundation moved to the Franciscan Convent of Saint Bridget that was on Juárez Avenue and San Juan de Letrán Street (now Eje Central).", "It moved again in 1836 to two houses on Empedradillo Street off a difference section of the Zocalo that were owned by the Duke of Monteleone, a descendant of Hernan Cortés.", "Some time after the College of Saints Peter and Paul moved to what is now the Colegio de San Ildefonso, the Monte de Piedad bought the old college structure and its original home from the Duke of Monteleone in 1836.", "After Independence, the institution was sanctioned by the new government and gained its current name.", "In the beginning of the 19th century, mismanagement, loans forced by the government and political unrest caused serious financial problems for Monte de Piedad.", "However, before the end of the same century, the institution was so financially solvent that it began to issue its own money (called confidential certificates of deposit) worth up to six million pesos in 1881.", "In that same year, it opened its first branches in San Luis Potosí, Oaxaca and Puebla, but these closed within a short time.", "In 1927, by presidential decree, Monte de Piedad was declared legally as an institution of \"Beneficiencia Privada\" (private charity).", "Since its foundation, it has had two unchanged fundamental objectives.", "The first and foremost is with respect to loans to families with emergency needs, giving the most favorable conditions possible and without considering possible financial gain to the institution.", "Its first and primary lending strategy is microloans secured through pawned objects.", "However, because the foundation lost significant money in its early years, the governing board decided in 1782 that it was necessary to charge fixed interest.", "Because they are a charitable organization, they will take items with a value as little as 30 pesos; however, the average loan is about 500 pesos.", "Most of the pawned items are jewelry and watches but the institution will also take a variety of objects such as cars, domestic appliances and even sheets and linens.", "However, it has since added some other financial services such as banking services, begun in 1878 and home equity loans, begun in 1997.", "The second has to do with the money the enterprise does earn.", "In the past decade, the institution has donated money to more than 1,500 charities, with an average total yearly donation of between 400 and 450 million Mexican pesos.", "Charities include Michui Mau, who work with burned children, the Mexican Red Cross, Teleton as well as charities which work with autistic children, children with cancer, people with AIDS, victims of domestic violence, among others.", "In addition to these, the foundation also supports education in the way of scholarships.", "Monte de Piedad has been a primary sponsor of the \"Beca (scholarship) Cholula\" fund, first by funding one yearly 100% scholarship and now it sponsors ten students each year.", "This scholarship is designed for outstanding students from poor communities in Puebla state such as San Andrés Cholula, San Pedro Cholula, Santa Isabel Cholula and San Gregorio Atzompa to attend UDLA, a private university.", "So far it has donated a total of 900,000 pesos to the fund.", "The institution has become so widespread in the country, especially since the year 2000 that it is popularly referred to as \"Tia (Aunt) Piedad\".", "From 1988 to 2000, Monte de Piedad had between 33 and 35 branches in the entire Mexican republic, thirteen of which were in Mexico City.", "By January, 2008, that number had grown to 152 and there are plans to open a branch in every Mexican city.", "Right now the largest regional offices are in Mexico City, Monterrey, Guadalajara and Mérida.", "The foundation expects to extend pawn loans to 750,000 families, or about 905 million pesos in 2008.", "This would represent a 58% increase nationwide from 2007, upping the already 33 million pawned items that Monte de Piedad warehouses every year.", "The institution also expects to reach the 22 million-loan mark in 2008.", "Similar growth and projections have been reported in the various regional offices such as those in Culiacán and Mérida.", "Loans can be for any purpose but Monte de Piedad reports that many are to remodel houses, send children to college or to start a business.", "There has also been a rise in people seeking loans to cover overdrafts of their credit cards.", "However, many loans are for expenses related to back-to-school, vacations periods (esp.", "Holy Week) and January, after the Christmas holidays.", "Back to school loans occur in late August and early September.", "It represents the third busiest season for Monte de Piedad.", "Back to school costs usually include, school supplies, uniforms, shoes, backpacks as well as textbooks and can include specialty costs such as supplies for physics and art classes.", "The busiest season for Monte de Piedad is in January, after the holidays, and second is the period around Holy Week vacations.", "However, during every major holiday and vacation period, people can be seen lining up at Monte de Piedad offices to finance their celebrations before or after the fact.", "Méndez Tapia, spokesman for Monte de Piedad, states that there is not a credit card mentality in Mexico, but pawning has long been part of the financial culture, especially for Mexicans with scarce resources.", "Monte de Piedad's interest rate on pawned items is four percent, with seventeen months to recover pawned items.", "The recovery rate is 96%.", "For-profit pawn shops charge between twelve and twenty-four percent interest per month.", "Despite the high recovery rate, every two weeks, furniture, antiques, jewelry, cars, clothing, domestic appliances and other goods which have not been reclaimed by their owners are sold off at public auction at the main office in the Zócalo in Mexico City.", "In 1945, the Department of Appraisers was created with the role of training appraisers by specialty (jewelry, furniture, works of art, etc.).", "To maintain its reputation financially, Monte de Piedad submits its financial records to the outside scrutiny of Standard & Poor's who regularly gives them a high approval rating.", "The institution has also been certified by AENOR.", "Legally speaking, the foundation works with legal authorities such as the Attorney General of the State of Chihuahua, signing agreements designed to thwart those who try to pawn stolen items.", "However, the institution has had labor issues.", "Retirees and active employees of Monte de Piedad protested in 2007, stating that the institution lied to them stating that they were enrolled in IMSS when they were not.", "Protesters stated that they had not realized the violation for so long because the company provided private health insurance.", "In subsequent legal action, the Junta Federal de Conciliación y Arbitraje (Federal Comisión of Conciliación and Arbitration) ruled against Monte de Piedad in a suit filed by about 350 employees of the firm." ]
The institution ; Origins and history
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[ "It was commanded to be built between 1774 and 1777 by Don Pedro Romero de Terreros, the Count of Regla as part of a movement to provide interest-free or low-interest loans to the poor.", "It was recognized as a national charity in 1927 by the Mexican government." ]
Aaron Schroeder
[ "Born in Brooklyn, Schroeder graduated from the school now known as the Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts in New York City.", "Having become an ASCAP member in 1948, Schroeder had his first success with \"At a Sidewalk Penny Arcade\", one of the songs to introduce Rosemary Clooney as a solo recording artist.", "He proceeded to write more than 1500 songs seeking the varied talent of many collaborators.", "His chart record in the United Kingdom, as a writer, is 27 hits, 3 number ones, 9 top tens and 225 weeks on the chart.", "He wrote seventeen songs for Elvis Presley including five that reached number one:\n\n\n\"It's Now or Never\" as recorded by Presley was selected as number 75 in Billboard Magazine's top 100 songs on their 100th-anniversary \"Greatest Hits Chart\".", "In an interview with Jan-Erik Kjeseth he said that he was in fact present when Elvis recorded the song.", "He was very impressed with Presley's attitude: \"Elvis wanted everything to be right; almost to the point of having tears in his eyes because he—Elvis—felt himself to be struggling to get the result that he envisaged in his head.\"", "Schroeder had more than 500 song recordings to his credit, including major records by dozens of artists such as Roy Orbison, Duane Eddy, Sammy Davis, Jr., Nat King Cole, Perry Como and Pat Boone.", "In the above-mentioned interview Schroeder said that he had in fact also participated in finalizing the hit song \"It's My Party\" (Lesley Gore).", "Together with his regular partner at the time, Wally Gold, he made corrections to an unfinished piece of material that another writer had brought in.", "When the work was done, Gold and Schroeder tossed a coin as to whose name should be listed among the credits.", "Schroeder \"lost\".", "Schroeder made a cameo appearance in the 1957 Warner Bros. rock and roll movie, \"Jamboree\", as a songwriter.", "Schroeder also once appeared on the CBS television game show To Tell The Truth along with two imposters during the show's fifth season.", "In the early 1960s, Schroeder was founder and president of Musicor Records.", "He discovered, managed and directed the career of Gene Pitney and produced \"Town Without Pity\", a nominee for the Academy Award for Best Song of 1961.", "With Hal David and Burt Bacharach he conceived the marriage of the Pitney sound with David and Bacharach's songs, producing a string of record successes including \"(The Man Who Shot) Liberty Valance\", \"Only Love Can Break a Heart\" and \"24 Hours from Tulsa\".", "He and his wife Abby, discovered, guided and developed careers of many other performers and composers through their agency, including Barry White, Randy Newman, Al Kooper, Blood, Sweat & Tears, and Jimi Hendrix.", "Schroeder married record company representative Abby Steinberg on October 31, 1967.", "Abby was the sister of PR Newswire president David Steinberg.", "Aaron Schroeder died on December 2, 2009, in Englewood, New Jersey, aged 83.", "For the last five years, he was a resident of the Lillian Booth Actors' Home of the Actors Fund in Englewood.", "His death came after a long battle with primary progressive aphasia, a rare form of dementia." ]
Early years
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[ "Aaron Harold Schroeder (September 7, 1926 – December 2, 2009) was an American songwriter and music publisher." ]
Benj. Franklin Savings and Loan
[ "Benj.", "Franklin S&L's television commercials featured its President, Bob Hazen, in which he hawked toasters and other free gifts to woo new depositors and to pitch other financial products and services.", "Hazen is credited with inventing the thrift marketing phrase: \"Pay Yourself First.\"\nHazen's father founded the Benj.", "Franklin in 1925.", "Although the name on signs and letterhead was \"Benj.\"", "in promotions and discussions, the full word \"Benjamin\" was always pronounced.", "Between 1982 and 1989 the thrift made a profit in 16 consecutive calendar quarters and became the number one mortgage lender in the Portland metropolitan area.", "It had strong lending positions in other major areas of the Northwest.", "Their named headquarters building was 1 SW Columbia, in Portland, Oregon.", "A 30-story 1980s brick-veneer office building, fronting on the Willamette River near the Hawthorne and Marquam Bridges, the building still stands as the Umpqua Bank Plaza, headquarters of Umpqua Holdings Corporation.", "Hazen was a fan of cast-iron architecture, a technique popular in the 19th century to early 20th century.", "He had collected castings from a great many, as the old buildings were torn down over the years by developers.", "Several of these iron fronts were incorporated into the executive level and board room of the building.", "In 1982 the entire industry was on the verge of bankruptcy, as was the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation and the Federal Savings and Loan Insurance Corporation (FSLIC), the government agencies that insured banks and thrifts to protect the depositors.", "Interest rates on savings deposits were over 15% at a time when the industry was invested in long-term mortgages charging about 8%.", "When regulators seize a bank or a thrift, they find a healthy bank or thrift to \"acquire\" the assets, liabilities and customers of the failing enterprise.", "There are various incentives, including an accounting strategy that values the negative net worth of the failing thrift as a capital asset of \"Goodwill\" to the acquiring thrift.", "These were called \"Supervisory Goodwill Agreements\".", "The acquiring thrift was allowed to show this \"Goodwill\" as an asset for regulatory compliance purposes, depreciating (writing it down) over a long period of years.", "\"Supervisory Goodwill\" was also called \"Blue Sky.\"\nAbsent \"Blue Sky\" most acquiring thrifts would be instantly out of compliance with regulatory capitalization requirements, so it was a necessary component of most forced mergers.", "In 1982, Benj.", "Franklin was asked by the FSLIC to acquire a failing thrift, Equitable Savings and Loan.", "The agreement with the government included a 40-year amortization of over $340 million in \"Supervisory Goodwill\" ($644 million in 2008 dollars).", "Benj.", "Franklin and the government made a similar agreement in 1985 concerning the acquisition of Western Heritage Savings and Loan.", "These agreements had the full approval of the Federal Home Loan Bank Board.", "In the middle of the S&L crisis of the late 1980s; the officers of several thrifts were accused and later convicted of defrauding investors and depositors.", "In 1989 Congress passed FIRREA.", "Critics suggest that FIRREA was a hasty reaction to the frauds and scandals that actually exacerbated the S&L problem, from crisis to a true disaster.", "Among its controversial provisions, FIRREA retroactively revoked agreements for the long-term amortization of goodwill.", "The US Constitution prohibits \"Ex Post Facto\" laws (making something illegal after it has happened).", "In 1996, the US Supreme Court found that this clause applied to the retroactive aspects of FIRREA.", "In late 1989 regulators notified Benj.", "Franklin that the $330 million in \"Supervisory Goodwill Agreement\" phantom capital from the Equitable S&L merger must be removed from the balance sheets under the new FIRREA rules.", "Benj.", "Franklin was informed that unless it came up with a replacement for that $330 million in capital within about 90 days, it would be declared insolvent and seized.", "The managers of Benj.", "Franklin pointed to the contract all had signed, and took the position that the new requirement to raise additional capital was a violation of that contract.", "They took the posture that they were in compliance and had a contract which defined compliance and did not need to come up with $330 million, roughly double the amount then held as capital.", "Regulators declared Benj.", "Franklin insolvent and seized its assets on February 21, 1990 under protest.", "In September 1990, Bank of America acquired the thrift from the government.", "In August 2013, it was announced shareholders would receive $9.5 million, or $1.23 per share, in a disbursement of the company's assets.", "Trial on the issue of how much damages should be awarded started in January 1999, and finished in September 1999.", "Government experts testified that the damages to Benj.", "due to the seizure was zero.", "Experts testified that the value of Benj.", "Franklin at the time of the 1999 trial if it had not been seized would have been $944,000,000." ]
History
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[ "Benj." ]
Benj. Franklin Savings and Loan
[ "Benj.", "Franklin S&L's television commercials featured its President, Bob Hazen, in which he hawked toasters and other free gifts to woo new depositors and to pitch other financial products and services.", "Hazen is credited with inventing the thrift marketing phrase: \"Pay Yourself First.\"\nHazen's father founded the Benj.", "Franklin in 1925.", "Although the name on signs and letterhead was \"Benj.\"", "in promotions and discussions, the full word \"Benjamin\" was always pronounced.", "Between 1982 and 1989 the thrift made a profit in 16 consecutive calendar quarters and became the number one mortgage lender in the Portland metropolitan area.", "It had strong lending positions in other major areas of the Northwest.", "Their named headquarters building was 1 SW Columbia, in Portland, Oregon.", "A 30-story 1980s brick-veneer office building, fronting on the Willamette River near the Hawthorne and Marquam Bridges, the building still stands as the Umpqua Bank Plaza, headquarters of Umpqua Holdings Corporation.", "Hazen was a fan of cast-iron architecture, a technique popular in the 19th century to early 20th century.", "He had collected castings from a great many, as the old buildings were torn down over the years by developers.", "Several of these iron fronts were incorporated into the executive level and board room of the building.", "In 1982 the entire industry was on the verge of bankruptcy, as was the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation and the Federal Savings and Loan Insurance Corporation (FSLIC), the government agencies that insured banks and thrifts to protect the depositors.", "Interest rates on savings deposits were over 15% at a time when the industry was invested in long-term mortgages charging about 8%.", "When regulators seize a bank or a thrift, they find a healthy bank or thrift to \"acquire\" the assets, liabilities and customers of the failing enterprise.", "There are various incentives, including an accounting strategy that values the negative net worth of the failing thrift as a capital asset of \"Goodwill\" to the acquiring thrift.", "These were called \"Supervisory Goodwill Agreements\".", "The acquiring thrift was allowed to show this \"Goodwill\" as an asset for regulatory compliance purposes, depreciating (writing it down) over a long period of years.", "\"Supervisory Goodwill\" was also called \"Blue Sky.\"\nAbsent \"Blue Sky\" most acquiring thrifts would be instantly out of compliance with regulatory capitalization requirements, so it was a necessary component of most forced mergers.", "In 1982, Benj.", "Franklin was asked by the FSLIC to acquire a failing thrift, Equitable Savings and Loan.", "The agreement with the government included a 40-year amortization of over $340 million in \"Supervisory Goodwill\" ($644 million in 2008 dollars).", "Benj.", "Franklin and the government made a similar agreement in 1985 concerning the acquisition of Western Heritage Savings and Loan.", "These agreements had the full approval of the Federal Home Loan Bank Board.", "In the middle of the S&L crisis of the late 1980s; the officers of several thrifts were accused and later convicted of defrauding investors and depositors.", "In 1989 Congress passed FIRREA.", "Critics suggest that FIRREA was a hasty reaction to the frauds and scandals that actually exacerbated the S&L problem, from crisis to a true disaster.", "Among its controversial provisions, FIRREA retroactively revoked agreements for the long-term amortization of goodwill.", "The US Constitution prohibits \"Ex Post Facto\" laws (making something illegal after it has happened).", "In 1996, the US Supreme Court found that this clause applied to the retroactive aspects of FIRREA.", "In late 1989 regulators notified Benj.", "Franklin that the $330 million in \"Supervisory Goodwill Agreement\" phantom capital from the Equitable S&L merger must be removed from the balance sheets under the new FIRREA rules.", "Benj.", "Franklin was informed that unless it came up with a replacement for that $330 million in capital within about 90 days, it would be declared insolvent and seized.", "The managers of Benj.", "Franklin pointed to the contract all had signed, and took the position that the new requirement to raise additional capital was a violation of that contract.", "They took the posture that they were in compliance and had a contract which defined compliance and did not need to come up with $330 million, roughly double the amount then held as capital.", "Regulators declared Benj.", "Franklin insolvent and seized its assets on February 21, 1990 under protest.", "In September 1990, Bank of America acquired the thrift from the government.", "In August 2013, it was announced shareholders would receive $9.5 million, or $1.23 per share, in a disbursement of the company's assets.", "Trial on the issue of how much damages should be awarded started in January 1999, and finished in September 1999.", "Government experts testified that the damages to Benj.", "due to the seizure was zero.", "Experts testified that the value of Benj.", "Franklin at the time of the 1999 trial if it had not been seized would have been $944,000,000." ]
Seizure
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[ "In 2013, $9.5 million was allocated for disbursement to shareholders." ]
Jill Stuart
[ "Stuart was born in New York City in 1965.", "Her parents George and Lynn Stuart worked in Manhattan's Garment District and created the label \"Mister Pants\", which was an early creator of women's tailored trousers and trouser suits in men's fabrics.", "Lynn Stuart also had her own higher end label, and became known for creating outfits for actresses including Lucille Ball, Natalie Wood, and Sheila MacRae.", "Stuart attended Manhattan's Dalton School and later Rhode Island School of Design.", "Stuart sold her first collection to Bloomingdale's by the age of 15 – suede hobo bags and silver and leather chokers.", "She opened her first store in 1988, an Upper East Side boutique focusing on accessories such as belts and handbags.", "By 1990, her stoles, bags and fur accessories could be found in stores such as Neiman Marcus and Bergdorf Goodman.", "Her eponymous label was launched in 1993 and included Skinclothes – a range of leather garments, such as slip dresses, kilts, jeans and jackets.", "Items from her collection appeared in the 1995 movie \"Clueless.\"", "The following year, Stuart's designs were stocked by Bloomingdale's stores in the US.", "From the mid 1990s, Stuart began opening stores in Japan, including branches in Tokyo, Osaka and Kobe, and concessions in some 70 outlets across the country.", "Later the brand was sold in South Korea.", "In 2007, Lindsay Lohan was photographed by Mario Sorrenti as the face of the brand in Japan, becoming the subject of some controversy.", "The brand is reported to have annual sales of around $30 million in the US, plus Asian sales of nearly $100 million.", "Customers include Hilary Swank, Kate Bosworth and Leighton Meester.", "Stuart lives in SoHo, New York.", "Her daughter, Morgan Curtis, established the Morgan Lane brand of sleepwear and lingerie in 2012 after working for Stuart." ]
Early life
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[ "Jill Stuart (born 1965) is an American fashion designer based in New York City, where she has been operating since 1988." ]
Jill Stuart
[ "Stuart was born in New York City in 1965.", "Her parents George and Lynn Stuart worked in Manhattan's Garment District and created the label \"Mister Pants\", which was an early creator of women's tailored trousers and trouser suits in men's fabrics.", "Lynn Stuart also had her own higher end label, and became known for creating outfits for actresses including Lucille Ball, Natalie Wood, and Sheila MacRae.", "Stuart attended Manhattan's Dalton School and later Rhode Island School of Design.", "Stuart sold her first collection to Bloomingdale's by the age of 15 – suede hobo bags and silver and leather chokers.", "She opened her first store in 1988, an Upper East Side boutique focusing on accessories such as belts and handbags.", "By 1990, her stoles, bags and fur accessories could be found in stores such as Neiman Marcus and Bergdorf Goodman.", "Her eponymous label was launched in 1993 and included Skinclothes – a range of leather garments, such as slip dresses, kilts, jeans and jackets.", "Items from her collection appeared in the 1995 movie \"Clueless.\"", "The following year, Stuart's designs were stocked by Bloomingdale's stores in the US.", "From the mid 1990s, Stuart began opening stores in Japan, including branches in Tokyo, Osaka and Kobe, and concessions in some 70 outlets across the country.", "Later the brand was sold in South Korea.", "In 2007, Lindsay Lohan was photographed by Mario Sorrenti as the face of the brand in Japan, becoming the subject of some controversy.", "The brand is reported to have annual sales of around $30 million in the US, plus Asian sales of nearly $100 million.", "Customers include Hilary Swank, Kate Bosworth and Leighton Meester.", "Stuart lives in SoHo, New York.", "Her daughter, Morgan Curtis, established the Morgan Lane brand of sleepwear and lingerie in 2012 after working for Stuart." ]
Career
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[ "She established her eponymous label in 1993." ]
Leningrad Cowboys Meet Moses
[ "Picking up where \"Leningrad Cowboys Go America\" left off, the band has settled in Mexico after charting a top ten hit there.", "However, many band members become alcoholics spending most of their day drinking tequila.", "Before long, more than half of the band members have died from excessive drinking.", "The surviving five members and their road manager Igor (Kari Väänänen) have, in the meantime, become naturalized Mexicans, complete with mustaches and Mexican wardrobes.", "Down on their luck and out of practice, the band receive an anonymous telegram, inviting them to perform at a hotel at Coney Island in New York.", "When they arrive, they reunite with their ex-manager Vladimir (Matti Pellonpää) who claims to be born again and now calls himself Moses.", "Moses gathers the group at his room, and plans a return trip to \"the Promised Land\" (Siberia), for purposes that are explained later.", "While the others head to Europe by boat, Moses stows away on the wing of a plane, taking with him the Statue of Liberty's nose as a souvenir.", "The stolen nose attracts the attention of Johnson, a CIA agent (André Wilms).", "Moses falls off the plane and meets up with the band at a beach.", "Several of their people from Siberia—new band members—arrive in a rented bus to pick them up.", "Because their rubles have no value, Moses goes to secure the band gigs for money throughout the journey eastward.", "Johnson catches up with them at a hotel in Amiens and, posing as a record producer, provides them with money to play for a wedding at the hotel.", "Johnson goes to the bus to find the nose there, but is knocked unconscious by Igor.", "The next day, they learn of his real identity from the CIA logo on his cigarette holder, and take him for the rest of the trip.", "Before they cross the border to Russia, Moses states that, according to The Holy Bible, he never sees the promised land.", "As Vladimir once again, he turns in empty bottles to the customs office as a distraction while the others sneak the bus across the border.", "Everyone is happy to see their return and have a party that evening.", "The film ends with Elijah being left alone with the nose.", "There has not been a soundtrack album released for this film.", "Music credited in the film include:" ]
Plot
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[ "Leningrad Cowboys Meet Moses is a 1994 film directed by Aki Kaurismäki." ]
Who Is Harry Nilsson (And Why Is Everybody Talkin' About Him)?
[ "The film's release had been long-awaited, such that friends of Nilsson began referring to it as \"The Long and Winding Road\".", "The film's producers eschewed the device of including present-day commentary from music critics or historians as a means of establishing Nilsson's legacy.", "Instead, David Leaf and John Scheinfeld interviewed close to three dozen of Nilsson's friends, colleagues and extended family, who all shared their memories of Harry Nilsson, his music, and how it affected them.", "This footage was put together in a documentary that follows Nilsson from childhood to his death in 1994, at the age of 52, recording the highs and lows of his life, from Grammy wins through divorce and substance abuse.", "Among the interviewees are Perry Botkin, Jr., Micky Dolenz, Terry Gilliam, Mark Hudson, Eric Idle, Ray Cooper, Al Kooper, Randy Newman, Yoko Ono, May Pang, Van Dyke Parks, Richard Perry, Jimmy Webb, Paul Williams, Robin Williams, Brian Wilson and The Smothers Brothers.", "Also included are interviews with Nilsson's wives and children.", "Discussing the film in 2011, Scheinfeld agreed that one of the most notable absences was any input from Ringo Starr.", "Explaining the latter's non-appearance, Scheinfeld said that Nilsson was among the three people that Starr finds it difficult to talk about, along with John Lennon and George Harrison.", "Another notable absence in the film is arranger-composer George Tipton, who worked closely with Nilsson on nearly all of his early RCA recordings; they reportedly had an unexplained and permanent falling-out, and Tipton refused to be interviewed for the film.", "Writing in \"Entertainment Weekly\", Stephen King said of the film: \"\"Who Is Harry Nilsson\" is some piece of work, an exploration of the dark side of success that’s hard to watch, and even harder to forget.\"", "The film was nominated for Best Documentary Screenplay from the Writers Guild of America." ]
Production
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[ "Who is Harry Nilsson" ]
Kaj Leo Johannesen
[ "Kaj Leo Johannesen was a member of the City Council of Tórshavn 1997–2000, representing the Faroese Unionist Party (Sambandsflokkurin).", "Kaj Leo Johannesen was a football goalkeeper and received 4 full international caps for the Faroes.", "He made his debut as a half-time substitute in a Euro 1992 qualifying game against eventual winners Denmark in Landskrona, Sweden, which served as Faroes' home ground during their very first international qualifying tournament.", "He played all 90 minutes in his other international matches, including the first ever competitive game, played on the Faroes, on 3 June 1992 at Svangaskarð, Toftir against Belgium in 1994 FIFA World Cup qualification.", "He was unused substitute in 18 FIFA registered international matches in the period between 1989 and 1995.", "Kaj Leo was kept on the bench in most international matches by the \"Bobble Hat\" goalkeeper Jens Martin Knudsen, also in the Euro 1992 qualifying 1–0 victory over Austria in Landskrona, Sweden on 12 September 1990.", "Kaj Leo Johannesen played as first choice goalkeeper for one of the strongest Faroese clubs, HB Tórshavn between 1984 and 1998, and made some comebacks in later years.", "He became champion of the Faroese League in 1988, 1990 and 1998.", "Kaj Leo Johannesen is also a former handball player.", "He played 163 matches for Kyndil and scored 625 goals for the club." ]
Member of the City Council of Tórshavn
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[ "Kaj Leo Holm Johannesen (born 28 August 1964 in Tórshavn) is a Faroese politician.", "He was the prime minister of the Faroe Islands, representing the Faroese Unionist Party (Sambandsflokkurin)." ]
Kaj Leo Johannesen
[ "Kaj Leo Johannesen was a member of the City Council of Tórshavn 1997–2000, representing the Faroese Unionist Party (Sambandsflokkurin).", "Kaj Leo Johannesen was a football goalkeeper and received 4 full international caps for the Faroes.", "He made his debut as a half-time substitute in a Euro 1992 qualifying game against eventual winners Denmark in Landskrona, Sweden, which served as Faroes' home ground during their very first international qualifying tournament.", "He played all 90 minutes in his other international matches, including the first ever competitive game, played on the Faroes, on 3 June 1992 at Svangaskarð, Toftir against Belgium in 1994 FIFA World Cup qualification.", "He was unused substitute in 18 FIFA registered international matches in the period between 1989 and 1995.", "Kaj Leo was kept on the bench in most international matches by the \"Bobble Hat\" goalkeeper Jens Martin Knudsen, also in the Euro 1992 qualifying 1–0 victory over Austria in Landskrona, Sweden on 12 September 1990.", "Kaj Leo Johannesen played as first choice goalkeeper for one of the strongest Faroese clubs, HB Tórshavn between 1984 and 1998, and made some comebacks in later years.", "He became champion of the Faroese League in 1988, 1990 and 1998.", "Kaj Leo Johannesen is also a former handball player.", "He played 163 matches for Kyndil and scored 625 goals for the club." ]
Football career
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[ "Johannesen is also a former international football player; he was goalkeeper for the Faroe Islands national football team.", "At the same election Kaj Leo Johannesen received 603 personal votes." ]
Sweet Adeline (musical)
[ "The musical opened at Hammerstein's Theatre on September 3, 1929 and closed March 22, 1930, after 234 performances.", "Produced by Arthur Hammerstein the show was directed by Reginald Hammerstein (the brother of Oscar Hammerstein II) and was choreographed by Danny Dare.", "The cast on opening night included Charles Butterworth and Helen Morgan.", "The Goodspeed Opera House, East Haddam, Connecticut, produced the musical in May 1977, starring Cynthia Wells.", "In 1985 a concert presentation was given at The Town Hall, New York as part of a Jerome Kern centennial celebration, which featured Judy Kaye and Paula Laurence.\n\"Sweet Adeline\" was produced in 1997 as part of City Center's \"Encores!", "Great American Musicals in Concert\".", "The concert was directed by Eric D. Schaeffer, the choreographer was John DeLuca, adaption by Norman Allen with the scenic consultant John Lee Beatty, apparel coordinator Gregg Barnes, lighting by Howell Binkley and sound by Bruce Cameron.", "The cast starred Dorothy Loudon, Tony Randall, Patti Cohenour, Stephen Bogardus, Gary Beach, Myra Carter, Patrick Breen, Hugh Panaro, and Jacquelyn Piro.\nAct 1", "Act 2", "A film based on the stage musical was released in 1935 by Warner Brothers, directed by Mervyn LeRoy, and starred Irene Dunne as Adeline, Louis Calhern, Noah Berry and Hugh Herbert.", "Opening just before the stock market crash, it received rave reviews, but the elaborate, old-fashioned piece was a step back from the innovations in Kern and Hammerstein's \"Show Boat\" (1927), or even Kern's Princess Theatre shows." ]
Production history
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[ "Sweet Adeline is a musical with music by Jerome Kern, book and lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II and original orchestration by Robert Russell Bennett." ]
Dark Country
[ "Newly weds Dick and Gina decide to head across the Nevada desert for their honeymoon, driving at night to beat the heat.", "Before they head off, a stranger warns Dick to be careful, as couples have been known to get lost, and to stick to the Interstate.", "Shortly afterward, the couple realize they are heading the wrong way and turn off the highway onto another road.", "Dick turns off the car headlights to drive by starlight and Gina masturbates herself to orgasm as they head across the desert.", "Eventually Dick turns the lights back on, immediately swerving to avoid a figure in the middle of the road.", "Investigating, they find a man severely injured from a car accident.", "Unable to get a phone signal, they decide to drive him to a hospital themselves, only for the road to come to a sudden end a few miles ahead.", "During the drive, the couple argue and the injured man awakens with a scream.", "He asks Gina for a cigarette, advises her to leave her husband and becomes increasingly erratic, finally attempting to strangle Dick and almost causing the car to crash.", "Gina stops the car and the two men tumble out, continuing to fight until Dick beats the stranger to death with a rock.", "Dick convinces his wife they need to dispose of the body, and together they bury it in a shallow grave.", "While she fills the hole, Dick finds a revolver in her handbag.", "Soon after, they arrive at a rest area where several cars are parked.", "They tidy themselves up and argue until Dick discovers he lost his watch while they were burying the stranger.", "Refusing to go back, Gina waits at the rest stop with the gun while Dick returns to find his watch.", "Arriving at the site where they hid the body, Dick finds the grave empty.", "Gunshots ring out across the desert and Dick races back to the rest stop to find Gina is missing.", "Nearby, he stumbles onto a woman's grave and realizes that the other cars are rusted and covered with dust.", "In a panic, he flees, almost colliding head-on with a deputy sheriff.", "In the back of the police car, he rides with the deputy to a crime scene, where police are excavating murder victims from a mass grave surrounded by abandoned vehicles.", "The deputy explains that this was where the rest area had been 30 years before.", "Dick recognizes the spot as the location where he buried the stranger.", "As he watches on from the back of the police car, a deputy exhumes Gina's body and finds Dick's watch.", "Dick kicks his way out of the patrol car and escapes in one of the nearby vehicles, leading the squad of police in a chase across the desert.", "Driving with the lights off, he loses them, but a short while later he finds a swarm of insects, losing control and rolling the car.", "Thrown clear of the wreck, he is then almost run down by another car before he passes out.", "Some time later, Dick wakes to find himself in the back of his own car, listening to himself and Gina argue, and realizes that he was the mysterious stranger that he fought with and murdered earlier in the evening, screaming at this.", "The idea for making \"Dark Country\" came after Jane had read the short story by the film's writer Tab Murphy.", "After working for a year on the story, Jane and Murphy brought it to Lionsgate, who purchased the script.", "Upon learning Jane's intention to shoot the film 3D, Lionsgate backed out of the deal and allowed Jane and Murphy to take the script to Sony Pictures, whose home video division were looking for content for their new line of 3D televisions that were soon to be released.", "The inspiration Jane had cited for making the film came from his admiration for the horror films of old and film noir, in addition to \"The Twilight Zone\", \"The Outer Limits\" and old issues of EC Comics comic books.", "Before filming began, Jane, together with his storyboard artist, story boarded every shot, approaching the film like they were doing a live-action graphic novel.", "Wanting to have as many graphic novel elements Jane brought on-board comic artist Tim Bradstreet to work as the visual consultant and production designer in addition to Berni Wrightson, who provided the designs for the character Bloodyface, and Ray Zone as the 3D supervisor.", "Jane chose to do the film in 3D as a way to prove to the filmmaking community that you could create a low-budget film in 3D and have it turn out looking great.", "The 25-day shoot took place in Albuquerque, New Mexico.", "The film was shot in both 3-D high definition and 2-D high-def, with the intention of a limited theatrical run in 3D. The 3D for \"Dark Country\" was done using two Silicon Imaging (SI) HD heads capturing at 2K resolution, the cameras were built by Hector Ortega and Stephen Pizzo of Element Technica, and supervised by Geoff Boyle, Max Penner, Tim Thomas and Paradise FX in California.", "The small size of the cameras allowed for more fluid camera movements compared to the cameras previously used to shoot 3D films.", "For the filming of scenes in 3D, Jane wished for the effect to vary in intensity and be impactful.", "To help in that, Jane devised a color-coded system for his cameraman to know how he wanted the 3D to be visually in any particular scenes.", "\"Dark Country\" was released on DVD on October 6, 2009 in North America by Sony Pictures Home Entertainment and Stage 6 Films.", "On April 1, 2011, French distributor Metropolitan Filmexport released a Blu-ray 3D edition of the film.", "A graphic novel adaptation of \"Dark Country\" by Swiss artist Thomas Ott was released on May 30, 2012, by Raw Studios through comiXology as a digital download.", "Upon its release \"Dark Country\" received mixed reviews, though many reviewers praised Jane's acting and directing style.", "David Ray Carter of Pop Matters said of the film, \"\"Dark Country\" throws its whole body into its final sucker punch only to miss by a mile.", "Jane shows flashes of talent as a director, but he'd be better served with stronger material for his next effort.\"", "Robert Fure of FilmSchoolRejects.com remarked that \"Dark Country is not a perfect film, but it's a much better film in 3D.", "The story isn't groundbreaking and again I'll mention \"The Twilight Zone\", but the acting is top notch from Jane, the style of the film is very much grounded in the comic world, and several scenes are over the top awesome.", "If nothing else, Jane has proven two things: The guy can direct and 3D is awesome.\"", "JimmyO of JoBlo.com gave the film a positive review stating, \"With \"Dark Country\", his directorial debut, he manages to pump a ton of noir-ish atmosphere into what could have been a by the numbers thriller.", "Sure you may figure out the big secret pretty quickly, I did, but \"Dark Country\" is a visually intense thriller that keeps you watching.", "\"\nConversely David Nusair of Reel Film Reviews gave the film 1 out of 4 stars, stating that \"It's clear right from the opening frames that Jane is going for a hyper-stylized throwback to the film noir thrillers of the 1950s, yet, despite his best efforts, the first-time filmmaker is simply unable to transform the two protagonists into figures worthy of the viewer's interest and sympathy.", "Jane's reliance on visuals that are almost astonishingly garish.\"", "And concluding that \"\"Dark Country\"s pervasive lack of compelling elements cements its place as a misfire of impressively epic proportions (and this is to say nothing of the laughably nonsensical twist ending, which would seem like a stretch within a David Lynch film).\"", "Jeff Allard of Shock Till You Drop stated of the films problems \"If the same story were told in less time, it might've worked better.", "This is a half-hour or hour-long anthology episode at best, not a feature.", "Even with a brief 88 minute running time, \"Dark Country\" feels like it's taking excessively long to get to its climax and by the end, what should be an ironic wallop is more of a shoulder shrug.\"", "While ultimately praising the performances of Jane and German, he concluded that \"\"Dark Country\" is a noble effort that takes too many wrong turns and ends up getting lost.", "For fans that find themselves jonesing for a \"Twilight Zone\"-esque tale or some noir atmosphere, however, your mileage may vary.", "\"" ]
Release
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[ "Dark Country is a 2009 American mystery thriller film directed by and starring Thomas Jane in his directorial debut." ]
Dark Country
[ "Newly weds Dick and Gina decide to head across the Nevada desert for their honeymoon, driving at night to beat the heat.", "Before they head off, a stranger warns Dick to be careful, as couples have been known to get lost, and to stick to the Interstate.", "Shortly afterward, the couple realize they are heading the wrong way and turn off the highway onto another road.", "Dick turns off the car headlights to drive by starlight and Gina masturbates herself to orgasm as they head across the desert.", "Eventually Dick turns the lights back on, immediately swerving to avoid a figure in the middle of the road.", "Investigating, they find a man severely injured from a car accident.", "Unable to get a phone signal, they decide to drive him to a hospital themselves, only for the road to come to a sudden end a few miles ahead.", "During the drive, the couple argue and the injured man awakens with a scream.", "He asks Gina for a cigarette, advises her to leave her husband and becomes increasingly erratic, finally attempting to strangle Dick and almost causing the car to crash.", "Gina stops the car and the two men tumble out, continuing to fight until Dick beats the stranger to death with a rock.", "Dick convinces his wife they need to dispose of the body, and together they bury it in a shallow grave.", "While she fills the hole, Dick finds a revolver in her handbag.", "Soon after, they arrive at a rest area where several cars are parked.", "They tidy themselves up and argue until Dick discovers he lost his watch while they were burying the stranger.", "Refusing to go back, Gina waits at the rest stop with the gun while Dick returns to find his watch.", "Arriving at the site where they hid the body, Dick finds the grave empty.", "Gunshots ring out across the desert and Dick races back to the rest stop to find Gina is missing.", "Nearby, he stumbles onto a woman's grave and realizes that the other cars are rusted and covered with dust.", "In a panic, he flees, almost colliding head-on with a deputy sheriff.", "In the back of the police car, he rides with the deputy to a crime scene, where police are excavating murder victims from a mass grave surrounded by abandoned vehicles.", "The deputy explains that this was where the rest area had been 30 years before.", "Dick recognizes the spot as the location where he buried the stranger.", "As he watches on from the back of the police car, a deputy exhumes Gina's body and finds Dick's watch.", "Dick kicks his way out of the patrol car and escapes in one of the nearby vehicles, leading the squad of police in a chase across the desert.", "Driving with the lights off, he loses them, but a short while later he finds a swarm of insects, losing control and rolling the car.", "Thrown clear of the wreck, he is then almost run down by another car before he passes out.", "Some time later, Dick wakes to find himself in the back of his own car, listening to himself and Gina argue, and realizes that he was the mysterious stranger that he fought with and murdered earlier in the evening, screaming at this.", "The idea for making \"Dark Country\" came after Jane had read the short story by the film's writer Tab Murphy.", "After working for a year on the story, Jane and Murphy brought it to Lionsgate, who purchased the script.", "Upon learning Jane's intention to shoot the film 3D, Lionsgate backed out of the deal and allowed Jane and Murphy to take the script to Sony Pictures, whose home video division were looking for content for their new line of 3D televisions that were soon to be released.", "The inspiration Jane had cited for making the film came from his admiration for the horror films of old and film noir, in addition to \"The Twilight Zone\", \"The Outer Limits\" and old issues of EC Comics comic books.", "Before filming began, Jane, together with his storyboard artist, story boarded every shot, approaching the film like they were doing a live-action graphic novel.", "Wanting to have as many graphic novel elements Jane brought on-board comic artist Tim Bradstreet to work as the visual consultant and production designer in addition to Berni Wrightson, who provided the designs for the character Bloodyface, and Ray Zone as the 3D supervisor.", "Jane chose to do the film in 3D as a way to prove to the filmmaking community that you could create a low-budget film in 3D and have it turn out looking great.", "The 25-day shoot took place in Albuquerque, New Mexico.", "The film was shot in both 3-D high definition and 2-D high-def, with the intention of a limited theatrical run in 3D. The 3D for \"Dark Country\" was done using two Silicon Imaging (SI) HD heads capturing at 2K resolution, the cameras were built by Hector Ortega and Stephen Pizzo of Element Technica, and supervised by Geoff Boyle, Max Penner, Tim Thomas and Paradise FX in California.", "The small size of the cameras allowed for more fluid camera movements compared to the cameras previously used to shoot 3D films.", "For the filming of scenes in 3D, Jane wished for the effect to vary in intensity and be impactful.", "To help in that, Jane devised a color-coded system for his cameraman to know how he wanted the 3D to be visually in any particular scenes.", "\"Dark Country\" was released on DVD on October 6, 2009 in North America by Sony Pictures Home Entertainment and Stage 6 Films.", "On April 1, 2011, French distributor Metropolitan Filmexport released a Blu-ray 3D edition of the film.", "A graphic novel adaptation of \"Dark Country\" by Swiss artist Thomas Ott was released on May 30, 2012, by Raw Studios through comiXology as a digital download.", "Upon its release \"Dark Country\" received mixed reviews, though many reviewers praised Jane's acting and directing style.", "David Ray Carter of Pop Matters said of the film, \"\"Dark Country\" throws its whole body into its final sucker punch only to miss by a mile.", "Jane shows flashes of talent as a director, but he'd be better served with stronger material for his next effort.\"", "Robert Fure of FilmSchoolRejects.com remarked that \"Dark Country is not a perfect film, but it's a much better film in 3D.", "The story isn't groundbreaking and again I'll mention \"The Twilight Zone\", but the acting is top notch from Jane, the style of the film is very much grounded in the comic world, and several scenes are over the top awesome.", "If nothing else, Jane has proven two things: The guy can direct and 3D is awesome.\"", "JimmyO of JoBlo.com gave the film a positive review stating, \"With \"Dark Country\", his directorial debut, he manages to pump a ton of noir-ish atmosphere into what could have been a by the numbers thriller.", "Sure you may figure out the big secret pretty quickly, I did, but \"Dark Country\" is a visually intense thriller that keeps you watching.", "\"\nConversely David Nusair of Reel Film Reviews gave the film 1 out of 4 stars, stating that \"It's clear right from the opening frames that Jane is going for a hyper-stylized throwback to the film noir thrillers of the 1950s, yet, despite his best efforts, the first-time filmmaker is simply unable to transform the two protagonists into figures worthy of the viewer's interest and sympathy.", "Jane's reliance on visuals that are almost astonishingly garish.\"", "And concluding that \"\"Dark Country\"s pervasive lack of compelling elements cements its place as a misfire of impressively epic proportions (and this is to say nothing of the laughably nonsensical twist ending, which would seem like a stretch within a David Lynch film).\"", "Jeff Allard of Shock Till You Drop stated of the films problems \"If the same story were told in less time, it might've worked better.", "This is a half-hour or hour-long anthology episode at best, not a feature.", "Even with a brief 88 minute running time, \"Dark Country\" feels like it's taking excessively long to get to its climax and by the end, what should be an ironic wallop is more of a shoulder shrug.\"", "While ultimately praising the performances of Jane and German, he concluded that \"\"Dark Country\" is a noble effort that takes too many wrong turns and ends up getting lost.", "For fans that find themselves jonesing for a \"Twilight Zone\"-esque tale or some noir atmosphere, however, your mileage may vary.", "\"" ]
Release ; Critical reception
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[ "Dark Country is a 2009 American mystery thriller film directed by and starring Thomas Jane in his directorial debut." ]
David Leonhardt
[ "Leonhardt was born in Manhattan, the son of Joan (née Alexander) and Robert Leonhardt.", "His father was Jewish and his mother was Protestant.", "His father was the head of the French-American School of New York.", "Leonhardt graduated from Horace Mann School in Riverdale, New York, in 1990, and then continued his studies at Yale University, graduating in 1994 with a Bachelor of Science degree in applied mathematics.", "At Yale, Leonhardt served as editor-in-chief of the \"Yale Daily News\".", "In 1998, he won a Peter Lisagor Award for Exemplary Journalism in the Business Journalism category from the Chicago Headline Club for a \"Business Week\" story he wrote about problems at McDonald's.", "Leonhardt has been writing about economics for the \"Times\" since 2000.", "In 2004, he founded an analytical sports column, \"Keeping Score,\" which ran on Sundays.", "He was one of the writers who produced the paper's 2005 series on social class in the United States.", "His economics column, \"Economic Scene,\" appeared on Wednesdays from 2006 until 2011.", "In 2003, he was part of a team of \"Times\" reporters whose coverage of corporate scandals was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize.", "He won the Gerald Loeb Award for magazine writing in 2009 for a \"New York Times Magazine\" article, \"Obamanomics.\"", "He was a winner of the Society of American Business Editors and Writers \"Best in Business Journalism Contest\" for his \"The New York Times\" column in 2009 and 2007.", "In 2010, he was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Commentary for his economic columns.", "In 2011 he won the Pulitzer Prize for Commentary.", "On July 22, 2011, Leonhardt was appointed as chief of the Washington bureau of the \"Times.\"", "He began that editorial role on September 6, 2011.", "After this announcement, he published what he referred to as his final Economic Scene column, \"Lessons from the Malaise,\" on July 26, 2011.", "However, after he began his editing assignment, Leonhardt continued to publish analyses of economic news.", "On November 20, 2013, it was announced that Leonhardt would step down as Washington Bureau Chief to become Managing Editor of a new \"Times\" \"venture,\" later given the name \"The Upshot,\" \"which will be at the nexus of data and news and will produce clear analytical reporting and writing on opinion polls, economic indicators, politics, policy, education, and sports\".", "The Upshot was created to fill the void of Nate Silver's departure from \"The New York Times\".", "In early 2016, it was announced that Leonhardt would be the head of an internal strategy group at the \"Times\".", "In announcing the group, Dean Baquet, Executive Editor of the \"Times\", wrote, \"We need to develop a strategic plan for what The New York Times should be, and determine how to apply our timeless values to a new age.\"", "On January 17, 2017, Baquet released a report from the 2020 group with its recommendations.", "\"The members of the 2020 group have emerged from this process both optimistic and anxious.", "We are optimistic, deeply so, because The Times is better positioned than any other media organization to deliver the coverage that millions of people are seeking,\" the report read.", "\"But we must not fall prey to wishful thinking and believe that such an outcome is inevitable.", "It is not.", "We also face real challenges — journalism challenges and business challenges.", "\"", "In February 2013, \"The New York Times\" and Byliner published a 15,000-word book by Leonhardt on the federal budget deficit and the importance of economic growth, titled \"Here's the Deal: How Washington Can Solve The Deficit and Spur Growth\".", "The book is part of a new series of short e-books from the newspaper and Byliner.", "Matthew Yglesias, of \"Slate,\" wrote in a review of \"Here's the Deal\": \"if you're not a member of Congress and just want to understand the budgetary landscape on the merits, this is a great place to start\".", "Ezra Klein, of \"The Washington Post\", called the book \"one of the calmest, clearest looks you'll find at the deficit — both what it is and how to fix it.", "\"\nHe was interviewed on \"The Colbert Report\" on January 6, 2009, about the gold standard.", "He was interviewed again on \"The Colbert Report\" on February 14, 2013, to speak about his new e-book." ]
Career
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[ "He also contributes to the paper's Sunday Review section.", "His column previously appeared weekly in \"The New York Times\".", "Leonhardt was previously the head of an internal strategy group, known as the 2020 group, that made recommendations to \"Times\" executives in January 2017 about changing the newsroom and the news report in response to the rise of digital media.", "Prior to that, he was the managing editor of The Upshot, a then-new \"Times\" venture focusing on politics, policy, and economics, with an emphasis on data and graphics.", "Before The Upshot, he was the paper's Washington bureau chief and an economics columnist.", "He joined the \"Times\" in 1999 and wrote the \"Economics Scene\" column, and for the \"Times Sunday Magazine.\"", "He is the author of a short e-book published by the \"Times\" in February 2013: \"Here's the Deal: How Washington Can Solve the Deficit and Spur Growth\".", "Before coming to the \"Times,\" he wrote for \"Business Week\" and \"The Washington Post\".", "In April 2011 he was awarded a Pulitzer Prize for Commentary \"for his graceful penetration of America's complicated economic questions, from the federal budget deficit to health care reform\"." ]
David Leonhardt
[ "Leonhardt was born in Manhattan, the son of Joan (née Alexander) and Robert Leonhardt.", "His father was Jewish and his mother was Protestant.", "His father was the head of the French-American School of New York.", "Leonhardt graduated from Horace Mann School in Riverdale, New York, in 1990, and then continued his studies at Yale University, graduating in 1994 with a Bachelor of Science degree in applied mathematics.", "At Yale, Leonhardt served as editor-in-chief of the \"Yale Daily News\".", "In 1998, he won a Peter Lisagor Award for Exemplary Journalism in the Business Journalism category from the Chicago Headline Club for a \"Business Week\" story he wrote about problems at McDonald's.", "Leonhardt has been writing about economics for the \"Times\" since 2000.", "In 2004, he founded an analytical sports column, \"Keeping Score,\" which ran on Sundays.", "He was one of the writers who produced the paper's 2005 series on social class in the United States.", "His economics column, \"Economic Scene,\" appeared on Wednesdays from 2006 until 2011.", "In 2003, he was part of a team of \"Times\" reporters whose coverage of corporate scandals was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize.", "He won the Gerald Loeb Award for magazine writing in 2009 for a \"New York Times Magazine\" article, \"Obamanomics.\"", "He was a winner of the Society of American Business Editors and Writers \"Best in Business Journalism Contest\" for his \"The New York Times\" column in 2009 and 2007.", "In 2010, he was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Commentary for his economic columns.", "In 2011 he won the Pulitzer Prize for Commentary.", "On July 22, 2011, Leonhardt was appointed as chief of the Washington bureau of the \"Times.\"", "He began that editorial role on September 6, 2011.", "After this announcement, he published what he referred to as his final Economic Scene column, \"Lessons from the Malaise,\" on July 26, 2011.", "However, after he began his editing assignment, Leonhardt continued to publish analyses of economic news.", "On November 20, 2013, it was announced that Leonhardt would step down as Washington Bureau Chief to become Managing Editor of a new \"Times\" \"venture,\" later given the name \"The Upshot,\" \"which will be at the nexus of data and news and will produce clear analytical reporting and writing on opinion polls, economic indicators, politics, policy, education, and sports\".", "The Upshot was created to fill the void of Nate Silver's departure from \"The New York Times\".", "In early 2016, it was announced that Leonhardt would be the head of an internal strategy group at the \"Times\".", "In announcing the group, Dean Baquet, Executive Editor of the \"Times\", wrote, \"We need to develop a strategic plan for what The New York Times should be, and determine how to apply our timeless values to a new age.\"", "On January 17, 2017, Baquet released a report from the 2020 group with its recommendations.", "\"The members of the 2020 group have emerged from this process both optimistic and anxious.", "We are optimistic, deeply so, because The Times is better positioned than any other media organization to deliver the coverage that millions of people are seeking,\" the report read.", "\"But we must not fall prey to wishful thinking and believe that such an outcome is inevitable.", "It is not.", "We also face real challenges — journalism challenges and business challenges.", "\"", "In February 2013, \"The New York Times\" and Byliner published a 15,000-word book by Leonhardt on the federal budget deficit and the importance of economic growth, titled \"Here's the Deal: How Washington Can Solve The Deficit and Spur Growth\".", "The book is part of a new series of short e-books from the newspaper and Byliner.", "Matthew Yglesias, of \"Slate,\" wrote in a review of \"Here's the Deal\": \"if you're not a member of Congress and just want to understand the budgetary landscape on the merits, this is a great place to start\".", "Ezra Klein, of \"The Washington Post\", called the book \"one of the calmest, clearest looks you'll find at the deficit — both what it is and how to fix it.", "\"\nHe was interviewed on \"The Colbert Report\" on January 6, 2009, about the gold standard.", "He was interviewed again on \"The Colbert Report\" on February 14, 2013, to speak about his new e-book." ]
Career ; Book and interviews
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[ "He is the author of a short e-book published by the \"Times\" in February 2013: \"Here's the Deal: How Washington Can Solve the Deficit and Spur Growth\"." ]
Linear inequality
[ "Two-dimensional linear inequalities are expressions in two variables of the form:\nformula_1\nwhere the inequalities may either be strict or not.", "The solution set of such an inequality can be graphically represented by a half-plane (all the points on one \"side\" of a fixed line) in the Euclidean plane.", "The line that determines the half-planes (\"ax\" + \"by\" = \"c\") is not included in the solution set when the inequality is strict.", "A simple procedure to determine which half-plane is in the solution set is to calculate the value of \"ax\" + \"by\" at a point (\"x\"0, \"y\"0) which is not on the line and observe whether or not the inequality is satisfied.", "For example, to draw the solution set of \"x\" + 3\"y\" < 9, one first draws the line with equation \"x\" + 3\"y\" = 9 as a dotted line, to indicate that the line is not included in the solution set since the inequality is strict.", "Then, pick a convenient point not on the line, such as (0,0).", "Since 0 + 3(0) = 0 < 9, this point is in the solution set, so the half-plane containing this point (the half-plane \"below\" the line) is the solution set of this linear inequality.", "In Rn linear inequalities are the expressions that may be written in the form\nformula_2 or formula_3 \nwhere \"f\" is a linear form (also called a \"linear functional\"), formula_4 and \"b\" a constant real number.", "More concretely, this may be written out as\nformula_5\nor\nformula_6\nHere formula_7 are called the unknowns, and formula_8 are called the coefficients.", "Alternatively, these may be written as\nformula_9 or formula_10 \nwhere \"g\" is an affine function.", "That is\n formula_11\nor\n formula_12\nNote that any inequality containing a \"greater than\" or a \"greater than or equal\" sign can be rewritten with a \"less than\" or \"less than or equal\" sign, so there is no need to define linear inequalities using those signs.", "A system of linear inequalities is a set of linear inequalities in the same variables:\nformula_13\nHere formula_14 are the unknowns, formula_15 are the coefficients of the system, and formula_16 are the constant terms.", "This can be concisely written as the matrix inequality\nformula_17\nwhere \"A\" is an \"m\"×\"n\" matrix, \"x\" is an \"n\"×1 column vector of variables, and \"b\" is an \"m\"×1 column vector of constants.", "In the above systems both strict and non-strict inequalities may be used.", "Variables can be eliminated from systems of linear inequalities using Fourier–Motzkin elimination.", "The set of solutions of a real linear inequality constitutes a half-space of the 'n'-dimensional real space, one of the two defined by the corresponding linear equation.", "The set of solutions of a system of linear inequalities corresponds to the intersection of the half-spaces defined by individual inequalities.", "It is a convex set, since the half-spaces are convex sets, and the intersection of a set of convex sets is also convex.", "In the non-degenerate cases this convex set is a convex polyhedron (possibly unbounded, e.g., a half-space, a slab between two parallel half-spaces or a polyhedral cone).", "It may also be empty or a convex polyhedron of lower dimension confined to an affine subspace of the \"n\"-dimensional space R\"n\".", "A linear programming problem seeks to optimize (find a maximum or minimum value) a function (called the objective function) subject to a number of constraints on the variables which, in general, are linear inequalities.", "The list of constraints is a system of linear inequalities.", "The above definition requires well-defined operations of addition, multiplication and comparison; therefore, the notion of a linear inequality may be extended to ordered rings, and in particular to ordered fields." ]
Linear inequalities of real numbers
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[ "In mathematics a linear inequality is an inequality which involves a linear function.", "A linear inequality contains one of the symbols of inequality:.", "* < less than\n* > greater than\n* ≤ less than or equal to\n* ≥ greater than or equal to\n* ≠ not equal to\n* = equal to \nA linear inequality looks exactly like a linear equation, with the inequality sign replacing the equality sign." ]
Linear inequality
[ "Two-dimensional linear inequalities are expressions in two variables of the form:\nformula_1\nwhere the inequalities may either be strict or not.", "The solution set of such an inequality can be graphically represented by a half-plane (all the points on one \"side\" of a fixed line) in the Euclidean plane.", "The line that determines the half-planes (\"ax\" + \"by\" = \"c\") is not included in the solution set when the inequality is strict.", "A simple procedure to determine which half-plane is in the solution set is to calculate the value of \"ax\" + \"by\" at a point (\"x\"0, \"y\"0) which is not on the line and observe whether or not the inequality is satisfied.", "For example, to draw the solution set of \"x\" + 3\"y\" < 9, one first draws the line with equation \"x\" + 3\"y\" = 9 as a dotted line, to indicate that the line is not included in the solution set since the inequality is strict.", "Then, pick a convenient point not on the line, such as (0,0).", "Since 0 + 3(0) = 0 < 9, this point is in the solution set, so the half-plane containing this point (the half-plane \"below\" the line) is the solution set of this linear inequality.", "In Rn linear inequalities are the expressions that may be written in the form\nformula_2 or formula_3 \nwhere \"f\" is a linear form (also called a \"linear functional\"), formula_4 and \"b\" a constant real number.", "More concretely, this may be written out as\nformula_5\nor\nformula_6\nHere formula_7 are called the unknowns, and formula_8 are called the coefficients.", "Alternatively, these may be written as\nformula_9 or formula_10 \nwhere \"g\" is an affine function.", "That is\n formula_11\nor\n formula_12\nNote that any inequality containing a \"greater than\" or a \"greater than or equal\" sign can be rewritten with a \"less than\" or \"less than or equal\" sign, so there is no need to define linear inequalities using those signs.", "A system of linear inequalities is a set of linear inequalities in the same variables:\nformula_13\nHere formula_14 are the unknowns, formula_15 are the coefficients of the system, and formula_16 are the constant terms.", "This can be concisely written as the matrix inequality\nformula_17\nwhere \"A\" is an \"m\"×\"n\" matrix, \"x\" is an \"n\"×1 column vector of variables, and \"b\" is an \"m\"×1 column vector of constants.", "In the above systems both strict and non-strict inequalities may be used.", "Variables can be eliminated from systems of linear inequalities using Fourier–Motzkin elimination.", "The set of solutions of a real linear inequality constitutes a half-space of the 'n'-dimensional real space, one of the two defined by the corresponding linear equation.", "The set of solutions of a system of linear inequalities corresponds to the intersection of the half-spaces defined by individual inequalities.", "It is a convex set, since the half-spaces are convex sets, and the intersection of a set of convex sets is also convex.", "In the non-degenerate cases this convex set is a convex polyhedron (possibly unbounded, e.g., a half-space, a slab between two parallel half-spaces or a polyhedral cone).", "It may also be empty or a convex polyhedron of lower dimension confined to an affine subspace of the \"n\"-dimensional space R\"n\".", "A linear programming problem seeks to optimize (find a maximum or minimum value) a function (called the objective function) subject to a number of constraints on the variables which, in general, are linear inequalities.", "The list of constraints is a system of linear inequalities.", "The above definition requires well-defined operations of addition, multiplication and comparison; therefore, the notion of a linear inequality may be extended to ordered rings, and in particular to ordered fields." ]
Linear inequalities of real numbers ; Linear inequalities in general dimensions
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[ "In mathematics a linear inequality is an inequality which involves a linear function.", "A linear inequality contains one of the symbols of inequality:.", "* < less than\n* > greater than\n* ≤ less than or equal to\n* ≥ greater than or equal to\n* ≠ not equal to\n* = equal to \nA linear inequality looks exactly like a linear equation, with the inequality sign replacing the equality sign." ]
Irwin the Disco Duck
[ "Inspired by the novelty song \"Disco Duck\", Peter Pan put out a series of children's records starting in 1976 that were compilations of popular songs of the time.", "The fictional \"host\" of the albums was Irwin the Disco Duck, whose name would be altered to Irwin the Dynamic Duck when disco fell out of fashion.", "None of the songs were by the original artists; according to the album cover, they were being performed by \"The Wibble Wobble Singers and Orchestra.\"", "Some of the songs featured Irwin singing, but more often he functioned as the album's disc jockey, introducing the songs.", "While numerous voice actors played Irwin throughout this series, the most notable is Don Messick of Hanna-Barbera TV cartoon fame, the original voice of Scooby-Doo and other such characters as Papa Smurf, Boo-Boo, Astro (of The Jetsons), Dr. Benton Quest and Bamm-Bamm.", "His Irwin voice was similar to many Hanna-Barbera and Rankin/Bass characters, including Pixie, Scrappy-Doo and Snip (in Jack Frost).", "Irwin's hair, wardrobe and DJ persona are all reflections of American radio personality Rick Dees, who wrote and recorded the \"Disco Duck\" song on which this series was based." ]
History
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[ "Irwin the Disco Duck, a.k.a.", "Irwin the Dynamic Duck, is a fictional character who was featured on a series of children's records from Peter Pan Records.", "The character was created by artist George Peed in 1976." ]
Cairn University
[ "On July 8, 1913, W. W. Rugh founded the Bible Institute of Philadelphia as an extension of the National Bible Institute of New York.", "After teaching public school in his earlier days, Rugh spent several years walking a circuit to teach Bible classes throughout eastern Pennsylvania and New Jersey.", "This led him to establish an institution where the Scriptures could be taught on a daily basis.", "Around the same time, C. I. Scofield and William L. Pettingill, leading Bible teachers of their day, were holding a large conference in the Philadelphia area.", "Encouraged by numerous requests to establish a permanent school to continue teaching, the two men co-founded Philadelphia School of the Bible on October 1, 1914.", "Scofield, known internationally for his Bible teaching and his work on the Scofield Reference Bible, became the first president of PSOB and Pettingill was the first dean.", "On October 8, 1921, Rugh's school became independent of the New York school and changed its name to Bible Institute of Pennsylvania (BIOPA).", "Both BIOPA and PSOB focused on training lay people in the Scriptures for service in the church and their communities.", "No degrees were conferred.", "In 1951, the two schools merged to become Philadelphia Bible Institute (PBI), located at the YWCA Building at 1800 Arch St.", "At the time of the merger, William A. Mierop from BIOPA was appointed president and Clarence E. Mason, Jr. from PSOB, academic dean.", "PBI offered a three-year Bible diploma.", "By 1958, the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania granted the institute approval to offer a four-year program leading to the Bachelor of Science in Bible degree, and then changed its name to \"Philadelphia College of Bible\".", "In 1967, the school received regional accreditation from the Middle States Association, becoming one of the first Bible colleges accredited by MSA.", "During the 1970s, PCB continued to develop its academic offerings and was authorized to grant two additional degrees, the Bachelor of Music and the Bachelor of Social Work.", "Students were required to take 55 credit hours of Bible, doctrine, and \"Bible college distinctive\" courses.", "Since the merger, the school has had five presidents: William A. Mierop, from 1951 to 1956; Charles C. Ryrie, from 1958 to 1962; Douglas B. MacCorkle, from 1963 to 1977; and W. Sherrill Babb, from 1979 to 2007; Todd J. Williams became the university's fifth president January 1, 2008.", "W. Sherrill Babb's appointment as president coincided with a relocation from Center City, Philadelphia to a new campus in Langhorne Manor.", "Under his leadership, in 2000, the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania granted the college approval to become a university and the institution changed its name to \"Philadelphia Biblical University\".", "During Dr. Babb's presidency, the number of degrees offered increased from three to eleven; six Graduate programs were implemented; four extension campuses established; and student enrollment, faculty, and facility space more than doubled.", "In 2007, a new core curriculum was introduced.", "It included changes to the educational approach of the institution.", "In the new core curriculum, students earned 36 credits of specified Bible and theology requirements in combination with a comprehensive arts and sciences and professional curriculum.", "On January 1, 2008, former President W. Sherrill Babb became the university's first chancellor and former provost Dr. Todd J. Williams was elevated as the university's fifth president.", "Under the leadership of Dr. Williams, the university has continued to expand its academic offerings.", "A Master of Business Administration degree was approved by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in 2010 and professional minors in Education, Music, Social Work, and Business were added in 2011.", "There has also been significant growth in co-curricular programs like the Arts Initiative, which is focused on strengthening the University's involvement with the fine arts, and the Center for University Studies.", "In October 2011, as part of an effort to reduce the time and costs required for undergraduates to finish their studies, the board of trustees voted to allow students the option to pursue a B.S. in Bible degree, a professional degree (B.S. in Business Administration, B.S. in Education, Bachelor of Social Work, Bachelor of Music), or both Bible and professional degrees concurrently.", "Prior to this decision, all undergraduate students were required to earn a B.S. in Bible.", "Students who wanted to earn a second professional degree in an area other than Bible or ministry had to earn over 150 credit hours, which often took four and a half or five years to complete.", "The October 2011 board decision also reduced the minimum of 36 credits in Bible and Theology in the core curriculum to 30 credits.", "On Wednesday April 18, 2012, Dr. Williams announced to the student body during chapel that he and the Board of Trustees were considering changing the name of the school to Cairn University.", "The name, it was explained, adopts the concept of memorials and trail markers, \"Bearing witness [to God's faithfulness] and pointing the way.\"", "The announcement and the proposed new name garnered mixed responses from alumni, students, faculty, and the public.", "By June 8, 2012, the university had filed official document(s) with the Department of Education of the State of Pennsylvania to change its name to Cairn University (see Cairn).", "The request was approved one month later, and on July 16, 2012, the school went public as Cairn University.", "Cairn University student-athletes compete in twelve sports as the Highlanders.", "Formerly the \"Crimson Eagles,\" students, faculty, and staff voted to change the mascot in conjunction with the 2012 university name change.", "The athletic program is affiliated with the Colonial States Athletic Conference (CSAC), the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) and the National Christian College Athletic Association (NCCAA).", "Men's sports include baseball, basketball, cross country, golf, soccer, lacrosse and volleyball; while women's sports include basketball, cross country, soccer, softball, tennis, lacrosse, and volleyball.", "In 2014 the men's Cross Country team won the CSAC Championship.", "This was the school's first NCAA conference championship in its 100-year history.", "In 2015 and 2016, the men's Cross Country team won the championship again.", "The men's soccer program has won seven NCCAA Division II National Championships (1984, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1996).", "Students also participate in intramural sports such as flag football, indoor/outdoor soccer, basketball, and volleyball." ]
History
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[ "Cairn University is a private Christian university in Langhorne Manor and Middletown Township, in Bucks County, Pennsylvania.", "Founded in 1913, the university has six schools: Divinity, Liberal Arts and Sciences, Business, Education, and Music.", "As of Fall 2021 the university will be closing their Social Work program to new students, with existing students within the program allowed to complete their existing program.", "All students take a minimum of 30 semester hours of Bible classes." ]
Cairn University
[ "On July 8, 1913, W. W. Rugh founded the Bible Institute of Philadelphia as an extension of the National Bible Institute of New York.", "After teaching public school in his earlier days, Rugh spent several years walking a circuit to teach Bible classes throughout eastern Pennsylvania and New Jersey.", "This led him to establish an institution where the Scriptures could be taught on a daily basis.", "Around the same time, C. I. Scofield and William L. Pettingill, leading Bible teachers of their day, were holding a large conference in the Philadelphia area.", "Encouraged by numerous requests to establish a permanent school to continue teaching, the two men co-founded Philadelphia School of the Bible on October 1, 1914.", "Scofield, known internationally for his Bible teaching and his work on the Scofield Reference Bible, became the first president of PSOB and Pettingill was the first dean.", "On October 8, 1921, Rugh's school became independent of the New York school and changed its name to Bible Institute of Pennsylvania (BIOPA).", "Both BIOPA and PSOB focused on training lay people in the Scriptures for service in the church and their communities.", "No degrees were conferred.", "In 1951, the two schools merged to become Philadelphia Bible Institute (PBI), located at the YWCA Building at 1800 Arch St.", "At the time of the merger, William A. Mierop from BIOPA was appointed president and Clarence E. Mason, Jr. from PSOB, academic dean.", "PBI offered a three-year Bible diploma.", "By 1958, the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania granted the institute approval to offer a four-year program leading to the Bachelor of Science in Bible degree, and then changed its name to \"Philadelphia College of Bible\".", "In 1967, the school received regional accreditation from the Middle States Association, becoming one of the first Bible colleges accredited by MSA.", "During the 1970s, PCB continued to develop its academic offerings and was authorized to grant two additional degrees, the Bachelor of Music and the Bachelor of Social Work.", "Students were required to take 55 credit hours of Bible, doctrine, and \"Bible college distinctive\" courses.", "Since the merger, the school has had five presidents: William A. Mierop, from 1951 to 1956; Charles C. Ryrie, from 1958 to 1962; Douglas B. MacCorkle, from 1963 to 1977; and W. Sherrill Babb, from 1979 to 2007; Todd J. Williams became the university's fifth president January 1, 2008.", "W. Sherrill Babb's appointment as president coincided with a relocation from Center City, Philadelphia to a new campus in Langhorne Manor.", "Under his leadership, in 2000, the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania granted the college approval to become a university and the institution changed its name to \"Philadelphia Biblical University\".", "During Dr. Babb's presidency, the number of degrees offered increased from three to eleven; six Graduate programs were implemented; four extension campuses established; and student enrollment, faculty, and facility space more than doubled.", "In 2007, a new core curriculum was introduced.", "It included changes to the educational approach of the institution.", "In the new core curriculum, students earned 36 credits of specified Bible and theology requirements in combination with a comprehensive arts and sciences and professional curriculum.", "On January 1, 2008, former President W. Sherrill Babb became the university's first chancellor and former provost Dr. Todd J. Williams was elevated as the university's fifth president.", "Under the leadership of Dr. Williams, the university has continued to expand its academic offerings.", "A Master of Business Administration degree was approved by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in 2010 and professional minors in Education, Music, Social Work, and Business were added in 2011.", "There has also been significant growth in co-curricular programs like the Arts Initiative, which is focused on strengthening the University's involvement with the fine arts, and the Center for University Studies.", "In October 2011, as part of an effort to reduce the time and costs required for undergraduates to finish their studies, the board of trustees voted to allow students the option to pursue a B.S. in Bible degree, a professional degree (B.S. in Business Administration, B.S. in Education, Bachelor of Social Work, Bachelor of Music), or both Bible and professional degrees concurrently.", "Prior to this decision, all undergraduate students were required to earn a B.S. in Bible.", "Students who wanted to earn a second professional degree in an area other than Bible or ministry had to earn over 150 credit hours, which often took four and a half or five years to complete.", "The October 2011 board decision also reduced the minimum of 36 credits in Bible and Theology in the core curriculum to 30 credits.", "On Wednesday April 18, 2012, Dr. Williams announced to the student body during chapel that he and the Board of Trustees were considering changing the name of the school to Cairn University.", "The name, it was explained, adopts the concept of memorials and trail markers, \"Bearing witness [to God's faithfulness] and pointing the way.\"", "The announcement and the proposed new name garnered mixed responses from alumni, students, faculty, and the public.", "By June 8, 2012, the university had filed official document(s) with the Department of Education of the State of Pennsylvania to change its name to Cairn University (see Cairn).", "The request was approved one month later, and on July 16, 2012, the school went public as Cairn University.", "Cairn University student-athletes compete in twelve sports as the Highlanders.", "Formerly the \"Crimson Eagles,\" students, faculty, and staff voted to change the mascot in conjunction with the 2012 university name change.", "The athletic program is affiliated with the Colonial States Athletic Conference (CSAC), the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) and the National Christian College Athletic Association (NCCAA).", "Men's sports include baseball, basketball, cross country, golf, soccer, lacrosse and volleyball; while women's sports include basketball, cross country, soccer, softball, tennis, lacrosse, and volleyball.", "In 2014 the men's Cross Country team won the CSAC Championship.", "This was the school's first NCAA conference championship in its 100-year history.", "In 2015 and 2016, the men's Cross Country team won the championship again.", "The men's soccer program has won seven NCCAA Division II National Championships (1984, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1996).", "Students also participate in intramural sports such as flag football, indoor/outdoor soccer, basketball, and volleyball." ]
History ; Relocation and expansion (1979–2012)
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[ "As of Fall 2021 the university will be closing their Social Work program to new students, with existing students within the program allowed to complete their existing program." ]
Gerald Cadogan
[ "Cadogan excelled in football at Portsmouth High School assisting the Trojans to multiple playoff appearances.", "Cadogan was a four-sport star at Portsmouth High School, lettering in football, track, swimming, and basketball.", "He was named first-team Associated Press All-State in football his senior season.", "The \"Youngstown Vindicator\" named Cadogan All-Conference twice.", "He was also an Ohio finalist for the Wendy's High School Heisman, and was the \"Portsmouth Daily Times\" Sportsman-of-the-Year.", "He played in the 2004 Big 33 Football Classic and the Ohio North-South All-Star game.", "Gerald decided to attend Penn State.", "After redshirting his freshman (2004) season, Cadogan worked his way to second on the depth chart at left tackle behind future first-round draft pick, Levi Brown in 2005.", "He earned Academic All-Big Ten honors that season.", "Cadogan was switched to guard for the 2006 season, appearing in 11 games and helping tailback Tony Hunt compile the second of two 1,000-yard rushing seasons.", "He returned to his natural position of tackle in 2007, and started all 13 games for the Nittany Lions and earned first-team Academic All-America and Academic All-Big Ten honors that year.", "Cadogan was a 2008 candidate for college football's prestigious Draddy Trophy, presented annually to the nation's top college football student-athlete.", "At season's end, he was named a consensus first team All-Big Ten selection and was awarded the conference's Sportsmanship Award.", "He was also named an Academic All-American for a second time.", "Cadogan was invited to the 2009 NFL Scouting Combine where he ran 4.99 in the 40-yard dash (fifth among offensive linemen at the combine).", "Despite most draft pundits projecting Cadogan to be selected in the third or fourth round of the 2009 NFL Draft, he was not selected at all.", "He signed with the Carolina Panthers on April 26, 2009.", "He was waived on August 31.", "Cadogan was signed to the Cincinnati Bengals practice squad on November 3.", "He was released on November 10.", "Cadogan was signed to the San Diego Chargers practice squad on November 19.", "He was released on December 5.", "Cadogan was signed to the Philadelphia Eagles' practice squad on December 8.", "After his contract with the Eagles expired at season's end, Cadogan signed a future contract with the Indianapolis Colts on January 22, 2010.", "He was waived injured before training camp and released with an injury settlement.", "Cadogan was signed to the Calgary Stampeders’ practice squad on October 21, 2010—prior to week 17 of the 2010 CFL season.", "He was promoted to the active roster during 2011 training camp, and appeared in the Stamps’ first preseason game versus the BC Lions on June 15, 2011.", "On September 13, 2011, Cadogan was released by the Stampeders.", "On October 30, 2012, Cadogan signed with the Toronto Argonauts of the Canadian Football League, later winning the 100th Grey Cup.", "Cadogan returned to Portsmouth, where he teaches and coached the swimming and boys track teams and was an assistant football coach at Portsmouth High School, his alma mater.", "In July 2019, he was named the first-ever swimming coach at Shawnee State University, a NAIA school in Portsmouth.", "Cadogan is an avid musician, playing many instruments, singing and arranging songs.", "He began singing in the church choir at age four, and learned to play a slew of instruments in his youth, including the trumpet, trombone, piano, guitar, drums, oboe, and the euphonium.", "Cadogan played trumpet with his high school marching band, often while still wearing his football uniform during halftime shows.", "He once even conducted the Penn State Blue Band following a 2007 home victory at Beaver Stadium.", "Cadogan has released two gospel albums.", "He also sang the national anthem a cappella at a 2008 State College campaign rally for presidential candidate Barack Obama." ]
Early years
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[ "He played college football at Penn State." ]
Gerald Cadogan
[ "Cadogan excelled in football at Portsmouth High School assisting the Trojans to multiple playoff appearances.", "Cadogan was a four-sport star at Portsmouth High School, lettering in football, track, swimming, and basketball.", "He was named first-team Associated Press All-State in football his senior season.", "The \"Youngstown Vindicator\" named Cadogan All-Conference twice.", "He was also an Ohio finalist for the Wendy's High School Heisman, and was the \"Portsmouth Daily Times\" Sportsman-of-the-Year.", "He played in the 2004 Big 33 Football Classic and the Ohio North-South All-Star game.", "Gerald decided to attend Penn State.", "After redshirting his freshman (2004) season, Cadogan worked his way to second on the depth chart at left tackle behind future first-round draft pick, Levi Brown in 2005.", "He earned Academic All-Big Ten honors that season.", "Cadogan was switched to guard for the 2006 season, appearing in 11 games and helping tailback Tony Hunt compile the second of two 1,000-yard rushing seasons.", "He returned to his natural position of tackle in 2007, and started all 13 games for the Nittany Lions and earned first-team Academic All-America and Academic All-Big Ten honors that year.", "Cadogan was a 2008 candidate for college football's prestigious Draddy Trophy, presented annually to the nation's top college football student-athlete.", "At season's end, he was named a consensus first team All-Big Ten selection and was awarded the conference's Sportsmanship Award.", "He was also named an Academic All-American for a second time.", "Cadogan was invited to the 2009 NFL Scouting Combine where he ran 4.99 in the 40-yard dash (fifth among offensive linemen at the combine).", "Despite most draft pundits projecting Cadogan to be selected in the third or fourth round of the 2009 NFL Draft, he was not selected at all.", "He signed with the Carolina Panthers on April 26, 2009.", "He was waived on August 31.", "Cadogan was signed to the Cincinnati Bengals practice squad on November 3.", "He was released on November 10.", "Cadogan was signed to the San Diego Chargers practice squad on November 19.", "He was released on December 5.", "Cadogan was signed to the Philadelphia Eagles' practice squad on December 8.", "After his contract with the Eagles expired at season's end, Cadogan signed a future contract with the Indianapolis Colts on January 22, 2010.", "He was waived injured before training camp and released with an injury settlement.", "Cadogan was signed to the Calgary Stampeders’ practice squad on October 21, 2010—prior to week 17 of the 2010 CFL season.", "He was promoted to the active roster during 2011 training camp, and appeared in the Stamps’ first preseason game versus the BC Lions on June 15, 2011.", "On September 13, 2011, Cadogan was released by the Stampeders.", "On October 30, 2012, Cadogan signed with the Toronto Argonauts of the Canadian Football League, later winning the 100th Grey Cup.", "Cadogan returned to Portsmouth, where he teaches and coached the swimming and boys track teams and was an assistant football coach at Portsmouth High School, his alma mater.", "In July 2019, he was named the first-ever swimming coach at Shawnee State University, a NAIA school in Portsmouth.", "Cadogan is an avid musician, playing many instruments, singing and arranging songs.", "He began singing in the church choir at age four, and learned to play a slew of instruments in his youth, including the trumpet, trombone, piano, guitar, drums, oboe, and the euphonium.", "Cadogan played trumpet with his high school marching band, often while still wearing his football uniform during halftime shows.", "He once even conducted the Penn State Blue Band following a 2007 home victory at Beaver Stadium.", "Cadogan has released two gospel albums.", "He also sang the national anthem a cappella at a 2008 State College campaign rally for presidential candidate Barack Obama." ]
College career
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[ "He played college football at Penn State." ]
Gerald Cadogan
[ "Cadogan excelled in football at Portsmouth High School assisting the Trojans to multiple playoff appearances.", "Cadogan was a four-sport star at Portsmouth High School, lettering in football, track, swimming, and basketball.", "He was named first-team Associated Press All-State in football his senior season.", "The \"Youngstown Vindicator\" named Cadogan All-Conference twice.", "He was also an Ohio finalist for the Wendy's High School Heisman, and was the \"Portsmouth Daily Times\" Sportsman-of-the-Year.", "He played in the 2004 Big 33 Football Classic and the Ohio North-South All-Star game.", "Gerald decided to attend Penn State.", "After redshirting his freshman (2004) season, Cadogan worked his way to second on the depth chart at left tackle behind future first-round draft pick, Levi Brown in 2005.", "He earned Academic All-Big Ten honors that season.", "Cadogan was switched to guard for the 2006 season, appearing in 11 games and helping tailback Tony Hunt compile the second of two 1,000-yard rushing seasons.", "He returned to his natural position of tackle in 2007, and started all 13 games for the Nittany Lions and earned first-team Academic All-America and Academic All-Big Ten honors that year.", "Cadogan was a 2008 candidate for college football's prestigious Draddy Trophy, presented annually to the nation's top college football student-athlete.", "At season's end, he was named a consensus first team All-Big Ten selection and was awarded the conference's Sportsmanship Award.", "He was also named an Academic All-American for a second time.", "Cadogan was invited to the 2009 NFL Scouting Combine where he ran 4.99 in the 40-yard dash (fifth among offensive linemen at the combine).", "Despite most draft pundits projecting Cadogan to be selected in the third or fourth round of the 2009 NFL Draft, he was not selected at all.", "He signed with the Carolina Panthers on April 26, 2009.", "He was waived on August 31.", "Cadogan was signed to the Cincinnati Bengals practice squad on November 3.", "He was released on November 10.", "Cadogan was signed to the San Diego Chargers practice squad on November 19.", "He was released on December 5.", "Cadogan was signed to the Philadelphia Eagles' practice squad on December 8.", "After his contract with the Eagles expired at season's end, Cadogan signed a future contract with the Indianapolis Colts on January 22, 2010.", "He was waived injured before training camp and released with an injury settlement.", "Cadogan was signed to the Calgary Stampeders’ practice squad on October 21, 2010—prior to week 17 of the 2010 CFL season.", "He was promoted to the active roster during 2011 training camp, and appeared in the Stamps’ first preseason game versus the BC Lions on June 15, 2011.", "On September 13, 2011, Cadogan was released by the Stampeders.", "On October 30, 2012, Cadogan signed with the Toronto Argonauts of the Canadian Football League, later winning the 100th Grey Cup.", "Cadogan returned to Portsmouth, where he teaches and coached the swimming and boys track teams and was an assistant football coach at Portsmouth High School, his alma mater.", "In July 2019, he was named the first-ever swimming coach at Shawnee State University, a NAIA school in Portsmouth.", "Cadogan is an avid musician, playing many instruments, singing and arranging songs.", "He began singing in the church choir at age four, and learned to play a slew of instruments in his youth, including the trumpet, trombone, piano, guitar, drums, oboe, and the euphonium.", "Cadogan played trumpet with his high school marching band, often while still wearing his football uniform during halftime shows.", "He once even conducted the Penn State Blue Band following a 2007 home victory at Beaver Stadium.", "Cadogan has released two gospel albums.", "He also sang the national anthem a cappella at a 2008 State College campaign rally for presidential candidate Barack Obama." ]
Professional career
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[ "He was signed by the Carolina Panthers as an undrafted free agent in 2009.", "Cadogan has also been a member of the Cincinnati Bengals, San Diego Chargers, Philadelphia Eagles and the Indianapolis Colts." ]
Gerald Cadogan
[ "Cadogan excelled in football at Portsmouth High School assisting the Trojans to multiple playoff appearances.", "Cadogan was a four-sport star at Portsmouth High School, lettering in football, track, swimming, and basketball.", "He was named first-team Associated Press All-State in football his senior season.", "The \"Youngstown Vindicator\" named Cadogan All-Conference twice.", "He was also an Ohio finalist for the Wendy's High School Heisman, and was the \"Portsmouth Daily Times\" Sportsman-of-the-Year.", "He played in the 2004 Big 33 Football Classic and the Ohio North-South All-Star game.", "Gerald decided to attend Penn State.", "After redshirting his freshman (2004) season, Cadogan worked his way to second on the depth chart at left tackle behind future first-round draft pick, Levi Brown in 2005.", "He earned Academic All-Big Ten honors that season.", "Cadogan was switched to guard for the 2006 season, appearing in 11 games and helping tailback Tony Hunt compile the second of two 1,000-yard rushing seasons.", "He returned to his natural position of tackle in 2007, and started all 13 games for the Nittany Lions and earned first-team Academic All-America and Academic All-Big Ten honors that year.", "Cadogan was a 2008 candidate for college football's prestigious Draddy Trophy, presented annually to the nation's top college football student-athlete.", "At season's end, he was named a consensus first team All-Big Ten selection and was awarded the conference's Sportsmanship Award.", "He was also named an Academic All-American for a second time.", "Cadogan was invited to the 2009 NFL Scouting Combine where he ran 4.99 in the 40-yard dash (fifth among offensive linemen at the combine).", "Despite most draft pundits projecting Cadogan to be selected in the third or fourth round of the 2009 NFL Draft, he was not selected at all.", "He signed with the Carolina Panthers on April 26, 2009.", "He was waived on August 31.", "Cadogan was signed to the Cincinnati Bengals practice squad on November 3.", "He was released on November 10.", "Cadogan was signed to the San Diego Chargers practice squad on November 19.", "He was released on December 5.", "Cadogan was signed to the Philadelphia Eagles' practice squad on December 8.", "After his contract with the Eagles expired at season's end, Cadogan signed a future contract with the Indianapolis Colts on January 22, 2010.", "He was waived injured before training camp and released with an injury settlement.", "Cadogan was signed to the Calgary Stampeders’ practice squad on October 21, 2010—prior to week 17 of the 2010 CFL season.", "He was promoted to the active roster during 2011 training camp, and appeared in the Stamps’ first preseason game versus the BC Lions on June 15, 2011.", "On September 13, 2011, Cadogan was released by the Stampeders.", "On October 30, 2012, Cadogan signed with the Toronto Argonauts of the Canadian Football League, later winning the 100th Grey Cup.", "Cadogan returned to Portsmouth, where he teaches and coached the swimming and boys track teams and was an assistant football coach at Portsmouth High School, his alma mater.", "In July 2019, he was named the first-ever swimming coach at Shawnee State University, a NAIA school in Portsmouth.", "Cadogan is an avid musician, playing many instruments, singing and arranging songs.", "He began singing in the church choir at age four, and learned to play a slew of instruments in his youth, including the trumpet, trombone, piano, guitar, drums, oboe, and the euphonium.", "Cadogan played trumpet with his high school marching band, often while still wearing his football uniform during halftime shows.", "He once even conducted the Penn State Blue Band following a 2007 home victory at Beaver Stadium.", "Cadogan has released two gospel albums.", "He also sang the national anthem a cappella at a 2008 State College campaign rally for presidential candidate Barack Obama." ]
Professional career ; Carolina Panthers
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[ "He was signed by the Carolina Panthers as an undrafted free agent in 2009." ]
2006–07 Lebanese Second Division
[ "This season saw an increase in teams from last season, from 12 to 14 teams in the competition.", "However, two of the teams competing (Racing Jounieh FC & Al-Tadamon Nabatieh) decided to withdraw from the 2006–07 season.", "The Lebanese Football Federation reacted swiftly by relegating both teams to the Lebanese Third Division automatically leading to both relegation places being full even before the league had started.", "At the end of the season, it was a clear victory in Group 1 with Shabbab Al-Ghazieh finishing 1st by 12 points ahead of Al-Irshad however they didn't get promotion to the Premier League.", "Group 2 was more of a tight-contest with the top being separated by just 3 points.", "However, it was the late charge of Racing Beirut in the 2nd half of the season which sent them to the top of Group B and receiving a guaranteed promotion back to the Premier League after being relegated in the previous Premier League Season.", "As for the Group A Champions, Shabbab Al-Ghazieh, despite winning the Group and remaining undefeated, they were not promoted to the Premier League.", "This was due to grounds issues.", "Instead, Al Irshard received the 2nd promotion place to the Premier League for the 2007–08 Premier League Season." ]
Overview
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[ "The 2006–07 Lebanese Second Division was the 73rd season of the Second Division league which featured 14 clubs.", "Two of these teams were eligible for promotion to the top league of Lebanese football, the Lebanese Premier League while two of the fourteen teams had to face relegation to the Lebanese Third Division for the 2006–07 Season." ]
Daniel Gallant
[ "Gallant grew up in Rockville, MD and attended Sidwell Friends school in Washington, D.C.", "After graduating from Swarthmore College in 1998, Gallant moved to New York City and worked at talent agency ICM Artists.", "Gallant produced and directed a number of small theater productions in New York.", "He received a master's degree in arts administration from Columbia University, and subsequently began working as Director of Theater Programming at the 92nd Street Y's Makor Center.", "While at Makor, Gallant curated performances, readings and workshops of numerous plays and musicals.", "He created the Festival of 'Wrights, a theater series that premiered new work by such artists as Mark O'Donnell, Warren Leight and Craig Lucas and included readings featuring David Strathairn, Dan Hedaya, Paul Rudd, Martha Plimpton and other notable performers.", "He also moderated on-stage interviews featuring Tony Kushner, Wendy Wasserstein, Norman Mailer, Peter Falk, Neil LaBute, Chazz Palminteri, Liz Swados and other artists.", "Gallant curated theater and talk events and taught classes at the 92nd Street Y's downtown Manhattan venue, 92YTribeca.", "In 2007, Gallant produced and directed \"Five Story Walkup\", a four-week benefit for the 13th Street Repertory Theatre; the show included premier stagings of short plays and monologues by Neil LaBute, John Guare, Quincy Long, Clay McLeod Chapman, Laura Shaine Cunningham and Daniel F. Levin.,", "The monologues and plays that constitute \"Five Story Walkup\" were published in the anthology THE BEST AMERICAN SHORT PLAYS 2007-2008 by Applause Books in August 2009.", "In 2010, Gallant produced \"Seven Card Draw\", a benefit for Dixon Place; this show featured premier stagings of short dramatic works by LaBute, Guare and the other authors who had contributed to \"Five Story Walkup\", as well as a performance by Piper Perabo.", "The monologues and plays that constitute \"Seven Card Draw\" were published in the anthology THE BEST AMERICAN SHORT PLAYS 2009-2010 by Applause Books in August 2011.", "In 2014, Gallant produced \"Nine Signs of the Times\", a benefit for the Nuyorican Poets Cafe; this show featured premier stagings of short works by LaBute, Guare, Caridad Svich, Halley Feiffer, and the other authors who had contributed to \"Five Story Walkup\" and \"Seven Card Draw\".", "The dramatic works featured in \"Nine Signs of the Times\" were subsequently published in the anthology THE BEST AMERICAN SHORT PLAYS 2013-2014 by Applause Books in June 2015.", "Between 2007 and 2008, Gallant produced several off-Broadway plays and musicals at the DR2 Theatre in Union Square, including the off-Broadway premiere of David Brandes' and Joseph Telushkin's play The Quarrel (based on their 1991 film of the same name) and the musical \"Ogden Nash's The Tales of Custard the Dragon\" (by Bradford W. Ross and Danny Whitman).", "Gallant also co-produced the long-running rock musicals \"Soul Searching\" and \"Generations\", and he curated and hosted the multi-venue performance/reading series \"Acoustic Theater\".", "In spring of 2008, Gallant was appointed as the new executive director of the Nuyorican Poets Cafe, a renowned multi-arts venue located in Manhattan's east village.", "Gallant joined the Cafe just before its 35th Anniversary Celebration, a concert event at Manhattan's Town Hall.", "Since Gallant's appointment, the Cafe's operating budget has more than doubled, as has event attendance.", "Gallant's management efforts have focused on modernizing and expanding the operations of the Cafe while maintaining its artistic and cultural traditions.", "Under Gallant's leadership, the Cafe has raised more than $10 million in capital funding; the funds will be used to renovate the Cafe's East Village building.", "Gallant has also significantly expanded the Cafe's online presence.", "According to \"The Wall Street Journal\", \"since late 2009, Mr. Gallant has exploited expanding social-media tools to grow the cafe from a small, volunteer-led venue best known for weekly poetry events to a thriving arts center with partnerships across the city.", "Through strategic use of Facebook, Twitter and a $10,000-per-month grant from Google, he said he has boosted online ticket sales by 30% and web traffic by 40%, and doubled the number of events from around one per evening to two or more\".", "Gallant lectures and consults in the fields of institutional marketing, social media and arts technology.", "He has delivered lectures and speeches about these topics for corporate, non-profit and educational organizations including the Kennedy Center, BAM, Opera America, Bloomberg Philanthropies, Google, Chase, the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, Foursquare, the Devos Institute, Columbia University, NYU, Fourth Arts Block and other entities.", "Gallant is regularly quoted in \"The New York Times\", \"The Wall Street Journal\", the \"Los Angeles Times\" and other periodicals.", "His quotes usually appear in articles about the contemporary poetry scene, the changing nature of New York City's East Village, popular poets and social media.", "He has also written opinion pieces and reviews for \"The Wall Street Journal\", \"New York Post\", \"Time Out New York\" and other media outlets.", "Among the notable articles that feature his quotes are a 2018 \"New York Times\" article about the Cafe's history, a 2016 Wall Street Journal article about the Cafe's expansion and two 2015 \"New York Times\" articles, one about the cultural resurgence of snapping as a form of audience appreciation and another about spoken word programs that engage people who are serving time.", "In both a 2017 Wall Street Journal article and a 2017 feature from NPR, Gallant discusses the political nature of many performances at the Cafe.", "In a 2017 \"New York Times\" article about housing and rent issues in New York City, Gallant explains how short-term housing arrangements helped facilitate the early stages of his arts career.", "In \"New York\"'s 2016 list of \"Reasons to Love New York\", Gallant is quoted as follows, about the Cafe's use of grant funds to expand cultural offerings: \"Success is often described as turning art into numbers, but the reverse of turning numbers into art is its own craft\".", "Gallant has appeared on several TV shows.", "In 2013, he was featured in an episode of MTV's reality series \"Washington Heights\".", "He appeared in an NBC news segment about Alphabet City in 2012.", "He has appeared on NY1 multiple times, most notably in interviews broadcast in 2012, 2013 and 2014.", "Gallant also appeared on the public affairs TV show Chasing News in 2016.external_link_1", "In September 2013, Gallant was interviewed on Univision's Sal y Pimienta show, during a segment about education and the Nuyorican Poets Cafe.", "In June 2017, Gallant was interviewed about the Nuyorican Poets Cafe on CNN's series United Shades of America, during an episode that focused on Puerto Rico.", "In 2018, PBS NewsHour featured Gallant in an article about poetry and identity.", "In April 2013, the New York Post published an editorial by Gallant; the editorial explored economic trends that threaten New York City arts venues.", "In June 2017, the Huffington Post published an article by Gallant that examines how cultural organizations in Spain and Japan use arts activity to increase community engagement.", "This article was subsequently reprinted in the Social Innovations Journal.", "In 2017, \"Forbes\" featured Gallant in two articles, one of which highlighted his use of social media marketing techniques to expand the Nuyorican Poets Cafe, and the other of which explored the topic of social media regulation.", "In 2018, \"The Wall Street Journal\" published three op-ed articles by Gallant; the first article examined the outsized cultural and economic power of Facebook's algorithms; the second article explored how poker strategy and game theory are relevant to social media success; and the third article discussed the flaws and repercussions of Facebook's censorship rules.", "In May 2020, the \"New York Daily News\" published an op-ed article by Gallant, about the challenges faced by small businesses and non-profits seeking emergency aid during the COVID-19 pandemic.", "Gallant was also featured in an April 2020 article in \"The Wall Street Journal\" about how small businesses have changed their strategies in order to survive during the COVID-19 pandemic, a July 2020 Politico article about how financial issues tied to the COVID-19 pandemic have endangered New York City's nightlife venues, a May 2020 Associated Press article about the gradual reopening of New York City and a July 2020 Time Out New York article that explored how the Nuyorican Poets Cafe is using online programs to amplify Black and Latinx artists during the shutdown.", "In June 2020, \"Literary Hub\" published an article by Gallant and Alejandro Heredia, about why New York City should support writers of color and cultural programs during the COVID-19 pandemic.", "Gallant was one of 10 American leaders to receive a 2016 Eisenhower Fellowship, as announced by Eisenhower Fellowships Chairman General Colin Powell in September 2015.", "With support from Eisenhower Fellowships, Gallant traveled to Japan and Spain in 2016 to study how his colleagues in those countries utilize arts programs to engage young people who are on the fringe of traditional educational and social structures.", "He also investigated creative ways to improve the financial sustainability of arts organizations.", "Gallant was one of 50 global arts leaders selected for the National Arts Strategies Chief Executive Program in 2013.", "Chief Executive Program members worked collectively to explore the cultural sector's critical challenges and develop best practices for the field.", "Under Gallant's leadership, the Nuyorican Poets Cafe was named one of 10 semifinalists for the fourth annual New York Times Nonprofit Excellence Awards.", "In 2015, Gallant was named to the Advisory Council and Adjudication Panel of the Field Leadership Fund.", "Gallant is also a founding board member of the non-profit organization Broadway Artists Connection.", "In 2016, the New York Foundation for the Arts published a two-part interview with Gallant about his work at the Nuyorican Poets Cafe.", "He served as a judge for The 13th and 14th Annual Independent Music Awards in 2014 and 2015, and his contributions helped assist the careers of rising independent artists.", "Gallant's plays and monologues have been published in four anthologies from Applause Books and an anthology from Vintage Books.", "In 2013, Gallant gave a speech that inducted Nuyorican Poets Cafe co-founder Miguel Piñero into the New York State Writers Hall of Fame.\nA 2013 article that Gallant wrote about arts entrepreneurship and the value of risk was published both online and in an anthology from Theatre Communications Group.", "In 2015, Howlround published an article by Gallant about the impact of arts pricing on gentrification and generational attitudes toward the arts.", "In 2015, the blog Shotgun Honey published Gallant's short noir story \"Faske and Ayao\".", "In 2014, Gallant's short story \"No Medals\" appeared in the blog BKNation.", "In 2017 and 2018, Gallant wrote reviews of the films Mayhem, Blindspotting and Operation Finale for the magazine Time Out New York.", "In summer 2008, Gallant's play \"Gerald's Method\" was produced twice in New York (at Center Stage and in the Midtown International Theatre Festival) and nominated by the New York Innovative Theatre Awards for best short script.", "Gallant's other short works have been staged at venues including Theater for the New City, the Cornelia Street Cafe and Mo Pitkins.", "Gallant's play \"A Felony in Blue or Death by Poker\" premiered at the Nuyorican Poets Cafe in 2011.", "The play featured a live game of Texas hold 'em, in which underworld characters compete for supremacy.", "Gallant has appeared as an actor in multiple productions, including Five Story Walkup, Josephine Undone and Gerald's Method." ]
At the Nuyorican Poets Cafe
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[ "Gallant is a lecturer and consultant in the fields of institutional marketing, social media and arts technology.", "According to \"The Wall Street Journal\", \"since late 2009, Mr. Gallant has exploited expanding social-media tools to grow the cafe from a small, volunteer-led venue best known for weekly poetry events to a thriving arts center with partnerships across the city\"." ]
Daniel Gallant
[ "Gallant grew up in Rockville, MD and attended Sidwell Friends school in Washington, D.C.", "After graduating from Swarthmore College in 1998, Gallant moved to New York City and worked at talent agency ICM Artists.", "Gallant produced and directed a number of small theater productions in New York.", "He received a master's degree in arts administration from Columbia University, and subsequently began working as Director of Theater Programming at the 92nd Street Y's Makor Center.", "While at Makor, Gallant curated performances, readings and workshops of numerous plays and musicals.", "He created the Festival of 'Wrights, a theater series that premiered new work by such artists as Mark O'Donnell, Warren Leight and Craig Lucas and included readings featuring David Strathairn, Dan Hedaya, Paul Rudd, Martha Plimpton and other notable performers.", "He also moderated on-stage interviews featuring Tony Kushner, Wendy Wasserstein, Norman Mailer, Peter Falk, Neil LaBute, Chazz Palminteri, Liz Swados and other artists.", "Gallant curated theater and talk events and taught classes at the 92nd Street Y's downtown Manhattan venue, 92YTribeca.", "In 2007, Gallant produced and directed \"Five Story Walkup\", a four-week benefit for the 13th Street Repertory Theatre; the show included premier stagings of short plays and monologues by Neil LaBute, John Guare, Quincy Long, Clay McLeod Chapman, Laura Shaine Cunningham and Daniel F. Levin.,", "The monologues and plays that constitute \"Five Story Walkup\" were published in the anthology THE BEST AMERICAN SHORT PLAYS 2007-2008 by Applause Books in August 2009.", "In 2010, Gallant produced \"Seven Card Draw\", a benefit for Dixon Place; this show featured premier stagings of short dramatic works by LaBute, Guare and the other authors who had contributed to \"Five Story Walkup\", as well as a performance by Piper Perabo.", "The monologues and plays that constitute \"Seven Card Draw\" were published in the anthology THE BEST AMERICAN SHORT PLAYS 2009-2010 by Applause Books in August 2011.", "In 2014, Gallant produced \"Nine Signs of the Times\", a benefit for the Nuyorican Poets Cafe; this show featured premier stagings of short works by LaBute, Guare, Caridad Svich, Halley Feiffer, and the other authors who had contributed to \"Five Story Walkup\" and \"Seven Card Draw\".", "The dramatic works featured in \"Nine Signs of the Times\" were subsequently published in the anthology THE BEST AMERICAN SHORT PLAYS 2013-2014 by Applause Books in June 2015.", "Between 2007 and 2008, Gallant produced several off-Broadway plays and musicals at the DR2 Theatre in Union Square, including the off-Broadway premiere of David Brandes' and Joseph Telushkin's play The Quarrel (based on their 1991 film of the same name) and the musical \"Ogden Nash's The Tales of Custard the Dragon\" (by Bradford W. Ross and Danny Whitman).", "Gallant also co-produced the long-running rock musicals \"Soul Searching\" and \"Generations\", and he curated and hosted the multi-venue performance/reading series \"Acoustic Theater\".", "In spring of 2008, Gallant was appointed as the new executive director of the Nuyorican Poets Cafe, a renowned multi-arts venue located in Manhattan's east village.", "Gallant joined the Cafe just before its 35th Anniversary Celebration, a concert event at Manhattan's Town Hall.", "Since Gallant's appointment, the Cafe's operating budget has more than doubled, as has event attendance.", "Gallant's management efforts have focused on modernizing and expanding the operations of the Cafe while maintaining its artistic and cultural traditions.", "Under Gallant's leadership, the Cafe has raised more than $10 million in capital funding; the funds will be used to renovate the Cafe's East Village building.", "Gallant has also significantly expanded the Cafe's online presence.", "According to \"The Wall Street Journal\", \"since late 2009, Mr. Gallant has exploited expanding social-media tools to grow the cafe from a small, volunteer-led venue best known for weekly poetry events to a thriving arts center with partnerships across the city.", "Through strategic use of Facebook, Twitter and a $10,000-per-month grant from Google, he said he has boosted online ticket sales by 30% and web traffic by 40%, and doubled the number of events from around one per evening to two or more\".", "Gallant lectures and consults in the fields of institutional marketing, social media and arts technology.", "He has delivered lectures and speeches about these topics for corporate, non-profit and educational organizations including the Kennedy Center, BAM, Opera America, Bloomberg Philanthropies, Google, Chase, the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, Foursquare, the Devos Institute, Columbia University, NYU, Fourth Arts Block and other entities.", "Gallant is regularly quoted in \"The New York Times\", \"The Wall Street Journal\", the \"Los Angeles Times\" and other periodicals.", "His quotes usually appear in articles about the contemporary poetry scene, the changing nature of New York City's East Village, popular poets and social media.", "He has also written opinion pieces and reviews for \"The Wall Street Journal\", \"New York Post\", \"Time Out New York\" and other media outlets.", "Among the notable articles that feature his quotes are a 2018 \"New York Times\" article about the Cafe's history, a 2016 Wall Street Journal article about the Cafe's expansion and two 2015 \"New York Times\" articles, one about the cultural resurgence of snapping as a form of audience appreciation and another about spoken word programs that engage people who are serving time.", "In both a 2017 Wall Street Journal article and a 2017 feature from NPR, Gallant discusses the political nature of many performances at the Cafe.", "In a 2017 \"New York Times\" article about housing and rent issues in New York City, Gallant explains how short-term housing arrangements helped facilitate the early stages of his arts career.", "In \"New York\"'s 2016 list of \"Reasons to Love New York\", Gallant is quoted as follows, about the Cafe's use of grant funds to expand cultural offerings: \"Success is often described as turning art into numbers, but the reverse of turning numbers into art is its own craft\".", "Gallant has appeared on several TV shows.", "In 2013, he was featured in an episode of MTV's reality series \"Washington Heights\".", "He appeared in an NBC news segment about Alphabet City in 2012.", "He has appeared on NY1 multiple times, most notably in interviews broadcast in 2012, 2013 and 2014.", "Gallant also appeared on the public affairs TV show Chasing News in 2016.external_link_1", "In September 2013, Gallant was interviewed on Univision's Sal y Pimienta show, during a segment about education and the Nuyorican Poets Cafe.", "In June 2017, Gallant was interviewed about the Nuyorican Poets Cafe on CNN's series United Shades of America, during an episode that focused on Puerto Rico.", "In 2018, PBS NewsHour featured Gallant in an article about poetry and identity.", "In April 2013, the New York Post published an editorial by Gallant; the editorial explored economic trends that threaten New York City arts venues.", "In June 2017, the Huffington Post published an article by Gallant that examines how cultural organizations in Spain and Japan use arts activity to increase community engagement.", "This article was subsequently reprinted in the Social Innovations Journal.", "In 2017, \"Forbes\" featured Gallant in two articles, one of which highlighted his use of social media marketing techniques to expand the Nuyorican Poets Cafe, and the other of which explored the topic of social media regulation.", "In 2018, \"The Wall Street Journal\" published three op-ed articles by Gallant; the first article examined the outsized cultural and economic power of Facebook's algorithms; the second article explored how poker strategy and game theory are relevant to social media success; and the third article discussed the flaws and repercussions of Facebook's censorship rules.", "In May 2020, the \"New York Daily News\" published an op-ed article by Gallant, about the challenges faced by small businesses and non-profits seeking emergency aid during the COVID-19 pandemic.", "Gallant was also featured in an April 2020 article in \"The Wall Street Journal\" about how small businesses have changed their strategies in order to survive during the COVID-19 pandemic, a July 2020 Politico article about how financial issues tied to the COVID-19 pandemic have endangered New York City's nightlife venues, a May 2020 Associated Press article about the gradual reopening of New York City and a July 2020 Time Out New York article that explored how the Nuyorican Poets Cafe is using online programs to amplify Black and Latinx artists during the shutdown.", "In June 2020, \"Literary Hub\" published an article by Gallant and Alejandro Heredia, about why New York City should support writers of color and cultural programs during the COVID-19 pandemic.", "Gallant was one of 10 American leaders to receive a 2016 Eisenhower Fellowship, as announced by Eisenhower Fellowships Chairman General Colin Powell in September 2015.", "With support from Eisenhower Fellowships, Gallant traveled to Japan and Spain in 2016 to study how his colleagues in those countries utilize arts programs to engage young people who are on the fringe of traditional educational and social structures.", "He also investigated creative ways to improve the financial sustainability of arts organizations.", "Gallant was one of 50 global arts leaders selected for the National Arts Strategies Chief Executive Program in 2013.", "Chief Executive Program members worked collectively to explore the cultural sector's critical challenges and develop best practices for the field.", "Under Gallant's leadership, the Nuyorican Poets Cafe was named one of 10 semifinalists for the fourth annual New York Times Nonprofit Excellence Awards.", "In 2015, Gallant was named to the Advisory Council and Adjudication Panel of the Field Leadership Fund.", "Gallant is also a founding board member of the non-profit organization Broadway Artists Connection.", "In 2016, the New York Foundation for the Arts published a two-part interview with Gallant about his work at the Nuyorican Poets Cafe.", "He served as a judge for The 13th and 14th Annual Independent Music Awards in 2014 and 2015, and his contributions helped assist the careers of rising independent artists.", "Gallant's plays and monologues have been published in four anthologies from Applause Books and an anthology from Vintage Books.", "In 2013, Gallant gave a speech that inducted Nuyorican Poets Cafe co-founder Miguel Piñero into the New York State Writers Hall of Fame.\nA 2013 article that Gallant wrote about arts entrepreneurship and the value of risk was published both online and in an anthology from Theatre Communications Group.", "In 2015, Howlround published an article by Gallant about the impact of arts pricing on gentrification and generational attitudes toward the arts.", "In 2015, the blog Shotgun Honey published Gallant's short noir story \"Faske and Ayao\".", "In 2014, Gallant's short story \"No Medals\" appeared in the blog BKNation.", "In 2017 and 2018, Gallant wrote reviews of the films Mayhem, Blindspotting and Operation Finale for the magazine Time Out New York.", "In summer 2008, Gallant's play \"Gerald's Method\" was produced twice in New York (at Center Stage and in the Midtown International Theatre Festival) and nominated by the New York Innovative Theatre Awards for best short script.", "Gallant's other short works have been staged at venues including Theater for the New City, the Cornelia Street Cafe and Mo Pitkins.", "Gallant's play \"A Felony in Blue or Death by Poker\" premiered at the Nuyorican Poets Cafe in 2011.", "The play featured a live game of Texas hold 'em, in which underworld characters compete for supremacy.", "Gallant has appeared as an actor in multiple productions, including Five Story Walkup, Josephine Undone and Gerald's Method." ]
In popular media
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[ "His writing has appeared in \"The Wall Street Journal\", \"Time Out\", the \"New York Daily News\" and the \"New York Post\".", "Forbes called Gallant a \"social media expert.\"" ]
ICL 20-20 Indian Championship 2008–09
[ "The 2008/09 season saw the introduction of a new team, the Dhaka Warriors.", "The season opener consisted of this calendar year's Edelweiss 20s Challenge finalists the Lahore Badshahs and the Hyderabad Heroes.", "Each winning teams gets 2,500,000 Rupees; while each Man of the match receives 200,000 Rupees, a trophy and an electric motobike.", "All the games were played at one of the following stadiums:\nLal Bahadur Shastri Stadium, Hyderabad, Telangana <br>\nSardar Vallabhbhai Patel Stadium, Ahmedabad, Gujarat <br>\nTau Devi Lal Stadium, Gurgaon, Haryana <br>\nTau Devi Lal Cricket Stadium, Panchkula, Haryana" ]
2008/09 season
[ 0, 1, 2 ]
[ "The league consisted of nine teams.", "Each team playing each other once." ]
ICL 20-20 Indian Championship 2008–09
[ "The 2008/09 season saw the introduction of a new team, the Dhaka Warriors.", "The season opener consisted of this calendar year's Edelweiss 20s Challenge finalists the Lahore Badshahs and the Hyderabad Heroes.", "Each winning teams gets 2,500,000 Rupees; while each Man of the match receives 200,000 Rupees, a trophy and an electric motobike.", "All the games were played at one of the following stadiums:\nLal Bahadur Shastri Stadium, Hyderabad, Telangana <br>\nSardar Vallabhbhai Patel Stadium, Ahmedabad, Gujarat <br>\nTau Devi Lal Stadium, Gurgaon, Haryana <br>\nTau Devi Lal Cricket Stadium, Panchkula, Haryana" ]
Venues
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[ "Each team playing each other once." ]
John Savage Bolles
[ "Born on June 25, 1905 in Berkeley, Bolles was the son of San Francisco architect Edward Grosvenor Bolles (1871–1939), who had arrived in the city in 1893.", "In 1926, Bolles graduated as a civil engineer from the University of Oklahoma, and graduated from Harvard University with a Master's degree in Architecture in 1932.", "During his Harvard years he pursued archeological work at the Medinet Habu site in Egypt under Uvo Hölscher, at the Cluny Abbey in France under Kenneth John Conant, a 1929 trip to Anatolia funded by the Rockefeller Foundation, and particularly at Chichen Itza, state of Yucatán, Mexico.", "In March 1935, Bolles married Mary Van de Water Piper, a Radcliffe student and daughter of William T. Piper of Piper Aircraft.", "Bolles returned to San Francisco and joined his father's firm in 1936.", "After his father's death in 1939, Bolles began a partnership with New Zealand immigrant architect Joseph Francis (or Francisco) Ward (1898–1970) to form Ward & Bolles.", "They began as collaborators in 1942 on two wartime housing projects, one in Marin City and one in Oakland.", "From 1943 to 1945, Bolles was project engineer for the Federal Public Housing Authority for San Francisco, where he worked with fellow architect Esther Baum Born acquiring properties for housing war-industry workers.", "After the war, he and Ward formalized their partnership and designed a series of private houses.", "In 1954 Bolles left the partnership and formed John S. Bolles Associates, which lasted until 1975 and did a variety of Bay Area commissions.", "All through his career, Bolles was \"a strong believer in the artistic embellishment of public buildings.\"", "For the 1939 fair he not only assisted his father, but also worked under the Spanish-American muralist Jose Moya del Pino on murals for the Temple of Religion and for the State Ballroom.", "Moya del Pino also painted a mural for the dining room of the Bolles residence on Lyon, and was engaged as color consultant for Bolles's Hanna School for Boys in 1952, a project which also incorporates sculpture by Ruth Cravath.", "Bolles insisted on integrated statuary at Candlestick Park and \"often was embroiled with staid municipal officials over questions of adornment.\"", "Unfortunately Bolles was one of four designers on a committee who approved the widely derided Vaillancourt Fountain on Embarcadero Plaza.", "John's son Peter joined then continued the firm beginning in the 1970s.", "Bolles was a member of San Francisco Urban Planning and Research, made a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects in 1963, was one-time president of the California Council of Architects, and was head of the San Francisco Art Association for many years before its dissolution in 1966.", "His most prominent single work, Candlestick Park stadium, was the subject of civic debate over its perceived design flaws.", "Its placement near the Pacific Ocean exposed players and fans to chilly temperatures, fog, dew, and particularly wind, all of which grew worse at night.", "Giants pitcher Stu Miller was blown off the pitcher's mound during the All Star Game of .", "Celebrity attorney Melvin Belli sued owner Horace Stoneham and the ballclub for the return of the price of his season tickets, worth just under $1600, proceedings which were heavily reported from jury selection to his victory.", "Bolles had included a boomerang-shaped concrete wind baffle in the original design, reportedly reduced in construction.", "After the park's expansion for the San Francisco 49ers football club in 1970, which Bolles also designed, the wind problems changed, but were no better.", "The architect \"heard a constant chorus of insults directed at his first and only stadium.\"", "According to his son Peter, \"I think Candlestick was his greatest pride and his greatest disappointment.", "He was thrilled to be able to do the project.", "But there was so much ugly press about it that I know it hurt him inside, a lot.", "\"", "Bolles's architectural work includes:" ]
Candlestick Park
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[ "He was most active in San Francisco, and the designer of Candlestick Park." ]
Indonesia–Vietnam border
[ "The Agreement between the Government of the Republic of Indonesia and the Government of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam concerning the delimitation of the Continental Shelf Boundary was signed on 26 June 2003 in Hanoi, Vietnam, by Indonesia's Foreign Minister Hasan Wirajuda and his Vietnamese counterpart Nguyen Dy Nien.", "The agreement defined the continental shelf boundary of the two countries as the imaginary straight line located between the two terminal points - namely Point 20 and Point 25 - of the 1969 continental shelf agreement between Indonesia and Malaysia with four turning points in between." ]
The border
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[ "The two countries signed an agreement to determine their continental shelf boundary on 26 June 2003 in Hanoi, Vietnam.\nAlthough located near, the border is not located in the Spratly Islands area and Indonesia does not have any claims over the islands." ]
Charles Zhang
[ "Charles Zhang was born in Xi'an, China.", "His parents were residential physicians at a small arsenal near Xi'an.", "His ancestors were from Henan.", "Zhang had been interested in science from a very young age.", "He studied at the Xi'an Qinghua middle school (西安庆华中学) and transferred to the Xi'an Middle School of Shaanxi Province.", "He excelled at school.", "Zhang was accepted to study physics at the prestigious Tsinghua University in Beijing and graduated in 1986.", "He then received a full CUSPEA scholarship to attend graduate school at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States.", "Zhang graduated from MIT in 1993 with a PhD in experimental physics.", "He then went on to serve as MIT's liaison officer for China.", "Soon after leaving MIT, Dr. Zhang joined Internet Securities Inc. (ISI) in November 1995 and returned to Beijing to establish the ISI China operation.", "While at ISI, Zhang quickly envisioned an Internet search engine company.", "In 1996 with the support of MIT Media Lab director Nicholas Negroponte and MIT Sloan School of Management professor Edward B. Roberts, as well as venture capital, Charles Zhang founded his own company, Internet Technologies China (ITC 爱特信公司).", "This was the first VC funding of a Chinese Internet company in history.", "In May 1997, after meeting Yahoo founder Jerry Yang, Zhang decided to transform ITC and change its name to Sohu.", "Sohu and its search engine quickly became a household name in China.", "Zhang managed to successfully conduct four mergers with other Chinese Internet companies to raise capital.", "On July 12, 2000, Sohu was listed to trade on NASDAQ - GS.", "During the dotcom crash in the early 2000s, Sohu's stock dropped below $1 USD, many board members and investors wanted to replace Zhang.", "But Zhang remained, and later he credited his non-confrontational style as a factor that helped him maintain his position.", "Today, Sohu is one of the leading Chinese Internet stocks, with a market value of around 2 billion dollars at around $45 USD per share.", "Internet community blogging and short-messaging service, which helped the company turn around and generate total revenues of $750 million in China in 2002, accounted for 48% of company's revenues in 2004 and 2006.", "In many occasions, Zhang mentions about hoping he can live till the age of 150.", "He believes that stress plays an important role in aging and if one practices yoga and understands Buddhism, he/she can be \"freed\" from stress, and so live till the age of 150.", "Zhang also enjoys mountaineering, he has been training on Mount Everest and has reached the height of 6,666 m above sea level, he hopes to scale the top of Everest one day.", "In April 2017, there was speculation that Zhang was dating Taylor Swift, \"America's number one singer\", but Zhang denied those rumors." ]
Founding of Sohu
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[ "Sohu Inc is listed to trade on NASDAQ and now has around 14,200 employees worldwide." ]
Bussen (film)
[ "The protagonist is a jovial bus driver, well beloved by his passengers, essentially the whole community around him.", "The bus, however, is old, and needs to be replaced.", "The bus driver himself is also needed as a handyman for all the people around him, assisting with stray cattle, household machines, children's homework, errands of all kinds, and at one occasion, assisting birth.", "Progress is however leaving him behind, and the local county council plots on a solution, involving a new bus and driver.", "The community revolts, and the local midwife (married to the mayor) intervenes with all the locals to keep the bus driver, who ends up keeping his job in a new bus.", "There are, however, some notable plot differences, mainly based on the casting of the main character.", "Leif Juster was older than Dirch Passer, and presents a calmer humour.", "Juster was turning 51, while Passer was 37 at the time of the respective shootings.", "Passer's interpretation is more Slapstick-based, and the Danish film is made in a more Chaplin-like tradition.", "The kind humanity of the chauffeur is more present in the Norwegian version.", "As Passer was younger, the element of romance is more central in the Danish version as well.", "In both films, the protagonist saves and cares for a small girl (Kaja - played by Synne Skouen, daughter of Arne Skouen in the Norwegian version), whose mother is falling to pieces.", "In the Danish version, Kaja is cared for by an older sister, who becomes a love interest for the protagonist.", "In the Norwegian version, the interactment is solely with Kaja, and the mother is passed off as a \"lost case\".", "The bus driver is said to have delivered Kaja in the bus, and promises to take care of her as a daughter.", "\"The man being there at birth is the truest father\", he says.", "This plot difference makes the romantic subplot lighter and softer, and the social criticism implied in the Norwegian version is toned down.", "Lars, the \"dumb muscle\" set up to be the driver of the new bus, is a regular \"mook\" in the Norwegian version, constantly getting into fights because of his physical strength, and urged on by his careless girlfriend Helga.", "The Danish version makes him an amateur boxer, working for the local smith.", "Danish Lars seems to be more happy in his situation than his Norwegian counterpart, who actually contemplates suicide because of his messy situation with Helga and the other youths.", "Norwegian Helga seems to be regarded as a \"get around girl\", and is passed off as such by Thorvald (and that is why Lars constantly is getting into fights).", "Danish Helga seems to be more sincere and proper (while still being a slight fanservice - something which also applies for Kaja`s older sister.", "Fanservice is not used in the Norwegian version).", "In the Danish version, Helga and Lars end up engaged, while the Norwegian Helga just breaks out and leaves for town.", "In Denmark, Helga is the daughter of the local sheriff, while she is working as the sheriff´s clerk in the Norwegian version (or actually addressed as \"deputy\" by the sheriff).", "The sheriff`s role is more pointed out in the Norwegian original.", "Here, he is on Thorvald`s side against the clerk all the way, and while working from inside the law, he also backs the public rebellion against the political leadership.", "In this way, the sheriff mirrors the historical role of the local lawman as a \"man of the people\" against the authorities.", "This trait could not be played out in the same way in Denmark.", "The philosophical traits of the driver (reading from the Bible and of Greek philosophers), is somewhat extended in Denmark, turning Martin into a self learned scientist with an astounding knowledge, making experiments in chemistry and physics.", "The staged public rebellion is played out differently in the two versions.", "While the Norwegian version has a regular rebellion against the municipality council, it is the Danish women who act on their own, using a Lysistrata gambit to get their case through.", "Only in the \"second phase\" do the men join the uprising.", "The party bickering between different political fractions inside the county council is actually exaggerated for comedy in the Danish version.", "The three moss collectors are not present in the Danish version.", "The moss collectors, earning their way by selling moss (for isolation, one presumes) and then spending their income on booze, serves as a kind of greek chorus in the film, and relates the background of Thorvald the driver.", "When he feels the community does not need him anymore, he yields to their wish and follows them to their \"natural habitat\" in the most reclusive part of the area.", "The three collectors talk and act as one, as two of them just repeat the words of the leader.", "The Norwegian version leans strongly on Eastern Norwegian dialect, somewhere between the old Oslo dialect and the closely related tongue of Romerike, which is the location of the film.", "The only person to speak regular bokmål is the antagonist, the county clerk (and some members of the council, equally sceptical until they are set straight).", "This language trait is lost in the Danish version.", "The bus driver is seen in his humble home, reading a passage about the greek philosopher Diogenes.", "As he reads, (sitting on a barrel and wearing a towel), he identifies himself with this philosopher, and relates his own version of Diogenes's words in his meeting with Alexander the Great: \"Move aside, so that the sun may shine on me\".", "He states that he would like to meet this man.", "Kaja, the girl Thorvald/Martin cares for, is rehearsing a poem for her homework.", "In the Norwegian version, this poem is written by Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson, while her Danish counterpart recites a known Christmas hymn by the Danish national poet N. F. S. Grundtvig.", "Lalla Carlsen and Leif Juster had already a long experience on working together at stage at this point, acting together in the comedic variety shows in Oslo since before World War II.", "While playing completely opposite roles in their respective films, Ove Sprogøe and Arve Opsahl both made a career as the same character some years later, namely Egon Olsen of the Olsen Gang.", "The bus used in the Norwegian version, driven by Juster, is a 1924 model Berliet with Norwegian built coachwork from A/S Skabo on a type CBOE chassis.", "It was originally used by the company A/S Ekebergbanen, from 1928 as a reserve and it was taken out of traffic in 1931.", "After being used in the film it was placed in a museum, since 1983 at the Sporveismuseet(Railroad museum) at Majorstuen, Oslo.", "In 2013 it was made driveable again and exhibited at an arrangement that took place in Oslo June 2013." ]
Plot
[ 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51 ]
[ "The plot and script is essentially the same in both films (and also a couple of names).", "The Danish version is made suitable for a Danish audience.", "The original main character was written for Leif Juster.", "At this point in his career, Juster was a popular movie actor." ]
Bussen (film)
[ "The protagonist is a jovial bus driver, well beloved by his passengers, essentially the whole community around him.", "The bus, however, is old, and needs to be replaced.", "The bus driver himself is also needed as a handyman for all the people around him, assisting with stray cattle, household machines, children's homework, errands of all kinds, and at one occasion, assisting birth.", "Progress is however leaving him behind, and the local county council plots on a solution, involving a new bus and driver.", "The community revolts, and the local midwife (married to the mayor) intervenes with all the locals to keep the bus driver, who ends up keeping his job in a new bus.", "There are, however, some notable plot differences, mainly based on the casting of the main character.", "Leif Juster was older than Dirch Passer, and presents a calmer humour.", "Juster was turning 51, while Passer was 37 at the time of the respective shootings.", "Passer's interpretation is more Slapstick-based, and the Danish film is made in a more Chaplin-like tradition.", "The kind humanity of the chauffeur is more present in the Norwegian version.", "As Passer was younger, the element of romance is more central in the Danish version as well.", "In both films, the protagonist saves and cares for a small girl (Kaja - played by Synne Skouen, daughter of Arne Skouen in the Norwegian version), whose mother is falling to pieces.", "In the Danish version, Kaja is cared for by an older sister, who becomes a love interest for the protagonist.", "In the Norwegian version, the interactment is solely with Kaja, and the mother is passed off as a \"lost case\".", "The bus driver is said to have delivered Kaja in the bus, and promises to take care of her as a daughter.", "\"The man being there at birth is the truest father\", he says.", "This plot difference makes the romantic subplot lighter and softer, and the social criticism implied in the Norwegian version is toned down.", "Lars, the \"dumb muscle\" set up to be the driver of the new bus, is a regular \"mook\" in the Norwegian version, constantly getting into fights because of his physical strength, and urged on by his careless girlfriend Helga.", "The Danish version makes him an amateur boxer, working for the local smith.", "Danish Lars seems to be more happy in his situation than his Norwegian counterpart, who actually contemplates suicide because of his messy situation with Helga and the other youths.", "Norwegian Helga seems to be regarded as a \"get around girl\", and is passed off as such by Thorvald (and that is why Lars constantly is getting into fights).", "Danish Helga seems to be more sincere and proper (while still being a slight fanservice - something which also applies for Kaja`s older sister.", "Fanservice is not used in the Norwegian version).", "In the Danish version, Helga and Lars end up engaged, while the Norwegian Helga just breaks out and leaves for town.", "In Denmark, Helga is the daughter of the local sheriff, while she is working as the sheriff´s clerk in the Norwegian version (or actually addressed as \"deputy\" by the sheriff).", "The sheriff`s role is more pointed out in the Norwegian original.", "Here, he is on Thorvald`s side against the clerk all the way, and while working from inside the law, he also backs the public rebellion against the political leadership.", "In this way, the sheriff mirrors the historical role of the local lawman as a \"man of the people\" against the authorities.", "This trait could not be played out in the same way in Denmark.", "The philosophical traits of the driver (reading from the Bible and of Greek philosophers), is somewhat extended in Denmark, turning Martin into a self learned scientist with an astounding knowledge, making experiments in chemistry and physics.", "The staged public rebellion is played out differently in the two versions.", "While the Norwegian version has a regular rebellion against the municipality council, it is the Danish women who act on their own, using a Lysistrata gambit to get their case through.", "Only in the \"second phase\" do the men join the uprising.", "The party bickering between different political fractions inside the county council is actually exaggerated for comedy in the Danish version.", "The three moss collectors are not present in the Danish version.", "The moss collectors, earning their way by selling moss (for isolation, one presumes) and then spending their income on booze, serves as a kind of greek chorus in the film, and relates the background of Thorvald the driver.", "When he feels the community does not need him anymore, he yields to their wish and follows them to their \"natural habitat\" in the most reclusive part of the area.", "The three collectors talk and act as one, as two of them just repeat the words of the leader.", "The Norwegian version leans strongly on Eastern Norwegian dialect, somewhere between the old Oslo dialect and the closely related tongue of Romerike, which is the location of the film.", "The only person to speak regular bokmål is the antagonist, the county clerk (and some members of the council, equally sceptical until they are set straight).", "This language trait is lost in the Danish version.", "The bus driver is seen in his humble home, reading a passage about the greek philosopher Diogenes.", "As he reads, (sitting on a barrel and wearing a towel), he identifies himself with this philosopher, and relates his own version of Diogenes's words in his meeting with Alexander the Great: \"Move aside, so that the sun may shine on me\".", "He states that he would like to meet this man.", "Kaja, the girl Thorvald/Martin cares for, is rehearsing a poem for her homework.", "In the Norwegian version, this poem is written by Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson, while her Danish counterpart recites a known Christmas hymn by the Danish national poet N. F. S. Grundtvig.", "Lalla Carlsen and Leif Juster had already a long experience on working together at stage at this point, acting together in the comedic variety shows in Oslo since before World War II.", "While playing completely opposite roles in their respective films, Ove Sprogøe and Arve Opsahl both made a career as the same character some years later, namely Egon Olsen of the Olsen Gang.", "The bus used in the Norwegian version, driven by Juster, is a 1924 model Berliet with Norwegian built coachwork from A/S Skabo on a type CBOE chassis.", "It was originally used by the company A/S Ekebergbanen, from 1928 as a reserve and it was taken out of traffic in 1931.", "After being used in the film it was placed in a museum, since 1983 at the Sporveismuseet(Railroad museum) at Majorstuen, Oslo.", "In 2013 it was made driveable again and exhibited at an arrangement that took place in Oslo June 2013." ]
Plot ; Differences
[ 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37 ]
[ "The original main character was written for Leif Juster." ]
Bussen (film)
[ "The protagonist is a jovial bus driver, well beloved by his passengers, essentially the whole community around him.", "The bus, however, is old, and needs to be replaced.", "The bus driver himself is also needed as a handyman for all the people around him, assisting with stray cattle, household machines, children's homework, errands of all kinds, and at one occasion, assisting birth.", "Progress is however leaving him behind, and the local county council plots on a solution, involving a new bus and driver.", "The community revolts, and the local midwife (married to the mayor) intervenes with all the locals to keep the bus driver, who ends up keeping his job in a new bus.", "There are, however, some notable plot differences, mainly based on the casting of the main character.", "Leif Juster was older than Dirch Passer, and presents a calmer humour.", "Juster was turning 51, while Passer was 37 at the time of the respective shootings.", "Passer's interpretation is more Slapstick-based, and the Danish film is made in a more Chaplin-like tradition.", "The kind humanity of the chauffeur is more present in the Norwegian version.", "As Passer was younger, the element of romance is more central in the Danish version as well.", "In both films, the protagonist saves and cares for a small girl (Kaja - played by Synne Skouen, daughter of Arne Skouen in the Norwegian version), whose mother is falling to pieces.", "In the Danish version, Kaja is cared for by an older sister, who becomes a love interest for the protagonist.", "In the Norwegian version, the interactment is solely with Kaja, and the mother is passed off as a \"lost case\".", "The bus driver is said to have delivered Kaja in the bus, and promises to take care of her as a daughter.", "\"The man being there at birth is the truest father\", he says.", "This plot difference makes the romantic subplot lighter and softer, and the social criticism implied in the Norwegian version is toned down.", "Lars, the \"dumb muscle\" set up to be the driver of the new bus, is a regular \"mook\" in the Norwegian version, constantly getting into fights because of his physical strength, and urged on by his careless girlfriend Helga.", "The Danish version makes him an amateur boxer, working for the local smith.", "Danish Lars seems to be more happy in his situation than his Norwegian counterpart, who actually contemplates suicide because of his messy situation with Helga and the other youths.", "Norwegian Helga seems to be regarded as a \"get around girl\", and is passed off as such by Thorvald (and that is why Lars constantly is getting into fights).", "Danish Helga seems to be more sincere and proper (while still being a slight fanservice - something which also applies for Kaja`s older sister.", "Fanservice is not used in the Norwegian version).", "In the Danish version, Helga and Lars end up engaged, while the Norwegian Helga just breaks out and leaves for town.", "In Denmark, Helga is the daughter of the local sheriff, while she is working as the sheriff´s clerk in the Norwegian version (or actually addressed as \"deputy\" by the sheriff).", "The sheriff`s role is more pointed out in the Norwegian original.", "Here, he is on Thorvald`s side against the clerk all the way, and while working from inside the law, he also backs the public rebellion against the political leadership.", "In this way, the sheriff mirrors the historical role of the local lawman as a \"man of the people\" against the authorities.", "This trait could not be played out in the same way in Denmark.", "The philosophical traits of the driver (reading from the Bible and of Greek philosophers), is somewhat extended in Denmark, turning Martin into a self learned scientist with an astounding knowledge, making experiments in chemistry and physics.", "The staged public rebellion is played out differently in the two versions.", "While the Norwegian version has a regular rebellion against the municipality council, it is the Danish women who act on their own, using a Lysistrata gambit to get their case through.", "Only in the \"second phase\" do the men join the uprising.", "The party bickering between different political fractions inside the county council is actually exaggerated for comedy in the Danish version.", "The three moss collectors are not present in the Danish version.", "The moss collectors, earning their way by selling moss (for isolation, one presumes) and then spending their income on booze, serves as a kind of greek chorus in the film, and relates the background of Thorvald the driver.", "When he feels the community does not need him anymore, he yields to their wish and follows them to their \"natural habitat\" in the most reclusive part of the area.", "The three collectors talk and act as one, as two of them just repeat the words of the leader.", "The Norwegian version leans strongly on Eastern Norwegian dialect, somewhere between the old Oslo dialect and the closely related tongue of Romerike, which is the location of the film.", "The only person to speak regular bokmål is the antagonist, the county clerk (and some members of the council, equally sceptical until they are set straight).", "This language trait is lost in the Danish version.", "The bus driver is seen in his humble home, reading a passage about the greek philosopher Diogenes.", "As he reads, (sitting on a barrel and wearing a towel), he identifies himself with this philosopher, and relates his own version of Diogenes's words in his meeting with Alexander the Great: \"Move aside, so that the sun may shine on me\".", "He states that he would like to meet this man.", "Kaja, the girl Thorvald/Martin cares for, is rehearsing a poem for her homework.", "In the Norwegian version, this poem is written by Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson, while her Danish counterpart recites a known Christmas hymn by the Danish national poet N. F. S. Grundtvig.", "Lalla Carlsen and Leif Juster had already a long experience on working together at stage at this point, acting together in the comedic variety shows in Oslo since before World War II.", "While playing completely opposite roles in their respective films, Ove Sprogøe and Arve Opsahl both made a career as the same character some years later, namely Egon Olsen of the Olsen Gang.", "The bus used in the Norwegian version, driven by Juster, is a 1924 model Berliet with Norwegian built coachwork from A/S Skabo on a type CBOE chassis.", "It was originally used by the company A/S Ekebergbanen, from 1928 as a reserve and it was taken out of traffic in 1931.", "After being used in the film it was placed in a museum, since 1983 at the Sporveismuseet(Railroad museum) at Majorstuen, Oslo.", "In 2013 it was made driveable again and exhibited at an arrangement that took place in Oslo June 2013." ]
Plot ; Literary reference in the film
[ 41, 42, 43, 44, 45 ]
[ "The Danish version is made suitable for a Danish audience." ]
Bussen (film)
[ "The protagonist is a jovial bus driver, well beloved by his passengers, essentially the whole community around him.", "The bus, however, is old, and needs to be replaced.", "The bus driver himself is also needed as a handyman for all the people around him, assisting with stray cattle, household machines, children's homework, errands of all kinds, and at one occasion, assisting birth.", "Progress is however leaving him behind, and the local county council plots on a solution, involving a new bus and driver.", "The community revolts, and the local midwife (married to the mayor) intervenes with all the locals to keep the bus driver, who ends up keeping his job in a new bus.", "There are, however, some notable plot differences, mainly based on the casting of the main character.", "Leif Juster was older than Dirch Passer, and presents a calmer humour.", "Juster was turning 51, while Passer was 37 at the time of the respective shootings.", "Passer's interpretation is more Slapstick-based, and the Danish film is made in a more Chaplin-like tradition.", "The kind humanity of the chauffeur is more present in the Norwegian version.", "As Passer was younger, the element of romance is more central in the Danish version as well.", "In both films, the protagonist saves and cares for a small girl (Kaja - played by Synne Skouen, daughter of Arne Skouen in the Norwegian version), whose mother is falling to pieces.", "In the Danish version, Kaja is cared for by an older sister, who becomes a love interest for the protagonist.", "In the Norwegian version, the interactment is solely with Kaja, and the mother is passed off as a \"lost case\".", "The bus driver is said to have delivered Kaja in the bus, and promises to take care of her as a daughter.", "\"The man being there at birth is the truest father\", he says.", "This plot difference makes the romantic subplot lighter and softer, and the social criticism implied in the Norwegian version is toned down.", "Lars, the \"dumb muscle\" set up to be the driver of the new bus, is a regular \"mook\" in the Norwegian version, constantly getting into fights because of his physical strength, and urged on by his careless girlfriend Helga.", "The Danish version makes him an amateur boxer, working for the local smith.", "Danish Lars seems to be more happy in his situation than his Norwegian counterpart, who actually contemplates suicide because of his messy situation with Helga and the other youths.", "Norwegian Helga seems to be regarded as a \"get around girl\", and is passed off as such by Thorvald (and that is why Lars constantly is getting into fights).", "Danish Helga seems to be more sincere and proper (while still being a slight fanservice - something which also applies for Kaja`s older sister.", "Fanservice is not used in the Norwegian version).", "In the Danish version, Helga and Lars end up engaged, while the Norwegian Helga just breaks out and leaves for town.", "In Denmark, Helga is the daughter of the local sheriff, while she is working as the sheriff´s clerk in the Norwegian version (or actually addressed as \"deputy\" by the sheriff).", "The sheriff`s role is more pointed out in the Norwegian original.", "Here, he is on Thorvald`s side against the clerk all the way, and while working from inside the law, he also backs the public rebellion against the political leadership.", "In this way, the sheriff mirrors the historical role of the local lawman as a \"man of the people\" against the authorities.", "This trait could not be played out in the same way in Denmark.", "The philosophical traits of the driver (reading from the Bible and of Greek philosophers), is somewhat extended in Denmark, turning Martin into a self learned scientist with an astounding knowledge, making experiments in chemistry and physics.", "The staged public rebellion is played out differently in the two versions.", "While the Norwegian version has a regular rebellion against the municipality council, it is the Danish women who act on their own, using a Lysistrata gambit to get their case through.", "Only in the \"second phase\" do the men join the uprising.", "The party bickering between different political fractions inside the county council is actually exaggerated for comedy in the Danish version.", "The three moss collectors are not present in the Danish version.", "The moss collectors, earning their way by selling moss (for isolation, one presumes) and then spending their income on booze, serves as a kind of greek chorus in the film, and relates the background of Thorvald the driver.", "When he feels the community does not need him anymore, he yields to their wish and follows them to their \"natural habitat\" in the most reclusive part of the area.", "The three collectors talk and act as one, as two of them just repeat the words of the leader.", "The Norwegian version leans strongly on Eastern Norwegian dialect, somewhere between the old Oslo dialect and the closely related tongue of Romerike, which is the location of the film.", "The only person to speak regular bokmål is the antagonist, the county clerk (and some members of the council, equally sceptical until they are set straight).", "This language trait is lost in the Danish version.", "The bus driver is seen in his humble home, reading a passage about the greek philosopher Diogenes.", "As he reads, (sitting on a barrel and wearing a towel), he identifies himself with this philosopher, and relates his own version of Diogenes's words in his meeting with Alexander the Great: \"Move aside, so that the sun may shine on me\".", "He states that he would like to meet this man.", "Kaja, the girl Thorvald/Martin cares for, is rehearsing a poem for her homework.", "In the Norwegian version, this poem is written by Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson, while her Danish counterpart recites a known Christmas hymn by the Danish national poet N. F. S. Grundtvig.", "Lalla Carlsen and Leif Juster had already a long experience on working together at stage at this point, acting together in the comedic variety shows in Oslo since before World War II.", "While playing completely opposite roles in their respective films, Ove Sprogøe and Arve Opsahl both made a career as the same character some years later, namely Egon Olsen of the Olsen Gang.", "The bus used in the Norwegian version, driven by Juster, is a 1924 model Berliet with Norwegian built coachwork from A/S Skabo on a type CBOE chassis.", "It was originally used by the company A/S Ekebergbanen, from 1928 as a reserve and it was taken out of traffic in 1931.", "After being used in the film it was placed in a museum, since 1983 at the Sporveismuseet(Railroad museum) at Majorstuen, Oslo.", "In 2013 it was made driveable again and exhibited at an arrangement that took place in Oslo June 2013." ]
Plot ; Notes on actors
[ 46, 47 ]
[ "At this point in his career, Juster was a popular movie actor." ]
Grade I listed buildings in Somerset
[ "Bath and North East Somerset (commonly referred to as BANES or B&NES) is a unitary authority created on 1 April 1996, following the abolition of the County of Avon.", "Bath and North East Somerset occupies an area of , two-thirds of which is green belt.", "BANES stretches from the outskirts of Bristol, south into the Mendip Hills and east to the southern Cotswold Hills and Wiltshire border.", "The city of Bath is the principal settlement in the district, but BANES also covers Keynsham, Midsomer Norton, Radstock and the Chew Valley.", "BANES has a population of 170,000, about half of whom live in Bath, making it 12 times more densely populated than the rest of the district.", "Bath and North East Somerset has 663 Grade I listed buildings, one of the highest concentrations in the country, covered by about 100 English Heritage listings.", "The oldest sites within Bath are the Roman Baths, for which the foundation piles and an irregular stone chamber lined with lead were built during the Roman occupation of Britain, although the current building is from the 18th century.", "Bath Abbey was a Norman church built on earlier foundations, although the present building dates from the early 16th century and shows a late Perpendicular style with flying buttresses and crocketed pinnacles decorating a crenellated and pierced parapet.", "The medieval era is represented by the remains of the city walls in Upper Borough Walls.", "Most of Bath's Grade I listed buildings are made from the local golden-coloured Bath Stone, and date from the 18th and 19th centuries.", "Their dominant architectural style is Georgian, which evolved from the Palladian revival style that became popular during the early 18th century.", "This led to the entire city's designation as a World Heritage Site.", "Much of the development, and many of the buildings, were the vision of John Wood, the Elder.", "The Circus is seen as the pinnacle of Wood's work.", "It consists of three long, curved terraces that form a circular space or theatre intended for civic functions and games.", "The games give a clue to the design, the inspiration for which was the Colosseum in Rome.", "The best known of Bath's terraces is the Royal Crescent, built between 1767 and 1774 and designed by Wood's son, John Wood, the Younger.", "Around 1770 the neoclassical architect Robert Adam designed Pulteney Bridge, a three-arched bridge spanning the Avon.", "He used as his prototype an original, but unused, design by Palladio for the Rialto Bridge in Venice.", "The heart of the Georgian city was the Pump Room, which together with its associated Lower Assembly Rooms was designed by Thomas Baldwin, a local builder responsible for many other buildings in the city, including the terraces in Argyle Street.", "Great Pulteney Street, where Baldwin eventually lived, is another of his works: this wide boulevard, constructed and over long and wide, is lined on both sides by Georgian terraces.", "Outside the city of Bath most of the Grade I listed buildings are Norman- or medieval-era churches.", "Manor houses such as Claverton Manor, which now houses the American Museum in Britain, and the 18th-century Newton Park, which has a landscape garden designed by Capability Brown, also appear in the list; Newton Park now forms part of the Bath Spa University.", "There is also Grade I listed canal architecture outside the city, such as Dundas Aqueduct and Claverton Pumping Station, both designed by John Rennie.", "The most recent building is the agricultural Eastwood Manor Farm Steading, completed in 1860.", "Mendip is a local government district which covers a largely rural area of ranging from the Mendip Hills through on to the Somerset Levels.", "It has a population of approximately 11,000.", "The administrative centre of the district is Shepton Mallet.\nThere are 90 Grade I listed buildings in the Mendip district.", "There are churches in the various towns and villages, however the greatest concentrations of Grade I listed buildings are in Wells and Glastonbury.", "In Wells these are clustered around the 10th-century Cathedral Church of St Andrew, better known as Wells Cathedral, and the 13th-century Bishop's Palace.", "Glastonbury is the site of the Abbey, where construction started in the 7th century, and its associated buildings.", "The ruined St Michael's church, itself replacing the one destroyed in an earthquake of 1275, stands on Glastonbury Tor, where the site shows evidence of occupation from Neolithic times and the Dark Ages.", "The Chalice Well has been in use since Pre-Christian times.", "Glastonbury Abbey had a wider influence outside the town: tithe barns were built at Pilton and West Bradley to hold tithes, and a Fish House was built at Meare along with a summer residence for the Abbot (now Manor Farmhouse).", "Medieval structures include Farleigh Hungerford Castle, fortified around 1370, and The George Inn at Norton St Philip, used as an army headquarters during the Monmouth Rebellion in 1685, and then as a courtroom to try the rebels in the Bloody Assizes.", "Manor houses such as the 15th-century Seymours Court Farmhouse at Beckington and The Old Manor at Croscombe.", "Mells Manor followed in the 16th century and in the 17th century Southill House in Cranmore was built.", "Ston Easton Park and Ammerdown House in Kilmersdon were both completed in the 18th century.", "The most recent buildings included in the list are churches: the Church of St Peter at Hornblotton, built in 1872–74 by Sir Thomas Graham Jackson to replace a medieval church on the same site, and Downside Abbey at Stratton-on-the-Fosse, more formally known as \"The Basilica of St Gregory the Great at Downside\", a Roman Catholic Benedictine monastery and the Senior House of the English Benedictine Congregation.", "The current buildings were started in the 19th century and are still unfinished.", "North Somerset is a unitary authority which is administered independently of the non-metropolitan county of Somerset.", "Its administrative headquarters are located in the town hall of Weston-super-Mare, and has a resident population of 193,000 living in 85,000 households.", "There are 37 Grade I listed buildings in North Somerset, including the Clifton Suspension Bridge, which joins North Somerset to Bristol and Clevedon Pier which was built between the 1860s and 1890s.", "It was removed following damage in 1970 and restored, before being rebuilt and reopened to the public in 1998.", "Of the listed buildings, manor houses are well represented.", "They include Clevedon Court, built in the 14th century, and from the 15th century, Ashton Court and Nailsea Court.", "North Somerset has many religious structures; the largest number are from the Norman or medieval eras.", "The oldest is the Church of St. Quiricus and St. Julietta in Tickenham which dates from the 11th century, and there are 8 others from the 12th century.\nThe most recent Grade I building in North Somerset is Tyntesfield, a Victorian Gothic Revival estate near Wraxall.", "It was acquired by the National Trust in June 2002 after a fund raising campaign to prevent its being sold to private interests and ensure it be opened to the public.", "The appeal by the National Trust collected £8.2 million from the public in just 100 days and the Trust also received the largest single grant ever by the National Heritage Memorial Fund (at £17.4 million), which caused some controversy.", "The house is built of Bath stone, and is highly picturesque, bristling with turrets and possessing an elaborate roof.", "Sedgemoor district is a low-lying area of land close to sea level between the Quantock and Mendip hills, historically largely marsh (or moor).", "It contains the bulk of the area also known as the Somerset Levels, including Europe's oldest known engineered roadway, the Sweet Track.", "There are 53 Grade I listed buildings in Sedgemoor, 14 of which are in Castle Street, Bridgwater.", "In 1834, Castle Street was built on the site of the demolished Bridgwater Castle, as homes for the merchants trading in the town's port.", "Outside the town of Bridgwater, the largest concentration of Grade I listed buildings are in the village of Cannington, where the 12th-century Cannington Court and 14th-century Church of St Mary were both associated with a Benedictine nunnery.", "Cannington is also the site of the 13th-century Gurney Manor and Blackmoor Farmhouse, which was built around 1480 with its own chapel.", "Although 11th-century churches such as the Church of St Michael at Brent Knoll and the Church of St Mary at Charlynch near Spaxton are still standing only blue lias rubble walling standing on a conical earthwork with a ditch approximately in circumference are the only remains of Stowey Castle which was destroyed in the 15th century, which may have been as a penalty for the local Lord Audley's involvement in the Second Cornish Uprising of 1497 led by Perkin Warbeck.", "Many of the more recent structures in the list are manor houses such as Halswell House, where the south range was built in the 16th century for Sir Nicholas Halswell and the main north range in 1689 for Sir Halswell Tynte.", "The most recently constructed building in the list is the Corn Exchange in Bridgwater, built in 1834.", "The South Somerset district occupies an area of , stretching from its borders with Devon and Dorset to the edge of the Somerset Levels.", "The district has a population of about 158,000, and has Yeovil as its administrative centre.", "There are 94 Grade I listed buildings in South Somerset.", "Most are Norman- or medieval-era churches, but there are other religious buildings as well.", "Muchelney Abbey consists of the remains and foundations of a medieval Benedictine Abbey and an early Tudor house dating from the 16th century, formerly the lodgings of the resident abbot.", "Stavordale Priory was built as a priory church in the 13th century and was converted into a private residence in 1533.", "The Hamstone Stoke sub Hamdon Priory is a 14th-century former priest's house of the chantry chapel of St Nicholas, which after 1518 become a farm known as Parsonage Farmhouse.", "It remained a farm until about 1960, and has been owned by the National Trust since 1946.", "Since the Reformation the 13th-century Hanging Chapel in Langport has been a town hall, courthouse, grammar school, museum, and armoury before becoming a masonic hall in 1891.", "The house known as The Abbey in Charlton Mackrell takes its name from the site on which it was built, the Chantry Chapel of the Holy Spirit, founded in 1237.", "Naish Priory, built around 1400 in East Coker, was never a priory, and similarly the Abbey Farm House and Abbey Barn in Yeovil which date from around 1420, have always been in lay-ownership; \"abbey\" was added to their names in the 19th century.", "The Burton Pynsent Monument was designed in 1767, by Capability Brown for William Pitt, as a monument to Sir William Pynsent, Bt.", "King Alfred's Tower, a high, triangular edifice, stands near Egbert's stone, where it is believed that Alfred the Great, King of Wessex, rallied the Saxons in May 878 before the Battle of Ethandun.", "The towers funder, Henry Hoare, planned for it to commemorate the end of the Seven Years' War against France and the accession of King George III.", "The other Grade I listed buildings in South Somerset are manor houses, built over long periods by local Lords of the Manor.", "The Tudor Barrington Court was the first country house acquired by the National Trust, in 1907, on the recommendation of the antiquarian Canon Hardwicke Rawnsley.", "Newton Surmaville was built between 1608 and 1612 for Robert Harbin, a Yeovil merchant, on the site of an earlier building, but was extensively altered and enhanced in the 1870s.", "Lytes Cary and its associated chapel and gardens have parts dating to as early as the 14th century.", "The architectural historian Nikolaus Pevsner praised it, saying \"Yet all parts blend to perfection with one another and with the gentle sunny landscape that surrounds them.\"", "The 17th-century house at Tintinhull is surrounded by a small 20th-century Arts and Crafts garden.", "Ven House, which stands on an artificially raised terrace, has a rectangular plan of seven bays by five bays, and is built of red brick in Flemish bond, with local Hamstone dressings; its north and south fronts are divided by two giant Corinthian pilasters.", "The small William and Mary style house was completed sometime between 1698 and 1700.", "It was enlarged between 1725 and 1730 by Decimus Burton, who provided a new drawing-room for Sir W. Medleycott and also an orangery attached to the house.", "Brympton d'Evercy, built in stages between about 1220 and the 18th century, has been described, by Auberon Waugh, as \"the most beautiful house in England\".", "Taunton Deane has borough status.", "The district of Taunton Deane covers a population of approximately 100,000 in an area of .", "It is centred on the town of Taunton, where around 60,000 of the population live and the council are based, and includes surrounding suburbs and villages.", "There are 38 Grade I listed buildings in Taunton Deane.", "The oldest buildings are churches built before the end of the 12th century, and the Castle Bow, which has been incorporated into the Castle Hotel in Taunton but was originally a gateway into Taunton Castle.", "The castle was created between 1107 and 1129, when William Giffard, the Chancellor of King Henry I, fortified the bishop's hall.", "Taunton is also the site of Gray's Almshouses, which dates from 1635, and two buildings in Fore Street from the 16th century.", "Many of the more recent structures in the list are manor houses such as Cothay Manor and Greenham Barton which were built in Stawley in the 15th century.", "Poundisford Park and Cothelstone Manor were both built in the 16th century and Hatch Court in 1755.", "The most recent building included in the list is in the Quantock Hills.", "The original 16th century Hestercombe House, was rebuilt in 1909.", "In addition to being a listed building the estate is designated Grade I on the English Heritage Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England.", "The house was used as the headquarters of the British 8th Corps in the Second World War, and has been owned by Somerset County Council since 1951.", "It is used as an administrative centre and is the current base for the Devon and Somerset Fire and Rescue Service.", "The West Somerset local government district covers a largely rural area, including parts of Exmoor, with a population, according to the 2011 census, of 35,300 in an area of .", "The largest centres of population are the coastal towns of Minehead and Watchet.", "The council's administrative headquarters are in the village of Williton.", "There are 33 Grade I listed buildings in West Somerset.", "The oldest is either Culbone Church, one of the smallest churches in England, and pre-Norman in origin, or Tarr Steps, which may originate in the Bronze Age, although other sources date them from around 1400.", "Dunster has the greatest concentration of Grade I listed buildings, including Dunster Castle, which was built in 1617 on a site which had supported a castle for the previous 600 years; the Yarn Market, which was built in 1609; Gallox Bridge, which dates from the 15th century and the Priory Church of St George which is predominately from the 15th century but includes part of the earlier church on the same site.", "Other sites include manor houses such as the medieval buildings at Nettlecombe Court and Orchard Wyndham." ]
Bath and North East Somerset
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[ "The Grade I listed buildings in Somerset, England, demonstrate the history and diversity of its architecture.", "The two administratively independent unitary authorities, which were established on 1 April 1996 following the breakup of the county of Avon, are North Somerset and Bath and North East Somerset.", "These unitary authorities include areas that were once part of Somerset before the creation of Avon in 1974.", "Most of Bath's Grade I listed buildings are made from the local golden-coloured Bath Stone, and date from the 18th and 19th centuries.", "Their dominant architectural style is Georgian." ]
Grade I listed buildings in Somerset
[ "Bath and North East Somerset (commonly referred to as BANES or B&NES) is a unitary authority created on 1 April 1996, following the abolition of the County of Avon.", "Bath and North East Somerset occupies an area of , two-thirds of which is green belt.", "BANES stretches from the outskirts of Bristol, south into the Mendip Hills and east to the southern Cotswold Hills and Wiltshire border.", "The city of Bath is the principal settlement in the district, but BANES also covers Keynsham, Midsomer Norton, Radstock and the Chew Valley.", "BANES has a population of 170,000, about half of whom live in Bath, making it 12 times more densely populated than the rest of the district.", "Bath and North East Somerset has 663 Grade I listed buildings, one of the highest concentrations in the country, covered by about 100 English Heritage listings.", "The oldest sites within Bath are the Roman Baths, for which the foundation piles and an irregular stone chamber lined with lead were built during the Roman occupation of Britain, although the current building is from the 18th century.", "Bath Abbey was a Norman church built on earlier foundations, although the present building dates from the early 16th century and shows a late Perpendicular style with flying buttresses and crocketed pinnacles decorating a crenellated and pierced parapet.", "The medieval era is represented by the remains of the city walls in Upper Borough Walls.", "Most of Bath's Grade I listed buildings are made from the local golden-coloured Bath Stone, and date from the 18th and 19th centuries.", "Their dominant architectural style is Georgian, which evolved from the Palladian revival style that became popular during the early 18th century.", "This led to the entire city's designation as a World Heritage Site.", "Much of the development, and many of the buildings, were the vision of John Wood, the Elder.", "The Circus is seen as the pinnacle of Wood's work.", "It consists of three long, curved terraces that form a circular space or theatre intended for civic functions and games.", "The games give a clue to the design, the inspiration for which was the Colosseum in Rome.", "The best known of Bath's terraces is the Royal Crescent, built between 1767 and 1774 and designed by Wood's son, John Wood, the Younger.", "Around 1770 the neoclassical architect Robert Adam designed Pulteney Bridge, a three-arched bridge spanning the Avon.", "He used as his prototype an original, but unused, design by Palladio for the Rialto Bridge in Venice.", "The heart of the Georgian city was the Pump Room, which together with its associated Lower Assembly Rooms was designed by Thomas Baldwin, a local builder responsible for many other buildings in the city, including the terraces in Argyle Street.", "Great Pulteney Street, where Baldwin eventually lived, is another of his works: this wide boulevard, constructed and over long and wide, is lined on both sides by Georgian terraces.", "Outside the city of Bath most of the Grade I listed buildings are Norman- or medieval-era churches.", "Manor houses such as Claverton Manor, which now houses the American Museum in Britain, and the 18th-century Newton Park, which has a landscape garden designed by Capability Brown, also appear in the list; Newton Park now forms part of the Bath Spa University.", "There is also Grade I listed canal architecture outside the city, such as Dundas Aqueduct and Claverton Pumping Station, both designed by John Rennie.", "The most recent building is the agricultural Eastwood Manor Farm Steading, completed in 1860.", "Mendip is a local government district which covers a largely rural area of ranging from the Mendip Hills through on to the Somerset Levels.", "It has a population of approximately 11,000.", "The administrative centre of the district is Shepton Mallet.\nThere are 90 Grade I listed buildings in the Mendip district.", "There are churches in the various towns and villages, however the greatest concentrations of Grade I listed buildings are in Wells and Glastonbury.", "In Wells these are clustered around the 10th-century Cathedral Church of St Andrew, better known as Wells Cathedral, and the 13th-century Bishop's Palace.", "Glastonbury is the site of the Abbey, where construction started in the 7th century, and its associated buildings.", "The ruined St Michael's church, itself replacing the one destroyed in an earthquake of 1275, stands on Glastonbury Tor, where the site shows evidence of occupation from Neolithic times and the Dark Ages.", "The Chalice Well has been in use since Pre-Christian times.", "Glastonbury Abbey had a wider influence outside the town: tithe barns were built at Pilton and West Bradley to hold tithes, and a Fish House was built at Meare along with a summer residence for the Abbot (now Manor Farmhouse).", "Medieval structures include Farleigh Hungerford Castle, fortified around 1370, and The George Inn at Norton St Philip, used as an army headquarters during the Monmouth Rebellion in 1685, and then as a courtroom to try the rebels in the Bloody Assizes.", "Manor houses such as the 15th-century Seymours Court Farmhouse at Beckington and The Old Manor at Croscombe.", "Mells Manor followed in the 16th century and in the 17th century Southill House in Cranmore was built.", "Ston Easton Park and Ammerdown House in Kilmersdon were both completed in the 18th century.", "The most recent buildings included in the list are churches: the Church of St Peter at Hornblotton, built in 1872–74 by Sir Thomas Graham Jackson to replace a medieval church on the same site, and Downside Abbey at Stratton-on-the-Fosse, more formally known as \"The Basilica of St Gregory the Great at Downside\", a Roman Catholic Benedictine monastery and the Senior House of the English Benedictine Congregation.", "The current buildings were started in the 19th century and are still unfinished.", "North Somerset is a unitary authority which is administered independently of the non-metropolitan county of Somerset.", "Its administrative headquarters are located in the town hall of Weston-super-Mare, and has a resident population of 193,000 living in 85,000 households.", "There are 37 Grade I listed buildings in North Somerset, including the Clifton Suspension Bridge, which joins North Somerset to Bristol and Clevedon Pier which was built between the 1860s and 1890s.", "It was removed following damage in 1970 and restored, before being rebuilt and reopened to the public in 1998.", "Of the listed buildings, manor houses are well represented.", "They include Clevedon Court, built in the 14th century, and from the 15th century, Ashton Court and Nailsea Court.", "North Somerset has many religious structures; the largest number are from the Norman or medieval eras.", "The oldest is the Church of St. Quiricus and St. Julietta in Tickenham which dates from the 11th century, and there are 8 others from the 12th century.\nThe most recent Grade I building in North Somerset is Tyntesfield, a Victorian Gothic Revival estate near Wraxall.", "It was acquired by the National Trust in June 2002 after a fund raising campaign to prevent its being sold to private interests and ensure it be opened to the public.", "The appeal by the National Trust collected £8.2 million from the public in just 100 days and the Trust also received the largest single grant ever by the National Heritage Memorial Fund (at £17.4 million), which caused some controversy.", "The house is built of Bath stone, and is highly picturesque, bristling with turrets and possessing an elaborate roof.", "Sedgemoor district is a low-lying area of land close to sea level between the Quantock and Mendip hills, historically largely marsh (or moor).", "It contains the bulk of the area also known as the Somerset Levels, including Europe's oldest known engineered roadway, the Sweet Track.", "There are 53 Grade I listed buildings in Sedgemoor, 14 of which are in Castle Street, Bridgwater.", "In 1834, Castle Street was built on the site of the demolished Bridgwater Castle, as homes for the merchants trading in the town's port.", "Outside the town of Bridgwater, the largest concentration of Grade I listed buildings are in the village of Cannington, where the 12th-century Cannington Court and 14th-century Church of St Mary were both associated with a Benedictine nunnery.", "Cannington is also the site of the 13th-century Gurney Manor and Blackmoor Farmhouse, which was built around 1480 with its own chapel.", "Although 11th-century churches such as the Church of St Michael at Brent Knoll and the Church of St Mary at Charlynch near Spaxton are still standing only blue lias rubble walling standing on a conical earthwork with a ditch approximately in circumference are the only remains of Stowey Castle which was destroyed in the 15th century, which may have been as a penalty for the local Lord Audley's involvement in the Second Cornish Uprising of 1497 led by Perkin Warbeck.", "Many of the more recent structures in the list are manor houses such as Halswell House, where the south range was built in the 16th century for Sir Nicholas Halswell and the main north range in 1689 for Sir Halswell Tynte.", "The most recently constructed building in the list is the Corn Exchange in Bridgwater, built in 1834.", "The South Somerset district occupies an area of , stretching from its borders with Devon and Dorset to the edge of the Somerset Levels.", "The district has a population of about 158,000, and has Yeovil as its administrative centre.", "There are 94 Grade I listed buildings in South Somerset.", "Most are Norman- or medieval-era churches, but there are other religious buildings as well.", "Muchelney Abbey consists of the remains and foundations of a medieval Benedictine Abbey and an early Tudor house dating from the 16th century, formerly the lodgings of the resident abbot.", "Stavordale Priory was built as a priory church in the 13th century and was converted into a private residence in 1533.", "The Hamstone Stoke sub Hamdon Priory is a 14th-century former priest's house of the chantry chapel of St Nicholas, which after 1518 become a farm known as Parsonage Farmhouse.", "It remained a farm until about 1960, and has been owned by the National Trust since 1946.", "Since the Reformation the 13th-century Hanging Chapel in Langport has been a town hall, courthouse, grammar school, museum, and armoury before becoming a masonic hall in 1891.", "The house known as The Abbey in Charlton Mackrell takes its name from the site on which it was built, the Chantry Chapel of the Holy Spirit, founded in 1237.", "Naish Priory, built around 1400 in East Coker, was never a priory, and similarly the Abbey Farm House and Abbey Barn in Yeovil which date from around 1420, have always been in lay-ownership; \"abbey\" was added to their names in the 19th century.", "The Burton Pynsent Monument was designed in 1767, by Capability Brown for William Pitt, as a monument to Sir William Pynsent, Bt.", "King Alfred's Tower, a high, triangular edifice, stands near Egbert's stone, where it is believed that Alfred the Great, King of Wessex, rallied the Saxons in May 878 before the Battle of Ethandun.", "The towers funder, Henry Hoare, planned for it to commemorate the end of the Seven Years' War against France and the accession of King George III.", "The other Grade I listed buildings in South Somerset are manor houses, built over long periods by local Lords of the Manor.", "The Tudor Barrington Court was the first country house acquired by the National Trust, in 1907, on the recommendation of the antiquarian Canon Hardwicke Rawnsley.", "Newton Surmaville was built between 1608 and 1612 for Robert Harbin, a Yeovil merchant, on the site of an earlier building, but was extensively altered and enhanced in the 1870s.", "Lytes Cary and its associated chapel and gardens have parts dating to as early as the 14th century.", "The architectural historian Nikolaus Pevsner praised it, saying \"Yet all parts blend to perfection with one another and with the gentle sunny landscape that surrounds them.\"", "The 17th-century house at Tintinhull is surrounded by a small 20th-century Arts and Crafts garden.", "Ven House, which stands on an artificially raised terrace, has a rectangular plan of seven bays by five bays, and is built of red brick in Flemish bond, with local Hamstone dressings; its north and south fronts are divided by two giant Corinthian pilasters.", "The small William and Mary style house was completed sometime between 1698 and 1700.", "It was enlarged between 1725 and 1730 by Decimus Burton, who provided a new drawing-room for Sir W. Medleycott and also an orangery attached to the house.", "Brympton d'Evercy, built in stages between about 1220 and the 18th century, has been described, by Auberon Waugh, as \"the most beautiful house in England\".", "Taunton Deane has borough status.", "The district of Taunton Deane covers a population of approximately 100,000 in an area of .", "It is centred on the town of Taunton, where around 60,000 of the population live and the council are based, and includes surrounding suburbs and villages.", "There are 38 Grade I listed buildings in Taunton Deane.", "The oldest buildings are churches built before the end of the 12th century, and the Castle Bow, which has been incorporated into the Castle Hotel in Taunton but was originally a gateway into Taunton Castle.", "The castle was created between 1107 and 1129, when William Giffard, the Chancellor of King Henry I, fortified the bishop's hall.", "Taunton is also the site of Gray's Almshouses, which dates from 1635, and two buildings in Fore Street from the 16th century.", "Many of the more recent structures in the list are manor houses such as Cothay Manor and Greenham Barton which were built in Stawley in the 15th century.", "Poundisford Park and Cothelstone Manor were both built in the 16th century and Hatch Court in 1755.", "The most recent building included in the list is in the Quantock Hills.", "The original 16th century Hestercombe House, was rebuilt in 1909.", "In addition to being a listed building the estate is designated Grade I on the English Heritage Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England.", "The house was used as the headquarters of the British 8th Corps in the Second World War, and has been owned by Somerset County Council since 1951.", "It is used as an administrative centre and is the current base for the Devon and Somerset Fire and Rescue Service.", "The West Somerset local government district covers a largely rural area, including parts of Exmoor, with a population, according to the 2011 census, of 35,300 in an area of .", "The largest centres of population are the coastal towns of Minehead and Watchet.", "The council's administrative headquarters are in the village of Williton.", "There are 33 Grade I listed buildings in West Somerset.", "The oldest is either Culbone Church, one of the smallest churches in England, and pre-Norman in origin, or Tarr Steps, which may originate in the Bronze Age, although other sources date them from around 1400.", "Dunster has the greatest concentration of Grade I listed buildings, including Dunster Castle, which was built in 1617 on a site which had supported a castle for the previous 600 years; the Yarn Market, which was built in 1609; Gallox Bridge, which dates from the 15th century and the Priory Church of St George which is predominately from the 15th century but includes part of the earlier church on the same site.", "Other sites include manor houses such as the medieval buildings at Nettlecombe Court and Orchard Wyndham." ]
Mendip
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[ "In the Mendip district, the greatest concentrations of these cluster around the cathedral and abbey in Wells and in Glastonbury." ]
Grade I listed buildings in Somerset
[ "Bath and North East Somerset (commonly referred to as BANES or B&NES) is a unitary authority created on 1 April 1996, following the abolition of the County of Avon.", "Bath and North East Somerset occupies an area of , two-thirds of which is green belt.", "BANES stretches from the outskirts of Bristol, south into the Mendip Hills and east to the southern Cotswold Hills and Wiltshire border.", "The city of Bath is the principal settlement in the district, but BANES also covers Keynsham, Midsomer Norton, Radstock and the Chew Valley.", "BANES has a population of 170,000, about half of whom live in Bath, making it 12 times more densely populated than the rest of the district.", "Bath and North East Somerset has 663 Grade I listed buildings, one of the highest concentrations in the country, covered by about 100 English Heritage listings.", "The oldest sites within Bath are the Roman Baths, for which the foundation piles and an irregular stone chamber lined with lead were built during the Roman occupation of Britain, although the current building is from the 18th century.", "Bath Abbey was a Norman church built on earlier foundations, although the present building dates from the early 16th century and shows a late Perpendicular style with flying buttresses and crocketed pinnacles decorating a crenellated and pierced parapet.", "The medieval era is represented by the remains of the city walls in Upper Borough Walls.", "Most of Bath's Grade I listed buildings are made from the local golden-coloured Bath Stone, and date from the 18th and 19th centuries.", "Their dominant architectural style is Georgian, which evolved from the Palladian revival style that became popular during the early 18th century.", "This led to the entire city's designation as a World Heritage Site.", "Much of the development, and many of the buildings, were the vision of John Wood, the Elder.", "The Circus is seen as the pinnacle of Wood's work.", "It consists of three long, curved terraces that form a circular space or theatre intended for civic functions and games.", "The games give a clue to the design, the inspiration for which was the Colosseum in Rome.", "The best known of Bath's terraces is the Royal Crescent, built between 1767 and 1774 and designed by Wood's son, John Wood, the Younger.", "Around 1770 the neoclassical architect Robert Adam designed Pulteney Bridge, a three-arched bridge spanning the Avon.", "He used as his prototype an original, but unused, design by Palladio for the Rialto Bridge in Venice.", "The heart of the Georgian city was the Pump Room, which together with its associated Lower Assembly Rooms was designed by Thomas Baldwin, a local builder responsible for many other buildings in the city, including the terraces in Argyle Street.", "Great Pulteney Street, where Baldwin eventually lived, is another of his works: this wide boulevard, constructed and over long and wide, is lined on both sides by Georgian terraces.", "Outside the city of Bath most of the Grade I listed buildings are Norman- or medieval-era churches.", "Manor houses such as Claverton Manor, which now houses the American Museum in Britain, and the 18th-century Newton Park, which has a landscape garden designed by Capability Brown, also appear in the list; Newton Park now forms part of the Bath Spa University.", "There is also Grade I listed canal architecture outside the city, such as Dundas Aqueduct and Claverton Pumping Station, both designed by John Rennie.", "The most recent building is the agricultural Eastwood Manor Farm Steading, completed in 1860.", "Mendip is a local government district which covers a largely rural area of ranging from the Mendip Hills through on to the Somerset Levels.", "It has a population of approximately 11,000.", "The administrative centre of the district is Shepton Mallet.\nThere are 90 Grade I listed buildings in the Mendip district.", "There are churches in the various towns and villages, however the greatest concentrations of Grade I listed buildings are in Wells and Glastonbury.", "In Wells these are clustered around the 10th-century Cathedral Church of St Andrew, better known as Wells Cathedral, and the 13th-century Bishop's Palace.", "Glastonbury is the site of the Abbey, where construction started in the 7th century, and its associated buildings.", "The ruined St Michael's church, itself replacing the one destroyed in an earthquake of 1275, stands on Glastonbury Tor, where the site shows evidence of occupation from Neolithic times and the Dark Ages.", "The Chalice Well has been in use since Pre-Christian times.", "Glastonbury Abbey had a wider influence outside the town: tithe barns were built at Pilton and West Bradley to hold tithes, and a Fish House was built at Meare along with a summer residence for the Abbot (now Manor Farmhouse).", "Medieval structures include Farleigh Hungerford Castle, fortified around 1370, and The George Inn at Norton St Philip, used as an army headquarters during the Monmouth Rebellion in 1685, and then as a courtroom to try the rebels in the Bloody Assizes.", "Manor houses such as the 15th-century Seymours Court Farmhouse at Beckington and The Old Manor at Croscombe.", "Mells Manor followed in the 16th century and in the 17th century Southill House in Cranmore was built.", "Ston Easton Park and Ammerdown House in Kilmersdon were both completed in the 18th century.", "The most recent buildings included in the list are churches: the Church of St Peter at Hornblotton, built in 1872–74 by Sir Thomas Graham Jackson to replace a medieval church on the same site, and Downside Abbey at Stratton-on-the-Fosse, more formally known as \"The Basilica of St Gregory the Great at Downside\", a Roman Catholic Benedictine monastery and the Senior House of the English Benedictine Congregation.", "The current buildings were started in the 19th century and are still unfinished.", "North Somerset is a unitary authority which is administered independently of the non-metropolitan county of Somerset.", "Its administrative headquarters are located in the town hall of Weston-super-Mare, and has a resident population of 193,000 living in 85,000 households.", "There are 37 Grade I listed buildings in North Somerset, including the Clifton Suspension Bridge, which joins North Somerset to Bristol and Clevedon Pier which was built between the 1860s and 1890s.", "It was removed following damage in 1970 and restored, before being rebuilt and reopened to the public in 1998.", "Of the listed buildings, manor houses are well represented.", "They include Clevedon Court, built in the 14th century, and from the 15th century, Ashton Court and Nailsea Court.", "North Somerset has many religious structures; the largest number are from the Norman or medieval eras.", "The oldest is the Church of St. Quiricus and St. Julietta in Tickenham which dates from the 11th century, and there are 8 others from the 12th century.\nThe most recent Grade I building in North Somerset is Tyntesfield, a Victorian Gothic Revival estate near Wraxall.", "It was acquired by the National Trust in June 2002 after a fund raising campaign to prevent its being sold to private interests and ensure it be opened to the public.", "The appeal by the National Trust collected £8.2 million from the public in just 100 days and the Trust also received the largest single grant ever by the National Heritage Memorial Fund (at £17.4 million), which caused some controversy.", "The house is built of Bath stone, and is highly picturesque, bristling with turrets and possessing an elaborate roof.", "Sedgemoor district is a low-lying area of land close to sea level between the Quantock and Mendip hills, historically largely marsh (or moor).", "It contains the bulk of the area also known as the Somerset Levels, including Europe's oldest known engineered roadway, the Sweet Track.", "There are 53 Grade I listed buildings in Sedgemoor, 14 of which are in Castle Street, Bridgwater.", "In 1834, Castle Street was built on the site of the demolished Bridgwater Castle, as homes for the merchants trading in the town's port.", "Outside the town of Bridgwater, the largest concentration of Grade I listed buildings are in the village of Cannington, where the 12th-century Cannington Court and 14th-century Church of St Mary were both associated with a Benedictine nunnery.", "Cannington is also the site of the 13th-century Gurney Manor and Blackmoor Farmhouse, which was built around 1480 with its own chapel.", "Although 11th-century churches such as the Church of St Michael at Brent Knoll and the Church of St Mary at Charlynch near Spaxton are still standing only blue lias rubble walling standing on a conical earthwork with a ditch approximately in circumference are the only remains of Stowey Castle which was destroyed in the 15th century, which may have been as a penalty for the local Lord Audley's involvement in the Second Cornish Uprising of 1497 led by Perkin Warbeck.", "Many of the more recent structures in the list are manor houses such as Halswell House, where the south range was built in the 16th century for Sir Nicholas Halswell and the main north range in 1689 for Sir Halswell Tynte.", "The most recently constructed building in the list is the Corn Exchange in Bridgwater, built in 1834.", "The South Somerset district occupies an area of , stretching from its borders with Devon and Dorset to the edge of the Somerset Levels.", "The district has a population of about 158,000, and has Yeovil as its administrative centre.", "There are 94 Grade I listed buildings in South Somerset.", "Most are Norman- or medieval-era churches, but there are other religious buildings as well.", "Muchelney Abbey consists of the remains and foundations of a medieval Benedictine Abbey and an early Tudor house dating from the 16th century, formerly the lodgings of the resident abbot.", "Stavordale Priory was built as a priory church in the 13th century and was converted into a private residence in 1533.", "The Hamstone Stoke sub Hamdon Priory is a 14th-century former priest's house of the chantry chapel of St Nicholas, which after 1518 become a farm known as Parsonage Farmhouse.", "It remained a farm until about 1960, and has been owned by the National Trust since 1946.", "Since the Reformation the 13th-century Hanging Chapel in Langport has been a town hall, courthouse, grammar school, museum, and armoury before becoming a masonic hall in 1891.", "The house known as The Abbey in Charlton Mackrell takes its name from the site on which it was built, the Chantry Chapel of the Holy Spirit, founded in 1237.", "Naish Priory, built around 1400 in East Coker, was never a priory, and similarly the Abbey Farm House and Abbey Barn in Yeovil which date from around 1420, have always been in lay-ownership; \"abbey\" was added to their names in the 19th century.", "The Burton Pynsent Monument was designed in 1767, by Capability Brown for William Pitt, as a monument to Sir William Pynsent, Bt.", "King Alfred's Tower, a high, triangular edifice, stands near Egbert's stone, where it is believed that Alfred the Great, King of Wessex, rallied the Saxons in May 878 before the Battle of Ethandun.", "The towers funder, Henry Hoare, planned for it to commemorate the end of the Seven Years' War against France and the accession of King George III.", "The other Grade I listed buildings in South Somerset are manor houses, built over long periods by local Lords of the Manor.", "The Tudor Barrington Court was the first country house acquired by the National Trust, in 1907, on the recommendation of the antiquarian Canon Hardwicke Rawnsley.", "Newton Surmaville was built between 1608 and 1612 for Robert Harbin, a Yeovil merchant, on the site of an earlier building, but was extensively altered and enhanced in the 1870s.", "Lytes Cary and its associated chapel and gardens have parts dating to as early as the 14th century.", "The architectural historian Nikolaus Pevsner praised it, saying \"Yet all parts blend to perfection with one another and with the gentle sunny landscape that surrounds them.\"", "The 17th-century house at Tintinhull is surrounded by a small 20th-century Arts and Crafts garden.", "Ven House, which stands on an artificially raised terrace, has a rectangular plan of seven bays by five bays, and is built of red brick in Flemish bond, with local Hamstone dressings; its north and south fronts are divided by two giant Corinthian pilasters.", "The small William and Mary style house was completed sometime between 1698 and 1700.", "It was enlarged between 1725 and 1730 by Decimus Burton, who provided a new drawing-room for Sir W. Medleycott and also an orangery attached to the house.", "Brympton d'Evercy, built in stages between about 1220 and the 18th century, has been described, by Auberon Waugh, as \"the most beautiful house in England\".", "Taunton Deane has borough status.", "The district of Taunton Deane covers a population of approximately 100,000 in an area of .", "It is centred on the town of Taunton, where around 60,000 of the population live and the council are based, and includes surrounding suburbs and villages.", "There are 38 Grade I listed buildings in Taunton Deane.", "The oldest buildings are churches built before the end of the 12th century, and the Castle Bow, which has been incorporated into the Castle Hotel in Taunton but was originally a gateway into Taunton Castle.", "The castle was created between 1107 and 1129, when William Giffard, the Chancellor of King Henry I, fortified the bishop's hall.", "Taunton is also the site of Gray's Almshouses, which dates from 1635, and two buildings in Fore Street from the 16th century.", "Many of the more recent structures in the list are manor houses such as Cothay Manor and Greenham Barton which were built in Stawley in the 15th century.", "Poundisford Park and Cothelstone Manor were both built in the 16th century and Hatch Court in 1755.", "The most recent building included in the list is in the Quantock Hills.", "The original 16th century Hestercombe House, was rebuilt in 1909.", "In addition to being a listed building the estate is designated Grade I on the English Heritage Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England.", "The house was used as the headquarters of the British 8th Corps in the Second World War, and has been owned by Somerset County Council since 1951.", "It is used as an administrative centre and is the current base for the Devon and Somerset Fire and Rescue Service.", "The West Somerset local government district covers a largely rural area, including parts of Exmoor, with a population, according to the 2011 census, of 35,300 in an area of .", "The largest centres of population are the coastal towns of Minehead and Watchet.", "The council's administrative headquarters are in the village of Williton.", "There are 33 Grade I listed buildings in West Somerset.", "The oldest is either Culbone Church, one of the smallest churches in England, and pre-Norman in origin, or Tarr Steps, which may originate in the Bronze Age, although other sources date them from around 1400.", "Dunster has the greatest concentration of Grade I listed buildings, including Dunster Castle, which was built in 1617 on a site which had supported a castle for the previous 600 years; the Yarn Market, which was built in 1609; Gallox Bridge, which dates from the 15th century and the Priory Church of St George which is predominately from the 15th century but includes part of the earlier church on the same site.", "Other sites include manor houses such as the medieval buildings at Nettlecombe Court and Orchard Wyndham." ]
North Somerset
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[ "The ceremonial county of Somerset consists of a non-metropolitan county, administered by Somerset County Council, which is divided into five districts, and two unitary authorities.", "North Somerset features bridges and piers along with a selection of Manor houses." ]
Grade I listed buildings in Somerset
[ "Bath and North East Somerset (commonly referred to as BANES or B&NES) is a unitary authority created on 1 April 1996, following the abolition of the County of Avon.", "Bath and North East Somerset occupies an area of , two-thirds of which is green belt.", "BANES stretches from the outskirts of Bristol, south into the Mendip Hills and east to the southern Cotswold Hills and Wiltshire border.", "The city of Bath is the principal settlement in the district, but BANES also covers Keynsham, Midsomer Norton, Radstock and the Chew Valley.", "BANES has a population of 170,000, about half of whom live in Bath, making it 12 times more densely populated than the rest of the district.", "Bath and North East Somerset has 663 Grade I listed buildings, one of the highest concentrations in the country, covered by about 100 English Heritage listings.", "The oldest sites within Bath are the Roman Baths, for which the foundation piles and an irregular stone chamber lined with lead were built during the Roman occupation of Britain, although the current building is from the 18th century.", "Bath Abbey was a Norman church built on earlier foundations, although the present building dates from the early 16th century and shows a late Perpendicular style with flying buttresses and crocketed pinnacles decorating a crenellated and pierced parapet.", "The medieval era is represented by the remains of the city walls in Upper Borough Walls.", "Most of Bath's Grade I listed buildings are made from the local golden-coloured Bath Stone, and date from the 18th and 19th centuries.", "Their dominant architectural style is Georgian, which evolved from the Palladian revival style that became popular during the early 18th century.", "This led to the entire city's designation as a World Heritage Site.", "Much of the development, and many of the buildings, were the vision of John Wood, the Elder.", "The Circus is seen as the pinnacle of Wood's work.", "It consists of three long, curved terraces that form a circular space or theatre intended for civic functions and games.", "The games give a clue to the design, the inspiration for which was the Colosseum in Rome.", "The best known of Bath's terraces is the Royal Crescent, built between 1767 and 1774 and designed by Wood's son, John Wood, the Younger.", "Around 1770 the neoclassical architect Robert Adam designed Pulteney Bridge, a three-arched bridge spanning the Avon.", "He used as his prototype an original, but unused, design by Palladio for the Rialto Bridge in Venice.", "The heart of the Georgian city was the Pump Room, which together with its associated Lower Assembly Rooms was designed by Thomas Baldwin, a local builder responsible for many other buildings in the city, including the terraces in Argyle Street.", "Great Pulteney Street, where Baldwin eventually lived, is another of his works: this wide boulevard, constructed and over long and wide, is lined on both sides by Georgian terraces.", "Outside the city of Bath most of the Grade I listed buildings are Norman- or medieval-era churches.", "Manor houses such as Claverton Manor, which now houses the American Museum in Britain, and the 18th-century Newton Park, which has a landscape garden designed by Capability Brown, also appear in the list; Newton Park now forms part of the Bath Spa University.", "There is also Grade I listed canal architecture outside the city, such as Dundas Aqueduct and Claverton Pumping Station, both designed by John Rennie.", "The most recent building is the agricultural Eastwood Manor Farm Steading, completed in 1860.", "Mendip is a local government district which covers a largely rural area of ranging from the Mendip Hills through on to the Somerset Levels.", "It has a population of approximately 11,000.", "The administrative centre of the district is Shepton Mallet.\nThere are 90 Grade I listed buildings in the Mendip district.", "There are churches in the various towns and villages, however the greatest concentrations of Grade I listed buildings are in Wells and Glastonbury.", "In Wells these are clustered around the 10th-century Cathedral Church of St Andrew, better known as Wells Cathedral, and the 13th-century Bishop's Palace.", "Glastonbury is the site of the Abbey, where construction started in the 7th century, and its associated buildings.", "The ruined St Michael's church, itself replacing the one destroyed in an earthquake of 1275, stands on Glastonbury Tor, where the site shows evidence of occupation from Neolithic times and the Dark Ages.", "The Chalice Well has been in use since Pre-Christian times.", "Glastonbury Abbey had a wider influence outside the town: tithe barns were built at Pilton and West Bradley to hold tithes, and a Fish House was built at Meare along with a summer residence for the Abbot (now Manor Farmhouse).", "Medieval structures include Farleigh Hungerford Castle, fortified around 1370, and The George Inn at Norton St Philip, used as an army headquarters during the Monmouth Rebellion in 1685, and then as a courtroom to try the rebels in the Bloody Assizes.", "Manor houses such as the 15th-century Seymours Court Farmhouse at Beckington and The Old Manor at Croscombe.", "Mells Manor followed in the 16th century and in the 17th century Southill House in Cranmore was built.", "Ston Easton Park and Ammerdown House in Kilmersdon were both completed in the 18th century.", "The most recent buildings included in the list are churches: the Church of St Peter at Hornblotton, built in 1872–74 by Sir Thomas Graham Jackson to replace a medieval church on the same site, and Downside Abbey at Stratton-on-the-Fosse, more formally known as \"The Basilica of St Gregory the Great at Downside\", a Roman Catholic Benedictine monastery and the Senior House of the English Benedictine Congregation.", "The current buildings were started in the 19th century and are still unfinished.", "North Somerset is a unitary authority which is administered independently of the non-metropolitan county of Somerset.", "Its administrative headquarters are located in the town hall of Weston-super-Mare, and has a resident population of 193,000 living in 85,000 households.", "There are 37 Grade I listed buildings in North Somerset, including the Clifton Suspension Bridge, which joins North Somerset to Bristol and Clevedon Pier which was built between the 1860s and 1890s.", "It was removed following damage in 1970 and restored, before being rebuilt and reopened to the public in 1998.", "Of the listed buildings, manor houses are well represented.", "They include Clevedon Court, built in the 14th century, and from the 15th century, Ashton Court and Nailsea Court.", "North Somerset has many religious structures; the largest number are from the Norman or medieval eras.", "The oldest is the Church of St. Quiricus and St. Julietta in Tickenham which dates from the 11th century, and there are 8 others from the 12th century.\nThe most recent Grade I building in North Somerset is Tyntesfield, a Victorian Gothic Revival estate near Wraxall.", "It was acquired by the National Trust in June 2002 after a fund raising campaign to prevent its being sold to private interests and ensure it be opened to the public.", "The appeal by the National Trust collected £8.2 million from the public in just 100 days and the Trust also received the largest single grant ever by the National Heritage Memorial Fund (at £17.4 million), which caused some controversy.", "The house is built of Bath stone, and is highly picturesque, bristling with turrets and possessing an elaborate roof.", "Sedgemoor district is a low-lying area of land close to sea level between the Quantock and Mendip hills, historically largely marsh (or moor).", "It contains the bulk of the area also known as the Somerset Levels, including Europe's oldest known engineered roadway, the Sweet Track.", "There are 53 Grade I listed buildings in Sedgemoor, 14 of which are in Castle Street, Bridgwater.", "In 1834, Castle Street was built on the site of the demolished Bridgwater Castle, as homes for the merchants trading in the town's port.", "Outside the town of Bridgwater, the largest concentration of Grade I listed buildings are in the village of Cannington, where the 12th-century Cannington Court and 14th-century Church of St Mary were both associated with a Benedictine nunnery.", "Cannington is also the site of the 13th-century Gurney Manor and Blackmoor Farmhouse, which was built around 1480 with its own chapel.", "Although 11th-century churches such as the Church of St Michael at Brent Knoll and the Church of St Mary at Charlynch near Spaxton are still standing only blue lias rubble walling standing on a conical earthwork with a ditch approximately in circumference are the only remains of Stowey Castle which was destroyed in the 15th century, which may have been as a penalty for the local Lord Audley's involvement in the Second Cornish Uprising of 1497 led by Perkin Warbeck.", "Many of the more recent structures in the list are manor houses such as Halswell House, where the south range was built in the 16th century for Sir Nicholas Halswell and the main north range in 1689 for Sir Halswell Tynte.", "The most recently constructed building in the list is the Corn Exchange in Bridgwater, built in 1834.", "The South Somerset district occupies an area of , stretching from its borders with Devon and Dorset to the edge of the Somerset Levels.", "The district has a population of about 158,000, and has Yeovil as its administrative centre.", "There are 94 Grade I listed buildings in South Somerset.", "Most are Norman- or medieval-era churches, but there are other religious buildings as well.", "Muchelney Abbey consists of the remains and foundations of a medieval Benedictine Abbey and an early Tudor house dating from the 16th century, formerly the lodgings of the resident abbot.", "Stavordale Priory was built as a priory church in the 13th century and was converted into a private residence in 1533.", "The Hamstone Stoke sub Hamdon Priory is a 14th-century former priest's house of the chantry chapel of St Nicholas, which after 1518 become a farm known as Parsonage Farmhouse.", "It remained a farm until about 1960, and has been owned by the National Trust since 1946.", "Since the Reformation the 13th-century Hanging Chapel in Langport has been a town hall, courthouse, grammar school, museum, and armoury before becoming a masonic hall in 1891.", "The house known as The Abbey in Charlton Mackrell takes its name from the site on which it was built, the Chantry Chapel of the Holy Spirit, founded in 1237.", "Naish Priory, built around 1400 in East Coker, was never a priory, and similarly the Abbey Farm House and Abbey Barn in Yeovil which date from around 1420, have always been in lay-ownership; \"abbey\" was added to their names in the 19th century.", "The Burton Pynsent Monument was designed in 1767, by Capability Brown for William Pitt, as a monument to Sir William Pynsent, Bt.", "King Alfred's Tower, a high, triangular edifice, stands near Egbert's stone, where it is believed that Alfred the Great, King of Wessex, rallied the Saxons in May 878 before the Battle of Ethandun.", "The towers funder, Henry Hoare, planned for it to commemorate the end of the Seven Years' War against France and the accession of King George III.", "The other Grade I listed buildings in South Somerset are manor houses, built over long periods by local Lords of the Manor.", "The Tudor Barrington Court was the first country house acquired by the National Trust, in 1907, on the recommendation of the antiquarian Canon Hardwicke Rawnsley.", "Newton Surmaville was built between 1608 and 1612 for Robert Harbin, a Yeovil merchant, on the site of an earlier building, but was extensively altered and enhanced in the 1870s.", "Lytes Cary and its associated chapel and gardens have parts dating to as early as the 14th century.", "The architectural historian Nikolaus Pevsner praised it, saying \"Yet all parts blend to perfection with one another and with the gentle sunny landscape that surrounds them.\"", "The 17th-century house at Tintinhull is surrounded by a small 20th-century Arts and Crafts garden.", "Ven House, which stands on an artificially raised terrace, has a rectangular plan of seven bays by five bays, and is built of red brick in Flemish bond, with local Hamstone dressings; its north and south fronts are divided by two giant Corinthian pilasters.", "The small William and Mary style house was completed sometime between 1698 and 1700.", "It was enlarged between 1725 and 1730 by Decimus Burton, who provided a new drawing-room for Sir W. Medleycott and also an orangery attached to the house.", "Brympton d'Evercy, built in stages between about 1220 and the 18th century, has been described, by Auberon Waugh, as \"the most beautiful house in England\".", "Taunton Deane has borough status.", "The district of Taunton Deane covers a population of approximately 100,000 in an area of .", "It is centred on the town of Taunton, where around 60,000 of the population live and the council are based, and includes surrounding suburbs and villages.", "There are 38 Grade I listed buildings in Taunton Deane.", "The oldest buildings are churches built before the end of the 12th century, and the Castle Bow, which has been incorporated into the Castle Hotel in Taunton but was originally a gateway into Taunton Castle.", "The castle was created between 1107 and 1129, when William Giffard, the Chancellor of King Henry I, fortified the bishop's hall.", "Taunton is also the site of Gray's Almshouses, which dates from 1635, and two buildings in Fore Street from the 16th century.", "Many of the more recent structures in the list are manor houses such as Cothay Manor and Greenham Barton which were built in Stawley in the 15th century.", "Poundisford Park and Cothelstone Manor were both built in the 16th century and Hatch Court in 1755.", "The most recent building included in the list is in the Quantock Hills.", "The original 16th century Hestercombe House, was rebuilt in 1909.", "In addition to being a listed building the estate is designated Grade I on the English Heritage Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England.", "The house was used as the headquarters of the British 8th Corps in the Second World War, and has been owned by Somerset County Council since 1951.", "It is used as an administrative centre and is the current base for the Devon and Somerset Fire and Rescue Service.", "The West Somerset local government district covers a largely rural area, including parts of Exmoor, with a population, according to the 2011 census, of 35,300 in an area of .", "The largest centres of population are the coastal towns of Minehead and Watchet.", "The council's administrative headquarters are in the village of Williton.", "There are 33 Grade I listed buildings in West Somerset.", "The oldest is either Culbone Church, one of the smallest churches in England, and pre-Norman in origin, or Tarr Steps, which may originate in the Bronze Age, although other sources date them from around 1400.", "Dunster has the greatest concentration of Grade I listed buildings, including Dunster Castle, which was built in 1617 on a site which had supported a castle for the previous 600 years; the Yarn Market, which was built in 1609; Gallox Bridge, which dates from the 15th century and the Priory Church of St George which is predominately from the 15th century but includes part of the earlier church on the same site.", "Other sites include manor houses such as the medieval buildings at Nettlecombe Court and Orchard Wyndham." ]
West Somerset
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[ "Taunton Deane includes the defensive Taunton Castle, similarly Dunster Castle and related buildings in Dunster feature in West Somerset." ]
Snout!
[ "The gameplay is somewhat different from Pass the Pigs, but will be easy to grasp for those familiar with the game.", "You start by shuffling the deck of cards and dealing 8 to each player.", "Each player chooses 3 cards from their hand and passes them to the right.", "The game then begins and the Start player tosses the pig die.", "Players then examine their hand to see if they have cards that match the position the pig landed in.", "If they do, they \"oink\" and discard those cards to a discard pile.", "If they don't have any that match, they must draw a card from the draw pile (they may look at the card and discard it immediately if it matches).", "Once all players have discarded or drawn, the next player in turn order tosses the pig and play continues.", "If a player(s) discards the last card in their hand, they have gone \"Snout\" and won the round.", "All other players reveal their hands and tally all the points on the cards left in their hands.", "Those points are evenly distributed to all players who have gone \"Snout.\"", "In addition, all players who went \"Snout earn 10 points.", "There is a special way to win a round as well.", "One card, called the Leaning Jowler, is very difficult to play and worth 15 points to someone going \"Snout,\" but has an upside, in that if a player who has it their hand is able to successfully play/discard it, they go \"Snout\" and win the round immediately, despite potentially still having cards in their hand.", "In addition, they score a 15-point bonus.", "Once a round ends, 8 new cards are dealt to each player, 3 cards are again passes to the right, and a new round begins.", "If the draw pile runs out, players simply shuffle the discards to form a new one.", "Play continues till one player has accumulated 100 points." ]
Gameplay
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[ "Snout! is a variation on the classic dice game Pass the Pigs.", "Unlike the original, players earn points by discarding cards in their hand matching what was rolled and getting rid of all cards in their hand, rather than matching what they rolled to a point chart." ]
Robert C. Belloni
[ "Belloni was from Myrtle Point, Oregon.", "Some sources state that he was born in Riverton, Oregon.", "He received a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Oregon in 1941 and a Juris Doctor from the University of Oregon School of Law in 1951.", "He was a lieutenant in the United States Army from 1942 to 1946.", "He entered private practice in Coquille, Oregon from 1951 to 1952, then practiced in Myrtle Point from 1952 to 1957.", "He was a City Councilman for Myrtle Point from 1953 to 1957, and was the Mayor of Myrtle Point in 1957.", "He served as a Judge of the Oregon Circuit Court for Coos County and Curry County from 1957 to 1967.", "Belloni was nominated by President Lyndon B. Johnson on February 21, 1967, to a seat on the United States District Court for the District of Oregon vacated by Judge William G. East.", "He was confirmed by the United States Senate on April 4, 1967, and received his commission on April 4, 1967.", "He served as Chief Judge from 1971 to 1976.", "He assumed senior status on April 4, 1984.", "He took inactive senior status in 1995.", "His service terminated on November 3, 1999, due to his death of congestive heart failure in a retirement home in San Mateo, California." ]
Federal judicial service
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[ "Robert Clinton Belloni (April 4, 1919 – November 3, 1999) was a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Oregon." ]
Admiral Gorshkov-class frigate
[ "The design of the ship, developed by \"Severnoye PKB\" (Northern Design Bureau) FSUE in St. Petersburg, was approved by Naval Command in July 2003.", "The plan is to fully replace the older and in four Russian fleets.", "The lead ship, or its full name – \"Admiral of the Fleet of the Soviet Union Gorshkov\", was laid down on 1 February 2006 in Severnaya Verf shipyard in St. Petersburg.", "In late October 2008 the Russian deputy prime minister, Sergei Ivanov, said the timely construction of combat ships is a priority task of for Russia's shipbuilding industry, and announced that the first ship in the class would be ready by 2011.", "The completion date of the lead ship was initially slated for 2009, but this was later pushed back, as was the commissioning date.", "On 24 June 2009, during the \"МВМС-IMDS 2009\" International Naval Expo, the Commander in Chief of the Russian Navy, Admiral Vladimir Vysotsky, announced that the production of a second \"Admiral Gorshkov\"-class frigate would begin at Severnaya Verf by the end of the year.", "In November 2009 the Severnaya Verf shipyard announced that it would start the construction of the second ship of the class on 26 November.", "The ship was laid down in a ceremony attended by representatives of the Russian Navy, the St. Petersburg administration, and Admiral Igor Kasatonov - the son of the ship's namesake, Vladimir Kasatonov.", "In December 2014, one engine from \"Admiral Kasatonov\" was transferred to \"Admiral Gorshkov\".", "The first frigate was floated out of the launch dock on 29 October 2010.", "The ship was only 40 percent complete and then began to be fitted out.", "At that point, main mechanical equipment and systems providing safe launching had been installed, including a combined diesel and gas (CODAG) turbine powerplant, gear assemblies, drive shafts and screws, and electric power supply facilities.", "Further work was be performed at the shipyard's fitting quay.", "The Russian Navy set a requirement for 20–30 such ships.", "The Severnaya Verf shipyard has thus far announced having received orders for six units.", "According to the Russian Navy’s deputy commander for armament Vice Admiral Viktor Bursuk, the Russian Navy needs no less than 15 such frigates in basic and upgraded versions.", "In August 2012, the shipyard received loans worth RUB 16.23 billion (US$510 million) from the state-owned Sberbank to facilitate the frigate construction project.", "The first two ships of the class have gas turbines from Zorya-Mashproekt in Ukraine.", "Following the 2014 Crimean crisis, Ukrainian industry refused to supply Russia with military technology.", "As a result, NPO Saturn has been commissioned to design indigenous engines.", "Initial forecasts expected these new engines to be available in 2017–18, allowing ships to be commissioned from 2020; however, after intervention by the Russian government, the plan was brought forward.", "In November 2020 it was announced that United Engine Corporation had initiated delivery of the DGTA M55R diesel-gas power plant which would be installed on frigates of the class beginning with \"Admiral Isakov\".", "The first frigate in the class, \"Admiral Gorshkov\", was commissioned on 28 July 2018.", "State testing of the Russian shipborne Poliment-Redut range air defence missile system with a phased array radar for the frigates of 22350 series has been completed, Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Navy Admiral Vladimir Korolev announced in February 2019.", "In February 2019, \"Admiral Gorshkov\" and \"Admiral Kasatonov\" were equipped with a naval version of the new 5P-42 Filin electro-optic countermeasure system.", "The Filin fires a beam similar to a strobe light that affects enemy's combatants eyesight, making it more difficult for them to aim at night.", "During testing, volunteers reportedly used rifles and guns to shoot targets that were protected by the system and reported having trouble aiming because they could not see.", "Additionally, about half of the volunteers said they felt dizzy, nauseated and disoriented.", "About 20 percent of the volunteers reported experiencing hallucinations.", "In March 2019, the Severnoye Design Bureau reported it has completed the outline design of the upgraded Project 22350M frigate and began working on the technical documentation for the ship.", "The Project 22350M frigates are believed to incorporate increased number of VLS cells for combination of 48 or 64 Kalibr, Oniks and Zircon anti-ship cruise missiles while displacing about 7,000 tons.", "The ships are expected to be laid down in a new boathouse with two slipways at Severnaya Verf which will be completed in 2022.", "On 23 April 2019, two modified Project 22350 frigates, \"Admiral Amelko\" and \"Admiral Chichagov\", were laid down at Severnaya Verf in Saint Petersburg during a ceremony attended by Russian President Vladimir Putin.", "It was reported that they were to be fitted with 24 VLS cells for Kalibr, Oniks or Zircon cruise missiles, as opposed to 16 VLS cells installed on the first four frigates of the class.", "Their delivery to the Russian Navy is scheduled for 2023/24 and 2025, respectively.", "In 2021 it was reported that the intent was actually to fit 32 3S-14 versatile shipborne VLS cells in \"Admiral Amelko\", \"Admiral Chichagov\" and follow-on ships.", "This remained to be confirmed.", "In 2020 it was indicated that three ships would be assigned to the Northern Fleet, three to the Pacific Fleet and two to the Black Sea Fleet.", "A further contract for two additional frigates of the class was announced at the \"Army-2020\" forum increasing the numbers of projected frigates in the Northern and Pacific Fleets to four vessels each.", "On 30 December 2021, it was reported that the Amur Shipyard is preparing to sign a contract for the construction of six frigates for the Pacific Fleet, likely of the \"Admiral Gorshkov\" class.", "This would decrease the load on Severnaya Verf, which is currently responsible for the construction of all \"Admiral Gorshkov\"-class frigates.", "However, there has been no official confirmation from either the Ministry of Defence or Amur Shipyard.", "The \"Admiral Gorshkov\" class is the successor to the and frigates.", "Unlike their Soviet-era predecessors, the new ships are designed for multiple roles.", "They are to be capable to execute long-range strikes, conduct anti-submarine warfare and to carry out escort missions." ]
History
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[ "The \"Admiral Gorshkov\" class, Russian designation Project 22350 for the original and upgraded version armed with 16 and 32 VLS cells respectively, is the newest class of frigates being built by the Severnaya Verf in Saint Petersburg for the Russian Navy with a cost of 250 mill.$.", "The Project 22350 was designed by the Severnoye Design Bureau and incorporates use of stealth technology.", "As of August 2020, ten vessels have been contracted for delivery by 2027.", "The lead ship of the class, , was commissioned on 28 July 2018." ]
Bathyphytophilidae
[ "Genera within the family Bathyphytophilidae include: external_link_1" ]
Genera
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[ "This family has no subfamilies." ]
Osteopeltidae
[ "Genera within the family Osteopeltidae include:" ]
Genera
[ 0 ]
[ "This family has no subfamilies." ]
William Roche (rugby union)
[ "Between 1920 and 1927 Roche played club rugby for Newport and was captain during the 1926-27 season.", "In 1926 he captained the club against the New Zealand Māoris in a game which ended in a 0-0 draw.", "Roche won 3 caps for Ireland during the 1920 Five Nations Championship.", "He made his debut against England at Lansdowne Road on 14 February in a 14-11 defeat.", "He then played against Scotland on 28 February at Inverleith in a 19-0 defeat.", "He won his final cap against France on 3 April in a 15-7 defeat at Lansdowne.", "While playing for Ireland, his teammates included Ernie Crawford.", "Roche was also selected for the British Lions squad for their 1924 tour of South Africa.", "However he did not play in any of the Test matches against South Africa." ]
Club career
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[ "He also played club rugby for both University College Cork and Newport." ]
Earl Brian
[ "Brian graduated from medical school at Duke University and served in the Army Medical Corps in Vietnam.", "After leaving the service in 1970, he was appointed first as Director of California's Department of Health Care Services (DHCS), then Secretary of Health and Welfare.", "During his term as secretary, Brian succeeded in implementing a requirement for a $2 co-payment from Medi-Cal recipients for each doctor's visit,\nbut failed in an attempt to curtail medical benefits available under Medi-Cal when the state lost a suit brought by the California Medical Association.", "In 1974 Brian resigned his cabinet post and ran for the U.S. Senate seat held by Senator Alan Cranston (D–CA), but lost the Republican primary.", "Brian then turned to business and in 1980 established his own company, Biotech Capital, a venture capital firm that invested in companies developing medical technology.", "Biotech later shifted its focus to news and information services, acquiring interest in the Financial News Network (FNN) and changing the name Biotech in 1987 to Infotechnology.", "In 1988, the company acquired United Press International, one of the two major American news wire services at the time.", "Infotechnology encountered financial difficulties and filed for bankruptcy in 1991, as did FNN and UPI.", "In 1995, Brian was charged with conspiracy and fraud for inflating the value of FNN and UPI in an attempt to secure loans to shore up the companies.", "He was convicted of the conspiracy charges in 1996 and sentenced to four years in prison.", "Brian died on November 2, 2020, at the age of 78 in Easton, Maryland.", "He was buried at Arlington National Cemetery." ]
Conspiracy and fraud conviction
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[ "In 1991 however, Infotechnology, the venture capital firm he headed, filed for bankruptcy.", "Brian was later charged with conspiring to cover up the firm's financial difficulties and sentenced to four years in prison." ]
Pseudococculinidae
[ "The shells are small (less than 6 mm), thin and translucent.", "The protoconch shows a long, narrow apical fold.", "Its microscopic sculpture is smooth with fine threads.", "The asymmetrical radula shows a broad, rachidian tooth that lacks a cusp, four inner lateral teeth, a large pluricuspid tooth, and numerous marginal teeth.", "Soft body: the right tentacle is generally modified into a copulatory organ.", "Genera in the family Pseudococculinidae include:" ]
Genera
[ 5 ]
[ "This family has no subfamilies." ]
Pyropeltidae
[ "Their habitat includes hydrothermal vents and whale-fall habitats.", "Genera in the family Pyropeltidae include:" ]
Genera
[ 1 ]
[ "This family has no subfamilies." ]
Gren (band)
[ "Gren formed in early 1994.", "The band's sound drew comparisons with Nirvana, Shudder to Think, and Bob Mould.", "\"Billboard\" called their sound \"a straightforward assault of guitar-driven rock and soul.\"", "The band was signed to I.R.S. Records and released their only full-length album \"Camp Grenada\" in 1995.", "The album was produced by Tim O'Heir (Sebadoh, Belly, Dinosaur Jr.) at Cherokee Studios in Los Angeles.", "Gren promoted this album with extensive touring of the United States, including a stint as opening for the Ramones in 1995-96.", "The single \"She Shines\" reached the Top 40 on the \"Billboard\" Hot Mainstream Rock chart.", "Gren disbanded in 1996.", "A five-song EP titled \"Somebody Said You'd Hate This\" was released in 2008.", "Gren released two more songs direct to YouTube in June of 2020 for what they called the \"Quarantine Sessions\".", "The parts for the songs were recorded separately and then mixed together later." ]
History
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[ "They were active from 1994 to 1996." ]
The Queen's Tiara
[ "The novel is set in 1792 and weaves the story of the beautiful but sexless androgyne", "Tintomara around the assassination of King Gustav III of Sweden, commonly nicknamed 'The Theatre King', on the stage of Stockholm's Royal Swedish Opera at a masked ball in 1792.", "Tintomara is employed by the Royal Swedish Ballet to function as the centrepiece of their lavish spectacles.", "Tintomara's true gender is never made clear, but Tintomara is referred to by the pronoun \"She\".", "She is described as beautiful and is often the object of passion for both men and women.", "Tintomara is portrayed as the secret half sibling to the underage King, Gustav IV Adolf of Sweden.", "Her father was Count Adolf Fredrik Munck af Fulkila, and her mother was the actress Clara:", "Count Adolf Fredrik Munck af Fulkila was said to be the biological father of the king and lover of the Queen, Sophia Magdalena of Denmark.", "Passing as a girl, Tintomara is involved in the notorious assassination of the King.", "On the same night, she steals the Queen's tiara in order to show it to her mother.", "Tintomara is then taken under the protection of a Baroness, who hides her on her country estate, where Tintomara passes as a boy.", "In the country, she becomes the love object of two women, Amanda and Adolfine, the daughters of the Baroness; and two men, the nobles Ferdinand and Clas-Henrik, who earlier courted the sisters and who are now concealing their involvement in the assassination.", "Tintomara is killed by Ferdinand during a performance planned as a spectacular entertainment for the court which ends in disaster.", "The novel's most famous line is spoken by Tintomara's dying mother, Clara: \"Tintomara, two things are white - Innocence and Arsenic.\"", "She continues \"You have the Innocence - I have the Arsenic\".", "Tintomara is said to have been inspired by the daughter of Giovanna Bassi, Johanna Fredrika (1787–1810), who was presumed to be fathered by Count Adolf Fredrik Munck af Fulkila.", "By persistent rumors, the count was said to be the true father of Gustav IV Adolf of Sweden; Bassi's daughter was said to have a strong resemblance to the King, who might have been her half-brother.", "Another role model and source of inspiration was reportedly the contemporary transsexual Andreas Bruce.", "A Swedish-Danish film production entitled \"Tintomara\" was released in 1970" ]
Plot
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[ "The Queen's Tiara ( lit.", "\"The Queen's Jewels\") is a classic Swedish novel by Carl Jonas Love Almquist." ]
Melton Mowbray North railway station
[ "The station opened on 1 September 1879 with services to Nottingham (London Road).", "The routes to Grantham and Newark and south to Market Harborough opened on 15 December.", "Initially the main services were Northampton to Nottingham and Northampton to Newark, both via Melton, provided by the London and North Western Railway, and Melton to Grantham, provided by the Great Northern Railway.", "Other services were attempted but were short lived.", "The through Newark services were not a success, so to cut costs, these were withdrawn on 1 May 1882 and replaced by connecting trains from Harby & Stathern.", "On 1 January 1883, the GNR opened their line from Marefield Junction, on the joint line to the south, to their new station at Leicester (Belgrave Road).", "The GNR then replaced their Melton to Grantham service with a through Leicester to Grantham service.", "The Newark connections from Harby were gradually withdrawn.", "In 1910 the service comprised one train each way between Leicester and Newark which interconnected with a Northampton to Nottingham train at Harby.", "This service was withdrawn by 1922.", "Passengers to Newark then had to change at either Radcliffe-on-Trent or Grantham.", "Regular services ceased on 7 December 1953 but summer specials, mainly Leicester to Skegness or Mablethorpe, survived until 1962, and through goods traffic lasted until 1964.", "Since closure the station buildings and the nearby Scalford Road bridge have been demolished and replaced by retail units.", "However a short distance to the north, in Melton Country Park, the formation can be accessed.", "It can then be walked to just south of Scalford, mainly on an embankment.", "The table below shows the train departures from Melton Mowbray North in April 1910." ]
Services
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[ "Melton Mowbray North railway station was a railway station in Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire, England on the Great Northern and London and North Western Joint Railway." ]
Endless Ocean 2: Adventures of the Deep
[ "\"Adventures of the Deep\" features improved and more realistic graphics and larger explorable areas than the previous game.", "\"Adventures of the Deep\" allows players to travel to twelve different diving spots around the globe, including new polar and freshwater locations.", "The ability to dive with a dolphin as a companion returns from the first game, and players will now also be able to ride them to move quickly through the water.", "Players can also now sell salvaged treasure, including legendary artifacts for money that can be used to buy items such as new styles of diving suits, items used to decorate their island and private reef, and to help the player to be capable of diving for a longer time and with less risk of receiving damage from hostile creatures, running out of oxygen, or getting lost, among others.", "The aquarium returns and the player can now walk outside the tanks.", "Several new areas are introduced, for example with the Marine Life Annex, you can put shore species such as penguins, shorebirds and seals.", "Another new area is the Small World, where smaller fish and invertebrates can be displayed.", "Potentially dangerous creatures such as sharks, crocodiles, and electric eels will now elicit a warning for players and may even attack them; players will be able to drive them off using a new tranquilizer-like tool called the Pulsar that can shoot electric charges which calms them down.", "The Pulsar can also be used to heal any creatures the player finds that are sick or injured.", "\"Adventures of the Deep\" features a variety of animals, including dolphins, whales, sea lions, penguins, manatees, sharks, sea turtles, and more, with around 400 different species of fish, mammals, birds, invertebrates, reptiles and amphibians.", "There are also 30 legendary creatures to be found in various regions of the game: a select few play a role in the game's storyline and can be interacted with at any time afterwards, but most require a special condition to be met before they can be found.\n\"Adventures of the Deep\" features online cooperative multiplayer that allows players to communicate using the Wii Speak peripheral, with which the game was bundled for a short time.", "As with the first game, players will also be able to take pictures during their dives; the pictures can now be saved to an SD card.", "The plot of \"Adventures of the Deep\" revolves around a Pacific Legend known as the Song of Dragons.", "The player character, a university student studying folklore, takes leave from their studies to visit the Paoul Republic in the South Pacific, intrigued by the legend.", "By chance, they apply for a job at R&R Diving Service, run by Jean-Eric Rouvier and his granddaughter Océane.", "During the player's entrance examination dive, Océane drops a lapis lazuli pendant left to her by her late father Matthieu; the pendant omits a strange sound, after which a nearby humpback whale becomes aggressive.", "Curious, she disregards Jean-Eric's warnings and attempts to retrieve a second pendant lost as a child, only to be threatened by an aggressive tiger shark.", "The player is able to drive off the shark, and the pendant is recovered.", "Deciding to have the two pendants appraised, R&R contacts Nancy Young, a local trader, who suggests that they search for Valka Castle, which sank beneath the waves in the 17th century, for further clues.", "Traveling to the Aegean Sea, the group encounters Gary 'GG' Gray, a famous American salvager, who challenges them to see who can find Valka Castle first.", "The player and Océane successfully discover the castle while trying to escape the man eating great white shark Thanatos, where they uncover an ancient lapis lazuli tablet and hear a strange sound before they are temporarily sealed in a room by a trap left by the castle's ruler.", "Encountering GG again following their escape, he reveals that the tablet originates from an ancient sea-faring civilization known as the Okeanides.", "R&R returns home, and Nancy recommends that the group consult Japanese oceanographer Hayoko Sakurai to have the tablet translated.", "Traveling to Hayoko's current workplace, an aquarium in Japan, she agrees to decipher the tablet in return for R&R completing her research on polar bears for her.", "After traveling to the northern coast of Canada and completing her research, Hayaoko joins R&R Diving Service and reveals her findings on the tablet; it tells that the Song of Dragons is the key to the Pacifia Treasure, a legendary treasure left by the Okeanides.", "Following reports of the song being heard in the Antarctic, the group travels there to investigate further.", "While investiagting, the player hears a strange sound they had previously heard while at Valka Castle, and realizes that it is the Song of Dragons.", "They help rescue a spectacled porpoise, which subsequently helps R&R navigate their way out of a heavy snowstorm.", "Upon returning home, Jean-Eric forbids any further investiation into the legend, declaring that it will only lead to bad luck.", "He privately confesses to the player that Matthieu had attempted to discover the Pacifia Treasure himself, which lead between him and Jean Eric, who dismissed the Treasure as a myth; Matthieu later died during his investigation when his submarine broke down.", "The next morning, R&R receives an unexpeted visitor in the form of GG, who explains that he has been searching for the Pacifia Treasure for the past 10 years, and offers to work with R&R in locating it.", "Following a lead in South America, the player and GG swim upstream a tributary of the Amazon River, where they discover an ancient ruin behind a waterfall and uncover a second lapis lazuli tablet.", "\"Endless Ocean 2: Adventures of the Deep\" features a soundtrack by the musical ensemble Celtic Woman, including Andrea Corr.", "Unlike its predecessor, however, \"Adventures of the Deep\" does not allow players to create a custom soundtrack using the music on an SD card.", "The game received \"generally favorable reviews\" according to the review aggregation website Metacritic.\n\"Famitsu\" was the first media outlet to review \"Adventures of the Deep\", doing so shortly before its release in Japan.", "They gave the game a score 36 out of 40, one point higher than \"Endless Ocean\", with all four reviewers giving the game nine points each.", "Eurogamer called it a \"genuinely peaceful and relaxing experience\", though comparing it to \"a cool adventure holiday for all ages.\"", "\"Official Nintendo Magazine\" was slightly more critical of the game, calling the game \"batty ... but hardly enthralling\" but also \"truly fun, but not entirely action-packed\".", "They also gave good reports of thrill and graphics involved in the game, which resulted in the game getting a slightly higher score than its predecessor." ]
Music
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[ "Endless Ocean 2: Adventures of the Deep, also known in North America as Endless Ocean:" ]
Endless Ocean 2: Adventures of the Deep
[ "\"Adventures of the Deep\" features improved and more realistic graphics and larger explorable areas than the previous game.", "\"Adventures of the Deep\" allows players to travel to twelve different diving spots around the globe, including new polar and freshwater locations.", "The ability to dive with a dolphin as a companion returns from the first game, and players will now also be able to ride them to move quickly through the water.", "Players can also now sell salvaged treasure, including legendary artifacts for money that can be used to buy items such as new styles of diving suits, items used to decorate their island and private reef, and to help the player to be capable of diving for a longer time and with less risk of receiving damage from hostile creatures, running out of oxygen, or getting lost, among others.", "The aquarium returns and the player can now walk outside the tanks.", "Several new areas are introduced, for example with the Marine Life Annex, you can put shore species such as penguins, shorebirds and seals.", "Another new area is the Small World, where smaller fish and invertebrates can be displayed.", "Potentially dangerous creatures such as sharks, crocodiles, and electric eels will now elicit a warning for players and may even attack them; players will be able to drive them off using a new tranquilizer-like tool called the Pulsar that can shoot electric charges which calms them down.", "The Pulsar can also be used to heal any creatures the player finds that are sick or injured.", "\"Adventures of the Deep\" features a variety of animals, including dolphins, whales, sea lions, penguins, manatees, sharks, sea turtles, and more, with around 400 different species of fish, mammals, birds, invertebrates, reptiles and amphibians.", "There are also 30 legendary creatures to be found in various regions of the game: a select few play a role in the game's storyline and can be interacted with at any time afterwards, but most require a special condition to be met before they can be found.\n\"Adventures of the Deep\" features online cooperative multiplayer that allows players to communicate using the Wii Speak peripheral, with which the game was bundled for a short time.", "As with the first game, players will also be able to take pictures during their dives; the pictures can now be saved to an SD card.", "The plot of \"Adventures of the Deep\" revolves around a Pacific Legend known as the Song of Dragons.", "The player character, a university student studying folklore, takes leave from their studies to visit the Paoul Republic in the South Pacific, intrigued by the legend.", "By chance, they apply for a job at R&R Diving Service, run by Jean-Eric Rouvier and his granddaughter Océane.", "During the player's entrance examination dive, Océane drops a lapis lazuli pendant left to her by her late father Matthieu; the pendant omits a strange sound, after which a nearby humpback whale becomes aggressive.", "Curious, she disregards Jean-Eric's warnings and attempts to retrieve a second pendant lost as a child, only to be threatened by an aggressive tiger shark.", "The player is able to drive off the shark, and the pendant is recovered.", "Deciding to have the two pendants appraised, R&R contacts Nancy Young, a local trader, who suggests that they search for Valka Castle, which sank beneath the waves in the 17th century, for further clues.", "Traveling to the Aegean Sea, the group encounters Gary 'GG' Gray, a famous American salvager, who challenges them to see who can find Valka Castle first.", "The player and Océane successfully discover the castle while trying to escape the man eating great white shark Thanatos, where they uncover an ancient lapis lazuli tablet and hear a strange sound before they are temporarily sealed in a room by a trap left by the castle's ruler.", "Encountering GG again following their escape, he reveals that the tablet originates from an ancient sea-faring civilization known as the Okeanides.", "R&R returns home, and Nancy recommends that the group consult Japanese oceanographer Hayoko Sakurai to have the tablet translated.", "Traveling to Hayoko's current workplace, an aquarium in Japan, she agrees to decipher the tablet in return for R&R completing her research on polar bears for her.", "After traveling to the northern coast of Canada and completing her research, Hayaoko joins R&R Diving Service and reveals her findings on the tablet; it tells that the Song of Dragons is the key to the Pacifia Treasure, a legendary treasure left by the Okeanides.", "Following reports of the song being heard in the Antarctic, the group travels there to investigate further.", "While investiagting, the player hears a strange sound they had previously heard while at Valka Castle, and realizes that it is the Song of Dragons.", "They help rescue a spectacled porpoise, which subsequently helps R&R navigate their way out of a heavy snowstorm.", "Upon returning home, Jean-Eric forbids any further investiation into the legend, declaring that it will only lead to bad luck.", "He privately confesses to the player that Matthieu had attempted to discover the Pacifia Treasure himself, which lead between him and Jean Eric, who dismissed the Treasure as a myth; Matthieu later died during his investigation when his submarine broke down.", "The next morning, R&R receives an unexpeted visitor in the form of GG, who explains that he has been searching for the Pacifia Treasure for the past 10 years, and offers to work with R&R in locating it.", "Following a lead in South America, the player and GG swim upstream a tributary of the Amazon River, where they discover an ancient ruin behind a waterfall and uncover a second lapis lazuli tablet.", "\"Endless Ocean 2: Adventures of the Deep\" features a soundtrack by the musical ensemble Celtic Woman, including Andrea Corr.", "Unlike its predecessor, however, \"Adventures of the Deep\" does not allow players to create a custom soundtrack using the music on an SD card.", "The game received \"generally favorable reviews\" according to the review aggregation website Metacritic.\n\"Famitsu\" was the first media outlet to review \"Adventures of the Deep\", doing so shortly before its release in Japan.", "They gave the game a score 36 out of 40, one point higher than \"Endless Ocean\", with all four reviewers giving the game nine points each.", "Eurogamer called it a \"genuinely peaceful and relaxing experience\", though comparing it to \"a cool adventure holiday for all ages.\"", "\"Official Nintendo Magazine\" was slightly more critical of the game, calling the game \"batty ... but hardly enthralling\" but also \"truly fun, but not entirely action-packed\".", "They also gave good reports of thrill and graphics involved in the game, which resulted in the game getting a slightly higher score than its predecessor." ]
Reception
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[ "The game was released as part of the Touch!" ]
Lepetodrilidae
[ "These deep-sea species are found and are endemic at hydrothermal vents.", "Their limpet-shaped shell consist of non-nacreous aragonite.", "The thick periostracum covers the shell edge.", "The apex is posterior, in some species projecting posteriorly, and deflected to the right.", "The shell has no sculpture or it consists of beads or imbricate radial ribs.", "There is no operculum.", "The muscle scar forms the shape of a horseshoe.", "The rhipidoglossate radula is special as the lateral teeth descend toward the rachidian in a v-arrangement.", "The conspicuous penis is situated near the base of the right cephalic tentacle.", "Genera within the family Lepetodrilidae include:" ]
Genera
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The Painted Man
[ "The novel follows three POV characters in their passage from childhood to maturity.", "They are inhabitants of a world plagued by the attacks of demons known as Corelings, which rise from the planet's core each night to feast upon humans.", "There are many different kinds of corelings, each associated with a particular element and each with different capabilities and strengths.", "The ongoing attrition of these attacks have reduced humanity from an advanced state of technology to a dark age.", "The only defense against the corelings are \"wards\" (magical runes) that can be drawn, painted, or inscribed to form protective barriers around human settlements.", "These are, however, fragile and prone to failure unless properly maintained.", "As the novel progresses, the protagonists each embark upon his or her own hero's journey in an effort to save humanity.", "In writing the tale, Brett was keen to move beyond a simple adventure story, to present a fantasy novel about fear and its impact.", "He was particularly interested in the effect of fear \"causing some to freeze up and others to leap into action.", "\"", "Arlen is introduced in the aftermath of a coreling attack that claims 27 lives.", "Those happen often, usually due to marred or misplaced wards.", "He realizes that humans have been mostly on the defensive, hiding behind wards.", "During an attack which endangers his family he overcomes his fears of the corelings and attempts to fight them off, though with little success.", "He is disgusted by his father's cowardice after his mother is attacked, and leaves his home to seek training as a messenger, a traveling warrior-nomad responsible for maintaining trade and communication links between villages.", "As he matures he becomes determined to hone his skills and help turn the tide against the corelings.", "In the second half of the story, Arlen discovers the lost combat wards inscribed in the ruins of Anoch Sun.", "Betrayed by the men of Krasia, he uses the wards on himself, becoming \"The Painted Man\".", "Leesha is a thirteen-year-old girl who lives with her abusive mother and downtrodden father.", "After a slanderous rumor spread by her fiancé seems to destroy her chances of a respectable marriage and shows the true nature of many of her friends and the hypocrisy of the villagers, she devotes herself to learning the ways of herb gathering to care for the sick.", "Rojer enters the narrative as a toddler, the only member of his family to survive a coreling attack.", "He is rescued and adopted by an alcoholic jongleur, a type of roaming jester that frequently travels with messengers and performs in villages on the messenger's route.", "Rojer has a crippled hand, caused by the loss of two fingers in the coreling attack that killed his parents.", "This limits his ability to juggle but does not hinder him in the least when he plays his favorite instrument, the fiddle.", "He later remembers that the jongleur that adopted him actually caused the death of his mother, he confronts him on the road about this later, and the jongleur, in a fit of drunken rage, pushes him into the corelings.", "He then sees his mistake, and dies in order to save Rojer's life.", "With his fiddle Rojer can entrance the corelings with his music causing the corelings to follow him, anger them to rage, make them oblivious to others, or drive them away with jarring music.", "Rojer tries without success to teach others his skills with the fiddle.", "Rojer harbors strong unrequited feelings for Leesha.", "The novel was selected by Amazon.co.uk as one of the Top 10 Science Fiction & Fantasy books of 2008.", "and has been nominated for the first David Gemmell Awards for Fantasy.", "The second volume of the \"Demon Cycle\", \"The Desert Spear\", was released in April 2010, published by Del Rey Books in the US and Canada, and Voyager in the UK.", "The third volume, entitled \"The Daylight War\", was released 12 February 2013 by Del Rey in the United States.", "The fourth volume, entitled The Skull Throne, was released 31 March 2015 by Del Rey in the United States.", "The fifth and final volume, The Core, was released on 3 October 2017 in the United States.", "There are also three novellas related to the story.", "\"The Great Bazaar\", \"Brayan's Gold\" and \"Messenger's Legacy\", each released in limited edition by Subterranean Press.", "Peter V. Brett has stated that he has one more book left in his publishing contract, which will be set in the same world as the Demon Cycle and may grow into a new series.", "It has been confirmed that the \"Demon Cycle\" has been optioned for film production by director Paul W. S. Anderson and longtime producing partner Jeremy Bolt, the duo behind the \"Resident Evil\" film franchise.", "A 2016 update at Peter V. Brett's webpage stated that Anderson and Bolt are no longer involved in the film production." ]
Sequels
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[ "It is the first part of the \"Demon Cycle\"." ]